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| 4801 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following genealogical summary of the family of James Adair was provided to me from Shawn Potter "James Adair was born probably in Ireland say about 1714. He immigrated to America before 1735. James married Eleanor of the Chickasaw Nation in about 1744. Eleanor was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1726. She was a member of the Panther clan. James died probably in Laurens County, South Carolina, after 25 Feb 1784 and before 12 Feb 1796. Eleanor died probably in Laurens County after 3 Jan 1803. James and Eleanor were the parents of the following children: 1. James Adair, Jr., was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1748. He married Hannah probably in Laurens County say about 1772. Hannah was born probably in Laurens County on 28 Sep 1750. James died in Laurens County on 18 Aug 1818. Hannah died in Laurens County on 10 Nov 1826. 2. Joseph Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1750. He married Sarah probably in Laurens County say about 1776. Joseph died perhaps in Laurens County after 5 Feb 1804. 3. John Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1754. He married first Ga-Ho-Ga of the Cherokee Nation probably in Laurens County say about 1780. Ga-Ho-Ga was born in the Cherokee Nation say about 1760. Ga-Ho-Ga died perhaps in Laurens County after 7 Feb 1789. John married second Jane Kilgore probably in Laurens County say about 1790. Jane was born probably in Laurens County say about 1773. John died in present-day Oconee County, South Carolina, after 4 Nov 1815 and before 4 Dec 1815. Jane died perhaps in present-day Oconee County after 4 Dec 1815. 4. Edward Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1756. He married first Margaret in Philadelphia on 7 Apr 1784. Edward married second Elizabeth Martin of the Cherokee Nation probably in the Cherokee Nation say about 1789. Elizabeth was born probably in the Cherokee Nation say about 1769. Edward died probably in present-day Oconee County after 3 Nov 1800. Elizabeth died probably in the Cherokee Nation after 13 Jul 1816. N.B. James and Eleanor had "children" in 1748; and a daughter lived in Georgia between 1788 and 1791." MARRIAGE: 1. "Augusta Chronicle and Gazette" (Augusta, GA), 26 Mar 1791, page 3, column 2. "Whereas my wife, Margaret Adair, without my consent or permission, has left my bed and board, and is at present living with another man; I do hereby forewarn all persons from crediting her on my account, either in this state or in any of the United States, as I am determined to pay no debts of her contracting. Edward Adair, Augusta, March 18, 1791." See also "Augusta Chronicle and Gazette" (Augusta, GA), 11 Jun 1791, page 2, column 3, and page 3, column 1. "Mr. Printer, Please to insert the following piece in your next paper. Whereas Edward Adair, to whom I was unfortunately married the 7th of April, 1784, has thought proper to advertise me in your paper of the 2d of April last, setting forth, that I had left his bed and board without his knowledge, and had taken to live with another man, he therefore forewarned all persons from crediting me on his account, either in the state of Georgia or in any of the United States: - In justice, therefore, to my injured character, and the base disposition of the said Edward Adair, I must beg leave to inform the public, that, in three months after my marriage to the said Edward Adair, he run off from Philadelphia, where he left me without the smallest means of support; but what I could be favored with by the assistance of my relations, or my own labor, the little property he had left in Philadelphia, being a short time after his departure, taken and sold for the payment of his debts. In that situation I remained among my relations until 1788, when I received two letters from him, begging I would come to him at Augusta, in the state of Georgia; setting forth to my by his said letters, that he had acquired a large property, and wishing to settle at Augusta as a merchant; and where, if I would come, he hoped not only to make me happy, but to make me amends for the past injuries he had done me: Though Mr. Adair did not send a single sixpence to bring me to Augusta, agreeable to his request I came. When I came to Augusta, I was informed he was only an Indian trader, from Colonel Le Roy Hammond's at Snow Hill, and possessed of very little property or credit. I went to Col. Hammond's where I remained three or four months, during which time I was very kindly treated by all that good family; but Mr. Adair not coming to me in the course of that time, though he knew I was there, induced me to go and stay with Mr. Adair's sister, in Georgia, where I remained two months, when Mr. Adair came, and then he only stayed with me two days, till he hurried off to the Indian country, leaving me an order on a store for goods to the amount of forty shillings, and pretending he had considerable property in the Indian country, whither it was necessary for him to return without delay, in order to bring down his property and settle with me: But so little was he in a hurry, that I did not see him again for eight months; then he came and said it had not been in his power to bring away his property, but he should be able in a very short time to do it, in order (as he said) to do which, it was necessary to return in a few days, as he could not think himself happy till he had brought his property together, so as to be able to provide for and take care of me. He did return in a few days, leaving me another order on a store for forty shillings in goods, and that is all the support I have had from Mr. Adair since I arrived in Georgia; nor has he ever returned to me. Being much distressed under these circumstances, I must beg leave to inform the public, it was impossible for me to leave the bed and board of Mr. Adair, as I don't believe he has ever had either, but a bear skin and hut in the Indian country, since he run off from me and mine in Philadelphia; and I am confident, the ungrateful man had very little cause to forewarn all persons from crediting me on his account, either in Georgia or in any of the United States, as I firmly believe a lone woman would starve upon a general and unlimited letter of credit from under his hand, in any or all the states, unless she had some other means of support. Margaret Adair. May 31, 1791." 2. From Shawn Potter 6 Sep 2015 -- I asked him the source of the maiden name Elizabeth Walker. He responded with the following: Source 1: "Annie Walker Burns, "Military and Genealogical Records of the Famous Indian Woman: Nancy Ward," (Washington, D.C.: Published by the Author, P.O. Box 6183, Apex Station, 1957), 1-40. Edward Adair married a maternal-line granddaughter of ᎾᏅᏰᎯ (A-Gi-Gau) Nancy Ward (c. 1722-1822), Beloved Woman of the Cherokee Nation. Nancy's mother was a sister of Attakullakulla (c.1708-1778), First Beloved Man - Principal Chief - of the Cherokee Nation from about 1761 to 1777. When Nancy's first husband, Kingfisher, was killed in battle at Taliwa in 1755, she picked up his weapon and fought in his place. The Cherokee named her Beloved Woman in recognition of her courage and devotion to her people. After her husband's death, Nancy married Irish deerskin trader Bryan Ward. Their daughter, ᎪᏌᎢᏍᎦ (Go-Sa-I-S-Ga) Betty Ward, married Irish deerskin trader Joseph Martin. Their daughter, Elizabeth Martin, married Edward Adair." Source 2: "Emmett Starr, "History of the Cherokee Indians," (Oklahoma City, OK: Warden Co., 1922), 419. Elizabeth previously married James Vann, William Sparingston, and John Shepherd. Shawn comments on these two sources as follows: "Starr is consider to be a reliable source, but not as complete as one would like sometimes. From memory, I don't think Starr lists Elizabeth's parents, for example. But it seems to be accepted among Cherokee historians that Elizabeth was descended from Nancy Ward. Burns lists Elizabeth's descent from Nancy Ward. Burns is not so well known, so I can't speak about her reliability for certain, but her information seems to make sense. In regards to her later surname of Scott, Shawn responds as follows: "Edward was administrator of Walter Scott's estate. So some have speculated that Elizabeth either was Walter's daughter or widow. After Edward's death, Elizabeth applied for the pension of her son James Adair, who was killed in the war of 1812. She called herself in that pension Elizabeth Scott. This is all very confusing. Since we know Edward was married to Margaret during the time frame when Walter Scott Adair, son of Elizabeth, was born, we suspect Edward didn't divorce Margaret and did not marry Elizabeth in a church wedding. If Elizabeth had yet another husband, Walter Scott, and she kept his surname, at least after Edward died, this all makes sense. But we are not sure about Elizabeth's other marriages before or after Edward. | Margaret (I3806)
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| 4802 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following genealogical summary of the family of James Adair was provided to me from Shawn Potter "James Adair was born probably in Ireland say about 1714. He immigrated to America before 1735. James married Eleanor of the Chickasaw Nation in about 1744. Eleanor was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1726. She was a member of the Panther clan. James died probably in Laurens County, South Carolina, after 25 Feb 1784 and before 12 Feb 1796. Eleanor died probably in Laurens County after 3 Jan 1803. James and Eleanor were the parents of the following children: 1. James Adair, Jr., was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1748. He married Hannah probably in Laurens County say about 1772. Hannah was born probably in Laurens County on 28 Sep 1750. James died in Laurens County on 18 Aug 1818. Hannah died in Laurens County on 10 Nov 1826. 2. Joseph Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1750. He married Sarah probably in Laurens County say about 1776. Joseph died perhaps in Laurens County after 5 Feb 1804. 3. John Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1754. He married first Ga-Ho-Ga of the Cherokee Nation probably in Laurens County say about 1780. Ga-Ho-Ga was born in the Cherokee Nation say about 1760. Ga-Ho-Ga died perhaps in Laurens County after 7 Feb 1789. John married second Jane Kilgore probably in Laurens County say about 1790. Jane was born probably in Laurens County say about 1773. John died in present-day Oconee County, South Carolina, after 4 Nov 1815 and before 4 Dec 1815. Jane died perhaps in present-day Oconee County after 4 Dec 1815. 4. Edward Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1756. He married first Margaret in Philadelphia on 7 Apr 1784. Edward married second Elizabeth Martin of the Cherokee Nation probably in the Cherokee Nation say about 1789. Elizabeth was born probably in the Cherokee Nation say about 1769. Edward died probably in present-day Oconee County after 3 Nov 1800. Elizabeth died probably in the Cherokee Nation after 13 Jul 1816. N.B. James and Eleanor had "children" in 1748; and a daughter lived in Georgia between 1788 and 1791." 2. The records of this family are unproven and undocumented except as noted herein and appear to be the passing down of information from Ellen Cherry circa 1950's. I have no verifiable source so far except as herein noted. 3. From the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 5, the following general remark is made which may or may not generally apply to the Adairs: "National origins from the 1790 US Census: English 60%, Scotch Irish 9.5%, and German 8.6%. [Accompanying map shows Scotch-Irish in the frontier portion or western portions of the states of SC, NC, and VA with a smattering in northern GA and southwestern PA. The Germans are concentrated in southcentral PA, western MD, northwestern VA, and with a smattering in central SC and NY. The English are generally coastal.] The Scotch-Irish were used in the old country and again in the new, as 'borderers'. They were fighting families sent out to hold a frontier against aliens. In 1641, 120,000 Scots had been planted in Ulster [Ireland]. In the 1750's, 12,000 came yearly to America, and by 1770, that number grew to 25,000 to 30,000. They were the hardiest and boldest of all immigrants. In 1764, 1000 Scotch-Irish wagons passed through Salisbury, South Carolina, on the way to the mountains." 4. From: Shawn & Lois Potter I think Margaret Brownlee, the author of the manuscript I sent to you, has passed away. She would have been someone to consult." Also from Shawn: "Thanks for your note. I received Margaret Brownlee's manuscript from either Lee Adair (wadair1@tampabay.rr.com) or Jett Hanna (jettplane@aol.com), both of whom have contributed notes to the Ancestry.com bulletin board for the Adair surname. I can only judge Margaret's reliability from my use of this one manuscript. I have noticed a few mistakes that might be described as typos-a few obviously wrong dates and perhaps wrong names in her text. But, on the whole, I am very impressed with her work. She tried to document all her statements and she appears to have gained access to many original records. Her manuscript provides a radically better understanding of these families than existed before her work. Having said that, I do suspect she was wrong about her statement regarding the identity of James Adair the Indian trader. I am not yet certain, but I suspect that James Adair, who married Eleanor, was the Indian trader. I worked for about a year on this question, made some encouraging progress, and then had to take a break from my research. I know it seems unfair to say that I have such a suspicion and then to refuse to explain the basis for my suspicion; but I haven't finished my work yet and I don't have time right now to get back into it. Sorry. I have made a couple of trips to South Carolina to review records there. But, since I live in Virginia and I have other responsibilities, I cannot get down there as often as I would like. Some records are available on-line; but I imagine the answers to these, and other, questions about the Adair family will need to be sought in person in the South Carolina archives. But, I also imagine it will take a good deal of time to go through those records to build a strong case for whatever conclusions the records indicate, because so many of the records provide only a narrow slice of the picture." 5. From: Colleen Gwynn [mailto:cghistree@msn.com] March 18, 2005: "I have needed to really look at the Joseph Adair men in Laurens. Thomas Adair son of Joseph Adair married Rebecca Brown dau of Roger Brown. I had the deed wherein Thomas is identified by his father Joseph as Joseph's eldest [eldest] son. I also had another record indicating Sarah as grandmother of the generation of my Mary Ann Adair dau of Thomas and Rebecca Brown Adair. So I needed a Joseph with wife Sarah. The Rev War period had three Joseph Adair men [in Laurens Co., SC]. I am aware not always does Jr. mean he is son of Sr. - sometimes in earlier times Jr. is because of an uncle in the same area who is the Sr. and sometimes Jr. and Sr. may not even be related but living in the same area one becomes Sr. the other Jr. to separate and identify. Elizabeth helps to separate the Adair men. The 1790 census only two of the three remained since the one died 1788/1789 and the one who died about 1812 had slaves mentioned in his will and in 1790 only one Joseph of the two listed slaves so that better identified him. 1790 he had 5 and by death he had 7." 6. The following information is from an uncited typescript but is typical generally of most undocumented LDS versions of the early family of Thomas Adair who married Rebecca Brown. Many other statements within this typescript have proven to be inaccurate. It is often repeated over and over never with documentation or sources. It is a fact that Joseph and Sarah Adair were the parents of Thomas who married Rebecca, but that is all so far. Until proven otherwise, my opinion of specific problems include: a. No one knows exactly when and from where Joseph immigrated. The name Adair is certainly Scotch-Irish. Death dates and locations of Joseph and Sarah are unknown thus far in my research and the dates of about 1820 and 1845 respectively appear speculative until proven otherwise. b. No one to date knows the maiden surname of Sarah, wife of Joseph, nor where she was born. c. No one knows the names of any of the children of Joseph/Sarah except the eldest son Thomas, which is from a land deed in Laurens Co., SC. The 1790 census suggest there may have been more than five children. The birth dates on all but Thomas appear to perhaps be contrived or assumed. d. There is not one record that shows Thomas had a middle name of Jefferson; however, he did have a son named Thomas Jefferson Adair and since he was Thomas Jr., I suspect many have assumed his father had the same middle name. That would be speculative and is definitely unproven. e. Thomas being born in Charleston, South Carolina is suspicious. His parents, James Adair the cooper and his wife Eleanor, are definitely in Laurens County, SC. When Thomas' son Samuel Jefferson Adair was baptized vicariously for his deceased father in 1877 in the LDS temple, he indicated his father was born 25 Oct 1777 in Lawrence [Laurens] District, South Carolina. Another son of Thomas, George Washington Adair, in doing the LDS endowment for Thomas later that year, noted his father as being born in N. Charleston, SC, but gave no date. In early South Carolina history, Charleston was the location where all legal activity up to the 1780s for South Carolina occurred and most upcountry geographical areas were vague and immense extensions of coastal county names. There is always the possibility that Joseph's service in the Rev. War took him to Charleston where there were battles and that his wife came with him, but there is no such proof of such war service except in the more local area of Laurens Co., South Carolina. f. For Thomas Adair's birthdate, most every LDS database uses 25 Oct 1771, but I haven't seen documentation that I accept. His son as noted in item e above, states 25 Oct 1777, which may or may not be correct. The quotation: "1st Generation. Joseph Adair. "Joseph Adair was born about 1745. He was from Scotland, but lived in South Carolina after coming to the new world. His wife's name was Sarah (Lowe or Long), born about 1750 and was also of South Carolina. They were married about 1769/70, and they lived first in Charleston County, near Charleston, S.C., later moving to now Laurens County, S.C. Joseph was buried in 1820, and his wife Sarah, died about 1844. Issue of Joseph and Sarah (Lowe/Long) Adair: 1. Thomas Jefferson Adair, born Oct. 25, 1771 in Charleston County, near Charleston, S.C. 2. Joseph Adair, Jr., born about 1773 in Laurens, Co., S.C. 3. Sarah (or Sally) Adair, born about 1777 in Laurens Co., S.C. 4. Jenny Adair, born about 1777 in Laurens Co., S.C. 5. Suffiah Adair, born about 1779 in Laurens Co., S.C." 7. Jett Hanna [jettplane@aol.com] provided me on 8 Jul 2005 with a copy of his analysis of the Brownlee manuscript as follows. It mirrors my own understanding; however, anything with which I disagree I note in [brackets]. Jett entitles his paper as "Laurens County Area Adair Family Trees." It is broken down by three families: James Adair who married Eleanor, his brother Joseph who married Sarah Laferty, and a William of whom absolutely nothing is known except just his name on the Williams Petition and that Brownlee notes he died 1780-84 and that his estate was administered 1784 per Abbe Wills, p. 10. Text quoted as follows: "This tree is based on Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina, by Mildred Brownlee. This was provided to me by W. Lee Adair, who obtained it from the Laurens County Public Library. Handwritten notes show a date of 1990 on Brownlee's manuscript. I have not examined these deeds personally. In some cases, notes and questions below are my own additions. This analysis seems to discredit some of the trees in the Adair History and Genealogy, and adds significantly to what is know of the Laurens area Adairs. I have not fully finished analyzing this work, and may have left out parts that are not as critical to my work. "Based on this work, it appears very possible that the elder Joseph Adair (m. Sarah, m. Susannah) and his brother James (m. Eleanor) settled in Laurens County at the same time, as suggested by the Adair History and Genealogy. I do not believe, however, that this James was the author of the book on the Indians and reputed patriarch of the Cherokee Adairs. This James was a cooper (barrel maker) according to the deeds. Modern editions of the History of the American Indians suggest that the author James Adair was a direct immigrant to South Carolina, but with no concrete evidence. "The Williams Petition: In the tree, LCW is Laurens County Wills; LCD is Laurens County Deeds. Also mentioned is the Williams petition. This petition is a significant document in analyzing the Laurens County Adairs. Published in the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. XV, No. 1 1987, p. 32-33, the original is #5767, Manuscript Department, Wm. Perkins Library at Duke University. The petition is in support of Colonel James Williams, a militia leader of the Patriots in the Laurens area (Little River Regiment). The petition, signed by members of the Little River Regiment, is directed to the Governor of South Carolina and the Privy Counsel, and attests to Williams' devotion to the Patriot cause. Williams led militia in a number of battles. I suspect that this petition was provided prior to Williams' elevation to the rank of Brigadier General following the Battle of Musgrove Mill, which was fought in what is now Laurens County. Williams had been accused of puffing his role in the battle. Williams went on to die at Kings Mountain - one of the few Patriot casualties that day on October 7, 1780. Williams had run for the South Carolina legislature as a Patriot in 1778, only to lose to Robert Cunningham, the infamous Loyalist leader. For more on Williams, see Draper, "Kings Mountain and Its Heroes," (Cincinnati, 1883). Signers of the Williams petition include the following Adairs: Isaac Adair, Jms. Adair, James Adair, Sr., Joseph Adair, Jr., Joseph Adair, Benjamin Adair, Joseph Adair, Sr., James Adair, Jr, son of James, William Adair, John Adair, and John Adair, Sr., and Alexander Adair. Comparing deed and will records to the names, Brownlee identifies the Adair signers [copies Brownlee's explanations]. Brownlee's identifications look very logical to me. "The Laurens County Adair Tree: 1. James Adair m. Eleanor: 150a land grant to James Adair-same date as Joseph 250a. Both referred to in records as coopers (barrel makers). James, cooper in LCD F/8,9,10, A/185. Eleanor released right of dower on deed dated 2/12/1796; date of transfer by James was 2/24/1784. Which deeds correspond with which dates? See Joseph below. Eleanor was also witness on deed from William Price and wife, Margaret to James Adair, son of James, 2/6/1792. 1.1 Joseph Adair m. Sarah Dillard [Surname Dillard is a Jett addition and I don't believe proven even though many LDS lines use this as well without documentation.]: Joseph Adair, Jr. to Wm. Holland, 120 ac. Release of dower by Sarah, wife of Joseph Jr., and Eleanor, widow of James Adair, dec'd, LCD F/109. Suggests land owned by James m. to Eleanor, but how does it correspond to land grants? If land belonged to Joseph junior by intestacy laws, why wasn't James m. to Hannah on deed, too? LCD G/570 has dower release for Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph. 1.1.1 Thomas Adair m. Rebecca Brown: LCD H/22, Joseph Adair of Duncan Creek to eldest son Thomas Adair. Witness Jane Adair. Dower releases for Rebecca in LCD H/129, H/209, and land purchased H/228. 1.1.2 ?Hannah m. John Jones: see F/8,9,10. 8 & 9: 8/1/1795. 10: 2/25/1784. F/10 is deed from James Sr. and wife Eleanor to John Jones, has witnesses James Adair, saddler, and James Adair, Jr. [Without giving a reason, Jett places Hannah as a possible daughter of Joseph, son of James; however, Brownlee indicates she believes her to be a daughter of the original James and Eleanor which would make her a sister to Joseph son of James. Perhaps a typo on Jett's part.] 1.2 James Adair m. Hannah: Corresponds to James son of James in the Williams petition per Brownlee. James m. Rebecca had a son James, but probably not old enough to sign petition as James m. Rebecca born 1747 per Indiana tombstone. Petition 1780 would mean James m. Rebecca was 33 in 1780; doubtful his son James could be of fighting age. Compare to Adair compilation. LCD M/77-78 reports death of James Adair, Sr., widow Hannah. Hannah Adair's will LCW F/65, proven 1826. James 115(2) 1790 Census. 2 daughters not accounted for. James Jr. was under 16 according to this census. 1.2.1 Elizabeth m. James? Parlmore (Palmer): LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2 Mary m. John Prather: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2.1 Susannah Prather (Prater?): Witness on will of Hannah LCW F/65. 1.2.2.2 Hannah Prather m. Joseph Dollar 1.2.2.3 Linny m. William Prather 1.2.2.4 Archibald m, Susannah Meadors 1.2.2.5 Martha Prather 1.2.2.6 Betsy/Priscilla Prather m. Daniel Owens 1.2.2.7 James Prather 1.2.2.8 Mary (Molly) Prather 1.2.2.9 Bryce Prather 1.2.2.10 Elinor Prather 1.2.3 Nelly (Eleanor) m. Ramage: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.3.1 Benjamin Ramage 1.2.3.2 John Jewell Ramage 1.2.3.3 Washington Ramage 1.2.4 James Adair Jr.: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.5 Hannah m. Rueben Meadors: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.6 Susannah m. William Cassels (Castles): LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.7 Nancy m. Willis Langston: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.8 Martha m. Wm. Gamble: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.8.1 Patsey Gamble: LCW F/65." 8. Copy of letter on file from Frank Smith, Superviser, Reseach Department of the Genealogical Society (Family History Library) in Salt Lake City, dated May 23, 1966, to Mrs. Leo Goates, 9923 Knoll Crest Drive, Dallas, Texas, 95238, from FHL film 0446460 Patron Research Files for Marie Sheranian (mother to Mrs. Leo Goates). This letter was one in a series from over four years when the FHL did private research for a fee. This individual had work done on her Brown, Adair, and Richey lines. In reviewing all the correspondence, they were just discovering things for which we now have better and more thorough documentation as found in my database. As for the Adairs, there was a lot of confusion concerning the various Joseph Adairs with the FHL trying to link Thomas Adair's father Joseph as a son to the original Joseph Adair, Sr., which we now know to be incorrect. Much of this incorrect linking has been passed down through LDS generations and continues to incorrectly cloud modern genealogies. They also had no success in finding siblings for Thomas Adair. They acknowledge problems with the James B. Adair's book "Adair History and Genealogy" concerning the early Adairs. On the other hand there was good research done on the the parentage of William Richey who married Mary Ann Adair. His parents and grandparents appear in Laurens Co., South Carolina as well as nearby Bush River Baptist Church at which John Mangum the patriot was also associated. This would place the Richey family in probable contact with the Adairs before Alabama and Mississippi. The letter I quote below is the last letter and it had significance concerning the tying of Mathew Brown as a brother to Roger Brown. It should be noted that there was some confusion in the various letters regarding a Rebecca Brown married to Roger [Kerry's note: not to be confused with the later Rebecca Brown, daughter of Roger, who married Thomas Adair]. The FHL assumed that Rebecca who came over from Ireland was the wife of Roger and not the sister of Roger and Mathew as we now believe. Roger did have a second wife, Rebecca Wallace, in about 1799, but that is way after the original immigration to America in the 1760s. The portion of the letter which concerns the Brown family is as follows: "Research has been continued at this time on the Brown line, hoping that we might secure some information as to whether Roger had more than one wife, and if so, how his children might be divided, in order that the temple work might be completed for this family. We regret that very little additional information was found. "Enclosed herewith is a copy of our notes. There were other Brown families in South Carolina, probably not related to yours, as they were there before Roger and Rebecca arrived. Previously reported to you were deeds and land grants, and we have at this time checked some other deeds on Brown individuals. There seems to have been some relationship between Rebecca, John, Roger, Matthew and William Brown and Claiborne. The others we cannot be sure of. "The 1830 census was checked for Laurens Co., hoping that some of the sons and daughters of Roger might still be living, from which we could obtain dates of birth. There was a Roger Jr., but he was in a younger generation, probably a grandson of Roger, and other Brown entitites could not be identified with your people. "The S.C. Memorials "Land Grant Registrations" were checked, as they sometimes give some data not found in the grants themselves. There was nothing new obtained from this source. We therefore have nothing on which to base birth dates of Roger's children, nor anything to indicate the name of his wife aside from his will. "Some investigation was made regarding the Mathew Brown, whose pension record was reported to you previously. You will recall that he stated he was born in Wexford Co., Ire. in 1752, went from 96 Dist., S.C. to Hamilton Co., Ohio, then to Shelby Co., Ind. We think he is the son of Rebecca who brought him from Ireland [Kerry's note: this should be probably a sister not mother] and a brother of Roger for the following reasons: 1. His age agrees with the emigration records, as he was age 12 when they arrived about 1764-6. 2. He is in Laurens Co. in the 1790, 1800 census, but gone by 1810. 3. He appears in deeds with Rebecca and with Roger. In a deed in 1796, his wife Jane signs with him. 4. In the 1899 census he had three sons and two daughters at home and could have had one or two married. 5. The history of Hamilton Co. states he married Jane Jones, which given name agrees with the above mentioned deed. 6. He is stated to have removed from S.C. in 1803. There is a deed recorded in Laurens Co. in 1803. There is a deed recorded in Laurens Co. in March, 1804, but it could have been dated in 1803, and is the last one found. "The record from Shelby Co., Ind. gave information as we already had it from other sources. If this is in fact a brother of Roger and son of Rebecca Brown, then we have a clue as to the locality in Ireland. "Mathew stated he was born in Wexford Co., which is on the southeast coast. If the family was 'lately of Newry, Down, Irel.' when they emigrated, then they must have removed north during that 12 year interval [Kerry's note: Newry per S.C. immigration records]. Emigrants usually embarked from the NW coast and it may be they were in Newry only a short time, being on their way with other emigrants to the port from which they sailed. Newry is not on the coast. "Wexford has some quite early parish registers extant, and there are other types of records available which may prove useful to search. Brown is a common name in America, but not particularly prolific in Ireland in this area... If the combination of names we have as emigrants could be placed in Ireland, you could be sure it was the correct line." [Kerry's note: a discussion of fees followed and the announcement of a new policy that the FHL would no longer be doing private research.] 9. The book "Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution," by Bobby Gilmer Moss, lists the following two Joseph Adairs. I list both not knowing exactly which one goes to this Joseph or his cousin Joseph, both of whom appears on the Williams Petition, or even another unknown Joseph. It appears some of the information is derived from other more modern and traditional family history - right or wrong. The name Sarah Dilliard appears wrong and may me erroneously taken from Joseph son of James who was married to a Sarah ___. I do not have the abbreviation list as to the sources he gives: "Joseph Adair, Jr., b. 1733, d. 17 Oct 1812, m. Sarah Dilliard. He served as a lieutenant and deputy commissary. Patriot Index; S.C. H. & G., XLIX, 229; A.A. 23; X1955; Kinfolks, 1233." "Joseph Adair. He served in the militia under Col. Lacey and was at Huck's Defeat. C.S." 10. On file with me are early plats drawings of Duncan Creek prepared by Lee Adair. From Lee Adair 13 Sep 2005 [wadair1@tampabay.rr.com]: "I have platted most of the available deed surveys up to 1846 for the Duncan Creek area of Laurens County using the software Deedmapper. The problems with such deed platting are: 1) surveyors weren't always accurate; 2) the terrain was not perfectly flat. In acquiring all the plats, I also had to acquire all the deed records and land transactions and I now have the Laurens County deed books up to Book O (about 1846). These two sources allowed me to place surveys in about the correct positions on the map. I am aided in this by the several rivers and creeks that run through the county and which are platted on the surveys. If there are any specific plats that you need, I can make copies of them and send them to you. One file (Duncan3.jpg) is included to provide a bearing. In the lower left is what looks like the streets of a city. This is Clinton. The interstate running diagonally across this image is I-26. The Duncan Creek Cemetery is located where the D in the text for Duncan Creek Cemetery is. One of the properties of Joseph Adair (wife Sarah) is in bright blue just to the right and adjoining that of James Adair (bright yellow). It was a SC land grant that he received in 1786. He sold that with the adjoining property of Samuel Ewing that he had purchased to William Holland in 1796. Whether he and Sarah actually lived there is an open question. The bright blue large tract owned by Joseph Adair is that of Joseph Adair Sr. wife Sarah Laferty. There may be additional properties of Joseph Adair and Sarah, but I have not placed them yet. There are a number of Joseph Adair properties in which I don't have a reliable spouse name. As always there is more work to be done." 11. From Lee Adair 16 Oct 2005 with more on the specific James Adair plat just above Joseph Adair, the cooper, who gave part of his land to Joseph his son who married Sarah ___: "The property description for the James Adair plat that I sent is as follows: SC Memorial Book 13, p. 230. 2 Jan 1775. James Adair, Sr., a Memorial on 200 acres in 96 Distr. on Duncins (sic) Creek between Broad and Saludy Rivers, bounded W on John Brotherton; NW on James Montgomery, NW on John McCrary; NW on John Adair; SE on Saml. Ewing. Survey certified 3 Jun 1773; granted 11 Aug 1774. Quit rent in 2 years. John Rodgers, DS. Delivered 14 Aug 1775 to James Adair. 150 acres of this property was later sold to John Jones (wife Hannah) in 1784. The date alone suggests that this is most likely James Adair, wife Eleanor, and this is confirmed by the following two deed book entries: Laurens Co. Deed Book F, p. 10. 24 Feb 1784. James Adair Senior and wife Eleanor to John Jones blacksmith 150 acres.) Witnesses: James Adair sadler, James Adair Jr., James Miller, Roger Brown. We know that this is part of the 200 acre James Adair grant because of the following: Laurens Co. Deed Book F, p. 8. 1 Aug 1795. Hannah Jones (widow of John Jones) & son William Jones to John Craig, 50 acres on Duncan Creek, part of 200 acre grant to James Adair Sr. 11 Aug 1774 (150 acres conveyed in by sd J.A and Eleanor in 1784 to John Jones). Bordering properties: John Montgomery, Alexander Fillson, John Owens. I have attached a zoomed out version of the Duncan Creek plat area." 12. Miriam Adair Covington in her biography of Thomas Adair reports (see his notes for full quotation): "Joseph Adair sells 70 acres to John Ross, 7 March 1805, Sarah Adair relinquishes." 13. "The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 3, pp. 24, 26, preface remarks: '1784 Tax Returns. The following lists were gathered from documents at the South Carolina Archives contained in five boxes entitled 'Tax Returns 1783 - 1796.' The list of tax collectors is from a document entitled 'total Amo't of Taxes paid into the Treasury on account of the year 1784.' The list itself is undated, but internal evidence shows that it was compiled a few years later than 1784. Along with the names of the collectors, this document gives the amount of taxes received in their respective areas and notations concerning the collectors' progress in bringing the monies into the State treasury.' "Little River district: Robert Gillam Joseph Adair Robt Griffith Samuel Wharton John Rodgers." [Joseph Adair is one of three possible Josephs: the original Joseph Adair the cooper, his son Joseph, or Joseph the son of the original James Adair the cooper.] 14. "The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 6, p. 26: "Laurens County Estate Book A-1," p. 7: "Will of Hanse Miller being sick and weak of body… 14 April 1788. Wit: Joseph Adair, Thomas Ewings, James Adair.l Adairs may be deceased by this date.] 15. Laurens County Estate Book A-1, Pp. 55-60: "Appraisement of the Estate of Robert Bell decd. Total ₤148 12 2-1/2 (no appraisers, no date). Purchasers at sale: Richd Bell, Isabella Bell, Patrick Scott, Nathl Cannon, Ann Mclure, Evan Robarts, James Ramage, Daniel Davis, Samuel Ewing, John Harris, Adam Bell, Gilbert Memory, James Pollock, John Roberson, Nathan Davis, John Harvis, Joseph Adair son of James, John Owings, John Owings, David Beayty, John Awsten, Wm Blackburn, Josiah East, Joseph Huddleston, John Adair son of Joseph, And. McCrary, David Bailey, Wm Price, John Calahan, Ann Dradock, John Archer Elmore, Charles Russel, John Huston, John Robinson, John Hunter, Wm Gray, Samuel McConehey, John Willson, John Walker, Thomas Entrecan,Thomas East Junr., thomas East Senr., Samuel Eakins, John McCartey, John Derumple [Dalrymple] Junr. Sold 15 Aug 1792, by Richd. Bell, admr." 16. The following Joseph Adairs could either be the Joseph, the son of Joseph the cooper, or the other Joseph, the son of James the cooper. Laurens County Estate Book A-1: Pp. 76: "An account of the appraisement of the Estate of Wm. Davis decd., 17 Jan 1792 by Joseph Adair, John Owins, Thos Ewing. (No total.)" Pp. 108-109: [Abt 1794-1795: "Memorandum of the Sale of the Estate of Jeremiah Holland, decd. Purchasers: Nancy Holland, William Holland, Jos. Adair, Simpson Bob, Abraham Holland, Basl. Holland, Resin Holland, Sampson Bobo, William Lard, Richard Holland..." Pp. 120-127: "An Inventory of the Goods and Chattles of M'Crary Matthew Decd appraised by us whose names are under Written [No total appraisement, no appraisers names given.] A list of the Sales of the Estate of Mathew McCrary deceased. Purchasers... Jos Adare... Thomas M'Crary...13 and 14 of Nov 1794." Pp. 155-156: "An Inventory of the Goods and Chattles of William Price Decd. Total ₤ 101 11 8 certifyed 5 Nov 1796 by Joseph Adair, Thomas Gammel, Patrick O Briant. Memorandom of the goods and Chatles of Wm. Price decd sold at public Sale on 15 Nov 1796. Purchasers: Margret Price, Ruth Price, Sarah Price, Mary Cunningham, John Adair, William McCoy, William Barksdale, James Adair, Joseph Adair." Pp. 209: "Amt of money paid in behalf of the estate of William Price decd by Margaret Price, admx. & James Cunningham, admr. Names mentioned: Joseph Adair, Robt Greer, Edward Giddins, Francis Ross, Joseph Downs, Joseph Huddleston, James McDavid, John Owens, Charles Murrell, Wm Dunlap; James Cunningham, admr. July 18th 1799." 17. Excerpts of "Adairs" from the book "Laurens County South Carolina - Minutes of the County Court, 1786-1789, number of pages at the end of the volume. There is at least one other volume, still missing, covering the years 1790-1799." It also notes: "Laurens County was formed in 1785 as a county of Ninety Six District. In that year justices of the peace were elected by the General Assembly to be administrators of the county courts. Within the pages of these court minutes are small court cases, lists of deeds presented to be recorded, applications for administrations on estates and wills proved (beginning in 1787), jury lists, petitions of various kinds, appointments for various offices, apprenticeships, estray animals tolled, and other items. The cases heard for debt or damages could not exceed £50, and cases heard for personal damages could not exceed £20. Criminal cases heard could not call for the loss of life or corporal punishment. Larger court cases were heard in the district courts, such as Ninety-Six." The Adair records mention mainly James and Joseph Adair – the only problem was there were at least three Josephs and three James who were all adults at the same time as these court records. The two original brothers, James and Joseph Adair, both coopers by trade, arrived in the Laurens County area probably in the early 1760s. James was born ca 1715 and died in Laurens Co. sometime between 1784 and 1796. Joseph was born ca. 1718 and died after Jan 9, 1788 when his will was written. James had at least two sons who were alive in the time period of these court records: Joseph (ca. 1745 - ca. 1820) who married Sarah and James (1752-1818) who married Hannah. The other original brother, Joseph whose first wife was Sarah Lafferty and second wife Susannah Murdough, widow of Daniel Long, had at least three sons, Joseph (1735-1812), James (1747-1831) whose trade is noted as "saddler", and Benjamin (1752/1754-1823/1825). Generally speaking, the eldest living Adair of a given name was given the suffix of Sr. or no suffix at all while the younger Adairs were noted as Jr. or "son of" - in some cases an uncle could be a "Sr" and a nephew or cousin could be the "Jr." depending on age. As to which James and which Joseph are cited in the records below, they could be any of the above because there is no guarantee that the Court properly used Sr., Jr., or whatever. The citations could be a mix of all. The following are just the Joseph Adair quotations: Pg. 63, 16 Mar 1786: of that part of the high road leading from Duncan's Creek to Hendrizes old place on the South fork of Duncan's Creek from thence to the County line, and that he cause the same to be kept in good repair for one year from this date as directed by law." Pg. 160, 16 Mar 1787: "Joseph Adair vs. Thomas Pearson. This day came the Plft by his Attys and the Attachment being returned execution on 300 acres of land the Property of the Deft and the said Deft not appearing to Replevy the same or Plead to the Plfts Declaration agreeable to a former order of this court, Therefore upon a Jury to wit [jury named]… upon their oaths do say that the Plft hath Sustained by accation of the Trespass in the Declaration mentioned, upon their oaths do say that the Plft hath Sustained Damages by accation thereof to £20 besides his cost, thereupon it was Considered by the Court that the Plft Recover against the s'd Deft his damages aforesaid in form aforesaid assest and his cost by him in this behalf Expended." [Kerry's note: There were three exact same cases against Thomas Pearson with James Montgomery, James Adair, and Joseph Adair as individual plaintiffs with all three in sequence.] Pp 205-206, 16 Dec 1787: "Ordered that the following Estrays be sold at Public Sale by the Sheriff after being advertised ten days to wit… A bright bay mare taken up by Joseph Adair Jun'r & told before James Montgomery, Esqr… Any Moneys that comes in the Sheriffs hands by Virtue of the Sale of the Above Estrays, he is Ordered to pay into the hands of the County Treasurer as soon as is Convenient." Pg. 219, 12 Mar 1788: "James Pucket vs. Joseph Adair. In Slander. The parties Mutually Submitted the Determination of this Suit to John Hunter & Saml Saxon with liberty to Choose a third man in Case of Disagreement, and agreed thereupon should be made a Judgment of this Court the s'd Arbitrators to return their award to next Court." Pg. 225, 13 Mar 1788: "James Pucket vs Joseph Adair. In Slander. On application of Ayres Gorely on oath a Witness for the Defendant agaist the s'd Pltf Ordered that the Deft pay him the sum of Ten Shillings for 4 days attendance @ 2/6 P'r day with Milage Coming and Going 70 Miles from the State of Georgia £ 14 2 Together with Mileage coming & returning 3/6. Pg. 234, 10 Jun 1788: "Sarah Jones Infant orphan of John Jones dec'd with the approbation of the Court made Choice of John Adair as Guardian, who Together with Joseph Adair his Security entered into and acknowledged their Bonds in the sum of £100 conditional to secure the said Orphans Estate and Indemnify the Court." Pg. 234, 10 Jun 1788: "Joseph Adair vs Wm Dean. Sum'r. Trover. Continued by Consent till next Court." Pg. 236, 10 Jun 1788: "Joseph Pucket vs. Joseph Adair. Slander. The parties mutually Submitted the Determination of this Suit to the award of Saml Saxon, John Hunter & Samuel Ewing and Agreed their Award thereupon should be made a Judgement of this Court the said Arbitrators now Returning their Award to wit, that the s'd James Puckett Pltff the said Joseph Adair Deft pay Each one their own cost, Whereupon it was ordered to be Dismiss'd accordingly." Pg. 254, 9 Sep 1788: "The Last will and testament of Haunce Miller Dec'd was proven in Open Court by the oaths of Thos Ewing & Joseph Adair & ordered to be Recorded." Pg. 279, 10 Dec 1788: "Joseph Adair vs. Wm Dean. Sum'r Process. Discontinued at Defts Cost by his Consent." Pg. 286, 12 Dec 1788: Joseph Adair was drawn to serve as grand jurour at next court to be held for the County on the second Monday in June next. Pg. 301, 12 Mar 1789: John D. Kern vs Charles Hutchings. In Case. This day came the parties by their attorneys & thereupon Came also a Jury [jury named] upon their oaths say that the Deft is not Guilty on fhe Nonperformance of the promises & assumptions in the Declaration mentioned & that he go hence without day and Recover against the s'd Plft his Cost by him in this behalf expended, Whereupon it was ordered accordingly. On application made on oath by James Adair a witness in said suit, ordered that the Plft pay him the sum of 35/ for 14 days attendance at 2/6 P'r day. Also Joseph Adair the sum of 32/ for 13 days attendance at 2/6 P'r day." Pg. 308, 9 Jun 1789: Josiah Greer & James Greer. The Trial of this suit being Refer'd to the Award of John Hunter Esq'r, John Owings, & Joseph Adair & the award being Return'd Sign'd by Two of the s'd Arbitrators but was objected against by the Plfts Att do say that the Plft hath Sustained Damages by occation of the Trover & convertion in the Declaration Mentioned to the Amount of £19 beside her cost; therefore it is considered by the Court that the Plft Recover against the s'd Defts her Damages afores'd in form afores'd assest & her cost by her in said suit Expended & s'd Defts in Mercy &c." Pg. 331, 15 Dec 1789: "Ben: Adair Jun'r, Joseph Adair, Martha Adair, Hezekiah Adair & Isaac Adair, Infants orphans of John Adair Dec'd came into Court Chose Ben Adair Senr as their Guardian; Whereupon he the s'd Benjamin Adair Sen'r together with Joseph Adair his security Entered into and acknowledged their bond according to Law." Pg. 334, 16 Dec 1789: "The last will and testament of Joseph Adair Dec'd was presented in open court by James Adair the Ex'r and proven by the oath of James Montgomery and Ordered to be Recorded. Ordered that a Probate thereof issue in due form &c. Ordered that a warrant of Appraisement Issue to four freeholders of this county to View and appraise the estate of the s'd Jo's Adair Decd & Return an account of the same to the Ext'r within the Time Prescribed by Law." 18. Early LDS records give Joseph being the father of Thomas in an indirect manner. I have personally seen the early LDS St. George Temple records in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. I transcribed all the entries for which an Adair or related party did temple work in behalf of the dead. It is quite a list. On film #170840, p. 162, entry 3048 wherein Samuel Jefferson Adair, a son of Thomas Adair, did a baptism for Joseph Adair on 14 Feb 1877. Samuel indicates his relation is "Grandson". He also did about 20 other baptisms that day including for his other grandfather Roger Brown. Samuel did not give birthdates or places for his grandfathers. Later that month on 28 Feb 1877 in the same temple, Samuel's sister, Eliza Adair Price, also did many baptisms for relatives including "Sarah Adair" (no maiden name) wherein Eliza lists herself as the granddaughter. She does list Sarah as born in South Carolina - but she lists the same SC for all the work she did that same day so I am not sure whether they are of SC or born in SC. 19. Typescript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina. Compiled by Mildred Brownlee; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction." [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.]: A. "SC Archives, Council Journal 34 p. 39, 2 Feb. 1768 - Petitions for Warrants of Survey: James Adair - 150 a. - Waters of Duncan Creek - granted 1768 (James was noted as James, Sr. up to his death.) Joseph Adair - 250 a. - Waters of Duncan Creek Council Journal 34, p. 236, 7 Dec, 1768 - Petitions to Prolong Warrants: Joseph Adair - 250 a. - on Duncan Creek His 250 a. was granted in 1770 (where Duncan Creek Church now stands). Joseph Adair sold this grant in 1778 to Benjamin Adair. (Deed Bk. A, p. 189) The above is the first record for Joseph Adair, Sr., cooper, found in Laurens Co. [NB: this is incorrect. Joseph Adair petitioned for 200 acres on the Waters of the Santee [Council Journal of 3 Dec 1766, p. 874]. The Memorial for this property reads as follows: A Memorial exhibited by Joseph Adair, 200 acres of a Plantation or tract of land contg. 200 acres situate in Berkly County on the So. side of Enoree River on a branch thereof called Millers Creek bounded Ewardly on land of Frances McCall, and on all other sides on vacant land. Survey certified the 7th of March 1769 (Plat Book 9, p. 341) and granted the 2nd day of June 1769 to the memorialist. Quit rent to commence two years hence. SC Memorial Book 8, p. 482. 9 Sep 1769]. James Adair who petitioned for land on the same date as Joseph is possibly the James Adair who married Eleanor and who had died in Laurens Co. prior to 12 Feb. 1796. Early deeds refer to him as James Adair, cooper. His 150 a. grant is evidently the one shown on Union Co. Land Grant map #4 and #12 on a branch of Duncan Creek which is called McCall's Branch on map #4. Other early maps refer to this branch as Miller's Fork. On present day maps it is called Sand Creek ... NE of Clinton, in the area between Hwy. 72 and Hwy. 98. Since available deeds do not make clear the disposition of the above 150 a., there is still some uncertainty that the grant was to James Adair, wife Eleanor; however, it is certain that he was in Laurens Co. 11 Aug. 1774 when he received a grant of 200 a. on a branch of Duncan Creek. Land Grant map #4 says granted in 1770 but deeds say 1774; this grant lying between the main branch of Duncan and Philson's Crossroad, and very near to Joseph Adair, Sr.'s original grant. Since both Joseph Adair and James Adair have been identified as coopers and they both petitioned for land on the same date, it seems logical to think that they were brothers. (Dr. James Adair's History states that James Adair, Indian trader, was a brother of Joseph Adair, Sr. but extensive research on the Indian trader does not substantiate the claim.) Council Journal 34 should be consulted for any other possible information which might be contained in the land petitions of Joseph and James Adair in 1768. The exact year that Joseph Adair arrived in South Carolina has not been determined. He was in Lancaster Co., Pa. in 1759 when he was given Power-of-Attorney to sell land for John, Josiah, and Jennet Ramage. In his History of the Presbyterian Church in SC, George Howe, D.D. states that in 1763 or 1766, Joseph Adair, Thomas Ewing, Wm. Hanna, and the McCrearys had united in building a house of worship. The June 9, 1896 issue of The Laurens Advertiser has an article about the 130th. anniversary of Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church which was "organized in summer of 1766". B. Typescript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina. Compiled by Mildred Brownlee; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction." [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.]: "James Adair, Sr. left no will in Laurens Co. No estate papers have been located in Laurens Co. Eleanor Adair left no will or estate papers in Laurens Co. Data from Laurens Co. deeds indicate that a son of James and Eleanor was Joseph Adair. Deed Bk. F, p. 109 - 12 Feb. 1796, Joseph Adair, Jr. to Wm. Holland, 120 a. on a small branch of Duncan Creek. N on John McCreary now John A. Elmore, SW by John Adair now Benj. Adair, S by me, a grant of 2 Oct, 1786; the other plantation of 100 a. purchased from Samuel Ewing 16 Dec. 1778, part of 150 a. grant to Samuel Ewing 30 Sept. 1774, Joining the above tract. Joseph Adair, Jr.* Wit: B.H. Saxon, JA Elmore, Basil Holland Release of dower: Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph Adair, Jr.; Eleanor (x) Adair. Widow of James Adair, dec'd. (*Joseph Adair called "Jr." to distinguish from Joseph Adair, son of Joseph Adair, cooper, who was at that time called Joseph Adair, "Sr.", after the death of his father in 1789.) Deed Bk, G, p. 570 - 7 Jan. 1803, Joseph Adair, planter, to John Daniel Kern of Charleston, merchant, 86 a. on N side of Duncan Creek, adj. said J. D. Kern. N 10, W 40, S 30, etc., on Joseph Adair line, S 80, E ??, etc. on Mistres ?Musgrove (seems error for "Mistress Montgomery"). Joseph Adair Wit: Thomas Martin, Tailor; William Dabbage Release of Dower: Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph Adair, Jr.; Eleanor (x) Adair, widow of James Adair, dec'd. Joseph Adair appears on the census of 1790 thus. Joseph Adair: 1 (male over 16), 3 (males under 16), 3 (females), no slaves. Joseph Adair in 1800: 31101 11101 - no slaves. Joseph Adair. b. 1755 or before. Wife Sarah, b. 1755 or before. m) b. 1774-1783 - Eldest son Thomas f) m) b. 1784-1790 f) m) m) b. 1790-1800 m) f) No further data has been located in Laurens Co. records as to names of the other children of Joseph and Sarah Adair. Census figures indicate a family of 8 children born before 1800 - 5 sons and 3 daughters. Of these 8 children, we have proof of one eldest son, Thomas Adair, whose birthdate from lineage chart is given an 25 Oct. 1771. Judging by census, the probable year of birth is 1774 rather than 1771. Deed Bk. H. P. 22 - 5 Feb. 1804. Joseph Adair of Duncan Creek to eldest son, Thomas Adair, 40 a. adj. J. D. Kern. Margaret Montgomery, and said Joseph Adair. Wit: Roger Brown, Jane (X - her mark) Adair." 20. Deed from Joseph to his eldest son Thomas in 1804. See notes for Thomas for a second deed where he and his wife Rebecca Brown Adair sell this same tract in 1806. Photocopies on file: Laurens Co., SC, Deed Book H, page 22: "Duncan's Cr. Joseph Adair to Thomas Adair, Deed of Gift 40 acres land, certified 23 March 1804. State of South Carolina, Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Adair of Dunkins Creek in Laurens District and in the State aforesaid for and in consideration of the Love and Good will I bear to my edest [eldest] son Thomas Adair, of the State aforesaid have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant to the said Thomas Adair, all that plantation or tract of land containing forty acres more or less beginning at a post oak corner joining J.D. Kern's land thence nearly E. to a like wood corner joining Soo.[?] Kern's land thence to a little hickory corner on Margret Montgomary's land and thence nearly west to a popler [poplar] to the south side of the Branch on my land thence nearly west inclining south to a black Jack joining myself and Soo. Kern's land thence along said Kern's land to the beginning corner together with all and singular the rights members hereditaments and appertainances to the said premises belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining. To have and to hold all and singular the premises before mentioned to the said Thomas Adair his heirs and assigns forever and I do hereby bind myself my heirs and executors and administrators to warrant and forever defend all and singular the said premises unto the said Thomas Adair, his heirs and assigns against myself and my heirs and against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof witness my had and seal this 5th day of February in the year of our Lord 1804. Joseph Adair. LS. Witness[es] present. Roger Brown. Jane Adair (her mark). State of South Carolina, Laurens District. Personally appeared Roger Brown before me Starling Tucker and made oath that he was present and saw the within named Joseph Adair sign and deliver the within deeds to the within mentioned Thomas Adair for the purpose within mentioned and seen the other assigning witness to the within at the same time assign the same sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of March 1804 Starling Tucker, J.P. Roger Brown." [Roger Brown is father-in-law to Thomas Adair; Rebecca's half brother Roger had not yet been born and could not have been the witness as many report. Not sure as to relationship of Jane Adair.] 21. American Revolutionary War Stories involving Mangum and Adair Families in Laurens County Area of South Carolina: In John Mangum the Patriot's application for his American Rev. War pension, he mentions serving with several of the following commanders. He specifically states he was with Col. Joseph Hayes when he was killed and that he received a wound under the hands of the Tory leader William Cunningham aka "Bloody Bill." The following accounts help understand John's and the Adair family's patriotic commitment and puts some flesh to names. See separate notes in the Adair family notes for John Mangum's Adair family comrades in arms who signed the James Williams Petition which would mean that the Adair and Mangum families probably first came in contact both knowing and serving under James Williams. Both modern Laurens and adjoining Newberry Counties were in the old District Ninety Six of South Carolina. "A Laurens County Sketchbook," by Julian Stevenson Bolick, FHL book 975.731-H2b, p. 9, in speaking of the American Revolutionary War: "The people, cut off as they were from the coast and seat of government [KP note: at Charles Town or Charleston as it was later known], were not aware of the many grievances of the colonists toward the mother country. Naturally, in the months to follow, many of the Up Country people remained loyal to England, and particularly those who had been given large grants by the king. These people became known as Tories, and a gentleman's agreement was reached among some of the colonists whereby the Tories in the Carolina "Back Country" should remain in a state of neutrality. Since this agreement was made without the knowledge of Robert Cunningham, a man of high esteem and immense influence among his neighbors in Ninety Six District, he did not feel bound by the agreement. Thus, he continued to urge opposition to the revolutionary movement to the point of being apprehended on an occasion by a group of men dressed as Indians. Learning of Robert's proposed confinement in Charles Town, his brother Patrick gathered a body of friends and set out in pursuit of the group. The pursuers failed to overtake the first group, but Patrick and his men learned of, and captured, 1000 pounds of powder being sent as a present to the Cherokee Indians by the governor. Because of the proximity of the Cherokees, it was customary to make gifts from time to time to the Cherokee Nation to encourage friendship. An amount of gunpowder, included with cloth and trinkets, was intended to be only enough to meet the Indians' needs for hunting, and not a sufficient quantity to incite them to attack the settlers... "Unbiased recounting of history must include here the distasteful authority and influence exerted by two Tory leaders over their followers in dealing with their enemies, the Whigs [KP note: pre-Revolution ]. The two 'Bloody Bills', William Bates and William Cunningham, headed the list of atrocities ... Cunningham ... belonged to one of the best families in the province. A cousin of Robert and Patrick Cunningham, Bill was the only member of the family to depart from its high standard of chivalry and honor ... William was a Whig at the beginning of the struggle ... William was ordered to the Low Country, was whipped for some minor offense and was placed in chains. His work of pillage and murder apparently was a retributive vengeance on those who had wronged him, especially his former commander in arms. "So, the good citizens and the bad citizens were divided in their partisanship. Before the end of hostilities, the great plantations where hospitality had been dispensed in generous and gracious manner were closed to friendship because of divided loyalties and sympathies. These homes included White Hall, home of Andrew Williamson; Rosemont and Peach Hill, Cunningham seats and Mount Pleasant, owned by James Williams. In many cases, animosity continued. In the election of 1778, Colonel Williams and Cunningham engaged in gentlemanly fisticuffs, in which the wife of the Colonel seized Cunningham by his queue before friends could come between them. The fact that Cunningham was elected to office was evidence of the strong Tory influence in the district. It will be recollected here that Robert Cunningham had been arrested by Colonel James Williams in 1775 and sent to Charles Town, where he refused to recognize the authority of the Provincial Congress. His arrest created indignation in the "Back Country", and three years later his friends gave full support to his candidacy. "Logan's History of the 'Upper Country of South Carolina' characterizes this area as 'the classic ground of the American Revolution,' but it is difficult to locate exact spots of skirmishes occurring with the confines of the present county of Laurens. Meager records show that one encounter took place on the banks of Rabun Creek. While the armed forces on the coast had been occupied with the defense of Fort Moultrie, the western frontier of the state had become ablaze with Indians on the warpath [KP note: the neutrality of the Indians was broken when the British and their allies could use strong persuasion]. Inhabitants along the Saluda River had taken refuge in an old fort known as Lyndley's, located on Rabun Creek. Early morning of July 15, 1776, 88 Indians and 102 white men attacked the safety station. Major Jonathan Downes with 150 men had arrived at the station the evening before. The latter were on a mission to join forces with Major Williamson in an effort to suppress the Indians who erroneously had been told that their gift of gunpowder and lead captured so recently would be used by the Whigs to kill them. The attack on the fort was repulsed and thirteen prisoners, all whites dressed as Indians, were sent to Ninety Six for confinement. "On another occasion, Major Downes, commanding a small force of Whigs, happened to come upon an armed aggregation of Indians in the Scuffletown area. Tradition says that the Major overcame the Indian chief in a hand-to-hand fight, and that he took off his suspenders, tied the Indian's hands behind his back and left the fighting field with the captured chieftain astride Downes' horse. "In August of 1780, the Battle of Musgrove's Mill was fought about twelve miles north of the present city of Laurens on the Enoree River. Major Downes again served gallantly; in this encounter was, also, Colonel Joseph Hayes, who was among those massacred at Hayes Station the following year. In the home of Major Edward Musgrove a garrison of 500 British troops maintained headquarters. They were regimented soldiers retrained by platoons. The Major, too old for active duty, remained neutral in his sympathies; but his family took a very active part with sons fighting on both sides. On that August day the Whigs took up position within one mile of the mill and were in the process of planning an attack when a skirmish between a British patrol and a Whig reconnaissance group brought the entire British garrison to the scene. Young Captain Shadrack Inman asked permission to take 25 men and act as a decoy to draw the Tories into a three-pronged trap formed by force commanded by Colonel Isaac Shelby on the right, Colonel Elijah Clarke on the left and Colonel James Williams in the center. Shadrack Inman was shot seven times following the retreating British. A simple stone marks the spot where he fell. "The battle is said to have been one of the hardest ever fought in the county with small arms alone '...the smoke so thick as to hide a man at a distance of twenty rods. With the aid of Tories, the British had hoped for a quick victory in the South; instead they suffered heavy losses and their strength in South Carolina's Up Country had been badly shaken. "November, 1781, will be remembered as a month of terror for the Whigs and their families in the Ninety Six District at the hands of William Cunningham, who had left Charles Town in August for the purpose of inflicting punishment on the Whigs. Crossing Saluda River, 'Bloody Bill' and his band of 300 ruthless followers attacked Hayes Inn, a station which before had been known as Edge Hill, on the stagecoach route through this part of the Up Country. The exact date of this attack is not known, but McCrady in his 'History of South Carolina in the Revolution' traces the movements of the group of Tories. On November 7, 1781 thirty Whigs had taken refuge in an unfinished log house without door or windows on a small stream called Cloud's Creek in Edgefield County. Two of the thirty escaped, the rest being slaughtered after they had surrendered. Mr. McCrady states 'it was a fine morning after the massacre at Cloud's Creek, when at ten among those inside. "Captain Daniel Williams, with a group of patriots, had rested overnight at the inn. The Captain, only eighteen years of age, and Colonel Joseph Hayes, owner and operator of the inn, were promptly hanged from a pole of the fodder stack. The pole broke; and Cunningham, continuing the cruelty with gave him the name 'Bloody Bill,' cut the half strangled men to pieces with his sword. The encounter is recorded as 'Hayes Station Massacre,' a terrifying experience related by the one survivor... "It was such odious treatment of human beings that prompted General Nathanael Greene of the Whig side to make the following declaration: 'The inhabitants hunt one another like wild beasts. If a stop cannot be put to these massacres, the country will be depopulated in a few more months, as neither Whig nor Tory can live." In the District of Ninety Six alone, there were 1400 hundred widows and orphans as a result of the war." 22. James Williams Petition listing the Adair family Patriots. Note that Thomas Adair's parents are the ones listed as number 4 (Joseph and Sarah) and his grandparents are number 3 (James and Eleanor). Most of the other Adairs were brothers or cousins. The petition has come to me from Mildred Brownlee's manuscript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina" and also from the "South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 15, p. 32. James Williams was one of the most renowned Patriots of the Laurens area and this listing of signers of the petition of the area gives us a good source of patriots also associated with him. Col. James Williams and Capt. Josiah Greer were also military leaders of many of these same individuals during the 1778 American invasion of British East Florida per the source of Doctor George Ross' medical reimbursement papers quoted in this database under Rebecca Montgomery's notes. This petition typescript is item #5767, Manuscript Dept., Wm. M. Perkins Library at Duke University, Durham NC. Submitted by Mrs. Mary Ann McCrary and published with permission of the Manuscript Dept. This petition pre-dates the Battle of Kings Mountain (7 Oct 1780), as Col. James Williams was killed at that time. [NB: a second version of the petition was located in the South Carolina Library in 1999 and the gaps in the Duke University petition were filled in as indicated by brackets.] {Any notes or comments added by me are in these brackets.} "To his Excellen[cy John Rutledge, E]sq. Governor & Commander in Chief in & [over th]e state of South Carolina, the Honourable the privy Counsel, the Honourable the Senate & House of Representatives in General Assembly. Whereas we (the zealous friends to our country, and to all who love and distinguish themselves in her cause) do understand & are exceeding sorry to hear that there are false & [evilly designing] Accusations either lying on or about to shortly be laid against James Williams, our present Colonel in & over Little River Regiment, and designed (as we believe) by the private Enemies of our country to deprive us of so worthy a friend of his Country in general a good officer to us in particular & thereby do a very singular Piece of Service to the common enemies of America. We do briefly & anxiously remonstrate this: that we experimentally know Colo. James Williams to have been a zealous Patriot from the commencement of the America contest with Briten; and to have always stood foremost in every occasion when called upon to the defence of his country. We do further declare that we have never known said Colo. [Jas.].Williams to distress any individuals in the Regiment who voluntarily & judiciously, when legally called upon and commanded to the field, have turned out in the Defence if their Native Rights & Privileges together with that of their Country; & we do avow it from our knowledge, that whensoever Colo. Jas. Williams either directly or indirectly executed any distressing things, it was upon the stubborn & refractory, whose practices of obstinacy declare them inimical to their country: & and that this he did, as being last promissing Effort to reduce them to the dutiful obedience of loyal & fellow citizens. Without delaying you; we your humble Petitioners do earnestly beg that you will hear this our faithful Remonstrance & proceed with our respected Colo. James Williams & all such unjust & disaffected Clamours as may come before you against him, as your superior Judgements may direct: only begging leave to conclude with this one Remark, that doubtless you know that such clamours are f | Adair, Joseph (I1847)
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| 4803 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following information was found concerning the two children of Charles and Zibiah: A. Website http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruthhall/McCarley/McCarley.html#i5037 accessed 10 Dec 2008: "Zebiah McCarley next married Charles Beirdneau on 20 Apr 1823 in Gallia County, Ohio. Charles was born in 1766, died on 5 Feb 1860 in Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa and was buried in Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa. Children from this marriage were: i. Nehemia Wood Beirdneau was born on 2 Feb 1824 in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, died on 7 Sep 1901 in Stafford, Graham County, Arizona and was buried on 10 Sep 1901 in Thatcher, Graham County, Arizona. ii. Elizabeth Gabrrielle Beirdneau was born on 6 Mar 1827 in Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio and died on 8 Oct 1903. Elizabeth married Perrigrine Sessions on 25 Mar 1865 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Perrigrine was born on 15 Jan 1814 in Newrey, Oxford, Maine, died on 3 Jun 1893 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah and was buried on 6 Jun 1893 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah." B. LDS Ordinance Index shows "Eliz Gabrielle Bridno" married and sealed to "Perigrine Sessions" on 25 Mar 1865 EHOUS in Salt Lake City. Note that Perigrine Sessions, along with John Stoker, were founders of Bountiful. Stoker's wife, a daughter of Zibiah, may have had something to do with her step-sister's marriage to Peregrine. C. Per Worldconnect database "sgoates4093" of Sharol Goates 2. Censuses: 1830 US: Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, p. 1 of 8 (Note: that index indicates "Burdine," but looking carefully at the actual image, it is "Burdino".): Charles Burdine, males: 1:5-10 (Nehemiah Beirdneau), 1:10-15 (William McDaniel), 1:15-20 (John McDaniel), 1:20-30(uncertain identity), 1:60-70 (Charles Birdino); females: 1:0-5 (Elizabeth Beirdneau), 1:20-30(Jane McDaniel), 1:40-50 (Zibiah) 3. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. Selected family related passages from his journal: P. 1: Nov. 1-4, 1869: The journal starts with John leaving as a 52 year old missionary with Jesse N. Perkins as a companion from Salt Lake City on the railroad to Omaha, NE. The railroad had just recently been completed so he details the progress of the transcontinental railway journey. P. 2: Saturday, Nov. 6, 1869: "Went to Bluff City with J.N. Perkins. Sunday 7th, spent the fore noon with Moroni Stoker - took dinner with him." [William Moroni Stoker, 1834-1929, was John's first cousin thru John's father's brother Michael S. Stoker, 1805-1858.] P. 3: "Monday 8th. Went up to Musketoe to see Simeon P. Graybill. Stayed all night. Tuesday 9th, took dinner with Aunt Margaret Stoker, Uncle Eller Stoker's widow, and returned to Aunt Martha's at Trading Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. Wednesday, 10th. Wrote a letter to Mr. Wm. Atkinson in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah. Thursday 11th. Visited Wm. McDaniel in Harrison Co. 40 miles north. Friday 12th. Visited the grave of Zibiah Birdno [could also be Binders], my wife's mother. Saturday 13th. Returned to Aunt Martha's at Trader's Point. Sunday 14th. Spent the day with Aunt Martha's family. Monday 15th. Went to Bluff City to look for a letter but got none and returned to the Point. [Simeon Graybill, 1816-1889, was John's first cousin twice thru his father's sister Polly Stoker, 1792-1864, and thru his mother's brother Michael Peter Graybill. Eller Stoker, 1816-1855, was John's father's brother and married to Margaret Judd, 1822-1893. Aunt Martha was Martha Carr McDaniel, 1808-1873, wife of John's father's brother Michael S. Stoker, 1805-1858. William McDaniel, 1810-1885, is John's brother-in-law. John's Mother-in-law, Zibiah (McCarley) McDaniels, 1786-1860, apparently remarried a Mr. Birdno after her husband James McDaniel, 1762-1820, died.] Pp. 4-9: The journal details their departure from Council Bluffs area by various means including railroad, hack, steamboat, packet boat, hired horses, and on foot with luggage to "Leith Co. 5 miles north of Estillville," Virginia via many detailed waypoints including but not limited to DesMoines, Chicago, Cleveland, Wheeling VA, Burlington on the Ohio River, the "Big Sandy" on the line between Kentucky and Virginia, the "Pound Gap" summit of Cumberland Mountain, the "High Nob the highest point in Virginia." John details with whom they stayed and what hospitality they received. Along the way they see and preach the Gospel to many McLelland/McClelland relatives of his companion. In Leith Co., VA, on Monday, Dec. 13, 1869, he "wrote a letter home to my family and one to Ash[e] Co., North Carolina to David and Henry Graybill" which they mailed the next day from Estillville. [John's mother, Barbara Graybill, had two brothers - Henry, ca1780-ca1843, and David, 1794-1874 - who remained in Ashe Co. where she was born; however, Henry was dead by then but his "Uncle" David responds later on Jan. 22.] Pp. 10-17: They stayed in the area doing missionary work mainly among McClellands. He notes on Christmas day while staying with Samuel McClelland, they went to a meeting and heard a Dunkard preach. On Monday, Dec. 27th, John notes, "wrote a letter to my family also one to my sister-in-law Martha Stoker at Bluff City, Iowa. [Martha Carr (McDaniel) Stoker was whom he referred to as Aunt Martha previously in his journal since she was married to his father's brother Michael S. Stoker, but she was also a sister-in-law since she was the sister to John's wife Jane McDaniel.] John notes on Saturday, Jan. 8th, that he "went to the widow Quillins to inquire concerning the Wampler family." [I am unsure who the widow was, but John's maternal grandmother was Christina Wampler, 1753-1844.] On Tuesday, Jan. 11th, John notes, "Went to Patsy Daughterty's to inquire after my mother's relatives." On Thursday, Jan. 13th, he notes that he "went to Wm. Wampler's, took dinner." [I do not have either a Patsy Daughterty nor William Wampler in my database - they must be of a later generation than John's grandmother Christina Wampler.] He also notes on the same day that he received a letter from his son-in-law J. Tolman and daughter in Utah. On Saturday, Jan. 22nd, John notes, 'Received a letter from my son David Stoker, Davis Co., Utah dated Jan'y 1st, 1870, gave particulars of my son John Stoker's sickness but getting better. Also received a letter from my uncle David Graybill, Ashe Co., Jefferson, North Carolina." On Jan. 24th, he writes back to his uncle David Graybill. Pp. 18-24: Starting on Jan. 26th, 1870, the missionaries are on the move: first to Bristol (VA?), then thru Chattanooga, Nashville, Sparta, to Putnam Co., Tennessee where they did missionary work with the Perkins and Mayberry families who relatives of his companion, Jesse Perkins. On Sunday, Feb. 13th, 1870, John wrote letters to his son David Stoker in Davis Co., Utah and one to Aunt Martha Stoker and cousins in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. On the next day he went to Gainesboro where he received a letter from his son David Stoker. Beginning Feb. 16th, 1870, John proceeds by boat down the Cumberland to Nashville then to St. Louis via the Mississippi River from Cape "Jerido". On Feb. 23rd, took the from St. Louis to Trader's Point where again he sees Aunt Martha. He sends money to his companion in Decatur Co., Iowa to help him get to Council Bluffs. He also sends a letter to Utah asking his family for money for himself and his companion. Pp. 25-33: John arrives Feb. 26 and remains in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa until March 24 when he, Jesse Perkins who arrives March 9, and several other missionaries from the East Coast join up in Omaha for the trip home to Utah by railroad which he notes cost $50.75. Generally he is staying with his Aunt Martha. Some journal entries during that time period dealing with family follow: "Sat., Feb 26th, 1870: Went up to Musketoe Creek to Simeon Peter Graybill, my cousin. Stayed over night. Sunday, 27th. Went to Walker's Grove in Harrison Co. to Sidney R. Graybill, my cousin, with Moroni Stoker to see some sick cousins Michael and Elizabeth Graybill. [Sidney Rigdon, 1836-1893, Michael S., 1827-1910, and Elizabeth, 1833-1891, are siblings and all children of Polly Stoker, John's father's sister.] Stayed over night. Monday 28th. Cold and windy. Remained all day. Stayed all night. Tuesday, March 1st 1870. Returned to Aunt Martha Stoker's at Traders Point. Read a letter from David Stoker, my son, to John A. Stoker, dated Feb'y 21st, 1870. Stayed overnight... Thursday 3d. Cousin Jared Stoker killed 2 turkeys, the 2 weighing 40 lbs. [John Alexander Stoker, 1837-1918, and Jared, 1843-1912, were first cousins and sons of Michael S. Stoker, brother of John's father David.] Stayed over... Tuesday 8th, being my birthday, age 53... Wednesday 9th... was weighed being 184 lbs... Friday 18th... went to Aaron Thomas, took dinner and spent the day with him and family. [Aaron Morris Thomas, 1833-1920, was married to John's first cousin, Elizabeth Jane Stoker, who was the daughter of John W. Stoker, a brother of John's father David.] Returned to Aunt Martha Stoker's... Saturday 19th... Sent a letter to Wm. Atkinson in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, heard from home by a letter wrote to John A. Stoker dated March the 12th, 1870. All was well... Thursday 24th... John A. Stoker and Joseph Stoker took me and Bro. Jesse N. Perkins to Omaha with a wagon. Rained before we got there. Joseph Stoker went over the River with us met about 30 of the missionaries at the St. Charles Hotel. [Joseph Jehiel Stoker, 1846-1921, was a brother of John Alexander and William Moroni Stoker.] Left Omaha at 6 p.m. on the Emigrant Cars for home..." Pp. 33-35: John details the train trip which started March 24th and arrived home in Bountiful March 29th after switching to the Utah Central in Ogden. He notes his arrival "in the midst of family and friends with a hearty God bless you… and a hearty shaking of hands." The missionary journal ends at this point. Pp. 36-227: The balance of John's journal book is genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank, which I did not copy. Besides family, John would also note many other unrelated Stokers who he must have gleaned from books and other sources. He also notes some totally unrelated non-Stoker individuals with whom he evidently has some acquaintance. I have entered the pertinent data with each family in my database. 4. Ancestry.com accessed 28 Feb 2013 from Claudia Ray "Zibiah Mc Carley. Also known as Sibby Mc Carley; Shebby Mc Daniel, Zibiah Birdino. Zibiah was born 10 Dec 1786 to John Mc Carley and Martha Carr. She was born in Pennsylvania, moved with her family to Virginia and then to Ohio. In Ohio she met and married James McDonald the 19 Dec 1805 (film 0317652) here they spelled her name as Sibby Mc Carley. They were married in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio by Charles Buck Jr. They lived in Raccoon Twp near the Raccoon river in Gallia County, Ohio. They had five children, three girls and two boys. Electa Sarah, Martha, Jane, John and William, James died in 1820, leaving Zibiah with five children ages four to twelve years old. (1820 census.) The 20 of April 1823 Zibiah married Charles Birdino. Here she used the name of Shebby Mc Daniel. Her using the surname of Mc Daniel may indicate the Mc Donald clan using Mc Daniel for Church events. (Film 0317652) They had two children, Nemiah Wood Birdino and Elizabeth Gabrielle Birdino. Charles had several spelling variations of his surname. It was spelled Birdino on his marriage certificate. Burdinano, Beirdneau and Birdino in the land grant papers. In the 1830 census his name was listed as Charles Burdino. His children always seemed to use the Birdno spelling. Charles Birdino had enlisted in the army and fought in the war of 1812. Because of this he received warrant no. 3809 for 160 acres of bounty land. I believe that his bounty land was located in Jefferson County, Ohio, because Charles Burdino, John Stoker, Michael Stoker and Michael Stoker Jr were all living in Steubenville; Ohio, in the 1830 Census. From the location of their residences next to each other Charles Birdino and Michael Stoker may have both receive bounty lands from the war of 1812. James Mc Donald may have also enlisted in the army for the war of 1812. The 1830 Ohio Census shows a Charles Burdino record with 1 male 5-10 Nehemiah Birdno, 1 male 10-15 William Mc Donald, 1 male 15-20 John McDonald-Mc Daniel, 1 male 60-70 Charles Birdno & 1 female under 5 Elizabeth Birdno, 1 female 20-30 Jane Mc Daniel and 1 female 40-50 Zibiah. (Census) This census proves that Zibiah did not have three more sons with James Mc Donald. If she did they would have been shown on this census record. The three extra sons Van D. Mc Daniel born 13 May 1815, John E. Mc Daniel born 5 Dec 1817 & Andrew G. Mc Daniel born 30 Mar 1820. If she did the census would have shown 2 Males 15-20 & 3 Males 10-15. These three never appeared as sons of James and Zibiah on any records until a computer match and merge was done to create the I.G.I. They should be removed as sons of Zibiah in the New Family Search. Next was the John Stoker family with one male under 5 one male 20-30 John & 1 female under 5, one female 20-30 Electa Sarah Mc Daniel. Next was the Michael Stoker family with one male 10-15, one male 15-20 John, one male 60-70 & one female 10-15 Christina, one female 50-60. Then the Michael Stoker Jr. family with one male under 5, one male 20-30 & one female 5-10, one female 20-30 Martha Mc Daniel. Charles Birdino had received a leg wound while serving in the war of 1812 while fighting in Canada. There was a military hospital in Kanawha, Virginia where he had gone to have his leg checked. He died in Kanawha in 1840 leaving Zibiah a widow again. This time most of her children were grown and married. An article in the Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio Historical Society published in August 19?? gives the following information about the Graybeal and Stoker families. (In 1815 Peter Graybeal Sr and his wife left Ashe County with their son Michael, his wife Mary Stoker and their two young children. Their daughter Barbara Graybeal and her husband David Stoker, Mary's brother and their Stoker in-laws Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker. They were on their way to the Great Western Reserve, which would become Ohio. They selected a location in what became Bloomfield, Jackson County Ohio. Here they learned of the early Latter Day Saint Church and every member of this group of baptismal age became members in 1833. The spelling of their name was changed to Graybill to set them apart as Mormons.) Some books say that the Mc Donald clan was a violent clan so when they joined a church they would change their name to Mc Daniel. Because of the Mc Donald clan using the surname of Mc Daniel I believe that Zibiah and her children who joined the Church were baptized as Mc Daniel. Our John Mc Daniel was baptized in 1 February 1833 by Seymour Brunson. Seymour Brunson's diary says that he baptized a large number of people in Ohio. I believe that Zibiah and her children that were baptized and joined the Church used the name Mc Daniel. All of Zibiah's Mc Daniel children married Stokers except for William who never married, never joined the church and never used the surname of Mc Daniel. Zibiah's oldest daughter Electa Sarah was born 26 May 1806 (film 184,658). She married John W. Stoker. They joined the Mormon Church and came west to Nauvoo and then to Council Bluffs, Iowa where they both died in 1857. They died at Traders Point, Iowa Her next daughter Martha married Michael Stoker Jr. They also joined the church and came west to Nauvoo, and then to Iowa where they both died. Martha died in Council Bluffs, Iowa 4 Feb 1873. Zibiah, her sons John Mc Daniel, William Mc Donald and Nemiah Wood Birdino and daughter Elizabeth Gabriell Birdino also came west with the rest ofthe family as far as Iowa. In the 1850 Iowa census Zibiah and her daughter Elizabeth Birdino were living with Zibiah's son William Mc Donald. His surname was spelled Mc Donal in this census. Jeremiah Birdeno, his wife America and daughter Emily were living next door, or with them. Zibiah remained in Iowa where she died in 1860 at the age of 73 years 16 days and was buried in the Calhoun Cemetery, (film 1,579,041) which is in Harrison County. Harrison county had been a part of Pottawattamie county until 1855. William remained in Iowa and was a farmer. At his death an obituary was printed saying. (William McDonald came in 1854 with his mother, who was of the Mormon Faith. She went to Utah, but he refused to go. He remained in Calhoon township and lived a single life ever afterwards. He accumulated over fifty thousand dollars worth of property. He died in 1885 and his estate was sold at auction.) (film 0,934,944 pg. 454) The probate of William's estate can be found in the (film 1510110 pp. 493, 404-496, 504, 510). It tells the names of his sister's family coming to claim his estate. William is buried next to his mother in the Calhoun Cemetery. (Film 1,579,041) I don't think the people who wrote his obituary knew that Zibiah Birdno was the mother of William Mc Donald." BIRTH: 1. Elizabeth B. (Beirdneau) Sessions in the 1900 US Census for Bountiful, Davis, Utah indicates that she was born Mar. 1827 in Ohio and that her father (Charles Beirdneau) was born in Vermont and her mother (Zibiah McCarley) in Pennsylvania. The 1850 census also confirms a birth for Zibiah in Pennsylvania per her report to the census taker. Nehemiah Birdno in the same 1900 census for Graham County, Arizona notes his birth as Feb 1824 in Ohio and that both of his parents were born in Ohio (which we know to be most likely incorrect in regards to his parents.) 2. Family Tree accessed 15 Feb 2013 has the following comment added by a patron: "Charles pension application for the War of 1812 gives his birthplace as Vermont, that on the 20th of July 1815 he was about 40 years old, 5'-10" tall, had a dark complexion with black eyes and hair. It also gives his occupation as farmer. In the land grants he received 160 acres of bounty land in Ohio. MARRIAGE: 1. Apparently, Zibiah, married as her second husband Charles N. Birdno or Bierdneau or Birdneau 20 Apr 1823 in Gallia Co., Ohio. See John Stoker's journal above. 2. FHL film 317652 "Ohio Marriage Records," pg. 128, has marriage of Zibiah McDaniel to Charles Burdino 20 Apr 1823 in Gallipolis, Gallia, Ohio. DEATH: 1. Since his daughter Elizabeth was age 20 in the 1850 census, that would have Charles alive until at least 1830. Shows up in 1850's Census in West Virginia (as a boarder). He went there to try to get his pension. 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| 4805 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is a partial transcript concerning Jacob Winner from the "The Ancestry & Descendants of James Winner of Sussex Co., N.J. & Lycoming Co., Pa.," first edition; Editor: Ernestine Siegel, 1906 Watrous Avenue, Tampa, Florida, 33606; 1969; revised 1970; privately printed with copy in my possession, Preface, pp. 1-15, and Bibliography. (See notes of the earliest "generic" Winner for the full transcript.): "Jacob WINNER of MIDDLETOWN and SOUTHHAMPTON. Jacob Winner was married at St. Mary's Church, Burlington Co., N.J. on Sept. 29, 1774. In 1775 he is listed as a non-associator of Middletown Twp., Bucks Co. Pa. He died in 1778 in Southampton, Bucks Co., Pa., his widow Elizabeth (Hellingh) surviving him. (Bucks Co. File 1563). His occupation was that of a weaver. Dirck Hogeland of Southhampton and Amos Lubers of Northhampton were fellow bondsmen. William Mannington was witness, inventory by Phineas Paxton and Joseph Van Pelt. 2. I found the following additional quotes from several publications that add further information on the southern New Jersey Winners: A. FHL book 974.961 V2c "Burlington County Marriages," by H Stanley Craig (1932, rep. 2003), pp. 95, 233, 248: -Jacob Winner - Elizabeth Hellings, 9-24-1774. [See next note below for variation on this entry.] B. FHL film 1320671, it. 5, the book "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey," by John E. Stillwell (Baltimore, 1970), p. 72, "Register of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N.J.": -p. 88: "Married - Sept. 29, 1774, Jacob Winner & Elizabeth Hellings." [Possibly a grand-daughter of Nicholas Hellings of Bucks Co,?] C. "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson: a. Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents: -Winner, Jacob, Bucks, PA, and Elizabeth Helling, Bucks, PA, 1774 Sep 29. 3. FHL film 1320671, it. 5, the book "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey," by John E. Stillwell (Baltimore, 1970), p. 72, "Register of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N.J.," p. 88: "Married - Sept. 29, 1774, Jacob Winner & Elizabeth Hellings." Note this is the same church in which Abraham was also married in 1769. The book "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson, "Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents" adds a residence: "Winner, Jacob, Bucks, PA, and Elizabeth Helling, Bucks, PA, 1774 Sep 29." I have not seen ongoing records thereafter for Jacob in New Jersey, so I suspect he married "out of meeting" and returned to Pennsylvania. We do find a Bucks Co. tax record in 1778, "Lower Makefield, for Jacob Winner, married." There was another Jacob in Southampton Twp., Burks Co. who appears on a 1772 tax list then in probate: "1778, Jacob, weaver, Southhampton, adm., #1563"; couldn't find actual probate, but was administration only. A couple of loose unsubstantiated Worldconnect entries show that Jacob who married Elizabeth Helling was son of a Jacob in Bucks co. - probably should consider the possibility that Southampton Jacob could be father of Lower Makefield Jacob. No other entries in Bucks Co. for a Jacob after 1778. A more likely explanation and one that Ernestine Siegel mentions in her book is that these two Jacobs were in fact the one and the same with Jacob then dying relatively young. His age would be surmised from the earliest entry with him being at least 21. | Hellings, Elizabeth (I1939)
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| 4806 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Elizabeth (I5861)
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| 4807 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Hill, Margaret (I5859)
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| 4808 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Hill, John (I5858)
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| 4809 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Hill, Lawrence (I5857)
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| 4810 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Hill, Thomas (I5856)
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| 4811 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Hill, Edward (I5855)
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| 4812 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Hill, William (I5854)
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| 4813 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Hill, Michael (I5853)
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| 4814 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill - known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill - known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill - known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill - possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill - possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." | Hill (I5852)
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| 4815 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is an excerpt from the research report dated 17 Oct 2016 prepared for John Hedman by Legacy Family History, Inc. "It had been speculated in The American Genealogist that the surname of Eleanor, wife of John Whitbread, may have been Radcliff, due to a land record dated 1611, which is abstracted in that source. However, recent research produced the will of Thomas Hill, gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, which proves that Eleanor Whitbread was his sister. The will is dated 15 October 1628. Following is an extract of it:[7] "Item I give to my sister Whitbread xls to my nephew Willm her sonne xli out of the debt he oweth and to his brother Henry xli out of the debt he oweth mee and to his brother John xli out of the debt he oweth mee Item I give to my neece Spencer xls& all those implemts of household w[hi]ch I bought of her, and to her sonne Garrett xxs and to her daughter xls And to my neece Poulter xls And to my godson Willm Whitbread xls and to my goddaughter Chapman xls Item I give to my neece Sara Millward all my plate that is to saie vj silver spoones a silver poringes a faire standing salt with a Dover silver tankerd and a goblet of silver condiconally that she payes to my neice Hanscombes children iiijli and to my neece Raworthes v daughters xxs a peice when they come to the age of xviij yeares" Thomas Hill, brother of Eleanor Hill Whitbread, was a receiver general to three Earls of Kent. On the floor of the Flitton Church in Bedfordshire, near the altar, is a figure in brass of an honest steward. He appears dressed in a long cloak descending to the knees, trunk breeches, great ruff, and cap edged with a coronet. He has a mustache and beard. He is represented standing on a hassock. The inscription reads: Here lyeth Interred the body of Thomas Hill gent. Receiver general to three worthy Earles of Kent, viz. Reginald, Henry and Charles: he departed this life April ye second 1628, being aged a hundred and one year. Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende: He dyde a saint to God, to poor a friend. These lines men know doe truly of him story, Whome God hath cal’d and seated now in glory.[8] Other known and possible siblings of Thomas and Eleanor include the following:[9] 1. John Hill – known sibling. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), who was buried in 1614 in Flitton. She left a will dated 5 September 1614 and proved 27 September 1614. It is speculated that she may have married a Lomley/Lumley first. He was buried on 3 October 1607 in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England. 2. Edward Hill – known sibling. He wrote his will on 27 June 1584 while a resident of Silsoe. It was proved on 22 October 1584. In his will, he named his wife Judith; his four children; his brothers Thomas Hill, Michael Hill, and John Hill; and others. 3. Michael Hill – known sibling. He was named in the will of his brother, Edward Hill. 4. Lawrence Hill – possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[10] 5. William Hill – possible sibling. He is assigned to the ancestral family on the “Hill Family of Bedfordshire” web page.[11] 6. Margaret Hill – possible sibling. Family Tree assigns her to this family and shows that she was christened on 4 March 1559 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. Her placement in the family is not confirmed. Footnotes: 7. Steven Whitebread, Extract of the Will of Thomas Hill of Flitton, Bedfordshire, England (1628), WikiTree (http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/80/Hill-5360.jpg: accessed 13 October 2016). Original will of Thomas Hill, Gentleman of Flitton, Bedfordshire, dated 15 October 1628, catalogue reference PROB 11/154 links to the Catalogue Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. 8. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 9. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). 10. “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books. 11 “Hill Family of Bedfordshire,” RootsChat.com (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=514812.0: accessed 13 October 2016). Also, Samuel Lysons, Magna Brittania: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1813), 86, digitized by Google Books." 2. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, pp. 55-57: "Chart II. The Near Relatives of Alice Whitbread who Married Gerard Spencer of Stotfold, Beds. - Parents of the Five Spencer Siblings who Came to New England about 1630: -Thomas Whitbread (b. ca 1522) -John (b. ca. 1548 Upper Gravenhurst, Beds. = Eleanor Radcliffe. Children all b. Upper Gravenhurst: -Elizabeth -William (ca1573-1640) = Elizabeth ___. Children b. Upper Gravenhurst: Henry (b. 1601) = Eliz. Farnell; William (1602-1602); John (1603-1621); Elizabeth (1605); Henry Whitbread; Thomas (b. 1607) = Joan Carter; Sibyl (b. 1610) = Caesar Lucas; William (b. 1612) = Joan Cooper. [Note that the author continues with another generation or two from children of this family.] -Henry (b. ca 1576) = Elizabeth Leventhorpe. Children b. Cardington, Beds.: Henry (b. 1605) = Eliz. Whitbread; John (unm.); Elizabeth (b. 1607); Eleanor = Robt. Sheering; Mary; Ann = Samuel Baker; Frances. -Alice = Gerard Spencer -Francis (b. 1581) -John (b. 1584) = Mary Newman. Children b. Elstow, Beds.: Eleanor 9b. 1616) = William Newman; William (1617-ca 1660) = Eliz. Peck; John (b. 1617 – twin); Judith (b. 1619 = Wm. Edwards; Mary (b. 1622), and Thomas (b. 1624). -Judith (b. 1591) = Richard Poulter" 3. TAG 127[July 1956]:129-142 "The Whitbread Family of Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England," by Clarence Almon Torrey: "John(2) Whitbread (Thomas-1), born probably about 1548, was a resident of Upper Gravenhurst as early as 1571, and appears to have been the John Whitbred (as the name is written in the parish register) who was buried 28 Nov 1598. Diligent search has failed to bring to light a will or other probate record and no deeds to or from him have been found. He married Eleanor (or Ellenor as her name appears in the probate record). She was of Elstow in her nuncupative will (given below) which was probated 18 April 1629, and was probably then living with her youngest son John, who had settled in Elstow. But she was the "widow Whitebread" who was buried at Upper Gravenhurst 20 Nov 1628, probably in the churchyard near her husband's grave. There is reason to believe that Eleanor was related in some way to a promenet Radcliffe family. On 1 Aug 1611, Sir Edward Radcliffe of Elstow, Knt., for 32 pounds, conveyed to John Radwell of Kempaton, ploughwright, a messuage or tenement in Elstowe, giving a covenant of assurance against Dame Isabel Radcliffe, late of Elstowe, deceased, his mother. And the same date, John Whitbred of Elstow, husbandman,for 20 pounds, gave to John Radwell assurance of quiet enjoyment of the same premises against "Elner Whitbread fo Eluestowe," his mother. (Publications for the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 4:22-23) Sir Edward Radcliffe was son of Sir Humphrey Radcliffe, who died 13 Aug 1566, aged 57, by his wife Isabel Hervey, who died 8 May 1594. Eleanor, a generation younger than Isabel, does not appear on the Radcliffe pedigree in the Visitation of Bedfordshire, 1566. Sir Edward presumably was giving assurance against any incumbrance tha tmight have been placed on the property by his mother Isabel, or perhaps against claims of her creditors or heirs, so the property may have an inheritance from the Hervey family. It has not been learned how Eleanor was related to the Radcliffes or Herveys. "The last will and testmt, or Ellenor Whitebread last of Elstowe deceased uttered by her in her life time and since her death put into writings as followeth. The said Ellenor Whitebread beinge of pfect memorie did in the prsence of William Whitebread and Henrye Whitebread utter her minds touchings the disposing of her worldlie goods as followeth vizt. Imprimis she gave unto Willia' Whitebread her eldest sonne her silver measure and after his decease to his eldest sonne Henery Whitebread and after his decease to his eldest sonne Willia' for to be a standard for ever unto the heire of the Whitebreads. It' she gave unto Willia' Whitebread her godsoone a silver spoone. It' she gave unti Henery Whitebread her godsonne a silver spoone and unto Ellenor Whitebread her goddaughter his sister a silver spoone and a porridg pot. It' she gave unto Willia' Spencer a silver spoone beinge my godsonne. It' she gave unto Ellenor Whitebread her goddaughter unto John Whitebread a silver spoone & a porridgpot. It' she gave unto Ellenor Chapman her godaughter (sic) a porrigpott if ever she do come for it. It' she gave unto John Whitebread her godsonne a silver spoone. It' she gave unto Thomas Spencere xlvj s. viij d. It' she willed her sonne John Whitebread to pay all her debts and to be her Executor." (No signatures or date) Probate: 18th April to Executor named. (Copy of the Will of Ellenor Whitbred of Elstow 1629, Bedord Archdeaconry Court, 1628/9, No. 122.) The manner in which Eleanor left her silver measure to be a standard forever to the heir of the Whitbreads suggest that she was a woman of great family pride, even though not of great wealth, and accords with the belief that she may have belonged to a family of a somewhat hight social status than her husband's family was in her generation. Her eldest son William by 1639 styled himself a gentelman, and it is possible that some part of his landed property may have been inherited from his mother. The recorded marriage of Alice Whitbread in 1600 to Gerard Spencer, the known baptisms of her Spencer children, and the fact that two of them, William and Thomas received legacies in Eleanor's will, one of them being her godson, make it certain that Alice belongs in the family of John and Eleanor Whitbread. Furthermore, William Whitbred and Gerrard Spencer sold to John Whitbread 11 messuages, 1 pigeon house, 11gardens, 11 orchards, 200 acres arable, 200 acres meadow, and 60 acres pasture, in Shillington, Over Gravenest, Nether Gravenest, Flitton, Silsoe, Elstoe, Kempston, and Stotfolde, Easter, 9 James I (1611). (Feet of Fines for Beds. P.R.O., CP. 25 (2) 270.) In listing the children, we have assumed that the Whitbreads baptized at Upper Gravenhurst between 1571 and 1591 belonged to John and Eleanor. However, the register at that period fails to state the parents of children christened, and the assumption may not be entirely correct, since it is possible that Henry Whitbread (No.4 of the First Line) may have lived in this parish during part of that period. Of the children listed below, William, Henry, Alice and John are considered positively proved as belonging to John. The others seem likely. Judith had not long been married when Eleanor made her will and probably had no children by then to be remembered as godchildren; and the name Judith appears in the family in the next generation (see 5, iv, below.) In additon to those listed, a Thomas buried 6 June 1585 and an Ellen buried 11 June 1585 may have been young children of John. With the above caution, the children, probably all born in Upper Gravenhurst, were: i. Elizabeth (3), bapt. 28 Sept. 1571; no further record. ii. William, b: (say ca. 1573); m. Elizabeth (unknown). iii. Henry, bapt. 9 Jan 1575/6; m. Elizabeth Leventhorpe iv. Alice, b. (say ca.1578) m. 10 Nov 1600, Gerard Spencer (supra, 27:84). Four ofher sons came to New England and all left decendants. v. Francis, bapt. 30 Apr 1581; no further record. vi. John, bapt. 8 Nov 1584; m. Mary Newman vii. Judith, bapt. 6 June 1591; m. 23 July 1626, Richard Poulter." | Hill, Eleanor (I1903)
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| 4816 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is circumstantial, but very compelling nevertheless. For background, see extensive notes within the notes of the earliest Winner in my database, whom I use to act as a repository of a comprehensive search of all early Winners in both New Jersey and Bucks co., Pennsylvania. With such a comprehensive overview of these early Winners and by process of elimination, I have found a pattern which I believe establishes and follows the ancestry of the earliest Isaac Winner of Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., NJ. - who is our first ancestor in that area. This is my thinking: Isaac's son Jonathan in the 1850 census in Brown Co., OH, indicates he was born abt. 1778 in Pennsylvania - this is even though we know he was in Dover Twp. circa 1812. Jonathan's birth with him being the first born of Isaac would logically lead us to a marriage there for about 1776. Another link to Pennsylvania is found with Isaac's son, Isaac (bro. of Jonathan), who is reported to have married his wife Mary Catherine Powell in Philadelphia, PA, per the published biography of Isaac and Mary's son John Leopold Winner (see their notes for transcript). We also have a personal family history memoir from Isabel (Lambert) Winner, wife of James Winner (Benjamin, Jonathan, Isaac) who states that the Winners were from Pennsylvania, probably Bucks county. (Source: 20 Jun 2004 email from descendant Gary Coon Interestingly, we find some records in Bucks county (and New Jersey) that fits the pattern. A. "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson, Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents: "Winner, Isaac, Bucks, PA, and Hannah Searl, Bucks, PA, 1776 Nov. 9." (Familysearch, source film 888709, vol. W, p. 474.) Note that this date fits perfectly with Jonathan's birth discussed above while establishing a link with Bucks County and NJ. In doing an Internet search for this couple on 20 Nov 2011, absolutely no hits were found - this means that this particular couple has never been linked into a family tree or written up on the web. B. We find only one Isaac Winner in Buck Co., PA, in the early records. Note however that all of a sudden in 1778/1779 we see both an Isaac Sr. and Jr. Isaac Jr. is married, which concurs with the 1776 marriage discussed above. It also shows Isaac Jr. being in Pennsylvania at the time of the birth of Jonathan in 1778. References to Isaacs in Middleton disappear thereafter. This would have been at the time of the American Revolution when records were poorly kept. Perhaps Isaac Sr. died thereafter, but more importantly we see our Isaac in the Dover Twp., NJ tax records beginning 1783. (See separate note in these notes for more on the Dover tax records.) a. "Tax Records 1693-1778" (year, township, name, ₤ value, tax s-d): -1754, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 10, 1-8, married. -1757, Middleton, Isaack Winner, 6, 1-0, married. -1760, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 4, 1-0. -1762, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 4, 1-0. -1778, Middleton, Isaac Winner Sr., 4, 2-0, married. -1778, Middleton, Isaac Winner Jr., 4, 2-0, married. b. 1779 Tax List: (Bucks co., PA) -Isaac Winner, Sen., Middleton. -Isaac Winner, Jun., Middleton. c. H. Pagenweb Bucks Co. accessed 21 Nov 2011 "Middletown Township Property and Tax Records 1779," transcribed by Patricia Woodruff January 2001 (Name -Acres-Horses-Cattle-Servants), married men: -Isaac Winner, Jr.-0-0-1-0 -Isaac Winner, Sen.-0-0-1-0 -Samuel Winner-0-0-1-0 d. Pagenweb Bucks Co. accessed 21 Nov 2011 "Middletown Township Property and Tax Records," transcribed by Laura VanSant 2003 (Name-Acres-Horses-Cattle-Servants) - all Isaacs disappear after 1781: -1781: Isaac Winner, weaver, 0-1-1-0 -1782: Samuel Winner, 0 0 2 0 -1783: Sam'l Winner 2.10 [Not the assessment - probably the tax amount of 2 sh. 10 d.] In short, I believe that we are seeing our Isaac, his wife Hannah Searle, and Isaac's father, Isaac, in the above records. Until proven otherwise, I am considering this our ancestral line. 2. The following is the only Searl/Searle entries I found at Pagenweb Bucks Co. accessed 21 Nov 2011: A. Could this be Hannah's father? Is John the same as in Middletown in 1783? "Bensalem Township Property and Tax Records 1779": "John Searl est." B. Could one of these be Hannah's father, or both as brother or uncles? "Middletown Township Property and Tax Records," transcribed by Laura VanSant, 2003: a. 1783: "John Searl est. - 6.15.3." Apparently John is deceased on this return because of the mention of an estate. b. 1784 (dwellings, horses, white inhabitants): -James Searle, 1-1-3 -John Searles, 1-1-10 b. 1785 (Name Acres Horses Cattle Servants): -James Searle 90-2-1-0 -John Searle 211-3-5-0 c. 1786 (tax amount): -James Searle 13.11 -John Searle 1.16.11 C. Could Ann be a sister of Hannah? Davis, William W. H., "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania" [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III, p. 92: "John VAN HORN, born December 8, 1713, married, May 30, 1739, Lena VAN PELT, (See VAN PELT Family) and died in 1760. John and Lena (VAN PELT) VAN HORN were the parents of five children, all of whom were baptized at Southampton church, viz: Catharine, baptized August 11, 1741, married January 12, 1764, John SUBERS, see forward; Christian, baptized October 4, 1743, died young; Willimentje, baptized May 11, 1746, died in infancy; Willimentje, born March 1, 1748; and Joseph, born May 30, 1750, married, January 7, 1773, Ann SEARLE." D. Could this be an ancestor of Hannah's? "The Bench and Bar" [No citation but probably from "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania."]: "A similar case introduces the only charge of witchcraft discovered in the records of Bucks county. This occurred in 1760 when Thomas King was presented for defaming Joan, the wife of Francis Searle. He pleaded not guilty and was tried before a jury. "Hugh Marshall attested, said that in or about the third month last he heard Thomas King say there was a witch near by: being asked who it was he said he suspected Francis Searle's wife, for she was an ugly, ill-favored woman, and he did believe her to be one. Robert Marsh attested, said that he heard Thomas King say there was a witch hard by." What defense was set up is not recorded, but it did not serve to save the prisoner, for the jury found him guilty and the court sentenced him to pay the costs and be bound to keep the peace, and to appear at the next court." MARRIAGE: 1. "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson, Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents: "Winner, Isaac, Bucks, PA, and Hannah Searl, Bucks, PA, 1776 Nov. 9." | Searl, Hannah (I3049)
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| 4817 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is circumstantial, but very compelling nevertheless. For background, see extensive notes within the notes of the earliest Winner in my database, whom I use to act as a repository of a comprehensive search of all early Winners in both New Jersey and Bucks co., Pennsylvania. With such a comprehensive overview of these early Winners and by process of elimination, I have found a pattern which I believe establishes and follows the ancestry of the earliest Isaac Winner of Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., NJ. - who is our first ancestor in that area. This is my thinking: Isaac's son Jonathan in the 1850 census in Brown Co., OH, indicates he was born abt. 1778 in Pennsylvania - this is even though we know he was in Dover Twp. circa 1812. Jonathan's birth with him being the first born of Isaac would logically lead us to a marriage there for about 1776. Another link to Pennsylvania is found with Isaac's son, Isaac (bro. of Jonathan), who is reported to have married his wife Mary Catherine Powell in Philadelphia, PA, per the published biography of Isaac and Mary's son John Leopold Winner (see their notes for transcript). We also have a personal family history memoir from Isabel (Lambert) Winner, wife of James Winner (Benjamin, Jonathan, Isaac) who states that the Winners were from Pennsylvania, probably Bucks county. (Source: 20 Jun 2004 email from descendant Gary Coon Interestingly, we find some records in Bucks county (and New Jersey) that fit the pattern. A. "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson, Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents: "Winner, Isaac, Bucks, PA, and Hannah Searl, Bucks, PA, 1776 Nov. 9." (Familysearch, source film 888709, vol. W, p. 474.) Note that this date fits perfectly with Jonathan's birth discussed above while establishing a link with Bucks County and NJ. In doing an Internet search for this couple on 20 Nov 2011, absolutely no hits were found - this means that this particular couple has never been linked into a family tree or written up on the web even though the marriage record clearly exists. Many with Quaker backgrounds would "marry out of meeting" which would explain a marriage license over the border for two Bucks Co. residents (i.e. a trip to Las Vegas for a no-question marriage). B. We find only one Isaac Winner in Buck Co., PA, in the early records. Note however that all of a sudden in 1778/1779 we see both an Isaac Sr. and Jr. Isaac Jr. is married, which concurs with the 1776 marriage discussed above. It also shows Isaac Jr. being in Pennsylvania at the time of the birth of Jonathan in 1778. References to Isaacs in Middleton disappear thereafter. This would have been at the time of the American Revolution when records were poorly kept. Perhaps Isaac Sr. died thereafter, but more importantly we see our Isaac in the Dover Twp., NJ tax records beginning 1783. (See separate note in these notes for more on the Dover tax records.) a. "Tax Records 1693-1778" (year, township, name, ₤ value, tax s-d): -1754, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 10, 1-8, married. -1757, Middleton, Isaack Winner, 6, 1-0, married. -1760, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 4, 1-0. -1762, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 4, 1-0. -1778, Middleton, Isaac Winner Sr., 4, 2-0, married. -1778, Middleton, Isaac Winner Jr., 4, 2-0, married. b. 1779 Tax List: (Bucks co., PA) -Isaac Winner, Sen., Middleton. -Isaac Winner, Jun., Middleton. c. H. Pagenweb Bucks Co. accessed 21 Nov 2011 "Middletown Township Property and Tax Records 1779," transcribed by Patricia Woodruff January 2001 (Name -Acres-Horses-Cattle-Servants), married men: -Isaac Winner, Jr.-0-0-1-0 -Isaac Winner, Sen.-0-0-1-0 -Samuel Winner-0-0-1-0 d. Pagenweb Bucks Co. accessed 21 Nov 2011Middletown Township Property and Tax Records," transcribed by Laura VanSant 2003 (Name-Acres-Horses-Cattle-Servants) - all Isaacs disappear after 1781: -1781: Isaac Winner, weaver, 0-1-1-0 -1782: Samuel Winner, 0 0 2 0 -1783: Sam'l Winner 2.10 [Not the assessment - probably the tax amount of 2 sh. 10 d.] In short, I believe that we are seeing our Isaac, his wife Hannah Searle, and Isaac's father, Isaac, in the above records. Until proven otherwise, I am considering this our ancestral line. 2. There is an early Isaac Winner in Dover Township; no other Winners are shown in Dover in the same time period. Ancestry.com shows: -Oct. 1783 Tax List: Isaac Winnir -June 1786 Tax List: Isaac Winner -"Name on a petition, 4 Mar 1786, to the Legislature from freeholders and inhabitants of part of Dover Township in Monmouth County asking that a new county be formed because of the distance they have to..." -June 1789 Tax List: Isaac Winner -June 1793 Tax List: Isaac Winner -June 1796 Tax List: Isaac Winner -June 1797 Tax List: Isaac Winner 3. Email from Mike Morrissey 17 Jun 2004 mikemorr@hotmail.com: "Reuben Haines had a store near Toms River. His account book for 1816-1822 (mostly 1816-1818) was abstracted in the "Genealogical Magazine of NJ.' Among the names listed were: Aron Bennett [later husband of Naomi?} Moses Bennett [son of Aaron] Garrett Irons [1st cousin of Naomi] Ezekial Johnson Jacob Johnson Joel Johnson [brother of Naomi] Jonathan Johnson [brother of Naomi] Joseph Johnson [possible brother of Naomi] Joshua Johnson Samuel Johnson (& daughter) [possible brother of Naomi] Richard Phillips Samuel Phillips William Phillips [son of Andrew and Naomi] Mr. Winner [KP note: probably Isaac since probably all of Isaac's oldest children were in Ohio or on their way] Mrs. Winner Except for the Irons, I have listed all those of a given surname. Andrew Phillips is not listed. That does not prove he was dead, but it is likely. The only Bennetts listed are Aaron and his son, Moses. That makes it seem likely that he was the 3rd husband of Naomi. Unfortunately, the references to Isaac Winner in the History on Monmouth Co. both only state he was remembered as an early preacher at the Methodist church in Blue Ball. No time frame was given, so it is not of much use. The church was founded about 1780, but the earliest records filmed by the LDS appear to be about 1855. [KP note: Rev. Isaac was much later than our Isaac; see notes on the Rev. in the notes of the earliest Winner in my database.]" 4. Monmouth County Archives and also NJ State Archives, Monmouth co., vol. B2, p. 597: Deed poll and indenture between Isaac Winner selling his land of about 70 acres between Toms River and Long Swamp16 Oct 1819 to William Phillips [son from his wife's first marriage to Andrew Phillips]. Deed notes both parties are of Dover. Value of transaction was $10 and recorded 21 Oct 1819. See also wife's notes for a similar sale to the same party in 1824. 5. Isaac's son George's middle name of "King" may be a reference to an ancestral surname (or perhaps to someone having some influence and respect with the Winner family). In Monmouth County, New Jersey there is record that one of the earliest Methodist preachers (before 1778) was John King [ref: the book "Old Times in Monmouth," p. 100. Also the Ocean County Historical Association library in Tom's River, NJ has the following genealogical entry: John K[ing?] Predmore, b. 10-12-1842 in NJ; d. 12-12-1924, Waretown; bur. Waretown; father Wm. Predmore b. NJ; mother Mary King b. NJ; died from arterio sclerosis, was sea captain, and lived in Waretown [Waretown, NJ is where Jonathan Winner operated as a sea vessel owner/captain in 1812 and is the village home of a large number of Predmores]. See hard file for several cemetery records for Waretown and Barnegat, NJ for burials of several possibly related Predmores and Kings (also included are Sopers, business partners per 1812 shipping incident noted in Jonathan's notes). 6. Letter dated 23 Jul 1956 from Enid Willardson Beagley to an unspecified cousin regarding her opinion on the ancestry of the Winner family. I have since her death seen all of her records in both Missouri where she died and with her best friend Eunice Konold in San Diego; I cannot find any papers or book on the supposed 3,000 names she gathered of descendants of the Pieter Winne. I have seen where she placed ads in some genealogy magazines offering rewards to anyone who could connect the Jonathan Winner (or who I believe to be Jonathan's father: John Winner) to the Dutch Winne lines of New Amsterdam (now New York City). It does not appear that she ever successfully connected the lines in spite of what the following letter says: "...George King Winner was the son of Jonathan Winner and Sarah Predmore. Jonathan was the son of John Winner and Sarah Carr. The immigrant to America of the Winner line was Pieter Winne who came first to New Amsterdam (later called new York), then purchased a farm at Bethlehem, Albany Co., New York. This was on the Hudson River. Many of this family were later engaged in importing, shipping, and other occupations connected with the son. The branch of the family that removed to New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania often added the 'R' to their last name. I am trying to work out these family connections. I have spent several years and a great deal of effort and money. I now have bout 3,000 proven names of descendants of the immigrant, Pieter Winne, and would like very much to put this out in a book. I will send you the pedigree charts and [the] family group sheets which go with it, on your direct line..." I have a copy of a pedigree sheet prepared by Daisy Von Wagoner based on the information Enid used, but I do not trust it thus far since it is unproved. It shows: Jonathan Winner, b. abt. 1780 in New Jersey, parents Johannes Pieterz Winne and Hannah Carr ("Sarah Carr" handwritten over it with a question mark). Johannes' parents were Pieter Pieterz Winne, b. 1721 per Kingston Dutch Reformed Church records, md. Aarniantje Van Etten, 20 Jan 1749 in Kingston, Ulster, New York. Pieter's parents were Pieter Pieterz Winne, b. Oct 1691 per Kingston Dutch Reformed Church records, md. Antje Merkel 25 Nov 1720 per Kingston Dutch Reformed Church records. Antje b. abt. 1697 in Germany. Pieter's parents are Pieter Pieterz Winne, b. Nov 1661 in New York, md. Jannetje Arentz Pier 5 Jan 1682 per Kingston Dutch Reformed Church records. Jannetje b. Jul 1664 at Esopus, Ulster, New York. Pieter's parents are Pieter Pietersz Winner, b. 1643 at Curaco, West Indies, d. 1695/6 Renselaerswyk, New York, m. 1661 to Jannetje Nicolas Albertz per Dutch Reformed Church Records in New York [City?]. Pieter's parents were Pieter Winne, b. 14 Apr 1609 at Ghent, Flanders, Netherlands, d. 1692/3 at Albany Co., NY, md. Aechie Jans VanSchaik in Ghent, Flanders, Netherlands. Aechie was b. abt. 1610 in Netherlands, d. abt. 1643/4 in New York. Pieter's father was Franciscus Winne. 7. Much of NJ including our part of Monmouth co. had no censuses until 1830. Isaac does not show up in the 1830 or 1840 censuses as can be seen from my following extractions: A. 1830 US census index for all Winne/Winners in NJ: -Dr. Henry Winne, Bernards Twp., Somerset. -Martin Winne, Bernards Twp., Somerset. -Abby Winner, Egg Harbor Twp., Gloucester. -George N. [K.] Winner, Dover Twp., Monmouth. -Isaac Winner, Green Twp., Sussex. -Samuel Winner, Evesham Twp., Burlington. B. 1840 US census index for all Winne/Winners in NJ: -Cornelius Winne, Bernards, Sommerset. -Hannah Winne, Bernards, Somerset. -Margaret Winne, Bellevil., Essex. -Martin Winne, Bernards, Somerset. -Charles P. Winner, Newkirk, Essex. -George K. Winner, Dover Twp., Monmouth. -Harriet Winner, Egg Harbor, Atlantic. -Isaac Winner, Hannover, Burlington. -Jesse Winner, Harmony, Warr. -John S. Winner, Bergen Twp., Hudson. -Nicholas Winner, Bergen Twp., Hudson. -Reuben Winner, Dover Twp., Monmouth. -Thomas Winner, Orange Twp., Essex. -William Winner, Piles Gr., Sale. 8. The portion of the county with Dover Twp. was changed to Ocean from Monmouth in 1850. 9. From Mike Morrissey: "Men enrolled in the Militia in Dover in 1793" (ages 18-45). These are the only men listed with the corresponding surnames. The Irons family are potentially related by James Irons marrying Nelle Longstreet, a daughter of Gisbert Longstreet: Phillips: Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Richard, and Andrew. Johnston: George, William, and Benjamin. Winner: Isaac. Bennett: Aaron. Irons: James and John. There may be other surnames of interest, but these are all that Mike provided to me by email. 9. The case for a relationship of the early New Jersey residents Isaac Winner of Dover Township in Monmouth Co., Abraham Winner of Northampton Township in Burlington Co., and John Winner of Great Egg Harbor in Gloucester Co. to Isaac Winner Sr. of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Prepared 22 Nov 2011 by Kerry Petersen There are two basic groups of Winners circa the Revolutionary War and post era in New Jersey. The oldest are the Winnes of northern New Jersey who derive from the Dutch immigrant Pieter Winne of New Amsterdam and eventually Albany, New York. Their genealogical descendancy is conclusively presented in detail in "The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook," v. 40 (1964-1966), pp. 6-28. A branch of this family ended up in upstate New Jersey and we easily follow them in New Jersey probate and other documents. They retained their Dutch roots even in the era of our discussion. They are all accounted for and they remain distinctly separate from our group of Winners. Unfortunately, some of the northern records indiscriminately interchange the surnames Winne and Winner for these families, which has led to confusion. An early Winner researcher from the 1950s, Enid Willardson, spent a lifetime trying to seek a connection from our Winners back through the Winnes, but failed in so doing even after amassing over 3000 Winne names. I have personally reviewed her workpapers after her decease and the tentative connection she contrived to make does not stand up to scrutiny and more modern research. Regrettably it was picked up by the old LDS Ancestral File based upon her submission and has since bled through to many unsuspecting user-submitted online databases. It is not my purpose to detail the Winnes; however, before linking our three early Winners under discussion, it was critical to eliminate the Winne family as a possible ancestry. Suffice it to say that this was done. This then directs us to look to neighboring Bucks County for the source of our Winners. Any study of early New Jersey records in the three counties we are discussing quickly leads to the conclusion that there were no Winners reported there before our three Winner men. They came from elsewhere then New Jersey. Lets review first Isaac of Dover since his link to Bucks county is easiest to assemble. My descendancy comes from Isaac. We will then link Isaac to Abraham and then Abraham and John. Isaac WINNER of DOVER: The following is circumstantial, but very compelling nevertheless. First, I made comprehensive search of all early Winners in both New Jersey and Bucks co., Pennsylvania (abstracts available in the notes of the earliest Winner in my PAF files). With such a comprehensive overview of these early Winners and by process of elimination, I have found a pattern which I believe establishes and follows the ancestry of the earliest Isaac Winner of Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., NJ. - who is our first ancestor in that area. This is my thinking: Isaac's son Jonathan (who married Sarah Predmore) in the 1850 census in Brown Co., OH, indicates he was born abt. 1778 in Pennsylvania - this is even though we know he was in Dover Twp. circa 1812. Jonathan's birth with him being the first born of Isaac would logically lead us to a marriage there for about 1776. (See separate research into the descendants of Isaac Winner, who also include: Ohio residents John Winner and Hester Ann Mason, Isaac Winner and Mary Catherine Powell, Samuel Winner; California resident George K. Winner; and Monmouth residents Rueben H. Winner and Amy Winner who m. 1. Charles Soper and 2. Jacob Creby/Creeley.) Another link to Pennsylvania is found with Isaac's son, Isaac (bro. of Jonathan), who is reported to have married his wife Mary Catherine Powell in Philadelphia, PA, per the published biography of Isaac and Mary's son John Leopold Winner (see their notes for transcript). We also have a personal family history memoir from Isabel (Lambert) Winner, wife of James4 Winner (Benjamin3, Jonathan2, Isaac1) who states that the Winners were from Pennsylvania, probably Bucks county. (Source: 20 Jun 2004 email from descendant Gary Coon Interestingly, we find some records in Bucks county (and New Jersey) that fit the pattern. A. "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson, Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents: "Winner, Isaac, Bucks, PA, and Hannah Searl, Bucks, PA, 1776 Nov. 9." (Familysearch, source film 888709, vol. W, p. 474.) Note that this date fits perfectly with Jonathan's birth discussed above while establishing a link with Bucks County and NJ. In doing an Internet search for this couple on 20 Nov 2011, absolutely no hits were found - this means that this particular couple has never been linked into a family tree or written up on the web even though the marriage record clearly exists. Many with Quaker backgrounds would "marry out of meeting" which would explain a marriage license over the border for two Bucks Co. residents (i.e. a trip to Las Vegas for a no-question marriage). B. We find only one Isaac Winner in Bucks Co., PA, in the early records. Note however that all of a sudden in 1778/1779 we see both an Isaac Sr. and Jr. together in Middletown. Isaac Jr. shows as married, which concurs with the 1776 marriage discussed above. It also shows Isaac Jr. being in Pennsylvania at the time of the birth of Jonathan in 1778. References to Isaacs in Middletown return to one after 1779 then disappear after 1781. Perhaps Isaac Sr. died thereafter, but more importantly we see our Isaac in the Dover Twp., NJ tax records beginning 1783. a. "Tax Records 1693-1778" (year, township, name, ₤ value, tax s-d) for Bucks Co.: -1754, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 10, 1-8, married. -1757, Middleton, Isaack Winner, 6, 1-0, married. -1760, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 4, 1-0. -1762, Middleton, Isaac Winner, 4, 1-0. -1778, Middleton, Isaac Winner Sr., 4, 2-0, married. -1778, Middleton, Isaac Winner Jr., 4, 2-0, married. b. 1779 Tax List: (Bucks co., PA) -Isaac Winner, Sen., Middleton. -Isaac Winner, Jun., Middleton. c. Pagenweb Bucks Co. accessed 21 Nov 2011 "Middletown Township Property and Tax Records 1779," transcribed by Patricia Woodruff January 2001 (Name -Acres-Horses-Cattle-Servants), married men: -Isaac Winner, Jr.-0-0-1-0 -Isaac Winner, Sen.-0-0-1-0 -Samuel Winner-0-0-1-0 d. Pagenweb Bucks Co. accessed 21 Nov 2011: "Middletown Township Property and Tax Records," transcribed by Laura VanSant 2003 (Name-Acres-Horses-Cattle-Servants) - all Isaacs disappear after 1781: -1781: Isaac Winner, weaver, 0-1-1-0 -1782: Samuel Winner, 0 0 2 0 -1783: Sam'l Winner 2.10 [Not the assessment - probably the tax amount of 2 sh. 10 d.] e. There is an early Isaac Winner in Dover Township; no other Winners are shown in Dover in the same time period. Ancestry.com shows: -Oct. 1783 Tax List: Isaac Winnir -June 1786 Tax List: Isaac Winner -"Name on a petition, 4 Mar 1786, to the Legislature from freeholders and inhabitants of part of Dover Township in Monmouth County asking that a new county be formed because of the distance they have to..." -June 1789 Tax List: Isaac Winner -June 1793 Tax List: Isaac Winner -June 1796 Tax List: Isaac Winner -June 1797 Tax List: Isaac Winner Summary: I believe that we are seeing our Isaac, his wife Hannah Searle, and Isaac's father, Isaac, in the above records. Until proven otherwise, I am considering this our ancestral line. Abraham WINNER of NORTHAMPTON (aka Abraham of Mount Holly): Abraham is not my direct line so I don't have as much research on his descendants; however, much has been published on Abraham himself. First let's establish what is more or less known from solid sources as well as the Internet about him and then I will introduce my own additional documentation that I believe links Isaac to Abraham. A. First record of Abraham per FHL book 974.961 V2c "Burlington County Marriages," by H Stanley Craig (1932, rep. 2003), pp. 95, 233, 248: Abraham Winner - Mary Thatcher, 9-13-1769. Variant from FHL film 1320671, it. 5, the book "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey," by John E. Stillwell (Baltimore, 1970), p. 72, "Register of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N.J.": "Married - Abraham Winner & Mary Hatcher, both of Burlington County, were lawfully married, Septem'r 3d 1769, at Mountholly." From the Internet it appears St. Mary's was an Episcopal Church. It is probable that this was an intentional marriage outside of Quaker meeting similar to Isaac's. B. "Revolutionary Census of NJ," by Kenn Stryker-Rodda; List I (1773 & 1774): Abraham Winnor - Northhampton, Burlington Co. C. Abraham (Winnor and Winner): Northampton, Burlington Co. Various Lists: 1774, 1787. D. From "Old Inns and Taverns," by Charles Boyer, p. 49: "Another early tavern keeper was Abraham Winner, whose house was located on the north side of Gaskill's Lane, now Woodlane, near the old Quaker Meeting House. On April 22, 1776, he gave a mortgage to Joseph Butterworth on this property,vwhich had probably then been discontinued as a tavern." E. Rootsweb accessed 21 Nov 2011: "Burlington County NJ - NJGenWeb; Early Tax List - Northampton Township, 1779. Only Winner shown is Abraham Winner (no Isaac or John): 90 acres of land valued at 25, 2 horses, 2 cattle, 1 hog, total whereon to levy 27/5/0, amount of certainty 0.66, tax carried out 1.22. (Note that there is also a Caleb Carr on the same tax list with 250 acres; I believe that the father of Hannah Carr who married John Winner in 1776 was Caleb Carr.) F. Undocumented from Internet accessed 21 Nov 2011: "By Jan 1780 he was purchasing foragemaster." G. Internet accessed 21 Nov 2011: New Jersey Historical Society, "Calendar of New Jersey wills, administrations, etc.," Vol. 5, p. 314: "1780, Oct. 27 - Adm'r - William Cramer, of Little Egg Harbor. Fellowbondsmen - Joseph Biddle, of Springfield, and Abraham Winner, of Northampton; all of Burlington Co. The said William Cramer is appointed Adm'r of the estate of John Little, left unadministered by Sarah Little, during the minority of James, the son of said John Little." H. Internet Usgenweb by Patricia M. Bergener (fmlyhstry@verizon.net) 1999 accessed 21 Nov 2011: "Early New Jersey Marriages - Extracts": #557; Cornelius McAnley of Springfield in the County of Burlington, and Abraham Winner... [bound to]... William Livingston, Governor... 500 pounds... 1 Feb 1784. ... Contract of Marriage between Cornelius McAnley... and Mary Johnson... [w] Jos: Read. I. From the Internet: The following list for Winner Surnames in NJ -Colonial Records, CD 136 Dec 94 ver. GRS v 3:03: Abraham Winner, Burlington Co., NJ voters 1787, pg. 80. J. Online Archive.org "Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey," accessed 21 Nov 2011: "1788, Nov. 15. Borden, Joseph, Jr., of Burlington Co. Int. Adm'r - Robert Dougherty. Fellowbondsman - Abraham Winner; both said Co." K. FHL book 974.961 R28h "Burlington County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts - Books A, B and C," by Richard S. Hutchinson: "Book D, p. 1, 4 Mar 1794, concerns Commissioners making a division of "property late of William Smith, deceased ... of the City of Burlington [who] died intestate. The division takes over 33 pages and names several dozen adjoining property owners including "Winner's Ferry, land of Abraham Winner and wife on 28 February 1788." L. Undocumented from Internet accessed 21 Nov 2011: "He died in what is to be believed to be the Alms House in Philidelphia and is buried in the same graveyard as Joseph and Elizabeth Winner." M. I include the following just so I can refute it. From the Internet accessed 21 Nov 2011: "Gloucester County Historical Society - Oct, 9, 1969 from Ernistene Siegel, 1906 Watrous Ave, Tampa, FL 33606: "...there was an Abraham Winner of Mt. Holly, who was a tavern keeper there before the out break of the Rev War, and who is still there in 1787. This Abraham Winner was a descendant of Capt. James Winner, who was in Colonel McCrea's Regiment in the Revolutionary War. As a note, Captain James Winner was in Col. McCrea's regiment when they returned Levies, Fort Edward July 21, 1780. A return of Levies raised from Saraghtoga Regiment. And Now in actual service at Fort Ann under the command of Capt. Sherman, John McCrea, Colo. August 11th, 1780. No. 3092 Return of Levies from Colonel McCrea's Regiment. Fort Edward July 21 the 1780. Now to discuss ties of Abraham and Isaac - I found the following: A. In the New Jersey State Archives in Supreme Court cases, I found the following which I believe is significant. We have already surmised above that Dover Isaac was almost certainly the son of Isaac Sr. of Middletown, Bucks Co., and that he married in 1776, left there shortly after 1779, and then shows up in 1783 in Dover. All of a sudden for just a very short time an Isaac shows up in Burlington as plaintiff with Abraham in a court case that begins in 1783. There is no Isaac before nor after in the area and the timeframe dovetails right into the sweet spot of 1779 to 1883 when Isaac is between Bucks Co. and Dover Township. The court cases: -39304: Isaac and Abraham Winner vs. Jacob Shinn 1783-85 held at Burlington, Burlington Co. -44555: Isaac Winner. Poor copy and I can't read any of the details. It is dated 1783 and is probably the same Isaac as above. B. This statement is found on the Internet but without any source. We can't use it for documentation, but it is prescient: "Abraham had relatives in Bucks Co. who were Quakers - Isaac Sr and Jacob Winner." Summary: We know Abraham did not have a son named Isaac at that time and it would be unusual to be partners with a cousin, so a conclusion of a brotherly connection is not out-of line. We could always argue it wasn't Isaac Jr., but Isaac Sr. who disappears from the scene in Bucks Co. in 1781 - but either way it ties Abraham to Isaac Sr. John WINNER of GREAT EGG HARBOR: There is much good documentation on this John and not necessary to repeat everything here. He apparently had two marriages. The first marriage is per "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson: "Winner, John, Northampton, and Hannah Carr, Northampton, 1776 April 1." According to "The Carr Book," by Arthur R. Carr, 1947, Hannah was b. 10 Sep 1759 to Caleb Carr and she died 9 Aug 1778 in Mt. Holly (Northampton) in childbirth when their son Samuel was born 9 Aug 1778. The Carr book says he died three days later. The marriage was apparently out of Quaker meeting because we find in FHL book 974.961 K2m v.1 "Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey," by Charlotte D. Meldrum, a reference to only one Winner in the entire book, which is in the Minutes of Mount Holly Monthly Meeting. "5th da, 4th mo, 1777... Hannah Winner, produced a paper acknowledging trouble of mind, for going out in marriage." We also find Hannah's father Caleb with 250 acres in the same area in which Abraham (but no other Winners) live (per Rootsweb accessed 21 Nov 2011: "Burlington County NJ - NJGenWeb; Early Tax List - Northampton Township, 1779"). The Carr book reports indicates he died 11 Sep 1783 and his buried next to his daughter. In any case this all places John Winner in Northampton just prior to his being in Great Egg Harbor. John's second marriage is to Millicent Mapes for whom we have on record a will (and codicil) naming her three sons. We also have on record a will for her father Joseph Mapes in which he names his dau. Millicent Winner, his son-in-law John Winner, and his grandson Joseph Winner. Joseph Mapes was prominent in the Quaker community of Great Egg Harbor. John and Millicent has three sons: John, Joseph, and Amos - for whom we have marriage information. FHL film 1425085, it. 6, "Gloucester County, New Jersey, Marriage Records," by H. Stanley Craig, 1930: -Joseph Winner and Millicent Caveller, 2-2-1803. -John Winner and Abigail Doughty, 5-9-1812. -Not reported for Amos. [Per Internet: He married Mary Brackney (from Burlington) September 5, 1805. There are also military records for him which says he was in the War of 1812 and in the War with Algiers in 1815. He was discharged July 10, 1817 with a "surgeons certificate of disability."] -(As a side note, the same marriage records also has "Samuel Winner and Mary Thorn, 3-30-1813." Could it be John's son Samuel from his marriage to Hannah Carr who did not perhaps die three days after his mother as "The Carr Book" would have us believe?) We also have a couple more records that place John Winner in Northampton with Abraham: A. "The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey," v. 37, p. 75, "New Jersey Rateables 1773-1774, Northampton Twp. of Burlington Co.": -"John Winner sm" -"Abraham Winner 315; 6c" B. "Revolutionary Census of NJ," by Kenn Stryker-Rodda; List I (1773 & 1774): -Abraham Winnor - Northhampton, Burlington Co. -John Winnor - - Northhampton, Burlington Co. Most significantly the following record was found a very specific record that ties Northampton Abraham and Great Egg John. Note that we also gain a name of Mary for Abraham's wife. FHL book 974.961 R28h "Burlington County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts - Books A, B and C," by Richard S. Hutchinson, p. 41: "Book B, p. 35 - Abraham Winner to John Winner." "28 May 1787 - Abraham Winner … Township of Burlington … New Jersey and Mary his Wife ... [sold to] … John Winner of Great Egg Harbour … Gloucester … Whereas the Said Abraham Winner … [by deed from Joseph Butterworth and Sarah his Wife dated 29 May 1780 and from Samuel Shinn dated 1 February 1776 became seized of two certain parcels of land in the Township of Northampton … (for 260 pounds) … All these his two … Parcels ... of Land …. (adjacent land owners or names - Jacob Hilliard, Edward Hilliard, Edward Andrew, Nathan Gaskill, Cripps Estate) … (3 acres, 2 rods, 23 perches) … The other Piece … [adjacent land owners or names - Side of the Great Road called Gaskill's Lane, Hannah Belcher, Johanna Brow)] … (7 acres, 7 perches). Memorandum - (Before the execution of the above deed, Abraham Winner excepts two Small Pieces, the one sold by him to Abel Harker and the other to Isaiah Bishop Which is Within the above bounds.); (Signed - Abraham Winner, Mary Winner; witnesses - Charles Ellis, Daniel Ellis.)" Summary: It is apparent that John shows up in the records at Northampton in conjunction with Abraham from 1773/4 to 1778. He then disappears by 1779 from the area because only Abraham shows up as the only Winner in the 1779 tax schedules (this evidently is just before Isaac shows up). We then find our John in Great Harbor per Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester Co., various lists for 1774, 1780, 1781 (Winer), 1782, 1783, 1785 (Winners), 1785, 1786, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1802. It appears that he had a short presence in Great Egg Harbor shortly in 1774 and then continuously from 1780 on. The 1787 deed between Abraham and John with their residences certainly confirms a family relationship. Summary: The marriages of Abraham in 1769, John in 1776, and Isaac in 1776 would indicate they were of the same generation and probably in that order of age. Interestingly all three appear to have married "out of meeting" from the Quakers. The connections and timelines seem to be more than coincidence. Isaac's apparent connection with Isaac Sr. in Middletown township, Bucks County, PA, would then argue all three must be tied together as probable brothers to most likely Isaac Winner Sr. Of course we cannot rule the taxman may have just called both Isaacs Sr. and Jr. to differentiate them in the locality and one of the other Middletown men could be their father. We see these potential Middletown individuals from tax lists to whom I add my comments: -Isaac Winner, married, 1754, 1757, 1760 & 1762 listed next to Joseph, 1778 and 1779 as Sr. [By process of elimination, Isaac is the only one seemingly left standing for a potential father.] -Samuel Winner, single, 1757, 1760 "Sam'l Winner at Joh. Winr.," 1762, 1778 married and next to John, 1779. [Samuel marries too late to be the father of our three Winners. Probably son of John Winner since they both disappear after 1778. A Samuel shows up as a son in John Winner's 1791 will who is probably this Samuel.] -John Winner, married, 1757, (not listed in 1762), 1778 listed next to Samuel. [This is most likely the John who died and left a will in 1791. (1791, John Winner, Lower Makefield, will, #2356. John Winner of Lower Makefield Twp., Bucks, weaver. January 3, 1791. Proved January 23, 1791. Sons Samuel and John exrs. Ch. Rachel wife of Jacob Watson, Didwell wife of John Smith, Samuel, John, David, Joshua, and David [Moses?] Winner. Gdsns. Levi and John Terry sons of Joshua Terry. Wits: James Moon, Richard Neeld, Peter Vanhorn. Witnesses Amos Gregg and Amos Gregg, Jr.)] -Joseph Winner, 1760 and 1762 listed next to Isaac. [Could this be Isaac Sr.'s father since he drops out of the record ca. 1762 and is close to him in the tax schedules? We also find the name Joseph used among Abraham's and John's sons.] -Isaac Jr, married, 1778. [This is our Isaac that goes to Dover, NJ. and who married 1776.] -James Winner, single, 1778. [Ernestine Siegel identifies James as a son of Isaac Sr.] So from process of elimination, Isaac Winner Sr. appears to be the probable father. Subject to more research, Joseph Winner could perhaps be Isaac Sr.'s father or perhaps a brother. There are two other interesting marriages reported in the 1770s for perhaps other close relations or even brothers to Abraham, John, and Isaac that will need closer scrutiny with further research: A. FHL film 1320671, it. 5, the book "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey," by John E. Stillwell (Baltimore, 1970), p. 72, "Register of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N.J.," p. 88: "Married - Sept. 29, 1774, Jacob Winner & Elizabeth Hellings." Note this is the same church in which Abraham was also married in 1769. The book "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson, "Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents" adds a residence: "Winner, Jacob, Bucks, PA, and Elizabeth Helling, Bucks, PA, 1774 Sep 29." I have not seen ongoing records thereafter for Jacob in New Jersey, so I suspect he married "out of meeting" and returned to Pennsylvania. We do find a Bucks Co. tax record in 1778, "Lower Makefield, for Jacob Winner, married." There was another Jacob in Southampton Twp., Burks Co. who appears on a 1772 tax list then in probate: "1778, Jacob, weaver, Southhampton, adm., #1563"; couldn't find actual probate, but was administration only. A couple of loose unsubstantiated Worldconnect entries show that Jacob who married Elizabeth Helling was son of a Jacob in Bucks co. - probably should consider the possibility that Southampton Jacob could be father of Lower Makefield Jacob. No other entries in Bucks Co. for a Jacob after 1778. A more likely explanation and one that Ernestine Siegel mentions in her book is that these two Jacobs were in fact the one and the same with Jacob then dying relatively young. His age would be surmised from the earliest entry with him being at least 21. B. "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson, "Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents": "Winner, Amos, and Rebeca Cooper, 1779 May 1." We see the name Amos later used for a son of John Winner of Great Egg Harbor; this would point to perhaps some kinship. I have found no other pre-1800 entries for Amos in either New Jersey or Bucks Co., PA. I don't pretend yet to have sorted out all the very early pre-1800 Winners in Bucks County, but we should look a little further into the very earliest ones to see if we can someday connect things in the middle to Isaac Sr. These are all the entries I can find so far that are pre-1760. There is probably some relationship but I can't yet tell if they were early brothers or fathers/sons. A. We know from probate records that the earliest Winner we have knowledge of in Bucks County (and specifically Middletown Twp.) is John Winner, weaver, Middletown, 1748 probate adm., #628 (administration only with no will). He is probably also be the same John who was a witness to a deed in 1731. Some Internet chat reports John's wife was Didwell, but I have not yet searched for substantiation for this. We do see the John who was a weaver (just like 1748 John) and died in Lower Makefield Twp. in 1791 having a daughter who he named Didwell. (See note above.) B. We know from the following that there was a Jacob Winner that died before 1753, married as a second husband to Sarah ___ (first husband William Hooper. Jacob could very well be a brother to 1748 John. a "Deeds 1684-1763": -Joseph Smith of Bristol Twp., 1753, to Mary Martin, widow, property sold in 1743 to William Hooper, who died intestate and sheriff sold land to Mary Martin and Sarah Winner, formerly Sarah Hooper. -Sarah Winner, widow of Jacob, deed 1753 to Mary Martin. b. "Will abstracts 1685-1785": 1753, Sarah Winner of Bristol Twp., son Anthony Hooper. Joseph Smith, executor. C. "Will abstracts 1685-1785": 1754, Mentions land in Newtown on which "Joseph Winner lives after decease of wife." Principal of will, David Lavell, document does not say relationship but doesn't appear related. As for the other pre-1800 Bucks Co. Winners, I have an abstract of all the entries I have been able to find to date for any researcher that would like to analyze, find patterns, or sort it out. 10. The book "Ocean County: Four Centuries in the Making," Pauline S. Miller (2000). The following quotes place our Isaac Winner in Stafford Township in 1794, indicate an early Quaker presence in the area (there was a Bucks Co., PA, Winner Quaker association), and refer to a migration to Ohio from the area (of which many Winners were a part): P. 88: "Waretown, a small hamlet south of Oyster Creek, was settled in 1737 by Abraham Waier and his followers of Rogerine or Quaker Baptists. They had been driven out of Connecticut for disturbing the Puritan sabbath laws. Their offenses while sitting at meetings included men whittling hoe handles and women knitting or sewing. The group stayed in Waretown for for about eleven years... Most of his followers left Waretown to join others of their belief in Morris county in northern New Jersey..." Pp. 89-92: "The Original Stafford Township. The First Petition for a County. Just as their forbearers more than forty years earlier, the 883 inhabitants of Stafford Township in 1790 and the inhabitants of Eastern Burlington County considered the distance to Freehold in Monmouth County and to Mount Holly in Burlington County a hardship for voting and attending court, jail and other public business. Therefore, on October 8, 1793, thirty-five men signed a petition to establish a new county out of Shrewsbury Township in Monmouth County and Little Egg Harbor Township in Burlington County. The petitioners lived in the area from the south side of the Toms River to the Mullica River and from Batsto Furnace and Old Half Way in Burlington County to the ocean. A petition was filed on January 21, 1794, but the bill was referred to the February 12, 1794 sitting of the Legislature. This early attempt to form a county predated the incorporation of Ocean County by fifty-seven years. The boundary description began at the North Point of Island Beach at Cranberry Inlet, thence ran across the bay on a west course six miles to the mouth of the Toms River. The line then ran down the middle of the river about nine miles to the mouth of and down the Davenport Branch to Old Halfway and the Division Line called Keith Line. The line then turned southwest to Isaiah Webb's mill site then to Quaker Bridge on Batsto Creek. The line ran down the creek to Batsto Furnace then turned east down the Mullica River to the south cape of Flat Beach. It continued through Brigantine Inlet then north along the sea for twenty miles to Barnegat Inlet, then twelve miles along Island Beach to the place of beginning. The petition further requested that a new courthouse and gaol be built where the largest number of lawful boats existed within the proposed county. The "Petitioners may be pleased to take into consideration and appoint the Court House at Manahaucking, Egg Harbor or wheresoever in your wisdom and goodness may seem meet." Those petitioners were… [lists 51 men including Isaac Winner; none of the other names occur in my database.] There are no records that indicate the reason the new county was never legislated. One can only speculate that no decision could be reached as to the location of the new courthouse and jail "where the largest number of lawful boats existed within the proposed county?" There certainly must have been rivalry between the boat owners as to which community had the largest number of boats. The majority of the signatures on the petition were from Bayville, Waretown, and Barnegat. Perhaps they had strong Opposition to the county seat being located in one of these villages, which would not be convenient for many sea captains along the Mullica River near the southern part of the county. However, there were only a few signatures from Manahawkin, West Creek, Tuckerton and the Mullica River area. For whatever reason, the matter was dropped. It was more than another half of a century before another attempt was made to create Ocean County." Pp. 93: The Original Dover Township Dover Township in the Royal Colony of New Jersey, was a vast pine forest when it was set off from Shrewsbury Township in 1767. It was during the Reign of King George III, on January 24, 1767, that the few scattered saw mill owners and fishermen set forth to remedy this by presenting a petition to the Royal General Assembly, sitting in Burlington, to create the new Township of Dover. The area designated was from the Metedeconk River to Oyster creek and from the sea to the Burlington County line, containing 282,240 acres in a 441 square mile area. The Township of Dover was about twenty miles long and sixteen miles wide. It included all of the present townships of Dover, Manchester, Berkeley, Lacey, Jackson, Plumstead, Lakewood, part of Brick, and all of the barrier islands from the mouth of the Metedeconk (Mantoloking) to Barnegat Light. The first returns of land in the present Township of Dover from the Board of Proprietors of the Province of East Jersey were made on March 24, 1690 to Miles Forestor, Dr. John Johnstone and Gawer Drummond. Their lands included all of the area from Silver Bay to the river, then called Goose creek, westward to Long Swamp (now Brookside Drive). The Proprietors had purchased the land from the Indians between 1685 and 1690. The new township name apparently was influenced by the first settlers to colonize the area. They were of English descent, mostly Quakers or former Quakers, who were the sons and grandsons of the Navesink English settlers from Gravesend Long Island. No official record has been found to authenticate who first called the township Dover." Pp. 213-14: "Many descendants of seafarers in the Union area began to migrate westward, beyond the Pine Barrens to the "Red Pipe Clay Country" in western Pennsylvania even before the township was established. By 1840 others had gone on to Michigan and Ohio. Almost all of the Woodmansee families from the Forked River area went to Ohio. Captain Christian Emson of Toms River and his family led a contingent of settlers to lands he owned in Chillicothe, Ohio where he expected to create his own development. It failed, and he returned to New Jersey." 11. "The Ancestry & Descendants of James Winner of Sussex Co., N.J. & Lycoming Co., Pa.," first edition; Editor: Ernestine Siegel, 1906 Watrous Avenue, Tampa, Florida, 33606; 1969; revised 1970, pp. 22-23; privately printed with copy in my possession. Ms. Siegel was a member of DAR. The following is part of a biography on James Winner who married Mary Parker and moved from Oxford Twp., Sussex, NJ to Lycoming, PA. (See notes of James Winner for the full transcript.) I don't believe the author had specific proof of the relationship between James and supposed brothers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; however, I believe as does the author that they are brothers: "...By legend, at the time James Winner migrated to Lycoming County, he had only two brothers still living, one in New Jersey, and one in Bucks County. Also by legend, he is said to have named his three sons for his three brothers. His elder brother was Abraham Winner of Mt. Holly, Burlington Co., New Jersey, an innkeeper and a New Jersey Revolutionary Soldier. The second brother Isaac was taxed at Middletown Township, Bucks Co., Pa. As early as 1779, although it is believed he was born in Burlington Co., N.J. The third brother, Jacob Winner, died in Southhampton Township, Bucks Co., Pa. in 1778. (Both Isaac and Jacob were weavers.) Dirck Hogeland signed bond for the estate. The father of James is considered to be Isaac Sr. who was also taxed in Middletown Twp., Bucks Co., Pa. In 1779 but then disappears from the tax lists. The mother of James is said to be Rebecca. His birth record eludes us as it is not known which side of the Delaware River he was born on. (His cousin James mentioned before, died in Warwick Township, Bucks Co, Pa. In 1796.) The marriage records of Isaac Jr. and Jacob Winner are found in the New Jersey Archives. The Winner family in Lycoming Co., Pa. has always been tied to the Winner family of Philadelphia, which included William Winner, the artist, and Septimus Winner, the composer. After James served his apprenticeship in Middletown Twp., he moved to Bristol Township where his uncle Joseph Winner lived. James was taxed there as a weaver in 1781, probably living in the home of Joseph. By tradition, this Joseph Winner of Bristol was third generation in America, born 1735 in New Jersey, son of Joseph, grandson of Capt. James. Joseph of Bristol was taylor, and had served in the Indian Wars in the 1750s. While James was in Bristol, one of Joseph's younger sons, Joseph born 1776 was only a small child. This 4th generation Joseph moved to Philadelphia and married Elizabeth Evans. His son Joseph, 5th generation, moved to Lycoming County in the 1840s, but had moved back to Philadelphia by 1850. However, on the 1850 census in Lycoming County is one Seth Winner, age 64 (born 1786) living in Porter Township with his wife Rebecca and son Robert. This family probably belongs to the Philadelphia branch also. After spending a year at Bristol, James Winner, the weaver, moved to Falls, Pa. and was taxed there in 1782 on two cows and a horse. Previously, in 1779 his uncle James' Estate was taxed at Falls. This elder James Winner served as a soldier in 1745, and again is listed as a soldier at Newton in 1756. From Falls, James Winner moved across the river to Oxford Furnace in Sussex County and married Widow Mary Collins, probably in 1785. She was born Mary Parker, Jr., daughter of Humphrey Parker, Jr., a Welsh Quaker from Gwynned, Pa., and his wife, Tamar Scott, whom he had married at the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1744..." MARRIAGE: 1. "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800," by William Nelson, Marriage Licenses from New Jersey Colonial Documents: "Winner, Isaac, Bucks, PA, and Hannah Searl, Bucks, PA, 1776 Nov. 9." (Familysearch, source film 888709, vol. W, p. 474.) 2. There is a concern about the birth date of Amy Winner 16 May 1803. The other children of Isaac and Hannah were born from about 1778 to 1890. Isaac and his second wife Naomi who he married 27 Oct 1804 then had two more children in 1807 and 1811. Amy's birthdate stands separated potentially meaning there were other children born to Isaac and Hannah from 1790 to 1800 or that perhaps Isaac had another unknown wife to whom Amy was born. 3. County of Monmouth Archives and Records Center, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan, NJ 07726, 732-308-3771, Marriage Returns Box A2h: "This is to certify that Isaac Winner and Neomi Philups was lawfully joined together in matramony on the 27th day of October before a comptiant number of witneses by me - Daniel Stouts one of the Justices of the Peace in the township of Dover in the county of Monmouth. Witness my hand this 27th Day of October 1804. Daniel Stouts, Justice." Note Daniel Stout lived in village of Goodluck which is close to Waretown and Forked River. | Winner, Isaac (I580)
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| 4818 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following is research by Roy L. Hales per his email to me of 9 Feb 2016 "Early Wilkins, who could be related, or ancestral, to our family. I have been following real estate on Wylkins. A. This was my Candidate List: a) Thomas & Geoffrey Wylkyn of Dartford (1370-1424) 1399? Thomas Wilkyn (item 1130) Octave of Hilary 22 Richard II Q: Thomas Wilkyn of Derteford D: John Barkere citizen and haberdasher of London and wife MargaretA messuage, 17 acres land and 5 acres meadow in Derteford. To hold to Thomas and his heirs. Warrant against the heirs of Margaret. Thomas gave 20 marks. - Duncan Harrington, Feet of Fines for the Reign of King Richard II 1408 - Thomas Wylkyn & his son Geoffrey Wylkyn (item 386) Westminster: Easter in 15 days 9 Henry IV (1408) Q. Thomas Wilkyn of Derteford and Geoffrey his son D. John Fairforde of London and wife Cecily and John Hallynge of Derteford and wife Juliana A messuage, 6 acres land, 1 rood pasture for 2 cows and 1⁄2 rood meadow in Derteford. To hold to Thomas and Geoffrey and the heirs of Thomas. Warrant against the heirs of Cecily and Juliana. Thomas and Geoffrey gave 20 marks. - Duncan Harrington, Feet of Fines for the Reign of King Henry IV 1423/24 - Geoffrey Wilkyn (item 357) Westminster: From Easter in one month 10 Henry V Q: John Feerby of Poulescrey, Roger Crome, John Ereth,Geoffrey Wylkyn and Robert Merefeld D: John Oke and Roger Lynster and wife ElizabethThe manor of Hokynden with appurtenances [in Saint Mary Cray], 5 acres of land and 5 acres of meadow in Byxle. Quitclaim from John Oke and Roger Lynston and Elizabeth and the heirs of Elizabeth to John Feerby, Roger, John Ereth, Geoffrey and Robert and the heirs of John Feerby. Warrant against the heirs of Elizabeth. John Feerby, Roger, John Ereth, Geoffrey and Robert gave 200 marks.; Also: (Item 372) Westminster: On the morrow of the Ascension of the Lord 10 Henry V and afterwards in the octave of Holy Trinity same yearQ: William Rotheley, Richard Lyndeshey, Robert Meryfeld and Geoffrey Wylkyn D: Robert Holand and wife Christine5 messuages, 180 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 4 acres of wood and 20s rent with appurtenances in Derteford, Sutton, Wylmyncton, Byxhill [Bexley], Crayford and Stone. Quitclaim from Robert Holand and Christine and the heirs of Christine to William, Richard, Robert Meryfeld and Geoffrey and the heirs of William. Warrant against the heirs of Christine. William, Richard, Robert Meryfeld and Geoffrey gave 100 marks. - Duncan Harrington, Feet of Fines for the Reign of King Henry V Old enough to be John Wilkyn's grandfather; Dartford is 32 miles from Tonge. b) Hugh Wylkin of Hoo (abt. 1390 - aft 1418) 1417/18 - Hugh Wylkin (item 153) Westminster: Octave of St John Baptist 4 Henry V Q. John Salmon and Hugh Wylkyn D. John Hook and wife Denise 7 acres of land, 8 acres pasture and 1⁄2 a messuage in the parish of St Wereburge in Hoo. Quitclaim from John Hook and Denise and the heirs of Denise to John Salmon and Hugh and the heirs of John. Warrant against the heirs of Denise. John Salmon and Hugh gave 20 marks. - Duncan Harrington, Feet of Fines for the Reign of King Henry IV Old enough to be John Wilkyn's grandfather; Hoo is 27 miles from Tonge. c) William Wilkins, formerly of Throwley (abt 1430-aft1462) 1460-62 Debtor: William Wilkins, formerly of Throwley {Threulegh} [Faversham Hundred] in Kent, gentleman.Creditor: William Pecche, knight [Sheriff of Kent, 1461-3] Amount: 40m.Before whom: Geoffrey Fielding, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster. When taken: 21/10/1460 First term: 21/10/1461 Last term: 21/10/1461 Writ to: Sheriff of [Kent] Sent by: Geoffrey Fielding, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster.Endorsement: Kanc' coram d'no Rege in Cancellar' sua a die S'ti mich'is p'x futur' in unu' mensem. 1462 May 17 - National Archives Kew c 241/246/19 Old enough to be John Wilkyn's father or grandfather and Throwley is 7-8 miles from Tonge. d) David Wylkyn of Faversham (died 1475) Canterbury probate Records: will of David Wylkyn of Faversham 1474 Old enough to be John Wilkyn's father or grandfather, Faversham is only 6 miles from Tonge & the name David keeps reappearing in subsequent generations of our family. e) John Wilkyn f) John Wylkyn, Renham, Kent g) William Wylkyn, Renham, Kent h) Thomas Wylkyns, Boghton Malherbe, Kent, laborer I would eliminate (e) because I think he is the rebel leader John Wilkins who was executed in 1451, after starting a second rebellion and (h) because our lot seem to have money. Looking through our thread, I see a lot of Johns, Solomons and Davids, but no Geoffreys or Williams. I still favour (D), based on: - His name "David" - The fact he was only a few miles from where our first Wilkins shows up and both (A) and (G) threads were +20 miles away. That said, we are talking about possibilities - haven't reached proof. This is my Wilkins thread so far. B. Projected Generation One: John Wilkyn from Tonge (abt 1450? - after 1491) One week from St Hilary, 15 Edward IV [20 January 1476] Parties: Solomon Wilkyn, John Wilkyn and John Nooke, querents, and John Alblaster and Joan, his wife, and Richard Margate and Margaret, his wife, Property: 2 parts of 1 messuage, of 3 gardens, of 20 acres of land and of pasture for 14 sheep and for 1 and a half cows in Orpynton' in the parish of Tonge. Action: Plea of covenant.Agreement: John Alblaster and Joan and Richard and Margaret have acknowledged the 2 parts to be the right of John Wilkyn, as those which the same John, Solomon and John Nooke have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan and Margaret to Solomon, John Wilkyn' and John Nooke and the heirs of John Wilkyn for ever. Warranty: For this: Solomon, John Wilkyn' and John Nooke have given them 40 marks of silver. - Feet of Fines CP 25/1/117/337 The will of William Cayme Relatives: Was Solomon Wilkyn John's father? Or a brother? Probable father of David Wylkyn of Tongue C. Projected Generation Two: David Wylkyn of Tongue (abt 1475? - 1526) married Margaret 12 August 1514 Lease for 48 years Davye Wylkyns [i.e. Wilkins] of Tonge to Richard, Prior of Leeds: 9 acres land in Radfield in bapchild 1514 Endorsement: bydyngbor' and Bapchyld [i.e. bapchild] [16th Century] Signature on upturned edge of document: By me Dave Wylky[ns] [i.e. Wilkins]Seal. Document chewed by rodents. - Rochester Priory doc @ CityArk 1515 Will of John Bowdon drawn up, states that his wife Cecily is to inherit "all other lands tenements, bought from Master Roydon, David Willkyn, and Master Towghe, and to her heirs assigns for evermore" - Sittingbourne wills KAS 16 December 1516 Lease and Bond Richard Chetham, Prior of Leeds to Davy Wylkyns of Sittingbourne: 9 acres land in Radfield in bapchild with Davy Wylkyns' bond in 10 li. to keep covenants. Endorsement: Bakechild [i.e. bapchild] [18th Century] Signature on upturned edge of document: Be me Dave Wylkyn . [cf. Wylkyns] Signature on bond: per me Dave Wylkyn. [cf. Wylkyns] Seal on lease. - Rochester Priory doc @ CityArk Easter 1522 - item 498. Ric Blankett & wife Kath to David Wylkyns, Robt Rye & Thos Hert. Mess, 12a land & 10a past in Oare. £60. - Michael Zell, Feet of Fines Henry VIII 1527/28 - (item 71). Thos Brunston, esq, David Wilkyn & wife Margt & Jn Frognall to Ralf Symondys, Thos Baldry & Jn Coppynger. 4a land, 4a past & 140a marsh in Teynham. £200. - Michael Zell , Feet of Fines Henry VIII Will of Cicille Messenger mentions John Bowden purchasing a house and two acres from David Wylkyn Sittingbourne Wills 1521/22 Lease for 48 years Davye wylkyns [i.e. Wilkins] of Tonge to Richard, Prior of Leeds: 9 acres land in Radfield in Bapchild; 1521 461. Rowl Botiller & wife Julyan to Jn Foule, David Wylkyn & Wm Androwe. Mess & 11a land in Sittingbourne, Murston & Tonge. £40. Michael Zell, Feet of Fines Henry VIII Short title: Seth v Wylkyn 1518-28. Plaintiffs: John Seth of Milton by Sittingbourne. Defendants: David Wylkyn, Thomas Harecourt, and Thomas Wellys, feoffees to uses, and Johanne, late the wife of Thomas Barton of Sittingbourne, butcher. Subject: Debts of the said Barton by his will directed to be paid by the sale of his messuages in Sittingbourne and lands and tenements in Essex. Kent, Essex. - National Archives Kew C 1/566/22 Canterbury probate Records Relatives: Father of Margaret Wilkin, of whom the will of Sir Thomas Adth says "That Margaret daughter of Davy Wilkin have 40/- at her marriage,if Davy pay to my ex'or such duties as he is bounden. - Sittingbourne wills, KAS Father of Solomon Wiklyn (below) Possible relation (father? cousin?) of Wm Wylkyns who purchased a house and 14 acres land in Stoke, from Rog Hochyn & wife Mercy, for £20 in 1515 Michael Zell, Feet of Fines Henry VIII Unknown relationship to 1541/42 Henry Wylkyn & wife Margt to Thos Martyn. Mess, 12a land, 3a mead & 15a past in Hoo - Michael Zwell, Feet of Fines Henry VIII D. Projected Generation Three: Solomon Wilkyn (abt 1500 - aft 1559) Feoffment Solomon Wilkyn Hasted 1551/2 Q: Soloman Wylkyn. D: Jn Smyth. 1 mess, 50a land in Tonge & Murston. £60. (Michael Zell, Feet of Fines for the reigns of Edward VI to Philip and Mary KAS http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/kent_records/KRNS4-1.pdf) Salmon Wikyns was the executor of the will of Thomas Thomas of Preston (outside Faversham) 1 June 1550 - Duncan Harrington, THOMAS ARDEN IN FAVERSHAM, The Faversham Society, p. 408). On January 20, 1588 Will of Sir Thomas Cheyney, dated 6 December 1558 and proved 25 April 1559 states: "my manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever with their appurtenances which now be or late were in the several tenures and occupations of these persons whose names hereafter ensueth, that is to wit, Richard Patwyn, John Norden of Sittingbourne, Peter Hame, Ralph Rogers, gentleman, William Callcott(?) of Skeddington, William Swalmon, John Elmar, John Colesele, James Colesell, Henry Elyott, (blank) Ferybye, John Clinton's widow, John Sogar's widow of the Isle of Grain, the ferryman of the Ryde ferry, John Arnold and William Arnold, John Bussyn, (blank) Chylde of Leyson, Peter Byssye, Thomas Sampson, Robert Sampson, Robert Hircis(?), Thomas Borne, Anthony Higecok(?), Christopher Harrys, John Ambrosse of Harty, Thomas Paramer of Harty, Thomas Mayre of Gillingham, John Porreye now Norden, John Elyott, John Dymmesdale, John Crowcher, John Wood(?) of Milton, John Warner of Milton, Thomas Harrys, William Wreeke, Thomas Horton of Minster, and William Grayne of Minster, and in the occupation of Salmon Wylkyn other than Bynney Court, which manors, lands and tenements with their appurtenances thus appointed and left to descend be of the clear yearly value of nine hundred and fifty pounds and better above all charges ..." Solomon Wilkyn's Children: -David Wylkyn, his principal heir, with whom he purchased 1557/58 Manor of Tonge with 1 mess, 120a land, 40a past, 30a marsh, 1 watermill plus £8 rent in Tonge, Bapchild, Milstead, Sittingbourne, Murston, Eastchurch, Minster & Leysdowne. £480. (Michael Zell, Feet of Fines for the reigns of Edward VI to Philip and Mary, KAS, -John Wykyn (bef. 1525 - bur. 25 Nov 1604) with whom he bought numerous properties in Throwley & other places in 1555/56 (see below). E. Generation Four: John Wilkins, our ancestor, (bef. 1525 - bur. 25 Nov 1604 ) married Elizabeth ___. Together with Solomon Wilkyn, who I suspect is his father, in 1555/56, Moiety of Manor of Dyvens. 1 mess, 300a land, 10a mead, 40a past, 300a wood, £3 rent in Eastling, Throwley, Ospringe, Newenham, Doddington, Faversham, Preston, Stallisfield & Otterden. £140.; also 1554 - Q: Jn Wylkyn. D: Hen Godfrey. 10a land, 2a marsh in Stoke. £16. (Michael Zell, "Feet of Fines for the reigns of Edward VI to Philip and Mary" Kent Archaelogical Society Will of John Wilkins of Throwley, Kent, England. Date of will: 20 Nov 1604 - To be buried in Throwley churchyard - "my daughter Agnes ye now wyfe of James Doe of Borden" - "Alyce my daughter ye now wyfe of Thomas Thurston of [Leanan?] husbandman - "Thomas Wylkin by sonne" - "Michaell Wilkin my sonne" - "Maryan Knowlden my kinswoman" - "Thomas Thurston ye sonne of Thomas Thurston" - "Elsabeth my now wyfe" named as executor - Signed by mark - Witnesses: John Wyse and Richard Goodgroome - Probated 12 Dec 1604 2. Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450: A Database of Names of those Receiving Pardons, taken from Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry VI 5 (1909) pp. 338-374 accessed from https://familysearch.org. This spreadsheet of about 3449 persons was created by Merton Historical Society in September 2014, and is accessible at http://www.mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/index.php?cat=morden&sec=!rebels For more detail on this listing and the event see http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/007%20-%201868/007-03.pdf Wilkins: John Wilkyn John Wylkyn, Renham, Kent William Wylkyn, Renham, Kent Thomas Wylkyns, Boghton Malherbe, Kent, laborer 3. The following extraction was made from the "Index to the Kent Lay Subsidy Roll of 1334/5," by H.A. Hanley, B.A. and C.W. Chalklin, M.A., B. Litt Wilekyn, Walt., 138 (Hundred of Blakehethe [Blackheath]). Wilkyn, Jn., 76 (Hundred of Ryngeslo [Ringslow]), 114 (Hundred of Lauerkefeld [Larkfield]), 146 (Hundred of Langeport [Langport]); Rd., 168 (Hundred of Merdenne [Marden]); wid. of Rd., 73 (Hundred of Ryngeslo [Ringslow]); Thos., 146 (Hundred of Langeport [Langport]). Wylekyn, Sim., 110 (Hundred of Cranbroke [Cranbrook]); Thos., 78 (Hundred of Cornylo [Cornilo]); Wm., 76 (Hundred of Ryngeslo [Ringslow]). | Wilkyns (I5192)
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| 4819 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following notes are from 23 Feb 2004 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" by Donna Shell with email dani5322@netzero.net: a. Ancestor Charts from Martha W. Jackson of Scottsville, KY in ltr. dtd. 8 July 1991 to Paul J. Phipps of Orting, WA. b. Pedigree Chart from Glenn Kinzey of Prague, OK, dtd. 26 Dec 1992. c. Henry was mentioned in his grandfather Christian Kuntzy's Will. d. A.k.a. Kinser, Kinsey. e. Birth given as 12 Jul 1738 in Switzerland with death before 9 Mar 1822 in Dayton, OH. 2. FHL 929.273 book "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, 1999, pp. 29-30: A. Eve Wampler, b. prob. ca. 1744-46, PA, d. 1821, Dayton, OH., md. Henry Kinsey/Kincey/Kinzig, b. by 1740, d. ca. 1820-22, Montgomery Co., OH. The DAR recognizes Henry Kinsey as a Revolutionary War patriot who served in Pennsylvania. Henry and Eve Kinsey lived first in Botetourt Co., VA, and migrated to Ohio about 1800. Sources referenced: i. Peter Wampler's will signed 8 June, 1792, probated 30 June, 1792; Source: Liber G. M. No. 2, Folio 444, Frederick County, Maryland. ii. Chancery Court, Vol. B54, pp. 318-325, David Wampler vs. the Heirs of Peter Wampler; proceedings dated 4 Sep 1802 to 5 Oct 1803, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD. iii. "DAR Patriot Index," vol. 1, 1966. Vol. II, 1979. Vol. III, 1986; National Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC. iv. "Wampler Ancestors and Desendents (sic) in America" ed. by Mrs. Barbara (Smith) Wampler, Joliet, IL., 15 issues were published from 1977-1979. v. Floyd R. Mason and Kathryn G. Mason, "A Wampler Family Record: John Wampler and Magdalena Garber of Maryland and Virginia;" Bridgewater, VA, 1996. As a source of data on the family of Henry and Eve Kinsey, the Masons cite Smith's "Christian Kinzie Book (1981). B. Issue with sequence uncertain: i. John W. Kinsey, b. 1762, d. after 1846, md. (1) Barbara Elizabeth Heckman at Franklin Co., VA, and (2) Anna Wahaman. ii. Hanna Kinsey, b. 1764, d. bef. 1834, md. Jacob Wolf/Wolfe at Franklin Co., VA, b. ca. 1764, d. 1849, Ohio. iii. Susannah Kinsey, b. 1766, md. John Redick at Montgomery Co., Ohio. iv. Mary Kinsey, b. 1768, d. 1839, md. Peter Henry Heckman in Franklin Co., VA. v. ___ Kinsey, b. 1772, d. 1772. vi. Elizabeth Kinsey, b. 1775, d. 1848, md. Daniel Graybill in Franklin Co., VA. vii. Salome/Sarah Kinsey, md. John Keyler in Franklin Co., VA. viii. Abraham Kinsey, b. 1787, Botetourt Co., VA, d. 1872 at Madison, IN, md. (1) Mary Magdalene Waggoner and (2) Susan Brumbaugh. | Kinsey, Henry (I2422)
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| 4820 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following notes are from 23 Feb 2004 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" by Donna Shell with email dani5322@netzero.net: a. Paper on "John & Ludwig Wampler, Sons of the Immigrant Christian Wampler (1718-1765), with Notes on William Wampler (1813-1886)" by Roy H. Wampler, dtd. 15 July 1988. Pg. 28. [Kerry's note: I reviewed this book at FHL in Salt Lake City - FHL book 929.273 W181wr.] b. A.k.a. Senseney, Sanchwich. 2. Many databases list her maiden name as Senseney which is actually the surname of her first husband. The book, "Wamplers in America," by G. M. Shouse - 929.273, W181 -sh, pg. 6 indicates a Mary Sanchwick Susseny without substantiation; however, this same source places Catherine Ingler as a the second wife which is of course wrong. I use Sanchwick for a maiden name but without confidence until further information can be found. BIOGRAPHY: 1. FHL 929.273 book "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, 1999, pp. 30, 47-50: a. "David Wampler, b. 1765, PA; d. 25 Mar 1842 (at age 77), Montgomery Co., OH; bur. at Dunkard Cem., Taylorsburg, Randolph Twp., Montgomery Co., OH. mar. (1) MD, Catherine Englar, b. 27 Jul 1763, PA, d. 14 Jan 1824, MD; bur. at Ambrose-Leatherman Cemetery, near Myersville, MD.; md. (2) 1824, Montgomery Co., Oh, Mary ( - -) Senseney, d. 9 Sep 1848, Montgomery Co., OH; bur. at Fort McKinley Cemetery, Madison Twp., Montgomery Co., OH. David Wampler lived in Maryland until 1824 when he moved to near Dayton, Montgomery County, OH. David's first wife, Catherine, was the eldest dau. of Philip Englar (1736-1817) and his wife Margaret Holverstot (1742-1819), natives of Europe who settled in Maryland in 1764. David's second wife, Mary, was the widow of Isaac Senseney (ca. 1766-1804) of Carroll (then Frederick) Conty, Md. Isaac and Mary Senseney were the parents of five children: John and Isaac Senseney, Mary who married Jacob Cook, Elisabeth who married George Winter, and Catherine who married George McGee. David Wampler bought a tract of land in Frederick County, MD, in 1793, and his name appears in other Frederick Co. land records up to 1822. Tax assessment records of 1798 show that he then owned land in present-day Carroll (then Frederick) County. When he sold a tract called 'The Range' on Little Pipe Creek, near New Windsor, on 5 Apr 1822, his wife Catherine relinquished her right of dower. He had purchased this tract in 1817 from the heirs of Isaac Senseney among whom was Isaac's widow Mary. The same Mary Senseney would later become David's second wife. A history of the Englar family states that "David Wampler was deacon of Pipe Creek (church) before he moved to Ohio in 1826 (sic)." The German Baptist, or Dunkard, church known as Pipe Creek (organized in 1758) was located close to Little Pipe Creek, between New Windsor and Uniontown. In 1824 David and Catherine Wampler were living in the Middletown Valley of Frederick County, MD. A month after Catherine died, David had a public sale of his livestock and farming utensils, and soon afterward he moved to Montgomery County, Ohio. His marriage to Mary Senseney took place in Ohio later in 1824. He was listed as a taxpayer in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1825. His will written 13 Aug 1841 and recorded in Montgomery County, Ohio, in April 1842, made bequests to his wife Mary, his granddaughter Margaret Wampler of Montgomery Co., OH (dau. of Samuel Wampler, deceased); his granddaughter Amanda Wampler of Montgomery Co., OH (dau. of Daniel Wampler, deceased); and granddaughters Julia Ann Johnson and Ann Maria Brown of Frederick County, MD; he stated that he had already given his son Philip Wampler by way of advancement his full share of the estate. The will of Mary Wampler, David's widow, was recorded in 1848. She left her estate to her five children by Isaac Senseney, and she made a conditional bequest to a granddaughter, Eliza Cook. Her son, Isaac Senseney, was named to be her executor." b. Issue by Catherine (sequence unknown): i. Phillip E. Wampler, b. 10 Jan 1790, MD; d. 1 May 1878, Montgomery Co., OH; bur. at Ft. McKinley Cem., Madison Township, Montgomery Co., OH., md. 27 Apr 1815, Baltimore Co., MD, Catherine Royer, b. 21 Feb 1797; d. 28 Sep 1867, Montgomery Co., OH; bur. at same cemetery; dau. of Peter Royer (1775-1842) and his wife Anna Roop (ca. 1775-1858) of Carroll Co., MD. Philip was an elder of the German Baptist (Dunkard) church. In 1825 or 1826 he and his family moved from Carroll (then Frederick) County,MD, to Montgomery Co., Ohio. [The book has a transcription of an 1830 letter from Catherine Royer Wampler to her mother with many relatives listed including her brother-in-law: "Daniel Wampler is in very poor state of health since last summer and its very doubty if he will recover." The book also lists issue of 12 children and 112 grandchildren of this couple. ii. Samuel Wampler, d. by 1841, md. 1824, Montgomery Co., OH, Mary Priddy. The 1830 census of Ohio lists a Widow Wampler in Jefferson Twp., Montgomery County. Probably this was the widow of Samuel Wampler. The book also lists one child of this marriage. iii. Daniel Wampler died between 1830 and 1841., md. 29 Jan 1824, Frederick Co., MD, Mary Brown. Moved to Montgomery Co., OH, by 1830. The book also lists one child of this marriage. iv. Mary Wampler, b. 5 Mar 1794, d. 22 Mar 1839 in MD, bur. at United Brethren Cemetery, Thurmont, MD., md. 1812, Henry Funderburg, b. 16 Apr 1788, d. 6 Feb 1836, bur at Lewistown, MD., son of Walter Fundenburg, Jr. and Elizabeth Stedbacker of Frederick Co., MD. Book lists 5 children of this marriage. c. Referenced sources: i. Gravestone Inscriptions, Montgomery Co., OH: (1) Dunkard Cemetery, Taylorsburg, Randolph Twp.; (2) Fort McKinley Cemetery, Madison Township. Furnished by Nancy Kiddoo, Whippany, NJ, Oct 1990. ii. Peter Wampler's will signed 8 June, 1792, probated 30 June, 1792; Source: Liber G. M. No. 2, Folio 444, Frederick County, Maryland. iii. Chancery Court, Vol. B54, pp. 318-325, David Wampler vs. the Heirs of Peter Wampler; proceedings dated 4 Sep 1802 to 5 Oct 1803, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD. iv. "The Brethren Encyclopedia," 2 vols., Philadelphia, PA and Oak Brook, IL." v. L.M. Brien, "A Genealogical Index of Pioneers in the Miami Valley, Ohio," Colonial Dames of America, Dayton, OH, 1970. David Wampler's entry (p. 184) found to contain errors. See "Problems Arising from Erroneous Data" at the end of Chapter 2 of this work for a list of these errors. vi. US Censuses for Montgomery Co., OH, 1830 and 1840. vii. US Censuses for Frederick Co., MD, 1800, 1810, and 1820. viii. "Heads of Families at the First Census of the US Taken in the Year 1790: Maryland," Government Printing Office, Washington, DC., 1907. ix. "The Carroll Record Histories of Northwestern Carroll County Communities" (first printed in the 1890s) ed. by J.M. Getty; Historical Society of Carroll County, Westminster, MD, 1994. x. LDS IGI for Virginia and Ohio as of March 1992. xi. David Wampler's will written 28 Apr 1881, recorded 23 Jul 1887; Will Book N, pp. 231-4, Montgomery Co., OH. xii. Gravestone inscription for Catharina Wampler (1763-1824) at Ambrose-Leatherman family cemetery, east of Route 153, between Myersville and Ellerton, MD; furnished along with other data by Mrs. Lloyd Spade (nee Leah Leatherman), Smithsburg, MD, 27 July and 11 Aug 1999. xiii. Vivian Englar Barnes, "Genealogy of the Englar Family," Taneytown, MD, 1929. Includes David Wampler (1765-1842), son of Hans Peter Wampler Jr., and certain descendants. Found to contain some errors: Katherine, Margaret and Anna are alleged to be children of David Wampler, but they were actually his grandchildren. xiv. "A History of McKinstry Mills," by Jesse P. Garner, printed in the Carroll Record, Taneytown, MD, 1895. Contains data on Senseney and Englar families. Reprinted in the "Carroll Record Histories." (See item ix above.) xv. Land records (1793-1822), Frederick County, MD, pertaining to David Wampler. xvi. Isaac Senseney's will, written 27 Sep 1804, Will Book GMRB1, pp. 78-9, Frederick County, MD. xvii. Mary Wampler's will, written 19 Feb 1844, recorded Nov. 1848, Will Book D, p. 454, Case No. 2127; Montgomery Co., OH. xviii. Jacob M. Holdcraft, "Names in Stone: 75,000 Cemetry Inscriptions from Frederick County, Maryland," 2 vols., Anna Arbor, MI, 1966. xix. Dielman-Hayward file, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD. xx. George J. Horvath, Jr., "The Particular Assessment Lists for Baltimore and Carroll Counties [Maryland], 1798," Famly Line Pubs., Silver Spring, MD; 1986. xxi. C.E. SChildknecht, Editor, "Monocacy and Catoctin, Vol. 1," Shippensburg, PA; 1985. xxii. Carol Willsey Bell, "Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index," Columbus, Ohio, 1981. xxiii. "Index of the Ohio 1825 Tax Duplicate," Gerald M. Petty, compiler, Columbus, OH; 1981. | Sanchwick, Mary (I2829)
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| 4821 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following notes are from 23 Feb 2004 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" by Donna Shell with email dani5322@netzero.net: A. Paper on "John & Ludwig Wampler, Sons of the Immigrant Christian Wampler (1718-1765), with Notes on William Wampler (1813-1886)" by Roy H. Wampler, dtd. 15 July 1988. [Kerry's note: I reviewed this book at FHL in Salt Lake City - FHL book 929.273 W181wr.] B. A.k.a. Catharine Ingler. 2. FHL 929.273 book "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, 1999, pp. 30, 47-50: A. "David Wampler, b. 1765, PA; d. 25 Mar 1842 (at age 77), Montgomery Co., OH; bur. at Dunkard Cem., Taylorsburg, Randolph Twp., Montgomery Co., OH. mar. (1) MD, Catherine Englar, b. 27 Jul 1763, PA, d. 14 Jan 1824, MD; bur. at Ambrose-Leatherman Cemetery, near Myersville, MD.; md. (2) 1824, Montgomery Co., Oh, Mary (___) Senseney, d. 9 Sep 1848, Montgomery Co., OH; bur. at Fort McKinley Cemetery, Madison Twp., Montgomery Co., OH. David Wampler lived in Maryland until 1824 when he moved to near Dayton, Montgomery County, OH. David's first wife, Catherine, was the eldest dau. of Philip Englar (1736-1817) and his wife Margaret Holverstot (1742-1819), natives of Europe who settled in Maryland in 1764. David's second wife, Mary, was the widow of Isaac Senseney (ca. 1766-1804) of Carroll (then Frederick) County, Md. Isaac and Mary Senseney were the parents of five children: John and Isaac Senseney, Mary who married Jacob Cook, Elisabeth who married George Winter, and Catherine who married George McGee. David Wampler bought a tract of land in Frederick County, MD, in 1793, and his name appears in other Frederick Co. land records up to 1822. Tax assessment records of 1798 show that he then owned land in present-day Carroll (then Frederick) County. When he sold a tract called 'The Range' on Little Pipe Creek, near New Windsor, on 5 Apr 1822, his wife Catherine relinquished her right of dower. He had purchased this tract in 1817 from the heirs of Isaac Senseney among whom was Isaac's widow Mary. The same Mary Senseney would later become David's second wife. A history of the Englar family states that "David Wampler was deacon of Pipe Creek (church) before he moved to Ohio in 1826 (sic)." The German Baptist, or Dunkard, church known as Pipe Creek (organized in 1758) was located close to Little Pipe Creek, between New Windsor and Uniontown. In 1824 David and Catherine Wampler were living in the Middletown Valley of Frederick County, MD. A month after Catherine died, David had a public sale of his livestock and farming utensils, and soon afterward he moved to Montgomery County, Ohio. His marriage to Mary Senseney took place in Ohio later in 1824. He was listed as a taxpayer in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1825. His will written 13 Aug 1841 and recorded in Montgomery County, Ohio, in April 1842, made bequests to his wife Mary, his granddaughter Margaret Wampler of Montgomery Co., OH (dau. of Samuel Wampler, deceased); his granddaughter Amanda Wampler of Montgomery Co., OH (dau. of Daniel Wampler, deceased); and granddaughters Julia Ann Johnson and Ann Maria Brown of Frederick County, MD; he stated that he had already given his son Philip Wampler by way of advancement his full share of the estate. The will of Mary Wampler, David's widow, was recorded in 1848. She left her estate to her five children by Isaac Senseney, and she made a conditional bequest to a granddaughter, Eliza Cook. Her son, Isaac Senseney, was named to be her executor." B. Issue by Catherine (sequence unknown): i. Phillip E. Wampler, b. 10 Jan 1790, MD; d. 1 May 1878, Montgomery Co., OH; bur. at Ft. McKinley Cem., Madison Township, Montgomery Co., OH., md. 27 Apr 1815, Baltimore Co., MD, Catherine Royer, b. 21 Feb 1797; d. 28 Sep 1867, Montgomery Co., OH; bur. at same cemetery; dau. of Peter Royer (1775-1842) and his wife Anna Roop (ca. 1775-1858) of Carroll Co., MD. Philip was an elder of the German Baptist (Dunkard) church. In 1825 or 1826 he and his family moved from Carroll (then Frederick) County, MD, to Montgomery Co., Ohio. [The book has a transcription of an 1830 letter from Catherine Royer Wampler to her mother with many relatives listed including her brother-in-law: "Daniel Wampler is in very poor state of health since last summer and it's very doubty if he will recover." The book also lists issue of 12 children and 112 grandchildren of this couple. ii. Samuel Wampler, d. by 1841, md. 1824, Montgomery Co., OH, Mary Priddy. The 1830 census of Ohio lists a Widow Wampler in Jefferson Twp., Montgomery County. Probably this was the widow of Samuel Wampler. The book also lists one child of this marriage. iii. Daniel Wampler died between 1830 and 1841, md. 29 Jan 1824, Frederick Co., MD, Mary Brown. Moved to Montgomery Co., OH, by 1830. The book also lists one child of this marriage. iv. Mary Wampler, b. 5 Mar 1794, d. 22 Mar 1839 in MD, bur. at United Brethren Cemetery, Thurmont, MD, md. 1812, Henry Funderburg, b. 16 Apr 1788, d. 6 Feb 1836, bur at Lewistown, MD., son of Walter Fundenburg, Jr. and Elizabeth Stedbacker of Frederick Co., MD. Book lists 5 children of this marriage. C. Referenced sources: i. Gravestone Inscriptions, Montgomery Co., OH: (1) Dunkard Cemetery, Taylorsburg, Randolph Twp.; (2) Fort McKinley Cemetery, Madison Township. Furnished by Nancy Kiddoo, Whippany, NJ, Oct 1990. ii. Peter Wampler's will signed 8 June, 1792, probated 30 June, 1792; Source: Liber G. M. No. 2, Folio 444, Frederick County, Maryland. iii. Chancery Court, Vol. B54, pp. 318-325, David Wampler vs. the Heirs of Peter Wampler; proceedings dated 4 Sep 1802 to 5 Oct 1803, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD. iv. "The Brethren Encyclopedia," 2 vols., Philadelphia, PA and Oak Brook, IL." v. L.M. Brien, "A Genealogical Index of Pioneers in the Miami Valley, Ohio," Colonial Dames of America, Dayton, OH, 1970. David Wampler's entry (p. 184) found to contain errors. See "Problems Arising from Erroneous Data" at the end of Chapter 2 of this work for a list of these errors. vi. US Censuses for Montgomery Co., OH, 1830 and 1840. vii. US Censuses for Frederick Co., MD, 1800, 1810, and 1820. viii. "Heads of Families at the First Census of the US Taken in the Year 1790: Maryland," Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1907. ix. "The Carroll Record Histories of Northwestern Carroll County Communities" (first printed in the 1890s) ed. by J.M. Getty; Historical Society of Carroll County, Westminster, MD, 1994. x. LDS IGI for Virginia and Ohio as of March 1992. xi. David Wampler's will written 28 Apr 1881, recorded 23 Jul 1887; Will Book N, pp. 231-4, Montgomery Co., OH. xii. Gravestone inscription for Catharina Wampler (1763-1824) at Ambrose-Leatherman family cemetery, east of Route 153, between Myersville and Ellerton, MD; furnished along with other data by Mrs. Lloyd Spade (nee Leah Leatherman), Smithsburg, MD, 27 July and 11 Aug 1999. xiii. Vivian Englar Barnes, "Genealogy of the Englar Family," Taneytown, MD, 1929. Includes David Wampler (1765-1842), son of Hans Peter Wampler Jr., and certain descendants. Found to contain some errors: Katherine, Margaret and Anna are alleged to be children of David Wampler, but they were actually his grandchildren. xiv. "A History of McKinstry Mills," by Jesse P. Garner, printed in the Carroll Record, Taneytown, MD, 1895. Contains data on Senseney and Englar families. Reprinted in the "Carroll Record Histories." (See item ix above.) xv. Land records (1793-1822), Frederick County, MD, pertaining to David Wampler. xvi. Isaac Senseney's will, written 27 Sep 1804, Will Book GMRB1, pp. 78-9, Frederick County, MD. xvii. Mary Wampler's will, written 19 Feb 1844, recorded Nov. 1848, Will Book D, p. 454, Case No. 2127; Montgomery Co., OH. xviii. Jacob M. Holdcraft, "Names in Stone: 75,000 Cemetery Inscriptions from Frederick County, Maryland," 2 vols., Anna Arbor, MI, 1966. xix. Dielman-Hayward file, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD. xx. George J. Horvath, Jr., "The Particular Assessment Lists for Baltimore and Carroll Counties [Maryland], 1798," Family Line Pubs., Silver Spring, MD; 1986. xxi. C.E. Schildknecht, Editor, "Monocacy and Catoctin, Vol. 1," Shippensburg, PA; 1985. xxii. Carol Willsey Bell, "Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index," Columbus, Ohio, 1981. xxiii. "Index of the Ohio 1825 Tax Duplicate," Gerald M. Petty, compiler, Columbus, OH; 1981. MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place surmised from birth of eldest son Philip as quoted above. | Englar, Catherine (I2830)
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| 4822 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following notes are from Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" by Donna Shell 25 Aug 2001 with email dani5322@netzero.net - I have not yet verified these sources: a. The book, "History of Western Civilization," by Hayes, Baldwin, & Cole. Pub. in 1962 by Macmillan Co. Pg 428. By the Treaty of Ryswich in 1697, which ended the War of the League of Augsburg, France secured full recognition of its ownership of the whole province of Alsace. b. "Pennsylvania German Pioneers," by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LL.D. Publication of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727-1808. Vol. 1. Arrived on Ship Lydia on 29 Sept. 1741, and took the Oath. Pgs. 300-303. Age 18. The following information was provided by Joy Adams of Jeremiah, KY: Hans Peter Wampler, Jr. No. 162 came to the U.S.A on the ship "Lydia" with his parents and other siblings-it landed at Philadelphia, PA Sept. 29, 1741. Hans Peter Jr. signed his name and gave his age as 18. c. Eichtersheim and Sinsheim Lutheran Records, per Annette K. Burgert,"18th Century Emigrants, Northern Kraichgau, PA German Soc. [Pertinent pages in custody of P. J. Phipps. Pg. 75.] d. Peter and Anna Barbara were married 26 Sept. 1743, Lancaster Co., PA in Hill Lutheran Church, Swatara, by Rev. John Casper Stover Sr. Married in Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lebanon Twp. Book of Records of Rev. John Casper Stover. Lebanon Co. Hist. Soc. Checked by Herb Bohler of Flemington, NJ. e. FGR from Glenn Kinzey of Prague, OK, dtd., 26 Dec 1992/notes. Has marriage in Swatara, Schuylkill Co., PA. (Could be Schuylkill Twp of Lancaster Co.) f. Lancaster Co., PA 1750 Tax Records, Vol. 3, by Gary Hawbaker & Clyde Groff shows a Peter Wampler in Bethel Twp. taxed for the year 1750. g. A Deed, Record, N-505 of Frederick Co., MD was issued to Peter Wampler Jr. from Richard Coroxall on 15 Dec. 1770. h. Book, "Wamplers in America," by G. M. Shouse - 929.273, W181 -sh. "Wampler Family History 1701-1980" by Fred Wampler 929.273 W 181-w. i. Families & History of Sullivan Co., TN, Vol.1, 1779-1992. Pg 626. [Kerry's note: I reviewed this book at FHL in Salt Lake City - FHL book 976.896H2] j. Data received from Ronnie Graybeal of Riverton, Utah under cover of ltr. dtd. 18 Aug. 1990. k. Paper on "John & Ludwig Wampler, Sons of the Immigrant Christian Wampler (1718-1765), with Notes on William Wampler (1813-1886)" by Roy H. Wampler, dtd. 15 July 1988. (I have a copy). [Kerry's note: I reviewed this book at FHL in Salt Lake City - FHL book 929.273 W181wr.] l. 1790 Census, Frederick Co., MD. Book, by Genealogical Pub. Co. Pg 58 2 males over 16, 1 under 16 & 3 females. m. "Our Grable History," a paper by Joseph H. Piatt. I have a copy. n. The Wampler tannery was built in 1810 in Frederick Co., MD. (Don't know which Wampler was the builder). Source: History of Frederick Co. 2. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., pp. 56-57 contains the following geographical information on Alsace: "No place in Europe has been subjected to more boundary changes than Alsace (in German this region is called Elsass). Today Alsace is part of France. It has changed hands between Germany and France many times. The culture of Alsace is German. Although it is part of France today, German is stll spoken freely in the smaller vallages... Alsace consists of the departments [states] of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin... It is the department of Bas-Rhin [Low Rhine] that will be of particular interest to us... [The book includes maps.] ...the distance between Keskastel to Hinsingen is about 2 miles. The French government has changed some of the German sounding village names to something that is easier to pronounce in French. The only name change that will concern us is Altweler. Today this village is called Altwiller. After wars between Germany (or, to be more exact, what was to become part of unified Germany) and France, boundaries in Alsace were often ill-defined. It is more meaningful to speak of our ancestors as being Alsatian, rather than German or French. To state that they were French is misleading, because their culture and language were German. To state that they were German is not in accord with the present boundaries of Germany. Please note that Alsace does border on the German states of Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palitinate) and Saarland. Thousands of Swiss emigrated into the Rheinland (including Alsace) following the Thirty Years War (1618-1638). Most of this movement took place in the last half of the 1600's. Among these immigrants was Christian Wampfler of Diemtigtal, Zwischenflüh, Switzerland who was to settle in Sparsbach, Alsace." [Note: the villages of Keskatel, Hinsingen, Altwiller, Zollingen, and Diedendorf all appear to be within a 4-5 mile radius of Altwiller; however, this whole grouping of villages appear to be 20 or so miles west of Sparsbach and about 8 miles southwest of Herbitzheim.] 3. FHL Book 929.273, film 6005243, "John Jacob Eller and His Descendants with Other Pre-1800 Eller Immigrants to America," by the Eller Family Association, 1998, 817-297-1280, Chapter 1, concerning migration patterns in Colonial North Carolina and early pre-1800 immigrants: "When the Ellers... arrived in Pennsylvania, they found all the productive land occupied, or available only at high prices. In the favored easterly sections, the cost of farms was almost prohibitive. Under these conditions the newly arrived German immigrants began to move southward, some stopping in Maryland, and some in the Shenandoah Valley. When word came of cheap and abundant land in North Carolina, particularly in Rowan County, that became the choice destination for a growing stream of German migrants who traveled south on the Great Wagon Road... [The Ellers presumed path from their homeland was] German Palatinate - Rhine River - Rotterdam - England - Philadelphia - Montgomery County, Pennsylvania - Great Wagon Road - Crane Creek on the Yadkin River in Rowan County, North Carolina... Their arrival there began about 1745, the number increased markedly prior to 1760, and except for a decline during the French and Indian War, continued until the Revolutionary War. A large number of Scotch-Irish settlers had settled in Rowan County, and taken up the most fertile land prior to the arrival of the Germans. This left the land of less fertile soil to the east and southeast of Salisbury for the Germans." "In colonial times two major travel routes entered North Carolina from the north. The Great Wagon Road began in Philadelphia, passed through the Shenandoah Valley, and entered the northern border of North Carolina. After crossing the Yadkin River at the 'Shallow Ford' west of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the road continued south to Rowan County and beyond. This was the route taken by most of the Pennsylvania Germans who came to North Carolina." "Another route known as the Trading Path began in tide-water Virginia at Petersburg and joined the Great Wagon Road at the Trading Ford on the Yadkin River only a few miles east of the present town of Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina… Until after the French and Indian War, which ended in 1761, the Indians, principally the Catawba and Cherokee tribes, were not far to the west of Salisbury." "From the Trading Ford, the road continued southward into Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties and on into South Carolina. Situated strategically at the confluence of major travel and trading routes, Salisbury, founded in 1755, remained for decades the most western frontier town in North Carolina. Rowan County extended westward beyond the Appalachian Mountains to include the present state of Tennessee. This gave the distinction to Rowan County of being the largest ever in the United States. The trans-mountain region was destined to become the state of Tennessee in 1796, but first it was a part of the Cherokee Indian Nation, as was most of the mountain area of present western North Carolina… [It was] reported that settlers were coming from the north in hundreds of wagons, and in 1755 it was reported that 5,000 had crossed the James river in Virginia bound for Rowan County..." "[During the French and Indian War of 1759-1760 which disrupted life in Rowan County, immigrant] Christian Eller [was] listed in a militia company in 1759 that was called up after an Indian attack near Salisbury. (Clark-1983, p. 851. Christian Eller listed on n Jacob Eller.)…" "North Carolina is unique among coastal states in that settlement did not spread from the coast, but from the north and south… Also, from South Carolina came new settlers who settled in the western part of the state [of North Carolina]… In the last 16 years of the Colonial Era… south bound traffic along the Great Wagon Road was numbered in the tens of thousands. It was the most heavily traveled road in all America… A significant number [of settlers] moved to the head waters of the Yadkin River, then crossed the Appalachians on the Boon Trail, to settle… in an area that was destined to become the northeastern corner of the state of Tennessee… Some descendants of immigrant Eller families of Rowan County were drawn toward the western frontier. Peter Eller, eldest son of George Michael Eller, moved to the headwaters of the Yadkin in time to acquire choice land in Wilkes (now Ashe) County, North Carolina. George Eller, eldest son of Christian Eller, moved to the southeastern corner of Virginia; and John Jacob Eller, Jr., eldest son of John Jacob Eller, crossed the mountains, perhaps as early as 1779, into the Holston Valley in the future state of Tennessee…" "The Germans… usually left Pennsylvania just after fall harvest and mad the journey down the Valley of Virginia in time to arrive in the fall, build their homes, and plant crops in the spring…" 4. Index of miscellaneous deeds from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. I am not sure of the relationship, if any, of all the parties herein listed and this is for reference only: "Some Frederick County Maryland Deeds: E-125 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, March 20, 1753 E-509 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, August 21, 1754 Agreement F-244 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, May 28, 1757 F-393 Joseph Grable from James ___, February 11, 1758 K-782 Joseph Grable to Jacob Roland, November 19, 1766 K-782 Samuel Grable from Leonard White, November 14, 1766 K-743 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk - Release K-803 Martin Garver from Jacob Danner, December 19, 1766 K-1284 Henry Eller to Jacob Flora, June 6, 1767 L-515 John Garver from Jacob Danner, October 1, 1768 N-396 Leonard Kitzmiller from Samuel Stringer, October 10, 1770 N-505 Peter Wampler from Richard Coroxal, December 15, 1770 S-96 George Michael Eller from Edward Gaither O-3 Henry Eller to David Buzzard, January 14, 1771 L-665 John Grable to Jacob Roland, May 1772 P-128 Henry Eller from Leonard Kitzmiller, June 13, 1772 P-110 Leonard Kitzmiller to Samuel Carver, June 13, 1772 BD1-539 John Garver to Jacob Danner, May 22, 1775- did not find BD6-34 John Grabill to Jacob Danner, June 20, 1775 WR-2-543 Peter Grable to Michael Christ, May 26, 1779 WR-3-71 John Grabell to Wm. Renner, July 27, 1782 GM2-444 Peter Wampler, 1782 WR-4-98 Peter Grable to Michael Christ, May 26, 1779 WR-6-4 Henry Eller to Philip Fishburn, June 22, 1784 WR-6-84 Henry Eller to Francis B. Sappington, August 19, 1784 WR-3-205 John Grable from John Bowman, Bill of Sale WR-7-332 John Grable and others to George Kitzburger, June 12, 1787 WR-7-616 John Grable to Paul Clapsdale, December 4, 1787 WR-8-505 John Grable from John Shuk, June 8, 1789 Bill of Sale WR-9-194 John Grable from Sam Cole, April 30, 1790 WR-9-250 John Grable from Joseph Boyer, June 1, 1790 WR-9-46 Peter Grable from Martin Sheets, July 8, 1790 WR-9-546 Peter Grable from Henry Repp, December 7, 1790 WR-11-279 John Garber and others, September 24, 1791, Agreement WR-11-210 John Wampler to Lazarus Findburg, November 21, 1792 WR-11-199 Joseph Wampler from Michael Baer, November 19, 1792 WR-11-587 Joseph Eller from Jacob Baer, May 31, 1793 WR 12-41 John Garber, Upton Scott and others, May 9, 1794 Agreement WR 12-445 John Grable from Balser Riam, June 3, 1794 WR 12-447 John Grable from Balser Riam, June 3, 1794 WR 12-456 John Grable to Christian Ebey, June 6, 1794 WR 12-451 John Grable to Christian Ebey, June 6, 1794 WR 12-535 John Grable from Conrad Cragon, August 14, 1794 WR 12-516 John Grable to Rebecca Reynolds, July 30, 1794 WR 13-153 John Grable to Conrad Hi , March 26, 1795 WR 13-126 Joseph Eller from Frederick Murray, March 24, 1795 WR 13-449 Martin Garber from Richard Cook, August 11, 1795 WR 13-263 Martin Garber from Philip Fishburn, May 6, 1795 WR 15-481 John Grable from Negro Bill, July 5, 1797 WR 15-595 Joseph Eller from John Kerr, September 6, 1797 WR 15-518 Martin Garber from Richard Coal, August 8, 1797 WR 15-519 Joseph Grable from Martin Garber, August 8, 1797 WR 15-395 David Wampler from Joseph Grable, June 8, 1797 WR 17-44 Jacob Grable from Wm. Hardin, May 24, 1798 WR 19-71 David Wampler from Christian Simmons, October 8, 1799 WR 12-245 Peter Wampler from Samuel Chase, March 1794 WR 16-463 John Wampler from Joseph Baker, May 2, 1795 WR 17-302 John Garber from ___ Scott, October 2, 1798 WR 19-247 Joseph Eller from Jacob Young, January 16, 1800 WR 19-250 Joseph Eller to Jacob Pofsbarger, January 17, 1800 WR 19-252 Joseph Eller to Michael Minor Sr., January 17, 1800 WR 19-444 John Wampler to John Iler, April 16, 1800 WR 21-466 John Grable from Christian Leasner, September 17, 1801 WR 21-541 Jacob Garber to Joseph Baker, October 21, 1801 WR 23-227 Martin Carver and others to Samuel Garber, July 29, 1802 WR 23-228 Samuel Garber from Christian Garber and others, July 29, 1802 WR 23-229 Samuel Garber and others to Christian Garber, July 29, 1802 WR 23-231 John Garber from John Wampler, July 29, 1802 WR 23-234 John Wampler to Martin Garber, July 29, 1802 WR 22-548 Moses Grable from Craig Marshall, May 15, 1802 WR 20-41 Martin Garber from Wm. Head, June 21, 1800 WR 20-43 Martin Garber from Peter Kramer, June 28, 1800 WR 22-4 Moses Grable to Michael Freeze, November 3, 1801 WR 25-579 John Garber from Israel Bigler, May 8, 1804 WR 26-71 John Garber from Anna Garber and others, September 5, 1804 WR 27-544 Joseph Grable to Peter Grable, October 10, 1805 WR 39-561 John Grable from Peter Grable, May 22, 1811 WR 42-380 John Grable and others to State of Maryland, May 31, 1813 WR 44-85 John Grable to Louis Mottier, April 5, 1813" 5. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., pp. 88-91 notes that the ship Lydia arrived in Philadelphia carrying passengers identified as being from the Palatine (the present German state of Rhineland-Palatinate or Rheinland Pfalz in German. The book "Pennsylvania German Pioneers," by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, as cited above, points out that vertually all German speaking people coming to America during this era were identified as Palatines. Part of the passengers could be Palatines and the remaining passengers could be German speaking people from adjacent areas to the Palatine. This was the case for the passengers aboard the ship Lydia. The following Wampflers were listed on the ship: Hans Peter Wampfler, 40 years of age. Hans Peter Wampfler, 18 years of age. Hans Michel Wampfler, 16 years of age. There were assuredly more of the family aboard but only the males age 16 and older were listed. Considering the list was made by the captain prior to the departure of a voyage that took about 3 months, the ages work out exactly. The book as photocopies of first two males who signed their names but Hans Michel did not since he probably could not write yet. The christening records for Anna Magdalena Wampfler, Hans Peter Wampfler, Jr., and Hans Michael Wampfler all indicated the family left for America May 3, 1741. Also in the record books of Zollingen (the home of Anna Veronica Lung, the wife of Hans Peter Wampfler, Sr., the following words were written on 12 Apr 1755: "Peter Wampfler married Veronica Lung, the heiress of Jacob Lung, who was a citizen of Zollingen. They have for about 15 years been moved to the new land." This was probably written since she was an heiress to her mother who was the last of her parents to die in 1754. Also on the list of arriving passengers was a Johannes Mettauer (age listed as 25) who was the son of Samuel Mettauer and Anna Magdalena Wampfler and a nephew to Hans Peter Wampfler, Sr. Another book by the same author, "Wampler Family History, 1701-1980," pp. 1-4, adds additional insight into the voyage to America. In the late 1600's and concurrent with the internal conflicts within continental Europe, there was a visit by William Penn of Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the German States of the Rheinland. He assured these very productive farmers, whose farming efforts were now largely in vain because of political and religious wars, that if they were to come to his Province of Pennsylvania, they would be free to worship according to their own beliefs and they would have the civil liberties they desired. By 1683 there began a steady influx of German immigrants. By 1729 the new German immigrants were required by law to take an oath of allegiance to the British Crown and also an oath of abjuration and fidelity to the laws of Pennsylvania Province. The actual voyage itself began when families left their German homeland by boarding a boat on the Rhine River around the first of May and journeyed down the Rhine through many custom inspeciton stations. The ships were often detained at each station and each family had to spend money there for essential items. This trip from their homeland to where the ship departed in Holland usually took about 4-6 weeks. There was usually also another wait in Holland of 4-6 weeks before the English ships sailed. After embarking in Holland, the ship usually had a 1-2 week layover in England awaiting proper winds for the 8-12 week transatlantic voyage. In the case of the ship Lydia, James Allen was shipmaster and they sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, with an english port stop in Deal. The ships were crowded with not enough food and water. Disease was prevalent and many passengers died. Once the ships arrived n Philadelphia, health officers from the city inspected the ships for persons with infectious diseases and if such persons were identified, the ship was ordered to be removed one mile from the city. The Wampfler family swore allegiance to the British Crown upon arrival on Sep. 29, 1741. These foreigners had faith that their new homeland would allow them to farm, prosper, and worship God in peace. 6. FHL 929.273 W181sh book "Wamplers in America," by Genevieve M. Shouse, p. 2, mentions both Michael and Peter Wampler as bondsmen to their mother who was adminstratrix of their father's estate upon his death: "Hans Peter Wampler lived less than 8 years after arriving in America and died intestate in 1749 at Lebanon, Lancaster Co., PA. His widow, Veronica, survived him and made application to be the administratrix of his estate on 24 Apr 1749. Michael Wampler and Peter Wampler, planters, were her bondsmen. The amount of the bond was 300 British pounds. Veronica was granted her request and under the condition of this obligation was required to make an inventory of the personal estate of her husband. An inventory and appraisement... was made 30 Apr 1749." For further information and a transcription of the inventory, See notes for Hans Peter Wampfler, Sr. 7. FHL 929.273 W181sh book "Wamplers in America," by Genevieve M. Shouse, pp. 5-6: "In the year 1757 there was much unrest and fear in Lebanon Township. The Shawnee and Delaware Indians were murdering and abducting many person ther. A letter written on 11 Aug 1757 from Hanover, Lancaster Co., PA, to the Governor of Pennsylvania read in part: '...We hear from Lebanon Township, Lancaster County, that on last Friday, four children were carried off by the Indians...'" Mrs. Shouse then quotes the Oct. 13, 1757 Pennsylvania Gazette article already quoted below; however, she seems unaware of the 1765 subsequent article which names two Wampler Children. She then continues: "The names of the children who were abducted are unknown. Some researchers of this line believe that two of the children were Eva and Christina. No proof has been found to substantiate this." 8. Found on Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":2696817"; I wrote on 10 Feb 2004 to the Lancaster, PA county library for confirmation of these quotes and have since received newspaper copies of both entries: A. "The Pennsylvania Gazette (October 13, 1757) - By a letter from Hanover Township, in Lancaster County, dated the First Instant, we learn, that the children mentioned in our last to be carried off from Lebanon township, belonged to one Peter Wampler; that there were five of them, and taken away while their father and Mother were gone to the Meadow for a Load of Hay; and that the Indians likewise took from the House what they thought most valuable, and destroyed what they could not carry away, to a considerable Value. In the same Letter it is said, that the Frontiers are almost without Inhabitants; and that that Day, and the Day before, several Creatures were killed by the Enemy in Hanover Township and that on the Thursday before four People were killed in Berks County, and four made Prisoners, near the North Kill, by a party of Indians, supposed to be about Fifty." B. The Pennsylvania Gazette (January 17, 1765) - List of Captives taken by the Indians, and delivered to Colonel Bouquet, by the Mingoes, Delawares, Shawanese, Wyondots and Mohickons, at Tuscarawas and Muskingam, in November, 1764. Pennsylvanians - Females and children = "..Christina Wampler..Christopher Wampler.." 9. FHL 929.273 W181sh book "Wamplers in America," by Genevieve M. Shouse, pp. 5-6: "On 1 Nov 1749, Johan Peter Wampler and his wife Maria Barbara were sponsors at the baptism of John. Jacob Brenneisen, son of Jacob and Veronica Brenneisen. [Veronica is Peter's sister; I am unsure why Peter's wife is noted as Maria Barbara whereas her correct name is Anna Barbara - perhaps since the first name is religiously ceremonial in their culture, then Maria and Anna may be somewhat interchangeable. ] The baptismal ceremony was at the Hill Lutheran Church. Hans, Johan, and Johannes are all forms of the name John and this record was the last record located which indicated that Peter had a double given name. On 3 Mar 1751, Peter Wampler was sponsor at the baptism of Valentine Heylmann and wife, at the Hill Lutheran Church..." Mrs. Shouse mentions Peter's presence in Lebanon Twp., Lancaster Co., PA in the year 1757 when the Indians carried off some of his children into captivity [see quote above]. She then continues: "Peter Wampler's name appeared on a tax list in Lebanon Twp. in 1759 and no further record has been found for him and his family in Lancaster Co., PA. There is a record of a Peter Wampler paying taxes in Reading Township, Adams County, PA in 1762, and a Peter Wampler was granted Warrant No. 2577 for 200 acres of land in Chester County, PA on 7 Aug 1765. This compiler has not investigated records of Adams and Chester Counties. The next record found for Peter Wampelr was in 1770 when he bought land in Frederick County, Maryland." 10. Wampfler is the proper surname for those Wamplers born in Alsace. It was anglicized to Wampler upon immigrating to America in 1741. 11. Book, "Wampler Family History 1701-1980," by Fred B. Wampler, 1980, p. 91, has photocopies of three signatures of Hans Peter Wampfler, Jr. The first signature was written when he started his voyage to America and signed the ship's passenger list at age 18 in 1741. The second was in conjunction with his father's probate inventory on 24 Apr 1749. The third was when he signed his will in Frederick Co., MD,on 8 Jun 1792. 12. The book, FHL 929.273 w181wf, "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, Chevy Chase, MD, 1999, pp. 28-29: A. "After his marriage, Peter Wampler continued to live in Lebanon (then Lancaster) County until at least 1759... By 1762 Peter Wampler was paying taxes in Reading Twp., Adams (then York) County PA, and on 7 Aug 1765 he was granted Warrant No. 2577 for 200 acres of land in Reading Township; the land was surveyed on 10 Dec 1765. In 1770 Peter Wampler purchased land in Frederick Co., Maryland, and he lived there until his death in 1792. His name also appears in land records of 1775, 1787, and 1792-94. The tracts which he bought in the 1770s were named 'Park Hall (or Pork Hill)' and 'Mattingsly.' It is known that these tracts are situated in the western part of present-day Carroll County, in the vicinity of New Windsor. A deed executed on 5 June 1792, shortly before his death, gives his occupation as 'Weaver.' Thus he followed the tradition of his European ancestors who had practiced the trade of weaving. A deed executed in 1793 (after his death) pertains to a 126-acre tract called "The Resurvey of Hunting Lot' which he had bought from Philip Fishburn and which according to his will, was to belong to his wife during her widowhood. In the 1790 census, Peter Wampler is listed as a head of family in Frederick County, MD, with two males of 16 years and upward, one male under 16 years, and three females comprising his household. Peter wrote his will on 8 Jun 1792, naming Martin Gerber/Garber Sr. as his executor, with Joshua Howard, Abraham Crumbacker and Philip Engler as witnesses. The will was probated on 30 Jun 1792... On 9 Feb 1796 the executor, Martin Gerber/Garber submitted his account to the Orphan's Court. He reported assets of 1561 pounds, 11 shillings, 1 penny, payments on behalf of the estate totaling 331.18.9, leaving a balance due the heirs of 1229.12.4. Among the payments were 270 pounds paid to Philip Fishburn (evidently to complete the purchase of a tract of land), various sums related to building a house for the widow as had been stipulated in Peter's will (including 9 shillings 9 pence paid to Jno. Grabell 'for whiskey for workmen'), and a legacy of 20 pounds which the testator left to Martin Garber 'for his trouble in settling the estate.' Abraham Hartman, one of Peter Wampler's sons-in-law, is mentioned as a workman on the widow's house. At the end of the executor's account is a statement: 'Then came Martin Garver, who being a Dunker, solemnly affirmed and declared that the aforegoing Acct is just and true as it stands stated...' Earlier, when the will was presented for probate, a similar statement was made: 'Then Abraham Crumbacker and Philip Engler, two of the subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing... will... solemnly affirmed and declared that they did see the Testator therein named Sign and Seal this will...' One can conclude that these two witnesses, as well as the executor, were of the Dunkard faith. Like the Quakers, the Dunkers refused to take oaths because of religious scruples; instead, they 'solemnly affirmed and declared' any statements which they were required to make in legal proceedings. According to Guy Edgar Wampler Jr., a 4th-great grandson of Hans Peter Wampler, Hans Peter became affiliated with the Dunkers in the 1760s... One matter remained to be settled after the death of Barbara Wampler in 1800. Peter Wampler had devised to his wife during her widowhood all the land that he had bought of Philemon Fishburn, and after her marriage or death this land was to be sold by his executor. The executor, Martin Garber, however, died before this duty could be discharged. Thus the matter fell into the domain of the Chancery Court. Particulars of the case are given in records of this court. David Wampler, one of Peter's sons, acted as plaintiff and the other heirs were named as defendants. The plaintiff's solicitor recited the pertinent facts: Peter Wampler on 8 June 1792, being seized of divers Real Estate, duly made his last will and testament, and he devised that the real estate should be sold by his executor, and he constituted Martin Garber his executor; the said executor died without discharging the trust reposed in him; Letters of Administration De Bonis Non were granted to the plaintiff, David Wampler. The Testator left the following children and heirs: David Wampler, Jacob, John, Daniel and Joseph Wampler; Barbara wife of John Warts; Eve wife of Henry Kinzig (Kinsey); Phebe wife of Jacob Engler; Christiana wife of Peter Graybill; Ane wife of Abraham Hartman; and Jacob Snider. On 4 Sep 1802 the court appointed David Wampler as trustee to sell the land; sureties were named. On 26 Mar 1803, the trustee, David Wampler, reported that the tract of land, known as 'The Resurvey of Hunting Lott,' had been sold to John Fox for 470 pounds 5 shillings. The final record shows that court costs were paid, and then each of the heirs (named above) received 1/11 of the balance, or 39 pounds 13 shillings 11-1/2 pence each. Before the trustee sold this property, he placed an advertisement in a newspaper of Frederick, MD: 'Chancery sale of tract, Resurvey of Hunting Lot, 1 mile from David Roop's Mill, near mouth of Beaver Dam creek, possessed by Peter Wampler, Frederick County, deceased - David Wampler, trustee.' From the information given in this notice one can determine that the property was located in present -day Johnsville District, Frederick County. Beaver Dam Creek flows northward through Johnsville District and runs into Little Pipe Creek. A German Baptist, or Dunkard, church was situated northeast of Johnsville, close to Beaver Dam Creek, and it is known that the Martin Garber family who bought land in this area in 1771 was active in the German Baptist community." B. Referenced sources: a. Annette Kunselman Burgert, "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America," Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1992. b. "Early Lutheran Baptisms and marriages in Southeastern PA: the Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever from 1730-1779," Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1988. c. Peter Wampler's will written 8 Jun 1792, probated 30 Jun 1792, Will Book GM2, pp. 444-6, Frederick Co., MD. d. Barbara Wampler's will written 16 May 1796, probated 28 Jun 1800, Will Book GM3, p. 392, Frederick Co., MD. e. "Assessed Inhabitants of York County, PA, for the Year 1762, Book II (Townships Which later Formed Adams Co.)," Special Publication #6, South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, York, 1979. f. Historical Society of York County, PA: Original land records, state of Pennsylvania. Warrant no. 2577, 200 acres in Radnor (sic: Reading) Township, York County, dated 10 Dec 1765. Some genealogical researchers have erroneously reported that this land lay in Chester Co., PA. g. Land records, Frederick Co., MD, pertaining to Peter Wampler: N, p. 505 (1770); BD2, p. 97 (1775); WR7, p. 384 (1787); WR11,p. 11 (deed made 5 Jun 1792, recorded 13 Aug 1792); Wr11, p. 662 (agreement recorded 12 Jul 1793); WR12, p. 245 (deed made 22 Nov 1793, recorded 10 Mar 1794). h. Chancery Court, Vol. B54, pp. 318-325, David Wampler vs. the Heirs of Peter Wampler; proceedings dated 4 Sep 1802 to 5 Oct 1803, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD. i. F. Edward Wright, "Western Maryland Newspaper Abstracts (Vol. 2), 1799-1805," Family Line Publ., Silver Spring, MD; 1986, item 573, "Frederick-Town Herald," 19 Mar 1803. j. D.J. Lake, C.E., "Atlas of Frederick County, Maryland," Philadelphia, 1873. k. C. E. SChildknecht, Editor, "Monocacy and Catoctin, Vol. 1," Shippensburg, PA, 1985. l. "Our Grable History," (16 pages), by Joseph H. Piatt, Oakmont, PA, Jun 1991. Includes data on Peter Grabill/Grable/Graybill and family, and on Martin Garber, Sr. and family. m. "Heads of Families at the First Census of the US Taken in the Year 1790; Maryland." Govt. Printing Office Washingiton, DC., 1907. 13. The book "A Wampler Family Record - John Wampler and Magdalena Garber of Maryland and Virginia," FHL film 2055493 item 10, p. 17: "Hans Peter Wampler, Jr... purchased 200 acres of land in 1770 and was a farmer at Linwood, MD. He purchased in additional 45 acres in 1775. The land was known as the Royer Homestead. It lay next to the Meadow Branch Church and they gave a part of the land for the Meadow Branch cemetery." 14. 6. FHL film 599224 it. 2 "Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church, near Cleona and Annville in North Annville Township, Lebanon Co., PA. Parish Registers 1743-1943," p. 21: "Jacob Brenneissen and wife Veronica (Renounced Evangelical truth and the Lutheran church and became Dunkers) -A son Joh. Michael b. 6 Oct 1747, bapt. 8 Nov 1749, sponsors: Joh. Michael Wamfler and wife. -A son Joh. Jacob, b. 28 Sep 1749, bapt. 1 Nov 1749, sponsors: Johan Peter Wampfler and his wife Maria Barbara. -A daughter Anna Elisabetha, b. 1750, bapt. 28 Oct 1750, sponsors: Michael Wampfler and his wife. 15. FHL book 974.8 B4pgp "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America," by Annette Kunselman Burgert (Camden, ME; Picton Press), pp. 2-3, 520-24: A brief description of the area from which the Wamplers came from in the Northern Alsace: "In the eighteenth century, the northwestern section belonged to the Counts of Nassau and was known as the Grafschaft of Nassau-Saarwerden. Several of the families mentioned in the Reformed parish records at Diedendorf actually lived in the neighboring territories of Lixheim and Vinstingen, which are today located in the neighboring Departement of Moselle. Members of these families emigrated to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century and are included in this study, although the villages are not located in Bas-Rhin today. This area is approximately forty miles northwest of the city of Strasbourg. As early as 1559, the Count of Nassau granted refuge in Nassau-Saarwerden to Huguenots who were expelled from French territory for religious reasons. The Grafschaft of Nassau-Saarwerden was occupied by France and Lorraine from 1649-1670 and during this period the Lutheran religion was forbidden and the Catholic church was the official church. After a brief interval, Louis XIV invaded in 1676. In 1698 the county was returned to the jurisdiction of the Counts of Nassau, and the Lutheran religion was once more the official religion... Wampfler, Hans Peter age 40 (Keskastel=67260 Sarre-Union; Altwiller=67260 Sarre-Union) Wampfler, Hans Peter age 18 Wampfler, Michael age 16 [Immigrated on the ship] "Lydia," 1741; [Source:] S-H, I: 300, 301, 302 [Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William John Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers. 3 vols. (Norristown, 1934)]. European Records Keskastel Lutheran KB [Kirchebook (Church book)]: Peter Wampffler, linenweaver at Hinsingen, and wife Veronica had: 1. Anna Magdalena bp. 7 June 1720; Sp.: Samuel Mettauer, linenweaver at Kastel; A. Magdalena, wife of Peter S__tz of Newhausel; Anna Magdalena ?___. (Record extracted 3 May 1741) 2. Hans Peter bp. 4 Aug. 1722; Sp.: Hans Peter Klein, Harskirchen; Johannes Wampffler; Anna Elisa, wife of Jacob Lang of ?Zollingen; Maria Barbara, ?daughter of Michel Buttner (Ext. 3 May 1741). 3. Michael b. ca. 1724 Harskirchen Lutheran KB: 4. Anna Fronica b. 5 Nov. 1726, bp. 7 Nov. 1726 at Altweyler 5. Anna Barbara bp. 24 July 1729 at Altweyler [Altwiller] 6. Anna Elisabetha bp. 3 Dec. 1732 at Altweyler 7. Anna Catharina bp. __ ___ 1734 8. possible Georg, bp. not located American Records Rev. John Casper Stoever's Records (F. J. F. Schantz, trans. Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever, Baptismal and Marriage, 1730-1799. {Harrisburg, 1896; reprinted Baltimore 1982}. This translation contains errors and omissions.): -John Peter Wampler m. 26 Sept. 1743 Anna Barbara Brenneiss(en), Swatara. They had children: 1. Joh. Michael b. 6 Oct. 1747, bp. 8 Nov. 1747; Sp.: Joh. Michael Wampfler and wife 2. Joh. Jacob b. 28 Sept. 1749, bp. 1 Nov. 1749; Sp.: Johan Peter Wampfler and wife Maria Barbara 3. Anna Elisabetha bp. 28 Oct. 1750; Sp.: Michael Wampfler and wife.." CHRISTENING: 1. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 83 has a photocopy and translation of the christening church record from Keskastel as follows: "August 4, 1722 Hans Peter Wampfler weaver in Hinsingen and Veronica his wife a son christened named Hanss Peter. Witnesses: Hanss Peter Klein from Keskastel, Johannes Wampfler [uncle], Anna Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Lung of Zollingen [probable grandmother], Maria Barbara, Michael Buttner's daughter. Removed 3 May 1741." Note Hinsingen did not have a church and the family used the one at Keskastel until a church was started at nearer Altweiler by about 1726. MARRIAGE: 1. Http://www.pa-roots.com/~lancaster/church/stoever/stoevermarriage1.html: "Marriage Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever of Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania," compiled by Mildred Smith (msmith@cybermania.net); these following individuals are all relatives and the marriage of this person is noted with an asterisk: 1737 09 18 Brenneis, Margaretha (Cocalico) - Uhrich, Johannes 1749 01 17 Brenneisen, Rudolph - Schaeffer, Anna Barbara (Cocalico) 1747 01 13 Brenneiser, Jacob (Lebanon) - Wampsler, Anna Veronica (Lebanon) *1743 09 26 Brenneiss, Anna Barbara (Swatara) - Wampler, John Peter 1751 01 21 Brennersen, John - Minier, Christina(Bethel) *1743 09 26 Wampler, John Peter - Brenneiss, Anna Barbara (Swatara) 1746 01 07 Wampsler, Anna Magdalena (Lebanon) - Boger, Mattheis (Lebanon) 1747 01 13 Wampsler, Anna Veronica (Lebanon) - Brenneiser, Jacob (Lebanon) 2. Hans Peter Wampler, in his will probated 30 Jun 1792 in Frederick Co., MD, states: "I give unto my beloved wife Barbara Wampler all the land I bought of Philemon Fishburn during her widowhood..." and that part of his inheritance was to go to Jacob Snither equally with his other children and of whom Barbara in her later will notes as her son. Assuming, as many report but without documentation, that Hans Peter's first wife Anna Barbara Brenneisen died in 1782 in Frederick Co., then the above Barbara would be a later marriage. Some believe, as does Roy Wampler cited elsewhere in these notes, that there was only one marriage and Barbara was married before to Snither. I do not concur. The marriage is well documented in 1743 with Anna Barbara 'Brenneiss[en]' and it appears unlikely she would have previously been married to a ___ Snither prior to that time since so many of her Brenneisen siblings were recorded in the same Hill Lutheran Church and there are no Snithers reported. Similoarly, several entries on Rootsweb.com Worldconnect are quite sketchy indicating that the second Barbara (Snither) was actually a first marriage to Hans Peter; however, this makes no sense since these databases all indicate Barbara Brenneisen died in 1782 - yet it is apparent there was a Barbara in 1792 that had been widowed before marrying Hans Peter. Additionally, in the same will, he names all of his children by name. Later he says that upon his wife's death or remarriage, any money remaining to be divided "equally between all my children and Jacob Snither..." Jacob apparently was like a son and most likely a son of the second Barbara's first marriage to a Snither/Sneither. Some Worldconnect sites as of Feb 2004 note the second Barbara's maiden name as Snither/Sneither which makes no sense since how could she have a son with the same last name. I concur with the book, "Wamplers in America," by G. M. Shouse - 929.273, W181 -sh, pg. 6, where she indicates: "Peter may have married a second time to a widow whose name was Barbara Sneither. A Barbara Wampler wrote her will in Frederick County, MD on 16 May 1796, directing that all of her estate, except her wearing apparel, be sold at public sale and that the money be equally divided between her son Jacob Sneither and Joseph Wampler." When one considers that by the mid-1760s Hans Peter was most likely a Dunker, then it would not be a surprise that there were no records of the first Barbara's death or Hans Peter's second marriage since the Dunkards purposefully and traditionally did not keep church vital records to maintain their professed isolation and separateness. 3. FHL 929.273 W181sh book "Wamplers in America," by Genevieve M. Shouse, pp. 365-6, gives some of the history of the "The Hill Church (Berg Kirche)": "The Hill Church is located four miles northwest of Lebanon, Pennsylvania in North Annville Township. It was built in 1733 and was used jointly by the Lutheran and Reformed congregations. Ref. John Casper Stoever formed the congregation in 1733. Rev. Stoever called it 'the church on the Quittapahilla' because he lived and had a mill on that stream. The Hill Church was the first organization for religious services in what is now Lebanon County and was the first to erect church buildings. According to Egle's history of Lebanon County, '...In 1754, and thereafter, when the Indians made frequent incursions, people often took their guns with them to defend themselves against savages. During divine service men with loaded muskets were placed at the door as sentinels.' The present church, built in 1837, is the third church in the same location. An ancient grave yard adjoins the church and many old markers are long gone. [The book has a picture rendering of the old two story Hill Church.]" 4. FHL book 974.8 B4 pgp, Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 16, 1983, "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America," vol. I: The Northern Kraichgau, by Annette Kunselman Burgert, pp. 74-75: "Pennsylvania records: Stoevers's Record: m. 26 Sept. 1743 John Peter Wampler and Anna Barbara Brenneiss, Swatara." DEATH: 1. FHL 929.273 W181sh book "Wamplers in America," by Genevieve M. Shouse, pp. 5-6: "Hans Peter Wampler, Jr., ...died iin June 1792 in Frederick County, Maryland. His will was written there on 8 Jun 1792 and was presented for probate on 30 June 1792... The places of their burial [he and his wife] have not been located." 2. Transcript of Peter Wampler's (1792) will from website http://wew.bmb.uga.edu/wf-page/eve-update/peter-will.htm by John E. Wampler from photocopy. Will, signed 8 June, 1792, probated 30 June, 1792; Source: Liber G. M. No. 2, Folio 444, Frederick County, Maryland; Executor: Martin Garber, Senior. Transcript: "I Peter Wampler of Frederick Co. and the state of Maryland being of sound disposing mind, memory and understanding do make this my last will and testament in manner & form following this. In the first place I give unto my beloved wife Barbara Wampler all the land I bought of Philemon Fishburn during her widowhood, I also give unto my aforesaid wife fifty pounds current money, to be paid in payments of twelve pounds and ten shillings per year, her choice of two feather beds and furniture, two cows, one hiefer, one mare, one servant girl named Catharine Halberster, one copper kettel, one dutch oven, two iron pots, six pewter plates, one dozen pewter spoons, all the wool, flax lining, meal and fifteen bushel of wheat one spinning wheel, one large washing tub, two buckets and one woman's saddle, if she stands to this my will - I give and bequeath unto my beloved son David Wampler five shillings current money - I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Jacob Wampler thirty two pounds four shillings current money, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son John Wampler forty one pounds current money, I give undo my beloved son Daniel Wampler seventy one pounds current money - I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Joseph Wampler seventy one pounds current money - I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Barbara Wards children forty six pounds current money to paid to them after the death of theri [sic] mother and the interst arising on the aforesaid money to be paid annually unto my afresaid daughter by my executor during her natural life - I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Eve Kincey thirty five pounds current money - I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Christania Gabriel [Graybill] twenty six pounds current money I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Philiptenia Engler fifty six pounds current money - I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Ann Hartman [or Hortman] thirty six pounds current money It is also my will and desire that all my estate that is not devised unto my beloved wife shall be sold as soon as convenient after the first day of March next and the moneys arising (after the payment of my just debts and legacies) to be equally divided between all my children share and share alike except my daughter Barbara's part and her part to go to her children to be kept and paid by the Executor, and the same manner as the legacy which is left to the aforesaid children It is further my will and desire that the land devised to my beloved wife after her marriage or death to be sold by my executor and the moneys arrising to equally between all my children and Jacob Snither share and share alike It is my will and desire that my beloved wife shall live on the plantation where I now live, until the first day of March next and keep my estate together. Provided she makes no willful waste or abuse of the said estate It is my will and desire that my executor shall build an addition to the dwelling house (sixteen feet square) on the land devised to my beloved wife and pay for the same out of my estate, I give and bequeath unto my beloved friend Martin Gerber Sen. twenty pounds current money for his trouble in sellling my estate & lastly I appoint my beloved friend Martin Gerber Sen. my executor of this my last will and testament. I hereby authorize him to makeover and convey to any person or persons that shall purchase any part or parcell of my estate the same in as ample and full a manner as if it was done by myself - Published pronounced and declared by Peter Wampler this 8th day of June 1792 to be his last will and testament in the presence of the subscribers who saw each other sign it as witnesses - Joshua Howard Abraham Crumbacker, Philip Engler} Peter Wampler" 3. Family Search's "Maryland, Register of Wills Books, 1629-1999" accessed 7 Oct 2015 Will of Peter Wampler, Frederick, Maryland, written 8 June 1792, proved 30 June 1792 To wife Barbara Wampler, all lands purchased from Philemon Fishburn; 50 pounds; two feather beds & furniture; two cows, one heifer; one mare, one servant girl, Catherine Halberster; one copper kettle; one dutch oven; two iron potts; six pewter plates; one doz. pewter spoons; all the wool, flax linning (linen), meat and fifteen bushels of wheat; one spinning wheel; one large washing tub; two buckets and one woman's saddle; to son David Wampler, two shillings; to son Jacob Wampler, 32 pounds, four shillings; to son John Wampler, 41 pounds; to son Daniel Wampler, one pound; to son Joseph Wampler, 71 pounds; to daughter Barbara ?Warts, the interest on 46 pounds; the 46 pounds to go to her children after her death; to daughter Eve Kincey [Kinsey, Kinzey, Kintzi], 35 pounds; to daughter Christania Gabriel [Christina Grabil, Graybill], 26 pounds; to daughter Philiptenia Engler, 56 pounds; to daughter Ann Hortman [Hartman], 36 pounds; to friend Martin Gerber [Garber] Senr, 20 pounds and executorship; remainder of estate to be sold after next March 1st; money arising from sale, after payment of debts and legacies to be divided between the children except Barbara and her childrens' parts to be kept and paid by the executor; land devised to wife to be sold after her death and money from the sale to be divided between the children and Jacob Snither [Snider]; wife shall live on the plantation until next March 1st and maintain the estate; executor to build an addition to the house, 16 feet square, on the land devised to wife; Witnesses Joshua Howard, Abraham Grumbacker, Philip Engler; Signed Peter Wambler. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Books, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s" and "Wampler Family History 1701-1980," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D. 2. Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" 22 Feb 2003. 3. The book, FHL 929.273 w181wf, "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, Chevy Chase, MD, 1999. 4. FHL film 1638364 it. 16 has a periodical newsletter published by Barbara S. Wampler entitled "Wampler Ancestors and Descendants in America." The newsletter only ran for a couple of years and was more focused on the Virginia and more modern Wamplers than what are in my database. What little it had was topical and better covered by other sources. | Wampfler, Hans Peter (I2000)
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| 4823 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following obituary appears to be the first wife of Oscar Norman: "Mrs. Oscar Norman. Fairview - Services for Mrs. Oscar Norman were held yesterday, Bishop Peter Nielson presided. Music was by the combined ward choirs under direction of H. P. Hansen. Prayers were by Daniel Rasmusson and C.V. Howell. Speakers were Bishop Henry W. Jones, Mrs. Wilford Rasmusson, Darius Sanders, William Olsen and Bishop Nielson. Interment was in Fairview cemetery where R.H. Spencer dediecated the grave." Deseret News, Wed., 4 May 1932, p. 7. 2. Censuses: 1880 US: Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, NA T9-1337, FHL 1255337, p. 358C: Sol Norman, marr. 44, IN IN IN, farm laborer. R.A., wife, 40, Swe Swe Swe, millener. Lidia M.I. Husted, sdau., s, 18, Swe Swe Swe, at home. Oscar, son, 11, UT IN Swe. Albert, son, 9, UT IN Swe. Emelia, dau., 5, UT IN Swe. Gertrude, dau., 3, UT IN Swe. Selma, dau., 7mo., UT IN Swe. Hulda, dau., 7 mo., UT IN Swe. BIRTH: 1. Per obituary. Online Ordinance Index for endowment gives 26 Sep 1868 in Salt Lake City. MARRIAGE: 1. Elvira Greco: per obituary. DEATH: 1. Per obituary. BURIAL: 1. Per obituary. OBITUARY: 1. "Provo - Oscar E. Norman, 77, retired barber, died Tuesday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. O.F. Matson, 451, W. 2nd South, following a lingering illness. He was born Sept. 26, 1868, in Salt Lake City, a son of Saul and Amanda Ereka Turnquist Norman. He married Elvira Greco on March 8, 1889, at Nephi, and they resided at Mt. Pleasant and Fairview, where Mr. Norman followed barbering. Mrs. Norman died April 27, 1932. Mr. Norman came to Provo three months ago and resided at the Matson home until the time of his death. He is survived by a son, S.D. Norman of Salt Lake City; four daughters, Mrs. O.F. (theo) Matson, Mrs. J. Vord (Josie) Spencer and Mrs. Merlin (Nelda) Rasmussen of Provo, and Mrs. J.L. (Minta) Rollins of Orem; 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. William Waterfall and Mrs. Perry Gessel of Salt Lake City. Three grandchildren are in the armed forces. The body will be taken to Fairview for funeral services and burial. Services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the South LDS ward chapel, with interment in the Fairview cemetery." Salt Lake Tribune, Fri., 14 Sep 1945, p. 22. 2. "Provo - Oscar E. Norman, 77, retired barber, died Tuesday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. O.F. Matson, 451, W. 2nd South, following a lingering illness. He was born Sept. 26, 1868, in Salt Lake City, a son of Saul and Amanda Ereka Turnquist Norman. He married Elvira Greco on March 8, 1889, at Nephi, and they resided at Mt. Pleasant and Fairview, where Mr. Norman followed barbering. Mrs. Norman died April 27, 1932. Mr. Norman came to Provo three months ago and resided at the Matson home until the time of his death. He is survived by a son, S.D. Norman of Salt Lake City; four daughters, Mrs. O.F. (theo) Matson, Mrs. J. Vord (Josie) Spencer and Mrs. Merlin (Nelda) Rasmussen of Provo, and Mrs. J.L. (Minta) Rollins of Orem; 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. William Waterfall and Mrs. Perry Gessel of Salt Lake City. Three grandchildren are in the armed forces. The body will be taken to Fairview for funeral services and burial. Services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the South LDS ward chapel, with interment in the Fairview cemetery." Deseret News, Fri., 14 Sep 1945, pg. 14. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per Ancestral File. | Norman, Oscar Enos or Enoch (I516)
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| 4824 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt concerning Mary Levit is found in the biographical sketch for John White in "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see his notes for full transcript): "JOHN WHITE Origin: Messing, Essex Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150] First Residence: Cambridge Removes: Hartford 1635, Hadley 1659, Hartford by 1671 Church Membership: Admission to a Massachusetts Bay church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship. He presumably became a member of the church at Cambridge, and retained membership in that church when it moved to Hartford. He would then have become a member of Hadley church when that was formed, and in 1671 was dismissed from Hadley church to the Second Church at Hartford, of which he became ruling elder [Goodwin Anc 2:404-05, citing Second Church records]... Birth: About 1597, son of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White of Messing, Essex [NEHGR 55:22-31]. Death: Hartford 23 January 1683/4 (from inventory). Marriage: Messing, Essex, 26 December 1622, Mary (Lev)it [NEHGR 55:29]; she apparently predeceased her husband [KP: not mentioned in husband's will]... Comments: John White may have resided briefly in Middletown [Goodwin Anc 2:402-03]... Bibliographic Note: In 1901 "A Descendant" published an excellent article on the White family in England, and the connections to other New England immigrants [NEHGR 55:22-31]. In 1915 Frank Farnsworth Starr prepared the best account in print of the immigrant and his children [Goodwin Anc 2:395-419]." 2. From the Robert1 White's will dated May 27, 1617 (bur. Jun. 17, 1617 at Messing, Essex, England), we see the following relations mentioned: A. John CHRISTMAS (Sr.) and William LEVETT were witnesses. A John Christmas marries Robert's daughter Bridget in 1618 and William's daughter Mary marries John White in 1622. B. Ralph BETT ("my kinsman and servant") received a legacy. He is Robert's brother-in-law who married Robert's wife Bridget's sister Mary Allgar in 1582. 3. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... According to his will, hereinafter given, he left surviving a wife Bridget; three sons - Daniel, Nathaniel and John who was his youngest Child; three married daughters - Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth; and two unmarried daughters-Bridget and Anna. As he makes his son Daniel joint executor with his wife, it may be inferred he was his eldest son, and possibly by a former wife. His wife Bridget was the mother of his other children, of whom Sarah, wife of James Bowtell of Little Sailinge in Essex, was the first born... The home lots of Joseph Loomis and John Porter in Windsor were adjacent, and these two sisters, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, began in 1639 new homes side by side, in which they lived the rest of their days. Three years before, in 1636, their brother John White, and their sister Elizabeth (White) Goodwin, had settled in Hartford... It is very plausibly supposed that the John White who came over in the "Lion" in 1632 and settled first in Newtown, now Cambridge, in Massachusetts, and then came with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his church to Hartford in 1636, was the son of Robert White of Messing. The record of his baptism has not been found. He was not of age in 1617, when his father made his will, in which it was provided that if should marry without the approbation and consent of his mother, and of Joseph Loomis of Braintree and William Goodwin of Bocking, his legacy of 200 pounds should be reduced to 100 pounds. In the list of thirty-three passengers of the "Lion," given in Drake's Founders of New England, page 12, his name follows next after the name of William Goodwin. [Footnote included after the work "Lion": "We know the name of the vessel from Gov. Winthrop's Hist. N.E., vol. I, p. 107."] His wife's name was Mary, as appears from an unexecuted lease in the handwriting of his son Nathaniel White (now in the possession of one of his descendants), dated March 28, 1666, the lessors being John White and Mary his wife, the lessee their son Nathaniel; the premises, his house and garden, etc., in Hartford, reserving the use of two rooms therein for the term of the lives of said John and Mary, and of the longest liver, whether said John or said Mary. The Parish Register of Messing gives the marriage, December 26, 1622, of John White and Mary (Lev)it. A facsimile of a tracing made by Mr. William Brigg of this entry is here given. [A reproduction is included in the article; Mary's last name seems a bit faded and an L then space then it can be made out.] At the request of Mr. Frank F. Starr, of Middletown, Mr. William Brigg, editor of the Herts Genealogist and Antiquary, very kindly made a careful examination of this entry. His great experience and skill in deciphering old records make his suggestions and conclusions on difficult words in such records of great value. He writes to Mr. Starr as follows: "In reference to this entry: all I need say is that it is a most difficult one to read so far as the surname of the wife is concerned. In the tracing you will notice faint lines where the initial letter of the name ought to appear. These lines were only visible under a very strong magnifying glass, and the letters following are totally illegible until we come to the last two, viz. 'it,' which are clear enough. It struck me at once that the initial letter was 'L,' and I immediately searched the portions of the register in the same handwriting for a capital L, but failed to find one. Then I searched through the baptisms to see if there was any name ending in 'it,' during the period in which it might be supposed she was born, and again I failed to find anything satisfactory. Later on in the register, however, in the years 1633 and 1635 respectively, I came across the baptism of two children of Isaac Levit and Mary his wife, and I have very little hesitation in suggesting that the name of John White's wife was Levit. On my return home I looked again at the will of Robert White, printed in Mr. Goodwin's book, and found that a certain William Levett was one of the witnesses. I think you will agree with me that my suggestion is a very probable one." Mr. Brigg found among the Filed Wills, Archdeaconry of Colchester, the will of William Levett, yeoman of Messing, dated 9th October, 1626, proved 15th December, 1626, at Fering. He left an estate of about five hundred pounds. Mentions wife Margaret, sons Isaac, Richard and John. Mr. Brigg also found the nuncupative will of his widow Margaret, dated February 16 [bad print in the book and it may be 15], 1633, proved 9 March 1633. Mentions sons Isaac, John and Richard, also a son William not mentioned in her husband's will. No daughter is mentioned in either will. William Levett's will is valuable because the name of one of the witnesses is "John Whit." The following is a facsimile of a tracing made by Mr. Brigg of this signature, and under it is a facsimile of the signature of Elder John White of Hartford, to the recommendation of the Council in 1677, of which he was a member, called to heal the difficulty which had long troubled the ancient church in Windsor. [Both facsimiles as described are included; the second one includes an "e" at the end of it.] The variation in the spelling of these names is not considered important. Autograph signatures of the same person are often found where the spelling is not precisely the same, especially when the difference consists of the final "e." Persons familiar with the handwriting of those times have examined these facsimiles and considering that one signature was written in 1626 and the other fifty-one years afterwards, when the writer was about 76 years old, have expressed the opinion that they are sufficiently alike to have been written by the same hand. Of Elder John White's children, Mary and Nathaniel were born in England, but only the baptism, July 16, 1626, of Mary has been found. The rest of his children named in his will were born here... It deserves to be mentioned that family genealogies have been printed of all the members of Robert White's family who are known to have emigrated to New England, namely: Elder John White and his descendants, in 1860. The Loomis Genealogy, in 1875. Loomis Genealogy, female branches, in 1880. The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn., in 1891. John Porter and his descendants, in 1893. Memorials of Roderick White and descendants, in 1892. From these books some of the preceding facts have been taken, and to these genealogies the reader is referred for full and interesting memorials of these families... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr... From the Parish Register of Messing. Marriages... 1622, Dec. 26, John White and Mary (Lev)it. Baptisms... 1623, Dec. 28, John White son of John White and Mary his wife. 1626, July 16, Mary White dau. of John White and Mary his wife. 1628, Dec. 21, Philip White dau. of John White and Mary his wife. 1633, Dec. 1, John Levit son of Isaac Levit and Mary his wife. 1635, July 5, Sarah dau. of Isaac Levit and Mary his wife..." 4. FHL book "Various Ancestral Lines … Goodwin and … Morgan …," by Frank Farnsworth Starr (1915; Hartford), pp. 399-409: "John White, youngest son of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White of Shalford and Messing, Essex County, England, was presumably born in the former parish, but there does not appear to have been any record of his baptism on the church books. Whether or not he preceded his father in the removal to Messing will probably never be known. He married at Messing, December 26, 1622, Mary whose surname it is difficult to read, owing to the damaged condition of the register. The name is thought to have been "Levit", and she may have been a relative of William Levett, who was one of the witnesses to Robert White's will. The Messing Register contains the record of the baptisms of three of John's children: John, Mary and Philip, a "daughter", the latter being baptized December 21, 1628. Whether John White continued to reside in the parish or lived elsewhere before his emigration to America, is not known. He and his brother-in-law, William Goodwin, were two of the passengers on the "Lion" which in June 1632, sailed for America and arrived at Boston on the 16th of September. (New Eng. Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 14 p. 300-1, Hotten's Lists of Emigrants to America, p. 150, Winthrop's History of New England, 1853, vol. I, p. 107, and Mass. Historical Society Collections, series 4, vol. I, p. 94.) On page 4 of the first volume of Cambridge Town Records, under date of January 7, 1632, are several votes regarding the houses of the inhabitants, fixing their distance, the kind of covering and other matters of importance to the new settlement. Immediately following these votes and supposedly of the same date, is an entry showing the proportion of the common pale or fence that each of the inhabitants was to build. Among the names, forty-two in number, we find that of "John White", who was assigned "15 Rod", (Records of the Town and Selectmen of Cambridge, 1630-1703, p. 5) showing that he had already become a resident of that town. He is supposed to have been the John White who was made one of the "Freemen of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England", on "March 4th, 1632." (Records of Massachusetts, vol. I, pp. 366-367.) On page 3 of the first volume of Land Records of Cambridge (Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, 1635-1829, p. 4) is an entry of John White's lands under date of "May the first 1635", the first entry reading thus: "John Whitte in Cowyard row one dwellinge house wth other out houses wth bake sides and garden about three roods William goodwin on the northeast William Wadsworth on the southeast backe Lane on the southwest [___] Hopkins on the north West." (According to the map of early Cambridge in Paige's History of that town, and p. 15 of the text, this was located on what is now known as Bow street.) There are also recorded to him, two and one-half acres in the Old Field, three roods in Cow Yard Row, two more pieces in the Old Field of one and one-quarter acres each, one acre at Long Marsh Hill, thirteen and one-half acres in the Neck, eleven acres in the Great Marsh, three and a quarter acres in Long Marsh, one acre in Ox Marsh and one-half a rood in Cow Yard Row. (Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, 1635-1829, pp. 4-5.) "The 3rd of November 1634" he was "Chossen sueveior to see the highways and streete kept cleane and in repair for the yeare followeinge." (Records of the Town and Selectmen of Cambridge, 1630-1703, p. 10.) February 3, following, be was one of seven men chosen "to doe the whole bussines of the Towne and soe to Continew vntell the ffirst Monday in November next." (Ibid, p. 11.) In 1635 steps were being taken by a large number of the Cambridge inhabitants to remove out of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and in the fall of that year, part of the number, and in the following spring, the remainder did so remove to what was at first known as Newtown, and later as Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the sympathizers of this movement, "John White of the Newtowne" sold to Nicholas Danforth on October 20, 1635 his house and lands, as recorded to him on page 3 of the first volume of Proprietors' Records." (Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, 1635-1829, p. 36.) He is believed to have removed soon after, and on May 30, 1636, he sold to Danforth additional lands in Alewife Meadow and the Ox Pasture, when he was described as "John white of the New Town vppo Quinetucquet River". (Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, 1635-1829, p. 36.) His homestead of two acres in Hartford was located on the north side of what is now Charter Oak avenue, with the present Governor street for its western boundary. The description of this property is entered on page 301 of the Book of Distributions: "Febr: Anna dom: 1639" "Severall parcels of Land in Hertford vpon the River of Conecticott belonging to John White & to his heires forever" "viz One parcell on which his dwelling house now standeth wth other outhouses, yards, or gardens, therein being Contayning by Estimation two acres more or lesse pt whereof he received in Exchang wth Mr Hopkins for pt of his house lott Abuttinge on the high way leading from John Moodyes into the South meadow on the South & on the high way leading from Willm Hillses to the Ox pasture on the west & on Mr Hopkins his yards & other land of his on the North & on the East" Mr. Hopkins, his neighbor on the east, later become Governor of the colony. Mr. White had also eleven and a quarter acres in the South Meadow, two acres in the Little Meadow, six acres in the Ox Pasture, eight and a quarter acres on the east side of the river at Hockanum, besides other tracts in various parts of the town. (Hartford, Conn., Land Records, "Book of Distributions", pp. 301-304, and Connecticut Colonial Land Records, vol. I, section 2, p. 12.) His name appears among the "Names of (such Inhabitants as haue) Right in v[ndivded Lands."] (Hartford Town Votes, Conn. Historical Society Collections, vol.6, p. 16.) At a town meeting held in January 1640, be was one of a committee appointed to apportion among the inhabitants the land on "ye east sid of ye greate River." (Ibid.,vol. 6, p. 39.) In January 1641, February 1645 and 1650, he was chosen one of the Townsmen, later called Selectmen, and in February 1649 he was appointed one of the Fenceviewers. (Ibid., vol. 6, pp. 58, 79, 95, 91.) The earliest entry in the first volume of the Land Records of Middletown, Connecticut, is dated "the last of May 1654." It is unfortunate that no record was kept of the transfer of lands for the first four years of the settlement, as a study of the first volume of Town Votes reveals the fact that various parties, not residents there after 1654, owned lands prior to that date, and possibly resided there for a short time. The following entries in the record of Town Votes would seem to indicate that John White was for a short time resident there. "Aprell the 11th 1653" "John halle senior condescended: to exchange with John whit senior so that hee: may lye next vnto him in the medow as them twayn shalle agree: or as tow indeferent men chosen by themselves shalle judg met and so to sit down satisfyed theire with". (Middletown, Conn., Town Votes, vol. I, folio 6.) "may the 24th 1653" "It was granted by the town that John see shall haue 30 acors of upland joyning to his home lote part being his proportyon of sowbegs felde and In case at deuiding of the parcells any one com short of their answerable proportyons It is agreed that any such shalle haue their shars made up in the next felde that be taken in goodman white abating so mu[ch] of his other deuision in yt felde as hee hath more then his share in this." (Middletown, Conn., Town Votes, vol. I, p. 7.) In March 1654, the town took action regarding the building of the meadow fence to be erected by the persons owning land in the meadow, "the proportyons of men in the ffence comes to a dayes worke and a quarter to an acre." (Ibid., p. 7-1/2.) Following this vote is a list of the persons who were to build the fence, with the amount of time they were to give thereto. Among these names is that of "Jo White". His time was "2 Days" indicating that he owned about two acres in the meadow. Whether he conveyed his lands to his son Nathaniel or sold them to other parties will probably never be known. In 1655 he had evidently returned to Hartford, for at the annual town meeting held February 15, be was given his old position as one of the Townsmen. (Hartford Town Votes, Conn. Historical Society Collections, vol. 6, p. 110.) Soon after the death of Thomas Hooker, the beloved pastor of the Hartford Church, differences of opinion regarding matters of church government arose between Mr. Stone, Hooker's successor, and a number of the congregation. These differences created great uneasiness in the town and were the cause of various appeals to the General Court and to the ministers of the neighboring plantations and colonies. The differences continued so long and such strong feelings were developed, that on April 18, 1659, fifty-nine persons met together in Hartford, at least thirty of whom resided there, and agreed to remove into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, "to the plantation, purchased on the east side of the river of Connecticut beside Northampton therein to inhabit and dwell by the 29th of September come 12 months which will be In the year 1660." One of the signers us John White. One week later, he was one of five persons chosen by the whole body to proceed to the new plantation and to lay out fifty-nine home-lots of eight acres each. The plantation was started in the summer of 1659, and as a result of meetings held the following November in Hartford, Wethersfield and Hadley, seven men including John White were chosen "to order all public occasions, that concern the good of that plantation the year ensuing. (Judd's History of Hadley, Mass., 1863, pp. 19-20.) The records further show that on the 22d of the same month, this body of men called Townsmen laid a rate or tax to raise funds for the purchase of the plantation and maintenance of the minister. (Ibid., p. 20.) According to the map in Judd's History of Hadley, John White's homelot was on the east side of the main street ahout fifty rods south of "the middle highway to the woods," now the road leading to Amherst. (Ibid., p. 20.) As early as March 16, 1661 he was a juror of the County Court. (Hampshire County, Mass., Probate Records, vol. 1, p. 4.) He was again Townsman or Selectman in 1662, 1663, 1665 (Hadley, Mass., Town Votes, vol. 1, pp. 6, 25, 35) and a Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts in August 1664 and in May 1669. (Records of Massachusetts, vol. 4, part 2, pp. 117, 418.) In 1671 he had again become a resident of Hartford and on the 9th of April that year, he and his wife, who is not named in the record, having been dismissed from the church at Hadley, were admitted to full communion in the Second Church of Hartford. (History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford, p. 291.) He retained the title to his Hartford homestead of 1639 until December 5, 1667, when he conveyed it to his son Jacob. (Hartford, Conn., Land Records, vol. 1, p. 85.) On his return to Hartford he presumably spent the last years of his life with Jacob on this property. For several years prior to 1677 the residents of Windsor, Connecticut were torn into two factions over ecclesiastical matters, each body worshipping by itself under a separate minister. Various attempts were made to compose their differences and in January 1677, a council consisting of John Talcott, Colonial Treasurer, John Allyn, Colonial Secretary, five ministers and seven laymen from the neighboring towns, drew up a letter of advice recommending a course of action in order to unite the opposing parties and heal all differences. Among the signatures appended to this document, that of John White is the first of the laymen. This letter with the autographs of the members of the council is preserved in the Connecticut State Library, volume 1 of "Ecclesiastical," document 63. Wise as this advice was, it was not followed and not until 1684 did the quarrel come to an end. The following entry on the records of the Second Church in Hartford shows the high esteem in which he was held by the church members: "March 28, 1677, the church having before chose Mr. John White to the office of Ruling Elder, and he accepted it, he was accordingly, this day, ordained to be in that office, in the presence with the approbation of the elders and messengers of some neighbor churches. "This holy man, having faithfully served the Lord in his place and that also with good success through grace (he was a good man, and God was with him), fell asleep in Christ, and went to receive his reward, January, 1683." (History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford, p. 60.) The original inventory of his property still on file at the Hartford Probate Office states that "elder John white – deceased Janiuare th 23, '83" Doubtless he was laid to rest in the graveyard adjoining the First Church of Hartford, but there is no stone to mark his grave or that of his wife. She is supposed to have died before him as no provision for her was made in his will. This will dated December 17, 1683, was presented to the Hartford County Court, March 6, following. The original is on file and reads as follows: "For as much as my time Vncertaine, and j know not the day of my death, j Account it my dutie, to make my last will and testament which is as followeth. "j Resigne and give up my selfe, soul snd bodie to my soveraigne Lord & maker, my God and father in my Lord & saviour Jesus Christ: and to prevent trouble to those that shall survive mee, j do dispose of that portion of outward estate which the Lord hath in mercy blessed me with, in manner following (viz) "j give & bequeath to my son Nathanaell White thirtie pounds, and my best broad Cloath Coate & j also give him my iron bound Chest in my Chamber, & my Cob irons in my parlour, & that part of my ox pasture which lyeth on the Left hand of the way as wego to wethersfield "j give to him & his heirs for ever, bounded upon the high way west, Henery Grimes land North, Mr Niccolls his Land South, the South meadow east. "j give to my son Daniell White twentie pounds. "j give to my son Jacob White & his heires for ever that part of my Ox pasture in Hartford which lyeth on the right hand of the way Leading to wethersfield, bounded by the high way East, by Jonathan Bigaloes land South by Henery Grimes his Land North. & Leut: Websters land West. j also give him my feather bed in the Chamber with a boolstar & pillow & the best blancket upon it, & the bed sted & Curtains belonging to it: "j impower my Executor to give to my daughter Hixton according to his discretion as he shall see her her need Calls ffor. "And whereas fformerlie j intended to give one parcell of meadow land in great Ponset, to Stephen Taylor, yet now being forced to pay a great summe of Money ffor the Redemption of his house & houselott j now see cause to dispose of that land for payment of that debt, and shall leave it to my Executor with the advice of the overseers to give either to him or the rest of my daughter Hixtons children as he shall see Cause. "j give to my grand Child, Stephen Taylor a flock bed & truckle bedsted at Nathanaell Whites at Hadly and an old blancket vpon my bed in my Chamer, and a Linze-woolsie Coverlid at the feet of my bed in the parlour, and piece of dutch searge now at the tailors to make me a paire of breeches & ajacket, j give to the said Stephen Taylor. "j give to Sarah White the daughter of my son Nathanaell five pounds. "I give to the Reved Mr. John Whiting my honored pastor five pounds in silver. "my will is that due debts being discharged, and the above mentioned legacies payd, the remainder of my estate shall be devided among my grand children (viz) Jonathan Gilbert son of my daughter Mary, my son Nathaniells Children, my son Johns Children, my son Daniells children & my Daughter Sarah children their sons to have as much more as their daughters, & if any of their sons shall dye before they Come to age of one & twentie years then his or their portion to be divided equally among the survivors, and in like manner among the daughters, if any of them shall dye before the age of Eighteen years "My will is that my wearing apparrell be divided amongst my sonns, my will also is that my Executor shall have four years time after my decease for the payment of the Legacies mentioned, only my will is that my moveable goods be payd to them that are readie to receive them presently. and j do give my said Executor full power to sell my land lying in the last out division in Hartford being about eightie acrees, and my share in the mill for the payment of the legacies as aforesaid, & what ever time or expence he shall be at, in managing these affaires, he shall fully satisfie him selfe out of the estate before division be made. "j do Constitute and ordaine my son Nathaniell White the sole Executor of this my Last will and testament; and j do desire my bloved friends Ensign Nathaniell Stanly, and Stephen Hosmer as Overseers to assist in performance of this my last will. and j do give them twentie skillings: a peice for their paines there in. "John (his W Mark) White senr" "This was declared by John White Senior to be his last will & Testament the Seventeenth day of December. 1683, a in presence of. Caleb Watson, Mary watson" The total value of his property was £190-09-00 of which his real estate amounted to £51-00-00. A debt owing him by his son Nathaniel was valued at 90-00-00. The original inventory of his property still on file discloses that he had disposed of most of his real estate before his death, but interesting item: "By His Intrest in Harford mell," ₤-00-00 shows that he was past owner of the grist mill of the town located on Little river near the Main street. [Lists eight children bap. 1623-1645.]" 5. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), pp. 163-64: "JOHN WHITE, born at Shalford 13 July 1600; died at Hartford, Connecticut 23 January 1683/84; married at Messing 26 December 1622, MARY LEVITT. John and his wife and two oldest children, probably Mary and Nathaniel, came to New England on the Lion in 1632. They lived at Newtown. John was admitted a Freeman in March of 1633. In 1635 he was chosen as a Selectman which means he was a member of the board which conducted the business of the town of Cambridge, as Newtown came to be known. In 1636, many of the congregation left Newtown to find a place to live where they could enjoy more religious freedom. The Whites were among the group who suffered many hardships as they traveled to reach their destination on the Connecticut River. That settlement became known as Hartford. John was one of the Original Proprietors of Hartford and was granted a home lot of two acres and thirty-two acres of upland for farming. Sometime later he also acquired 150 acres of land east of the river. He was chosen a Selectman at Hartford at least four different times. After the death of Thomas Hooker in 1647, dissention began in the church. Samuel Stone had become the minister and many were most dissatisfied. This unrest continued until April of 1659, when sixty settlers of Hartford signed an agreement and moved up the river to a place where the town of Hadley was established. John was one of the first settlers there. John became a Selectman in this settlement and also served, as Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, as they now were back in Massachusetts. John also became an elder in the church in Hadley. This may be where he acquired the title of Elder John White. By 1670, dissention was again rampant in the Hartford church, and its membership again was divided with many forming another church in South Hartford. Shortly thereafter, John and his wife moved back to South Hartford and joined the church there. He became an elder. Records also mention that he was an arbitrator and counselor in church matters. Mary died before her husband. Children of John and Mary (Levitt) White: i. John White, baptized at Messing 28 December 1623 (perhaps died young). ii. Mary White, born at Messing 1626; died at Hatfield, Massachusetts 1650; married 29 January 1645/46, Jonathan Gilbert. iii. Philip White, baptized at Messing 21 December 1628 (perhaps died young). iv. Nathaniel White, born about 1630, perhaps in Cambridge or on ship, v. John White, born about 1636; married by 1659, Sarah Bunce. vi. DANIEL WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See 3 below.) vii. Sarah White, born about 1641; married (1) by 1664, Stephen Taylor; (2) at Hadley 15 October 1666, Barnabas Hinsdale; (3) at Hatfield February 1678, Walter Hickson. viii. Jacob White, born at Hartford 8 October 1645; marrie4 by 1669, Elizabeth Bunce. LIEUTENANT DANIEL WHITE, born at Hartford, Connecticut about 1639; died at Hatfield, Massachusetts 1713; married at Hadley, Massachusetts 1 November 1661, SARAH CROW. (See Crow Family)" 5. The book "Colonial Ancestors. Four lineal genealogies of eastern Connecticut families…," by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg (Camden, Maine; Penobscot Press, 1991), pp. 183-87 [Note: I neglected to copy the source list.]: "Some productive inquiries into the English origins of John White were made by one of his descendants around the year 1900. John is understood to be the youngest child of ROBERTA WHITE, yeoman, well-to-do, born possibly in Messing, county Essex; he died there in 1617. Robert married in Shalford, county Essex, 24 Jun 1585, BRIDGET ALLGAR, where also she had been baptized on 11 Mch 1562, the daughter of William Allgar. Robert and Bridget seem to have lived in her native town or parish, Shalford, most of their married life.[1] Robert White was buried at Messing, 17 Jun 1617, less than three weeks after making his will, which provided for daughters Sarah (called the eldest; mar. James Bowtell), Mary (mar. Joseph Loomis), Elizabeth (mar. William Goodwin), Bridget White and Anna White, in that order; he then names sons Nathaniel and John, the latter being a minor and believed to be the youngest child; finally, he names his wife, Bridget, and his son, Daniel as joint executors.[2] Subsequently, Anna White married at Messing, 18 Oct 1620, John Porter; and John White married at the same place, 26 Dec 1622, Mary (Lev).[3] A sizeable portion of the White family moved from the Old World to New England in the Great Migration, and stayed near to one another in the new land.[4] Moreover, there clearly existed within the family, and with its in-laws, a sense of closeness, mutual support, and common interest. This is apparent from the respect and trust implied in assigned responsibilities, as illustrated in several legal instruments in which members of the family partook. For example, Robert White, wishing to assure sensible marriages for his children, Bridget, Anna and John, by his will conditioned receipt of their full inheritance upon approval of the intended spouse not only by his wife Bridget, but also by his "sonnes in law" Joseph Loomis and William Goodwin.[5] The father's high opinion of these two young men was well substantiated by their later careers as leaders in Windsor and Hartford in Connecticut. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the White children tried to stay together when they settled across the Altantic: when Joseph Loomis and John Porter occupied adjacent home lots in Windsor in 1639, their wives, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, became next door neighbors.[6] The English shire of Essex was one of the prime centers for nonconformist preachers, and of course most of those who came to New England in the two decades after Robert White's death were following their inspiring preachers, often making the move as congregations. It's not surprising, then, to find in Robert White's will an early bequest for "...Mr. Richard Rogers preacher of gods word at Withersfield in Essex...,"[7] and study of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Essex discloses that the parish of Wethersfield adjoins that of Shalford, in the north central part of Essex. For Robert White to attend a lecture by Mr. Rogers, he may have had to travel no more than ten miles. Out of this moderately wealthy English family, comfortably settled in the shire of Essex, but imbued with nonconformist fervor, came the hard working, well liked and increasingly respected man who was to become an early, founding settler of no less than three new towns: Newtown (later Cambridge, Mass.), Hartford, and Hadley. 1. JOHN1 WHITE was not yet of age when his father wrote his will and died in 1617;[8] assuming an approximate age of twenty-two years upon his marriage in Messing, county Essex, England, on 26 Dec 1622, to MARY (LEV)IT,[9] he could have been born around the year 1600. If so, his age at his death would have been about eighty-three, for his will was dated 17 Dec 1683, and the inventory of his estate was dated 23 Jan 1683/4.[10] His son Nathaniel, active, successful and respected like his father, was to live to about this same age.[11] In the parish register of Messing, the name of John's wife is given as Mary, but the first letters of the surname are illegible; the last two letters, however, are "it." A search for names found locally and so ending produced the surname, "Levit;" additional support for a tie between the two families occurs when a John White is found to have been a witness to the will of a William Levett, yeoman, of Messing, dated 09 Oct 1626 and proved 15 Dec 1626. From such evidence, Mary's maiden name is believed to be "Levit," or "Levett," and the William who died before 15 Dec 1626, leaving an estate of around £500, to be her father.[12] John and Mary White lived in England about ten years before departing for America. In company with William Goodwin and others who would later found Hartford, they sailed on the Lyon on about 22 June, and arrived in Boston on 16 Sep 1632.[13] Joining Hooker followers who had earlier located at Braintree, they settled into their first home across the sea at Newton. In less than a year, on 04 Mch 1633/4, John White was admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and in February, 1635, when Newton held its first local elections, John was one of the seven men chosen as "townsmen," or "selectmen."[14] Then, in the general removal of the Cambridge people to Hartford, John and his young family are believed to have come over to the Connecticut River with Thomas Hooker in June, 1636. He was one of the original proprietors, and his homelot was located next to that of Edward Hopkins, second governor (in 1640) of the Connecticut Colony. By 1642, he had been elected an "orderer," or selectman at Hartford, holding that office again in 1646, 1651 and 1656. He often served also as a juror, or arbitrator in the adjudication of private differences.[15] After Thomas Hooker's death in 1647, problems developed within the Hartford Church, centering around personal and doctrinal differences between the Rev. Samuel Stone and Elder William Goodwin. This resulted in attempts to establish a second church in Hartford,["'/ and that effort repeatedly failing, a large contingent of Hartford settlers decided to remove and resettle elsewhere. On 18 Apl 1659, having received permission from the Massachusetts General Court, some fifty-nine persons "engaged" to remove and resettle at Hadley in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[17] In this wrenching situation, at about age sixty, John White held firmly with his brother-in-law, William Goodwin, and actually made the move to Hadley in about 1660. It meant, of course, breaking new ground and building all over again. By this time strong in experience and wisdom, John White was even more a prominent leader than he had been before in Hartford. Informally a selectman at Hadley at the outset, he was formally confirmed as such in 1662, 1663 and 1665. In the years 1664 and 1669, he was Deputy from Hadley to the General Court in Boston.[18] After 1670, John White's name no longer appears on the records of Hadley. What happened was that the people of Hartford who had sought to establish a new church had finally prevailed, withdrawing with the Reverend John Whiting as their minister. Located on the south side of the Little River, this church became known as the "South Church." More or less coincidental with this event, John White returned to Hartford and rejoined the old friends who espoused the same congregational principles which he embraced. Probably, he was then elected to be the Elder of South Church, today an uncommon office, but indicative in that earlier time of enormous respect and love. At length, on 28 March 1677, he was elected to the office of Ruling Elder, and having accepted, he was then formally ordained and installed, just as would be a called minister. It was in this way, during his final years of life, that he took on forever the worthy title of "Elder" John White. Children of Elder John and Mary (Levit) White: i. John2 White, bp Messing, co. Essex, England, 28 Dec 1623; bur. Hatfield, Mass., 15 Sep 1665; m. Sarah, dau. of Thomas and Sarah Bunce of Hartford. [20] [21] [22] ii. Mary White, bp Messing, 16 Jul 1626; d. prob. Hartford, 16 Dec 1649, or 1650; m. at Hartford, 29 Jan 1645/6, as his first wife, Jonathan Gilbert. [23] [24] iii. Nathaniel White, b. England, c. 1629; d. Middletown, Conn., 27 Aug 1711, aged about 82; he m. 1st, Elizabeth (___); m. 2nd, Martha (Coit) Mould. [25] [26] iv. Daniel White, res. in Hatfield, d. 27 Jul 1713; m. 01 Nov 1661, Sarah, who d. 26 Jun 1719, aged 72, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Goodwin) Crow. [27] [28] v. Sarah White, res. Hatfield, d. 10 Aug 1702; m. 1st, Stephen Taylor of Hatfield, who was bur. 03 Sep 1665; m. 2nd, 15 Oct 1666, Barnabas Hindsale of Hatfield, later of Deerfield, slain at Bloody Brook, 18 Sep 1675, during King Philip's War, m. 3rd, 03 Feb 1679, Walter Hickson of Hatfield, who d. 03 Apl 1696. [29] vi. Jacob White, b. Hartford, 08 Oct 1645; d. 1701; m. Elizabeth, d. 1716, dau. of Thomas and Sarah Bunce of Hartford. [30] [31]" | Levitt, Mary (I2206)
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| 4825 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt concerning this individual is from the biography of Jeffrey Ferris in the "Great Migration" book. These are highly reliable summaries of early pre-1636 colonists and the entire biography can be read in Jeffrey's notes: "Jeffrey Ferris... Death: Greenwich 31 May 1666 [Gillespie Anc 118, source not cited]. Marriage: ...[As 3rd wife] By about 1662 Judith (Feake) Palmer, daughter of James Feake of London and widow of William Palmer {1636, Watertown} [NYGBR 86:211-12, and arguments presented there]. She married (3) John Bowers soon after the death of Jeffrey Ferris, for, on 9 March 1666/7, "Judah Bowers, lately widow Ferris sometimes wife to Jeffery Ferris, do openly acknowledge I have received in full satisfaction what was given me by my husband's will" [Fairfield PR 2:21]..." 2. The book "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich with Genealogical Notes …," by Spencer P. Mead (Camden, Maine; Picton Press): -Chapter VIII, p. 92, "Commissioned Officer in the Militia During the Colonial Period": (From "Colonial Records of Connecticut."): "BOWERS, JOHN, April Session, 1690, was commissioned lieutenant of the train band in the Town of Greenwich." -P. 289, (those with asterisks are in my database): "The militia generally has been considered in Chapter IX. As regards the military forces in Greenwich, a company was organized soon after the town was first settled, and Captain Daniel Patrick was the first military commander. After his death in 1644, he was succeeded by William Hallett, who was banished in 1648, for the commission of the act of adultery with Mrs. Elizabeth Peaks. The next leading citizen was Richard Crab, who seems, to have removed from Greenwich about 166o. The following were his successors: 1669 to 1688, Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood.* 1689 to 1695, Lieutenant John Bowers.* 1696 to 1725, Lieutenant James Ferris. 1726 to 1735, Captain Caleb Knapp.* 1736 to 1739, Captain James Reynolds." -Chapter: "Landowners," p. 449: "BOWERS, JOHN, March 23, 1664, granted a parcel of land at Mianus Neck. March 16, 1666, granted a swamp so far as it adjoins his lot. Feb. 6, 1699 [author's typo for 1669?], granted ten acres of land. Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows lying south of the Westchester Path." 4. "Nicholas Knapp Genealogy," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D. "This Genealogy of the Descendants of Nicholas Knapp, first found mentioned at Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630, is the result of the work and research of many individuals. The four principal collectors of data were Charles Ruggles Knapp, Henry Eno Knapp, Ezra Fred Knapp and the author, Alfred Averill Knapp, but they were assisted through correspondence by a large number of individuals who furnished much valuable family and local information...": "Hannah Close, dau. of Goodman or Joseph and Elizabeth ( ) Close. Hannah was b. in 1632, d. 1696. She m. 2nd John Bowers. Others say her estate was settled in 1695 and that she d. 10-6-1694... John Bowers was made Proprietor at Greenwich 2-5-1664, was called 43 years old in 1681 and d. in 1694. No children." 5. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991: "The will of Joshua and his inventory of estate bear the same date (27 Oct 1684), dying the same day, and is spoken of as a good estate. He mentions his children, except Jonathan, who died young, saying that the sons, shall receive their share at age 21 and the daughters at age 18. The will is signed by his widow, Hannah, John Bowers, and Moses Knapp, all of Stamford, Connecticut, also by John Reynolds... The value of his estate in 1684 was 54 pounds... After his death, Hannah (Close) Knapp, the widow, married John Bowers of Greenwich, b. 1638 - d. 1694. No children of the marriage." 6. The book "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich with Genealogical Notes …," by Spencer P. Mead with the assistance of Arthur S. Kimball (Camden, Maine; Picton Press), pp. 517-18: "GOODMAN1 CLOSE, b. about 1600, in County York, England, m. Elizabeth ___, b. about 1606, in England, came to America about 1642, and finally settled in Fairfield, Connecticut, where Goodman Close died in 1653. His widow afterwards married George Stuckey, and died in Stamford, Connecticut, Sept. 4, 1656. Her children by her first husband were: -Hannah2, b. about 1632, m. June 9, 1657, Joshua Knapp, and after his death she married John Bowers. -Joseph, b. about 1634, d. without issue before 166o. -Thomas, b. about 1637, m. Sarah, daughter of Richard and Ann (Husted) Hardy, in 1669, he d. in Greenwich, in 1709. Mary, b. about 1640, living April 15, 1725, m. June 25, 1668, Samuel Holly." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Not mentioned in the book "The Great Migration Directory, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640," by Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS, 2015. | Bowers, John (I4785)
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| 4826 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt concerning this individual is from the biography of Jeffrey Ferris in the "Great Migration" book. These are highly reliable summaries of early pre-1636 colonists and the entire biography can be read in Jeffrey's notes: "Jeffrey Ferris... Migration: 1634 First Residence: Watertown Removes: Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Greenwich by 1650, East Town 1655, Greenwich by about 1659... Estate: ...In his will, dated 6 January 1664(/5?] and proved 9 March 1666/7, "Jeaffrey Ferris" bequeathed to "my wife that now is [KP: Judith Feake], all the estate which she can make appear that she brought with her" and £l0; to "her four children, that is to say, those four boys which I brought up and kept" [KP: In no particular order: Ephraim, James, William, and Joseph Palmer]..." The book "One branch of the Miner family...," by Lillian Lounsberry Miner Selleck (New Haven, 1928), pp. 142-43: "WILLIAM1 PALMER LIEUT. WILLIAM1 PALMER appeared in Yarmouth, Mass., as early as Jan. 1639, and resided there until 1652. He married JUDITH FEAKE, born about 1620, daughter of James Feake, goldsmith, of London, Eng. In December 1639, Robert Feake of Watertown, Mass., as guardian of Tobias Feake, aged seventeen, together with Sergeant William Palmer and Judith his wife of Yarmouth, son and daughter of James Feake, deceased, of London, goldsmith, signed a power of attorney to their uncle, Tobias Dixon of London, to sell a house on Lombard Street, London. Robert Feake of Watertown was uncle of Judith and Tobias. Palmer was a Deputy to the Plymouth General Court, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1648, 1649, and 1650; and was appointed Lieutenant 22 Sept. 1642, under Capt. Miles Standish. In 1653 he moved to Newtown, Long Island, where he was a Magistrate from Mar. 1658 to Mar. 1660. He conveyed property in Newtown, 1 Aug. 1659, and his widow Judith conveyed 29 Nov. 1661, showing that he died between those dates; probably later than 9 Mar. 1660 when he was on the tax list. Judith married second, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich, Conn., and took her children to Greenwich with her. Ferris died 31 May 1666, and in his will dated 6 Jan. 1664 left ten pounds each to the "four boies" of his wife. Judith married third, John Bowers, who by deed 5 Apr. 1675 conveyed land to his "son Ephraim Palmer." Judith died before her last husband; and Bowers in his will dated 16 Mar. 1693/4, gave property that was her mother's to "my loving daughter-in-law [step-daughter], Judith Reynolds." John Palmer, perhaps a brother of William Palmer, though usually given as his son, died at Greenwich prior to 26 Oct. 1672. Application was made for settlement of his estate, 24 Apr. 1724, in which it was stated that he died many years ago and that no settlement had been made. The next of kin were stated as William Palmer, Ephraim Palmer, James Palmer, Joseph Palmer, and Judith Reynolds. John must therefore have been their brother or their uncle; and as the "four" Palmer boys specified in their step-father's will are all accounted for, it is more likely that John was their uncle, and brother of William. Children: 1. William2, m. Mary Tyler, daughter of William and Abigail (Terrill) Tyler of Milford, b. about 1660; they removed to Westchester County, N. Y. +2. Ephraim2, m. Sarah2 Messenger. 3. James2, of Greenwich, d. 28 Feb. 1717; m. Sarah Denham. 4 Joseph2, m. Elizabeth Tyler, b. about 1663, sister of his brother William's wife; they probably removed to Bedford, N. Y. 5. Judith2, m. John Reynolds." SOURCES_MISC: 1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed: -NYG&H Rec V11 & 86. -7 Gen. of Judith's, by A. Gibson. -Gen Frangments, by J.J. Latting. -Feake Fam. Gen, by G. McCrackern (1955). -Ancient Heads of Fam., by Holmes. | Palmer, Joseph (I4784)
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| 4827 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt concerning this individual is from the biography of Jeffrey Ferris in the "Great Migration" book. These are highly reliable summaries of early pre-1636 colonists and the entire biography can be read in Jeffrey's notes: "Jeffrey Ferris... Migration: 1634 First Residence: Watertown Removes: Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Greenwich by 1650, East Town 1655, Greenwich by about 1659... Estate: ...In his will, dated 6 January 1664(/5?] and proved 9 March 1666/7, "Jeaffrey Ferris" bequeathed to "my wife that now is [KP: Judith Feake], all the estate which she can make appear that she brought with her" and £l0; to "her four children, that is to say, those four boys which I brought up and kept" [KP: In no particular order: Ephraim, James, William, and Joseph Palmer]..." 2. NEHGS, article "Miscellanea, Milford, Conn., Land Records," vol. 5, contributed by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., of New Haven, Conn. It would appear that the Mary and Abigail are sisters and daughters of William Tyler: "Page 195. 21 Feb. 1712/13. Will'm Palmer of Greenwitch [sic] in ye County of ffairfield, to James Prime Jun'r of Milford, all my Right in land [being] one seventh part of ye Right that doth belong unto ye heirs of Will'm Tyler late of sd. Milford dec'd w'ch sd. land doth acrrue to me by ye Right of my wife formarly Mary Tyler. [Palmer's wife signed with him both by mark. Witnesses: Joshuah Knapp, thom's Marshall.]" "Page 195. 23 Feb 1712/13. [Deed almost identical with above, from William Rundal of Greenwich in right of wife formerly Abigail Tyler. Both signed with mark. Witness Sam'l Peck, Thomas Marshall.]" 3. The book "One branch of the Miner family...," by Lillian Lounsberry Miner Selleck (New Haven, 1928), pp. 142-43: "WILLIAM1 PALMER LIEUT. WILLIAM1 PALMER appeared in Yarmouth, Mass., as early as Jan. 1639, and resided there until 1652. He married JUDITH FEAKE, born about 1620, daughter of James Feake, goldsmith, of London, Eng. In December 1639, Robert Feake of Watertown, Mass., as guardian of Tobias Feake, aged seventeen, together with Sergeant William Palmer and Judith his wife of Yarmouth, son and daughter of James Feake, deceased, of London, goldsmith, signed a power of attorney to their uncle, Tobias Dixon of London, to sell a house on Lombard Street, London. Robert Feake of Watertown was uncle of Judith and Tobias. Palmer was a Deputy to the Plymouth General Court, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1648, 1649, and 1650; and was appointed Lieutenant 22 Sept. 1642, under Capt. Miles Standish. In 1653 he moved to Newtown, Long Island, where he was a Magistrate from Mar. 1658 to Mar. 1660. He conveyed property in Newtown, 1 Aug. 1659, and his widow Judith conveyed 29 Nov. 1661, showing that he died between those dates; probably later than 9 Mar. 1660 when he was on the tax list. Judith married second, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich, Conn., and took her children to Greenwich with her. Ferris died 31 May 1666, and in his will dated 6 Jan. 1664 left ten pounds each to the "four boies" of his wife. Judith married third, John Bowers, who by deed 5 Apr. 1675 conveyed land to his "son Ephraim Palmer." Judith died before her last husband; and Bowers in his will dated 16 Mar. 1693/4, gave property that was her mother's to "my loving daughter-in-law [step-daughter], Judith Reynolds." John Palmer, perhaps a brother of William Palmer, though usually given as his son, died at Greenwich prior to 26 Oct. 1672. Application was made for settlement of his estate, 24 Apr. 1724, in which it was stated that he died many years ago and that no settlement had been made. The next of kin were stated as William Palmer, Ephraim Palmer, James Palmer, Joseph Palmer, and Judith Reynolds. John must therefore have been their brother or their uncle; and as the "four" Palmer boys specified in their step-father's will are all accounted for, it is more likely that John was their uncle, and brother of William. Children: 1. William2, m. Mary Tyler, daughter of William and Abigail (Terrill) Tyler of Milford, b. about 1660; they removed to Westchester County, N. Y. +2. Ephraim2, m. Sarah2 Messenger. 3. James2, of Greenwich, d. 28 Feb. 1717; m. Sarah Denham. 4 Joseph2, m. Elizabeth Tyler, b. about 1663, sister of his brother William's wife; they probably removed to Bedford, N. Y. 5. Judith2, m. John Reynolds." 4. The periodical "The American Genealogist," 26(1950):95, 183-84, "Palmer of Westchester," by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., F.A.S.G. My interest in this article is in the William Palmer of Yarmouth, who is an ancestor, and not the William Palmer of the article. The following are applicable quotes: "Various assertions, quite erroneous, have been made in print about William Palmer of Westchester County, New York. It has been claimed that he was identical with others of the name, such as William of Watertown, Mass., who was clearly later of Newbury, and finally of Hampton, N.H. [see Gen. Dict. of Me. and N.H., 527; Essex Files, 2:347-9; New Eng. Register, 51:309; 68:259; 69:284, 342; 75:79, 158, 318; 98:184); Lieut. William of Yarmouth, Mass., and Newtown, Long Island, a son of whose did later settle in Westchester, thereby adding to the confusion [N. Y. Record, 71:362; Selleck, Miner Family (1928), 142-3], William of Plymouth and Duxbury; William Jr. of the same, perhaps a nephew of the last-named; and others. There was also a William, early of Wethersfield, and never of Watertown, and a William of Branford, both in Connecticut. It is the writer's opinion, based on research thus far made, that William of Westchester was identical with both the Wethersfield settler and the Branford sojourner… As an addendum, a few notes will be given relating to the Palmer family [of Yarmouth] … Mead's Hist. of Greenwich (1911), 618-628, reprints the usual errors about the early generations. However, Lieut. William Palmer of Yarmouth, Mass., and Newtown, Long Island, died about 1661, and the subsequent remarriages of his widow brought the children to Greenwich, Conn. Among them, were Ephraim2 and William2. Ephraim married in 1668, Sarah, daughter of Andrew Messenger and had but two sons: Ephraim3 and John3. William2, born about 1658, married Mary Tyler of Milford, Conn., and removed to Westchester County. He had: William3, b. 6 Nov. 1694, d. 1786, of Charlotte Precinct, Dutchess County, a Friend; m. Rachel -___, and had issue, see N.Y. Wills, 14:87. Phebe, by 4 July 1696. Peter, b. 23 July 1703, removed to Dutchess County and had issue, see N.Y. Wills, 13:114. Abraham, b. about 1705, removed to Dutchess County…" SOURCES_MISC: 1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed: -NYG&H Rec V11 & 86. -7 Gen. of Judith's, by A. Gibson. -Gen Frangments, by J.J. Latting. -Feake Fam. Gen, by G. McCrackern (1955). -Ancient Heads of Fam., by Holmes. | Palmer, William (I4783)
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| 4828 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt concerning this individual is from the biography of Jeffrey Ferris in the "Great Migration" book. These are highly reliable summaries of early pre-1636 colonists and the entire biography can be read in Jeffrey's notes: "Jeffrey Ferris... Migration: 1634 First Residence: Watertown Removes: Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Greenwich by 1650, East Town 1655, Greenwich by about 1659... Estate: ...In his will, dated 6 January 1664(/5?] and proved 9 March 1666/7, "Jeaffrey Ferris" bequeathed to "my wife that now is [KP: Judith Feake], all the estate which she can make appear that she brought with her" and £l0; to "her four children, that is to say, those four boys which I brought up and kept" [KP: In no particular order: Ephraim, James, William, and Joseph Palmer]..." 2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, p. 105: "...Mr. Thomas Denham and his wife Sarah had six known children: v. Sarah Denham, who before 2 May 1688 married James Palmer, son of Lt. William Palmer and his wife, Judith Feake. James died 28 February 1717/8 and Sarah had presumably died by 22 February 1723/4, when her brother Isaac in his will left £100 to her children." [Note: According to other information inferred to in this entry, the father Thomas was a minister and probably living at Sheepscott, Maine at about the time Sarah was probably born.] 3. The book "One branch of the Miner family...," by Lillian Lounsberry Miner Selleck (New Haven, 1928), pp. 142-43: "WILLIAM1 PALMER LIEUT. WILLIAM1 PALMER appeared in Yarmouth, Mass., as early as Jan. 1639, and resided there until 1652. He married JUDITH FEAKE, born about 1620, daughter of James Feake, goldsmith, of London, Eng. In December 1639, Robert Feake of Watertown, Mass., as guardian of Tobias Feake, aged seventeen, together with Sergeant William Palmer and Judith his wife of Yarmouth, son and daughter of James Feake, deceased, of London, goldsmith, signed a power of attorney to their uncle, Tobias Dixon of London, to sell a house on Lombard Street, London. Robert Feake of Watertown was uncle of Judith and Tobias. Palmer was a Deputy to the Plymouth General Court, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1648, 1649, and 1650; and was appointed Lieutenant 22 Sept. 1642, under Capt. Miles Standish. In 1653 he moved to Newtown, Long Island, where he was a Magistrate from Mar. 1658 to Mar. 1660. He conveyed property in Newtown, 1 Aug. 1659, and his widow Judith conveyed 29 Nov. 1661, showing that he died between those dates; probably later than 9 Mar. 1660 when he was on the tax list. Judith married second, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich, Conn., and took her children to Greenwich with her. Ferris died 31 May 1666, and in his will dated 6 Jan. 1664 left ten pounds each to the "four boies" of his wife. Judith married third, John Bowers, who by deed 5 Apr. 1675 conveyed land to his "son Ephraim Palmer." Judith died before her last husband; and Bowers in his will dated 16 Mar. 1693/4, gave property that was her mother's to "my loving daughter-in-law [step-daughter], Judith Reynolds." John Palmer, perhaps a brother of William Palmer, though usually given as his son, died at Greenwich prior to 26 Oct. 1672. Application was made for settlement of his estate, 24 Apr. 1724, in which it was stated that he died many years ago and that no settlement had been made. The next of kin were stated as William Palmer, Ephraim Palmer, James Palmer, Joseph Palmer, and Judith Reynolds. John must therefore have been their brother or their uncle; and as the "four" Palmer boys specified in their step-father's will are all accounted for, it is more likely that John was their uncle, and brother of William. Children: 1. William2, m. Mary Tyler, daughter of William and Abigail (Terrill) Tyler of Milford, b. about 1660; they removed to Westchester County, N. Y. +2. Ephraim2, m. Sarah2 Messenger. 3. James2, of Greenwich, d. 28 Feb. 1717; m. Sarah Denham. 4 Joseph2, m. Elizabeth Tyler, b. about 1663, sister of his brother William's wife; they probably removed to Bedford, N. Y. 5. Judith2, m. John Reynolds." SOURCES_MISC: 1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed: -NYG&H Rec V11 & 86. -7 Gen. of Judith's, by A. Gibson. -Gen Frangments, by J.J. Latting. -Feake Fam. Gen, by G. McCrackern (1955). -Ancient Heads of Fam., by Holmes. | Palmer, James (I4782)
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| 4829 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt from biographical notes for Edmund Lockwood (the immigrant) applies to the first generation of American Lockwood descendants of Robert. The quote is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for the full transcription, see the notes of Edmund: "Bibliographic Note: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," "History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]." 2. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978: "Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor. In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about? James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood. In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification. Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry. Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred. The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds. Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.' References: Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.) Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28. Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330. Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80. Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children: 1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch: a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___. b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689. c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____. d. Joseph, - n.f.i. e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter. 2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping. 3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler. b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey. c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue 4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch: a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman. b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson. c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse. 5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch: a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1. b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr. d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y. e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold. f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___. g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord. 6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington. b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford. c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates. d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green. e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg. [KP: Note that there are no sons William and Abraham of Gershom as some have reported.] 7. John, d. 1677, unmarried. 8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow. 9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut. 10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams. 11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp." 3. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: In reference to father's (Gershom Lockwood, Sr.) will: "Adm'n granted, 1 Apr. 1719, to widow Elizabeth and son Gershom. The Inv. mentions 'about 30 acres of Land at Windsor which came to him by his first wife'. Agreement 28 Mar. 1719: Widow Elizabeth; Gershom and Joseph Lockwood of Greenwich, sons of Gershom; Hannah wife of Thomas Hanford of Norwalk and Sarah wife of Benjamin Hecox of Stamford, daus. of Gershom; and John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and David Bates, children of Elizabeth Bates of Stamford dec'd, one of the daus. of Gershom." Also: "Gershom, Deputy for Greenwich, May and Aug. 1710, Oct. 1715, May and Oct 1719, Oct 1720, Oct 1721, May 1723, May and Oct 1724, May and Oct 1726, Sep 1727, May and Jul 1728; Justice; m. Mary (perhaps dau. of John Weed, b. at Stamford, 21 Apr. 1684)." 4. The book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia (see separate notes above about the general unreliability of this book): "Born in Greenwich, CT...Was taxed ₤47 in 1694-95. He was admitted a freeman of the Colony Feb. 7, 1693-94. (Col. Rec. Conn.) 'In A.D.1687 Gershom Lockwood and William Lockwood his brother, agreed during this year to build a bridge across Myanos river at Dumpling pond, and receive in payment "whatever the Town should see fit to give, after the work was done." A good way to insure good workmanship, and at the present day most builders would shrink from such a test.' (Hy. Greenwich, p. 70 {note this may be Mead's History of Greenwich}) His wife was named Mary __. {8 children noted.} Gershom L., of Greenwich, protests Mar. ye 18, 1708, against Rev. Mr. Morgan running a saw-mill." 5. The book: "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before 1692" by James Savage, published by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981, Baltimore, vol.3, p.104: "Gershom, [was in] Greenwich 1672...was living there 20 yrs. later, and had been there 3 yrs. before..." 6. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), p. 243: GERSHOM2 LOCKWOOD (Robert1), born Watertown MA 6 September 1643, died Greenwich CT 12 March 1719; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1659 Anne (?Millington) of Windsor CT, born probably England say 1639, died probably Greenwich before 1697, perhaps daughter of John1 and Sarah (Smith) Millington of Hartford CT; married (2) Oyster Bay LI 3 August 1697 Elizabeth Townsend, born say 1650, died after 1719, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, married (1) there about 1670 (birth 1671) Gideon Wright, born say 1648, died before 1697; married (3) 2 October 1716 Elizabeth (___). He was in Greenwich 1672 (Torrey 470 and 842). Children surname LOCKWOOD: By first wife Ann ?Millington: i. GERSHOM, born Fairfield CT about 1659; married Mary (___ not Weed), born say 1661. ii. HANNAH3, born probably Greenwich CT say 1666, died probably there 28 December 1745; married there about 1686 JOHN3 BURWELL, born Milford CT about 1653, died Greenwich 1 May 1690, son of JOHN2 (JOHN1) and Mary (___) BURWELL; married (2) there 1692 Thomas2 Hanford, born 18 July 1668, died 7 June 1743, son of Thomas1 and his second wife Mary2 (Miles) Hanford (see Burwell Chapter) (Torrey 125 and 341). iiI. ABRAHAM, born probably Greenwich CT about 1669, died Warwick RI 1747; married Sarah Westcott, born say 1671. (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)" 7. The periodical “The American Genealogist,” 91(Jan. 2019):66-75, “Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut, Son of Jonathan2 Lockwood,” by Capers W. McDonald: “Although some of the Lockwood families of Greenwich, Connecticut, prior to the Revolutionary War have been well identified, the relationships and activities of several Greenwich Lockwoods remain unresolved. In a short 1955 TAG article, "The Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich, Conn.," Donald Lines Jacobus noted prevailing confusion over "double lines of Gershorn Lockwoods of Greenwich" living down to the end of the eighteenth century.[1] As an illustration and a correction, Jacobus sketched the following pedigree of seven Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich: Robert1 Lockwood -Jonathan2, d. 1688 = Mary Ferris -Gershom3, d. 1757 = Hannah - -Gershom4, d. 1787 = (1) Mary Sackett; (2) Ann - -Gershom5, 1753- -Gershom2, d. 1718/9 = -- -- -Gershom3, d. bet. 1761 = Ann Millington -Gershom4, d. 1776 = Mary Ferris -Gershom, d. 1796 = Eunice -- Jacobus then wrote, "study of the problems involved has been insufficient to enable us to write a definitive account" of the Gershoms. Instead, he simply presented "brief abstracts of some of the vital, probate and land records which must be used in any consideration of the problems involved." The earliest Lockwoods in Greenwich had first been described in print in 1857 by Daniel Merritt Mead in “A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn., with Many Important Statistics.” They were brothers Gershom2 and Jonathan2 Lockwood (Robert1), listed by Mead among the "twenty-seven proprietors of 1672" who purchased Indian land across the Mianus River, west of the original colonial settlement of Greenwich.[2] Mead mentioned their respective sons-including the fact that each had a son named Gershom-but with little detail. Mead drew on earlier assertions to describe all the Greenwich Lockwoods as "probably descended from Edmund Lockwood ... of Cambridge, Mass."-which was incorrect.[3] The brothers were correctly identified as sons of Robert1 Lockwood, brother of Edmund1, in a full-length genealogy published in 1889, Frederick A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood's “Descendants of Robert Lockwood: Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America” (though unfortunately all of Edmund's actual children were incorrectly stated there to be sons of Robert1).[4] This 1889 Lockwood genealogy was the first to include a treatment of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) and some of his descendants. That account was followed by Spencer Percival Mead (1911),[5] William Richard Cutter (1912),[6] and subsequent authors.[7] Jacobus, who pointed out the "Gershoms" problem in 1955, had previously covered some of the Lockwoods in his 1930 initial volume of “History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.”[8] There Jacobus had listed Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) only by name as a child of Jonathan2, with no subsequent information, and also briefly covered the family of Jonathan2 Lockwood's younger brother Gershom2. In none of these works have the children, landholdings, offices, and other evidence of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) been adequately described. Only by following Donald Lines Jacobus's 1955 guidance and assembly of "vital, probate and land records" has it been possible to produce a sound genealogy of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2). In this article, building on Jacobus's sketch pedigree and record abstracts, some of the several Gershom Lockwoods are disambiguated, with a focus on Gershom3 (Jonathan2). This Gershom settled in the part of Greenwich known as Cos Cob, and his descendants-including the left-hand column in Jacobus's chart-are traced here for two generations, including not only the Gershoms in this branch but their siblings. Among the probate records noted by Jacobus in his 1955 article was the 1733 will of Jabez4 Lockwood (Gershom3, Jonathan2), by which Jabez left land to his parents, Gershom and Hannah, to be distributed after their deaths to Jabez's five named brothers. It is Jabez's will which forms the foundation of the present genealogy of the family of Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob. A necessary first step to establishing the genealogy of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) is a review of the careers of his father and uncle, Jonathan2 and Gershom2 Lockwood, the first Lockwoods in Greenwich. Jonathan was the oldest, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, on 10 September 1634. Gershom, Robert1's sixth recorded child, was nine years younger, born in Watertown on 6 September 1643.[9] The two brothers migrated from Watertown to Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1646, with their father, Robert1 Lockwood.[10] These brothers were named among a total of nine children in Robert's estate inventory in Fairfield in 1658.[11] As young adults, Jonathan2 and Gershom2 settled further west in Greenwich. On 1 January 1656/7, Jonathan Lockwood, along with [his future father-in-law] Jeffrey Ferris,[12] signed an oath in East Towne, New Netherlands (later Westchester County, New York), along with "all the Inhabitants then present," to honor the Dutch "governor of the manatas [Manhattans] as our governor and obay all his magistrates and laws that ar[e] mad[e] a[c]cordin[g] to god so long as we live in his Jurisdiction."[13] Geography of Early Colonial Greenwich For the ensuing account of activities and landholdings of the Greenwich Lockwoods, some understanding of the physical geography and the Indian and colonial political geography is helpful. The "Main Country Road," which ran by Cos Cob, was a segment of the original King's Highway (called the "Post Road" once mail service was established) running mostly east and west through modern Greenwich,[14] while most waterways ran generally north-to-south. From west to east, the four significant local Indian territories in the area of Greenwich were known by the Indian names Poningoe, Petuckquapaug (including the village of Cassacubque, anglicized as Cos Cob), Asamuck, and Patomuck.[15] Furthest west, the Armonck [subsequently Byrarn] River marked what became the border between Connecticut and New York,[16] and defined the westernmost part of Greenwich, Poningoe. As implied by the 1657 oath respecting the Dutch governor noted above, the first colonial title to Poningoe came under a grant to the Dutch West India Company in 1640[17] Next to the east lay Petuckquapaug, between the Minamok[18] and Mianus rivers.[19] Part of Petuckquapaug was later called "Dumpling Pond,"[20] near where two sons of Gershom2 Lockwood built the first bridge over the Mianus River in 1688. The Indian village of Cassacubque, meaning "high rocks" or "a great ledge of rocks," lay near the principal western tributary of the Mianus River known as Strickland's Brook.[21] There, "on the west side of this brook, and close under a rather abrupt eminence … were built three rows of closely collected Indian huts made of bark ... stretching along under a high bluff covered with tall oaks which sheltered the town from the chilling northwest winds. ... On the plain, east of the hamlet and between it and Strickland's Brook, the wood and underbrush had been cleared away and the ground fitted for raising Indian corn."[22] The name was anglicized to "Cos Cob" by 1686/7, when a Greenwich town committee of Lt. Jonathan Lockwood and six other colonists purchased Horseneck Plantation (part of Poningoe, further west) from Indian proprietors.[23] The Second Congregational Church at Horseneck was founded in 1717,[24] and one of the Gershom Lockwoods became a member in 1729."[25] East of the Mianus River were the areas known by the names of their waterways, Asamuck Creek and Patomuck Brook. These areas saw the first English settlement in 1640, later referred to as "Greenwich Old Town."[26] Patomuck Brook became the coastal boundary between Greenwich and Stamford.[27] All of these place names are frequently referenced in the deeds; placing them is essential in differentiating the Lockwood families. Jonathan2 and Gershom2 Lockwood in Greenwich The earliest Greenwich record found for Jonathan2 Lockwood is from a town meeting of 6 May 1669, at which he and four others were appointed (as summarized in Mead's 1911 “Historie of Greenwich”) to assess "Horseneck and the lands thereabouts ... for the settlement of a township" west of the original settlement, between the Mianus and Byram rivers. On 6 February 1670[/1], a committee was appointed, consisting of "Mr. [John] Holley [of Stamford], Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood, John Mead, and Joseph Ferris" to lay out a township upon the land "near Horseneck Brook to the number of thirty lots, four acres to a home lot." A list of twenty-seven proprietors of the town of Greenwich in 1672 included Jonathan and Gershom Lockwood.[28] The original Indian deed for the "Horseneck Plantation" was a sale "unto Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood, Sergt. John Bowers, John Renalds, Senir, John Marshall, Joseph Mead, Senir, John Hubbe, Senir, and John Mead, Senir, which are the towne's committee." As part of the consideration, the Indian leaders received "planting land" which was "fenced in at Cos Cob Neck ... by estimation about thirtie acres" for their use "during their lives and the lives of the children being in number four, and then to be returned to the towne."[29] On 27 April 1675, Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood and six others "were appointed and fully empowered to lay out all the lands lying between the Mianus and Byram rivers, as it lieth below the Westchester Path [Post Road], and in May of the same year Angell Husted was appointed to draw the lots respecting each man's proportion" of these.[30] Jonathan2 Lockwood was among four men "Propownded for freemen of Greenwich" on 12 May 1670.[31] His earliest-known Greenwich land record is an agreement between the town of Greenwich and "Jonathan Lockwood, Sr." dated 19 [month illegible] 1669/70.[32] He was recorded as a deputy for Greenwich during the sessions for May and October 1671, May 1673, October 1674, October 1676, and May 1683.[33] A "Greenwich Properties List for the Year 1672 with the Drafts of the Lands on the Est[ate] List" includes brothers Jonathan2 Lockwood with an estate of £114 and Gershom2 Lockwood with an estate of £90.[34] On 9 May 1672, Jonathan Lockwood and three others were appointed "to measure on an east northeast lyne from Mamorenack River to the west bownds of Fayrefeild ... at the charge of the townes of Norwalke, Standford, Greenwich & Rye."[34] On 8 October 1674, "Lnt. Jonathan Lockwood" and three others were appointed "to runn the lyne between this Colony and the Colony of New York, from Momoronock River to Hudson's River.[36] On 12 May 1681, the Court at Hartford began the founding of Bedford, appointing Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood and three others "to manage, order and dispose of the affayres of that plantation."[37] What serves essentially as the will of Jonathan Lockwood was recorded on 9 May 1688 in the Greenwich land records as a "Deed of Gift." In it, he named his wife and children and distributed land to his children. Gifts were made to five sons, beginning with "son Jonathan being my eldest." "Unto my second son Robert" he granted "halfe my lands and meadows layd out or unlayed out below & above the Contrye roade lying on the west side of Myanos River;" "unto my third son Gershom the other halfe of the above s[ai]d lands & meadows." Others were his "fourth son Joseph" and "son Still John being my youngest."[38] Greenwich landowners listed on 21 May 1688 included Jonathan Lockwood, Jonathan Lockwood Jr., Robert Lockwood, and Gershom Lockwood.[39] Jonathan's widow, Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, married second, as his third wife, Thomas Merritt of Rye, New York. Documentation of her marriage settlement was included with papers relating to her estate, both of which give concrete evidence of her Lockwood children. In the marriage agreement, dated 5 June 1696, "Marah [Mary] Lockwood of Greenwich somtime wife to Leftenant Lockwood Deseased" mentioned her "severall Children by my first Husband namely Jonathan Lockwood: & severall of them being at present in there non age." Mary was dead by 26 January 1707/8, when the probate court in Greenwich ordered an inventory to be made with division of her estate to her [surviving] children "Rob Lockwood Gershom Loc[kwoo]d Joseph Loc[kwoo]d Abagail Backster [Baxter] Still John Loc[kwoo]d." The four sons signed acceptance of the inventory in Greenwich, 31 January 1707/8, as "Natural sonns unto Mrs Mary Merritt."[40] (The oldest son, Jonathan, had died on 9 November 1689.)[41] Jonathan2 Lockwood's children, therefore, were Jonathan, Robert, Gershom, Joseph, Abigail, and Still John Lockwood. They are listed briefly by Jacobus in “Families of Old Fairfield,”[42] and treated more fully, though with errors, in Holden and Lockwood's 1889 Lockwood genealogy.[43] Of the sons, Robert, Gershom, Joseph, and Still John Lockwood all had children in Greenwich. Only Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, this article's subject, is treated in the genealogy below. Gershom2 Lockwood, the only one of Jonathan2 Lockwood's brothers to settle in Greenwich with him, was chosen to fill Jonathan's seats on the various town committees when Jonathan2 died in 1688.[44] Gershom2 "was the principal carpenter and builder in the town."[45] Gershom died in Greenwich, 12 March 1718/9, "aged 77 years."[46] As he was nine years younger than his brother Jonathan, his earliest Greenwich land records are later: 1664/5 (age 21) and 1668.[47] After his brother's death, Gershom2 was the Lockwood patriarch in Greenwich, reflected in an assessment from the years 1694-95, at which his property, held in common with at least one adult son, was valued the highest of any estate in the town: "Gershom Lockwood & Son," at £153 15s.[48] During 1688, construction began on a bridge across the Mianus River at "Dumpling Pond," called "North Mianus" in 1911 by S. P. Mead. "This was the first bridge built in the Town of Greenwich, and was built by Gershom Lockwood and his brother William Lockwood," apparently the two eldest sons of Gershom2 Lockwood.[49] Gershom2 Lockwood's children were listed and discussed briefly by Jacobus in “Families of Old Fairfield” as Gershom, Hannah, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Sarah.[50] William, who predeceased his father, was omitted from Jacobus's account, though all were noted in Holden and Lockwood's 1889 Lockwood genealogy.[51] They also are not followed in this article, but a revised genealogy of that branch of the family is also needed. [The balance of the article is a biography and genealogy of Gershom3 Lockwood, son of Jonathan2 Lockwood, which is a line I do not follow nor transcribe from the article.] Footnotes: 1. Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich, Conn.," TAG 31 [1955): 224-28, at 224. 2. Daniel M. Mead, “A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn., with Many Important Statistics” (New York, 1857), 66-67, the list evidently based upon the original Green- wich town records, vol. 1 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #185372]. 3. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 313-14. The same claim had appeared in Robert Bolton Jr., “History of the County of Westchester,” 2 vols. (New York, 1848, 211, 530; and John Farmer, “A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England” (Lancaster, Mass., 1829), 181. 4. Frederick A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, “Descendants of Robert Lockwood: Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630” (Philadelphia, 1889), 24, 64-70. This book was criticized pointedly by Jacobus in print several times: in a "Lockwood Note," inserted in Lillian Lounsberry (Miner) Selleck [comp. Donald Lines Jacobus], “One Branch of the Miner Family” (New Haven, 1928), 121-24; in "An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder," TAG 33(1955):222-24, immediately preceding his separate note on "The Gershom Lockwoods" [note 1], in which he also criticized Holden and Lockwood; and in another "Lockwood Note," TAG 32(1956):186, following up on points in "An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder." Further criticism of Holden and Lockwood is also found in Harriett Woodbury Hodge, “Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and His Son, Edmund Lockwood (ca. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut” (New York, 1978), and Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633,” 3 vols. (Boston, 1995), 3:1194. 5. Spencer Percival Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut … Being a Revision … and Continuation of the History of the Town of Greenwich Published in 1857 by Daniel M. Mead” (New York, 1911), 30-34, 47-48, 55-56, 465-67, 518-19, 607. 6. William Richard Cutter, “Genealogical and Family History of Central New York,” 3 vols. (New York, 1912), 2:716-17. 7. For example, Frank J. Doherty, “The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York,” 13 vols. to date (Pleasant Valley, N.Y., 1990-), 8:214, shows the lineage of Theophilus4 Lockwood as (Gershom3, Jonathan2, Robert1), perhaps based on Holden and Lockwood, Descendants of Robert Lockwood [note 4]; 24. 8. Donald Lines Jacobus, “History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,” 3 vols. (New Haven, 1930-32), 1:380-82. 9. Robert Charles Anderson et al., “The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,” 7 vols. (Boston, 2003-11), 4:312-13, citing Watertown vital records. 10. Anderson, “Great Migration, 1634-1635” [note 9], 4:308-15 (Robert); Anderson, “The Great Migration Begins” [note 4], 2:1192-94 (Robert's brother Edmund1); Robert Charles Anderson, “The Winthrop Fleet, Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630” (Boston, 2012), 456-58 (Robert's brother Edinund1); S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 607. 11. Jacobus, “Families of Old Fairfield” [note 8], 1:380. 12. The date of Jonathan's (subequent) marriage to Mary Ferris is not known, though her father, Jeffrey Ferris, mentioned his daughter Mary's "husband Jonothon Lockwood" in his will of 6 Jan. 1664 (Anderson, “Great Migration, 1634-1635” [note 91, 2:519). 13. E. B. O'Callaghan, “The Documentary History of the State of New-York,” 4 vols. (Albany, 1849-51), 3558-59. The qualifying phrase, "that are made according to God," had been negotiated and added to preserve autonomy. 14. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich [note 5],” 47, 338. 15. The native tribes in the area "were Siwanoys ... belonging to the great tribe of Mohegans, who were possessed of a great part of Quinnehtuqut (Connecticut)" (John C. Huden, “Indian Place Names of New England” [New York, 1962], 233). See also Bolton, “History of Westchester” [note 3], 1:ix, map at vi-vii; and the Jan Jansson map of 1651 in Philip D. Burden, “The Mapping of North America” (Rickmansworth, U.K., 1996), 390-91. 16. Huden, “Indian Place Names” [note 15], 30; Claude Joseph Sauthier, "A Chorographical Map of the Province of New York" (London, 1779). 17. Bolton, “History of Westchester” [note 3], 2:17. Native names for areas within Poningoe are described in William M. Beauchamp, "Aboriginal Place Names of New York," New York State Museum, Bulletin 108: Archeology 12 (Albany, 1907), 245, 248; Bolton, History of Westchester [note 3], 1:vii (map). 18. Sauthier, "Chorographical Map of New York" [note 16]; Huden, “Indian Place Names [note 15], 114. 19. "Mianus river: in Greenwich and Stamford; and transferred to a village at the junction of this river with Coscob cove. For Mayanno's' - as the river and neck of land were called, from the Indian proprietor, Mayanno or Mehanno, who was killed by Capt. Patrick, in 1643." (J. Hammond Trumbull, “Indian Names of Places Etc., In and On the Borders of Connecticut” [Hartford, 1881], 29). 20. "Petuckquapaug: Dumpling pond, in Greenwich, a 'round pond' (Trumbull, “Indian Names of Places” [note 19], 51); also Huden, Indian Place Names [note 15], 185). 21. "Cassacubque[:] an ancient village near Mianus, Fairfield County, Conn. Possibly Siwanoy, 'high rocks' (Cos Cob)" (Huden, “Indian Place Names” [note 15], 45); also Trumbull, Indian Names of Places [note 19], 8, 12). 22. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 18-20; Bolton, “History of Westchester” [note 15], map; 1651 Janssen map in Burden, “Mapping of North America” [note 15], 390-91. 23. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 31-34, 1 Feb. 1686[/7], rec. 31 July 1701 in "the town records: ... [sale by] Kowaconussa and Kouko, and Querrecqui and Peattun and Pakohchero and Rumppanus ... the true proprietors of all the land ... betweene Mianus River and Biram River." 24. Benjamin Turnbull, "Extracts of Letters to Rev. Thomas Prince," Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford, 1895), 3:313. 25. Spencer P. Mead, "Abstract of Church Records of the Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut" (typescript, Library of Congress, 1913), 1:9 [digitized, archive.org]. 26. "The first settlement of the Town of Greenwich was made on the eighteenth day of July, 1640, when Captain Daniel Patrick and Robert Freaks, formerly of Watertown, Massachusetts, as agents for the New Haven Colony, landed at Greenwich Point" and purchased from the local Sachems several lands between Asamuck Creek and Patomuck Brook (S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 5, 7). 27. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note a], zo. 28. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 30-31. 29. See note 23. 30. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 34. 31. J. Hammond Trumbull and C. J. Hoadly, eds., “The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, [1636-1776],” 15 vols. (Hartford, 1850-90), 2[1665-78]:126, 132. 32. Greenwich, Conn., Deeds, 1:60. 33. Public Records of Connecticut [note 311, 2[1665-781:146-47 (11 May 1671), 159-60 (12 Oct. 1671), 191-92 "Sargt" (8 May 1673); 235-36 "Lnt" (8 Oct. 1674), 286-87 "Lnt" (12 Oct. 1676); 3[1678-89]:114-15 "Lnt" (10 May 1683). 34. Greenwich town records, vol. 1 [unpaginated] [FHL film #185372]. 35. “Public Records of Connecticut” [note 31], 2[1665-78]:168, 174. 36. “Public Records of Connecticut” [note 31], 2[1665-78]:235, 242. 37. “Public Records of Connecticut” [note 3[1678-89]:74, 83. 38. Greenwich Deeds, 1:103, rec. 9 May 1688. 39. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5]; 47-48. 40. Fairfield, Conn., Probate Dist., Estate File Papers, #4202, includes the original marriage settlement [images, ancestry.com]. 41. Selleck, “Miner Family”, 123. 42. Jacobus, “Families of Old Fairfield” [note 8], 1:382. 43. Holden and Lockwood, “Descendants of Robert Lockwood’ [note 4], 8, 18-35. 44. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 47. 45. D. M. Mead, History of Greenwich [note 2], 113. 46. Gravestone, Tomac Burying Ground (Old Cemetery at Sound Beach), Greenwich (photograph, findagrave.com, memorial #21447946; D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 113). 47. Greenwich Deeds, 1:49, 23 March 1664/5; 1:83, 19 Dec. 1668. 48. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 77-79. 49. S. P. Mead, Ye Historie of Greenwich [note 5], 47. 50. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield [note 8], 1:385. 51. Holden and Lockwood, “Descendants of Robert Lockwood” [note 4], 16, 50-61.” BIRTH: 1. The following entry about the first bridge built in Greenwich is from the periodical “The American Genealogist,” 91(Jan. 2019):73-74, “Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut, Son of Jonathan2 Lockwood,” by Capers W. McDonald. It notes that the Gershom2's sons Gershom3 and William3 built the bridge starting in 1688. Assuming that the elder son Gershom would be at least 21, then his birth would calculate to abt 1666 which dovetails just before his sister Hannah's proven birth in Dec. 1667. Considering that Gershom2 was born 6 Sep 1643, this would calculate to a marriage with his first unknown wife in 1665 at about 22. William 3, being younger than Gershom3 would have to dovetail in after Hannah with a birth calculated at about 1669 making him about 19 at the time of construction. This all assumes that S.P. Mead's quote about the bridge as noted in the following quote is accurate. It would make for better calculations if the two brothers were a bit older when they built the bridge, but the context does not allow for it; on the other hand, their father was the town's carpenter and the two boys would certainly have learned the trade from their father starting from a young age. The quote: "Gershom2 Lockwood, the only one of Jonathan2 Lockwood's brothers to settle in Greenwich with him, was chosen to fill Jonathan's seats on the various town committees when Jonathan2 died in 1688.[44] Gershom2 "was the principal carpenter and builder in the town."[45] Gershom died in Greenwich, 12 March 1718/9, "aged 77 years."[46] As he was nine years younger than his brother Jonathan, his earliest Greenwich land records are later: 1664/5 (age 21) and 1668.[47] After his brother's death, Gershom2 was the Lockwood patriarch in Greenwich, reflected in an assessment from the years 1694-95, at which his property, held in common with at least one adult son, was valued the highest of any estate in the town: "Gershom Lockwood & Son," at £153 15s.[48] During 1688, construction began on a bridge across the Mianus River at "Dumpling Pond," called "North Mianus" in 1911 by S. P. Mead. "This was the first bridge built in the Town of Greenwich, and was built by Gershom Lockwood and his brother William Lockwood," apparently the two eldest sons of Gershom2 Lockwood.[49] Gershom2 Lockwood's children were listed and discussed briefly by Jacobus in “Families of Old Fairfield” as Gershom, Hannah, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Sarah.[50] William, who predeceased his father, was omitted from Jacobus's account, though all were noted in Holden and Lockwood's 1889 Lockwood genealogy.[51] They also are not followed in this article, but a revised genealogy of that branch of the family is also needed. Footnotes: 45. D. M. Mead, History of Greenwich [note 2], 113. 46. Gravestone, Tomac Burying Ground (Old Cemetery at Sound Beach), Greenwich (photograph, findagrave.com, memorial #21447946; D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 113). 47. Greenwich Deeds, 1:49, 23 March 1664/5; 1:83, 19 Dec. 1668. 48. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 77-79. 49. S. P. Mead, Ye Historie of Greenwich [note 5], 47. 50. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield [note 8], 1:385. 51. Holden and Lockwood, “Descendants of Robert Lockwood” [note 4], 16, 50-61.” SOURCES_MISC: 1. The book "New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial," comp. William Richard Cutter, Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994, p. 1349. [Has same info as "Lockwood Genealogies".] | Lockwood, Gershom (I1490)
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| 4830 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt from biographical notes for Edmund Lockwood (the immigrant) applies to the first generation of American Lockwood descendants of Robert. The quote is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for the full transcription, see the notes of Edmund: "Bibliographic Note: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," "History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]." 2. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978: "Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor. In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about? James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood. In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification. Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry. Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred. The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds. Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.' References: Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.) Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28. Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330. Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80. Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children: 1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch: a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___. b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689. c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____. d. Joseph, - n.f.i. e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter. 2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping. 3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler. b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey. c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue 4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch: a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman. b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson. c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse. 5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch: a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1. b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr. d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y. e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold. f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___. g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord. 6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington. b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford. c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates. d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green. e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg. [KP: Note that there are no sons William and Abraham of Gershom as some have reported.] 7. John, d. 1677, unmarried. 8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow. 9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut. 10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams. 11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp." 3. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: In reference to father's (Gershom Lockwood, Sr.) "Adm'n granted, 1 Apr. 1719, to widow Elizabeth and son Gershom. The Inv. mentions 'about 30 acres of Land at Windsor which came to him by his first wife'. Agreement 28 Mar. 1719: Widow Elizabeth; Gershom and Joseph Lockwood of Greenwich, sons of Gershom; Hannah wife of Thomas Hanford of Norwalk and Sarah wife of Benjamin Hecox of Stamford, daus. of Gershom; and John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and David Bates, children of Elizabeth Bates of Stamford dec'd, one of the daus. of Gershom." Also "Sarah, b. abt 1679, d. at Wilton, 27(?) Feb 1765 age 86 (gravestone); will 10 Jan 1765, proved 23 Feb 1765; m. (1) (rec. Stamford) 25 Jan 1699/1700, Nathaniel Selleck; m. (2) 3 Feb 1713/4, Benjamin Hickock; m. (3) 9 Mar 1755, Samuel Kellogg of Norwalk." 4. Per the book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia: (Caution! See separate notes above about the unreliability of this book as well as the note above about Abraham not being related to this family even though they shared the same surname.): "Sarah Lockwood, b. abt. 1669, in Greenwich, CT. By her father's will, made Nov. 22d, 1692, she received 'a certain Negro girl being now in my possession.'...m., Jan 25th, 1699-1700, Nathaniel Selleck; son of John and Sarah (Law) Selleck; grandson of David and Susanna ( ) Selleck, from England. (5 children listed born from 1700 thru 1710)" Also noted that Abraham was a "twin brother to his sister Sarah." MARRIAGE: 1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 167: "p. 173 [1:134], Entred p. me, S. Holly, Clark, Nathaniell Selleck and Sarah Lockwood maryed 25 Jenuary 1699/1700." | Lockwood, Sarah (I1463)
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| 4831 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt from biographical notes for Edmund Lockwood (the immigrant) applies to the first generation of American Lockwood descendants of Robert. The quote is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for the full transcription, see the notes of Edmund: "Bibliographic Note: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," "History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]." 2. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978: "Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor. In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about? James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood. In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification. Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry. Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred. The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds. Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.' References: Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.) Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28. Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330. Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80. Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children: 1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch: a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___. b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689. c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____. d. Joseph, - n.f.i. e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter. 2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping. 3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler. b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey. c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue 4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch: a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman. b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson. c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse. 5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch: a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1. b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr. d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y. e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold. f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___. g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord. 6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington. b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford. c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates. d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green. e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg. [KP: Note that there are no sons William and Abraham of Gershom as some have reported.] 7. John, d. 1677, unmarried. 8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow. 9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut. 10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams. 11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp." 3. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: In reference to father's (Gershom Lockwood, Sr.) will: "Adm'n granted, 1 Apr. 1719, to widow Elizabeth and son Gershom. The Inv. mentions 'about 30 acres of Land at Windsor which came to him by his first wife'. Agreement 28 Mar. 1719: Widow Elizabeth; Gershom and Joseph Lockwood of Greenwich, sons of Gershom; Hannah wife of Thomas Hanford of Norwalk and Sarah wife of Benjamin Hecox of Stamford, daus. of Gershom; and John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and David Bates, children of Elizabeth Bates of Stamford dec'd, one of the daus. of Gershom." Also "Elizabeth, d. at Stamford, 23 May 1702; m. (rec. Stamford), 18 Jan 1693/4, John Bates." 4. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), page 148: "John Bates, bc1663, d bef 1752, m1 1694 Elizabeth Lockwood (d1702, d/o Gershom), m2 Sarah Smith (d1727, d/o Daniel), m3 1728 Mrs. Hannah Mead." Other references cited: Harry S. Gorham, "Bates, Selleck, and Allied Families". 5. Per the book "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia (see separate notes above about the general unreliability of this book): "Elizabeth Lockwood: born ___; died May 23d, 1702; m. Jan... 18th, 1693-94, John Bates...(4 children born from 1694 thru 1702)." MARRIAGE: 1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 141; author's notes in ( ): "Page 149 [1:120] Mariage, John Bates & Elizabeth Lockwood, married the 18th of January, 1693/4." DEATH: 1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Volume 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), p. 141: "Page 149 [1:120] Mariage, John Bates & Elizabeth Lockwood, married the 18th of January, 1693/4. Births, John, son to John Bates, born the 6th of November, 1694. Nathanell, son to John Bates, born the 4th of October, 1697. Elizabeth, daughter, born to John Bates the 10th of December, 1699. David, son to John Bates, born the 23 of May 1702. Deth. Elizebeth, wife to John Bates, dyed the 3d of June; deliver of a child 23 May 1702. [Footnote: "Jacobus (TAG 11:1 [July 19341: 36) did not name this child: "diliuer of a child," yet the child that was delivered on 23 May 1702 was David Bates, whose birth is recorded two lines above. The mother, Elizabeth (Lockwood) Bates, died 11 days later on 3 June 1702, possibly due to complications of childbirth."] Mariag, John Bates & Sarah Smith was maried the 28th of Desember, 1702. Birth Nehemiah, son to John & Sarah Bates Junr born the 29 day of March 170[3/]4. Hanah, daughter to John & Sarah Bates, born the 5 of May, early, 1705" | Lockwood, Elizabeth (I3147)
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| 4832 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt from biographical notes for Edmund Lockwood (the immigrant) applies to the first generation of American Lockwood descendants of Robert. The quote is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for the full transcription, see the notes of Edmund: "Bibliographic Note: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," "History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]." 2. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978: "Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor. In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about? James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood. In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification. Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry. Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred. The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds. Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.' References: Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.) Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28. Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330. Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80. Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children: 1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch: a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___. b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689. c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____. d. Joseph, - n.f.i. e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter. 2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping. 3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler. b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey. c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue 4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch: a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman. b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson. c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse. 5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch: a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1. b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr. d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y. e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold. f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___. g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord. 6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington. b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford. c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates. d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green. e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg. 7. John, d. 1677, unmarried. 8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow. 9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut. 10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams. 11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp." 3. From FHL book 929.273-K727kaa: "The Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D.,1800 Columbia Terrace, Peoria, Illinois; 1947. Note the discrepancy from Susannah's supposed married date of 28 May 1661 and death date a year earlier 23 Dec. 1660: '11-G-41. Robert Lockwood, son of 12-G-32. Edmund Lockwood & ? B. At Combs, Co. Suffolk, England. Bapt. Jan. 18, 1600 D. 1658. No will. Inventory 9-11-1658, by John Banks. Wife, Administrator. M. Susannah Norman. 11-G-42. (which see) First 6 children recorded in Watertown." "11-G-42. SUSANNAH Norman, dau. of 12-G-33. Richard Norman & ? of Salem, Mass. D. Dec. 23, 1660, at Greenwich, Conn. M. 1st, Robert Lockwood. 11-G-41. (which see) 2nd, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich. Marriage contract signed 5-28-1661. He d. 1666. He was the guardian of Robert's children. Robert and Susannah had: 1. Jonathan Lockwood, b. 9-10-1634. 2. Deborah Lockwood, b. 10-12-1636. m. 1st, before 10-2-1658, Ensign Williams Ward. 2nd, John Tapping. 3. Joseph Lockwood, b. 8-6-1638. 4. Daniel Lockwood, b. 3-21-1640. 10-G-44. (which see) 5. Ephraim Lockwood, b. 12-1-1641. 6. Gershom Lockwood, b. 9-6-1643. 7. John Lockwood, d. 1677. Single. Inventory about 1677. 8. Abigail Lockwood, m. John Barlow, Jr. 9. Sarah Lockwood, d. 3-1-1650/1. Perhaps 1st wife of Lieut. Abraham Adams. 10. Mary Lockwood, m. 1st, Jonathan Husted, 2nd, Joseph Knapp, of Greenwich, probably. 11. Deborah Lockwood, probably." 4. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson: "Robert Lockwood... Migration:1633. First Residence: Watertown. Removes: Stamford 1646, Fairfield 1650... Estate: ...On 20 October 1658, "the widow Lockwood" presented her husband's inventory, and the court appointed "the widow Susanna Lockwood to be administratrix"; "the deceased having left no will, the Court orders as followeth: that the widow shall have a third part of the state and the rest of the children being nine in number, their names are Jonathan, Joseph, Daniell, Epraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah and Mary, shall have the rest of the estate divided amongst them as followeth, the eldest son Jonathan is to have a double portion only that estate which the said Jonathan received of his father before his death being here made to appear to be fifty-seven pounds, twelve shillings, is to be reckoned to be part of his double portion, and ... the rest of the estate is to be divided among the rest of the children only each of the sons are to have a third part more than [each] of the daughters ...; Deborah being married hath received her portion of her father before his death" [Fairfield PR 1:43]... On 28 May 1661, "whereas Jeffery Ferris by marriage with his wife Susanna now deceased stands engaged to pay certain legacies due to the children of Robert Lockwood deceased according to the administration entered in court 20 October 1658 and whereas he sayeth that Joseph & Daniell hath received their portions already as also that they have received the portions of Epraim & Gershom & that they are to stand engaged to see it paid according to the court order and that he intends at the first opportunity to clear himself thereof at a court and whereas John & the three daughters portions are still in his hand, he having removed out of this jurisdiction and security being demanded, he doth by these presents bind over all his housing and accommodations that he hath in Greenwich that the legacies shall be truly paid" [Fairfield PR 1:65, 67]. On 1 December 1681, "Jonathan Hewsteed of Greenwich having marrying Mary Lockwood the daughter of Robert and Susanna Lockwood" acknowledged having received his wife's portion of her parents' estates from "Daniell Lockwood, Joseph Lockwood and Will[ia]m Ward administrators upon the estate of their father and mother" [Fairfield PR 3:314]. On 28 December 1681, "John Barlowe of Fairfeild," noting that "there was a portion due out of the estate of my father-in-law Robert Lockwood deceased and of the estate of my mother -in-law Susanna Ferris deceased unto she that is now my wife Abigal their daughter, and whereas that my brother-in-law Will[ia]m Ward in his lifetime and my brother-in-laws Joseph and Daniel Lockwood were appointed by the court to administer on the abovesaid estate," acknowledged having received his wife's portion [Fairfield PR 3:313]... Children: i. Jonathan Lockwood, b. Watertown 10 September 1634 [NEHGR 6:380; WaVR 1:3]; m. by 6 January 1664[/5?] Mary Ferris, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris [GM 2:2:519-20]. ii. DEBORAH Lockwood, b. Watertown 12 October 1636 [NEHGR 7:159; WaVR 1:4]; m. (1) by 20 October 1658 William Ward, son of Andrew WARD {1633, Watertown} [GMB 3:1918-21 (which misstates the estimated date of marriage)]; m. (2) by 1678 John Topping [FOOF 1:265, 645 (citing "Marriage agreement between Ebenezer Hawley and Hester Ward, daughter of Mrs. Deborah Topping of Southampton, 19 Apr. 1678")]. iii. Joseph Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 August 1638 [NEHGR 7:160; WaVR 1:5]; m. (1) by an unknown date ___ Beacham, daughter of Robert Beacham (in his will of 24 November 1689, "Rob[er]t Beacham of Maxemas Farms in Fairfeild" included bequests to "my grandchild Robert Lockwood," "my grandchild Susana Lockwood," "my other two grandchildren John and Sarah Lockwood," and made "my loving son-in-law Joseph Lockwood" sole executor [Fairfield PR 4:36]); possibly m. (2) after 1689 Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream, widow of Peter Simpson and John Stream [FOOF 1:383]. iv. Daniel Lockwood, b. Watertown 25 March 1640 [NEHGR 7:162; WaVR 1:8]; m. by about 1669 Abigail Sherwood (eldest known child b. about 1669 [FOOF 1:383]), daughter of Thomas Sherwood [FOOF 1:383, 548-49]. v. EPHRAIM Lockwood, b. Watertown 1 December 1641 [NEHGR 7:281; WaVR 1:9]; m. Norwalk 8 June 1665 Mercy St. John [Norwalk LR 1:49], daughter of Mathias St. John [FOOF 1:513]. vi. GERSHOM Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643 [NEHGR 7:283; WaVR 1:11]; m. (1) ___ ___ ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130]; m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright [Oyster Bay TR 1:515], daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130; FOOF 1:384-85]. vii. John Lockwood, b. say 1646; the inventory of the estate of "John Lockwood" was taken "by us as selectmen of the town of Norwocke in February last Anno 1675 [probably 1675/6]" (including a debt "from the country for wages as a soldier") and presented by Ephraim Lockwood [Fairfield PR 3:23-24]; apparently unm. viii. Abigail Lockwood, b. say 1648; m. by about 1668 John Barlow (eldest known child b. about 1668), son of Thomas Barlow [Fairfield PR 3:313; FOOF 1:29]. ix. Sarah Lockwood, b. say 1650; d. Fairfield 1 March 1650[/1] [CTVR30]. x. Sarah Lockwood, b. Fairfield 27 February 1651[/2?] [CTVR 30]; she may have married Abraham Adams [Connecticut Ancestry 47:130; FOOF 1:9-10]. xi. Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654; m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan Huestis [Fairfield PR 3:314; TAG 30:127-28, 73:204-5]; m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp (on 28 April 1713, "Joseph Knap of the town of Gree[n]wich ... & Mary his wife formerly Mary Heusted relict of Jonathan Heusted of the said Greenwich deceased" deeded to Jonathan Jessup land formerly held by Jonathan Huestis [Greenwich LR 2:85; FOOF 1:317-18]). Associations: ...in the grants of land in the Beaverbrook Plowlands and the Remote Meadows, which were based on household size, Robert Lockwood received six acres. At the date of these grants, in late 1636 and early 1637, the immediate household of Robert Lockwood was four persons (himself, his wife, and his two eldest children)... Comments: ...Although Robert Lockwood created no surviving records during his residence at Stamford, we place him there from 1646 to 1650 for two reasons. First, he left Watertown at the same time that others of that own, especially Nicholas Knapp, made the move to Stamford [GMN:8]. Second, in 1650, when he was already at Fairfield, he sold land in Stamford which had been the proprietary share of the Rev. Richard Denton [Stamford TR 1:41], who had left Stamford prior to 1646. This and would have been the residence of Robert Lockwood during his sojourn at Stamford. In 1654 two members of the family of Robert Lockwood became embroiled in the witchcraft trial of Goody Knapp. On 13 May 1654, "Susan Lockwood, wife of Robert Lockwood," and "Deborah Lockwood, of the age of 17 or thereabout," gave depositions of events on the day of Goody Knapp's execution [NHCR 2:82-83; Witchhunting 74-86]. Bibliographic Note: In 1889 Frederic A. Holden and F. Dunbar Lockwood compiled a genealogy of the descendants of the Lockwood brothers ["Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," Philadelphia 1889)]. In 1927 Clarence A. Torrey identified the wife of this immigrant NYGBR 58:395-96]. Donald Lines Jacobus treated Robert Lockwood and his descendants in the course of his work on the families of Fairfield [FOOF 1:380-87]. In 1978, building on the work of Jacobus and correcting the "Lockwood Family," Harriet Woodbury Hodge published an account of the immigrant Edmund Lockwood, thus correcting earlier accounts of Robert Lockwood ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and His son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978)]. In 1984 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published an account of the agnate descendants of Ephraim Lockwood, son of this immigrant ["Connecticut Ancestry" 27:9-18, 64-70, 141-47]. In 2004 Robert Charles Anderson published a study of this immigrant, concentrating on his English origin, his landholding and the marriages of his children ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:119-30]." 5. The book "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. I," by Donald Lines Jacobus (Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930; reprinted 1991), pp. 380-81: "Lockwood, Robert. Sergt., Fairfield Trainband, May 1657. Came to America about 1630, brother of Edmund; settled in Watertown, Mass.; freeman of Mass. Bay, Mar. 1636/7. Removed to Fairfield about 1646; freeman of Conn., May 1652. Married Susannah, prob. dau. of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris. Inv. 11 Sept. 1658. Widow Susanna to administer; nine children: eldest son Jonathan, Joseph, Daniel, Ephraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah, Mary; Deborah, being married, hath rec'd portion. Jeffrey Ferris agreed to pay portions to the children, and mention was made of what he shall pay William Ward and Joseph and Daniel Lockwood on account of the children. Children, first six recorded at Watertown: Jonathan, b. 10 Sept. 1634. Deborah, b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) before 20 Oct. 1658, Ens. William Ward; m. (2) John Topping, of Southampton, L. I. Joseph, b. 6 Aug. 1638. Daniel, b. 21 Mar. 1640. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec. 1641. Gershom, b. 6 Sept. 1643. John, d. in 1677, unm. Inv. abt. 1677, presented by Ephraim Lockwood. Abigail, m. John Barlow, Jr. He receipted, 28 Dec. 1681, for the portion of his wife Abigail in Est. of father-in-law Robert Lockwood and mother-in-law Susannah Ferris. Sarah, d. 1 Mar. 1650 [1650/1] (Col. Rec.). Sarah, b. 27 Feb. 1651 [1651/2] (Col. Rec.); possibly she was the first wife of Lt. Abraham Adams. Mary, m. (1) Jonathan Husted, of Greenwich, who receipted for her portion, 1 Dec. 1681; m. (2) Joseph Knapp, of Greenwich." 6. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 10-11: "Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight... ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380]. He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris. Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut: i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt. ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING. iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591]. iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line]. v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN. vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned. vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried. viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW. ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1. x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS. xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP." 7. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 241-43: "ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658, son of EdmundA and AliceA or RuthA (Cooper) Lockwood; married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) SUSANNA2 NORMAN, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660, daughter of Capt. RICHARD1 and (___1) NORMAN, married (2) Greenwich about 1659 (between 11 September 1658 and 23 December 1660) as his second wife Jeffrey1 Ferris, born England say 1614, died Stamford CT 1666, married (1) Watertown before 1634 Mary (___), married (3) Stamford about 1663 (birth 1664) Judith Feake (see Norman Chapter) (Torrey 470 and 263). Robert1 came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the "Mary and John", and settled that year in Watertown, made freeman 9 March 1637, and removed to Fairfield in 1646, where he had owned land as early as 1641. On 20 May 1652, he was made freeman of the Connecticut Colony, and May 1657 the Connecticut Court confirmed him and Nehemiah Olmstead to be sergeants of the Fairfield Train Band under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley. He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposedly a brother, in 1635. Children, surname LOCKWOOD: i. Lt. JONATHAN, born Watertown MA 10 September 1634, died Greenwich CT 12 May 1688; married Stamford CT 6 January 1664 his step-sister Mary2 Ferris, born probably Watertown about 1636, died 1708, daughter of Jeffrey1 and Mary1 (___) Ferris, married (2) Greenwich 5 June 1696 as his third wife Thomas1 Merritt, born probably England about 1634, died 1725, married (1) Wethersfield CT 3 December 1656 Jane2 Sherwood, born Stratford CT 1636, died 1685, daughter of Thomas1 and Alice1, (Seabrook) Sherwood, married (2) Rye NY before 20 October 1688 Abigail2 Francis, born 1660, died before 5 June 1696, possibly daughter of Robert and Joan1 (Sipperance) Francis (Torrey 470, 505, 671 and 282). Jonathan signed a paper 1 January 1657 in Easttowne, New Netherland, promising allegiance to the Governor. He moved to Stamford 16 October 1660, and returned to Greenwich in 1665, where he became freeman in 1670, an assistant in 1671, and in 1672 was one of twenty-seven proprietors. He became a prominent citizen of Greenwich, and represented the town in the Legislature four years (Torrey 470 and 505). ii. DEBORAH, born Watertown MA 12 October 1636, died after 1677; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1656 Ensign William2 Ward, born probably England 1631, died 1676, son of Andrew1 and Hester1 (Sherman) Ward; married (2) Southampton LI about 1677 as his second wife John1 Topping of there, born probably England 1636, died Southampton 1686 (Torrey 779 and 727). iii. JOSEPH, born Watertown MA 6 August 1638, died Fairfield CT 1717; married (1) Stamford CT after 1666 (___2), the only child of Robert1 and Isabel1 (___) Beacham), born Ipswich MA say 1642, died 1689; married (2) after 1689 as her third husband Mary2 Coley, born Milford CT 1651, died 1705, daughter of Samuel1 and Ann2 (Prudden) Coley, married (1) there say 1671 Peter1 Simpson, born probably England say 1640, died Milford 1685, married (2) there after 1685 John2 Stream, born there 1657, died there 1689, son of John1 and Martha (Beard) Stream (Torrey 470, 675, 718 and 54). iv. DANIEL, born Watertown MA 21 March 1640, died Fairfield CT 1691; married there about 1668 (birth 1669) Abigail2 Sherwood, born probably Boston MA say 1642, died 1692, probably daughter of Thomas1 and Alice1 (Seabrook) Sherwood. He was in Fairfield in 1667, a freeman there in 1669 (Torrey 470). v. EPHRAIM, born Watertown MA 1 December 1641, died Norwalk CT 1685; married there 8 June 1665 Mercy2 St. John, born probably Windsor CT say 1643, died probably Norwalk January 1694, daughter of Matthias1 and Mary1 (Tinker) St. John. He removed to Fairfield CT with his father in 1646, but later located in Norwalk, where he became freeman in October 1677. His will was dated 13 January 1685, and probated that same year (Torrey 470). vi. GERSHOM, born Watertown MA 6 September 1643. vii. JOHN, born Fairfield CT say 1645, died 1677; unmarried. viii. ABIGAIL, born Fairfield CT say 1647; married there about 1667 John2 Barlow, born there say 1630, died there 1691, son of John1 and Ann1 (___) Barlow (Torrey 42). ix. SARAH, born Fairfield CT say 1649, died there March 1651. x. SARAH, born Fairfield CT 27 February 1652; married there about 1677 as his first wife Lt. Abraham Adams, born there 1650, died there 1729, probably son of Edward1 and Mary (___) Adams (Torrey 3). xi. MARY, born Fairfield CT say 1654; married (1) Greenwich CT by 1681. Jonathan2 Heustad, born there say 1650, died there 1706, son of Robert1 and Elizabeth1 (Miller) Huestad; married (2) there after 1706 Joseph3 Knapp, born there 1664, son of Joshua2 (Nicholas1) and Hannah (Close) Knapp (Torrey 399 and 443). (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)" BIRTH: 1. Not found in the book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011). MARRIAGE: 1. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 380,381: "Abigail, m. John Barlow, Jr. He receipted, 28 Dec. 1681, for the portion of his wife Abigail in estate of father-in-law Robert Lockwood and mother-in-law Susannah Ferris." | Lockwood, Abigail (I3145)
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| 4833 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt from biographical notes for Edmund Lockwood (the immigrant) applies to the first generation of American Lockwood descendants of Robert. The quote is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for the full transcription, see the notes of Edmund: "Bibliographic Note: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," "History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]." 2. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978: "Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor. In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about? James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood. In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification. Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry. Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred. The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds. Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.' References: Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.) Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28. Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330. Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80. Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children: 1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch: a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___. b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689. c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____. d. Joseph, - n.f.i. e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter. 2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping. 3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler. b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey. c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue 4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch: a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman. b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson. c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse. 5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch: a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1. b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr. d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y. e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold. f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___. g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord. 6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington. b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford. c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates. d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green. e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg. 7. John, d. 1677, unmarried. 8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow. 9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut. 10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams. 11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp." 3. From FHL book 929.273-K727kaa: "The Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D.,1800 Columbia Terrace, Peoria, Illinois; 1947. Note the discrepancy from Susannah's supposed married date of 28 May 1661 and death date a year earlier 23 Dec. 1660. Also this author doesn't seem to pick-up on an earlier child Sarah dying in 1651: '11-G-41. Robert Lockwood, son of 12-G-32. Edmund Lockwood & ? B. At Combs, Co. Suffolk, England. Bapt. Jan. 18, 1600 D. 1658. No will. Inventory 9-11-1658, by John Banks. Wife, Administrator. M. Susannah Norman. 11-G-42. (which see) First 6 children recorded in Watertown." "11-G-42. SUSANNAH Norman, dau. of 12-G-33. Richard Norman & ? of Salem, Mass. D. Dec. 23, 1660, at Greenwich, Conn. M. 1st, Robert Lockwood. 11-G-41. (which see) 2nd, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich. Marriage contract signed 5-28-1661. He d. 1666. He was the guardian of Robert's children. Robert and Susannah had: 1. Jonathan Lockwood, b. 9-10-1634. 2. Deborah Lockwood, b. 10-12-1636. m. 1st, before 10-2-1658, Ensign Williams Ward. 2nd, John Tapping. 3. Joseph Lockwood, b. 8-6-1638. 4. Daniel Lockwood, b. 3-21-1640. 10-G-44. (which see) 5. Ephraim Lockwood, b. 12-1-1641. 6. Gershom Lockwood, b. 9-6-1643. 7. John Lockwood, d. 1677. Single. Inventory about 1677. 8. Abigail Lockwood, m. John Barlow, Jr. 9. Sarah Lockwood, d. 3-1-1650/1. Perhaps 1st wife of Lieut. Abraham Adams. 10. Mary Lockwood, m. 1st, Jonathan Husted, 2nd, Joseph Knapp, of Greenwich, probably. 11. Deborah Lockwood, probably." 4. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 380,381: "Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/52 (Colonial Records); possibly she was the first wife of Lt. Abraham Adams." 5. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson: "Robert Lockwood... Migration:1633. First Residence: Watertown. Removes: Stamford 1646, Fairfield 1650... Estate: ...On 20 October 1658, "the widow Lockwood" presented her husband's inventory, and the court appointed "the widow Susanna Lockwood to be administratrix"; "the deceased having left no will, the Court orders as followeth: that the widow shall have a third part of the state and the rest of the children being nine in number, their names are Jonathan, Joseph, Daniell, Epraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah and Mary, shall have the rest of the estate divided amongst them as followeth, the eldest son Jonathan is to have a double portion only that estate which the said Jonathan received of his father before his death being here made to appear to be fifty-seven pounds, twelve shillings, is to be reckoned to be part of his double portion, and ... the rest of the estate is to be divided among the rest of the children only each of the sons are to have a third part more than [each] of the daughters ...; Deborah being married hath received her portion of her father before his death" [Fairfield PR 1:43]... On 28 May 1661, "whereas Jeffery Ferris by marriage with his wife Susanna now deceased stands engaged to pay certain legacies due to the children of Robert Lockwood deceased according to the administration entered in court 20 October 1658 and whereas he sayeth that Joseph & Daniell hath received their portions already as also that they have received the portions of Epraim & Gershom & that they are to stand engaged to see it paid according to the court order and that he intends at the first opportunity to clear himself thereof at a court and whereas John & the three daughters portions are still in his hand, he having removed out of this jurisdiction and security being demanded, he doth by these presents bind over all his housing and accommodations that he hath in Greenwich that the legacies shall be truly paid" [Fairfield PR 1:65, 67]. On 1 December 1681, "Jonathan Hewsteed of Greenwich having marrying Mary Lockwood the daughter of Robert and Susanna Lockwood" acknowledged having received his wife's portion of her parents' estates from "Daniell Lockwood, Joseph Lockwood and Will[ia]m Ward administrators upon the estate of their father and mother" [Fairfield PR 3:314]. On 28 December 1681, "John Barlowe of Fairfeild," noting that "there was a portion due out of the estate of my father-in-law Robert Lockwood deceased and of the estate of my mother -in-law Susanna Ferris deceased unto she that is now my wife Abigal their daughter, and whereas that my brother-in-law Will[ia]m Ward in his lifetime and my brother-in-laws Joseph and Daniel Lockwood were appointed by the court to administer on the abovesaid estate," acknowledged having received his wife's portion [Fairfield PR 3:313]... Children: i. Jonathan Lockwood, b. Watertown 10 September 1634 [NEHGR 6:380; WaVR 1:3]; m. by 6 January 1664[/5?] Mary Ferris, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris [GM 2:2:519-20]. ii. DEBORAH Lockwood, b. Watertown 12 October 1636 [NEHGR 7:159; WaVR 1:4]; m. (1) by 20 October 1658 William Ward, son of Andrew WARD {1633, Watertown} [GMB 3:1918-21 (which misstates the estimated date of marriage)]; m. (2) by 1678 John Topping [FOOF 1:265, 645 (citing "Marriage agreement between Ebenezer Hawley and Hester Ward, daughter of Mrs. Deborah Topping of Southampton, 19 Apr. 1678")]. iii. Joseph Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 August 1638 [NEHGR 7:160; WaVR 1:5]; m. (1) by an unknown date ___ Beacham, daughter of Robert Beacham (in his will of 24 November 1689, "Rob[er]t Beacham of Maxemas Farms in Fairfeild" included bequests to "my grandchild Robert Lockwood," "my grandchild Susana Lockwood," "my other two grandchildren John and Sarah Lockwood," and made "my loving son-in-law Joseph Lockwood" sole executor [Fairfield PR 4:36]); possibly m. (2) after 1689 Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream, widow of Peter Simpson and John Stream [FOOF 1:383]. iv. Daniel Lockwood, b. Watertown 25 March 1640 [NEHGR 7:162; WaVR 1:8]; m. by about 1669 Abigail Sherwood (eldest known child b. about 1669 [FOOF 1:383]), daughter of Thomas Sherwood [FOOF 1:383, 548-49]. v. EPHRAIM Lockwood, b. Watertown 1 December 1641 [NEHGR 7:281; WaVR 1:9]; m. Norwalk 8 June 1665 Mercy St. John [Norwalk LR 1:49], daughter of Mathias St. John [FOOF 1:513]. vi. GERSHOM Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643 [NEHGR 7:283; WaVR 1:11]; m. (1) ___ ___ ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130]; m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright [Oyster Bay TR 1:515], daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130; FOOF 1:384-85]. vii. John Lockwood, b. say 1646; the inventory of the estate of "John Lockwood" was taken "by us as selectmen of the town of Norwocke in February last Anno 1675 [probably 1675/6]" (including a debt "from the country for wages as a soldier") and presented by Ephraim Lockwood [Fairfield PR 3:23-24]; apparently unm. viii. Abigail Lockwood, b. say 1648; m. by about 1668 John Barlow (eldest known child b. about 1668), son of Thomas Barlow [Fairfield PR 3:313; FOOF 1:29]. ix. Sarah Lockwood, b. say 1650; d. Fairfield 1 March 1650[/1] [CTVR30]. x. Sarah Lockwood, b. Fairfield 27 February 1651[/2?] [CTVR 30]; she may have married Abraham Adams [Connecticut Ancestry 47:130; FOOF 1:9-10]. xi. Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654; m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan Huestis [Fairfield PR 3:314; TAG 30:127-28, 73:204-5]; m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp (on 28 April 1713, "Joseph Knap of the town of Gree[n]wich ... & Mary his wife formerly Mary Heusted relict of Jonathan Heusted of the said Greenwich deceased" deeded to Jonathan Jessup land formerly held by Jonathan Huestis [Greenwich LR 2:85; FOOF 1:317-18]). Associations: ...in the grants of land in the Beaverbrook Plowlands and the Remote Meadows, which were based on household size, Robert Lockwood received six acres. At the date of these grants, in late 1636 and early 1637, the immediate household of Robert Lockwood was four persons (himself, his wife, and his two eldest children)... Comments: ...Although Robert Lockwood created no surviving records during his residence at Stamford, we place him there from 1646 to 1650 for two reasons. First, he left Watertown at the same time that others of that own, especially Nicholas Knapp, made the move to Stamford [GMN:8]. Second, in 1650, when he was already at Fairfield, he sold land in Stamford which had been the proprietary share of the Rev. Richard Denton [Stamford TR 1:41], who had left Stamford prior to 1646. This and would have been the residence of Robert Lockwood during his sojourn at Stamford. In 1654 two members of the family of Robert Lockwood became embroiled in the witchcraft trial of Goody Knapp. On 13 May 1654, "Susan Lockwood, wife of Robert Lockwood," and "Deborah Lockwood, of the age of 17 or thereabout," gave depositions of events on the day of Goody Knapp's execution [NHCR 2:82-83; Witchhunting 74-86]. Bibliographic Note: In 1889 Frederic A. Holden and F. Dunbar Lockwood compiled a genealogy of the descendants of the Lockwood brothers ["Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," Philadelphia 1889)]. In 1927 Clarence A. Torrey identified the wife of this immigrant NYGBR 58:395-96]. Donald Lines Jacobus treated Robert Lockwood and his descendants in the course of his work on the families of Fairfield [FOOF 1:380-87]. In 1978, building on the work of Jacobus and correcting the "Lockwood Family," Harriet Woodbury Hodge published an account of the immigrant Edmund Lockwood, thus correcting earlier accounts of Robert Lockwood ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and His son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978)]. In 1984 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published an account of the agnate descendants of Ephraim Lockwood, son of this immigrant ["Connecticut Ancestry" 27:9-18, 64-70, 141-47]. In 2004 Robert Charles Anderson published a study of this immigrant, concentrating on his English origin, his landholding and the marriages of his children ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:119-30]." 6. The book "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. I," by Donald Lines Jacobus (Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930; reprinted 1991), pp. 380-81: "Lockwood, Robert. Sergt., Fairfield Trainband, May 1657. Came to America about 1630, brother of Edmund; settled in Watertown, Mass.; freeman of Mass. Bay, Mar. 1636/7. Removed to Fairfield about 1646; freeman of Conn., May 1652. Married Susannah, prob. dau. of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris. Inv. 11 Sept. 1658. Widow Susanna to administer; nine children: eldest son Jonathan, Joseph, Daniel, Ephraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah, Mary; Deborah, being married, hath rec'd portion. Jeffrey Ferris agreed to pay portions to the children, and mention was made of what he shall pay William Ward and Joseph and Daniel Lockwood on account of the children. Children, first six recorded at Watertown: Jonathan, b. 10 Sept. 1634. Deborah, b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) before 20 Oct. 1658, Ens. William Ward; m. (2) John Topping, of Southampton, L. I. Joseph, b. 6 Aug. 1638. Daniel, b. 21 Mar. 1640. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec. 1641. Gershom, b. 6 Sept. 1643. John, d. in 1677, unm. Inv. abt. 1677, presented by Ephraim Lockwood. Abigail, m. John Barlow, Jr. He receipted, 28 Dec. 1681, for the portion of his wife Abigail in Est. of father-in-law Robert Lockwood and mother-in-law Susannah Ferris. Sarah, d. 1 Mar. 1650 [1650/1] (Col. Rec.). Sarah, b. 27 Feb. 1651 [1651/2] (Col. Rec.); possibly she was the first wife of Lt. Abraham Adams. Mary, m. (1) Jonathan Husted, of Greenwich, who receipted for her portion, 1 Dec. 1681; m. (2) Joseph Knapp, of Greenwich." 7. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 10-11: "Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight... ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380]. He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris. Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut: i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt. ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING. iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591]. iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line]. v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN. vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned. vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried. viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW. ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1. x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS. xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP." 8. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 241-43: "ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658, son of EdmundA and AliceA or RuthA (Cooper) Lockwood; married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) SUSANNA2 NORMAN, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660, daughter of Capt. RICHARD1 and (___1) NORMAN, married (2) Greenwich about 1659 (between 11 September 1658 and 23 December 1660) as his second wife Jeffrey1 Ferris, born England say 1614, died Stamford CT 1666, married (1) Watertown before 1634 Mary (___), married (3) Stamford about 1663 (birth 1664) Judith Feake (see Norman Chapter) (Torrey 470 and 263). Robert1 came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the "Mary and John", and settled that year in Watertown, made freeman 9 March 1637, and removed to Fairfield in 1646, where he had owned land as early as 1641. On 20 May 1652, he was made freeman of the Connecticut Colony, and May 1657 the Connecticut Court confirmed him and Nehemiah Olmstead to be sergeants of the Fairfield Train Band under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley. He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposedly a brother, in 1635. Children, surname LOCKWOOD: i. Lt. JONATHAN, born Watertown MA 10 September 1634, died Greenwich CT 12 May 1688; married Stamford CT 6 January 1664 his step-sister Mary2 Ferris, born probably Watertown about 1636, died 1708, daughter of Jeffrey1 and Mary1 (___) Ferris, married (2) Greenwich 5 June 1696 as his third wife Thomas1 Merritt, born probably England about 1634, died 1725, married (1) Wethersfield CT 3 December 1656 Jane2 Sherwood, born Stratford CT 1636, died 1685, daughter of Thomas1 and Alice1, (Seabrook) Sherwood, married (2) Rye NY before 20 October 1688 Abigail2 Francis, born 1660, died before 5 June 1696, possibly daughter of Robert and Joan1 (Sipperance) Francis (Torrey 470, 505, 671 and 282). Jonathan signed a paper 1 January 1657 in Easttowne, New Netherland, promising allegiance to the Governor. He moved to Stamford 16 October 1660, and returned to Greenwich in 1665, where he became freeman in 1670, an assistant in 1671, and in 1672 was one of twenty-seven proprietors. He became a prominent citizen of Greenwich, and represented the town in the Legislature four years (Torrey 470 and 505). ii. DEBORAH, born Watertown MA 12 October 1636, died after 1677; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1656 Ensign William2 Ward, born probably England 1631, died 1676, son of Andrew1 and Hester1 (Sherman) Ward; married (2) Southampton LI about 1677 as his second wife John1 Topping of there, born probably England 1636, died Southampton 1686 (Torrey 779 and 727). iii. JOSEPH, born Watertown MA 6 August 1638, died Fairfield CT 1717; married (1) Stamford CT after 1666 (___2), the only child of Robert1 and Isabel1 (___) Beacham), born Ipswich MA say 1642, died 1689; married (2) after 1689 as her third husband Mary2 Coley, born Milford CT 1651, died 1705, daughter of Samuel1 and Ann2 (Prudden) Coley, married (1) there say 1671 Peter1 Simpson, born probably England say 1640, died Milford 1685, married (2) there after 1685 John2 Stream, born there 1657, died there 1689, son of John1 and Martha (Beard) Stream (Torrey 470, 675, 718 and 54). iv. DANIEL, born Watertown MA 21 March 1640, died Fairfield CT 1691; married there about 1668 (birth 1669) Abigail2 Sherwood, born probably Boston MA say 1642, died 1692, probably daughter of Thomas1 and Alice1 (Seabrook) Sherwood. He was in Fairfield in 1667, a freeman there in 1669 (Torrey 470). v. EPHRAIM, born Watertown MA 1 December 1641, died Norwalk CT 1685; married there 8 June 1665 Mercy2 St. John, born probably Windsor CT say 1643, died probably Norwalk January 1694, daughter of Matthias1 and Mary1 (Tinker) St. John. He removed to Fairfield CT with his father in 1646, but later located in Norwalk, where he became freeman in October 1677. His will was dated 13 January 1685, and probated that same year (Torrey 470). vi. GERSHOM, born Watertown MA 6 September 1643. vii. JOHN, born Fairfield CT say 1645, died 1677; unmarried. viii. ABIGAIL, born Fairfield CT say 1647; married there about 1667 John2 Barlow, born there say 1630, died there 1691, son of John1 and Ann1 (___) Barlow (Torrey 42). ix. SARAH, born Fairfield CT say 1649, died there March 1651. x. SARAH, born Fairfield CT 27 February 1652; married there about 1677 as his first wife Lt. Abraham Adams, born there 1650, died there 1729, probably son of Edward1 and Mary (___) Adams (Torrey 3). xi. MARY, born Fairfield CT say 1654; married (1) Greenwich CT by 1681. Jonathan2 Heustad, born there say 1650, died there 1706, son of Robert1 and Elizabeth1 (Miller) Huestad; married (2) there after 1706 Joseph3 Knapp, born there 1664, son of Joshua2 (Nicholas1) and Hannah (Close) Knapp (Torrey 399 and 443). (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)" | Lockwood, Sarah (I3141)
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| 4834 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt from biographical notes for Edmund Lockwood (the immigrant) applies to the first generation of American Lockwood descendants of Robert. The quote is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for the full transcription, see the notes of Edmund: "Bibliographic Note: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," "History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]." 2. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978: "Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor. In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about? James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood. In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification. Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry. Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred. The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds. Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.' References: Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.) Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28. Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330. Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80. Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children: 1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch: a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___. b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689. c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____. d. Joseph, - n.f.i. e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter. 2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping. 3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler. b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey. c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue 4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch: a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman. b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson. c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse. 5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch: a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1. b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr. d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y. e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold. f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___. g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord. 6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington. b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford. c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates. d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green. e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg. [KP: Note that there are no sons William and Abraham of Gershom as some have reported.] 7. John, d. 1677, unmarried. 8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow. 9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut. 10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams. 11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp." 3. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: In reference to father's (Gershom Lockwood, Sr.) will: "Adm'n granted, 1 Apr. 1719, to widow Elizabeth and son Gershom. The Inv. mentions 'about 30 acres of Land at Windsor which came to him by his first wife'. Agreement 28 Mar. 1719: Widow Elizabeth; Gershom and Joseph Lockwood of Greenwich, sons of Gershom; Hannah wife of Thomas Hanford of Norwalk and Sarah wife of Benjamin Hecox of Stamford, daus. of Gershom; and John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and David Bates, children of Elizabeth Bates of Stamford dec'd, one of the daus. of Gershom." Also: "Joseph, d. at Greenwich in 1748; will 16 Dec. 1748, proved 2 Jan 1749; m. (perhaps Sarah Green, b. at Stamford, 19 Apr 1684, dau. of Benjamin Green whose will 1725 named dau. Sarah Lockwood)." MARRIAGE: 1. There appears to be some uncertainty of whether Sarah Green was the wife or not of Joseph Lockwood. See the following quotes: A. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: "Joseph (Lockwood), d. at Greenwich in 1748; will 16 Dec. 1748, proved 2 Jan 1749; m. (perhaps Sarah Green, b. at Stamford, 19 Apr 1684, dau. of Benjamin Green whose will 1725 named dau. Sarah Lockwood)." Same book, p. 235: "Benjamin had a dau. Sarah bapt. at Fairfield, 10 May 1696." B. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), page 164: "Sarah Green, b1684, m1727 Joseph Lockwood." Note in book: "The two Sarahs (dau. of John Green and dau. of Benjamin Green may be wrong in regards to their husbands." Also references Paul W. Prindle records. C. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978: "Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green." [See full transcript in separate note above.] 2. According to transcript of will in separate note above, there is no living wife mentioned meaning that he was probably a widower at time of death. DEATH: 1. The book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia. (Caution! See separate notes above about the general unreliability of this book): "Born in Greenwich, Ct. He died between Dec. 16th, 1748, and Jan. 2d, 1749. Will Dec 16th, 1748. Inventory ₤12,052,11,0...Will proved Jan. 2d, 1748-49 - 17 days after it was made... (7 children mentioned in his will [and no wife]). Joseph Lockwood's Will: 'In the name of GOD, amen! December the 16th, A.D. 1748. I Joseph Lockwood of Greenwich in the County of Fairfield, in the Colony of Conn., being of week and low state of Body and daily expecting my death, but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to GOD for the same, do ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say, principally and first of all I commend my soul into the hand of GOD that gave it, nothing doubting but that at the general resurrection I shall be raised Soul and Body, Through the Merits of Jesus Chuirst to glory, and as touching such of my worldly goods wherewith it hath pleased GOD to bless me in this life, I give Bequeath and Bestow in manner and form as followeth, vizt: after my just debts and funeral charges are paid, I give and bequeath my whole estate in the following manner: I give to my 3 sons, vizt: Daniel Lockwood, Joseph Lockwood and Eliphalet Lockwood all my houses, buildings, land and rights of lands, I have or ought to have in Greenwich aforesaid and elswhere, to be by them equally divided, Respect to be had to the quality of the Land each shall have, and he that has not so good land as the other to have it made up in quantity, and if either of said sons should die, before he is 21 years of age, then ye other two, to have his share, or if two dies before they are of 21 years of age then the surviving one to have all lands and my Will is my said sons should Loveing agree in ye dividing my said lands, but if they can't agree, then my Will is that the Court of Probate for the district of Stamford, appoint two or three able men to divide my lands among ye said sons, which division shall be binding and entered in the Probate records. Item: I give to my two daughters Sarah Mead and Abigail Adams, ₤10, old Tenor money to paid by my Executors out of my moveable estate. Item: I give to Epenetus Webb, the child which Ephenetus Webb had by my daughter Elizabeth deceased, Đ10, old Tenor money out of my moveable estate to be paid when the said Epenetus comes to be 21 years of age. Item: I give unto my daughter Hannah all the Pewter and Brass in my house, also two beds, and furniture, also 3 good cows, also all the money I have in Mr. John Lloyd's hands of Stamford, to be hers forever. What is due to the said Lloyd, I order to be paid out of the other part of my moveable estate, not yet disposed of. Item: I give the remainder of my estate not before disposed of, to be equally divided between my 3 sons and my daughter Hannah Lockwood; And I do appoint my two sons Daniel Lockwood and Joseph Lockwood my Executors for my estate, and I do hereby utterly revoke all and every other and former Will and Testament, holding this my only Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal ye day and year before expressed. Joseph Lockwood (seal) Signed, Sealed, premised and Delivered to be the last Will and Testament of the said Joseph Lockwood in presence of Ephraim Bostwick, John Holly, Daniel Marshall. Said Joseph Lockwood's will was proved by the Hon. Jonathan Hoit, Judge of Probate, Jan. 2d. 1748-49. The inventory amounted to ₤12,052,11s, as follows: Real estate ₤10,725, s0,d0 and Personal estate ₤1327, s11, d0. Copied by Fred'c A. Holden, just 130 years after it was proved, viz.: Dec. 21st, 1878. By adding 12 days for the new style it was 'as on this day' 130 years ago." | Lockwood, Joseph (I1457)
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| 4835 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpt from biographical notes for Edmund Lockwood (the immigrant) applies to the first generation of American Lockwood descendants of Robert. The quote is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for the full transcription, see the notes of Edmund: "Bibliographic Note: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," "History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]." 2. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978: "Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor. In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about? James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood. In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification. Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry. Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred. The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds. Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.' References: Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.) Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28. Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330. Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80. Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children: 1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch: a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___. b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689. c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____. d. Joseph, - n.f.i. e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter. 2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping. 3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler. b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey. c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue 4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch: a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman. b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson. c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse. 5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch: a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1. b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr. d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y. e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold. f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___. g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord. 6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.) a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington. b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford. c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates. d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green. e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg. [KP: Note that there are no sons William and Abraham of Gershom as some have reported.] 7. John, d. 1677, unmarried. 8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow. 9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut. 10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams. 11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp." 3. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: In reference to father's (Gershom Lockwood, Sr.) will: "Adm'n granted, 1 Apr. 1719, to widow Elizabeth and son Gershom. The Inv. mentions 'about 30 acres of Land at Windsor which came to him by his first wife'. Agreement 28 Mar. 1719: Widow Elizabeth; Gershom and Joseph Lockwood of Greenwich, sons of Gershom; Hannah wife of Thomas Hanford of Norwalk and Sarah wife of Benjamin Hecox of Stamford, daus. of Gershom; and John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and David Bates, children of Elizabeth Bates of Stamford dec'd, one of the daus. of Gershom." Also "Hannah, m. (1) abt 1686, John Burwell (Will of John Burwell, last day of Apr. 1690; wife Exec'x; Child; if wife should be with Child; father Gershom Lockwood, and cousin John Browne of Newark, N.J., overseers.); m. (2) Thomas Hanford." Same book p. 258: "Will of Hannah, 21 Feb 1744/5, proved 14 Jan 1745/6..." 4. Per the book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia (see separate notes above about the general unreliability of this book): "Hannah Lockwood, b. 1667, in Greenwich, CT, and died Dec. 28th, 1745, 78 years old...m., 1st (abt. 1686), John Burwell, soon after his arrival in America, from the parish of Bovington, Hemel Hempstead, England. He settled in Greenwich, CT. He died May 1st, 1690; m., 2d (abt. 1692), Thomas Hanford, (born 1668). He was schoolmaster in Greenwich, Feb. 21st, 1692, and received Đ1, 10s. per month for teaching. He was born born July 18th, 1668 (Hy. Norwalk, 187), and died 7 Jun, 1743, aged 75 years. Son Rev. Thomas and Mary Hanford, of Norwalk, CT. This may was the widow of Jonathan Ince, of New Haven, CT. Children from first husband: Hannah Burwell, born Mar. 30, 1687; m. John Betts; and a dau. died young. (Book has no record of children from second marriage.)" This same book has a lengthy story about Hannah who married John Betts or Beets who was to inherit a tremendous fortune in England. The story has alot of intrigue including disappearing gravestones and so forth. See hard copy file for complete story. 5. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), p. 243: GERSHOM2 LOCKWOOD (Robert1), born Watertown MA 6 September 1643, died Greenwich CT 12 March 1719; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1659 Anne (?Millington) of Windsor CT, born probably England say 1639, died probably Greenwich before 1697, perhaps daughter of John1 and Sarah (Smith) Millington of Hartford CT; married (2) Oyster Bay LI 3 August 1697 Elizabeth Townsend, born say 1650, died after 1719, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, married (1) there about 1670 (birth 1671) Gideon Wright, born say 1648, died before 1697; married (3) 2 October 1716 Elizabeth (___). He was in Greenwich 1672 (Torrey 470 and 842). Children surname LOCKWOOD: By first wife Ann ?Millington: i. GERSHOM, born Fairfield CT about 1659; married Mary (___ not Weed), born say 1661. ii. HANNAH3, born probably Greenwich CT say 1666, died probably there 28 December 1745; married there about 1686 JOHN3 BURWELL, born Milford CT about 1653, died Greenwich 1 May 1690, son of JOHN2 (JOHN1) and Mary (___) BURWELL; married (2) there 1692 Thomas2 Hanford, born 18 July 1668, died 7 June 1743, son of Thomas1 and his second wife Mary2 (Miles) Hanford (see Burwell Chapter) (Torrey 125 and 341). iiI. ABRAHAM, born probably Greenwich CT about 1669, died Warwick RI 1747; married Sarah Westcott, born say 1671. (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)" MARRIAGE: 1. Marriage to Thomas Hanford had to be before 1700 since oldest daughter, Catherine, was married in 1719. | Lockwood, Hannah (I512)
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| 4836 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpts about the wives and children of Thomas Spencer are from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of Thomas Spencer for full transcript): "...Hannah, b. Hartford 15 April 1653 [CTVR 31]; said to have married (1) George Sexton, (2) Daniel Brainerd and (3) Jonathan Chapman, but the secondary sources are vague and uncertain, and the evidence for these marriages has not been found..." 2. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.: "Sgt. Thomas Spencer, son of Gerald and Alice bp. Mch 29, 1607 (Eng.) died Sept. 11, 1687, mar/1 ( ). Mar/2 Sept 11, 1645 (HTR) Sarah Bearding dau. of Nathaniel Bearding. Early member 1st Church [of Hartford]. Name on Founders Monument [in Hartford]. Children by 1st marriage: Elizabeth, bp. Mch 26, 1648 (HTR) m. Samuel Andrews. Hannah, b. Apl 25, 1653 (HTR) m/1 Geroge Sexton, m/2 Daniel Brainerd (See Brainerd Gen., p. 32). Marah/Mary, b. May 18, 1655 (HTR). Martha, b. Mch 19, 1657-8 (HTR), m. Andrew Benton. Gerald, m. Hannah Pratt. Sarah, m. Thomas Huxley. Children by 2nd marriage: Obadiah, m. Mary Disbrough. Thomas of Enfield, m. Esther Andrews. Samuel. Cambridge; freeman May 14, 1634; removed in 1639 to Hartford, where he was an original proprietor; his home lot in 1639 was on the east side of Main St., near what is now the junction of Main and Windsor Sts.; served in the Pequot War; chimney viewer 1650; constable north side 1658; surveyor of highways 1672; was sergeant of the train band 1650, and received in 1671 a grant of 60 acres 'for his good service in the country'." 3. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., pp. 162-63: "Hannah [Spencer], b. 15 Apr. 1653; m. (1) George Sexton, Jr.; m. (2) 29 Nov. 1698, Daniel Brainerd, Sr." | Brainerd, Daniel (I4432)
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| 4837 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpts about the wives and children of Thomas Spencer are from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of Thomas Spencer for full transcript): "...Hannah, b. Hartford 15 April 1653 [CTVR 31]; said to have married (1) George Sexton, (2) Daniel Brainerd and (3) Jonathan Chapman, but the secondary sources are vague and uncertain, and the evidence for these marriages has not been found..." 2. Did not find this individual in the book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed. There was, however, a George Sexton born a generation later than Hannah Spencer showing different wives. 3. Possibly the George listed below; however, the dates may be to far off. Quote in Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 677: "George Sexton (Saxton), of Windsor and Westfield, was a contemporary of Richard of Windsor, and probably his brother. That he was not a son, appears from the setttlement of the widow of Richard. - 'Gen Ct. Rec.' The earliest mention thus far found of him is in 'Rec. of Deeds' (i. 33) at Springfield, Mass., in a deed from Thomas Cowper to George Sexton, 'now resident at Windsor,' of lands at Warrnoke river, 10 Jun 1663. On the 'Windsor Records' is the following: 'John, the son of George Sexton, was born at Windsor, 26 May 1673.' The date of George Sexton's removal to Westfield, Mass., appears from the following entry in 'Springfield Records': 'Jonathan Alford, aged 70, and John Fowler, aged 67, say that Ambrose Fowler and George Sexton, formerly of Westfield, now deceased, were possessed of land there above 46 years ago,' etc., dated 10 Jan 1717, which places the date of his removal at about 1671. By a deed recorded at Springfield (Vol. II, 73), George and Catherine Sexton convey land in Westfield to their sons Joseph and Benjamin, in consideration of the sum of ₤160, dated 25 Jan 1687/8, and by an instrument signed by George Sexton, Jr. 'sometime of Westfield, but now of Newtown, on Long Island, son and heire to George Sexton of Westfield, lately deceased, consenting to the before mentioned writing made by my honored father' to my brothers Joseph and Benjamin, and dated 31 Oct 1690, it appears that George Sexton, Sen'r, died between 1688 and 1690. Children: A. George. B. Joseph, b. 1666. C. Benjamin. D. Daniel, b. 9 Dec 1680, Sarah Bancroft. E. John, b. 26 May 1673. F. James, m. (1) Hannah Fowler; (2) Annah Gilbert. [Kerry's note: This is Anna Bancroft who was married first to Gilbert.] G. Gershom." 4. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., pp. 162-63: "Hannah [Spencer], b. 15 Apr. 1653; m. (1) George Sexton, Jr.; m. (2) 29 Nov. 1698, Daniel Brainerd, Sr." | Sexton, George (I2298)
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| 4838 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpts about the wives and children of Thomas Spencer are from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of Thomas Spencer for full transcript): "...Samuel, b. about 1639 (if he is the Samuel who d. Windham 8 January 1726/7 aged about 88 [NEHGR 105:198], and if that age at death is not exaggerated); m. by about 1684 Sarah ____ (estimated b. of first child [TAG 27:167])..." 2. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., p. 167: "Samuel2 Spencer (Thomas1), born about 1643, died at Windham, Conn., 8 Jan. 1726/7, aged "about 88" married Sarah ___, born about 1660, died at Windham, 15 Apr. 1733, aged about 73. He was the heir of his uncle, Barnabas Derifield of Braintree, Mass., and lived there for some years before settling in Windham. In assigning approximate dates of birth for Samuel and his brothers, we are assuming that the statement of his age at death was exaggerated. Even if our guess is right, it makes him over 40 at the birth of his first known Child; if the Windham record is precise, it makes him about 46 at that time. Children, the daughters baptized at Braintree: i. John3, b. (say 1684); d. 5 Apr. 1772. ii. Sarah, bp. 5 Sept. 1686; m. at Windham, 16 Sept. 1708, John Crane. iii. Hannah, bp. 7 Sept. 1689; m. at Windham, 22 Nov. 1766 in 78th yr.; is. there, 28 June 1715, Gershom Palmer." | Sarah (I3146)
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| 4839 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following partial excerpts about the wives and children of Thomas Spencer are from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of Thomas Spencer for full transcript): "Thomas Spencer... Migration: 1633 First Residence: Cambridge Removes: Hartford 1636... Estate: ...In his will, dated 9 September 1686 and proved 26 October 1687, "Thomas Spencer Senior of Hartford, ... finding the shadows of the evening are stretching over me," bequeathed to "my eldest son Obadiah ... my housing and land in Hartford, all my lands both meadow and upland on west side and east side of the Connecticut River" in Hartford (he paying certain legacies), along with some personal goods; to "my son Thomas" £15, of which he hath £5; to "my son Samuel (he having received a good portion of his uncle) all my wearing apparell"; to "my son Jarrad my shop & tools & £12, all of which are in his hands"; residue to "my five daughters Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary and Martha, to be equally divided to them by their brother my son Jarrad"; "my son Obadiah Spencer my executor"; "Capt. Allyn, Lieut. Caleb Standly and my cousin Samuel Spencer" overseers [Hartford PD Case #5095; Manwaring 1:365]... Marriage: (1) After 2 November 1634 Anne Dorryfall, sister of Barnaby Dorryfall [NEHGR 105:197-99]. "Anne Dorifall, aged 24," sailed on the Elizabeth of Ipswich in 1634 [Hotten 281] and was admitted to Boston church 2 November 1634 as "Ann Derifall, our brother Wm. Coddington's maid servant" [BChR 19]. She died by 1645. (2) Hartford 11 September 1645 Sarah Bearding [HaVR 606], daughter of Nathaniel Bearding of Hartford. Children: With first wife i Obadiah ("eldest son"), b. say 1635; m. by about 1666 Mary Disborough (estimated b. of first Child), daughter of Nicholas Disborough [TAG 27:166, 38:209]. ii Thomas, b. say 1637; m. by about 1666 Esther Andrews (estimated b. of first Child), daughter of William Andrews [TAG 27:166-67, 35:57]. iii Samuel, b. about 1639 (if he is the Samuel who d. Windham 8 January 1726/7 aged about 88 [NEHGR 105:198], and if that age at death is not exaggerated); m. by about 1684 Sarah ____ (estimated b. of first child [TAG 27:167]). With second wife iv Sarah, b. say 1646; m. by 1667 Thomas Huxley (on 26 March 1667 John Winthrop Jr. treated "Huxlye, Sarah, above 20 years, wife of Tho[mas] Huxly of Hartford & daughter of Sergeant Tho[mas] [S]penc[er] of Hartford" [WMJ 710]). v Elizabeth, bp. 26 March 1648 [HaVR 579]; m. by about 1668 Samuel Andrews, son of William Andrews [TAG 35:55-59]. vi Jared, b. say 1650; m. Hartford 22 December 1680 Hannah Pratt, daughter of John [HaVR Barbour 301]. vii Hannah, b. Hartford 15 April 1653 [CTVR 31]; said to have married (1) George Sexton, (2) Daniel Brainerd and (3) Jonathan Chapman, but the secondary sources are vague and uncertain, and the evidence for these marriages has not been found. viii Mary, b. Hartford 18 May 1655 [CTVR 32]; m. Westfield 7 October 1675 Thomas Root [Pynchon VR 31]. ix Martha, b. Hartford 19 March 1657[/8] [CTVR 31]; m. by 1677 Andrew Benton (b. of first Child), son of Andrew Benton [TAG 27:163; NEHGR 60:301-2 (evidence for this marriage not presented in either source)]... Comments: On 7 September 1652 Thomas Spencer undertook to pay the fine of Sarah Spencer [RPCC 112]." 2. From various Worldconnect databases as of 21 Sep 2007: Will of Barnabas Derifield of Braintree, MA proved 1680 helps confirm that Thomas Spencer's first wife was a sister to Barnabas. Barnabas gave estate to kinsman [his nephew] Samuel Spencer who was to give Samuel's brothers Obadiah and Thomas 40 shillings each. Since these are the 3 sons of Sergt. Thomas by 1st wife and since will of Sergt. Thomas cuts off son Samuel with little with the statement, "he having rec. a good portion from his Uncle." (See N.E. Reg. Jul 1951). See also Thomas Spencer's will in his notes. The following is a biographical summary on Barnaby Dorryfall, the brother of Ann, from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III: "Barnaby Dorryfall Origin: Unknown Migration: 1633 First Residence: Boston Removes: Braintree Occupation: Inventory shows only agricultural activity at a subsistence level. Church Membership: Admitted to Boston church as member #155, which would be before 6 August 1633, but probably not much before [BChR 16]; on 24 May 1640 "our brother Barnabas Dorryfall" was recommended to Braintree church [BChR 29]. Freeman: 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:372]. Education: Signed will by mark. Inventory includes books worth five shillings. Estate: On 30 November 1635 the town of Boston ordered that "such as have allotments for habitations allotted unto them shall build thereon before the first of the first month next called March," and on 21 March 1635/6 "Barnabie Dorryfall" was included in a list of twenty-five who had failed to comply and therefore forfeited the allotment [BTR 5,9]. On 1 July 1637 Samuel Wilbore was granted land "at the side of Barnabie Dorryfall's houseplot and garden" [BTR 19], and on 1 June 1638 Wilbore was authorized to sell this land, it being described as "adjoining to that was Barnaby Derryfall's" [BTR 34]. On 2 July 1639 the town of Boston granted land at Mount Wollaston (Braintree) to William Needham, describing it as "over against Barnaby Dorryfall's land, beyond Mr. William Coddington's brook" [BTR 41]. In 1655 Edward Baker and Daniel Salmon were involved in a dispute with the undertakers of the ironworks at Lynn. The undertakers had acquired large tracts of land at Braintree, also for the production of iron, and in payment of debt some of this land was transferred to Baker and Salmon, including thirty acres which "the said undertakers bought and sometimes was the land of Barnaby Derreford" [SLR 2:266-70]. (Pope misinterpreted this instrument as implying that Dorryfall was a proprietor of Lynn in 1655.) In his will of 28 January 1680/1 "Barnabas Derifall now of Brantery" bequeathed to his kinsman Samuel Spencer that half of his estate already in Spencer's possession, and after his (Dorryfall's) decease the other half, Spencer to pay to his two brothers Obadiah and Thomas Spencer within twelve months forty shillings apiece; the will was proved 10 March 1680/1, but was declared imperfect for failure to name an executor, whereupon Samuel Spencer was named to this office [SPR 6:350]. The administrator's bond was not executed until 23 April 1681 [SPR NS 4:8]. The inventory, presented to court on 10 March 1680/1, totalled £206, of which £151 was real estate: house, barns, outhouses and land adjoining, £80; ten acres of land at the furnace pond, £26; fifteen acres of land adjoining to the common, £20; and five acres land at Salter's farm, £25 [SPR 9:34]. Birth: Probably about 1615 Death: Braintree 2 February 1680/1 [BrVR 657]. Marriage: By an unknown date Elizabeth ____, who died at Braintree 16 September 1679 [BrVR 657]. Children: None recorded. Associations: Mrs. William C. Clark, "Who Was the First Wife of Thomas Spencer of Hartford, Conn.?" [NEHGR 105:197-99], demonstrates that the Anne Derrifall who came to New England in 1634 was the first wife of Thomas Spencer, and sister of Barnaby Dorryfall, and mother of the three Spencer brothers named in Barnaby Dorryfall's will. (See also TAG 27:162.) Comments: Savage suggested that Dorryfall came to New England in 1633 on the Mary and Jane along with William Coddington: Dorryfall is admitted to Boston church just before Coddington's wife, who was brought over on this ship; Ann Dorryfall, who came in the following year and was admitted to Boston church as Coddington's servant, was thought (correctly) to be Barnaby's sister; and Barnaby removed to Braintree at about the same time as Coddington. This all seems very likely, and would suggest an origin for both Barnaby and Ann Dorryfall in the neighborhood of Boston, Lincolnshire. Barnaby's year of birth is estimated on the assumption that he was a young, single man, when he came to New England, perhaps a servant of William Coddington. He could have joined the church at age sixteen, but he could not become a freeman until age twenty-one, which may explain the delay of that event until 1636. Jacobus suggests that Anne Dorryfall was born about 1610 [TAG 27:162], but based on the suggested ages of her sons, her status as a servant in 1634, and her admission to church in the same year, her birth year may be closer to 1618." 3. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., pp. 162-63: "Sergt. Thomas1 Spencer, baptized at Stotfold, Beds, England, 29 Mar. 1607, died at Hartford, Conn., 11 Sept. 1687; will 9 Sept. 1637; married first, Ann Derifield, born about 1610; married second, at Hartford, 11 Sept. 1645, Sarah Bearding, who died before 1674, daughter of Nathaniel Bearding. The will of Barnabas Derifield of Braintree, Mass., proved in 1680, gave all his estate to his kinsman Samuel Spencer, who was to pay to his brothers Obadiah and Thomas Spencer 40s. each. Since these were the three sons of Sergt. Thomas by his unidentified first wife, and since the will of Sergt. Thomas cuts off his son Samuel with little, "he having received a good portion from his Uncle," it follows that the first wife was sister of Barnabas Derifield. Full details of this connection will appear in an article by Mrs. W. C. Clark in New England Hist. and Gen. Register (July 1951). The will of Sergt. Thomas Spencer made his "cousin" Samuel Spencer [his nephew, No. 10] an overseer. Children by first wife: i. Obadiah2, b. ca. 1639; d. May 1712. ii. Thomas, b. ca. 1641; d. 23 July 1689. iii. Samuel, b. ca. 1643; d. 8 Jan. 1726/7. Children by second wife: iv. Sarah, b ca. 1646; d. 24 Oct. 1712; m. Thomas Huxley, who d. at Suffield, 21 July 1721. v. Elizabeth, bp. 26 Mar. 1648; m. Samuel Andrews, bp. at Hartford, 21 Oct. 1645, d. there Jan. 1711/12, son of William and Elizabeth. vi. Jared (Gerard), b. ca. 1650-1; d. 1712. vii. Hannah, b. 15 Apr. 1653; m. (1) George Sexton, Jr.; m. (2) 29 Nov. 1698, Daniel Brainerd, Sr. viii. Mary, b. 18 May 1655; d. at Westfield, Mass., 4 Nov. 1690; m. 7 Oct. 1675, Thomas Root, who d. 16 Aug. 1709, son of John. ix. Martha, b. 19 Mar. 1658; m. Andrew Benton, bp. at Milford, 12 Aug. 1653, d. at Hartford, 5 Feb. 1703/4." 4. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, pp.159-160: "Another possible "time marker" for Thomas was his marriage to Ann Derifall. Ann was a maid servant in the family of William Coddington, a powerful figure in the MBC (Massachusetts Bay Company) both in England and in New England. Ann did not reach New England until 1634 and probably first lived with her brother Barnabas Derifall at Braintree (just south of Boston). The Coddingtons had a home in Braintree, hence the likely Derifall-Coddington connection. Coddington proved to be a strong dissident in the Puritan church and a supporter of Anne Hutchinson. As a result of the split, Coddington removed to Rhode Island in 1638. This event seems to tie in well for the probable marriage date of Thomas Spencer and Ann Derifall because their first child was born about 1639." [KP note: The birth of the first child is not documented in 1639 and other writers purport an earlier date for that birth.] 5. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, pp. 105-106: "Since the achievement of "Freemanship" was so important a designation, how was such a distinction attained in the Puritan society? First of all, Freemanship was entirely dependent upon membership in the Church, which in turn was dependent on a "Confession of Faith". This latter step constituted an important hurdle to overcome before attaining the desired goal. In its essentials, the Confession required each candidate to recount step by step how he or she had arrived at a "saving grace". Fortunately, the MBC maintained full records of the names and dates of those persons who attained the status of Freemen in the various communities under the jurisdiction of the General Court. These dates give important clues as to the presence of individuals in each community. It does not necessarily indicate time of arrival, because "Confession of Faith" often required months and even years to be attained. In the following tabulation for attainment of "Freeman", we will list only the names of the Spencer siblings or individuals possibly related in future generations as collateral families. The other names are included because they were prominent in the affairs of the MBC. 16 May 1631 - a total of 18, including William Spencer, Timothy Tomlyns (husband of Elizabeth Spencer). 1 April 1633 - a total of 78, including Rev. Thomas Hooker, Thomas Spencer, James Parker 4 March 1634 - many, including Mr. William Andrews Robert Parker. 6 March 1635 - many, including Joseph Andrews 6 May 1635 - many, including Robert Andrews, George Phelpes. 26 May 1636 - many, including Barnaby Deryfall (Derifield) brother to Ann Deryfall first wife of Sgt. Thomas1 Spencer. Also Mr. William Coddington for whom Ann Deryfall worked as a maid servant. 9 March 1637 - Gerrett (Gerard1) Spencer. 17 May 1637 - John Hanchet. March, 1638 - Michael Spencer 3 May 1638 - Thomas Sweetman, whose daughter Rebecca married Michael Spencer, son of Michael. Michael's son owned the land on which the famous Harvard yard is now located. 13 March 1638 - Mr. Joseph Peck, Mr. Robert Peck. 13 May 1640 - William Andrews. There were two Freemen in Cambridge bearing this name, one being a ship captain. 2 June 1641 - William Parker." 6. The periodical "Connecticut Nutmegger," by Jack T. Spencer, CSG, "The Families Linked to Sgt. Thomas Spencer, a Co-Founder of Hartford," vol. 29, pp. 14-27: "I. BACKGROUND Sgt. THOMAS1 SPENCER was one of the "Four Spencer Brothers" of Bedfordshire, England, who were among the earliest settlers of New England and who almost certainly were passengers in the earliest vessels of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 or 1631. THOMAS1 was the second oldest of the Spencer Brothers. The older was WILLIAM1 SPENCER (1601-1640). The two youngest brothers were MICHAEL1 SPENCER (1611-1653) and GERARD SPENCER (1614-c.1683). There also was a sister, ELIZABETH1 SPENCER (1602- ) who came to New England as the wife of TIMOTHY TOMLYNS and settled at Lynn, Massachusetts. The male Spencer siblings (William, Thomas, Michael, Gerard) first settled at Newe Towne (Cambridge, Massachusetts.) A few years later the two older brothers, along with other pioneers, became co-founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Michael and Gerard eventually settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, but Gerard made another move in later years to become the "patriarch" of Haddam, Connecticut. All of the Spencer siblings were born at Stotfold, co. Bedfordshire, England. Their parents were GERARDA SPENCER (1576- ) and ALICE WHITBREAD SPENCER. These Spencers were descendants of a long line of this surname in Bedfordshire whose ancestry can be traced back with certainty to the middle of the 14th century. Tracing the general lineage to even earlier times, we know that the original ancestors came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066 and participated in the Battle of Hastings. In the ensuing two or three centuries, the "Despencers" ranked among the highest of the Norman nobility, sometimes gaining and sometimes losing (their lives) for this close relationship. In earlier publications (see reference list), we have described the important activities undertaken by WILLIAM1 SPENCER in the founding of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the first Town Clerk of Cambridge and later served as a "Selectman" for several years. William played even more important roles for the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company, especially in regard to surveying and setting the boundary lines for many of the towns under the control of the Court. For many years he served as a Deputy representing Newe Towne at the frequent meetings of the General Court in Cambridge and in Boston. As for ELIZABETH1 SPENCER, we already have documented the activities of her husband, TIMOTHY TOMLINS (see reference list), who was a co-founder of Lynn, Massachusetts in 1630. Timothy, like William Spencer, was a prominent leader in Lynn and served as a Deputy to the General Court and in many other civic and military capacities before his untimely death about 1645. II. THE FAMILY OF SGT. THOMAS1 SPENCER The Family of THOMAS1 SPENCER (1607- 1687) and two wives: 1) ANN DERIFALL (1610- ) and SARAH BEARDING (d. before 1674). Ann was a sister of Barnabas Derifall of Braintree, MA. Sarah was the daughter of Nathan Bearding of Hartford. Ann married Thomas ca. 1638; Sarah married Thomas on 11 Sept. 1645 at Hartford. Thomas d. 1 Sept. 1687 at Hartford. Children by Ann Derifall: OBADIAH2 SPENCER (Thomas1, GerardA, MichaelB, JohnC-D, RobertE, JohnF, RobertH, ThomasI, HenryJ), b. ca. 1639 at Hartford, CT. Took Freeman's Oath at Hartford 20 May 1658. m. MARY DISBOROUGH, dau. of Nicholas Disborough. Mary d. before 1709. They had children. d. May 1712 at Hartford, CT. THOMAS2 SPENCER (Thomas1), b. ca. 1641 at Hartford, CT. m. ESTHER2 ANDREWS. She d. 6 Mar 1698 at Suffield. Esther was the dau. of William1 and Abigail (Graves) Andrews of Hartford, CT. d. 23 July 1698 at Suffield, CT. SPENCER2 (Thomas1) b. ca. 1643 at Hartford, CT. m. SARAH ___ (ca. 1660-1733). She d. at Windham, CT. d. 24 Oct 1727 at Windham, CT. Children by Sarah Bearding SARAH2 SPENCER (Thomas1) b. ca. 1646 at Hartford, CT. m. THOMAS HUXLEY at Suffield, C. He d. 21 July 1721 at Suffield. A dau. Elizabeth Huxley m. James King, who was. b. 14 Mar 1675 at Ipswich, MA. James d. 15 July 1757 at Suffield. He had a large landed estate. d. 24 Oct. 1712. ELIZABETH2 SPENCER (Thomas1) b. bp. 26 Mar 1648 at Hanford, CT. m. SAMUEL2 ANDREWS of Hartford, brother of Esther2 Andrews who m. Thomas2 SPENCER. Samuel Andrews was the son of William1 Andrews and Abigail (Graves) Andrews of Hartford. Samuel d. Jan 1712 at Hartford. d. ? GERARD2 SPENCER (Thomas1). b. ca 1651 at Hartford, CT. m. HANNAH PRATT (1658-1692) on 22 Dec 1680. She was dau. of John Pratt, d. 1712 at Hartford, CT. HANNAH2 SPENCER (Thomas1) b. 15 April 1653 at Hartford, CT. m. (1) GEORGE SEXTON, Jr. m. (2) DANIEL Brainerd, Sr. Nov. 1698. d. 1713. MARY2 SPENCER (Thomas1), b. 18 May 1655 at Hartford, CT. m. THOMAS ROOT, 7 Oct 1675. He was of Westfield, MA., son of John Root. He d. 16 Aug. 1709. d. 4 Nov. 1690 at Westfield, MA. MARTHA2 SPENCER (Thomas1). B. 19 Mar 1658 at Hartford, CT. m. ANDREW BARTON (BENTON), Jr (1653-1704). He was the son of Andrew Barton Sr., Andrew Jr. d at Hartford, 5 Feb 1704. All of the children of Sgt. Thowas1 Spencer was born at Hartford, CT, between 1639 and 1658. When the last child was born in 1658, Sgt. Thomas was 51 years of age. ANN DERIFALL, who was mother of the first three children, was born about 1610 in England. The year of birth probably is quite accurate since Ann was listed as age 24 on the passenger list of the "Elizabeth" which sailed from Ipswich, co. Essex, the last of April 1634 (Tepper). The exact year of Ann's death is unknown, although it probably can be set down as 1645 judging by the approximate date of Sarah Bearding's first child in 1646. Ann Derifall was only about 35 years of at the time of her death. Our interest in the Spencer ancestral line, ultimately will focus on the second son of THOMAS1 SPENCER, that is, THOMAS2 SPENCER, who was born in Hartford about 1641 and died in Suffield, CT. in 1689. THOMAS2 married ESTHER2 ANDREWS of Hartford. III. THE RELATIVES OF ANN DERIFALL AND HER ASSOCIATION WITH WILLIAM CODDINGTON OF RHODE ISLAND A careful search of the IGI (International Genealogical Index, 1990) offers no useful clue to the immediate relatives of Ann Derifall in England. The fact that Ann Derifall sailed from Ipswich in eastern England in 1634 has inclined historians to believe that she was perhaps a native of East Anglia. Indeed, there were Derifalls who lived in Little Baddow, co. Essex, which was the residence of Rev. THOMAS HOOKER when he left for New England in 1633. Of interest is the fact that BARNABAS DERIFALL came to New England in that same year, although there is no evidence that he was a member of the BRAINTREE COMPANY sponsored by Rev. Hooker. The discovery of the connection between the DERIFALLS and the SPENCERS in Connecticut can be credited to Mrs. William C. Clark who published a genealogical study in 1951 in the NEHGS Register. This report proved that Barnabas Derifall of Braintree, Massachusetts, was a brother of Ann Derifall. In the will of Barnabas Derifall prepared in 1680, he named three Spencer brothers (OBADIAH2, THOMAS2, SAMUEL2) as beneficiaries of his estate. These clearly were the same names as the sons of Ann Derifall and Thomas Spencer. Savage states that Barnabas "Doryfall" came to Boston in the "Mary and Jane," probably on the same ship with WILLIAM CODDINGTON and his second wife, MARY MOSLEY. Not only did Barnabas Derifall have this contact with Coddington, but the latter also owned property at Braintree where Barnabas was an original proprietor. William Coddington originally was a native of Boston, Lincolnshire, a city often associated with the names of the earliest Pilgrim fathers. Coddington was a powerful figure in the contingent of Puritan leaders who came to America in the very first vessels of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. Besides the Derifalls who lived in co. Essex (Little Baddow), there also were families with this surname who lived in London in the area of St. Bride, Fleet Street. The time scale (IGI) was the late 1500's and early 1600's. There were Coddingtons in the same district in this period. We do know also, that William Coddington was in London in 1632, but was postponing his return to New England until 1633 because his new wife was expecting a child. Mary Mosley was a native of the Chelmsford area in co. Essex. Thus, we have more than one possible scenario for the contact between Barnabas Derifall and William Coddington. Perhaps they had first made contact in London prior to the departure for New England in the "Mary and Jane" in 1633 or they became acquainted later during the actual voyage. However, as we now note above, the Derifalls at Little Baddow in co. Essex could have made their first Puritan connections with the Rev. Thomas Hooker rather than William Coddington. ANN DERIFALL did not come to New England until 1634 and it is recorded that she became a maid servant to the family of William Coddington, an association not too surprising when we note the close contacts her brother Barnabas must have enjoyed with the Coddington family. Barnabas lived the entire remainder of his life at Braintree until his death in 1680. He became a member of the Boston church in 1633 (year of his arrival) and was elected to Freeman in 1636. His lands were located chiefly in what is now West Quincy, Massachusetts. Barnabas Derifall had no children. As a final note in the history of William Coddington, he retained his properties at Braintree until 1638, at which time he removed to Rhode Island along with the followers of Anne Hutchinson as a result of religious differences with John Winthrop and other Puritan leaders in Boston and Cambridge. This date of 1638 for Coddington's departure coincides well with the marriage of Ann Derifall to Thomas Spencer and with the sale of his property in Cambridge and his departure for Hartford. The Pequot War of 1637 had become history and Thomas joined other veterans of that war in occupying lots on Sentinel Hill in Hartford. A new life had begun for Sgt. Thomas Spencer and Ann Derifall. William Coddington, too, had begun a new life in Rhode bland which eventually would lead him to be Governor of that new colony for several terms. IV. UNRAVELING THE SPENCER-ANDREWS-GRAVES-BEARDlNG CONNECTIONS The second wife of Sgt. Thomas Spencer was SARAH2 BEARDING (BARDING) of Hartford, Connecticut. Since Sarah's father; NATHANIEL BEARDING, also appears in the records as the husband of ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS-BEARDING, some writers have overlooked the fact that Sarah Bearding had no blood relationship to Abigail her stepmother. We shall present one chart of the ANDREWS-GRAVES-BEARDING-SPENCER connections so that the reader can understand more clearly exactly what happened among the various intermarriages. The first list on the left shows the children descended from WILLIAM ANDREWS, while the list on the right shows the one child (Sarah) of NATHANIEL1 BEARDING. Sandwiched between these two lists are the descendants of THOMAS1 SPENCER and his two wives, ANN DERIFALL and SARAH BEARDING. Connecting lines indicate the intermarriages… [The author has a chart titled "Interrelations of the Andrews-Graves-Bearding-Spencer Families in Cambridge and Hartford." The relationships can be simply reduced down to the following: (1) Nathaniel1 Bearding's second wife was Abigail Graves, who married as William1 Andrews as his second wife. (2) Nathaniel1 Bearding and Abigail Graves had a daughter Sarah Bearding who married Thomas1 Spencer as his second wife. (3) William1 Andrews and Abigail had a daughter Esther2 Andrews who married Thomas1 Spencer's son Thomas2 Spencer, whose mother was Ann Derifall, the first wife of Thomas1 Spencer.] THE CHRONOLOGY OF FAMILY INTERRELATIONSHIPS 1634. WILLIAM1 ANDREWS is first mentioned in the history of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wife #1 was Mary Britton. One child was born about 1632 (John), one in 1634 (Abigail), one in 1636 (Elizabeth), and one in 1638 (Thomas). 1637. WILLIAM1 ANDREWS and his first wife emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut. 1638. William Andrews has a son, THOMAS1 ANDREWS, born in Hartford. This was the last of the four children born to wife number one. 1638-1641. Somewhere in this interval, the first wife of William Andrews dies at Hartford. 1641. William Andrews marries ABIGAIL GRAVES at Hartford (IGI records). The first child, ESTHER2 ANDREWS, is born to William's second wife. 1645. The second child, SAMUEL2 ANDREWS, is born to William Andrews and Abigail (Graves) Andrew. This year also saw the marriage of THOMAS2 SPENCER and SARAH BEARDING, daughter of NATHANIEL BEARDING. 1659. WILLIAM1 ANDREWS dies at Hartford. 1660(?). ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS marries NATHANIEL BEARDING of Hartford. From this chronological arrangement, we can see clearly that ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS was a stepmother to SARAH BEARDING and that no genetic relationship existed. When SAMUEL2 ANDREWS married ELIZABETH2 SPENCER, these individuals had no genetic connections despite the fact that Abigail Graves was the mother of Samuel2 Andrews and the step-grandmother Elizabeth2 Spencer. Likewise, when Esther2 Andrews and Thomas2 Spencer were married, no genetic connection existed since Thomas2 Spencer was the son of Ann Derifall and Esther was the daughter of Abigail (Graves) Andrews. We have gone into considerable detail to explain these relationships since a cursory examination of the lineage might lead one to some mistaken conclusions. Perhaps the key which finally clarified the relationships was the discovery in the IGI records of the marriage of Wlliam1 Andrews to Abigail Graves in Hartford in 1641. V. THE EARLY HISTORY OF WILLIAM1 ANDREWS OF CAMBRIDGE AND HARTFORD Besides the unusual familial relationships among the ANDREWS-GRAVES-BEARDING-SPENCER coalition, there have been some mystifying genealogical questions about the ancestors and immediate relatives of Williarn1 Andrews. There was a large number of immigrants with the surname of ANDREWS who came to New England in the "Great Migration" of the 1630's. Their probably were nearly a half dozen "William Andrews" settling in various towns under the control Massachusetts Bay Company including Newe Towne (Cambridge), Charlestown, Lynn, and Salem. New Haven also was the location for at least one Andrews. The William Andrews of Cambridge, of course, is the main focus of our interest because he was the parent of ESTHER2 Andrews who married THOMAS1 SPENCER. Some historians, however, have confused the William1 Andrews of Cambridge with other men holding the same Christian name. In order to settle this question, a careful study was made of at least four important records on the history of Cambridge and Hartford. This list included "History of Cambridge" by L.R. Paige; the so-called "Proprietors Records of Cambridge" beginning in 1630; the "History of Hartford" by Love; and finally the many references found in the International Genealogical Index (1991 edition). These combined references confirm that WILLIAM1 ANDREWS was one of the earliest settlers at Cambridge and that he was the only William Andrews there up to the end of 1637. In September of 1637. William Andrews sold all of his property to Samuel Shepherd and moved on to Hartford, Connecticut. Love confirms that William Andrews was at Hartford in 1637. Why has so much confusion prevailed in the literature regarding the two wives of William1 Andrews of Cambridge and Hartford? We believe most of the fault can be attributed to the erroneous statements Pope in "The Pioneers of Massachusetts" published in Boston in 1900. Pope had a correct date (25 Sept 1637) for William's sale of his property in Cambridge. However, Pope's statements regarding the death of "wife Mary d. Jan 19. 1640" and a second marriage to Reanna James of Watertown seem to have no connection whatever to our own William Andrews of Cambridge and Hartford. Apparently Pope followed the trail of some other William Andrews, of whom there were several in the Massachusetts Bay area. The Paige "History of Cambridge" mentions WILLIAM1 ANDREWS in only three places in the early part of the book. William was in a list of inhabitants in 1634 and again on a list of 1635. On 23 November 1635, William is identified as a "Selectman" and appointed to the position of Constable. There the story ends except for the sale of his property in September of 1637. One of the better histories of the descendants of William1 Andrews of Cambridge is to be found in "Colonial Ancestors," edited by Edward Little. Here, however, the identification of William's history at Cambridge adopts Pope's version which as we have seen is quite erroneous. There are literally hundreds of William Andrews to be found in England in the early 1600's (IGI), but one entry was found in Lincoln of Lincolnshire where a William Andrews had married a MARY BRITTON on 16 May 1631. St. Botolph (IGI-C0003). Since the first child of William1 Andrews was born about 1632, the chronological fit is almost perfect. Although William1 Andrews was first mentioned in the Cambridge History in 1634 there is a strong likelihood that he was there earlier and that his first child (John2) was born in Newe Towne about 1632. Incidentally, co. Lincolnshire was the scene of much early activity by the Puritans, including the imprisonment of several leaders in the city of Boston before the Pilgrim fathers fled to Holland. Since William1 Andrews was in the direct line of the Suffield (CT) Spencer and the Spencer pioneers of the Western Reserve of Ohio (Portage County), it is important to highlight the details of his life in Hartford (subsequent to his Cambridge experiences). As we have noted, William and his first wife emigrated from Newe Towne (Cambridge) Hartford in 1637. Although they appear not to have been in the original Hooker group which went to Hartford in 1635 and 1636. William was still considered an original proprietor and a founding father of the city. This is evidenced by the proprietor list of 3 Jan 1640 which gave the names of those inhabitants who had a right to undivided lands (Love). William Andrews had an allocation of 30 acres, while Thomas1 Spencer was listed with 14 acres. It seems that NATHANIEL BEARDING was not rated as a "standard" proprietor because his name was on a list for only 6 acres and was included with those individuals granted lots "at the town's courtesy, with liberty to fetch wood and keep swine or cows by proportion on the common." During his lifetime in Hartford, William Andrews appears not to have been among the primary leaders of the community. It seems clear, however, that he had been well educated for his time judging by his appointment as one of the first teachers in the town in 1643. He was a member of a jury in 1644 and in 1651 was appointed to the post of Town Clerk. We are reminded of William1 Spencer who held a similar post in Newe Towne as well as Hartford (albeit the latter post was very brief). William Andrews remained as Town Clerk until the time of his death in 1659. In his will dated 1 April 1659, William1 Andrews seems to have left more authority in the hands of his wife, ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS, than was customary for the time (in contrast perhaps to the will of William1 Spencer who died in 1640). Essentially, Abigail Andrews was to remain in control of all the property in Hartford. In case of her remarriage, however, most of the property was to pass to their children. Abigail was to retain the power of Executrix. Based on these limitations, it seems clear that Abigail did not transfer much wealth to her second husband, Nathaniel1 Bearding, due to the restrictions imposed in the will of her first husband. V. THE BEARDING CONNECTION IN HARTFORD As to the history of the BEARDINGS (BARDING, BERDEN) in England, there are not many useful clues. Every county in England reported in the IGI (International Genealogical Index) was surveyed for possible leads. In no instance was there found the surname of "Bearding" or "Barding." There were, however, numerous records of BERDEN in many of the northern, central, and southern counties of England. This leads to the conclusion that the Nathaniel1 Bearding (Barding) of Hartford probably originated with the surname of BERDEN in England. As for the NATHANIEL1 BEARDING of Hartford, his origin remains largely obscured. There is no indication of his being an early resident of Cambridge in the company of Hooker, but he does appear on the list of Hartford settlers in 1640 and Savage even lists him at Hartford in 1636. Nothing seems to be known of his lineage in England. A still more mysterious aspect of Nathaniel is that there is no known official record of a marriage prior to that with ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS. We are certain, however, that his daughter, SARAH2 BEARDING, was by Nathaniel's first wife rather than his second wife (see the chronological chart). Nathaniel Bearding died at Hartford on 14 Sept 1674. The will of Nathaniel Bearding, dated 7 Jan 1673, is preserved in Manwaring's Probate Records. The principal beneficiaries included his widow, Abigail (Graves) Andrews-Bearding, and Thomas1 Spencer (the elder, a son-in-law). Nathaniel provided for all of his daughter's six children (wife of Thomas1 Spencer). Nathaniel also named SAMUEL2 ANDREWS as a legatee, a child by his wife's first marriage to William1 Andrews. Nathaniel was mindful also of the fact that Samuel was married to ELIZABETH2 SPENCER, one of Nathaniel's granddaughters. Nathaniel had an omission in his will. He did not name ESTHER2 ANDREWS. There also was one rather unusual inclusion, the name of which was the name of JOHN2 ANDREWS, a son by the first wife of William1 Andrews. John2 Andrews was not a blood relative to either Nathaniel or Abigail, but undoubtedly he must have been raised by Abigail Graves after she married William Andrews in 1641 in Hartford. Although ESTHER2 (ANDREWS) SPENCER was not under the will of Nathaniel Bearding, she was named in her mother's nuncupative will when Abigail died in 1683. Abigail also named Esther's brother, SAMUEL2 ANDREWS, as a beneficiary. VI. THE RELATIVES OF ABIGAIL GRAVES IN CAMBRIDGE AND HARTFORD The early records of Newe Towne (Cambridge) and New Haven indicated that there were other immigrants with the GRAVES surname, but their relationship to ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS remained unknown until a will of ANN GRAVE was published by H.F. Waters in 1907. ANN GRAVE of England was a resident of "St. Bultolph without Aldgate" London. Three of the beneficiaries in her will made in 1675 were "GEORGE GRAVE the elder of Hartford in Connecticut in New England and JOHN GRAVE of Guilford in the County of New Haven in New England and to their own natural sister also in New England..." The evidence seems very clear that ANN GRAVE of London had been married to a sibling of ABIGAIL, GEORGE, and JOHN GRAVE. There were several immigrants with the GRAVES surname in the early 1630's in New England, but with a positive identification of GEORGE GRAVES and JOHN GRAVES as siblings of ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS, we can review the historical literature on these two individuals. The first mention of GEORGE GRAVES is found in Paige's "History of Cambridge" where his property is mentioned as located almost on the boundary between Newe Towne (Cambridge) and Charlestowne in 1633. Actually, George's property was within the limits of Newe Towne, but he is never mentioned again in Paige's voluminous history. Love in his "History of Hartford" identifies GEORGE GRAVES as one of the founders in 1636, which would place him among the main Thomas Hooker group which arrived that year. Also, George Graves may well have brought his sister Abigail from Newe Towne since she did not marry WILLIAM1 ANDREWS until 1641 (IGI record). In the record of "Land Distributions in Hartford" for the ensuring years, there were at least 30 references to DEACON GEORGE GRAVES and at least two references to his son, "MARSHALL" GEORGE2 GRAVES. "Deacon" George Graves was married twice. The IGI (B0142) lists a marriage of George Grave and "Anne Kyne" on 21 Sept. 1623, co. Herts, "Much Haddam." The second marriage was to Sarah Ventres (Kenneth Graves) who was the mother-in-law of Deacon's son George. It seems probable that George-2 and John-2 were born in England, based on the fact that Deacon George first appears in the Charlestowne records in 1634. Mary-2, born 1635, therefore would seem to have born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. What of Abigail Grave's brother, John-1 Grave? It seems clear that his permanent residence was at Guilford, New Haven, but we do not know if he had an earlier residence at Charlestowne, possibly with his brother George and sister Abigail. New Haven was not settled until 1638, so there is a possibility that John-1 Graves is revealed in the 1670 Census of Connecticut. There also an Edward Graves in Hartford in 1669 who does not appear related to the descendants of Deacon George Graves. As to the origin of this particular Graves family in England, there seem to be few clues excepting for two references, one being the marriage mentioned above in co. Hertfordshire. The second reference is found in Cussand's History of Hertfordshire (Mary K. Talcott in the Register). In 1621, co. Herts, Burroughs of Hartford, there was a mention of "George Graue" (sic) in the list of freeholders of that community. VII. RETROSPECT We have now reviewed considerable detail the known histories of the spouses and close relatives of St. Thomas-1 Spencer (1607-1687) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the original five Spencer siblings who were among on the very early pioneers of New England and as the ancestor of perhaps hundreds and even thousands of modern-day Spencer descendants in the U.S., we would like to know as much as possible about those relatives who surrounded Sgt. Thomas during his lifetime. The foregoing pages have documented all of the presently known historical facts, especially regarding the Andrews, Derifall (Derifield), Graves, and Bearding (Berden) families. In our next segment, we shall examine the colorful life of Sgt. Thomas Spencer and his achievements in war and in peace. Although perhaps not as well educated or as brilliant as his older brother, William-1 Spencer (1601-1640), yet Sgt. Thomas lived twice as long and had three times as many children. 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"The Original Proprietors of Hartford, Connecticut." The Register. New Eng. Hist. Gen. Soc. vol. 22, 1889. …The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the Newe Towne and the Town of Cambridge With the Records of the Proprietors of the Common Lands." Cambridge, 1896. …International Genealogical Index (Microfiche)." Church of the Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City. 1991 Edition. …"Leading Layman in England." The Great Migration Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1993. …"Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford, Connecticut, Among the Settlers, 1639." Conn. Hist. Soc. Collections, Vol. XIV, 1912. … "Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Conn." J.H. Beers & Co. Chicago, 1901. …"Focus on Hartford." The Great Migration Newsletter, Vol. 3, Oct.-Dec. Issue, 1992." | Dorryfall, Ann (I2290)
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| 4840 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following published German source is one of the best on the Roemer family. The quote below is only a partial quote from the larger Römer entry and is provided verbatim; however, one needs to be cautioned that there are some errors. The errors for Johann Michael Römer and his descendants are discussed below. The known errors for his parent's family appears to the assigning of the surname Schütz for his mother; the errors for his grandparent's family appears to be the name of his grandfather and the make-up of the children in that family. These latter problems are analyzed and discussed in the notes of the parents and grandparents and not herein. The full Römer entry is provided in the notes of the earliest Römer in this database. FHL book 943.D2dg, vol. 175, "Deutsches Geschlechtebuch/Hessisches Geschlechterbuch," by Hermann Thutewohl, (1977), pp. 252-255, provides a study of Hessian Römers which includes our American branch as follows. The same material is found in the "Hessian Lineage Book," vol. 20, 1977, publisher CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn. The book is in German with the translation to English courtesy of Rose Green. Dates are European style (day - month - year). Symbols: * = birth/christening; oo = married; + = death. The numbering system is per the book which I place in [brackets] for clarity. The oldest generation is first then descending: [V1b] Johannes Römer, * Geisenbach 10. 1. 1678, + Birkenau 31. 8. 1731, owner of a "Hof" (farm/land with buildings), judge in the Zent, and mayor in Birkenau after 1708; oo I. ... Katharina Schütz from Geisenbach, * ..., + ...; oo II. Birkenau 7. 2. 1725 Magdalena Eva Helferich, * ..., + ..., daughter of Georg Helferich of Abtsteinach, + ... Children first marriage, 1 born in Geisenbach, 2-8 born in Birkenau: 1. Johann Georg, * 27. 11. 1708, + Birkenau 25. 11. 1729, unmarried. 2. Anna Elisabeth, * 22. 6. 1710, + ibid. 20. 10. 1756; oo ... 22. 1. 1726 Johannes Bernhard, * ibid. 26. 1. 1704, + ibid. 26. 1. 1779. 3. Johann Nikolaus, * 12. 9. 1712, + ibid. 18. 11. 1714. 4. Johann Jakob, * 16. 7. 1714, + ibid. 24. 7. 1714. 5. Johann Michael, * 3. 9. 1715, [s. VIIc, American branch] 6. Anna Katharina, * 20. 11. 1717, + ... 7. Eva Katharina, * 13. 10. 1720, + ibid. 19. 5. 1770; oo ... 18. 7. 1736 Anton Hartwig, * ... 1713, + Birkenau 23. 2. 1772. 8. Anna Christine, * ... 1723, + ... 1. 3. 1778; oo Birkenau 20. 1. 1739 Leonhard Schaab, * Birkenau 17. 2. 1712, + ibid. 22. 3. 1762. Son of second marriage, born in Birkenau: 9. Johann Philipp, * Birkenau 29. 4. 1731, + ..." | Helferich, Magdalena Eva (I2697)
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| 4841 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following published German source is one of the best on the Roemer family. The quote below is only a partial quote from the larger Römer entry and is provided verbatim; however, one needs to be cautioned that there are some errors. The errors for Johann Michael Römer and his descendants are discussed below. The known errors for his parent's family appears to the assigning of the surname Schütz for his mother; the errors for his grandparent's family appears to be the name of his grandfather and the make-up of the children in that family. These latter problems are analyzed and discussed in the notes of the parents and grandparents and not herein. The full Römer entry is provided in the notes of the earliest Römer in this database. FHL book 943.D2dg, vol. 175, "Deutsches Geschlechtebuch/Hessisches Geschlechterbuch," by Hermann Thutewohl, (1977), pp. 252-255, provides a study of Hessian Römers which includes our American branch as follows. The same material is found in the "Hessian Lineage Book," vol. 20, 1977, publisher CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn. The book is in German with the translation to English courtesy of Rose Green. Dates are European style (day - month - year). Symbols: * = birth/christening; oo = married; + = death. The numbering system is per the book which I place in [brackets] for clarity. The oldest generation is first then descending: [V1b] Johannes Römer, * Geisenbach 10. 1. 1678, + Birkenau 31. 8. 1731, owner of a "Hof" (farm/land with buildings), judge in the Zent, and mayor in Birkenau after 1708; oo I. ... Katharina Schütz from Geisenbach, * ..., + ...; oo II. Birkenau 7. 2. 1725 Magdalena Eva Helferich, * ..., + ..., daughter of Georg Helferich of Abtsteinach, + ... Children first marriage, 1 born in Geisenbach, 2-8 born in Birkenau: 1. Johann Georg, * 27. 11. 1708, + Birkenau 25. 11. 1729, unmarried. 2. Anna Elisabeth, * 22. 6. 1710, + ibid. 20. 10. 1756; oo ... 22. 1. 1726 Johannes Bernhard, * ibid. 26. 1. 1704, + ibid. 26. 1. 1779. 3. Johann Nikolaus, * 12. 9. 1712, + ibid. 18. 11. 1714. 4. Johann Jakob, * 16. 7. 1714, + ibid. 24. 7. 1714. 5. Johann Michael, * 3. 9. 1715, [s. VIIc, American branch] 6. Anna Katharina, * 20. 11. 1717, + ... 7. Eva Katharina, * 13. 10. 1720, + ibid. 19. 5. 1770; oo ... 18. 7. 1736 Anton Hartwig, * ... 1713, + Birkenau 23. 2. 1772. 8. Anna Christine, * ... 1723, + ... 1. 3. 1778; oo Birkenau 20. 1. 1739 Leonhard Schaab, * Birkenau 17. 2. 1712, + ibid. 22. 3. 1762. Son of second marriage, born in Birkenau: 9. Johann Philipp, * Birkenau 29. 4. 1731, + ..." 2. The following are some comments on the above from researcher Rose Green concerning the marriages of Johannes Roemer. Some of the comments are redundant, but they are all helpful. A. "I can see why the Geschlechterbuch says that Catharina's name must be Schütz. The godfather of her son Johann Nikolaus (b. 12 Sep 1712) was "Joh. Nicolaus Schuetz, of Geisenbach, the father's brother-in-law." And the godfather of Johann Michael (b. 3 Sep 1715) was "Hanss Michael Schütz, the son of Hanss Nicol Schützof Geisenbach." Great! you say. The wife was Schütz. Not so fast. When you look at Johannes's siblings, you will see that Johann Nicolaus Schütz is the husband of Johannes Roemer's sister Margaretha.. It is of course possible for two siblings from one family to marry two siblings from another (Johann Michael Roemer and his sister Eva Katharina did just that -- J. Michael married Charlotta Amalia Hartwich, and Eva Katharina married Charlotta's brother Anton Joachim Hartwich). However, there is no record of that in the case of Roemer-Schütz. The second thing is that Catharina (wife of Johannes Roemer) was Catholic. There is no record in the Lutheran church books of this marriage, and the Catholic church book coverage of that time period is very spotty. (It was a Lutheran area into which some Catholics immigrated after the 30 Years' War, and they were definitely the minority.) His second wife, Magdalena Eva Helferich, was Catholic as well -- but their marriage is in the Lutheran book. So without some kind of documentation, there's really no way to know what her name was. Yes, it's possible she was Schütz. But it's 100% equally possible that her name was any other name occurring in the area. (And no, her death record gives no information -- not her maiden name, not her age, not where she came from, if she moved in -- nothing. It's very aggravating.)" B. "I personally searched the marriage records in all available parishes in the Birkenau environs, both Lutheran and Catholic, and was not able to find a marriage record for Johannes and Catharina Roemer, or indeed, any record stating her maiden name at all. Even her death record (Catholic, despite Johannes and children being baptized Lutheran) merely calls her the wife of Johannes Roemer. Until a primary source document is found such as her marriage record to Johannes, all we have is conjecture." C. "I can't remember if I looked for their marriage in Weinheim. They would have been in the Abtsteinach parish for Catholics (if they married in a Catholic parish), but I did not find them there. Nor did I find them in Moerlenbach. However, there were Catholics in Weinheim and Viernheim, and I don't recall if I looked there. So those are some thoughts." 3. Rose Green per email of 26 Apr 2015 "Yes, I read original German records. My husband is a German professor and we lived in Germany for a number of years, so I learned German. When I was working on the Roemers (the Hessisches Geschlechterbuch missed a couple of Johannes and Catharina's kids -- I found them in the Catholic records and added them to Familysearch), I ran into a guy who was born in Birkenau. He isn't blood related to us, but a number of his family members married a number of ours, so we had common interests. He picked up a number of historical booklets for me from the city that had articles about our family in them. Yes, I could get the bare bones out of the church records, but it was so interesting to read about these people. Apparently Johannes was a tanner and also owned a mill (which is still there). He was quite well-respected (a ton of people came to his funeral) and he had the mixed-religion marriage. When issues came up later in town with mixed-religion marriages, he was sort of held up as a standard of, well, he managed to do it, so it must be possible. Schooling was compulsory from 1705? Joh. Michael Roemer who came to America was quite literate -- his signature on his will is in lovely, perfect, German script. Joh. Michael and his wife Charlotta Amalia Hartwich were apparently the first people from Birkenau to emigrate to America ... They started the Evangelische (Lutheran) church in Frederick, MD and Michael's name is on a plaque there." 4. Rose Green per email of 18 May 2015. Reference is made in other notes with the Hartwig family concerning Carlebachmuele. The following is addtional information on the mill Johannes Roemer owned in the hilly region of the Odenwald: "The Carlebach mill is not the same as the mill the Roemers owned. That was the Donels or Nikolai Mill. The tanner Johannes Roemer acquired it in 1706 with the intent to put a Lohmuhle on it (and I have no idea what that is -- but I think it has something to do with mills and tanning. Not knowing anything about either one, I can read definitions of it, but I still don't really know what it is. The wiki article in German says it does something with bits of wood. Maybe some kind of sawmill, but what does that have to do with tanning? Plus, they still had to pay 1.5 bushels of grain in tax on it every year.) The Roemers kept it until 1740, and after that, it was run by our friend Anton Hartwich and Hans Michael Nikolai (not such a stretch, since Anton married into the Roemers). In 1791 the mill went to the Kadel family due to a marriage. In modern times it was owned by "Firma Frank" (the Frank company). It sits at the bottom of a very steep ravine, sort of on the main road, on the dividing line between Birkenau and Weinheim. There was no place to pull off to take a picture, though. But maybe it's visible on google street view? Both mills were there in 2002. As of this date, the following is a weblink to the mill http://www.carlebachmuehle.de/ 5. Some biographical information provided by family researcher Rose Green: "Johannes Römer shows up in Birkenau around 1706 or so. He agreed to take charge of a mill that had fallen into disrepair. He had three tax-free years to fix it up before having to pay taxes. (Source: 1200 Jahre Birkenau) He also shows up on a treasury record in 1706 (Schatzungsregister) as Römer, Hans. (Source: Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, G 31C, Konv. 72/3, as found in Einwohnerlisten der Zent Birkenau 1439-1841, by Rudolf Kunz and Karl-Ludwig Schmitt, published in 1988). Johannes (Hans) Römer is also on the 1721 list swearing allegiance to the new lord, the Freiherr Franz Philipp Kaspar Wambolt." 6. The correct name for this individual's father and the make up of siblings is uncertain and conflicted. The names Hans Peter or Johann appear erroneous and Hans Adam seems to be the best option. Family researcher Rose Green has pioneered and led the research into this question. I quote first the two published German sources, then Rose's appraisal of the validity of the information these sources present, and then finally some comments on the correct father: A. Published German Sources: a. "DGB" = FHL book 943.D2dg, vol. 175, "Deutsches Geschlechtebuch/Hessisches Geschlechterbuch," by Hermann Thutewohl, (1977), pp. 252-255, provides a study of Hessian Römers which includes our American branch as follows. The same material is found in the "Hessian Lineage Book," vol. 20, 1977, publisher of CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn. (Translation courtesy of Rose Green.) The book is German which I translate to English. Dates are European style day - month - year. Symbols: * = birth/christening; oo = married; + = death. The numbering system is per the book which I place in [brackets] for clarity: [Vb] Hans Peter Römer, * ... 11. 7. 1642, + Geisenbach 21. 3. 1730, bur. Weinheim 23. 3. 1730; named "the old Römer," owner of a "Hof" (farm/land with buildings) in Geisenbach; oo ... 20. 1. 1671 Margarethe Reinig, * ..., + Geisenbach 3. 2. 1719. Children born in Geisenbach: 1. Anna, * (calculated) 1671, + ..., Godmother on 22. 1. 1685. 2. Margarethe, * (calculated) 1673, + ..., oo ... Johann Nikolaus Schütz from Geisenbach (?), * ..., + ... 3. Maria Margarethe, * 18. 11. 1674, + ..., Godmother on 10. 11. 1691; oo ... Hans Nikolaus Schuh from Geisenbach (?), * ..., + ... 4. Johannes, * 10. 1. 1678, [s. VIb] 5. Johann Jakob, * 13. 11. 1681, [s. VIc, Schwetzinger main branch] 6. Eva, * 7. 2. 1685, + ... 7. Eva Elisabeth, * 8. 5. 1687, + ... 8. Anna Barbara, * 6. 5. 1688, + ...; oo ... 17. 11. 1705 ... moved to Schimbach. 9. Gertrud, * 26. 5. 1690, + ... 1758; oo ... Johann Jakob Brecht from Ober Mumbach, * ..., + ... b. "FM" = The book "Familienbuch Mörlenbach," by Dr. Otto Wagner, 1994: - 2857 m. vor 1670 Joh. Römer, Geisenbach, bei ihm dient 1683 Jakob Drϋber, 1721 Zeuge fϋr Verkauf von 1 1/2 Huben [383a] an [2669], u Anna N.N. Kdr.: (viell.) - Margarete, m. vor 1692 [3365†] - Anna, 1685 Pate [b. 1695] - Anna Margarete, 1683 Pate [1695], m. Ober-Absteinach 2.2.1695 Peter Helfrich of Unter-Absteinach. - Joh. Jakob, b. 13.11.1681, m. 17.11.1705 Kath. - Joh. Adam, m. Ober-Absteinach 7.6.1706 Elis. - Eva, *7.2.1685 - Eva Elis., b. Vöckelsbach ~~luth. Birkenau 5./12.5.1687 B. Rose Green's comments and analysis of the above two records with her own research into the church records of our Geisenbach branch of the Roemer family with Johannes Roemer, b. 1678, as a child. She prefaces her comments on the children by saying: "The only way to figure this out is to look at the primary sources -- making a decision based on secondary information that may or may not be correct isn't going to really solve the problem. I believe, without having the records right in front of me, that some individuals were discovered via marriage records and then other people discovered the same individuals via christening records. Even though the family lived in one concentrated area, the records are scattered through several different church books (i.e. geographically) and across more than one religion. The "Familienbuch Moerlenbach" is going to look primarily at Catholic records, since Moerlenbach is Catholic. The DGB seems to use both Lutheran records and some land records (the second of which I don't have access to). So I do think that at least one child is perhaps duplicated in this family. But we want to be very, very careful to make sure we don't eliminate a real person, either. But I do think that Maria Margaretha and Margaretha are the same person." a. Rose's comments regarding the DGB with some rearranging in the order of children: - Parents: Hans (Adam) Römer m. Margaretha Reinig in Geisenbach with children as follows. The first five children are from the Wald-Michelbach church records (Lutheran) and are certain: 1. Maria Margaretha, b. 18 Nov 1674, daughter of Hans Remer and Margaretha (godmother Margaretha wife of Hans Jorg Rehm, smith of Birkenau). 2. Johannes Remi, b. 10 Jan 1678, son of Hanss Remi (Römer) of Geisenbach, and wife Margaretha. Godfather was Hans Reinig, Wilhelm Reinig's son of Geisenbach (i.e. the uncle). 3. Johann Jakob Rheme, b. 13 Nov 1681, son of Hans Adam Rheme of Geisenbach and Margaretha his wife. Godfather was Hans Jacob Erhardt/Erhanger/Erhanyer? of Geisenbach (the name is extremely difficult to read). 4. Eva Rheme, b. 7 Feb 1685, daughter of Hans Adam Rheme of Geisenbach and Margaretha. Godmother Eva, wife or daughter of Niclaus Erhardt of Geisenbach. 5. Eva Elisabeth Rheme, b. 8 May 1687, daughter of Hans Rheme of Geisenbach and Margaretha. Godmother Eva the ? of Nicolaus Reinig of Geisenbach. [See note below about the confusion in birthdates of 5 or 8 May.] - Rose's comments of the other children that show up in the DGB: 6. Anna, abt 1671 (DGB). This lists her as a godmother on 22 Jan 1685. I presume she is named as the daughter of Hans Roemer of Geisenbach here; I would like to see the record for myself (the DGB however does not say where and for whom she was a godmother.) 7. Margarethe, b. abt 1673, married to Johann Nikolaus Schutz of Geisenbach, son of Hans Nikolaus Schütz of Geisenbach, about 1692 and had three children whose births are recorded in the Lutheran church book of Wald-Michelbach for Birkenau as well as the Familienbuch Moerlenbach. Her son was godfather to Johann Michael Roemer of Birkenau (the son of Johannes Roemer). Johann Nikolaus Schutz of Geisenbach was godfather to another of Johannes Roemer's children, Johann Nikolaus (1712). The record explicitly says that this man is the brother-in-law of Johannes Roemer. So yes, I believe this one! Most likely the same as #1 above. 8. Maria Margarethe, b. 18 Nov 1674, was a godmother on 10 Nov 1691 (where? DGB doesn't list it), and married "Hans Nikolaus Schuh of Geisenbach." She looks awfully like #7 to me. In a place with a population of less than 100 people, are there really two different individuals named Hans Nikolaus Schuh and Hans Nikolaus Schütz, both married to Margaretha Romer? Most likely the same as #1 and #7. 9. Anna Barbara, b. 6 May 1688 (from DGB): this looks awfully like the girl born in Gras-Ellenbach to Hans and Catharina Romer. 10. Gertrud, b. 26 May 1690, married Johann Jacob Brecht of Ober Mumbach (according to the DGB). I'm not saying this can't be her, but I didn't see a Gertrud in the book. b. Comments regarding on the "Familienbuch Moerlenbach" -- I think they are way messed up. I saw zero record of Johann Romer of Geisenbach married to anyone named Anna. Moerlenbach is adjacent to Birkenau and was largely Catholic; however, both Lutherans and people from the Birkenau parish wandered over there, and so some of them show up in their records too. As you can see, there is some overlap with the HGB, but they aren't completely congruent. The children this book lists are as such: 1. Yes: Margaretha, married bef 1692 (this would be the one who married Joh. Nikolaus Schutz; so far, so good). 2. Yes: Anna, a godmother in 1685 (same as above; would like to see this, but if they are naming her as the daughter of Hans Romer of Geisenbach, then I'm cool with that. I just would like to know who she is being godmother to, as those often happen among close family members.) 3. Maybe: Anna Margaretha, godmother in 1683 (to whom, and where?); married Peter Helferich of Unter-Abtsteinach on 2 Feb 1695 in Ober-Abtsteinach. (That is a Catholic place.) This should be independently verified in the original marriage record (i.e. that she is the daughter of Hans Romer of Geisenbach in specific), since I didn't find her in the birth records. Another child in this family, Johannes, had a second wife was also a Helferich, and also Catholic. 4. Yes: Johann Jakob, b. 13 Nov 1681. According to the Moerlenbach book, he married Anna Katerina Reinig of Schimbach on 17 Nov 1705 in Schimbach, and had a number of children, the first ones in Schimbach and later ones in Schwetzingen. Yes, this son is correct. 5. No: Joh. Adam, married 7 Jun 1706 Elisabeth daughter of Adam Heckman in Ober-Abtsteinach (Catholic). Hmm ... Sorry, I didn't see that person in Geisenbach. Perhaps they are confusing him with the one born in Schönmattenwag in 1678? There are so many people running around with this same name in a small area, but definitely not in Geisenbach. 6. Yes: Eva, b. 7 Feb 1685. Yes, this is correct. 7. Yes: Eva Elisabeth, b. 5 May 1687. Yes, she is in the church record, too, although it is Wald-Michelbach (with village Geisenbach) that she appears. I don't know why the FM says that she was born in Voelkelsbach and christened 12 May 1687 in Birkenau. The date on the church record is very difficult to read, and perhaps it really is 5 and not 8. I see that she was christened the 12th, but the actual record says nothing about Voekelsbach. C. Rose's comments as to who is the correct father of our Roemer family of Geisenbach and of his marriage: a. "I did have a chance to look at the Birkenau film again, but unfortunately I didn't find anything new on it. I also didn't find any other suggestions to explain the Hans Peter Roemer shown in DGB. Seriously, in all the records I see, he is not the father in this family. He's either Hans or Hans Adam Roemer. I've been to Geisenbach -- there are three houses and one of them is new since the 1600s. There is zero mention of Hans Peter Roemer in Geisenbach in this time period in the church records. I think that the only way to solve this problem is to access some land or court or civil records, but they are not on microfilm. Maybe if I live there again, I'll have a look; I just don't know how to get at something like that from here, or even what exactly it is I need." b. "Regarding the "Familienbuch Moerlenbach" -- I think they are way messed up. I saw zero record of Johann Romer of Geisenbach married to anyone named Anna." c. The DGB also lists a specific marriage date for him, which if found would likely give more information about him -- but this church record cannot be found (i.e. the parish records for marriages as they presently stand begin in 1671 after the supposed marriage date). The wife's maiden name of Reinig, however, appears to be accurate, as Wilhelm Reinig of Geisenbach does indeed have a daughter Margareta of the right age, and other children of Reinig serve as godparents to Hans (?) Roemer's children. d. I have doubts about the name of Johannes Roemer's father. The parents listed in Familysearch as of May 2015 (apparently based on the DGB info) are Hans Peter Roemer and Margaretha Reinig. When I went to verify this in the actual primary documents, I could not. The father listed in the birth entries of Johannes and his siblings is consistently either Hans or Hans Adam Roemer (with spelling variations on the last name; spelling didn't matter as much in the 1600s as in the 2010s). For Johann Jacob, Johannes's brother, the priest started to write someone else's name, then crossed it out and wrote Hans Adam. Eva's father is also listed as Hans Adam. There were two other Hans Adam Roemers bearing children in the parish at this time as well, which meant that delineation had to be clear in the records. One is having children at the same time in Schlierbach (another village in the same parish) -- meanwhile, our family is living in Geisenbach. I suppose it's *possible* that the priest mis-wrote the name--twice. But at the same time, this is the primary document there. I could find no trace of existing marriage records for this time and place, either microfilmed by the LDS church or otherwise, which is too bad, since it would clear up the problem easily. Possible explanations for this discrepancy: i. The pastor got confused and wrote down Hans Adam because there were so many of them, when really he was thinking of a different name. ii. The DGB data is based on land/court/occupational records instead of church records, and there were either errors in these records, or the researcher made some inaccurate assumptions. iii. I found a birth entry for a Hans Peter Roemer in the Birkenau parish record which could, by a bit of a stretch, fit in the right generation to be father to Johannes. Perhaps the researcher wanted to make this fit, so the supposition was made. However, there is also the record of the birth of a Hans Adam Roemer in the Waldmichelbach records for an even better age fit. (Both parishes covered the Geisenbach and Mengelbach areas.) Who knows which of the three Hans Adams it was. iv. There really is a marriage record squirreled away in an archive somewhere that no one (not even the historians writing about family records in Birkenau today) know about. e. In reviewing the DGB for the Ober Mengelbach Branch of Römers, we do find this family grouping with an Adam Römer who the right age to possibly be the Hans Adam Römer we are seeking. DGB provides no other information on him except for the birth date of 21 Jan 1646. Linking him for now would be premature without further corroborating evidence, but the information from DGB is as follows [see the notes of the earliest Römer in my database for the full DGB abstract]: ". Hans Römer, *Ober Mengelbach about 1620, + in the same place before 1695, mayor (Schultheiß), and owner of the Koch farm in Ober Mengelbach, oo Katharina (Cadel?), * (unknown), +20 Feb 1695 Ober Mengelbach. Children, born in Ober Mengelbach: 1. Adam, *21 Jan 1646, + unknown 2. Margaretha, *14 Aug 1648, + unknown 3. Johann Michael, * 1657, see VIa" D. Rose's comments on three of the children: "Some of these children may be one and the same person. We have an Anna, a Margaretha, and an Anna Margaretha. Anna Margaretha and Margaretha can't be the same person as they are married to different people at the same time. I suppose there's a chance that Anna and Anna Margaretha are the same person, but they may still be three distinct individuals." | Römer, Johannes (I1695)
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| 4842 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following quotations are for baptisms of the children of Hans Peter Wampfler and Anna Veronica Lung wherein some of the witnesses are of the Lung family and related to Anna Veronica Lung. I am not sure if they are brothers or uncles of Anna Veronica. Additional research needed: a. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 82 has a photocopy and translation of the christening church record from Keskastel as follows: "June 7, 1720 from Hinsingen Peter Wampfler linen-waver and his wife Veronica a young daughter baptized named Anna Magdalena. Witnesses: Samuel Mettauer, linen-weaver in Keskastel [uncle and husband of Anna Magdalena Wampfler]; Anna Magdalena, wife of Peter Schutzmann of Sarrewerden; Anna Magdalena ??? [Mettauer] from Sparbach, sister of the Wampfler. Removed 3 May 1741." Note Hinsingen did not have a church and the family used the one at Keskastel until a church was started at nearer Altweiler by about 1726. [The book, FHL 929.273 w181wf, "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, Chevy Chase, MD, 1999, p. 10 notes: Burgert (Annette Kunselman Burgert, "18th Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America," Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1992) gives some additional data on the connection of the Stutzmans to the Wampflers. Hans Peter Stutzman, son of the late Hans Peter Stutzman, in 1716 at Altweiler married Anna Magdalena, daughter of the late Hans Jacob Lung of Altweler. Their third Child, Hans Peter Stutzman, bapt. 6 Feb 1724 at Hinsingen (Keskastel Lutheran Kirchenbuch), appears on the passenger list of the Ship Lydia in 1741 (age listed as 16) along with the Wampflers and Johannes Mettauer (son of Samuel and Anna Magdalene {Wampfler} Mettauer). Recall that the wife of Hans Peter Wampfler was a daughter of Jacob Lung."] b. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 85 has a photocopy and translation of the christening church record from Altweiler as follows: "November 5, 1726 was born in Hinsingen to Peter Wampfler a linen-weaver and to his wife Franica a young daughter and christened November 7, 1726 and name Anna Fronica. Witnesses: Johann Christina Caspar of Sparsbach near Lützelstein, Anna Maria Mettauer [cousin, daughter of Aunt Anna Magdalene (Wampler) Mettauer] of Keskastel, Maiden Fronica, dau. of Hanss Adam Lungen [Lung, possible brother or uncle of mother Anna Veronica Lung?] of Hinsingen." Note Hinsingen did not have a church and the family used the one at Keskastel until a church was started at nearer Altweiler by about 1726. c. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 86 has a photocopy and translation of the christening church record from Altweiler as follows: "July 24, 1729 was born in Hinsingen to Johann Peter Wampfler and his wife Fronica a daughter named Anna Barbara. Witnesses: Johann Adam Lung [possible uncle or uncle of mother Anna Veronica Lung?], a school teacher at Hinsingen; Johann Wilhelm Büttner, a single man; Anna Maria, the wife of George Schneider of Altwyler; Anna Barbara, the wife of Nicl. Henrich Hassen of Wiebersweyler. The child was baptized by Head Pastor Herrnschmidt." Note Hinsingen did not have a church and the family used the one at Keskastel until a church was started at nearer Altweiler by about 1726. d. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 87 has a photocopy and translation of the christening church record from Altweiler as follows: "December 3, 1732 was christened a daughter of Johann Peter Wampfler of Hinsingen and his wife Fronica and named Anna Elisabeth. Witnesses: Wendel Moll, a mayor of Altweyler [Altwiller]; Christoph Bollinger, blacksmith of Altweyler; Anna Elisabeth, the wife of Hs. Adam Lungen [Lung, possible brother or uncle of mother Anna Veronica Lung?] of Hinsingen; Barbara, the wife of Henrich Büttner of Hinsingen." Note Hinsingen did not have a church and the family used the one at Keskastel until a church was started at nearer Altweiler by about 1726. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 64, summarizes his findings of vital information regarding this individual as follows: Johann Peter (Johann Peter), b. 1701, d. 1749 in Lancaster Co., PA., md. Anna Veronica Lung of Zollingen. Her parents were Jacob Lung (died 1746) and Anna Elisabetha Wildermuth (died shortly before Easter, 1754). All of the sons of Christian Senior were linen weavers by trade. 2. Mentioned in the christening of grandson per book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 83 has a photocopy and translation of the christening church record from Keskastel as follows: "August 4, 1722 Hans Peter Wampfler weaver in Hinsingen and Veronica his wife a son christend Names Hanss Peter. Witnesses: Hanss Peter Klein from Keskastel, Johannes Wampfler, Anna Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Lung of Zollingen [probable grandmother], Maria Barbara, Michael Buttner's daughter. Removed 3 May 1741." Note Hinsingen did not have a church and the family used the one at Keskastel until a church was started at nearer Altweiler by about 1726. DEATH: 1. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., pp. 88-91 notes that in the record books of Zollingen (the home of Anna Veronica Lung, the wife of Hans Peter Wampfler, Sr., the following words were written on 12 Apr 1755: "Peter Wampfler married Veronica Lung, the heiress of Jacob Lung, who was a citizen of Zollingen. They have for about 15 years been moved to the new land." This was probably written since she was an heiress to her mother who was the last of her parents to die in 1754. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D. 2. Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" 22 Feb 2003. 3. The book, FHL 929.273 w181wf, "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, Chevy Chase, MD, 1999. ACTION: 1. Verify family of Jacob Lung. Contact Fred Wampler? | Lung, Jacob (I3658)
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| 4843 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following site shows all the children of Major Ridge specifically listing Nancy married to William "Ritchey" 2. The only child of William and Nancy was female according to a letter written by William Richey to Brigham Young. See LDS Archives Film CR 1234 1, reel 32, box 22, folder 18. 3. Name Hester Richey is found per FHL film 170583, pg. 23, St. George LDS Temple Records, 13 Sep 1877, where her father reports her along with his other deceased children prior to 1877 as follows: Benjamin Richey, dead, Pickens Co., Ala. Joseph Richey, dead, Pickens Co., Ala. John Richey, dead, Pickens Co., Ala. Robert Richey, dead, Noxuba, Miss. Rebecca Richey, dead, Pickens Co., Ala. Emily Richey, dead, Pickens Co., Ala. Mary Ann Richey, dead, Noxuba, Miss. Hester Richey, dead, Georgia 4. William Richey Letter to President Brigham Young - Feb 1, 1852. Source: LDS Archives [Film CR 1234 1, Reel 32, box 22, folder 18]. At the time of this letter, William's second wife Margaret Ann Adair was still alive when this was written, but she died 10 Feb 1852. Then William was called on a mission to the Cherokee in 1855, and spent 5 years there. "Payson, U.T. Feb. 1, 1852 President Brigham Young Sir, I have taken my pen in hand to write some of my feels or rather a narrative of my life. I was born in the State of South Carolina. When I was twenty years old my mind was stirred up to go west; after some previous meditations, I prepared myself to go to the state of Tennessee where I found my cousin, John McNary. He was married to a half-breed Cherokee Indian. He lived across the Tennessee River, opposite the white settlement. I was very much disgusted to hear my cousin was married to an Indian; however I determined to make him a visit; when I got there, and saw a beautiful woman, possessed of a good education and honest and virtuous principles, and both of them belonged to the Methodist Church, and walking up to the best light that was in the world and when I saw the moral influence they held over the Cherokee Indians, my prejudices were all gone, although I had been raised among the old school Presbyterians, embraced the same principles of religion. I lived with them about seven months and enjoyed myself first rate. During the time I lived there, Captain Riley stopped there. He was authorized to recommend industrious young men of good moral character, to a missionary establishment, that was organized in the nation. Capt. Riley gave me a letter of recommendation to the Authorities of that Society. I took my leave of my cousin and started for the missionaries. When I got there I was gladly received by all the authorities of the place. When I learned they preached [Page 2] to the Indians every Sabbath day, when Sunday came I was astonished to see a large house crowded with half-breeds, quateroons, young men and women with fair skin and handsome features, dressed in good apparel, and kept good order. The noble men of the Nation kept bringing their sons and daughters to join the school. When Major Ridge, one of the head chiefs of the nation, came with his son and daughter to join the school, as soon as I saw her beautiful appearance, my mind was impressed to form an intimate acquaintance with her, which embraced every opportunity of being in her company. I found she had a good education, for she had been going to school, ever since she was seven years old, and she was eighteen. After awhile I told her I was attached to her from the first time I ever saw her, and by investigation I found she had the same impression of mind. She then wrote a letter to her father recommending me to her father and requested him to send for her and me tot come to his house, which done. After I had been there about two months, we was married, which had to be done by mutual consent of her father and mother. When I asked her father for his daughter, I told him I was but a poor young man, but I had always cultivated honest and honorable principles, to which he replied, he had a plenty of prosperity for his daughter; all he wanted, was his daughter to marry a man with good principles and moral character. We was married and lived together in peace and harmony, for eleven months, when she was confined in child-bed. About two hours after she delivered of a fine daughter [Page 3] she died. The child lived six months and four days, and it died. I shall not try to tell my feelings at that time, as I loved her better than any woman I ever saw before, or since. I then concluded to go to Tennessee to see my people, expecting to return at some future period. It was not long till I was married to the wife I now have, and have been absent from them about thirty-five years. I am now come to the items, I wanted to inform you most particularly about. When Brother Clapp preached the everlasting Gospel to me, when he preached on the authenticity of the Book of Mormon, and showing the promises and blessings of the ancient fathers and the Lamanites being the literal descendants of Jacob. My mind was struck with astonishment to see and hear the field of light and knowledge, that was brought forth by the Book of Mormon. This was the strongest testimony I had of the truth, before I was baptized for the remission of my sins. After I was baptized for the remission of my sins, I received a testimony by the revelation of Jesus Christ, that the Book of Mormon was true, and that Joseph Smith was a true prophet. I had a testimony by the same spirit to come to Nauvoo. I had a testimony by the same spirit to come to the valleys of the mountains. About three years ago I was traveling to collect means to make a fit out for the valley. I stopped at my brother-in-law's, living in the south west corner of Missouri. I heard that the Cherokee nation was about twenty-five miles from there. It struck my mind, how glad I should be to go and preach the Gospel to them, if the time had come; however, I concluded to go and see some of them, which I [Page 4] did. I went to John Weighty's, a cousin of my wife, that was dead. Having been absent thirty-five years, at first he did not know me, until I told him who I was. He gladly received me into his house, which gave me great consultation, when I found that my moral influence was the same as it had been when I lived with them. As I was not sent to preach the Gospel to them, at last I concluded to make inquiry if they knew anything about a people called Mormons. They said they had heard a great deal said against the Mormons, and he had seen some few of them, and had read a little in the Book of Mormon. I then told him that I was a Mormon. There being about five or six young men present, which raised a spirit of enquiry. I sat down by the fire and gave them a few items on the first principles of the Gospel, telling them that the time was close at hand when the Gospel would be sent to them. They rejoiced in what I told them, and said, if that was Mormonism, they were always Mormons. The winter was cold and I went no further. They are a wealthy people, and the sects have pushed their conquest among them to preach for hire, and divine for money, that have got in confusion. They have churches of many denominations among them. I add no more, but remain your humble servant, William Richey." BIRTH: 1. Per SGEOR temple ordinance info for mother in 1877: mother's birth given as 1799 in Georgia and death as 1817. Father was still alive at time and living in S. Utah and probably submitted the data. DEATH: 1. Per SGEOR temple ordinance info for mother in 1877: mother's birth given as 1799 in Georgia and death as 1817. Father was still alive at time and living in S. Utah and probably submitted the data. 2. Refer to the William Richey Letter to President Brigham Young - Feb 1, 1852 (Source: LDS Archives Film CR 1234 1, Reel 32, box 22, folder 18) quoted in a separate note. Judging from the time periods therein, it was almost 35 years before that she died. The letter is dated Feb. 1, 1852, which would make Feb. 1, 1817 if fully 35 years before. On the other hand he was 20 when he went to Tennessee. This would then be sometime after Feb. 20, 1816. He was 7 months with his cousin and then 2 months before he got married (not counting how long he was age 20 before going to Tennessee nor how long in going from his cousin to the Indian school). At the very earliest it would not be before Nov. 20, 1816. They were then married 11 months which would make Nancy's death and Hester's birth no earlier than Oct. 20, 1817. Hester then lives another 6 months and dies no earlier than late Apr. 1818. William mentions Nancy was 18 when they married, which gives credibility to the 1799 birth year he gives the St. George Temple for Nancy. Paul Ridenour's estimate of 1801 appears erroneous. If she was born 1799 and was 18 when married, then we have 1817 (or early 1818) for the marriage. With 11 months of marriage, she was most likely 19 when she died. Paul's estimate of Hester's lifespan of 8 months is incorrect now that we know she was only 6 months old. I am not estimating Nancy's death and Hester's birth as abt 1818 and Hester's death as abt 1819. 3. Email dated 1 Jul 2014 from Preston Richey "I noticed that you put the place of death for Nancy Ridge and her daughter Hester Richey at Oothcaloga. I've been in contact with Paul Ridenour, who maintains an extensive website on the Ridge family (he is married to a direct descendant of Sarah Ridge). He passed on the following information: "From Chieftains. From the NPS report for the house and property, we use the year 1819 as the "official" date that the Ridge family moved into the house on this property. However, the archaeologist that conducted the digs here at the site found items that date from 1817. We have never confirmed that Nancy Ridge is buried anywhere on the original farm, but that has always been the rumor. "This is what I have about Nancy: Nancy Ridge - born circa 1801 Calhoun, GA - died circa 9/1818 - married William Ritchey or William Ritchie circa 1817. One daughter born circa 9/1818 - died circa 5/1819 Cherokee Nation East, now GA." | Richey, Hester (I3539)
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| 4844 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following site shows all the children of Major Ridge specifically listing Nancy married to William "Ritchey" "An Indian boy was born between 1765 and 1771 in the Cherokee village of Hiwassee, Tennessee. His parents died when he was young. He had a brother named David Oo-Watie, which means "The Ancient One." Their father's name was Oganotota. Ridge had a sister and three other brothers. No one knows the names of the other brothers or sister but one of the brothers may have been Soodohlee (Sudale). However, they died young. Ah-Tah-Kon-Stis-Kee (other spellings include Ah-Tah-Con-Sti-Sky and Ah-Tah-Cun-Sti-Ske), last hereditary chief of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles), adopted this young Indian. The young Indian was named Ca-Nun-Tah-Cla-Kee (other spellings include Ca-Nun-Ta-Cla-Gee and Ka-Nun-Tah-Kla-Gee), meaning "The Lion Who Walks On The Mountain Top." The white man shortened his name to Ridge. Andrew Jackson gave him the name Major because he led a force of Cherokees in the Battle of the Horseshoe against the Creeks. Cherokees had previously used no surnames. Other Indians called him Nung-Noh-Tah-Hee, meaning "He Who Slays The Enemy In His Path." Major Ridge was a friend of Congressman Sam Houston of Tennessee. Major Ridge's portrait is in the archives at the Smithsonian (Museum of American History-Major Ridge geo. region 3008 4050 302 ID 3008 210 7159) along with John Ridge's. Major Ridge married Ah-Tah-Kon-Stis-Kee's daughter Sehoya. Her christened name was Susannah "Susie" Catherine Wickett (1775 - 9/1849). Ah-Tah-Kon-Stis-Kee was Major Ridge's foster father and father-in-law. They married about 1792. Major Ridge and Susie's children were: Nancy Ridge - died age 16 during childbirth ca. 1818 - married William Ritchey John Ridge (Skah-tle-loh-skee) - born 1802 Rome, GA - died 6/22/1839 - married Sarah Bird Northrup. Unknown baby - died at birth Walter S. Ridge "Watty" - born 1806 - died 1851 - married Elizabeth. Watty was "slow and weak in the mind." Sarah Ridge - born 1814, near present Rome, Georgia. Sarah's Indian name was "Sollee," pronounced "Sallie." 2. Contacted the Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia through their website www.alltel.net/~vannhouse for info on Nancy. Julia's email 23 Apr 2003 3. Contacted "Chieftain's House" in Rome, Georgia, where the home of Major Ridge has been made into a national historic park. I shared my Richey information with them. Part of the 25 Apr 2003 email from their director Carey L. Tilley at 4. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 26 Apr 2003. 5. Contacted the Oklahoma Historical Society 7 May 2003 which is a major repository of Cherokee Indian records. They report some references to her father and her attendance at some schools. No further mention of her nor anything on William Richey. 6. Contacted Drs. Rowena McClintock 7. Name variant may be Nannie. BIOGRAPHY: 1. William Richey Letter to President Brigham Young - Feb 1, 1852. Source: LDS Archives [Film CR 1234 1, Reel 32, box 22, folder 18]. At the time of this letter, William's second wife Margaret Ann Adair was still alive when this was written, but she died 10 Feb 1852. Then William was called on a mission to the Cherokee in 1855, and spent 5 years there. "Payson, U.T. Feb. 1, 1852 President Brigham Young Sir, I have taken my pen in hand to write some of my feels or rather a narrative of my life. I was born in the State of South Carolina. When I was twenty years old my mind was stirred up to go west; after some previous meditations, I prepared myself to go to the state of Tennessee where I found my cousin, John McNary. He was married to a half-breed Cherokee Indian. He lived across the Tennessee River, opposite the white settlement. I was very much disgusted to hear my cousin was married to an Indian; however I determined to make him a visit; when I got there, and saw a beautiful woman, possessed of a good education and honest and virtuous principles, and both of them belonged to the Methodist Church, and walking up to the best light that was in the world and when I saw the moral influence they held over the Cherokee Indians, my prejudices were all gone, although I had been raised among the old school Presbyterians, embraced the same principles of religion. I lived with them about seven months and enjoyed myself first rate. During the time I lived there, Captain Riley stopped there. He was authorized to recommend industrious young men of good moral character, to a missionary establishment, that was organized in the nation. Capt. Riley gave me a letter of recommendation to the Authorities of that Society. I took my leave of my cousin and started for the missionaries. When I got there I was gladly received by all the authorities of the place. When I learned they preached [Page 2] to the Indians every Sabbath day, when Sunday came I was astonished to see a large house crowded with half-breeds, quateroons, young men and women with fair skin and handsome features, dressed in good apparel, and kept good order. The noble men of the Nation kept bringing their sons and daughters to join the school. When Major Ridge, one of the head chiefs of the nation, came with his son and daughter to join the school, as soon as I saw her beautiful appearance, my mind was impressed to form an intimate acquaintance with her, which embraced every opportunity of being in her company. I found she had a good education, for she had been going to school, ever since she was seven years old, and she was eighteen. After awhile I told her I was attached to her from the first time I ever saw her, and by investigation I found she had the same impression of mind. She then wrote a letter to her father recommending me to her father and requested him to send for her and me to come to his house, which done. After I had been there about two months, we was married, which had to be done by mutual consent of her father and mother. When I asked her father for his daughter, I told him I was but a poor young man, but I had always cultivated honest and honorable principles, to which he replied, he had a plenty of prosperity for his daughter; all he wanted, was his daughter to marry a man with good principles and moral character. We was married and lived together in peace and harmony, for eleven months, when she was confined in child-bed. About two hours after she delivered of a fine daughter [Page 3] she died. The child lived six months and four days, and it died. I shall not try to tell my feelings at that time, as I loved her better than any woman I ever saw before, or since. I then concluded to go to Tennessee to see my people, expecting to return at some future period. It was not long till I was married to the wife I now have, and have been absent from them about thirty-five years. I am now come to the items, I wanted to inform you most particularly about. When Brother Clapp preached the everlasting Gospel to me, when he preached on the authenticity of the Book of Mormon, and showing the promises and blessings of the ancient fathers and the Lamanites being the literal descendants of Jacob. My mind was struck with astonishment to see and hear the field of light and knowledge, that was brought forth by the Book of Mormon. This was the strongest testimony I had of the truth, before I was baptized for the remission of my sins. After I was baptized for the remission of my sins, I received a testimony by the revelation of Jesus Christ, that the Book of Mormon was true, and that Joseph Smith was a true prophet. I had a testimony by the same spirit to come to Nauvoo. I had a testimony by the same spirit to come to the valleys of the mountains. About three years ago I was traveling to collect means to make a fit out for the valley. I stopped at my brother-in-law's, living in the south west corner of Missouri. I heard that the Cherokee nation was about twenty-five miles from there. It struck my mind, how glad I should be to go and preach the Gospel to them, if the time had come; however, I concluded to go and see some of them, which I [Page 4] did. I went to John Weighty's, a cousin of my wife, that was dead. Having been absent thirty-five years, at first he did not know me, until I told him who I was. He gladly received me into his house, which gave me great consultation, when I found that my moral influence was the same as it had been when I lived with them. As I was not sent to preach the Gospel to them, at last I concluded to make inquiry if they knew anything about a people called Mormons. They said they had heard a great deal said against the Mormons, and he had seen some few of them, and had read a little in the Book of Mormon. I then told him that I was a Mormon. There being about five or six young men present, which raised a spirit of enquiry. I sat down by the fire and gave them a few items on the first principles of the Gospel, telling them that the time was close at hand when the Gospel would be sent to them. They rejoiced in what I told them, and said, if that was Mormonism, they were always Mormons. The winter was cold and I went no further. They are a wealthy people, and the sects have pushed their conquest among them to preach for hire, and divine for money, that have got in confusion. They have churches of many denominations among them. I add no more, but remain your humble servant, William Richey." 2. The book "History of Sanpete [Utah] County," 1898, pp. 176, 177: "Richey, William B., of Manti, son of William B. and Margaret A. (Adair), born in Knox, Yuba County, Miss., May 17, 1840. His father was a planter but not a believer in slavery. He joined the Mormon church and moved to Nauvoo in 1846. He was engaged in missionary work many years in Mississippi and to the Cherokee nation in Florida, learned their language, married Nancy Ridge, the chief's daughter, and became a member of the nation. About a year later his wife died and he returned to Mississippi and married the mother of our subject. The family came to Utah in 1848 and in the fall of 1849 they came with the first company to Manti and passed through all the hardships and privations of those early days. The mother died in Manti in 1852 and the father in 1878 in Parowan. When William B. grew up he engaged in freighting to the mining camps in Nevada fifteen years. After the railroads were built he engaged in farming and now has a nice farm, also a comfortable stone residence, one of the first built after moving out of the fort. In both the Indian wars, he took his part. In 1862 he went to California, and in the employ of the Government shipped on board the Senator in charge of 200 mules. He started in the spring of 1863 with the California volunteers for Texas, but his sympathies being with the South, he was discharged at Fort Yuma and returned to Utah. He married August 26, 1868, Johanne, daughter of Rasmus and Magdalene Hougaard. Their children are Johanne J., John B., Benjamin and Margaret A., Mary M. and Emily deceased. Mr. Richey is a highly respected citizen, Democrat, member of Board of Supervisors and county jailer." Kerry's notes on the above: a. Yuba County does not exist and should be Noxubee County which is consistent with other Richey histories. I believe Florida in above citation is probably an error for north Georgia after reading the sources below on Nancy's father Major Ridge. b. There is a Mormon temple marriage sealing recorded between Nancy Ridge and William Richey that occurred 24 Jan 1846 in the Nauvoo Temple with Margaret Adair acting as the proxy for the deceased Nancy. This confirms the marriage. c. Nancy's father, Major Ridge, was very famous in the Cherokee history of Northern Georgia. He was a major chief, friends with Pres. Andrew Jackson, and is largely responsible for the events that let up to the infamous Cherokee Trail of Tears that led to the betrayal and death or him and his son John Ridge. His residence is now part of National Park Service. Click for more on him on this site d. This website has many excellent books on the events surrounding Major Ridge: e. Since William was there as a missionary long before the Mormon church was established, for whom was he working. Margaret's brother Samuel Jefferson Adair was also I believe a minister - same church? f. The following site shows all the children of Major Ridge specifically listing Nancy married to William "Ritchey" 3. 20 Apr 2003 Rootsweb.com World Connect database ":2461971" (Jan at granauntejan@direcway.com) indicates that she was 3/4 Cherokee and that she had the following education (Jan cites source as website http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks/index.html?Welcome=1050932389): 15 Jun 1810 at Spring Place Mission School in Georgia near Chatsworth in Murray county. 14 May 1817 at Brainerd Mission. [Internet indicates this mission functioned from 1817 to 1838 in Brainerd, Tennessee very close to where Chattanooga would eventually exist. This is just across the state border from Northern Georgia. The mission operated as an indian boarding school. At the time of the infamous "Trail of Tears," the school ended. A list of missionaries of 1817 -1838 at www.rootsweb.com/~tnhamilt/brndmssn.htm doesn't list a Richey.] It may have been at one of these mission schools at which William Richey met her as a missionary. Jan also recommends the book "Trail of Tears, The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation," by John Ehle; it is about the Ridge family. 4. Parents are Major Ridge, Cherokee chief and Susannah Wickett. Per rootsweb world connect database "17886" parents are also known as Nunna 'Hidihi NUNGA' and Sehoya Schoya Susannah Wickett. Other names for the father include Kah-nung-da-tla-geh or Nunna'hidihi Nunna'Hattarchee, Pathkiller II, Man On The Mountaintop or The Ridge. She is also known as Nannie. The book "Cherokee Planters in Georgia 1832-1838 - Historical Essays on Eleven Counties in the Cherokee Nation of Georgia," by Don L. Shadburn, Pioneer-Cherokee Heritage Series, vol. 2, 1989, FHL Library book and film, has an illustration of Major Ridge with he following caption: "Major Ridge, a Cherokee planter and slaveholder, lived on the Oostanaula River in Floyd County. For his role as a leader of the Treaty Party,he was fatally shot from ambush on June 22, 1839. [Illustration] courtesy of Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Library." The same book on page 13 states: "Major Ridge, the principal leader of the Treaty Party in the early 1830s, owned 15 slaves and a plantation home on the... [next page not copied]" 5. Appears that most records including missionary information may be with the Oklahoma Historical Society Archives in Oklahoma City and are known as pre-removal and missionary records. See www.ok-history.mus.ok.us 6. In the book "Trail of Tears" by John Ehle, there are mentions of Nancy as follows. This opinion of Ehle's reliability was received from the Vann House Museum (see above for source): "This is why Ehle, though a very nice man, drives me crazy ... "and took seats, Indian style," what is Indian style? Which Indians? I know what he means but it is such a Hollywood stereotype . . .plus, how would he know? What source states how Ridge received mourners? It makes me nuts when historians delve into dramatic historic fiction yet publish it as historic fact. That being said, Ehle's book is an okay start but I much prefer Thurman Wilkins book, Cherokee Tragedy. If you look in Ehle's documentation you'll see he cites Wilkins far more than any other source. However, Ehle obviously adores Ridge and has done much to change opinion of the Ridge family." The quotes from Ehle's book: Page 64: "Her (Susanna) first child to touch her, to suck and cry, was a girl and Ridge, swelled in pride, named her Nancy." Page 82: "The route chosen lay through Greensville, South Carolina, where they turned northeast through the piedmont of North Carolina, arriving at the Moravian town of Salem. While there the Indians began to grasp the goals of the Moravian mission back home at Spring Place, where Ridge and Susanna planned to enroll Nancy and John in a year or so." Page 88 & 89: "The boy was only seven and it was his father who had engineered his leaving home, who was sending him to live with foreigners, all in order to get a white education. She (Susanna) resented this deeply, and would not hear of Nancy ever leaving. Ridge had designs in her case, too, was going to have her live near Spring Place with Margaret Vann, John's widow, until such time as the Moravian quadrangle provided a room for her... Nancy and to other girls did arrive finally, so eleven children were enrolled." Page 124: "Mr. Gambold was opposed to the enslavement of other Indians or of blacks, and he dared to say so to the children. "Love all people, no matter what their color," he taught. He said God was the Creator and Father of all men. This was a remarkable, mind awakening statement to John, Buck, and Nancy. Page 125 & 126: "The American Board's mission houses were paid for by the federal government, were equipped by the government, and a federal subsidy was provided for their first school, which was Brainerd Mission in eastern Tennessee, two miles north of the Georgia border, at Ross's Landing. No sooner had their doors opened than Major Ridge drove up in a white carriage, bringing his daughter Nancy and son John. A year earlier he had taken them out of Spring Place at Susanna's insistence and had hired a tutor, but the tutor had turned out to prefer whiskey to teaching. Consequently the major had his excuse to send his children to a better school away from home. This was in May 1817." Page 147: "It was at this juncture that a family tragedy interrupted everyone's life. Daughter Nancy, who had married a Cherokee, died in childbirth. The day-by-day expectation had been for a celebration, and the reality was bitter as gall." Susanna and Major Ridge buried their daughter near their home and took seats, Indian style, along with John, at the front door of their home, in grief receiving friends." Note: There is no mention William Richey. I have no idea how accurate this book is. The above was transcribed and emailed to me 22 Apr 2003 from Jan of granauntejan@direcway.com - she is a descendant through Susanna's mother, Kate Parris. BIRTH: 1. Per SGEOR temple ordinance info per citation below. Husband was still alive at time and living in S. Utah and probably submitted the data. MARRIAGE: 1. Per Julia of the Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia (website www.alltel.net/~vannhouse) by email 23 Apr 2003 DEATH: 1. Per SGEOR temple ordinance info per citation below. Husband was still alive at time and living in S. Utah and probably submitted the data. 2. Contacted "Chieftain's House" in Rome, Georgia, where the home of Major Ridge has been made into a national historic park. Per 25 Apr 2003 email from their director Carey L. Tilley at 3. Per Julia of the Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia (website www.alltel.net/~vannhouse) by email 23 Apr 2003 4. Email dated 1 Jul 2014 from Preston Richey "I noticed that you put the place of death for Nancy Ridge and her daughter Hester Richey at Oothcaloga. I've been in contact with Paul Ridenour, who maintains an extensive website on the Ridge family (he is married to a direct descendant of Sarah Ridge). He passed on the following information: "From Chieftains. From the NPS report for the house and property, we use the year 1819 as the "official" date that the Ridge family moved into the house on this property. However, the archaeologist that conducted the digs here at the site found items that date from 1817. We have never confirmed that Nancy Ridge is buried anywhere on the original farm, but that has always been the rumor. "This is what I have about Nancy: Nancy Ridge - born circa 1801 Calhoun, GA - died circa 9/1818 - married William Ritchey or William Ritchie circa 1817. One daughter born circa 9/1818 - died circa 5/1819 Cherokee Nation East, now GA." 5. Refer to the William Richey Letter to President Brigham Young - Feb 1, 1852 (Source: LDS Archives Film CR 1234 1, Reel 32, box 22, folder 18) quoted in a separate note. Judging from the time periods therein, it was almost 35 years before that she died. The letter is dated Feb. 1, 1852, which would make Feb. 1, 1817 if fully 35 years before. On the other hand he was 20 when he went to Tennessee. This would then be sometime after Feb. 20, 1816. He was 7 months with his cousin and then 2 months before he got married (not counting how long he was age 20 before going to Tennessee nor how long in going from his cousin to the Indian school). At the very earliest it would not be before Nov. 20, 1816. They were then married 11 months which would make Nancy's death and Hester's birth no earlier than Oct. 20, 1817. Hester then lives another 6 months and dies no earlier than late Apr. 1818. William mentions Nancy was 18 when they married, which gives credibility to the 1799 birth year he gives the St. George Temple for Nancy. Paul Ridenour's estimate of 1801 appears erroneous. If she was born 1799 and was 18 when married, then we have 1817 (or early 1818) for the marriage. With 11 months of marriage, she was most likely 19 when she died. Paul's estimate of Hester's lifespan of 8 months is incorrect now that we know she was only 6 months old. I am not estimating Nancy's death and Hester's birth as abt 1818 and Hester's death as abt 1819. BURIAL: 1. See Death citation above. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). Includes family group sheet from Ancestral File. ACTION: 1. Per Vann House Museum recommendation, look for the following book: "Dr. Rowena McClinton and Dr. Theda Perdue has finished with the editing of Rowena's translations of the Springplace Moravian Mission diaries. It's at U. of Neb. press as we speak. That's more my style, firsthand accounts! Look for it to be out before the end of the year." The originals may be in the Moravian archives in Winston-Salem, NC. 2. Per Chieftain Museum recommendation, look up Dr. Alice Taylor-Colbert at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia who has researched the Ridge Family. | Ridge, Nancy (I3538)
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| 4845 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following sources are now proven to be wrong in regards to this person being Elizabeth Townsend who was the widow of Peter Wright: A. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson. Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes: "GERSHOM Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643. He m. (1) 65 He m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright, daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright.(66) Footnotes: 65. Holden and Lockwood claim that she was "Lady Ann Millington from England, daughter of Lord Millington," an unsupported and highly unlikely identification (Lockwood Family 16-17). In 1930 Jacobus called her "Ann [?Millington] of Windsor," but in 1955 he referred to her simply as "(first wife)" and gave to Gershom, son of this Gershom, wife Ann Millington (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:384-85; TAG 31:224). This latter Gershom had a son named Millington (TAG 31:226), which may be the origin of the proposed Millington connection. 66. John Cox, Jr., ed., "Oyster Bay Town Records," Volume I, 1653-1690 (New York, 1916), p. 515. In 1955 Jacobus argued that this Elizabeth died and that Gershom had a third wife, also named Elizabeth. In presenting the estate papers for Gershom, Jacobus states that "The prenuptial contract of Gershom with his widow was dated 2 Oct. 1716" (TAG 31:225-26). This prenuptial contract has not been found, but the will of Gershom Lockwood, dated 2 October 1716, refers to "what I have [given] to my dear & loving wife Elizabeth as in my deed of gift to her" (Fairfield Probate Records Case #3836). If Jacobus mistook this reference to a deed of gift as a prenuptial contract, then we have evidence for only one wife named Elizabeth." B. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson: "Robert Lockwood... Children... vi. GERSHOM Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643 [NEHGR 7:283; WaVR 1:11]; m. (1) ___ ___ ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130]; m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright [Oyster Bay TR 1:515], daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130; FOOF 1:384-85]..." C. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend. D. Per the book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia: "Gershom Lockwood married Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. In the Townsend Memorial, pp. 87,88,91, and 131, I find the following: John Townsend died in 1668, and, as he died intestate, his widow according to a prevailing custom divided his estate. 'The 23d year of the reign of Charles II, King of England, and the tenth day of the fifth month 1671,' i.e., July 10th, 1671. In speaking of her daughter Elizabeth, she says: 'To my eldest dau. Elizabeth, although not above mentioned, yet she is to have with what she hath already received...' 'To the said Elizabeth or her husband, Gideon Wright, towards her portion, I give with what her father had before given her already...' 'Elizabeth, dau. of John Townsend 1st, married Gideon, son of Peter Wright, and had 8 children. After his death she married Gershom Lockwood, who came from Conn., and returned there after his marriage to her." (Note: See hard file for lengthier version of inheritance.) 2. The periodical "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," Vol. 131(April 2000), No. 2, "Three Elizabeth Ludlams of Oyster Bay," by Harry Macy, Jr., F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S.: "Joseph2 Ludlam (William1) was born in England in 1646, spent his childhood at Southampton, Long Island, and by 1668 was in Oyster Bay where he died on Hog Island in 1698.[1] As shown below, he had children born circa 1684-1691 and by 1687/8 he had a wife named Elizabeth. Both of his sons also married Elizabeths. The maiden names of these three Elizabeth Ludlams have long puzzled genealogists. In his notes, Oyster Bay's earliest known family historian, Dr. Peter S. Townsend (1795-1849), stated that Roberta and Henry3 Townsend (sons of Henry2-1) "had a sister who md one of the Ludlams of Hog Island," but he did not name the sister or her husband.[2] The 1865 Townsend genealogy quoted Dr. Townsend as saying that a daughter of Henry2 married one of the Ludlams, again leaving the couple unnamed.[3] Julia Parish Ludlam's 1896 Ludlam genealogy indicated that Joseph2 Ludlam married Elizabeth3 Townsend (Henry2),[4] and this was repeated in 1914 and 1916 by George W. Cocks[5] and in 1932 by Josephine C. Frost.[6] However, Henry2 Townsend was not married until about 1676 and could hardly have had a Ludlam grandchild born eight years later.[7] In a letter to Clarence A. Torrey dated 29 April 1915 Cocks recognized this problem and concluded "There is no appearance on record of his [Joseph2 Ludlam] ever having m. an Elizabeth Townsend, the only eligible one being dau. of first Henry and she died unmarried Sept. 13, 1680." He then suggested that Joseph2 married Elizabeth Ryder of Southold, named in her father's 1699 will as the wife of Joseph Ludlam.[8] Cocks' 1916 article does not reflect this change of thought, because he wrote to Torrey again only two weeks later, on 18 May 1915, saying that he had reconsidered the matter. Ignoring the conflicting dates, he re-asserted that "Joseph Ludlam's wife by tradition supported by competent evidence was Elizabeth Townsend, dau. of Henry Townsend 2d." On 19 October 1925 in a letter to John R. Totten, then editor of THE RECORD, Torrey pointed out the problem with this statement, commenting that it was made "before Mr. Cocks lost his mind but he was not, apparently, at his best" when it was made. Cocks was 86 in 1915 and while his distinctive handwriting was as steady as ever, he apparently did have good and bad days. He had forgotten that in his notes there was another statement from Dr. Peter S. Townsend that clearly assigned the Ludlam-Townsend marriage to the next generation (see below). Torrey was, of course, also unaware of this statement. But he did have Cocks' April 1915 letter that correctly rejected the marriage for Joseph2, and he failed to mention this to Totten, giving himself full credit for the rejection ("I have shown, conclusively, that she was not a daughter of Henry2 Townsend …"). He told Totten that "It is quite likely that the problem will never be solved."[9] In 1937 he published his own version of the Joseph2 Ludlam family, concluding that Joseph2 "married Elizabeth, whose family name and ancestry are unknown."[10] Ten years later, in 1947, there appeared an impressive article in which Waldron Phoenix Belknap revealed the solution that had eluded Cocks and Torrey.[11] Because this article was published in "The Art Bulletin," most genealogists have remained unaware of its existence, and even those who have read it may have missed the brief but crucial reference to the present problem. Belknap's subject was the identity of the noted colonial portrait painter Robert Feke of Newport, Rhode Island. He proved that Feke was the son of Robert and Clemence (Ludlam) Feke, making Joseph2 Ludlam the artist's maternal grandfather. Joseph's wife Elizabeth, he stated, was "probably the daughter of the first John Townsend and, at the time of her marriage, the widow of Gideon Wright."[12] This was a totally new proposal. Elizabeth2 Townsend (John1) of Oyster Bay married Gideon2 Wright (Peter1), as shown by the settlement of her father's estate in 1671 where her mother (also named Elizabeth) refers to "my eldest daughter Elizabeth," and "her husband Gideon Wright."[13] The dates of birth of Elizabeth and her eight Wright children are unknown, but she probably was born after 1645 and was recently married in 1671.[14] Gideon Wright, "weak in body," made his will 14 May 1685, referring to his wife though not by name.[15] There is no record of probate of this will, but other records establish that he died between 29 May and 6 October 1685.[16] After his death there is no further mention of his widow in the records, suggesting that she either remarried or died.[17] According to genealogies of the Townsend, Wright, and Lockwood families, she next married Gershom Lockwood,[18] but Belknap concluded that these works were incorrect in this regard,[19] and the evidence for this conclusion is not hard to find. Gershom Lockwood did marry "the widdow Elizabeth Wright of Oysterbay," but this took place on 3 August 1697,[20] twelve years after Gideon Wright's death. A widow of Elizabeth's age, with young children, was not likely to remain unmarried for so long a time. Furthermore, a 1700 agreement among the heirs of Nicholas1 Wright (Gideon's uncle) mentions "the home lot which belongs to William Wright whereon Gershom Lockwood now possesseth," and confirms "the Homestead whereon Gershom Lockwood lives upon William Wright." William3 Wright, born 1680, was the only son and heir-at-law of Caleb2 Wright (Nicholas1), who died in Oyster Bay 5 February 1695 [probably 1695/6].[21] This Caleb married Elizabeth (?Dickinson),[22] and no second marriage has been claimed for her. It is evident that she was the widow who, a little over a year after Caleb's death, married Lockwood and then lived with him in Caleb's homestead. If Gideon Wright's widow did not marry Lockwood, what happened to her? No record explicitly states that she married Joseph Ludlam, but a deed and will made many years later mention Ludlam-Wright relationships which could not be satisfactorily explained before Belknap's article. The 1896 Ludlam genealogy assigned Joseph2 two sons, Joseph3 and Charles, and their existence is well established by many records. For example, after Joseph2 died in 1698, his widow Elizabeth in 1700 signed an agreement which names her sons Joseph and Charles, both under 21.[23] Cocks in his 1916 article added two daughters, Clemence the wife of Robert Feke (Feake/Feeks) and Sarah the wife of John Wright[24] This list of two sons and two daughters was repeated in 1932 by Frost.[25] In his 1937 article criticizing the earlier accounts, Torrey modified the list only to make the second daughter's first name unknown.[26] Cocks noted that in 1720 Joseph3 and Charles Ludlam made a deed of gift to "our brother John Wright."[27] Like Cocks, Torrey felt that this deed proved the existence of a second Ludlam daughter. Cocks identified John Wright as the grandson of Gideon and Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright, but Torrey devoted some space to showing that John was actually Gideon and Elizabeth's son. He married Abigail Barker in 1708,[28] and Torrey assumed that Miss Ludlam was his second wife. Torrey noted that the 1722 will of Gideon3 Wright, another son of Gideon and Elizabeth, appointed as overseers "my loving and trusty brethren, viz., John Wright, Charles Ludlam, Robert Feek."[29] Torrey argued that Charles Ludlam and Robert Feke were Gideon's "brethren" only through the wife of his brother John -- that is, they were his sister-in-law's brother and brother-in-law. He thought that this strengthened the argument that John Wright had married a Ludlam. Belknap's identification of Joseph2 Ludlam's wife allows a much more likely interpretation of the 1720-22 documents. If the widow of Gideon2 Wright married Joseph2 Ludlam, then Gideon3 and John3 Wright would have been half-brothers of Joseph3 and Charles3 Ludlam and of the wife of Robert Feke. Gideon3 Wright would then have been referring to Robert Feke and Charles Ludlam as his own brethren and not merely "brethren" through his sister-in-law. Similarly, when Joseph and Charles Ludlam conveyed to "our brother John Wright" they would have been referring to their half-brother, and it would not be necessary to argue that John must have married their sister. It indeed appears that there was no such sister. Elizabeth, the widow of Gideon Wright, does not appear on record after the date of her husband's will, 14 May 1685. By 18 February 1687 (probably 1687/8)[30] Joseph2 Ludlam had a wife Elizabeth. Their marriage most likely would have occurred a year or so after Wright's death. This raises one problem -- Clemence Ludlam (later Feke) was probably born in 1684. Her gravestone reads "Hear lieth the body of Clemence Feke who died August ye 8th 1760 Aged 76 year," which would place her birthdate in 1683 or 1684 (if the inscription means "76 years") or 1684 or 1685 (if the inscription means "in her 76th year").[31] While it is possible that the age on Clemence's stone is incorrect, and she was born say in 1686 or 1687, it may be more likely that she was not Elizabeth's child, that Joseph Ludlam had an unidentified first wife who died at or soon after Clemence's birth. Ludlam's marriage to Elizabeth did not take place until he was 40 years old, yet he had been in Oyster Bay since age 22 and had long had a useful trade and sufficient land to support a family. Given the customs of the time one would expect him to have married well before 1686. If he did, then he was himself a widower with a child (rather than a 40-year old bachelor) when he married the widow Wright with her eight children. Clemence would have been a stepsister of these children, raised by their mother, and Gideon Wright could still have referred to her husband as one of his "brethren."[32] As for Joseph2's sons, the gravestone of Joseph3 at Hog (Centre) Island, reads "Here lieth the body of Joseph Ludlam Junr died Febr the 9th 1729/30 Aged 41 years,"[33] placing his birthdate in 1688-89. According to a family record Charles Ludlam died 1 November 1769 aged 78-7-5, giving him a calculated birthdate of 27 March 1691.[34] If Elizabeth (Townsend) (Wright) Ludlam was born in 1647, she would have been 44 in 1691. Elizabeth, the widow of Joseph2 Ludlam, is buried in the family cemetery. Her stone reads only "E L Augus ye 2d 1723.[35] In that year she would probably have been about 76 years old. It might be argued that Joseph2 Ludlam's wife Elizabeth could have married him earlier and been the mother of Clemence as well as his sons -- which would make it impossible for her to be the widow of Gideon Wright There is, however, one more piece of evidence which supports Joseph2 Ludlam's marriage to the widow. In 1769 George Townsend (Richard3, George2, John1) of Norwich (now East Norwich), Long Island, in a letter to his cousin Christopher Townsend of Newport, Rhode Island, stated that their mutual great-grandfather John1 Townsend had three daughters, naming one as "Elizabeth Ludlam." This letter was published in the 1865 Townsend genealogy, the compilers adding a footnote that the daughter Elizabeth actually married Gideon Wright.[36] But re-examining the letter in light of Belknap's proposal, we can see that George Townsend, born in 1713, was writing about a great-aunt whom he would have remembered, as she did not die until he was ten years old. And she would have been known to him as (Aunt) Elizabeth Ludlam.[37] To summarize: This writer agrees with Belknap that Elizabeth2 Townsend (John1) married (1) Gideon Wright, who died in 1685, and married (2), perhaps in 1686, Joseph2 Ludlam. She had eight known children by her first husband, and by her second husband was the mother of Joseph3 and Charles3. It appears likely, however, that Joseph2 Ludlam had a previous wife, still unidentified, who was the mother of his daughter Clemence. TWO MORE ELIZABETH LUDLAMS The first Elizabeth Ludlam's two sons both married women named Elizabeth, who have also been the subject of much speculation. In her 1896 Ludlam genealogy Julia Parish Ludlam gave these wives as Elizabeth ___.[38] The birthdate of Joseph3's Elizabeth is unknown, but he was born 1688/9 and she was probably the same age or slightly younger. For Charles3's wife Elizabeth, we have an age at death from Cocks' notes which indicates she was born 25 October 1692 or a year and a half after her husband.[39] Thus these two Elizabeths were about the same age. In the 1912 Cocks genealogy, Cocks gave the wife of Joseph3 as the Elizabeth Ryder mentioned earlier,[40] but in the second (1914) edition of the same work[41] and in his 1916 RECORD article he made her a daughter of Henry3 (Henry2-1) Townsend.[42] Although he had placed a "?" by this marriage in his notes, it was omitted in these publications. In 1932 Frost repeated this identification.[43] Neither she nor Cocks noticed that Henry3 Townsend was much too young to be Joseph3 Ludlam's father-in-law. In 1937 Torrey recognized this problem, and reverted to the Ryder identification.[44] This required that Joseph3 be married by 1699 (when Thomas Ryder made his will), and Torrey therefore had to push Joseph3's birth back to 1679, which we now know is almost ten years too early. Subsequently (in 1943) Conklin Mann showed that Elizabeth Ryder actually married another Joseph3 Ludlam (Anthony2, Williams of Southampton),[45] leaving the Oyster Bay Joseph3 without an identified wife. As for Elizabeth the wife of Charles3 Ludlam, Cocks thought she might be the daughter Elizabeth named in the will of Job2 Wright (Peters). Again his notes contain a "?" which was omitted in his 1916 artide[46] Frost copied this idea[47] from Cocks, but Perrine's Wright genealogy shows no marriage for this daughter[48] and there does not seem to be any evidence for marrying her to Charles Ludlam, except her first name. When Torrey determined that Joseph2 could not have been the Ludlam who according to tradition married a daughter of Henry2 Townsend, he began to look for another candidate for that marriage. Since he had married Joseph3 to Elizabeth Ryder, Torrey decided that it must have been Charles Ludlam who married Henry2 Townsend's daughter.[49] The present writer agreed with this conclusion in 1980,[50] but Mann's revelation that Joseph3 did not marry Miss Ryder requires that Torrey's conclusion be re-examined. In his landmark 1947 article, Belknap could only conclude that Elizabeth, daughter of Henry2 Townsend, "may quite possibly have been the wife of Joseph Ludlam (Jr.) or of Charles Ludlam" (emphasis added)[51] Did Henry2 Townsend have, a daughter Elizabeth? His brother John in his 1705 will referred to "my Brother Henrys four daughters,"[52] none of whom has been identified. These daughters had to be born between 1676 when Henry2 probably married, and 1698 when his wife Deborah died at age 39, so one of them could have been the wife of Joseph3 or Charles Ludlam. That one was named Elizabeth is likely, as Henry had a sister Elizabeth, and it was Deborah's mother's name as well. Joseph3 Ludlam had only two known children, Joseph4 and Deborah. If he was the Ludlam who married Henry2 Townsend's daughter, this Deborah was named for her grandmother. Charles Townsend had no daughter Deborah; he did have a son Henry, which Torrey thought was significant, but that name is also found earlier in the Ludlam family.[53] In 1912-16 George W. Cocks was apparently unaware that he had the answer to this puzzle in his own files. Pasted to the back of one of his notes on Joseph3 Ludlam is a paper in someone else's handwriting: My grandfather Absalom when young lived with his uncle Joseph Ludlam on Hog Island -- J.L.'s wife being a sister of Henry III. Appended to this in Cocks' hand is "per Dr. Peter Townsend." This entry has not been found in Dr. Townsend's papers (note 2 above), but there is record of him interviewing descendants of Absalom4 (Henry3-2-1) Townsend, who were his cousins (he was descended maternally from Absalom's brother Henry4). Absalom was about twenty years younger than Joseph3 Ludlam[54] and the latter is clearly the Joseph the entry refers to. Absalom was little more than an infant when his father died and his mother remarried, which would explain why he lived with his uncle. His grandchild may have heard this story from him directly, as he died at an advanced age in 1795 (also the year Dr. Townsend was born). In any case, this note clarifies Dr. Townsend's other statement quoted at the beginning of this article, and is probably the most reliable piece of evidence we will ever find on this subject. The present author therefore concludes that it was Joseph] Ludlam who married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry2 and Deborah (Underhill) Townsend. As for Charles Ludlam's wife Elizabeth, the names of their children can all be found among his own relatives except for two, Daniel and Susanna. Barbara Barth has suggested[55] that this Elizabeth might have been a daughter of Daniel2 Townsend (John1) and his wife Susanna Forman. This Oyster Bay couple are known to have had two sons, Daniel3 and Robert,[56] and it is quite possible that they also had a daughter, named for Daniel's mother. She and Charles Ludlam would have been first cousins, but there were other such marriages in Oyster Bay in this period. Robert Townsend sometimes appears on record with Charles Ludlam,[57] and Daniel3 may have had a son Charles, a name not previously used by these Townsends.[58] It would be dangerous to give too much weight to first names in establishing relationships between English families in this time and place, but this is a possible explanation of the identity of the third Elizabeth. It thus appears that two of the three Elizabeth Ludlams were born Townsends, and the third may have been as well. Footnotes: 1 For Joseph's 9 Aug. 1646 baptism and his father's history see Conklin Mann, `William Ludlam of Southampton, Long Island," The American Genealogist [hereafter TAG] 20(1943):8-30, and Walter D. Ludlum, "William Ludlam of Southampton Some New Information," TAG 29(1953):91-98. Oyster Bay granted Joseph land 15 July 1668 (Oyster Beg Town Records, ed. John Cox, Jr., 8 vols. [1916-40], 1:204). Frequently mentioned in the town records as a cooper, he eventually settled on Hog (now Centre) Island. At the old homestead there George W. Cocks (1829-1922) found family papers which gave Joseph's 16 Mar. 1698 date of death (REC. 47:309; Cocks' Ludlam notes in Feake File, NYG&BS Manuscript Coll.). His widow Elizabeth executed a deed 6 Apr. 1698 (Oyster BD, Town Records, 2:193). 2 Peter S. Townsend, "Analytical and Chronological Genealogy of the Townsend Family in the United States of America," MS. volume at The New-York Historical Society, introduction dated 1827, p. 102. Papers of Dr. Townsend are also found at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Raynham Hall Museum, Oyster Bay Historical Society, and Townsend Society of America, including duplicates of at least some of the material in the NYHS volume. 3 [James C. and Charlotte A. Townsend,] A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend and Their Descendants (1865), p. 185. 4 Julia Parish Ludlam, A Genealogy the Descendants of William Ludlam of Southampton, L.I. (1896), p. 16. 5 George W. Cocks and John Cox, Jr., History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family, 2nd ed. (1914), p. 370; George W. Cocks, "Ludlum -- Correction," REC. 47(1916):308-11. 6 Josephine C. Frost, Underhill Genealogy, vols. 1-4 (1932), 2:86. 7 Although a primary source for the relationship is lacking, Henry2 Townsend's wife was almost certainly Deborah2 Underhill (Capt. John1). Frost says she was b. 1659, d. 1698, citing Quaker records, and m. Townsend 1677, but Deborah Townsend signed Quaker marriage certificates starting in 1676 (ibid., 2:63; William W. Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. 3 [1940], p. 320). 8 Cocks' letter in Feake file. Cocks had previously thought that it was Joseph3 Ludlam, Jr., who married Elizabeth Ryder, and Torrey subsequently had that same idea (see below). 9 The Cocks-Torrey and Torrey-Totten correspondence was given to NYG&BS by Mr. Torrey, and is included in the Feake file. 10 Clarence A. Torrey, "The Early Ludlam and Related Families of Oyster Bay, New York," TAG 14(1937):5-10. 11. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, "The Identity of Robert Feke," The Art Bulletin, 29(1947):201-07 (copy in Feake file). 12 Ibid., 203. Belknap indicated that he intended to give his notes on this matter to NYG&BS. Instead the notes are now at the Winterthur Museum, where they were examined in 1985 by Richard F. Reid, who kindly shared his findings with the present author. 13 Oyster Bay Town Records, 1:64, also printed in A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, 88. 14 John Townsend had two sons (both named Thomas) baptized 1642 and 1645 while he was living in New Amsterdam (Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, NYG&BS Collections vol. 2 [1901], pp. 14, 19); His eldest son John was born before 1642 but Elizabeth was most likely born after 1645, say in 1647 or 1649. Her eldest son Peter first acted without the consent of his guardian or his father's overseers when he deeded land in Nov. 1690 (Oyster Beg, Town Records 1:602), and eldest daughter Elizabeth was married ca.1688 (ibid., 2:390), both suggesting births ca.1669-70. 15 Oyster Bay Town Records 1:290, also printed in Howland D. Ferrule, The Wright Family of Oysterbay (1923), pp. 71-72. Among overseers of his estate Gideon Wright named his brother-in-law James Townsend and cousin John Townsend at the Mill. James Townsend was Elizabeth's brother, but had also been married to Gideon's sister (now deceased). John2 Townsend at the Mill (Henry1) was a first cousin of Elizabeth but not a blood relation of Gideon so far as is known. 16 Oyster Bay Town Records, 1:290, 315-16. 17 Gideon Wright left his wife his homestead, as long as she remained his widow. Numerous deeds by which Gideon's sons conveyed his lands mention neither the homestead nor their mother. 18 A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend 132; Perrine, Wright Family, 71; Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America (1889), pp. 17-18. 19 Belknap, "The Identity of Robert Feke," The Art Bulletin 29:203. 20 Oyster Bay Town Records, 1:515. 21 Ibid., 3:137; Perrine, Wright Family, 143, 149. 22 For more than 100 years this Elizabeth has been identified as John Dickinson's daughter of that name, but a primary source for this identification cannot presently be found. 23 Ludlam, A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Ludlam, 17; Rodney Macdonough, Madonough-Hackstaff Ancestry (1901), p. 262. 24 Cocks' notes include a "?" before Sarah's name, but in the article (REC. 47:309) the `?" is missing, one of several such omissions (see below). 25. Frost, Underhill Genealogy, 2:86. 26 TAG 14:5-10. While no surviving primary source directly identifies Mrs. Clemence Feke as Joseph Ludlam's daughter, Torrey agreed with Cocks in this identification. It is supported by the 1722 will of Gideon Wright (see below), and Ludlam's mother also was named Clemence. 27 Oyster Bay Town Records, 5:554. 28 Perrine, Wright Family, 79. 29 Queens Co. Deeds liber C, wills section pp. 119-20, full text in Perrine, Wright Family, 77-78. 30 Oyster Bay Town Records, 1:390. 31 Cocks (in his notes and REC. 47:309) and Frost give this version, as does Mary Jane Layton Lippert, Underhill Burying Ground (Compiled for the Underhill Burying Ground, Inc., 1998), p. 13. An incorrect reading of the year of death as 1761 appeared in David H. and Francis J. Underhill, Underhill Bugling Ground (1926), p. 56 no. 46, and was copied by Torrey and also by George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family," REC. 87:109. 32 Both Cocks and Torrey were descended from Clemence, which explains their mutual interest in Elizabeth. Ironically, the resolution of Elizabeth's identity appears to have removed her from Cocks and Torrey's ancestor charts. 33 Peter L. Van Santvoord and Herbert S. Hale, "A Complete Transcript of Monuments in Private and Abandoned Cemeteries in Oyster Bay Town, North" (typescript, 1961, copy at NYG&BS), p. 12 The stone, made of "fine old black slate," was still clearly legible in 1961. 34 Cocks, Ludlam notes in Feake file; birthdate calculation does not reflect 1752 calendar change. 35 Ibid. The family record found by Cocks says she died 22 Aug. 1723. 36 A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, 232. 37 George Townsend also called his other great-aunt, Rose, by the name of her second husband, Hayden. He named a third great-aunt, Mary Wright, but she was actually the first cousin of his grandfather, being a daughter of Henry1. 38 Ludlam, A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Ludlam, 17, 41. 39 See note 34, above. 40 George W. Cocks and John Cox, Jr., History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family (published with The Cox Family in America, by Rev. Henry Miller Cox, 1912), p. 34. 41 Cocks and Cox, History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family, 2nd ed. (1914), 34 (corrected). 42 In the 1916 article (REC. 47:309) Cocks says "Dr. Peter Townsend says 'Joseph Ludlam's wife was a dau. of Henry (3rd) Townsend,'" but this appears to be a misreading of Townsend's statement. 43 Frost, Underhill Genealogy, 2:109. 44 TAG 14:6-7. 45 Mann, "William Ludlam of Southampton" (note 1, above), TAG 20:28. 46 Cocks, Ludlam notes in Feake file; REC. 47:309. 47 Frost, Underhill Genealogy, 2:109. 48 Perrin, Wright Family, 73; at pp. 73-74 Perrin gives the full text of Job Wright's will. 49 TAG 14:7. 50 Edwin R. Deats and Harry Macy, Jr., Underhill Genealogy, vols. 5-6 (1980), 5:64. 51 Belknap, "The Identity of Robert Feke," The Art Bulletin 29:203 n. 24. 52 Macdonough, Macdonougb-Hackstaff Ancestry, 314. 53 For the children of Joseph3 and Charles see Cocks, REC. 47:310-11. 54 He was born shortly before his father died in 1709 (A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, pp. 185,190). See also The Townsend Newsletter, Fall 1993, p. 2, and Winter 1999-2000, pp. 6-7, 55 Personal communications to the author, 1994, 1999. 56 A Memorial ofJohn, Henry, and Richard Townsend, p. 179, briefly mentions this family. 57 For example, Robert Townsend witnessed many deeds involving Charles Ludlam (Oyster Bay Town Record, 5:281, 554, 602; 6:398, 402). 58 Based on extensive research into the early Townsends of Dutchess and Putnam counties, the present author believes that Charles Townsend, b. say 1720, of Dutchess by 1747, was the son of Daniel3." 3. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), p. 243: GERSHOM2 LOCKWOOD (Robert1), born Watertown MA 6 September 1643, died Greenwich CT 12 March 1719; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1659 Anne (?Millington) of Windsor CT, born probably England say 1639, died probably Greenwich before 1697, perhaps daughter of John1 and Sarah (Smith) Millington of Hartford CT; married (2) Oyster Bay LI 3 August 1697 Elizabeth Townsend, born say 1650, died after 1719, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, married (1) there about 1670 (birth 1671) Gideon Wright, born say 1648, died before 1697; married (3) 2 October 1716 Elizabeth (___). He was in Greenwich 1672 (Torrey 470 and 842). Children surname LOCKWOOD: By first wife Ann ?Millington: i. GERSHOM, born Fairfield CT about 1659; married Mary (___ not Weed), born say 1661. ii. HANNAH3, born probably Greenwich CT say 1666, died probably there 28 December 1745; married there about 1686 JOHN3 BURWELL, born Milford CT about 1653, died Greenwich 1 May 1690, son of JOHN2 (JOHN1) and Mary (___) BURWELL; married (2) there 1692 Thomas2 Hanford, born 18 July 1668, died 7 June 1743, son of Thomas1 and his second wife Mary2 (Miles) Hanford (see Burwell Chapter) (Torrey 125 and 341). iiI. ABRAHAM, born probably Greenwich CT about 1669, died Warwick RI 1747; married Sarah Westcott, born say 1671. (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)" | Dickinson, Elizabeth (I3286)
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| 4846 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following undated paper was written late 1969 in Nice, France by Catherine Werblovsky Olympieff (also known as Ekaterina Werblovskaya Olympieva) at the request of Patrick Landau through his aunt Alice Nikitina. Patrick's father, Vladimir Landau, even though he was Catherine's cousin, had less knowledge on the family then Catherine. Catherine was the granddaughter of Edouard and Rebecca Herzenberg. The letter was written a couple of years before Catherine's death after she entered into an assisted care facility in Nice. The paper was recently found among personal items previously gathered about 1969 by her daughter Irene Nadia de Lanskoy Petersen. Portions of the letter were written in three languages: English, French, and Russian. Irene, in transcribing the letter, notes that the letter was hard to follow and to make sense of. Irene's transcription dated 31 Jul 2007 with her notes added in [ ]. "What concerns the father and mother of our mother's: Mother's father: Edouard Ocipovitch Herzenberg [or Gerzenberg] Edward son of Joseph Herzenberg born: in Mitava [or Mittau] not far ___, Baltic Provinces - not far from Riga. He died at 76 years of age (had diabetes and malaria) from lung congestion after flu. His wife was his cousin. Rebecca Herzenberg also married a first cousin. I am not sure of the name of her father; she died in Moscow when I was 6 years old (70 years ago). [Death would be approximately 1899?] They were probably married in Mitawa and came to Moscow young, because all their children were born in Moscow. The eldest 1) Elizabeth 2) Sonja [or Sonia] (Sofia) mother of Manja or Mania who now lives in Moscow, who had a sister Nadja or Nadia who was born in Moscow. Sonia's husband was Adolf Schneider - son of Aaron Schneider - who had 3 more sons: Nicolas, Alexander, Serge and a daughter Elizabeth Schneider. She got married with Martin Behr (English nationality); they had two children and lived in Moscow. Mrs. Elizabeth Behr died in London (after the Russian Revolution she lived in France, later in England.) Her brother Adolf Schneider was a brother-in-law of our mother's of course.) [This is a repeat of the above.] The Behrs had 2 children. Elisabeth Behr died in London (probably her husband Martin Behr died before.) Mrs. Behr's daughter Olga died in London about a year ago [1968-69?], her brother George Behr still lives in London is married (has 1 daughter who is married too and has 2 boys, 8 and 7. So my mother Elisabeth was the eldest daughter of Edward and Rebecca Herzenberg born in Moscow like her sister Sonia, the next sister Flora born in Moscow. Flora, married Joseph Offenbacher, had one son Lotar (my first cousin as well as yours). She, her husband, and son died in Germany during the war of Hitler (son Lothar). [Irene notes that another family account says that Lothar committed suicide on account of the war.] [His father] Joseph Offenbacher had an older brother Vasily [William or Wilhelm] Offenbacher who married a cousin of our mother's - Fanny, daughter of Abra[ha]m (whom all children of Edward Herzenberg used to call Uncle Abraham.) He was the husband of Grandfather Edward Herzenberg's sister Theresa. His family name was also like all: Herzenberg. Theresa Herzenberg had many children - daughter Fanny, sons Ludwig, Harry, and 2 other sons and another daughter Sophia married to another Herzenberg (all those marriages were between cousins) who had three children, Robby (Robert) who lives in Sweden and 2 daughters Clara and Roberta (died in Riga - Bolshevik Revolution). [I am not sure if Clara and Roberta are correct for this family grouping.] After Flora Herzenberg, the 4th daughter was my Aunt Anjuta [Anna Herzenberg-Landau]. Then there was another one Genga (Eugenie) married Harry Taube from Riga - were killed by Hitler's army. She was the 5th daughter of Edward Herzenberg. The 6th was Lilja [Lilia] (1st wife of Uncle Max Landau - died in Davos, Switzerland from TB.) Then was another daughter Milja, died very young (she was the 7th daughter). The youngest daughter Tonya [Tonia] died in Moscow. Then there were two brothers, the oldest Ivan (John) married a French young girl from Mussidan, Dordogne, France. She was daughter of the Mayor of that town. Died in the north of Russia where - she was sent sick and was sent with her to Mourmansk (north of Russia). Uncle Vanja's [Vania, Ivan, John all same name wife Lydia died there [note her maiden name was Lydie Buisson]. Uncle Vanja died too in Bolshevik Revolution. Their 3 children: Micha (Michel) died probably in Moscow; his brother Andrei (Andre) Herzenberg and Suzanne Hindzee (Herzenberg) - 1st husband (French) Volant. She has a daughter in Toronto married in Toronto (Alja [or Alice Nikitina] knew her) who has two children, boy and girl. The father's family name is A. [Albert?] Statter - wife Lydie (Suzanne's daughter) - son Albert. [Irene's note: last known address was 33 Stonegate Road, Toronto, Canada, M8Y-1V8; phone 416-251-6295.] There was yet other families related to us through our mother's. It was a well known dentist. His name was Kovarsky. His wife was the cousin of our mother's. They had a lot of children - 3 brothers Misha (Michael), Leva (Leon), 2 daughters Choura (Alexandra). Chura who now is same age as Suzanne [Herzenberg Hindzee] - the only one alive. I forget the name of the eldest brother deceased. Manja (Mania) in Moscow knows more about that family. What was the name of the mother cousin of our mother's-probably it was yet another of the Herzenberg family. As Alja [Alice Nikitina] will be going to Moscow she will be able to find out more form Manja [Mania]. Then there was yet another family related to the wife of our grandfather through the husband or wife Idelson. There was a girl Lisa Idelson and her brother. I think that Manja must know something about them. They lived in Moscow. I used to go see them with my mother when I was about 8 or 10 years old. Now George Behr has written from London thanking me for my sympathy condolences on account of the death of his sister Olga Behr. She must have been older than 78 years. he thought that his aunt on his father's side, Nina Karlovna died in Moscow, as well as his cousin Leija, but I think it is relatives on the side of his father Bahr, and the cousin is perhaps of the Schneider family (it is possible that the cousin is still living). All these people lived in Moscow. Now what concerns the Packschwer family. The one that came to see you with the Vietnamese wife has passed away. His name was Julien Packschwer born in Vitebesk, Russia. He was 72. His younger brother Saveijn (Sahva) engineer in London named himself Packshaw, died in England 3 weeks before Julien, leaving a widow (2nd marriage) and 2 children. It was the death of his younger brother that caused reaction on Julien Packshwer. He died 3 weeks after him. He was found on a street in Nice, France with a cerebral hemorrhage-fell in the street. Police took him to the hospital St. Rock where he died at 19 hours in the evening and remained in a coma. His car 2 CV (small) stayed in the parking where he had left it. It was only his Vietnamese wife [Mado] returning from Saigon 1 month after his death that was able to retrieve that car from the parking. Yet another day or two, it would have been impounded. But as it was the widow herself then came. They did not charge her anything. But as the car was her husband's-she has to wait by inheritance law to be able to sell it and divide up in 4 parts to his children. The eldest son of another marriage Leon is an eye doctor in Paris, then 3 other children. Oldest Robert in Montreal, CA; another son in ___ was in the navy for 3 years. The oldest was in the Air force, married a girl from Morocco - they are going to have a child soon. The daughter Irene married, has a little boy, the husband is serving in the military; they live in Cayrons near Vence, France in the Packshwer house. The widow/mother Mado inherited ¼ of the sum, the children ¾ divided in 4 for each of the 4 children. Through a real estate in Vence, Julien's house of 1000 sq. meters is worth 18 million francs. If the children keep the house, they will in turn need to give on fourth of the cost to the widow who also has the right to half of his monthly pension of 30,000 francs. She came to see me day before yesterday and told me all these details. So here you have it-the relatives. The mother of the Packshwer father was 1st cousin of our mother's through the daughter of the sister of our grandfather Edward Herzenberg maiden name Theresa Herzenberg died in Nice, born I think in Mitawa [Mitau], Baltic Provinces. She was buried with her husband in Nice at the Caucade cemetery. Now I add what George Behr wrote from London that his wife Janet has seen Aunt Anjuta [Anna Herzenberg] in Monte Carlo, then he wrote about his cousin in Moscow who he thinks has passed away (he is going to find out about it from Manja-he asked their address in Monaco). She was the daughter of the oldest sister Polina Aronovna of his mother. Here is what concerns that family... [Balance of letter missing]." | Herzenberg, Milja (I4172)
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| 4847 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following Ursula may have some relationship as perhaps a mother, a first wife, or a daughter. Considering that no other family appears in this parish except that of John's, we can probably rule out a sister. A daughter is also problematic since the first two and half years of the parish record (1557 to mid-1560) don't show any children for John unless Ursula was born just before Mar 25, 1557 when the records begin. Record from "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JZY6-2ZQ : accessed 11 Jan 2016; reference item 10 1565; FHL microfilm 1,850,187: - Ursula Wilkyng, bur. 7 Apr 1565 at Throwley, Kent, England 2. Extraction of Wilkyns from Throwley records using Kent Family History Society CD (FHL DC-ROM 3223), the Parish record (FHL film 1850187, it. 10) and the Archdeacon's Transcript (FHL film 1752238, it. 3) from the beginning 1557 to 1599 for baptisms and marriages and to 1635 for burials: -9 Jun 1560, Alice Wilkyns, bap. -31 Jan 1562/3, Susan Wilkyns, bap. - 20 Jan 1565/6, Dorothee Wilkyns, bap. -7 Apr 1565, Ursula Wilkyns, bur. -27 Mar 1568, Michael Wilkyns, bap. -21 Oct 1571, Agnes Wilkyns, bap. -20 May 1574, Thomas Wilkyns, bap. -31 Aug 1576, Dorathee Wilkyns, bur. -24 Nov 1583, Thomas Thursten and Alice Wilkyns, mar. -17 Jul 1592, James Doe and Agnes Wylkins, mar. -14 Jan 1599/1600, Michaell Wilkin and Obedience Gouldinge, mar. -25 Nov 1604, John Wylkin, bur. -3 Jun 1623, Obedience Wilkins, bur. -14 Jan 1634/5, Katherine Wilkines, wife of Mr. Michaell Wilkines, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Katherine ye wife of Michaell Wilkins.") -1 Feb 1634/5, Michael Wilkins a widower, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Michaell Wilkins ye husband of Catherine.") BURIAL: 1. FHL film 1850187 item 10, Throwley Parish Records: John Wylkin November 25th, 1604. MARRIAGE: 1. FHL film 1850187 item 10, Brenchley Parish Records, has no marriage record. Their register starts in 1558, but shows no entries for this couple. DEATH: 1. "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23178-22858-32?cc=1949814&wc=M68K-PWG:250713701,250719201,251260001 : accessed 10 August 2015), Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury > Wills > 1604, A-Z > images 293 and 294 of 294; County Record Office, Maidstone. Will of John Wilkin of Throwley, Kent, England Date of will: 20 Nov 1604 - To be buried in Throwley churchyard - "my daughter Agnes ye now wyfe of James Doe of Borden" - "Alyce my daughter ye now wyfe of Thomas Thurston of [Leanan?] husbandman - "Thomas Wylkin by sonne" - "Michaell Wilkin my sonne" - "Maryan Knowlden my kinswoman" - "Thomas Thurston ye sonne of Thomas Thurston" - "Elsabeth my now wyfe" named as executor - Signed by mark - Witnesses: John Wyse and Richard Goodgroome Probated 12 Dec 1604. BURIAL: 1. Possibly a duplicate recording. FHL film 1850187 item 10, Brenchley Parish Records: John Wylkin November 25th, 1604. | Wilkyns, John (I4903)
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| 4848 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following was posted on the Internet at a site concerning "Brethren-Genealogy" by Dwayne Wrightsman "Conrad Dick was the head of the German Dick family that settled in Wilkes/Ashe County, NC, in 1788. His daughter, Maria Elizabetha Dick (baptized 18 December 1746, Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz) was married to Peter Eller who also settled with the Dicks in Wilkes/Ashe in 1788. Conrad's son, John Dick, and John's son, John Dick Jr., also arrived in Wilkes/Ashe in 1788. The younger John Dick was a Brethren elder who worked with elder Joseph Roland and elder Isham Gibson with the Long Creek Brethren in Muhlenberg, KY, and with the Sugar Creek Brethren in Sangamon, IL. The Conrad Dick family is not well known in Brethren history compared to the Adam Dick family (of the Conestoga and Conewago congregations of Lancaster and York Counties, PA). We do not know if these two Dick families were related. The wife of Conrad Dick was Anna Catharina. Her surname is not given in the literature. However, by checking German Reformed Church records it appears that she was born Anna Catharina Gross, 22 August 1717, Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz, daughter of Peter and Elsabetha Gross. At age 18 she married the widower Hans Jakob Bargeld, 15 November 1735, Altrip, Pfalz. By this marriage she bore two sons, Joh. Michel and Joh. Christoffel, whose births, 6 January, 1738, and 9 April, 1741, respectively, were recorded in the Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz, church records. Hans Jakob Ba(a)rgeld died 10 May 1744. On 22 February 1746, the widow Catharina Baargeldin married Johann Conrad Dick of Heddesheim. The marriage was recorded in the Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip Pfalz, church records. On 18 December 1746, their daughter Maria Elizabeth Dick was baptized, Evangelische-Reformierte, Altrip Pfalz. This was the daughter of Conrad Dick who married Peter Eller, oldest son of George Michael Eller of Frederick County, MD. Given that Conrad Dick's wife was a widow of a widower, it is possible that Conrad Dick himself had been previously married. Since wife Anna Catharina (nee Gross) was born in 1717, Conrad Dick may have been born earlier than the "about 1725" birth year usually assigned to him in various genealogical accounts. Church birth/baptism records for Conrad Dick and for Adam Dick have not been found. Adam Dick's birth year was 1709 and his death year was 1785 according his German tombstone inscription, Mummerts Cemetery, Hamilton Twp., York Co., PA. Conrad Dick's birth and death years are both unknown. Heddesheim and Altrip were villages on the outskirts of Manheim/Mannheim, Germany. When Conrad Dick bought 100 acres on a small creek leading into the Beaver Dam Branch of Little Pipe Creek in Frederick County, MD, in 1755, he named his tract "Mon Hime" apparently after his being from Manheim/Mannheim. Conrad Dick could neither read nor write. His family's immigration is unknown, but it was probably sometime between 1747 and 1753. He was naturalized in Maryland in 1760. In 1758, a second daughter, Maria Catherine Dick, was born to Conrad and Anna Catharina Dick. She was baptized 28 March 1758, German Reformed Church, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland. Apparently the Conrad Dick family was not yet Brethren at that time even though they lived in the Beaver Creek - Pipe Creek among many Brethren families who were picking up and moving to North Carolina. Conrad Dick sold his "Mon Hime" property on Beaver Creek in Frederick, Maryland, in 1764. Ten years later (1774) he bought 200 acres on Hodge's Fork of the Uwharrie River in North Carolina. He and his son John and his son-in-law Peter Eller settled in various parts of the Rowan County area of North Carolina until they converged in Wilkes County in 1788. Whether or not they were Brethren is unknown but what is known is that they associated with the Brethren on the Uwharrie River, on the Forks of the Yadkin, and on Reedy Creek prior to joining the Brethren settlement on the New River in Wilkes County, NC." | Bargeld, Hanss Jacob (I2700)
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| 4849 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following was posted on the Internet at a site concerning "Brethren-Genealogy" by Dwayne Wrightsman "Conrad Dick was the head of the German Dick family that settled in Wilkes/Ashe County, NC, in 1788. His daughter, Maria Elizabetha Dick (baptized 18 December 1746, Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz) was married to Peter Eller who also settled with the Dicks in Wilkes/Ashe in 1788. Conrad's son, John Dick, and John's son, John Dick Jr., also arrived in Wilkes/Ashe in 1788. The younger John Dick was a Brethren elder who worked with elder Joseph Roland and elder Isham Gibson with the Long Creek Brethren in Muhlenberg, KY, and with the Sugar Creek Brethren in Sangamon, IL. The Conrad Dick family is not well known in Brethren history compared to the Adam Dick family (of the Conestoga and Conewago congregations of Lancaster and York Counties, PA). We do not know if these two Dick families were related. The wife of Conrad Dick was Anna Catharina. Her surname is not given in the literature. However, by checking German Reformed Church records it appears that she was born Anna Catharina Gross, 22 August 1717, Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz, daughter of Peter and Elsabetha Gross. At age 18 she married the widower Hans Jakob Bargeld, 15 November 1735, Altrip, Pfalz. By this marriage she bore two sons, Joh. Michel and Joh. Christoffel, whose births, 6 January, 1738, and 9 April, 1741, respectively, were recorded in the Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz, church records. Hans Jakob Ba(a)rgeld died 10 May 1744. On 22 February 1746, the widow Catharina Baargeldin married Johann Conrad Dick of Heddesheim. The marriage was recorded in the Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip Pfalz, church records. On 18 December 1746, their daughter Maria Elizabeth Dick was baptized, Evangelische-Reformierte, Altrip Pfalz. This was the daughter of Conrad Dick who married Peter Eller, oldest son of George Michael Eller of Frederick County, MD. Given that Conrad Dick's wife was a widow of a widower, it is possible that Conrad Dick himself had been previously married. Since wife Anna Catharina (nee Gross) was born in 1717, Conrad Dick may have been born earlier than the "about 1725" birth year usually assigned to him in various genealogical accounts. Church birth/baptism records for Conrad Dick and for Adam Dick have not been found. Adam Dick's birth year was 1709 and his death year was 1785 according his German tombstone inscription, Mummerts Cemetery, Hamilton Twp., York Co., PA. Conrad Dick's birth and death years are both unknown. Heddesheim and Altrip were villages on the outskirts of Manheim/Mannheim, Germany. When Conrad Dick bought 100 acres on a small creek leading into the Beaver Dam Branch of Little Pipe Creek in Frederick County, MD, in 1755, he named his tract "Mon Hime" apparently after his being from Manheim/Mannheim. Conrad Dick could neither read nor write. His family's immigration is unknown, but it was probably sometime between 1747 and 1753. He was naturalized in Maryland in 1760. In 1758, a second daughter, Maria Catherine Dick, was born to Conrad and Anna Catharina Dick. She was baptized 28 March 1758, German Reformed Church, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland. Apparently the Conrad Dick family was not yet Brethren at that time even though they lived in the Beaver Creek - Pipe Creek among many Brethren families who were picking up and moving to North Carolina. Conrad Dick sold his "Mon Hime" property on Beaver Creek in Frederick, Maryland, in 1764. Ten years later (1774) he bought 200 acres on Hodge's Fork of the Uwharrie River in North Carolina. He and his son John and his son-in-law Peter Eller settled in various parts of the Rowan County area of North Carolina until they converged in Wilkes County in 1788. Whether or not they were Brethren is unknown but what is known is that they associated with the Brethren on the Uwharrie River, on the Forks of the Yadkin, and on Reedy Creek prior to joining the Brethren settlement on the New River in Wilkes County, NC." | Bargeld, Johann Michel (I2699)
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| 4850 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following was posted on the Internet at a site concerning "Brethren-Genealogy" by Dwayne Wrightsman "Conrad Dick was the head of the German Dick family that settled in Wilkes/Ashe County, NC, in 1788. His daughter, Maria Elizabetha Dick (baptized 18 December 1746, Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz) was married to Peter Eller who also settled with the Dicks in Wilkes/Ashe in 1788. Conrad's son, John Dick, and John's son, John Dick Jr., also arrived in Wilkes/Ashe in 1788. The younger John Dick was a Brethren elder who worked with elder Joseph Roland and elder Isham Gibson with the Long Creek Brethren in Muhlenberg, KY, and with the Sugar Creek Brethren in Sangamon, IL. The Conrad Dick family is not well known in Brethren history compared to the Adam Dick family (of the Conestoga and Conewago congregations of Lancaster and York Counties, PA). We do not know if these two Dick families were related. The wife of Conrad Dick was Anna Catharina. Her surname is not given in the literature. However, by checking German Reformed Church records it appears that she was born Anna Catharina Gross, 22 August 1717, Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz, daughter of Peter and Elsabetha Gross. At age 18 she married the widower Hans Jakob Bargeld, 15 November 1735, Altrip, Pfalz. By this marriage she bore two sons, Joh. Michel and Joh. Christoffel, whose births, 6 January, 1738, and 9 April, 1741, respectively, were recorded in the Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz, church records. Hans Jakob Ba(a)rgeld died 10 May 1744. On 22 February 1746, the widow Catharina Baargeldin married Johann Conrad Dick of Heddesheim. The marriage was recorded in the Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip Pfalz, church records. On 18 December 1746, their daughter Maria Elizabeth Dick was baptized, Evangelische-Reformierte, Altrip Pfalz. This was the daughter of Conrad Dick who married Peter Eller, oldest son of George Michael Eller of Frederick County, MD. Given that Conrad Dick's wife was a widow of a widower, it is possible that Conrad Dick himself had been previously married. Since wife Anna Catharina (nee Gross) was born in 1717, Conrad Dick may have been born earlier than the "about 1725" birth year usually assigned to him in various genealogical accounts. Church birth/baptism records for Conrad Dick and for Adam Dick have not been found. Adam Dick's birth year was 1709 and his death year was 1785 according his German tombstone inscription, Mummerts Cemetery, Hamilton Twp., York Co., PA. Conrad Dick's birth and death years are both unknown. Heddesheim and Altrip were villages on the outskirts of Manheim/Mannheim, Germany. When Conrad Dick bought 100 acres on a small creek leading into the Beaver Dam Branch of Little Pipe Creek in Frederick County, MD, in 1755, he named his tract "Mon Hime" apparently after his being from Manheim/Mannheim. Conrad Dick could neither read nor write. His family's immigration is unknown, but it was probably sometime between 1747 and 1753. He was naturalized in Maryland in 1760. In 1758, a second daughter, Maria Catherine Dick, was born to Conrad and Anna Catharina Dick. She was baptized 28 March 1758, German Reformed Church, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland. Apparently the Conrad Dick family was not yet Brethren at that time even though they lived in the Beaver Creek - Pipe Creek among many Brethren families who were picking up and moving to North Carolina. Conrad Dick sold his "Mon Hime" property on Beaver Creek in Frederick, Maryland, in 1764. Ten years later (1774) he bought 200 acres on Hodge's Fork of the Uwharrie River in North Carolina. He and his son John and his son-in-law Peter Eller settled in various parts of the Rowan County area of North Carolina until they converged in Wilkes County in 1788. Whether or not they were Brethren is unknown but what is known is that they associated with the Brethren on the Uwharrie River, on the Forks of the Yadkin, and on Reedy Creek prior to joining the Brethren settlement on the New River in Wilkes County, NC." | Bargeld, Johann Christoffel (I2681)
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