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| 101 | Dyer, Charles N.. <i>History of the town of Plainfield, Hampshire County, Mass. : from its settlement to 1891 : including a genealogical history of twenty-three of the original settlers and their descendants, with anecdotes and sketches</i>. Northampton, Mass.: Press of Gazette Printing Co., 1891. | Source (S558)
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| 102 | Early Ohio Settlers: Eastern OH 1800-1840 tax list pg 324 Wolford, Peter 1813 Dec 15 Muskingum Co Ohio 06 02 19 Wolford, Frederick 1810 Jun 19 Muskingum Co Ohio 05 01 06 Wolford, Frederick 1811 Mar 27 Muskingum Co Ohio 06 02 19 Wolford, John 1828 Aug 19 Muskingum Co Ohio 06 03 24 Muskingum, OH Land Patents: 20 Oct 1815 Frederick Wolford, SW Quarter of Sec. 19, Twnshp 2, Range 6 (Military District) | Wolford, Frederick (I2909)
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| 103 | Ebenezer and Abigail resided at Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, where Ebenezer was a blacksmith. Ebenezer subsequently died at Dartmouth during either the month of April or May 1725. His will, which had been written on 18 April 1725, was admitted for probate before the Bristol County Court on 18 May 1725. After Ebenezer passed away, his widow, Abigail, married secondly to a man named John Whitely at Dartmouth on 4 July 1728. - Descendants of George Allen of England and Sandwich, Massachusetts, Jack MacDonald (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jacmac/allen.pdf) | Allen, Ebenezer (I1599)
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| 104 | Ebenezer and Martha had 5 children; Ebenezer, Ann, Mary, Sarah and Samuel. | Pratt, Ebenezer (I3615)
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| 105 | Edmund was listed as the head of a family on the 1790 Census in Sutton, Worcester, MA. He settled in Sutton before his mariage and owned lands there and in Oxford. He was at Fort Edward in 1755 and served in the French and Indian War. He and his wife are buried in the burying ground near their home, on the road from Auburn to Millbury Old Common. Sons, Elijah and Gideon drowned the same day. - unknown Edmund Barton, son of Samuel Barton (i), was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, August 5, 1714. He removed to Oxford with the family when he was only two years old. He made his home in the second parish of Sutton, now the first parish of Millbury, and was prominent in town and church affairs. He was often named on important committees of the church and he had one notable difference with the minister over a religious service he held at his own house without asking permission of the minister. He was appointed on many of the important church committees and was evidently a leading man in his day. He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars. Mr. B. B. Vassell, late of Worcester, author and compiler of the family genealogy, states that Edmund was "bound out" at the age of thirteen, shortly before his father's death. He married, April 9, 1739, Ann Flynt, of Salem. She was born June 9, 1718, and died at Sutton, now Millbury, March 20, 1795. Edmund Barton died there December 13, 1799, and is buried with his wife in the old burying ground at Millbury. The children of Edmund and Anna Barton were: 1. Dr. Stephen, born June 10, 1740, at Sutton; studied medicine under Dr. Green, of Leicester; was trader at Oxford 1764-6; landlord 1766-9; removed to Vassaloboro, Maine; returned to Oxford, 1790, but went again to Maine and died there October 21, 1804; grandfather of the late Judge Ira M. Barton, father of Edmund M. Barton, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester; grandfather of Clara Barton (Clarissa H., born December 25, 1821, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. Sarah Stone was the daughter of Captain David and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone. Clara Barton is the famous Red Cross leader.) 2. Mary, born June 10, 1742, married Obadiah Brown, of Sutton. 3. Hannah, born September 22, 1744, married Samuel Boutelle and had three children. 4. Jedediah, born May 6, 1747, settled in Sutton; married Lydia Pierce. 5. Flynt, born December 3, 1749 (or April 3, according to records of Pliny Barton), mentioned below. 6. Elijah, born April 22, 1752, died June 5, 1756, by drowning. 7. Gideon, born April 22, 1754, died June, 1756. 8. Ann, born August I, 1756, married, April 29, 1778, David Gibson. 9. Luke, born February I, 1759. - Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts Edmund was listed as the head of a family on the 1790 Census in Sutton, Worcester, MA. He settled in Sutton before his mariage and owned lands there and in Oxford. He was at Fort Edward in 1755 and served in the French and Indian War. He and his wife are buried in the burying ground near their home, on the road from Auburn to Millbury Old Common. Sons, Elijah and Gideon drowned the same day.Edmund Barton, son of Samuel Barton (i), was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, August 5, 1714. He removed to Oxford with the family when he was only two years old. He made his home in the second parish of Sutton, now the first parish of Millbury, and was prominent in town and church affairs. He was often named on important committees of the church and he had one notable difference with the minister over a religious service he held at his own house without asking permission of the minister. He was appointed on many of the important church committees and was evidently a leading man in his day. He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars. Mr. B. B. Vassell, late of Worcester, author and compiler of the family genealogy, states that Edmund was "bound out" at the age of thirteen, shortly before his father's death. He married, April 9, 1739, Ann Flynt, of Salem. She was born June 9, 1718, and died at Sutton, now Millbury, March 20, 1795. Edmund Barton died there December 13, 1799, and is buried with his wife in the old burying ground at Millbury. The children of Edmund and Anna Barton were: 1. Dr. Stephen, born June 10, 1740, at Sutton; studied medicine under Dr. Green, of Leicester; was trader at Oxford 1764-6; landlord 1766-9; removed to Vassaloboro, Maine; returned to Oxford, 1790, but went again to Maine and died there October 21, 1804; grandfather of the late Judge Ira M. Barton, father of Edmund M. Barton, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester; grandfather of Clara Barton (Clarissa H., born December 25, 1821, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. Sarah Stone was the daughter of Captain David and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone. Clara Barton is the famous Red Cross leader.) 2. Mary, born June 10, 1742, married Obadiah Brown, of Sutton. 3. Hannah, born September 22, 1744, married Samuel Boutelle and had three children. 4. Jedediah, born May 6, 1747, settled in Sutton; married Lydia Pierce. 5. Flynt, born December 3, 1749 (or April 3, according to records of Pliny Barton), mentioned below. 6. Elijah, born April 22, 1752, died June 5, 1756, by drowning. 7. Gideon, born April 22, 1754, died June, 1756. 8. Ann, born August I, 1756, married, April 29, 1778, David Gibson. 9. Luke, born February I, 1759. | Barton, Edmund (I26)
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| 106 | Electa and John had 6 children; a daughter, Electa, Thera Shattuck, John Vincent, a daughter, Mary Patch. | Shattuck, Electa (I2297)
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| 107 | Elisha Allen, born September 7, 1722, in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where he married Elizabeth Fish, born June 20, 1725. Elisha was a soldier under Wolfe, at the taking of Quebec in 1759, and had passed through Cambridge, New York, on their march. After returning from the war he went into that town and took title to land there in 1762. - Excerpt from Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Vol. 1, p. 452-455, William Richard Cutter Although Elisha and Elizabeth appear to have resided in Dutchess County, New York for a number of years after their marriage, they eventually moved to Cambridge in Washington County, New York. Elisha died at Cambridge in 1802. His will, which was written on 29 September 1801, was admitted for probate before the Washington County Court on 10 June 1802. Aside from the below listed children, Elisha also mentioned a grandson, Allen Gilbert, and a granddaughter, Mehitable Smith, in his will. Elizabeth, on the other hand, died in New York in 1814, having survived Elisha by about twelve years. - - Descendants of George Allen of England and Sandwich, Massachusetts, Jack MacDonald | Allen, Elisha (I999)
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| 108 | Eliza H. Wolford died at her home two miles north of LaHarpe, on Thursday, July 24, after a protracted sickness of over three years. She was seventy-seven years old, being born in Ohio, on March 19, 1807, and coming to this neighborhood thirty-three years ago. She was a widow and resided with her daughter. There are six surviving sons and daughters. Ther funeral took place on Friday, July 25. The body was interred in the graveyard near to the house, the Rev. I.H. Henerson conducting the services. Communicated. - Obituary clipping from unknown newspaper | Williams, Elizabeth H. (I2908)
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| 109 | Elizabeth and Levi had 8 children; Elizabeth, Lucinda, Mary, Whitcomb, Levi, Nancy, Olive, and Jedson. | Pratt, Elizabeth (I3591)
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| 110 | Elizabeth was the oldest of Stephen and Sarah's children. In May of 1815 she was living in Westminster, most likely visiting family or friends there, when banns were read for her and John Hollier in St Marylebone. Objections were made because of the groom's age and the marriage didn't take place. Five months later in the parish of St James Westminster, she married Charles Smith, a cabinetmaker. In both cases she claimed to be a resident of the parish. She may have moved or may have lied about her residence. In both cases she lied about being of age to marry without parental consent. She was 18, and the legal age was 21. She almost always gave her birthplace as Westminster, not Southwark. Elizabeth and Charles lived in Westminster until at least 1841. They moved back to Bermondsey for a time and were living there in 1851, but in 1852 they emigrated to the US with their six younger children children (the four oldest had already moved to Detroit). They settled in Detroit, Michigan where Charles was a land speculator, buying up and developing farmland for sale in what is now downtown Detroit. Elizabeth died in 1868 and buried in Elmwood Cemetery. In 1871, when Charles died, her body was moved to the new family plot in Woodmere Cemetery. - Ronda L. Oberlin, ancestry.com | Goom, Elizabeth Wilkins (I204)
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| 111 | Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. <i>Cemetery Records of Ray County, MO</i>. <i>Vol. I-III.</i> Chillicothe, MO, USA: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, c1965. | Source (S567)
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| 112 | Erastus B. Pratt was born in Plainfield, October 24, 1842, where he remained with his father on a farm until the death of the latter in July, 1874. He then went to the state of Michigan, remaining there about one year. He married Betsey Poole, of Rockland, Mass., in March, 1876, removing soon after to Amherst, leasing a farm of Oliver Longley's estate. In April, 1877, he removed to this town, engaging in a general mercantile business, which he has ever since pursued. He received the appointment of postmaster in April, 1881, which he has held since that date. He has one child. - William Burton Gay. Gazetteer of Hampshire County, Mass., 1654-1887, p. 56 | Pratt, Erastus Baxter (I2339)
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| 113 | Excerpt from "Willard-Hosmer" by Stephen M. Lawson: Richard Willard, probably son of Symon WILLARD. His will, dated Feb. 12, 1616/7, was proved Mar. 8, 1616/7 before Edward POPE, Vicar General. the will names, in order, his wife Joan, her son Francis MOREBREAD, his son George, his daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Margery and Catherine, his son Richard, and his son Symon. Simon was to receive his bequest when he becomes of age. Based on the wording and order his children were names, it appears that George was the son of Joan, and that daughters Mary and Elizabeth were born before Margery. Due to the presence of more than one Richard WILLARD in Horsmonden, it cannot be stated with certainty that the father of Simon WILLARD was the subject of the following three marriages. Catherine, wife of Richard WILLARD, was buried Mar. 11, 1597/8 at Horsmonden. Richard was married on Sep 23, 1601 at Westgagte, Kent to margery HUMPHRIE. Margery, wife of Richard WILLARD, was buried Dec. 12, 1608 at Horsmonden. Richard was married on Jan. 17, 1609 at Horsmonden, Kent to Joan MOREBREAD (bur. Feb. 25, 1617), a widow with son Francis MOREBREAD, | Willard, Richard (I4384)
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| 114 | Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S540)
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| 115 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S494)
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| 116 | First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S546)
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| 117 | Floyd J. Sweetapple, 91, brother of a Franklin resident, died Sunday, April 1, 2007, in the Consulate Health Care, St. Petersburg, Fla. Mr. Sweetapple moved in 1967 from Girard, Ohio, to Florida. Born in Venango County, he was the son of Albert L. "Bert" and Eva Sweetapple. Mr. Sweetapple was a route salesman for Dandee Baking Co. He was a member of the Crosspoint Baptist Church in Pinellas Park, Fla., and also was a member of the Teamsters Union. Mr. Sweetapple was preceded in death by his wife, Frances G. "'Gerry" Sweetapple. Surviving are three sons, Dale Sweetapple of Niles, Ohio, Denny Sweetapple of Lantana, Fla., and Dean Sweetapple of Seminole, Fla.; and a grandson, Jason Sweetapple of St. Petersburg, Fla. He also is survived by a sister, June Stone of Franklin. In addition to his parents and wife, he was preceded in death by three brothers, Harry Sweetapple, Paul Sweetapple and William Sweetapple; and two sisters, Wilda Quinn and Edith Johnson. Services were held Thursday, April 5, in the Taylor Family Funeral Home, Pinellas Park, Fla. Interment took place in the Royal Palm Cemetery North, St. Petersburg, Fla.- The Derrick, April 18, 2007: | Sweetapple, Floyd James (I859)
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| 118 | Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/cen sus/1920/part-07.html" target="_blank">NARA</a>. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City). | Source (S501)
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| 119 | Fourth Census of the United States, 1820. (NARA microfilm publication M33, 142 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S554)
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| 120 | Francis Cooke was born about 1583. His origins have not been discovered, but it is probable he was born in England, perhaps from the Canterbury or Norwich areas. He married Hester le Mahieu on 20 July 1603 in Leiden, Holland; she was a French Walloon whose parents had initially fled to Canterbury, England; she left for Leiden sometime before 1603. Francis Cooke and Hester le Mahieu's marriage occurred in Leiden, Holland six years before the Pilgrim church made its move there, so he was living there long before their arrival and must have met up with and joined them afterwards. His wife Hester was a French Walloon. What brought Francis to Holland in the first place is unknown: religious persecution of Protestants in England did not really begin until after King James took power in 1604. In 1606, the Cookes left Leiden and went to Norwich, Norfolk for a time (for what reason is not known), but returned to have their first son, John, baptized at the French church in Leiden, sometime between January and March, 1607. In Holland, Cooke took up the profession of a woolcomber. Francis, and his oldest son John, came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. He left behind his wife Hester and his other children Jane, Jacob, Elizabeth and Hester. After the Colony was founded and better established, he sent for his wife and children, and they came to Plymouth in 1623 on the ship Anne. Francis lived out his life in Plymouth. Although he kept a fairly low profile, he was on a number of minor committees such as the committee to lay out the highways, and received some minor appointments by the Court to survey or lay out land. He was a juror on a number of occasions, and was on the coroner's jury that examined the body of Martha Bishop, the 4-year old daughter who was murdered by her mother Alice. He received some modest land grants at various times throughout his life. He lived to be about 80 years old, dying in 1663; his wife Hester survived him by at least three years and perhaps longer. - http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/FrancisCooke.php The Last Will and Testament of ffrancis Cooke made this seaventh of the tenth month 1659 I being att prsent weake and Infeirme in body yett in prfect memory throw mercy Doe comitt my soule unto god that gave it and my body to the earthe ; which my will is should bee Intered in a Decent and comly manner; As for such goods and lands as I stand posessed of I Doe will and bequeath as followeth: 1 My will is that hester my Dear and loveing wife shall have all my moveable goods and all my Cattle of all kinds ; viz : neat Cattle horsekind sheep and swine to be att her Dispose 2 my will is that hester my wife shall have and Injoy my lands both upland and meddow lands which att prsent I posesse During her life 3 I doe ordaine and appoint my Deare wife and my son John Cooke Joynt exequitors of this my said will ffrancis Cooke Witnes John Alden, John howland | Cooke, Francis (I4006)
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| 121 | Fred like to listen to opera on the radio and play solitaire. | Strong, Frederick Leslie (I652)
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| 122 | From "GreatMigration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633", Vols. I-III, Page1060-1063 RICHARD INGERSOLL: ORIGIN: Sutton, Bedfordshire; MIGRATION: 1629; FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem; OCCUPATION: Ferryman. ("Ric[har]d Inkersoll" was allowed one penny for every person he ferried over the north river, 16 January 1636/7 [STR 1:31].); EDUCATION: Signed his will with a mark. The will also has the annotation, made by John Endicott, that "I read this will to Richard Ingersoll & he acknowledged it to be his will."; OFFICES: On 7 July 1644, ordered to "walk forth in the time of God's worship, to take notice of such as either lie about the meeting house without attending to the word or ordinances, or that lie at home or in the fields..." (apparently on the sixth Sunday following, paired with Robert Moulton, Jr.) [STR 1:131].; ESTATE: In 1636 received eighty acres in Salem, but not in the freeman's land [STR1:20]. Granted one acre of marsh in Salem on 25 December 1637, with a household of nine [STR 1:103].He received two acres for a houselot 6 April 1635 and was reminded to allow room for a highway on his land [STR 1:9]. With Edward Giles and Pasco Foot, Ingersoll was considered for land by the "frost fish brook" next to Goodman Barney, 10 April 1637 [STR1:44]. On 20 November 1639 Richard Ingersoll received ten acres of meadow in the great meadow at Salem, having already received twenty acres on 23 December 1638 [STR1:92, 94]. In his will, dated 21 July 1644 and proved 2 January 1644/5, Richard Ingersoll of Salem gave all to "Ann my wife," except to "George Ingersoll my son six acres lying in the great meadow," to "Nathaniel Ingersoll my youngest son a parcel of ground with a little frame thereon" (unless Nathaniel dies without issue, in which case the land should be divided equally among "John Ingersoll my son and Richard Pettingell and William Haines my sons-in-law"), to "Bathsheba my youngest daughter two cows", and to "my daughter Alice Walcott my house at town with 10 acres of upland & meadow after my wife's decease"; witnessed by Townsend Bishop [NEHGR 9:157] (What appears to be a different version of this will refers to both Bathsheba and Alice as youngest daughter, which is clearly impossible [EPR 1:43; EQC 1:76]. Without examining the originals of these documents we cannot tell whether the error was made by the seventeenth-century or the nineteenth-century copyist.) The inventory, taken 4 October 1644 by Townsend Bishop and Jeffrey Massey, totalled £213 19s., of which £47 10s. 10d. was real estate: a farm, 80 acres, meadow, 20 acres, £14 3s. 4d.; another farm, 75 acres, £7; and 26 acres, 2 houses, 2 acres [and] a quarter of salt marsh, £26 7s. 6d. [EPR 1:458; EQC 1:76]. On 10 April 1668 Anne Knight deeded eighty acres at Royalside, bequeathed to her by her late husband "Richard Ingerson," to their sons "John and Nathaniel Ingerson" with the consent of her now husband John Knight Sr. of Newbury [EQC 4:109]. BIRTH: Baptized 10 March 1587 at Sandy, Bedfordshire, son of George "Inkerstall" [Abel Lunt Anc 63]. DEATH: Salem between 24 July 1644 (date of will) and 4 October 1644 (date of inventory). MARRIAGE: Sandy, Bedfordshire, 10 October 1611 Agnes Langlye [Abel Lunt Anc 63]. Anne Ingersoll is included in the list of those admitted to Salem church before the end of 1636, with the annotation "removed" [SChR 6]. She married (2) by 1652 John Knight of Newbury and was living at the time he made his will, 5 May 1670, in which he bequeathed to "my wife's grandchild Thomas Hains, £10 to be paid after his time is out" [EPR 2:191]. COMMENTS: 28 May 1629 letter of instruction from Massachusetts Bay Company to John Endicott: "There is also one Richard Haward and Richard Inkersall, both Bedfordshire men, hired for the Company with their families, who we pray you may be well accommodated, not doubting but they will well and orderly demean themselves" [MBCR1:401; SLR 1:xvi]. In the 1636 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll appears in that portion of the list which included "non-freemen," which in Salem tells us clearly that he was not a member of the church. In the 1637 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll is shown with a family of nine. Seven of his children were living at that date, but his eldest daughter Alice was already married to William Walcott and would have been included in her husband's household. Thus, there may have been an additional child otherwise unrecorded, but this child in turn must have died before 1644; alternatively there may have been a more distant relative or a servant living with the Ingersolls that year. Ingersoll had the usual problems with fences and encroachment on land, but the land grant next to Jacob Barney was a problem. Ingersoll sued Jacob Barney at the September Term, 1639, probably regarding land [EQC 1:13]. Barney sued him back over feeding cattle in his marsh, September Term, 1640, and won a verdict of "[t]wo loads of hay at water side as convenient as his own was" [EQC 1:21]. Joshua Verrin sued Ingersoll at the same term over maintenance of a fence and was countersued immediately [EQC 1:22, 29]. For some of the larger and more expensive farm implements noted in Ingersoll's inventory, it is stated that he owned one third of each item. This would indicate that he shared ownership with one or two other husbandmen in the neighborhood, or, as seems more likely, with two of his sons. In depositions at the June 1678 Essex Quarterly Court, the brothers George, John and Nathaniel "Ingerson" gave evidence regarding events in the 1640s. George deposed that "living apartner with his father Richard Ingerson upon the farm that the said Rich[ar]d Ingerson hired of Mr. Chickering which the said Chickering had bought of Mr. Townsend Bishop," demonstrating that the Ingersolls were in a cooperative family enterprise and placing them on Mr. Chickering's farm. Richard Ingersoll found the Salem miller lacking and in September 1640 took grandjuryman Lawrence Leech with him to the mill to prove that the grists were "much short of weight" [EQC 1:20]. His neighbors found his cattle and the cattle of a dozen other men offensive in the common cornfields and Ingersoll paid the court's fine [EQC 1:49, 56]. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: There is an excellent treatment of Richard Ingersoll in The Ancestry of Abel Lunt ... by Walter Goodwin Davis (pp. 63-68), and details may be found there of the marriages and later lives of Richard's children. Mrs. William C. Clark, "The Parents of Jonathan Haynes of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Some of Their Descendants" [TAG 27:129-34], provides extensive documentation on the fate of some of Richard Ingersoll's children and property. John B. Threlfall also published an account of this family in 1993 [GMC26 141-48]. | Ingersoll, Richard (I1766)
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| 123 | From his father Mathew's will Samuel received "I doe give to my son Samuel Pratt twelve acers of land neere his house. Four acres of it was William Brandems & eight acres of it was John Gurney's & when hee hath fenct it out as far as it is pasture hee shall have it and not before. & I doe give him one acre of Salt Marsh by John Pratt's house at my decease. And I doe give him that part of my common lott laide out to mee at Smell Brooke. Ad I doe give him my two acres of Swamp lot where it is in the woods. Ad hee shall have one Cow instead of that spot I thought hee should have in my Orchard. - The Pratt family : a genealogical record of Mathew Pratt, of Weymouth, Mass., and his American descendants, 1623-1889, P. 20 Samuel Pratt of Weymouth "being sick & weake & minding his mortality" made his will 12 Apr 1679, and it was proved 16 Oct 1679. He appointed his loving wife and his brother John Rogers to be executors. His wife to have his whole estate until his children are of age. If his wife Hannah Pratt marry again she shall have £20. To his son John Pratt certain lands. To son Samuel Pratt half of his lot "at pen plaine." Son Ebenezer Pratt one-half of his housing and land adjoining. All the rest of his children £7 apiece. His son John Pratt to have half of a certain lot and a part of his 40 acre lot "neere Pen plaine." Son Samuel Pratt remainder of lot "at pen plaine." His brother Joseph Pratt, John Richards and Samuel White to be over seers. Witnesses: John Rogers, Jonas Humphrey and Joseph Dyer. (Suffolk Probate, 6: 307.) Inventory taken 5 Sep 1679. Item: "12 acres neere Hezekiak Kings house £24." Total, L275 12s. - History of Weymouth, Vol. IV, P. 503 | Pratt, Samuel (I3586)
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| 124 | From the Harold D Lemar Book - On January 1st, 1704, the records of the Established Church show that one Mary Lemar resided in Queen Anne County, MD, in the home of Charles Lemar and his wife, Mary. These church records disclose that the young Mary Lemar was not the daughter of Charles Lemar, but was undoubtedly a relative. As previously noted, the will of Peter Lemar made a bequest to three daughters, one of whom was named Mary. Under the provisions of the will, she was to receive her share of the estate when she should attain the age of 16 years, or should marry, so that in 1694, at the death of her father, she was a very young girl. Ten years later, we find her making her home with Charles Lemar and his wife, Mary, in Queen Anne County. This Charles Lemar was probably a cousin of Mary's and hence the father of Charles was the third brother, which tradition relates came to America to establish the family here.(The third brother is said to have been John.) This Charles Lemar, whose name appears on the records of Queen Anne County at times as Lamr and at other times as Lemar, began about 1707 to take a very active place in affairs of his section of the colony. He appears to have been a man of considerable education and training, for while his occupation is given as planter, he was charged frequently with the administration of the estates of his friends and neighbors. On May 2nd, 1710, he purchased the services of a white servant for three and a half years, and again in 1714 he purchased the services of a man and wife as servants for a four-year period. On August 15th, 1712, a neighbor and friend, Mary Simmons, widow of Henry Simmons of Dorchester County, died leaving a will in which she made a bequest to Charles Lemar, Jr., his son who at that time a baby, and in the will she provided that the father, Charles, Sr., should become executor of the will and trustee of the bequeathed property until Charles, Jr., should become of age. In the Spring of 1714 we find the elder Charles in London where, on May 19th, he witnessed a Power of Attorney by one Margaret Brown. By 1716 he was back in MD again where he acted as surety for the administration of the will of William Ireland, deceased, and where he purchased a plantation in Queen Anne County on December 5th, 1716. Sometime prior to 1728 the wife of Charles Lemar died and before June 5th, 1729, he had married Margaret Elsberry, widow of Thomas Elsberry who died May 7th, 1728. Charles and his first wife had at least two sons, Charles II and Gallant, and four daughters, Henrietta ( who married John Hutchinson February 13,1728), Mary Ann (who married William Hadden on September 27th, 17333), Rebecca (who married Thomas Morris, February 5th, 1740), and Sophia (who married Isaiah Whitehead on September 26, 1745). By the second wife he had one son, Luke, and a daughter Priscilla (who married Samuel Wilson on May 1st, 1749). Although he was the owner of several plantations and considerable personal wealth, the record of the probate of his estate has been lost, and is not possible to determine the date of the death of this elder Charles, although the tax records do disclose that he was taxed up to and was still alive in 1750." | Lemar, Charles (I2802)
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| 125 | Full list of sources in the description. | Source (S569)
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| 126 | General Notes: From Genealogies of Mayflower Families; Hester Le Mahieu, Wife of Francis Cooke It has long been known that Hester Le Mahieu of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, was a Walloon from Canterbury, where the Walloon Church was established in 1547, in the crypt of the Cathedral, by refugees fleeing from persecution in Brabant. On 5 July 1603 Francis Cooke, woolcarder, from England, was betrothed to Hester le Mahieu, singlewoman, accompanied by her mother and sister, both named Jennie le Mahieu from Canterbury (Mayflower Descendant, vol. 27 p. 145 sq.). | Le Mahieu, Hester (I4007)
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| 127 | George Allen, the immigrant ancestor of many of the Allen families found in North America today, arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony on 6 May 1635 from England. George Allen’s name, along with the names of those individuals he came with (106 in all), was found on a list of passengers who departed Weymouth, England for the New World on 20 March 1635. Unfortunately, the name of the ship they traveled aboard has never been determined. This party, which was under the leadership of the Rev. Joseph Hull, was granted leave on 8 July 1635 to settle at Wessaguscus Plantation by the General Court at Boston. Wessaguscus was soon given municipal rights, at which time it was renamed Weymouth, and its inhabitants were allowed representation in the General Court at Boston. Departed Weymouth, England with the "Hull Company" 20 Mar 1635 and arrived in Boston 6 May 1635. Although it is not known for sure, George Allen may have been born in either Somersetshire, or Dorsetshire, England, or have at least resided in one of these places prior to emigrating. Lending some support for this belief is the fact that the Rev. Joseph Hull, and many of the other families that emigrated with George, appear to have been from one of these shires. Although George Allen is known to have married twice while still residing in England, the name of his first wife has not been determined. His second wife, however, was a woman named Katherine. Katherine accompanied George to America, and is believed to have been the mother of his five youngest children. According to the roster of passengers making up the Hull party, Katherine was listed as being thirty years old in 1635, thereby indicating that she had probably been born in about 1605 in England. Although no records have been found to substantiate it, shortly after settling at Wessaguscus (Weymouth), George Allen and his family may have moved to the village of Saugus, Massachusetts (now Lynn, Massachusetts). Sometime during the period 1637/1638, however, George and his family apparently moved again, this time to the newly organized settlement in New Plymouth Colony of Sandwich on Cape Cod. George, who was a farmer by trade, was recommended for "freeman" status in New Plymouth Colony on 5 March 1638/1639, and on 3 September 1639, he was admitted as such. George was later sworn in as the Constable of Sandwich on 4 June 1639, and served as Surveyor of Highways in 1640. He also served as a Committeeman for the New Plymouth Court in 1640, 1641, 1642, and 1644. George apparently died during the latter part of April 1648 at Sandwich in New Plymouth Colony, as he was subsequently buried there on 2 May 1648. His will was subsequently probated before the New Plymouth Court on 7 June 1648. One year later, on 8 June 1649, his widow, Katherine, furnished an inventory of George's estate to the New Plymouth Court. Sometime after George passed away, Katherine married for a second time to a man named John Collins, who was a shoemaker in Boston. Although the identities of all of George Allen's children have never been determined beyond all doubt, family information provided for the town records by George’s son, Henry Allen, when he moved to Milford, Connecticut indicate that George Allen had eleven children. Henry stated that he was the son of George and Katherine Allen of Sandwich and gave the names of five siblings; Ralph, George, Samuel, William, and Matthew, and further stated that there were five others. In addition to the above six children, we also have verification that George also had a son named Gideon and a daughter named Rose. Aside from the eight children who have been verified through various documents, three other individuals, namely John Allen, who held lands at Weymouth that had previously been held by George Allen, Robert Allen, who committed suicide at John’s home in Rehoboth, and Francis Allen, who was a resident of Sandwich, was an early member of the Quaker church at Sandwich, and was not a son of the other Ralph Allen, are also believed to be sons of George Allen. - Descendants of George Allen of England and Sandwich, Massachusetts, Jack MacDonald | Allen, George (I1863)
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| 128 | George Richmond Sr. came here from Vermont in 1807, and selected land on the Cattaraugus creek in the southwest corner of Sardinia, and in 1809 moved his family on to it and built a log house, as all the settlers at that time were obliged to and commenced keeping tavern and clearing up a farm. In early times Richmond's log tavern was widely known and was used for public gatherings of various kinds. In after years George Richmond, the second, kept hotel in a frame building near by, and was also extensively and successfully engaged in farming, and at the time of his death owned over fifteen hundred acres of land. George A. (III) has been a farmer and also kept hotel in Springville. He was married in 1874 to Miss Cecelia Wilgus, of Whitestown, N. Y. - History of the Original Town of Concord, Briggs, 1883 | Richmond, Goerge (I264)
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| 129 | Godfrey Memorial Library. <i>American Genealogical-Biographical Index</i>. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. | Source (S491)
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| 130 | Governor Bradford says in his history of the Plymouth settlement that on board the Mayflower were "Thomas Rogers and Joseph his son; his other children came afterwards......Thomas Rogers died in the first sickness but his son Joseph is still living (1650) and is married and hath six children. The rest of Thomas Rogers' [children] came over and are married and have many children." Therefore we know that Thomas and his son Joseph arrived at Cape Cod aboard the ship Mayflower and on 11 November 1620 according to their calendar, or 21 November on ours, Thomas was one of forty-one signers of the Mayflower Compact. Thomas did not live through the rigorous winter which carried off half the group but young Joseph, like so many of the children, did survive. Recent discoveries show that Thomas had a family living in Leiden, Holland, when the 1622 Poll Tax was taken. In the Over "t Hoff Quarter, in a house with other Pilgrim families in St. Peter's Churchyard west-side, were Jan Thomas, orphan from England without means; Elsgen Rogiers, widow of Thonis Rogiers, an Englishwoman; and Lysbeth and Grietgen her children, poor people. Translated this could read John, son of Thomas; Elizabeth Rogers, widow of Thomas; and Elizabeth and Margaret, her children. At that period the word orphan meant that either or both parents were dead. In the 1623 Plymouth Colony land division, Joseph Rogers was allotted two acres-one for himself and one on behalf of his late father. He may have been living in the household of Governor Bradford with who he was grouped on 22 May 1627, in the division of cattle. Joseph and twelve other inhabitants of Plymouth received "an heyfer of the last year which was of the Great white-back cow that was brought over in the Ann and two shee goats." Governor Bradford's statement that the rest of Thomas Rogers' children came over and married and had children, seems clearly to indicate that more than one of his children came to New England after 1620. We know that his son John came to Plymouth about 1630. Although many other male Rogers immigrants have been claimed as sons of Thomas the Pilgrim, none of the claims has been proved and some have been disproved. Therefore it seems likely that at least one of the Rogers daughters who were living in Holland in 1622 came over. John and Joseph Rogers each named a daughter Elizabeth, perhaps thereby indicating that their sister Elizabeth lived in New England. Unfortunately extensive research has failed to uncover any further evidence. John Rogers came to Plymouth about 1630, when the last of the Leiden contingent arrived and was in Plymouth Colony on 25 March 1633 when he was taxed 9 shillings. The proof of his identity lies in a grant made 6 April 1640 to "Joseph Rogers and John Rogers his brother...fifty acres apeece of upland....at the North River." Both then had growing families to carry forward the Rogers heritage, although only Joseph's descendants would carry forward the Rogers name beyond the fourth generation." - www.thomasrogerssociety.com: | Rogers, Thomas (I1792)
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| 131 | Governor Thomas Dongan granted Hoosac Patent on June 2, 1688, to Maria Van Rensselaer and Hendrick Van Ness of Albany, Garret Tunisson (Van Vechten) of Catskill, and Jacobus Van Cortlandt of New York City. The Hoosac Patent covered 70,000 acres, including two miles in width on each bank of Skatecook Creek (Hoosac River); and extended up the river from the Devil’s Chimney opposite the Fallen-Hill in Old Schaghticoke to Falls Quequick (now the Village of Hoosac Falls); thence up the valley to the sandy island known as Nach-a-quick-quack, the Ashawagh, or the land between the junction of the Little Hoosac with the Big Hoosac. Garrett Cornelius Van Ness, eldest son of Hendrick Van Ness, one of the proprietors of Hoosac Patent, was born December 2, 1702. He inherited St. Croix Manor, two miles square, on the northeast bank of the Hoosac, lying between the junctions of the Owl and Walloomsac. At the age of 22, in the year 1724, he married Sarah Van Valkenburgh of Albany, NY. He erected a sawmill and a grist mill on the present site of St. Croix Mills, near the junction of Little White Creek with the Walloomsac, a mile east of the site of Hoosac Junction, and built his manorial mansion on the terrace twenty rods above the Walloomsac ford. About the same time the Dutch stockade, on the site of the Jesuit's Fort St. Croix, was built on the high bluff a few rods east of the Van Ness Mansion. (Undoubtedly the St. Ange fur traders from France built a fort and chapel on this terrace in 1540 - 1542, and the Jesuits aided by Kryn’s Mohawks build another fort and chapel during the Mohawk and Hoosac War on the site in 1667 - 1669. On this same terrace the Dutch founded Fort St. Croix in 1724, and it was replaced by the English Stockade Fort in 1756.) Cornelius Van Ness, Arendt Van Corlaer the 3rd., Adam Vrooman, Pitt Van Hogleboom, George Nicolls, Johannes De Ruyter, Juria Kreigger, Jan Oothout, Jacob Ouderkirk, Daniel and Albertus Brodt (Bratt), Rykert Borie, Jacob and Abram Fort, Johannes Van Denburgh, Johannes De Fonda, Jan Huyck, David and Stephen Van Rensselaer, Robert Leake (Lake), William Nicholas, Andrew Norwood, George Searles, Pieter Sur Dam and others, were founders of the Fort St. Croix in the year 1724. The only records of the St. Croix forefathers are found today on the Manitou Aseniah (Spirit-stones) marking the site of the Tioshoke Churchyard, northwest of Fort St. Croix terrace. Simultaneous with the founding of the Fort St. Croix colony in 1724, tenantry from Fort Half Moon (located at the junction of St. Anthony Kill with the Hudson River at Stillwater) and Fort Schaghticoke (near the junction of the Tomhannac with the Hoosac Rivers) colonies pushed up the three branches of the Wanepimoseck Creek, leading towards Rensselaer’s plateau from (the present) Hart’s Falls (Schaghticoke Village), Valley Falls and Eagle Bridge. Philip Van Ness, a cousin of Garrett Cornelius Van Ness, founded the Tioshoke Colony on the north bank of the Hoosac, below the junction of the Owl Kill, about 1724, and later built a sawmill and grist mill. He was joined by Wouter Van Vechten, Lewis Van Woerdt, Johannes Quackenbush, Nicholas Groesbeck and Pieter and Ludovicus Viele, sons of Yocob Viele of the Knickerbacker Colony (located west of the ancient channel of Tomhannac Creek and south of the Hoosac River). Young Cornelius Van Ness in the year 1750, after his marriage with Alida Van Woerdt, a sister of Captain Lewis Van Woerdt of Tioshoke, returned from New York City to St. Croix Manor, to reside there with his father. The French and Indian War was first announced in Central Hoosac on May 28, 1754, by a party of French and Indians, who encamped at the Barnhart and Bowen, Falls Quequick sawmills. The Van Ness, Van Corlaer, Van Woerdt, Vrooman, Oothout, Onderkirk, Bratt, Van Derrick, De Ruyter, Letcher, Bachus, De Fonda, Huyck, Van Deel (Diel), Vosburgh (Vose), Van Hogleboom and Kreigger families made their escape to Fort Massachusetts ahead of the war-party. The enemy later burned both St. Croix and Dutch Hoosac and marched up the valley. The Dutch Burghers on their way to Fort Massachusetts sent a warning to the English proprietors at West Hoosac hamlet, now Williamstown, and Captain Elisha Chapin assigned them the West Hoosac homesteader’s barracks. Upon arrival of the English, therefore, they found their quarters crowded with the “Dutch clutter” and several families were forced to journey on to their Connecticut homes. This led to a bitter military jealousy and the Connecticut settlers built a fort on the Square in West Hoosac, not only a refuge from the French and Indians but from the Dutch. Fort Massachusetts was located on the Upper Hoosac about where Williamstown is now located. August 20, 1746, it was burned by a force of Indians and French from Canada. Some of the English were killed and the rest taken to the prison-pens of Quebec. Fort Massachusetts was rebuilt on the Hoosac meadows in the year 1747. The exterior of the blockhouse was finished June 1, 1747, and according to the historian Perry, was about one hundred and twenty-five feet square. The barracks were seventy feet in length by thirty feet in width, with a seven foot post and low roof. The house was divided into two departments, subdivided into rooms each with a fire place. The St. Croix Manor was occupied by four generations, descended from Patroon Van Ness, between 1724 and 1818. In 1912 the homestead was owned by Nicholas Hathaway, a grandson of Peter Gooding, a lineal descendant of Garret Cornelius Van Ness. The will of Cornelius Van Ness, son of the elder patroon, bears the date August 25, 1791, and he left the Van Ness Bible to his daughter, Sara Van Ness, later the wife of Jacob Van Valkenburgh of Hoosac. It contains a “Memorandum of the Births and Dying Days”, of the Van Ness and Van Valkenburgh families. Alida Van Woerdt-Ness, wife of Patroon Cornelius Van Ness, died May 24, 1778, thirteen and a half years before himself. They left five sons and one daughter; Garret, Jacob, Johannes, Peter, Hendrick, and Sara Van Ness. The Van Ness Bible descended to Edgar P. Ladd from his aunt Sarah Van Valkenburgh, the seventh daughter of Sarah Van Ness and Jacob Van Valkenburgh. Edgar P. Ladd is the grandson of Henrietta Van Valkenburgh, fourth daughter of Sarah Van Ness and the wife of Samuel Coons. The daughter, Mary Coons, married Hiram Ladd and became the mother of Edgar P. Ladd of Salem, NY. - “The Hoosac Valley - Its legends and Its History” by Grace Greylock Niles | Van Ness, Hendrick Cornelisse (I640)
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| 132 | Granted land 3 Sept. 1638, [Pope, “Pioneers of Massachusetts”], (“He was granted twenty acres lying on the northwest side of Greenes Harbor River, about five miles north of Duxbury and southeast of Marshfield in Plymouth Colony, and a garden place upon Stoney River.”) [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 1, p. 94, as quoted by Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of New England, vol. I; Whitmore’s, Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America]. His name appeared at a Court of Assistants held at Plymouth on 8 Oct. 1639 “Capt. Miles Standish, Mr. Alden and Mr. Ed. Winslow are appointed to lay forth the land and meaddow graunted to Job Cole and also the land graunted to Francis Godfrey and Robert Carver” [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 1, p. 135]. He was living in Duxbury when his son John was born in 1637, and in 10 Sept. 1641, when Edward Hawes of”Duxburrow” agreed to exchange 10 acres of upland lying across Greens Harbor for 2000 feet of “sawne” boards delivered by Robert Carver of the same place, sawyer [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 12, p. 75 as quoted by William Jones in “Genealogies of Mayflower Families vol. 1, p. 429]. In 1643, he moved to Marshfield. Records there of 12 Feb. 1643 state “that Robert Carver should be given that tract of meadow that doth lie between Mr. Edward Winslow’s fence and Mr. William Thomas’ fence from fence and creek to creek” [Richard’s “The History of Marshfield”]. Robert was chosen to serve on the grand jury 7 Mar. 1643 [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 2, p. 53]. He was also given the right to bear arms and joined the train band that year [Pierce’s Colonial Lists, p. 75]. He was made freeman 7 June 1648 [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 2, p. 122] . In 1645, his name was on a list of some twelve men who agreed to “pay money for someone to teach school.” He was a frequent juryman and, in 1653, was appointed surveyor of highways. Robert made a written agreement four days after the death of their son, John (agreement dated 27 June 1679) that would allow him to live with her and her children the rest of his natural life. In return, she and her children were to have his entire estate until her eldest son William (Robert’s favorite) turned twenty - one. At that time, one half of the entire estate was to be his and he would get the other half when his mother died. William’s brother, John was provided for by his maternal grandfather, Willaim Ford, Sr. Robert Carver died and was burried in April of 1680 at the age of 86 (Marshfield Vital Records). | Carver, Robert (I1824)
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| 133 | Gravestone Inscription transcribed by Nathan Van Patten in 1905 - Sacred to the Memory of Catherine Van Allen Teller: consort of Alexander Kelly who departed this life Nov. 12th 1817 aged 52 years, 2 months, 8 days. | Teller, Catarina VanAllen (I1101)
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| 134 | Gravestone inscription: "HERE LYES Ye BODY OF Mrs. SARAH WILD WIFE TO Mr JOHN WILD AGED 56 YEARS & 11 MONTHS DEC.D JANUARY THE 29 1724 5." | Hayden, Sarah (I1382)
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| 135 | Gravestone Inscription: HERE LIES Ye BODY OF Mr JONATHAN HAMBLEN WHO DEC'D JUNE Ye 22d 1743 IN Ye 74th YEAR OF HIS AGE. | Hamblen, Jonathon (I2389)
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| 136 | Gravestone Inscription: Here Lyes the Body of Mr William Russel Died January the 27th 1717 in ye 51st year of his Age | Russell, William (I1638)
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| 137 | Gravestone Inscription: Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Sarah Gael, Wife to Mr Abraham Gael, Who Died May ye 14th, 1728 in ye 73d Year of her Age. | Fiske, Sarah (I729)
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| 138 | Gravestone Inscription: Mr. Nathaniel Gunn, died Nov. 29, 1779, aged 86. "The Lord be served/The Saints be preaised/The poor be fed/The vile reproved/Himself deney'd, and when he died/Oh welcome death/Aloud he cried." "Had three wives and seven children. One of the first settlers of the town of Montague locating there about 1726." - From "A Typical Puritan Town" "One of the 40 first settlers of Sunderland, Mass.; home lot, No. 8, East side. He succeeded his father as town clerk in 1730, but soon returned to Hatfield. His children, Elisha and Ester, were born in Hatfield, Mass. After 1739 he returned and settled in 'Hunting Hills'" - From "History of the Town of Sunderland Massachusetts" | Gunn, Nathaniel (I1427)
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| 139 | Gravestone Inscription: Mrs. Dorothy, consort of Lieut. Nathaniel Gunn, died July 13, 1805, aet' 82. "Who, after she patiently endured/As seeing Him who is invisible/And faithfully served her generation/By the will of God she fell asleep." | Marsh, Dorothy (I345)
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| 140 | He died April 25, 1802, "aged 72." Mr Hodge's will bears date May 24, 1795, and was admitted to probate May 15, 1802. Administration granted on Mrs. Hodge's estate, May 29, 1813, to Daniel Hodge. Resided Washington, Conn. - Hodge Genealogy, Orlando John Hodge, 1900 | Hodge, Abel (I1129)
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| 141 | He is mentioned with Andries de Vos and Corneilis Segers van Egmont as being the prionciple farmers of Rensselaerswyck colony whose terms all other farmers must accept in 1643. Cornelis, his wife and son-in-law Peter Claes, had arguments with Director Brant Aertsz van Slichtenhorst of Rensselaerswyck. These arguments resulted in several law suits, and Van Ness was forced to apologize for the slanderous language he used against the Director. In 1648. On 25-Aug-1650 Cornelis Van Ness leased for eight years a farm in Greenbush, Renssselaerswyck. Cornelius Hendrick Van Ness held the position of of Councilor of Rensselaerwyck between 1652 and 1658. He was granted a patent fo 50 morgens of land at Amerrsfoort (Flatlands, Long Island), where in 1664 his daughter Grietie and her husband, Peter Claes, later called Wyckoff, lived on 23 May 1659. He held the position of of Councilor of Rensselaerwyck between 1660 and 1661. He held the position of of Counciler of Rensselaerwyck in 1663. He was granted a patent of 21 Morgens of land in Schenectady on 16 Jun 1664. He left a will in 1677 at Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York. He and Maritie Damen resided at Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, in 1677. On 12 Nov 1684 the last record of Cornelis Van Ness, he is referred to as "old Van Nes." "Cornelis Van Ness who settled in the Albany, NY area in 1642. He was Councilor of Rensselaerwyck from 1652 to 1655 and was a magistrate of the court. A brewer, he owned land in the Flatlands, had servants,and was considered one of the principal farmers....he came to the colony in 1641. He was a man of eduction and ability and was influential in the affairs of the colony. He owned a farm near Greenbush, but he was no farmer. His main income was derived from his brewery and from his mercantile and political activities. He and his son-in-law, Pieter Claesen, engaged in the prolonged controversy with van Slichtenhorst, the autocratic director of the colony, which ended only when Pieter Claesen left the colony in June 1649, and van Slichtenhorst was arrrested on 18 April 1652, by order of Pieter Stuyvesant." - Wyckoff House & Association, Inc Bulletin, Volume LXV, 2002 anniversery issue, p 28 Immigrant ancestor of the van Ness family in America. In 1625 he resided at Vianen upon the Haverdijk, Zuid Holland Province, Netherlands. He came to the New World in 1640 or 1641 on the ship Oaktree, probably in the company of Andries de Vos ,and established himself at Rensselearwyck. He is mentioned in 1643, with Andries de Vos and Cornelis Segers van Egmont, as being the principal farmers of the Colony, whose terms all the other farmers must accept. A record dated March 4, 1649 contains the phrase, "in the first part of the year 1643, as the wedding guests were going over the ice to the wedding of thedaughters of van Es ..." In April 1649, Cornelis made preparations to leave the Colony, but for some reason stayed, and on August 25, 1650, he leased for 8 years at .22f pounds per year a farm at Greenbush, formerly occupied by Cornelis van Vechten. The farm contained nine morgens of land, and he had three horses. He served as Councilor of Rensselaersyck from 1652 to 1658 and again in 1661 and 1663, at an annual salary of .50 pounds. On May 23 1659 he was granted a patent of 50 morgans at Amersfoort (Nieuw Amersfoort (Flatlands)), Long Island, where in 1664 his daughter, Grietie, and her husband, Pieter Claes Wyckoff, lived. On March 21, 1664 at the occasion of his second marriage he made an agreement with his children by his first wife to turn over to them certain property in satisfaction of their share in their mother's estate, his sons and daughters being mentioned and the latters' husbands. His brewery in Greenbush was mentioned in joint ownership with Jan Oothout, his son-in-law. On June 16, 1664 he was granted a patent for 21 morgens of land in Schnectady. He and his wife, Marietie Damen, are recorded as owners of Lot No. 7, N. side of State St., Albany, between James St and Broadway, 1668 -1679. Maritie Damen, his wife, is mentioned June 8, 1670, as the owner of land called Canstagoine (patent from Richard Nichool). The name Cornelis van Ness is mentioned frequently in various records and last appears November 12, 1684, when he is termed "old van Ness". His first marriage is evident from the records published in ERA III:278. It is there stated that on July 31, 1625, Cornelis Hendricksz van Ness and Marigen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff made on that date a post-nuptual agreement, probably shortly after their marriage. They were living at Vianen, on the Haverdijk. Vianen is a small city on the River Lek. Marigen was from the neighboring town of Lekmond and the daughter of Hendrick Adriaensz van den Burchgraeff (who died prior to 1635) and Annetje Jans. (Annetje Jans was a rich landowner at Laeckervelt near Vianen). Marigen died prior to 1664, when on March 14, 1664, Cornelis made an prenuptial contract with his wife to be, Maritie Damen, widow of Dirck van Eps and Hendrick Andriessen van Doesburgh. Maritie Damen van Ness died July 3, 1682. Was in the colony in 1641, and probably came with Andries de Vos, on den Eyckenboom. From 1642, he is charged with tithes of a farm at Bethlehem, which he seems to have occupied til the fall of 1648, when van Slichtenhorst brought actions against him for calling him a liar and a cheat and for throwing oat straw on the dump heap out of spite against the director and to the detriment of the next lessee. In April 1649, he made preparations to leave the colony, but for some reason stayed and Aug. 25, 1650, he leased, for eight years at f225 a year, a farm in Greenbush, formerly occupied by Teunis Cornelisz van Vechten, together with six morgens of land belonging to the adjoining farm of Teunis Dircksz van Vechten. Van Nes served as raets persoon (councilor) of Rensselaerswyck, at an annual salary of f50, from 1652 to 1658, and again in 1660, 1661 and 1663. He lived with his wife Maijgen Hendricksen, at Vianen, province of South Holland, in 1625, and owned land at Scherperswyck, near Leksmond, in the neighborhood of Vianen, as late as 1661. - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/shey.html | Van Ness, Cornelis Hendrickse (I206)
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| 142 | He marched under Capt.Locke at the Lexington Alarm, and was present at the capture of Cornwallis. Appointed Captain in 1780. He commanded a company from the county of Hampshire in the revolutionary army, from July to November, 1781. | Shattuck, Capt. Oliver (I2276)
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| 143 | He married Hannah BRIDGES circa 1690. Hannah was born June 9, 1669 in Salem, Essex, MA. Hannah was the daughter of Edmond BRIDGES and Sarah TOWNE. Hannah died March 13, 1727/1728 in Oxford, Worcester, MA, at 57 years of age. Samuel was employed at as a husbandman. He made a will 13 June 1732. Samuel had his will probated 23 September 1732 in Worcester, Worcester, MA.(20) Samuel Barton is the founder of the Bartons of Oxford. He and his wife, Hannah are buried in the burying gound west of the common in Oxford. He first appears public records in 1683 when he witnessed a deed in Wells, Maine. In 1687 Capt. John Gerrish of Dover, N. H. mentions Samuel as one who assisted in work on a bridge in Madbury, N. H. In 1692 Samuel Barton aged about 28 was a witness for Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor in the witchcraft troubles in Salem. In the spring of 1693 members of the Towne, Bridges, Barton, Cloyes and Elliot families from Salem Village started to settle in the plantation of Framingham which in 1700 was incorporated as the town of Framingham in Middlesex County. Samuel's second child, Mercy (called Mary in his will), was born there in 1694. In 1709 Samuel was appointed a grave digger in Framingham with authority to receive 3 shillings a grave for grown persons. By 1716 he had decided to move to Oxford and in June of that year he sold his lands in Framingham bought another consisting of one thirtieth of the English settlement in Oxford consisting of the home lot of forty acres, ten acres adjoining to the south, fifty acres on long hill, two acres of meadow on the brook below the sawmill and thirty rods of meadow on the river. This made Samuel one of the landed proprietors and part owner of Elliott Mills. In 1720 John Towne (son of Jacob and first cousin to Hannah (Bridges) Barton), Samuel Barton, Abiel Lamb and Joseph Wiley met to found a church of Christ in Oxford. His will leaves everything to son Caleb as the other sons had received their shares prior to his death. - Paul Barton, http://www.edwardbarton.org/i0000053.htm#i53 Samuel Barton (I), the immigrant ancestor of Charles Albion Barton, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was also the progenitor of all the old families of Worcester county of this name, many of whom have been prominent. Very little is known of his life before he came to Framingham. He settled in Salem and was a witness in one of the famous witchcraft cases. It is not even known that he was an immigrant. Marmaduke Barton was in Salem in 1638 and Samuel, who was probably not born before 1650, may have been a native of Salem. He was in Watertown for a short time and received the usual "warning" that new-comers got when moving into a Puritan colony, under date of June 16, 1693. He was in Framingham in 1699 and perhaps earlier. His children are all recorded in Framingham, although the two eldest were born elsewhere. He bought what was known as the Elliott grist mill at Oxford. He bought a fourth part of the "corn mill," one home lot of forty acres and ten acres adjoining, also fifty acres in the second division on Long Hill and various other lots of land in Oxford together with the right of common October 19, 1716, for eighty-five pounds, of Jonathan Provender. He was then of Framingham, but his daughter was called of Oxford when she married, December 17, 1716, so he must have moved in the fall of 1716. He was formally dismissed by the Framingham church to the Oxford church January 15, 1721, and he was one of the original members of the church at Oxford. Before he died he gave one-half his homestead to his son Joshua. He died September 12, 1732. His will is dated June 13, 1732, and was proved September 23, 1732. He bequeathed to all his children, leaving the 'lands not previously disposed of to Caleb, his third son. He married Hannah Bridges, daughter of Edmund Bridges, of Salem, probably, and Edmund Bridges, Jr., also settled in Framingham. The children of Samuel and Hannah Barton were: 1. Samuel, Jr., born October 8, 1691, married, May 23, 1715, Elizabeth Bellows, of Marlboro, one of the thirty original settlers of the town of Sutton; blacksmith by trade; was selectman and town treasurer; removed 1748 to Dudley; his son Bezaleel was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill; he was the ancestor of the Barton family at Coryden, New Hampshire. 2. Mercy, born May 22, 1694, married (intentions December 17, 1716) David Town. 3. Joshua, born December 24, 1697, settled in Leicester. 4. Elisha, born April 22, 1701, resided at Sutton, South Hadley and Granby, Massachusetts. 5. Caleb, born February 9, 1705, resided at Framingham and Charlton. 6. Jedediah, born September 18, 1707, settled in North Oxford. 7. Mehitable, born August 22, 1710, married, November 12, 1730, Samuel Duncan, of Worcester, where she died 1742. 8. Edmund, born August 5, 1714 - Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts | Barton, Samuel (I21)
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| 144 | He removed with his mother's family from Bridgewater to Cummington; and it was among his distinct recollections, that while on the journey, at Northampton, the news of the Declaration of Independence reached that town, supprising and rejoicing the people. Private in Capt. Joseph Clapp's Co., in Col. Israel Chapin's .3d Mass. Regt.; enlisted Oct. 16, 1779; served at Claverack; dis. Nov. 21, 1779, 5 days travel; also, private in Capt. Ebenezer Strong's Co.; in Col. Sears' Hampshire County Regt.; enlisted Aug. 10, 1781; service at Saratoga; dis. Nov. 20, 1781. He signed for bounty paid him by class 2, for Belchertown, to serve in the Cont. army for 3 years, July 9, 1782. His name appears in Capt. Henry Porter's Co., of Northampton, for clothing. His app. for pension was dated Plainfleld, Mass., June 3, 1834. At his death he was the oldest Rev. pensioner in the town. He removed to Plainfield, 1790, one of its earliest settlers, seventeen years before its incorporation; an honored and respected citizen; selectman, 19 years; representative, five years; Justice Peace, 1817. - History of the Hamlin Family, Andrews 1902 In the year 1776, John Hamlen, then thirteen years old, removed with his parents to Cummington, three years bfore its incoporation as a town. At the age of sixteen he entered the Revolutionary army and served about six months. He was at the time of his death the last of the Revolutionary pensioners in Plainfield. He married Sally Town (born in Sutton, Mass.) at Windsor, Mass 1790, and settled in Plainfield the same year. He was by trade a carpenter and several of the first houses were built by him or under his supervision. The house which he built and occupied on his homestead where E. A. Atkins now lives, is still in good condition. In 1800 he was chosen one of the selectmen and served for nineteen years. He represented the town in General Court at Boston in 1814, `14 and `15; also in 1823 and 1826. He made the journey to Boston on horseback, and during the May sessions turned his horse out to pasture in the near vicinity, and at the end of the session rode home again. Two other representatives were at the time of their election living in the John Hamlen house, viz.: his son Freeman nnd Edwin A. Atkins, the present member from this town. His wife died Oct. 11, 1818, aged forty-five, For a second wife he married Mrs. Dorothy Gove of Worthillgtou, Nov. 10th, 1819. She died Sept. 21, 1847, aged sixty-nine. Although for many years in feeble health he lacked but a few months of being ninety years of age at his death, which occurred April 15,1852. At the age of seventy-five he publicly professed his faith in Christ as a Savior, and united with the Plainfield church. He had however for some years previously entertained a Christian hope. - History of the Town of Plainfield, Dyer 1891 | Hamlin, John (I2345)
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| 145 | He res. in New Salem, where his children were born. His second wife was dismissed from the church in New Salem, and recommended to the church in Sangerfield, N. Y., 20 Apr., 1816, at about which time he probably rem. to that place. He is said to have been a soldier in the revolution and was one of sixteen men who marched to re-enforce the army at Bennington, but did not arrive there until after the battle. He often told his children of the awful scenes which he witnessed on that field of blood. - Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, p.140 | Kellogg, Samuel (I1043)
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| 146 | He resided in East Greenwich, Rhode Island where his father had purchased land as early as 1717. He was a soldier in the revolution in 1778. - The Bristol Branch of the Finney Family | Finney, Jabez (I154)
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| 147 | He was a blacksmith, and lived successively in Ashfield, Mass., Halifax and Guilford, Vt., Hinsdale, N. H., and Dummerston, Yt. From the latter place he removed in 1795 to Romulus, Seneca Co.,N. Y. While resident in Guilford he was Senior Major of a regiment of Militia, of which Timothy Church was Colonel and Henry Edwards, Junior Major, raised by the state of New York for the protection of her rights in the long contested and exciting controversy with New Hampshire in relation to the jurisdiction over the territory now comprising Vermont. In the civil war that followed they were captured by the "New-States men," under Col. Ethan Allen, imprisoned at Bennington, and their property confiscated. In March, 1786, an act was passed by the legislature of New York, granting Major Shattuck and others a township of land eight miles square on Chenango River, (now Bainbridge) as a remuneration for their losses and sufferings. Of this grant 3,200 acres were assigned to Mr. Shattuck for his portion. (Doc. Hist, of New York,Yol. IV., pp. 1014 to 1018.) As early as 1791 or 2, he obtained from the government of Canada West a grant of land, but, not complying with the settling duties, it became forfeited. About 1809 or 10 he petitioned for a renewal of the original title, and while his petition was pending he made a tour of exploration through Ohio and Kentucky, when he wrote to his family the last letter they ever received from him. It is said that he returned to Canada to ascertain the result of his petition, and that he was there accidentally thrown from a horse and killed, in 1810. - Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck, by Lemuel Shattuck (1855) William and Lydia had 5 children; Eliphalet, Sophia, Phylinda, William, and Geo Clinton. 4 more childrend died in infancy or early childhood. | Shattuck, William (I2311)
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| 148 | He was a farmer; Plaintleld; selectman, 1846-52: representative, 1850-1; town clerk, 1853-76; member Constitutional Con., 1853. The records of births, marriages and deaths of Plaintleld were greatly improved by him: dea. Cong. Church, 1844-67, when he resigned: for many years clerk of the church. He and his brother were excellent singers and leaders in the church choir. He resided on his farm until about 1855, when he removed to the village. The author of the history of Plaintleld says of him: "He was a man of thorough honesty and sound judgment, worthy of, and received the confidence of the entire community. Humility, sincerity and charity were marked features of his Christian character. Truly, in many ways, he being dead, yet speaketh." He d. suddenly while seated in his sitting room, Jan. 16, 1889. - History of the Hamlin Family, Andrews 1902 | Hamlin, Hon. Freeman (I2354)
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| 149 | He was a miller and farmer, and first settled in Greenfield in his native county. For several years before his death he lived with his children, and after 1816 with his son Seth. He was a soldier in the French, and in the revolutionary war, and was in the battles at Bunker Hill, at Bennington, at Yorktown, and at other places. He was a pensioner of the United States government, and is stated in the printed list of 1835 to be 95 years old, and of Niagara County. - Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck, by Lemuel Shattuck (1855) Samuel and Chloe had 9 children; Samuel, Chloe, Consider, Seth, Lydia, Lydia, Jesse, Jesse, and Chester. | Shattuck, Samuel (I2302)
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| 150 | He was a patient at the State Hospital from before 1900 to 1923. | Sweetapple, Charles Arthur (I971)
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