Old Dead RelativesThe genealogy of my extended family
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| 5701 | Stone Reads CARLETON ERNEST S. 1877 - 1934 ETHEL A. 1903 - 1991 | Ethel A (I37900)
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| 5702 | Stone Reads ELBRIDGE Epitaph Reads Not dead but gone before. | CARLETON, Elbridge Ebenezer (I37392)
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| 5703 | Stones | DODGE, Richard (I45311)
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| 5704 | Successful in business. Left much to his 8 children in his will. —— In 1719 Jeremiah Folsom built his two-story brick garrison house on the hill between Newfields and Lamprey River, where it stood until 1874, more than a century and a half, when it was demolished. | FOLSOM, Jeremiah (I6688)
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| 5705 | Sued by John Cutt | TURNER, Thomas (I3253)
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| 5706 | Sukawanny means the beautiful one in Chickasaw. | RAINTREE, Sukawanny (I23765)
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| 5707 | Summoned to parliament as a baron in 1342. | DE SUTTON, Sir John II (I43847)
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| 5708 | Superintendent of schools at South Hadley, MA | CAMPBELL, Alfred H. (I34370)
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| 5709 | Superintendent of the Wheatland MIll Company Manager of the Sperry Flour Mill at Wheatland, California Warehouseman President of the board of supervisors of Yuba Co, California Civic leader | DAME, Cyrus King (I941)
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| 5710 | Supporter of King Henry I, King Stephen | DE FERRERS, Robert (I45490)
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| 5711 | Surname not confirmed Children: George (3 Nov 1755—?); Served on the “Dalton”, captured and sent to Plymouth, England, in Mill Prison until 15 Mar 1779. Tobias (13 Apr 1754—Jan 1828); Pvt during American Revolution | LOWE, Hugh (I46860)
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| 5712 | Surname unproven | LAYTON, Elizabeth (I32820)
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| 5713 | Susan, a nurse, was diabetic and died from septicemia following the amputation of her left leg on July 2, 1937. Her birth date is calculated from age on death certificate, 72 yr 6 mth 2 dy. | ENSLIN, Susan Louise D. (I418)
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| 5714 | Susanna & Joseph sold land inherited from father to Peter Staple (i2949), who appears to be her great-uncle. | BEADLE, Susanna (I1369)
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| 5715 | Susanna White's parentage is unknown at this time. Her second husband: Edward Winslow, then in England wrote a letter to her uncle "Mr. Robert Jackson" concerning his wife's father, brother and sisters. She was not the sister of Samuel Fuller who came on the Mayflower, in fact her name may not have been Fuller. After her husband died, she married Edward Winslow and had four more children. "Susanna was widowed in Feb, became the first bride in the colony. They had 4 children. About 1638, the Winslows with young Peregrine and Resolved moved to Green Harbor, now called Marshfield. Edward rose to prominence as Gov of Plymouth Colony. Spent much time in England. No mention of Susanna going abroad." Vol I Mayflower Families | FULLER, Susanna (I12652)
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| 5716 | SUTTON, Enoch M 1833-4/1865; s/o Albert Franklin Sutton & Lydia Jane Abraham - Danville National Cem, Plot A-3, Danville, Virginia Wounded once & captured twice. Died in Danville Virginia Confederate prison camp ----- In April 1865, a month after Enoch died, Confederate President Jefferson Davis arrived in Danville Virginia to confer with his cabinet about Lee’s surrender. | SUTTON, Enoch M. (I3708)
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| 5717 | Sutton, Jeremiah - Enlisted as Private, Captain Cornelius Nieukirk’s Company, Colonel Benjamin Holme’s 2nd Regiment, Salem Co Militia, February 4, 1778; served at Haddonfield, discharged, March 9, 1778 - during the Revolutionary War. Holme’s Battalion, NJ Militia, Jeremiah Sutton, Capt. Cornelius Nieukirk’s Co of Foot Militia in Col. Benjamin (roll torn) Batt’n for the Co of Salem and under ye command of Colonel Joseph Ellis in Haddons Field March ye 7th , 1778. Appears on Company Pay Roll dated Mar 7, 1778. Time of entrance Feb 4, 1778. Number of days 34. Rate per day: 1.8. Time of discharge: Mar 9, 1778. Amount 2.16.8. Bounty 2.16.8 (Military records, formerly in the War Records Office, NJ Dept of Defense now on file in the Archives & History Bureau, NJ State Library, Trenton,) | SUTTON, Zebulon (I5777)
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| 5718 | Sutton-Newby House. (National Register) This is one of the oldest houses in the Albemarle, probably built circa 1745 by Joseph Sutton on land which had belonged to his family for nearly seventy years. ----- Joseph Sutton b. 1637 d. 17 Jan 1695 Perquimans Co., North Carolina will probated 20 Jan 1695, April Court, 1696. Names four sons, wife and executrix: Deliverance. Witnesses: Jenkin Williams, Francis Foster, William Barrow. He m. 1 Jan 1669 Deliverance Nicholson, dau. of Christopher and Ann (Atwood) Nicholson. (Sutton Sutton and More Suttons, Doris Ellen (Witter) Bland, 1992, Bland Books, r5, Box 412, Fairfield, Ill 62837, p.8) ----- Will of Joseph Sutton 20 Jan 1695 8 April 1696 - Son Joseph my plantation on NS of Sutton’s Creek, son Christopher, daughter Hanah, Son George, son Nathaniel - sons Christopher, Geo and Nathaniel to share plantation where I now live. Children to be free to act for themselves when they accomplish ye age of sixteen. Exec wife Deliverance, sons Joseph and Christopher. (Early Records of North Carolina Vol. II, Stephen Bradley) —— On 23 May 1673, “joseph Sutton of Carralinah do testify that in the year 1671 my mother Sarah Sutton did receive in Carralinah from the hands of Caleb Lamb the sum of five points in English good sent with a bill of lading, which five pounds was in full of a legacy given by my grandfather Mr. Timothy Hatherley and paid or sent by my uncle Mr. Jospeh Tilden’s executrix” [PCLR 3:2:306]. Note: HATHERLY was the 2nd marriage of his grandmother Lydia. | SUTTON, Joseph (I3677)
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| 5719 | Swan took his family to America the year after his father died. Crop failures and poverty were rampant in Sweden at the time our family emigrated. Record numbers of people left Sweden from about 1850 until the end of World War I, settling mostly in the Americas and Australia. About 1.3 million Swedes left Sweden for the USA. Other factors included religious persecution (the government had strict laws regarding religion), bleak future prospects, and extreme social conservatism. Swan saw first hand how hard his father worked and yet had nothing to show at the end of his life. The family moved frequently, following work where they could find it. Hearing stories about available farm land and religious freedom must have given him and his children hope. The usual route was through England, and our family took a boat from St. Götestorp, Sweden to Hull, England (which took about a week) before embarking on their journey to America (which took about a month). As was the custom, the oldest son, Johan Peter, went to America first and found a suitable place to settle in Goodhue County, Minnesota. He returned to Sweden and brought the rest of the family back to Red Wing, Minnesota. The men of the family are easily traced, but the daughters, Louisa Christina and Johana, have disappeared from the record. Swan died the following year. He had 6 children and 21 known grandchildren. None of his siblings migrated, although a few of his nieces and nephews did. The family thrived, however, and settled in Red Wing, Hastings, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. —— The “Orlando” sailed from Jönköping, Sweden (9 Apr 1870) to Hull, England, but the ultimate destination was New York. Very few records exist before 1878, and nothing has yet been found for the trip from England to the USA. —— LAST NAMES Although his children should have carried his first name as part of their last names (such as Swansson or Swansdotter), according to Swedish custom, when they arrived in America, they took on his last name (which was derived from his father’s first name, Hans). —— Children ages do not match the immigration record (made in 1870), although the parent’s ages match: - Magnus, recorded as 11 years old, would have been born in 1859 - Carl August, 6, 1864 - Johanna, 9, 1861 - Christina, 11, 1859 (s/b 1849) - Johannes, 1, 1869 The immigration record also shows another family from the same town traveling at the same time: - S J. Magnusson, wife Maria, children Wilhemina, Carl Oscar, Emma | HANSSON, Swan (I3630)
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| 5720 | Tad was born and photographed with a small fissure on his upper lip just to the left of midline. Although undiagnosed at the time, contemporary documents described Tad by saying "he had a cleft palate and lisped." Twenty-first-century speech/language pathologist, John M. Hutchinson, interprets contemporary photographs and documents regarding Tad, as evidence the child had both communicative and craniofacial deformities. Cleft lip and palate are a phenomenon observed to "run in families". Hutchinson suggests that Tad Lincoln's cleft lip was inherited from his paternal grandfather and namesake who also was photographed with forme fruste of the upper lip on the left side. | LINCOLN, Thomas “Tad” (I4793)
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| 5721 | Taken captive by Indians 28 Jun 1689, and rescued later. Children of Ens John TUTTLE and Judith OTIS Tuttle were: 1. Mary, b. Jan. 7, 1697-8; she mar. James Canney, a wealthy land- owner. 2. Thomas, b. March 15, 1699-1700; d. Feb., 1777. 3. Judith, b. May 10, 1702; she was unmarried in 1734. 4. John TUTTLE, b. May 8, 1704; d. Feb., 1774. 5. Dorothy, b. March 21, 1706; she died before 1717. 6. Nicholas Stoughton TUTTLE, b. July 27, 1708; d. 1793. 7. James TUTTLE, b. Feb. 9, 1710/11; d. July 9, 1790. | OTIS, Judith (I5304)
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| 5722 | Taught school to pay college expenses. Practiced law in Appleton, Swift, Minnesota 1878 County Commissioner of Swift County,Minnesota 1879-1883. Probate Judge 1882-1889. Secretary Board of Education 1884-1915. Assistant Secretary Minnesota State Senate 1897-1905. (pg.335) —— Ambrose D. Countryman (1850- ,) the son of Peter F. Countryman and Elizabeth E. Gleason Countryman, was born in Fine, St. Lawrence County, New York, moved to Minnesota in 1855, was reared in Dakota County, Minnesota, attended common schools in Dakota County, Minnesota, attended the University of Minnesota, graduated from the Washington University Law School in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1874, married Jennie Beswick in 1874, taught school, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota, practiced law in Minneapolis from 1874 until 1878, moved to Appleton, Minnesota, in 1878, was a member of the Swift County, Minnesota, Board of Commissioners from 1879 until 1882, was a probate court judge from 1882 until 1889, was the assistant secretary of the Minnesota State Senate from 1897 until 1905, was the secretary of the Appleton, Minnesota, board of education, from 1883 until 1907, and was a grandmaster of the Masons of Minnesota from 1902 until 1903. | COUNTRYMAN, Ambrose Demetrious (I7019)
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| 5723 | Taxed at Cochecho 1666 and onward.«s1 33:96» | JONES, Jenkin (I3892)
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| 5724 | Text: George Howard was a corporal in Capt. Eliakim Howard's company, Col. Edward Mitchell's regiment; he marched from Bridgewater to Bristol, RI, on the alarm of December 8, 1776; was in service fifteen days. He lived in West Bridgewater. | HOWARD, George (I25002)
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| 5725 | That her maiden name was Bailey is by no means certain. If the name is correct, could she have been a sister of Richard Bailey who was the servant of Stephen Bachiler's step-son-in-law Richard Dummer? http://tomclough.com/p484.htm —— from TORREY: BEADLE, Robert & Mary _____, m/2 Stephen BATCHELDER (div), m/3 Thomas TURNER; by 1642; Wethersfield/ New London, CT/ Newbury (same?) —— "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire" by Noyes, Libby, and Davis.) Notes for MARY BAILEY: GDME&NH, under Stephen Batchelder, he m. 4th unhappily the widow, Mary Beedle of Kittery, with whom in 1650 he was ordered to live. The same yr. he was charged with marrying without bans. Oct. 16, 1651, she and George Rogers were convicted; 14 Oct. 1652 she was presented for entertaining idle prople on the Sabbath. She asked for a divorce 18 Oct 1656, alleg. he had gone to England many years since and mar. again, herself and two invalid ch. destitute on her hands. "Second marriage to the Reverend Stephen Bachiler, 60 yrs her senior. While apparently married to him, she fell in love with the neighbor, became pregnant, and for adultery was sentenced to be flogged and branded with the letter A. She eventually got a divorce from the Reverend and married a third time to Thomas Turner in 1657.” —— Evidence is strong that she objected to the marriage to Batchelder and was coerced into the union. * She quickly moved out from his home after the marriage was announced to live with George ROGERS. * BATCHELDER only announced the marriage when cornered by enemies during a trip to Boston. No one asked Mary at the time. * Women had few rights in those days and Mary saw that any objections made at the time would be detrimental to her, as well as too late to do any good. The punishment against her was unusually harsh (although not unique), probably more to shame BATCHELDER than to correct her. His enemies became her enemies at this time. | BAILY, Mary Magdalene (I626)
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| 5726 | The "Armorial de Jersey" gives the origin of the surname. It is the participle of the old French verb "Messervyr", meaning ill-treated. This epithet was given to an ancestor at the time of the cession of Normandy to France in 1207. The family supplied many civil officials to Jersey, many of whom held offices in the law courts. The arms of the family, registered in 1665 are: "Messervy: Or, three cherries gules, stalked, vert. Crest: A Cherry tree proper. Motto: Au valeureux coeur rien impossible" - to the valiant heart nothing is impossible. Most of the members of the family were engaged in agriculture and mechanic arts, though it had its share of professionals, lawyers, clergymen and doctors, while the name figures slightly in court records either as defendants or criminals, showing honesty, integrity and uprightness in the race. Clement was a taxpayer in Portsmouth in 1673 (Genealogy of Maine, George Thomas Little, p. 1236). In 1693, he had a seat in the meetinghouse. On August 6, 1710, he conveyed the homestead in Newington to his son Clement. Clement mentioned his sons Clement and John in deeds in 1705 and 1710 as well as other sons and daughters, not mentioned by name. There were three branches of the family, one each in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The following were probably all his children: Aaron, Clement, Daniel, John, Elizabeth, Mary, and Jamison. The Isle of Jersey is part of the Channel Islands, off the coast of Normandy. Clement immigrated to Strawbery Banke (the Portsmouth/Dover, New Hampshire area about 1670 (Turk, 1983). The place where he lived became known as Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He took the Oath of Allegiance in 1685. The family later moved to Newington, New Hampshire. All their children except Aaron changed the spelling from Messervy to Meserve. They moved to Scarborough, Maine, soon after the second settlement. Clement was a farmer and raised cattle with his father. He arrived in Strawberry Banke (now Portsmouth, New Hampshire) in 1670 and worked as a herdsman for Richard Cutts. He took the oath of allegiance in 1685. Clement owned land at Bloody Point in 1714. This is now at the end of Pease Air Force Base. He left the land to his son Daniel who sold it to a Moody. Clement's wife Elizabeth died about a year before he did. He conveyed his homelands, house, orchard, etc., to his son Clement in exchange for his son providing for him and his wife in 1710. Newington was then called Welch Cove (Colonial Era History of Dover, New Hampshire, p. 418). | MESSERVY, Clement (I6944)
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| 5727 | The "Tuttle Burial Ground" was on the east side of the homestead next to the road. Not within the memory of the oldest resident on the Neck, has there been any other private burial ground below the hill where the old Church stood. The first settlers on this part of the Neck, including John' Tuttle (I.), lie buried in the old cemetery on the east side of the road above "Meeting-house Hill," or the site of the old Church. Not more than three generations of Tuttles lie buried in this old "Tuttle Burial Ground," which is now barely discernible. | MATHER, Abigail (I33991)
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| 5728 | The 1662 will of William Wild of Ipswich names wife Elizabeth, his kinsman John Wild of Topsfield, and his son John. | WILDES, William (I35015)
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| 5729 | The 1940 census states they were living in the same place in 1935, so they were probably married before then. | ROETTGER, Pearl Lillian (I32724)
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| 5730 | The 2nd Battle of Conquereuil near Nantes 27 June 992 was against count his brother-in-law Fulk III Nerra, Count of Anjou and his father-in-law Geoffrey I. | DE BRETAGNE, Duke Conan I (I43844)
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| 5731 | The 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was mustered in at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. for three year's service on December 5, 1863, and were mustered out on November 17, 1865, and May 4, 1866. The 2nd Minnesota Cavalry served entirely in Minnesota and the Dakota Territory, guarding the frontier against the Sioux Indians. Battles and campaigns: Battle of Tah Kah A Kuty or Killdeer Mountain, July 28, 1864. Action at Two Hills, Bad Lands, Little Missouri River, August 8 to 9, 1864. Rescue of Fisk's Emigrant train, September 10 to 30,1864. Colonel Robert N. McLaren Casualties and total strength: The 2nd Minnesota Cavalry lost 4 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds received in battle and an additional 3 officers and 56 enlisted men died of disease. Total fatalities were 63. | DAME, Nathan F. (I1440)
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| 5732 | The 7th woman to be executed in America. Killed her own child, Martha. She had a hard life, losing her first husband, George Clark, father of her first 2 children, Martha and Abigail. Her second husband was a small-time thief and scoundrel. ----- Some claim her parents to be Christopher Martin and Marie Prower of the Mayflower, but recent DNA evidence does not support this. ----- Court transcript These sheweth, that on Jul the 22cond, 1648, wee, whosse names are underwritten, were sworne by Mr Bradford, gouerner, to make inquiry of the death of the child of Allis Bishop, the wife of Richard Bishope. Wee declare, yt coming into the house of the said Richard Bishope, wee saw at the foot of a ladder wh leadeth into an upper chamer, much blood; and going up all of us into the chamber, wee found a woman child, of about foure yeares of age, lying in her shifte uppon her left cheeke, with her throat cut with divers gashes crose wayes, the wind pipe cut and stuke into the throat downward, and a bloody knife lying by the side of the child, with wh knife all of us judg, and the said Allis hath confessed to five of vs at one time, yt shee murdered the child with the said knife. JOHN HOWLAND, JAMES COLE, JAMES HURST, GYELLS RICKARD, ROBERT LEE, RICHARD SPARROW, JOHN SHAWE, THOMAS POPE, FRANCIS COOKE, FRANCIS BILLINGTON, JOHN COOKE, WILLIAM NELSON. Rachell, the wife of Joepth Ramsden, aged about 23 yeares, being examined, saith that coming to the house of Richard Bishope uppon an erand, the wife of the said Richard Bishope requested her to goe fetch her som buttermilke at Goodwife Winslows, and gaue her a ketle for that purpose, and she went and did it; and before shee wente, shee saw the child lyinge abed asleep, to her best deserning, and the woman was as well as shee hath knowne her att any time; but when shee came shee found her sad and dumpish; shee asked her what blood was that shee saw at the ladders foot; shee pointed unto the chamber, and bid her looke, but shee perseived shee had kiled her child, and being afraid, shee refused, and ran and tould her father and mother. Morover, shee saith the reason yt moved her to thinke shee had kiled her child was yt when shee saw the blood shee looked on the bedd, and the child was not there. Taken uppon oath by mee, WILLIAM BRADFORD, ...... At a Court of Asistants holden at New Plymouth, the first of Agust, 1648, before Mr Bradford, Gouer, Mr Coliar, Captain Miles Standish, and Mr William Thomas, get, Assistants, the sd Allice, being examined, confessed shee did comite the afforsaid murther, and is sory for it. Thes found the said Allice Bishope guilty of the said fellonius murthering of Martha Clark aforsaid; and so shee had the sentence of death pronounced against her, viz, to bee taken from the place where shee was to the place from whence she came, and thence to the place of execution, and ther to be hanged by the necke untiell her body is dead, with acordingly was executed. | MARTIN, Alice (I5226)
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| 5733 | The Aroostook War was an undeclared confrontation in 1838-39 between the United States and Great Britain over the international boundary between British North America (Canada) and Maine. The dispute resulted in a mutually accepted border between the state of Maine and provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec. It is called a war because not only were tensions high and rhetoric heated in Maine and New Brunswick, but troops were raised and armed on both sides and marched to the disputed border. Only the timely intervention of the U.S. and British governments prevented bloodshed by local militias.... Maine issued General Orders to recall the militia in May and June 1839, and they were replaced with regular U.S. Army troops. The permanent structures of Fort Fairfield and Fort Kent were begun later that summer. Major R. M. Kirby became commander of the post and three companies of the U.S. 1st Artillery Regiment. Four companies of the British 11th Regiment marched to the area from Quebec City to represent Canada. Meanwhile, New Brunswick armed every tributary of the St John River that flowed from the Aroostook Territory with regular and militia soldiers. In 1840, Maine created Aroostook County to administer the area. The United States and Britain agreed to refer the dispute to a boundary commission and although further clashes between their forces would continue, the matter was settled in 1842 by the Treaty of London, also referred to as the Webster-Ashburton Treaty that settled not only the Northeastern boundary but the boundary between Canada, Michigan and Minnesota as well.... The war, though devoid of actual combat, was not without casualties. Private Hiram T. Smith, from Maine, died of unknown causes while in service in 1828. He is buried in Maine on the side of the Military Road (U.S. Route 2) in the middle of the Haynesville Woods. Other Maine militiamen died of illness or injury while on the Aroostook expedition and dozens were unaccounted for, leaving their camps to go on patrol and never returning.«s76 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War» | DAME, Robert McDonald “Reuben” (I346)
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| 5734 | The Ballad Of Isaac Orcutt Come all you neighboring people wait While I a doleful scene relate, Of a bright youth as e're you see, Who was killed in Hartford by a tree One Isaac Orcutt was his name Who lately into Hartford [Westfield?] came Resided with his brother James Last Thursday noon, went as it seems To cut some timber for a sled The snow being deep, he had to wade Near forty rods, to an ash tree The top was dry as you may see He cut the tree off from the stump The top being lodg'd, threw back a chunck Which flew and struck him on the head And crush'd him -- yet he was not dead There the poor sufferer senseless lay All the remainder of that day His charming face plung'd in the snow While from his head the blood did flow His friends and neighbors being gone Not knowing that he had withdrawn No search was made by anyone Until the setting of the sun Till Mr. Danly and his son Alarm'd set out upon the run They soon beheld him with surprise And gaz'd on him with steadfast eyes They then supposed him to be dead Till by motion of his head, drawing his breath One of his hands was stiffly froze Part of his arms, some of his toes The blood had issued from his wounds And thaw'd a passage to the ground Oh! Twas an awful sight to see So fair and sprightly a youth as he All crush'd and crippled in a heap T’would make the stoutest heart to weep They took him up and bore him home Put him to bed in a warm room They rubb'd his limbs and dressed his wounds And strove to force a cordial down But all in vain the passage choked His blood was chill’d, his skull was broke All useful medicines were applied Yet he on that same evening died The heavy news did soon arrive To his dear friends and relatives Which filled their hearts with bitter grief But he was past all their relief When all his friends had gathered round A sermon preach'd by Elder Brown His corpse with care was borne away To mingle with it's native clay He was but twenty years of age And some odd months as we allege He was both sprightly fair and kind Belov'd by every civil mind Think on his virtue weeping friends Mourn not for him but for your sins For sin is the procuring cause That brings God's judgement unawares Let this a warning be to all It is our great Creator's call Methinks I hear his word abroad Saying: "Prepare to meet your God" Author unknown | ORCUTT, Isaac (I15214)
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| 5735 | The battle of Edgecote (26 July 1469) was the first fighting in the second phase of the Wars of the Roses and saw a rebel army supported by the earl of Warwick defeat a Royal army led by the earls of Pembroke and Devon, leaving Edward IV vulnerable to capture. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_edgecote.html | NEVILLE, Henry (I12829)
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| 5736 | The battle of Lexington, on the 19th of April, 1775, aroused our people to a more vivid sense of their danger. Couriers bringing the startling news reached Newmarket about daybreak, April 2Oth. At once the drum beat to arms. In less than three hours minute-men were on the march for Boston. Tradition includes among those first to enlist the names of Colcord, Folsom, Hilton, and Pike. At Exeter they joined other volunteers under Capt. John Taylor Gilman. That night they reached, by way of Haverhill, Bragg's tavern, in Andover. On the night of the 21st they reached Cambridge, and were assigned quarters in the college buildings. http://files.usgwarchives.net/nh/rockingham/history/rockinghamco/chapter40.txt —— JEREMIAH FOLSOM TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE ASSEMBLY. New-Market, March 19, 1776. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOURS: I ask leave to inform you that it was just intimated to me by a member of the honourable Court, that it was expected I should attend on a Committee appointed to sit on Tuesday, 19th March, instant, at Exeter; but for what purposes, I have not been made acquainted. I therefore should not have been prepared to answer any matters, could I have given myself the pleasure of attending on the honourable Committee. But I have the misfortune, from receiving such violent colds in attending in the late storms, to be confined to my house and bed, which has put it out of my power to have obeyed your Honours' citation, if I had received one, which I shall always esteem it my duty and pleasure readily to obey, although the complaints and allegations were as false and maliciously fabricated against me, as those that have lately been by a small number of disappointed, and, therefore, disaffected persons belonging to the Fifth Company, in Colonel Gillman' s Regiment, who have retarded and hindered the settlement of the whole regiment, and who, without your Honours' interposition, will continue the same. Confiding, therefore, in the known knowledge and justice of your Honours, in justifying the innocent when falsely accused, think myself happy that I am at the tribunal, and in the protection of this honourable Court; to whose determination and order I shall render the steadiest and firmest obedience, when it is signified to me, if God in his Providence shall admit me health and opportunity to fulfil it. I am, may it please your Honours, your Honours' most humble servant, JEREMIAH FOLSOM. To the Honourable Council and House of Representatives for the Colony of New-Hampshire. http://amarch.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-amarch%3A98621 —— Jeremiah Folsom was a delegate to the Convention in 1775 and a member of commission on supplies 1782. | FOLSOM, Col Jeremiah (I4123)
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| 5737 | The Berkeley family descends in the male line from Robert Fitzharding (d.1170), 1st feudal baron of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, reputedly the s/o Harding of Bristol, the s/o Eadnoth the Constable (Alnod), a high official under King Edward the Confessor. Berkeley Castle, the caput of the barony, and the adjoining town of Berkeley are located in the county of Gloucestershire and are situated about five miles west of Dursley and eighteen miles southwest of Gloucester, and northeast of Bristol. The location has conferred various titles on the family over the centuries, including Baron Berkeley (barony by writ), Earl of Berkeley, and Marquess of Berkeley. Berkeley Castle was originally granted by William the Conqueror to the Norman Roger de Berkeley, feudal baron of Dursley, under the feudal tenure of fee-farm. However, this Norman family, which had recently taken its name from its tenure of Berkeley Castle, was stripped of its tenure by King Henry II (1154–1189) shortly before he became king. The tenure was re-granted to his supporter and financier the Anglo-Saxon Robert Fitzharding (d.1170), of Bristol, as a feudal barony. Shortly afterwards, under the encouragement of Henry II who had clearly regretted the effect of his dispossession of Roger, the two families were united by the forced intermarriage by contract of the eldest son and heir of each to the other's eldest daughter.[1] Thus the heirs of both Roger de Berkeley and of Robert Fitzharding were either adopted, or continued the use of, the surname "de Berkeley", the former retaining the truncated feudal barony of Dursley, the latter establishing his line as feudal barons of Berkeley Castle. | BERKELEY, Maurice (I43366)
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| 5738 | The biography of James Orcutt is derived from his Revolutionary War records and depositions filed by his wife, Deborah, in her attempt to obtain a widow's pension. In her deposition of Dec. 22, 1843, Deborah Orcutt attached a record taken from the family Bible kept by James Orcutt wherein he stated his birth date as Jan 17, 1754. Although it stated that James was born in Egremont, Mass, it's pointed the area where James was born was in the disputed area of Mass. and N.Y., and didn't become part of Mass. until 1774. James Orcutt enlisted on April 19, 1775, in Capt. John Holm's Company of Minutemen, Berkshire County, Col. Fellows Regiment. On April 20, 1775, the day following his enlistment to an active status, James Orcutt in the regiment of Col. John Ashley, "marched in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775." This was in response to the British attack on Lexington and Concord, Mass. The action encountered on this march by his regiment is not known and James was discharged from active duty on May 7, 1775, after 17 days of service. James continued to serve in the militia and the Continental Army during the War. His next call to action occurred May 8, 1775. He enlisted in Bacon's company, Col John Fellows regt. and was discharged August 1, 1775, after serving 3 months and 1 day. This service included the Battle of Bunker Hill. After that battle James Orcutt joined the forces of Gen. Montgomery on his march to Quebec, Canada during which they suffered greatly from smallpox. | ORCUTT, James (I15207)
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| 5739 | The Black Death was raging through Europe at this time. Also, a food shortage was causing widespread riots. Queen Elizabeth I responded by ordering all “Africans” to be removed from the British realm. | TIBBETS, Nicholai (I2122)
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| 5740 | The Brattleboro Daily Reformer (Brattleboro, Vermont); 13 jul 1914 SIX WERE KILLED AT GRADE CROSSING Omnibus Filled with Picnic Party Was Struck by a Freight Train in North Rochester, N. H. Rochester, NH, July 13. — Six young persons were killed last Saturday afternoon in a collision between an omnibus and a freight train on a grade crossing at North Rochester, five miles above this city. It was the tragic ending of a picnic at New Bridge, Milton, of the Baptist Sunday school at East Rochester. The party of young folk were singing “Nearer My God to Thee,” as their wagon rumbled down the road toward the tracks and the voices drowned out the noise of the train. The list of the dead is: Leona Blaisdell, age 15, daughter of Harry Blaisdell Edith Blaisdell, at 14, daughter of George Blaisdell Helen Andrews, age 16, adopted daughter of William Blaisdell Ruth Libbey, 16, daughter of John Libbey Eddie Deveney, age 16, of Blackington, Mass Fatally injured, and died later at the hospital is Dover, Muriel Blaisdell, 11, sister of Leona Blaisdell. Twenty-three attended the picnic including the Rev. M. M. Tupper, pastor of the East Rochester Free Baptist church, and his wife. They went in two teams hired of Thomas W. Peavey, and East Rochester stable keeper. Once was a two-seated carriage hauled by a single horse and the other an omnibus drawn by two horses. The driver of the latter was Guy Hayes, East Rochester. It was shortly before 6 o’clock that the party on the return trip approached the railroad grade-crossing of the Portsmouth and Conway branch of the Boston & Maine railroad at North Rochester. The two-seated conveyance had crossed ahead. There were 16 in the omnibus, the curtains of which had been let down on account of the rain. | BLAISDELL, Leona Eliza (I2707)
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| 5741 | The Cecils crossed over to England with William the Norman; and the family in the United States is said to be of the Lord Baltimore stock (Calverts), descendants of Sir William Cecil of England (Lord Burleigh). Samuel W. Cecil and his two brothers came in 1700, and settled in Maryland. Samuel W. married Rebecca White in Maryland, about 1750, and removed to the New River Valley in what is now Pulaski County in about 1760. He died in 1785 and his wife in 1815. They left a family of seven sons and three daughters. The sons, William, born in 1752, married Nancy Witten, and settled in Tazewell; Thomas, born in 1755, married Nancy Grayson, and went to Ohio; James married Miss Wysor; Benjamin married Priscilla Baylor and went to Kentucky; Zechariah married Miss Mitchell, and went to Kentucky; Samuel married Mary Ingram, and went to Missouri; Rebecca married James Witten, of Tazewell;' Malinda married Samuel Mitchell; Eleanor married Thomas Witten, of Tazewell. Zechariah Cecil, s/o Samuel W., married Julia Howe, daughter of Major Daniel Howe, from whom Daniel R. Cecil, of Giles County, Virginia, descends, and who married Ardelia Pearis, granddaughter of Colonel George Pearis, a soldier of the American Revolution, and first settler where Pearisburg station, N &. W. Ry. Co., is now situated. | CECIL, Samuel Witten (I4173)
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| 5742 | THE CHARITON DEMOCRAT Chariton, Iowa Friday, January 19, 1900 MRS. LOT CURTIS The announcement of the sudden death of Mrs. Lot Curtis at her home in this city on Wednesday evening, January 17, brought sadness to the hearts of many people. In the afternoon she had attended the funeral services of Miss Leota Howard. She returned home about 4:30 o'clock and in a few minutes was stricken with paralysis and died about 7:30 the same evening. Miss Martha Jane Tracy was born March 29, 1827. She was married to I. H. Sigler on December 25, 1851. To them were born six children, four of whom, Rev. M. J. Sigler of Waterloo, H. H. Sigler, W. A. Sigler and Mrs. L. S. Hedges of this city, are living. Her husband died and she was again married on July 15, 1890, to Mr. Lot Curtis, who survives her. At the age of fourteen she was converted and has been a faithful member of the Baptist church for fifty-nine years. Her name was not simply on the roll book, but her life conformed to the teachings of the meek and lowly Saviour. She was truly an exemplary woman, having a life full of good deeds. Those who were acquainted with her for years are the ones who testify most strongly of her fidelity and pure character. Such a life as hers makes the world better and they are always missed. To the bereaved husband and children sympathy is manifest. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. A. Jacobs, of Winterset, will be held at the Baptist church this morning at ten o'clock and the remains will be interred in the Goshen cemetery. | TRACY, Martha Jane (I39432)
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| 5743 | THE CHARITON HERALD Chariton, Iowa Thursday, March 20, 1902 WHITEBREAST TOWNSHIP NEWS Eli Tracy, of Whitebreast township, went to Derby Thursday of last week to visit his daughter, Mrs. James Grimes, and while there he took very suddenly ill with stomach trouble and steadily grew worse until Tuesday of this week, when he died at 2 p.m. Mr. Tracy leaves a wife and two daughters and two sons to mourn his death, besides a host of other relatives and friends. He was a member of the May Baptist church and was loved and respected by everyone who knew him. | TRACY, Eli Wesley (I38488)
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| 5744 | The children were all minors in 1766. | DAME, Sarah (I222)
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| 5745 | The children's names and dates of birth of John Foye and Sarah Boucher came from the Boston Transcript. vol 109 pg. 10 Also noted: John Foye (3) m. Sarah Boucher (3rd daughtaer of Louis Boucher of Paris and Sarah Middlecot of Boston) at Boston by Mr Benjamin Colman Presn...The home of John Foye (3) was at Charlestown on land that is now part of the Navy Yard. The house was burned at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Son Louis was on the committee chosen at Charlestown on Nov 26, 1774 to see that the acts and resolves of the Grand American Congresswere duly executed as far as they related to the town. Boston Transcript vol. 110 pg. 31: In the Boston Muesuem of Fine Arts there is a silver muffineer and a pair of silver snufflers marked I>F>S> that once belonged to John Foye and Sarah Belcher and later to John Foye and Sarah Boucher. Both pieces of silver were made in London in the year 1700. John Foye of Boston was taken prisoner April 13, 1778 by the English. Committed to the Old Mill Prison in England, Oct 16, 1778 with 5 others. He died there. —— In England, American prisoners were housed in the Old Mill prison at Plymouth and Forton prison at Portsmouth on either the charge of 'treason' or 'piracy'. The Old Mill prison could accommodate about 800 men, but only 625 were ever there at any one time, and usually only about 300. The Forton population at the time of Thornton's visit was 119; later the number probably reached 400. https://www.varsitytutors.com/earlyamerica/early-america-review/volume-6/pows-during-the-american-revolution | FOYE, John (I15447)
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| 5746 | The Christian Dolloff family homestead in New Hampshire remained in theDolloff family, passing down through this son, referred to as "The AbnerLine." | DOLLOFF, Abner (I33264)
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| 5747 | The claim that Mary was a Newland is unsupported. Mary possibly indigenous. Children: Abigail Young Zoeth Samuel John Mary Cudworth Sarah Dennis Elizabeth Allen Joseph | MNU, Mary (I15646)
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| 5748 | The Coconino sun. (Flagstaff, Ariz.), 23 July 1898. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. The Epworth League of our city is to be congratulated upon having secured an evening with the celebrated mirth make, Hoyt L. Conary, of Boston. Mr. Conary is an excellent entertainer and those making use of this opportunity to hear him are assured of a treat. He apears at Babbitt’s Opera House on Wednesday night, July 27. General admission, 25 cents; reserved seats, 35 cents. The Scranton tribune. (Scranton, Pa.), 27 Feb. 1900. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Yankee village characters in all their humorous and quaint sayings, their philosophy and their “know-it-allness,” will be depicted this evening at St Luke’s parish house by Hoyt L. Conary, who will close the Men’s guild course for the benefit of the summer house. For many years Mr. Conary “tended store” in Bucksport, Me. His character sketches are drawn from life. The general admission has been fixed at 50 cents. There are a number of good seats still left. | CONARY, Hoyt Leighton (I2282)
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| 5749 | The cousin of Ann Putnam Jr., Mary Walcott was a regular witness in the witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts. Mary was born to Jonathan Walcott, Captain of the Salem Village Militia, and Mary Sibley Walcott on July 5, 1675. When Mary was young, her mother died and her father married Deliverance Putnam, thus making him the brother-in-law of Thomas Putnam, Jr., who was not only one of the most powerful men in the village, but, also one of the major accusers. Her aunt was Mary Sibley Woodrow, who decided to try some white magic to fend off the evil powers in the village. She had shown Tituba and her husband, John Indian, slaves of the Reverend Samuel Parris, how to make the "witch cake" to discover witches that resulted in Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams making their first accusations. For this advice, Mary Sibley Woodrow was suspended from the church; but, was later reinstated after she made a confession that her purpose was innocent. In the meantime, her 17 year-old niece, Mary Walcott, had gotten caught up in the whole witch hunt affair. At the trials, while Mary Walcott was not the most notorious of the accusers, her role in the Salem witch trials was by no means minimal. She was said to have been calm in the beginning, but later, critics accused her of being a witch herself, who foiled her potential adversaries by distracting their attention away from herself onto innocent persons. However, Mary was never indicted for this accusation. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ma-salemafflicted3.html | WALCOTT, Mary (I31704)
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| 5750 | The Dane and Faulkner families were early settlers who had gained social prominence in Andover. | FAULKNER, Lt Francis (I45158)
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| 5751 | The date and place of their marriage are from Sanborn and Sanborn, "Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire, to the End of the Year 1900," [1992], p. 73 and Anderson, Robert Charles, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633," [1995, NEHGS], v. 1, p. 213. Hannah's brother-in-law was the Rev. Seaborn COTTON, Hampton's fourth minister. This corrects misinformation in GDMNH, p. 751, which without citing a source, says they married in Andover, Massachusetts, on "3 [or 8]" June 1659. It seems likely that Rev. Seaborn COTTON performed the Hampton ceremony. | WIGGIN, Andrew (I5479)
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| 5752 | The date of death is from the estate inventory. The text reads: "A true inventory of all ye estate, both real and personall, that Captain Nicholas Byram, late of Bridgewater in Ye County of Plymouth in New England dyed seized of; who deceased Sep ye 12 Ann Dom. 1727 The marriage date was recorded in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Mass. The text reads "The mariag of Nicholas Byram Jr. hear in the town of Bridgewater was sollemnized the twentieth of September 1676. They were married by Rev. James Keith in the first church, West Bridgewater, the only church at the time. The marriage record does not list the name of the bride. Was an Indian Fighter In King Phillip's War | BYRAM, Capt Nicholas (I29752)
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| 5753 | The date of Solomon’s death has been set tentatively at 1787, as the taxes on his property were paid until then, and three years had to elapse before being seized for nonpayment thereof. No name of his wife can be found other than the Parish Record in Virginia, which in the listing of pews gives her simply as Mrs. Solomon Dam. He went to Virginia about 1750, and settled in King and Queen County (see NH State Papers, p 194, for mortgage given by Solomon to this brother Eliphalet, dated 25 Jul 1770, on land left to him by his father in Barnstead, NH). This document gives his place of residence as Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen Co, VA. This mortgage was paid off in 1772; the same land was sold for taxes to Theophilus in 1790. He was sexton of the First Parish Church, and is mentioned as a husbandman. How many children they had is not known, but there are three sons of whom a record can be found. ----- Some descendants migrated to Georgia after the War of 1812. —— Solomon and wife Martha were said to be buried in the same cemetery as their son George. (Christ Church) The historian for the church reports that they are not buried there but possibly in the Baptist Cemetery next to Christ Church. | DAM, Solomon (I1707)
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| 5754 | The dates of birth of Polly, Samantha and Dennis are recorded in theVital Records of the town of Weybridge, Truman Bell being named as thefather, with no name for the mother. The following notation comes afterthe dates of birth: "Weybridge October 16, 1820 then received & recordedthe foregoing births By Mr. J. H. Cook Town Clerk" | BELL, Truman (I27040)
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| 5755 | The daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut, and Margaret I, Countess of Flanders. At the age of one, her father had her betrothed to Henry, the future Count of Champagne. He was the nephew of Adèle of Champagne, who was Queen of France. In 1179, both their fathers swore that they would proceed with the marriage, but her father later agreed to her marrying Philip II of France. Her second pregnancy was extremely difficult; on 14 March 1190, Isabella gave birth to twin boys named Robert and Philip. Due to complications in childbirth, Isabella died the next day, and was buried in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. She was not quite 20 years old and was mourned for greatly in the capital, since she had been a popular queen. The twins lived only four days, both having died on 18 March 1190. Her son Louis succeeded her as Count of Artois. Isabella's dowry of Artois eventually returned to the French Crown following the death of King Philip, when her son Louis became king. | DE HAINAULT, Queen Isabelle (I40390)
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| 5756 | The Dawson Massacre was an event in the history of the Republic of Texas, in which 36 Texans were killed by Mexican soldiers and Texas Cherokee Indians with cannon on September 18, 1842 outside San Antonio, Texas. This event follows the Texan victory at the Battle of Salado Creek. On September 11, 1842, a Mexican force of almost 1,000 entered San Antonio and took control of the city, with minimal resistance from the Texans. When the news of the fall of San Antonio reached Gonzales, Mathew Caldwell formed a militia of 225 men and marched toward San Antonio. Caldwell's troops made camp about twenty miles east of San Antonio near Salado Creek and planned their attack on the Mexicans. On September 18, Caldwell sent a small band of rangers to draw the Mexicans toward the battlefield he had chosen. An estimated 850 Mexican soldiers moved out of San Antonio to attack the Texans. A separate company of 54 Texans, mostly from Fayette County, under the command of Nicholas Mosby Dawson, arrived at the battlefield and began advancing on the rear of the Mexican Army. The Mexican commander, General Adrian Woll, afraid of being surrounded, sent between 400 and 500 of his soldiers and one or two cannon to attack the group. The Texans were able to hold their own against the Mexican rifles, but once the cannon got range the Texan fatalities mounted quickly. Dawson realized the situation was hopeless and raised a white flag of surrender. In the fog of war, both sides continued to fire and Dawson was killed. The battle was over after a little more than one hour. It ended with thirty-six Texans dead, fifteen captured and three escaped. At the front, Caldwell's men had repelled several Mexican charges and inflicted heavy casualties. Woll was forced to retreat back to San Antonio. The next morning Caldwell's troops located the Dawson Battleground and buried the dead Texans in shallow graves. The dead Mexicans were not buried. Caldwell then unsuccessfully pursued Woll's forces south as they retreated from San Antonio. Caldwell returned to San Antonio, after the Mexicans successfully recrossed the Rio Grande. In late summer of 1848, a group of La Grange citizens retrieved the remains of the men killed in the Dawson Massacre from their burial site near Salado Creek. These remains and the remains of the men killed in the failed Mier Expedition were reinterred in a common tomb in a cement vault on a bluff one mile south of La Grange. The grave site is now part of the Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites.«s76 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_Massacre» | WOODS, Norman B. (I19324)
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| 5757 | The De Wandlers settle in New Jersey at an early date, coming from Holland. They later came up the Hudson river to Port Orange, Albany, where they were among the first settlers. Johannes De Wanderer, from Leyden, Holland, tradesman; Sara Schemes, of New York, March 17, 1672. He bought and sold lots in Albany and was a man of importance. Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York: A Record of ..., Volume 2; p 623 | DE WANDELAER, Johannes (I40789)
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| 5758 | The death of the first John is reported after the birth of thesecond John. This may b e a misreading of years that are double datedbefore the vernal equinox. | HOWARD, John (I25285)
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| 5759 | The Diary of Rev William Bentley, p 262 100 24 The melancholy report that Capt Elkins lost his Brig in the Texel, & that all perished but the Captain.* We have not the particulars, but by this event I loose several valuable parishioners. Aaron Batten, who leaves a Wife & child. Sam Bowditch, who leaves a Wife & child. Sam Cotton, who leaves a Wife & child. William Dean, Shehane & Charles, a Swedish Servant to Capt Elkins. * The brig Harriette was lost off the Texel, Holland on Mar 21 1791. https://books.google.com/books/content?id=aII1oQyztyQC&pg=PA262&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2bp9YhtCGnH6M5AqDcB3Vdu2byUQ&ci=101%2C102%2C772%2C1209&edge=0 | BOWDITCH, Samuel (I37055)
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| 5760 | The E. in Bill's name stood for Everett, however, he felt embarrassed by this name. He was not officially named at birth. Birth record was officially changed 13 Dec 1943 to E. Cuthbert Barnett. Bill worked for Motor Wheel in Lansing between 1929 and 1930. He was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) from 193? to1935 at Camp Clarion, MI. Bill worked for many years as supervisor of the East Jordan Garage of the Charlevoix County Road Commission until 1962. He was also the garage foreman, laying out grades for and supervising the building of new roads in Charlevoix County. The last road he built was near the Methodist Camp at Lake Louise. He was an avid collector of Petoskey stones and had plans for his retirement. He was a member of the Jordan River Lodge of the I.O.O.F. | BARNETT, E. Cuthbert “Bill” (I21416)
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| 5761 | The earliest ancestor listed in my family tree. s/o Alcwn ap Tegid and Perweur verch Rhys of the Llywarch Hen lineage. —— Sanddef Pryd Angel (Middle Welsh: Sanddev; also spelled Sandde in Modern Welsh) is a figure of Welsh tradition. He usually figures as a warrior of King Arthur's court, and is distinguished by his great beauty, which gives him his epithet Pryd or Bryd Angel (Angel's Form). | AP ALCWN, King Sandde (I35259)
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| 5762 | The earliest use of family names in England was about the beginning of the eleventh century. Long before that time, indeed, clan names were common, and such were always patronymics, e. g., Fotherings, the descendants of Fother; Beormings, the descendants of Beovm; Icklings. the descendants of Ickel. At the time of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain (fifth and sixth centuries) it was customary for a clan to settle in a stockaded village by itself, and all English towns whose names end in ham or ton, preceded by ing, were originally the abodes of single clans; e. g., Birmingham, home of the children of Beorm ; Icklington, town of the children of Ickel. Besides these general clan names no others were in use except individual names, such as Alfred or Edith. The use of family names, beginning in the eleventh century, increased slowly. It was not until the fifteenth century that such names became nearly universal, and also stationary. At first they were shifting in usage. Thus, the same man might be called Henry Wilson, because his father was named William, or Henry Frothingham, because he lived at the village of Fotheringham, or Henry Draper, because of his occupation. If the s/o this Henry were named Robert, and were any kind of a worker in metals, from an armorer to a blacksmith, he might be known as Robert Harrison or Robert Smith. Surnames had not ceased to fluctuate in this way until the fifteenth century, and it was not until late in the sixteenth that more importance began to be attached to the family surname than to the individual baptismal name. It appears, therefore, that in tracing back the Foster genealogy into the ninth century, we are approaching the time at which difficulty must arise from fluctuations of surname. In the thirteenth century we should be quite likely to encounter such confusion and to find the helpfulness of surnames in tracing genealogies vastly diminished. Surnames derived from estates or localities seem to have been the first to become stationary, and next after them the surnames derived from trade or ofiice, since sons have so commonly followed their fathers in business. We are at first struck with the fact that barbarians commonly use such names, both for individuals and for clans. Such individual names as Grey Wolf or Yellow Raccoon often owe their origin to some personal peculiarity or to some irrecoverable incident. Among American Indians, and in general among barbarians all over the world, the clans are apt to have such names as Wolf, Eagle, Salmon, Turtle, etc. ; the totem, or symbol of the Wolf clan, the idol or image of its tutelar deity, is likely to be a rude image of a wolf or wolf's head; and in many cases the clan is supposed to have had a wolf for its first ancestor. Shall we say, then, that animal surnames in modern English are sur\nvals of ancient heathen clan-names? To this view there seems to be a serious objection. The conversion of our Ecglish forefathers from heathenism to Christianity was completed in the seventh centurv, at least four hundred j-ears before the earliest use of surnames in England. The old clan system, moreover, had crumbled to pieces long before the Norman Conquest. It is not likely, therefore, that habits of naming characteristics of the old heathen clans could have persisted long enough to give rise to a whole class of surnames so late as the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Between the ancient systems of totem devices and the heraldry of the Middle Ages there were many analogies and doubtless some points of connection, though, on the whole, the former must be regarded as the predecessor of the latter, not as its ancestor. The medieval heraldry was growing up in England during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and it made an extensive use of conventionalized heads of familiar animals, not merely lions, wolves, and bulls, but many kinds of bird and fish, as well as such imaginary creatures as dragons, griffins, and cockatrices. For example, Lucy is the heraldic name for pike, and the shield of the De Lucy family bears on a field gules three lucies or. From this emblem the family surname is likely to have arisen, just as Geoffrey Plantagenet was so called from the sprig of broom or genesta plant worn in his helmet. The familiar name of Pike, as well as that of the Puritan magistrate. Sir Thomas Lucy, who arrested Shakespeare for poaching, has probably come from the heraldic use of pikes or lucies. The explanation which serves for one of this class of animal surnames might perhaps serve for all ; but there is another point to be considered. Heraldic devices were used not only upon banners and coat-of-arms, but also upon signboards, not merely of inns but of other places of business. In days when reading and writing were not common accomplishments, such devices were in general use, and they survived down to a recent time. For tavern signs they are not yet extinct. In old times, as often at the present day in Europe, the shop and the homestead were usually contained in the same building. Thus in the seventeenth century the father of John Milton, who was a solicitor, notary public, and law-stationer, had his office and his home in a certain house known as the Spread Eagle, in Bread Street, Cheapside. Over the front door was the figure of an eagle with outstretched wings. For four or five centuries before Milton's time, in going through any town, you would have passed by a succession of such signs of hawks, cranes, dolphins, salmon, lambs, and bulls, thus finding your way to the particular shop and homestead'of which you were in quest. The principle upon which the signs were chosen is not always obvious. Sometimes a family name may have suggested the sign, as if a man named Crow were to paint a black crow over his door; but in early times the sign undoubtedly preceded and suggested the name. The family which dwelt at the sign of the crow came to be called Crow, in the same way that a family which dwelt at a country house called Greenough or Greenhalge (green field) came to be called by the name of the house.«s106» | FORESTER, Anacher Great (I39924)
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| 5763 | The Eddy Family in America page 958 entry 9627 JULIA ANN EDDY was born Feb. 2, 1810 probably in Westfield, Mass.,married about 1830 in Horseheads, Elmira Township, NY to BarnardMcLaughlin born about 1810 in Longford , Ireland. He emigrated to theUS about 1830.A church publication states that Barnard McLaughlin andfamily were living in Boonville, NY in Dec.1838. Julia died in 1877.Barnard died Jan.16,1890. They are buried in the Boonville cemetery.Barney was a stone mason and helped build the locks on the Erie, Chemung,and Black River canals. | EDDY, Julia Ann (I18749)
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| 5764 | The Elder. Had 3 children: Anthony, Abigail (m Ensign Stephen Jones), Elizabeth (m Thomas Leighton). | NUTTER, Hatevil (I5300)
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| 5765 | The family legend is that Humphrey drank away all his money and was forced to sell the estate. | WOLCOTT, Humphrey (I45453)
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| 5766 | The family of Beauchamp seated at Powick, some three miles from Worcester, was a cadet branch of that of Beauchamp of Elmley, of which the earls of Warwick became the senior line, William’s great-grandfather, Walter, Lord Beauchamp, sometime steward of the Household to Edward I, having been a younger brother of William, earl of Warwick (d.1298). William’s uncle Roger, Lord Beauchamp of Bletsoe, was Edward III’s chamberlain in 1376-7, at which time his father was a knight of the King’s chamber and also, and until his death shortly before February 1389, constable of Gloucester castle. From his father William inherited, besides Powick, the manors of Acton (Worcestershire), Boddington and Nether Court in Kemerton (Gloucestershire), Alcester (Warwickshire) and South Brewham (Somerset), although the Somerset property was to remain in the possession of his mother until her death in 1411. Contemporary evidence of the value of these estates as a whole is lacking, although in 1412 those in Gloucestershire were estimated for the purposes of taxation at an annual worth of £60, and in 1436 William’s widow’s holdings in Worcestershire alone were valued at £154 a year. | BEAUCHAMP, Sir William (I41411)
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| 5767 | The family tradition claims he served in the same regiment with James Carleton, that the latter when in battle said to his men: "For God's sake stand your ground for I am lame and cannot run." They gained the day. | CARLETON, James (I36831)
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| 5768 | The family was taken captive by Indians. Stephen Otis died on 28 June 1689 in Indian attack. His wife's name does not appear again, she may have shared the same fate. | OTIS, Stephen (I5343)
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| 5769 | The first town meeting was held in his house July 31, 1766. He died of camp fev er. | GILMAN, Samuel (I11332)
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| 5770 | The first wife of King Philip I. Bertha's marriage to the king in 1072 was a result of peace negotiations between him and her stepfather, Count Robert the Frisian of Flanders. After nine years of childlessness, the royal couple had three children, including Philip's successor, Louis the Fat. Bertha was the daughter of Count Floris I of Holland and his wife, Gertrude of Saxony. She is erroneously referred to as Matilda (Machtilda) by Chronologia Johannes de Beke. Bertha had six siblings and both of her parents came from large families. Her father ruled a territory vaguely described as "Friesland west of the Vlie", which is where Bertha spent her childhood. Count Floris I was assassinated in 1061, and two years later her mother remarried to Robert of Flanders. Robert, now known as Robert the Frisian, became guardian of Bertha and her six siblings. In 1070, Robert the Frisian became involved in a war with King Philip I of France over succession to the County of Flanders. Within two years, Robert and Philip concluded a peace treaty which was to be sealed by a marriage; Robert's own daughters were too young, but their half-sister Bertha was just the right age. Robert thus agreed to the marriage of his stepdaughter to King Philip. Bertha married Philip, thus becoming queen of the Franks, probably in 1072. | DE HAINAULT, Bertha (I40416)
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| 5771 | The following information is from the research of Marita Snyder posted on the internet: Edward Carleton, s/o Walter Carleton, was born in Hornsea (England) and baptized at Bedford, Yorkshire east riding, 20 OCT 1610. His wife, Ellen Newton, daughter of Lancelot and Mary Lee Newton, was baptized at Hedon, Yorkshire, 24 FEB 1614. They were married at St. Martin, Micklegate, York, 3 NOV 1636. Their 1st son John was probably born in 1637, but no record of his baptism has been found. On or about 9 APR1638, they disposed of Ellen’s ancestral property, and soon after embarked with the party of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, probably for Hull, in the ship "John of London", which arrived in Salem or Boston in the autumn of 1638. The next spring, the company began the settlement of Rowley, near Newburyport, Essex Co., Ma, and there the Carleton’s 2nd son, Edward, was the 1st recorded birth, 28 OCT 1639. Edward Carleton was a man of some importance in the Rowley settlement, holding various offices. He returned to England about 1649, and his wife and children later. No further record of the parents or of the 3 younger children has been found, and it is supposed that they remained and died in England. John, the eldest son, was sent back to New England with a letter of attorney, by which he received a portion of his father’s estate. On the death of his grandmother, Margery (Gibbon) Ombler, in 1629,Edward Carlton of Hornsey Burton, gent., was appointed by the court to succeed his father, Walter Carlton, as administrator of the unsettled portion of the estate of Peter Gibbon, an indication that even so early he gave promise of the ability which received recognition in his career in Rowley. No further mention of him is found until his marriage license in 1636, when he was called 'of Barmston.' It is surmised that he may have gone to this parish adjacent to Beeford because of the fact that Thomas Norton (probably his cousin, s/o his father's half brother) was living there, as shown by his marriage license in the same year, and the baptism of several Norton children in the Barmston register. The same register has been searched carefully by the contributor (as well as by a former rector) for the baptism of Edward Carlton's first son, but in vain. In Barmston EdwardCarlton would have been in contact with Sir Matthew Boyton, lord of the manor, known to have been interested in the migration to Ma; it may be suggested that he might even have gone to Barmston to act as a steward or agent for Sir Matthew. By the fine detail above, made on or about April 9, 1638, Edward Carleton and his wife Ellen sold a considerable property in Ryhill (near his birthplace), a Twp. where the Newton family had held lands for more than a hundred years. The disposal of Edward Carleton's lands in Great Hatfield, inherited through his father's will, has not been discovered, possibly because it was not in manor records not preserved or unavailable, but quite as likely because those lands may have been held, according to the terms of the will, to yield income for his brother Thomas, until the expiration of tile term of the lease. Very soon after this sale, the small family joined the party of Rev.Ezekiel Rogers, which embarked probably from Hull, in the ship "John of London," which appears to have reached Ma in the autumn of 1638. In the spring of 1639 the company commenced the settlement of the town of Rowely (named for the town of Rowley, England where the Rev. EzekielRogers was dismissed from his church for non-conformity), where theCarleton's second son, born October of that year was the first recorded birth. Edward Carlton was made a freeman of Ma 18 day 3 mo.1642, and in the earliest town record extant, in 1643. 'Mr. Edward Carleton' was a member of a committee appointed to register the several lots of all the inhabitants; he had a house lot of three acres. At the first town meeting of which there is a record extant, held in 1648, "Ed Carleton and Francis Parrat" were chosen to assist the selectmen in laying the ministry rate, and they were also on the committee to determine every man's proportion of land. —— The Records of the Colony of Ma Bay supplement the blank period of the early town records, in showing that Edward Carlton (at the early age of thirty-three) was elected Deputy from Rowley to the General Court 7 March 1644, and was returned 29 May 1644, 14 May 1645, 6 May 1646, and 26 May 1647. In order to settle a long-standing dispute over land, between Mr. Robert Saltonstall, as agent for Sir Richard Saltonstall, and the town of Watertown, without recourse to a trial at the General Court, on 23 December 1647 the parties mutually chose Mr. Edward Carlton and Mr. John Johnson as arbitrators, whose award was apparently acceptable to the disputants. (Suffolk Deeds, vol. 1, p. 87.)[:ITAL] During the same period, as shown in the Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex Co., Edward Carlton spent much time in court service. He is recorded (usually as Mr. Edward Carlton) as a member of the Grand Jury at courts held at Ipswich 4:9:1645, 28:7:1647, and 26:7:1648; in 1647 he was appointed a commissioner to settle two civil cases; also in that year and 28:1: 1648 and 27:1:1649, the presentments at Ipswich Court were signed by "Edwarde Carlton in the name of the rest." At home also his judicial ability was recognized: "Mr. Carleton, Franc Parote, & Mathew Boyse, being lawfully chosen, by the freemen of Rowley, to end small causes according to law, are confirmed therein" [by the General Court, held at Boston, 10 May 1648]. At Ipswich Court27:1:1649 Mr. Edward Carlton, Captain Briggham and Mathye Boyce were chosen and sworn to end small causes for Rowlye. Soon after this date Mr. Carlton returned to England. There are three of his letters, undated, but from internal evidence appearing to have been written about this time, addressed to Governor John Winthrop at Boston, still preserved in the Winthrop Papers of the Ma Historical Society. In these letters he writes of his intention to go to England immediately, saying "but now the Lord is pleased to try me sadly by some unexpected newes" and "I doe beleive, if yt you were but fully possessed with my condition, and also with ye occasion yt moues me to goe into England, you would very much comiserate my case." He therefore importunes the Governor to repay money which it appears he had loaned to Winthrop's dishonest agent, James Luxford, indicating "yt wch your man borrowed of me in your name was most of my estate, out of wch I had a familye to maintaine." It appears that he had also advanced a considerable sum to the town of Rowley (possibly for the original purchase of land), which was to be paid to the attorney of Mr. Carlton in England. The date of his return to England is indicated in the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers' letter, cited above, as being before 24 Jan. 1649 . Against that date, however, is the record of a deed dated "ye 11th of the eighth month 1649," by which Francis Parrot of Rowley sold "four acres of salt marsh ground lying upon the east side of Edward Carlton's salt marsh ground," the deed being witnessed by Edward Carlton. (Ipswich Deeds (Salem), vol. 2, f 269.) The original undated deed, written in his own hand, by which Edward Carlton sold his house and three acre lot and nine gates in commons to Henry Sewall, senior, of Newbury is preserved in the Court Papers of 1678. Probably this deed, witnessed by John Smith, was given just on the eve of the departure for England. Other lands, or at least extensive rights in commonage, were disposed of later, through the instrument bearing the date 9 Aug. 1650 as entered in Ipswich Court Records (the original not preserved) by which "Edward Carlton of Rowley in New England" makes Humphrey Reyner and Joseph Jewett of Rowley his attorneys to sell houses, lands, goods, etc., being the estate of the "sayd Edward Carlton within the Towne of Rowley or elsewhere in New England." The witnesses to this document, William Cuthboard and Joshua Booth, are not known in Ma records, indicating that the deed was made in England, and that by this time Mr. Carlton had decided to remain there. The report of the General Court of 22 May 1651 records the appointment of Joseph Jewett and others as a new committee to lay out bounds for the town of Haverhill, in place of "Mr Dummer and Mr Carlton, who were formerly appoynted thereto, beinge now in England."(Records of Colony of Ma Bay, vol.3, p.233.)[:ITAL] That Mrs. Ellen Carlton did not return with her husband is indicated by a fragmentary item in the Rowley Town Records (page 60) under the date of August 1650, "paid to Mst Carlton by the constable." Her subsequent return is also indicated in the deed of her son John, dated1 July 1661, by which he confirmed the sale of land made by "my mother Mrs. Elinor Carlton formarly, and Mr. Joseph Jewett Attorney of my ffather Mr. Edward Carlton," she being now absent. It has been recently suggested that this expression indicate that Mrs. Carlton had married again, but no record of such a marriage has been found in England. Final agreement made in the Kings Court at Westminster from Easter Dayin 15 days, 14 Charles I [1638], before the Kings justices there, between Thomas Heathcote, senior, George Heathcote, and Thomas Heathcote, junior, plaintiffs, and Edward Carleton and Helena [Ellen] his wife, deforciants, of 40 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, and 50 acres of pasture in Rialls als Ryhill and Cammerton, whereof a plea of covenant was summoned between them in the same court, that is, that Edward and Ellen have acknowledged the premises to be the right of Thomas Heathcote, senior, as of their gift, and for themselves and their heirs have remitted and quitclaimed the same to Thomas, George and Thomas and the heirs of Thomas, senior, forever. And further, for themselves and the heirs of Ellen, have granted to warrant Thomas, George, and Thomas and the heirs of Thomas in the same against themselves and the heirs of Ellen forever, and against all men forever. For which grant, warranty, etc., Thomas, George and Thomas have given Edward and Ellen 100 pounds. [Endorsed] According to the form of the Statute the first proclamation was made on the 7th day of May in Easter term, in the 14th year of the within written King [1638]. The second proclamation was made 6 June in the Trinity term, 14th year of the within written King [1638]. The third proclamation was made 9 November in the Michaelmas term, 14th year of the within written King [1638]. The fourth proclamation was made 25 January in the Hilary term, 14th year of the within written King [1639 ]. (Feet of Fines, Yorkshire, Easter Term, 14 Charles I.) [:ITAL] Parish Registers of Beeford, Yorkshire 1563-1661 1610 Edward Carleton the sone of Walter Carleton baptized the 20th. daye of October. Bishop's Transcripts of Beeford, Yorkshire 1610 Edward Carleton the sone of Walter Carleton baptized the 20th of Oct. Parish Register of St. Martin (Micklegate) cum Gregory. Yorkshire.[:BOLD] 1539-1734 1636. Marriage that Edward Carleton of the parish of Barmston and Ellenar Newton was married the 3 day Novem. Yeoman Bishop's Transcript of St. Martin, Ebor 1636 Edward Carleton of the parish of Barmeston and Ellen Newton, 3 Nov. (Signed) Johes Birchall Rector Paver's Marriage Licenses of Yorkshire 1636 Edward Carleton, yeoman, Barmston, and Ellen Newton, spinster, St. Martin Micklegate. (It is unknown just why Ellen Newton, who was of a family belonging to Hedon in East Riding, Yorkshire, happened to be living in York at the time of her marriage. Perhaps her close paternal relatives having died, she may have been with maternal relatives whose names are unknown.) [:ITAL] Signature of Edward Carleton Edward Carleton and Ellen (Newton) Carleton had four children: John-born in 1637 in England and died in 1668 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Ma, Edward, born 28 October 1639 in Rowley, Essex Co., Ma ; Mary born June 4 1642in Rowley; and Elizabeth, born 20 January 1664 in Rowley. Edward, Mary and Elizabeth apparently did not return to America. * This marriage record, with fictitious embellishments as to Ellen Newton's parentage, etc., has appeared in Blodgette and Jewett's" Early Settlers of Rowley Ma" (1933), p. 63. Mr. Blodgette, usually careful as to sources, here unfortunately adopted without question a note published in the Boston Transcript of 3 April 1911 furnished by an unscrupulous and untrustworthy English antiquarian to an American correspondent, who, though personally doubtful about the authenticity of the information, allowed it to be foisted upon the New England public. —— The following was taken from "The History of Littleton, NH" Volume III, Genealogy prepared by George C. Furber. Pub. By University Press, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Ma in 1905: Carleton-pages 103-104.... Edward Carleton was the first Carleton to settle in America, and the common ancestor of the Carletons of this country. Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and twenty families acquired by grand and purchases a strip of land between Newbury and Ipswich, Ma and made settlement in 1638-1639. This was first called Roger's Plantation and afterwards, Rowley. Edward was one of the largest landowners and was made Freeman in 1642. He was a man of distinction, as a member of the General court and as a Trial Judge until his return to England. He died in England about 1661. Following is a copy of a petition on file in Essex County Clerk's office: “To the honored Court now sitting at Salem this 27 November, Anno Dom. 1678. The humble request of Christopher Babbage and Hannah his wife that whereas Mr. Edward Carleton sometime of Rowley left and estate in New England when he went out of this country, part of which (he sending his son John Carleton by virtue of a letter Attorney did receive in his behalf) was conceiving that there being some of his estate unrecieved by his son, desire this Honored Court would appoint some of our relations, Jeremiah Jewett and Nehemiah Jewett or both to be administrators to the estate of the sayd Mr. Edward Carleton that if anything be preserved it may be forthcoming to the children of the said Hannah, relict of the said John Carleton deceased, the only heirs to any such estate (as we can conceive), or as authority shall dispose of it & in your so doing your servants shall pray. “ Christopher Babbage, Hannah Babbage Jeremiah Jewett and Nehemiah Jewett have power of administration granted of estate of Mr. Edward Carleton deceased-who was formerly of Rowley and they are enjoined to bring in a true inventory at ye next court at Ipswich. In court at Salem, Essex Co., Ma 29' 9' 1678. Hannah Jewett had married first Lt. John Carleton-s/o Edward and Ellen (Newton) Carleton. After the death of Lt. John Carleton in 1668, Hannah married Christopher Babbage. (Note: name spelled several ways in the records; Babbidge and Babbage etc.) DOCUMENTS CONCERNING EDWARD CARLTON'S RETURN TO ENGLAND Extract from a letter of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers (The original letter, preserved in the British Museum (Addit. Mss. 4276. fo. 108). was discovered by Miss French in 1913. The dates appear confusing at first sight; but after a fresh examination of the original letter and others of the same period, made while this article is in press, it is clear to me that Mr. Rogers wrote on 24 Jan. 1649, the letter being received by Sykes in Hull 5 Feb. 1649/50. This leaves the whole episode perplexing, in view of the other records. The most of the letter, which fills more than three pages of foolscap in the finely written copy, consists of what has been characterized as 'ecclesiastical drool.' A collection of these letters, all of similar nature, is deposited in the library of the Essex institute in Salem, evidently of so little historical value that they have unpublished. It is interesting to note that the signature of this letter, "Ez. Rogers. “is precisely similar to one I have just seen on his return of the transcript of the parish register of Rowley to the diocesan office in York in1632, though he sometimes wrote out his full name.)[:ITAL] [Addressed: -] To my much honoured deere freinde Mr. William Sykes Merchant at Hull in Yorkshire, these present. -Leave these wth Mr Ashurst Woolen Draper, at the Signe of the three Kings in Wattling Streete, London. Worthy & deere Sir After long expectation of a ship to goe fro vs to England (since ye receite of yors) I now unexpectedly & suddainly heare of one resolved to goe soone, yt I doe somewhat feare these my letters may come too late. . . . Concerning yor affaires here; Or brothr Boyes will giue yo such an account, as yt I neede say nothing. . . . I think ye Lord doth in wisdome & loue giue some check to or first Dealings at Barbados, least ye greatness of gaines shoulde haue bene some temptations to vs. But he hath mercyes ynough for yo and vs. I woulde we had yo among vs; Here is good trading, & good liuing among plaine godly people. . . . [Signed] Ez. Rogers. Rowley. 24. of 11.48 [postscript] I hartily thanke you for ye Newes yo sent vs I haue here inclosed Mr. Carltons acknowledgment. Also this letter, yt yo may see how cheerfully he tooke his leaue of vs. God honoured him exceedingly in ye vessell, & gaue him greate authority wth ye Mr & shipmen for good. I shall not neede to putt yo in minde of his widdowe. . . . [Endorsed-] Mr Ezekiell Rogers of 24th iith mo 1649 R[eceived] the 5th ffeb./ answ. the 27th Mrche 1650. Knowe all whome it may concerne that I Edward Carlton of Rowley in New England have sold unto Mr Henery Sewall senior of Newbery one dwelling house barne and other house with three acres of land less or more all lyeinge and being within the towne of Rowley: as alsoe nine gates in the towne commons of Rowlye wch nine gates Mr Henery Sewall hath libertye to stock with fourscore sheepe or other cattell proportionally: all the aforesayd prmisses: I the sayd Edward Carlton doe sell unto the aforesayd Mr Henery Sewall and to his heires or assignes to be ordered and disposed of according to his or there will and pleasure unto all wch I the sayd Edwarde Carlton have sett to my hande in the prsence of: Edwarde Carlton John Smith his hand (The foregoing undated document is evidently the original deed written in Carlton's own hand. It was not recorded, but is filed among Essex County court Papers (vol. 29, leaf 134) in a suit of Longfellow vs. Town of Rowley (Land Cause). November Term 1678. The receipt is filed in an extension of the same suit in June Term 1679 (vol.31. leaf 49).)[:ITAL] Yeformer nine gates mentioned 6 of them is to be in ye cow walk and 3 in ye oxe pasture provided yt ye sayd Mr. Sewall answer ye charges concerning ye sayd gates in ye ox pasture: Know all men that I Edwarde Carlton have received of Mr Henery Sewall senior 45 pounds of full satisfaction for sertayne house land and commonage wch Mr Henery Sewall have bought of me I say 45 pounds by me Ed. Carlton. FROM COURT RECORDS Kno all whom it may concerne that I Edward Carlton of Rowley in New England for diverse good cause & considerations heerunto moveing me, have made ordayned constituted & in my place & stead put & authorized Humphrey Reyner & Joseph Juitt of Rowley in New England or either of ym my true sufficient and lawfull attorneys for me & in my name & for the use of me the sayd Edward Carlton to bargayn sell or lett houses lands goods and chattells of all sorts & kynds whatsoever being the estate of the sayd Edward Carlton within the Towne of Rowley or elsewhere in New England: as alsoe to receiue such debts as is due unto the sayd Edward Carlton from any pson or psons whatsoever giueing and granting by these prsents unto my sayd attorneys & either of them full power and lawfull authority touching and concerneing the prmesses to doe execute proceed and finish in all things in as ample manner and forme, to all intents and purposes, as I the sayd Edward Carlton might or ought to doe if I were then &there psonally prsent, and ratifieing and alowing all and whatsoever my sayd attorneys or either of them shall doe in or about the prmesses or any of them acording to the true intente & meaning of these prsents In wittnes I have put my hand upon the 9th of Agust 1650. Wittness William Cuthboard Ed: Carlton. Joshua Booth I upon request to the court to be recorded & now examined & recorded the 5th of March 1656 p me Robert Lord cler. Rowley 3: 22 We the five men now in Being doe hereby signify that whereas Mr Will. Sykes gave bond to pay ye sume of 100 li of English money for our Towne of Rowley to ye Attorney of Mr Edward Carlton in England & gave order to Mathew Boyes to receive it here in wheate or other marchantable comodityes at mony price, the said Towne of Rowley agreed to allow him 3 halfpence at the shillinge below ye ordinary price as things past betweene man and man in witnes whereof we have here unto set our hands Ed. Carllton: Tho : Barkar : Maxi : Jewet in ye name of the rest. [Paper addressed] "To the Right Worshipfull Mr Richard Bellingham at Boston these." The foregoing paper is endorsed on the reverse: Loueinge freinds such a note as this before you recd my catle and sold ym wold have clearly discharged the 15 li but as I sd I shall referre it : I alsoe pceiue that ye catle were sold for more yn 15 li etc. [This document with its peculiar dating lacking the year is filed in Essex court Papers with papers of 1662, in vol.7, fo 129. The 'signature' ot Ed. Carllton is in a different ink and appears to have been added in front of the other two at a later time by someone else, it is certainly entirely unlike the other autographs of Edward Carlton that we have.] This present wrighting witnesseth that whereas my mother Mrs. Elinor Carlton formarly, and Mr. Joseph Jewett Attorney of my ffather Mr.Edward Carlton, hath formarly sould unto Marke Prime two p'sells of meddow and now one being absent and the other viz Mr. Joseph Jewett being departed this life Know all men by these prsents, that I John Carlton heire to my father Edward Carlton aforesayd, doe alow of the formar sale, and doe by these presents Bargaine and sell unto Marke Prime aforesayd of Rowley in the county of Essex two acres of salt marsh, be it more or less, being pt of a devision belonging to Edward Carlton my ffather in the marshfield of Rowley, bounded . . . and two gates in the cow commons of Rowley, and one oxe gate in the oxe pasture and commons of Rowley : . . . In wittnes wherof I the sayd John Carlton have hereunto sett my hand & seale the first of July 1661 John Carlton with a seal. Signed sealed etc. in the prsents of us Jeremiah Jewett, Robert Lord. This deed was acknowledged before [me] July 1, 1661, Daniel Denison. (Ipswich Deeds (Salem), vol. 2, p. 78.)[:ITAL] —— Re: Immigration: removed probably from Hull, England on the ship "John of London[:ITAL]" with the party of Rev. Ezekial Rogers. They arrived in Salem or Boston in the autumn of 1638. Estate of Edward Carlton of Rowley. —— Re: Will Prove: Estate of Edward Carlton of Rowley. Administration upon the estate of Mr. Edward Carlton, formerly of Rowley, was granted 26:9:1678, to Jeremiah Jewett and Nehemiah Jewett, and they were ordered to bring in an inventory to the next court held at Salem. Salem Quarterly Court Records, volume five, leaf 123. The court April 1,1679, granted liberty to the administrators of the estate of Edward Carlton to bring in the inventory at the Sept. court next, in respect to his estate in New England. Essex County Quarterly Court files, volume 31, leaf 19. Petition of Christopher Babbage and Hannah his wife, dated November27, 1678, that whereas Mr. Edward Carlton sometimes of Rowley, left an estate in New England when he went out of the country part of which he sent his son John Carlton, by virtue of a letter of attorney did receive in his behalf, and we conceding that there being some of his estate on receipt by his said son, desire that this court would appoint some of our relations, Jeremiah Jewett or Nehemiah Jewett, or both, to be administrators to the estate, that anything may be preserved it may be forthcoming to the children of the said Hanna relict to the said John Carlton, the only heirs to any such estate. Administration upon the estate to Mr. Edward Carlton formerly of Rowley, was granted by the Salem court 29:9:1678 to Jeremiah Jewett and Nehemiah Jewett, and they were ordered to bring in inventory to the next Ipswich court. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, volume 30, leaf 19. Ed Carlton, Captain Bigga, Thomas Mighell, ffrancis Parrat, Matthew Boys, Joseph Jewett, and Mr. Rogers were chosen to judge and determine every man's proportion of land. —— "Edward may have advanced a considerable sum of money to the town of Rowley, which paid for a major portion of the land. After grabbing Boxford, Bradford and Groveland he tried hard to snatch Haverhill and Andover. Nathaniel Ward, however, was too shrewd for Carleton and saved us two good towns, still largest in Essex County. Carleton was a born leader and politician and usually succeeded in his plans, but Ward was a friend of Governor Winthrop, and got in first. This may be the reason Edward returned to England, though he came back in 1642." —— Event: Receipt 24 FEB 1639/40 Note: Recieved of mr. Winthrop in parte of a greater Summe twentye powndes. (12) 24-39 Edward Carlton (This document with the exception of Mr. Carlton's signature is in Winthrop's handwriting.) —— Re: Occupation (Five Men) Occupation: Five-men to "order the affairs of the town," were chosen; the tenure of the office of a lot layers, Mr. Thomas Nelson, Mr. Edward Carlton, Humphrey Reyner, Francis Parrat, who had been elected at the first, was extended or others chosen in their places. 1639 Rowley, Essex Co., Ma —— Event: Travel BET OCT 1640 AND AUG 1641 Yorkshire, England —— Note: 29 August 1640 letter 16 Note: Ed Carlton, Captain Bigga, Thomas Mighell, ffrancis Parrat, MatthewBoys, Joseph Jewett, and Mr. Rogers were chosen to judge and determine every man's proportion of land. —— Event: Receipt 08 DEC 1640 Note: Received with mr. Carlton and made over for all debts and things between him and James Luxford. and made over for all save 80 bushels of Indian corne at 4s the bushel which is to be delivered him at the water side in the Massachusetts at the rate of the markett. EDWARD CARLTON 8: 10. 1640 [Endorsed by Governor Winthrop:] Mr. Carltons Account for all matters. All but the signature of the receipt is in Governor Winthrop's handwriting. The handwriting of Carlton's signature here differs from that of the signature to his letter. | CARLETON, Edward (I37862)
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| 5772 | The following inscription was transcribed from a gravestone in North Andover: "Mr. John Carleton died May 23, 1828, aged 73, the last ofthe family of Isaac and Abigail Carleton. Like his parents and brothersand sisters he was benevolent just and peacable with all. Let candor drawa veil over his infirmities. We mourn, but not for him released frompain. Our loss we trust is his eternal gain, with him we'll strive to gainthe Saviour's love and hope to join him with the blest above." During the execution of Major Andre, Mr. Carleton stood sentinel. | CARLETON, John (I36942)
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| 5773 | The following is copied from the book, History of Gorham, ME, by Hugh D. McLelland, compiled and edited by His Daughter, Katharine B. Lewis, Portland, Smith & Sale, Printers, 1903. This source can be found on .com From Page 532: Jacob Hamblen was one of the early settlers. He was here certainly as early as 1743, and was here during the Indian war of 1745. He and his family, with the other settlers, were confined to the fort nearly seven years, where they suffered great privation and hardship. They had not only the Indians, and at times nearly a famine, to contend with, but a dreadful disease broker out in the fort, said to have been brought on in consequence of lack of food; many of the children died, and every dweller in the fort was affected by it. We should judge that Mr. Hamblen was a good business man and a useful citizen, one in whom his fellow settlers had confidence. His name is prominent on the old Proprietors' records; he was always at their meetings, often on the important committees for surveying the lands, running lines, fixing boundaries, making roads, getting ministers, and the general business of the proprietary. His homestead consisted of the two thirty acre lots, 16 and 25. By the old plan of the thirty acre lots, they were bounded northerly by Hamblen street and easterly by King street (now High and School streets), extending southerly from the corner now occupied by Joseph Ridlon's store, to the line of the railroad, and westerly to Harding's Hill, so called. His dwelling house was on 16, where the store of R.G. Harding lately stood. Here he kept a "house of entertainment" from 1757 to the time of his death. The meetings of the old Proprietors were often held at his house. A part of this old tavern house was moved, and with some additions, used by Maj. Simeon Farnham as a dwelling house. The old house of late years was known as the old Gammon house, and stood near where the late Mrs. Stephen Hinckley's house now stands. Mr. Hamblen, in the year 1770, made a present to the town of the burial ground at Gorham village, which has since become the quiet resting place of so many of the worthy old proprietors. Near the northeasterly corner of this lot stands a time-worn and broken monument of slate stone, bearing the following inscription: In Memory of Mr JACOB HAMBLEN, Who Died June 3d 1774, Aged 72 Years. Mrs. Hamblen in her day was a famous comber of wool for the purpose of making worsted. In an old account book we find Mrs. Hamblen has credit for combing worsted, five shillings, and for one hundred cabbage plants, two shillings … She made it strictly the rule of her house, for herself and every member of her family, to attend all the meetings on the Sabbath day, or keep close within doors. Fast and feast days were rigidly observed according to law and the ordinances of the church. No person within her house was allowed to eat a morsel of food on fast days between early morning and evening, if she could prevent it. ven the cattle within her barns had to come under the rule; they were fed the night before, and allowed no more till the day had passed, and consequently were allowed an abundance of feed on Thanksgiving day. Whether the old lady was one of those who believed that all dumb animals would be found on their knees at twelve o'clock on Christmas eve, in thanksgiving for the birth of the Savior, we cannot say; nevertheless it was once the current belief of the day, and some there be at this time who are unwilling to give it up. Of the children of Jacob and Content Hamblen, there is no record. They had two sons, Joseph and Daniel. Tabitha, who married Samuel Crockett, Jr., of Gorham (pub. Feb. 2, 1771), is believed to have been their daughter. Mrs. Content Hamblen, the widow of Jacob, married, Mar. 1, 1780, Mr. James Miller, from Cape Elizabeth. She lived with her husband, Miller, in a house which stood in the Alexander McLellan garden, directly back of what is now the Joseph Ridlon store. In an old record, kept by the Rev. Caleb Jewett, we find that "Mr. Miller died May 16, 1787." After his death Mrs. Miller lived alone in her house for several years, and was held as a fortune teller. She was often visited by the young people to learn their future destiny. Of her decease there is no record, but we conclude that she died about the year 1790, certainly before 1800. Soon after Mrs. Miller's death, the old house was torn down, leaving the cellar open. Old Mr. Trundy, who lived in Boston, came to meeting one Sunday, making his horse fast to a post near by. The old horse became frightened, and in his struggles broke his fastening and went over backwards into the cellar, where he remained till meeting was over, and he was found by his owner. As Trundy was a quaint, queer old character, his talk to his horse and efforts to get him out afforded much amusement to the boys. When he came out of the meeting-house, and discovered his animal looking out over the cellar wall, a similarity between his situation and that of the Rev. Minister looking out over his pulpit, seemed to strike the old man. He walked up to his head and addressed him: "Faith, and old horse, you have got a pulpit of y'r own, but to my mind it's not half so fine as Parson Jewett's and yer can't preach half the sermon he can, and yer had better get out of that before the tithing-man gets after yer." After procuring ropes, and throwing in a part of the wall, by the aid of the men and the pulling back of the boys, the horse was extricated from his pulpit, much to the satisfaction of his owner. Note: Stories continue from this source about of children of Jacob and Content and other Hamblen relatives. | HAMBLEN, Jacob (I4406)
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| 5774 | The following is from http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bearse-3: The first Bearse in the line was Augustine Bearse, also known as Austin Bearse. What we know for sure about Augustine Bearse is that at age 20 he arrived at Plymouth from Southampton, England on April 24, 1638 aboard the "Confidence". He is listed immediately following Martha Wilder and Mary (!), her daughter (no ages given) of Shiplocke, Oxfordshire, England.[3] After a short time in Plymouth proper, he moved to Barnstable (Cape Cod) with the first company in 1639. His house lot, contained 12 acres of very rocky land and was in the westerly part of the East Parish and bounded westerly by John Crocker's land, northerly by the meadow, easterly by Goodman Isaac Rolinson's land and "southerly into ye woods." He owned six acres of meadow adjoining his upland on the north, and two thatch islands, still known as Bearse's islands (in the 1870's). He also had six acres of land in the Calves Pasture, esteemed to be the best soil; in the town, eight acres of planting land on the north side of Shoal pond, and bounded by Goodman Cooper's, now call Huckins' Neck, and thirty acres at the Indian pond, bounded easterly by the Herring River. The Indian pond lot he sold to Thomas Allyn. He was proposed to be admitted a freeman, 3 June 1652, and admitted 3 May 1653. Rarely found in the records, nonetheless he is shown as a grand juror in 1653 and 1662, and a surveyor of highways in 1674. He was a farmer, lived on the produce of his land and brought up his large family to be useful members of society. His house stood on the north side of the road, and his cellar and some remains of his orchard still existed up to the beginning of the 1800's. In 1643 he was the first to join the church of Rev. John Lothrop which had moved to Barnstable after a dispute over infant baptism, which the Lothrop Church supported. In 1652 Bearse was admitted a freeman. It is said that he was one of the few residents against whom no complaints were ever filed. He was a farmer, but in his civic role he served as surveyor of highways in 1674. He was still living in 1686 but had died by 1697. Augustine Bearse was said to be a very pious man as shown by the following excerpt from Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families: He appears to have been very exact in the performance of his religious duties, causing his children to be baptized on the Sabbath following the day of their birth. His son Joseph was born on Sunday, Jan'y 25, 1651, O. S., and was carried two miles to the church and baptized the same day. . . .Now such an act would be pronounced unnecessary and cruel. The Bearse name survives on Cape Cod to this day in the short unpaved road near his former homesite in Eastham known as "Barss Lane". Austin's wife's name is unknown. She was unidentified by both Otis and Newcomb in their pre-1875 works. Early 20th century claims were made that she was a Native American. There is no record of his death nor estate settlement in the Probate records. OR: he died 2 Jun 1686 in Barnstable, MA. A road from his house to Hyannis is still known as Bearses' Way (easily located in Google Maps). | BEARSE, Augustine “Austin” (I38751)
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| 5775 | The following is from The Topeka Daily Capital, dated Nov. 27, 1926; "YOUNG WIFE KILLS SELF" Mrs. Ruth Dunham drinks poison after quarrel with husband. Mrs. Ruth Dunham, 26, of 703 Buchanan street, ended her life Thursday night by taking strychnine in her husband's auto repair shop at 1117 West Sixth avenue. Her body was found by her husband, Ralph Dunham, early yesterday morning, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Dunham went to Melvern to spend Thanksgiving with Dunham's sister, Mrs. H. I. Whitney. While in Melvern Mr. and Mrs. Dunham had a disagreement. While Dunham and his brother, Earl Dunham, went hunting, Mrs. Dunham returned to Topeka. Before taking poison, she wrote a letter to the effect that her husband did not love her any more. The body will be taken to El Dorado, Kan., for burial." | ARMOUR, Ruth Lucille (I43491)
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| 5776 | THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN FROM THE VIRGINIA HIST. SOC. WEB PAGE: " As a young man, Isham Randolph (1686-1742), third son of dynasty founder William Randolph I, rejected Virginia plantation life for what neighbor William Byrd II called Randolph's "own element, the Sea." Byrd was instrumental in 1710 in winning for him command of the Henrietta, a merchant ship with a ten-man crew and four guns. In the same year Randolph sold his Virginia land and took a house in London. For the next decade he worked the tobacco trade on the James River that he had sailed as a child. In 1717 he married Londoner Jane Rogers. By 1720 he quit the sea and was listed as a London merchant. Around 1725, he resettled in Virginia his growing family of three, soon to be nine, children. Before leaving England, Randolph apparently sat for this portrait. Though its surface is now abraded, the painting displays a quality of conception and execution that suggests the hand of a London-trained artist of talent. | RANDOLPH, Isham (I15963)
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| 5777 | The following persons left Acton Maine and came directly to S Wayne, Lafayette Co. WI. John Blaisdell and wife Lovina and the following children: Julia Ann & husband Johnathan Prescott their son Charles & unborn dau Sarah Elizabeth Prescott WIlliam Emphriam Blaisdell age 19 George Uriah Blaisdell age 17 Charles E Blaisdell age 15 Abbie Dorcas Blaisdell age 13 Lovina Jane Blaisdell age 8 Joseph S Blaisdell age 5«s17» | BLAISDELL, John (I3858)
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| 5778 | The following sketch of the life of Moses Carelton was furnished by his granddaughter, Mrs. A. M. Peaslee of Alna, Lincoln Co., Me. "I know nothing of the youthful part of his life. When quite young he married Lois Hoyt, and which East in search of a future home. He probably went to Wiscassett by water, and then taking a boat and applying his oars, he soon reached the head of the tide waters of the Sheepscot River about 10 miles from Wiscassett where he selected a place for his residence. He felled trees and built a cabin. The place was then called Old Town Alldeborough. Sometime after New Milford. It is now called Alne. Soon after his cabin was built he returned to the home of his youth to accompany his wife to their new residence. His father gave him a yoke of large oxen which were transferred in a vessel to Wiscassett from whence he led them by land to Alna. The oxen did not like the country and returned to NH through the forest, swimming rivers as best they could. Mr. Carleton subsequently built a large and commodious house, barn carriage-house and store. The house still remains a monument of the good taste and thrift of its builder. The sound condition of the covering boards provide proves that if the inhabitants have improved since these early days in the history of the town, there isn't now such lumber as was then found in the virgin forest. He engaged in agriculture, trade, and commerce. He built seven vessels some of which were taken by the French, and for which the United States are indeed indebted to his heirs. He was successful and acquired a large property, gained a good name, was honest and true in all the relations of life, pleasant and cheerful in his disposition, and died trusting in his Redeemer." | CARLETON, Moses (I37537)
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| 5779 | The foot of Big or Carleton Hill south of Sugar Hill in 1817. He built a log hut and made quite a clearing | CARLETON, David Hartshorn (I36789)
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| 5780 | The Ghost Town Trail is a rail trail in Western Pennsylvania that stretches 36 miles (58 km) from Black Lick, Indiana County to Ebensburg, Cambria County. Established in 1991 on the right-of-way of the former Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad, the trail follows the Blacklick Creek and passes through many ghost towns that were abandoned in the early 1900s with the decline of the local coal mining industry. The trail passes past many historical sites, particularly sites of abandoned coal mines and their company towns. The ghost towns include Bracken, Armerford, Lackawanna No. 3, Wehrum, Scott Glenn, Webster, Beulah, and Claghorn. [Wikipedia] | LEWIS, William (I27689)
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| 5781 | The Hatch family has lived for at least six centuries in the Co of Kent, England. The family name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon noun HAEC, Middle English HACCHE, later HATCH meaning gate or wicket. The surname appears in the hundred of Calehill, Co. Kent, as early as 1328, the form during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries being ATTE HACCHE. It is clear that the name was originally assumed by a man who dwelt near or at some gate or wicket, such, for instance, as might have been found at the entrance to the village churchyard or to the grounds of the manor house. The ancient family took its name from the place of its habitation in the parish of South Moulton, Devonshire, England. The earliest record of the name is found in the doomsday book of A.D. 1086 under the form Hacke in 1273. The name Richard de la Hacke appears in the rolls of Wiltshire and that of John Atte Hache in those of Oxfordshire. —— JOHN AT HECCHE, of Sellinge, in the hundred of Street, co. Kent, the testator of 1464, was born probably about 1415 and died not earlier than 15 Nov. 1464. He married AGNES who was living when his will was made. He was probably a miller. He was undoubtedly descended from some of the Atte Hacches found in the hundred of Calehill, in the subsidies of 1327/8 and 1372/3. These subsidies do not name the parishes in which the persons assessed lived; but the hundred of Calehill comprised the parishes of Charing, Westwell, Egerton, Little Chart, and Pluckley, as well as parts of several other parishes. Contemporary with the above John at Hecche of Sellinge were several of the name in Charing, probably his brothers and cousins, who left wills not given in this article. The mention of his lands in Westwell and Charing places his origin in that ancient Atte Hacche family, and he is the first of the name in Sellinge or vicinity of whom record has been found. His will names his wife Agnes and three sons. | HATCHE, John (I5231)
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| 5782 | The Haxtun Harvest, Wednesday, April 10, 1957, Haxtun, CO, 39th Year - No. 12 FUNERAL SERVICE FRIDAY FOR MRS. FRED PORTENIER Mrs. Fred Portenier, who had lived in the Haxtun community since 1920,passed away at a Sterling hospital Monday morning (8 Apr 1957) followinga long illness. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at twoo'clock from the church of the Brethren with Rev. Virgil Weimer in charge. Mrs. Portenier was born January 16, 1890 at Council Bluffs, Iowa andwas 67 years old at the time of her death. She grew to womanhood near Norton, Kansas and was united in marriage to Fred Portenier in 1909.They came to the Haxtun community in 1920 from Arriba. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Burton, twosisters, one brother and three grandchildren. Her obituary will be printed in the next issue of The Harvest. The Haxtun Harvest, Wednesday, April 17, 1957, Haxtun, CO, 39th Year - No. 13 FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. PORTENIER CONDUCTED FRIDAY Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at two o'clock from theChurch of the Brethren for Mrs. Goldie Portenier who passed away April 8 at a Sterling hospital. Rev. Virgil Weimer officiated at theservices. Music was furnished by Mrs. Grace Crist, organist and a quartetcomposed of Edward Duncan, Marvin Switzer, Ernie Stryker and LorenSwitzer. Pallbearers were Frank Rapp, Frank Sator, Albert Kinzie, HenryFinnigsmeier, Harold Hinde and Herman Sonneman. Concluding services andburial was at the Haxtun cemetery. The following obituary was read: "Goldie May King Portenier was bornJanuary 16, 1890 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, daughter of Albert and Molly Pack King, and departed this life at St. Benedict hospital,Sterling, Colorado, April 8, 1957 at the age of 68 years, two months and 22 days. At about the age of eight she moved with her parents to nearNorton, Kansas where she grew to womanhood. On July 8, 1909 she wasunited in marriage to Fred W. Portenier. In 1910 the couple moved to ahomestead near Arriba, Colorado where they lived until 1920 when they moved to the Haxtun community. In 1945 they moved intotown where they were making their home at the time of Mrs. Portenier's passing. To this union were born one son and two daughters;the son and one daughter preceded her in death. Surviving her are herhusband, Fred W. Portenier; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Burton of Haxtun,Colorado; two sisters, Mrs. Sylvia Thomas and Mrs. Pearl Carney ofPortland, Oregon; one brother, Charlie King of Arriba, Colorado; andthree grandchildren, Velva, Reon and Wray Burton of Haxtun. Mrs. Portenier was a member of the Haxtun Church of the Brethren. | KING, Goldie May (I27326)
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| 5783 | The Haxtun Harvest, Wednesday, Aug 7, 1974, Haxtun, CO, 56th Year - No. 32 FRED W. PORTENIER SUCCUMBS AUG. 1; BURIED MONDAY Friends and relatives of Fred W. Portenier were grieved and saddenedto learn of his death at the Haxtun hospital Thursday morning, August 1. He suffered a heart attack a few days before his death. Mr.Portenier had been a resident of the Haxtun Rest Home. Funeral services for Mr. Portenier were held Monday morning, August 5at 10:00 o'clock at the Church of The Brethren. Rev. Russell Kiester was in charge of the final rites. The organist was Mrs. RalphPeterson. A duet, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Switzer sang "The Old Rugged Cross"and "In the Garden." The pallbearers were: Verl Timm, Richard Hinde,Eldon Johnson, Donald Amack, H.L. Hofmeister and Merle Switzer. Intermentwas in the Haxtun cemetery. Mr. Portenier was born March 26, 1886 in Logan, Kansas, a s/o Rudolph and Margaret Jane Clampett Portenier. He attended school in the Logan community. July 8, 1909 he was united in marriage to Goldie MayKing. They moved to a homestead in Lincoln County, Colorado where they made their home until 1920 when they moved to theHaxtun country. They resided on the farm west of Haxtun until 1945 when they retired from the farm and moved into Haxtun. Mrs.Portenier died April 8, 1957. June 12, 1958 he married Mrs. Ethel Portenier of El Segundo,California. She passed away in June of 1973. Mr. Portenier was a memberof the Church of The Brethren. Surviving Mr. Portenier are: a daughter,Mrs. Ralph (Evelyn) Burton, Haxtun; one granddaughter, Mrs. Dennis(Velva) Petrell, Las Vegas, Nevada; two grandsons, Reon Burton, Haxtunand Wray Burton, Orange, California; nine great grandchildren; onebrother, Nick Portenier of Howard, Kansas. He was preceded in death byhis parents, one son, one daughter, his wives, Goldie and Ethel, andthree brothers and one sister. Mr. Portenier was of a quietdisposition, an interesting conversationalist and had made friends whosorrow at his passing. | PORTENIER, Frederick W. (I27366)
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| 5784 | The History of Union, CT, states that Hezekiah Fuller lived in Lancaster, NH. The History of Lancaster, NH, states that Hezekiah Fuller leased a mill there in 1773, and was carried away by Indians in 1779. Vol 12 of Town Papers of NH mentions Hezekiah Fuller as a signer of a road petition in 1778 and Vol 13 s a signer of a petition in Stratford, NH, in 1791. Hammond’s “Town Papers of New Hampshire,” referring to a petition by 12 signers in Lancaster, asking the authorities for assistance on account of an Indian raid and their capture of two men, says “the two men referred to were Joseph Barlow and Hezekiah Fuller.” What disposition their captors made of them we do not know. Their names figure in business transactions at a subsequent date, from which we may infer that they either escaped or were ransomed. It was a matter of frequent occurrence for towns to pay the ransom of such captures. The Berlin (NH) “Independent” of Feb 16, 1898, printed portions of an address including mention of the family of Hezekiah Fuller and Tryphena Lamkin as follows: Hezekiah and Luther, sons of William, settled in Stratford, NH,. Hezekiah where his grandson, William G. Fuller, now lives. We place Mr Fuller here since the members of his family are descendants of Joshua Lamkin.«s68» | FULLER, Hezekiah (I3304)
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| 5785 | The Immigrant Ancestor, Johann Frederick Countryman of Enzberg, commune Maulbrunner duchy of Wurtemberg, landed on Nutters Island June 13, 1710, with his wife Maria Barbara, their three children, and with Rev. Kocherthal's second and last emigration of about 3000 Palatines. Johann Frederick was a leading churchman in Enzberg, Germany, and held the position of administer at West Camp, New York. His name appears on the subsistence list from June 30, 1710, until September 13, 1712. He and his wife, Maria Barbara, were present at the baptism of their children on April 12, 1714, and August 12, 1716, at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church at West Camp, New York. Johann Frederick was naturalized at Kingston, New York, on September 8, 1715, with his sons Johann Conrad, Johann George, and Andreas Frantz. Simmendinger's register of 1717 records Johann Frederick, wife Maria Barbara and three children at Hayesbury and the church records note his death at Newtown on September 16, 1717 (Hayesbury was a part of East Camp, located between Huntertown and Queensbury). —— Father of Andreas Frantz, Johann Georg, Conrad, Margaretha Barbara, Anna Catharina, Johann Friedrich, Anna Eva, & Jacob. | GUNTERMAN, Johann Friedrich “Hans” (I4218)
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| 5786 | The index to Holbrook births lists him as Roland Spencer. He served in the U. S. Navy, 1 May 1944 to 23 January 1946. He was a motor machinist mate and served in the Pacific Ocean aboard USS Saint Croix (APA-231.) | SPENCER, Ronald Clayton (I25357)
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| 5787 | The John Jepson family of England migrated to Boston Mass about the year 1638. He was a puritan and a cordwainer (leather worker) by trade. Four generations later, Joel Jepson, born in 1796 (a son of Samuel Jepson who had moved to Vermont) came to Rossie, where he made his home on a farm about a mile from Rossie on Oxbow road. | JEPSON, Joel (I25945)
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| 5788 | The Journal of Abner Clough, Collection of the New Hampshire Historical Society Capt. Ladd came up to Rumford, Concord, and that was on the tenth day [of August], and, on the eleventh day, Lieut. Jonathan Bradley took six of Capt. Ladd’s men, and was in company with one Obadiah Peters, that belonged to Capt. Melvin’s company of the Massachusetts, and was going about two miles and a half from Rumford town to a garrison; and when they had gone about a mile and a half, they were shot upon by thirty of forty Indians, if not more, as it was supposed, and killed down dead Lieut. Jonathan Bradley, John Lufkin and John Bean and this Obadiah Peters. These five men were killed down dead on the spot, and the most of them were stripped stark naked, and were very much cut, and stabbed, and disfigured; and Sergeant Alexander Roberts and William Stickney were taken captive .., We went up to the men, and ranged the woods awhile, after these captives, and then brought the dead to town in a cart, and buried the dean men this day. Note: Jonathan’s brother Samuel was also killed in this attack. ----- Wayside Jottings; Or, Rambles Around the Old Town of Concord, N.H. and Its Suburbs By Howard M. Cook Published by E.C. Eastman, 1910 As is well known, on the morning of August 11, 1746 (old style), eight of the inhabitants of Rumford started out for a visit to Rumford Garrison, No. 4, near which the father of one of the number, Seaborn Peters, lived. Their names were Samuel Bradley, Jonathan Bradley, John Bean, John Lufkin, Alexander Roberts, William Stickney, Daniel Oilman and Obadiah Peters. They started from the home of Samuel Bradley, where M. Hazen Bradley, a great-grands/o Samuel Bradley, now lives (since deceased), passed down to the highway now known as Franklin Street; thence along this road to the highway now known as High Street; thence along this road out to and on the “old Hopkinton Road," until they reached the vicinity of the Bradley monument, when they fell into an ambush of the St. Francis tribe of Indians, whose numbers were estimated from sixty to one hundred. The first five of this little company were killed and scalped ; Stickney and Roberts were taken prisoners and carried to Canada, and only Qilman escaped to tell the tale. As Indians were seen prowling around a day or two previously, it has always seemed to the writer that these men were somewhat careless in going out to the Eastman Garrison in so small a force and in such a happy-go-lucky manner. But those who still believe in the old doctrine of foreordination can readily come to the conclusion that it was so to be, and no human foresight availed to change the course of events. In "New Hampshire As It Is," written by Edwin A. Charlton and published in 1855, it is stated that a granite monument was erected on the spot where Bradley and his associates fell, by Richard Bradley, a grands/o Samuel Bradley. This statement as to the exact location of the monument is probably incorrect, for in the "History of Concord" it is stated that ' ' a granite shaft was, because of difficulty in obtaining the desired site, erected a few rods east of the scene of the massacre, and on the opposite side of the road." The exact "spot" is probably on what is now "Pleasant View" farm, owned by Mary Baker G. Eddy, near a brook that afore time ran through this tract of land, but which is now a covered drain. That there was some desperate fighting on the fateful August morning is seen in the statement that Jonathan Bradley fought for dear life, and refused to give or take quarter, probably preferring to die than to be taken prisoner by any of the St. Francis tribe of Indians, whose tender mercies were cruel. The result of the fight was about even, so far as fatalities were concerned, as four Indians were killed and two mortally woiinded. Upon the occasion of the dedication of this monument, August 22, 1837 (new style), interesting exercises were held, in which the governor of the state and other prominent men participated. Asa McFarland, then editor of the Statesman, gave an address, and a hymn was sung, written by Rev. John Pierpont of Boston, grandfather of J. Pierpont Morgan. Mr. Pierpont was a poet of no mean repute, and could write poetry as well as his grandson can make money. The hymn read as follows: ?Not now, O God, beneath the trees ?That shade this vale at night's cold noon ?Do Indian war-cries load the breeze, ?Or wolves sit howling at the moon. ?The foes, the fears our fathers felt ?Have with our fathers passed away; ?And where in death's dark shade they knelt ?We come to praise Thee and to pray. ?We praise Thee that Thou plantedst here ?And mad'st Thy heavens drop down their dew, — ?We pray that shooting from their stem . ?We long may flourish where they grew. ?And, Father, leave us not alone; ?Thou hast been, and art still, our trust. ?Be Thou our fortress till our own. ?Shall mingle with our fathers' dust. | BRADLEY, Lt Jonathan (I11021)
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| 5789 | The junior officers of Zachary Taylor built a miniture spinning wheen forMinerva during their stay at Woods Fort. According to sources, thisspinning wheel is still on display at a museum in Burnet, Texas | WOODS, Minerva (I19338)
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| 5790 | The last Anglo-Saxon King of England, reputedly designated heir by the dying Edward. After becoming King, he crushed the forces of his brother Tostig and Harold III Hardraade of Norway, who claimed the throne, at Stamford Bridge (1066). Harold was killed in the battle of Hastings by the army of another successful claimant to the throne, William the Conqueror. Earl of East Anglia 1045, Earl of Wessex 15 Apr 1053, Earl of Hereford 1058. | GODWINESON, King Harold Ii (I35263)
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| 5791 | The last Will and Testament of Caleb Carlton of Mantua Twp., Portage county and state of Ohio. I Caleb Carlton, considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and being of sound mind and memory (blessed be Almighty God for the same)do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following. (That is to say) First, I give and bequeath to my beloved wifeMargaret Carlton all my personal estate of every description, that I may be possessed of at the time of my decease. To my son Caleb Carlton, I give and bequeath thirty acres of land onlot number fourteen in Mantua aforesaid, east and adjoining land by medeeded to him the said Caleb and intersecting from the North line of the said lot, south to land by me deeded to my son Dudley Carlton and extending east far enough to make thirty acres as aforesaid. To my son Peter Carlton I give and bequeath a certain note of landwhich the said Peter existed and gave to Chester Reed, and by me aforesaidof said Reed, and is yet unpaid, which note was given eighty dollars and bears date January 12th 1816. To my son Elias Carlton I give and bequeath one dollar (in addition to what I have heretofore advanced to him) to be paid him by my executor hereafter named within one year of my decease. To my daughter Hannah Rider I give and bequeath ten acres of land onthe aforesaid lot number fourteen to be in a square from adjoining thenorth line of the lot, and east and adjoining the land herein bequeathed tomy son Caleb. To my daughter Lucy Bester I give and bequeath twenty acres of land on the southwest part of the said lot number fourteen extending north to land by me deeded to my son Caleb, and east to land by me deeded to my son Elias and adjoining south and west lines of the lot. To my daughter Sally Kneeland I give and bequeath twelve acres of landon the said lot number fourteen, adjoining the north line of the lot, and adjoining the land herein bequeathed to my daughter Hannah Rider to extend south thirty rods and so far east as to make twelve acres aforesaid. To my son Dudley Carlton I give and bequeath all the remainder of myland which is not as above bequeathed on the conditions of his furnishingme and my wife Margaret aforesaid a comfortable support during ourlifetime and paying all just debts, and sickness and funeral expenses, and theone dollar herein bequeathed to my son Elias Carlton-but in case the said Dudley Carlton shall refuse or neglect to furnish such support andmake such payments as aforesaid or secure the payment thereof-then my willis that the said remaining lands herein bequeathed to the said Dudley, shall belong to and be the sole property of my wife Margaretaforesaid. And I do hereby appoint my son Dudley Carlton sole executor of this my last will and testament-hereby revoking all former Wills by me made.In witness whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal the eighteenthday of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty three. Caleb Carlton Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named CalebCarlton to be his last will and testament, in presence of who at his requestand in his presence have inscribed our names as witnesses hereunto. Amri Stouter Horace Ladd Lorenzo Chahin | CARLTON, Capt Caleb (I37673)
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| 5792 | The last years of Charles VII were marked by conflicts with his turbulent son, the future Louis XI of France. | DE VALOIS, King Charles VII (I40294)
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| 5793 | The Lawsons and the Lows owned land beside each other and eventually the Lawson land in Pennsylvania wound up in the hands of the Low family. The Lows were Quakers who later became Methodists and the Lawson/Low land was where Rock Chapel Church and cemetery were originally built. | LAWSON, John (I36293)
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| 5794 | The long-published claim that she was named Susanna Furner was disposed of by Michael Paulick's research published in 1999 and 2007. She died during the first winter at Plymouth. | MNU, --?-- (I20289)
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| 5795 | The Lot Smith Company of Mormon Civil War Soldiers, Enlisted April 30, 1862 at Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, Lot Smith, Captain "The Mountain Fox". Served 3 months. | DRAPER, Parley Pine (I28840)
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| 5796 | The Louisbourg/Louisberg Expedition was undertaken by ME, NH, and MA settlers, supported by the English Crown, against the French at Louisbourg. The reasons given in the historical literature for this expedition, were the continued attacks on the English settlements by the northern Indians (at the behest of the French Canadian government and paid by them to do so), killing settlers, capturing men, women, and children and taking them away to be sold into slavery in Canada. It was also said to have been about who had fishing rights off the Grand Banks. Of course, in addition, there was the everlasting English clash with the French, who were well established in Canada, in Quebec, and doing their utmost to take territory to their south. During this expedition, led by William Pepperell of Kittery, Maine, armaments had to be dragged by the English colonists through and over swamps, to reach Louisbourg. It was a huge undertaking, and many colonists became ill and were injured during the effort, including Jonathan Dolloff, who died during the Expedition. The members of the expedition, inspite of those harsh difficulties, did succeed in taking Louisberg away from the French. However, during the negotiated peace treaty between the French and English Generals and policy makers, Louisberg and all territories and forts taken by the colonists were returned to the French, thus making the Louisbourg Expedition entirely pointless, as the treaty restored all possessions to their pre-war status, to both sides. | DOLLOFF, Jonathan (I33261)
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| 5797 | The Mayflower Family, vol. 2, p. 160 -- said that Thomas Rogers was born on 29 Mar 1640, most likely in Duxbury, Ma., and died between 5 Mar 1677/8, and 7 Aug 1678, in Eastham, Ma. He was the s/o Joseph Rogers, no. 8633. He was married to Elizabeth Snow, on 13 Dec 1665, in Eastham. They had 7 Children. | ROGERS, Thomas (I42840)
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| 5798 | The middle son, Giles de Braose, exiled in France until 1213, was Bishop of Hereford from 1200 until his death in 1215. He made peace with King John and agreed terms for regaining de Braose lands in 1215 but had also made alliances with the Welsh leader Llywelyn the Great. He died in 1215 before he could come into the lands.«s76» | DE BRAOSE, Giles (I35197)
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| 5799 | The Morning Herald, Uniontown, PA 19 Mar 1947 page 4 David Baxter, a slave owner, and his wife came to Fayette county prior to the Civil War from Rockingham county, Virginia, and bought a farm known as Baxter’s Ridge which adjoined the Sutton farm in Smithfield. They brought with them many slaves. At Mr Baxter’s death he willed the property to his slaves and they continued to live there. Quite a few years before the Civil War there were many underground railways and stations located from Virginia through to what is now known as Morgantown and Baxter Ridge … on to Brownsville, Little Washington and Canada. The runaway slaves would be helped through to Canada by people at these different stations. Baxter’s Ridge is located about three-quarters of a mile from the Sutton farm which was owned by David Sutton and his wife, Nancy. The Suttons, now deceased, are the grandparents of Mrs Maude Jones, Lincoln Street; Mrs Adda Brownfield, Baltimore, Md, Mrs Dempsey Miller and David Sutton, Smithfield. David Sutton resides on the old farm with Mrs. Miller. Nancy Sutton was a fearless woman and known around the countryside as a kind, generous woman. The slaves living on the Baxter land worked for Mrs Sutton and knew her to be a person of trust. One cold winter night Mrs Sutton was awakened by a loud pounding on her door. Upon answering the knock she found a colored man standing there. He told her 14 runaway slaves and their children had come by boat to the Baxter farm. The men at the Baxter farm were afraid they would be caught sheltering them so they hid them down by the waterfall on the Sutton farm. The man also told Mrs Sutton the children were barefoot and some were very sick and asked her for help. Mrs Sutton didn’t hesitate. At daybreak she went to Smithfield and bought shoes for the children, medicine for the sick at Dr Mathiots, food and warm clothing. After dark that night she took the provisions to the slaves at the waterfalls. The next day the master of the runaway slaves appeared on the scenes hunting them. Milton Sutton - 10 year old son of the Suttons, met the master while he was taking the cows to pasture. The master offered the boy a handful of money if he would give him any information of the whereabouts of the slaves … but Milton told him nothing. A search was made but the men failed to look near the falls. There was a reward offered for the return of the slaves. Many local people in the Smithfield area helped in the search but they were not found. Mrs Sutton made trips to the falls after dark and administered to the sick and bringing them hot food. After several weeks the search was given up and the slaves started on their way through the underground passage. At Brownsville they were cared for by a Quaker and his wife who were in charge of the Brownsville station. From there they traveled to Little Washington and on into Canada. The Sutton farm at that time consisted of 300 acres extending to Georges creek in Nicholson and Springhill townships, back as far as the old colored church, bounded on the north by the Harden farm, east by Dr Fairchild’s farm. The Suttons also owned all the land that is now the Sackett and Romesburg farms. | HAGAN, Nancy (I5654)
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| 5800 | The name of the family Skofield is believed to have originated from the village of Escoville, near Caen, in the Normandy area of France. A source named by Rev.Sinnett as "Freeman" is quoted as follows; "A local name taken from a place in Normandy is a sure sign of Norman Descent and is the only sure sign. By the 13th. century, Rudulf and Humfrey de Scoville are said to be shown to hold extensive lands in Wiltshire and Somersetshire, England, possibly remainders of lands granted to an ancestor at the time of the Norman conquest. The name of Scoville is included in the Hundred Rolls of 1273 and in the early Visitation of Somersetshire the above mentioned Humfrey de Scoville is shown to be "seized of the Manor of Brockley". A John de Scovil was a tenant of two virgates in Dorsetshire under Henry 11 (1154-1189). In later centuries a Richard Scovil, gent, in Dorsetshire in Dorset is listed in a will in 1641 and an Elizabeth Scoville is shown in 1644 the probate registry of Blanford, Dorset. The records from the 16th century show a number of Scoville marriages. The visitation of Somerset, 1623 armorial bearings of Humfrey de Scoville. The name spelled as Skofield appears in 1611 in records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in entries as follows, John Skofield - (All Saints), Fornham, Sufflok, to William Skofield - son - with consent of Thomas Skofield, relict - 1611. A second entry shows, John Skofield, St. Benet, Grace Church, London. Administratis de bonis, to Sam Chew, creditor vice Agnes Scofield, relict decease, Oct. 1616. The Scofields of Kent are said to descend from Sir Hubert de Skolefeld, who held lands in Kent in the 12th century that passed to his son, Sir Humphrey de Skolefeld. One of Humphreys sons, John earned his own knighthood in service to the King and took up the spelling of Scofield, establishing the family of Scofield of Kent. of Richard T. Skofield is shown in a document The Family of Skofield in America from the Prejebscot Historical Museum, Maine. 1. John Scofield born, Kent 1502, died Kent 1581. | SCOFIELD, Richard Thomas (I38263)
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