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| 7051 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website 25 Dec 2007 http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/preston.htm: A. "Samuel and Joanna Gardner One of the best summaries of this family is per the following Website accessed 25 Dec 2007 "Samuel and Joanna Gardner No substantive evidence has been found for the parents of Samuel Gardner, and those published claims of his parents that have been reviewed do not survive critical review of claimed dates, places and various relationships. The basic Gardner family information is from Genealogies of Hadley Families, by Lucius M. Boltwood (1905, reprinted Baltimore 1979), and other standard colonial New England sources. Samuel Gardner - b. 1615; d. Nov. 22, 1696, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. Samuel was an original proprietor of Hartford in 1640, was reportedly at Wethersfield, CT in 1641, and removed to Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA in 1663. He was said to be about age 81 at death. Married first say about 1640, probably at Hartford, Hartford Co., CT, and second about 1646 to Elizabeth (d. Jun. 21, 1676, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA). Joanna - d. about 1646, possibly at Wethersfield, CT. Children of Samuel and Joanna Gardner: Samuel - d. Jan. 12, 1677, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. Never married. The settlement of his estate in 1677 states that Joanna and Sarah were his only sisters. John - d. Nov. 26, 1684, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. Married 1681 to Mehitable Hinsdale. John and Mehitable had no children. Joanna - d. Mar. 18, 1729, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. Married Feb. 3, 1680/1 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA to Nathaniel Warner (b. about 1655; d. Jan. 15, 1714, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA), son of John Warner and Priscilla Symonds. A weaver, Nathaniel became freeman in 1683. Children of Joanna and Nathaniel Warner: Nathaniel did not marry; John; Daniel; Elizabeth married Samuel Pease; and Israel. Sarah - b. say about 1646, CT. Married John Preston. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth Gardner Hannah - b. about 1647. One source states she was married in 1675 to Nathaniel Bancroft, but this has not been confirmed. [Kerry's note: mix-up with Thomas Bancroft?] Elizabeth - b. about 1648; d. Nov. 29, 1684, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. Married Nov. 21, 1664 to John Ingram (b. about 1642; d. Jun. 22, 1722, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA). John became freeman in 1683 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. Children of Elizabeth and John Ingram: John married Mehitable Dickinson; Jadiah; Samuel married Hannah Warner; Ebenezer died young; Nathaniel married Esther Smith; Jonathan did not marry; Elizabeth did not marry; and Abigail. Abigail - Married on Nov. 12, 1673 to Isaac Morgan (b. 1652; d. 1701). They resided at Springfield, MA and Enfield, CT. Mary - d. Jun. 6, 1662, probably at Wethersfield, CT. Martha - b. Jan. 8, 1664, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA; d. Feb. 15, 1664, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. Nathaniel - d. Dec. 8, 1676, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. B. John and Sarah (Gardner) Preston: John Preston - b. 1651, probably at Dorchester, MA; d. after 1728. Believed to be son of Daniel Preston and Mary; confirmation is desired. Married Mar. 25, 1678, Hadley, MA. Sarah Gardner - b. say about 1646, CT. Daughter of Samuel Gardner and Joanna. Children of John and Sarah Preston: (See Notable Cousins <../kinnexions/cousins.htm> for line to: Will Keith Kellogg.) Sarah - b. Dec. 10, 1678; d. Dec. 21, 1678. Sarah - b. Jul. 10, 1681; d. May 29, 1683. A child - b. and d. Apr. 20, 1683. Mercy - b. Jun. 6, 1684; d. Mar. 11, 1692. John - b. Jul. 31, 1686, Hadley, MA; d. Mar. 2, 1728, South Hadley, MA. A daughter - b. and d. Apr. 25, 1688. Samuel - b. Feb. 27, 1690; d. Jan. 19, 1711. Sarah - b. Nov. 8, 1693; d. Oct. 16, 1756. Married Mar. 4, 1714 Nathaniel Kellogg (b. Sep. 22, 1693; d. Aug. 6, 1770, son of Nathaniel Kellogg and Sarah Boltwood. Nathaniel, a surveyor, married second (int. Jul. 1, 1758) Martha (Allis) Hammond (d. Sep. 13, 1764), daughter of Ichabod Allis, and third (int. Oct. 5, 1765) Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Ware. Children of Sarah and Nathaniel Kellogg: Daniel married first Esther Smith, and second Sarah Parsons; Joel married Joanna Clark; Abraham married Sarah Cowls; Gardner married Thankful Chapin; Moses married Mary Sheldon; Prudence married Josiah Parsons, Jr.; Phoebe married Eleazar Nash; Sarah did not marry; Nathaniel; and Abigail." | Gardner, Sarah (I4519)
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| 7052 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following genealogical summary of the family of James Adair was provided to me from Shawn Potter "James Adair was born probably in Ireland say about 1714. He immigrated to America before 1735. James married Eleanor of the Chickasaw Nation in about 1744. Eleanor was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1726. She was a member of the Panther clan. James died probably in Laurens County, South Carolina, after 25 Feb 1784 and before 12 Feb 1796. Eleanor died probably in Laurens County after 3 Jan 1803. James and Eleanor were the parents of the following children: 1. James Adair, Jr., was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1748. He married Hannah probably in Laurens County say about 1772. Hannah was born probably in Laurens County on 28 Sep 1750. James died in Laurens County on 18 Aug 1818. Hannah died in Laurens County on 10 Nov 1826. 2. Joseph Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1750. He married Sarah probably in Laurens County say about 1776. Joseph died perhaps in Laurens County after 5 Feb 1804. 3. John Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1754. He married first Ga-Ho-Ga of the Cherokee Nation probably in Laurens County say about 1780. Ga-Ho-Ga was born in the Cherokee Nation say about 1760. Ga-Ho-Ga died perhaps in Laurens County after 7 Feb 1789. John married second Jane Kilgore probably in Laurens County say about 1790. Jane was born probably in Laurens County say about 1773. John died in present-day Oconee County, South Carolina, after 4 Nov 1815 and before 4 Dec 1815. Jane died perhaps in present-day Oconee County after 4 Dec 1815. 4. Edward Adair was born in the Chickasaw Nation say about 1756. He married first Margaret in Philadelphia on 7 Apr 1784. Edward married second Elizabeth Martin of the Cherokee Nation probably in the Cherokee Nation say about 1789. Elizabeth was born probably in the Cherokee Nation say about 1769. Edward died probably in present-day Oconee County after 3 Nov 1800. Elizabeth died probably in the Cherokee Nation after 13 Jul 1816. N.B. James and Eleanor had "children" in 1748; and a daughter lived in Georgia between 1788 and 1791." My comments: 1. To this list of children, I would add at least two more children based on my own research. The first is a son named Laferty Adair based on the LDS records of St. George Utah Temple as reported by relatives in the 1870s. The second one is less certain but possible: Hannah who married John Jones, which can possibly be construed but not proven from a land deed. See the notes in this database for both of these individuals for a fuller explanation. For now, I continue to show these two individuals as children of James Adair subject to further research. 2. Before Shawn's new analysis of this family, I had two additional daughters based on my previous (but now less certain) assumption that the James Adair of Pennsylvania was our same James Adair. The following is from "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine," v. 19 (1952-1954), pp. 303-305, "Register of Baptisms 1701-1746, First Presbyterian Church, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." The magazine notes: "...the "original of the record is in the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia. It is published here to complement the Calendar of the Marriages, 1701-1745, in the Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, vol. IX... Other publications of contemporary Philadelphia Church Records include the Calendar of marriages from the register of Christ Church (founded in 1695 as the first parish of the Established Church of England), in the Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, vol. VIII; the Baptism and Burials of 1709-1760 from the same register in the 'Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,' vols. 12-1 and 1-7 respectively; and a digest of the minutes and registers of Philadelphia Monthly meeting of Friends, in Hinshaw, 'Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy,' vol. II. "In this register of baptisms is found evidence of considerable missionary travelling by the Rev. Jedidiah Andrews, (the first minister, who served from 1698 until his death in May 1747) as far north as Staten island, New York, and south as Cape May, New Jersey. [A list of place names is included and described in the article.]" The two children born to a James Adair: a. Charity, dau. of James Adair, b. 3rd inst., bapt. 6 Jul 1740. b. Jane, dau. of James Adair, b. 28 ult., bapt. 3 Jun 1742. Note that even though we cannot prove the above James Adair is the same as ours, it is a possibility that needs to be further researched. There are mentions of other James Adairs in early Pennsylvania records as evidenced by the following. In each case, note the location of each James Adair in regards to Joseph Adair, the brother of our James Adair, who lived in West Fallowfield Twp. of Chester Co. in 1753 and Lancaster Co. in the early 1760s: a. Http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/taxlists/sadsbury_tas_list_1753.htm shows James Adair on the 1753 List of Taxables for Sadsbury Township of Chester County. Chester County was due east of Lancaster County adjoining the State of Delaware. On the same list is Andrew McCleary who may in fact be the Andrew McCreary who was associated with the early Adairs in Laurens Co., SC, in the 1760s. Sadsbury and West Fallowfield are adjoining townships in Chester County and both are right on the county line with Lancaster County." The proximity of James and Joseph would seem to indicate this may be our James; however, his activities as an Indian trader in the Chickasaw Nation would seem to be at odds with this. It would seem that this is not the man who dies in Bucks County in 1760 since Bucks County is a bit removed from this area. b. The probate of a James Adair in Bucks County, Book No. 3, p. 33, with a will date of 2 Jul 1760 and a proven date of 19 Nov 1760 (his wife was executrix and sole legatee; note that there was no mention of children including Charity and Jane). Bucks Co. is a couple counties north of Lancaster Co. The 1760 death proves this man is not our man, but the fact that no children are listed in the probate opens up the possibility the children belong to a different James, perhaps even ours (on the other hand maybe the daughters were already deceased or married). c. "The Pennsylvania Gazette," 13 Jan 1763, "List of Letters remaining in the Post Office in Philadelphia": James Adair, Lancaster County. This could very well be our James Adair since his brother Joseph was living in Lancaster Co. Certainly different from the James Adair who died in 1760. He may not have been living there as much as using his brother's address. There is not enough information in this entry to know if this could be the father of the two children Charity and Jane. 2. From: Shawn & Lois Potter Also from Shawn: "Thanks for your note. I received Margaret Brownlee's manuscript from either Lee Adair (wadair1@tampabay.rr.com) or Jett Hanna (jettplane@aol.com), both of whom have contributed notes to the Ancestry.com bulletin board for the Adair surname. I can only judge Margaret's reliability from my use of this one manuscript. I have noticed a few mistakes that might be described as typos -- a few obviously wrong dates and perhaps wrong names in her text. But, on the whole, I am very impressed with her work. She tried to document all her statements and she appears to have gained access to many original records. Her manuscript provides a radically better understanding of these families than existed before her work. Having said that, I do suspect she was wrong about her statement regarding the identity of James Adair the Indian trader. I am not yet certain, but I suspect that James Adair, who married Eleanor, was the Indian trader..." My follow-up note 1 Sep 2015: Since the above was written ten years ago, Shawn and his wife Lois are the authors of a book to be published sometime in the future entitled "Chickasaw Wife and Family of James Adair, Author of the History of the American Indians." The book uses extensive historical documentation and modern DNA analysis to make a persuasive case that James Adair was indeed the Indian trader and author and that Eleanor his wife was a Chickasaw Indian woman. Having contributed to and reviewed working copies of their book, I am convinced. 3. Manuscript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina," compiled by Mildred Brownlee, 1990, copy at the Laurens County Library; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction." [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.]: A. "SC Archives, Council Journal 34 p. 39, 2 Feb. 1768 - Petitions for Warrants of Survey: James Adair - 150 a. - Waters of Duncan Creek - granted 1768 (James was noted as James, Sr. up to his death.) Joseph Adair - 250 a. - Waters of Duncan Creek Council Journal 34, p. 236, 7 Dec. 1768 - Petitions to Prolong Warrants: Joseph Adair - 250 a. - on Duncan Creek His 250 a. was granted in 1770 (where Duncan Creek Church now stands). Joseph Adair sold this grant in 1778 to Benjamin Adair. (Deed Bk. A, p. 189) The above is the first record for Joseph Adair, Sr., cooper, found in Laurens Co. [This is incorrect. Joseph Adair petitioned for 200 acres on the Waters of the Santee (Council Journal of 3 Dec 1766, p. 874). The Memorial for this property reads as follows: A Memorial exhibited by Joseph Adair, 200 acres of a Plantation or tract of land contg. 200 acres situate in Berkly County on the So. side of Enoree River on a branch thereof called Millers Creek bounded Ewardly on land of Frances McCall, and on all other sides on vacant land. Survey certified the 7th of March 1769 (Plat Book 9, p. 341) and granted the 2nd day of June 1769 to the memorialist. Quit rent to commence two years hence. SC Memorial Book 8, p. 482. 9 Sep 1769]. James Adair who petitioned for land on the same date as Joseph is possibly the James Adair who married Eleanor and who had died in Laurens Co. prior to 12 Feb. 1796. Early deeds refer to him as James Adair, cooper. His 150 a. grant is evidently the one shown on Union Co. Land Grant map #4 and #12 on a branch of Duncan Creek which is called McCall's Branch on map #4. Other early maps refer to this branch as Miller's Fork. On present day maps it is called Sand Creek ... NE of Clinton, in the area between Hwy. 72 and Hwy. 98. Since available deeds do not make clear the disposition of the above 150 a., there is still some uncertainty that the grant was to James Adair, wife Eleanor; however, it is certain that he was in Laurens Co. 11 Aug. 1774 when he received a grant of 200 a. on a branch of Duncan Creek. Land Grant map #4 says granted in 1770 but deeds say 1774; this grant lying between the main branch of Duncan and Philson's Crossroad, and very near to Joseph Adair, Sr.'s original grant. Since both Joseph Adair and James Adair have been identified as coopers and they both petitioned for land on the same date, it seems logical to think that they were brothers. (Dr. James Adair's History states that James Adair, Indian trader, was a brother of Joseph Adair, Sr.) [Modern DNA research on descendants of the Indian trader James Adair provided me in 2015 by Shawn Potter now substantiates this claim.] Council Journal 34 should be consulted for any other possible information which might be contained in the land petitions of Joseph and James Adair in 1768. The exact year that Joseph Adair arrived in South Carolina has not been determined. He was in Lancaster Co., Pa. in 1759 when he was given Power-of-Attorney to sell land for John, Josiah, and Jennet Ramage. In his History of the Presbyterian Church in SC, George Howe, D.D. states that in 1763 or 1766, Joseph Adair, Thomas Ewing, Wm. Hanna, and the McCrearys had united in building a house of worship. The June 9, 1896 issue of The Laurens Advertiser has an article about the 130th anniversary of Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church which was "organized in summer of 1766." B. "James Adair, Sr., cooper, & Eleanor, his wife. As stated on p. 1, it has not been definitely determined that this James Adair was the one who petitioned for land along with Joseph Adair, cooper, in 1767; however, he has been documented as the James Adair who received a grant of 200 a. on Duncan Creek 11 Aug. 1774. Surety for this grant was certified 3 June 1773, so James Adair was in Laurens Co. before that date, (See Deed Bk. F, pp. 8, 9, 10). He is also considered to have been the James Adair, cooper, to whom John Brotherton and wife, Esther, sold in 1774, 60 a. on a spring branch of Duncan Creek. (See Deed Bk. A, p. 185.) Birth date of James Adair, Sr., cooper, is not known. He died sometime between 24 Feb. 1784 (date of deed to John Jones, blacksmith) and 12 Feb. 1796 (date of deed to which Eleanor, widow of James Adair, dec'd, released her right of dower). Birthdate of Eleanor Adair is unknown; last record of her is also 12 Feb. 1796, release of dower. On 6 Feb. 1792, she was witness to a deed from William Price and wife Margaret, to James Adair, son of James. [Actually Eleanor's last mention is 7 Jan 1803 with her release of dower in a land transaction as reported further below.] James Adair, Sr. left no will in Laurens Co. No estate papers have been located in Laurens Co. Eleanor Adair left no will or estate papers in Laurens Co. Data from Laurens Co. deeds indicate that a son of James and Eleanor was Joseph Adair. Deed Bk. F, p. 109 - 12 Feb. 1796, Joseph Adair, Jr. to Wm. Holland, 120 a. on a small branch of Duncan Creek. N on John McCreary now John A. Elmore, SW by John Adair now Benj. Adair, S by me, a grant of 2 Oct, 1786; the other plantation of 100 a. purchased from Samuel Ewing 16 Dec. 1778, part of 150 a. grant to Samuel Ewing 30 Sept. 1774, Joining the above tract. Joseph Adair, Jr. Wit: B.H. Saxon, JA Elmore, Basil Holland Release of dower: Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph Adair, Jr.; Eleanor (x) Adair. Widow of James Adair, dec'd. (Joseph Adair called "Jr." to distinguish from Joseph Adair, son of Joseph Adair, cooper, who was at that time called Joseph Adair, "Sr.", after the death of his father in 1789.) Deed Bk, G, p. 570 - 7 Jan. 1803, Joseph Adair, planter, to John Daniel Kern of Charleston, merchant, 86 a. on N side of Duncan Creek, adj. said J. D. Kern. N 10, W 40, S 30, etc., on Joseph Adair line, S 80, E ??, etc. on Mistres ?Musgrove (seems to be error for "Mistress Montgomery"). Joseph Adair Wit: Thomas Martin, Tailor; William Dabbage Release of Dower: Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph Adair, Jr.; Eleanor (x) Adair, widow of James Adair, dec'd." 4. James Williams Petition listing the Adair family Patriots. Note that Thomas Adair's parents are the ones listed as number 4 (Joseph and Sarah) and his grandparents are number 3 (James and Eleanor). Most of the other Adairs were brothers or cousins. The petition has come to me from Mildred Brownlee's manuscript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina" and also from the "South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 15, p. 32. James Williams was one of the most reknown Patriots of the Laurens area and this listing of signers of the petition of the area gives us a good source of patriots also associated with him. Col. James Williams and Capt. Josiah Greer were also military leaders of many of these same individuals during the 1778 American invasion of British East Florida per the source of Doctor George Ross' medical reimbursement papers quoted in this database under Rebecca Montgomery's notes. The source of this petition is Item #5767, Manuscript Dept., Wm. M. Perkins Library at Duke University, Durham NC, submitted by Mrs. Mary Ann McCrary and published with permission of the Manuscript Dept. This petition pre-dates the Battle of Kings Mountain (7 Oct 1780), as Col. James Williams was killed at that time. [NB: a second version of the petition was located in the South Carolina Library in 1999 and the gaps in the Duke University petition were filled in as indicated by brackets.] {Any notes or comments added by me are in these brackets.} "To his Excellen[cy John Rutledge, E]sq. Governor & Commander in Chief in & [over th]e state of South Carolina, the Honourable the privy Counsel, the Honourable the Senate & House of Representatives in General Assembly. Whereas we (the zealous friends to our country, and to all who love and distinguish themselves in her cause) do understand & are exceeding sorry to hear that there are false & [evilly designing] Accusations either lying on or about to shortly be laid against James Williams, our present Colonel in & over Little River Regiment, and designed (as we believe) by the private Enemies of our country to deprive us of so worthy a friend of his Country in general a good officer to us in particular & thereby do a very singular Piece of Service to the common enemies of America. We do briefly & anxiously remonstrate this: that we experimentally know Colo. James Williams to have been a zealous Patriot from the commencement of the America contest with Briten; and to have always stood foremost in every occasion when called upon to the defence of his country. We do further declare that we have never known said Colo. [Jas.].Williams to distress any individuals in the Regiment who voluntarily & judiciously, when legally called upon and commanded to the field, have turned out in the Defence if their Native Rights & Privileges together with that of their Country; & we do avow it from our knowledge, that whensoever Colo. Jas. Williams either directly or indirectly executed any distressing things, it was upon the stubborn & refractory, whose practices of obstinacy declare them inimical to their country: & and that this he did, as being last promissing Effort to reduce them to the dutiful obedience of loyal & fellow citizens. Without delaying you; we your humble Petitioners do earnestly beg that you will hear this our faithful Remonstrance & proceed with our respected Colo. James Williams & all such unjust & disaffected Clamours as may come before you against him, as your superior Judgements may direct: only begging leave to conclude with this one Remark, that doubtless you know that such clamours are frequently the necessary Effect of Disaffection to the Country. [Signed:] Robt. McCrery Lt. Colo.; George Davis, Capt.; Matthew McCrar[e]y, Lt.; George Young; Matthew Cunningham; Andrew McCrary; James Greer; [James Dillard]; [John Owens]; [Samuel Ewing]; [William Davis]; [Absolom Filby]; [John McCrary Sener]; [John McCrary Juner]; [Robert Long]; [Matthew McCrary]; [William Bean]; [John Williams J.P {note J.P. is crossed out}]; [Wm. Arthur Capt.]; Josiah Greer; Joseph Ramage; John Robinson; John Bourland; John Greer Juner; Isaac Adair; Jms. Adair; [Thos McCrery J.P.]; [James Ones]; [Andrew Ones]; [John Watson]; [Hughes Manford (?)]; [David Watson]; [Isaac Greer]; [James Ralley]; [John Ramage]; [John Glenn]; [John Jones (M L. (?)]; Henry Atwood; James Adair, Sr.; Joseph Adair Jr.; Joseph Adair; Benjamin Adair; Joseph Adair Sr.; James Adair Jr., son of James; [William Adair]; [John Finney]; [John Adair]; [John Adair Sener]; [James Craige]; [William Craig]; [James Howerton]; [Phillip Whitten]; [John Gray]; [John Greer]; [James Montgomery]; Thomas Ewing; William Blake; James Gamble; [Edward Stapleton]; [John Gamble]; [William Huddleston]; [James Huddleston]; [Alexander Adair]; [Benjamin Willson]; [Benja. Goodman]; [Daniel Williams] Suggested identification of the Adairs who signed this petition: 1. Isaac Adair - Killed in Apr. 1781, left widow, Ruth. 2. Jms. Adair - b. 1747, son of' Joseph Adair, Sr.; mar. Rebecca Montgomery. 3. James Adair, Sr. - died before 1796; wife, Eleanor. 4. Joseph Adair, Jr. - Son of above James & Eleanor; wife Sarah. 5. Joseph Adair - died 1812; son of Joseph Adair, Sr. 6. Benjamin Adair - died 1823; son of Joseph Adair, Sr.; wife Nancy. 7. Joseph Adair, Sr. - died 1789-90; wife: Susannah. 8. James Adair, Jr., son of James - son of James Adair & wife Eleanor; died 1818, wife Hannah. 9. William Adair - died 1780-84. Estate administered 1784, Abbe. Wills, p. 10. 10. John Adair - died 1813 in Ga., wife Jane; son of Joseph Adair; grandson of Joseph Adair, Sr. 11. John Adair, Sr. - Killed in 1782, wife Sarah. Abbe. Wills, p. 10. Probable son of Joseph Adair, Sr. {Kerry's note: or maybe James Adair, Sr.} 12. Alexander Adair - Scotch-Irish immigrant in 1767? See Protestant Immigrants to SC - Janie Revill, p. 74. {Note the above suggestions are as provided by Mildred Brownlee. I make the following additions of individuals related to the Adairs: 13. James Gamble - father of William Gamble who marries Martha Adair, daughter of James Adair who was son of James Adair, Sr., the original settler and cooper. 14. Robert Long - Son of Susannah Murdough from her first marriage before she married Joseph Adair the cooper. 15. John Owens - Husband of Mary Long. Mary was the sister of Robert Long and a daughter of Susannah Murdough from her first marriage before Joseph Adair. 16. John Ramage - Husband to Jean or Jane Adair, the daughter of Joseph Adair the cooper and his first wife Sarah Laferty. 17. George Davis - Died 1781- 1783. First husband to Elizabeth Adair, daughter of Joseph Adair, Jr. and Elizabeth ___. 18. James Montgomery - Father to Rebecca who married James Adair, the saddler and son of Joseph Adair the cooper. James' other daughter Isabella married Dr. George Ross who was a physician with many of the above in their East Florida expedition in the early days of the Rev. War. 19. John Jones - There were two John Jones in the area at the time. One was the husband of Hannah Adair, {possible} daughter of James and Eleanor Adair. Unsure which John Jones this may be. Our John Jones died before Sep 1788." 5. Jett Hanna [jettplane@aol.com] provided me on 8 Jul 2005 with a copy of his analysis of the Mildred Brownlee manuscript as follows. His analysis mirrors my own understanding; however, anything with which I disagree I note in [brackets]. Jett entitles his paper as "Laurens County Area Adair Family Trees." It is broken down by three families: James Adair who married Eleanor, his brother Joseph who married Sarah Laferty, and a William of whom absolutely nothing is known except his name on the Williams Petition, Brownlee's note that he died 1780-84, and that his estate was administered 1784 per Abbe Wills, p. 10. Text quoted as follows: "This tree is based on 'Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina,' by Mildred Brownlee. This was provided to me by W. Lee Adair, who obtained it from the Laurens County Public Library. Handwritten notes show a date of 1990 on Brownlee's manuscript. I have not examined these deeds personally. In some cases, notes and questions below are my own additions. This analysis seems to discredit some of the trees in the 'Adair History and Genealogy,' and adds significantly to what is known of the Laurens area Adairs. I have not fully finished analyzing this work, and may have left out parts that are not as critical to my work. "Based on this work, it appears very possible that the elder Joseph Adair (m. Sarah, m. Susannah) and his brother James (m. Eleanor) settled in Laurens County at the same time, as suggested by the 'Adair History and Genealogy.' I do not believe, however, that this James was the author of the book on the Indians and reputed patriarch of the Cherokee Adairs. This James was a cooper (barrel maker) according to the deeds. Modern editions of the History of the American Indians suggest that the author James Adair was a direct immigrant to South Carolina, but with no concrete evidence. [Recent DNA analysis conducted by Shawn Potter as of 2015 shows that in fact James Adair, the Indian trader and author, is the same James Adair married to Eleanor and brother of Joseph Adair.] "The Williams Petition: In the tree, LCW is Laurens County Wills; LCD is Laurens County Deeds. Also mentioned is the Williams petition. This petition is a significant document in analyzing the Laurens County Adairs. Published in the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. XV, No. 1 1987, p. 32-33, the original is #5767, Manuscript Department, Wm. Perkins Library at Duke University. The petition is in support of Colonel James Williams, a militia leader of the Patriots in the Laurens area (Little River Regiment). The petition, signed by members of the Little River Regiment, is directed to the Governor of South Carolina and the Privy Counsel, and attests to Williams' devotion to the Patriot cause. Williams led militia in a number of battles. I suspect that this petition was provided prior to Williams' elevation to the rank of Brigadier General following the Battle of Musgrove Mill, which was fought in what is now Laurens County. Williams had been accused of puffing his role in the battle. Williams went on to die at Kings Mountain -- one of the few Patriot casualties that day on October 7, 1780. Williams had run for the South Carolina legislature as a Patriot in 1778, only to lose to Robert Cunningham, the infamous Loyalist leader. For more on Williams, see Draper, "Kings Mountain and Its Heroes," (Cincinnati, 1883). Signers of the Williams petition include the following Adairs: Isaac Adair, Jms. Adair, James Adair, Sr., Joseph Adair, Jr., Joseph Adair, Benjamin Adair, Joseph Adair, Sr., James Adair, Jr, son of James, William Adair, John Adair, and John Adair, Sr., and Alexander Adair. Comparing deed and will records to the names, Brownlee identifies the Adair signers [copies Brownlee's explanations]. Brownlee's identifications look very logical to me. "The Laurens County Adair Tree: 1. James Adair m. Eleanor: 150a land grant to James Adair-same date as Joseph 250a. Both referred to in records as coopers (barrel makers). James, cooper in LCD F/8,9,10, A/185. Eleanor released right of dower on deed dated 2/12/1796; date of transfer by James was 2/24/1784. Which deeds correspond with which dates? See Joseph below. Eleanor was also witness on deed from William Price and wife, Margaret to James Adair, son of James, 2/6/1792. 1.1 Joseph Adair m. Sarah Dillard [Surname Dillard is a Jett addition and I don't believe proven even though many LDS lines also use but again never with documentation.]: Joseph Adair, Jr. to Wm. Holland, 120 ac. Release of dower by Sarah, wife of Joseph Jr., and Eleanor, widow of James Adair, dec'd, LCD F/109. Suggests land owned by James m. to Eleanor, but how does it correspond to land grants? If land belonged to Joseph junior by intestacy laws, why wasn't James m. to Hannah on deed, too? LCD G/570 has dower release for Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph. 1.1.1 Thomas Adair m. Rebecca Brown: LCD H/22, Joseph Adair of Duncan Creek to eldest son Thomas Adair. Witness Jane Adair. Dower releases for Rebecca in LCD H/129, H/209, and land purchased H/228. 1.1.2 ?Hannah m. John Jones: see F/8,9,10. 8 & 9: 8/1/1795. 10: 2/25/1784. F/10 is deed from James Sr. and wife Eleanor to John Jones, has witnesses James Adair, saddler, and James Adair, Jr. [Without giving a reason, Jett places Hannah as a possible daughter of Joseph, son of James -- this is probably because Brownlee indicates she believes her to be a daughter of the original James and Eleanor which would make her a sister to Joseph son of James. This appears to be speculative based on the deed her husband had involving the Adairs.] 1.2 James Adair m. Hannah: Corresponds to James son of James in the Williams petition per Brownlee. James m. Rebecca had a son James, but probably not old enough to sign petition as James m. Rebecca born 1747 per Indiana tombstone. Petition 1780 would mean James m. Rebecca was 33 in 1780; doubtful his son James could be of fighting age. Compare to Adair compilation. LCD M/77-78 reports death of James Adair, Sr., widow Hannah. Hannah Adair's will LCW F/65, proven 1826. James 115(2) 1790 Census. 2 daughters not accounted for. James Jr. was under 16 according to this census. 1.2.1 Elizabeth m. James? Parlmore (Palmer): LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2 Mary m. John Prather: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2.1 Susannah Prather (Prater?): Witness on will of Hannah LCW F/65. 1.2.2.2 Hannah Prather m. Joseph Dollar 1.2.2.3 Linny m. William Prather 1.2.2.4 Archibald m, Susannah Meadors 1.2.2.5 Martha Prather 1.2.2.6 Betsy/Priscilla Prather m. Daniel Owens 1.2.2.7 James Prather 1.2.2.8 Mary (Molly) Prather 1.2.2.9 Bryce Prather 1.2.2.10 Elinor Prather 1.2.3 Nelly (Eleanor) m. Ramage: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.3.1 Benjamin Ramage 1.2.3.2 John Jewell Ramage 1.2.3.3 Washington Ramage 1.2.4 James Adair Jr.: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.5 Hannah m. Rueben Meadors: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.6 Susannah m. William Cassels (Castles): LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.7 Nancy m. Willis Langston: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.8 Martha m. Wm. Gamble: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.8.1 Patsey Gamble: LCW F/65." 6. FHL book 975.731 H2b "A Laurens County Sketchbook," by Julian Stevenson Bolick provides a good historical background of Laurens County, South Carolina [with my edited notes added in brackets]. This background assists in better dating our Adairs and in sorting out some published errors in other sources: Pg. 1: "An early record showing an original grant from George III to an ancestor of the Putnams of Gray Court has Laurens District in Craven County. "Wallace's History of South Carolina" verifies the fact that a vast tract of land to the south of Virginia had been granted in 1663 by Charles II to eight British lords. Craven County, an extensive region covering most of South Carolina and parts of North Carolina, was a part of this sprawling acreage. In 1719 the people threw off the rule of the Lords Proprietors, at which time the rights of the government and seven-eighths of the soil were ceded to the King. A later territorial separation placed Laurens in the Ninety Six District. On March 12, 1785, Laurens was made a separate District by an Act of the General Assembly… "Major Jonathan Downes, a colonial officer, headed a group of influential citizens commissioned to survey the territory. Gentleman Justices serving with Major Downes included James Montgomery [father of Rebecca Montgomery who married James Adair. Jr.], Silvanus Walker, William Mitcherson and Charles Saxon. After the districting was made legal by the act of legislation, the justices were authorized 'to build and keep in good repair at the charge of the county one good and convenient courthouse with necessary jury rooms and one good and sufficient county gaol together with a pillory, whipping post and stocks…" Pg. 3: "In 1790 the first government census taken after the adoption of the Constitution gave Laurens District 1,395 heads of families, with a total population of 9,337 including Negro freedmen and slaves. Laurens District, at that time, had a larger population than any other district above Newberry, the latter outnumbering Laurens by only a few hundred. Pg. 4: "The first permanent white settler to come to Upper Carolina is believed to have been John Duncan of Aberdeen, Scotland. He first stopped in Pennsylvania, but as early as 1753 he was known to have been in the Ninety Six District on land bordering a creek later named for him. "On a return to Pennsylvania, Duncan influenced friends to come to Ninety Six and establish homesteads. He brought his own family and a pair of fine stud horses to pull the first wagon ever to roll over soil between the Broad and Saluda rivers. A lush growth of maiden cane bordering the creek had been the deciding factor for closing out his interests in Pennsylvania. "Two of the settlers to accompany him were David and Charles Little, for whom a community was named later. [David Little, 1767-1812, married Charity Adair]. "Records show early land grants to Andrew McCrary (McCreary), Joseph Adair, Robert Hanna, Thomas Ewing, James Pollock, Thomas Logan and Thomas Craig - all in the group following Mr. Duncan to Carolina." Pg. 5: "Still another friend of John Duncan was Joshua Palmer, a minister, who was so influential in the new community that when he moved to Indiana about 1828 he carried with him several families from his ecclesiastical society… "Robert Long was brought to this country at the age of five months, and at the age of two years was moved from Pennsylvania to the South. Robert's father was a well-known construction engineer, who by government contract in 1769 built Fort Charlotte on the Savannah River. [Robert Long, son of Daniel Long and Susannah Murdough; Susannah becomes Joseph Adair, Sr.'s second wife after Sarah Lafferty. Brownlee states Daniel died in 1767; is this a different Robert Long? On the other hand the British built the fort for the French and Indian War, which was 1756-1763 - so the 1769 date could be in error.] "From North Carolina James Williams came, having been attracted to the fertile lands bordering Little River where he pursued farming and engaged in a mercantile business. His plantation was named Mount Pleasant..." [James Williams was the subject of the James Williams Petition that most early Adair men in Laurens County signed.] Pg. 7: "After peace was secured by a vigorous and successful campaign against the Indians in 1761, the backwoodsmen of Carolina, as all people in the territory remote from Charles Town were called, gave their undivided time to replacing the temporary dwellings with more adequate homes. Many of the settlers had stopped in Virginia, but there it was made clear that only those who belonged to the Established Church were welcome; consequently, the ones believing strongly in freedom of worship came on into Carolina. They were principally Scotch-Irish and by no means adventurers…" Pg. 17: "Littlesville: One of the first centers of population in Laurens County was Littlesville on Duncan the Adairs, are buried in the old Duncan's Creek Church cemetery. One of the gravestones bears the inscription 'David Little, a native of Ireland.' It is not known which of the early Adairs was the father of Charity, but the Adairs were in this section, probably as early as were the Little brothers. [Charity was the daughter of Joseph, son of the original Joseph Adair the cooper.] Joseph B. [Sr.] came from Ireland in 1711 and died in Laurens County in 1801; Joseph, Jr., [son of Joseph Sr.] was born in Pennsylvania (the state from which John Duncan recruited settlers) in 1733 and died in Laurens in 1812; and John B. was born in Duncan's Creek neighborhood in 1758 and died in Georgia [son of Joseph Jr. and brother to Charity]. Doctor W.S. Glenn of Spartanburg had in his possession in 1930 a map of a very early date which showed a community called Littlesville, about three miles from the historic Duncan's Creek Church. The site is no longer listed even in the crossroad category, the majority of the people from this creek bank settlement having moved to the thriving community of Clinton… Pp. 42-43: "Duncan's Creek Presbyterian: One of the early utilitarian buildings was Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church in the rural section of Jacks Township. Servants of the John Duncan family had erected a brush arbor about 1753, at which time John Duncan had come into the area. A more permanent building of fieldstones was put up in 1764, and that date is visible in a cornerstone of the presently used building erected in 1842. The date 1764 was retained for historic purposes. The original granite walls, two feet in thickness, and the straight-backed pews of oak attest to the strong faith of the era and of the congregations of that particular church. In recent years the small-outmoded reed organ from the fieldstone church was given to Thornwell Home for children in Clinton, where it is still used on occasions calling for a colonial atmosphere. During the Revolutionary War, the church building served as a place of protection for the people of that area. Often referred to as the mother of Presbyterian churches, it is the oldest church organization in the upper part of the state. Both Lisbon Presbyterian and Clinton First Presbyterian were started as mission extensions of the Duncan's Creek Church. The first minister was the Reverend Hezekiah Balch, year 1776. In the same year John B. Kennedy was ordained and continued as pastor intermittently for fifty years. In 1788 the Duncan's Creek Church became involved in serious difficulties. The majority of the members being canny old Scotchmen, theological discord was instituted over whether to use Rouse's or Watt's version of the Psalms. Sixty-three members seceded to form other churches. Although each plantation had its own burial ground, Duncan's Creek church offered burial plots in its churchyard in 1776. Some of the ancient mounds have lost their identity, but one bearing the marking 'Samuel Long, aged 19 years, November 15th, 1776, is still legible [brother of Robert Long and son of Daniel Long and Susannah Murdough]. Sixteen soldiers of the Revolution are buried in the churchyard. In October of 1964, Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church observed with appropriate ceremony the two-hundredth anniversary of its founding…" 7. "South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 13, pp. 213-218, "Memories of Laurens County," contributed by Mary A. Seyle, CGRS. The selected entries below give additional good history on the establishment Laurens County. : "Wallace in his 'History of South Carolina" tells us that as early as 1731 the king sought to interest colonists for Carolina and other provinces where the older settlements were in danger of attacks by the Indians. It has been stated that many settlers came to South Carolina at the close of the French and Indian Wars. However, there were already a number of settlers in the Laurens area and other communities before Braddock's defeat in 1755. That is also the year when Governor James Glen concluded a treaty with the Cherokees whereby the Indians ceded to the crown all the land south of the old Indian line, thus making room for more settlers. They came down from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and from countries overseas. They came, they inspected, they admired, and a goodly number settled in Carolina, quite a number in present Laurens County. The earliest settler of Laurens County, we are told, was one John Duncan, who came from Aberdeen, Scotland, to Pennsylvania. He then visited South Carolina for a while, in 1742, and later, about 1751 returned to South Carolina with his family and some friends. Other early settlers whose names still may found in the area came down after Duncan. John Craig from Ireland was granted a tract along the Enoree River. John Kern came from England; Frederick Kern, from Germany... At this time, while the settlers were busy establishing homes, cultivating new land, and dealing with the Indians who were no longer so friendly as they had been, another trouble kept them busy. The lawless element that is present in any new community appeared in upper South Carolina, stealing stock, robbing and murdering, when the colonists sought to protect themselves, and generally adding to the hardships the new community had endured. The responsible citizens finally took matters in their own hands and formed bands of Regulators, as they called themselves, meting out what they considered just punishment. The lawless ones retaliated, sometimes the inhabitants were sued by the outsiders, there were incidents of violence, and the honest men suffered. After many protests, the citizens of the upper part of the province made their voice heard. They felt that as subjects of the king, they were entitled to the same rights and privileges as other free Englishmen, and asked for themselves and their families schools, churches, and a part in the government of their community. A justifiable compliant of the up-country was that all courts sat in Charleston, all cases were tried there, and no lawyer was allowed to practice unless he had 'been admitted to the bar by the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston, or any attorney of that court, and a resident of this Province.' Travel was slow in the 18th century, and it was a long trip for a man to take from the upper part of the province to Charleston even to be admitted to the bar, and a very long way to go to register a deed or transact any legal business. Eventually vigorous protests were heeded, and under the Court Act of 1769 entitled 'An Act for the More Convenient Administration of Justice in this Province,' courts were established, rules for the election or appointment of sheriffs and other officials were laid down, the and duties of the judges were clarified. Jails were built, and dates for the sitting of the courts were set. At Ninety-Six, the court house town for the area now Laurens County, courts were to sit on the 15th of April and November. If Court Day fell on a Sunday, the court was to begin the following day... Having won her independence and the Treaty of Paris having been formally signed in 1783 (although the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781 virtually ended the fighting) South Carolina now turned her attention to internal orgainization and development. No longer a province, but now a state, she busied herself laying out counties, building court houses and setting up her own government. And with a very few exceptions all of our counties were created after the close of the Revolution. Laurens County was created... 12 March 1785... Six counties for the district ... called Ninety Six... Charles Woodmason, an Anglican missionary to the 'wilds of South Carolina' in his book 'Carolina Up Country before the Revolution' takes a very pessimistic view of the manners and morals of this part of the state prior to and shortly after the Revolution. However, the records show several churches in the present Laurens County before the Revolution. John Duncan who was the first settler in Laurens is said to be responsible for the first Presbyterian Church in the county. He is the man from whom the area Duncan's Creek is named, having settled there about 1751. As early as 1764, he erected a 'brush arbor' where those who wished to worship could assemble for their services. Later he had a meeting house erected. The arbor was actually used before the church itself was built, and that is said to date from 1764. Hazel Crowson Sellers of North Carolina in her book on 'Old South Carolina Churches' says that John Duncan was joined by his friends Joseph Adair and Robert Long, both of whom were Revolutionary War soldiers, and that Hezekiah Balch held services at Duncan's Creek as early as 1752. Joseph Palmer, a minister, is also said to have been a friend of John Duncan, and was so popular that when he went to Indiana in 1828 a number of the old friends followed him. The present building at Duncan's Creek is said to be the third erected on the lot, having been built in 1842, and earliest known grave is that of Susannah Long, dated in 1776. A number of soldiers went from this church to fight in the patriot's cause..." 8. The following two quotes are general background information of the larger Scots-Irish migration to America and the South. We know of James Adair's presence in the Southeast and it may have been his influence that helped spur his brother Joseph Adair to migrate south to Laurens County. Alternately is it possible that Joseph was part of the larger Scots-Irish migration pattern to this part of South Carolina that enticed James to settle down with him? A. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 5: "National origins from the 1790 US Census: English 60%, Scotch Irish 9.5%, and German 8.6%. [Accompanying map shows Scots-Irish in the frontier portion or western portions of the states of SC, NC, and VA with a smattering in northern GA and southwestern PA. The Germans are concentrated in south-central PA, western MD, northwestern VA, and with a smattering in central SC and NY. The English are generally coastal.] The Scotch-Irish were used in the old country and again in the new, as 'borderers'. They were fighting families sent out to hold a frontier against aliens. In 1641, 120,000 Scots had been planted in Ulster [Ireland]. In the 1750's, 12,000 came yearly to America, and by 1770, that number grew to 25,000 to 30,000. They were the hardiest and boldest of all immigrants. In 1764, 1000 Scotch-Irish wagons passed through Salisbury, South Carolina, on the way to the mountains." B. The book "A History of the Baptists," by Robert G. Torbet, p. 228: "The central and western counties of North Carolina were fertile soil for evangelism, with twenty to thirty thousand inhabitants in 1755, followed by a steady stream of settlers who were attracted there by land grants and the state of freedom existing there." 10. Excerpts of "Adairs" from the book "Laurens County South Carolina - Minutes of the County Court, 1786-1789," by Brent H. Holcomb, SCMar, Columbia, South Carolina, 2004. The book notes: "This is a record that has only been recently found after being lost for so many years. It is incomplete missing the first 54 pages, pages 103-126, and an unknown number of pages at the end of the volume. There is at least one other volume, still missing, covering the years 1790-1799. The "Minutes" are small court cases, lists of deeds presented to be recorded, applications for administrations on estates and wills proved (beginning in 1787), jury lists, petitions of various kinds, appointments for various offices, apprenticeships, estray animals tolled, and other items. The cases heard for debt or damages could not exceed £50, and cases heard for personal damages could not exceed £20. Criminal cases heard could not call for the loss of life or corporal punishment. Larger court cases were heard in the district courts, such as Ninety-Six." The Adair records mention mainly James and Joseph Adair - the only problem was there were at least three Josephs and three James who were all adults at the same time as these court records. The two original brothers/settlers, James and Joseph Adair, were in the Laurens County area by the early 1760s. James was born ca 1715 and died in Laurens Co. sometime between 1784 and 1796. Joseph was born ca. 1718 and died after Jan 9, 1788 when his will was written. James had at least two sons who were alive in the time period of these court records: Joseph (ca. 1745 - ca. 1820) who married Sarah and James (1752-1818) who married Hannah. The other original brother, Joseph whose first wife was Sarah Lafferty and second wife Susannah Murdough, widow of Daniel Long, had at least three sons, Joseph (1735-1812), James (1747-1831) whose trade is noted as "saddler", and Benjamin (1752/1754-1823/1825). Generally speaking, the eldest living Adair of a given name was given the suffix of Sr. or no suffix at all while the younger Adairs were noted as Jr. or "son of" - in some cases an uncle could be a "Senr. The citations could be a mix of all. The following are just the James Adair quotations: Pg. 63, 16 Mar 1786: "A Lease and Release for the Conveyance of 60 acres of Land from John Brotherton to James Adair Proven in open Court by the oath of Thomas Ewing & ordered to be Recorded." Pg. 68, 18 Mar 1786: James Adair was on a jury in the case of Robert McNees Plt vs. John Martin Deft concerning debt. Pg. 70, 18 Mar 1786: James Adair was on a jury in the case of George Caldwell Plt vs David Allison Deft concerning debt. Pg. 73, 18 Mar 1786: "James Adair Plt vs Thos Hughes and Charles Saxon Deft. In Debt. Came the Plt by James Yancey his Attorney and the Defts in their proper Person and Confessed Judgment for £1 s15 d10¼ sterl'g. Thereupon it is Considered by the Court that the Plt. recover against the s'd Defts his Debt aforesaid and his cost by him in this behalf Expended and the s'd Deft in Mercy &c." Clerk fees £ 11 Sheriffs fees 3 6 Attorney's fees 14 £ 8 6 Pg. 88,13 June 1786: "A Lease and release for the conveyance of 110 acres of land from Mary Hillon and John Hillon to James Adair proven in open court by the Oaths of George Ross and John Cammel & Ordered to be recorded." Pg. 88, 13 June 1786: "A lease and release for the conveyance of 140 acres of land from Mary Hill and John Hillon to John Cammel proven in open court by the oaths of George Ross and James Adair & ordered to be recorded." Pg. 96, 16 June 1786: "James Adair vs Jonth'n Gilbert. Debt S.P. By Consent of the parties this suit is ordered to be Continued till next Court." Pg. 98, June 16, 1786: "James Adair vs Thos Persons. Attachment. Trover. This day came the Plaintiff by J. Yancey his Atty and the attachment being Returned Executed, and the Deft not Replevied by appearance or put in special bail tho solemnly called, on motion of the Plaintiff by his atty aforesaid it is ordered that Judgment be entered for the Plt for what damages he hath sustaind by Accation of the Trover & Convertion in the Declaration mentioned to be Inquired of by a Jury unless the Defendant shall appear and Plead to Issue at the next court." [Kerry's note: the case just before this was for exactly the same thing for James Montgomery vs Thos Persons.] Pg. 134, 14 Dec 1786: "David Wlch Plft. vs John Barnet Deft. In Debt. By consent of the Parties by their attys they have mutually submitted the Determination for this Suit to Nathan Barksdale, James Adair, and Charles Simmons and agreed that their award thereupon should be made the Judgement of the Court, which s'd aware was Ordered to be Returned into Court Immediately." Pp. 148-149, 13 Mar 1787: James Adair was sworn as Grand Juror for the county. Pg. 149, 13 Mar 1787: James Adair participated as a Grand Juror in the case State vs. Mansfield Walker and John Blackwell. Indictment for Sabbath braking. Pg. 152, 14 Mar 1787: "James Adair vs. Henry Johnston & David Simpson. By consent this suit is ordered to be dismist at Plfts. Cost." Pg. 159, 16 Mar 1787: "James Adair vs. Thomas Pearson. This day came the Plft by his Attys and the attachment being returned execution on 300 acres of land the Property of Deft and the said Deft not appearing to Replevy the same or Plead to the Plfts Declaration agreeable to a former Order of this Court, Therefore upon a Jury to wit [jury named]… upon their oaths do say that the Plft hath Sustained by accation of the Trespass in the Declaration mentioned, upon their oaths do say that the Plft hath Sustained Damages by accation thereof to s note: There were three exact same cases against Thomas Pearson with James Montgomery, James Adair, and Joseph Adair as individual plaintiffs with all three in sequence.] Pg. 165, 12 June 1787: "James Adair, son of James Adair, is appointed Overseer of that Part of the highway leading from Hughes's mill on Enoree and James Young's on Bush River in the room of Tho's Ewing. Ordered that he cause the free male inhabitants and slaves contiguous to and convenient to said road, to work thereon and to cause the same to be kept in repair for one year as the law directs." Pg. 215, 11 Mar 1788: "A power of Att'o from James Templeton to James Adair proven in Open Court by the oath of John Lindsey and Ordered to Ly for further proof." Pg. 216, 12 Mar 1788: "A Lease and Release for the conveyance of 100 acres of land from Thomas Allison to James Adair acknowledged in Open Court and Ordered to be Recorded." Pg. 301, 12 Mar 1789: John D. Kern vs Charles Hutchings. In Case. This day came the parties by their attorneys & thereupon Came also a Jury [jury named] upon their oaths say that the Deft is not Guilty on fhe Nonperformance of the promises & assumptions in the Declaration mentioned & that he go hence without day and Recover against the s'd Plft his Cost by him in this behalf expended, Whereupon it was ordered accordingly. On application made on oath by James Adair a witness in said suit, ordered that the Plft pay him the sum of 35/ for 14 days attendance at 2/6 P'r day. Also Joseph Adair the sum of 32/ for 13 days attendance at 2/6 P'r day." Pg. 324, 18 Sep 1789: "James Adair vs. James Miller. In Slander. By consent this suit is ordered to be Dismist at Deft's cost." Pg. 326, 18 Sep 1789: James Adair was drawn as a petty juror. Pg. 317, 15 Sep 1789: "James Adair vs. Eliphaz Riley. S. Process Debt. Continued by Consent till next court." Pg. 322, 17 Sep 1789: "James Adair vs. Eliphaz Riley. By Consent of the Parties ordered that a Commission issue directed to John Calloway Smith and Wm Robertson Esq'r or any other Justices of the County of Wintown (sic, for Winton) to take the Examination of John Wild a witness for the Deft he giving the adverse party Ten days previous notice of the Time and place of s'd Examination & Return a Certificate of the same to our next Court Together with this commission." Pg 331, 16 Dec 1789: James Adair vs. Eliphaz Riley. S. Process debt. This day came the Parties by their attorneys & thereupon came also a Jury [jury named] upon their oaths do say that the Plft take nothing by his bill but for his false Clamour be in Mercy &c & that the Deft Go hence without day & recover against the s'd Pft his cost by him in this behalf Expended &C." Pg. 334, 16 Dec 1789: "The last will and testament of Joseph Adair Dec'd was presented in open court by James Adair the Ex'r and proven by the oath of James Montgomery and Ordered to be Recorded. Ordered that a Probate thereof issue in due form &c. Ordered that a warrant of Appraisement Issue to four freeholders of this county to View and appraise the estate of the s'd Jo's Adair Decd & Return an account of the same to the Ext'r within the Time Prescribed by Law." 11. FHL book 975.7 N28w, 1994, "Citizens and Immigrants - South Carolina 1768, abstracted from contemporary records by Mary Bondurant Warren." This book follows the colonial SC records for one complete year. The following information is from the "Council Journals." The book explains: "The Royal Governor and/or Lieutenant Governor, and the Council had a number of responsibilities in the colony. Acting in an executive capacity the Clerk of the Council kept the Council Journals, which provide excellent records of their activities in providing land, payment of bounties, and hear petitions from individuals for redress or relief. Actions of the Council when sitting as the Upper house of the Assembly follow and were recorded in a series of volumes called the Upper House Journals." Originals of these records are in the South Carolina Archives in Columbia, SC. "Tuesday 2 February 1768. Petitions for warrants of survey, and to certify plats, p. 39, listed together in sequence: "James Adair, 150 acres, Waters Duncan's Creek. Joseph Adair, 250 acres, Waters Duncan's Creek." Note: no other entries for Adairs were found for the year covered by this book. 12. On file with me are early plats drawings of Duncan Creek prepared by Lee Adair: A. From Lee Adair 13 Sep 2005 [wadair1@tampabay.rr.com]: "I have platted most of the available deed surveys up to 1846 for the Duncan Creek area of Laurens County using the software Deedmapper. The problems with such deed platting are: 1) surveyors weren't always accurate; 2) the terrain was not perfectly flat. In acquiring all the plats, I also had to acquire all the deed records and land transactions and I now have the Laurens County deed books up to Book O (about 1846). These two sources allowed me to place surveys in about the correct positions on the map. I am aided in this by the several rivers and creeks that run through the county and which are platted on the surveys. If there are any specific plats that you need, I can make copies of them and send them to you. One file (Duncan3.jpg) is included to provide a bearing. In the lower left is what looks like the streets of a city. This is Clinton. The interstate running diagonally across this image is I-26. The Duncan Creek Cemetery is located where the D in the text for Duncan Creek Cemetery is. One of the properties of Joseph Adair (wife Sarah) is in bright blue just to the right and adjoining that of James Adair (bright yellow). It was a SC land grant that he received in 1786. He sold that with the adjoining property of Samuel Ewing that he had purchased to William Holland in 1796. Whether he and Sarah actually lived there is an open question. The bright blue large tract owned by Joseph Adair is that of Joseph Adair Sr. wife Sarah Laferty. There may be additional properties of Joseph Adair and Sarah, but I have not placed them yet. There are a number of Joseph Adair properties in which I don't have a reliable spouse name. As always there is more work to be done." B. From Lee Adair 16 Oct 2005 with more on the specific James Adair plat just above Joseph Adair, the cooper, who gave part of his land to Joseph his son who married Sarah ___: "The property description for the James Adair plat that I sent is as follows: SC Memorial Book 13, p. 230. 2 Jan 1775. James Adair, Sr., a Memorial on 200 acres in 96 Distr. on Duncins (sic) Creek between Broad and Saludy Rivers, bounded W on John Brotherton; NW on James Montgomery, NW on John McCrary; NW on John Adair; SE on Saml. Ewing. Survey certified 3 Jun 1773; granted 11 Aug 1774. Quit rent in 2 years. John Rodgers, DS. Delivered 14 Aug 1775 to James Adair. 150 acres of this property was later sold to John Jones (wife Hannah) in 1784. The date alone suggests that this is most likely James Adair, wife Eleanor, and this is confirmed by the following two deed book entries: Laurens Co. Deed Book F, p. 10. 24 Feb 1784. James Adair Senior and wife Eleanor to John Jones blacksmith 150 acres.) Witnesses: James Adair sadler, James Adair Jr., James Miller, Roger Brown. We know that this is part of the 200 acre James Adair grant because of the following: Laurens Co. Deed Book F, p. 8. 1 Aug 1795. Hannah Jones (widow of John Jones) & son William Jones to John Craig, 50 acres on Duncan Creek, part of 200 acre grant to James Adair Sr. 11 Aug 1774 (150 acres conveyed in by sd J.A and Eleanor in 1784 to John Jones). Bordering properties: John Montgomery, Alexander Fillson, John Owens. I have attached a zoomed out version of the Duncan Creek plat area." 108. James Adair as listed below could be either the original James Adair the cooper, the son of this same James, or the son of the original Joseph Adair the cooper. The death date of the original James Adair the cooper is unknown. Laurens County Estate Book A-1: P. 7: "Will of Hanse Miller being sick and weak of body... 14 April 1788. Wit: Joseph Adair, Thomas Ewings, James Adair." Pp. 98-100: "An account of the sale of the Estate of Joseph Greer decd., 15 of August 1794; purchasers: Andrew McCrary, Joseph Greer, Joseph Adair, John Hansel, Saml McComuthey, Thos McCrary, Joseph Greer, Wm Hunter, John Login, John Elmore, Minasa Willson, Benj. Adair, Newton Higgins, John Grary, Robert Scott, John Owens, James Rammage, Hugh Skelton, Saml Bishop, James Dillard, John Rammage, James Dillard, Robert Grier, Bazzel Brater (cooper tooles), James Adair Senr., John Watson, Simon Tedford, Jonas Greer, J.A. Elmore, George Ross, Ben Adair, Joseph Parkes, Wm Price, Wm Gray, Robert Greer. Total ¤ 56 13 9." Pp. 210-213: ""Memorandum of articles sold the estate of John Jones decd, 16 Jul 1784 by Patrick Bryant admr. Purchasers: John Adair, James Dillard, James Adair, Philip Harvey, Littleberry Harvey, Patrick Bryant, Samuel Ewing, Wm Price, John Gorley, Philip Harvey, Thomas Donaldson, John Huston, John Owens, John Robeson, John Rammage, David Simpson, Thomas Hughs, John Robinson, Reuben Pyles, Haunner Miller, Thos Ewin, Jas Saxon, Wm Brown; copy from my office Julius Nichols Junr. [This estate was probated originally in Ninety Six District, the papers of which are in Abbeville County Court House]." | Adair, James (I3679)
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| 7053 | RESEARCH_NOTES: Family Group sheet Jessie Waldo Information from Ella Waldo- Now deceased | Bishop, John Whited (I1437)
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| 7054 | RESEARCH_NOTES: New York Port List or Manifest of Passengers given to Collector of the Customs for the District of New York FHL Film # 175425 (M237 pt 74) Index @ Ancestry.com American Ship "New Hampshire" Arrival Date 24 July 1848 Port of Departure: Antwerp Michel Rothenberger, age 53, Farmer, Intent to become inhabitants of Ohio, Number of bags - 4 Eva age 46 Regina age 23 Brigide age 18 Valentine age 14 Laura age 10 Emma age 5 BIOGRAPHY: Iowa Falls, Iowa August 2, 1935 List of Charles P. Rothenberger's Heirs and Beneficiaries. (see Charles P. Rothenberger notes for the complete record). His father's (Valentine) three sisters were as follows- Mrs. George Schneider, Bridget Gossman and Emma Ware. (Note: The father of Charles P. Rothenberger is Valentine, born 30 Mar 1834.) Mrs. George Schneider had 1 son and 5 daughters as follows-Louis Schneider, Emma Kimm, Laura Swick, Caroline Kimm, Mary Lacher and Rosa Bausch. 1-Louis Schneider's heirs are as follows- Gertrude Drake, 118 North S wall Drive, Los Angeles, California. Evelyn Brown, Route #1, Marshalltown, Iowa. E. L. Schneider, 4528 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota George A. Schneider, 1065 Le Claire Place, Los Angeles, California. Clara Dern, 4107 Bemis Street, Los Angeles, California. Kathryn Roupe, 107 North 2nd Street, Marshalltown,Iowa. 2- Emma Kimm's heirs are as follows- Henry Kimm, Blairstown, Iowa. Archie Kimm, Blairstown, Iowa. Matt T. Kimm, Blairstown, Iowa. Gus H. Kimm, Jr; Blairstown, Iowa. Abbie Wodstrchill, Watkins, Iowa. John Kimm, Watkins, Iowa Laura Hotchkiss, 1206 3rd Street S.W. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Emma Lowe, Route #4, Huron South Dakota. Charles Kimm, Belle Plaine, Iowa. Alice Boone, 714 Minnesota Ave., Huron, South Dakota. Maggie Johnson, No.9 Florence Ave. SW, Huron, South Dakota. Martin Kimm, Vinton, Iowa. Ella Merrfield, 203-27th Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mayme Kimm Burdicker, deceased, left the following children- Emma Coon, 1045-5th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Edna Shores, 1113 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois. Eldo Burdicker, 67 East Canfield Street, Detroit, Michigan. Earl Burdicker, 13524 Wark Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Albert Kimm, deceased, left one child Virginia Kimm, New London, Iowa Delia Kimm, died at 4 years of age and before her mother did. 3- Laura Swick, Watkins, Iowa. 4- Caroline Kimm, Blairstown, Iowa. 5- Mary Lacher, 609 SE 14th Street, Des Moines, Iowa. 6- Rosa Bausch, Atkinson, Nebraska. CENSUS: 1880 age 54 (birth Cal 1826) Birthplace Baden1880 Census - Ancestry.com, Year: 1880; Census Place: St. Clair, Benton, Iowa; Roll: T9_327; Family History Film: 1254327; Page: 301C; Enumeration Di. Regina SCHNEIDER Self W Female W 54 BADEN Keeping House BADEN BADEN CENSUS: Regina SCHNEIDER Self W Female W 54 BADEN Keeping House BADEN BADEN Louis SCHNEIDER Son S Male W 26 OH Laborer BADEN BADEN Rosa S. SCHNEIDER Dau S Female W 20 OH BADEN BADEN Henry SCHNEIDER Son S Male W 14 IA BADEN BADEN (See notes below) Frank SCHNEIDER Son S Male W 10 IA BADEN BADEN (See notes below) Idiotic (box 18), Attended school within the Census year (box 21), Cannot read (box 22) and Cannot Write (box 23) were checked for both Henry and Frank Schneider. CENSUS: Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Iowa, 1850-1880, 1880 Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes: Adair - Des Moines Cos. Film # T1156 58/1 Roll 50, view at the National Archives - Anchorage Alaska Branch CENSUS: Schneider Henry & Frank; Residence when home - Watkins, Benton; Is this person self supporting or partly so? No; Age at which idiocy occurred - B [Birth]; Supposed cause of idiocy (If acquired)- Intermarriage of near relatieves; Has this person ever been an inmate of a training school for Idiots? No; It was noted that Henry head size was large and Frank was Natural. [The only other would be small.] CENSUS: What is Idiotic? Enumerators were not just sent out with a bunch of forms to fill in. In typical federal style, they were supplied with an abundance of record-keeping rules. As the census forms increased in the number of questions asked, and the information desired, so too did the directions given to the enumerator. Enumerators were given a specific definition for a person who was blind or deaf and dumb. They were also given a specific definition for the term "idiot." An idiot was "a person the development of whose mental faculties were arrested in infancy or childhood before coming to maturity." For us, in a more enlightened age, a number of known disabilities would have fallen under this category, including Downs Syndrome CENSUS: 1880 Defective Schedules While these questions were asked in a number of different census years, it is only in 1880 that we find the Defective Schedules. Officially known as the "Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes," this enumeration is more commonly known as the "Defective Schedules" or the "3D Schedules." Five separate schedules enumerated those individuals who were on the 1880 Population Schedule. This involved placing a check mark in one of the boxes for blind, deaf and dumb, idiotic, insane, and maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled. If you have discovered such an entry in a family you locate in the 1880 census, you will then want to find the corresponding entry in the Defective Schedules. CENSUS: 1885 Iowa State Census Saint Clair Township, Benton, Iowa FHL film # 1021441 page 300 (See notes for Hudson Calhoun Swick for complete extraction of 1885 census) Regina is lived with her daughter Laura Schneider and son-in-law Hudson Calhoun Swick and their 3 children. Her age in 1884 was 60. Note: What happen to Henry and Frank? Henry SCHNEIDER Son S Male W 14 IA BADEN BADEN Frank SCHNEIDER Son S Male W 10 IA BADEN BADEN BAPTISM: "MARIA REGINA ROTHENBERGER; Female; Birth: 31 OCT 1824 Rheinsheim, Karlsruhe, Baden; Baptism: 08 MAR 1974 LANGE; Father: JOHANN MICHAEL ROTHENBERGER; Mother: MARIA EVA KLEIN; Batch Number: 7325011 Sheet: 85 Source Call No.: 0822884 Type: Film." International Genealogical Index, Family History Library, www.familysearch.org. ENDOWMENT: "MARIA REGINA ROTHENBERGER; Female; Endowment: 20 APR 1974 LANGE. Batch Number: 7325011 Sheet: 85 Source Call No.: 0822884 Type: Film." International Genealogical Index, Family History Library, www.familysearch.org. SEALING TO PARENT: 30 APR 1974 LANGE; JOHANN MICHAEL ROTHENBERGER / MARIA EVA KLEIN; Father: JOHANN MICHAEL ROTHENBERGER; Mother: MARIA EVA KLEIN; Batch Number: 7325011 Sheet: 85 Source Call No.: 0822884 Type: Film." International Genealogical Index, www.familysearch.org. BURIAL: Rejina wife of George (Schneider) d 21 Sept 1887 ae 62yr. 10 mo. 21da Con or Trade Cemetery Washington cemetery Society - cemetery Section corner of 4/5 township, Range 10 Washington township. Iowa county Ceneteries Stones and History US/Can 977.7653 V3L or FHL film 1,006,627 RESEARCH_NOTES: New York Port List or Manifest of Passengers given to Collector of the Customs for the District of New York FHL Film # 175425 (M237 pt 74) Index @ Ancestry.com American Ship "New Hampshire" Arrival Date 24 July 1848 Port of Departure: Antwerp Michel Rothenberger, age 53, Farmer, Intent to become inhabitants of Ohio, Number of bags - 4 Eva age 46 Regina age 23 Brigide age 18 Valentine age 14 Laura age 10 Emma age 5 BIOGRAPHY: Iowa Falls, Iowa August 2, 1935 List of Charles P. Rothenberger's Heirs and Beneficiaries. (see Charles P. Rothenberger notes for the complete record). His father's (Valentine) three sisters were as follows- Mrs. George Schneider, Bridget Gossman and Emma Ware. (Note: The father of Charles P. Rothenberger is Valentine, born 30 Mar 1834.) Mrs. George Schneider had 1 son and 5 daughters as follows-Louis Schneider, Emma Kimm, Laura Swick, Caroline Kimm, Mary Lacher and Rosa Bausch. 1-Louis Schneider's heirs are as follows- Gertrude Drake, 118 North S wall Drive, Los Angeles, California. Evelyn Brown, Route #1, Marshalltown, Iowa. E. L. Schneider, 4528 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota George A. Schneider, 1065 Le Claire Place, Los Angeles, California. Clara Dern, 4107 Bemis Street, Los Angeles, California. Kathryn Roupe, 107 North 2nd Street, Marshalltown,Iowa. 2- Emma Kimm's heirs are as follows- Henry Kimm, Blairstown, Iowa. Archie Kimm, Blairstown, Iowa. Matt T. Kimm, Blairstown, Iowa. Gus H. Kimm, Jr; Blairstown, Iowa. Abbie Wodstrchill, Watkins, Iowa. John Kimm, Watkins, Iowa Laura Hotchkiss, 1206 3rd Street S.W. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Emma Lowe, Route #4, Huron South Dakota. Charles Kimm, Belle Plaine, Iowa. Alice Boone, 714 Minnesota Ave., Huron, South Dakota. Maggie Johnson, No.9 Florence Ave. SW, Huron, South Dakota. Martin Kimm, Vinton, Iowa. Ella Merrfield, 203-27th Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mayme Kimm Burdicker, deceased, left the following children- Emma Coon, 1045-5th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Edna Shores, 1113 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois. Eldo Burdicker, 67 East Canfield Street, Detroit, Michigan. Earl Burdicker, 13524 Wark Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Albert Kimm, deceased, left one child Virginia Kimm, New London, Iowa Delia Kimm, died at 4 years of age and before her mother did. 3- Laura Swick, Watkins, Iowa. 4- Caroline Kimm, Blairstown, Iowa. 5- Mary Lacher, 609 SE 14th Street, Des Moines, Iowa. 6- Rosa Bausch, Atkinson, Nebraska. CENSUS: 1880 age 54 (birth Cal 1826) Birthplace Baden1880 Census - Ancestry.com, Year: 1880; Census Place: St. Clair, Benton, Iowa; Roll: T9_327; Family History Film: 1254327; Page: 301C; Enumeration Di. CENSUS: Regina SCHNEIDER Self W Female W 54 BADEN Keeping House BADEN BADEN Louis SCHNEIDER Son S Male W 26 OH Laborer BADEN BADEN Rosa S. SCHNEIDER Dau S Female W 20 OH BADEN BADEN Henry SCHNEIDER Son S Male W 14 IA BADEN BADEN Frank SCHNEIDER Son S Male W 10 IA BADEN BADEN BAPTISM: "MARIA REGINA ROTHENBERGER; Female; Birth: 31 OCT 1824 Rheinsheim, Karlsruhe, Baden; Baptism: 08 MAR 1974 LANGE; Father: JOHANN MICHAEL ROTHENBERGER; Mother: MARIA EVA KLEIN; Batch Number: 7325011 Sheet: 85 Source Call No.: 0822884 Type: Film." International Genealogical Index, Family History Library, www.familysearch.org. ENDOWMENT: "MARIA REGINA ROTHENBERGER; Female; Endowment: 20 APR 1974 LANGE. Batch Number: 7325011 Sheet: 85 Source Call No.: 0822884 Type: Film." International Genealogical Index, Family History Library, www.familysearch.org. SEALING TO PARENT: 30 APR 1974 LANGE; JOHANN MICHAEL ROTHENBERGER / MARIA EVA KLEIN; Father: JOHANN MICHAEL ROTHENBERGER; Mother: MARIA EVA KLEIN; Batch Number: 7325011 Sheet: 85Source Call No.: 0822884 Type: Film." International Genealogical Index, www.familysearch.org. | Rothenberger, Maria Regina (I390)
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| 7055 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1 Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect Dec 2002. BIOGRAPHY: 1. See mother's notes for more information. 2. Story from "Grafton, Ghost Town on the Rio Virgin" by Lyman D. and L. Karen Platt, 1998, ISBN 9-939771-11-x, page 71 and 72: "On Apr.2, 1866 Joseph and Robert M. Berry, brothers, and Mary Isabel Hales Berry, wife of Robert, who had settled in Long Valley, who had been visiting in Grafton, began their return trip by way of Short Creek (now known as Colorado City) and Kanab. They were advised that if they took this route the Indians would kill them. But they paid little attention to the warnings and left. When the Berry family did not arrive in Kanab as expected, the alarm was spread and a posse was organized. At Cedar Knoll near Short Creek there was a dry wash where the wagon, pulled by a team of mules, had to go into a deep depression and then up a steep incline to get out. The three had run their wagon trying to escape, but had been caught in this wash. When the posse reached this wash, they found the bodies of the Berry family and their mules. The Piute Indians had fallen onto them at this vantage point during their attempt to cross the wash. An arrow had hit one of the mules under the collar and caused the animal so much pain that the horse reared and bucked, giving the Indians the opportunity to surround the wagon. The victims fought bravely, but were overpowered. James H. Jennings (Cantrell, "The Indians of Grafton") reports that he was 'riding up from Toquerville with a dispatch, when I got to Grafton, they had just received word of the killing of the Berry brothers out south. A Mr. Sedwick and Palmer took the back seat out of a buggy and went out and brought the bodies into Grafton.' William B. Maxwell wrote about the Berry killings from Winsor (Mt. Carmel), on Apr. 12, 1866, to George A. Smith. Among other things he said that he believed that Joseph Smith Berry's thigh was broken in the first attack. They escaped and got back to the Kanab road with the intention of going to Ezra Strong's place but they were attacked a second time at which point one of the horses was likely wounded, which kept them from getting away, and they were surrounded and killed. '...they were shot with guns and arrows. It appears that the woman was the last to suffer; she was abused all they wanted and then shot with a gun and arrows. The bodies were neither scalped nor stripped. The brothers who were killed had with them three revolvers, one rifle, and one double-barreled shotgun. We found two of the revolvers and the rest were gone. There was one Navajo left on the ground which I am satisfied is the chief Banashaw (Pan-a-shank), known by us as Spanish Shanks. I have seen him when alive and when dead and it is the same. He is very noted, as he was very grey and also had lost his upper front teeth which was the case with this one that was killed. The Indians who were about twenty-six in number drove off from my ranch a number of cattle which had left Long Valley and gone out. The brethren were found on Saturday by some men from Grafton who were hunting stock. They were removed to Grafton and buried on Monday the 9th.'(Church Historian's Office, "Journal History of the Church" - manuscript volumes housed at the Church Historian's Library, 50 East North Temple - Apr. 12 1866, page 1). During the funeral services held at Grafton, Piute Indians came into town brazenly wearing their war bonnets and with their faces painted. They looked through the windows of the old log church house that the pioneers had built, laughed and said 'wino manik', meaning 'very good' in Piute. Captain Andrus was at the funeral and he said, 'I will make them think "very good"' and he left the service and went up the street to his home to get his rifle. The Indians apparently knew who he was for they immediately left the church and went down into the thick underbrush on the river bottom, crossed the Virgin and went into the foothills north of town. When Captain Andrus returned with his rifle, it was too late to use it." 3. The book "A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876" edited by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks, v. 2, p. 248, explanatory note #7: "The attempt to consolidate all the small villages into one strong community grew out of widespread Indian unrest and threatened attack in 1866. On Jan. 8 of that year, Dr. James M. Whitmore and Robert McIntyre were killed near Pipe Springs; on April 2, Joseph and Robert Berry and the latter's wife were killed near Short Creek. The plan and method of consolidation were outlined in the following letter from Brigham Young: 'Great Salt Lake City, May 2nd, 1866. To Pres. Erastus Snow and the Bishops and Saints of Washington and Kane Counties. Greetings. Dear Brethren, The recent occurrences in your counties, and the threatened repetition of these scenes prompt us to write to you this epistle. To save lives and the property of the people in your counties form the marauding and bloodthirsty bands which surround you, there must be thorough and energetic measures of protection taken immediately. Many of your settlements at present time are too weak to successfully resist attack, or to prevent their stock being driven off by any band of Indians, however contemptible, who may choose to make a descent upon them. These small settlements should be abandoned, and the people who formed them should, without loss of time, repair to places that can be easily defended, and that possess the necessary advantages to sustain a heavy population. There should be from 100 to 500 good and efficient men in every settlement; but not less than 150 well-armed men; and their horses should always be where they can put their hands upon them. Where there are several settlements which do not have this number of men, there should be places selected where the requisite number can concentrate. At all points where the settlements are maintained, good and substantial forts, with high walls and strong gates, should be erected, and the people move into them. Corrals also should be built, so convenient to the forts and in such a strong manner, that they can be easily guarded, and the stock kept safe in them from every attack...' It may be added that though a few outlying ranches were temporarily abandoned, the elaborate plans of defense outlined by Brigham Young were never carried out. A maximum number of settlers had already established themselves at every available spring and stream and no further concentration of population was possible because of lack of water. Only the walls of Fort Pearce were erected to protect the stock herders in the wilderness west of St. George." 4. From the book "Our Pioneer Heritage," Lesson for Nov. 1964, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, SLC, compiled by Kate B. Carter, chapter "Blackhawk Indian War," pp. 204-206: "Massacre of the Berrys. Robert Madison Berry was born February 3, 1841, and Joseph Smith Berry was born December 9, 1843, at Dresden, Weekly County, Tennessee, the sons of Jesse and Armelia Shanks Berry. About the year 1842 the Gospel message was being preached in their locality and Elders Amasa Lyman, Benjamin Cluff and Lyman Wight converted the Berry family, who left soon afterwards for Nauvoo, where Jesse Berry died. The mother and children were pioneers to Utah in 1849, settling in Spanish Fork a few years later. In 1862 John W., William, Robert and Joseph Berry with their families, were called to help colonize the St. George area. In the spring of 1866, Joseph and Robert Berry with Isabelle Hales Berry, the latter's wife, were returning from a trip to Salt Lake City. They stopped at Kanarraville and while there the two-year-old baby girl of Robert and Isabelle died. The Berrys resumed their journey, traveling in a light wagon, camping for noon, April 2, 1866, at Short Creek, where they were attacked by Piutes, who it is claimed had been following them from Corn Creek in Millard County. Their dead bodies were found several days later by John and William Berry. The details of the tragedy will never be known. It appears that they attempted to escape by running their horses across the country and finding they could not do so, fought desperately for their lives, but in vain. One dead Indian was found nearby. Joseph was found lying face down in the wagon box; his leg had been bandaged, no doubt, while they were fleeing as fast as they cold from the Indians. Isabelle had been shot through the head with a six-shooter and was lying on the ground, while Robert's body was astride the wagon tongue with the head leaning into the wagon. The Indians said afterward that Robert was a "heap brave fighter." Robert and Joseph were large men, tall of stature. The burial of these pioneers took place at Grafton, Utah. In "Church Chronology" it is recorded that this massacre occurred four miles from Maxfield's Ranch on Short Creek, Kane County, Utah. There is a small knoll between Short Creek and Kane Beds which marks the place and is called Berry Knoll. When President Young heard of this outrage on the part of the Indians, he sent word to Cedar City for the men of that place to form a company of militia and go to Berryville and escort the people back to Dixie. The late John Parry of Cedar City was a member of that escort, and furnished the writer much of the information for this sketch. Coal Creek John, Indian chief of the Cedar band of Indians who were Piutes, was one of those who killed the Berry brothers. He was large of stature, tall and commanding, with long braids hanging down and decorated with many colors. He and his braves again appeared on the scene just as the settlers were ready to leave with the escort. He was wearing a shirt which William Berry recognized as his brother's, awakening in him the spirit of revenge. He determined to kill the chief. The other settlers knew that they would all be killed if William were allowed to do as he felt, so they reasoned with him to see the result of such action. He refused to be consoled and was locked up until his anger subsided. The settlers, although very frightened that the Indians would attack them, talked peace and the red men did not cause further trouble at this time. The road through the valley ran on the west side of the creek. When the company reached a ravine in the mountains called the Calf Pasture, a small son of George Spencer wanted to ride on the mules and his father granted his wish, but he had not ridden far when he fell off and was run over and killed. The company halted and made a coffin from one of the wagon boxes and buried him at the mouth of Calf Pasture. It was near this place that a Piute Indian, Old Mose, came up to the company. When he saw how frightened the people were, he said, 'Ti-wiga Ti-ca-boo' meaning he was friendly and extended his hand for a handshake. Long after this when settlers returned, he visited among the people and often related this incident. Before he closed his visit, he would ask for flour and it was usually given to him. The hostile band again appeared when the company reached Short Creek. The settlers talked peaceably with them and any trouble that might have occurred was averted. But the people knew that the band was following them and kept a vigilant watch. The men took turns standing guard. It was June and the nights were cool. Joseph Hopkins, who stood guard toward the cool part of the early morning, wore his wife's flannel petticoat over his shoulders because he did not have a coat. They arrived at their destination in safety. When they reached Long Valley they found their crops growing nicely and unmolested. Some of the men stayed there during the summer and fall to care for the crops and finish the harvesting, while others returned with loads of provisions for their families at home. When they reached the Elephant seven miles below Mount Carmel, the Indians attacked them and there was a skirmish in which one Indian was killed. Hyrum Stevens was shot through the breast by an Indian named Humpie, but the wound was not fatal. The Indians rode off with five of their horses, so the white men were unable to haul their provisions any further. The others received orders from Major Russell of Dixie to leave their crops on the ground and return to Dixie. They left the valley where the Zion-Carmel Highway now takes off, going over Bernt Flat, thence to Blue Springs on Kolob and from there to Virgin and Rockville. Hyrum Stevens rode a horse the whole distance as it was less painful than to ride in a wagon. He had been shot with a musket army gun, and it was three days before the bullet was removed. Then it was cut out with a dull knife. His wife, hearing of the accident, had come to meet them with a wagon and team, but he preferred riding the horse. He was 26 years old at the time and recovered, raised a large family and lived to the age of 83 years. In passing over the area at Elephant afterwards, the settlers found large holes where the Indians had buried the corn and potatoes that had been left lying on the ground, and which had later been dug up and used by the Indians. The next spring the settlers came into Long Valley again and took back grain and potatoes which they had stored the fall before. - Hattie Esplin." 5. Received from Don and Carolyn Adair, 2003. Mary E. Adair Adams was a daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair, also in this database - see his notes for full quotation. The following parts are her contact with the murder site of the Berrys: "Mary E. Adair (1858-1926). A Short Sketch of the Life of Mary Elizabeth Adair Adams: Mary Elizabeth Adair was born at Washington, Washington County, Utah on April 15, 1858 to Thomas Jefferson Adair and Mary Vancil Adair. She was the first white girl born in the town of Washington. Her parents were pioneers of the early days in Dixie (Southern Utah.) While Mary was still young her parents and their family of eight children moved to Kanab then to Upper Pahreah, Kane County, Utah. On this trip their company was the first to find the camp and the murdered bodies of the Berry Brothers and wife. The Indians had killed them near Pipe Springs on Short Creek. After the family got to Kanab Mary saw an Indian with one of the men's clothes on. She always dreaded that road after that. She was of a nervous disposition and was so afraid of Indians. She spent a miserable young life in new countries. At the age 17 Mary met John S. Adams at a fourth of July dance. They were married the next spring on May 17, 1876. John and Mary Adams had thirteen children over the next 24 years. Mary and J.S. went to Long Valley (near Orderville, Utah) to live... In 1889 John S. Adams concluded he could make more freighting with oxen than with four horses so he traded the four horses for six oxen. But he had to walk so much to drive the oxen and he got his feet wet so often, he contracted rheumatics from which he suffered terribly and in 1892 the Dr. at Fort Apache advised him to move to a warmer locality so the family of Father, Mother, and eight daughters and one son started for Dixie Utah with two wagons and four horses on the third of May 1893. John S. was hardly able to get in and out of the wagon for the first few days. But grew better as the climate changed so Mary E. and her girls had to take most of the responsibility of the first part of the trip. They managed very well until they came to the Winslow crossing of the Little Colorado River. When they arrived there they found that a few days before a loaded wagon had gone down in the quicksand. Most of the load had been carried out but they could still see the box of the wagon above the water. So they were afraid to cross and their father knew of an old road without crossing the river if they went through the old settlement of Sunset on the Little Colorado River. So they started on this old road knowing they would have to make road some of the way. This was a very hard day on the whole family. The family was camped quite far from they spring they had to get water from because it got about dark before they got in sight of the trees at the spring. The horses were tired so they camped and John S. and his son, Ben, took the horses and canteens and went to get water. Just after they left those left behind could see a company of about sixty Navajo Indians on the road on the other side of the river. They had been to Flagstaff trading and were drunk. Mary and her children were sure frightened. John S. and his son, Ben, had gotten to the spring when they heard the Indians coming. They got the horses in the willows until the Indians passed. The father got back into camp about 11 o'clock. The next day they went to the Indian trading post on the Little Colorado River. There they saw a sheep with two heads and tails alive and well. They went from there to Moencopi, now Tuba City. They had to stay there for a week because the Indians were angry over a cowboy whipping an Indian with his quirt. Their wagons were searched. Mary was sure nervous. The family crossed the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry two days after leaving Moencopi. The river's water was high so they had to wait three days before they could cross. This was a very hard trip on Mary. Mary showed her children where the Berry brothers and wife were killed by Indians when she was a girl..." BIRTH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. DEATH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. 2. Death info from Grafton Cemetery as noted in the book "Grafton, Ghost Town on the Rio Virgin" by Lyman D. and L. Karen Platt, 1998, ISBN 9-939771-11-x, p. 142/143 which also notes birth date of 3 Feb 1863 and death date of 2 Apr 1866. BURIAL: 1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. 2. Per website 3. Photo of cemetery and gravestone on file. Tombstone reads: "Robert M. Berry, Born Feb. 3, 1841, Killed by Indians Apr. 2, 1866." | Berry, Robert Matheson or Madison (I1310)
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| 7056 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. 1870 census, GS 34412 pt 293,pg 398, show Anders at age 37 and wife at age 26 (she was born in Vestervig parish). 3 children are listed: Niels Marius Soe, age 4; Peder Pedersen, age 2; and Anton Christian Pedersen, age under 1. Census is of Vestervig, Thisted, Denmark of possibly farm or area called Toppenberg. 2. 1880 census of same area shows Anders and wife, ages 47 and 36, and 8 children ranging from Niels Marius Soe, age 14, down to Ane Margrethe, age 1. 3. See Family Search for this individual to see an old photo of the family farm. The farm was originally called Røjkjærand was bought about 1838 by our ancestor Peder Poulsen who died there in 1874. He apparently split the farm between two of his sons into Vester (West) and Oester (East) Røjkjær. The Vester farm would be in front of the house and the Oester would be more or less behind the house. This location was always used in church records and even tombstones for the family. The Vester farm went to the son Anders and the Oester farm went to Poul Pedersen, who was our ancestor who came to America. He apparently sold his half of the farm to pay for his way to America. The Vester farm remained with the Anders side and is in the hands of the Stephansen family who are descendants of Anders. The last resident of the farm was Poul Richardt Pedersen, who died in 2014 as a bachelor. Two years before he died, he sold the farm to the Stephansens, who are across the road at Ydbyvej 34. Claus is the current resident of the Stephansen farm and his parents Kaj and Ragnhild live in Hurup as of 2016. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Father's family moved from Hurup to Vestervig 20 Apr 1838 per entry in "Move-ins" parish records of Vestervig, Thisted, Denmark GS 9935 pt 3. Copy in files of Kerry Petersen. Lists children and ages. Jens Andersen sold Roikjar to Peder Poulsen 5 Apr 1838. Translation and valuation of deed in files of Kerry Petersen. 2. Farm was divided in two, and one part 4A was sold to Poul Pedersen 29 Jul 1867, and 4Y sold to Anders Pedersen. BIRTH: 1. Parish registers of Hurup, Thisted, Denmark GS film 9893, pt. 1 with copy in files of Kerry Petersen. MARRIAGE: 1. Parish register for Vestervig, Denmark. GS 9935, pt4. BURIAL: 1. Photo in file of Kerry Petersen of well kept tombstone in Vestervig churchyard showing Anders Pedersen born in Hurup 30 Apr 1832, died at Vester- RøjkjærFarm, 26 Nov (year unclear in picture) with his wife Inger Kathrine Pedersen born Christensen (dates and locations a bit unclear in picture but death was also at Røjkjær). 2. Transcription of obituary translated and typed (copy in file of Frederrike Lovise Christensen's file) with no date or name of newspaper given. Obtained from papers in the possession of Jack Petersen: "(Newspaper article) 'Eight Sons Carry their Dead Father to the Grave: At the burial of the farmer from Berter Rojkaer in the county of Vestervig, Anders Pedersen, the old dead father was carried to the grave by his eight sons which was not only beautiful but also impressive. All sons lived in Vestervig county, the five oldest married, and home owners. Besides the eight sons there are three daughters.' (end)" 3. Per Vestervig Church burial book located onsite at the cemetery and viewed 23 Sep 2016 by Kerry Petersen. Date is given in the book as 26 Nov 1909 for the death and 6 Dec 1909 for the burial date. 4. As of 2016, the tombstone has been removed and disposed of. | Pedersen, Anders (I1733)
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| 7057 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. 20 Apr 2002 Ancestry.com database: "tedcox3" reports 10 children born between Feb 1837 and Jan 1857 in the following counties and states: Henry, Indiana; Caldwell, MO; Adams, IL; Hancock, IL; Pottawattamie, IA; Harrison, IA; and Mill, IA. 2. Censuses: 1820 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 195, township had a little over 40 families; related families include James Lackey, Michael Stoker, and Michael Graybill. In neighboring Madison Township, related families David Stoker, Peter Graybill, Nancy (Graybill) Henson, and James McDaniel are found. Columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: Michael Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,1//1,1,0,0,1. [Appears to be Michael, his wife Catherine, and their children John, Michael, Rebecca, Catherine, Jacob, and Eller; the three oldest appear gone in this census.] Michael Graybill: 3,0,0,0,1,0//1,0,0,1,0. James Lackey: 2,2,1,2,0,1//1,2,1,1,5. 1830 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 109-112, note whole township had 527 people living in it, related families include Michael Stoker, Michael Stoker Jr., Alexander Lackey, James Welker, Michael Graybill, and John Stoker: Michael Stoker. Males 10-15: 1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. Females 10-15:1; 50-60:1. [Family appears to be Michael, his wife Catherine, and their two youngest sons Jacob and Eller; unsure who the girl age 10-15 may be.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 134b, dwelling 1117, household 1117; neighbors: Eller Stoker and Jacob Stoker: Jacob Stoker, 39, NC. Cathern, 34, OH. Nancy, 12, MO. Hyrum, 7, IL. George, 2, IA Adline, 1, F, IA. 1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Census return: Stoker: Jacob 38, Catharine 34, Nancy 12, Hiram 8, George W. 3, Adaline M. 1. [Note that the following related families are in this census and very close neighbors: Simeon P. Graybill, Michael/Polly Graybill with Polly's mother Catherine Eller Stoker, Eller/Margaret Stoker, Jacob/Catherine Stoker, Philip/Catherine Gatrost, David/Barbara Stoker, Edward/Sarah Davis, and William/Almira Stoker. Other relatives in same county but separated by several pages of census include the following families: Thomas/Hannah Pilling whose daughter Hannah, later marries William Lenore Graybill, Levi/Patience Graybill, John W./Sarah Stoker, Hannah Ford whose son Martin later marries Zibiah M. Stoker, and John/Sarah Smith.] 1852 Iowa: the census has Jacob Stoker in Kanesville, Pottawattamie, IA, p. 26. This census is statistical and only lists heads of household with numbers of males, females, and voters. It is not very helpful for families or positively identifying a given individual. The following Stokers are shown as being in the same area: David, Eller, Jacob, John, and William as well as Michael Graybill, Martin Ford, Philip Gatrost, John Smith, George Graybill, and Levi Graybill. 1854 Iowa: Harrison Co., Iowa, FHL film 1022206: Jacob Stoker, 3 males, 3 females, 1 voter, 1 militia, 6 total. 1856 Iowa: Council Bluffs Township, Mills, IA, shows family as residing in state for 10 years: Jacob Stoker, 44, NC. Catharin A., 39, OH. Nancy A., 17, MO. Hirum, 13, IL. George, 8, IA. Adaline, 6, IA. King, 2, IA. Margret, IA. 1860 US: Placerville, El Dorado, California, p. 26 of 44, 7 Jul 1860, 1671/1671: Jacob Stoker, 46, teamster, NC. Catherine, 42, OH. Hyrman, 17, IL. Geo. W., 12, IL. Adaline, 10, IA. King L., m. 6, IA. M.A., 5, IA. 1870 US: Can't find. 1880 US: Silver Cliff, Custer, Colorado, p. 308A, NA film T9-0089 (all are listed as miners): Jacob Stoker, self, W, 68, OH. King E. Stoker, son, S, 25, IA, OH, OH. Robert Flowers, other, M, 24, IA, OH, OH. [Possible relation?] Wm. H. Traver, other, S, 21, IA. [Possible grandson.] Robert Cleveland, other, S, 43, Scot, Scot, Scot. 3. Daughter America Stoker b. 16 Jan 1846 in Hancock Co., Illinois and d. 7 May 1847 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. Burial: the following name is found on a new memorial stone with 33 other related family members at Graybill/Stoker Cemetery: "America Stoker 1846-1847." It is 3 miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa in Garner Township on old Highway 6 (also known as McPherson Highway - not to be confused with the new Highway 6), then a right (south) on State Orchard Road for 9/10ths of a mile, then left (east) on Cedar Lane to the first driveway on the left (north). The address is 21090 Cedar Lane and the cemetery is in their backyard. Get permission from the homeowner first. These directions were corrected from previous directions after my visit May 8, 2007. 4. Twins Peter Stoker and Julia Stoker b. 18 Dec 1851 and Peter d. Dec 1851 and Julia d. 1857 all in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. Burial: the following name is found on a new memorial stone with 33 other related family members at Graybill/Stoker Cemetery: "Peter Stoker 1851-1851." It is 3 miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa in Garner Township on old Highway 6 (also known as McPherson Highway - not to be confused with the new Highway 6), then a right (south) on State Orchard Road for 9/10ths of a mile, then left (east) on Cedar Lane to the first driveway on the left (north). The address is 21090 Cedar Lane and the cemetery is in their backyard. Get permission from the homeowner first. These directions were corrected from previous directions after my visit May 8, 2007. [Note 17 May 2002 Ancestry.com database tedcox.3 states death date as 25 May 1853 without documentation.] 5. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 6. From Sep 2006 Internet, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge.2509/brownson.html: It appears the Stoker family probably knew the Seymour Brunson family of nearby Lawrence Co., Ohio. Brunson had served with Luke Johnson in 1832. In 1833 he is again with Luke in the area as are Zerubbabel Snow and Amasa Lyman. He is also specifically in Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio in Nov. 1834 when his son his born and also per letters he wrote. He appears generally in Kirtland thereafter. His journal notes that in July 1836 he visited the church in Bloomfield. He does note the baptism of John Stoker 13 Nov 1837. It was at his funeral in Nauvoo in 1840 that Joseph Smith first revealed the doctrine of baptisms for the dead. 7. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," which is quoted in its entirety in the notes of David Stoker: "By August of 1815 David and Barbara had settled into family life in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. It was on the 24 August 1815 that their first child was born: Christine Stoker. By the spring of 1816, David's parents had also joined them on the new frontier of the Ohio River Valley. David and his father, Michael, are listed on the Jackson County, Ohio, voting registry for an election that was held on 1 April 1816. Also, David's youngest brother, Eller, was born in Bloomfield, Ohio... David and his family are not listed on the 1830 census records for Ohio or Indiana. (The family of John Stoker listed on the 1830 census in Ohio is that of David's brother, John W. Stoker.)... Between the years of 1830 to 1836 David and Barbara Stoker along with some of the extended family received missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of these missionaries were: Seymour Brunson, John A. Fisher, and Luke Johnson. All baptized members of the Stoker family into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Stoker (David's son) was baptized by Seymour Brunson and Luke Johnson in 1834. David's younger brother, Michael Jr., baptized Barbara in 1836. ('LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.' Andrew Johnson Vol 2 pg. 252. Luke Johnson, Autobiography in 'Millennial Star' 1864, Lewis p 92) Some members of the Graybill family also joined the church as their baptismal dates and offices they held within the church are listed in the records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. An article in the local paper records that there was strong religious persecution against members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Vega area. This fighting lead to some families leaving Vega. ('Jackson Herald,' Friday, February 27, 1959 and cited in Jim Stoker's Stoker history 1993) It was in the fall and winter of 1836 that David Stoker, his father, Michael, with their families and some of the Graybill families left the Ohio valley traveling west. On the 15 August 1838, David bought 52+ acres of land in Harrison County, Indiana. His brother, William, bought 120 acres in Madison County, Indiana. (Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States- General land Office, records of the Ohio River Valley Survey) Other members of the extended Stoker family were already living in Indiana. David's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, James Welker, were married in Henry County, Indiana in 1828, and it's possible that their first son was born there. Albert Koons, a relative of Catherine Eller (David's mother), lived in Henry County, Indiana along with other Eller families. (The Indiana connections need to be fully researched to understand the detail of the different families movements.)... The census records and genealogical family groups sheets illustrate some of David and Barbara's journeys. The history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints records members of the Graybill, McDaniel, and Welker families migrated west staying with the main body of the church to settle in Caldwell County, Missouri, near the town of Far West. [Picture, pg. 61: "Caldwell County, Missouri. Township 55 North of the base line. Range 28 west of the 5th principal meridian. Section 8 NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 John W. Stoker's land -1837. Section 8 SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 James Welker's land -1837. Section 9 SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 Eller Stoker's land -1837. (From the map archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)")... During July of 1837 three families of the Stoker clan filed forty acre land deeds in Missouri. They were located seven to eight miles southeast of Far West, Missouri in the Grant Township near Log Creek. They were: James Welker (brother-in-law to David), Eller, and John W. Stoker (David's brothers). (Vital statistics indicate other family members were in this area, but no land records have been located at this time.)... The next notable record of David and his family are found in the 'Redress Petition' to the United States government on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This petition listed all those who lost property and effects due to the "Mormon Expulsion" order given by the governor of Missouri. This order simply stated that all of the Mormon church people had to immediately leave or die. Groups of raiding parties against the church members ensured the order was carried out to the extreme. The Stokers and their relatives reported that these 'mobs' had stolen their plow, wagons, tools, mill wheel, beehives, pigs, and horses. Their furniture was damaged, guns and rifles taken, and crops and homes were burned. There are 36 family members listed on the petition. ('History of the Church,' Vol 4) The following is one journal recounts how volatile the Log Creek area became: "A sketch that I was an eye witness to in the State of Missourie Charles C. Rich on the 24th of October 1838 Messengers Come into Farwest stating that the mob was on Log Creek burning houses and Loaded waggons and threatening the lives of the people those was a few men Sent out to ascertain the movements of the mob these men returned a bout eleven O clock at night Stating that thare had been considerable Damage Done and also that they had taken three of the Brethern prisoners and intended to kill them..." (Stoker 1993). David's nephew and the son of Polly Stoker Graybill, recorded this time also: "I went with my father's family and others, to Caldwell County, Missouri, in the autumn of 1837, and was with the Saints there in their time of terrible trials. We planted a crop which we were never allowed to harvest. I was a member of the State Militia under Colonel Hinkle. The mob came upon us near Farr West, in October, 1838... for weeks they had been stealing and driving off our stock, taking a team of horses from my father, and all the horses I owned" (ibid). By 1840 the Missouri Governor's expulsion order had forced every member of the church to leave their homes, many fled into Illinois for safety. David's father, Michael, died during this event. One family tradition is that he was buried in the "Saint's Cemetery" in Far West. (There have been no records found as to when and where he died or is buried.)... Other church members fled into Adams County, Illinois as the local citizens promised them safety. David, his brothers, and brother in law found work on farms south of Columbus, Illinois. The 1840 census records for Adams County, list David, his son John, and their extended families. After taking time to restock and restore, the Stoker families moved further west as did the body of their church; into the state of Illinois. Their prophet and leader, Joseph Smith sent word to all church members to gather in and around the town of Commerce, Hancock County, Illinois where they could homestead new land and start over. It was a piece of swamp land on the bend of the Mississippi River heavily infested with disease carrying insects. The people drained the swamp land and built a city that housed thousands of church members. The name of Commerce was changed to Nauvoo. Tax and historical records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints show that some of the Stoker families settled a few miles south of the city of Nauvoo... David's brother, Eller Stoker, owned land along the "Carthage road" between the cities of Nauvoo and Carthage. Most of the family members settled in the Bear Creek Township twenty miles south of Nauvoo. (Historical Records, Nauvoo, Illinois) County historical records list "Bear Creek" as the name of a city, township, and river but all names encompass the same area. Bear Creek was used as a timber and corn producing area. Today corn and soybean farms still cover all of the prairie flats with old trees growing along the water ways. Bear Creek is itself a slow moving creek; with steep banks in places giving indications of the water power the creek can have in flood stages. Residents of the farm town of Basco, Hancock County, Illinois still refer to this area as Bear Creek. Basco's official records begin in 1876. Today Bear Creek city and towns are only a remnant of it's former size as the settler's descendants are forced to move out to the larger towns to earn a living. Early Church references to Bear Creek are: 1. Missionary town where the Saints lived among non-Mormons included Carthage, Bear Creek, La Harpe, and Fountain Green. ('Historical Atlas of Mormonism,' p.56) 2. Went to Bear creek, visited the Saints, held meeting, and preached on the subject of the building of the Nauvoo House and temple;... (Watson p.131) 3. Went to Knowlton Settlement on Bear Creek... (Watson p.160) [Picture, pg. 67: "Log Creek Today. This is the general area of what would have been some of the Stoker families holdings. Located south of Kingston, Missouri."] [Picture, pg. 67: "Trees in the background line Log Creek today. Except for the creek all is farm land."] The Final Expulsion Order Religious persecutions again plagued the fledgling church. During the winter of 1846, the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were again asked to leave. Peaceably at first, but eventually they were driven out in the same fashion as from Missouri. Members were forced to leave their newly built homes and anything they could not put in the wagons or carry. This time they fled across the Mississippi River into the unknown Iowa territory. Mormon journals from the residents living in Bear Creek record the trials they went through. Mobs were again burning homes to force the Saints to leave even though they were not fully prepared for a journey. The Bear Creek region is close to the town of Warsaw, Illinois, a place where these mobs could gather and/or flee for safety. Listed below are journal entries from people who lived in the Bear Creek area. I have included this information to give the reader a sense of what the Stoker families endured. 1. "...On reaching a point midway (between Warsaw and Carthage) they were informed of new depredation by the mob. The sheriff then sent his family to Nauvoo under a small guard and proceeded to the scene of the mobbers. The mobbers saw them coming and took a flight, the posse pursuing with orders to arrest them if possible, if not to fire upon them. After pursuing them for some distance the posses fired upon them and killed two, and wounded it is believed others. This was on Bear Creek about two o'clock this afternoon." (Hosea Stout p39, 40) 2. "On Saturday, the 5th inst., as Pres. Joseph Smith was on his return from Quincy, to which place he had accompanied Pres. Hyrum Smith and William Law, on their mission to the East, he was arrested, at the Bear Creek Hotel,..." (Times and Seasons, Vol 2., p447) 3. "...I made ginger beer to sell this summer and I tended the Nauvoo House meat market, good guard, etc. until the 1st of September [1845] and then there began to be trouble in the regions of Bear Creek, Carthage and Warsaw, so that we had to fly to arms again to protect ourselves against the mob..." (Allen Stout p.23) 4. "July harvested my wheat, which was on ground rented of Mr. Ezra Chase. It was very heavy, but owing to the heavy rains all summer, there was not so good a yield as was expected. During the fall and shortly after harvest, there were a great many buildings burned in the southern part of the county, belonging to the brethren on Bear Creek and Morely settlements. I went on one or two expeditions to repel the burners. To go through a thickly settled portion of country and see where had stood houses, barns, stacks, but now burned to the ground and some tragedies enacted amongst a nation claiming to have attained to the height of civilization. I was not surprised nor grieved to hear that the mob had said that we must, as a people, leave the ensuing spring, as soon as grass grew and water runs and that the authorities of our church had assented to these proposals." (Lorenzo Brown Journal BYU-S p.10) 5. "This is the number as usually stated, Gregg says: "For a week the burning continued until the whole of Morley-Town was in ashes, with many other residences in the Bear Creek region and that of Green Plains. In all it is stated that as Many as 100 or 125 houses were burned and their occupants driven off." (History of Hancock County p.340) 6. "In a very few days afterwards, bands of organized mobbers commenced the work of burning our houses in Yelrom, Green Plains and Bear Creek settlements, and throughout the country." (George Albert Smith p.22) 7. "Governor Ford puts the number at 175, houses and hovel that were burnt the inmates having to flee for their lives." (History of Illinois p.407) Between 1847 and 1857 there were at least twelve family members that passed away. Included were: David Stoker who died on the 27 May 1852, his brother: John W. Stoker and his wife Electa Sarah McDaniel, David's brother, Eller Stoker, Michael Graybill (Mary's (Polly) husband), three children of Jacob Stoker and Catherine Burcham, two of John W. Stoker and Electa Sarah McDaniel, and two children of Michael Jr. and Martha McDaniel. It is believed that they with many others are buried in the family cemetery on the east edge of Council Bluffs... William and his wife, Almira Winger, settled in Spanish Fork, Utah." BIOGRAPHY: 1. Susan Easton Black, compiler, "Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," (Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1993, copy in Family History Library in Salt Lake City): "Stoker, Jacob, Birth: 12 (7) April 1812, Ash County, North Carolina. Jacob Stoker was baptized a member of the [RLDS] on 8 Oct. 1863 by W.W. Blair. He was confirmed by W.W. Blair, Geo. Morey, and T. Hougas. Sources: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-71, book A, pp. 162, 308, 430; The History of the [RLDS], p. 332." 2. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of Jacob and Catherine Stoker. 3. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124: P. 87: Michael Stoker, the son of (John) Michael Stoker, was a 28 year old bachelor in Wilkes County, NC when the US census was taken in 1790. The farm which Michael Stoker bought from John Dick was on the north fork of New River in Ashe County. (The boundary line had been changed from Wilkes.) In 1792 Michael married Catherine Eller, the oldest daughter of Peter Eller and Elizabeth Dick. The Ellers and Dicks were settlers in this same area and all of Michael and Catherine's children, except Eller, were born and raised among numerous family members in North Carolina. In 1815, the family joined a migration of relatives moving west into Ohio. This party of Graybills and Stokers, all ages from babies to the elderly crossed the border into Ohio on Christmas Day, 1815. Michael and his son David, who had just turned 21, took part in the first election held in Jackson County on April 1, 1816. John Michael Stoker, Michael's father, settled in Perry County, Ohio, about 60 miles north. While in Ohio the Stokers became members of the newly organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1837 [error: Feb 1836?], Michael, Jr., who was now a man and a member of the Priesthood, baptized Eller's future wife and her mother, Margaret and Rhoda Judd. Pauline Stoker of Council Bluffs has Michael Jr.'s old notebook where he kept records of baptisms, birthdays and deaths. On October 27, 1836, Michael and Catherine Stoker sold their land in preparation of the move to Missouri where the Saints were gathering. Michael was then 74 and Catherine 63 years old. Great persecutions took place in Missouri during the next two years and the family had to flee to Illinois for safety. Michael was not among those who reached Illinois, and how or when he died is not known. Catherine was at Nauvoo, IL, when the Saints again had to flee in February of 1846. She settled in Pottawattamie County, living with her eldest daughter, Polly, where she died. She is buried in the Stoker-Graybill Cemetery east of Council Bluffs, Iowa." Also noted: "Jacob Stoker, b. 7 Apr 1812, d. 22 Feb 1893, m. Catherine Burcham." 4. Part of the Stoker family group mentioned in sister Polly (Stoker) Graybill's biography in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 17-24, note that this book has a considerable downline of the children of this couple: "Michael Peter Graybill, b. 14 May 1787, Jefferson, Wilkes Co. (now Ashe Co.), NC; d. 24 Sep 1856, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., IA; bur. in the Graybill-Stoker Pioneer Cemetery; Pottawattamie Co, IA; md. 1811, Ashe Co., NC to Mary 'Polly' Stoker. Michael was the s/o John Peter Graybill and Christena Wampler. Polly was b. 24 Nov 1792, Ashe Co. [Wilkes], NC; d. 18 Feb 1864, Pottawattamie Co., IA; bur. in the Graybill-Stoker Pioneer Cemetery. She was the eldest child of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller... Michael and Polly left North Carolina probably in early 1816, and settled in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. Michael's parents, Peter Sr. and Christena (Wampler) Graybill, accompanied them; also, Michael's brother Henry and sister Barbara who had married Polly's brother David Stoker. Polly's parents, Michael and Catherine (Eller) Stoker, and other Stokers also made the journey with them. [Also John Graybill?] In the early 1830's, the family was visited by Missionary John Fisher from Bloomfield Twp. and was introduced to the early Latter Day Saints church. Those who were old enough were baptized in 1833. Involved in the church, Michael Graybill Sr. and related families anxiously followed the news from Independence, MO. The wanted to gather with the Saints in Caldwell Co., MO to be part of Zion, the new Jerusalem. Michael sold his farm to his father, Peter Graybill Sr., who along with Henry, Michaels' brother, and sister Celia (Graybill) Henson, decided to stay in OH. In 1836, Michael and other relatives packed to make the trip to Far West, MO. They spent the winter with Stoker relatives in Monroe Co., IN, then arrived at Far West in September 1837. The family withstood the dangers and aggravations of mob attacks. They endured many hardships. They had their plows, wagons and horses taken and even their first crop was taken just before it was harvested. With no provisions of food for the coming winter, Michael's sons, Simeon and Levi, left to look for work. They found jobs chopping railroad ties for the Eastern Railroad in Hannibal, MO. But they were unable to collect their pay until the following spring of 1839, when they were allowed to take the amount of their earnings out in goods. This allowed them to obtain wagons and horses and move the related families to Quincy and Nauvoo, IL. Michael Sr. and his family, Simeon's family and Catherine (Eller) Stoker's lived eleven miles southeast of Quincy, IL. After the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844, Simeon went to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful that the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph's and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for the public burial. By 1846, most of Nauvoo had been vacated. Michael Sr.'s and Levi's families had gone west and settled in Kanesville, now Council Bluffs, IA. Some of the related families went on to UT. Michael Sr.'s daughters, Juliana and Mary Ann, were among those who went to UT. Michael Sr.'s sister Barbara (Graybill) Stoker went to UT later. Michael's and Polly's children were David, Catherine, Simeon Peter, Joseph Levi, George Washington, William Lenore, Juliann or (Julia Ann?) Michael S., Jr., Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Sidney Rigdon and Christina." 5. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 118-122: "Jacob Stoker, b. 7 Apr 1812, in Ashe Co., NC; d. 22 Feb 1893, at Adeladia, San Luis Obispo Co., CA. He m. 8 Oct 1835 in Lawrence Co., OH, Catherine Burcham, b. 14 Aug 1817 in Lawrence Co., OH; d. 28 Aug 1898, at Adelaida, CA. He lies buried at Sims Ranch and she at San Miguel, both places in San Luis Obispo. Co., CA. She was a dau. of John and Nancy Burcham. According to family records which give the dates and places of birth of their eleven children, they lived, prior to settling in California, successively in Caldwell Co., MO, Adams Co., IL, Hancock Co. IL, Pottawattamie Co., IA, Harrison Co., IA and Mills Co. IA. An account in a county record book of San Luis Obispo Co., CA, published in 1917, which recorded the marriage, 18 Nov 1870, of their daughter Adeline Melissa Etta Stoker to Isaac Sims, says the family consisting of the parents and five children left Council Bluffs, Iowa (Pottawattamie Co.) by ox team in 1859 and travelled as far as Salt Lake City, UT where they spent the winter. In the spring of 1860 they moved on to Placerville, CA and later in the same year to a ranch near Sacramento. From here they removed to Nevada and in late years lived with their daughter Mrs. Isaac Sims in San Luis Obispo Co., CA where both died and are buried. The children of Jacob Stoker and his wife Catherine Burcham were: John Stoker, b. 11 Feb 1837; d. 13 Aug 1839 in Adams Co., IL. Nancy Stoker, b. 21 Dec 1838 in Caldwell co., MO; d. 27 Sep 1920 in San Jose, CA; m. 25 Mar 1857, Mr. Traver, prob. William Traver. Joseph Stoker, b. and d. 3 May 1841 in Adams Co., IL. Hiram Stoker, b. 7 Apr 1842/43 in Hancock Co., IL; d. 16 Jun 1925 at Lovelock, NV; m. 7 Mar 1869 Cornelia Virginia Stauts, b. 15 May 1852 in Philadelphia, PA; d. 22 Jul 1945 at Lovelock, NV. She was a dau. of William R. and Hannah (Pencer) Stauts who left their home in Philadelphia in 1862 travelling by train to the end of the new railroad at Florence and then by ox team to Carson City, Nevada, pausing on the way, for a short itme, at Salt Lake City. They then journeyed on to Empire, Nevada, finally settling a few miles east of Carson City. Here she met and married Hiram Stoker who was carrying on a profitable teamster business. The family lived in Palisade and then in Bullion, Nevada and in 1888 settled in Elko. Here the family lived until 1892 when it removed to Lovelock Valley in Pershing County, Nevada where it settled upon 240 acres of unimproved land that became one of the county's most prominent and prosperous ranches. Hiram Stoker was a prominent citizen in all places where he lived. He started his teamster's enterprise in Sacramento, CA where he hauled the foundation stones for the State Capitol and conducted a freight serveice between Sacrament, CA and Virginia City, NV. He was and ardent Lincoln supporter and took an active interest in state and national politics. On his Lovelock Valley ranch he cleared land, built canals to distribute water to them and was the inventor of the then famous Lovelock Valley hay loader and other farm equipment. [Biographies of his 7 children and many grandchildren follow in the book.] America Stoker, b. 16 Jan 1846 in Hancock Co., IL; d. 7 May 1847 in Pottawattamie Co., IA. George Washington Stoker, b. 18 Feb 1848 in Pottawattamie Co., IA; d. 5 Feb 1937 at San Miguel, CA; m. 18 Aug 1871 Sarah Jane Downing. Adeline Melissa Etta Stoker, b. 2 Nov 1849 in Pottawattamie Co, IA; d. 1930 in San Jose CA; m. 18 Nov 1870 Isaac Sims. Both lie buried in the cemetery at San Miguel, CA. Isaac Sims was born in Indiana in 1838, the 4th child of Matthew Sims who removed to Calif. in 1857 in what was called the Capt. Derby train. Peter Stoker, b. 18 Dec 1851, in Pottawattamie Co., IA; d. Dec. 1851. Julia Stoker, b. 18 Dec 1851, twin with Peter; d. 25 May 1853 in Pottawattamie Co., IA. King E. Stoker, b. 5 Aug 1855 in Harrison Co., IA; d. 1934 in California; m. 1884 Ella Dover. Margaret Stoker, b. 8 Jan 1857 in Mills Co., IA; d. 7 Feb 1876 in Carson City, NV; m. 25 Aug 1873, William Withrew. Known child (1) Arthur L. Witherew." 6. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 98: Michael Stoker/Catherine Eller, born Mar. 9, 1773 [the 9 is overwritten over the 6]. Children: Polly Stoker, born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb. 7, 1864. David Stoker, born Mar. 23, 1795, died May 27, 1852. Elizabeth Stoker, born Feb. 28, 1800. John W. Stoker, born May 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. Michael Stoker, Jr., born Feb. 10, 1805. Rebecca Stoker, born Mar. 19, 1807. Catherine Stoker, born July 19, 1809. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker/Margaret, born July 28, 1816, died July 18, 1855. 101: Catherine Eller, wife of Michael Stoker born Mar. 6th 1773. John W. Stoker, son of above parents, born Mar. 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. David Stoker was born 23 March 1795, died May 27, 1852. Polly Stoker (Graybill), born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb 7, 1864. Michael Stoker, born July 10, 1805. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker, born July 28, 1815, July 18, 1855. Elizabeth Stoker (Walker), born Feb 28, 1800. 108: Jacob Stoker, born Apr. 7, 1812, North Carolina. 180-181: Catherine Stoker, daughter of Peter Eller and Elizabeth was born March the 9th, 1773 in the State of North Carolina, Rowan County. Jacob Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller was born April 7th, 1812, Ashe County, State of North Carolina. Michael Graybill, son of Peter Graybill and Christenia Wampler was born May 1787, North Carolina, Ash County. Eller Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Katherine Eller was born July 28th, 1816, Ohio, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township, died July 18, 1855. Margaret Judd Stoker, daughter of John Judd and Rhoda Shepherd was born May 29th, 1822, North Carolina, Wilks County. Michael Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Katherine Eller was born Feby 10th, 1805, North Carolina, Ash Co. 7. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). Includes 70s record with those of John Stoker. It states Jacob lived in Bear Creek Township of Hancock County, Illinois. He was in Quorum 3. He was endowed as a Seventy. He lived in Mill County, Iowa in 1857. 8. From an article entitled "The Family" from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. For the full transcriptional listing of the descendants of Michael Stoker and Catherine Stoker, see the notes of Michael Stoker - the following only pertains to this immediate family. Generation "1" is Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller: "The Michael Stoker Family as existed at the time of his death. Those names that are [bracketed] probably were involved in the Missouri experience... 2. [Jacob Stoker], born Apr 7, 1812 in Ashe Co., NC, married [Catherine BURCHAM]. Traveling by ox team the family left Iowa in 1859 and spent the winter in Salt Lake City before going on to Placerville, CA in 1860. Later that same year they moved to a ranch near Sacrament. Jacob was baptized a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Oct 8, 1863 by W. W. Blair probably in Iowa. He was no doubt a freighter. Jacob moved to Nevada and then in the late years of their lives, he and Catherine lived with their daughter, Mrs. Isaac Sims in San Luis Obispo Co., CA. Jacob is buried at the Sims Ranch and his wife is buried at San Miguel, San Luis Obispo Co., CA. 3. John Stoker, born Feb 11, 1837, died Aug 13 1839 in Adams Co., IL. 3. Nancy Stoker, born Dec 21, 1838 in Caldwell Co., MO, married William Traver. She died in San Jose, CA." 9. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The following members of Michael Stoker's family attached their names to a petition in 1843 that they had lived in Missouri and had been driven from their state:(21) David Stoker [Michael's son David (1795-1852)], John Stoker [possibly David's son, John (1817-1881) or Michael's son, John W. (1803-1857)], John McDaniels (1812-1884) [David's son-in-law, husband of his oldest daughter, Christine (1815-1854)], Elles Stoker (1816-1855) [Eller, Michael's youngest son], Mary Stoker (1822-1890) [probably Margaret Judd, Eller's wife]. Catharine Stoker (1773-after 1850) [Michael's wife, Catharine Eller], Jacob Stoker (1812-1893) [Michael's son], Catharine Stoker [Catharine Burcham, Jacob's wife], John Stoker (1803-1857) [Michael's son, John W. Stoker], Sarah Stoker (1806-1857) [John W. Stoker's wife, Electa Sarah McDaniel]. Geo. Graybill (1821-?) [Michael's grandson, George Washington Graybill, son of Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864)], Michael Stoker (1805-1858) [Michael's son], Martha Stoker (1808-1873) [Martha Carr McDaniel, wife of Michael's son, Michael], Gabrael Stoker (1832-1852) [Michael's grandson, son of Michael (1805-1858)], William Stoker (1819-1892) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Almira Stoker (1818-1884) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, grandson, William's wife, Almira Winegar], Samuel D. Stoker (1840-1908) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira], William Stoker (1842-1906) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira]. Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864) or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?)], William Graybill (1825-1880) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Adam Graybill [still looking for this relationship to Michael], Sidney R Graybill (1836-?) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Levi Graybill (1818-1912) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Patience Graybill (1825-1895) [Patience Smith, Michael's granddaughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Levi Graybill (1818-1912)], Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864), or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?), Polly's daughter]. John Stoker (1817-1881) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Jane Stoker (1810-1890) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, Jane McDaniel, wife of John (1817-1881)], Hannah Graybill [Michael's great granddaughter, daughter of Joseph Levi Graybill], Hyrum Stoker (1840-1887) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881) and Jane McDaniel], Alma Stoker (1835-1897) [Michael's adopted great grandson, son of Jane McDaniel], and Franklin Stoker (1842-1855) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881)]. Lucinda Stoker is also listed on the petition but cannot establish a relationship to Michael Stoker (1762-1838).(22) Refuge found in Illinois. The people of Quincy reached out to help the Mormons fleeing from Missouri. Elizabeth Haven Barlow writes, "The people of Quincy had contributed between four and five hundred dollars for the poor Mormons. God had opened their hearts to receive us. May heaven's blessings rest upon them. We are hungry and they feed us, naked and clothed us. The citizens have assisted beyond all calculations."(23) Footnotes 21. Also included are some of their children who were born after 1838 in Illinois. 22. "Mormon Redress Petitions," pp. 574, 598, 599-601. 23. Elizabeth Haven Barlow in letter to Elizabeth Howel Bullard, 24 February 1839, published in Ora H. Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores." Salt Lake City: Ora H. Barlow, 1968." 10. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article: "During the Adams County time period some of the Stoker men found work with a farmer named Coleman Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes lived approximately two miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio. He had first offered work and a home to Elizabeth's husband, James Welker, and soon after David, John W., Michael, and Jacob also obtained work with him. Here they labored diligently trying to earn enough to rebuild their supplies and stock which they had lost during the Missouri struggles. Moving to Bear Creek, Hancock Co., Illinois On July 1, 1839 the Mormon church's prophet and leader, Joseph Smith, called for all church members to settle in and around the Commerce, Illinois area. The town of Commerce was renamed by the church members to Nauvoo. In 1842 the Stoker family had complied. Packing up their belongings they moved north settling their families around the Carthage/Bear Creek area. James Welker's son, John, recorded: "...he found that there was land that could be entered in Hancock County, about 15 miles south of Nauvoo. He moved there and filed on a homestead. Part of it was prairie land and part was timber. He built a large hewed two roomed log house. Then the next thing was to fence and make a farm to make a living off of" (Ibid). The 1842 personal property tax assessment book of Hancock County has records for Stoker, Welker, and Graybill families living within the county. These records indicate the possibility that they lived outside of the cities." Building the Nauvoo Temple The Stoker families were on hand for the building of the temple for their church. It is recorded in the church history that Eller Stoker, Jacob Stoker, and John McDaniel (husband to Christine Stoker) worked on the temple for a period of time. All families were expected to donate time and supplies to the temple project... Life was beginning to flourish again for the families, and happy times were with them. On May 23, 1844 Joseph Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker were initiated and passed into the Nauvoo Lodge of Masons. Two weeks later Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker became lodge members, and on June 8th they were raised to Master Masons. While in Illinois, John Stoker, John W. Stoker, John Welker Eller Stoker, and Jacob Stoker were given church callings of Office of the Seventy. Death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith Living around Carthage the Stoker, Graybill, and McDaniel families were homesteading lands close to those who most violently disagreed with the Mormons and who were constantly calling for their removal. Sometimes these men formed their own vigilante groups trying to scare the Mormons into leaving. Some of the Stoker men folk were called into military duty within the State Militia as recorded in the history of John McDaniel. "Early on June 24, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, and fifteen other members of the Nauvoo city council headed to Carthage to answer the charges filed against them. They passed the home of William Stoker located six miles southeast of Nauvoo on the Carthage Road before 8 A.M.... Sometime after noon, the Stokers saw the mounted riders traveling toward Nauvoo. Arriving at their destination at 2:30, the leaders gathered three small cannons and about two hundred firearms which were turned over to the militia. At nearly midnight the militia delivered the Mormon leaders who came voluntarily to the authorities in Carthage... Thursday June 27 Joseph and his brother Hyrum, were martyred. A mob of about one hundred men with blackened faces gathered about five 'clock in the afternoon. Several stormed the jail where the Smith brothers and a few friends were sequestered. Joseph and Hyrum were shot dead, and John Taylor wounded...the assassins and their comrades fled Carthage to Warsaw and then sought refuge west of the MIssissippi River... Friday June 28, with the bodies of the slain leaders placed in two different wagons, covered with branches to shade them from the hot sun, Willard Richards, Samuel Smith, and Artois Hamilton pulled out of Carthage and headed for Nauvoo. Sometimes shortly after noon, the procession with eight soldiers passed by William Stoker's driving teams pulling the two wagons containing the bodies of the martyrs. Mary Stoker Aitken, a granddaughter of WIlliam Stoker and Almira Winegar, wrote, "My father [John Stephen Stoker] told us that his parents had told him that they had seen the bodies of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum Smith, being taken from Carthage to Nauvoo." ...One of the Stoker relative's narrative mentions that "After the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum in 1844, Simeon Graybill went up to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for public burial" (Ibid). Conflict/Harassment Again. In 1845 the mobbing and burnings began, starting with the outlying settlements. The Stokers were living within the church area called the Highland branch of Illinois. The babies, weddings, and all manner of social life continued on and in July the families were doing more temple work for their ancestors. Again the families grew; new events were attended to. Jacob and John Stoker also joined the Masons and were later raised to Master Masons. Sheriff of Hancock County ordered the saints to organize and protect themselves. "John Welker tells how he and his cousins mutually watched out for each other. His account follows: 'The mob (against) the Latter-day Saints was increasing and I but a boy of 18 was the oldest of the boys that was at hoe. My oldest brother was married and doing for himself. I was the one to look after the family after my father died and when the burning out of the later day Saints by the mob commenced close by I was in a settlement 10 miles for whare {sic} they were burning houses and some of my cousins and relative lived close to whare {sic} I lived. We got together and agreed to take turnes {sic} and watch the mob and do the best we could to protect our homes. Some one was out every night watching their movements. They did not come to our little settlement to burn us out, if they had come some of them would have been hurt. Thare {sic} is many things connected with this I will not write.' (Punctuation added.) Not all of the Stoker relatives were as fortunate as the Welkers, John McDaniel and his wife Christine Stoker, according to one history, "...were greatly persecuted with the other saints and several times were driven out by the mobs. On one occasion they were attacked and forced to flee with a child under each arm while their home was burned" (Ibid). Nauvoo Temple Dedicated. In late 1845 the church's Nauvoo Temple was dedicated and many of the saints came to the temple to perform their own religious (endowment) ordinances. Between January 5 and January 21, of 1846 sixteen heads of the Stoker clan had received their own temple endowment. Michael Stoker Jr. and Catherine Burcham Jacob Stoker and Martha Carr McDaniel Eller Stoker and Margaret Judd Catherine Eller Stoker (widow) Elizabeth Stoker Welker (widow) James W. Welker and Anna Pugh John Stoker and Jane McDaniel John W. Stoker and Sara McDaniel William Stoker and Almira Winegar Records from the Nauvoo temple show that the Stoker family participated in other religious temple activities: Catherine Eller Stoker, Michael Stoker (son), Eller Stoker (son) and wife Margaret (Judd) Stoker (Eller's wife), James Welker and wife Elizabeth Stoker Welker, and Mary (Polly) Stoker (Graybill) all did baptisms by proxy for their deceased relatives." 11. The following partial excerpt is from the article "Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker's Descendants in Illinois" by Jimmie "B" Stoker, July 30, 1994 from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT, The numbers in the text refer to endnotes at the end of the article. See Catherine Martha Eller's notes for the full and complete transcript which is quite lengthy and only deals with her children in the Illinois period of Mormon history: A. In commenting on the arrival in Illinois from Missouri, the author notes: "Meanwhile Catherine's sons, David (1795-1852), John W. (1803-1857), Michael (1805-1858) and Jacob (1812-) followed her daughter, Elizabeth, whose husband, James Welker, had been offered work on Coleman Wilkes' farm located, no doubt, about two miles southeast of the town of Columbus situated eighteen miles in a northeasterly direction from Quincy. David's married sons, John (1817-1881) and WIlliam (1819-), also joined the group of relatives who worked on farms near Columbus. There is some question whether Eller Stoker settled there with other members of the family at this time. We do know that according to the 1840 Adams County census, he was living in Adams County near the WIlkes' farm in the Columbus township. One family history states that Eller Stoker "...married Margaret Judd, who also had been in Missouri, then living with her widowed mother, Rhoda Judd, on the Des Moines River in Jefferson County, Iowa. Margaret later commented that their only neighbors after their marriage were Indians and Half-breeds."5 Just when Eller and Margaret lived on the Des Moines River or other places in Iowa before their final move to Pottawattamie County, Iowa in 1846 is not known." B. "Births and deaths in the Stoker family in 1839. On May 20, 1839 a granddaughter of Catherine Eller Stoker, David's daughter, Christine Stoker McDaniel, gave birth to her first son, John Riley McDaniel, in Adams County. The baby's father, John McDaniel, was a brother to the wives of John W. (1803-1857), Michael (1805-1858), and John (1817-1881). These Stoker boys married Electa Sarah, Martha Carr, and Jane, James McDaniel's daughters. With the fact that her uncles and her brother had married into her husband's family, it's most likely that Christine joined them to live near Columbus. Three days later, at 9 A.M. on Saturday May 23, John McDaniel's sister, Martha Carr, John W. Stoker's wife, gave birth to Michael James Stoker.7 With births also came death. Illnesses were quite frequent. Many of the Latter-day Saints in Adams county suffered between February and September of 1839. Elizabeth Haven wrote to her family, "O my friends, you know nothing about the ague, how it prostrates and bewilders the mind and impairs the health." She considered the Missouri persecutions mild in comparison to "what they have been of late."8 On August 13, 1839 two-year-old, John Stoker, son of Jacob Stoker (1812-) and Catherine Burcham, died. The following year, 1840, Nancy Stoker, the sixteen-year-old daughter of David Stoker (1795-1852) died." C. "The 1840 Adams county, Illinois Federal census lists eight Stoker or Stoker related families. Only the heads of the households are listed. The ages and gender of members of the family are enumerated. William Stoker- Males: 1 under 5 yrs [Samuel David Stoker, born Mar 24, 1840], 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [William Stoker, born Mar 26, 1819]; Females: 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [William's wife, Almira Winegar, born Fb 27, 1818]. Michael Stoker- Males: 2 under 5 yrs [Michael James Stoker, born May 23, 1840], and John Alexander Stoker, born Aug 23, 1837]; 2 between 5 and 10 yrs [David N. Stoker, born Feb 2, 1832 and William Moroni Stoker, born Jul 10, 1834]; 1 between 10 and 15 yrs [Gabriel McNeil Stoker, born Feb 2, 1832]; 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [Michael Stoker, born Feb 10, 1805]; Females: 1 between 30 and 40 yrs [Martha Carr McDaniel, born Feb 24, 1808]. John Stoker- Males: 1 under 5 yrs [Alma Stoker, born Dec 7, 1835]; 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [John Stoker, born Mar 8, 1817]; Females: 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [Jane McDaniel, born Feb 24, 1810]. John W. Stoker- Males: 2 under 5 yrs [William Eller Stoker, born Jan 4, 1840 and Parley Pratt Stoker, born Jan 2, 1837]; 1 between 10 and 15 yrs [John Randoph Stoker, born Jul 21, 1828]; 1 between 30 and 40 yrs [John W. Stoker, born Mar 16, 1802]; Females: 1 under 5 yrs [Elizabeth Jane Stoker, born Sep 3, 1834; 2 between 5 and 10 yrs [Katherine Martha Stoker, born Apr 14, 1832 and Zibia Meriba Stoker, born Aug 13, 1829]; 1 between 30 and 40 yrs [Electa Sarah McDaniel, born May 26, 1806]. Eller Stoker- Males: 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [Eller Stoker, born Jul 28, 1816]; Females: 1 under 5 yrs [Melinda Stoker, born Sep 11, 1840]; 1 between 15 and 20 yrs [Margaret Judee, born May 29, 1822]; 1 between 60 and 70 yrs [Margaret Judd's mother, Rhoda Shepherd Judd, born 1777]. James Walker [Welker]- Males: 2 between 10 and 15 yrs [Jacob Stoker Welker, born Jan 8, 1829 and John Welker, born Mar 16, 1826]; 1 between 15 and 20 yrs [James Wilburn Welker, born Jan 17, 1825]; 1 between 30 and 40 yrs [James Welker, born Aug 19, 1803]; Females: 2 between 5 and 10 yrs [Sarah Welker, born 1834 and Mary Catherine Welker, born Jan 12, 1832]; 1 between 40 and 50 yrs [Elizabeth Stoker, born Feb 28, 1800]. David Stoker- Males: 1 between 5 and 10 yrs [Michael Stoker, born Sep 12, 1833]; 1 between 40 and 50 yrs [David Stoker, born Mar 23, 1795]; Females: 1 between 5 and 10 yrs [Catherine Stoker, born Jul 25, 1829]; 1 between 10 and 15 yrs [Sarah Stoker, born Jun 26, 1827]; 1 between 40 and 50 yrs [Barbara Graybill, born Apr 1, 1792]. Jacob Stoker- Males: 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [Jacob Stoker, born Apr 7, 1812]; Females: 1 under 5 yrs [Nancy Stoker, born Dec 21, 1838]; 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [Catherine Burcham].9 D. "Each member of the church was expected to contribute one-tenth of all his increase from that time until the temple was completed. Often the able-bodied men would donate one day in ten as tithing labor. According to a letter from James Kimball, an LDS church history librarian, records show that Eller and Jacob Stoker worked for an unknown length of time or occupation on this temple project.21 John McDaniel, Christine Stoker's husband, also worked on the Nauvoo temple.22 It's reasonable to believe that many more of the Stoker men put in time working on the Nauvoo temple. Probably many of the Stoker women donated their goods to that cause as well." E. "On February 19 [1841], Adam Welker (1841-1926), the eighth and last child of James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, was born near Columbus, Adams County, Illinois. Misfortune clouded May 3 when Joseph Stoker was born to Jacob Stoker and Catherine Burcham in Adams County. He died before the day was over... On August 11[1841], Melanda Stoker, the 11-month-old daughter of Eller Stoker and Margaret Judd, died." F. "In early 1842 the Stokers who lived around Columbus, Adams County, Illinois moved north lock, stock, and barrel to Hancock County. From the soil they could procure the resources necessary to help in building the temple at Nauvoo and sustain those who were to work on it. Some of the Graybills who were living southeast of Quincy joined them. James Welker "found that there was land that could be entered in Hancock County, about 15 miles south of Nauvoo. He moved there and filed on a homestead. Part of it was prairie land and part was timber. He built a large hewed two roomed log house. Then the next thing was to fence and make a farm to make a living off of." The narrative written by James' son, John, continues, "We went to work with all the strength and ability that we had and fenced about 20 acres of land and farmed it two years. Because my father [James Welker] and all three of us boys [James Wilburn, John, and Jacob Stoker Welker] were concerned in it, now I will tell you more about what we did in this time of about three years- built a large log stable with a loft on top to hold hay and fodder for our horses and cows."26 There were two ways to claim the Illinois prairie: breaking the soil with a plow or it could be burned and then grass seeds sowed. An English traveler described an Illinois "Indian Summer" as when the "atmosphere becomes dull and smoky, and the sun is shorn of its rays." Months of fires caused the haze which he noted was set purposely by farmers.27 The Stoker relatives, coming north like James Welker to Hancock County, left behind the dreams of building a flourishing Mormon settlement at Columbus. They would develop their farms, and work on the temple at Nauvoo. Indeed, though short "of gold, or ...silver," they used the winter to "drive their [few] fat cattle and hogs to this place, where they may be preserved..." They did head the call "to gather." ...The 1842 Hancock County personal property tax assessment book gives an idea of how much the Stoker households were worth when they moved from Adams County. These assessments were found on pages 187 and 188: George Graybill: Horses, $45.00; Cattle, $40.00; Other, $30.00 Levi Graybill: Horses, $20.00; Cattle, $80.00; Wagons, $50.00 John Stoker: Horses, $20.00; Cattle, $60.00; Other, $10.00 William Stoker: Horses, $20.00; Cattle, $30.00; Other, $10.00 James Welker: Horses, $50.00; Cattle, $60.00; Wagons, $40.00; Other, $30.00 Michael Stoker: Cattle, $50.00; Other, $20.00 Eller Stoker: Cattle, $60.00; Wagons, $25.00; Other, $20.00 Jacob Stoker: Horses, $40.00; Wagons, $15.00; Other, $10.00 The assessments may or may not reflect the actual value of the items listed. A rough guide to interpret the tax assessments may be as follows: Single horses could be valued as low as $20, but the most frequently cited figure is $40. Cows are usually figured at $10. Oxen may be figured higher. "Other" usually refers to furniture or tools. These tax assessments would indicate that the Stokers were living on farms rather than in the towns.28 Michael Graybill, Sr. and some of his sons stayed in Adams County." G. "Stoker children born in 1842. Orson Hyde Stoker was born in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois to Eller Stoker and Margaret Judd. He was probably born on their farmstead south of Nauvoo. A couple of months later Jared Samuel Stoker was born on Sunday March 19 at 3 o'clock p.m. at Bear Creek, Hancock County, Illinois to Michael Stoker and Martha Carr McDaniel. Two and a half weeks later, Hiram Stoker, son of Jacob Stoker and Catherine Burcham, was born in Hancock County, Illinois." H. "During the slack time of the winter [of 1844], the Stokers may have often journeyed to Nauvoo to work on the temple and to become involved in the social and fraternal life there. On January 28, Jacob and John Stoker,63 joined Levi Graybill, and brothers, Michael and Eller Stoker, in becoming Masons in the Nauvoo lodge. On February 7, Jacob Stoker was raised to a Master Mason.64" I. "As the new year began, the Mormon leaders were anxious that all worthy members of the Church do their temple work before they were forced to leave Illinois. On Monday, January 5, the first Stokers attended the temple as 104 received their endowments. In the second company were brothers, Michael and Jacob Stoker and their wives, Catharine Burcham and Martha Carr McDaniel. Catharine was heavy with child. Back at home on January 16, she gave birth to a daughter with the striking name of America. The Stoker family had celebrated in her name nearly a century of being residents of America. Jacob's grandfather, Johan Michael Stocker, had fled from the frontiers of Germany and France because of persecutions, religious and political. He had witnessed the struggles of becoming an American through his life as a pioneer during the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Here in America where he had sought refuge, some of his descendants were preparing to flee westward in search of freedom to practice their religion. They would continue the struggle and in the American sense of pioneering, they would prevail. On Tuesday, January 20 more Stokers went to the temple. Eller and his wife, Margaret Judd, were numbered with 175 persons who received their ordinances that day. The next day, in the first company was the Stoker matriarch, Catherine Eller. She was accompanied by her daughter, Elizabeth Stoker Welker who was widowed.76 In the second company were James W. Welker and his wife, Anna Pugh. In the fourth company were John Stoker (1817-1881) and his wife, Jane McDnaiel as well as John W. Stoker (1802-) and his wife, Sarah McDaniel. The final Stokers to receive their ordinances in the Nauvoo Temple were William (1819) and his wife, Almira Winegar.77 They attended on Saturday, February 7 with a huge group of close to six hundred according to George A. Smith's journal. Actually the temple had been closed down on February 3. As Brigham Young writes, "Notwithstanding that I had announced that we would not attend to the administration of the ordinances, the House of the Lord was thronged all day, the anxiety being so great to receive, as if the brethren would have us stay here and continue the endowments until our way would be hedged up, and our enemies would intercept us." The days of temple work in the Nauvoo temple were coming to a close. On Sunday, February 8, Brigham Young with the Council of Twelve, knelt at the altar in the attic of the temple. In prayer they dedicated the building to the Lord. As Brigham Young writes, "We asked his blessing up on our intended move to the west; also asked him to enable us someday to finish the Temple, and dedicate it to him, and we would leave it in his hands to do as he pleased; and to p | Stoker, Jacob (I2538)
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| 7059 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. “A Longstreet Family History,†by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at “SARAH b. ca 1705, bp. 11-26-1710. Probably m. William Logan and had: i. Mary who m. Cornelilus Cowenhoven†| Logan, William (I5717)
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| 7060 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “Children of Saher de Quincy, Knt., by Margaret of Leicester: i. ROBERT DE QUINCY, son and heir apparent. He married c.1197-1200 (date of charter) HAWISE OF CHESTER, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux [see CHESTER 5 for her ancestry]. She was born in 1180. She had 10 librates of land in Waddington, land in Sibsey, and the service of three fees in Cabourn in marriage. They had one daughter, Margaret (or Margery). He and his father were captured at the Battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217. ROBERT DE QUINCY died at London in 1217, and was buried at the Church of the Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. In the period, 1217-19, his widow, Hawise, granted a rent to the brethren of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England for the foundation of a chantry at the Hospitallers' house at Clerkenwell, Middlesex, for the soul of her husband, Robert. About 1230-1 his widow, Hawise, received a charter from her brother, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, purporting to convey to her the Earldom of Lincoln. On 27 October 1232, shortly after Ranulph's death, the King granted the 3rd penny of the county of Lincoln to Hawise as the Earl's sister and co-heiress, in consequence of which grant she may be held to have become the Countess of Lincoln. On the preliminary division of the honour of Chester, she received the castle and manor of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, with the Earl's lands in Lindsey and Holland. As Hawise, Countess of Lincoln, she presented to the churches of Toynton All Saints, Lincolnshire, 1235, 1237; Little Steeping, Lincolnshire, 1235; a mediety of Toynton St. Peter, Lincolnshire, 1237; and Winceby, Lincolnshire, 1233, ?1246-7. In 1241 she sued Amabel, widow of Richard Rufus, in a plea of dower in Northamptonshire. Hawise de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln, died shortly before 19 Feb. 1242/3. Brooke Cat. Kings, Dukes, etc., of England (1622): 342. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 544-545. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-135. Ormerod Hist. of Chester 1 (1819): 28. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 442-443 (sub Quincy). Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Giles Chronicon Anglia Petributgense (1845): 136 (sub A.D. 1241: "Obiit domina Hawisia Quincy, comitissa Lincolniæ"). Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 316, 320 (charter and seal of Hawise de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln). Mems. Ill of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Lincoln (1850): 253-279, esp. 271-272 ("The Seal of the Countess Hawise exists in an imperfect impression in the British Museum. The circular device in the centre is slightly sunk, and it was possibly a large antique intaglio, set into the matrix. Above and below, is placed a mascle, the armorial bearing of Quency, her husband's family."). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 289 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1217: "Obiit Robertus de Quinci filius Secri de Quinci"). Ellis Antiqs. of Heraldry (1869): 195-196. Leycester & Mainwaring Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester 3 (Chetham Soc. 80) (1869): 334-335. Fraser Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, AD. 1147-1535 (1872): 91-94. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 8. Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 460. Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 2 (Rolls Ser. 73) (1880): 110-111. Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 26-33. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 280-283. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 151-152. Dowden Chartulary of the Abbey of Lindores 1195-1479 (Scottish Hist. Soc. 42) (1903): 276-277. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 3. Lindsay et al. Charters, Bulls & Other Docs. Rel. the Abbey of Inchaffrray (Scottish Hist. Soc. 56) (1908): lxxxvi-lxxxix, 245 (Robert styled "eldest son" in charter of his father). D.N.B. 16 (1909): 556-559 (biog. of Saer de Quincy). C.P. 3 (1913): 169, footnote a; 7 (1929): 675-676 (sub Lincoln); 12(2) (1959): 748 footnote g, 751 (sub Winchester); 14 (1998): 436 (sub Lincoln). Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8° Ser. 37) (1913): 15. Davis Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 9) (1914): 211. Grosseteste Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 9, 11, 17, 23, 44, 87. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). C.C.R. 1242-1247 (1916): 89, 271. Fowler Cal IPM 1 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5) (1920): 235-238. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 96, 247-248. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 10-11, 96-99. Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Peds. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). Easson Charters of the Abbey of Coupar-Angus 1 (Scottish Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 40) (1947): 3 (confuses Robert de Quincy, died 1217, with his grandfather, Robert de Quincy, died 1200). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 79. Major Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 6 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 41) (1950): 44. Medievalia et Humanistica 11(1957): 3-10. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 464: 1-8 (sub Quincy). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 18, 32-33. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 230-239 (assigns Robert de Quincy the wrong parentage). VCH Lancaster 1 (1906): 306. Duchy of Lancaster 3 (PRO Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 5) (1964): 73, 82, 101. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Heng III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 19 (Matthew Paris shields - arms of Robert de Quincy: Gules, seven voided lozenges conjoined or). Curia Regis Rolls 15 (1972): 162-163, 282, 287, 365-366, 419, 439, 498-499; 16 (1979): 411; 17 (1991): 150, 407-408; 18 (1999): 301. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 200-201 ("Hawise's husband was Robert son of Saber and not... a younger brother of Saber called Robert, otherwise unknown;" cities Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 1 (1833): 342; Duchy of Lancaster 3 (PRO Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 5) (1964): 82.). TG 5 (1984): 221-225. Barraclough Charters of the Earls of Chester (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 126) (1988): 209, 302, 305-309, 309-310 (Lady Hawise de Quincy styled "my dearest sister" [sorori mee karissimel by Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln in charter dated 1232), 441-442. Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 22. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln n.s. 3(4) (1989): 708 (sub Quency). Anderson Early Sources of Scottish Hist. 2 (1990): 488 (Chron. of Peterborough sub anno 1232: "Also in the same year, or in the following year according to some, Randolph, the earl of Chester and lord of Bolingbroke, died at his castle of Wallingford... He was exceedingly renowned and famous in the whole kingdom. And because he had no children, his heritage was divided among his four sisters; namely Matilda, the wife of earl David; Mabel, the wife of the earl of Arundel; and Agnes, the wife of earl William de Ferrieres; and Hawisia, who married Robert Quincey, the earl of Winchester. And Hawisia Quincey, the fourth sister of Randolph, acquired the earldom of Lincoln. And she bore a daughter, Margaret, [wife of Walter] Marshal, earl of Pembroke; upon whose death she married John de Lacy, the constable of Chester: and his son was Edmund Lacy, whose son was Henry Lacy, whose daughter and heir was Alice de Lacy, who died in the year of the Lord 1349."), 488 footnote 4 (cites Chron. of Peterborough, 136, sub anno 1241: "Lady Hawisia Quincey, the countess of Lincoln, died"). Owen Medieval Lindsey Marsh (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 85) (1996): 88-89 (charter of Hawise de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln dated 1240). Haskins Society Jour. 10 (2002): 171-172 (discusses charters dated c.1200 concerning the marriage of Robert and Hawise). Child of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise of Chester: a. MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, married (1st) JOHN DE LACY (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., Earl of Lincoln, hereditary Constable of Chester, Magna Carta baron [see LACY 31; (2nd) WALTER MARSHAL, Knt., Earl of Pembroke, hereditary Master Marshal [see LACY 3; MARSHAL 3.iv].†2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor, Judge in the King's Court, 1198, 1200, 1218, son and heir. He married MABEL OF CHESTER, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, seigneur of Montfort-l'Amaury [see CHESTER 5 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, William [4th Earl of Arundel] and Hugh [5th Earl of Arundel], and four daughters, Maud, Nichole (or Colette), Cecily, and Isabel. In 1194 he was one of the Receivers of the money raised for the king's ransom. He assisted at the Coronation of King John in 1199. In 1213 he witnessed the instrument by which King John resigned the crown of England into the hands of the Pope. He served a joint envoy to treat with the Barons in 1215. He went on Crusade in 1218 and was present at the Siege of Damietta later that year. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel, died at Cainell near Rome 1 Feb. 1220/1. His remains were conveyed to England and buried in Wymondham Priory, Norfolk. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 30, 44. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1821): 330 (sub Wymondham Monastery: "Memorandum, quod Willielmus de Albaneio, pincerna regis Henrici, fundavit ecclesiam monachorum de Wymundham. Qui quidem Willielmus habuit unum filium Willielmum, comitem Arundeliae; qui Willielmus comes habuit unum filium Willelmum, comitem Sussexiae; qui Willielmus comes habuit unum filium Willielmum, comitem Sussexiæ; qui Willielmus habuit unum fratrem Hugonem, comitem Sussexiæ; qui Hugo moriebatur sine hærede de corpore suo, et quatuor sorores fuerunt propinquiores hæredes ejus, et diviserunt totum comitatum Sussexiæ inter eas: quarum unam desponsavit dominus le Fitz Allen, et aliam dominus de Montealto, et aliam domus Robertus de Tathesale, et aliam dominus de Somerie, et advocatio ecclesiæ de Wymundeham allocata fuit domino Roberto de Tateshale, et uxori ejus, tenenda de se et hæredibus suis in puram et perpetuam elemosinam; qui quidem Robertus de Tathesale, habuit filium et hadredem Robertum de Tathesale, cujus erant tres filiae, quarum unam desponsavit dominus Johannes Orby, aliam dominus de Dryby, et tertiam dominus Thomas Caily qui habuit unum filium et hæredem, scilicet Thomam Caily, qui obiit sine hærede de corpore suo, cujus sororem duxit Rogerus de Clyfton armiger prædicti Thomæ. Iste Rogerus habuit unum filium et hæredem, scilicet, dominum Adam de Clyfton, qui habuit filium et hæredem Constantinum de Clyfton, qui gabuit filium et haeredem dominum Johannem de Clyfton, qui habuit filium et hæredem Constantinum de Clyfton, qui quidem Constantinus habuit unum filium et hæredem dominum Johannem de Clyfton, qui nunc est dominus de Wymundham."). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 181-185. Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 176-177 (Knevet ped.: "Willielmus Dawbeny Comes Arundell nupcit Mabillam filiam et unam heredum Radulphi Comitis Cestrie et Lincolnie."). Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 26-33. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 67 (sub Arundel). C.P. 1 (1910): 236-238,237 (chart) (sub Arundel). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, styled "uncle" [avunculus] of Warin de Munchensy in 1213, he being half-brother of Warin's mother, Aveline de Clare). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 10-11. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny pedigree: "Willelmus Daubeney comes de Arundell sepultus in Abbathia predicta ob. 1 lo. = [empty roundel] Mabilia filia et coh. Ranulfi co. Cestrie."). Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 132 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. [Feb] [1 Feb.]. Obiit Willelmus Comes de Arundel."). Children of Mabel of Chester, by William d'Aubeney: i. HUGH D'AUBENEY, Knt., 5th Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England, 2nd son of William d'Aubeney, 3rd Earl of Arundel, by Mabel, 2nd daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester. He was born about 1214 (of age in 1235). He was heir in 1224 to his older brother, William d'Aubeney, 4th Earl of Arundel. He was co-heir in 1232 to his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In 1233 he made fine with the king by 2500 marks to have the lands of his late brother, William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, until his legal age, as well as the lands which fell to Hugh by hereditary right of the lands formerly of his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. He married in 1234 ISABEL DE WARENNE, daughter of William de Warenne, Knt., 6th Earl of Surrey, Warden of the Cinque Ports, by Maud, daughter of William Marshal, Knt, 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil), hereditary Master Marshal [see WARENNE 8 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. In 1240 he was summoned to restore the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire to the king as an escheat of the Normans. Hugh stated that he, his brother, and his father had all been given livery of the lands, but, though he quoted the terms of the original grant made to his father in 1207, Whaddon was surrendered to the king. In 1242 he accompanied the King in his expedition to Guienne. SIR HUGH D'AUBENEY, Earl of Arundel, died 7 May 1243, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk. In 1244 his widow, Countess Isabel, sued Robert de Sheney for the third part of one carucate of land in Smisby, Derbyshire, and Ralph de Kenninghall for the third part of nine acres of land and one acre pf pasture in Kenninghall, Norfolk, and the one third part of 14 acres of land in Riddlesworth, Norfolk. The same year she also sued Thomas le Treys for the third part of one carucate of land in Atdeborough, Norfolk, William de Oddingseles for the third part of one-half carucate of land in Leeds, Yorkshire, Roger de Somery and Nichole his wife for the third part of two carucates of land in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and one third part of one carucate of land in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, and Hugh le Bigod for the one third part of one carucate of land in Stoughton, Sussex. In 1249 Countess Isabel founded the Abbey of Marham, Norfolk. She presented to the church of Shenley, Buckinghamshire in 1272. In 1271 Roger de Somery was engaged in a lengthy lawsuit with her regarding the advowson of the church of Olney, Buckinghamshire; in 1273 it was noted that the patronage of the church was to remain with Roger by a concord between him and Countess Isabel. In 1277-8 Master John de Croft arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Bilsham, Sussex. In 1278-9 Nigel le Got arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Wymondham, Norfolk. Isabel, Countess of Arundel, died shortly before 23 Nov. 1282, and was buried at Marham, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1(1805): 216-218; 4 (1775): 125-128; 9 (1808): 42-59. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 743, 744 (charter of Isabel d'Aubeney, Countess of Arundel; charter witnessed by her brothers, Sir Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, Sir Hugh Bigod, and John de Warenne). Dignity of a Peer of the Realm (1826): 389-434. Hunter South Yorkshire 1 (1828): 105 (Warenne ped.). Wainright Hist. & Top. Intro. of the Wapentake of Stafford & Tickhill (1829): 168-169, 195-196 (Warenne ped.). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 2(1) (1832): 128 (Warenne ped.). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 186-192. Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 331, 639-640. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Matthew of Paris Matthæi Parisiensis 2 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1866): 477 (sub A.D. 1243: "Anno sub eodem, nonis Maii [7 May], obiit comes Harundeliæ Hugo de Albineto, in ætate juvenili, cum jam vix metas adolescentiæ pertransisset. Et apud Wimundham, in ecclesia Sanctæ Mariæ, videlicet prioratum Sancto Albano pertinentem, est sepultus, cum patribus sins dictæ ecclesiæ patronis et fundatoribus."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33. Matthew of Paris Chronica Majjora 5 (Rolls See. 57) (1880): 336-337 (Countess Isabel de Warenne, widow of Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, styled "king's kinswoman" [regis cognate]). Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 176-177 (Knevet ped.: "Hugo Comes Arundell post mortem Willielmi fratris sin non habuit exitum et sepelitur in Abathia predicta."). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 47 (1886): 163; 48 (1887): 214. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 68 (sub Arundel). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 280-283. Grazebrook Barons of Dudley 1 (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 9(2)) (1888): 20. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 415-416. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 30. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 85, 550. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. Martin Hist. of the Manor of Westhope (1909): 15-33. C.P. 1 (1910): 237 (chart), 238-239 (sub Arundel). Round King's Serjeants & Officers of State (1911): 140-165. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 236-238 (sub Warenne). Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Pleas. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442. Romania 55 (1929): 332-381. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny ped.: "Hugo comes Atundell post mortem Willelmi fratris sin non habuit exitum et sepelitur in abbathia predicta ob. 28 H. 3. = filia domini [left blank]."). C.C.R. 1268-1272 (1938): 391-392. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 12: 1-6 (sub Aubigny). C.R.R. 16 (1979): 499; 18 (1999): 151-152, 216, 222, 241, 247, 261, 310. VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 157. Morris Bigod Earls of NoRFolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): opp. 1 (chart). Henry III Fine Rolls Project (R[anulph] Earl of Chester and Lincoln styled "uncle" of Hugh d'Aubeney, brother and heir of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel in a fine roll item dated 1233) (abs. of record available at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_033.htm1). ii. MAUD D'AUBENEY [see next]. iii. NICHOLE (or COLETTE) D'AUBENEY, married ROGER DE SOMERY, Knt., of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see SOMERY 3]. iv. CECILY D'AUBENEY; married ROGER DE MOHAUT, Knt., of Mold, Cheshire, Castle Rising, Norfolk, etc. [see MORLEY 6]. v. ISABEL D'AUBENEY, married JOHN FITZ ALAN, of Clun and Oswestry, Shropshire [see FITZ ALAN 6].†| de Montfort, Bertrade (I6915)
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| 7061 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., styled "the younger," of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, King's Chamberlain, Constable of Odiham Castle, Keeper of the castle and town of Dryslwyn, and Cantref Mawr, Carmarthenshire, Keeper of the Castle and town of Portchester, Keeper of the Castle, town and barton of Bristol, Keeper of the Castles, manor, and lands of Brecknock, Hay, Cantref Selyf, etc., Breconshire, and Huntington, Herefordshire, son and heir. He married at Westminster shortly after 14 June 1306 ELEANOR DE CLARE, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 2nd wife, Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, King of England [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan shortly before 23 Nov. 1292 (date of her mother's churching). They had five sons, Hugh, Knt. [3rd Lord le Despenser], Edward, Knt., Gilbert, Knt., John, and Philip, and five daughters, Isabel, Joan (nun at Shaftesbury Abbey), Eleanor (nun at Sempringham Priory), Margaret (nun at Whatton Priory), and Elizabeth. In 1310 he purchased the manor of Winstone, Gloucestershire from Geoffrey de Pulham. He presented to the church of Winstone, Gloucestershire in 1311. He accompanied the King to Pontoise in 1313. His wife, Eleanor, was co-heiress in 1314 to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by which she inherited the lordship of Glamorgan in Wales, including the castles of Llanblethian, Kenfeg, Neath, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Whitchurch, and the manor of Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July 1314 to 10 October 1325, by writs directed Hugoni le Deipenser juniori. From Nov. 1317 his influence at court rapidly increased, and, by the end of the following year, he won a lasting ascendancy over the king's mind. In 1320-1 John de Cromwell, Knt., Lord Cromwell, and his wife, Idoine, settled the manors of Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Potterspury, and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc. on themselves for the life of Idoine, with successive remainders to Hugh le Despenser, Knt., the younger and Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the elder for life, and to Edward son of Hugh le Despenser, Knt the younger and his heirs. In 1320 the king seized the lordship of Gower in Wales, as a means of conferring it on him. The dispute over this seizure united a powerful group of Welsh marcher lords in a coalition against Hugh; moreover, his rule in Glamorgan was intensely unpopular with the Welsh. Civil war broke out May 4, 1321, and the lordship of Glamorgan was quickly overrun and devastated. Hugh and his father were subsequently banished by Parliament 14 August 1321. The royalist counter-offensive against the baronial opposition began in October 1321. Following the royalist victory at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2, Parliament in May 1322 reversed the sentences on the Despensers, who were allowed to return from exile. Hugh recovered the lordships of Glamorgan and Gower. From 1322 to 1326 he directed England's internal and foreign policy. By fraud and violence, he accumulated enormous possessions in both England and Wales. The revolution of 1326 was the inevitable result of the misgovernment of the Despensers. In Sept. 1326 Queen Isabel (wife of King Edward II) and Roger de Mortimer landed at Orwell, Suffolk, with a force of 700 mercenaries hired from the Count of Hainault. In a matter of weeks, the government of the Despensers collapsed. On October 2, King Edward II left London and fled to south Wales, accompanied by Hugh the younger. They were captured near Llantrisant, Glamorgan 16 Nov. 1326. SIR HUGH LE DESPENSER, 2nd Lord le Despenser, was taken to Hereford, and executed there 24 Nov. 1326. In 1330 his bones were collected and buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, was treated with remarkable leniency and her inheritance was restored to her 22 April 1328. Shortly before 26 Jan. 1328/9, she was abducted from Hanley Castle, Worcestershire and married without royal license WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER,* Knt., 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulboum and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutboum (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex, Justice in Eyre for forest pleas in Essex, Joint Keeper of Caerphilly Castle, Keeper of Glamorgan and Morganno, Chamberlain of Cardiff, Keeper of the Tower of London, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1328, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Walthamstow, Essex, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rurnboldswyke), Sussex, Cherhill, Newton Tony, and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc., younger son of Robert de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle and Puddlestone, Herefordshire, Burford, Milson, and Tilsop (in Burford), Shropshire, by Joyce, daughter of William la Zouche [see RICHARD'S CASTLE 3 for his ancestry] [see BEAUCHAMP 10 for the details of the remaining portion of their lives]. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and William (clerk). Sir William la Zouche Mortimer, 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, died 28 Feb. 1336/7, and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, died testate 30 June 1337. (*Footnote: For instances of the style 'William la Zouche Mortimer" in contemporary records, see Horwood Year Books of Edward III: Years XI & XII (Roll Ser. 31(6)) (1883): 346-349; Year Books of Edward III, Years X1V & XV (Rolls Ser. 31(10)) (1889): 122-125; Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 164; Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394; Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275,338; Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 100; Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(17)) (1905): 302-313; Year Books of Edward III, Year XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(18)) (1906): 92-95. For an instance of the style 'William la Zouche de Mortimer," see National Archives, SC 8/179/8915 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarcbives.gov.uk/search.asp). For instance of the styles "William la Souche" and 'William de la Zouche," see Crowley Wiltshire Tax List of 1332 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 45) (1989): 17, 112.) Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 140-141. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of (Despenser ped.), 35-36. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 354 (Tony ped.), 358 (Beauchamp ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 110 (charter of William la Zouche). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 171-174 (sub Despenser), 587 (sub Zouche). Banks Baronies in Fee 1(1844): 337-338 (sub Mortimer), 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 513-514. Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 511 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1292- "Die Sancti Clementis [23 November] ... et Johanna comitissa Gloucestriæ in castro de Kaerfili post partum filiæ purificata"). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Lennard & Vincent Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Hugo le Despensor Com. Gloucest. creat's 20 E. 2 iure uxoris, decollatus 1326. = Elianor fil. et heres Gilb'ti de Clare Cornitis. Glou' et Hertford."). Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 674. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist: Soc. 6 (1883): 327-328. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 21 (Hugh le Despenser the younger styled "kinsman" by Alice de Lacy, wife of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster). Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; n.s. 18 (1902): 110. Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 328-329. English Hist. Rev. 12 (1897): 755-761; 70 (1955): 261-267; 99 (1984): 1-33. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 7, 133-134, 273. Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX 12 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1905): 302-313; Year XIX 13 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1906): 92-95. C.Ch.R 3 (1908): 448 (wife Eleanor styled "king's niece"). D.N.B. 5 (1908): 865-867 (biog. of Hugh le Despenser, the younger). VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328; 3 (1925): 70-71; 4 (1927): 25. C.P. 1 (1910): 242-244 (sub Arundel); 2 (1912): 130 (sub Berkeley); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser), Appendix H, 671 (chart); 5 (1926): 708, footnote a (sub Gloucester); 7 (1929): 222, footnote m (sub Kildare). Clark Carta et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 4 (1910): 1213-1227. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 560-563. VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 92-102. Trans. Leicestershire Arch. Soc. 11 (1913-20): 377-378. Cal. MSS in Various Colls. 7 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1914): 36 (grant by Hugh le Despenser the younger). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 9 (1915): 21-64. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 3 (letter of Eleanor le Despenser dated c.1326). Gretton Buord Recs. (1920). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 100, 479-480 (Despenser arms: Argent quartered with gules fretty or on a bend sable over a11). Cal Chancery Warrants (1927): 519 & 529 (Hugh styled "king's nephew"), 526 (Eleanor styled "king's niece"). Reynolds Reg. of Walter Reynolds Bishop of Worcester (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 153. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 234-236. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 2 (Dugdale Soc. 15) (1939): 111-112. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 125. Chaplais War of Saint-Sardos 1323-1325 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 87) (1954): vi, 75 & 80 (Ralph Basset of Drayton styled "cousin" by Hugh le Despenser), 78 (Richard de Grey of Codnor styled "cousin" by Hugh le Despenser), 88 (Hugh le Despenser styled "cousin" by John de Segrave), 217 (Hugh le Despenser styled "cousin" by John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey). Speculum 30 (1955): 207-212. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 182: 1-2 (sub Despenser). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 9-10. Smith Itinerag of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Year Books of Edward II 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 13-14. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannivg, Gower & Kilvy (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 167-204 ("... Chroniclers of Edward II's reign depict [Hugh le Despenser] as a man of reckless and unbounded ambition... Throughout his tenure of power, Despenser's acts were the consequence of necessity or self-interest"). VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 71,156. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 201. Ancient Deeds - Ser, B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8538. VCH Gloucester 11(1976): 147-148. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 9 (Deed A.S.49). Fryde Tyrrany & Fall of Edward II (1979). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 133 (charter of William de la Zouche, lord of Glamorgan and Margam, and Eleanor his wife), 134. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 33 (seal of Hugh le Despenser the younger dated 1319 - Hung from a leopard's face between two branches, a shield of arms: quarterly, in the second and third quarters a fret, overall a bend and a label of three points. The first and fourth quat4ers are stippled. On either side, a wyvem. Legend: S'HVGONIS LE DEPE[NS]ER.). Merrick Morganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Bull. Inst. Hist. Research 58 (1985): 95-100. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 63-65 (biog. of Hugh Despenser the younger: "... the evil genius of the Despenser dictatorship of 1322-26... He was greedy, arrogant and supremely self-confidant."). TAG 69 (1994): 129-139. Given-Wilson Ill. Hist. of Late Medieval England (1996): chart opp. 61 (temp. King Edward IV). Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 140-141 (arms of Hugh le Despenser the younger: Quarterly argent, and gules fretty or, a bend sable, a label azure). Nottingham Medieval Studies 41 (1997): 153 (chart). Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). Vale Plincely Court (2001): 313. Roper Feet of Fines for the County of York 1314-1326 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 158) (2006): 107. National Archives, E 40/198 (Hugh le Despenser the younger styled "kinsman" in 1322 by Alice de Lacy, widow of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster); SC 8/120/5962 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CP 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.htmll. Children of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., by Eleanor de Clare: i. HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., lord of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, Wales, and of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Tooting Bee (in Streatham), Surrey, Broad Town (then in Cliff-Pippard), Wiltshire, Hanley, Worcestershire, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Barrow, Suffolk, son and heir, born about 1308 (aged 18 in 1326). He successfully defended Caerphilly Castle against Queen Isabel's forces in 1327, until he obtained pardon of his life. He was imprisoned at Bristol Castle 15 Dec. 1328, and not released until 5 July 1331. In 1332 he was about to go on a pilgrimage to Santiago. In 1332 he was granted manors of Thorley, Hampshire and Frithby, Leicestershire. In 1334 the king granted him the manor of Ashley, together with lands in Little Sombome, Hampshire. In 1336 Hugh le Despenser, Knt., his step-father, William la Zouche Mortimer, and four others acknowledged that they owed debts of £266 to Asselmo Symonete, and £1600 to Gwido de La Chouche, merchants of Lucca, which debts they had not paid. He had livery of his mother's lands 21 July 1337. He was summoned to Parliament from 15 Nov. 1338 to 1 Jan. 1348/9 by writs directed Hugoni le Despenser, whereby he is held to have become Lord Despenser. He was in the Scottish wars, Nov. 1337-1338, and present at the Battle of Sluys 24 June 1340. He married after 31 May 1341 (by dispensation dated 27 April 1341, he and her former husband being related in the 3rd degree of kindred) ELIZABETH DE MONTAGU, widow of Giles de Badlesmere, Knt., 2nd Lord Badlesmere (died 7 June 1338) [see BADLESMERE 9.i], and daughter of William de Montagu, Knt., 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Lord Montagu, Marshal of England, by Katherine, daughter of William de Grandison (or Graunson), Knt., 1st Lord Grandison [see MONTAGU 7 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. During the Breton civil war, he served as a captain in the English army which defeated the French at Morlaix in 1342. In 1343 he gave a yearly rent of 10 marks from his manor of Broad Town, Wiltshire to Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, for the life of his sister, Joan, a nun in the Abbey. In 1344 he sued Anthony Citroun regarding waste in the manor of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The same year he and his wife, Elizabeth, were granted an indult for a portable altar. He accompanied the King to France in July 1346, and was in the King's retinue at the Battle of Crecy. He was present at the Siege of Calais, which surrendered 4 August 1347. SIR HUGH LE DESPENSER, 3rd Lord le Despenser, died 8 Feb. 1348/9, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. He left a will proved in 1349. His widow, Elizabeth, married (39 before 10 July 1350 (as his 2nd wife) GUY DE BRYAN (or BRIAN), KG., Lord Bryan [see CAREW 10], of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness and Slapton, Devon, etc., Governor of St. Briavel's Castle, Warden of the Forest of Dean, son and heir of Guy de Bryan, Knt., of Walwyns Castle, Pembrokeshire, Batdeford (in Ipplepen), Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness, Tor Bryan, Devon, etc., by Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Lloyd. He was born about 1309 (being of age in 1330). They had three sons, Guy, Knt., William, Knt. [see ECHINGHAM 10], and Philip. He was first armed at Stannow Park in 1327. In 1330 the king settled a dispute between him and his father, Guy de Bryan, senior, relative to the barony and castle of Walwayn, Pembrokeshire. In 1349 he was granted an annuity of 200 marks for bearing the King's Standard against his enemies at Calais. He was summoned to Parliament from 25 Nov. 1350 to 6 Dec. 1389, whereby he is held to have become Lord Bryan. He was constantly entrusted with martial and diplomatic affairs of the highest importance. His wife, Elizabeth, died at Ashley, Hampshire 30 (or 31) July 1359, and was buried with her 2nd husband in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. In 1361 he was Ambassador to the Pope. In 1369 he was appointed Admiral of the Fleet. In 1367 he purchased the manor of Woodsford, Dorset from John Whitfield, Knt. In 1377 he gave an endowment to four chaplains for the chapel of St. Mary at Slapton, Devon, which he augmented in 1386 and again in 1389. SIR GUY DE BRYAN, Lord Bryan, died 17 August 1390, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. Pole Calls, towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 274-275,286-287. Archaeologia 14 (1803): 143-153. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 63-65 (sub Bryan). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 36-37. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Nicolas Controversy between Scrape & Grosvenor 2 (1832): 245-255 (biog. of Sir Guy Bryan). Coll. Top. et Gen. 3 (1836): 250-278 (re. Bryan fam.). Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 12 (1839): 18-22. Beltz Mews, of the Order of the Garter (1841): clii. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 1(1861): 448 (Bryan ped.); 3 (1868): 291 (Montagu ped.). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) (1876): 603 (charter of Guy de Bryan). Daniel-Tyssen Royal Charters & Hist. Docs. Rel. the Town & County of Carmarthen (1878): 48, footnote 4. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). Year Books of Edward III: Years XIV & XV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1889): 122-125; Year Books of Edward III: Years XVIII & XIX 12 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1905): 302-313; Year XIX 13 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1906): 92-95. Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36. Cal. Entries Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 553. Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 103 (Hugh styled "king's kinsman"). Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338. Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 146. C.P.R. 1338-1340 (1898): 4, 201, 447, 518 (instances of Hugh styled "king's kinsman"), 328. Wrottesley Peck from the Plea Rolls (1905): 228, 236-237. VCH Dorset 2 (1908): 73-79. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 3rd Ser. 3 (1911): 132, 137, 191, 210-211. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 150-151,481; 5 (1912): 284-285. C.P. 2 (1912): 201, footnote b (sub Bohun), 361-362 (sub Bryan); 4 (1916): 271-274 (sub Despenser); 14 (1998): 118 (sub Bryan). VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 92-102, 249. Woodruff & Churchill Sede Vacante Wills (Kent Arch. Soc. Recs. 3) (1914): 38. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71. C.F.R. 10 (1929): 359. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 392, 400. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffensis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 810. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 20: 1 (sub Badlesmere). Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Haines Cal. Reg. of Wolstan de Bransford Bishop of Worcester (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 4) (1966): 79. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 23-43. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 176-177. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.7233, B.8656. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120, 129-153. MacCulloch Chorography of Suffolk (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 19) (1976): 28. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 18 (seal of Guy de Bryan dated 1383 - Hanging from a twin oak tree, growing from a mount below, a shield of arms: three piles in point (Batched). Upon either side, holding the strap in its beak, a gryphon, Legend: SIGILLUM: GUYDO/NIS: DE: BRYENE). Merrick Moiganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472. Emery Greater Medieval Houses of England & Wales 3 (2006): 687. ii. EDWARD LE DESPENSER, Knt. [see next]. iii. GILBERT LE DESPENSER, Knt., younger son. He was granted the manor of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire by his uncle, King Edward II, in 1322, subject to a life estate reserved to his mother, Eleanor. As an adult, he was granted the manors of Thorley, Hampshire and Broad Town (in Cliffe Pypard), Wiltshire by his brother, Hugh le Despenser. He served as a knight in King Edward III's household. In 1368 he received a grant of 40 marks per annum at the Exchequer for life. SIR GILBERT LE DESPENSER died without issue 23 April 1381. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 2(1) (1795): Appendix: 126-127. Blore Hist & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasti con Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). VCH Hampshire 5 (1912): 284-285. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 23-43. Allington-Smith Henry Despenser (2003): 4. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472. National Archives, SC 8/120/5962 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). iv. JOHN LE DESPENSER, younger son. In 1351 he received lands in Carleton le Moorland, Lincolnshire, by reversion settled on him by his brother, Hugh le Despenser. He may be the John le Despenser who died shortly before 10 June 1366. C.C.R. 1349-1354 (1906): 322. C.F.R. 7 (1923): 344. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472. v. PHILIP LE DESPENSER, buried in the Chapter House of the Austin Friars, London. Gentleman's Mag n.s. 8 (1860): 372-376. vi. ISABEL LE DESPENSER, married RICHARD DE ARUNDEL, Knt., 10th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey [see FITZ ALAN 11]. vii. JOAN LE DESPENSER. A dispensation was granted 1 June 1323 for her to marry John son of Thomas, Earl of Kildare, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred. This marriage did not take place. Joan subsequently became a nun at Shaftesbury Abbey, where she died in 1384. Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 231. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. Allington-Smith Henry Despenser (2003): 4. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472. viii. ELIZABETH LE DESPENSER, married (1st) MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 4th Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 8]; (2nd) MAURICE WYTHE, Knt., of Portbury, Somerset [see BERKELEY 8]. Children of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., by Eleanor de Clare: i. HUGH LA ZOUCHE (otherwise HUGH MORTIMER LA ZOUCHE), Knt. In 1362 he was granted an indult for a portable altar and plenary remission at the hour of death. He was a man-at-arms in Italy, where he became Captain-General of the White Company, a calvary company of 5,000 men. In July 1365, while fighting in Italy at San Mariano, he was taken prisoner and placed in jail in Perugia. In Sept. 1368 Pope Urban V wrote the governors and commune of the city of Perugia exhorting them to grant the request of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, for the liberation of Hugh la Zouche, Knt., of England, detained by them in prison. He was released from imprisonment in Sept. 1369. Dugdak Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65 (Tewkesbury Abbey: "Elianoræ de Clare .... Post mortem ejus maritata fuit domino Willielmo le Sowch, de quo genuit Hugonem Souch."). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Papal Regs.: Petitions 1(1896): 388, 397 (instances of Hugh la Zouche, 3rd Lord Zouche, styled "king's kinsman"). Papal Regs.: Letters 4 (1902): 28. C.P.R. 1364-1367 (1912): 236. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 605 footnote 60. Sumpdon Hundred Years War II: Trial by Fire (2002): 470 (erroneously identifies Hugh a Zouche Mortimer as grandson of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March). Villalon & Kagay Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus (Hist. of Warfare 25) (2005): 203-204. Caferro John Hawkwood (2006): 120. ii. WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE, monk at Glastonbury Abbey. In 1355-6 he leased an estate at Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire from his aunt, Elizabeth de Burgh, lady of Clare. In 1367 Edward le Despenser, lord of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, granted in mountain to the Abbot of Glastonbury a rent of 100s. out of his manor of Sherston, Wiltshire for the life of his uncle, William la Zouche, fellow-monk of the abbot. He was living 6 March 1377. C.P.R. 1377-1381 (1895): 597. C.P.R. 1374-1377 (1916): 438. Procs. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc. 85 (1964): 137 ("Brother William Zouche" mentioned in a letter of Walter de Monynton, Abbot of Glastonbury). Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 176, 605 footnote 60. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999): 87.†2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, of Worcester and Elmley Castles, Acton Beauchamp, Comberton, Naunton Beauchamp, Pirton, Salwarpe, Sheriff's Lench, Stoulton, and Wadborough (in Pershore), Worcestershire, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, etc., eldest surviving son and heir, born about 1271-5 (aged 23-27 in 1298, aged 30 and more in 1301). He married (1st) after 4 March 1291 (date of letter) and before 11 May 1297 (date of papal dispensation to remain in marriage, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) ISABEL DE CLARE, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., 6th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter of Hugues XI le Brun (otherwise de Lusigian), Count of La Marche and Angoulême, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine brother of Henry III, King of England) [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born 10 March 1262/3. They had no issue. He fought in the king's division at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298, where he distinguished himself for bravery. In consequence of his services, the same year he was granted lands in Scotland belonging to Mowbray, Strivelyn, and Chartres. He presented to the churches of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1299, Acton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, 1309, Pillerton, Warwickshire, 1310, Notgrove, Gloucestershire, 1313, and Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, 1313, and to the chapel of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, 1309, 1313. He took part in the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Com' Warr'. Guy and his wife, Isabel, were separated in or before 1302, and subsequently divorced; she married (2nd) about 1316 MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 2nd Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 6 for further details of her life]. Guy served under Edward, Prince of Wales, at the Siege of Stirling Castle in 1304. For his good services, he was granted Barnard Castle, co. Durham in 1307. He attended King Edward I on his last campaign and was present at his death 7 July 1307. Sometime in the period, 1307-11, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and other earls and barons, while assembled in the Parliament in London, wrote to the Pope praying for the canonization of Thomas de Cantelowe, late Bishop of Hereford. He was present at the Coronation of King Edward II in 1308, where he carried one of the Swords of State. He was prominent in procuring the banishment of Peter de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall in 1308, and alone opposed his recall in 1309. Guy married (2nd) shortly before 28 Feb. 1309/10 ALICE DE TONY, widow of Thomas de Leyboume (or Leyburne), Knt., of Leybourne, Kent (died shortly before 30 May 1307), and daughter of Ralph de Tony, Knt., of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Walthamstow, Essex, Painscastle, Radnorshire, etc., by his wife, Mary [see TONY 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1282-5 (aged 24 or 27 in 1309). They had two sons, Thomas, K.G. [11th Earl of Warwick), and John [Lord Beauchamp], and five daughters, Maud, Emma (wife of Roland de Oddingseles), Isabel (wife of John de Clinton), Elizabeth, and Lucy (wife of Roger de Napton). Alice was heiress in 1309 to her brother, Robert de Tony, Knt., Lord Tony, by which she inherited extensive estates throughout England, including the manors of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Brinkley, Kirding, Long Stanton, and Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, Carnanton (in Mawgan), Cornwall, Walthamstow, Essex, Necton, Little Cressingham, and Saham Toney, Norfolk, Garsington, Oxfordshire, East Bergholt, Suffolk, Newton Tony and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc. He presented to the church of Pillerton, Warwickshire in 1310. He was one of the Lords Ordainers of Reform in 1310. In June 1312 he seized Gavaston at Deddington, Oxfordshire, and carried him off to Warwick Castle. On the Earl of Lancaster's arrival, Gavaston was handed over to Lancaster and executed without trial 19 June 1312. He presented to the churches of Notgrove, Gloucestershire and Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and to the chapel and chantry of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire in 1313. Although pardoned for his participation in the death of Gavaston in 1313, Guy and his confederate Earls refused to serve in the Bannockburn campaign the following year. SIR GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, 10th Earl of Warwick, died at Warwick Castle 12 August 1315, and was buried at Bordesley Abbey, Warwickshire. He left a will dated 25 July 1315. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) by license dated 26 October 1316 (as his 1st wife) WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER (formerly DE MORTIMER)*, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutbourn (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex, Justice in Eyre for forest pleas in Essex, Joint Keeper of Caerphilly Castle, Keeper of Glamorgan and Morganno, Chamberlain of Cardiff, Keeper of the Tower of London, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1328, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Walthamstow, Essex, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rumboldswyke), Sussex, Cherhill, Newton Tony, and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc., younger son of Robert de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle and Puddlestone, Herefordshire, Burford, Milson, and Tilsop (in Burford), Shropshire, etc., by Joyce, daughter of William la Zouche [see RICHARD'S CASTLE 3 for his ancestry]. They had four sons, Ralph, Alan [2nd Lord Zouche], Robert, and Philip, and one daughter, Joyce. He apparently fought at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298. In 1304 his kinsman, Alan la Zouche, Knt., Lord Zouche [see CHARLTON 5], settled the reversion of the manors of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutbourne (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex on him, on whose death in 1314, he entered into these estates. In 1313 William was pardoned for his participation in the death of Peter de Gavaston. He was summoned for service against the Scots, 1315-35, in Gascony, 1324-5, and in Ireland, 1332. In 1322-3 John Botetourt and his wife, Maud, conveyed to William and his wife, Alice, all their right in the manor of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire. William was summoned to Parliament from 26 Dec. 1323 to 14 Jan. 1336/7, by writs directed variously Villelmo la Zousbe, Willelmo la Zouche de Castro Ricardi (or de Mortuo Mari, de Assheby, de Mortimer), whereby he is held to have become Lord Zouche. His wife, Alice, died shortly before 8 Jan. 1324/5. As a supporter of Queen Isabel, he was present at the extraordinary Council held at Bristol in October 1326, when Prince Edward was chosen as Keeper of the Realm. In Nov. 1326 he was sent with the Earl of Lancaster into Wales to pursue and capture Edward II. William married (2nd) about 26 Jan. 1328/9 (when he abducted her from Hanley Castle, Worcestershire) ELEANOR DE CLARE, widow of Hugh le Despenser ("the younger"), Knt., 2nd Lord le Despenser (hanged 24 Nov. 1326) [see DESPENSER 11], and daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 2nd wife, Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, King of England [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan shortly before 23 Nov. 1292 (date of her mother's churching), and was co-heiress in 1314 to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and William (clerk). Soon after their marriage, orders were issued for their arrest 5 Feb. 1328/9 by Roger de Mortimer, acting in the king's name. Eleanor was subsequently imprisoned in the Tower of London and then in Devizes Castle. In Dec. 1329 she was compelled by the King to surrender the lordships of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, and the manors of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and Hanley, Worcestershire, until they should have paid an impossible fine of £50,000. They received a pardon 22 Feb. 1329/30. In Jan. 1330/1 she recovered her lands for a reduced fine of £5,000, which sum was never paid in full during her lifetime. In 1332 he had a protection going beyond seas with the Princess Eleanor for her marriage to Renaud, Count of Guelders, in the Low Countries. The same year he had license from the Bishop of Lincoln to have a chapel in his manor-house at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. In 1332 Anthony Citroun and Nicholas de Salvo acknowledged that they owed William and his wife, Eleanor, a debt of £20,000. In 1336 William la Zouche Mortimer, his step-son, Hugh le Despenser, Knt., and four others acknowledged that they owed debts of £266 to Asselmo Symonete, and £1600 to Gwido de La Chouche, merchants of Lucca, which they had not paid. SIR WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER, 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, died 28 Feb. 1336/7, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, died testate 30 June 1337. (Footnote: *For instances of the style “William la Zouche Mortimer" in contemporary records, see Horwood Year Books of Edward III: Years XIV & XII (Roll Ser. 31(6)) (1883): 346-349; Year Books of Edward III, Years XIV & XV (Rolls Ser. 31(10)) (1889): 122-125; Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 164; Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394; Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath &Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338; Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 100; List of Foreign Accounts (Lists & Indexes XI) (1900): 218; Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(17)) (1905): 302-313; Year Books of Edward III, Year XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(18)) (1906): 92-95. For an instance of the style "William la Zouche de Mortimer," see National Archives, SC 8/179/8915 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searthasp). For instance of the styles "William la Souche" and 'William de la Zouche," see Crowley Wiltshire Tax List of 1332 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 45) (1989): 17, 112.) Dugdale Baronage of England 1 (1675): 226 (chart), 229-231 (sub Beauchamp). Edmondson Hist. & Genealogical Account of the Noble Fam. of Greville (1766): 26-56. Nash Colls. for the Hist. of Worcestershire 1 (1781): 241; 2 (1782): 263 (Beauchamp ped). Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 635 (Zouch ped.). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 149-150, 319-330. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 42 (Mortimer ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 354 (Tony ped.), 358 (Beauchamp ped.). Dalrymple Annals of Scotland 2 (1819): 157. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 110 (charter of William in Zouche). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414-415; 2 (1836-41): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1(1826): 52 (will of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick), 53-54 (will of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Surtees Hist. & Antiqs. of Durham 4 (1840): 65 (Beauchamp ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 337-338 (sub Mortimer), 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 513-514. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 32-34. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 169 (Tewkesbury Annals sub 1262: "Gileberto de Clare filio Ricardi comitis Gloucestriæ, nondum cincto gladio militari, nascitur filia nomine Isabella, vi. idus Mardi [10 March], de uxore sua Alicia Lila comitis Marchiæ."). Maclean Parochial & Fam. Hist. of Blisland (1868): 64-66 (Tony-Beauchamp ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Stevenson Docs. Ill. of the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1870): 220-221 (Isabel de Clare styled "cousin" [cosine] by King Edward I of England in letter dated 4 March 1291). Mundy et al. Vis. of Nottingham 1569 & 1614 (H.S.P. 4) (1871): 145 (1569 Vis.) (Zouche arms: Gules, ten bezants, 4, 3, 2 and 1). Maclean Hist. of Trigg Minor 1(1876): 62-66. Tegg Wills of their Own (1876): 6-7 (will of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Kellawe Reg. of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine & Bishop of Durham 1314-1316 4 (1878): xxxi. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 244-246 (Percy ped.: "Guy Becham Ed of Warwyke son & heyre. = Ales doughter & heyre to Sir Raff Tony."). Carthew Hist. of the Parishes of West & East Bradenham (1883): 126. Clark Land of Mogan (1883): 93-166. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 327-328. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 578-579 (sub Warwick). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 7(1)) (1886): 115. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 89. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 243-244 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1301 - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, helmet plumed and with lambrequin, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: a fess between six crosses crosslet [BEAUCHAMP]. Legend: ... GVI DON' • DE • BELLOCAM ... Beaded borders. Reverse: a shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine [WARWICK]. Suspended by a loop from a hook, and between two lions passant guardant. Legend: AMPO COM' • WARREWYK. [see also Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1923): 100), 474-475 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1305 - A shield of arms: a fess between six crosses crosslet [BEAUCHAMP]. Suspended by a strap, from a tree of three branches, and between two wavy scrolls of foliage and flowers. Legend: S' GVYDONIS: COM’ : DE: WARR'. Beaded borders.). Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; n.s. 10 (1893): 213; n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37; n.s. 19 (1903): 103-104; n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 570; 2 (1895): 206 (Thomas son of the late Richard Thalebot [Talbot], priest, aged 20 years, styled "kinsman" of Guy de Beauchamp), 394. Bund Inqs. Post Morton for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): 59-65. Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbuy Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338. C.C.R. 1330-1333 (1898): 563. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 157. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: A (1899): 162 (Isabel de Clare styled "kinswoman" by King Edward I of England). English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 16-17 (biog. of Guy de Beauchamp). List of Inqs. at Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 314. Mallet Abberley Manor, Worcestershire (1905): 29-37. MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 84-85. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 7, 72, 133-134, 137-138, 273, 418. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 728. VCH Rutland 2 (1907): 125. Feudal Aids 5 (1908): 26, 201, 209. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 28 (biog. of Guy de Beauchamp). Salter Eynsbam Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 177-178. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 364. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 194. C.P. 2 (1912): 50-51 (sub Beauchamp); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser); 5 (1926): 437 (sub FitzJohn), 707 footnote j (sub Gloucester), 708 footnote a (sub Gloucester); 6 (1926): 349-350 (sub Hastings); 7 (1929): 638 (sub Leyburn); 12(1) (1953): 774 footnote i (sub Tony); 12(2) (1959): 370-372 (sub Warwick), 957-960 (sub Zouche). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 106-107; 4 (1924): 220-224, 332, Trans. Leicestershire Arch. Soc. 11 (1913-20): 377-378. Modern Philology 12 (1914-15): 45. Year Books of Edward II 13 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 164-166; 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208; 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 13-14. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 3 (letter of Eleanor le Despenser dated c.1326). Faster Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 48-50. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 102. Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1923): 100 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71; 4 (1927): 348-362. Report on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 280-283. Reynolds Reg. of Walter Rgnolds Bishop of Worcester (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 5, 15, 39-40, 148-149, 151, 155-157. Moor Knights of Edward 11 (H.S.P. 80) (1929): 70-71. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138,170-171. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 171-174. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 39: 1-13 (sub Beauchamp of Eknley); 130: 11. English Hist. Rev. 74 (1959): 70-89; 86 (1971): 449-472. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 75-76, 117-118. Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 167-176. Phillips Aymer de Valence Earl of Pembroke 1307-1324 (1972): 263-264. TAG 49 (1973): 2. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 253-254. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8538, B.8971; 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.12440, B.12456. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-137, 265; 9 (1989): 226. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 93 (Deed A.S.501). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 133 (charter of William de la Zouche, lord of Glamorgan and Margam, and Eleanor his wife), 134. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): xxiv, lviij (Beauchamp ped), lx (Tosny ped.). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2(1981): 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt. dated 1316 - A shield of arms: five roundels. Legend lost), 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer dated 1328 - In a cusped and traceried circle, a shield of arms ten roundels), 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer dated 1336 - In a cusped and traceried trefoil, a shield of arms: ten roundels. Legend lost). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 170-171. VCH Cambridge 9 (1989): 381-386. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 44 46 (biog. of Guy Beauchamp: "... a highly cultivated nobleman and 'one of the most bitter of Edward II's opponents"). VCH Wiltshire 15 (1995): 146. Ward Women of the English Nobility Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 108-109. Montacute Cal. Reg. of Simon de Montacute Bishop of Worcester 1334-1337 (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 15) (1996): 56. Brault Rolls of Ames Edward 12 (1997): 39 (arms of Guy de Beauchamp H 52, J 10, K 24, SP 32: Gules crusily and a fess or; he sealed with a fess between six crosses crosslet in 1299, 1301, and 1305), 448. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). Smith & London Heads of Religious Houses, England & Wales 2 (2001): 198. Vale Princely Court (2001): 313. Fonge Cartulary of St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick (2004): 10-11. National Archives, SC 8/153/7633; SC 8/153/7634 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CF 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html]..." 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt., 7th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, Steward of St. Edmund's Abbey, son and heir, born at Christchurch, Hampshire 2 Sept. 1243. He married (1st) in the spring of 1253 ALICE (or ALIX) DE LUSIGNAN (or DE LA MARCHE), daughter of Hugues [XI] le Brun (or de Lusignan), Count of La Marche and Angouleme, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine brother of Henry III, King of England), by Yolande, daughter of Pierre de Braille sled Mauclerc, Knt., Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond [see LUSIGNAN 6 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Isabel and Joan. Earl Gilbert played an important role in the constitutional crisis and the Barons' War, 1258-67. Initially he supported the Baronial cause. He and Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester captured Rochester, Kent 18 April 1264, but shortly afterwards Tonbridge and Rochester fell to the royalists, who soon gained control over southeast England. On 6 May the royalist forces were camped at Lewes, Sussex. Attempts at arbitration failed, and on 14 May the Battle of Lewes was fought. Earl Gilbert commanded the 2nd line at the battle, where the king and his brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, were captured. Prince Edward and his cousin, Henry of Almain, became hostages, being initially sent to Dover Castle. The king and Richard of Cornwall were taken to London with Montfort. Montfort made every effort to secure peace, as unrest within the realm continued. Earl Gilbert, then the most powerful lord in the kingdom, was annoyed because Bristol had passed into Montfort’s hands. Furthermore, the earl was jealous of Montfort’s monopoly of power. Consequently early in 1265 Earl Gilbert withdrew to the Welsh Marsh, the home of Montfort’s intractable enemies. In Feb. 1265 Montfort banned a tournament at Dunstable for fear of conflict between his men and the followers of Earl Gilbert. All efforts to arrange ameeting between Montfort and Earl Gilbert failed. On 28 May 1265 Prince Edward escaped from captivity to join Mortimer and Earl Gilbert at Wigmore. The following month, Prince Edward and Earl Gilbert were denounced as rebels by Montfort. Earl Gilbert shared Prince Edward's victory at Kenilworth 31 July-August 1265, and, at the Battle of Evesham, 4 August 1765 he commanded the 2nd division and contributed largely to the victory. At the end of 1266, Earl Gilbert quarreled with Mortimer, who favored a more violent policy of repression. Sometime before 1267, Earl Gilbert conveyed the manor of Sunworth (in Buriton), Hampshire to Roger de Loveday, to hold to him and his heirs by the annual payment of a pair of gilt spurs at Easter. Earl Gilbert and his wife, Alice, were legally separated at Norwich, Norfolk 18 July 1271. In 1271 he had license to enditch his new castle of Caerphilly in Wales. At the death of King Henry III 16 Nov. 1272, Earl Gilbert took the lead in swearing fealty to King Edward I, who was then in Sicily returning from the Crusade. He was Joint Guardian of England during the king's absence. In 1274-5 William de Valence and Joan his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Gloucester, and Robert de Boyton touching a tenement in Woolstone, Buckinghamshire. In 1275 Gilbert went to France to negotiate for peace. He was summoned to serve against the Welsh in 1277 and 1282. In 1278 he was among those selected to escort King Alexander III of Scotland to the king. He failed to recover his ancestors' lands in Normandy in the Paris Parlement in 1279. In May 1283 he was contracted to marry the king's daughter, Joan, provided he be formally divorced from his wife, Alice, and be free to marry where he will, and also that he obtain a dispensation from the Pope to marry to Joan, a 1st cousin once removed of Alice. In 1285 Gilbert was absolved from the contract of marriage between him and his former wife, Alice. He granted Alice various properties for her support, including the park and manor of Thaxted, Essex, and the manors of Warham, Wells, and Wiveton, Norfolk, Burford, Oxfordshire,and Speenhamland, Berkshire; she subsequently married Gilbert de Lindsey.* In 1286 and 1287 he was beyond seas with the king, and, in June 1287, he was again in Wales on the king's service. In 1287 he sued Cecily de Vivonne, widow of John de Beauchamp, and others regarding the wardship of Thomas de Hawy. He married (2nd) at Westminster Abbey 23 April 1290 (by dispensation dated 16 Nov. 1289, they being related in the 2nd & 3rd degrees of affinity) JOAN OF ENGLAND [sometimes styled JOAN OF ACRE], daughter of Edward I, King of England, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter of [Saint] Fernando III, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Cordoba, Jaen, and Seville [see ENGLAND 7 for her ancestry]. She was born at Acre in Palestine in Spring 1272. They had one son, Gilbert, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester and Hertford], and three daughters, Eleanor, Margaret, and Elizabeth. In 1291 his quarrels with the Earl of Hereford about Brecknock culminated in a private war between them. Both earls were imprisoned by the king, Earl Gilbert being fined 10,000 marks as the aggressor. In 1291 his wife, Joan, received a papal indult to enter Cistercian monasteries accompanied by eight honest matrons. In 1293 he was appointed Captain of the forces in Ireland, and resided there until some time in 1294. He presented to the churches of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, 1295, and Thurning, Northamptonshire, 1295. SIR GILBERT DE CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, died at Monmouth Castle 7 Dec. 1295, and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) early in 1297 RALPH DE MONTHERMER, Knt., Privy Councillor, Keeper of Caerlyon, Cardiff, Caerfilly, Lantrissan, Newburgh, and Usk Castles, 1307, Steward of the lands of Earl of Buchan, 1308, Guardian and Lieutenant in Scotland, 1311, Steward of the lands of John ap Adam, 1311, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1315-20. Ralph was a native of Wales. Ralph was a native of Wales, and was near related to John Bluet, Knt., who served as his bachelor in Scotland in 1303. Ralph and Joan had two sons, Thomas, Knt. [2nd Lord Monthermer], and Edward, Knt. [Lord Monthermer], and one daughter, Mary (wife of Duncan of Fife, Knt., 10th Earl of Fife [see CLARE 8.ii.a below]). Their marriage enraged her father, the king, and he committed Ralph to prison in Bristol Castle 10-22 July 1297, and all of Joan's lands were seised into the king's hand. By the mediation of Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, peace was made between the king and his daughter, and her lands were restored to her 31 July 1297, save Tonbridge and the Isle of Portland. The king afterwards became much attached to his new son-in-law, who was summoned to Parliament as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford during the minority of his step-son, Gilbert de Clare. By Sept. 1297 Ralph and his wife were allowed to stay in the outer bailey of Windsor Castle, which the king had lent them. In 1297 he was summoned to serve with the king's overseas expedition. In 1298 he was appointed Captain of the 4th Division of the king's army in Scotland. He was summoned to serve against the Scots in 1299, 1300, and frequently thereafter. He fought at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298, and was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300. He presented to the churches of Pimperne, Dorset, 1299, and Naseby, Northamptonshire, 1305. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Rad'us de Monte H'meri Com' Glouc' & Herf’. In 1303 he and his wife, Joan, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Gilbert son of Thomas de Clare concerning a tenement in Plashes (in Standon), Hertfordshire. He was briefly Earl of Atholl in Scotland, 1306-7, he being defeated by King Robert de Brus in 1307. JOAN OF ENGLAND died 7 April 1307, and was buried in the Austin Friars at Clare, Suffolk. In August 1307 he surrendered to King Edward II custody of the lands of his step-son, Gilbert de Clare, a minor, and had a grant of 5,000 marks in lieu thereof. In 1308 John de Huntley, of cos. Somerset and Gloucester, owed him a debt of £15. The same year he had license to hunt in the king's forests or chases when passing through them. He was granted a charter for a weekly market and two yearly fairs at his manor of Llanfair Discoed, Monmouthshire in Nov. 1308. He was summoned to Parliament from 4 March 1308/9 to 13 Sept. 1324, by writs directed Rldulpho de Monte Hermerii, whereby he is held to have become Lord Monthermer. In 1309 he was granted the barony of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, including the manors of Stokenharn, Oakford, Pyworthy, and Sterte, Devon and Hunton, Hampshire. A similar grant of Warblington, Hampshire was made to him in Dec. 1310. He was going beyond seas in the king's service in May 1313. In 1313 Henry Fitz Alan brought a writ of replevin against him and complained that he had wrongfully seised his beasts, namely two bullocks, one calf, and two mares in Dodbrooke Burgh, Devon, whereby Henry claimed he suffered damages to the amount of £20. Ralph fought at the Battle of Bannockburn 24 June 1314, where he was taken prisoner. In 1315 he had permission to go on pilgrimage to Santiago of Compostella in Spain. The same year he presented to the church of Stokenham, Devon. He likewise presented to the church of Shorncote, Wiltshire in 1316 and 1317, by reason of the land and heir of John ap Adam being in his hand. He married (2nd) before 20 Nov. 1318 (without the king's permission) ISABELLE DESPENSER, widow successively of Gilbert de Clare, Knt. (died shortly before 16 Nov. 1307) [see BADLESMERE 8.i] and John de Hastings, Knt., 1st Lord Hastings (died 10 Feb. 1312/3) [see HASTINGS 10], and daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., Earl of Winchester, 1st Lord Despenser, by Isabel, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see DESPENSER 10 for her ancestry]. In Dec. 1318 perambulation was made by the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of London of the land of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's in the parish of St. Dunstan [?in the East}, London on complaint of Thomas de Neusom, clerk of Sir Ralph de Monthermer, who stated that because the tenement of the Dean and Chapter adjoining that of Ralph was not built up along the street, vagabonds crossing the tenement by night broke down Ralph's party-walls and entered and done damage there. Ralph and his wife, Isabel, were pardoned by the king 12 August 1319 for marrying without the king's permission. In 1324 he was summoned for military service in Gascon in person. After the reduction of the Queen's household in1324, the king's daughers, Eleanor and Joan, were put in charge of Ralph and his wife in the king's castle of Marlborough. SIR RALPH DE MONTHERMER, 1st Lord Monthermer, died 10 May (or 5 April) 1325, and was buried at Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire. He left a will enrolled 15 July 1325. On 19 Feb. 1325/6 his widow, Isabel, was appointed custodian of the corpus of Marlborough Castle and of the houses within the walls for the safe dwelling of herself and of the king's daughters living with her. Isabel died testate 4 (or 5) Dec. 1334, and was buried at Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire. [Footnote 9. For evidence of Alice's 2nd marriage, see Cal. IP.M 3 (1912): 234-251; Genealogist n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. Alice's 2nd husband, Gilbert de Lindsey, is presumably Gilbert de Lindsey, Knt., of Molesworth, Huntingdonshire, who occurs in the period, 1279-1305/6 [see VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 92-96; DeWindt Royal Justice & the Medieval English Countryside. 2 (1981): 617; McAndrew Scotland's Hist. Heraldly (2006): 93-94]. Presumably she is the Alice de la Marche, tenant in chief, who died shortly before 24 March 1290 [see C.F.R. 1 (1911): 277].] Weever Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631): 734-740. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 139-143. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 287. Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Nase (1792): 94. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 148 ("1307. Obiit Johanna de Acres comitissa de Clare"); 6(3) (1830): 1600-1602 ("Dame Johan of Acris"). Nicolas Siege of Carlvarock (1828): 275-279 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 301. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 328-329 (sub Monthermer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Cli. ped.). Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 22-23. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 2 (1857): 318-362. Monthermer Peerage. In the House of Lords. Case on Behalf of William Launder (1860). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset (1861): 296. Archives Hist. de Département de la Gironde 6 (1864): 345-346. Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXII-XXXIII (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1864): 176-179. Haddan Councils & Ecel Docs. Rel. Great Britain & Ireland 1 (1869): 612-613. Syllabus (in English) of the Docs. Rel. England & Other Kingdoms 1 (1869): 145, 153, 158, 163, 183, 184, 204. Luard Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 502 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1290- "Pridie kal. MaIi [30 April] Glilbertusi comes Gloucestriæ Johannam filiam regis duxit uxorem."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) (1876): 302 (charters of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford, and his wife, Joan, dated 1290-91; "the third [seal] is a large one of the Earl on a horse in chain armour, with sword and shield charged with three chevrons; the horse's trappings are charged with the same (well cut); the heads of the horse and man and the feet of the horse are gone; on the obverse is a large shield of arms, the fourth [seal] is that of the Countess, a small seal, three lions."). Lennard & Vincent Vir. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P- 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Isabella [Despenser] ux. Joh'is Hastinges Dn'i Abergauennie, 2 Rad'i Monthermer"). Arch. Cambrensis 4th Ser. 9 (1878): 51-59. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 687. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 65, 74, 96, 102, 135, 202, 215, 232, 259, 266, 279, 302, 303. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 93 (sub Athol); 2 (1886): 15-17 (sub Gloucester). Stafford Reg. of Edmund St4jhrd (1886): 339-340. Bain Cal. Docs. Rel Scotland 4 (1888): 370 (Sir John Bluet styled "bacheler and cousin" of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester in 1303). Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lanc. & Cheshire as (1889): 39 ("The first observed instance of a mantling or lambrequin, as it was then called, - a term still applied to by the modern French heralds, - occurs in the large seal of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 1299. This is engraved in Nicholas Upton, De Usu Militari [Bisse edition, 1654, p. 631. In Planche's Poursuivant the helmet and mantling alone are engraved from this seal. It is represented as a square handkerchief or shawl fastened at one end under the crest, and flying out loose behind. There is no hacking. Ralph de Monthermer was a 'plain esquire,' but attracted the attention and secured the love of Joan of Acres, daughter of Edward I. and relict of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. May we be allowed to fancy we see here the kerchief of the fair lady whose favour led to his advancement, and whose marriage eventually brought him his title?"). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 108. Stevenson Rental of all the Houses in Gloucester, A.D. 1455 (1890): 122 (ped. in Hist. of the Kings of England dated c.1470). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268 (undated seal of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet with vizor dou sword, shield of arms. Horse galloping. Arms: three chevrons [CLARE]. Legend: SIGILL' GILBERTI DE CLARE: COMITIS .....VERNIE. Reverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet with vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping. Arms: CLARE. Legend: SIGILL' GIL[EBEIRTI DE: CLARE: COMMS: HERTFORDIE. Beaded borders), 324 (seal of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Glouester & Hertford dated 1301 - Obverse. A shield of arms, as in reverse, suspended by a loop from a forked tree, and between two wyverns with tails floriated. Legend: [....CO]M' : G[L]OV'NIE : HERTF[OR]D' .... Reverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, helmet with vizor down and furnished with a lambrequin (the crest, an displayed, see Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 16, is wanting), sword, shield of arms. Horse galloping, caparisoned and plumed, with the crest of an eagle displayed. Arms: an eagle displayed [MONTHERMER]. Legend: RTFORD: KLLKENI ET DNI GLA.... Beaded borders.). Papal Regs.: Letters 1(1893): 525. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 245-246, 248. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98; n.s. 20 (1904): 71, 162-163; n.s. 21(1905): 78-82; n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 438 '139 (Alice, contracted wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "niece" by Aymer de Valence, Bishop elect of Winchester, and Sir William de Valence in 1255); 3 (1908): 72, 131-132. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seth (1903): 9-10 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). C.P.R 1321-1324 (1904): 203. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls. (1905): 7, 133-134, 146, 341, 470-471. Hervey Suffolk in 1327 (Suffolk Green Books No. IX Vol. II) (1906): 131, 209, 211. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colts. 4 (Hist. MSS Corn. 55) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 4 (1908): 378-382 (biog. of Gilbert de Clare: "[He] was the most powerful English noble of his day."); 13 (1909): 773-774 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 298-299, 348; 3 (1925): 6, 70; 4 (1927): 23, 25, 300, 395-401, 510. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 85-93, 134-136, 408-413. C.P. 1 (1910): 346 (sub Audley); 3 (1913): 244 (sub Clare); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser), Appendix H, 671 (chart); 5 (1926): 346-349 (sub Hastings), 373, 702-712 (sub Gloucester), 753; 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford); 9 (1936): 140-142 (sub Monthermer). Lane Royal Daughters of England 1 (1910): 182-192. C.F.R. 3 (1912): 357. Cat Various Chancery Rolls 1277-1326 (1912): 69,348 Goan styled "king's daughter"). VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 87. C.P.R. 1266-1272 (1913): 684 (Alice, 1st wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "king's niece"). Turner Cat Feet ofFines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8th Ser. 37) (1913): 39. Feet of Fines for Essex 2 (1913-28): 128,219,237. Year Books of Edward/115 (Selden Soc. 36) (1918): 218-225; 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 78-82. Wall Handbook of the Maude Roll (1919) unpaginated (ped. dated c.1461-85: "Johanna comitissa de Gloucester"). Lambert Bktchinglg 1 (1921): 88-105. Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls (1930): 263-265, 267, 271-272, 276. Moor Knights of Edward I 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 190-192 (sub Sr Ralph de Monthermer). C.C.R. 1405-1419 (1931): 414 '115 (will of Ralph de Monthermer). Johnstone Letters of Edward Prince of Wales 1304-1305 (1931): 70 [Joan styled "very dear sister" [treschere soer] by Edward, Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward II)]. Thomas Cal. Plea & Memoranda Rolls of London 1381-1412 (1932): 291. Gandavo Reg. Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbriensis 1297-13152 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 569-570. English Hist. Rev. 58 (1943): 51-78 (St. Edmundsbury Chronicle, 1296-1301: "Mortuo cornite Glovernie Gilberto adhesit quidem iuvenis nomine Radulphus de marchia oriundus cognomine Mowhermer a secretis comitisse; quo militaribus a rege peticione dicte comitisse accincto sollempnitate tepide vel publice non promulgata dictam comitassam desponsavit."). Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 1 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 48) (1948): 137-138. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 67-68. Watkin Great Chartulary of Glastonbury 3 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 64) (1956): 631-632 (charter of Gilbert de Clare dated 1281). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 130: 13. Martival Regs. of Roger Martivat Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 55, 95. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 34-35, 42. Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey Gloucestershire 2 (1964): 436-437, 603-604. Altschul The Clares (1965). London Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 8) (1965): xiii, 11-12, 96 (charter of Gilbert de Clare). Darlington Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 38) (1968): 288- | de Clare, Eleanor (I6226)
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| 7062 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “ISABEL LE BIGOD, married (1st) GILBERT DE LACY (or LASCY), of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, son and heir apparent of Walter de Lacy, Knt., of Weobley, Holme Lacy, Mansell Gamage, and Yarkhill, Herefordshire, Ludlow, Rock [Farm] (in Ludlow), and Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, lord of Meath, Ireland, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter of William de Brewes. Isabel's maritagium included lands in Great Connell, co. Kildare, Ireland. They had one son, Walter, and two daughters, Margery and Maud. Gilbert was hostage for his father in August 1215. GILBERT DE LACY died shortly before 25 Dec. 1230, and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Wales. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before 12 April 1234 JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, Whaddon, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Redmarley Adam (in Great Witley), Worcestershire, etc., Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1234-6, Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, younger son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, Justiciar of England, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare [see ESSEX 2 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205. They had two sons, John, Knt. [Lord Fitz John] and Richard, Knt. [Lord Fitz John], and four daughters, Maud, Isabel, Aveline, and Joan. In 1227 he sued the Abbot of Missenden for 22 acres of meadow in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in which the abbot had ingress only through Ralph de Chenduit to whom William [de Mandeville], Earl of Essex (brother of the said John), demised the meadow for a term. He was granted the manor of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire about 1230 by Henry d'Oilly' his possession of the manor was confirmed by the king in 1232 following the death of Henry d'Oilly. In 1233 he was summoned to respond to Henry de Kemeseck regarding the right of presentation to the church of East Tilbury, Essex. John replied that that the church belonged to the hospital which his father, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, had built upon land purchased from Clement de Monasterio, who held it of the church. Clement was present and said that Geoffrey had taken the land from him by force. It was admitted that the land on which the hospital was built pertained to the church, which in its turn pertained to the ancestral fief of the earls at Pleshey. Consequently John lost his case. Sometime in the period, 1233-6, his half-sister, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, quitclaimed to him 100s. which he owed her annually for Cherhill, Wiltshire. In 1234 she granted him the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, he rendering to her the service due to the chief lord of the fee, as well as the service of a twentieth of a knight. In 1237 he was sent to the Council of Lyons to protest against the papal tribute. In 1240 the king granted him the manor of Ringwood, Hampshire, it being described as "of the lands of the Bretons." The king granted him the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire in 1242, which Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, had surrendered to the king of the lands of the Normans. The same year the marriage of the sons and heirs of John de Vipont was granted to him for a fine of 200 marks. In 1243 Roger de Clere conveyed the manor of Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex to him. In 1253 the king granted him the cantred of the Isles of Thomon in Ireland. In 1254, at his instance, the king gave a charter to his nephew, Richard de la Rokele, for free warren in Richard's demesne lands in the counties of Kent, Wiltshire, and Essex, together with weekly markets and annual fairs at his manors of Wokenden, Essex and Marke Lavington, Wiltshire. SIR JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY died 23 Nov. 1258. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi 1 (1835): 158. Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 26 (Marshal ped.: "Matilda [Marshal] nupsit Hugoni Bigot, comiti Norfolciæ, qui jure uxoris fait mariscalcius Angliæ, hic ex ea generavit Radulphum Bigot, pattem Johannis Bigot, qui fuit filius dominæ Bertæ de Furnivall, et Isabelle de Lacy uxoris domini Johannis fitz Geffrey; mortuo autem Hugone Bigot cornite Norfolciæ, Johannes Garrune comes Surricæ ex filia filium nomine Ricardum et sororem Isabellam de Albeney, comitissam de Arundell." Eyton Ataiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 122 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1258: "Eodem anno ad festum Sancti Clementis [23 November] obiit nobilis vir Johannes filius Galfridi, justiciarius regis in Hibernia."). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ...Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 9-21. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 797 (seal of John Fitz Geoffrey dated 13th century - A shield of arms: quarterly, a label of (five?) points [FITZ PETER]); 3 (1894): 170 (seal of Gilbert de Lacy son of Walter de Lacy, of co. Salop [ob. A.D. 1234] dated early 13th Cent. - A shield of arms: A fess. Legend: "SIGILLVM GILBERTI DE LACI." Beaded border.). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Calls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. List of Sherffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 161. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 113. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Genealogist n.s. 21 (1905): 1-5. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 319, 346. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 341. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 86-92. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1216-13333 (1920): 232 ("In a quit-claim to the advowson of the church of Kenles in Fothered, Richard de la Rochelle calls John Fitz Geoffrey his avunculus: MS. Kilkenny Castle, dated 1264."), 286-287 (Lacy ped.); 4 (1920): 61. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 372-375. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7 (arms of Fitz. John: Quarterly or and gules a border vair), 12-19, 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76, 100-102, 226-229. C.P. 5 (1926): 434, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn), 629 (sub Geneville); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c; 12(2) (1959): 248. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1 227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 220: 1-2, 310: 4-5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95. Sheehy Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 243, footnote 7 (identifies Richard de la Rokele as nephew of John Fitz Geoffrey). Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 110-111. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 188 (charter dated 1234 of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey), 189, 191 (charter dated 1233-6 of Maud, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother' [fratri] John Fitz Geoffrey), 192-193. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 1 (Selden Soc. 111) (1996): 16-17,84-91. Prestwich Edward I (1997): 13, 22 ("One of the most important of Edward's English councillors was John FitzGeoffrey, a man of impeccable curial background"), 24-25. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00110962,00320330 (charter of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey dated 1234) (available at http:// res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rollsofarrns/rolls/gloversBl.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of John Fitz Geoffrey: Quarterly or and gales overall a bordure vair). Children of Isabel le Bigod, by Gilbert de Lacy: i. WALTER DE LACY, son and heir. He married ROHESE (or ROSE) LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), daughter of Thebaud (or Tebaud) le Boteler. They had no issue. WALTER DE LACY died between 15 May 1238 and 1241. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 21(1905): 1-5. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 310:5. ii. MARGERY DE LACY [see next]. iii. MAUD DE LACY (or LASCY), younger daughter. She was co-heiress to her brother, Walter de Lacy, sometime in the period, 1238-41. She was co-heiress in 1241 to her paternal grandfather, Walter de Lacy, Knt., by which she inherited half of the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire. She married (1st) before 15 March 1244 PETER (or PIERRE) OF GENEVA (or GENEVE), Governor of Windsor Castle, 1248-9, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, eldest son of Humbert, Count of Genevois. He was a near kinsman of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one son and one daughter, both of whom died in infancy. He first appears in connection with English affairs in 1242, when King Henry III, being at Bordeaux, gave him custody of the land and heir of William d'Aubeney. In 1245 he was granted the manor of Dilwyn, Herefordshire and the custody of the land formerly belonging to Richard de Kaynes till the dower lands of his wife's inheritance should be delivered to him. In 1248 he was granted custody of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, and two other royal castles. PETER OF GENEVA died shortly before 29 June 1249. She married (2nd) before 8 August 1252 GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE (or GEYNVILL, JOINVILLE), Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs (Meuse, ax. Commercy) in Champagne, France, Justiciar of Ireland, 1273, King's Marshal, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, and Drogheda and Blathagh' Castles in Ireland, younger son of Simon de Joinville, seigneur of Joinville (Haute-Marne, ar. Saint-Dizier) in Champagne, Seneschal of Champagne, 1204-33, by his 2nd wife, Beatrix, daughter of Etienne III, Count of Burgundy and Auxonne. He was born in or after 1226. They had eight sons, Geoffrey, Peter, Knt., Walter, John (or Jean), Simon, Nicholas, Peter (2nd of name), and William, and two daughters, Joan and Katherine [Prioress of Aconbury]. He arrived in England soon after 9 March 1250/1. In 1252 he and his wife, Maud, had livery of all the liberties and customs of Meath, which her grandfather, Walter de Lacy, had held. In 1254 they had livery of the Castle of Trim in Ireland, and a moiety of 40 marcates of land. The same year he was granted 50 livres toumois by the king to sustain him in the king's service. He was in Gascony with Edward the king's son in August 1255. In 1259 he and his wife, Maud, gave 40s. of annual rent from lands by Kenlis to Beaubec Abbey. In 1260 he partitioned the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire with his wife's brother-in-law, John de Verdun. He was summoned by the king to serve against the Welsh in 1260, 1276, and 1282. Following the capture of the Irish justidar in Dec. 1264, Geoffrey, who was already a member of the council in Ireland, assumed control of the government and secured reconciliation between the warring parties. In 1266 he and his wife, Maud, obtained permission from Gilles, Bishop of Toul, to found the collegiale of Vaucouleurs. The same year, with consent of his wife, he gave the affouage in the woods of Vaucouleurs for the house of Utigney, which Rieval Abbey possessed at Broussey-en-Blois. In 1267 he was appointed with Robert Walerand to treat of peace with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Wales. In 1267 he granted the manor of Stanton to his wife's aunt, Katherine de Lacy, for a term. The same year he and his wife, Maud, gave to the Prioress and Convent of Acombury a moiety of four mills in Ludlow, with the suits thereof, together with half a merk rent. In 1270 he accompanied Edward the king's son on crusade to the Holy Land. In 1270-1 he gave the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit of Rome the "maison-dieu" of Vaucouleurs, together with 20 joumaux of arable land and four journaux of vignes. In 1272 he was summoned by the king of France against Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix. He accompanied Prince Edward to the Holy Land but returned before him. He was made Justiciar of Ireland in October 1273, which office he held until 17 June 1276. In 1277-8 Katherine de Lacy arraigned an assize of novel dissseisin against him and Gilbert de Lacy regarding a tenement in Downton, Shropshire. In 1280 he and his wife, Maud, had attorneys nominated for them for three years, they then going to Lorraine. In 1280 he and Maurice de Craon rendered an account of their mission to the king of France on the subject of the peace concluded between the kings of England and Castile. In 1283 he and his wife, Maud, granted all their lands in England and Wales to their son, Peter. In 1287 he received letters of protection, he then being in Flanders in service to the king. In 1290 he and two masters of civil law were sent by the king to Rome to discuss the king's expedition to the Holy Land. In 1293 he made an exchange with the cure of Mauvages. In 1294 the liberty of Trim, which had been taken into the king's hands, was restored to him. This liberty was soon afterwards taken again into the king's hands for Geoffrey's contempt in not executing the king's mandate concerning Nicholas Bacun, a prisoner in the gaol of the liberty. In 1295 the liberty of Trim was again restored to him, in consideration of his services in Welsh wars. In 1297 he was a commissioner on the king's part to settle the difficulties between the Constable and Marshal, which resulted in the king appointing him marshal and Thomas de Berkeley constable. In 1298 and 1299 he was sent to treat with the envoys of the King of France concerning peace. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 3 Nov. 1306, by writs directed Galfrido de Genevill', GEYnvill', and Gienvill', or the like, whereby he is held to have become Lord Geneville. In 1299 he was one of the magnates representing the English king at the treaty of Montreuil 19 June 1299. In 1300 he was one of envoys sent to Rome to negotiate the peace between England and France. In 1302 the liberties of Trim and Meath, which had been taken into the king's hand for contempt, were restored to him and his wife, Maud, for a term. His wife, Maud, died 11 April 1304. In 1307 he obtained license to surrender to Roger de Mortimer and Joan his wife (granddaughter of Geoffrey) the lands and tenements in Ireland which he held by the courtesy after the death of Maud his wife. He subsequently retired to the House of the Friars Preachers in Trim. SIR GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE, Lord Geneville, died 21 October 1314, and was buried at Friars Preachers in Trim. Smith Annales de Monte Fernandi (1842): sub A.D. 1273 (“Item dominus Galfridus de Genevile venit usque Hiberniam, de terra sancta, parum ante festum beati Francisci, et factus est justiciarius Hibernie, post octavas beati Francisci."). Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 46 ("[A.D. 1302. Obiit Matilda de Lad, uxor Galfridi de Genevile."). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 8-11, 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Wurstemberger Peter der Zweite, Graf von Savoyen, Markgraf in Italien 4 (1858): 92-93,104-105. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 626 (seal of Geoffroi de Joinville dated 1299 - Equestre, aux armes (comme dessus). Legend destroyed; Contre-sceau. Pierre gravée. Un masque a trois visages. Legende: + DE IONIVILLA DNI VALICOLORIS). Régeste Genevoir (1866): 194, 197, 198, 203. Brewer & Bullen Cal. Carew MSS (1871): 447 (charter of Geoffrey de Geynville and Maud de Lascy his wife dated 1259). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 186; 47 (1886): 207, 230. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 298 (seal of Geoffrey de Joinville dated 1259 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet and vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping at full speed. For arms, see the description of reverse. Reverse. Within a pointed gothic quatrefoil, and suspended by the loop from a hook between two sprigs of foliage, a shield of arms: three horses' bits, on a chief a demi lion issuant [JOINVILLE]). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 54 (1893): 334-343. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 318-322, 329, 331, 339, 342, 344, 349 (Geoffrey de Joinville, Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs styled "dear uncle" [chier oncle] by Beatrix de Viennois et d'Albon, lady of Faucigny, in 1270), 350-351, 358, 364-367, 369-372, 374-376, 377-383, 385, 387-397, 399, 401-403, 417-418. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 241; n.s. 21(1905): 1-5 ("The arms of Peter of Geneva, according to M. Paris, were Sable a lion rampant Argent), 73-78. Wrottesley Pedf. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161, 333. Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 7. C.P. 5 (1926): 628-631 (sub Geneville) (arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Azure, three brays in pale or, on a chief ermine a demi lion rampant gules, issuant). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 245: 1-3; 310: 5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95-96. Hand English Land in Ireland (1967): 13, 18, 27, 83, 102, 124-131, 133, 138, 151, 157, 202-203. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 32 (arms of Peter of Geneva: Sable, a lion rampant argent). Evergates Feudal Soc. in Medieval France (1993): xxix (chart), 112-113. Curia Regis Rolls 18 (1999): 84, 313. Irish Hist. Studies 33 (2001): 457-477. Duffy Medieval Ireland (2005): 195-196 (biog. of Geoffrey de Geneville). National Archives, SC 8/114/5665; SC 8/174/8660 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marshal2.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Vert on a chief ermine a lion rampant issuant gules). Child of Maud de Lacy, by Geoffrey de Geneville, Knt.: a. PETER DE GENEVILLE (or VAUCOULEURS), Knt., of Ludlow and Stanton-Lacy, Shropshire, married JOAN (or JEANNE) DE LA MARCHE (or DE LUSIGNAN) [see LUSIGNAN 8]. Children of Isabel le Bigod, by John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt.: i. JOHN FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Ringwood, Hampshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, Cherhill and Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc., Sheriff of Westmorland, 1264, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1264, son and heir. He married before 18 Feb. 1258/9 MARGERY BASSET, daughter of Philip Basset, Knt., of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Compton Bassett and Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, etc., Justiciar of England [see LONGESPEE 5.viii], by his 1st wife, Hawise, daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, Knt. They had no issue. He had livery of his father's lands 18 Feb. 1258/9, while yet a minor. He was one of the most conspicuous members of the baronial party. As a supporter of Simon de Montfort, he agreed to submit to the arbitration of the King of France 13 Dec. 1263. He, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Munchensy commanded the second division of the army of the barons at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. He was summoned for military service against the Welsh, 1258-63. He was summoned to Parliament 24 Dec. 1264, by writ directed Johanni filio Johannis. He was prohibited from taking part in the tournament at Dunstaple in 1265. He was wounded at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and taken prisoner. He was pardoned and admitted to the king's peace 10 July 1266, and recovered his lands under the Dictum of Kenilworth. His lands were again taken in the king's hands in 1268 for contempt. In 1270 he was one of those appointed to treat with Llywelyn at Gresford. His wife, Margery, died sometime before 29 October 1271. SIR JOHN FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died testate at Lambeth, Surrey shortly before 6 Nov. 1275. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 16, 104. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76. C.P. 5 (1926): 433-435, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn) (arms of John Fitz John: Quarterly Or and Gules, a bordure Vair). Moor Knights of Edward I 2 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 42-43. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191, 258. ii. RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Bierton, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, etc., Constable of Rockingham Castle, 1295, Captain of Bourg-sur-mer, 1296, 2nd son, born about 1245-51 (aged 24-30 in 1275). He married EMMA ___. They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John Fitz John, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz John. He had livery of his brother's lands in England 8 Dec. 1275, and in Ireland 5 May 1278. In 1276-7 he was granted letters of protection, he then going in the king's suite to the parts of Wales. He served in the army in Wales in 1277, 1282, 1287, and 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295, by writ directed Ricardo filio Johannis, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitz John. In 1295 he was about to proceed to Gascony with Edmund the king's brother. SIR RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died in Gascony shortly before 5 August 1297. His widow, Emma, married (2nd) by royal license dated 25 Jan. 1300/1 ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Knt. [see MORLEY 7ii], of Hawarden, Flintshire, Mold and Neston, Cheshire, Castle Rising and Kenninghall, Norfolk, Frarnsden and Kessingland, etc., Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of Chester, 2nd son of Robert de Mohaut, Knt., of Hawarden, Flintshire, Framsden, Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., by Joan, daughter of Roger de Mowbray, Knt. [see MORLEY 7 for his ancestry]. He was born 25 March 1274. They had no issue. He was heir in 1296 to his older brother, Roger de Mohaut, Lord Mohaut He presented to the church of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire in 1306. In 1310 he was summoned to answer William de Bernake of a plea that he permit him to present a fit parson to two parts of the church of Atdeborough, Norfolk. In 1312 he had license to settle the manor of Kenninghall, Norfolk on himself and his wife, Emma, and their issue, with remainder to his right heirs. In 1313 he owed a debt of 140 marks to John de Haudlo. In 1327 he settled all of his estates including Mold, Hawarden, Castle Rising, etc., together with the Stewardship of Chester, on himself and his wife, Emma, for life, and his own issue male, with remainder in default to Queen Isabel, her son John of Eltham and his heirs, and the king successively, for which the king paid him 10,000 marks. SIR ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Lord Mohaut, died 26 Dec. 1329, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. On 3 Dec. 1331 his widow, Emma, surrendered to Queen Isabel her life interest in the lordships of Mold, Hawarden, etc. for an annuity of £400. Emma died 26 Jan 1331/2, and was buried in Stradsett church, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1805): 216-218; 9 (1808): 42-46 (seal of Emma de Mohaut dated 1331 - two shields of arms, one being quarterly, with a bordure [FITZ JOHN], the other a lion rampant [MOHAUT]). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 107-109 (biog. of Robert de Montalt) (Montalt arms: Azure, a lion rampant Argent). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 231. Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 252-253. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 236-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 36 (1875): 349; 44 (1883): 104; 46 (1886): 260. Cox Notes on the Churches of Detishire 3 (1877): 507. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 326. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 233, 237, 275. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 96-97. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 457, 463. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 129-130. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37, 102. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 153-154 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138, 531-532. Maitland Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 320-327; 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 436 441 (sub Fitzjohn); 9 (1936): 15-17 (sub Mohaut). Moor Knights of Edward 12 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 43-44 (biog. of Richard Fitz John); 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 172-174 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Richardson & Sayles Rottuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 75, 240-266. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 103. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 43 (Deed A.S.247), 44 (Deed A.S.251). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. VCH Sussex 5(1) (1997): 190-204; 7 (1940): 258. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 90 ("One lady, whose claim to be a patron was the unique and surely very personal inscription on her tomb at Stradsett, Norfolk, 'Ici gist Dame Emme de Mouhaut Femme de Deux Barons.' As well as receiving dower from her first husband, Richard FitzJohn, of several manors, townships, knights' fees and advowsons, there are references to lands being held jointly with her second husband, Robert Mohaut (Montalt), who settled all his estates on himself and his wife for life, his own male issue, and the remainder, should there be no heirs, was to go to Queen Isabelle, John of Eltham, his heirs, or the king, who had, in return, paid Robert Mohaut (Montalt) 10,000 marks."). National Archives, C 131/174/49; SC 8/329/E945 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). iii. MAUD FITZ JOHN, married (1st) GERARD DE FURNIVAL, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see BEAUCHAMP 9]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 9]. iv. ISABEL FITZ JOHN, married ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 8]. v. AVELINE FITZ JOHN, married WALTER DE BURGH, Knt., 2nd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see BURGH 4]. vi. JOAN FITZ JOHN, married THEBAUD LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), of Arklow, co. Wicklow [see BUTLER 5].†| de Geneville, Geoffrey (I7231)
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| 7063 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROGER DE CLARE (otherwise ROGER FITZ RICHARD), 2nd Earl of Hertford (also styled Earl of Clare), younger son. He married MAUD DE SAINT HILARY, daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary, of Field Dalling, Norfolk, by his wife, Aveline. They had four sons, Richard [3rd Earl of Hertford (or Clare)], John, Richard [2nd of name], and James, and one daughter, Aveline. He was heir in 1153 to his older brother, Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford. In the period, 1153-73, he confirmed the grant which Walter Fountains and subsequently Tebaud Sorrel made of four acres in Norton in Finchingfield, Essex to the Hospitailers. He accompanied King Henry II to France on at least two occasions, once probably in 1156, when he is found at the Siege of Chinon, and once in the winter of 1160-61. In 1157, and in the following years, he was engaged against Rhys ap Gryffydd in Wales. In 1163 he disputed with Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury regarding the latter's claim for fealty in respect of Tonbridge Castle. In 1164 he took part in the Constitutions of Clarendon. Sometime before 1164 he and his brother, Richard, witnessed a charter of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, to Newington Longueville Priory. In 1166 he certified his barony as consisting of 149 knights fees. In 1170 he was a commissioner to enquire into the proceedings of the sheriffs in Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Bedfordshire. Sometime before his death, he gave the church of Barton Bendish, Norfolk to the monks of Bec dwelling at St. Neot's. His wife, Maud, gave a mark of silver to the nuns of Godstow for the health of the soul of the Earl her husband. ROGER DE CLARE, 2nd Earl of Hertford (or Clare), died in 1173, and was buried at Stoke by Clare Priory, Suffolk. In the period, 1173-76, his widow, Maud, granted the monks of St. Andrew, Northampton her mill of Shipton under Wychwood, Oxfordshire. She married (2nd) before Michaelmas 1176 WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 2nd Earl of Arundel (or Sussex) [see CLIFTON 4], Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1191-3, son and heir of William d'Aubeney, 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), Chief Butler of England, by Alice, Queen Dowager of England, daughter of Gottfried (or Godefroy) I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Count of Louvain [see CLIFTON 3 for his ancestry]. They had three sons, William [3rd Earl of Arundel], Alan, and Godfrey (or Geoffrey). In 1176/7 he was confirmed as Earl of Sussex, but the Castle and Honour of Arundel were, in accordance with the policy of King Henry II, retained by the Crown. He served as assessor in the royal court in 1177 to arbitrate between the Kings of Castile and Navarre. He was granted restoration of the Castle and Honour of Arundel by King Richard I 27 June 1190, when he became Earl of Arundel. In 1194 he was one of the Receivers of the money raised for the king's ransom. At an unknown date, he granted various lands in Quiddenham, Norfolk to Reading Abbey, Berkshire. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, Earl of Arundel, died 24 Dec. 1196, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1821): 24 (charter of Maud de Clare), 474 (charters of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford to Priory of St. Neot); 6(2) (1830): 834 (reference to a charter to Templars by Maud, Countess of Clare, wife of William [sic] Earl of Clare, and mother of Richard, Earl of Clare). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 179-180. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Barrett Memorials of the parochial Church ... in the Parish of Attleborough (1848): 12-41. Arch. Journal 22 (1865): 154 (undated charter of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Sussex to Reading Abbey; charter names Queen Alice his mother [Regine Adelize mains mee], Jocelin the castellan his uncle [avunculi]; charter is witnessed by Reiner his brother [fratre]), 155 (undated charter of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Sussex to Reading Abbey; charter names Jocelin his uncle [avunculi]; charter is witnessed by Reiner his brother [fratre]). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33; 26 (1870): 149-160. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 41 (sub A.D. 1173 - "Obiit etiam Rogerius, comes de Clara, cui successit Ricardus, filius ejus, qui duxit filiam Guillermi comitis Gloecestriæ."), 63-64 (sub A.D. 1176 - "Qui Guillermus [de Albineio] duxit relictam Rogerii comitis de Clara, filiam Jacobi de Sancto Hilario, cum omni terra quam idem Jacobus habuerat in Anglia."). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 66-67 (sub Arundel). C.P. 1 (1910): 235-236, 237 (chart) (sub Arundel); 3 (1913): 244 (1913); 5 (1926): 124; 6 (1926): 499-501 (sub Clare). Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny ped.: "Willelmus (nomen cepit in parliamento consulates [sic MS.] Sussex et Arundell construxit capellam beate Thome in Wimondham et sepelitur in abbathia predicta) Daubeney comes Arundel ob. 22 H. 2. = [empty roundel] Matilda filia et heres Iacobi de Sancto Hillario relicta Rogeri comitis Clara."). Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 130-131 (charter of Maud, Countess of Clare, daughter of James de Saint Hilaire dated 1173-76; charter witnessed by her son, James). Paget (1957) 130:5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 34-35, 44. Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey 2 (1964): 526-568. Holdsworth Rufforel Charters (Thoroton Soc. Rec. Ser. 30) (1974): 392. Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 20 (confirmation charter of Roger, Earl of Hertford dated 1152-73; charter witnessed by his son, Richard, and his brother, Richard), 20 (writ of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford, dated 1152-73), 21 (confirmation charter of Roger, Earl of Hertford dated shortly after 1152 granted for the soul of Gilbert his brother deceased; charter names his grandfather, Gilbert Fitz Richard), 21-22 (charter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1166-73; charter witnessed by his brother, Richard de Clare), 22 (writ of Roger, Earl of Hertford possibly dated 1157), 22-23 (writ of Roger, Earl of Clare dated shortly after 1152 to his grandmother, Aelicie de Clermunt, Peter his seneschal, and her men of Norfolk; charter names his father, Richard, and his grandfather, Gilbert) 23 (confirmation charter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1152-73), 23-24 (confirmation charter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1152-66; charter names Earl Gilbert his brother; charter witnessed by his brother, Richard de Clare), 24 (notification by Roger, Earl of Clare dated 1152-73), 24-25 (confirmation chatter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1152-73; charter names his brother, Earl Gilbert, his father, Richard, and his grandfather, Gilbert), 25-30 (general confirmation charter of Roger, Earl of Clare dated 1152-73). Cheney English Episcopal Acta III: Canterbury 1193-1205 (1986): 254-255. Barraclough Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237 (Roger Fitz Richard styled "nephew" [nepos] of Ranulph II, Earl of Chester). Gervers Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England Secunda Camera/ Essex 1 (Recs. of Social & Econ. Hist. n.s. 6) (1982): 216 (charter of Earl Roger de Clare dated c.1152-c.1173). Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 42; 93-94 (charter of Maud, wife of Roger earl of Clare dated 1152-73; charter witnessed by Richard brother of the earl and Conan nephew of the earl). Children of Roger de Clare, by Maud de St. Hilary: i. RICHARD DE CLARE, 3rd Earl of Hertford [see next]. ii. AVELINE DE CLARE, married (1st) before 1186 WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc., younger son of Warin de Munchensy, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Pain Fitz John. They had two sons, William and Warin, Knt. He was heir before Michaelmas 1190 to his older brother, Ralph de Munchensy, Knt. In 1198 he was serving in Normandy. He was one of the guarantors of the treaty between King John and the Count of Flanders at Roche d'Andelys in 1199. He was fined for not serving overseas in 1201. He was a benefactor of the religious houses of West Dereham and Missenden. SIR WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY died before 7 May 1204. His widow, Aveline, married (2nd) before 29 May 1205 (date of grant) (as his 2nd wife) GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2], of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son of Peter de Ludgershall, of Cherhill and Linley (in Tisbury), Wiltshire, and Gussage Saint Andrew (in Sixpenny Handley), Dorset, by his wife, Maud. He was born before 1145. They had one son, John, Knt., and four daughters, Hawise, Cecily, ___, and Maud. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY (died before 19 April 1197), daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his 1st wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his two half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. In 1198, Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey further gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a fee farm of £100 per annum. He campaigned against the Welsh in 1206 and 1210. He was granted a significant part of the lands forfeited by Normans, including the manors of Depden and Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and other lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, all worth over £100 per annum. In 1207 the king confirmed his possession of the manor of Notgrove, Gloucestershire, which Geoffrey had by the gift of John Eskelling. Sometime before 1212, he was granted the manor of Gussage Dynaunt (or Gussage St. Michael), Dorset, which manor was forfeited by Roland de Dinan. At some unspecified date, when already earl, he granted all his right in St. Peter's chapel in Drayton to the canons of St. Peter's Cathedral, York. He was the founder of the first church of Wintney Priory, Hampshire. SIR GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Earl of Essex, died 14 October 1213, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1213-4 the king commanded Geoffrey de Buckland to let the king have, at the price any others would give for them, the corn, pigs, and other chattels at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire which belonged his brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, lately deceased. About 1214 his widow, Aveline, granted the canons of Holy Trinity, London, in frank almoin, a half mark quit rent out of her Manor of Towcester, Northamptonshire, part of whose body is buried there. In 1221 the Prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England sued her regarding two virgates and five acres of land in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Aveline, Countess of Essex, died before 4 June 1225. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 414-427. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (Fitz Peter ped.). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 721-722; 6(1) (1830): 339-340; 6(3) (1830): 1191 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 190-194 (Mandeville-Say ped). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 273 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1213: "Obiit Gaufridus filius Petri comes de Essexe, et justitiatius totius Angliæ, tunc temporis cunctis in Anglia præstantion"). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 76-114. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of … Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped.). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 193-194; 3 (1887): 452-453. Round Ancient Charters Royal & Private Prior to A.D. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 97-99 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1191 to Geoffrey Fitz Peter and Beatrice his wife, as rightful and next heirs, of all the land of Earl William de Mandeville, which was hers by hereditary right), 108-110 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1198 of the division of their inheritance made by Beatrice and Maud, daughters and co-heirs of William de Say, in the time of his father, King Henry II). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 91,93. Moore Cartularium Monasteri Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 349-350, 354, 371-372. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to A.D. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 36-37, 58-59, 85, 130-131. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 1, 43, 54, 92, 117, 127, 150, 161. Feet of Fines of King Richard I AD. 1198 to AD. 1199 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 24) (1900): 15. VCH Norfolk 2 (1906): 412-414. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115; 4 (1956): 158-162. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 224-225. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 81-85, 501-511. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (two charters of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and two charters of his widow, Aveline, Countess of Essex). Book of Fees 1 (1920): 91-92. Fowler & Hughes Cal. of the Pipe Rolls of the Reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, 1189-1199 (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 215, 218-219. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 141-155; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 122-125 (sub Essex), 437 (chart) (sub Fitz John); 9 (1936): 420 (sub Munchensy). VCH Kent 2 (1926): 175-176. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 34-37, 41, 92-93, 255-256. C.R.R. 10 (1949): 24, 103, 228. Hassall Cartulary of St. Mary Clerkenvell (Camden 3rd ser. 71) (1949): 100-101. Paget (1957) 130:5 (see Genealogist n.s. 14:181). West Justiciarship in England, 1066-1232 (1966). Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 174-176. Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. VCH Hampshire 2 (1973) 149-151; 3 (1908): 107; 4 (1911): 79-81. Burton Cartulary of the Treasurer of York Minster (Borthwick Texts & Cals.: Recs. of the Northern Province 5) (1978): 52-53 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex dated 1199-1212). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 85, 165-168. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 186-187, 189-190, 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville), 194-197. Holt Acta of Heny II and Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193, 202-203. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 308-309 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Bocland. Seal on tag - obverse: earl of horseback, brandishing a sword. Legend: SI[GILLUM GAUFRIDI COMITI]S EXIE +; Counterseal: six-petalled flower (worn); Legend: ...IL...ETRI...), 309, 314-315 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex). Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Soc., vol. 111) (1996): 16-17, 84-91. Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 35-70 (biog. of Geoffrey Fitz Peter), App. Chart A (Fitz Peter ped.). Haskins Soc. Jour. 1 (1989): 147-172. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 8 (1993): 78-79. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 100-101. Thorley Docs. in Medieval Latin (1998): 53-55. Breay Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey (1999): 151. Greenway Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery (1999): xxviii-xxx. Norfolk Rec. Office: Hare Family, Baronets of Stow Bardolph, Hare 2706 198 x 4 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Child of Aveline de Clare, by William de Munchensy: a. WARIN DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, married (1st) JOAN MARSHAL [see MARSHAL 4]; (2nd) DENISE DE ANESTY [see MARSHAL 4]. Children of Aveline de Clare, by Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt: a. JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., married ISABEL LE BIGOD [see VERDUN 8]. b. HAWISE FITZ GEOFFREY, married REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN ??]. c. CECILY FITZ GEOFFREY, married SAVARY DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 3]. d. FITZ GEOFFREY. She married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. [see HARLESTON 3]. e. MAUD FITZ GEOFFREY, married (1st) HENRY D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, King's Constable [see CANTELOWE 4]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Steward of the Royal Household [see CANTELOWE 4].†2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “RICHARD FITZ GILBERT (also known as RICHARD DE CLARE), of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, and Cardigan, son and heir. He married ALICE (or ALICIA) OF CHESTER, daughter of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester, by his wife, Lucy. They had three sons, Gilbert [Earl of Hertford], Roger [Earl of Hertford (or Clare)], and Richard, and two daughters, Alice and Rohese. In 1124 he removed the Priory of Clare, Suffolk from its original site to Stoke by Clare, a few miles away, and rebuilt the church and monastic buildings for the monks. In 1130 he had pardons from exactions in four counties; the king also assisted him in the matter of a large debt to the Jewish moneylenders of London. He rebuilt the clas church of Llanbadarn Fawr, which his father had given to Gloucester Abbey, as a priory of the house. He founded a priory at Tonbridge, Kent. He was also active as a patron of Cardigan Priory. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, lord of Clare, was surprised and slain by the Welsh, near Abergavenny 15 April 1136, and was buried at the Chapter House at Gloucester. Sometime before 1143 his widow, Alice, was rescued from the Welsh by Miles of Gloucester. About 1148 she gave the mill of Taddewell to the monks of St. Peter, Gloucester for the soul of her late husband, Richard Fitz Gilbert; this gift was confirmed by King Henry II in 1153-4. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 388. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestria 1 (1863): 104 (undated record that Alice, sister of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, gave the mill of Taddewell for the soul of Richard Fitz Gilbert her husband in the time of Abbot Hamelin [i.e., c. 1148]). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46 ("Gilbert Lord of Tonbridge died about 1091 and the manor passed with most of the estates to Richard who was taken prisoner by Robert de Beleswe at the siege of Couci in 1091 and is erroneously stated to have died from the effects of his incarceration which was the result. He was the first of the family who bore the title of Earl of Hertford. He acquired vast possessions in Wales as the result of a long continued warfare which he waged somewhat on his own account there. He was in 1136 killed in a combat with the Welsh chieftains Joworth and his brother Morgan-ap-Owen in a woody tract called 'the ill-way of Coed Grano,' near the Abbey of Llanthony."). C.P. 3 (1913):243 (sub Clare), 6:498-499, 10 (1945): 441 (author identifies Alice de Tonbridge, wife of William de Percy, on chronological grounds as more likely to be the daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert; instead of the suggestion made by Round [see preceding generation] that her father was Richard's father Gilbert, who, moreover, had a da. Alice who m. Aubrey de Vere). Marx ed. Gesta Normannorum Ducum (1914): 325-326 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Ricardus autem duxit sororem comitis Rannulfi junioris, comitis Cestriae, et habuit ex ea tres filios: Gislebertum, qui ei successit et fratres ejus."), 331 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Hujus autem Rannulfi sororem duxit Ricardus, filius Gisleberti; ex qua suscepit tres filios."). Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri Ill (1916): 67-68 (confirmation charter of King Henry II dated 1153 4). Paget (1957) 130:4-5 (Founder of Stoke-Clare Priory; slain near Brecknock, being ambushed and surprised by Jorwerth, brother of Morgan of Caerleon). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 30-31 (confirmation charter of Richard Fitz Gilbert, lord of Clare dated 1124-36). Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 399. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 316 (Clare ped). Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by Alice of Chester: i. GILBERT DE CLARE, Lord of Clare, etc., son and heir, born before 1115; hostage for his uncle Ranulph, Earl of Chester; succeeded his father in the great family estates (which, besides the honour of Clare, included Tonbridge Castle), 15 April 1136. He married LUCY ___. They had no issue. He was created Earl of Hertford probably by King Stephen in (?1138). He and his uncle, Baldwin Fitz Gilbert, witnessed a charter for King Stephen in 1142. He witnessed a charter of his uncle, Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke, c.1147-8. GILBERT DE CLARE, 1st Earl of Hertford, died between 1151 and 1153, and was buried at Clare Priory. His widow, Lucy, married (2nd) between 1151/1155 (as his 2nd wife) BALDWIN DE REDVERS, in Earl of Devon (died 4 June 1155). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. of the British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1(1905): 45-46. C.P. 3 (1913): 244 (sub Clare); 4 (1916): 311-312 (sub Devon); 6 (1926): 498-499 (sub Hertford) ("The Earl of Hertford's wife is unknown: he is generally supposed not to have married"). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 35; 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by [his nephew] Earl Gilbert de Clare). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 25 (seal of Gilbert, Earl of Clare dated 1139-49 - On horseback, riding to the right. He wears chain mail and conical helmet with nasal, and holds a drawn sword and a shield charged with chevrons of which half only are visible.). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters. 4) (1982): 49-50. Beaman Charters of the Redvers Family & the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 37) (1994): 5-11, 44, 80-82, 84-85. ii. ROGER DE CLARE (otherwise ROGER FITZ RICHARD), 2nd Earl of Hertford [see next]. iii. ALICE DE CLARE, married before 1151 CADWALADR AP GRUFFUDD AP CYNAN, Prince of North Wales, of Cynfael, Meirion, younger son of Gruffudd ap Cynan, by Angharad, daughter of Owain ab Edwin. They had four sons, Cunedda (or Conan), Randwlff, Gruffudd, and Richard. During his father's lifetime he accompanied his elder brother, Owain, on many predatory excursions against rival princes. In 1121 they ravaged Meirionydd, and apparently conquered it. In 1135 and 1136 they led three successful expeditions to Ceredigion, and managed to get possession of at least the northern portion of that district. In 1137 Owain succeeded, on Gruffudd ap Cynan's death, to the sovereignty of Gwynedd or North Wales. Cadwaladr appears to have found his portion in his former conquests of Meirionydd and northern Ceredigion. The intruder from Gwynedd soon became involved in feuds both with his south Welsh neighbours and with his family. In 1143 his men slew Anarawd, son of Gruffudd of South Wales, to whom Owain Gwynedd had promised his daughter in marriage. Repudiated by his brother, who sent his son Howel to ravage his share of Ceredigion and to attack his castle of Aberystwith, Cadwaladr fled to Ireland, whence he returned next year with a fleet of Irish Danes, to wreak vengeance on Owain. The fleet had already landed at the mouth of the Menai Straits when the intervention of the `goodmen' of Gwynedd reconciled the brothers. Disgusted at what they probably regarded as treachery, the Irish pirates seized and blinded Cadwaladr, and only released him on the payment of a heavy ransom of 2,000 bondmen (some of the chroniclers say cattle). Their attempt to plunder the country was successfully resisted by Owain. In 1146, however, fresh hostilities broke out between Cadwaladr and his brother's sons Howel and Cynan. They invaded Meirionydd and captured his castle of Cynvael, despite the valiant resistance of his steward, Morvran, abbot of Whitland. This disaster lost Cadwaladr Meirionydd, and so hard was he pressed that, despite his building a castle at Llanrhystyd in Ceredigion (1148), he was compelled to surrender his possessions in that district to his son, apparently in hope of a compromise; but Howel next year captured his cousin and conquered his territory, while the brothers of the murdered Anarawd profited by the dissensions of the princes of Gwynedd to conquer Ceredigion as far north as the Aeron, and soon extended their conquests into Howel's recent acquisitions. Meanwhile Cadwaladr was expelled by Owain from his last refuge in Mona. Cadwaladr now seems to have taken refuge with the English, with whom, if we may believe a late authority, his marriage with a lady of the house of Clare had already connected him (Powel, History of Cambria, p. 232, ed. 1584). The death of Stephen put an end to the long period of Welsh freedom under which Cadwaladr had grown up. In 1156 he was temporarily granted an estate at Ness, Shropshire worth £7 a year. In 1157 Henry II's first expedition to Wales, though by no means a brilliant success, was able to effect Cadwaladr's restoration to his old dominions. Despite his blindness, Cadwaladr had not lost his energy. In 1158 he joined the marcher lords and his nephews in an expedition against Rhys ap Gruffudd of South Wales. In 1165 Cadwaladr took part in the general resistance to Henry II's third expedition to Wales. In 1169 the death of Owain Gwynedd probably weakened his position. In March 1172 Cadwaladr himself died, and was buried in the same tomb as Owain, before the high altar of Bangor Cathedral (Gir. Cambr. It. Camb. in Op. (Rolls ed.), iii. 133). In 1156 he was temporarily granted an estate at Ness, Shropshire worth £7 a year. He died in 1172, and was buried before the high altar of Bangor Cathedral. Wynn Hist. of the Gnydir Fam. (1827): 20. Price Hanes Cymru (1942): 549 (charter of Cadwalader brother of Owain to Haughmond Abbey). Dwnn Heraldic Vis. of Wales 2 (1846): 17 ("Kynneda a Rickart a Randiolff, meibion oeddynt hwy y Gydwaladr ab Grh ab Kynan o Adles vh larll Kaer y mam hwyntey."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped). Burke Gen. & heraldic Dictionary of the landed Gentry of Great Britain 1 (1852): 743. Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 6 (1860): 332 (charter of Cadwaladr brother of Owain; charter witnessed by Aliz de Clare his wife); 4th Ser. 6 (1875): 117. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 10 (1860): 256-257 ("In 1151, says the Welsh Chronicle, `Cadwalader, the brother of Prince Owen, escaped out of his Nephew Howes prison and subdued part of the Ile of Mein, or Anglesey, to himselfe; but his brother Owen sent an armie against him, and chased him thence, who fled to England for succour to his wife's friends, for she was the daughter of Gilbert Earl of Clare.' Between 1151 and 1152 Ranulf, Earl of Chester ... confirmed the Monks of Shrewsbury in the possession of all their lands between the Ribble and the Mersey. 'The Earl's Charter is dated at Chester, and attested as follows. - Testibus, Comite de Clara, et Cadwaladro ... The Earl of Clare here alluded to, was Gilbert. He was Nephew of Earl Ranulph himself, and, in the year 1146, had been given up to Stephen as a hostage for his Uncle's good faith and allegiance. His flight from Stephen's Court is recorded by the Chroniclers. It is evident that he took refuge with his Uncle. He died, in 1151 without issue, and was succeeded by his brother Roger. This fact, as well as a comparison of dates and ages, will show that Cadwalader's wife, Alice, was a Sister of Earl Gilbert and a daughter of Earl Richard de Clare, and, finally, a niece of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. For a time he [Cadwallader] remained in alliance with the English, as when, in 1159, he assisted the Earls of Clare and of Bristol to relieve Carmarthen, then besieged by Prince Rese of South Wales. He was also a munificent Benefactor to Haughmond Abbey. In 1165 he is found leagued with Owen Gwyneth against the English, and probably retained that adverse position till his death in 1172."). Nicholas Annals & Antiqs. of the Counties & County Fams. of Wales 1 (1872): 43; foll. 442. Lloyd Hist. of the Princes, the Lords Marcher & the Ancient Nobility of of Powys Fadog 1(1881): 96, 107, 151; 4 (1884): 323, 341; 5 (1885): 367. D.N .B. 3 (1908): 642-643 (biog. of Cadwaladr). Lloyd Hist. of Wales 2 (1911): 76, 93-101, 315, 317. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1996): 50. Maund Gruffierld ap Cynan (1996). Jour. Medieval Military Hist. 2 (2004): 58. Pryce Acts of Welsh rulers, 1120-1283 (2005): 330-331. Hosier Henry II (2007): 54. Child of Alice de Clare, by Cadwaladr: a. CONAN AP CADWALADR. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 42; 93-94 (charter of Maud, wife of Roger earl of Clare dated 1152-73; charter witnessed by Richard brother of the earl and Conan nephew of the earl). iv. ROHESE DE CLARE, married (1st) GILBERT DE GANT, Earl of Lincoln [see GANT 2.i], (2nd) ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Ilkley, Yorkshire [see GANT 2.i]. “ 3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “ISABEL LE BIGOD, married (1st) GILBERT DE LACY (or LASCY), of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, son and heir apparent of Walter de Lacy, Knt., of Weobley, Holme Lacy, Mansell Gamage, and Yarkhill, Herefordshire, Ludlow, Rock [Farm] (in Ludlow), and Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, lord of Meath, Ireland, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter of William de Brewes. Isabel's maritagium included lands in Great Connell, co. Kildare, Ireland. They had one son, Walter, and two daughters, Margery and Maud. Gilbert was hostage for his father in August 1215. GILBERT DE LACY died shortly before 25 Dec. 1230, and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Wales. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before 12 April 1234 JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, Whaddon, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Redmarley Adam (in Great Witley), Worcestershire, etc., Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1234-6, Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, younger son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, Justiciar of England, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare [see ESSEX 2 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205. They had two sons, John, Knt. [Lord Fitz John] and Richard, Knt. [Lord Fitz John], and four daughters, Maud, Isabel, Aveline, and Joan. In 1227 he sued the Abbot of Missenden for 22 acres of meadow in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in which the abbot had ingress only through Ralph de Chenduit to whom William [de Mandeville], Earl of Essex (brother of the said John), demised the meadow for a term. He was granted the manor of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire about 1230 by Henry d'Oilly' his possession of the manor was confirmed by the king in 1232 following the death of Henry d'Oilly. In 1233 he was summoned to respond to Henry de Kemeseck regarding the right of presentation to the church of East Tilbury, Essex. John replied that that the church belonged to the hospital which his father, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, had built upon land purchased from Clement de Monasterio, who held it of the church. Clement was present and said that Geoffrey had taken the land from him by force. It was admitted that the land on which the hospital was built pertained to the church, which in its turn pertained to the ancestral fief of the earls at Pleshey. Consequently John lost his case. Sometime in the period, 1233-6, his half-sister, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, quitclaimed to him 100s. which he owed her annually for Cherhill, Wiltshire. In 1234 she granted him the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, he rendering to her the service due to the chief lord of the fee, as well as the service of a twentieth of a knight. In 1237 he was sent to the Council of Lyons to protest against the papal tribute. In 1240 the king granted him the manor of Ringwood, Hampshire, it being described as "of the lands of the Bretons." The king granted him the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire in 1242, which Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, had surrendered to the king of the lands of the Normans. The same year the marriage of the sons and heirs of John de Vipont was granted to him for a fine of 200 marks. In 1243 Roger de Clere conveyed the manor of Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex to him. In 1253 the king granted him the cantred of the Isles of Thomon in Ireland. In 1254, at his instance, the king gave a charter to his nephew, Richard de la Rokele, for free warren in Richard's demesne lands in the counties of Kent, Wiltshire, and Essex, together with weekly markets and annual fairs at his manors of Wokenden, Essex and Marke Lavington, Wiltshire. SIR JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY died 23 Nov. 1258. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi 1 (1835): 158. Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 26 (Marshal ped.: "Matilda [Marshal] nupsit Hugoni Bigot, comiti Norfolciæ, qui jure uxoris fait mariscalcius Angliæ, hic ex ea generavit Radulphum Bigot, pattem Johannis Bigot, qui fuit filius dominæ Bertæ de Furnivall, et Isabelle de Lacy uxoris domini Johannis fitz Geffrey; mortuo autem Hugone Bigot cornite Norfolciæ, Johannes Garrune comes Surricæ ex filia filium nomine Ricardum et sororem Isabellam de Albeney, comitissam de Arundell." Eyton Ataiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 122 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1258: "Eodem anno ad festum Sancti Clementis [23 November] obiit nobilis vir Johannes filius Galfridi, justiciarius regis in Hibernia."). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ...Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 9-21. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 797 (seal of John Fitz Geoffrey dated 13th century - A shield of arms: quarterly, a label of (five?) points [FITZ PETER]); 3 (1894): 170 (seal of Gilbert de Lacy son of Walter de Lacy, of co. Salop [ob. A.D. 1234] dated early 13th Cent. - A shield of arms: A fess. Legend: "SIGILLVM GILBERTI DE LACI." Beaded border.). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Calls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. List of Sherffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 161. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 113. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Genealogist n.s. 21 (1905): 1-5. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 319, 346. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 341. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 86-92. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1216-13333 (1920): 232 ("In a quit-claim to the advowson of the church of Kenles in Fothered, Richard de la Rochelle calls John Fitz Geoffrey his avunculus: MS. Kilkenny Castle, dated 1264."), 286-287 (Lacy ped.); 4 (1920): 61. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 372-375. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7 (arms of Fitz. John: Quarterly or and gules a border vair), 12-19, 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76, 100-102, 226-229. C.P. 5 (1926): 434, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn), 629 (sub Geneville); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c; 12(2) (1959): 248. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1 227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 220: 1-2, 310: 4-5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95. Sheehy Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 243, footnote 7 (identifies Richard de la Rokele as nephew of John Fitz Geoffrey). Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 110-111. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 188 (charter dated 1234 of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey), 189, 191 (charter dated 1233-6 of Maud, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother' [fratri] John Fitz Geoffrey), 192-193. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 1 (Selden Soc. 111) (1996): 16-17,84-91. Prestwich Edward I (1997): 13, 22 ("One of the most important of Edward's English councillors was John FitzGeoffrey, a man of impeccable curial background"), 24-25. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00110962,00320330 (charter of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey dated 1234) (available at http:// res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rollsofarrns/rolls/gloversBl.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of John Fitz Geoffrey: Quarterly or and gales overall a bordure vair). Children of Isabel le Bigod, by Gilbert de Lacy: i. WALTER DE LACY, son and heir. He married ROHESE (or ROSE) LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), daughter of Thebaud (or Tebaud) le Boteler. They had no issue. WALTER DE LACY died between 15 May 1238 and 1241. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 21(1905): 1-5. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 310:5. ii. MARGERY DE LACY [see next]. iii. MAUD DE LACY (or LASCY), younger daughter. She was co-heiress to her brother, Walter de Lacy, sometime in the period, 1238-41. She was co-heiress in 1241 to her paternal grandfather, Walter de Lacy, Knt., by which she inherited half of the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire. She married (1st) before 15 March 1244 PETER (or PIERRE) OF GENEVA (or GENEVE), Governor of Windsor Castle, 1248-9, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, eldest son of Humbert, Count of Genevois. He was a near kinsman of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one son and one daughter, both of whom died in infancy. He first appears in connection with English affairs in 1242, when King Henry III, being at Bordeaux, gave him custody of the land and heir of William d'Aubeney. In 1245 he was granted the manor of Dilwyn, Herefordshire and the custody of the land formerly belonging to Richard de Kaynes till the dower lands of his wife's inheritance should be delivered to him. In 1248 he was granted custody of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, and two other royal castles. PETER OF GENEVA died shortly before 29 June 1249. She married (2nd) before 8 August 1252 GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE (or GEYNVILL, JOINVILLE), Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs (Meuse, ax. Commercy) in Champagne, France, Justiciar of Ireland, 1273, King's Marshal, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, and Drogheda and Blathagh' Castles in Ireland, younger son of Simon de Joinville, seigneur of Joinville (Haute-Marne, ar. Saint-Dizier) in Champagne, Seneschal of Champagne, 1204-33, by his 2nd wife, Beatrix, daughter of Etienne III, Count of Burgundy and Auxonne. He was born in or after 1226. They had eight sons, Geoffrey, Peter, Knt., Walter, John (or Jean), Simon, Nicholas, Peter (2nd of name), and William, and two daughters, Joan and Katherine [Prioress of Aconbury]. He arrived in England soon after 9 March 1250/1. In 1252 he and his wife, Maud, had livery of all the liberties and customs of Meath, which her grandfather, Walter de Lacy, had held. In 1254 they had livery of the Castle of Trim in Ireland, and a moiety of 40 marcates of land. The same year he was granted 50 livres toumois by the king to sustain him in the king's service. He was in Gascony with Edward the king's son in August 1255. In 1259 he and his wife, Maud, gave 40s. of annual rent from lands by Kenlis to Beaubec Abbey. In 1260 he partitioned the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire with his wife's brother-in-law, John de Verdun. He was summoned by the king to serve against the Welsh in 1260, 1276, and 1282. Following the capture of the Irish justidar in Dec. 1264, Geoffrey, who was already a member of the council in Ireland, assumed control of the government and secured reconciliation between the warring parties. In 1266 he and his wife, Maud, obtained permission from Gilles, Bishop of Toul, to found the collegiale of Vaucouleurs. The same year, with consent of his wife, he gave the affouage in the woods of Vaucouleurs for the house of Utigney, which Rieval Abbey possessed at Broussey-en-Blois. In 1267 he was appointed with Robert Walerand to treat of peace with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Wales. In 1267 he granted the manor of Stanton to his wife's aunt, Katherine de Lacy, for a term. The same year he and his wife, Maud, gave to the Prioress and Convent of Acombury a moiety of four mills in Ludlow, with the suits thereof, together with half a merk rent. In 1270 he accompanied Edward the king's son on crusade to the Holy Land. In 1270-1 he gave the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit of Rome the "maison-dieu" of Vaucouleurs, together with 20 joumaux of arable land and four journaux of vignes. In 1272 he was summoned by the king of France against Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix. He accompanied Prince Edward to the Holy Land but returned before him. He was made Justiciar of Ireland in October 1273, which office he held until 17 June 1276. In 1277-8 Katherine de Lacy arraigned an assize of novel dissseisin against him and Gilbert de Lacy regarding a tenement in Downton, Shropshire. In 1280 he and his wife, Maud, had attorneys nominated for them for three years, they then going to Lorraine. In 1280 he and Maurice de Craon rendered an account of their mission to the king of France on the subject of the peace concluded between the kings of England and Castile. In 1283 he and his wife, Maud, granted all their lands in England and Wales to their son, Peter. In 1287 he received letters of protection, he then being in Flanders in service to the king. In 1290 he and two masters of civil law were sent by the king to Rome to discuss the king's expedition to the Holy Land. In 1293 he made an exchange with the cure of Mauvages. In 1294 the liberty of Trim, which had been taken into the king's hands, was restored to him. This liberty was soon afterwards taken again into the king's hands for Geoffrey's contempt in not executing the king's mandate concerning Nicholas Bacun, a prisoner in the gaol of the liberty. In 1295 the liberty of Trim was again restored to him, in consideration of his services in Welsh wars. In 1297 he was a commissioner on the king's part to settle the difficulties between the Constable and Marshal, which resulted in the king appointing him marshal and Thomas de Berkeley constable. In 1298 and 1299 he was sent to treat with the envoys of the King of France concerning peace. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 3 Nov. 1306, by writs directed Galfrido de Genevill', GEYnvill', and Gienvill', or the like, whereby he is held to have become Lord Geneville. In 1299 he was one of the magnates representing the English king at the treaty of Montreuil 19 June 1299. In 1300 he was one of envoys sent to Rome to negotiate the peace between England and France. In 1302 the liberties of Trim and Meath, which had been taken into the king's hand for contempt, were restored to him and his wife, Maud, for a term. His wife, Maud, died 11 April 1304. In 1307 he obtained license to surrender to Roger de Mortimer and Joan his wife (granddaughter of Geoffrey) the lands and tenements in Ireland which he held by the courtesy after the death of Maud his wife. He subsequently retired to the House of the Friars Preachers in Trim. SIR GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE, Lord Geneville, died 21 October 1314, and was buried at Friars Preachers in Trim. Smith Annales de Monte Fernandi (1842): sub A.D. 1273 (“Item dominus Galfridus de Genevile venit usque Hiberniam, de terra sancta, parum ante festum beati Francisci, et factus est justiciarius Hibernie, post octavas beati Francisci."). Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 46 ("[A.D. 1302. Obiit Matilda de Lad, uxor Galfridi de Genevile."). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 8-11, 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Wurstemberger Peter der Zweite, Graf von Savoyen, Markgraf in Italien 4 (1858): 92-93,104-105. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 626 (seal of Geoffroi de Joinville dated 1299 - Equestre, aux armes (comme dessus). Legend destroyed; Contre-sceau. Pierre gravée. Un masque a trois visages. Legende: + DE IONIVILLA DNI VALICOLORIS). Régeste Genevoir (1866): 194, 197, 198, 203. Brewer & Bullen Cal. Carew MSS (1871): 447 (charter of Geoffrey de Geynville and Maud de Lascy his wife dated 1259). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 186; 47 (1886): 207, 230. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 298 (seal of Geoffrey de Joinville dated 1259 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet and vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping at full speed. For arms, see the description of reverse. Reverse. Within a pointed gothic quatrefoil, and suspended by the loop from a hook between two sprigs of foliage, a shield of arms: three horses' bits, on a chief a demi lion issuant [JOINVILLE]). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 54 (1893): 334-343. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 318-322, 329, 331, 339, 342, 344, 349 (Geoffrey de Joinville, Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs styled "dear uncle" [chier oncle] by Beatrix de Viennois et d'Albon, lady of Faucigny, in 1270), 350-351, 358, 364-367, 369-372, 374-376, 377-383, 385, 387-397, 399, 401-403, 417-418. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 241; n.s. 21(1905): 1-5 ("The arms of Peter of Geneva, according to M. Paris, were Sable a lion rampant Argent), 73-78. Wrottesley Pedf. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161, 333. Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 7. C.P. 5 (1926): 628-631 (sub Geneville) (arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Azure, three brays in pale or, on a chief ermine a demi lion rampant gules, issuant). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 245: 1-3; 310: 5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95-96. Hand English Land in Ireland (1967): 13, 18, 27, 83, 102, 124-131, 133, 138, 151, 157, 202-203. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 32 (arms of Peter of Geneva: Sable, a lion rampant argent). Evergates Feudal Soc. in Medieval France (1993): xxix (chart), 112-113. Curia Regis Rolls 18 (1999): 84, 313. Irish Hist. Studies 33 (2001): 457-477. Duffy Medieval Ireland (2005): 195-196 (biog. of Geoffrey de Geneville). National Archives, SC 8/114/5665; SC 8/174/8660 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marshal2.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Vert on a chief ermine a lion rampant issuant gules). Child of Maud de Lacy, by Geoffrey de Geneville, Knt.: a. PETER DE GENEVILLE (or VAUCOULEURS), Knt., of Ludlow and Stanton-Lacy, Shropshire, married JOAN (or JEANNE) DE LA MARCHE (or DE LUSIGNAN) [see LUSIGNAN 8]. Children of Isabel le Bigod, by John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt.: i. JOHN FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Ringwood, Hampshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, Cherhill and Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc., Sheriff of Westmorland, 1264, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1264, son and heir. He married before 18 Feb. 1258/9 MARGERY BASSET, daughter of Philip Basset, Knt., of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Compton Bassett and Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, etc., Justiciar of England [see LONGESPEE 5.viii], by his 1st wife, Hawise, daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, Knt. They had no issue. He had livery of his father's lands 18 Feb. 1258/9, while yet a minor. He was one of the most conspicuous members of the baronial party. As a supporter of Simon de Montfort, he agreed to submit to the arbitration of the King of France 13 Dec. 1263. He, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Munchensy commanded the second division of the army of the barons at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. He was summoned for military service against the Welsh, 1258-63. He was summoned to Parliament 24 Dec. 1264, by writ directed Johanni filio Johannis. He was prohibited from taking part in the tournament at Dunstaple in 1265. He was wounded at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and taken prisoner. He was pardoned and admitted to the king's peace 10 July 1266, and recovered his lands under the Dictum of Kenilworth. His lands were again taken in the king's hands in 1268 for contempt. In 1270 he was one of those appointed to treat with Llywelyn at Gresford. His wife, Margery, died sometime before 29 October 1271. SIR JOHN FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died testate at Lambeth, Surrey shortly before 6 Nov. 1275. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 16, 104. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76. C.P. 5 (1926): 433-435, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn) (arms of John Fitz John: Quarterly Or and Gules, a bordure Vair). Moor Knights of Edward I 2 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 42-43. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191, 258. ii. RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Bierton, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, etc., Constable of Rockingham Castle, 1295, Captain of Bourg-sur-mer, 1296, 2nd son, born about 1245-51 (aged 24-30 in 1275). He married EMMA ___. They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John Fitz John, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz John. He had livery of his brother's lands in England 8 Dec. 1275, and in Ireland 5 May 1278. In 1276-7 he was granted letters of protection, he then going in the king's suite to the parts of Wales. He served in the army in Wales in 1277, 1282, 1287, and 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295, by writ directed Ricardo filio Johannis, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitz John. In 1295 he was about to proceed to Gascony with Edmund the king's brother. SIR RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died in Gascony shortly before 5 August 1297. His widow, Emma, married (2nd) by royal license dated 25 Jan. 1300/1 ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Knt. [see MORLEY 7ii], of Hawarden, Flintshire, Mold and Neston, Cheshire, Castle Rising and Kenninghall, Norfolk, Frarnsden and Kessingland, etc., Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of Chester, 2nd son of Robert de Mohaut, Knt., of Hawarden, Flintshire, Framsden, Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., by Joan, daughter of Roger de Mowbray, Knt. [see MORLEY 7 for his ancestry]. He was born 25 March 1274. They had no issue. He was heir in 1296 to his older brother, Roger de Mohaut, Lord Mohaut He presented to the church of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire in 1306. In 1310 he was summoned to answer William de Bernake of a plea that he permit him to present a fit parson to two parts of the church of Atdeborough, Norfolk. In 1312 he had license to settle the manor of Kenninghall, Norfolk on himself and his wife, Emma, and their issue, with remainder to his right heirs. In 1313 he owed a debt of 140 marks to John de Haudlo. In 1327 he settled all of his estates including Mold, Hawarden, Castle Rising, etc., together with the Stewardship of Chester, on himself and his wife, Emma, for life, and his own issue male, with remainder in default to Queen Isabel, her son John of Eltham and his heirs, and the king successively, for which the king paid him 10,000 marks. SIR ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Lord Mohaut, died 26 Dec. 1329, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. On 3 Dec. 1331 his widow, Emma, surrendered to Queen Isabel her life interest in the lordships of Mold, Hawarden, etc. for an annuity of £400. Emma died 26 Jan 1331/2, and was buried in Stradsett church, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1805): 216-218; 9 (1808): 42-46 (seal of Emma de Mohaut dated 1331 - two shields of arms, one being quarterly, with a bordure [FITZ JOHN], the other a lion rampant [MOHAUT]). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 107-109 (biog. of Robert de Montalt) (Montalt arms: Azure, a lion rampant Argent). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 231. Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 252-253. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 236-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 36 (1875): 349; 44 (1883): 104; 46 (1886): 260. Cox Notes on the Churches of Detishire 3 (1877): 507. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 326. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 233, 237, 275. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 96-97. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 457, 463. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 129-130. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37, 102. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 153-154 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138, 531-532. Maitland Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 320-327; 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 436 441 (sub Fitzjohn); 9 (1936): 15-17 (sub Mohaut). Moor Knights of Edward 12 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 43-44 (biog. of Richard Fitz John); 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 172-174 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Richardson & Sayles Rottuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 75, 240-266. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 103. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 43 (Deed A.S.247), 44 (Deed A.S.251). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. VCH Sussex 5(1) (1997): 190-204; 7 (1940): 258. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 90 ("One lady, whose claim to be a patron was the unique and surely very personal inscription on her tomb at Stradsett, Norfolk, 'Ici gist Dame Emme de Mouhaut Femme de Deux Barons.' As well as receiving dower from her first husband, Richard FitzJohn, of several manors, townships, knights' fees and advowsons, there are references to lands being held jointly with her second husband, Robert Mohaut (Montalt), who settled all his estates on himself and his wife for life, his own male issue, and the remainder, should there be no heirs, was to go to Queen Isabelle, John of Eltham, his heirs, or the king, who had, in return, paid Robert Mohaut (Montalt) 10,000 marks."). National Archives, C 131/174/49; SC 8/329/E945 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). iii. MAUD FITZ JOHN, married (1st) GERARD DE FURNIVAL, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see BEAUCHAMP 9]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 9]. iv. ISABEL FITZ JOHN, married ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 8]. v. AVELINE FITZ JOHN, married WALTER DE BURGH, Knt., 2nd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see BURGH 4]. vi. JOAN FITZ JOHN, married THEBAUD LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), of Arklow, co. Wicklow [see BUTLER 5].†3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013): “GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersharn and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son, born before 1145. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married (1st) before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY, daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. His wife, Beatrice, died in childbed before 19 April 1197. Her body was initially buried in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, but later transferred to Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1198 Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. He was present at the Coronation of King John 27 May 1199, where he was girded with the sword of earl. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. He was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Amersham, Buckinghamshire and Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire in 1200. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a | de Clare, Roger (I7229)
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| 7064 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Censuses: 1779 South Carolina Census, 96 District, no township. This is the only James Palmer/Parlmore listed. Data from Ancestry.com "South Carolina Census, 1790-1890": James Palmer No other census results for any James or Elizabeth Palmer/Parlmore for Laurens Co., SC. 2. Jett Hanna [jettplane@aol.com] provided me on 8 Jul 2005 with a copy of his analysis of the Brownlee manuscript as follows. It mirrors my own understanding; however, anything with which I disagree I note in [brackets]. Jett entitles his paper as "Laurens County Area Adair Family Trees." It is broken down by three families: James Adair who married Eleanor, his brother Joseph who married Sarah Laferty, and a William of whom absolutely nothing is known except just his name on the Williams Petition and that Brownlee notes he died 1780-84 and that his estate was administered 1784 per Abbe Wills, p. 10. Text quoted as follows: "This tree is based on Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina, by Mildred Brownlee. This was provided to me by W. Lee Adair, who obtained it from the Laurens County Public Library. Handwritten notes show a date of 1990 on Brownlee's manuscript. I have not examined these deeds personally. In some cases, notes and questions below are my own additions. This analysis seems to discredit some of the trees in the Adair History and Genealogy, and adds significantly to what is know of the Laurens area Adairs. I have not fully finished analyzing this work, and may have left out parts that are not as critical to my work. "Based on this work, it appears very possible that the elder Joseph Adair (m. Sarah, m. Susannah) and his brother James (m. Eleanor) settled in Laurens County at the same time, as suggested by the Adair History and Genealogy. I do not believe, however, that this James was the author of the book on the Indians and reputed patriarch of the Cherokee Adairs. This James was a cooper (barrel maker) according to the deeds. Modern editions of the History of the American Indians suggest that the author James Adair was a direct immigrant to South Carolina, but with no concrete evidence. "The Williams Petition: In the tree, LCW is Laurens County Wills; LCD is Laurens County Deeds. Also mentioned is the Williams petition. This petition is a significant document in analyzing the Laurens County Adairs. Published in the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. XV, No. 1 1987, p. 32-33, the original is #5767, Manuscript Department, Wm. Perkins Library at Duke University. The petition is in support of Colonel James Williams, a militia leader of the Patriots in the Laurens area (Little River Regiment). The petition, signed by members of the Little River Regiment, is directed to the Governor of South Carolina and the Privy Counsel, and attests to Williams' devotion to the Patriot cause. Williams led militia in a number of battles. I suspect that this petition was provided prior to Williams' elevation to the rank of Brigadier General following the Battle of Musgrove Mill, which was fought in what is now Laurens County. Williams had been accused of puffing his role in the battle. Williams went on to die at Kings Mountain - one of the few Patriot casualties that day on October 7, 1780. Williams had run for the South Carolina legislature as a Patriot in 1778, only to lose to Robert Cunningham, the infamous Loyalist leader. For more on Williams, see Draper, "Kings Mountain and Its Heroes," (Cincinnati, 1883). Signers of the Williams petition include the following Adairs: Isaac Adair, Jms. Adair, James Adair, Sr., Joseph Adair, Jr., Joseph Adair, Benjamin Adair, Joseph Adair, Sr., James Adair, Jr, son of James, William Adair, John Adair, and John Adair, Sr., and Alexander Adair. Comparing deed and will records to the names, Brownlee identifies the Adair signers [copies Brownlee's explanations]. Brownlee's identifications look very logical to me. "The Laurens County Adair Tree: 1. James Adair m. Eleanor: 150a land grant to James Adair-same date as Joseph 250a. Both referred to in records as coopers (barrel makers). James, cooper in LCD F/8,9,10, A/185. Eleanor released right of dower on deed dated 2/12/1796; date of transfer by James was 2/24/1784. Which deeds correspond with which dates? See Joseph below. Eleanor was also witness on deed from William Price and wife, Margaret to James Adair, son of James, 2/6/1792. 1.1 Joseph Adair m. Sarah Dillard [Surname Dillard is a Jett addition and I don't believe proven even though many LDS lines use this as well without documentation.]: Joseph Adair, Jr. to Wm. Holland, 120 ac. Release of dower by Sarah, wife of Joseph Jr., and Eleanor, widow of James Adair, dec'd, LCD F/109. Suggests land owned by James m. to Eleanor, but how does it correspond to land grants? If land belonged to Joseph junior by intestacy laws, why wasn't James m. to Hannah on deed, too? LCD G/570 has dower release for Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph. 1.1.1 Thomas Adair m. Rebecca Brown: LCD H/22, Joseph Adair of Duncan Creek to eldest son Thomas Adair. Witness Jane Adair. Dower releases for Rebecca in LCD H/129, H/209, and land purchased H/228. 1.1.2 ?Hannah m. John Jones: see F/8,9,10. 8 & 9: 8/1/1795. 10: 2/25/1784. F/10 is deed from James Sr. and wife Eleanor to John Jones, has witnesses James Adair, saddler, and James Adair, Jr. [Without giving a reason, Jett places Hannah as a possible daughter of Joseph, son of James; however, Brownlee indicates she believes her to be a daughter of the original James and Eleanor which would make her a sister to Joseph son of James. Perhaps a typo on Jett's part.] 1.2 James Adair m. Hannah: Corresponds to James son of James in the Williams petition per Brownlee. James m. Rebecca had a son James, but probably not old enough to sign petition as James m. Rebecca born 1747 per Indiana tombstone. Petition 1780 would mean James m. Rebecca was 33 in 1780; doubtful his son James could be of fighting age. Compare to Adair compilation. LCD M/77-78 reports death of James Adair, Sr., widow Hannah. Hannah Adair's will LCW F/65, proven 1826. James 115(2) 1790 Census. 2 daughters not accounted for. James Jr. was under 16 according to this census. 1.2.1 Elizabeth m. James? Parlmore (Palmer): LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2 Mary m. John Prather: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2.1 Susannah Prather (Prater?): Witness on will of Hannah LCW F/65. 1.2.2.2 Hannah Prather m. Joseph Dollar 1.2.2.3 Linny m. William Prather 1.2.2.4 Archibald m, Susannah Meadors 1.2.2.5 Martha Prather 1.2.2.6 Betsy/Priscilla Prather m. Daniel Owens 1.2.2.7 James Prather 1.2.2.8 Mary (Molly) Prather 1.2.2.9 Bryce Prather 1.2.2.10 Elinor Prather 1.2.3 Nelly (Eleanor) m. Ramage: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.3.1 Benjamin Ramage 1.2.3.2 John Jewell Ramage 1.2.3.3 Washington Ramage 1.2.4 James Adair Jr.: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.5 Hannah m. Rueben Meadors: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.6 Susannah m. William Cassels (Castles): LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.7 Nancy m. Willis Langston: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.8 Martha m. Wm. Gamble: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.8.1 Patsey Gamble: LCW F/65." 3. Typescript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina." Compiled by Mildred Brownlee; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction. [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.] "Other land in the adjacent area was purchased by James Adair, Sr. as will be seen by later deeds, he was born 15 May 1752, died 18 Aug. 1818, intestate. Deed Book M. pp. 77-78 - State of South Carolina, Laurens District - Whereas James Adair, Senr., of this District departed this life in the month of August 1818 and at the time of his death was possessed of a personal estate, consisting of negroes, horses, cows, hogs, sheep, waggon, household and kitchen furniture, corn, fodder, cotton and various other property not mentioned, all of which he was possessed of at the time of his death, and leaving a widow Hannah Adair and seven children, also four children of Elizabeth Parlmore (Palmer) in the right of their mother, to wit. John Prather in the right of his wife Mary; Nelly Ramage (a widow); James Adair, Jr., Reuben Meadors in the right of his wife Hannah; Wm. Cassels in the right of his wife Susannah, Willis Langston in the right of his wife Nancy; Wm. Gamble in the right of his wife Martha,all of which are entitled to distributive shares of the said James Adair's estate, that is to say, Hannah. the widow of James Adair, dec'd., is to have one third part of sd. after payment of all just debts and other lawfull expenses that may accrue at the intended sale ... and the remainder of said estate to be equally divided between the eight children of the sd. James Adair ... the four children of Elizabeth Palmore to have their mothers part equally divided between them, share and share alike ... Now for the better distribution and equal division of said estate we, Hannah Adair the wife of James Adair decd., John Prather, Nelly Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, Wm. Cassels, Willis Langston, and Wm. Gamble do agree to sell the estate before described on a credit untill the first day of January 1820 and to divide the proceeds thereof as before directed. Now know all by these presents that we Hannah Adair, John Prather, Nelly Ramage, and James Adair, Junr., Reuben Meadors, William Cassels, Willis Langston and William Gamble, are held and firmly bound unto each other in the following sums, that is Hannah Adair in the sum of three thousand dollars, John Prather in the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, Nelly Ramage in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, James Adair in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, Reuben Meadors in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, William Cassels in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, Willis Langston in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, and William Gamble in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, firmly by these presents in witness whereof we have set our hands and seals this twenty sixth of October 1818. Now the condition of the above obligation is such that if we Hannah Adair, John Prather. Nelly Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, Wm. Cassels, and Willis Langston and William Gamble, stand to keep and perform the foregoing intact by selling the before mentioned estate on a credit untill the first day of January 1820. After giving legal notice of the intended sale, and to give a Bill of Sale to such persons as may purchase at the intended sale, then after payment all just debts of sd. estate as well as expenses that may accrue thereon, and the proceeds to be divided according (to the) foregoing agreement then the above obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue. Witness our hands and seals this day above written. William Cassels, Hannah (X) Adair, Willis Langston, John Prateor, William Gamble, Elenor (X) Ramage, James Adaire, Reuben Meadors Simon Reeder, John L. Abell South Carolina, Laurens District) Personally came before me John L. Able and made oath that he was present & saw Hannah Adair, John Prather, Elenor Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, William Cassels, Willis Langston, and William Gamble sign, seal, and deliver the within instrument of writing for the uses and purposes therein contained & that he subscribed his name as a witness thereto was present and saw Simon Reeder subscribe his name as a witness to the same. Sworn to before me this 20th Jany, 1829. W.E. Lynch. J.P., J.L. Abell A true record of the original 22nd Jany. 1829. John Garlington. R.M.C. The above agreement regarding the personal property of James Adair, decd., was drawn up a short time after his death; however, it was not recorded until after the death of Hannah Adair. Nothing was done about the real estate of James Adair, decd., until a court action was brought sometime in 1819 by William Cassels & wife regarding partition and division. The land was then exposed to public sale. Deed Bk. K. p. 316 - 3 Jan. 1820, Samuel Downs, Sheriff of Laurens Dist., to Benjamin Adair for $175 highest bid, 100 a. on waters of Duncan Creek, adj. Wm. Taylor, Basil Holland, Jacob Miller, sold for judgment in court petition of Wm. Cassels & wife vs. James Adair, dec'd., etal. Wit: J.H. Irby, John B. Griffin. (This was the tract sold to James Adair, Sr. in 1814 by Jacob Miller. See Deed Bk. K, p. 65.) Deed Bk. L, p.78 - 3 Jan. 1820. Samuel Downs, Sheriff of Laurens Distr. to Hannah Adair. By virtue of a writ of partition from the Court of Common Pleas in which Wm. Cassels, etal, were plaintiffs for the purpose of obtaining a partition & division of a certain tract of land sheriff exposed to sale and sold to highest bidder; Hannah Adair, for the sum of $985, 224 a. on waters of Duncan Creek adj. Thos. McCreary, John Abell and Wm. Copeland, a tract formerly owned by James Adair, Sr., decd.. at the time of his death. Wit: Patillo Farrow, Wm. Taylor. Deed Bk. L. p. 36 - 30 July 1821, Hannah Adair to James Adair for $657, 224 a. whereon I now reside, adj. Thos. McCrary, Wm. Copeland, Thos. Beasley, John Abell, sd. James Adair & John Bryan, subject, nevertheless, to my life estate in that part of land lying on the S side of Allison Creek, being the part whereon the dwelling house now stance. Wit: R. Creswell, J.B. Kennedy. (This was the land Hannah bought from the Sheriff.) In the Court of Equity, 1821 - Reuben Meadors & wife Hannah vs. heirs of James Adair, Sr., dec'd. Petitioners state that James Adair, Sr. died in 1818, leaving a widow, Hannah Adair & the following children: Mary wife of John Prator; Nelly Ramage; James Adair, Jr.; Susannah wife of Wm. Cassels; Nancy wife of Willis Langston; Martha wife of Wm, Gamble; & Hannah wife of Reuben Meadors. That James Adair, Jr. received from his father in his lifetime a tract of land worth $600 and an advancement of personal property; that the other legatees received from their father at the time of their marriages quantities of personal property, except the petitioners who received only a horse worth $40, a cow & calf worth $10, a bed & furniture worth $20. Petitioners seek an accounting of the sale of the real & personal property & equal distribution of the proceeds. Affidavit of James Adair, Jr, states that in the lifetime of his father, he received 100 a. on Duncan Creek. adj. when granted NE on Josiah Greer, SW on Thos. Ellison, other sides vacant, the whole of a tract originally granted to James Hannah. A copy of the deed was submitted as recorded in Deed Bk. H, p. 249. (Records as to resolution of the suit were not included.)... Will of Hannah Adair: "In the name of God, Amen. I Hannah Adair, being in a low and afflicted state; and calling to mind the frailly and mortality of us may think proper, do make and constitute the following my last will and testament. I commend my soul and body into the merciful hands of that God from whom I received them, trusting in him to save through the merit of his son Jesus Christ. It is my desire that my heirs bury my body in a decent Christian manner, hoping and believing God will raise it at the great resurrection day. It is my will after the following sums are paid to some of my grand Children, to wit, to Patsey Gamble, the sum of fifty dollars to be paid to her when she comes of age. To Jinny Beavers one cow and calf, and to all the rest of my grand children whose parents are now dead the sum of one dollar. Then all the rest of my property consisting of negros stock and household furniture to be sold and equally divided among my living children viz Elenor Ramage, James Adair, Hannah Meddors, Susannah Castles, Nancy Langston, with all the money I may leave and debts due to me on note or otherwise to be equally divided among the above mentioned Children, with crop or any other property belonging to me I wish Susannah Castles part to be given to herself for the use of her children. It is not my will that William Castles should have any management of it, but that it should be the property of my daughter Susannah and her children after her. And I do hereby constitute my son James Adair as my executor to put this my will into affect. And I do hereby certify and declare this to be my last will and testament, given under my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of October, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, one thousand eight hunderd and twenty six and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. Hannah (X) Adair (Seal) her mark Signed in presence of us: Thomas S. Leak, Isham Milam, Susannah Prater" Recorded in Book F, Page 65. Recorded date not available. Proven date December 4th, 1826. Bundle 3, Package 9. Children of James and Hannah Adair - 8 in number: 1. Elizabeth Adair, date or birth unknown; she died before her father. Name of her husband not given but is thought to have been James Palmer who died in 1826. His estate was administered by Henry McKelvey with David Gamble and Wm. Copeland, sureties. Estate appraisal was made by Wm. Gamble, Reuben Meadors and James Adair. Names and dates of birth of the Palmer children not known. [NB: one of them was most likely Virginia (Jinny) Palmer who m. William Langley Bevis]. 2. Mary Adair, b. c1771 - mar. John Prather. Their chn: Hannah Prather - mar. Joseph Dollar. Linny Prather - mar. William Dollar. Archibald Prather - mar. his cousin, Susannah Meadors. Martha Prather Betsy? or Priscilla? Prather mar. Daniel Owens. (Daniel Owens thought to have been from Newberry Co. Daniel Owens, son of John Owens and Mary Long of Duncan Creek community died single in 1811.) James Prather Mary (Polly) Prather - b. 1808 Bryce Prather - b. 1810 Elinor (Nelly) Prather - b. 1813 3. Eleanor(Nelly) Adair, b. 2 Jan. 1774 - mar. Benjamin Ramage. [Their chn:] Benjamin Ramage John Jewell Ramage, b. 14 Mar. 1801 - mar. Nancy Weyman Adair. Washington Ramage, b. c1810 - mar. Sarah Ann Wilson - Ala. 4. James Adair, Jr., b. 15 Oct. 1781 - mar. Delilah Holland. [Their chn:] Nancy Weyman Adair, b. 5 Nov. 1805 - mar. Jno. Jewell Ramage. Robert James Adair, b. 2 June 1807 - mar. Sarah Jacks. Elizabeth Adair, b. 17 June 1810 - d. 17 Oct. 1823. Edmond Adair, b. 18 Oct. 1814 - mar. Susan Dillard. Hannah Adair, b. 7 Nov. 1816 - mar. Matthew Simpson. Isaac Adair, b. 21 July 1818 - mar. Sarah Dillard. James Henry Adair, b. 4 Aug. 1820 - mar. Elizabeth Pitts. William H. Adair, b. 31 Oct. 1822 - d. 6 Oct. 1844. 5. Hannah Adair, b. Sept. 1784 - mar. Reuben Meadors. [Their chn:] Susannah Meadors - mar. her cousin Archibald Prather. Paschal Motley Meadors, b. 18 Jan. 1808 - mar. Sarah Ann Miller. Oney Meadors, b. 21 Sept. 1809 - mar. James M. Braddock. Mary (Polly) Meadors - mar. Pearson Martha Meadors, died Nov. 1856, in her 33rd. year, mar. Lemuel Oxner. Reuben Byrum Meadors, died 25 Apr. 1848 in his 24th year, mar. J. Eunice Richey. Their dau. Elizabeth, mar. D..P. Buzzard. James Adair Meadors, b. 15 Oct. 1824, mar. (1) Mary Susan McKittrick, (2) Margaret Adeline Hudgens. ?Ann Meadors, died young? 6. Susannah Adair mar. William Cassels. NFI 7. Nancy Adair mar. Willis Langston. NFI 8. Martha Adair mar. William Gamble. NFI" | Adair, Elizabeth (I3743)
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| 7065 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Censuses: 1779 South Carolina Census, 96 District, no township: James Palmer This is the only James Palmer/Parlmore listed. Data from Ancestry.com "South Carolina Census, 1790-1890." No other census results for any James or Elizabeth Palmer/Parlmore for Laurens Co., SC. 2. Is there a relationship between the Rev. Joseph Palmer and our James Palmer? "South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 13, pp. 213-218, "Memories of Laurens County,' contributed by Mary A. Seyle, CGRS: John Duncan who was the first settler in Laurens is said to be responsible for the first Presbyterian Church in the county. Hi is the man form whom the area Duncan's Creek is named, having settled there about 1751. As early as 1764, he erected a 'brush arbor' where those who wished to worship could assemble for their services. Later he had a meeting house erected. The arbor was actually used before the church itself was built, and that is said to date from 1764. Hazel Crowson Sellers of North Carolina in her book on 'Old South Carolina Churches; says that John Duncan was joined by his friends Joseph Adair and Robert Long, both of whom were Revolutionary War soldiers, and that Hezekiah Balch held services at Duncan's Creek as early as 1752. Joseph Palmer, a minister, is also said to have been a friend of John Duncan, and was so popular that when he went to Indiana in 1828 a number of the old friends followed him. | Palmer or Parlmore, James (I3750)
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| 7066 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Censuses: 1790 US: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/census/mohawk1790.html; 1790 Census, Montgomery County, MohawkTown: 1st No.-Free white males over 16 years 2nd No.-Free white males under 16 years 3rd No.-Free white females 4th No.-All other free persons 5th No.-Slaves *illegible Brittain, Abraham - 1-2-5-0-0 [Abraham Brinton?] Frederick, Francis - 1-3-3-0-0 Frederick, Peter - 1-3-5-0-0 Frederick, Philip - 1-0-1-0-2 Marlet, Michael - 1-1-4-0-0 Mower, Hendrick - 1-1-1-0-0 VanHorn, Cornelius - 2-2-5-0-0 VanHorn, Thomas - 1-1-5-0-* 1800 US: Minden, Montgomery, New York, p. 10 of 19, these two were next door neighbors and related by marriage, the columns are first male then female 0-9, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, 45+: Francis Frederick: 1-0-1-1-0; 1-1-0-1-0 Thomas Van Horne: 2-1-0-1-0; 1-1-0-1-0 2. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface and p. 319: "Thomas Van Horne - - born Hunterdon Co., New Jersey 14 May 1748 (son of Mathias Van Horne and Nelly Crumm); died Springfield, NY 26 Feb 1841; m. Caughnawaga NY 21 Oct 1779 Maria Frederick dau. of Philip Frederick and Sophia Saltz. A Lt. in the Col. Frederick Fischer's 3rd Tryon Co. militia in the Revolution. Other Van Hornes in Fischer's unit included an Abram, Cornelius, Henry, and John. Thomas lived at Otsego Co. NY and his children were baptised at St. Paul's Luth. Church in Minden, NY. Had fourteen children, as given in Van Horne book, Mathias, Leah (bp. 1781, m. Robert Davis), Philip (b. 1784, m. Margaret Eckler), Sophia (b. 1786, M. John Eckler), Eleanora (b. 1788, m. George Shaul), Eve (b. 1789, m. Jacob I. Young), Anna (b. 1791, m. John G. Shaul), Cornelius (b. 1793, m. Catherine Shanhultz), Magdalena (b. 1795, m. John E. Eckler), Elizabeth (b. 1797, m. William Van Horne), Abram (b. 1799, m.1. Dorothy Shanhultz), Thomas (b. 1802, d.y.), Maria (b. 1804, m. John Wyckoff), and Francis (b. 1809, d.y.)" 3. Birth, marriage, and father of Maria is mentioned in the following from Heritage Quest online copy of the American Revolutionary War pension file no. W.18210, 16 pages, for Thomas Van Horne whose spouse is Maria. Notes he died 26 Feb 1841; Maria is listed as a widow with continuing pension issued 13 Sep 1844. A later date also shows 27 Jun 1853. At the time of the application, he is listed of Otsego Co., NY. He was a private in the Company commanded by Col. Fisher in the Tryon County NY Militia Troops. Also served under Captains Harmanus Mable and Joseph Yeomans. Original testimony for the pension papers are from an 16 Oct 1832 court appearance in which he states he is 87 years old living in Springfield, Otsego Co., NY. At the commencement and during the War he resided in Warren's Bush, now the town of Florida, south of the Mohawk River, about two miles within the now County of Montgomery. He was enrolled as a private in Capt. Samuel Pettingill's company in a regiment commanded by Col. Frederick Fisher. His first engagement was a year before Independence was declared in responding to an alarm from "Cognawaga about 5 miles distant." During the year of Independence he was at Johnstown District when Gen'l Schyler was there and they disarmed the Tories. He was "out to Johnstown, Sochnedaga, Caunewaga, and various other places that summer." That winter, he was in Johnstown. During the summer of 1777, he was in Capt. Pettingill's company under Gen'l Herkimer and Col. Cox, in pursuit about 70 miles of Indians under the Indian chief Joseph Brant. On their return, they were called out to Fort Stanwix and he was present at the Oriskany Battle when Gen'l Herkimer was mortally wounded and Capt. Pettingill was killed. Lieut. Snook was appointed Captain and Thomas was made 1st Lieutenant. That summer they were constantly called upon. He and a part of the company were "on the way to Saratoga at the time Burgoine was taken but stopped at Schenectady on hearing by express that he had surrendered." He was at Ticonderoga in the winter of the building of the bridge across Lake George, an expedition of three weeks. His service continued every year of the War but he could not recall all of the places. Sometimes they were called out for a day, a couple of days, sometimes a week, and sometimes a couple of weeks. He was a Lieutenant the entire war. He was at Fort Plain, Fort Plank, German Flatts, Stone Arabia, Little Falls, and various other places many times. He could not recall all the places and times. He guarded the "batteaux" with provisions up the Mohawk River to Fort Stanwix and another time guarded to the same place a drove of cattle. He was at Cherry Valley immediately after the burning and murrders done at that place. That on these occasions he went "uniformily armed, with six days provisions." From home, he was "at all times liable to be called out at a moment's warning and was constantly prepared for alarms." He "did not pretend to do but little business - that whatever was raised was liable at all times to be destroyed and burned." The settlement within a half of a mile of where he lived was entirely burnt off by the Indians. As an officer, he was constantly scouting abroad or protecting himslef, family and neighborhood at home. He signs his name in full: Thomas Vanhorne. The next court affidavit states that "he was born in the year 1745 - that he never has had any record of his age but has always understood there was a record thereof upon the Church Book in Hunterdon County, New Jersey where he was born. After the Revolution he moved to a place called Osuago in the town of Minden, Montgomery Co. - now the town of Stark in the County of Herkimer. He resided there until about 19 years ago when he moved to the town of Otsego now the town of Springfield in the County of Otsego where he now resides. Local Rev. John Swain's name is given as a reference. This latter affidavit signed 7 Jun 1833. Later it is stated that he did not receive his written commission as a First Lieutenant until much later on 8 Mar 1781. An affidavit dated 29 Jun 1841 is included from Maria Van Horne, aged 83 years, of Springfield, Otsego, New York, that her husband is deceased. She further declares that she was married to Thomas Van Horne at her father's house (Phillip Frederick) in the town of Florida, Montgomery Co., NY, by the Rev. Thomas Romeyn 21 Oct 1779. The said Thomas Romeyn being the pastor of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga. Confirms her husband died on 26 Feb 1841 at Springfield. That the Church record attached is correct as regards to the marriage. Signed with an "x". An affidavit from Jacob D. Fonda confirming the above referenced church marriage record. An affidavit from Leah Davis, dau. of Thomas Vanhorn, dated 17 Feb 1853 of Ontario Co., NY asserting her rights to prosecute a claim against the pension of Thomas Vanhorn. In a 1940 letter to Peggy A. Rainey of Decatur, Iowa, the Pension office recites all of the above and adds that in 1841, their third Child, Phillip Van Horne, was a resident of Springfield, New York, and aged 57 years. 4. Http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Enymontgo/montgaz1.html: "Caughnawaga, it is well known, was once an Indian Village, a principal Town of the Mohawk Indians. The name signifies 'a Coffin,' which it received from the circumstance of there being, in the river opposite that place, a large black stone, [still to be seen,] resembling a coffin, and projecting above the surface at low water. Of this name, as of many others of Indian origin, it may be here remarked, that this orthography, which seems to come the nearest to the pronunciation, according to the ear or fancy of one person, may not do so to the ear of another. There is no such thing as a rule, applicable to cases of this kind, only to simplify the word, and modernise it, so far as may be consistent with a due preservation of etymology. There are few, perhaps no Indian sounds or words, which different persons would represent by the same English letters. The difficulty is also farther increased by the synonyma of rude dialeuts. In that of the Mohawks, the same expression is used for Coffin, Death, Destruction, &c., and they have traditions of many lives being lost on this Rock, now not in the main channel, and only visible at low water. In like manner they use one and the same expression for youth, morning, spring, east, &c.,- To my ear, hearing an old Mohawk speak Cahnawaga, his expression seems to me better represented by these letters, than by adding ug, and I am always rather inclined to shorten words, when I can without detriment. This Tribe was always called the Mohawks, by the other Tribes of the Confederacy of Aganuschioni, or United People; and there is good evidence that between them and the Onondagas, there was for ages a contest for supremacy, as long and as bloody as that between the rival houses of York and Lancaster, in our English Father-land." 5. Some family histories among LDS descendants of the Fredericks list a Mary Frederick born to Philip and Maria Sophia (Saltz) Frederick. I believe this to be erroneous and recopied and recopied among the LDS histories. I find no documentation of a Mary through christenings, marriages, etc. for Mary. I believe some have confused her with Maria who married Thomas Van Horne. BIRTH: 1. The Philip Frederick Mill dates from 1750 according to the New York state historical highway marker sign. Maria Saltz's father lived just down the road. This would help us surmise that all of their children were born at "Millpoint" within the modern boundaries of Florida township in Montgomery County. Millpoint still shows up on modern-day maps and was probably named after the Frederick Mill. See Philip's notes for more on this mill and its present-day location. 2. In the pension of her husband, she states she was 83 years old in 1841 which would put her birth in 1758, which in turn conflicts with the 1761 Christening (and presumably birth) of Margarita as noted in the Church Records as cited in her notes above. Not sure what is correct unless the baptism was performed 3 years after the birth. CHRISTENING: 1. Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y. New York, unknown, 1917, 748 pp.: Magdalena, dau. of Philip Frederick and Sophia Saltz, baptism record 13 Sep 1761 with sponsors Willem Jong and Eva Jong. 2. From the book "Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families," by Maryly B. Penrose, v. 1, p. 282, Birth/Baptism: "Frederick, Phillip and Sophia (Salts): Margarita, bapt. 1758 (DRC:2) Sponosrs: Pieter Jong and Margariet Jong. Magdalena, bapt. 13 Sep 1761 (DRC:6) Sponsors Willem Jong & Eva Jong. Catrina, bapt. 1764 (note: parents names crossed out in record) (DRC:12) Sponsors Philip Frederick and Sophia Frederick. MARRIAGE: 1. Marriage records of "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga: now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, 1917, 748 pp.: Lodewyk Frederick and Alida Miller, 21 Mar 1774. Frans Frederick and Susanna Cosaadt, 30 Dec 1774. Frans Cosaadt and Nancy Johnson, 20 Jun 1777. Thomas Van Horne and Maria Frederick, 21 Oct 1779. Peter Frederick and Elizabeth Marlet, 21 Oct 1779 [same time as Thomas Van Horne.] (Illegible) Mair? and the daughter of Philip Fredrick, 23 Jan 1788. [Could this be Hendrick Mower and Elizabeth Frederick?] Christian Plank and Hannah Frederick, 1 Jan 1801. George Frederick and Caty Cag, 21 Feb 1803. 2. From a typescript in the Frederick family file at the Montgomery Co. NY Archives: "St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Schoharie, Schoharie Co., NY, Marriages: July 29, 1779, N.B. These are here only proclaimed by me: Peter Friederich and Elisabeth Melead Thomas Van horen and Maria Fredrich" DEATH: 1. From my visit to the Montgomery County, NY, Archives Sep 2007, the following typescript was in the Van Horne Family file, author and date unknown, pp. 44-51: Widow's Pension, 18210: Maria Van Horne, aged 83, of Springfield, NY, widow of Thomas Van Horne applied, 29 June 1841, for pension based on service of her said husband, stating that he died in Springfield, 26 Feb. 1841, to begin 27 Feb. 1841. Maria also filed for difference between private's pension and officer's pension, which was allowed. True copy signed by Jacob D. Fonda, Pastor, 1841, who stated that the marriage record of Thomas Van Horne and Maria Frederick on registry books of Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga and the date is expressed in 'far legible' as follows: '1779 Oct. 21 by Rev. Thomas Romeyn, Pastor.' 29 Jun 1841, Philip Van Horne, aged 57, of Springfield, NY, he is the third son of Thomas and Maria Van Horne. [Second son?] Last payment to the widow appears in Book O, page 112, file National Archives, 1845, Albany Agency; Act of 1836. Her date of death not given. 17 Feb 1853, Leah Davis, of Ontario County, NY, a daughter of Thomas and Maria Van Horne filed for anything due. Various persons requested information between 1893 and 1939: Harold N. Moyer, E.F. Dutton, H.O. Rosencrants, Mrs. Owen Bowman and Peggy-Ann Rainey, their places of residence being included. | Frederick, Maria Magdalena (I2145)
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| 7067 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Censuses: 1790 US: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/census/mohawk1790.html; 1790 Census, Montgomery County, MohawkTown: 1st No.-Free white males over 16 years 2nd No.-Free white males under 16 years 3rd No.-Free white females 4th No.-All other free persons 5th No.-Slaves *illegible Brittain, Abraham - 1-2-5-0-0 [Abraham Brinton?] Frederick, Francis - 1-3-3-0-0 Frederick, Peter - 1-3-5-0-0 Frederick, Philip - 1-0-1-0-2 Marlet, Michael - 1-1-4-0-0 Mower, Hendrick - 1-1-1-0-0 VanHorn, Cornelius - 2-2-5-0-0 VanHorn, Thomas - 1-1-5-0-* 2. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface: "In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] 3. Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: A. Dutch Reformed Church of Caughnawaga (Fonda), NY: a. Helena, b. 22 Feb 1782, bapt. 2/24/1782 to Peter Frederick and Elizabeth Marlat, Sp. Francis - - and Lena Fredrick. b. Christiana, b. 13 Apr 1786, bapt. 7/2/1786 to Peter Frederick and Elizabeth Marlat. No sponsors. B. Dutch Reformed Church Schenectady, New York: a. Francis, b. 20 Jul 1788 to Peter Frederick and Elizabeth Marlet. No sponsors. 4. The book "Mohawk Land Records," by Maryly B. Penrose, p. 56, bills of sale [note Mohawk District was the predecessor name for Florida Township. Tryon Co. was changed to Montgomery County after the Rev. War.]: "Saltz, Frantz, to Philip Frederick, Francis Cruth, Peter Frederick and Frantz Frederick. Instrument dated 4/28/1784; recorded 3/17/1785. Description: In consideration of serveral good causes made over all his moveable estate. Signed: Frantz ["X" his mark] Salts. Wit: Wm. Schuyler, Thomas Caine. The instrument was executed in person by Frants Saltz as a voluntary act. (Tryon County Deeds, Book 1, p. 257, 1772-1788)" Philip would be his son-in-law, Peter and Francis are grandsons through Philip, and Francis Cruth (Grosch), grandson through son-in-law Peter Grosch. 5. The following will abstract in the Frederick family file at the Montgomery Co. New York Archives concerns Peter Frederick. I am unsure as to which Peter. This deceased Peter's wife is Margaret and he has a son named Philip. The date seems very late for Peter the immigrant. As to Peter, the grandson of Peter the immigrant, there is no record of his having a son named Philip. Neither Peter has a record of a wife named Margaret. The abstract: "Frederick, Peter, of Florida, will dated 3/9/1804, probated 6/12/1804. Mentions, wife Margaret, sons Philip and my 2 others (not named), my daughters (not named) Executor David Cady. Witnesses: George Serviss, Moses Tuttle, Stephen Reynolds." 6. The book "History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N.Y.," reprinted 2002 (originally printed in the 1880s) contains some local history which adds to the historical perspective of the times of Peter Frederick in Montgomery county. I recommend browsing and reading this extensive history of which I have partial copy on file, but I do include a few excerpts in these notes: A. Original ownership in Florida township area. Walter Butler purchased from the Indians a tract of 86,000 acres which was divided into six tracts, one of which was transferred to Charles Williams and others, August 19th, 1735, and comprised the principal portion of what is now the township of Florida. The parties taking possession of this tract were to pay the yearly rent of 2 shillings, 6 pence for each 100 acres at the Custom House in New York, and agreed to settle and cultivate at least 3 acres out of every 50 within the next three years. Additionally all trees 24 inches in diameter and upwards, at 12 inches from the ground, were to be reserved for masts for the Royal Navy. This was the tract afterward owned by Sir Peter Warren, and known as Warrensbush, probably purchased by him in 1737; as a petition to be allowed to purchase 6,000 acres of land is filed by him in the Secretay of State's office, dated May 5th, 1737. this land remained in the Waren family for nearly sixty years. After the death of Sir Peter Warren, Warrensbush was divided into three parts: one part was conveyed to Charles Fitzroy, otherwise called Lord Southampton; one part to the Earl of Abingdon, and the third to Henry Gage. Abingdon and Gage conveyed their two shares to John Watts, of New York, who was formerly their attorney,and was also a brother-in-law to Sir Peter Warren. David Cady was agent for John Watts in Warrensbush. Their was an anxiety to get rid of the of the vexatious ground rents, but the lease system was well entrenched, and the owners knew well their value; onl sloly and greadually was the right to the soil obtained in the late 1780s and 1790s. The following quitclaim of certain leaseholds mentions the Fredericks, Youngs, and Services: "Whereas, John Watts of the city of New York, and Jane, his wife, did purchase fromthe Earl of Abingdon, of Great Britain, and from Henry gage and Susanna, his wife, and otehrs their gtrustees, two tracts or parcels of land situatged n a place called Warrensburgh, in the town of Mohawk, county of Montgomery, State of New York, ofrmerly part of the estate of Sir Peter Warren... said John Watts hat sold and confveyed sundry lots thereof to David Cady, Nathan Stanton, Exra Murray, Phillip and Peter Frederick, William and Peter Youngs...Christian and Peter Service... and sundry others, with covenants on the part of said John Watts to convey the same in full to them on payment of certain sums... Signed and sealed 13 Nov 1793." [I am sure which Peter is spoken of - the immigrant or the son of Philip.] B. In commenting on the various early churches in the area: "Early in 1796 a Free Will Baptist church organization was removed to Ames (where some of the members lived, including the minister Elder George Elliott) from a point several miles west, where it was established in 1794." Among the names of the original members is "Peter Frederick." I am not sure if this the original Johan Peter, his grandson Peter, or another grandson. 7. The book "The Book of Names, Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the Frist Settlers in the Mohawk Valley," by Lou D. MacWethy, 1933: "Tryon County Militia, 3rd Regiment, Col. Frederick Fisher": Fredreck, Jacob Frederick, Peter Frederick, Francis Fredrick, Philip BIRTH: 1. The Philip Frederick Mill dates from 1750 according to the New York state historical highway marker sign. Maria Saltz's father lived just down the road. This would help us surmise that all of their children were born at "Millpoint" within the modern boundaries of Florida township in Montgomery County. Millpoint still shows up on modern-day maps and was probably named after the Frederick Mill. See Philip's notes for more on this mill and its present-day location. 2. Birth date is arbitrary only without basis except a marriage in 1779. MARRIAGE: 1. Marriage records of "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga: now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, 1917, 748 pp.: Lodewyk Frederick and Alida Miller, 21 Mar 1774. Frans Frederick and Susanna Cosaadt, 30 Dec 1774. Frans Cosaadt and Nancy Johnson, 20 Jun 1777. Thomas Van Horne and Maria Frederick, 21 Oct 1779. Peter Frederick and Elizabeth Marlet, 21 Oct 1779 [same time as Thomas Van Horne.] (Illegible) Mair? and the daughter of Philip Fredrick, 23 Jan 1788. [Could this be Hendrick Mower and Elizabeth Frederick?] Christian Plank and Hannah Frederick, 1 Jan 1801. George Frederick and Caty Cag, 21 Feb 1803. 2. Listed as parents per "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga: now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, 1917, 748 pp.: Helena, b. 22 Jan, offspring of Peter Frederick and Elizabeth Marlet, baptized 24 Jan 1782 with sponsors Francis ___ and Lena Frederick. 3. From the book "Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families," by Maryly B. Penrose, v. 1, p. 281: Marriages: A. Frederick, Bernhard m. Dorothea Schenck, 6 Jan 1771 (RDSA:190). B. Frederick, Frans m. Susanna Cosaadt, 30 Dec 1774 (DRC:160). C. Frederick, Lodewyk m. Alida Miller, 31 Mar 1774 (DRC:160). D. Frederick, Peter m. Elizabeth Marlat, no date but follows 21 Oct 1779 (DRC:162). 4. From a typescript in the Frederick family file at the Montgomery Co. NY Archives: "St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, schoharie, Schoharie Co., NY, Marriages: "July 29, 1779, N.B. These are here only proclaimed by me: Peter Friederich and Elisabeth Melead Thomas Van horen and Maria Fredrich" | Frederick, Peter (I1023)
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| 7068 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ (census is alphabetized so it is impossible to know exact neighbors): Walter Karr, males: 1@15-19, 2@20-29, 1@70-79; females: 1@40-49. 1840 US: Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ: Walter Karr, 1 male 80-90, 1 female 70-90. Possible brother of Naomi directly next door: James I. Johnson, males: 3@5-10, 1@50-60; females: 1@50-60. 1840: Ancestry.com's "Revolutionary War Pensioner Census 1841" effective 1 Jun 1840 shows Walter Karr in Upper Freehold Twp., Monmouth Co., head of household. 2. Email from Mike Morrissey [mailto:mikemorr@hotmail.com], April 24, 2004: "Walter KERR married Naomi Bennett in Monmouth Co. on October 4, 1836. This info was gotten from Walter's Rev. War pension info. (I am presuming Isaac Winner died sometime between 1819 and 1830 which I have not verified.)... Pension application: Walter's Rev. War pension record has her age at 85 in 1853 [b. abt. 1768]; and a resident of Toms River. It also says that Walter died in 1846 at Toms River... [Interested researcher:] Jeff Meyer: the Kerr/Karr family jsmyer@comcast.net" 3. "A history of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, embracing a genealogical record of earliest settlers in Monmouth and Ocean counties and their descendants...," by Edwin Salter, (1890), p. 143, listing of Rev. War soldiers: "Walter Kerr, also contin'l army." 4. Ancestry.com: "Walter Karr, NJ, Monmouth County, township: Freehold; 1793, June Tax List (Database: NJ Tax Lists Index 1772-1822). 5. Ancestry.com's "New Jersey Pensioners, 1835": "Walter Karr, Private; Monmouth Co.; Annual Allowance: 80 00; Sums received: 240 00; Description of service: New Jersey continental line; When placed on the pension roll: 11 Sep 1833; Commencement of pension: 4 Mar 1831." 6. Ancestry.com's "Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900" has images of application. Pension W. 7950. Information included from over 40 pages in his file: New Jersey: Naomi Karr, widow of Walter Karr, private, to receive $80 commencing 2 Feb. 1853 to be sent to A.C. McLean of Toms River. Walter Karr, Monmouth, NJ, was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Wikoff in the Regt. commanded by Col. Forman. Mentions pension sent to T[homas] C. Ryall of Freehold 11 Sep 1853. Affidavit of Benjamin L. Irons, Justice of the Peace in Monmouth Co., certifying that he did perform the marriage of Walter Karr and Naomi Bennett 4 Oct 1836. Naomi states her age as 85 in Feb 1853 application and that she is a resident of Toms River. Attests husband died 6 Apr 1846 and was a resident of Goshen, Monmouth Co. She signs her name as "Naomy Car." Affidavit of Ann Philips dated 25 Mar 1853 atttesting to knowing Walter, the marriage, and that Naomi was still Walter's widow. Signed by mark. 31 July 1832 application of Walter Kerr of Upper Freehold Twp., Monmouth Co., NJ, for pension, #4059. States that he joined at the age of 16 in 1775 then residing at Upper Freehold twp. and joined under Capt. Peter Wikoff and served to War's end. He also served under the following Captains in the following order: John Conover, David Baird, Joseph Capethite, and Capt. Hulse. Field officers included General David Forman and Colonel Samuel Forman. His entire service was under the draft except one month under Capt. Hulse for which he volunteered. His service was mainly guarding the coast and sometimes inland for the movements of the Tories in Upper Freehold Twp. He states that he was never in any skirmishes and that once under the command of Capt. Hulse they marched down to Manahauken in the southern portion of Monmouth co. on account of the slaughter of a company of NJ militia by a group of British troops and Tories at Great Egg Harbor. He was never in any Continental company or regiment and that the only regular officer he knew was Capt. John Burrows (not sure of which regiment). His activities were mainly marching throughout Monmouth co. especially along the seacoast bordering the townships of Middleton and Shrewsbury. He was in service for two to three years. He was born in West Windsor, Middlesex Co., NJ, and that the family bible in his possession has his age recorded. He has no discharge paper nor any documentary proof of his service but that John McBride, Lewis Compton, and Job Leming can testify in his behalf. Signs name Walter Karr. Lewis Compton and Job Leming "surviving soldiers of the Revolutionary War" testify in his behalf. Later affidavit to unknown communicant from Commissioner stating that Walter Karr was born 7 Nov 1759 at West Windsor Township, Middlesex, NJ. and that he was married to Naomi Phillips 4 Oct 1836 in Toms River. 9 Jul 1852, Marick Karr of Upper Freehold Twp., son of Walter Karr, appoints an agent in Washington [D.C.] to represent him in pursuing any pension remaining. Signs name as Marick Carr. Pension payments shown from 1833 to 1846. Additional affidavit from Walter Karr concerning his time of service. He states that he joined Dec. 1775 just after turning 16. He served first for eight months under Capt. Wikoff (every other month) until spring of 1777. He served under Capt. John Conover from Spring of 1777 to Spring of 1778 for six months every other month. From Spring of 1778 to same in 1779, he served under Capt. David Baird every other month. [Continues - see SAR application below for Walter Carr for balance of service.] Notes birth was 7 Nov 1759 in West Windsor Twp., Middlesex, NJ per recording in family bible that he possesses. 7. Ancestry.com's "US Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970" for Walter Carr of Asbury Park, Monmouth Co., NJ., membership #33910. He states his lineage as: Walter Carr, age 36, b. 24 Nov 1883 at Long Branch, Monmouth, NJ. Son of Wm. H. Carr, b. 2 Apr 1861 and Clara Tabor, b. 11 Jun 1858, m. 11 Jan 1883. Grandson of Joshua Carr, b. 10 Sep 1835, and Mercy Vaughn, b. 1 Jun 1835, d. 17 Feb 1879, m. 3 May 1860. G.grandson of Walter Karr, b. 1807, d. abt. 1894, and Sarah Thomas, b. 1811, d. abt. 1892, m. abt 1832. Gg.grandson of Walter Karr, b. 7 Nov 1759 at Cassville, NJ, d. 6 Apr 1846 at Toms River, NJ, and Elizabeth Page. Provides Walter's war service as: "Walter Karr enlisted in Upper Freehold as Private, Capt. Peter Wikoff Co., 2nd Regiment, Monmouth Co., NJ Militia, Fall 1775, and served monthly tours until March 1777; Private, Capt. John Covenhoven's Co., First Regt., Mo. Co., NJ Militia, Mar 1777 and served tours until Apr. 1778; Private, Co. commanded by Ensign David Baird, first Regt., Mo. Co., NJ Militia, Apr. 1778; Private, Capt. John Covenhoven's Co., First Regt. Mo. Co., NJ Militia, June 1778; Private, Capt. Jos. Cowperthwaite's Co., First Regt., Mo. Co., NJ Militia, Spring of 1779 and served monthly tours until Feb. 1781; Private, Mo. Co., NJ Militia, Feb. 1781, Private, Capt Jo. Cowpertwaite's, Co., First Regt. Mo. Co., NJ Militia, May 1781, and served until close of the war. He recieved certificate #695, amounting to ₤2-10-0 for the depreciation of his Continental pay in the Mo. Co., NJ Militia during the Rev. War. He made application for a pension on July 31, 1832 and his claim was allowed. Information obtained form Bureau of Pensions, Dept. of the Interior, Wash., DC and Office of the Adjutant General, Trenton, NJ." | Kerr or Karr, Walter (I3064)
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| 7069 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Camden Twshp., Oneida, New York, p. 43 of 68, 1 Oct 1850, family and household 343: Artemus Peck, 46, farmer, $1200, NY. Perthenia, 43, NY. Charlotte, 16, NY. Elizabeth, 14, NY. Horace, 11, NY. Reuben, 9, NY. Caroline, 5, NY. Sophia Cain, 83, NY. 1860 US: Camden Twp., Oneida, NY, p. 42 of 79, house 349, family 346, 10 Aug 1860: Archimus Peck, 53, farmer, $1200, $900, NY. Perthena, 50, NY. Horace, 23, NY. Elizabeth, 23, NY. Reuben, 18, NY. Caroline, 15, NY. Sophia Cain, 95, boarder, NY. 2. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface: "In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] 3. The book "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Marily Penrose, p. 95: "Pension Abstract. Caine, John, b. 12/10/1762, Mohawktown, NY; m. Sophia Frederick 3/22/1785, Schenectady, NY; d. 6/7/1840, Camden, Oneida Co., NY (Sophia Caine, b. 9/12/1766; resident of Camden, NY on 6/5/1851.) Children: Thomas, b. 3/1/1786; Philip, b. 7/25/1787; Peter, b. 12/12/1788; John, b. 6/5/1798; Hanah, b. 6/14/1800; Eve, b. 7/20/1802; Frederick, b. 11/7/1804; Perthemay, b. 11/17/1806, Barney, b. 1/12/1809. John enlisted in July 1780 and served for five months as a private in Capt. Garret Putman's Co., Col. Marinus Willett's Regt.; 4/1/1781, served in the same company and regiment as a sergeant for nine months. John also served in the War of 1812, while a resident of Schuyler, Herkimer Co., as a substitute for his son, Peter; from 10/5/1814 to 11/18/1814, private in Capt. Hutchin's Co. of NY Militia and went to the defense of Sackett's Harbor; his son John, served with him. (RWPA: #W18849)" 4. Per Worldconnect 6 Nov 2007 database "andrea60" of Andrea Mastrianni Thomas, b. 1 Mar 1786, bp. 1 Mar 1786 in Caughnawaga Church, m. Sally Hutchinson. Philip, b. 25 Jul 1787. Peter, b. 12 Dec 1788, m. Mahetable Worden, d. 31 Jan 1883 in Schuyler, Herkimer, NY. John, b. 16 Jun 1791, bp. Jul 1791 in Caughnawaga church, was in prison in 1822 for grand larceny, m. Betsey Nelson. William, b. 16 Oct 1793 Polly, b. 23 Sep 1796, m. Dennis Peck 4 Apr 1825. Francis, b. 25 Feb 1798 Hannah, b. 16 Jun 1800, m. Adna Anderson in 1819. Eve (Sally), b. 20 Jul 1802, m. Bennett Peck. Frederick, b. 17 Nov 1804 Perthemay, b. 17 Nov 1807, m. Artemus Peck 1 Jan 1824 at Rome, NY. Barney, b. 12 Jan 1809 5. Per Worldconnect 6 Nov 2007 database "andrea60" of Andrea Mastrianni A. She notes he moved his family to Schuyler, Herkimer co, NY in 1792, went to the defense of Sackett's Harbor in 1812 with his son John while living in Schuyler. B. Pension file records: "Caine, John/Sophia - New York - and War of 1812 - W#18849 - BLWT 54431-160-55 and BLWT 100-707-40-50 allowed on 1812 service. Utica 12872 - New York 8993- John Caine of Oneida Co., NY who was a pvt. and segt. in the company commanded by Captain Putnam of the Regt. commanded by Col. Willet of the NY ma Line for 5 months as private and 9 months as sgt. - Inscribed on the Roll of NY at the rate of $61.66 per annum to commence 4 Mar 1831. Oneida Co., NY - 10 Sept 1832 appeared John Caine, aged 69 yrs. that he was born at Mohawktown now town Florida, Montgomery Co., NY 10 Dec 1762 has record of age in family Bible. Lived at place of birth when he entered service - since war lived at Camden NY. Mexico NY, Onondago NY, now Rome, Oneida Co., NY that he enlisted at Mohawktown, NY in July 1780 for 5 months ... signed John Caine. Oneida Co., NY - 7 Apr 1855 appeared Sophia Cain aged 88 a resident of Camden, NY that she is a widow of John Caine ... signed by mark of Sophia Cain. Oneida Co., NY - 5 June 1851 appeared Sophia Caine, aged 85 of Camden, NY widow of John Caine a private (substitute) in war with Great Britain 1812 - that he then lived at Herkimer, NY and was discharged at Sackets Harbor on 14 Nov 1814 ... that she was married to John Caine at Schenectady on 8th? January 1785 by Rev. W. Hermoine proof of which is on file at Pension office ... John Caine died at Camden June 7, 1840 ... signed by mark Sophia Caine Herkimer Co., NY - William Cain of Germanflatts, Herkimer Co., NY aged 75 years...well acquainted with John Cain last of Camden, Oneida Co., NY ... that he also knew his wife whose maiden name was Sophia Frederick ... that this deponent was present at their marriage ... signed 10 Sept 1840 by William Cain's mark (William Cain was born 1765-)." BIRTH: 1. The Philip Frederick Mill dates from 1750 according to the New York state historical highway marker sign. Maria Saltz's father lived just down the road. This would help us surmise that all of their children were born at "Millpoint" within the modern boundaries of Florida Township in Montgomery County. Millpoint still shows up on modern-day maps and was probably named after the Frederick Mill. See Philip's notes for more on this mill and its present-day location. MARRIAGE: 1. Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: Book "First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, Records of Marriages, Vol. V, 1785-1938": "John Kaine and Sophia Fredrik, married Mar. 22, 1785, both born and residing in Warrens Borough." 2. Could the Sophia in this record be this same Sophia per "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, unknown, 1917, 748 pp.: Elizabeth, b. 21 Apr, offspring of Cornelius Van Hoorn and Eva Fredrick, baptized 6 Jun 1785 with sponsors John Carl and Sophia Cary. [Could the Carl and Cary be the same surname and actually be Cain or something similar? The original records are extremely difficult to read.] 3. Listed as parents per "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga: now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, unknown, 1917, 748 pp.: John, b. 16 Jun, offspring of John Cain and Sophia Frederik, baptized Jul 1791. DEATH: 1. Per Worldconnect 6 Nov 2007 database "andrea60" of Andrea Mastrianni | Frederick, Sophia (I2151)
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| 7070 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Censuses: 1960 LDS Church, FHL film 471796, May 1960, 1020 Gramercy, Ogden 21st Ward, Lorin Farr Stake: Jack Merlin Petersen, Elder, b. 22 Mar 1932 at Ogden, UT. Irene Lydie Nadia Filonoff De Lanskoy, member, b. 9 Aug 1933 at Nice, France. Kerry Andre Petersen, child, b. 7 Aug 1954 in Ogden, UT. Karen Lorie Petersen, child, b. 9 May 1956 in Ogden, UT. Chris Robert Petersen, child, b. 9 May 1956 in Ogden, UT. Notes previously of Ogden 8th Ward of the Lorin Farr Stake residing at 650 8th St. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Occupation: glass and glazing contractor and owner of retail home decorating business in Anchorage, Alaska. Did glass work on Seattle Washington Temple. 2. The newspaper "The Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner," Tuesday evening, July 29, 1952, p. 7: "Local reservists Take Part In Maneuvers, Big Sea Fair. Eight Utah naval reservists, four of them from Ogden, are participating in full scale sea maneuvers, the world famous Seattle Sea fair and a side trip to Vancouver, B.C., in an adventure which began last Saturday. The Utahns are Wendell A. Farr, 540 8th St.; Joseph A. Graves, SN, 3791 Ogden Ave.; Jack D. Lynch, FA, 590 8th St.; Jack M. Peterson, FA, 650 8th St.; Thomas G. Larsen, SR, Arcadia; Arnold E. Webb, SR, Myton; Franklin D. Spencer, SR, Neolas and Kendall B. Schaefemayer, SR, Roosevelt. Making the trip are 96 naval reserve officers from the 12th naval district, which included northern California, Nevada and Utah. Leave Treasure Island. The reservists left Treasure Island, San Francisco Saturday afternoon aboard the destroyer escorts, U.S.S. George A. Johnson, U.S.S. Grady and U.S.S. Thomas F. Nickel. The three ships were scheduled to rendezvous outside Golden Gate with three similar ships with reservists from the Eleventh naval district. En route to Seattle, the group will conduct battle problems and drills. During the Seattle Sea fair the reservists will join a long line of combat vessels in a salute to the host city of Seattle. Cruisers, destroyers, submarines and amphibious craft will be in the sea parade which will converge at its finish to a point where the ship's crews will march through the streets in a parade. A simulated amphibious assault will be staged against a Seattle park beach. From Seattle, the reservists will make a side trip to Canada and then will return to San Francisco, conducting training and gunnery exercises on the way." 3. The newspaper "The Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner," Sunday evening, November 22, 1959, p. 2C: "Person to Person. From Europe. Good to get back! … Mrs. Jack M. Petersen will arrive home today with her three children, Kerry, and twins, Karen and Chris, to join her husband, after seven months in Europe. Mrs. Petersen, a native of Nice, France, has been there visiting her Russian parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas de Lanskoy, who are now making their home in Nice. It was her first visit home in nine years. Mrs. Petersen came to America is an LDS convert and receive her American citizenship papers four years ago. Mr. Petersen joined his family for a month in the summer and while there he and his family visited in Scotland, England, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany and Denmark. "My wife's mother acted as interpreter," Mr. Petersen said, "as she speaks 14 languages. She was attached to the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., at the time of the Russian revolution." He explained that after the overthrow of the Russian government, Mrs. Petersen's parents were exiled in France and have lived there since." [Kerry's note: Article inaccurate in regards to Irene's correct parents and the number of languages spoken by her mother. Her mother was never married to Mr. Lanskoy; he was a family friend who gave his family name to Irene at her birth. Her mother spoke Russian, German, French, and English.] 4. LDS Priesthood Ordinances and Ordinations (taken from Membership Record): Blessing: 5 Jun 1932 by Elton W. Wardle Baptism: 31 Mar 1940 by Blaine L. Hunter Confirmation: 31 Mar 1940 by Elton W. Wardle Deacon: 27 Aug 1944 by Vernal E. Facer Teacher: 29 Dec 1946 by Archibald O. Hokanson Priest: 27 Apr 1949 by Elton W. Wardle Elder: 2 Jun 1951 by Hershel P. Judd High Priest 25 Sep 1980 by Gary E. Cox 5. Autobiography of Jack Merlin Petersen. Thank you for letting me tell my story. The following is a hodge-podge collection of bits and pieces of notes, quick memories, and copies of our children's school assignments about me and my family history collected over the years. It also includes history and stories about my business. Hopefully, this will be clarified and added to in the future a little at a time. It was suggested and I was able to get started through the prompting of my daughter Karen Jasper and with a lot of help from everybody. It all began in 1932. I, Jack Merlin Petersen, was born March 22, 1932 in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, in the United States of America at the Thomas Dee Hospital on Harrison Blvd. (The hospital has since been demolished.) My mother was Irene Hales, daughter of Charles Henry Hales III and Sarah (Sadie) Catherine Stoker. She was born in Junction City, Piute County, Utah. My father was Paul Franklin Petersen (he went by the name of Frank), son of Peter Petersen and Mary Ann Burnhope. He was born in Ogden, Weber County, Utah. My family has a rich heritage - the very better of two worlds: my wife Irene's European heritage – even though she did not experience it, her ancestors were well-to-do, well-bred and well-educated; my heritage was of pioneers – many living in log cabins with dirt floors and many not reading or writing, but they were very religious and dedicated. I was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but not in the strictest sense as I now understand it as my father was not a member and never joined the Church. My mother was a member, but did not attend church much without Dad being with her. She did teach in the Primary at one time. Also in the church at that time a woman could not enter the Temple for their own endowment without her husband. They were both very supportive. I was a member of the Ogden, Utah, 8th Ward, and Ben Lomond Stake. I received many Aaronic Priesthood Achievement Awards in my youth. I was blessed in the Church on June 5, 1932. I was baptized and confirmed on March 31, 1940, nine days after my eighth birthday. I was ordained a Deacon on August 27, 1944, a Teacher on December 29, 1946, a Priest on April 17, 1949, an Elder on June 2, 1951, and a High Priest on September 25, 1980. I have always thought that going to church was something that you were supposed to do. I introduced myself once in a church talk and I will use some of it here: I believe most of you know me; I am Jack Petersen, a common name, but there aren't very many of my Petersen family around. Truthfully, the name should be Pedersen. This was my grandfather's name when he arrived from Denmark at age nine. He had a younger sister, who never married; she took care of her parents into their old age. So you can all understand that without a husband to take care of, she was able to reach the age of ninety-five and eight months. She must have had an accent, as I learned to call her Ankristine. I was surprised to realize not too many years ago that it wasn't Ankristine but Aunt Christine. I have one sister, Shirley Petersen, married name Dunbar, born on June 10, 1928 in Ogden, Utah. My sister and I were part of a family of nine Petersen and eight Hales cousins. But in that group there were only three Petersen boys -- Sherman, Paul, and I are the only three Petersens in my generation. Paul has since passed away. The names of my cousins are: PeterSEN -- Sherman Carl Petersen, Paul Fredrick Petersen (deceased), Joyce Koepke, LaRay Koepke, Warner Lawrence Hansen (deceased), Keith Richard Shupe, and Carole Patricia Shupe. HALES -- Edward Scott Hales (deceased), Kenneth Lee Hales (deceased), Suzan Hales (deceased), Bonnie Hales, Charles Henry Hales(5th), and Patricia Hatten. My grandfather Peter Petersen was a cowboy and my grandmother's father Thomas Burnhope was also a cowboy; they rode the range together at Promontory, Utah. My Petersen grandparents had five children, four of whom lived. They lived in Utah and I have found or been told that all the children were blessed in the LDS Church – and some were baptized – but something or someone drove them out of the Church. I understand my grandmother took issue with the Church burial procedure at the death of her mother. She left the Church and never spoke thereafter of her brother Isaac, who supported the Church position. All I ever was told was that if I ever met a Burnhope, I would know I was related. I did by chance meet one and became acquainted with two third cousins, Keith and Ken Burnhope. My mother and father knew each other as children since their families had small farms next to each other on Third Street at Five Points in Ogden, Utah. My mother comes from a family of early Mormon pioneers. Her grandfather Charles Henry Hales II and her great grandfather Charles Henry Hales I were polygamous. Her great grandfather with his two wives had 26 children who all lived to adulthood. I have a lot of Hales relatives, even an Apostle. Also, in every major event in Mormon and Utah history, I had a relative present or involved: in the city of Nauvoo, on the covered wagon track, and in the Mormon Battalion with over 14 relatives serving including two grandfathers and a grandmother. Some sailed on the Ship Brooklyn. They lived in the settlements of Pueblo, CO, San Bernardino, CA, Southern Utah, and Northern Arizona. They were involved with the cotton industry, iron mills, the railroad, and many others. My mother had four brothers and one sister: Charles Henry (Jack), Clemont (Mont), Dwayne (Duke), and Doyle, and my Aunt Melba. I loved my uncles. They were very good to me. As I said before, Shirley and I have six cousins on the Hales side of the family. In 2010 it was down to three. My mother and dad built a "honeymoon house" at 650 8th Street in Ogden. It was just a two-room house and they built it themselves before they were married. They married November 19, 1926. I lived in this house throughout my youth. They added onto it a little at a time. I didn't move from this house until I was married in 1952. My parents lived here the rest of their lives. My dad lived at home with his parents while he was building their house. His dad charged him rent for living there, which didn't make dad very happy since it took a lot of his building funds. He said he would never charge his children rent if they lived at home and he never did. I was raised through the Depression years. I had no real understanding of the hardships it caused many -- I was too young. My father worked for George A. Lowe Company, a pioneer, full-line Hardware Company in Ogden, Utah on Wall Ave. and was steadily employed there for 20 years. This company had the first telephone in the state -- a line from their warehouse to their retail store. I do remember Dad going next door to help clean up a chicken coop for a family to move into. They didn't have any other place to live. Perhaps due to the depression there were very few pictures taken in my youth; however, occasionally a photographer would come down the street with ponies and they would have cowboy and cowgirl costumes for the children to put on. They would go door-to-door to see who would like a picture of their children sitting on a pony. I have several pictures of Shirley and myself on these ponies. As a young man, Dad worked for a canning factory making tomato ketchup. (They also made very good pork and beans.) He seemed to have enjoyed that experience. He spoke of it often. I have a picture of him standing by one of the company trucks. I believe the canning factory name was "Pierce." My mother was very neat and clean and hard-working. She would always call us children in and clean us and put fresh clothes on us prior to Father's return from daily work. We always had two meals a day with the family. We always sat down to eat breakfast together and we always had supper together. Mom would have it prepared and on the table by the time my dad came home from work, which was right around 6 o'clock. Dad was always very punctual. Mother always set the table with a tablecloth. We always had home canned fruit on the table along with jam or jelly. Her rule for nutrition was very simple, "Your plate must have three colors of food on it." My dad said it was cheaper to buy good food then it was to pay a doctor. So we ate well. She always thought she was overweight (a Hales' trait) inasmuch as she had copies of all the popular diets of that time. She also wore a house dress during the day, but a corset for dress-up. She liked to read -- especially the stories in romance magazines. As a child, I enjoyed eating the leftovers from my father's lunch box. I now believe that he saved me a half of his jelly sandwich or other treats. I enjoyed waiting on the street corner for my father's return from work. He would let me ride on the running board of our Model A Ford the rest of the way home. My father was industrious and very good with his hands. He did all of his own building and repairs at home. He had a large city lot, which was very well kept. He was very proper and polite. I never heard him tell a joke or an off-colored story. I never heard him swear -- not a word. He was so meticulous that even when he sharpened his wood pencil with a pocketknife, every cut was exactly the same. His pocketknife was always sharp as were all of his other tools and knives. He had little patience with anyone who did not take care of their tools. Dad had beautiful handwriting. Even while working in the warehouse, he kept his shoes shined. He had a shoe shining kit there and in it a brush with letters "WHSE" for warehouse carved in the wooden grip. I have that brush. While working in the warehouse, he always wore a rolled-up black stocking cap, a shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and bibs overall. Dad sometime would have a baseball mitt in his back pocket; they played catch in the parking lot on their lunch break. Dad also played ball at the company picnic; he liked to bunt himself on base. Dad smoked all his life. Through my younger years, he always rolled his own cigarettes. You would always see him with a string and round tag from the "Bull Durham" tobacco sack hanging out of his shirt pocket, western style. I believe that smoking had a lot to do with his early death at age 67. He wouldn't go to a doctor because of the lecture he would get about smoking. At George A. Lowe Hardware, Dad managed the upstairs floor. The warehouse was almost a city block long. I enjoyed visiting there. Grandpa Petersen also worked there in packing and shipping. He would wave to me on my visits. I always snuck a ride down the chute from the second floor to the shipping department and met with him. One of my dad's responsibilities was the ordering of many tons of coal for the heating of the warehouse. I once visited with Dad when he was giving an order to the owner of a coal company. I blurted out something like, "With all the coal that Dad buys from you, you ought to give us coal for our home for free." He said, "I couldn't do that, that's my business." Dad responded to me by saying, "Where do you think the fruit comes from at home for Christmas?" (We always had a case of apples, oranges, or grapefruit under the Christmas tree.) The owner's remark always fascinated me about not giving away for free the actual product that he sold for a living. Irene captured a great photograph of Dad – a very typical one. Dad always wore a white shirt and tie and a pair of western cut pants called "Pinks." He would come home and change into his bib overalls, take off his tie, and would keep the white shirt on. The photograph shows him sitting in the kitchen below a Union Pacific Railroad calendar, which he always used for scheduling. He was holding his glass of beer. His ring with a diamond set in black onyx and watch (both of which I have in my possession) are showing in the picture. Payday was Shirley's and my big day. Dad would bring home a sack full of candy bars, five or six for each of us. He purchased these at Payless drug store, three for a dime. Dad liked licorice. When Shirley started working she would bring home expensive handmade chocolates. Our house was set back deep in the lot, and we had a large grassed front yard with a winding sidewalk to the front door. The front door and entrance had a round top and round glass door window. There was a special curtain for the door made by Mother that gathered to the center. (I now have that curtain – 2012.) Our front yard had five large Rome Beauty apple trees and a large Catalpa tree. I spent a lot of time climbing in the apple trees and picking up fallen apples. I found that with a pointed stick about 18" long, I could stick it into an apple and throw the apple almost a city block. I often cleaned the yard this way. You might wonder what the neighbors thought -- but apples came from such a distance that they could never guess the source! We had a large fruit and vegetable garden in the rear of the house as well as a large chicken coop. Dad kept the garden and the yard immaculate. I was often jealous of the yard because Dad spent so much time in it. I played most of my games at the neighbors because Dad would not let us roughneck in our yard. The garden was irrigated weekly and the irrigation ditch came from the front down the right side of the yard. I spent many hours under the apple trees in the irrigation ditch playing "cars," building roads and garages on its banks with road system surpassing today's freeways. I also did a lot of the irrigating, weeding, and harvesting of our garden. Sometimes it got pretty hot though. Every spring a farmer would bring a team of horses down the street soliciting work at plowing your garden spot. Dad used their services sometimes, but most of the time we hand-spaded it ourselves. The city would grade the dirt street in front of our house. They used a road grader that looked a lot like the ones used today but a team of horses pulled these; it was also oiled yearly. In the garden, we had all types of fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, black caps, dewberries, gooseberries, currants – red, black, and yellow – rhubarb, cherries (white Queen Ann canning cherries; our red Bing cherry tree died), peaches, pears, and many varieties of grapes. We had two walnut trees – Black and English. We would also always raise carrots, peas, radishes, onions – both green and seed – corn, tomatoes, green peppers, and "grass peas." The "grass peas" seed originally came from Denmark and was brought over by my great grandfather. They resembled and were used like Lima beans. They were cooked with a ham hock. I still have a few of these seeds. They were very tasty. My grandfather, Peter Petersen, with a "sen" in the name, came with his parents at the age 9 from Denmark. I have always believed his dream was to travel, which you didn't do much in those days. I now believe he did this thru reading his National Geographic magazines. He always had a stack of them. He gave me one of his old books, a large old book, which I still have: "Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928." I spent a lot of good times working with my father in the garden. I also helped my mother can the fruit and vegetables. We always had over 200 quarts of tomatoes at the end of the season, along with peaches, pears, apricots, and cherries. I remember working the cherry pitter with juice running down my arms and off my elbows. My favorite was canned apricots with pineapple chunks and apricot jam with apricot nuts. I would crack the nuts. We also put up a lot of grape juice. Thinking of irrigating, every spring the neighbors would form a work party and we would cut the weeds out of the canals. I still remember the smell of the weeds and the spearmint that grew along the ditch bank just like "herb tea." (Is that why I have never liked it?) My father taught me the use of tools and being in the hardware business he always had the newest tools available. He taught me to make repairs properly and not just to do a quick fix. My Uncle Mont had the reputation of wiring and taping things together -- I was told to do it right and not like "Mont." I helped my father mix his own house paint – white lead, linseed oil, and turpentine. He taught me how to hold a paintbrush and how to work the paint into the wood. Dad would save the salvaged wooden shipping crates at the Lowes' warehouse. When he had a big enough pile, he would have their truck deliver it home. It was my job to pull, straighten, and save all the nails, then cut the wood up for firewood. The crates were made out of cheap hardwood and I used a carpenter handsaw to cut them up. This was hard work. I don't think I ever used a new nail until I was out of high school. Spring was greeted with the ladies on the street putting scarves on their heads and with an apron over their house dress and armed with a stepladder, brushes, and a bucket full of hot soapy water, they would handwash the outside of their houses, Chickens were a major part of my youth: feeding, caring for, egg gathering, and butchering. In the spring we would have the little chicks around a light bulb in the basement, later in the back of garage. Dad liked Leghorns (white eggs) and Grandpa Petersen liked Rhode Island Reds (brown eggs) and the two discussed quite often the virtues of each breed of chicken. I have learned that the world record for egg production is held by a White Leghorn that laid 371 eggs in 365 days. My mother would gather the eggs and sell the surplus for her kitchen money. I can remember the Metropolitan Insurance salesman coming weekly for the $1.00 premium for the insurance policy for Shirley's and my education. Mom would have to make sure she had her eggs sold for this payment, as well as for our monthly church fast offering envelope. Chicken was a main dish at home with the spring fryers as one of my favorite. When they were large enough, they would be split in half and fried, and I would get a whole half chicken. Mother made great fried chicken, as did my Grandmother Hales! The older hens were used for stewing with homemade hand-cut noodles. I remember many times hearing my dad tell my mother that the egg production was down and it was time for him to go talk to the chickens again. He would go to the coop, sit on his haunches, and talk to them. He told the chickens that if they didn't start laying more eggs some of them would lose their heads. While doing this he would have a chance to feel the underside of the individual hens and pick out a few that were barren, these are the ones that got their heads cut off. The egg production would increase almost overnight while we had chicken and noodles for supper. The family rule was if you did not know what to feed Frank, fry him two eggs. Dad always tried to raise pigs as he did in the earlier days. He would wash down the pens daily and handwash the pigs, but the neighbors would always report him for keeping pigs. The city was being built up around us and it was against the city ordinances. As I said earlier, my father was not a member of the LDS Church. I do not know how serious he was but he said that if he had to join a church, it would be the Catholic Church. He said this is because when he was young he used to sell newspapers. He would always go over to the Catholic Church when there was a mass to sell newspapers. The members would be in a good mood after church and be very kind, so they bought lots of his newspapers -- so he thought the Catholic Church was all right. There were a lot of experiences with the Mormon missionaries trying to convert him. He was always fair game for any new missionaries that came around. Their challenge was to "go over and convert Frank Petersen." He was always polite, but he teased them -- he liked to tease (a Petersen trait). One time they asked him what religion he belonged to. He said, "The Salvation Army." The two sister missionaries said, "That's not a religion." Dad replied, "It is, and it's a very popular Protestant religion," which it is. They came back 30 days later after they had spent all their free time studying the Salvation Army religion. They asked him questions about the religion and of course he knew nothing about it. He was very quiet that evening. Our earlier Bishop was Roland Peterson. According to dad, Shirley got special attention until the membership realized she was not his daughter, and then it all stopped -- wrong Peterson We were members of the Ogden 8th Ward, Ben Lomond Stake. The church was on 7th street and Adam. The church building was dated with reddish brown brick, and was a story and half tall, with the congregation area on the upper floor and the classrooms in the daylight basement. It had tall, wide concrete steps in front up to a porch and double entrance doors. Primary was on Wednesday afternoon. On that day, I hurried from school to the church – first one there put a stick through door handles and was the guardian of the doors. I liked that assignment. The congregation area had a wooden floor with moveable chairs. On one end there was a full stage with curtain and on the other end the speaker's pulpit with the choir setting. The chairs would be turned around as needed or moved to the side for dances and other activities. I remember on hot summer days I would stand at door and pass out paper fans with wooden handle. I don't know the circumstances but after 20 years at Lowe's Dad quit one day, got drunk, and threw away his lunch bucket, as he was never going to work again. About three weeks later he went to work for Sears & Roebuck Co. Sears was located on the main street, Washington Boulevard, close to 22nd Street with the warehouse on the street behind. It was next door to the American Food Store where I worked. There was a little desk over in one corner where they were starting to sale insurance. The sign read "All-State." They also sold a small car called "The All-State." It was actually a "Henry J" made by Kaiser-Frazer Motor Company with a Sears's nameplate. Dad started in the warehouse, then sold farm machinery, and then worked in the retail store in the hardware department. He worked there for another 20 years until his retirement. I don't have a clear memory of this; however, Lowe's opened up a small satellite retail store called Riteway Hardware. Dad was involved with the operation and worked there. When they decided to sell the store, I was in high school. I did my best to try to talk him into buying it so that we could work together. This didn't happen. It was sold to another Lowe's employee, Mr. Sorenson. My sister Shirley worked for him for some time. My favorite dessert was Hasty Pudding (sometimes called "Poor Man's Pudding"). Ingredients: 2 cups water, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 cup sugar, ½ cup of milk, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp butter, 1 cup of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder. Boil water, sugar, vanilla and 1 tsp butter together. While this is boiling, cream the remaining ingredients into a batter. Then fold in 1/2 cup of raisins and nuts, dropping by tablespoon in the boiling mixture. Then bake for 1/2 hour at 375 degrees. Black walnuts are the best to use in this recipe. Cracking and cleaning them was my job. I also liked egg-less cake, sometimes called "Depression cake," with white frosting. During the Depression, eggs and shortening were very expensive and this cake needed none. My dad was also able to "water witch" using a forked stick to find ground water. By holding the forked stick overhand with each hand over the individual forks, then spreading the forks and rolling both hands under and up between the forks until the knuckles faced each other, and then pulling back and again spreading the forks, the front of the stick (the "pointer") would turn down toward the ground if water was present. He would team up with an acquaintance from work. Dad would locate the water and while holding the willow over his knees; his partner would count the pulsations of the willow to determine the depth to the water. I never saw the friend do his thing, but I saw Dad locate water many times. When I was in the eighth grade, my science teacher said that there was no such thing as the gift of water witching. I told this to my dad and so he took me out front of the house and cut a green forked stick from the apple tree and told me to hold it properly over a known underground stream. Nothing happened! He put his hand on my shoulder and the forked stick began to move and scared me to a point that I dropped it. I picked it up again and told myself that there was no way I was going to get fooled. I gripped tightly on the stick, my dad put his hand on my shoulder and it again began to turn down with such force that it twisted the bark off in my hands. There was a drought in the area for several years and many of the neighbors hand dug wells for themselves. There was an underground stream that came down the street and crossed under our front yard. They would tap into this stream. One of our neighbors, the Wardles (he later became my bishop) four lots west of us down the street, wanted Dad to locate water on his property. Dad and his friend searched diligently and could not locate this stream on his property. Brother Wardle had no choice but to dead-reckon a location by sighting a line between a well west and a well east of his property and he hand dug very deep but never found water. Later, that boarded up dry well hole was always a concern to our parents when we played in the area. In recalling a few of my funniest memories, I will relate a few. There are only two ways to sweep with a straw-broom; turn the broom sideways for a wide stroke or endways for narrow power stroke. Once in my youth I was busy sweeping and my father put his hand on my shoulder and told me to turn the broom because I was sweeping like a woman. (You could say things like than then.) It is terrible how we forget the important lessons in life when we get older. I can't remember which way he had then told me to sweep. I may have spent my whole life sweeping like a woman. I am also told that a woman sweeps toward herself and a men sweeps away. One other was when my mother chased me up the apple tree with a willow switch in her hand. She then pulled up a chair and sat at the base of the tree until my father came home. I did not know until that day that my dad could climb apple trees. I remember when I had made a successful raid on the neighbor's melon patch with an armful of cantaloupes. I knew how much my dad enjoyed them, so I burst into our house shouting: "Dad would you like some melons I just stole?" To my horror, there sat the ward teachers from the church. One of them was a counselor in the Bishopric who owned the melon patch. My dad surveyed the embarrassment and calmly received the cantaloupes, sliced them and served the stolen bounty to all. I remember as a child when both of our parents were working. My sister and I had chores to do when we got home from school. One of these chores was to light a fire in the kitchen range, to have it ready to cook supper and also work as a heater to warm the house. Many times we would argue over whose turn it was to light the fire and our folks would find us huddled in blankets in a cold, dark house. Supper was delayed on those evenings, if we got any at all. I slept on a fold-down couch in the kitchen in our little two-room house. Our house was well-built and in bad weather the neighbors would spend the night with us. One night the wind was blowing very hard and the neighbors came over to stay with us as their houses were built on wood foundations and they could feel the wind begin to lift their houses. I remember waking up finding their kids in bed with me. Ogden experienced a lot of heavy winds called "Easterners" or "Mountain Wind." I came home from elementary school one day and the wind was so strong we had to walk backwards against the wind or it would suck our breath away. I found our large chicken coop had been picked up and turned upside down. Dad rebuilt the coop but only half the size. One of my earliest recollections was our outhouse. We had a very nice two-holer. It sat in the back of the garage. It was so nice that the neighbors would often use it. I would occasionally find one sitting sound asleep. I am told that I was frightened of teddy bears. I was even frightened of the closet where they were kept. I had pure white hair and was called "Cotton-top" by the relatives. I also wore bib overalls and tennis shoes. I was told that one day I got lost. The whole neighborhood was out looking for me. Everybody was getting very panicky. I was found still asleep in my bed. I had rolled over against the wall. We bathed in a tin tub on the kitchen floor and the water was heated in a tea kettle on the coal-burning range. Mother always rinsed our hair with vinegar water. Our two-room house was enlarged first with a closed porch off the kitchen and a half basement, then two bedrooms and a bath in the rear. This was done about the time that I was 7 or 8 years of age. There was a stairway leading up into a large attic. This was to be my bedroom but it never came about. I remember watching the basement being dug out from under the house. It was done with a team of horses and a scoop. They would back the horses under the house and pull out a scoop full of dirt. My weekly allowance was 25 cents. It was saved and spent on Saturday. It cost me 5 cents for the bus to town, 10 cents for a movie ticket – this covered the cost of a double feature movie, two cartoons, and a news reel – 5 cents for a the bus fare home, and 5 cents for a candy bar. I liked the cowboy movies and there were a lot of them. The good guys wore white hats; the bad guys wore black ones. Sometimes I would buy two candy bars and walk home, about four miles. If I ever had an extra dime, I would buy a comic book. Shirley was into "Big Little Books." They were about three inches square and one inch or so thick. No matter where I walked, I would always try to find a short cut. This was quite easy because there were walkways along the irrigation ditches (they had to have public access to the ditches). In most cases these "short cuts" probably took longer to get home. Isn't that the way all short cuts are! "Budget Cards": The LDS Church used to assign each family a portion of the ward budget. When this was paid, a "budget card" was issued. The card was used for admission to all church activities. It was important to me as a youth as the 21st Ward had a movie every Friday night. The ward was only a few shortcuts away from home. One of my favorite short cuts was to walk on a trail called lover's lane, which skirted around a hill and the lower edge of the old Ogden Pioneer Cemetery. There was no concern with walking this way in the daytime, "But at night, never!" One time I was late getting out from a movie and it was getting dark. The fog was rolling up the trail from the Ogden River. With the darkness, the cemetery, the fog, and the howling dogs, I was pretty spooked. In my earlier years, we did a lot of camping. If a camping trip was planned, Mom would always fry up a bunch of chicken to take along and boy was it good. Nothing like what we eat today. Camping and fried chicken were some of my favorite things. In most instances, Dad would come home from work on Friday and decide to spend the weekend camping. We would fill up the back seat of our Model A Ford, and then Shirley and I would ride on the top of the bedding, which was great fun. In most of those trips, we experienced two or three flat tires, which was common. Dad always carried a jack, a hand pump, a tire iron, and a box of patches. I can still remember him walking across the field with an inner tube in one hand and a pump in the other heading for a creek to find the leak. Most of our camping trips were up Ogden Canyon and into South Fork. We always stopped at "The Oaks" for a treat on the way home. It was usually pink "Mother Goose Popcorn," which came with a surprise in the box or maybe a box of "Cracker Jacks." The LDS Church had a large picnic park in the canyon; it was used for outings. I remember it well; at one outing I walked by a large table with three or four large milk cans on it. One was marked butter milk; I poured myself a paper cup full – "Yuck! now I know what butter milk is." I have now learned to like it. On one of these trips, we found a very nice campsite. Someone had left in a hurry. There was a watermelon in the creek and firewood gathered, cut, and neatly stacked. Dad would make our bed by laying a mattress and bedding on a canvas ground cloth. Mom and Dad would sleep on the sides with us two kids in between. That night Mom awakened with a start. She had felt a cold nose in her hand. She woke in time to see a mountain lion run away into the brushes. Dad rolled up the bedding with us kids still in it, loaded up the car, and we were gone. Shirley had a very bad case of hay fever one year, which was relieved in the canyon. So we lived in a tent in the canyon all summer and Dad commuted to work. These trips stopped when the car broke down and you could not get replacement parts through the war years. Even if it hadn't broken, we could not have gotten gas due to the rationing of gas, tires, and batteries. How I miss these trips. This was devastating for a young fellow not to be able to go back into the mountains that I loved so much. I remember traveling to Logan once on a bus and to Salt Lake City several times riding on the Bamberger Electric Railroad, which ran between those cities at that time. We would always visit the State Capitol. I liked to see the "Mormon Meteor," the fastest car in the world at the time. It was on display there. It set world records on the Salt Flats. I remember my dad taking my Grandpa Peter Petersen to Montana looking for the old ranch where he worked. I don't remember the trip but I do remember the valley that he pointed out. I discovered a full skeleton of a deer or maybe a sheep that I found interesting and a bit scary. On another trip my Aunt Melba was with us. Dad parked the car and I took off up the steep hill. Melba yelled at me, "Don't go up there, the jackrabbits will get you!" I didn't know what a jackrabbit was. I turned and tumbled down the hill. I must have been a boob. Melba was my aunt, my mother's only sister, and the youngest child in her family. She was a redhead and covered with freckles. I always blamed her for my freckles. She was a California girl and always dressed the part – always wearing Bermuda shorts. Melba lived with my family on 8th Street in Ogden after her high school graduation. In 1938-39 she had graduated in the first class from the new million-dollar Ogden High School built with PWA funds -- it actually cost $1,200,000. She worked as a telephone operator. The waiting time to have a home telephone was over a year. But as she was on call, we had a phone immediately. When she left our home, the phone left too. The Palmer family lived four houses up the street from ours. They made excellent homemade candy and supplied the neighborhood around the holidays. I played with their kids. We liked to put on plays. We used their single car garage as our stage, hung a blanket over the doorway as our curtain, and set chairs in the driveway. We charged the neighborhood kids a button or two or a marble to see our performance. I also remember the Palmer's clothesline always lined up with long underwear. This was strange even in those days. I was a senior in high school when my girlfriend told me that Mormons in good standing wore undergarments. I recall saying, "Not me!" One day the young Palmer boy met me on the sidewalk in front of our house. He was showing off two new cap pistols – replicas of a pirate's muskets with two hammers and two triggers on each. He handed one to me for my inspection. It was a nice gun. As I examined it, he asked for it back. I told him to give me a minute, but he then grabbed for it and knocked it out of my hand. It fell and broke on the sidewalk. He ran crying home and apparently told his mother that I had taken it away from him and thrown it on the sidewalk. The mother came charging down to our house and ran into my hot-tempered redheaded Aunt Melba. This caused a rift between the families that never did heal. Several years later, I was walking past their house and the same boy came charging out of his house right through the screen door with his hair and clothing on fire. I tackled him and rolled him around in the newly cut grass and patted him down with the wet grass. His mother, not aware of the crisis, walked from behind the house carrying a straw broom. She apparently saw what looked like me beating up her son. She came a running and broke the broom handle over my back. I got up and walked away. Later she was very apologetic. My Uncle Doyle was the only one to graduate from college in the family. He was called into the service as a Captain in the coast artillery in Panama throughout the duration of the war. He met and married a nurse there, Margaret Scott. She was once a Catholic nun. They had only one child, my cousin Ed Hales. She died shortly after his birth from cancer. My Uncle Jack was drafted. He was "Big Jack" and I was "Little Jack." He sent home for a copy of his birth certificate. When he received it, it had the name Charles Henry on it. He sent it back telling his mother that she had sent his Dad's certificate. He did not know until that time that his name was Charles Henry (III). He named his fourth child Charles Henry also. He had three small children when he was drafted. My dad and mother gave his family a lot of assistance at that time. They repaid them later by giving us a lot of help and gifts for our children. My uncle Jack did not serve in combat. In 1957, I attended the funeral of my Uncle Duke (Dwayne Hales), who lived in Pasadena, California. The family went by caravan from Ogden. Irene was not able to go because of the young children. My uncle's wife was Beatrice "Bea" Hales. She was a very nice lady and they had no children. She worked in the Sears headquarters, which was in Pasadena. As my dad also worked at Sears, they had something in common. I'm told she remarried and was living in Las Vegas. She has since passed away. My mother was very protective. As I understand, when she was a child living in North Ogden, she was rabbit hunting with a young boy with a .22 rifle and there was an accident and the boy shot himself and died in her arms -- so she was extremely scared of guns. I wasn't allowed to have a gun. I was a very disappointed Scout when my parents would not sign the release to target shoot at the firing range at scout camp. When my troop would go to the shooting range, I was restricted to our cabin. Later, when Mother visited our house, we had to put away all the kid's toy guns as they upset her too much. My dad did have a .22 rifle that I was able to use when I was older. I used it to rabbit hunt which I enjoyed. I got my first gun when I graduated from high school, an Ithaca 12 gauge shotgun which I still own. I now have Dad's .22 Rifles; it is a model 62A Winchester pump. I also wasn't allowed to have a bike until I was almost 15. I was more interested in cars by then. I kind of resented that. I did put a lot of miles on that bicycle though. I was riding down a hill on my bike and a big dog came out of a driveway – yes, a big dog. He got me on the leg and I crashed into a barbed-wire fence. It was a nasty wound. My uncles got out their guns and were going to shoot the dog but this was stopped. The wound became infected. I remember the doctor putting some type of acid on it to burn out the infection. I had another injury in my youth. My mother and I were in a five-and-dime store. I was looking at toys. Glass divider strips were used to separate the toys. My mother said, "Let's go." I did not want to. As she pulled me, I grabbed onto one of the strips and my finger was sliced open. The store doctor wasn't very sober when he stapled my finger back together. Fridays were garbage pick-up days. We would ride our bikes around and pick up magazines. Life and Look Magazines were our favorites. We would then sit on our front lawns and cut out pictures and articles that would interest us. Lots of war stuff. We pasted them into scrapbooks. I still have two of those scrap books – I still like to cut and paste. I liked helping my mother with her housework. I especially liked to put the clothes through the washing machine ringer. Our big day came when our Twin Dexter arrived. The Twin Dexter was a two-tub washing machine. One tub always had Stewart Bluing in the water. When I hung the clothes on the outside line, my mother made sure that like items and sizes were hung together neatly with as few clothes pins as possible. We didn't have many. Whites with whites hung first, shirts by the tail, never by the shoulders. Our clothesline ran from the back of the garage to the front of the chicken coop. We had four lines with a supporting post in the middle. You had to wash the lines before hanging any clothes, walking the length of each line with a damp cloth. My mother did a lot of fine needlework, tatting, crocheting, and embroidery. We still have some of her pieces. It was my job to tear strips of overalls and other items for the rag rugs. Mother ironed everything – shirts, pants, dresses, towels, bed sheets, pillowcases, handkerchiefs – everything. Of course, fabrics were not the same then as they are today. She had a system to fold the item as she ironed and did both sides at the same time. She taught me how to iron a shirt, which process I still use today – first the collar both sides, the yoke both sides, both sleeves, the body right to left, then touch up the collar & yoke. Through my younger years my mother was always home. She did work out of the home only at harvest time. She would work in the canning factory. She was paid by the piece and did quite well especially processing tomatoes. I remember her coming home in the evening with her hands cut and wrapped with tape, cut by the sharp spoon-shaped tomato knife. The money she made all went for the household extras and furnishings. While she was working, I some time stayed with my Grandma Hales. A daily train went past her house on 16th Street and up Ogden Canyon. It was a great sport to smash pennies and other items on the track. I came down with the chicken pox at Grandma's house and the house was quarantined and I couldn't go home. They posted a "Quarantined" sign on the house. I have also had red measles and mumps. I was quarantined at home for those also. Shortly after the war started, Mother went to work for the Civil Service as a clerk at the 2nd Street Ordinance Depot in Ogden, Utah. She later, after an illness, transferred to Hill Field Air Force Base. She would have her hair done so she always looked very nice. She had beautiful white hair. I remember my dad and mother discussing if he should quit his civilian job and go to work at the higher paying government defense work. He rationalized that after the war those bases would all be closed and everyone would be looking for a job and jobs would be hard to find. Of course, this didn't happen. Most bases are still open. There was a prisoner-of-war camp located in the Second Street Ordinance Depot in Ogden with mostly Italian prisoners and a few German prisoners. They made a lot of trinkets for sale – especially out of U.S. silver coins. I remember once when my father was preparing to do some concrete work and he knew of a location in the rear of the yard that would yield fine pea gravel. He offered me five dollars if I would dig down and uncover it. I dug and picked for a week after school in the hot sun and I finally gave up. My dad spent another 15 minutes and moved a couple of inches of dirt and found what he was looking for. I learned here a lesson of perseverance and enduring to the end. Remembering that lost five dollars has spurred me on to complete many dreaded projects. I was always quite industrious selling greeting cards door-to-door in the fall, gardening seeds in the spring, and shoveling snow. The inventory came from ads that used to appear in comic books. However, my best product was black walnuts. I would clean and rake the neighbor's yards for an exchange of their fallen walnuts. I would husk them and bag them and sell them door-to-door, pulling them in my red wagon. This lasted until I was old enough to pick fruit. I could make more money picking cherries than any other type of fruit. I would enter the orchard with a bus load of pickers. By mid-morning many of them would have twice the cherries turned in than I would. But by the end of the day I would be the top picker and I learned there that it was best to set a pace and stay with it to the end. In the long run you would accomplish more. I used some of this money for the down payment for my first car, the green Chevrolet. I hated picking raspberries. Their bushes were always full of stinkbugs. I look at raspberries today even in the stores and still smell those little green guys. I also received a lesson when I was working for a farmer planting celery. Utah celery was in high demand as it was whiter than most. I was being paid very little by the hour. It didn't take me long to realize that the more hours you worked, the more money you made. So I was working 12 to 14 hours a day. The farmer called me to the side and said that I was foolish. He said that I soon would burn myself out and lose interest in the job. He said that in the long run I would make more money if I set a more reasonable pace. I shrugged this off and continued the long hours. But, as he said, I get so tired that I lost interest and quit. The others on the crew worked the reasonable shift and completed the project and made much more money than I did. This was a lesson I learned but have never totally been able to apply. I have continued to work long hours. Maybe I am still looking for the five dollars I lost before. I also hoed sugar beets. The rows were long and the sun was hot. You worked with a short hoe with a three-foot long handle. So you worked bent over. I also worked in the onion fields. We crawled down the rows and cut off the tops just before they were dug up. I also worked in the peonies fields. We "budded" the plants, cutting off all the little buds and leaving only the biggest ones. This was done in spring so it was not so hot. I received my first steady job at the age of 14 at the American Food Stores as a box boy, working there full and part-time for six years. I worked in the groceries but mostly with produce. The store and company no longer exists. I liked the grocery business. It was exciting. Every week we had a new challenge, a new promotion, and new displays. You could see very quickly what worked and what didn't. I also made good friends with our customers. The railroad pay day was our big weekend. I worked so hard as a box boy on those weekends, I couldn't sleep at night. The store closed on Sundays, so on Saturday nights the employees could buy a big bag of bakery goods for a dollar. I would take one home for my folks. I also saved the blemished citrus fruit for them. Dad would buy them at a special price for juice. Also, Hi-C canned fruit juice was a family favorite. I also worked with a milkman delivering milk on a route. I felt I had made quite an accomplishment when I could carry two full milk bottles in each hand. I was taught how to fold a paper airplane by an older boy sitting on the high exterior steps of Lincoln Elementary School. I had just finished my first plane when he had a seizure and rolled down the steps. That was the first seizure I had ever seen. It wasn't a good experience. I still make this paper plane and every time I do, I think of him. During the time dad worked at Lowe's, the owner's family stored some of their personal belongings at the Lowe's warehouse. Some had been there for many years. To get rid of them, they put them up for auction to the employees. Dad bought a large trunk for a few dollars, sight unseen. We opened it at home. It was full of old fashioned clothes, an old set of small blue encyclopedia books, dishes, and lots of Christmas ornaments. It was great fun; we kids used the clothes for dress up. Mentioning encyclopedias, our family had a set of "Book of Knowledge" which I really enjoyed. They had a lot of fairy tales in them, which I had not yet seen elsewhere. They also had pictures and articles of many places that were "a must to see." I remember in particular a picture of a Model T Ford parked in front of one of the windows of Zion's National Park tunnel. Also Lake Louise, Canada, Crater Lake, Oregon, Carlsbad Caverns, and many other sights. I believe I have now personally visited them all. On December 7, 1941, I was lying on my folk's bed with my mother and we were reading the Sunday funny papers. That was fun as the bed always had a feather tick on it. A neighbor, a friend of Shirley's, ran over to our house and announced that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor and a war was beginning. We all rushed to the radio for more information. I was nine years old at the time. I believe that I had a very normal childhood until the war started. The war years used rationing coupons for gasoline, sugar, coffee, shoes and other items. Food stamps were also used. The lowest priority of gasoline rationing was 3 gallons per week. There were war bond drives – even in schools where the kids could buy stamps of a small denomination, glue them into a book, and exchange the full book for a bond. There were salvage drives for newspapers, old rubber tires, and scrap metal. We even saved tin foil from packages and gum wrappers. We would form them into a ball sometimes as large as a softball. These would be all turned in. We also harvested milkweed cotton for life preservers. We were paid quite well for these salvage items. The family automobile was a Model "T" Ford, which I don't remember. It was replaced with a Model "A" Ford. Shortly after the beginning of the war, our beloved Model "A" Ford broke down and parts were not available to repair it. We did not have another car for seven years until Dad's purchase of a 1946 Plymouth Club Coupe in 1949. Dad purchased it from my new brother-in-law Bob Dunbar. After the war, veterans had priority in buying new cars; Bob was able to buy the Plymouth as he served in the Navy. Bob sold his Plymouth to dad and bought a new Chevrolet. I had always thought that this Chevrolet was a wedding gift from his folks, but I have been corrected. Without an automobile for seven years, it stopped my love for camping, fishing and hunting, which I never picked up again in my later years, which I now regret. About the same period, our radio died and we couldn't get it repaired. There were very few radio tubes available, and you couldn't buy a new radio. A friend of Dad's tried to wire around the missing tubes, but this didn't last long. So throughout the war I used a crystal set with earphones. With it I could pick up only one station – Ogden's KLO. A crystal set was more of a toy. It had a wire coil and a wire came out of the end of the coil, which was called a "cat whisker." You needed a long aerial of maybe 100 feet or more. By touching a rock crystal with the cat whisker you could pick up a radio wave and hear it on the earphones. You couldn't get any other volume. A dry-cell battery powered it. I haven't seen one of these for a long time. It was about 5" tall and maybe 2 ½" in diameter. I would listen to programs like the Lone Ranger, Terry and the Pirates, I Love a Mystery, Captain Midnight, the Shadow, the Saint, and others. Now back to our little house. There was no heat in the back bedroom so a blanket would be hung across the hallway. The sewer line came out the back of the house at a depth of about four feet. It ran along and out from the back, down the east side of the house, and out to the street. The connection there was about 12 feet deep. The total run was about 250 feet. Dad hand dug the trench, laid the pipe, and hand filled it by himself. He tunneled under all the apple tree roots As I said before, our hot water came from a teakettle heated on the kitchen range. We advanced to a kitchen range with a water jacket built in with a hot water tank next to it. When the basement was completed, we had running hot water heated by a monkey stove (a small coal-fired stove with a water jacket and tank next to it). I later used this little stove as a temporary heater in the house I was building. A few years later, we installed a coal stoker and hot air furnace in our basement and had for the first time central heating throughout the house. As we grew older, Shirley took over the bedroom and Dad remodeled the back porch into a very small bedroom for me. I collected automobile pictures of 1946 to 1948 vintages and hung them all over my room. I hung my model airplanes from the ceiling. I enjoyed drawing pictures of planes and carving them out of pine blocks. I still bear scars on my hands from the knife. One of my original planes is a dead ringer to the F15 that flies today. Our family enjoyed the holidays. We always had Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa Hales' home on 16th street in Ogden, where an old-fashioned country dinner was prepared. I remember the mashed potatoes and gravy the most and also the white cake. My grandpa would always pour milk on his cake making it more like a pudding. Bread and milk was common at the Hales as well as milk toast (two pieces of toast with hot milk, a chunk of butter, and salt and pepper). Christmas dinner was always served at Grandpa and Grandma Petersen's on Madison Street. I would have to leave my Christmas toys behind at home much to my dislike. We would leave at about one o'clock for their house. On Christmas morning the type of gifts I would generally get were Tinker Toys, Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs, microscopes, chemistry sets, and games such as Checkers, Chinese Checkers, Monopoly, and Pit. It would always seem like the uncles and aunts would get together and send me the same gift. One year it might be all pocket knives or wallets or belts. My Aunt Melba's gifts were always wrapped very elaborately. My biggest disappointment was when I reached the age my uncles and aunts stopped giving gifts. I remember Grandma Petersen with her long white hair always rolled into a bun on top of her head. She was prim and proper and had blue eyes. There we would have a second Christmas and we had a gift exchange with our relatives on that side of the family. Their home was at 2264 Madison Avenue in Ogden; it was built in the 1800's and four generations of my family have lived in it. (It was demolished in 2010.) My cousins Warner, Joyce, and LaRae were good friends. I was always surprised of the different types of toys they enjoyed such as a toy working typewriter, lead soldiers, a casting set for melting lead, and other items. Dinner would be more continental than country. Plum pudding was always a treat as it was served flaming when brought in by Grandma Petersen. Grandpa Petersen also kept a very neat garden and chickens. He didn't have as many flowers as Dad did. My favorite thing other than the chickens was his Mulberry tree. I liked to climb the tree and eat the berries. He had a small dirt cellar under the house with access through a floor trap door located in the enclosed rear porch. The cellar was always full of home canned jars of peaches, pears, jams and jellies neatly placed on wooden shelves grandpa built and wood kindling very neatly stacked, chopped and ready to set morning fires. Grandma only burned wood in her big black kitchen range. She said it cooled down faster than coal when she was through cooking. On the porch was the ice-box that was filled each week with a chunk of ice. I remember the bath room with it claw-footed bathtub. I locked myself in there once. Grandpa had a fancy wind-up clock hanging on a kitchen wall that I liked. Grandma had a piano that she played. She gave me my one and only piano lesson by showing me how to play a few keys. The piano sat in the small living room along with a coal stove (with isinglass in the door) with a coal bucket and shovel. The wall behind the piano had a narrow set of stairs leading to the upstairs bed rooms. Sometimes I would go with Dad to visit Grandpa Petersen. They would sit in the kitchen and talk and have a glass of his homemade wine. I would get a taste once in a while. The first Christmas I remember was in our own family's two-room house. I remember my fold-down bed was in the kitchen and Dad had built me a windmill out of Tinker Toys, which I was very proud of. He had gone outside and shook some sleigh bells and then told me that Santa Claus was outside and if I didn't go to sleep he wouldn't come in. I dozed off very quickly. Dad would buy the tree and string the lights, then us kids took over and decorated the tree. We used the old-fashioned ornaments from Dad's old trunk, strings of popcorn, cranberries, and colored-paper chains. As a kid, we played a lot of tag games. One was called "Round-up." The first one caught in the previous game was "it." He would chase after the others. If he captured or tagged one, he became his helper and chased after the others that weren't tagged. This game ranged over miles through barns, over hay stacks, and over roofs of chicken coops. It was an all-out war. "Kick the Can." A can would be placed under an "arc" (or street) light and the person that was "it" had to protect the can as well as jump over the can to tag someone. The person that was "it" would find a player and race him to the can. He would yell "over the can for the player and identify him by name." If he was beat to the can and it was kicked, the kicker was free as well as any other players that had been caught and were waiting in prison. We played marbles, usually the traditional knock the marble out of the circle – but my favorite was "holies." You would dig 4 holes about the size of a cup about 5 feet apart at the corners forming a square. Another hole would be dug in the center. It would look something like a baseball diamond. You would each put several marbles in the center of the hole and this would be the pot to win. You would lag to a line drawn in the dirt for position of turn. The person closest to the line was the first and so on. The first person would start from the first hole. You could take a hand span (thumb in the bottom of the hole and make a radius with the finger) and shoot from anywhere within the radius to the next hole. When you reached a hole you had a second turn. The next player would shoot the same way and attempt to hit his marble for a repeat turn and to knock him out of the playing field similar to croquet. If you could span into your hole another marble, you would have three tries to knock it out of the hole. If you were able to, you got your next hole free. You would always try to knock your competitor's marble into the center hole. This would kill him or yourself if you went in. You traversed the square three times and then you would shoot to the center hole and be made a king. You would then attempt to hit the other players' marbles. A touch from the king would kill the player. The last one alive took the pot. The marble that the individual shot with was called the "ta." We took great pride in this marble. Of course we played "hide and seek" also. If you had an "arc" light in front of your house, you were the most popular kid in the neighborhood. Kids don't play outside like this anymore. When my dad would call for me to come in for the night, he would put his two little fingers to his lips and whistle. I could hear him from a long ways away. I played checkers and Chinese checkers with Dad. He taught me some of the basics. We kids also played Monopoly for hours. I grew up always having | Petersen, Jack Merlin (I3219)
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| 7071 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Censuses: 1960 LDS Church, FHL film 471796, May 1960, 1020 Gramercy, Ogden 21st Ward, Lorin Farr Stake: Jack Merlin Petersen, Elder, b. 22 Mar 1932 at Ogden, UT. Irene Lydie Nadia Filonoff De Lanskoy, member, b. 9 Aug 1933 at Nice, France. Kerry Andre Petersen, child, b. 7 Aug 1954 in Ogden, UT. Karen Lorie Petersen, child, b. 9 May 1956 in Ogden, UT. Chris Robert Petersen, child, b. 9 May 1956 in Ogden, UT. Notes previously of Ogden 8th Ward of the Lorin Farr Stake residing at 650 8th St. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Occupation: glass and glazing contractor and owner of retail home decorating business in Anchorage, Alaska. Did glass work on Seattle Washington Temple. 2. The newspaper "The Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner," Tuesday evening, July 29, 1952, p. 7: "Local reservists Take Part In Maneuvers, Big Sea Fair. Eight Utah naval reservists, four of them from Ogden, are participating in full scale sea maneuvers, the world famous Seattle Sea fair and a side trip to Vancouver, B.C., in an adventure which began last Saturday. The Utahns are Wendell A. Farr, 540 8th St.; Joseph A. Graves, SN, 3791 Ogden Ave.; Jack D. Lynch, FA, 590 8th St.; Jack M. Peterson, FA, 650 8th St.; Thomas G. Larsen, SR, Arcadia; Arnold E. Webb, SR, Myton; Franklin D. Spencer, SR, Neolas and Kendall B. Schaefemayer, SR, Roosevelt. Making the trip are 96 naval reserve officers from the 12th naval district, which included northern California, Nevada and Utah. Leave Treasure Island. The reservists left Treasure Island, San Francisco Saturday afternoon aboard the destroyer escorts, U.S.S. George A. Johnson, U.S.S. Grady and U.S.S. Thomas F. Nickel. The three ships were scheduled to rendezvous outside Golden Gate with three similar ships with reservists from the Eleventh naval district. En route to Seattle, the group will conduct battle problems and drills. During the Seattle Sea fair the reservists will join a long line of combat vessels in a salute to the host city of Seattle. Cruisers, destroyers, submarines and amphibious craft will be in the sea parade which will converge at its finish to a point where the ship's crews will march through the streets in a parade. A simulated amphibious assault will be staged against a Seattle park beach. From Seattle, the reservists will make a side trip to Canada and then will return to San Francisco, conducting training and gunnery exercises on the way." 3. The newspaper "The Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner," Sunday evening, November 22, 1959, p. 2C: "Person to Person. From Europe. Good to get back! … Mrs. Jack M. Petersen will arrive home today with her three children, Kerry, and twins, Karen and Chris, to join her husband, after seven months in Europe. Mrs. Petersen, a native of Nice, France, has been there visiting her Russian parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas de Lanskoy, who are now making their home in Nice. It was her first visit home in nine years. Mrs. Petersen came to America is an LDS convert and receive her American citizenship papers four years ago. Mr. Petersen joined his family for a month in the summer and while there he and his family visited in Scotland, England, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany and Denmark. "My wife's mother acted as interpreter," Mr. Petersen said, "as she speaks 14 languages. She was attached to the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., at the time of the Russian revolution." He explained that after the overthrow of the Russian government, Mrs. Petersen's parents were exiled in France and have lived there since." [Kerry's note: Article inaccurate in regards to Irene's correct parents and the number of languages spoken by her mother. Her mother was never married to Mr. Lanskoy; he was a family friend who gave his family name to Irene at her birth. Her mother spoke Russian, German, French, and English.] 4. LDS Priesthood Ordinances and Ordinations (taken from Membership Record): Blessing: 5 Jun 1932 by Elton W. Wardle Baptism: 31 Mar 1940 by Blaine L. Hunter Confirmation: 31 Mar 1940 by Elton W. Wardle Deacon: 27 Aug 1944 by Vernal E. Facer Teacher: 29 Dec 1946 by Archibald O. Hokanson Priest: 27 Apr 1949 by Elton W. Wardle Elder: 2 Jun 1951 by Hershel P. Judd High Priest 25 Sep 1980 by Gary E. Cox 5. Autobiography of Jack Merlin Petersen. Thank you for letting me tell my story. The following is a hodge-podge collection of bits and pieces of notes, quick memories, and copies of our children's school assignments about me and my family history collected over the years. It also includes history and stories about my business. Hopefully, this will be clarified and added to in the future a little at a time. It was suggested and I was able to get started through the prompting of my daughter Karen Jasper and with a lot of help from everybody. It all began in 1932. I, Jack Merlin Petersen, was born March 22, 1932 in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, in the United States of America at the Thomas Dee Hospital on Harrison Blvd. (The hospital has since been demolished.) My mother was Irene Hales, daughter of Charles Henry Hales III and Sarah (Sadie) Catherine Stoker. She was born in Junction City, Piute County, Utah. My father was Paul Franklin Petersen (he went by the name of Frank), son of Peter Petersen and Mary Ann Burnhope. He was born in Ogden, Weber County, Utah. My family has a rich heritage - the very better of two worlds: my wife Irene's European heritage – even though she did not experience it, her ancestors were well-to-do, well-bred and well-educated; my heritage was of pioneers – many living in log cabins with dirt floors and many not reading or writing, but they were very religious and dedicated. I was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but not in the strictest sense as I now understand it as my father was not a member and never joined the Church. My mother was a member, but did not attend church much without Dad being with her. She did teach in the Primary at one time. Also in the church at that time a woman could not enter the Temple for their own endowment without her husband. They were both very supportive. I was a member of the Ogden, Utah, 8th Ward, and Ben Lomond Stake. I received many Aaronic Priesthood Achievement Awards in my youth. I was blessed in the Church on June 5, 1932. I was baptized and confirmed on March 31, 1940, nine days after my eighth birthday. I was ordained a Deacon on August 27, 1944, a Teacher on December 29, 1946, a Priest on April 17, 1949, an Elder on June 2, 1951, and a High Priest on September 25, 1980. I have always thought that going to church was something that you were supposed to do. I introduced myself once in a church talk and I will use some of it here: I believe most of you know me; I am Jack Petersen, a common name, but there aren't very many of my Petersen family around. Truthfully, the name should be Pedersen. This was my grandfather's name when he arrived from Denmark at age nine. He had a younger sister, who never married; she took care of her parents into their old age. So you can all understand that without a husband to take care of, she was able to reach the age of ninety-five and eight months. She must have had an accent, as I learned to call her Ankristine. I was surprised to realize not too many years ago that it wasn't Ankristine but Aunt Christine. I have one sister, Shirley Petersen, married name Dunbar, born on June 10, 1928 in Ogden, Utah. My sister and I were part of a family of nine Petersen and eight Hales cousins. But in that group there were only three Petersen boys -- Sherman, Paul, and I are the only three Petersens in my generation. Paul has since passed away. The names of my cousins are: PeterSEN -- Sherman Carl Petersen, Paul Fredrick Petersen (deceased), Joyce Koepke, LaRay Koepke, Warner Lawrence Hansen (deceased), Keith Richard Shupe, and Carole Patricia Shupe. HALES -- Edward Scott Hales (deceased), Kenneth Lee Hales (deceased), Suzan Hales (deceased), Bonnie Hales, Charles Henry Hales(5th), and Patricia Hatten. My grandfather Peter Petersen was a cowboy and my grandmother's father Thomas Burnhope was also a cowboy; they rode the range together at Promontory, Utah. My Petersen grandparents had five children, four of whom lived. They lived in Utah and I have found or been told that all the children were blessed in the LDS Church – and some were baptized – but something or someone drove them out of the Church. I understand my grandmother took issue with the Church burial procedure at the death of her mother. She left the Church and never spoke thereafter of her brother Isaac, who supported the Church position. All I ever was told was that if I ever met a Burnhope, I would know I was related. I did by chance meet one and became acquainted with two third cousins, Keith and Ken Burnhope. My mother and father knew each other as children since their families had small farms next to each other on Third Street at Five Points in Ogden, Utah. My mother comes from a family of early Mormon pioneers. Her grandfather Charles Henry Hales II and her great grandfather Charles Henry Hales I were polygamous. Her great grandfather with his two wives had 26 children who all lived to adulthood. I have a lot of Hales relatives, even an Apostle. Also, in every major event in Mormon and Utah history, I had a relative present or involved: in the city of Nauvoo, on the covered wagon track, and in the Mormon Battalion with over 14 relatives serving including two grandfathers and a grandmother. Some sailed on the Ship Brooklyn. They lived in the settlements of Pueblo, CO, San Bernardino, CA, Southern Utah, and Northern Arizona. They were involved with the cotton industry, iron mills, the railroad, and many others. My mother had four brothers and one sister: Charles Henry (Jack), Clemont (Mont), Dwayne (Duke), and Doyle, and my Aunt Melba. I loved my uncles. They were very good to me. As I said before, Shirley and I have six cousins on the Hales side of the family. In 2010 it was down to three. My mother and dad built a "honeymoon house" at 650 8th Street in Ogden. It was just a two-room house and they built it themselves before they were married. They married November 19, 1926. I lived in this house throughout my youth. They added onto it a little at a time. I didn't move from this house until I was married in 1952. My parents lived here the rest of their lives. My dad lived at home with his parents while he was building their house. His dad charged him rent for living there, which didn't make dad very happy since it took a lot of his building funds. He said he would never charge his children rent if they lived at home and he never did. I was raised through the Depression years. I had no real understanding of the hardships it caused many -- I was too young. My father worked for George A. Lowe Company, a pioneer, full-line Hardware Company in Ogden, Utah on Wall Ave. and was steadily employed there for 20 years. This company had the first telephone in the state -- a line from their warehouse to their retail store. I do remember Dad going next door to help clean up a chicken coop for a family to move into. They didn't have any other place to live. Perhaps due to the depression there were very few pictures taken in my youth; however, occasionally a photographer would come down the street with ponies and they would have cowboy and cowgirl costumes for the children to put on. They would go door-to-door to see who would like a picture of their children sitting on a pony. I have several pictures of Shirley and myself on these ponies. As a young man, Dad worked for a canning factory making tomato ketchup. (They also made very good pork and beans.) He seemed to have enjoyed that experience. He spoke of it often. I have a picture of him standing by one of the company trucks. I believe the canning factory name was "Pierce." My mother was very neat and clean and hard-working. She would always call us children in and clean us and put fresh clothes on us prior to Father's return from daily work. We always had two meals a day with the family. We always sat down to eat breakfast together and we always had supper together. Mom would have it prepared and on the table by the time my dad came home from work, which was right around 6 o'clock. Dad was always very punctual. Mother always set the table with a tablecloth. We always had home canned fruit on the table along with jam or jelly. Her rule for nutrition was very simple, "Your plate must have three colors of food on it." My dad said it was cheaper to buy good food then it was to pay a doctor. So we ate well. She always thought she was overweight (a Hales' trait) inasmuch as she had copies of all the popular diets of that time. She also wore a house dress during the day, but a corset for dress-up. She liked to read -- especially the stories in romance magazines. As a child, I enjoyed eating the leftovers from my father's lunch box. I now believe that he saved me a half of his jelly sandwich or other treats. I enjoyed waiting on the street corner for my father's return from work. He would let me ride on the running board of our Model A Ford the rest of the way home. My father was industrious and very good with his hands. He did all of his own building and repairs at home. He had a large city lot, which was very well kept. He was very proper and polite. I never heard him tell a joke or an off-colored story. I never heard him swear -- not a word. He was so meticulous that even when he sharpened his wood pencil with a pocketknife, every cut was exactly the same. His pocketknife was always sharp as were all of his other tools and knives. He had little patience with anyone who did not take care of their tools. Dad had beautiful handwriting. Even while working in the warehouse, he kept his shoes shined. He had a shoe shining kit there and in it a brush with letters "WHSE" for warehouse carved in the wooden grip. I have that brush. While working in the warehouse, he always wore a rolled-up black stocking cap, a shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and bibs overall. Dad sometime would have a baseball mitt in his back pocket; they played catch in the parking lot on their lunch break. Dad also played ball at the company picnic; he liked to bunt himself on base. Dad smoked all his life. Through my younger years, he always rolled his own cigarettes. You would always see him with a string and round tag from the "Bull Durham" tobacco sack hanging out of his shirt pocket, western style. I believe that smoking had a lot to do with his early death at age 67. He wouldn't go to a doctor because of the lecture he would get about smoking. At George A. Lowe Hardware, Dad managed the upstairs floor. The warehouse was almost a city block long. I enjoyed visiting there. Grandpa Petersen also worked there in packing and shipping. He would wave to me on my visits. I always snuck a ride down the chute from the second floor to the shipping department and met with him. One of my dad's responsibilities was the ordering of many tons of coal for the heating of the warehouse. I once visited with Dad when he was giving an order to the owner of a coal company. I blurted out something like, "With all the coal that Dad buys from you, you ought to give us coal for our home for free." He said, "I couldn't do that, that's my business." Dad responded to me by saying, "Where do you think the fruit comes from at home for Christmas?" (We always had a case of apples, oranges, or grapefruit under the Christmas tree.) The owner's remark always fascinated me about not giving away for free the actual product that he sold for a living. Irene captured a great photograph of Dad – a very typical one. Dad always wore a white shirt and tie and a pair of western cut pants called "Pinks." He would come home and change into his bib overalls, take off his tie, and would keep the white shirt on. The photograph shows him sitting in the kitchen below a Union Pacific Railroad calendar, which he always used for scheduling. He was holding his glass of beer. His ring with a diamond set in black onyx and watch (both of which I have in my possession) are showing in the picture. Payday was Shirley's and my big day. Dad would bring home a sack full of candy bars, five or six for each of us. He purchased these at Payless drug store, three for a dime. Dad liked licorice. When Shirley started working she would bring home expensive handmade chocolates. Our house was set back deep in the lot, and we had a large grassed front yard with a winding sidewalk to the front door. The front door and entrance had a round top and round glass door window. There was a special curtain for the door made by Mother that gathered to the center. (I now have that curtain – 2012.) Our front yard had five large Rome Beauty apple trees and a large Catalpa tree. I spent a lot of time climbing in the apple trees and picking up fallen apples. I found that with a pointed stick about 18" long, I could stick it into an apple and throw the apple almost a city block. I often cleaned the yard this way. You might wonder what the neighbors thought -- but apples came from such a distance that they could never guess the source! We had a large fruit and vegetable garden in the rear of the house as well as a large chicken coop. Dad kept the garden and the yard immaculate. I was often jealous of the yard because Dad spent so much time in it. I played most of my games at the neighbors because Dad would not let us roughneck in our yard. The garden was irrigated weekly and the irrigation ditch came from the front down the right side of the yard. I spent many hours under the apple trees in the irrigation ditch playing "cars," building roads and garages on its banks with road system surpassing today's freeways. I also did a lot of the irrigating, weeding, and harvesting of our garden. Sometimes it got pretty hot though. Every spring a farmer would bring a team of horses down the street soliciting work at plowing your garden spot. Dad used their services sometimes, but most of the time we hand-spaded it ourselves. The city would grade the dirt street in front of our house. They used a road grader that looked a lot like the ones used today but a team of horses pulled these; it was also oiled yearly. In the garden, we had all types of fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, black caps, dewberries, gooseberries, currants – red, black, and yellow – rhubarb, cherries (white Queen Ann canning cherries; our red Bing cherry tree died), peaches, pears, and many varieties of grapes. We had two walnut trees – Black and English. We would also always raise carrots, peas, radishes, onions – both green and seed – corn, tomatoes, green peppers, and "grass peas." The "grass peas" seed originally came from Denmark and was brought over by my great grandfather. They resembled and were used like Lima beans. They were cooked with a ham hock. I still have a few of these seeds. They were very tasty. My grandfather, Peter Petersen, with a "sen" in the name, came with his parents at the age 9 from Denmark. I have always believed his dream was to travel, which you didn't do much in those days. I now believe he did this thru reading his National Geographic magazines. He always had a stack of them. He gave me one of his old books, a large old book, which I still have: "Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928." I spent a lot of good times working with my father in the garden. I also helped my mother can the fruit and vegetables. We always had over 200 quarts of tomatoes at the end of the season, along with peaches, pears, apricots, and cherries. I remember working the cherry pitter with juice running down my arms and off my elbows. My favorite was canned apricots with pineapple chunks and apricot jam with apricot nuts. I would crack the nuts. We also put up a lot of grape juice. Thinking of irrigating, every spring the neighbors would form a work party and we would cut the weeds out of the canals. I still remember the smell of the weeds and the spearmint that grew along the ditch bank just like "herb tea." (Is that why I have never liked it?) My father taught me the use of tools and being in the hardware business he always had the newest tools available. He taught me to make repairs properly and not just to do a quick fix. My Uncle Mont had the reputation of wiring and taping things together -- I was told to do it right and not like "Mont." I helped my father mix his own house paint – white lead, linseed oil, and turpentine. He taught me how to hold a paintbrush and how to work the paint into the wood. Dad would save the salvaged wooden shipping crates at the Lowes' warehouse. When he had a big enough pile, he would have their truck deliver it home. It was my job to pull, straighten, and save all the nails, then cut the wood up for firewood. The crates were made out of cheap hardwood and I used a carpenter handsaw to cut them up. This was hard work. I don't think I ever used a new nail until I was out of high school. Spring was greeted with the ladies on the street putting scarves on their heads and with an apron over their house dress and armed with a stepladder, brushes, and a bucket full of hot soapy water, they would handwash the outside of their houses, Chickens were a major part of my youth: feeding, caring for, egg gathering, and butchering. In the spring we would have the little chicks around a light bulb in the basement, later in the back of garage. Dad liked Leghorns (white eggs) and Grandpa Petersen liked Rhode Island Reds (brown eggs) and the two discussed quite often the virtues of each breed of chicken. I have learned that the world record for egg production is held by a White Leghorn that laid 371 eggs in 365 days. My mother would gather the eggs and sell the surplus for her kitchen money. I can remember the Metropolitan Insurance salesman coming weekly for the $1.00 premium for the insurance policy for Shirley's and my education. Mom would have to make sure she had her eggs sold for this payment, as well as for our monthly church fast offering envelope. Chicken was a main dish at home with the spring fryers as one of my favorite. When they were large enough, they would be split in half and fried, and I would get a whole half chicken. Mother made great fried chicken, as did my Grandmother Hales! The older hens were used for stewing with homemade hand-cut noodles. I remember many times hearing my dad tell my mother that the egg production was down and it was time for him to go talk to the chickens again. He would go to the coop, sit on his haunches, and talk to them. He told the chickens that if they didn't start laying more eggs some of them would lose their heads. While doing this he would have a chance to feel the underside of the individual hens and pick out a few that were barren, these are the ones that got their heads cut off. The egg production would increase almost overnight while we had chicken and noodles for supper. The family rule was if you did not know what to feed Frank, fry him two eggs. Dad always tried to raise pigs as he did in the earlier days. He would wash down the pens daily and handwash the pigs, but the neighbors would always report him for keeping pigs. The city was being built up around us and it was against the city ordinances. As I said earlier, my father was not a member of the LDS Church. I do not know how serious he was but he said that if he had to join a church, it would be the Catholic Church. He said this is because when he was young he used to sell newspapers. He would always go over to the Catholic Church when there was a mass to sell newspapers. The members would be in a good mood after church and be very kind, so they bought lots of his newspapers -- so he thought the Catholic Church was all right. There were a lot of experiences with the Mormon missionaries trying to convert him. He was always fair game for any new missionaries that came around. Their challenge was to "go over and convert Frank Petersen." He was always polite, but he teased them -- he liked to tease (a Petersen trait). One time they asked him what religion he belonged to. He said, "The Salvation Army." The two sister missionaries said, "That's not a religion." Dad replied, "It is, and it's a very popular Protestant religion," which it is. They came back 30 days later after they had spent all their free time studying the Salvation Army religion. They asked him questions about the religion and of course he knew nothing about it. He was very quiet that evening. Our earlier Bishop was Roland Peterson. According to dad, Shirley got special attention until the membership realized she was not his daughter, and then it all stopped -- wrong Peterson We were members of the Ogden 8th Ward, Ben Lomond Stake. The church was on 7th street and Adam. The church building was dated with reddish brown brick, and was a story and half tall, with the congregation area on the upper floor and the classrooms in the daylight basement. It had tall, wide concrete steps in front up to a porch and double entrance doors. Primary was on Wednesday afternoon. On that day, I hurried from school to the church – first one there put a stick through door handles and was the guardian of the doors. I liked that assignment. The congregation area had a wooden floor with moveable chairs. On one end there was a full stage with curtain and on the other end the speaker's pulpit with the choir setting. The chairs would be turned around as needed or moved to the side for dances and other activities. I remember on hot summer days I would stand at door and pass out paper fans with wooden handle. I don't know the circumstances but after 20 years at Lowe's Dad quit one day, got drunk, and threw away his lunch bucket, as he was never going to work again. About three weeks later he went to work for Sears & Roebuck Co. Sears was located on the main street, Washington Boulevard, close to 22nd Street with the warehouse on the street behind. It was next door to the American Food Store where I worked. There was a little desk over in one corner where they were starting to sale insurance. The sign read "All-State." They also sold a small car called "The All-State." It was actually a "Henry J" made by Kaiser-Frazer Motor Company with a Sears's nameplate. Dad started in the warehouse, then sold farm machinery, and then worked in the retail store in the hardware department. He worked there for another 20 years until his retirement. I don't have a clear memory of this; however, Lowe's opened up a small satellite retail store called Riteway Hardware. Dad was involved with the operation and worked there. When they decided to sell the store, I was in high school. I did my best to try to talk him into buying it so that we could work together. This didn't happen. It was sold to another Lowe's employee, Mr. Sorenson. My sister Shirley worked for him for some time. My favorite dessert was Hasty Pudding (sometimes called "Poor Man's Pudding"). Ingredients: 2 cups water, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 cup sugar, ½ cup of milk, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp butter, 1 cup of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder. Boil water, sugar, vanilla and 1 tsp butter together. While this is boiling, cream the remaining ingredients into a batter. Then fold in 1/2 cup of raisins and nuts, dropping by tablespoon in the boiling mixture. Then bake for 1/2 hour at 375 degrees. Black walnuts are the best to use in this recipe. Cracking and cleaning them was my job. I also liked egg-less cake, sometimes called "Depression cake," with white frosting. During the Depression, eggs and shortening were very expensive and this cake needed none. My dad was also able to "water witch" using a forked stick to find ground water. By holding the forked stick overhand with each hand over the individual forks, then spreading the forks and rolling both hands under and up between the forks until the knuckles faced each other, and then pulling back and again spreading the forks, the front of the stick (the "pointer") would turn down toward the ground if water was present. He would team up with an acquaintance from work. Dad would locate the water and while holding the willow over his knees; his partner would count the pulsations of the willow to determine the depth to the water. I never saw the friend do his thing, but I saw Dad locate water many times. When I was in the eighth grade, my science teacher said that there was no such thing as the gift of water witching. I told this to my dad and so he took me out front of the house and cut a green forked stick from the apple tree and told me to hold it properly over a known underground stream. Nothing happened! He put his hand on my shoulder and the forked stick began to move and scared me to a point that I dropped it. I picked it up again and told myself that there was no way I was going to get fooled. I gripped tightly on the stick, my dad put his hand on my shoulder and it again began to turn down with such force that it twisted the bark off in my hands. There was a drought in the area for several years and many of the neighbors hand dug wells for themselves. There was an underground stream that came down the street and crossed under our front yard. They would tap into this stream. One of our neighbors, the Wardles (he later became my bishop) four lots west of us down the street, wanted Dad to locate water on his property. Dad and his friend searched diligently and could not locate this stream on his property. Brother Wardle had no choice but to dead-reckon a location by sighting a line between a well west and a well east of his property and he hand dug very deep but never found water. Later, that boarded up dry well hole was always a concern to our parents when we played in the area. In recalling a few of my funniest memories, I will relate a few. There are only two ways to sweep with a straw-broom; turn the broom sideways for a wide stroke or endways for narrow power stroke. Once in my youth I was busy sweeping and my father put his hand on my shoulder and told me to turn the broom because I was sweeping like a woman. (You could say things like than then.) It is terrible how we forget the important lessons in life when we get older. I can't remember which way he had then told me to sweep. I may have spent my whole life sweeping like a woman. I am also told that a woman sweeps toward herself and a men sweeps away. One other was when my mother chased me up the apple tree with a willow switch in her hand. She then pulled up a chair and sat at the base of the tree until my father came home. I did not know until that day that my dad could climb apple trees. I remember when I had made a successful raid on the neighbor's melon patch with an armful of cantaloupes. I knew how much my dad enjoyed them, so I burst into our house shouting: "Dad would you like some melons I just stole?" To my horror, there sat the ward teachers from the church. One of them was a counselor in the Bishopric who owned the melon patch. My dad surveyed the embarrassment and calmly received the cantaloupes, sliced them and served the stolen bounty to all. I remember as a child when both of our parents were working. My sister and I had chores to do when we got home from school. One of these chores was to light a fire in the kitchen range, to have it ready to cook supper and also work as a heater to warm the house. Many times we would argue over whose turn it was to light the fire and our folks would find us huddled in blankets in a cold, dark house. Supper was delayed on those evenings, if we got any at all. I slept on a fold-down couch in the kitchen in our little two-room house. Our house was well-built and in bad weather the neighbors would spend the night with us. One night the wind was blowing very hard and the neighbors came over to stay with us as their houses were built on wood foundations and they could feel the wind begin to lift their houses. I remember waking up finding their kids in bed with me. Ogden experienced a lot of heavy winds called "Easterners" or "Mountain Wind." I came home from elementary school one day and the wind was so strong we had to walk backwards against the wind or it would suck our breath away. I found our large chicken coop had been picked up and turned upside down. Dad rebuilt the coop but only half the size. One of my earliest recollections was our outhouse. We had a very nice two-holer. It sat in the back of the garage. It was so nice that the neighbors would often use it. I would occasionally find one sitting sound asleep. I am told that I was frightened of teddy bears. I was even frightened of the closet where they were kept. I had pure white hair and was called "Cotton-top" by the relatives. I also wore bib overalls and tennis shoes. I was told that one day I got lost. The whole neighborhood was out looking for me. Everybody was getting very panicky. I was found still asleep in my bed. I had rolled over against the wall. We bathed in a tin tub on the kitchen floor and the water was heated in a tea kettle on the coal-burning range. Mother always rinsed our hair with vinegar water. Our two-room house was enlarged first with a closed porch off the kitchen and a half basement, then two bedrooms and a bath in the rear. This was done about the time that I was 7 or 8 years of age. There was a stairway leading up into a large attic. This was to be my bedroom but it never came about. I remember watching the basement being dug out from under the house. It was done with a team of horses and a scoop. They would back the horses under the house and pull out a scoop full of dirt. My weekly allowance was 25 cents. It was saved and spent on Saturday. It cost me 5 cents for the bus to town, 10 cents for a movie ticket – this covered the cost of a double feature movie, two cartoons, and a news reel – 5 cents for a the bus fare home, and 5 cents for a candy bar. I liked the cowboy movies and there were a lot of them. The good guys wore white hats; the bad guys wore black ones. Sometimes I would buy two candy bars and walk home, about four miles. If I ever had an extra dime, I would buy a comic book. Shirley was into "Big Little Books." They were about three inches square and one inch or so thick. No matter where I walked, I would always try to find a short cut. This was quite easy because there were walkways along the irrigation ditches (they had to have public access to the ditches). In most cases these "short cuts" probably took longer to get home. Isn't that the way all short cuts are! "Budget Cards": The LDS Church used to assign each family a portion of the ward budget. When this was paid, a "budget card" was issued. The card was used for admission to all church activities. It was important to me as a youth as the 21st Ward had a movie every Friday night. The ward was only a few shortcuts away from home. One of my favorite short cuts was to walk on a trail called lover's lane, which skirted around a hill and the lower edge of the old Ogden Pioneer Cemetery. There was no concern with walking this way in the daytime, "But at night, never!" One time I was late getting out from a movie and it was getting dark. The fog was rolling up the trail from the Ogden River. With the darkness, the cemetery, the fog, and the howling dogs, I was pretty spooked. In my earlier years, we did a lot of camping. If a camping trip was planned, Mom would always fry up a bunch of chicken to take along and boy was it good. Nothing like what we eat today. Camping and fried chicken were some of my favorite things. In most instances, Dad would come home from work on Friday and decide to spend the weekend camping. We would fill up the back seat of our Model A Ford, and then Shirley and I would ride on the top of the bedding, which was great fun. In most of those trips, we experienced two or three flat tires, which was common. Dad always carried a jack, a hand pump, a tire iron, and a box of patches. I can still remember him walking across the field with an inner tube in one hand and a pump in the other heading for a creek to find the leak. Most of our camping trips were up Ogden Canyon and into South Fork. We always stopped at "The Oaks" for a treat on the way home. It was usually pink "Mother Goose Popcorn," which came with a surprise in the box or maybe a box of "Cracker Jacks." The LDS Church had a large picnic park in the canyon; it was used for outings. I remember it well; at one outing I walked by a large table with three or four large milk cans on it. One was marked butter milk; I poured myself a paper cup full – "Yuck! now I know what butter milk is." I have now learned to like it. On one of these trips, we found a very nice campsite. Someone had left in a hurry. There was a watermelon in the creek and firewood gathered, cut, and neatly stacked. Dad would make our bed by laying a mattress and bedding on a canvas ground cloth. Mom and Dad would sleep on the sides with us two kids in between. That night Mom awakened with a start. She had felt a cold nose in her hand. She woke in time to see a mountain lion run away into the brushes. Dad rolled up the bedding with us kids still in it, loaded up the car, and we were gone. Shirley had a very bad case of hay fever one year, which was relieved in the canyon. So we lived in a tent in the canyon all summer and Dad commuted to work. These trips stopped when the car broke down and you could not get replacement parts through the war years. Even if it hadn't broken, we could not have gotten gas due to the rationing of gas, tires, and batteries. How I miss these trips. This was devastating for a young fellow not to be able to go back into the mountains that I loved so much. I remember traveling to Logan once on a bus and to Salt Lake City several times riding on the Bamberger Electric Railroad, which ran between those cities at that time. We would always visit the State Capitol. I liked to see the "Mormon Meteor," the fastest car in the world at the time. It was on display there. It set world records on the Salt Flats. I remember my dad taking my Grandpa Peter Petersen to Montana looking for the old ranch where he worked. I don't remember the trip but I do remember the valley that he pointed out. I discovered a full skeleton of a deer or maybe a sheep that I found interesting and a bit scary. On another trip my Aunt Melba was with us. Dad parked the car and I took off up the steep hill. Melba yelled at me, "Don't go up there, the jackrabbits will get you!" I didn't know what a jackrabbit was. I turned and tumbled down the hill. I must have been a boob. Melba was my aunt, my mother's only sister, and the youngest child in her family. She was a redhead and covered with freckles. I always blamed her for my freckles. She was a California girl and always dressed the part – always wearing Bermuda shorts. Melba lived with my family on 8th Street in Ogden after her high school graduation. In 1938-39 she had graduated in the first class from the new million-dollar Ogden High School built with PWA funds -- it actually cost $1,200,000. She worked as a telephone operator. The waiting time to have a home telephone was over a year. But as she was on call, we had a phone immediately. When she left our home, the phone left too. The Palmer family lived four houses up the street from ours. They made excellent homemade candy and supplied the neighborhood around the holidays. I played with their kids. We liked to put on plays. We used their single car garage as our stage, hung a blanket over the doorway as our curtain, and set chairs in the driveway. We charged the neighborhood kids a button or two or a marble to see our performance. I also remember the Palmer's clothesline always lined up with long underwear. This was strange even in those days. I was a senior in high school when my girlfriend told me that Mormons in good standing wore undergarments. I recall saying, "Not me!" One day the young Palmer boy met me on the sidewalk in front of our house. He was showing off two new cap pistols – replicas of a pirate's muskets with two hammers and two triggers on each. He handed one to me for my inspection. It was a nice gun. As I examined it, he asked for it back. I told him to give me a minute, but he then grabbed for it and knocked it out of my hand. It fell and broke on the sidewalk. He ran crying home and apparently told his mother that I had taken it away from him and thrown it on the sidewalk. The mother came charging down to our house and ran into my hot-tempered redheaded Aunt Melba. This caused a rift between the families that never did heal. Several years later, I was walking past their house and the same boy came charging out of his house right through the screen door with his hair and clothing on fire. I tackled him and rolled him around in the newly cut grass and patted him down with the wet grass. His mother, not aware of the crisis, walked from behind the house carrying a straw broom. She apparently saw what looked like me beating up her son. She came a running and broke the broom handle over my back. I got up and walked away. Later she was very apologetic. My Uncle Doyle was the only one to graduate from college in the family. He was called into the service as a Captain in the coast artillery in Panama throughout the duration of the war. He met and married a nurse there, Margaret Scott. She was once a Catholic nun. They had only one child, my cousin Ed Hales. She died shortly after his birth from cancer. My Uncle Jack was drafted. He was "Big Jack" and I was "Little Jack." He sent home for a copy of his birth certificate. When he received it, it had the name Charles Henry on it. He sent it back telling his mother that she had sent his Dad's certificate. He did not know until that time that his name was Charles Henry (III). He named his fourth child Charles Henry also. He had three small children when he was drafted. My dad and mother gave his family a lot of assistance at that time. They repaid them later by giving us a lot of help and gifts for our children. My uncle Jack did not serve in combat. In 1957, I attended the funeral of my Uncle Duke (Dwayne Hales), who lived in Pasadena, California. The family went by caravan from Ogden. Irene was not able to go because of the young children. My uncle's wife was Beatrice "Bea" Hales. She was a very nice lady and they had no children. She worked in the Sears headquarters, which was in Pasadena. As my dad also worked at Sears, they had something in common. I'm told she remarried and was living in Las Vegas. She has since passed away. My mother was very protective. As I understand, when she was a child living in North Ogden, she was rabbit hunting with a young boy with a .22 rifle and there was an accident and the boy shot himself and died in her arms -- so she was extremely scared of guns. I wasn't allowed to have a gun. I was a very disappointed Scout when my parents would not sign the release to target shoot at the firing range at scout camp. When my troop would go to the shooting range, I was restricted to our cabin. Later, when Mother visited our house, we had to put away all the kid's toy guns as they upset her too much. My dad did have a .22 rifle that I was able to use when I was older. I used it to rabbit hunt which I enjoyed. I got my first gun when I graduated from high school, an Ithaca 12 gauge shotgun which I still own. I now have Dad's .22 Rifles; it is a model 62A Winchester pump. I also wasn't allowed to have a bike until I was almost 15. I was more interested in cars by then. I kind of resented that. I did put a lot of miles on that bicycle though. I was riding down a hill on my bike and a big dog came out of a driveway – yes, a big dog. He got me on the leg and I crashed into a barbed-wire fence. It was a nasty wound. My uncles got out their guns and were going to shoot the dog but this was stopped. The wound became infected. I remember the doctor putting some type of acid on it to burn out the infection. I had another injury in my youth. My mother and I were in a five-and-dime store. I was looking at toys. Glass divider strips were used to separate the toys. My mother said, "Let's go." I did not want to. As she pulled me, I grabbed onto one of the strips and my finger was sliced open. The store doctor wasn't very sober when he stapled my finger back together. Fridays were garbage pick-up days. We would ride our bikes around and pick up magazines. Life and Look Magazines were our favorites. We would then sit on our front lawns and cut out pictures and articles that would interest us. Lots of war stuff. We pasted them into scrapbooks. I still have two of those scrap books – I still like to cut and paste. I liked helping my mother with her housework. I especially liked to put the clothes through the washing machine ringer. Our big day came when our Twin Dexter arrived. The Twin Dexter was a two-tub washing machine. One tub always had Stewart Bluing in the water. When I hung the clothes on the outside line, my mother made sure that like items and sizes were hung together neatly with as few clothes pins as possible. We didn't have many. Whites with whites hung first, shirts by the tail, never by the shoulders. Our clothesline ran from the back of the garage to the front of the chicken coop. We had four lines with a supporting post in the middle. You had to wash the lines before hanging any clothes, walking the length of each line with a damp cloth. My mother did a lot of fine needlework, tatting, crocheting, and embroidery. We still have some of her pieces. It was my job to tear strips of overalls and other items for the rag rugs. Mother ironed everything – shirts, pants, dresses, towels, bed sheets, pillowcases, handkerchiefs – everything. Of course, fabrics were not the same then as they are today. She had a system to fold the item as she ironed and did both sides at the same time. She taught me how to iron a shirt, which process I still use today – first the collar both sides, the yoke both sides, both sleeves, the body right to left, then touch up the collar & yoke. Through my younger years my mother was always home. She did work out of the home only at harvest time. She would work in the canning factory. She was paid by the piece and did quite well especially processing tomatoes. I remember her coming home in the evening with her hands cut and wrapped with tape, cut by the sharp spoon-shaped tomato knife. The money she made all went for the household extras and furnishings. While she was working, I some time stayed with my Grandma Hales. A daily train went past her house on 16th Street and up Ogden Canyon. It was a great sport to smash pennies and other items on the track. I came down with the chicken pox at Grandma's house and the house was quarantined and I couldn't go home. They posted a "Quarantined" sign on the house. I have also had red measles and mumps. I was quarantined at home for those also. Shortly after the war started, Mother went to work for the Civil Service as a clerk at the 2nd Street Ordinance Depot in Ogden, Utah. She later, after an illness, transferred to Hill Field Air Force Base. She would have her hair done so she always looked very nice. She had beautiful white hair. I remember my dad and mother discussing if he should quit his civilian job and go to work at the higher paying government defense work. He rationalized that after the war those bases would all be closed and everyone would be looking for a job and jobs would be hard to find. Of course, this didn't happen. Most bases are still open. There was a prisoner-of-war camp located in the Second Street Ordinance Depot in Ogden with mostly Italian prisoners and a few German prisoners. They made a lot of trinkets for sale – especially out of U.S. silver coins. I remember once when my father was preparing to do some concrete work and he knew of a location in the rear of the yard that would yield fine pea gravel. He offered me five dollars if I would dig down and uncover it. I dug and picked for a week after school in the hot sun and I finally gave up. My dad spent another 15 minutes and moved a couple of inches of dirt and found what he was looking for. I learned here a lesson of perseverance and enduring to the end. Remembering that lost five dollars has spurred me on to complete many dreaded projects. I was always quite industrious selling greeting cards door-to-door in the fall, gardening seeds in the spring, and shoveling snow. The inventory came from ads that used to appear in comic books. However, my best product was black walnuts. I would clean and rake the neighbor's yards for an exchange of their fallen walnuts. I would husk them and bag them and sell them door-to-door, pulling them in my red wagon. This lasted until I was old enough to pick fruit. I could make more money picking cherries than any other type of fruit. I would enter the orchard with a bus load of pickers. By mid-morning many of them would have twice the cherries turned in than I would. But by the end of the day I would be the top picker and I learned there that it was best to set a pace and stay with it to the end. In the long run you would accomplish more. I used some of this money for the down payment for my first car, the green Chevrolet. I hated picking raspberries. Their bushes were always full of stinkbugs. I look at raspberries today even in the stores and still smell those little green guys. I also received a lesson when I was working for a farmer planting celery. Utah celery was in high demand as it was whiter than most. I was being paid very little by the hour. It didn't take me long to realize that the more hours you worked, the more money you made. So I was working 12 to 14 hours a day. The farmer called me to the side and said that I was foolish. He said that I soon would burn myself out and lose interest in the job. He said that in the long run I would make more money if I set a more reasonable pace. I shrugged this off and continued the long hours. But, as he said, I get so tired that I lost interest and quit. The others on the crew worked the reasonable shift and completed the project and made much more money than I did. This was a lesson I learned but have never totally been able to apply. I have continued to work long hours. Maybe I am still looking for the five dollars I lost before. I also hoed sugar beets. The rows were long and the sun was hot. You worked with a short hoe with a three-foot long handle. So you worked bent over. I also worked in the onion fields. We crawled down the rows and cut off the tops just before they were dug up. I also worked in the peonies fields. We "budded" the plants, cutting off all the little buds and leaving only the biggest ones. This was done in spring so it was not so hot. I received my first steady job at the age of 14 at the American Food Stores as a box boy, working there full and part-time for six years. I worked in the groceries but mostly with produce. The store and company no longer exists. I liked the grocery business. It was exciting. Every week we had a new challenge, a new promotion, and new displays. You could see very quickly what worked and what didn't. I also made good friends with our customers. The railroad pay day was our big weekend. I worked so hard as a box boy on those weekends, I couldn't sleep at night. The store closed on Sundays, so on Saturday nights the employees could buy a big bag of bakery goods for a dollar. I would take one home for my folks. I also saved the blemished citrus fruit for them. Dad would buy them at a special price for juice. Also, Hi-C canned fruit juice was a family favorite. I also worked with a milkman delivering milk on a route. I felt I had made quite an accomplishment when I could carry two full milk bottles in each hand. I was taught how to fold a paper airplane by an older boy sitting on the high exterior steps of Lincoln Elementary School. I had just finished my first plane when he had a seizure and rolled down the steps. That was the first seizure I had ever seen. It wasn't a good experience. I still make this paper plane and every time I do, I think of him. During the time dad worked at Lowe's, the owner's family stored some of their personal belongings at the Lowe's warehouse. Some had been there for many years. To get rid of them, they put them up for auction to the employees. Dad bought a large trunk for a few dollars, sight unseen. We opened it at home. It was full of old fashioned clothes, an old set of small blue encyclopedia books, dishes, and lots of Christmas ornaments. It was great fun; we kids used the clothes for dress up. Mentioning encyclopedias, our family had a set of "Book of Knowledge" which I really enjoyed. They had a lot of fairy tales in them, which I had not yet seen elsewhere. They also had pictures and articles of many places that were "a must to see." I remember in particular a picture of a Model T Ford parked in front of one of the windows of Zion's National Park tunnel. Also Lake Louise, Canada, Crater Lake, Oregon, Carlsbad Caverns, and many other sights. I believe I have now personally visited them all. On December 7, 1941, I was lying on my folk's bed with my mother and we were reading the Sunday funny papers. That was fun as the bed always had a feather tick on it. A neighbor, a friend of Shirley's, ran over to our house and announced that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor and a war was beginning. We all rushed to the radio for more information. I was nine years old at the time. I believe that I had a very normal childhood until the war started. The war years used rationing coupons for gasoline, sugar, coffee, shoes and other items. Food stamps were also used. The lowest priority of gasoline rationing was 3 gallons per week. There were war bond drives – even in schools where the kids could buy stamps of a small denomination, glue them into a book, and exchange the full book for a bond. There were salvage drives for newspapers, old rubber tires, and scrap metal. We even saved tin foil from packages and gum wrappers. We would form them into a ball sometimes as large as a softball. These would be all turned in. We also harvested milkweed cotton for life preservers. We were paid quite well for these salvage items. The family automobile was a Model "T" Ford, which I don't remember. It was replaced with a Model "A" Ford. Shortly after the beginning of the war, our beloved Model "A" Ford broke down and parts were not available to repair it. We did not have another car for seven years until Dad's purchase of a 1946 Plymouth Club Coupe in 1949. Dad purchased it from my new brother-in-law Bob Dunbar. After the war, veterans had priority in buying new cars; Bob was able to buy the Plymouth as he served in the Navy. Bob sold his Plymouth to dad and bought a new Chevrolet. I had always thought that this Chevrolet was a wedding gift from his folks, but I have been corrected. Without an automobile for seven years, it stopped my love for camping, fishing and hunting, which I never picked up again in my later years, which I now regret. About the same period, our radio died and we couldn't get it repaired. There were very few radio tubes available, and you couldn't buy a new radio. A friend of Dad's tried to wire around the missing tubes, but this didn't last long. So throughout the war I used a crystal set with earphones. With it I could pick up only one station – Ogden's KLO. A crystal set was more of a toy. It had a wire coil and a wire came out of the end of the coil, which was called a "cat whisker." You needed a long aerial of maybe 100 feet or more. By touching a rock crystal with the cat whisker you could pick up a radio wave and hear it on the earphones. You couldn't get any other volume. A dry-cell battery powered it. I haven't seen one of these for a long time. It was about 5" tall and maybe 2 ½" in diameter. I would listen to programs like the Lone Ranger, Terry and the Pirates, I Love a Mystery, Captain Midnight, the Shadow, the Saint, and others. Now back to our little house. There was no heat in the back bedroom so a blanket would be hung across the hallway. The sewer line came out the back of the house at a depth of about four feet. It ran along and out from the back, down the east side of the house, and out to the street. The connection there was about 12 feet deep. The total run was about 250 feet. Dad hand dug the trench, laid the pipe, and hand filled it by himself. He tunneled under all the apple tree roots As I said before, our hot water came from a teakettle heated on the kitchen range. We advanced to a kitchen range with a water jacket built in with a hot water tank next to it. When the basement was completed, we had running hot water heated by a monkey stove (a small coal-fired stove with a water jacket and tank next to it). I later used this little stove as a temporary heater in the house I was building. A few years later, we installed a coal stoker and hot air furnace in our basement and had for the first time central heating throughout the house. As we grew older, Shirley took over the bedroom and Dad remodeled the back porch into a very small bedroom for me. I collected automobile pictures of 1946 to 1948 vintages and hung them all over my room. I hung my model airplanes from the ceiling. I enjoyed drawing pictures of planes and carving them out of pine blocks. I still bear scars on my hands from the knife. One of my original planes is a dead ringer to the F15 that flies today. Our family enjoyed the holidays. We always had Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa Hales' home on 16th street in Ogden, where an old-fashioned country dinner was prepared. I remember the mashed potatoes and gravy the most and also the white cake. My grandpa would always pour milk on his cake making it more like a pudding. Bread and milk was common at the Hales as well as milk toast (two pieces of toast with hot milk, a chunk of butter, and salt and pepper). Christmas dinner was always served at Grandpa and Grandma Petersen's on Madison Street. I would have to leave my Christmas toys behind at home much to my dislike. We would leave at about one o'clock for their house. On Christmas morning the type of gifts I would generally get were Tinker Toys, Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs, microscopes, chemistry sets, and games such as Checkers, Chinese Checkers, Monopoly, and Pit. It would always seem like the uncles and aunts would get together and send me the same gift. One year it might be all pocket knives or wallets or belts. My Aunt Melba's gifts were always wrapped very elaborately. My biggest disappointment was when I reached the age my uncles and aunts stopped giving gifts. I remember Grandma Petersen with her long white hair always rolled into a bun on top of her head. She was prim and proper and had blue eyes. There we would have a second Christmas and we had a gift exchange with our relatives on that side of the family. Their home was at 2264 Madison Avenue in Ogden; it was built in the 1800's and four generations of my family have lived in it. (It was demolished in 2010.) My cousins Warner, Joyce, and LaRae were good friends. I was always surprised of the different types of toys they enjoyed such as a toy working typewriter, lead soldiers, a casting set for melting lead, and other items. Dinner would be more continental than country. Plum pudding was always a treat as it was served flaming when brought in by Grandma Petersen. Grandpa Petersen also kept a very neat garden and chickens. He didn't have as many flowers as Dad did. My favorite thing other than the chickens was his Mulberry tree. I liked to climb the tree and eat the berries. He had a small dirt cellar under the house with access through a floor trap door located in the enclosed rear porch. The cellar was always full of home canned jars of peaches, pears, jams and jellies neatly placed on wooden shelves grandpa built and wood kindling very neatly stacked, chopped and ready to set morning fires. Grandma only burned wood in her big black kitchen range. She said it cooled down faster than coal when she was through cooking. On the porch was the ice-box that was filled each week with a chunk of ice. I remember the bath room with it claw-footed bathtub. I locked myself in there once. Grandpa had a fancy wind-up clock hanging on a kitchen wall that I liked. Grandma had a piano that she played. She gave me my one and only piano lesson by showing me how to play a few keys. The piano sat in the small living room along with a coal stove (with isinglass in the door) with a coal bucket and shovel. The wall behind the piano had a narrow set of stairs leading to the upstairs bed rooms. Sometimes I would go with Dad to visit Grandpa Petersen. They would sit in the kitchen and talk and have a glass of his homemade wine. I would get a taste once in a while. The first Christmas I remember was in our own family's two-room house. I remember my fold-down bed was in the kitchen and Dad had built me a windmill out of Tinker Toys, which I was very proud of. He had gone outside and shook some sleigh bells and then told me that Santa Claus was outside and if I didn't go to sleep he wouldn't come in. I dozed off very quickly. Dad would buy the tree and string the lights, then us kids took over and decorated the tree. We used the old-fashioned ornaments from Dad's old trunk, strings of popcorn, cranberries, and colored-paper chains. As a kid, we played a lot of tag games. One was called "Round-up." The first one caught in the previous game was "it." He would chase after the others. If he captured or tagged one, he became his helper and chased after the others that weren't tagged. This game ranged over miles through barns, over hay stacks, and over roofs of chicken coops. It was an all-out war. "Kick the Can." A can would be placed under an "arc" (or street) light and the person that was "it" had to protect the can as well as jump over the can to tag someone. The person that was "it" would find a player and race him to the can. He would yell "over the can for the player and identify him by name." If he was beat to the can and it was kicked, the kicker was free as well as any other players that had been caught and were waiting in prison. We played marbles, usually the traditional knock the marble out of the circle – but my favorite was "holies." You would dig 4 holes about the size of a cup about 5 feet apart at the corners forming a square. Another hole would be dug in the center. It would look something like a baseball diamond. You would each put several marbles in the center of the hole and this would be the pot to win. You would lag to a line drawn in the dirt for position of turn. The person closest to the line was the first and so on. The first person would start from the first hole. You could take a hand span (thumb in the bottom of the hole and make a radius with the finger) and shoot from anywhere within the radius to the next hole. When you reached a hole you had a second turn. The next player would shoot the same way and attempt to hit his marble for a repeat turn and to knock him out of the playing field similar to croquet. If you could span into your hole another marble, you would have three tries to knock it out of the hole. If you were able to, you got your next hole free. You would always try to knock your competitor's marble into the center hole. This would kill him or yourself if you went in. You traversed the square three times and then you would shoot to the center hole and be made a king. You would then attempt to hit the other players' marbles. A touch from the king would kill the player. The last one alive took the pot. The marble that the individual shot with was called the "ta." We took great pride in this marble. Of course we played "hide and seek" also. If you had an "arc" light in front of your house, you were the most popular kid in the neighborhood. Kids don't play | Petersen, Jack Merlin (I43)
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| 7072 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Citation Information: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III: "JOHN WHITE Origin: Messing, Essex Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150] First Residence: Cambridge Removes: Hartford 1635, Hadley 1659, Hartford by 1671 Church Membership: Admission to a Massachusetts Bay church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship. He presumably became a member of the church at Cambridge, and retained membership in that church when it moved to Hartford. He would then have become a member of Hadley church when that was formed, and in 1671 was dismissed from Hadley church to the Second Church at Hartford, of which he became ruling elder [Goodwin Anc 2:404-05, citing Second Church records]. Freeman: 4 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:367]. Education: He signed his will by mark. His inventory included "one book" valued at 7s. and "more by books" valued at 17s. Offices: Surveyor of highways, Cambridge, 3 November 1634 [CaTR 10]; Cambridge selectman, 3 February 1634/5 [CaTR 11]. Grand jury, 7 December 1654 [RPCC 132]. Jury, 6 April 1643, 6 June 1644, December 1644, 4 September 1645, 2 December 1647, May? 1648, 28 December 1648, 6 September 1649, 5 September 1650, 20 February 1650[/1], 2 December 1652, May 1657, 3 November 1657, 3 June 1658 [RPCC 19, 25, 30, 36, 49, 50, 57, 69, 87, 93, 112, 176, 183, 191]. Coroner's jury, on the body of Henry Stiles, December 1651 [RPCC 106]. Arbiter, 6 June 1644 [RPCC 27]. Deputy for Hadley to Massachusetts Bay General Court, 3 August 1664, 19 May 1669 [MBCR 4:2:117, 418]. Estate: Granted three roods for cowyard in Cambridge, 5 August 1633 [CaTR 5]; received proportional share of 2½ in undivided meadow [CaTR 13]; granted two acres in ground between Charlestown path and common pales, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 16]. In the Cambridge land inventory on 1 May 1635 John White held eleven parcels: one dwelling house in Cowyard Row, three roods; three roods in Cowyard Row; two acres and a half in Old Field; one acre and a rood in Old Field; one acre and a rood in Old Field; one acre on Long Marsh; thirteen acres and a half in the Neck of Land; eleven acres in the Great Marsh; three acres and a rood in the Long Marsh; one acre (and a rood?) in the Ox Marsh; and half a rood in Cowyard Row [CaBOP 4-5]. On 20 October 1635 John White "of the Newtowne" sold to Nicholas Danforth "those several parcels of land as they are recorded in this book in folio 3" [in other words, the eleven parcels listed immediately above] [CaBOP 36]. On 30 May 1636 John White of "the New Towne upon Quinetucquet River" sold to Nicholas Danforth twelve and a half acres in "Aylwife Meaddow" and two acres in the Ox Pasture [CaBOP 36]. In the Hartford land inventory in February 1639/40 John White held sixteen parcels: "one parcel on which his dwelling house now standeth with other outhouses, yards, or gardens ... two acres ... part whereof he received in exchange with Mr. Hopkins for part of his houselot"; "one parcel lying in the south meadow ... eleven acres & one rood"; "one parcel lying in the forty acres of meadow & swampe ... nine acres & two roods"; "one parcel lying in the oxpasture ... six acres"; "one parcel lying in the oxpasture ... twenty-seven acres"; "one parcel of meadow lying in Hockanum ... eight acres one rood"; "one parcel lying in the little meadow ... two acres"; "one parcel lying in the little meadow which he bought of Nathaniel Ward ... two acres"; "one parcel lying in the Little Meadow which he bought of Andrew Warnor ... two acres & two roods"; "one parcel of land lying in the forty acres which he bought of Andrew Warnor ... seven acres"; "one parcel of swamp ... ten acres"; "one parcel lying in the Little Meadow ... two acres & two roods ... part whereof he bought of Mr. Webster & another part he bought of John Mode [Moody]"; "one parcel of meadow & swamp ... ten acres ... part whereof he bought of Andrew Warnor"; "one parcel lying in the Little Meadow which he bought of William Pantree .... three acres"; "one parcel lying in the South Meadow which he received of Nathaniel Ward ... one acre"; and "one parcel of upland lying on the east side of the Great River at Hockanum being his division of upland ... one hundred & fifty acres" (annotated "sold to Andrew Warner") [HaBOP 273-76]. On 4 March 1651/2 the court confirmed the bargain between John White and John Skinner's widow for land [RPCC 108]. In 1659 John White paid some of the highest mill rates in Hartford [HaBOP 497]. In February 1671[/2] John White paid a modest proportion for the purchase of undivided lands in Hartford [HaBOP 549]. On 30 January 1672[/3] John White drew lot #27 in the lands next to Windsor [HaBOP 552, 565]. In his will, dated 17 December 1683 and proved 6 March 1683/4, "Mr. John White of Hartford" bequeathed to son Nathaniel £30, movables, and part of "my oxpasture"; to son Daniel White £20; to son Jacob White part of "my oxpasture" and moveables; "I empower my executor to give to my daughter Hixton according to his discretion as he shall see her need calls for"; "and whereas formerly I intended to give one parcel of meadow land in great Ponset to Stephen Taylor, yet now being forced to pay a great sum of money for the redemption of his house & homelot, I now see cause to dispose of that land for payment of that debt, and shall leave it to my executor with the advice of the overseers to give either to him or the rest of my daughter Hixton's children as he shall see cause"; to "my grandchild Stephen Taylor" various moveables; to "Sarah White the daughter of my son Nathanaell" £5; to "the Reverend Mr. John Whiting my honored pastor" £5; residue to be divided "among my grandchildren (viz) Jonathan Gilbert son of my daughter Mary, my son Nathaniell's children, my son John's children, my son Daniell's children & my daughter Sarah['s] Children, their sons to have as much more as their daughters"; "my wearing apparel be divided amongst my sons"; "my son Nathaniell White" to be sole executor and "my beloved friends Ensign Nathaniell Stanly and Stephen Hosmer" to be overseers [Hartford PD Case #5928; Goodwin Anc 2:406-07; Manwaring 1:385-86]. The inventory of the estate of Elder John White deceased 23 January 1683[/4]" totalled £190 9s., of which £48 was real estate: "his lots in the west division," £12; "his oxpasture lying on the east side of the highway leading to Wathersfeld," £18; and "his oxpasture lying on the west side of the highway leading to Wathersfeld" [Hartford PD Case #5928; Manwaring 1:385]. Birth: About 1597, son of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White of Messing, Essex [NEHGR 55:22-31]. Death: Hartford 23 January 1683/4 (from inventory). Marriage: Messing, Essex, 26 December 1622, Mary (Lev)it [NEHGR 55:29]; she apparently predeceased her husband. Children: i John, bp. Messing 28 December 1623 [NEHGR 55:29]; no further record. ii Mary, bp. Messing 16 July 1626 [NEHGR 55:29]; m. 29 January 1645/6 Jonathan Gilbert [HaVR 606]. iii PHILIP (daughter), bp. Messing 21 December 1628 [NEHGR 55:29]; no further record. iv Nathaniel, b. say 1630 (sworn for Middletown 1656 [RPCC 174]); m. (1) by 1653 Elizabeth ____ (daughter Elizabeth aged four and a half on 29 March 1658 [WMJ 297, 384]); (2) after 1692 Martha (Coit) Mould, daughter of John Coit and widow of Hugh Mould [Goodwin Anc 2:408; MacDonough-Hackstaff 248-51]. v John, b. about 1636 (aged twenty-one, November 1657 [WMJ 61]); m. by 1659 Sarah Bunce, daughter of Thomas Bunce (John Winthrop Jr. treated "White, Joh: his wife" on 15 March 1659[/60] and "White, Sarah, about 17 y." on 7 May 1660 [WMJ 425]; on 2 April 1666 he treated "White [blank] widow daughter of Tho[mas] Buns" [WMJ 638]). vi Daniel, b. say 1638; m. Hadley 1 November 1661 Sarah Crow [Pynchon VR 223] vii Sarah b. about 1641 (aged sixteen years 17 March 1657/8 [WMJ 94]); m. (1) by about 1664 Stephen Taylor; m. (2) Hadley 15 October 1666 Barnabas Hinsdale [Pynchon VR 223 (bride's name given as "Mary")]; m. (3) Hatfield [blank] February 1678 Walter Hickson [Goodwin Anc 2:409, citing Hatfield VR 1:80]. viii Jacob, b. Hartford 8 October 1645 [HaBOP 576]; m. by 1669 Elizabeth Bunce (on 8 July 1669 John Winthrop Jr. treated "White, Elis[abeth], wife of Jacob of Hartford" [WMJ 935]; in his undated will (but about 1683) Thomas Bunce bequeathed to "my daughter Elizabeth White" [Manwaring 1:283]). Associations: Three of John White's sisters came to New England with their husbands: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis; Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin; and Anne, wife of John Porter [NEHGR 55:22-31]. Comments: John White may have resided briefly in Middletown [Goodwin Anc 2:402-03]. On 7 March 1660/1 Connecticut court heard a case of Edward Stebbin and John White as overseers for Mr. Haines's children against John Deming Jr. for debt [RPCC 223]. Bibliographic Note: In 1901 "A Descendant" published an excellent article on the White family in England, and the connections to other New England immigrants [NEHGR 55:22-31]. In 1915 Frank Farnsworth Starr prepared the best account in print of the immigrant and his children [Goodwin Anc 2:395-419]." 2. Mentioned in father's will of 17 Jun 1617: Daniel, co-administrator of will with Robert's wife Bridget. Sarah, eldest dau. and wife of James Bowtell of "little Salinge." "Marie, wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree." Elizabeth, wife of "Willm Goodinge or Goodings of Bockinge." Bridgett, unmarried. Anna, unmarried. Nathaniel John, minor under age 20. Also mentions a kinsman: Ralph Bett, the younger. 3. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... According to his will, hereinafter given, he left surviving a wife Bridget; three sons - Daniel, Nathaniel and John who was his youngest Child; three married daughters - Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth; and two unmarried daughters-Bridget and Anna. As he makes his son Daniel joint executor with his wife, it may be inferred he was his eldest son, and possibly by a former wife. His wife Bridget was the mother of his other children, of whom Sarah, wife of James Bowtell of Little Sailinge in Essex, was the first born... The home lots of Joseph Loomis and John Porter in Windsor were adjacent, and these two sisters, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, began in 1639 new homes side by side, in which they lived the rest of their days. Three years before, in 1636, their brother John White, and their sister Elizabeth (White) Goodwin, had settled in Hartford... It is very plausibly supposed that the John White who came over in the "Lion" in 1632 and settled first in Newtown, now Cambridge, in Massachusetts, and then came with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his church to Hartford in 1636, was the son of Robert White of Messing. The record of his baptism has not been found. He was not of age in 1617, when his father made his will, in which it was provided that if should marry without the approbation and consent of his mother, and of Joseph Loomis of Braintree and William Goodwin of Bocking, his legacy of 200 pounds should be reduced to 100 pounds. In the list of thirty-three passengers of the "Lion," given in Drake's Founders of New England, page 12, his name follows next after the name of William Goodwin. [Footnote included after the work "Lion": "We know the name of the vessel from Gov. Winthrop's Hist. N.E., vol. I, p. 107."] His wife's name was Mary, as appears from an unexecuted lease in the handwriting of his son Nathaniel White (now in the possession of one of his descendants), dated March 28, 1666, the lessors being John White and Mary his wife, the lessee their son Nathaniel; the premises, his house and garden, etc., in Hartford, reserving the use of two rooms therein for the term of the lives of said John and Mary, and of the longest liver, whether said John or said Mary. The Parish Register of Messing gives the marriage, December 26, 1622, of John White and Mary (Lev)it. A facsimile of a tracing made by Mr. William Brigg of this entry is here given. [A reproduction is included in the article; Mary's last name seems a bit faded and an L then space then it can be made out.] At the request of Mr. Frank F. Starr, of Middletown, Mr. William Brigg, editor of the Herts Genealogist and Antiquary, very kindly made a careful examination of this entry. His great experience and skill in deciphering old records make his suggestions and conclusions on difficult words in such records of great value. He writes to Mr. Starr as follows: "In reference to this entry: all I need say is that it is a most difficult one to read so far as the surname of the wife is concerned. In the tracing you will notice faint lines where the initial letter of the name ought to appear. These lines were only visible under a very strong magnifying glass, and the letters following are totally illegible until we come to the last two, viz. 'it,' which are clear enough. It struck me at once that the initial letter was 'L,' and I immediately searched the portions of the register in the same handwriting for a capital L, but failed to find one. Then I searched through the baptisms to see if there was any name ending in 'it,' during the period in which it might be supposed she was born, and again I failed to find anything satisfactory. Later on in the register, however, in the years 1633 and 1635 respectively, I came across the baptism of two children of Isaac Levit and Mary his wife, and I have very little hesitation in suggesting that the name of John White's wife was Levit. On my return home I looked again at the will of Robert White, printed in Mr. Goodwin's book, and found that a certain William Levett was one of the witnesses. I think you will agree with me that my suggestion is a very probable one." Mr. Brigg found among the Filed Wills, Archdeaconry of Colchester, the will of William Levett, yeoman of Messing, dated 9th October, 1626, proved 15th December, 1626, at Fering. He left an estate of about five hundred pounds. Mentions wife Margaret, sons Isaac, Richard and John. Mr. Brigg also found the nuncupative will of his widow Margaret, dated February 16 [bad print in the book and it may be 15], 1633, proved 9 March 1633. Mentions sons Isaac, John and Richard, also a son William not mentioned in her husband's will. No daughter is mentioned in either will. William Levett's will is valuable because the name of one of the witnesses is "John Whit." The following is a facsimile of a tracing made by Mr. Brigg of this signature, and under it is a facsimile of the signature of Elder John White of Hartford, to the recommendation of the Council in 1677, of which he was a member, called to heal the difficulty which had long troubled the ancient church in Windsor. [Both facsimiles as described are included; the second one includes an "e" at the end of it.] The variation in the spelling of these names is not considered important. Autograph signatures of the same person are often found where the spelling is not precisely the same, especially when the difference consists of the final "e." Persons familiar with the handwriting of those times have examined these facsimiles and considering that one signature was written in 1626 and the other fifty-one years afterwards, when the writer was about 76 years old, have expressed the opinion that they are sufficiently alike to have been written by the same hand. Of Elder John White's children, Mary and Nathaniel were born in England, but only the baptism, July 16, 1626, of Mary has been found. The rest of his children named in his will were born here... It deserves to be mentioned that family genealogies have been printed of all the members of Robert White's family who are known to have emigrated to New England, namely: Elder John White and his descendants, in 1860. The Loomis Genealogy, in 1875. Loomis Genealogy, female branches, in 1880. The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn., in 1891. John Porter and his descendants, in 1893. Memorials of Roderick White and descendants, in 1892. From these books some of the preceding facts have been taken, and to these genealogies the reader is referred for full and interesting memorials of these families... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr... From the Parish Register of Messing. Marriages... 1622, Dec. 26, John White and Mary (Lev)it. Baptisms... 1623, Dec. 28, John White son of John White and Mary his wife. 1626, July 16, Mary White dau. of John White and Mary his wife. 1628, Dec. 21, Philip White dau. of John White and Mary his wife. 1633, Dec. 1, John Levit son of Isaac Levit and Mary his wife. 1635, July 5, Sarah dau. of Isaac Levit and Mary his wife..." 4. I looked up Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, for the biography of Elder John White. There was none because of his residency in Hartford. 5. FHL book "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001," by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo, 2002, pp. 163-64; I question the birth date of John White, which I do not believe has a documented source: "John White, born at Shalford 13 July 1600; died at Hartford, Connecticut 23 January 1683/84; married at Messing 26 December 1622, Mary Levitt. John and his wife and two oldest children, probably Mary and Nathaniel, came to New England on the Lion in 1632. They lived at Newtown. John was admitted a Freeman in March of 1633. In 1635 he was chosen as a Selectman which means he was a member of the board which conducted the business of the town of Cambridge, as Newtown came to be known. In 1636, many of the congregation left Newtown to find a place to live where they could enjoy more religious freedom. The Whites were among the group who suffered many hardships as they traveled to reach their destination on the Connecticut River. That settlement became known as Hartford. John was one of the Original Proprietors of Hartford and was granted a home lot of two acres and thirty-two acres of upland for farming. Sometime later he also acquired 150 acres of land east of the river. He was chosen a Selectman at Hartford at least four different times. After the death of Thomas Hooker in 1647, dissension began in the church. Samuel Stone had become the minister and many were most dissatisfied. This unrest continued until April of 1659, when sixty settlers of Hartford signed an agreement and moved up the river to a place where the town of Hadley was established. John was one of the first settlers there. John became a Selectman in this settlement and also served as Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, as they now were back in Massachusetts. John also became an elder in the church in Hadley. This may be where he acquired the title of Elder John White. By 1670, dissension was again rampant in the Hartford church, and its membership again was divided with many forming another church in South Hartford. Shortly thereafter, John and his wife moved back to South Hartford and joined the church there. He became an elder. Records also mention that he was an arbitrator and counselor in church matters. Mary died before her husband. Children of John and Mary (Levitt) White... [lists 8 children b./bap. 1623-1645]" 6. FHL book "Various Ancestral Lines … Goodwin and … Morgan …," by Frank Farnsworth Starr (1915; Hartford), pp. 399-409: "John White, youngest son of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White of Shalford and Messing, Essex County, England, was presumably born in the former parish, but there does not appear to have been any record of his baptism on the church books. Whether or not he preceded his father in the removal to Messing will probably never be known. He married at Messing, December 26, 1622, Mary whose surname it is difficult to read, owing to the damaged condition of the register. The name is thought to have been "Levit", and she may have been a relative of William Levett, who was one of the witnesses to Robert White's will. The Messing Register contains the record of the baptisms of three of John's children: John, Mary and Philip, a "daughter", the latter being baptized December 21, 1628. Whether John White continued to reside in the parish or lived elsewhere before his emigration to America, is not known. He and his brother-in-law, William Goodwin, were two of the passengers on the "Lion" which in June 1632, sailed for America and arrived at Boston on the 16th of September. (New Eng. Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 14 p. 300-1, Hotten's Lists of Emigrants to America, p. 150, Winthrop's History of New England, 1853, vol. I, p. 107, and Mass. Historical Society Collections, series 4, vol. I, p. 94.) On page 4 of the first volume of Cambridge Town Records, under date of January 7, 1632, are several votes regarding the houses of the inhabitants, fixing their distance, the kind of covering and other matters of importance to the new settlement. Immediately following these votes and supposedly of the same date, is an entry showing the proportion of the common pale or fence that each of the inhabitants was to build. Among the names, forty-two in number, we find that of "John White", who was assigned "15 Rod", (Records of the Town and Selectmen of Cambridge, 1630-1703, p. 5) showing that he had already become a resident of that town. He is supposed to have been the John White who was made one of the "Freemen of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England", on "March 4th, 1632." (Records of Massachusetts, vol. I, pp. 366-367.) On page 3 of the first volume of Land Records of Cambridge (Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, 1635-1829, p. 4) is an entry of John White's lands under date of "May the first 1635", the first entry reading thus: "John Whitte in Cowyard row one dwellinge house wth other out houses wth bake sides and garden about three roods William goodwin on the northeast William Wadsworth on the southeast backe Lane on the southwest [___] Hopkins on the north West." (According to the map of early Cambridge in Paige's History of that town, and p. 15 of the text, this was located on what is now known as Bow street.) There are also recorded to him, two and one-half acres in the Old Field, three roods in Cow Yard Row, two more pieces in the Old Field of one and one-quarter acres each, one acre at Long Marsh Hill, thirteen and one-half acres in the Neck, eleven acres in the Great Marsh, three and a quarter acres in Long Marsh, one acre in Ox Marsh and one-half a rood in Cow Yard Row. (Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, 1635-1829, pp. 4-5.) "The 3rd of November 1634" he was "Chossen sueveior to see the highways and streete kept cleane and in repair for the yeare followeinge." (Records of the Town and Selectmen of Cambridge, 1630-1703, p. 10.) February 3, following, be was one of seven men chosen "to doe the whole bussines of the Towne and soe to Continew vntell the ffirst Monday in November next." (Ibid, p. 11.) In 1635 steps were being taken by a large number of the Cambridge inhabitants to remove out of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and in the fall of that year, part of the number, and in the following spring, the remainder did so remove to what was at first known as Newtown, and later as Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the sympathizers of this movement, "John White of the Newtowne" sold to Nicholas Danforth on October 20, 1635 his house and lands, as recorded to him on page 3 of the first volume of Proprietors' Records." (Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, 1635-1829, p. 36.) He is believed to have removed soon after, and on May 30, 1636, he sold to Danforth additional lands in Alewife Meadow and the Ox Pasture, when he was described as "John white of the New Town vppo Quinetucquet River". (Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, 1635-1829, p. 36.) His homestead of two acres in Hartford was located on the north side of what is now Charter Oak avenue, with the present Governor street for its western boundary. The description of this property is entered on page 301 of the Book of Distributions: "Febr: Anna dom: 1639" "Severall parcels of Land in Hertford vpon the River of Conecticott belonging to John White & to his heires forever" "viz One parcell on which his dwelling house now standeth wth other outhouses, yards, or gardens, therein being Contayning by Estimation two acres more or lesse pt whereof he received in Exchang wth Mr Hopkins for pt of his house lott Abuttinge on the high way leading from John Moodyes into the South meadow on the South & on the high way leading from Willm Hillses to the Ox pasture on the west & on Mr Hopkins his yards & other land of his on the North & on the East" Mr. Hopkins, his neighbor on the east, later become Governor of the colony. Mr. White had also eleven and a quarter acres in the South Meadow, two acres in the Little Meadow, six acres in the Ox Pasture, eight and a quarter acres on the east side of the river at Hockanum, besides other tracts in various parts of the town. (Hartford, Conn., Land Records, "Book of Distributions", pp. 301-304, and Connecticut Colonial Land Records, vol. I, section 2, p. 12.) His name appears among the "Names of (such Inhabitants as haue) Right in v[ndivded Lands."] (Hartford Town Votes, Conn. Historical Society Collections, vol.6, p. 16.) At a town meeting held in January 1640, be was one of a committee appointed to apportion among the inhabitants the land on "ye east sid of ye greate River." (Ibid.,vol. 6, p. 39.) In January 1641, February 1645 and 1650, he was chosen one of the Townsmen, later called Selectmen, and in February 1649 he was appointed one of the Fenceviewers. (Ibid., vol. 6, pp. 58, 79, 95, 91.) The earliest entry in the first volume of the Land Records of Middletown, Connecticut, is dated "the last of May 1654." It is unfortunate that no record was kept of the transfer of lands for the first four years of the settlement, as a study of the first volume of Town Votes reveals the fact that various parties, not residents there after 1654, owned lands prior to that date, and possibly resided there for a short time. The following entries in the record of Town Votes would seem to indicate that John White was for a short time resident there. "Aprell the 11th 1653" "John halle senior condescended: to exchange with John whit senior so that hee: may lye next vnto him in the medow as them twayn shalle agree: or as tow indeferent men chosen by themselves shalle judg met and so to sit down satisfyed theire with". (Middletown, Conn., Town Votes, vol. I, folio 6.) "may the 24th 1653" "It was granted by the town that John see shall haue 30 acors of upland joyning to his home lote part being his proportyon of sowbegs felde and In case at deuiding of the parcells any one com short of their answerable proportyons It is agreed that any such shalle haue their shars made up in the next felde that be taken in goodman white abating so mu[ch] of his other deuision in yt felde as hee hath more then his share in this." (Middletown, Conn., Town Votes, vol. I, p. 7.) In March 1654, the town took action regarding the building of the meadow fence to be erected by the persons owning land in the meadow, "the proportyons of men in the ffence comes to a dayes worke and a quarter to an acre." (Ibid., p. 7-1/2.) Following this vote is a list of the persons who were to build the fence, with the amount of time they were to give thereto. Among these names is that of "Jo White". His time was "2 Days" indicating that he owned about two acres in the meadow. Whether he conveyed his lands to his son Nathaniel or sold them to other parties will probably never be known. In 1655 he had evidently returned to Hartford, for at the annual town meeting held February 15, be was given his old position as one of the Townsmen. (Hartford Town Votes, Conn. Historical Society Collections, vol. 6, p. 110.) Soon after the death of Thomas Hooker, the beloved pastor of the Hartford Church, differences of opinion regarding matters of church government arose between Mr. Stone, Hooker's successor, and a number of the congregation. These differences created great uneasiness in the town and were the cause of various appeals to the General Court and to the ministers of the neighboring plantations and colonies. The differences continued so long and such strong feelings were developed, that on April 18, 1659, fifty-nine persons met together in Hartford, at least thirty of whom resided there, and agreed to remove into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, "to the plantation, purchased on the east side of the river of Connecticut beside Northampton therein to inhabit and dwell by the 29th of September come 12 months which will be In the year 1660." One of the signers us John White. One week later, he was one of five persons chosen by the whole body to proceed to the new plantation and to lay out fifty-nine home-lots of eight acres each. The plantation was started in the summer of 1659, and as a result of meetings held the following November in Hartford, Wethersfield and Hadley, seven men including John White were chosen "to order all public occasions, that concern the good of that plantation the year ensuing. (Judd's History of Hadley, Mass., 1863, pp. 19-20.) The records further show that on the 22d of the same month, this body of men called Townsmen laid a rate or tax to raise funds for the purchase of the plantation and maintenance of the minister. (Ibid., p. 20.) According to the map in Judd's History of Hadley, John White's homelot was on the east side of the main street ahout fifty rods south of "the middle highway to the woods," now the road leading to Amherst. (Ibid., p. 20.) As early as March 16, 1661 he was a juror of the County Court. (Hampshire County, Mass., Probate Records, vol. 1, p. 4.) He was again Townsman or Selectman in 1662, 1663, 1665 (Hadley, Mass., Town Votes, vol. 1, pp. 6, 25, 35) and a Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts in August 1664 and in May 1669. (Records of Massachusetts, vol. 4, part 2, pp. 117, 418.) In 1671 he had again become a resident of Hartford and on the 9th of April that year, he and his wife, who is not named in the record, having been dismissed from the church at Hadley, were admitted to full communion in the Second Church of Hartford. (History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford, p. 291.) He retained the title to his Hartford homestead of 1639 until December 5, 1667, when he conveyed it to his son Jacob. (Hartford, Conn., Land Records, vol. 1, p. 85.) On his return to Hartford he presumably spent the last years of his life with Jacob on this property. For several years prior to 1677 the residents of Windsor, Connecticut were torn into two factions over ecclesiastical matters, each body worshipping by itself under a separate minister. Various attempts were made to compose their differences and in January 1677, a council consisting of John Talcott, Colonial Treasurer, John Allyn, Colonial Secretary, five ministers and seven laymen from the neighboring towns, drew up a letter of advice recommending a course of action in order to unite the opposing parties and heal all differences. Among the signatures appended to this document, that of John White is the first of the laymen. This letter with the autographs of the members of the council is preserved in the Connecticut State Library, volume 1 of "Ecclesiastical," document 63. Wise as this advice was, it was not followed and not until 1684 did the quarrel come to an end. The following entry on the records of the Second Church in Hartford shows the high esteem in which he was held by the church members: "March 28, 1677, the church having before chose Mr. John White to the office of Ruling Elder, and he accepted it, he was accordingly, this day, ordained to be in that office, in the presence with the approbation of the elders and messengers of some neighbor churches. "This holy man, having faithfully served the Lord in his place and that also with good success through grace (he was a good man, and God was with him), fell asleep in Christ, and went to receive his reward, January, 1683." (History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford, p. 60.) The original inventory of his property still on file at the Hartford Probate Office states that "elder John white – deceased Janiuare th 23, '83" Doubtless he was laid to rest in the graveyard adjoining the First Church of Hartford, but there is no stone to mark his grave or that of his wife. She is supposed to have died before him as no provision for her was made in his will. This will dated December 17, 1683, was presented to the Hartford County Court, March 6, following. The original is on file and reads as follows: "For as much as my time Vncertaine, and j know not the day of my death, j Account it my dutie, to make my last will and testament which is as followeth. "j Resigne and give up my selfe, soul snd bodie to my soveraigne Lord & maker, my God and father in my Lord & saviour Jesus Christ: and to prevent trouble to those that shall survive mee, j do dispose of that portion of outward estate which the Lord hath in mercy blessed me with, in manner following (viz) "j give & bequeath to my son Nathanaell White thirtie pounds, and my best broad Cloath Coate & j also give him my iron bound Chest in my Chamber, & my Cob irons in my parlour, & that part of my ox pasture which lyeth on the Left hand of the way as wego to wethersfield "j give to him & his heirs for ever, bounded upon the high way west, Henery Grimes land North, Mr Niccolls his Land South, the South meadow east. "j give to my son Daniell White twentie pounds. "j give to my son Jacob White & his heires for ever that part of my Ox pasture in Hartford which lyeth on the right hand of the way Leading to wethersfield, bounded by the high way East, by Jonathan Bigaloes land South by Henery Grimes his Land North. & Leut: Websters land West. j also give him my feather bed in the Chamber with a boolstar & pillow & the best blancket upon it, & the bed sted & Curtains belonging to it: "j impower my Executor to give to my daughter Hixton according to his discretion as he shall see her her need Calls ffor. "And whereas fformerlie j intended to give one parcell of meadow land in great Ponset, to Stephen Taylor, yet now being forced to pay a great summe of Money ffor the Redemption of his house & houselott j now see cause to dispose of that land for payment of that debt, and shall leave it to my Executor with the advice of the overseers to give either to him or the rest of my daughter Hixtons children as he shall see Cause. "j give to my grand Child, Stephen Taylor a flock bed & truckle bedsted at Nathanaell Whites at Hadly and an old blancket vpon my bed in my Chamer, and a Linze-woolsie Coverlid at the feet of my bed in the parlour, and piece of dutch searge now at the tailors to make me a paire of breeches & ajacket, j give to the said Stephen Taylor. "j give to Sarah White the daughter of my son Nathanaell five pounds. "I give to the Reved Mr. John Whiting my honored pastor five pounds in silver. "my will is that due debts being discharged, and the above mentioned legacies payd, the remainder of my estate shall be devided among my grand children (viz) Jonathan Gilbert son of my daughter Mary, my son Nathaniells Children, my son Johns Children, my son Daniells children & my Daughter Sarah children their sons to have as much more as their daughters, & if any of their sons shall dye before they Come to age of one & twentie years then his or their portion to be divided equally among the survivors, and in like manner among the daughters, if any of them shall dye before the age of Eighteen years "My will is that my wearing apparrell be divided amongst my sonns, my will also is that my Executor shall have four years time after my decease for the payment of the Legacies mentioned, only my will is that my moveable goods be payd to them that are readie to receive them presently. and j do give my said Executor full power to sell my land lying in the last out division in Hartford being about eightie acrees, and my share in the mill for the payment of the legacies as aforesaid, & what ever time or expence he shall be at, in managing these affaires, he shall fully satisfie him selfe out of the estate before division be made. "j do Constitute and ordaine my son Nathaniell White the sole Executor of this my Last will and testament; and j do desire my bloved friends Ensign Nathaniell Stanly, and Stephen Hosmer as Overseers to assist in performance of this my last will. and j do give them twentie skillings: a peice for their paines there in. "John (his W Mark) White senr" "This was declared by John White Senior to be his last will & Testament the Seventeenth day of December. 1683, a in presence of. Caleb Watson, Mary watson" The total value of his property was £190-09-00 of which his real estate amounted to £51-00-00. A debt owing him by his son Nathaniel was valued at 90-00-00. The original inventory of his property still on file discloses that he had disposed of most of his real estate before his death, but interesting item: "By His Intrest in Harford mell," ₤-00-00 shows that he was past owner of the grist mill of the town located on Little river near the Main street. [Lists eight children bap. 1623-1645.]" 7. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), p. 163: "ROBERT WHITE, born at Shalford, co. Essex in 1588; buried at Messing, co. Essex June 1617; married at Shalford 24 June 1585, BRIDGET ALGAR, born at Shalford, co. Essex, England 11 March 1562. Robert was a yeoman and lived most of his life in Shalford, but moved to Messing before his death. He left a long and complete will at Shalford. Children of Robert and Bridget (Algar) White: i. Sarah White, born at Shalford 8 March 1585/6. ii. Nathaniel White, baptized at Shalford 30 April 1587. iii. Mary White, born at Shalford, co Essex, England, 24 August 1590; died at Windsor, Connecticut 21 August 1652; married at Messing, co. Essex 30 June 1614, Joseph Loomis. iv. Bridget White, baptized at Shalford 18 August 1594. v Anna White, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600. vi. ELIZABETH WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1a below) vii. JOHN WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1b below) ELIZABETH WHITE, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600 [an apparent typo by the author]; died at Windsor Connecticut; married in England, WILLIAM GOODWIN (See Goodwin Family.)" 8. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), pp. 163-64: "JOHN WHITE, born at Shalford 13 July 1600; died at Hartford, Connecticut 23 January 1683/84; married at Messing 26 December 1622, MARY LEVITT. John and his wife and two oldest children, probably Mary and Nathaniel, came to New England on the Lion in 1632. They lived at Newtown. John was admitted a Freeman in March of 1633. In 1635 he was chosen as a Selectman which means he was a member of the board which conducted the business of the town of Cambridge, as Newtown came to be known. In 1636, many of the congregation left Newtown to find a place to live where they could enjoy more religious freedom. The Whites were among the group who suffered many hardships as they traveled to reach their destination on the Connecticut River. That settlement became known as Hartford. John was one of the Original Proprietors of Hartford and was granted a home lot of two acres and thirty-two acres of upland for farming. Sometime later he also acquired 150 acres of land east of the river. He was chosen a Selectman at Hartford at least four different times. After the death of Thomas Hooker in 1647, dissention began in the church. Samuel Stone had become the minister and many were most dissatisfied. This unrest continued until April of 1659, when sixty settlers of Hartford signed an agreement and moved up the river to a place where the town of Hadley was established. John was one of the first settlers there. John became a Selectman in this settlement and also served, as Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, as they now were back in Massachusetts. John also became an elder in the church in Hadley. This may be where he acquired the title of Elder John White. By 1670, dissention was again rampant in the Hartford church, and its membership again was divided with many forming another church in South Hartford. Shortly thereafter, John and his wife moved back to South Hartford and joined the church there. He became an elder. Records also mention that he was an arbitrator and counselor in church matters. Mary died before her husband. Children of John and Mary (Levitt) White: i. John White, baptized at Messing 28 December 1623 (perhaps died young). ii. Mary White, born at Messing 1626; died at Hatfield, Massachusetts 1650; married 29 January 1645/46, Jonathan Gilbert. iii. Philip White, baptized at Messing 21 December 1628 (perhaps died young). iv. Nathaniel White, born about 1630, perhaps in Cambridge or on ship, v. John White, born about 1636; married by 1659, Sarah Bunce. vi. DANIEL WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See 3 below.) vii. Sarah White, born about 1641; married (1) by 1664, Stephen Taylor; (2) at Hadley 15 October 1666, Barnabas Hinsdale; (3) at Hatfield February 1678, Walter Hickson. viii. Jacob White, born at Hartford 8 October 1645; marrie4 by 1669, Elizabeth Bunce. LIEUTENANT DANIEL WHITE, born at Hartford, Connecticut about 1639; died at Hatfield, Massachusetts 1713; married at Hadley, Massachusetts 1 November 1661, SARAH CROW. (See Crow Family)" 9. The book "Colonial Ancestors. Four lineal genealogies of eastern Connecticut families…," by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg (Camden, Maine; Penobscot Press, 1991), pp. 183-87 [Note: I neglected to copy the source list.]: "Some productive inquiries into the English origins of John White were made by one of his descendants around the year 1900. John is understood to be the youngest child of ROBERTA WHITE, yeoman, well-to-do, born possibly in Messing, county Essex; he died there in 1617. Robert married in Shalford, county Essex, 24 Jun 1585, BRIDGET ALLGAR, where also she had been baptized on 11 Mch 1562, the daughter of William Allgar. Robert and Bridget seem to have lived in her native town or parish, Shalford, most of their married life.[1] Robert White was buried at Messing, 17 Jun 1617, less than three weeks after making his will, which provided for daughters Sarah (called the eldest; mar. James Bowtell), Mary (mar. Joseph Loomis), Elizabeth (mar. William Goodwin), Bridget White and Anna White, in that order; he then names sons Nathaniel and John, the latter being a minor and believed to be the youngest child; finally, he names his wife, Bridget, and his son, Daniel as joint executors.[2] Subsequently, Anna White married at Messing, 18 Oct 1620, John Porter; and John White married at the same place, 26 Dec 1622, Mary (Lev).[3] A sizeable portion of the White family moved from the Old World to New England in the Great Migration, and stayed near to one another in the new land.[4] Moreover, there clearly existed within the family, and with its in-laws, a sense of closeness, mutual support, and common interest. This is apparent from the respect and trust implied in assigned responsibilities, as illustrated in several legal instruments in which members of the family partook. For example, Robert White, wishing to assure sensible marriages for his children, Bridget, Anna and John, by his will conditioned receipt of their full inheritance upon approval of the intended spouse not only by his wife Bridget, but also by his "sonnes in law" Joseph Loomis and William Goodwin.[5] The father's high opinion of these two young men was well substantiated by their later careers as leaders in Windsor and Hartford in Connecticut. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the White children tried to stay together when they settled across the Altantic: when Joseph Loomis and John Porter occupied adjacent home lots in Windsor in 1639, their wives, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, became next door neighbors.[6] The English shire of Essex was one of the prime centers for nonconformist preachers, and of course most of those who came to New England in the two decades after Robert White's death were following their inspiring preachers, often making the move as congregations. It's not surprising, then, to find in Robert White's will an early bequest for "...Mr. Richard Rogers preacher of gods word at Withersfield in Essex...,"[7] and study of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Essex discloses that the parish of Wethersfield adjoins that of Shalford, in the north central part of Essex. For Robert White to attend a lecture by Mr. Rogers, he may have had to travel no more than ten miles. Out of this moderately wealthy English family, comfortably settled in the shire of Essex, but imbued with nonconformist fervor, came the hard working, well liked and increasingly respected man who was to become an early, founding settler of no less than three new towns: Newtown (later Cambridge, Mass.), Hartford, and Hadley. 1. JOHN1 WHITE was not yet of age when his father wrote his will and died in 1617;[8] assuming an approximate age of twenty-two years upon his marriage in Messing, county Essex, England, on 26 Dec 1622, to MARY (LEV)IT,[9] he could have been born around the year 1600. If so, his age at his death would have been about eighty-three, for his will was dated 17 Dec 1683, and the inventory of his estate was dated 23 Jan 1683/4.[10] His son Nathaniel, active, successful and respected like his father, was to live to about this same age.[11] In the parish register of Messing, the name of John's wife is given as Mary, but the first letters of the surname are illegible; the last two letters, however, are "it." A search for names found locally and so ending produced the surname, "Levit;" additional support for a tie between the two families occurs when a John White is found to have been a witness to the will of a William Levett, yeoman, of Messing, dated 09 Oct 1626 and proved 15 Dec 1626. From such evidence, Mary's maiden name is believed to be "Levit," or "Levett," and the William who died before 15 Dec 1626, leaving an estate of around £500, to be her father.[12] John and Mary White lived in England about ten years before departing for America. In company with William Goodwin and others who would later found Hartford, they sailed on the Lyon on about 22 June, and arrived in Boston on 16 Sep 1632.[13] Joining Hooker followers who had earlier located at Braintree, they settled into their first home across the sea at Newton. In less than a year, on 04 Mch 1633/4, John White was admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and in February, 1635, when Newton held its first local elections, John was one of the seven men chosen as "townsmen," or "selectmen."[14] Then, in the general removal of the Cambridge people to Hartford, John and his young family are believed to have come over to the Connecticut River with Thomas Hooker in June, 1636. He was one of the original proprietors, and his homelot was located next to that of Edward Hopkins, second governor (in 1640) of the Connecticut Colony. By 1642, he had been elected an "orderer," or selectman at Hartford, holding that office again in 1646, 1651 and 1656. He often served also as a juror, or arbitrator in the adjudication of private differences.[15] After Thomas Hooker's death in 1647, problems developed within the Hartford Church, centering around personal and doctrinal differences between the Rev. Samuel Stone and Elder William Goodwin. This resulted in attempts to establish a second church in Hartford,["'/ and that effort repeatedly failing, a large contingent of Hartford settlers decided to remove and resettle elsewhere. On 18 Apl 1659, having received permission from the Massachusetts General Court, some fifty-nine persons "engaged" to remove and resettle at Hadley in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[17] In this wrenching situation, at about age sixty, John White held firmly with his brother-in-law, William Goodwin, and actually made the move to Hadley in about 1660. It meant, of course, breaking new ground and building all over again. By this time strong in experience and wisdom, John White was even more a prominent leader than he had been before in Hartford. Informally a selectman at Hadley at the outset, he was formally confirmed as such in 1662, 1663 and 1665. In the years 1664 and 1669, he was Deputy from Hadley to the General Court in Boston.[18] After 1670, John White's name no longer appears on the records of Hadley. What happened was that the people of Hartford who had sought to establish a new church had finally prevailed, withdrawing with the Reverend John Whiting as their minister. Located on the south side of the Little River, this church became known as the "South Church." More or less coincidental with this event, John White returned to Hartford and rejoined the old friends who espoused the same congregational principles which he embraced. Probably, he was then elected to be the Elder of South Church, today an uncommon office, but indicative in that earlier time of enormous respect and love. At length, on 28 March 1677, he was elected to the office of Ruling Elder, and having accepted, he was then formally ordained and installed, just as would be a called minister. It was in this way, during his final years of life, that he took on forever the worthy title of "Elder" John White. Children of Elder John and Mary (Levit) White: i. John2 White, bp Messing, co. Essex, England, 28 Dec 1623; bur. Hatfield, Mass., 15 Sep 1665; m. Sarah, dau. of Thomas and Sarah Bunce of Hartford. [20] [21] [22] ii. Mary White, bp Messing, 16 Jul 1626; d. prob. Hartford, 16 Dec 1649, or 1650; m. at Hartford, 29 Jan 1645/6, as his first wife, Jonathan Gilbert. [23] [24] iii. Nathaniel White, b. England, c. 1629; d. Middletown, Conn., 27 Aug 1711, aged about 82; he m. 1st, Elizabeth (___); m. 2nd, Martha (Coit) Mould. [25] [26] iv. Daniel White, res. in Hatfield, d. 27 Jul 1713; m. 01 Nov 1661, Sarah, who d. 26 Jun 1719, aged 72, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Goodwin) Crow. [27] [28] v. Sarah White, res. Hatfield, d. 10 Aug 1702; m. 1st, Stephen Taylor of Hatfield, who was bur. 03 Sep 1665; m. 2nd, 15 Oct 1666, Barnabas Hindsale of Hatfield, later of Deerfield, slain at Bloody Brook, 18 Sep 1675, during King Philip's War, m. 3rd, 03 Feb 1679, Walter Hickson of Hatfield, who d. 03 Apl 1696. [29] vi. Jacob White, b. Hartford, 08 Oct 1645; d. 1701; m. Elizabeth, d. 1716, dau. of Thomas and Sarah Bunce of Hartford. [30] [31]" | White, John (I483)
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| 7073 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Depending on the version, the Andover Vital Records report both a Susan Frye and a Sara Frye with a death on 5 Mar 1661/2. Both are shown as daughters of John and Anne Frye. There are several solutions to this. (1) Two daughters died on the same day. (2) One recorder entered Sara for Susan or vice versa. (3) The record compilers could not interpret the handwriting with one indexer using Sara and another Susan. For now, it is probably better to retain both since the existing records support both. | Frye, Susan (I1922)
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| 7074 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Derived from wife's married name in her father's will of 1689. | Sares (I4919)
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| 7075 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Elizabeth not mentioned in father's will - we can surmise she was deceased by then, so does that make Joseph Fuller the widower per Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/extr2.html#clinch Extracts from Kent Wills: Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Vol. 98, folio 205, Probate 10 Feb 1769 William Clinch of Stockbury, yeoman, will dated 9 Jan 1769 Daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Hales Daughter Sarey, wife of Benjamin Bannor Stephen Hales, Joseph Fuller [typo: will reads James Fuller] Sons Thomas (executor), John and William Witnessed by Thomas Wyles, Robert Terry and Ann Terry. 2. Website of Roy L. Hales "William Clinch (Our Ancestor) (3 Jan 1703 Bicknor - 9 Feb 1769, Stockbury) married Ann Knight on October 21, 1728. In 1744, William inherited the farm in Deans Bottom and also rented tenement #7 in Stockbury. In his will William left the farm to his son Thomas Clinch, on the condition that he buy out his brothers William and John. Mary and Sarah were each given £15. As both Ann and Elizabeth had married, but were now deceased, William gave their husbands (Stephen Hales & Thomas Fuller, respectively) 10 shillings. As you can see in his will (below), William Clinch was not able to sign his name. (He left his mark). Yet he was a prominent figure in Stockbury and one of the 7 allowed to vote when Kent chose two representatives to go to Parliament. The image to the left is from the election held on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on May 1 and 2, 1754. There were three candidates. Lewis Watson and Robert Fairfax were elected. [Transcription of image: "Stockbury Thomas Nicholls, Stockbury, b. & l., his own. William Clinch, Bredgar, ditto, ditto Will. Jumper, Esq., Stockbury, ditto, Will. Broad. Thomas Redman, ditto, ditto, John Waters. James Rayner, ditto, ditto, his own. Walter Smith, ditto, ditto, ditto. George Erll, Lenham, ditto, John Wells."] [Transcription of image of will: "In the Name of God Amen. I William Clinch of the parish of Stockbury in the County of Kent Yeoman being weake in boddey but of a sound and perfect understanding and memorey praised by all mightey God for the Same I do make publish and declear this my Last Will and Testament in maner and forme folowing / that is to Say first and princepaley I Recommend my sole into the hands of Allmighty God who gave it to me / and my bodey to the Earth from whence it was taken when God Shall be pleased to take my Life from me / and my buril to be decent wihout pomp or State, at the discretion of my dear Childrine and as to Such worldly Goods as it hath pleas'd God to bless me with I Give and dispose of in maner and forme folowing, that is to Say I Give to my daughter Mary now the wife of Tho's Hales fifteen pounds, and I give to my daughter Sarey now the wife of Benj'n Banner fifteen pounds / and I Give to Steven Hales ten shillings / and I Give to James Fuller ten Shillings / allto be paid at the End of one hole yeare after my deceses by my Son Thomas Clinch whome I make Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament / and after payment of debts, Legerses, funerell Expences and Charge of proving this my last Will and Testament and all other Charges then to have a true and pertickler Inventorey and Aprisement to be made of all my Goods, Chattels, household, forneytire, wearing aprill, personall estate Beddey money and Effex whatsoever, and to be divided betwene my three Sons / John Clinch, William Clinch, and Thomas Clinch / but and allso I give and desire that Thomas Shall take to himself ten pounds over his Equell Sheear and he Shall Continue in the farme and pay his two Brothers John and William thier parts in five Equell payments in yearley and every Year till the time is Expired begining at one years end after my Desease. I hereby Revoke all former Wills and Testaments by me made at aney time heretofore, in witness whereof I the said William Clinch the testater have to this my last Will an Testament conaind in one Sheat of paper Set and a fixt my hand Seal this ninth day of Janauary in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtey Nine. William Clinch his (X) mark Sined sealed pulcied and deleard by the Said William clinch the Testater as and for hi slast Will an testament in the presants of Us the sitnesses here under wrightin. Thos. Wyles, Robert Terry, Ann X Terrey"] Their children: John Clinch (c 16 Feb 1728/29 - May 1798, Stockbury) married Mary Tollast in Bicknor, 7 Jan 1759 [typo]. All of their children were christened in Stockbury: Elizabeth (7 Jan 1759); John (3 May 1761) - died in Hartlip 7 June 1845); Mary (1 May 1763); William (19 Aug 1764); Thomas 20 July 1766); Mary (1 May 1768) married Stephen Wood in Bredgar on 25 July 1797; James (5 Feb 1769) married Sarah Chapman in Bredgar on July 19 1801; David (7 July 1771 - 10 April 1778); Benjamin (19 July 1774) Ann Clinch (Our Ancestor) (c 17[typo] December 13, 1729 - buried Oct 1, 1765 Stockbury) Elizabeth Clinch (c Sept 29 1732, Stockbury - before 1769) married Thomas [typo: should be James per the will of William Clinch] Fuller William Clinch (c 2 Oct 1735 - d. 1808, Stockbury) married Ann Vi[n]son in Stockbury on 19 October 1768. Their first child, Elizabeth, was christened in Stockbury on 12 March 1769. His father died that year and, as specified in the will, Thomas up William's share in the farm. William and Ann Clinch started christening their children in Hartlip after that: William Jones (30 Aug 13[7]3), John (8 Nov 1775); George (1 Jan 1779); Richard (27 June 1782). Mary Clinch (c July 9, 1738, Stockbury, Kent; d. October 30, 1770, Frinsted) married Thomas Hales Margaret Clinch (c Sept 21, 1740 - buried August 9, 1741 Stockbury) James Clinch (c September 17, 1742 - buried March 23, 1748/49 Stockbury) Sarah Clinch ... ( Abt. 1746; d. June 23, 1798 Stockbury) married Benjamin Banner Thomas Clinch (c September 14 [sic; should be 18], 1748 buried April 1820) married Mary Pain, in Stockbury, on 30 May 1774. After his father died, Thomas became one of Stockbury's electors. He was the owner/farmer of two properties within the parish and, as of 1782, one of the two assessors for the parish rates. Children: Thomas (3 Oct 1779, Stockbury); Elizabeth (21 July 1782, Stockbury) married Edward Filmer in Stockbury 18 Oct 1803; Sarah (4 July 1784, Stockbury); William (5 Oct 1786, Stockbury); Fanny (1 Feb 1789, Stockbury); Jane (30 Oct 1791, Stockbury); James (23 Feb 1794, Stockbury); Henrietta (25 Dec 1795, Stockbury) James Clinch (c 18 Sept 1748 - buried March 1749/50 Stockbury)" CHRISTENING: 1. Extraction of the family of William Clinch and Ann Knight from the Stockbury Parish Records (Parish Records FHL film 1473718, it. 2; Bishop's Transcripts FHL film 1737092, it. #3, and Archdeacon's Transcripts FHL film 1752235, #2 -- Note all films should be consulted for research in Stockbury because some are missing pages that others are not): -15 Oct 1774, Ann Clinch, wife of William, bur. -9 Feb 1779, William Clinch, Snr., bur. -16 Feb 1728/9, John Clinch s/o Will: and Ann, bap.; 9 May 1798, John Clinch bur. -13 Dec 1730, Ann Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1765, Ann Hales, wife of Stephen, bur. -No Elizabeth listed bapt. in 1730. -24 Sep 1732, Elizabeth Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -12 Oct 1735, William Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1809, William Clinch bur. -9 Jul 1738, Mary Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -21 Sep 1740, Margaret Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 9 Aug 1741, Margaret Clinch d/o Willm. and Ann, bur. -17 Oct 1742, James Clinch s/o Will'm and Ann, bap.; 27 Mar 1750, James Clinch s/o William and Ann, bur. -No Sarah listed bapt. in 1744-1746; Sarah Banner, bur. 12 Feb 1808. -18 Sep 1748, Thomas Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; Thomas Clinch, bur. March 24, 1820, aged 72 years. Conclusions: 1. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no record of Sarah's baptism in the estimated time period of 1744 to 1746. 2. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different James Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first James bapt. 17 Oct 1742 was bur. 23 Mar 1748/1749 and the second James was baptized abt 1750 and bur. 27 Mar 1750. What we can confirm is the first baptism and the second burial making these two James actually just one person. Additionally, the burial record calls James as a son and not an infant of his parents. 3. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different Elizabeth Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first Elizabeth was bapt. 13 Dec 1730, the same day as Ann, and that this Elizabeth must have died before 1732 when another Elizabeth is christened into this family. There was only one that is correct is the latter one. The original Parish Record shows the entry in 1730 as Elizabeth which was then crossed out and corrected to say Ann. The Bishop's Transcript picked up Elizabeth and was not also corrected. The Archdeacon's Transcript is missing that year. MARRIAGE: 1. Ancestry.com's "London, England, Clandestine Marriage and Baptism Registers, 1667-1754": James Fuller and Elizabeth Clinch of Thornham, Kent, marr. 12 Nov 1753 London, England. Place description: May Fair Register. Officiating Minister: Keith (1753 Nov - 1754 Mar). Source: Registers of Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the Fleet Prison, King's Bench Prison, the Mint and the May Fair Chapel. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Registrar General (RG) series 7. The National Archives, Kew, England. Note: Thornham [sometimes spelled Thurnham], is a parish next to Stockbury, Kent, England This record is intriguing. I did a wide geographical and broad time search on all Elizabeth Clinches born circa 1732 and it is apparent that Clinch is a very Kentish name with a smattering in Cornwall/Devon. I did however find this Elizabeth Clinch born at Westminister in 1731 added by extraction who would be a likely candidate: Elizabeth Clinch (M9KY-8YM) bapt.19 Mar 1731 at Saint Martin In The Fields, Westminster, London, England. On the other hand the marriage record does state she is from Thornham, Kent. Only one Thornham in England in Norfolk, so the corrected Thurnham seems spot on to be in Kent. The baptism for James Fuller, 11 Mar 1754, son of James and Elizabeth Fuller is found in Stockbury, so the 1753 timing looks appropriate for the marriage. They must have moved shortly thereafter from Stockbury since it was the only child born of this couple in this parish. We know Elizabeth was dead by 1769 from her father's will, which does mention James Fuller. The will clinches this (no pun intended) -- I feel this is our Elizabeth, dau. of William Clinch and Ann Knight. I wonder what was the background story of the record source: "Registers of Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the Fleet Prison, King's Bench Prison..." I feel this is our Elizabeth, dau. of William Clinch and Ann Knight. BURIAL: 1. No record found in Stockbury Church records. | Clinch, Elizabeth (I1218)
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| 7076 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface: "In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] BIRTH: 1. The Philip Frederick Mill dates from 1750 according to the New York state historical highway marker sign. Maria Saltz's father lived just down the road. This would help us surmise that all of their children were born at "Millpoint" within the modern boundaries of Florida Township in Montgomery County. Millpoint still shows up on modern-day maps and was probably named after the Frederick Mill. See Philip's notes for more on this mill and its present-day location. CHRISTENING: 1. From my visit to the Montgomery Co., NY Archives 20 Sep 2007: Records of the Trinity Church Parish, vols. 67-72, Rev. John Ogilvie, 1749 to 1764; note that he traveled up from New York City to minister in frontier recording these baptismal entries under the location "Mohawks" to parents Philip Frederick and wife Sophia Salts [unsure if they are birth or baptism - I would guess baptismal]: A. 26 Aug 1753, Francis. B. 21 Jan 1755, Hannah. 2. LDS IGI name extraction per FHL film 1002776, FHL book 974.7 B2N V. 67-69, batch C510591: Hannah Frederick, bp. 21 Jan 1755, parents Philip Frederick and Sophia Salts. MARRIAGE: 1. Some have Christian Plank married to this Hannah. Plank family genealogy shows Christian marrying Hanna (Anna), the daughter of Jacob Frederick and Margaret Young - not this Hanna who would have been 22 years his senior. ACTION: 1. Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y. New York, unknown, 1917, 748 pgs., has the following births to parents Christoffel Forncrook and Anna/Annatje Frederick. I am not sure who Anna Frederick may be, but the best option is her being Hannah, daughter of Philip Frederick. Being that she had her first child in 1776, she would have had to be married by 1775 - assuming an average female age of 18, her birth would have probably been no later than 1757. With the exception of Barent who was born in 1739, Philip's uncles would not be candidates for her father since all were born from 1743 on. Barent Frederick would also be eliminated since he did not marry until 1771. Philip's daughter, Hanna, was born 1755 which positions her well. Need to confirm if Annatje can be translated as Hanna. Birth/baptism entries follow. None of the sponsors help solve this except for Peter and Lena [Magadalena] Frederick who could be siblings of Anna. Also one of her boys is named Philip which may in honor of her father Philip. Please note that in the first four entries below for Christoffel, "Forncrook" are written in pencil over the surname: A. Christoffel Forbutuer and Annatje Frederick: Eva, b. 7 Feb 1776. Sp: Peter Frederick, Lena Frederick. B. Christoffel Ferington and Annatje Frederick: Catrina, b. 21 Aug 1778. No sponsors listed. C. Christoffel Crugh and Anna Frederic: Hendrick, b. 20 Jul 1782. Sp: Hendrick Pruyn and wife. D. Christoffel Crugh and Anna Frederick: Lena, 2 weeks old, bp. 13 Jul 1785. Sp: Jurry Yong, Lena Yong. E. Christoffel Crugh and Anna Frederick: Else, b. 5 Apr 1787. Sp: John Quesse??, Catrina Quesse??. F. Christophel Forncrook and Annatje Frederick: Philip, b. 29 Jan 1794. No sponsors listed. [Note: Henry Van Horne, brother to Cornelius and Thomas who married daughters of Philip Frederick, Eve and Maria, married Sophia Fornicook of Schoharie Creek area. Any relation to the above?] | Frederick, Hannah Maria (I2155)
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| 7077 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface: "In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] 2. Censuses: 1790 US: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/census/mohawk1790.html; 1790 Census, Montgomery County, MohawkTown: 1st No.-Free white males over 16 years 2nd No.-Free white males under 16 years 3rd No.-Free white females 4th No.-All other free persons 5th No.-Slaves *illegible Brittain, Abraham - 1-2-5-0-0 [Abraham Brinton?] Frederick, Francis - 1-3-3-0-0 Frederick, Peter - 1-3-5-0-0 Frederick, Philip - 1-0-1-0-2 Marlet, Michael - 1-1-4-0-0 Mower, Hendrick - 1-1-1-0-0 VanHorn, Cornelius - 2-2-5-0-0 VanHorn, Thomas - 1-1-5-0-* 3. From my visit to the Montgomery County, NY, Archives Sep 2007, the following typescript was in the Van Horne Family file, author and date unknown, p. 44: "Cornelius, b. 10 May 1745, d. 6 Feb 1823, Montgomery Co., NY.; md. Eve Fredericks, b. 1750, d. 1830, dau. of Philip Fredericks. He and his brother, Thomas, left NJ, and settled before the Revolution in Tryon Co., and both served in the Battle of Oriskany in that war, etc. See 'DAR Rolls, 106:217; 115:300.' His gravestone is in the Van Horne cem. near Mill Point, NY, which states he was aged 77 at death, his wife, Eve, aged 74. This grave is decorated by the DAR (Ms. at NY State Library, DAR Graves A124,161; 10:35.) children (Van Horne), b. Montgomery Co., NY, (1) Sophia; (2) Nellie; (3) Hannah; (4) Elizabeth; (5) Philip; (6) Abram; (7) Cornelius C.; (8) Maria." 4 The book "Our Van Horne Kindred," by Elsie O. Hallenback, 1958, copy in the Montgomery County NY Archives: "Cornelius Van Horne, oldest child of Mathias Van Horne and Nelly Crumm, was born in Upper Freehold, NJ on March 10, 1745. When a young man he came to Warrensbush, Tryon Co., NY where he worked for Philip Frederick who had a grist mill and saw mill at Mill Point, along the Schoharie Creek. Philip Frederick was the son of Peter Frederick, a Palatine who had been driven out of south-west Germany during a religious persecution, and emigrated to Mill Point where he settled and raised his family. According to the records of the Old Dutch Reformed Church of Schoharie, NY, he and Sophia Saltz, daughter of Francis Saltz, were registered for marriage on Nov. 11, 1752... Cornelius Van Horne married Eve Frederick, the fifth child of Philip Frederick and Sophia Saltz, and they built a home on the opposite side of the Schoharie Creek from that of her parents. There is an old lease in existence dated May 6, 1792 for this land which was in the very north-east section of the Corry Patent and in the Town of Glen, Montgomery County. It was given to Cornelius Van Horne by Silvanus Wilcox, and the witnesses where Thomas B. Vinman and Abraham Vootsik..." [Kerry's note: I am not sure how the author reckoned that Eve was the fifth child of Philip and Sophia.] 5. The book "History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N.Y.," reprinted 2002 (originally printed in the 1880s): A. Eve took care of her grandfather Francis Saltz and planned the dinner for his funeral: "There was a family named Coss among Saltz's neighbors, and both the parents falling sick and dying, he took their children to his house for care. When one of them had become a young lady of eighteen, Saltz, then a widower of ninety, fell in love with and married her. All the neighborhood was invited to the wedding, and it was a gay time in the old Dutch fachion. The sequel was hardly as gay to the aged bridegroom, for his youthful bride ran away in a year with a hired man, incidentally taking the old man's money, which was in silver and kept in a hair trunk ornamented with fancy nails. This trunk is now owned and used by the C.C. Van Horne, aged 84, who is a great grandson of Saltz; and it is as nice as when the second Mrs Saltz skipped away with the hired man and the silver. It is not related that the old man pined for his graceless companion; but during the few remaining years of his life, he would sometimes sit down and count over his silver money, doubtless thinking bitterly of that which was spirited out of the hair trunk. These last years he spent with his grand-daughter, Mrs. Cornelius Van Horne. At his death, she, according to the custom of the day, baked for all his friends - some two hundred - who were expected to attend the funeral, but the creek was so high that only the pall bearers, in two canoes, crossed it; they buried the aged man on his homestead, of which he had never obtained any title." B. An accident involving Mrs. Cornelius Van Horne on Schoharie Creek: "In olden times a dangerous dugway skirted the so-called 'blue bank,' near Mill Point. It was a narrow track, and having for a time no railing, was the scene of several perilous accidents in which, however, no loss of life occurred. One of them, at least, had a humorous phase. Jacob Van Horne undertook to drive by this point with Mrs. Cornelius Van Horne and another lady in his wagon. One of the horses took to kicking, and both of them, with the vehicle, went off the bank. The driver and the younger lady managed to jump out, but Mrs. Van Horne, as well as the horses, brought up in a bed of soft blue clay at the foot of the declivity. Her eyes and mouth were filled with the mud, and she was motionless and silent. One of the men who came to the rescue remarked that she was dead, and they had better leave her and attend to the living woman, who was hurt and screaming with pain and fright. The old lady's ears were still open, it seems, and hearing this obituary remark, she spit out a mouthful of clay and shouted, 'I ain't dead yet!' She was not indeed, but lived to startle a worthy laborer, named Snyder, who was employed at setting posts for a railing to protect this very spot. He had just finished a toilsome job on a large white oak post as Mrs. Van Horne came up the hill, unobserved by him; and leaning his spade on it, stepped back a little, took off his hat, wiped his sweaty forehead, and said aloud, 'There! Thats good enough for the devil, and what's good enough for him, is good enough for any one!' 'Why, Mr. Snyder?' inquired the old lady. 'Hello!' said the workman, as he jumped round: 'I didn't see you. How you scairt me!' The solidity of Snyder's work was shown in connection with a breakdown which happened at this point sometime after. The team getting loose from the wagon, backed over the verge, one each side of the big white oak post, and the neck-yoke catching on that, the horses were suspended until the men, despairing of getting them back, cut them loose and let them slide to the bottom, where they landed without serious injury." BIRTH: 1. The Philip Frederick Mill dates from 1750 according to the New York state historical highway marker sign. Maria Saltz's father lived just down the road. This would help us surmise that all of their children were born at "Millpoint" within the modern boundaries of Florida Township in Montgomery County. Millpoint still shows up on modern-day maps and was probably named after the Frederick Mill. See Philip's notes for more on this mill and its present-day location. MARRIAGE: 1. Listed as parents per "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga: now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, unknown, 1917, 748 pp.: Elizabeth, b. 21 Apr, offspring of Cornelius Van Hoorn and Eva Fredrick, baptized 6 Jun 1785 with sponsors John Carl and Sophia Cary. BURIAL: 1. Typescript from Montgomery Co., NY, Archives: "Montgomery County Cemetery Records," copied by Mrs. Frank Becker, and published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Quarterlies - Vol. LIX (July 1928): Van Horne Graveyard, in vicinity of Mill Point, near Amsterdam (Montgomery County), NY, among many names: Nellie Crum, wife of Mathew Van Horne, d. 5/3/1803 ae abt. 80 yrs. [Cornelius's mother.] Eve Frederic Van Horne, wife of Cornelius Van Horne, d. 11/1/1830, in 75th yr. Cornelius Van Horne, d. 2/6/1823, in 78th yr. 2. Findagrave lists the cemetery name as Pruyn & Faulkner Cemetery in Glen, Montgomery, New York, and includes a photo. Cornelius is shown as a Revolutionary War soldier. | Frederick, Eva (I2143)
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| 7078 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface: "In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] BIRTH: 1. The Philip Frederick Mill dates from 1750 according to the New York state historical highway marker sign. Maria Saltz's father lived just down the road. This would help us surmise that all of their children were born at "Millpoint" within the modern boundaries of Florida township in Montgomery County. Millpoint still shows up on modern-day maps and was probably named after the Frederick Mill. See Philip's notes for more on this mill and its present-day location. MARRIAGE: 1. Marriage records of "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga: now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, 1917, 748 pp.: Lodewyk Frederick and Alida Miller, 21 Mar 1774. Frans Frederick and Susanna Cosaadt, 30 Dec 1774. Frans Cosaadt and Nancy Johnson, 20 Jun 1777. Thomas Van Horne and Maria Frederick, 21 Oct 1779. Peter Frederick and Elizabeth Marlet, 21 Oct 1779 [same time as Thomas Van Horne.] (Illegible) Mair? and the daughter of Philip Fredrick, 23 Jan 1788. [Could this be Hendrick Mower and Elizabeth Frederick?] Christian Plank and Hannah Frederick, 1 Jan 1801. George Frederick and Caty Cag, 21 Feb 1803. ACTION: 1. The book "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Marily Penrose, pp. 840 and 841, has the following baptismal entry: "Thomas and Maria (Fredrick) Van Horn: Lea, b. 12/25/1781; bapt. 1/27/1782 (DRC:60) Sponsors: Hendk. Van Horen and Orietje Fredrick." A separate baptismal record is also found: Henderick and Elizabeth (Van Horn) Van Horn: Jacobus, b. 5/2/1774 (DRC:29). Sponsors: Frans Van Hoorn and Elizabeth Vanhoorn." My question is who is Orietje and is this a name which translates to one of the already known Frederick Children? Could this be Elizabeth Frederick? Except for these two entries, I have not found any other references to a Hendrick Van Horn. Follow up: Orietje may be a diminutive form of Ortrude per family history consultant at FHL. Take a look at the actual church record (not transcription) to see if Mair is actually Van Horne. | Frederick, Elizabeth (I2154)
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| 7079 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface: "In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] BIRTH: 1. The Philip Frederick Mill dates from 1750 according to the New York state historical highway marker sign. Maria Saltz's father lived just down the road. This would help us surmise that all of their children were born at "Millpoint" within the modern boundaries of Florida township in Montgomery County. Millpoint still shows up on modern-day maps and was probably named after the Frederick Mill. See Philip's notes for more on this mill and its present-day location. 2. The following is from the 3 Nov 2007 personal family tree website CHRISTENING: 1. "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, unknown, 1917, 748 pp.: Catrina, offspring of Philip Frederick and Sophia Saltz, baptized 1764. 2. From the book "Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families," by Maryly B. Penrose, v. 1, p. 282, Birth/Baptism: "Frederick, Phillip and Sophia (Salts): Margarita, bapt. 1758 (DRC:2) Sponosrs: Pieter Jong and Margariet Jong. Magdalena, bapt. 13 Sep 1761 (DRC:6) Sponsors Willem Jong & Eva Jong. Catrina, bapt. 1764 (note: parents names crossed out in record) (DRC:12) Sponsors Philip Frederick and Sophia Frederick. | Frederick, Catrina or Caterina or Catharina (I2150)
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| 7080 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface: "In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] 2. Censuses: 1800 US: Minden, Montgomery, New York, p. 10 of 19, these two were next door neighbors and related by marriage, the columns are first male then female 0-9, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, 45+: Francis Frederick: 1-0-1-1-0; 1-1-0-1-0 Thomas Van Horne: 2-1-0-1-0; 1-1-0-1-0 BIRTH: 1. From the Montgomery Co. Archives, NY, family file for Frederick family: "The book 'Genealogies of the First Settlers of Schnectady,' by Prof. J. Pearson, p. 74: Catharina b. 27 Jun 1785 to Francis Frederick of Remsenbos [Remson's Bush] and Susanna Gresaart - sp: Philip Frederick and Catharina Schuyler [Dutch Reformed Church Schenectady, New York]. Note: Remsenbos is in the southeast corner of Florida Township and the Fredericks may have traveled the short distance to Schnectady to have their child baptized. The pension application of Francis would have believe that he was not residing in Schnectady. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Annie Conley | Frederick, Catharina (I1073)
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| 7081 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Findagrave Memorial accessed 1 Jan 2017 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100499550 [Note: The portion about Ann Hurd is erroneous. She is most likely the widow of Joseph Hurd and her maiden name is unknown.] "Jonathan Smith Birth: Aug. 1, 1705, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Death: 1776, Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA Jonathan Smith, the son of Ebenezer Smith and Sarah Huxley, was born 1 Aug 1705 in Suffield, CT. He was married first, (Int[entions] in Colchester) 28 Dec 1727, to Susannah Johnson, daughter of John3 Johnson and Mary Ramsey [Susannah Johnson's siblings had several given names that also appear in the Jonathan Smith family: Mary, Eunice 1st, Eunice 2nd, John, David, Elijah, Elizabeth, Elisha]. Jonathan and Susannah Smith removed to Judea Parish and were included in chronological order, but not date given, as among the earliest members of the Judea Parish Church. First mention of Jonathan was in the Dec 1747 records of the church. He married second 9 Oct 1753 in Judea Parish to Ann Hurd, daughter of Zadoc Hurd and Esther Curtis. He married third, prior to April, 1764, to Mrs. Esther (Davis) Slade (first wife of William Slade, Jr.). (April, 1764 is the date in which William Slade, Sr. received judgment against Jonathan and Esther Smith, as executors of the will of William Slade, Jr. for 1,000 pounds at the County Court in Hartford, CT.) This is not the same Esther as found in the Woodbury, CT marriage of a Jonathan Smith and Esther Bristol on 25 Dec 1765. Jonathan Smith's will was dated 7 Nov 1775 and filed April 1776. Esther, relict of Jonathan Smith, died 26 Apr 1799 at the age of 79 years and buried in Clarendon Flats [VT].The will of Jonathan Smith of Woodbury, County of Litchfield [CT] dated 7 Nov 1775 is abstracted: "To my wife Esther…household goods, except all such household goods as were brought to me by my second wife [i.e. Ann Hurd]; to my son Elihu my old house and barn…and also my rights in the Publick Library in Bethlehem…; my son Charles Smith…; my daughter Abiah Durkee…; my daughter Susannah Clark…; my son Elisha Smith…; my daughter Eunice Smith…; to my sons Elihu and Elisha all my right in the Susquehannah Purchase…; I also give to my said daughter Eunice all the household goods brought to me by her mother (viz.) my second wife before mentioned [i.e. Ann Hurd]…; my son Elihu to be sole Executor. Witnesses: William Slade, Ebenezer Clark, Increase Mosely. Filed April 1776. [The Susquehannah Purchase is that part of present day Pennsylvania that was claimed by the colony of CT at that time.] Children by Susannah Smith, all born in Suffield, CT: 1. Martin Smith (1728-c1804) m. Rhoda Weeks. 2. possibly Elijah Smith (1730- ) nothing further known. 3. Charles Smith (1731-1804) m. Bersheba Bartholomew. 4. Abiah Smith (1733- ) m. Thomas Durkee 5. Susanna(h) (1736-) m. (1) Jedediah Clark, Sr. (2) Cephas Smith (her 1st cousin). 6. Elihu Smith ( ) m. (H)onor Slade. 7. "Constitution" Jonathan Smith (1741- ) m. Esther Bristol. 8. Elisha Smith, (1743-) Children by Ann Hurd, born in Woodbury, CT: 9. Elisha Smith (1754- ) nothing further known. 10. Eunice Smith (1758- ) nothing further known. Susannah Johnson Smith and Ann Hurd Smith are also presumed to be buried in the Judea Cemetery. Esther Davis Slade Smith moved with her daughter, (H)onor Slade Smith, to Clarendon, VT and is buried in the Clarendon Flats Cemetery." | Davis, Esther (I5417)
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| 7082 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Findagrave Memorial accessed 1 Jan 2017 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100499550 [Note: The portion about Ann Hurd is erroneous. She is most likely the widow of Joseph Hurd and her maiden name is unknown.] "Jonathan Smith Birth: Aug. 1, 1705, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Death: 1776, Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA Jonathan Smith, the son of Ebenezer Smith and Sarah Huxley, was born 1 Aug 1705 in Suffield, CT. He was married first, (Int[entions] in Colchester) 28 Dec 1727, to Susannah Johnson, daughter of John3 Johnson and Mary Ramsey [Susannah Johnson's siblings had several given names that also appear in the Jonathan Smith family: Mary, Eunice 1st, Eunice 2nd, John, David, Elijah, Elizabeth, Elisha]. Jonathan and Susannah Smith removed to Judea Parish and were included in chronological order, but not date given, as among the earliest members of the Judea Parish Church. First mention of Jonathan was in the Dec 1747 records of the church. He married second 9 Oct 1753 in Judea Parish to Ann Hurd, daughter of Zadoc Hurd and Esther Curtis. He married third, prior to April, 1764, to Mrs. Esther (Davis) Slade (first wife of William Slade, Jr.). (April, 1764 is the date in which William Slade, Sr. received judgment against Jonathan and Esther Smith, as executors of the will of William Slade, Jr. for 1,000 pounds at the County Court in Hartford, CT.) This is not the same Esther as found in the Woodbury, CT marriage of a Jonathan Smith and Esther Bristol on 25 Dec 1765. Jonathan Smith's will was dated 7 Nov 1775 and filed April 1776. Esther, relict of Jonathan Smith, died 26 Apr 1799 at the age of 79 years and buried in Clarendon Flats [VT].The will of Jonathan Smith of Woodbury, County of Litchfield [CT] dated 7 Nov 1775 is abstracted: "To my wife Esther…household goods, except all such household goods as were brought to me by my second wife [i.e. Ann Hurd]; to my son Elihu my old house and barn…and also my rights in the Publick Library in Bethlehem…; my son Charles Smith…; my daughter Abiah Durkee…; my daughter Susannah Clark…; my son Elisha Smith…; my daughter Eunice Smith…; to my sons Elihu and Elisha all my right in the Susquehannah Purchase…; I also give to my said daughter Eunice all the household goods brought to me by her mother (viz.) my second wife before mentioned [i.e. Ann Hurd]…; my son Elihu to be sole Executor. Witnesses: William Slade, Ebenezer Clark, Increase Mosely. Filed April 1776. [The Susquehannah Purchase is that part of present day Pennsylvania that was claimed by the colony of CT at that time.] Children by Susannah Smith, all born in Suffield, CT: 1. Martin Smith (1728-c1804) m. Rhoda Weeks. 2. possibly Elijah Smith (1730- ) nothing further known. 3. Charles Smith (1731-1804) m. Bersheba Bartholomew. 4. Abiah Smith (1733- ) m. Thomas Durkee 5. Susanna(h) (1736-) m. (1) Jedediah Clark, Sr. (2) Cephas Smith (her 1st cousin). 6. Elihu Smith ( ) m. (H)onor Slade. 7. "Constitution" Jonathan Smith (1741- ) m. Esther Bristol. 8. Elisha Smith, (1743-) Children by Ann Hurd, born in Woodbury, CT: 9. Elisha Smith (1754- ) nothing further known. 10. Eunice Smith (1758- ) nothing further known. Susannah Johnson Smith and Ann Hurd Smith are also presumed to be buried in the Judea Cemetery. Esther Davis Slade Smith moved with her daughter, (H)onor Slade Smith, to Clarendon, VT and is buried in the Clarendon Flats Cemetery." | Ann (I5416)
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| 7083 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Findagrave Memorial accessed 1 Jan 2017 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100499550 [Note: The portion about Ann Hurd is erroneous. She is most likely the widow of Joseph Hurd and her maiden name is unknown.] "Jonathan Smith Birth: Aug. 1, 1705, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Death: 1776, Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA Jonathan Smith, the son of Ebenezer Smith and Sarah Huxley, was born 1 Aug 1705 in Suffield, CT. He was married first, (Int[entions] in Colchester) 28 Dec 1727, to Susannah Johnson, daughter of John3 Johnson and Mary Ramsey [Susannah Johnson's siblings had several given names that also appear in the Jonathan Smith family: Mary, Eunice 1st, Eunice 2nd, John, David, Elijah, Elizabeth, Elisha]. Jonathan and Susannah Smith removed to Judea Parish and were included in chronological order, but not date given, as among the earliest members of the Judea Parish Church. First mention of Jonathan was in the Dec 1747 records of the church. He married second 9 Oct 1753 in Judea Parish to Ann Hurd, daughter of Zadoc Hurd and Esther Curtis. He married third, prior to April, 1764, to Mrs. Esther (Davis) Slade (first wife of William Slade, Jr.). (April, 1764 is the date in which William Slade, Sr. received judgment against Jonathan and Esther Smith, as executors of the will of William Slade, Jr. for 1,000 pounds at the County Court in Hartford, CT.) This is not the same Esther as found in the Woodbury, CT marriage of a Jonathan Smith and Esther Bristol on 25 Dec 1765. Jonathan Smith's will was dated 7 Nov 1775 and filed April 1776. Esther, relict of Jonathan Smith, died 26 Apr 1799 at the age of 79 years and buried in Clarendon Flats [VT].The will of Jonathan Smith of Woodbury, County of Litchfield [CT] dated 7 Nov 1775 is abstracted: "To my wife Esther…household goods, except all such household goods as were brought to me by my second wife [i.e. Ann Hurd]; to my son Elihu my old house and barn…and also my rights in the Publick Library in Bethlehem…; my son Charles Smith…; my daughter Abiah Durkee…; my daughter Susannah Clark…; my son Elisha Smith…; my daughter Eunice Smith…; to my sons Elihu and Elisha all my right in the Susquehannah Purchase…; I also give to my said daughter Eunice all the household goods brought to me by her mother (viz.) my second wife before mentioned [i.e. Ann Hurd]…; my son Elihu to be sole Executor. Witnesses: William Slade, Ebenezer Clark, Increase Mosely. Filed April 1776. [The Susquehannah Purchase is that part of present day Pennsylvania that was claimed by the colony of CT at that time.] Children by Susannah Smith, all born in Suffield, CT: 1. Martin Smith (1728-c1804) m. Rhoda Weeks. 2. possibly Elijah Smith (1730- ) nothing further known. 3. Charles Smith (1731-1804) m. Bersheba Bartholomew. 4. Abiah Smith (1733- ) m. Thomas Durkee 5. Susanna(h) (1736-) m. (1) Jedediah Clark, Sr. (2) Cephas Smith (her 1st cousin). 6. Elihu Smith ( ) m. (H)onor Slade. 7. "Constitution" Jonathan Smith (1741- ) m. Esther Bristol. 8. Elisha Smith, (1743-) Children by Ann Hurd, born in Woodbury, CT: 9. Elisha Smith (1754- ) nothing further known. 10. Eunice Smith (1758- ) nothing further known. Susannah Johnson Smith and Ann Hurd Smith are also presumed to be buried in the Judea Cemetery. Esther Davis Slade Smith moved with her daughter, (H)onor Slade Smith, to Clarendon, VT and is buried in the Clarendon Flats Cemetery." | Johnson, Susanna (I5415)
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| 7084 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Findagrave Memorial accessed 1 Jan 2017 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100499550 [Note: The portion about Ann Hurd is erroneous. She is most likely the widow of Joseph Hurd and her maiden name is unknown.] "Jonathan Smith Birth: Aug. 1, 1705, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Death: 1776, Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA Jonathan Smith, the son of Ebenezer Smith and Sarah Huxley, was born 1 Aug 1705 in Suffield, CT. He was married first, (Int[entions] in Colchester) 28 Dec 1727, to Susannah Johnson, daughter of John3 Johnson and Mary Ramsey [Susannah Johnson's siblings had several given names that also appear in the Jonathan Smith family: Mary, Eunice 1st, Eunice 2nd, John, David, Elijah, Elizabeth, Elisha]. Jonathan and Susannah Smith removed to Judea Parish and were included in chronological order, but not date given, as among the earliest members of the Judea Parish Church. First mention of Jonathan was in the Dec 1747 records of the church. He married second 9 Oct 1753 in Judea Parish to Ann Hurd, daughter of Zadoc Hurd and Esther Curtis. He married third, prior to April, 1764, to Mrs. Esther (Davis) Slade (first wife of William Slade, Jr.). (April, 1764 is the date in which William Slade, Sr. received judgment against Jonathan and Esther Smith, as executors of the will of William Slade, Jr. for 1,000 pounds at the County Court in Hartford, CT.) This is not the same Esther as found in the Woodbury, CT marriage of a Jonathan Smith and Esther Bristol on 25 Dec 1765. Jonathan Smith's will was dated 7 Nov 1775 and filed April 1776. Esther, relict of Jonathan Smith, died 26 Apr 1799 at the age of 79 years and buried in Clarendon Flats [VT].The will of Jonathan Smith of Woodbury, County of Litchfield [CT] dated 7 Nov 1775 is abstracted: "To my wife Esther…household goods, except all such household goods as were brought to me by my second wife [i.e. Ann Hurd]; to my son Elihu my old house and barn…and also my rights in the Publick Library in Bethlehem…; my son Charles Smith…; my daughter Abiah Durkee…; my daughter Susannah Clark…; my son Elisha Smith…; my daughter Eunice Smith…; to my sons Elihu and Elisha all my right in the Susquehannah Purchase…; I also give to my said daughter Eunice all the household goods brought to me by her mother (viz.) my second wife before mentioned [i.e. Ann Hurd]…; my son Elihu to be sole Executor. Witnesses: William Slade, Ebenezer Clark, Increase Mosely. Filed April 1776. [The Susquehannah Purchase is that part of present day Pennsylvania that was claimed by the colony of CT at that time.] Children by Susannah Smith, all born in Suffield, CT: 1. Martin Smith (1728-c1804) m. Rhoda Weeks. 2. possibly Elijah Smith (1730- ) nothing further known. 3. Charles Smith (1731-1804) m. Bersheba Bartholomew. 4. Abiah Smith (1733- ) m. Thomas Durkee 5. Susanna(h) (1736-) m. (1) Jedediah Clark, Sr. (2) Cephas Smith (her 1st cousin). 6. Elihu Smith ( ) m. (H)onor Slade. 7. "Constitution" Jonathan Smith (1741- ) m. Esther Bristol. 8. Elisha Smith, (1743-) Children by Ann Hurd, born in Woodbury, CT: 9. Elisha Smith (1754- ) nothing further known. 10. Eunice Smith (1758- ) nothing further known. Susannah Johnson Smith and Ann Hurd Smith are also presumed to be buried in the Judea Cemetery. Esther Davis Slade Smith moved with her daughter, (H)onor Slade Smith, to Clarendon, VT and is buried in the Clarendon Flats Cemetery." | Smith, Jonathan (I5407)
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| 7085 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. From my visit to the Montgomery County, NY, Archives Sep 2007, the following typescript was in the Van Horne Family file, author and date unknown, pp. 44-51: "Children of Matthias and Nellie (Crum) Van Horne, b. in New Jersey: a. Cornelius, b. 10 May 1745, d. 6 Feb 1823, Montgomery Co., NY.; md. Eve Fredericks, b. 1750, d. 1830, dau. of Philip Fredericks. He and his brother, Thomas, left NJ, and settled before the Revolution in Tryon Co., and both served in the Battle of Oriskany in that war, etc. See 'DAR Rolls, 106:217; 115:300.' His gravestone is in the Van Horne cem. near Mill Point, NY, which states he was aged 77 at death, his wife, Eve, aged 74. This grave is decorated by the DAR (Ms. at NY State Library, DAR Graves A124,161; 10:35.) children (Van Horne), b. Montgomery Co., NY, (1) Sophia; (2) Nellie; (3) Hannah; (4) Elizabeth; (5) Philip; (6) Abram; (7) Cornelius C.; (8) Maria. b. Thomas, b. Hunterdon Co., NJ, abt 1747, m. Maria Fredericks, sister of Eve (Fredericks) Van Horne, his eldest brother's wife. c. William, b. abt 1750 Hunterdon Co., NJ; md. Margaret Thomasse and settled in Canada. [Children listed.] d. Nellie, b. Hunterdon Co., NJ; md. Martin Cline and res. on Schoharie Creek, near Mill Point, Montgomery Co. The 1888 booklet lists her issue. e. Anna; b. Hunterdon Co., NJ; md. Abram Carhart and remained in NJ in Hunterdon Co., only child said to have stayed in NJ. f. Henry; b. Hunterdon Co., NJ; m. Sophia Fernacook, or Fernicook. [Children listed.] Henry served in the War. g. John, b. Hunterdon Co., NJ; md. Sarah Everett. Served seven years in the Revolution and was a the surrender of Burgoyne and Cornwallis. He and his brothers Cornelius, Thomas and Henry all took part in the Battle of Oriskany. See 1888 booklet. h. Rulif, b. Hunterdon Co., NJ; unmd., bur. Van Hornesville. His gravestone extant in 1882. The 1929 genealogy gives his name as 'Ruby'. He has also been called 'Phillip.' He d. 10 May 1838, aged 80, bur. Van Horne Cem., Mill Point, near Amsterdam, NY." 2. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface and p. 319: "Thomas Van Horne - - born Hunterdon Co., New Jersey 14 May 1748 (son of Mathias Van Horne and Nelly Crumm); died Springfield, NY 26 Feb 1841; m. Caughnawaga NY 21 Oct 1779 Maria Frederick dau. of Philip Frederick and Sophia Saltz. A Lt. in the Col. Frederick Fischer's 3rd Tryon Co. militia in the Revolution. Other Van Hornes in Fischer's unit included an Abram, Cornelius, Henry, and John. Thomas lived at Otsego Co. NY and his children were baptised at St. Paul's Luth. Church in Minden, NY. Had fourteen children, as given in Van Horne book, Mathias, Leah (bp. 1781, m. Robert Davis), Philip (b. 1784, m. Margaret Eckler), Sophia (b. 1786, M. John Eckler), Eleanora (b. 1788, m. George Shaul), Eve (b. 1789, m. Jacob I. Young), Anna (b. 1791, m. John G. Shaul), Cornelius (b. 1793, m. Catherine Shanhultz), Magdalena (b. 1795, m. John E. Eckler), Elizabeth (b. 1797, m. William Van Horne), Abram (b. 1799, m.1. Dorothy Shanhultz), Thomas (b. 1802, d.y.), Maria (b. 1804, m. John Wyckoff), and Francis (b. 1809, d.y.)" The book also gives some general local history per the following excerpts: "Herkimer County, in north central New York's Mohawk Valley, received its name in 1791 in memory of General Nicholas Herkimer, the Revolutionary War militia commander... There were probably in excess of 15,000 Indians in the region about the year 1700, but by the time of the American Revolution their population had eroded to about 10,000... due in part to lack of resistance to European deseases. Their numbers then fell sharply during and just after the Revolution as a result of migrations to Canada and points westward, the exodus being necessitated by the fact that most of the Iroquois, except for the Oneidas, took the British side during the War of Independence..." "As to the early Europeans, the Dutch traders of Fort Orange (now Albany) initiated commerce wtth the Mohawk Valley Indians in the early 1600s... The Dutch traded alcoholic beverages, firearms, tools, and fabrics in exchange for land and beaver hides. In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east. Prior to 1760 there was only limited settlement by the Dutch or English to the west of Schenectady, since the Mohawk region was vulnerable to incursion of the French and their Indian allies from Canada..." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] "With the exception of a few families, such as the Fondas, Schuylers, and Van Slykes, the Dutch and English seem to have been little induced to settle the Mohawk Valley, and so the opportunity fell to a group of immigrant Germans from the Palatinate, or lower Rhineland area in central Europe. Several thousand of these Palatines had left their German homelands, being much reduced in circumstance after years of warfare with France, and had gone to England at Queen Anne's invitation in 1709... The English temporarily housed many of these people in tents outside London and early in 1710 about 2,000 were placed aboard ships for passage to the American colonies, being promised land in New York in exchange for work in Hudson River camps, to be set up for the production of pitch for use in sealing naval vessels. There were delays in embarking and the Palatines were crowded into undersized and ill provisioned ships so that the Atlantic Ocean crossing itself became a tragedy in which, by New York Gov. Hunter's account, some 466 of them perished. From 1710 to 1712 the German immigrants required government subsidy, and the payment records by Gov. Hunter to heads of households survive (as in Knittle) and are referred to throughout this book as the NY Palatine Subsistence List. The pitch operations having failed, the Germans had to fend for themselves, moving for a while to contested lands in the Schoharie Valley west of Albany." "The Palatines remained a displaced people without land entitlement until September 1721 when the Albany City council endorsed their petition to purchase Mohawk Valley land, not closer to Albany then 40 miles west of Ft. Hunter. Then on October 16, 1721, New York Governor William Burnet, presumably wishing ot see buffer settlements of a friendly population in the central Mohawk area, granted the appropriate license, which allowed the Palatines, in 1722, to purchase land form the Indians in the vicinity of where the West Canada creek flows into the Mohawk River. Upon completion of the survey of these lands in 1723, and in resposne to the request of Palatine leaders Joseph Petrie and Conrad Richaert, the deeds were prepared under the designation of the Brunetsfield Patent. At about the same time, other Palatines received land grants at Stone Arabia and elsewhere in the Mohawk Valley... the Burnetsfield Patentees... were wholly within the present county of Herkimer [as opposed to other area Palentines in other parts of the Valley]..." "From 1723 onwards, until the French and Indian Wars commenced, [the area] was generally at peace and the residents prospered to the extent that some writers have termed the community almost utopian. Wheat grew abundantly in the fertile soil and the accumulation of livestock and goods was extensive..." "At 3 a.m. on Nov. 12, 1757, disaster struck German Flats [as Herkimer was then known] in the form of a surprise raid by a French and Indian war party... 40 killed, 150 prisoners, and much booty taken... After the 1757 devastation there were periods of relief such as the negotiated return of some prisoners in 1758 and the building, in that same year, of Ft. Stanwix as a protective outpost about 35 miles west of German Flats. With the French surrender to english forces at Montreal in 1760, relative peace was restored to the Mohawk Valley, although occasional difficulties with the Indians required that the settlers mantain a more viglant militia than had been required in earlier years..." "Of particular note to the modern-day researcher is the fact that many of the early... families both moved and visited up and down the Mohawk Valley, thereby necessitatiing the search of church records over a wide geographic area for the presence of relevant marriage and baptism entires. Of note also is the information value of the baptismal sponsors, as those individuals were usually of the same generation (except when a grandparent would be sponsor for a grandchild of the same given name) and most often were brothers or sisters of the parents." "The second devastation to fall upon.. the surrounding... area came formalignments brought about by the American War of Independence. The British enrolled most of the area Indians, plus several Mohawk Valley settlers as well, to the Tory cause, and in August 1777 the bloody battle of Oriskany pitted former neighbor against neighbor... Oriskany turned the British back to Canada momentarily, but a year later they were back in a more nefarious form of military tactic, that of the hit and run assault on isolated settlements. From 1778 through 1782, the British waged a war of attrition in the Mohawk Valley, with members of raiding parties paid eight dollars for each scalp taken, regardless of the victim's combative status, sex, or age... Sometimes the settlers had to scramble quickly into the forts..." "By the end of the American Revolution, the... region was severely depleted in manpower and resources and a new phase of rebuilding began with the expansion westward of New Englanders, who were lured by the open lands of northern New York which had become available with the departure of the Indians. The resultant shift in population base was evident in the 1790 census when about a third of the... area people appear to be new arrivals of English extraction..." 3. Censuses: 1790 US: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/census/mohawk1790.html; 1790 Census, Montgomery County, MohawkTown: 1st No.-Free white males over 16 years 2nd No.-Free white males under 16 years 3rd No.-Free white females 4th No.-All other free persons 5th No.-Slaves *illegible Brittain, Abraham - 1-2-5-0-0 [Abraham Brinton?] Frederick, Francis - 1-3-3-0-0 Frederick, Peter - 1-3-5-0-0 Frederick, Philip - 1-0-1-0-2 Marlet, Michael - 1-1-4-0-0 Mower, Hendrick - 1-1-1-0-0 VanHorn, Cornelius - 2-2-5-0-0 VanHorn, Thomas - 1-1-5-0-* 4. The book "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Marily Penrose, pp. 840 and 841: Tryon County Militia: Abraham Van Horn Cornelius Van Horn Henry Van Horn John Van Horn Thomas Van Horn 5. The book "Our Van Horne Kindred," by Elsie O. Hallenback, 1958, copy in the Montgomery County NY Archives: "Cornelius Van Horne, oldest child of Mathias Van Horne and Nelly Crumm, was born in Upper Freehold, NJ on March 10, 1745. When a young man he came to Warrensbush, Tryon Co., NY where he worked for Philip Frederick who had a grist mill and saw mill at Mill Point, along the Schoharie Creek. Philip Frederick was the son of Peter Frederick, a Palatine who had been driven out of south-west Germany during a religious persecution, and emigrated to Mill Point where he settled and raised his family. Accoriding to the records of the old Dutch Reformed Church of Schoharie, NY, he and Sophia Saltz, daughter of Francis Saltz, were registered for marriage on Nov. 11, 1752. Francis Saltz was another early settler along the Schoharie Creek, about five miles above its entrance into the Mohawk River. In heh History of Montgomery County, it states 'that one Francis Saltz and Cornelius (Boss) Putman purchased the Shucksburg Patent of 1200 acres of land along the Schoharie Creek, Mr. Saltz taking the half farthest up the creek, and Mr. Putman the lower half. Mr. Saltz later on sold part of this land to his son-in-law by the name of McCreavy; another part to his son-in-law named Young; another part to Philip Frederick, a fourth part to Michael Marlett and the remaining 200 acres he deeded to Peter Crush [Grosch] if he would marry his crippled daughter who had never been able to walk. Mr. Crush accepted this offer, and after building a home on the land, carried his wife to it on his back.' There is another story regarding Francis Saltz in which he purchased a millstone from Sir William Johnson for a song. The only saw and grist mill at that time was owned by Sir William, and it was on the north side of the Mohawk River which was a long ways for farmers to carry their grain. Mr. Saltz heard that Sir William had a used millstone on hand and purchased it on two years credit. When the two years were up, he journeyed to the home of Sir William in Fort Johnson, NY and there 'found him entertaining some grand company.' Sir William knew that Mr. Saltz was a good singer, so asked him to sing for his guests, but Mr. Saltz was rather diffident about doing it until Sir William told him that if his singing suited him, he would cancel his debt for the millstone. He sang several songs but Sir William was silent about his bargain, so finally Mr. Saltz brought out his wallet and sang 'Money bag, money bag, yu must come out, as the man he will be paid.' All the guests immediately burst into laughter and so did Sir William, so Mr. Saltz was able to return to his home with all his money intact. Mr. Saltz was a very kind-hearted man and when Mr. and Mrs. Coss, the parents of a neighboring family both died suddenly, he took the children into his home until they grew up. When he was about ninety years old, he married one of these orphaned girls and invited the whole neighborhood to the wedding. About a year later, his bride eloped with his hired man, taking all his silver money which he had hidden in a small hair trunk, This trunk is still in possession of his family. Cornelius Van Horne married Eve Frederick, the fifth child of Philip Frederick and Sophia Saltz, and they built a home on the opposite side of the Schoharie Creek from that of her parents. There is an old lease in existence dated May 6, 1792 for this land which was in the very north-east section of the Corry Patent and in the Town of Glen, Montgomery County. It was given to Cornelius Van Horne by Silvanus Wilcox, and the witnesses where Thomas B. Vinman and Abraham Vootsik. During the Revolutionary War, Cornelius served as a private in the Third Regiment of the Tryon County Militia and his name is inscribed on the monument at Oriskany where a battle was fought which was one of the turning points in the war. Cornielius died on Feb. 6, 1823 leaving a will dated Jan. 9, 1818 (Wills of Montgomery County). Eve Frederick, his wife, who was born Aug. 8, 1756 died on Nov. 1, 1830, and they are both buried in the van Horne Family Cemetery on his farm. [Children:] A. Sophia Brouwer, b. 9 Dec 1776; m. Abram Northrup. B. Nelly, b. 16 Apr 1780; m. William Cline. C. Hannah, b. 25 Oct 1782; m. Peter Hall. D. Elizabeth, 25 Aug 1784; m. Henry Pruyne. E. Philip, b. 25 Jul 1787; m. (1) Eve Britton, (2) Nelly Hall, (3) Margaret Peck. F. Abram, b. 25 Oct, 1789; m. Margaret Barbero. G. Cornelius Covenhoven, b. 15 Jan 1794; m. Hannah VanHorne. H. Maria, b. 5 May 1796; m. William Baird." Note that this same book also details Cornelius' parents and siblings. Apparently Cornelius was the first of the Van Hornes to come from New Jersey to Mill Point, NY. His mother and most of the siblings eventually join him there. His brothers joined him in the militia during the Rev. War. 6. From the book "Van Horne Family in America, 1634-1888," by Abram L. Van Horne, copy in the Montgomery County NY Archives, p. 24: "Cornelius Van Horne, b. 10 May 1745, son of Matthew, when of age 21 emigrated to Montgomery Co., New York. He was the fourth son Matthew. He giered out to Philip Frederick who owned a grist and sawmill on Schoharie Creek, about five miles above its entrance into the Mohawk River, and the next year married his daughter Eve, and located on the opposite side of thecreek, in the town of Glen, where after few years his mother, who was Nelly Crum, and six of her children came and grew up and married. His mother spent her remaining days with thim and they were buried in the Van Horne burial grounds, having large stone for himself, his sife, hismother and his brother Ruluf. Their dates well be given in the record accompanying htis history. His children are named here: A. Sophia, b. 9 Dec 1776; m. Abram Northrup; res. Montgomery Co., NY. B. Nelly, b. 16 Apr 1780; m. William Cline; res. Onondaga Co., NY. C. Hannah, b. 25 Oct 1782; m. Peter Hall; res. Montgomery Co., NY. D. Elizabeth, 25 Aug 1785; m.Abram Pruyne; res. Montgomery Co., NY. E. Philip, b. 25 Jul 1787; m. (1) Eve Britton, (2) Nelly Hall, (3) Margaret Peck; res. Jackson, Mich. F. Abram, b. 25 Oct, 1789; m. Margaret Barbero; res. West Batavia, NY. G. Cornelius C., b. 15 Jan 1794; m. Hannah Van Horne; res. on the old homestead. H. Maria, b. 5 May 1796; m. William Baird; res. Sank Co. Wis." 7. The book "History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N.Y.," reprinted 2002 (originally printed in the 1880s): "Cornelius Van Horne came from New Jersey, and after working a while for Philip Frederick, married his daughter, Eve, and took up the farm on the Glen side of the falls in the Schoharie, clearing the land and builiding on it. Ths farm was the northeast corner lot of Corry's patent. He and his brother, Henry, were patriot soldiers in the Revolution. they fought at Oriskany and Cornelius was one of eight who carried Peter Conover from the battlefield, where he had a leg shot off; four of them carried him for a time, when they were relieved by the others... The Cornelius Van Horne farm is now leased by C.C. Van Horne, a son of Cornelius, who has always lived here... These last years he [Francis Saltz] spent with his grand-daughter, Mrs. Cornelius Van Horne. At his death, she, according to the custom of the day, baked for all his friends - some two hundred - who were expected to attend the funeral, but the creek was so high that only the pall bearers, in two canoes, crossed it; they buried the aged man on his homestead, of which he had never obtained any title." MARRIAGE: 1. Listed as parents per "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga: now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, 1917, 748 pp.: Elizabeth, b. 21 Apr, offspring of Cornelius Van Hoorn and Eva Fredrick, baptized 6 Jun 1785 with sponsors John Carl and Sophia Cary [Kerry's note: this may be John Cain and Sophia Frederick - the spelling is hard to read.] DEATH: 1. The book "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Marily Penrose, pp. 840 and 841: "Probate abstract. Cornelius Van Horne, (of Charleston), will dated 1/9/1818; probated 3/12/1823. Legatees: wife (not named); youngest son, Cornelius C.; my other children. Executors: son, Cornelius C.; Cornelius H. Putman, Peter Hall/Hale(?). Witnesses: Howland Fish, David Eacker, Daniel S. Bell. (Wills Montgomery County 57:176)." BURIAL: 1. Typescript from Montgomery Co., NY, Archives: "Montgomery County Cemetery Records," copied by Mrs. Frank Becker, and published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Quarterlies - Vol. LIX (July 1928): Van Horne Graveyard, in vicinity of Mill Point, near Amsterdam (Montgomery County), NY, among many names: Nellie Crum, wife of Mathew Van Horne, d. 5/3/1803 ae abt. 80 yrs. [Cornelius's mother.] Eve Frederic Van Horne, wife of Cornelius Van Horne, d. 11/1/1830, in 75th yr. Cornelius Van Horne, d. 2/6/1823, in 78th yr. 2. Findagrave lists the cemetery name as Pruyn & Faulkner Cemetery in Glen, Montgomery, New York, and includes a photo. Cornelius is shown as a Revolutionary War soldier. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Henry Z. Jones is the author of three series of books on the Palatines: "The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who arrived in New York in 1710," (1985); "More Palatine Families," (1991); and "Even More Palatine Families, 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins," 2002. I have reviewed all three and there is nothing on this individual. | Van Horne, Cornelius (I2146)
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| 7086 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.adair/1433.1.1/mb.ashx various quotes circa 2003-4: A. "Ann McClure (who had the child by Alexander Adair), Elizabeth McClure (wife of Benjamin Wilson and mother of Margaret Wilson, who married John Adair, son of James Adair), and James McClure (father of Mary A. Bell, who married Stephen Braddock, son of Ann McClure and Alexander Adair) were siblings." B. "The following web page on McClure, Braddock, Wilson, Adair mentions the above Alexander came directly from Ireland to Laurens Co. (1767)." [Kerry's note: I am aware of Alexander from other notes in Laurens Co., SC, but it is interesting to see him in a relationship with the same family as our John Adair.] C. "Kentucky: A History of the State," Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885. Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY. [My note: The first part of this biography is confusing. The James Adair who was part of Marion's band was not of Laurens Co. nor was John's father James old enough to have served in the War of Independence, yet we are certain that this John is correctly placed due to the correlation of his birth date as compared with his tombstone and the LDS Temple records as reported by his cousins. John's father James may have had a previous wife before Rebecca if this account of John's mother's death is correct.] "Graves Co. "The Adair Family. The Adairs are among the oldest families of Graves County. They came originally from Ireland, and settled in one of the Atlantic States a number of years before the war of the Revolution. The family originally settled in South Carolina, where James Adair, grandfather of Turner Adair, distinguished himself in the war of Independence as a member of the celebrated Marion's band. Late in life he settled in Alabama, where he died about the year 1839 or 1840. His son, John Adair, was left an orphan, when but three weeks old, by the death of his mother. He made his home with the families of his aunt and grandfather, and at an early age was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade, which he followed all his life. He was married in 1820 to Margaret Wilson, by whom he had thirteen children, whose names are as follows: James McConathy, Elizabeth, Jane, Turner, Martha C., Sarah A., James H., S.B., John P., Joseph B., Margaret P., Mary P. and Virginia P. In the year 1830 Mr. Adair came to Graves County, Ky., and settled in Lynnville Precinct on the place where his widow now resides. He died June 4, 1878. Turner Adair, third child of John Adair, and eldest member of the family now living, was born in 1825 in Lawrence [sic] District, S.C. He remained with his parents until twenty-two years of age, when he engaged in farming for himself, which occupation he continued until 1849, when he joined a company of young men as daring as himself, and made an overland trip to California for the purpose of engaging in mining. He participated in all the active scenes of that exciting period, and was fairly successful in his quest of fortune. He returned home in 1858, and at once resumed farming, which he still follows. Mr Adair has never married and at the present time lives with his mother on the old homestead." D. "Elizabeth McClure Wilson [mother of Margaret (Wilson) Adair] is also buried in Graves Co, KY ... John and Margaret Adair are in Beech Grove Cemetery, perhaps Elizabeth is also..." BURIAL: 1. Find-a-grave Memorial# 26897739 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26897739 accessed 19 Dec 2013. Memorial notes: "Margaret "Peggy" Wilson Adair, b. Apr. 20, 1802, Laurens County, South Carolina; d. Sep. 17, 1886, Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky. Actual tombstone reads: "Margaret Adair died Sept. 17, 1886, aged 84 Yrs. 4 Mos. 28 Days." | Wilson, Margaret (I2820)
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| 7087 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=benjaminf&id=I2543 accessed 23 Aug 2015: "A great deal of discussion can be found regarding this line at the Claiborne family forum at genforum.com. The following was posted 5 Dec 2000 by Cindy Stamps: "According to the Claiborne book, which was compiled by John Frederick Dorman, a highly respected VA genealogist, Sara Smyth James Claiborne was granted administration of her husband's estate in October after he died in Sept. So they did not die on the same date. (p. 721). Further, when Sara died, her daughter, Blanche, was granted administration of Sara's estate on 12 June 1626, nearly 20 years later. Thomas, the oldest, was baptized 1599; William baptized 1600; Sara baptized 1601/2; Katherine baptized 1603; Blanche baptized 1605. Sara had 4 children from her previous marriage: Sir Roger James, born 1589; John born abt 1591; Sarah baptized 1594/5; and Margaret baptized 1596." From Tom Aiken, quoting "The English Ancestry of William Claiborne of Virginia" by Clayton Torrence: "In the Register of Stepney Parish, St. Dunstan, County Middlesex, we find this entry: '1598 November 21, Thomas Cleyborne of the Parish of St. Margaret's, Lynne, county of Norfolk and Sara James, of this Parish, by License.' ... From an accumulation of circumstantial evidence we are at present strongly convinced that the Sara James, whom Thomas Cleyborne married in November 1598, was Sara (nee Smyth) the widow of Roger James, of Bednal Green, Parish of Stebunheath, County of Middlesex, citizen and Brewer, of London, who had died 10 December 1596. " 2. The book "The Visitations of Surrey, 1530, 1572, and 1623" accessed online 20 Aug 2015 [ ] per book and not my notes: "JAMES (Harl. 1561, fos. 224b, 225, 225b, 226, 226b, 227, 227b, 228, 228b.) Arms -- Quarterly: 1, Argent, a chevron between three millrinds sable [James]; 2, Barry wafy of six argent and azure, on a chief or three birds rising sable [James], 3 and 4, [blank]. Chest. -- a garb argent, banded vert. 1-Jacob van Hawsteri borne in Cleue in German. = 2-Willm. James. 2-Theoder James of London. = 3-Abraham James. = 4-Abraham James 1623. 3-Elias James. 3-Jacob James. 2-Roger James of London. = Sara d. & coheire of Hen. Morskin of London. 3. Roger James Vpminster in com. Essex. = Sara d. of John Smyth of London. A. a Rose or. 4. Sr. Roger James of Rigate in com. Surrey Knt. 1623 ob. 26 of March 1637 [sic]. 5. Roger James of Rigate. 5. Anthony James ch. s.p. 5. Elizebeth. 5. Margarett. 4. John James of Rigate 1623. 4. Margerett vx Willm. Bishe of Fenn Place in the p'ish of Worth in com. Sussex. 4. Gora [Sara, Harl. 1433] vx. george Wilkins of Stoke in the hundred of Ho in com. Kent. 3. Arnold James of London. = Mary d. of John Van Hulst of London. 4. John James of Braffin in com. Hertfford. 4. Sara vx. of ___ Drew of Hawle in com. Essex Clark. 4. Sara vx. Ric. Cason of London. 4. Mary. 4. Judith. 3. Willm. James of Ightam in com. Kent. = Jane d. & heire of Henery Kule a natiue of Brenia. 4. William, Thomas, Jane. 3. Thomas James of Stroude Greene in com Midlesex. = ___ d. of ___ Foulk docter of Divinity. 3. Richard James of Mallenden in com Essex. = Gertrud d. of John Smyth. 4. Gertrude, Sara, Richard James, John James, George James, Jane, Emelin. 3. John James of the Manor of Grove in the p'ish of Woodnesborough. = Susan d. & coheire of Peter Vandewall of Antwerp. 4. Henery, Thomas, William, Henery ob. s.p., John s.p., Roger, John, Susan vx. ___ Nutt of London. 3. George James of Mallendine in com. Essex. = Audrey d. of John Smyth. 4. George, Gertrud, Ethelred. 2-Jacob James dyed beyond the Seas." 3. "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying territorial Possessions or Hiigh Official Rank, but uninvested with Heritable Honours," by John Burke, 1836, vol. 1, pp. 397-98: "Grevis-James, of Ightham Court. James-Grevis, Demetrius, esq. of Ightham Court Lodge, in the county of Kent, a magistrate and eputy lieutenant for that shrire, sherif in 1833, b. 1st may, 1776 .... Lineage. The manor of Ightham was possessed temp. King John, by Hamon de Crevequier, from whom it passed through the families of De Criel, De Luge, Zouch of Harringworth, Read and Willoughby, to the house of James, by which it is now enjoyed. The Jameses were originally, says Philpot, called Hastrecht, from a lordship fo that name, which they possessed near Utrecht. (The family of Hæstrecht was allied by marriage to the ancient and eminent houses of Wassenaer and Waermont.) Roger, son of Jacob Van Hæstrecht, emigrated into England in the reign of King Henry VIII. and being known, after the Dutch manner, by the name of Roger Jacobs, the English at length called him Roger James. He espoused Sarah, only daughter and heir of Henry Morskin, esq. of London, and had issue, Roger, of Upminster, in Essex, who m. Sarah, daughter of John Smith, esq. of London, and was s. by his son, Sir Roger James of Rygate, in Surrey, who wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony Aucher, and had a daughter, Elizabeth. Arnold, of London, who m. Mary, cau. of John Vanhulst, of that city. William. [See below.] Thomas, who m. the daughter of Fulke. Richard, who espoused Gertrude, dau. of John Smyth, and had, with other issue, a son, Sir John, of Cresshill, in Essex, and a daughter, Emlin, who m. to Mr. James Cane; and their son inheriting the estates of his uncle, Sir John was advanced to the dignity of a baronet, 34 Car. II. This branch of the family is now extinct. John, of Grove Manor, who m. Susanna, daughter and co-heir of Peter Vandewall, of Antwerp, and had issue. George, of Malendine, near Rochester, who m. Audrey, daughter of John Smyth, and had issue, The third son, William James, esq. acquired, temp. Queen Elizabeth, by purchase, the manor of Ightham Court, in the county of Kent. He wedded Jane, only daughter and heiress of Henry Kule, and had issue, William, his heir. Thomas. Jane, m. to Henry Dixon, esq. of Hilden, in Kent, and d. in 1692. [The article continues downline from "William, his heir" through his son Sir Demetrius James, then his son William James, and so forth to the person with which this article began.]" 4. Email from Carol Hutchinson dated 22 Feb 2020: PCC Will of John Smithe or Smythe, Beer Brewer of Saint Saviour Southwark, Surrey 1592. Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers. Name of Register: Harrington Quire Numbers: 1 - 47. Will of John Smithe or Smythe, Beer Brewer of Saint Saviour Southwark, Surrey. Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Prerogative Court of Canterbury Date: 15 January 1591/92 Reference: PROB 11/79/21 will written 16 April 1591 John Smithe of St Saviors in Southwark, Surrey Beerbrewer -son David Smyth under 24 -son John Smythe under 24 -son Roger Smythe under 24 -son Samuell Smythe under 24 -daughter Gartrude Smythe unmarried -daughter Awdrey Smythe unmarried -daughter Galfyn Turner wife of Richard Turner -poor of St Saviors in Southwark -2 daughter Margaret Longe and Sara Rogers[Sarah married Roger James?] -sole executor son James Smythe -overseers friends William Dassett Edward Candishe and Henrye Alison witnesses Henry Alinson scr Richard Hall Xpofer Croxton Gilbert Segar ****************************** The marriage of the John Smythe and Rose Goddard of Merrow, Surrey, does not seem to be the correct marriage for the above John Smythe, there is an Ellyn Smythe chr 24 Mar 1572 at Merrow, Surrey, this is right in the middle of the Southwark St Saviour, Surrey Smythe family christenings. I think someone just found a possible marriage in 1568 for a John Smythe in Surrey. With the will, and christenings of the Southwark St Saviour, Surrey family, I believe we can rule out the John Smythe and Rose Goddard family of Merrow, Surrey as the parents of Sarah, Gertrude, and Audrey who supposedly married 3 James brothers. MARRIAGE: 1. Ancestry.com. London, England, Extracted Parish Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001; London - Marriage Licences, 1520-1610 (Marriage): "24 Jun 1588 Roger Jeames, of East Smithfield, & Sarah Smithe, Spr, dau. of John Smithe, of St Saviour's, Southwark, Brewer; Gen. Lic." | Smythe, Sara (I5021)
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| 7088 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will of 17 Jun 1617: Daniel, co-administrator of will with Robert's wife Bridget. Sarah, eldest dau. and wife of James Bowtell of "little Salinge." "Marie, wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree." Elizabeth, wife of "Willm Goodinge or Goodings of Bockinge." Bridgett, unmarried. Anna, unmarried. Nathaniel John, minor under age 20. Also mentions a kinsman: Ralph Bett, the younger. 2. The following Loomis info. came from Jane Devlin (janedevlin@ameritech.net) at her web site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/loomis.htm: Joseph Loomis, son of John Loomis and Agnes Lingwood, was born on 24 Aug 1590 in Braintree, Essex, Eng1 and died on 25 Nov 1658 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. Joseph married Mary White, daughter of Robert White and Bridget Allgar, on 30 Jun 1614 in Shalford, Essex, Eng. (Mary White was baptized on 24 Aug 1590 in Shalford, Essex, Eng and died on 23 Aug 1652 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.) Documented events in her life were: a. Baptism; 24 Aug 1590; Shalford, Essex, Eng 10. 3. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 432-433, {bracketed notes from "Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Loomis of Windsor" by Elias Loomis}: "Joseph Loomis (Lomys, Lomax), prob. born abt. 1590; was a woolen draper in Braintree, Co. Essex, England; sailed from London 11 Apr 1638, in the 'Susan and Ellen': arrived at Boston 17 Jul 1638; first appears in Windsor subsequent to 1639; Church Record gives date of his son John's admission to Windsor Church 11 Oct 1640. Probably he was of Mr. Huit's company, 1639, and was the '___ Loomys' adm. to Windsor church same date as his son John. - O.C.R. He m. in Messing, county Essex, Eng., 30 Jun 1614, Mary White, bp. 24 Aug 1590. She was the daughter of Robert W. of Messing, and Bridget Allgar, who was bp. 11 Mar 1562, and was dau. of Wm. Allgar of Shalford, Co. Essex, Eng. - 'Extracts from Parish Record of Messing, Communicated by Henry D. White of New Haven, Conn.' She was prob. sister-in-law of John Porter, another prominent Windsor settler. He d. {25 Nov} 1658; wife d. 23 Aug 1652." children (all born in England): A. John (Dea.), b. abt. 1622 acc. to 'Loomis Genealogy.' B. Joseph, b. abt 1616 acc. to 'Loomis Genealogy.' C. Thomas. D. Nathaniel. E. Samuel (Lieut.) F. Elizabeth, m. Josiah Hull, 20 May 1641; removed {was living 1665} in Killingworth, Conn. G. Mary, m. (1) 13 Nov 1651 {John} Skinner; (2) Owen Tudor, d. 30 Oct 1690; she d. 19 Aug 1680. H. ___, a dau. who m. {Capt. Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford, 1640}." 4. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 621-622: " 'John Porter, Sr., came from Engl. and settled here in Windsor in 1639.' - O.C.R. According to statements furnished by Henry D. White, Esq., of New Haven, Conn., he came to New England with wife and nine children from Felsted, County Essex, England, probably in the ship 'Susan and Ellen,' 17 Jul 1638, and in company with his borther-in-law, Joseph Loomis - see 'Loomis.' In the Parish Register of Messing, County Essex, Engl, is the following record of marriage: '1620, Oct. 18. John Porter of Felsted and Anna White of Messing.' Anna, as we find from the Messing Parish Register, was bp. 13 Jul 1600 and was the dau. of Robert White of Messing, by his wife, Bridget (dau. of William) Allgar of Shalford, County Essex, and was probably the sister of Mary White of Messing, who m. Joseph Loomis, the emigrant ancestor of the Windsor family of that name (see 'Loomis,' p. 432). Another sister, Elizabeth White, m. 7 Nov 1616, William Goodwin of Hartford, and the three are thought to have been the sisters of Elder John White, though this is not yet proven. Both the Loomis and Goodwin marriages are from the 'Shalford Parish Register.' " 5. Various members of the White family are mentioned in the following excerpt of William Goodwin's biography from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III: "William Goodwin Origin: Braintree, Essex Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150] First Residence: Cambridge Removes: Hartford 1636, Hadley by 1659, Farmington by 1670... Marriage: (1) Shalford, Essex, 7 November 1616 Elizabeth White, daughter of Robert White of Messing, Essex [NEHGR 55:24]; she died before January 1669/70. (2) After 7 December 1654 and by January 1669/70 Susan (Garbrand) Hooker, widow of Rev. Thomas Hooker; she died at Farmington 17 May 1676 [Farm VR Barbour 58, citing FarmLR 2:141]... Associations: William Goodwin's first wife, Elizabeth White, was sister of Mary White, wife of Joseph Loomis of Braintree, and of Anna White, wife of John Porter of Windsor [NEHGR 55:22-31]..." 6. The following partial excerpt concerning the three immigrant sisters of John White is found in the biographical sketch for John White in "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see his notes for full transcript): "JohnWHITE Origin: Messing, Essex Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150]... Birth: About 1597, son of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White of Messing, Essex [NEHGR 55:22-31]... Associations: Three of John White's sisters came to New England with their husbands: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis; Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin; and Anne, wife of John Porter [NEHGR 55:22-31]... Bibliographic Note: In 1901 "A Descendant" published an excellent article on the White family in England, and the connections to other New England immigrants [NEHGR 55:22-31]. In 1915 Frank Farnsworth Starr prepared the best account in print of the immigrant and his children [Goodwin Anc 2:395-419]." 7. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... According to his will, hereinafter given, he left surviving a wife Bridget; three sons - Daniel, Nathaniel and John who was his youngest Child; three married daughters - Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth; and two unmarried daughters-Bridget and Anna. As he makes his son Daniel joint executor with his wife, it may be inferred he was his eldest son, and possibly by a former wife. His wife Bridget was the mother of his other children, of whom Sarah, wife of James Bowtell of Little Sailinge in Essex, was the first born. It is believed that three of his daughters came with their husbands to New England, namely: Mary White, wife of Joseph Loomis of Braintree; Elizabeth White, wife of William Goodwin of Bocking; and Anna White, wife of John Porter of Felsted. Matthew Grant's Old Church Record (in Stiles's Ancient Windsor) records the death in 1647 of "John Porter, Sen's wife," and also the death in 1652 of "Joseph Loomis, Sen. his wife." This is valuable information, but it would have been more satisfactory had the record contained the Christian names of these wives. Nor does the entry in the Windsor Town Records of the birth of John Porter's two children, Nathaniel in 1640 and Hanna in 1642, give the mother's name. In the same town records is this entry: "John Porter, Sr., came from England and settled in Windsor in 1639." Mr. Porter was present as a member of the "Committee" of the General Court in Hartford, August 8th, 1639. He died in Windsor 21st April, 1648, leaving a will, an abstract of which is hereinafter given, and it is to be noticed that two of the beloved friends made supervisors of his will were "Mr. William Goodwin of Hartford and Goodman White of Hartford." In the Loomis Genealogy, pages 9-11, evidence is given proving that Joseph Loomis, of Braintree in England, came to Boston in 1638, and settled in Windsor in 1639. It is believed that this Joseph Loomis is the Joseph Loomis whose marriage, June 30th, 1614, to Mary White, is recorded in the Parish Register of Shalford, and this theory is supported by the bequest in 1617 of Robert White to my "daughter Marie, the wife of Joseph Lummis of Brantree." The home lots of Joseph Loomis and John Porter in Windsor were adjacent, and these two sisters, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, began in 1639 new homes side by side, in which they lived the rest of their days. Three years before, in 1636, their brother John White, and their sister Elizabeth (White) Goodwin, had settled in Hartford... It is very plausibly supposed that the John White who came over in the "Lion" in 1632 and settled first in Newtown, now Cambridge, in Massachusetts, and then came with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his church to Hartford in 1636, was the son of Robert White of Messing. The record of his baptism has not been found. He was not of age in 1617, when his father made his will, in which it was provided that if should marry without the approbation and consent of his mother, and of Joseph Loomis of Braintree and William Goodwin of Bocking, his legacy of 200 pounds should be reduced to 100 pounds. In the list of thirty-three passengers of the "Lion," given in Drake's Founders of New England, page 12, his name follows next after the name of William Goodwin. [Footnote included after the work "Lion": "We know the name of the vessel from Gov. Winthrop's Hist. N.E., vol. I, p. 107."] His wife's name was Mary, as appears from an unexecuted lease in the handwriting of his son Nathaniel White (now in the possession of one of his descendants), dated March 28, 1666, the lessors being John White and Mary his wife, the lessee their son Nathaniel; the premises, his house and garden, etc., in Hartford, reserving the use of two rooms therein for the term of the lives of said John and Mary, and of the longest liver, whether said John or said Mary... It deserves to be mentioned that family genealogies have been printed of all the members of Robert White's family who are known to have emigrated to New England, namely: Elder John White and his descendants, in 1860. The Loomis Genealogy, in 1875. Loomis Genealogy, female branches, in 1880. The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn., in 1891. John Porter and his descendants, in 1893. Memorials of Roderick White and descendants, in 1892. From these books some of the preceding facts have been taken, and to these genealogies the reader is referred for full and interesting memorials of these families... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr. From Parish Register of Shalford. Marriages... 1614, June 30, Joseph Loomis and Mary White... Baptisms... 1590, Aug. 24, Mary Whighte, dau. of Robert Whighte..." 8. FHL book "Various Ancestral Lines … Goodwin and … Morgan …," by Frank Farnsworth Starr (1915; Hartford), pp. 395-399: "The Family of Robert White. Shalford, a small parish of Essex County, England, is located in the north middle section of the county, four and a half miles northwest of Braintree, the nearest railroad town, and has a population of about 700. The writer visited this parish in August 1891, made an examination of the Church Register which begins in 1558, and found many interesting items. In the record of baptisms are found: 1560 Sept. 9, Mary Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1562 Mar. 11, Brydgette Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1565 Apr. 6, Jdhn Allgar son of William Allgar 1567 Oct. 5, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1583 May 5, Elizabeth Allgar daughter of William Allgar In the record of burials: 1565 Aug. 1, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1575 Aug. 2, William Allgar the elder The following entries were found in the record of marriages: 1575 Oct 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar 1582 Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar 1585 June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgett Allgar The last entry gives us the marriage of Robert White and Bridget Allgar; the daughter of William Allgar of Shalford. Of White's parentage and earlier history we have no knowledge. He seems to have resided at Shalford until after November 7, 1616, the date of the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to William Goodwin then of Bocking, Essex County, later of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other towns in New England. In May 1617, he was a resident of Messing in the same county when he made his will, and where he was buried on the 17th of June following. Thus far, there has not been discovered any record of the death of his wife Bridget, but she is supposed to be the person of that name, to whom one Nathaniel White of Faring, Essex County, in his will made June 9, 1623, left a life annuity of £ 10. (Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts., vol. for 1623-4, 158.) The following is a copy of Robert White's will, as entered in the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, volume Weldon, 40... [Article transcribes will; however, I do not copy it since I already have a transcript of it in a separate note.] It will be interesting to note that of the daughters mentioned in this will, three with their husbands, became residents of New England, as follows: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Connecticut Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; Hadley, Massachusetts, and Farmington, Connecticut Anne, wife of John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut. We have no knowledge of his son Daniel, except that he was made one of the executors of the will; possibly, he was the child of a previous marriage. Child of Robert and ___ White: -Daniel bap. ___ legatee and executor of the will of his father; nothing further known about him. Children of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White (Church Register, Shalford, Essex County, England): -Sarah, bap. Mar 8, 1585, mar. James Bowtell of Little Sating, Essex County, England and was living in May, 1617 (Robert White's will, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London). -Nathaniel, bap. "Laste day of April," 1587; he is supposed to have lived at Feering, Essex County, and to have died in 1623. -Mary, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; mar. June 30, 1614, Joseph Loomis, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn. -Elizabeth, bap. "fyfte March", 1591; mar. Nov. 7, 1614 William "Godwyn of Bocking singleman." He emigrated to America in 1632 and became one of the settlers of Hartford, Conn. -Bridget, bap. Aug. 18, 1594; mar. Sept. 28, 1618, John Christmas. -John, bap. ___, mar. Dec. 26, 1622, Mary (Lev ?)it. -Anne, bap. July 13, 1600; mar. Oct. 18, 1620 John Porter of Felstead, Essex County, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn." [Sources in footnotes;] -Will of Nathaniel White of Feering, Essex County, in Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts, vol. for 1623-4, 158. -Parish Register, Messing, Essex County, England." 9. FHL book 929.273 F597g "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England…," by Ernest Flagg (Hartford, 1926), p. 278: "Mary White1, wife of Joseph Loomis1, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; dau. of Robert and Bridget (AllgarA) WhiteA of Messing, Essex, England; m. June 30, 1614 in England; d. Aug. 23, 1652. (Matthew Grant's O.C.R.) Their children: -Joseph, about 1615; d. June 26, 1687; m. Sept. 17, 1646, Sarah, dau. of William Hill and granddau. af Richard Lyman1; m. (2), June 28, 1659, Mary Chauncey, who d. April 22, 1681. He was a trooper in King Philip's War, as was his brother, Nathaniel. -Sarah, about 1617; d. 1667; m. Sept. 28, 1640, as his first wife, Capt. Nicholas Olmstead, grandson of James and Jane (BristowB) OlmsteadB, and who served in the Pequot War. -Elizabeth, about 1619; m. May 20, 1641, Josias hull, son of George of Windsor, who d. Nov. 16, 1675. -Mary, about. 1620; d. Aug. 19, 1680; m. 1638, John Skinner of Hartford; m. (2), Nov. 13, 1651, Owen Tudor. -John, (Deacon), 1622; d. Sept. 1, 1688; m. Feb. 3, 1648-9, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Scott and sister of the first wife of John Stanley2, who d. May 7, 1696. -Thomas, 1624; d. Aug. 28, 1689; m. Nov. 1, 1653, Hannah Fox, (M.G.O.C.R.); m. (2), Jan. 1, 1662-3, Mary, dau. of Deacon Thomas Judd1, who d. Aug. 8 1684. Thomas Loomis was a trooper in 1658 under Major John Mason." 10. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), p. 163: "ROBERT WHITE, born at Shalford, co. Essex in 1588; buried at Messing, co. Essex June 1617; married at Shalford 24 June 1585, BRIDGET ALGAR, born at Shalford, co. Essex, England 11 March 1562. Robert was a yeoman and lived most of his life in Shalford, but moved to Messing before his death. He left a long and complete will at Shalford. Children of Robert and Bridget (Algar) White: i. Sarah White, born at Shalford 8 March 1585/6. ii. Nathaniel White, baptized at Shalford 30 April 1587. iii. Mary White, born at Shalford, co Essex, England, 24 August 1590; died at Windsor, Connecticut 21 August 1652; married at Messing, co. Essex 30 June 1614, Joseph Loomis. iv. Bridget White, baptized at Shalford 18 August 1594. v Anna White, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600. vi. ELIZABETH WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1a below) vii. JOHN WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1b below) ELIZABETH WHITE, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600 [an apparent typo by the author]; died at Windsor Connecticut; married in England, WILLIAM GOODWIN (See Goodwin Family.)" 11. The book "Colonial Ancestors. Four lineal genealogies of eastern Connecticut families…," by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg (Camden, Maine; Penobscot Press, 1991), pp. 183-87 [Note: I neglected to copy the source list.]: "Some productive inquiries into the English origins of John White were made by one of his descendants around the year 1900. John is understood to be the youngest child of ROBERTA WHITE, yeoman, well-to-do, born possibly in Messing, county Essex; he died there in 1617. Robert married in Shalford, county Essex, 24 Jun 1585, BRIDGET ALLGAR, where also she had been baptized on 11 Mch 1562, the daughter of William Allgar. Robert and Bridget seem to have lived in her native town or parish, Shalford, most of their married life.[1] Robert White was buried at Messing, 17 Jun 1617, less than three weeks after making his will, which provided for daughters Sarah (called the eldest; mar. James Bowtell), Mary (mar. Joseph Loomis), Elizabeth (mar. William Goodwin), Bridget White and Anna White, in that order; he then names sons Nathaniel and John, the latter being a minor and believed to be the youngest child; finally, he names his wife, Bridget, and his son, Daniel as joint executors.[2] Subsequently, Anna White married at Messing, 18 Oct 1620, John Porter; and John White married at the same place, 26 Dec 1622, Mary (Lev).[3] A sizeable portion of the White family moved from the Old World to New England in the Great Migration, and stayed near to one another in the new land.[4] Moreover, there clearly existed within the family, and with its in-laws, a sense of closeness, mutual support, and common interest. This is apparent from the respect and trust implied in assigned responsibilities, as illustrated in several legal instruments in which members of the family partook. For example, Robert White, wishing to assure sensible marriages for his children, Bridget, Anna and John, by his will conditioned receipt of their full inheritance upon approval of the intended spouse not only by his wife Bridget, but also by his "sonnes in law" Joseph Loomis and William Goodwin.[5] The father's high opinion of these two young men was well substantiated by their later careers as leaders in Windsor and Hartford in Connecticut. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the White children tried to stay together when they settled across the Altantic: when Joseph Loomis and John Porter occupied adjacent home lots in Windsor in 1639, their wives, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, became next door neighbors.[6] The English shire of Essex was one of the prime centers for nonconformist preachers, and of course most of those who came to New England in the two decades after Robert White's death were following their inspiring preachers, often making the move as congregations. It's not surprising, then, to find in Robert White's will an early bequest for "...Mr. Richard Rogers preacher of gods word at Withersfield in Essex...,"[7] and study of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Essex discloses that the parish of Wethersfield adjoins that of Shalford, in the north central part of Essex. For Robert White to attend a lecture by Mr. Rogers, he may have had to travel no more than ten miles. Out of this moderately wealthy English family, comfortably settled in the shire of Essex, but imbued with nonconformist fervor, came the hard working, well liked and increasingly respected man who was to become an early, founding settler of no less than three new towns: Newtown (later Cambridge, Mass.), Hartford, and Hadley." 12. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51: "JOSEPH LOOMIS, b. Eng., c1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 25 Nov 1658. He m. Messing, County Essex, England 30 Jun 1614 MARY WHITE. She was bpt. Shalford, England, 24 Aug 1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 23 Aug 1652, d/o Robert White and Bridget Allgar of Messing. Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper in Braintree, Essex Co., England; sailed from London 11 Apr 1638 in the Susan and Ellen, and arrived at Boston 17 Jul 1638, living for about a year at Dorchester, Mass. It is mentioned in the town records of Windsor, Vol. 1, that on the 2d of Feb., 1640, he had granted him from the Plantation 21 acres adjoining Farmington Aver, on the west side of the Connecticut river; also several large tracts of land on the east side of the Connecticut, partly from the town and partly by purchase. He probably came to Windsor in the summer or autumn of 1639, and he is generally supposed to have come in the company with Rev. Ephraim Huet, who arrived at Windsor 17 Aug 1639. He brought with him five sons, all of whom were freemen 7 Oct 1669, and three daughters. The marriages of these children are recorded in the town records of Windsor, as were the births of their children, but as the dates of birth of Joseph's children are not recorded, it is difficult to determine the order of seniority. His house was situated near the mouth of the Farmington river on the "Island," so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut river. In the Records of particular Court for the colony of Connecticut, Vol 2, p. 115, is recorded the agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis, respecting the division of the estate of said deceased as approved by the Court 2 Dec 1658. Loomis, Joseph, Windsor. Died 25 November, 1658. Inventory £178.10.00. Taken by Henry Clarke, John Moore. Court Record, Page 115 -- 2 December, 1658. An Agreement for a Division of the Estate by the Children of Joseph Loomis, Decd, and approved by this Court of Magistrates to be an Equal Division. To Joseph Loomis, to Nicholas Olmsted, to Josiah Hull, to John Loomis, to Thomas Loomis, to Nathaniel Loomis, to Mary Tudor, to Samuel Loomis. The agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis respecting the division of the estate of ye father deceased approved by The Court 2 December 1658: We whose names are hereunto subscribed doe by these prsents testify that it is our mutual and joynt agreement to attend an equal division of the estate of Mr. Joseph Loomis, our father, lately deceased, wch said estate being distributed in an equal prption we doe by these prsents engage to set down Satisfied and contented respecting any future trouble or demands about the fore said estate now presented by Inventory to ye Court of Magistrates. Witness our hand, 2nd December, 1658. Joseph Loomis, Josias Hull, Thomas Loomis, Mary Tudor, Nicholas Olmstead, John Loomis, Nath. Loomis, Samll Loomis. (Manwaring, Charles W., A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District. Vol. 1, 1650-1663, pp. 135-6.) It is believed that the order in which the children were named in the division of the estate indicates the relative ages of the children. Further, Joseph Loomis, the younger, and John Loomis had land granted to them from the Windsor Plantation in 1643. The other sons acquired no land until several years afterward. The marriages of the sons, as recorded at Windsor, took place in the order of the names mentioned above. i. JOSEPH2 Loomis, b. Eng. c1615; d. Windsor, Conn., 26 Jun 1687; m/1 Windsor 17 Sept 1646 SARAH HILL., who d. 23 Aug 1653; m/2 28 Jun 1659 MARY SHERWOOD, b. c1639, d/o Thomas and Mary (Fitch) Sherwood. ("Some Early Records and Documents of and Relative to the Town of Windsor, Conn., 1639-1703," p. 39.) Inventory of his estate was made 12 Jul 1687 by Henry Wolcott, John Wolcott and John Loomis and amounted to £281.14.08. Children named were Joseph age 38; John 36; Mary 34; Hannah 25; Matthew 23; Stephen 20; James 17; Nathaniel 14; Isaac 9. (Manwaring, Vol. 1, 1677-1687, p. 332.) Children by Sarah: Sarah b. 22 Jul 1647, d. 1654; Joseph b. 15 Jul 1649, d. East Windsor 26 Feb 1715, m/1 Lydia Drake, d/o John, m/2 widow Abigail Birge; John b. 1 Oct 1651, d. Windsor 3 Nov 1732, m/1 Mary (___), m/2 Esther Gillett; Mary b. 3 Aug 1653, living 1687. Children by Mary: Sarah (again) b. 1 Apr 1660, d. inf.; Hannah b. 2 Feb 1662, living 1687; Matthew b 4 Nov 1664, d. 12 Apr 1688, m. Mary Gaylord; Isaac b. 10 Jul 1666, d. young; Stephen b. 1 Sept 1668, d. 1711, m. Esther Colt; James b. 31 Oct 1669, d. Bolton 29 Dec 1750, Mindwell (___); Nathaniel b. 8 Aug 1673, d. East Windsor 1730, m. Elizabeth (___); Isaac (again) b. 28 Oct 1677, d. 17 Mar 1704. ii. SARAH Loomis, b. Eng., c1617; m. 1640 CAPT. NICHOLAS OLMSTEAD of Hartford, s/o James Olmstead and Joyce Cornish of Hartford. He d. 31 Aug 1684. Children (OLDMSTEAD): Sarah b. 1641 m. George Gates (Torrey); Mabel b. 20 Nov 1646, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor (Torrey); Rebecca b. Mar 1648, m. John Bigelow (Torrey); John b. 3 Feb 1650; Joseph; Samuel; Thomas prob. m. Hannah Mix. (Savage sv Nicholas Olmstead.) iii ELIZABETH Loomis, b. Eng. c1619; d. aft 1665; m. Windsor 20 May 1641 JOSIAH HULL of Windsor, d. 16 Nov 1675, s/o George. He was deputy to the General Court 1659, 60, 62. He then removed to Killingworth where he was deputy 1667-74. Children (HULL): Josiah b. Sept 1642; John b. 17 Dec 1644; Elizabeth b. 18 Feb 1647; Mary b. 2 Oct 1648; Martha b. 10 Jun 1650: Joseph b. 10 Aug 1652; Sarah b. 9 Aug 1654; Naomi b. 17 Feb 1657, m. Thomas Burnham; Rebecca b. 10 Aug 1659; George b. 28 Apr 1662, d. soon; Thomas b. 29 May 1655. (Savage & Torrey sv Josiah Hull. NOTE: Savage says Josiah Hull m. Elizabeth, d/o Joseph Bemis, but this is incorrect.) iv MARY Loomis, b. Eng., c1620; d. 19 Aug 1680; m/1 JOHN SKINNER of Hartford, d. 30 Oct 1650; m/2 13 Nov 1651 OWEN TUDOR of Windsor, d. 30 Oct 1690. Children (SKINNER): Mary b. 1 Dec 1637, m. Robert Reeve; Ann b. 1639 m. John Colt; John b. 1641, m. Mary Easton; Joseph b. 1643, m. Mary Filley; Richard b. 1646. Children by Owen Tudor (TUDOR): Samuel (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. 1685 Abigail (Filley) Bissell, wid. of John Bissell; Sarah (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. James Porter; Owen b. 2 Mar 1654, d. unm.; Anne (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657; Jane (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657, m. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield; Mary b. 6 Mar 1661, m/1 John Orton, m/2 John Judson. (Manwaring, Vol. I, 1687-1695, p. 513; Savage sv Owen Tudor.) v DEACON JOHN Loomis, b. Eng. c1622; d. Windsor 1 Sept 1688; m. 3 Feb 1648/9 ELIZABETH SCOTT, d/o Thomas of Hartford. Children: John b. 9 Nov 1649, m/1 ___; m/2 30 Dec 1696 Sarah (Boltwood) Warner, widow of Isaac Warner and d/o Robert Boltwood; Joseph b. 7 Nov 1651, m. Hannah (___); Thomas b. 3 Dec 1653, m. Sarah White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, Sarah m/2 John Bissell; Samuel b. 29 Jun 1655, d. young; Daniel b. 16 Jun 1657, m/1 Mary Ellsworth, d/o Josiah, m/2 widow Hannah Drake; James b. 19 Sept 1659, d. young; Timothy b. 27 Jul 1661, m. Rebecca Porter; Nathaniel b. 8 Jul 1663, m. Ruth Porter; David b. 30 May 1665, d. inf.; Samuel (again) b. 12 Aug 1666, m/1 Elizabeth White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, m/2 widow Elizabeth Church; Isaac b. 31 Aug 1668, d. age 20; Elizabeth b. 8 May 1671, m. John Brown; Mary b. 7 Aug 1673, d. inf. (Savage sv John Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.) vi. THOMAS Loomis, b. Eng., c1624; d. 28 Aug 1689. He was of Windsor and m/1 1 Nov 1653 HANNAH FOX who d. 25 Apr 1662; m/2 1 Jan 1662/3 MARY JUDD, d. 8 Aug 1684, d/o Thomas Judd and Sarah Freeman. He was freeman in 1654, admitted to the church 3 Apr 1663. Children by Hannah: Thomas b. 29 Oct 1654, d. soon; Thomas (again) b. 17 Mar 1656, Hannah Porter; Hannah b. 8 Feb 1657/8, m. William Judd; Mary b. 16 Jan 1659/60, m. Michael Taintor of Branford. Children by Mary: Elizabeth b. 21 Jan 1663/4. living 1690; Ruth b. 16 Oct 1665, m. Joseph Colt; Sarah b. 1 Feb 1667/8, m. Wakefield Dibble; Jeremiah b. 3 Jul 1670, d. age 2; Mabel b. 27 Oct 1672, living 1690; Mindwell b. 6 Aug 1676, living 1690; Benjamin b. 20 May 1679, living 1690. (Savage sv Thomas Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.) vii. NATHANIEL Loomis. b. Eng., c1626; d. 19 Aug 1688; will dated 17 Aug 1688; m. 24 Nov 1654 ELIZABETH MOORE, d/o John; she m/2 John Case, and she d. 23 Jul 1728, aged 90. Children: Elizabeth b. 7 Aug 1655, m. John Lee; Nathaniel b. 20 Mar 1657, m. Elizabeth Ellsworth, d/o Josiah; Abigail b. 27 Mar 1659, m. Josiah Barber of Simsbury; Josiah b. 17 Feb 1661, m. Mary Rockwell; Jonathan b. 30 Mar 1664, m. ___; David b. 11 Jan 1668, m. Lydia Marsh; Hezekiah b. 21 Feb 1669, m. Mary Porter; Moses b. 15 May 1671, m. Joanna Gibbs; Mindwell b. 20 Jul 1673, Jonathan Brown; Ebenezer b. 22 Mar 1675, m. Jemima Whitcomb; Mary b. 5 Jan 1680, m. Joseph Barber; Rebecca b. 10 Dec 1682, m. Josiah Rockwell. (Savage sv Nathaniel Loomis, Hezekiah Loomis.) viii SAMUEL Loomis, b. Eng. c1628; m. ELIZABETH JUDD. (William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)" 13. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53: "JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER. United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents. JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3). JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them. The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were. I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood. II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead. III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL). IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor. V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1). VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1). VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case. VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf. REFERENCES 1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2. 2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196. 3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72. 4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78. 5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT. 6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396. 7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182. 8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT. 9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3. 10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757." CHRISTENING: 1. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... It deserves to be mentioned that family genealogies have been printed of all the members of Robert White's family who are known to have emigrated to New England, namely: Elder John White and his descendants, in 1860. The Loomis Genealogy, in 1875. Loomis Genealogy, female branches, in 1880. The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn., in 1891. John Porter and his descendants, in 1893. Memorials of Roderick White and descendants, in 1892. From these books some of the preceding facts have been taken, and to these genealogies the reader is referred for full and interesting memorials of these families... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr. From Parish Register of Shalford. Marriages. 1570, Nov. 11, Richard Bette and Alice Smythe. 1575, Oct. 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar. 1582, Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar. 1585, June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgette Allgar. 1614, June 30, Joseph Loomis and Mary White. 1616, Nov. 7, William Goodwyn of Bocking singleman and Elizabeth White of this parish singlewoman. Baptisms... 1585, Mar. 8, Sara Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte. 1587, last day of April, Nathaniel Whighte son of Robert Whighte. 1590, Aug. 24, Mary Whighte, dau. of Robert Whighte. 1591, Mar. 5, Elizabeth Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte. 1594, Aug. 18, Bridget Whight dau. of Robert Whighte. 1600, July 13, Anne Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte..." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Hazel May Beckstead, 4729 N. Walnut Grove, Rosemead, Calif.. References: "Gen. Biog. Rec. New London Co., Conn. Stiles Fam. Hist. p. 28, His. Hudson Mohawk Valley N.Y. p 725, vol 2 Vitals Boxford, Mass. pp. 94, 95, History of Ancient Windsor Conn. vol II Loomis Gen." 2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker | White, Mary (I1900)
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| 7089 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will of 17 Jun 1617: Daniel, co-administrator of will with Robert's wife Bridget. Sarah, eldest dau. and wife of James Bowtell of "little Salinge." "Marie, wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree." Elizabeth, wife of "Willm Goodinge or Goodings of Bockinge." Bridgett, unmarried. Anna, unmarried. Nathaniel John, minor under age 20. Also mentions a kinsman: Ralph Bett, the younger. 2. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... According to his will, hereinafter given, he left surviving a wife Bridget; three sons - Daniel, Nathaniel and John who was his youngest Child; three married daughters - Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth; and two unmarried daughters-Bridget and Anna. As he makes his son Daniel joint executor with his wife, it may be inferred he was his eldest son, and possibly by a former wife. His wife Bridget was the mother of his other children, of whom Sarah, wife of James Bowtell of Little Sailinge in Essex, was the first born... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr. From Parish Register of Shalford... 1594, Aug. 18, Bridget Whight dau. of Robert Whighte... From the Parish Register of Messing. Marriages... 1616, Nov. 26, John Christmas the elder widdower and Mary Porter singlewoman. 1618, Sept. 28, John Christmas and Bridgett White... Baptisms. 1619, Aug. 26, Richard Christmas son of John Christmas the younger. 1620-21, Jan. 24, John Christmas son of John Christmas and Bridget his wife..." 3. FHL book "Various Ancestral Lines … Goodwin and … Morgan …," by Frank Farnsworth Starr (1915; Hartford), pp. 395-399: "The Family of Robert White. Shalford, a small parish of Essex County, England, is located in the north middle section of the county, four and a half miles northwest of Braintree, the nearest railroad town, and has a population of about 700. The writer visited this parish in August 1891, made an examination of the Church Register which begins in 1558, and found many interesting items. In the record of baptisms are found: 1560 Sept. 9, Mary Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1562 Mar. 11, Brydgette Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1565 Apr. 6, Jdhn Allgar son of William Allgar 1567 Oct. 5, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1583 May 5, Elizabeth Allgar daughter of William Allgar In the record of burials: 1565 Aug. 1, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1575 Aug. 2, William Allgar the elder The following entries were found in the record of marriages: 1575 Oct 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar 1582 Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar 1585 June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgett Allgar The last entry gives us the marriage of Robert White and Bridget Allgar; the daughter of William Allgar of Shalford. Of White's parentage and earlier history we have no knowledge. He seems to have resided at Shalford until after November 7, 1616, the date of the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to William Goodwin then of Bocking, Essex County, later of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other towns in New England. In May 1617, he was a resident of Messing in the same county when he made his will, and where he was buried on the 17th of June following. Thus far, there has not been discovered any record of the death of his wife Bridget, but she is supposed to be the person of that name, to whom one Nathaniel White of Faring, Essex County, in his will made June 9, 1623, left a life annuity of £ 10. (Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts., vol. for 1623-4, 158.) The following is a copy of Robert White's will, as entered in the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, volume Weldon, 40... [Article transcribes will; however, I do not copy it since I already have a transcript of it in a separate note.] It will be interesting to note that of the daughters mentioned in this will, three with their husbands, became residents of New England, as follows: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Connecticut Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; Hadley, Massachusetts, and Farmington, Connecticut Anne, wife of John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut. We have no knowledge of his son Daniel, except that he was made one of the executors of the will; possibly, he was the child of a previous marriage. Child of Robert and ___ White: -Daniel bap. ___ legatee and executor of the will of his father; nothing further known about him. Children of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White (Church Register, Shalford, Essex County, England): -Sarah, bap. Mar 8, 1585, mar. James Bowtell of Little Sating, Essex County, England and was living in May, 1617 (Robert White's will, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London). -Nathaniel, bap. "Laste day of April," 1587; he is supposed to have lived at Feering, Essex County, and to have died in 1623. -Mary, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; mar. June 30, 1614, Joseph Loomis, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn. -Elizabeth, bap. "fyfte March", 1591; mar. Nov. 7, 1614 William "Godwyn of Bocking singleman." He emigrated to America in 1632 and became one of the settlers of Hartford, Conn. -Bridget, bap. Aug. 18, 1594; mar. Sept. 28, 1618, John Christmas. -John, bap. ___, mar. Dec. 26, 1622, Mary (Lev ?)it. -Anne, bap. July 13, 1600; mar. Oct. 18, 1620 John Porter of Felstead, Essex County, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn." [Sources in footnotes;] -Will of Nathaniel White of Feering, Essex County, in Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts, vol. for 1623-4, 158. -Parish Register, Messing, Essex County, England." 4. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), p. 163: "ROBERT WHITE, born at Shalford, co. Essex in 1588; buried at Messing, co. Essex June 1617; married at Shalford 24 June 1585, BRIDGET ALGAR, born at Shalford, co. Essex, England 11 March 1562. Robert was a yeoman and lived most of his life in Shalford, but moved to Messing before his death. He left a long and complete will at Shalford. Children of Robert and Bridget (Algar) White: i. Sarah White, born at Shalford 8 March 1585/6. ii. Nathaniel White, baptized at Shalford 30 April 1587. iii. Mary White, born at Shalford, co Essex, England, 24 August 1590; died at Windsor, Connecticut 21 August 1652; married at Messing, co. Essex 30 June 1614, Joseph Loomis. iv. Bridget White, baptized at Shalford 18 August 1594. v Anna White, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600. vi. ELIZABETH WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1a below) vii. JOHN WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1b below) ELIZABETH WHITE, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600 [an apparent typo by the author]; died at Windsor Connecticut; married in England, WILLIAM GOODWIN (See Goodwin Family.)" 5. The book "Colonial Ancestors. Four lineal genealogies of eastern Connecticut families…," by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg (Camden, Maine; Penobscot Press, 1991), pp. 183-87 [Note: I neglected to copy the source list.]: "Some productive inquiries into the English origins of John White were made by one of his descendants around the year 1900. John is understood to be the youngest child of ROBERTA WHITE, yeoman, well-to-do, born possibly in Messing, county Essex; he died there in 1617. Robert married in Shalford, county Essex, 24 Jun 1585, BRIDGET ALLGAR, where also she had been baptized on 11 Mch 1562, the daughter of William Allgar. Robert and Bridget seem to have lived in her native town or parish, Shalford, most of their married life.[1] Robert White was buried at Messing, 17 Jun 1617, less than three weeks after making his will, which provided for daughters Sarah (called the eldest; mar. James Bowtell), Mary (mar. Joseph Loomis), Elizabeth (mar. William Goodwin), Bridget White and Anna White, in that order; he then names sons Nathaniel and John, the latter being a minor and believed to be the youngest child; finally, he names his wife, Bridget, and his son, Daniel as joint executors.[2] Subsequently, Anna White married at Messing, 18 Oct 1620, John Porter; and John White married at the same place, 26 Dec 1622, Mary (Lev).[3] A sizeable portion of the White family moved from the Old World to New England in the Great Migration, and stayed near to one another in the new land.[4] Moreover, there clearly existed within the family, and with its in-laws, a sense of closeness, mutual support, and common interest. This is apparent from the respect and trust implied in assigned responsibilities, as illustrated in several legal instruments in which members of the family partook. For example, Robert White, wishing to assure sensible marriages for his children, Bridget, Anna and John, by his will conditioned receipt of their full inheritance upon approval of the intended spouse not only by his wife Bridget, but also by his "sonnes in law" Joseph Loomis and William Goodwin.[5] The father's high opinion of these two young men was well substantiated by their later careers as leaders in Windsor and Hartford in Connecticut. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the White children tried to stay together when they settled across the Altantic: when Joseph Loomis and John Porter occupied adjacent home lots in Windsor in 1639, their wives, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, became next door neighbors.[6] The English shire of Essex was one of the prime centers for nonconformist preachers, and of course most of those who came to New England in the two decades after Robert White's death were following their inspiring preachers, often making the move as congregations. It's not surprising, then, to find in Robert White's will an early bequest for "...Mr. Richard Rogers preacher of gods word at Withersfield in Essex...,"[7] and study of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Essex discloses that the parish of Wethersfield adjoins that of Shalford, in the north central part of Essex. For Robert White to attend a lecture by Mr. Rogers, he may have had to travel no more than ten miles. Out of this moderately wealthy English family, comfortably settled in the shire of Essex, but imbued with nonconformist fervor, came the hard working, well liked and increasingly respected man who was to become an early, founding settler of no less than three new towns: Newtown (later Cambridge, Mass.), Hartford, and Hadley." CHRISTENING: 1. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... It deserves to be mentioned that family genealogies have been printed of all the members of Robert White's family who are known to have emigrated to New England, namely: Elder John White and his descendants, in 1860. The Loomis Genealogy, in 1875. Loomis Genealogy, female branches, in 1880. The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn., in 1891. John Porter and his descendants, in 1893. Memorials of Roderick White and descendants, in 1892. From these books some of the preceding facts have been taken, and to these genealogies the reader is referred for full and interesting memorials of these families... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr. From Parish Register of Shalford. Marriages. 1570, Nov. 11, Richard Bette and Alice Smythe. 1575, Oct. 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar. 1582, Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar. 1585, June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgette Allgar. 1614, June 30, Joseph Loomis and Mary White. 1616, Nov. 7, William Goodwyn of Bocking singleman and Elizabeth White of this parish singlewoman. Baptisms... 1585, Mar. 8, Sara Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte. 1587, last day of April, Nathaniel Whighte son of Robert Whighte. 1590, Aug. 24, Mary Whighte, dau. of Robert Whighte. 1591, Mar. 5, Elizabeth Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte. 1594, Aug. 18, Bridget Whight dau. of Robert Whighte. 1600, July 13, Anne Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte..." MARRIAGE: 1. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. ...From the Parish Register of Messing. Marriages... 1616, Nov. 26, John Christmas the elder widdower and Mary Porter singlewoman. [KP: probable father of the following John Christmas.] 1618, Sept. 28, John Christmas and Bridgett White... Baptisms. 1619, Aug. 26, Richard Christmas son of John Christmas the younger. 1620-21, Jan. 24, John Christmas son of John Christmas and Bridget his wife..." | White, Bridget (I352)
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| 7090 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will of 17 Jun 1617: Daniel, co-administrator of will with Robert's wife Bridget. Sarah, eldest dau. and wife of James Bowtell of "little Salinge." "Marie, wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree." Elizabeth, wife of "Willm Goodinge or Goodings of Bockinge." Bridgett, unmarried. Anna, unmarried. Nathaniel John, minor under age 20. Also mentions a kinsman: Ralph Bett, the younger. 2. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... According to his will, hereinafter given, he left surviving a wife Bridget; three sons - Daniel, Nathaniel and John who was his youngest Child; three married daughters - Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth; and two unmarried daughters-Bridget and Anna. As he makes his son Daniel joint executor with his wife, it may be inferred he was his eldest son, and possibly by a former wife. His wife Bridget was the mother of his other children, of whom Sarah, wife of James Bowtell of Little Sailinge in Essex, was the first born... The will of Nathaniel White of Fering, dated 9 June, 1623, proved 31 July, 1623, mentions his mother Bridget White, and gives her an annuity of ten pounds. Fering is four or five miles from Messing..." 3. FHL book "Various Ancestral Lines … Goodwin and … Morgan …," by Frank Farnsworth Starr (1915; Hartford), pp. 395-399: "The Family of Robert White. Shalford, a small parish of Essex County, England, is located in the north middle section of the county, four and a half miles northwest of Braintree, the nearest railroad town, and has a population of about 700. The writer visited this parish in August 1891, made an examination of the Church Register which begins in 1558, and found many interesting items. In the record of baptisms are found: 1560 Sept. 9, Mary Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1562 Mar. 11, Brydgette Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1565 Apr. 6, Jdhn Allgar son of William Allgar 1567 Oct. 5, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1583 May 5, Elizabeth Allgar daughter of William Allgar In the record of burials: 1565 Aug. 1, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1575 Aug. 2, William Allgar the elder The following entries were found in the record of marriages: 1575 Oct 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar 1582 Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar 1585 June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgett Allgar The last entry gives us the marriage of Robert White and Bridget Allgar; the daughter of William Allgar of Shalford. Of White's parentage and earlier history we have no knowledge. He seems to have resided at Shalford until after November 7, 1616, the date of the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to William Goodwin then of Bocking, Essex County, later of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other towns in New England. In May 1617, he was a resident of Messing in the same county when he made his will, and where he was buried on the 17th of June following. Thus far, there has not been discovered any record of the death of his wife Bridget, but she is supposed to be the person of that name, to whom one Nathaniel White of Faring, Essex County, in his will made June 9, 1623, left a life annuity of £ 10. (Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts., vol. for 1623-4, 158.) The following is a copy of Robert White's will, as entered in the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, volume Weldon, 40... [Article transcribes will; however, I do not copy it since I already have a transcript of it in a separate note.] It will be interesting to note that of the daughters mentioned in this will, three with their husbands, became residents of New England, as follows: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Connecticut Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; Hadley, Massachusetts, and Farmington, Connecticut Anne, wife of John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut. We have no knowledge of his son Daniel, except that he was made one of the executors of the will; possibly, he was the child of a previous marriage. Child of Robert and ___ White: -Daniel bap. ___ legatee and executor of the will of his father; nothing further known about him. Children of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White (Church Register, Shalford, Essex County, England): -Sarah, bap. Mar 8, 1585, mar. James Bowtell of Little Sating, Essex County, England and was living in May, 1617 (Robert White's will, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London). -Nathaniel, bap. "Laste day of April," 1587; he is supposed to have lived at Feering, Essex County, and to have died in 1623. -Mary, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; mar. June 30, 1614, Joseph Loomis, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn. -Elizabeth, bap. "fyfte March", 1591; mar. Nov. 7, 1614 William "Godwyn of Bocking singleman." He emigrated to America in 1632 and became one of the settlers of Hartford, Conn. -Bridget, bap. Aug. 18, 1594; mar. Sept. 28, 1618, John Christmas. -John, bap. ___, mar. Dec. 26, 1622, Mary (Lev ?)it. -Anne, bap. July 13, 1600; mar. Oct. 18, 1620 John Porter of Felstead, Essex County, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn." [Sources in footnotes;] -Will of Nathaniel White of Feering, Essex County, in Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts, vol. for 1623-4, 158. -Parish Register, Messing, Essex County, England." 4. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), p. 163: "ROBERT WHITE, born at Shalford, co. Essex in 1588; buried at Messing, co. Essex June 1617; married at Shalford 24 June 1585, BRIDGET ALGAR, born at Shalford, co. Essex, England 11 March 1562. Robert was a yeoman and lived most of his life in Shalford, but moved to Messing before his death. He left a long and complete will at Shalford. Children of Robert and Bridget (Algar) White: i. Sarah White, born at Shalford 8 March 1585/6. ii. Nathaniel White, baptized at Shalford 30 April 1587. iii. Mary White, born at Shalford, co Essex, England, 24 August 1590; died at Windsor, Connecticut 21 August 1652; married at Messing, co. Essex 30 June 1614, Joseph Loomis. iv. Bridget White, baptized at Shalford 18 August 1594. v Anna White, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600. vi. ELIZABETH WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1a below) vii. JOHN WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1b below) ELIZABETH WHITE, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600 [an apparent typo by the author]; died at Windsor Connecticut; married in England, WILLIAM GOODWIN (See Goodwin Family.) 5. The book "Colonial Ancestors. Four lineal genealogies of eastern Connecticut families…," by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg (Camden, Maine; Penobscot Press, 1991), pp. 183-87 [Note: I neglected to copy the source list.]: "Some productive inquiries into the English origins of John White were made by one of his descendants around the year 1900. John is understood to be the youngest child of ROBERTA WHITE, yeoman, well-to-do, born possibly in Messing, county Essex; he died there in 1617. Robert married in Shalford, county Essex, 24 Jun 1585, BRIDGET ALLGAR, where also she had been baptized on 11 Mch 1562, the daughter of William Allgar. Robert and Bridget seem to have lived in her native town or parish, Shalford, most of their married life.[1] Robert White was buried at Messing, 17 Jun 1617, less than three weeks after making his will, which provided for daughters Sarah (called the eldest; mar. James Bowtell), Mary (mar. Joseph Loomis), Elizabeth (mar. William Goodwin), Bridget White and Anna White, in that order; he then names sons Nathaniel and John, the latter being a minor and believed to be the youngest child; finally, he names his wife, Bridget, and his son, Daniel as joint executors.[2] Subsequently, Anna White married at Messing, 18 Oct 1620, John Porter; and John White married at the same place, 26 Dec 1622, Mary (Lev).[3] A sizeable portion of the White family moved from the Old World to New England in the Great Migration, and stayed near to one another in the new land.[4] Moreover, there clearly existed within the family, and with its in-laws, a sense of closeness, mutual support, and common interest. This is apparent from the respect and trust implied in assigned responsibilities, as illustrated in several legal instruments in which members of the family partook. For example, Robert White, wishing to assure sensible marriages for his children, Bridget, Anna and John, by his will conditioned receipt of their full inheritance upon approval of the intended spouse not only by his wife Bridget, but also by his "sonnes in law" Joseph Loomis and William Goodwin.[5] The father's high opinion of these two young men was well substantiated by their later careers as leaders in Windsor and Hartford in Connecticut. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the White children tried to stay together when they settled across the Altantic: when Joseph Loomis and John Porter occupied adjacent home lots in Windsor in 1639, their wives, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, became next door neighbors.[6] The English shire of Essex was one of the prime centers for nonconformist preachers, and of course most of those who came to New England in the two decades after Robert White's death were following their inspiring preachers, often making the move as congregations. It's not surprising, then, to find in Robert White's will an early bequest for "...Mr. Richard Rogers preacher of gods word at Withersfield in Essex...,"[7] and study of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Essex discloses that the parish of Wethersfield adjoins that of Shalford, in the north central part of Essex. For Robert White to attend a lecture by Mr. Rogers, he may have had to travel no more than ten miles. Out of this moderately wealthy English family, comfortably settled in the shire of Essex, but imbued with nonconformist fervor, came the hard working, well liked and increasingly respected man who was to become an early, founding settler of no less than three new towns: Newtown (later Cambridge, Mass.), Hartford, and Hadley." CHRISTENING: 1. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... It deserves to be mentioned that family genealogies have been printed of all the members of Robert White's family who are known to have emigrated to New England, namely: Elder John White and his descendants, in 1860. The Loomis Genealogy, in 1875. Loomis Genealogy, female branches, in 1880. The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn., in 1891. John Porter and his descendants, in 1893. Memorials of Roderick White and descendants, in 1892. From these books some of the preceding facts have been taken, and to these genealogies the reader is referred for full and interesting memorials of these families... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr. From Parish Register of Shalford. Marriages. 1570, Nov. 11, Richard Bette and Alice Smythe. 1575, Oct. 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar. 1582, Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar. 1585, June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgette Allgar. 1614, June 30, Joseph Loomis and Mary White. 1616, Nov. 7, William Goodwyn of Bocking singleman and Elizabeth White of this parish singlewoman. Baptisms... 1585, Mar. 8, Sara Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte. 1587, last day of April, Nathaniel Whighte son of Robert Whighte. 1590, Aug. 24, Mary Whighte, dau. of Robert Whighte. 1591, Mar. 5, Elizabeth Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte. 1594, Aug. 18, Bridget Whight dau. of Robert Whighte. 1600, July 13, Anne Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte..." | White, Nathaniel (I349)
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| 7091 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will of 17 Jun 1617: Daniel, co-administrator of will with Robert's wife Bridget. Sarah, eldest dau. and wife of James Bowtell of "little Salinge." "Marie, wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree." Elizabeth, wife of "Willm Goodinge or Goodings of Bockinge." Bridgett, unmarried. Anna, unmarried. Nathaniel John, minor under age 20. Also mentions a kinsman: Ralph Bett, the younger. 2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 621-622: "(Mr. Henry Porter Andrews of Saratoga, NY, has in press - 1891 - a 'Genealogy of the Descendants of John Porter from Warwickshire, England to Windsor, Connecticut, 1639, in the male and female lines,' a vol. of 830 pp., besides indexes. This work we have not seen. Mr. A. had previously (1882) pub. a genealogy of 'Descendants of Col. John Porter of Salisbury, Conn.,' from which we have used a few items, bracked thus {}.) 'John Porter, Sr., came from Engl. and settled here in Windsor in 1639.' - O.C.R. According to statements furnished by Henry D. White, Esq., of New Haven, Conn., he came to New England with wife and nine children from Felsted, County Essex, England, probably in the ship 'Susan and Ellen,' 17 Jul 1638, and in company with his borther-in-law, Joseph Loomis - see 'Loomis.' In the Parish Register of Messing, County Essex, Engl, is the following rec. of mar.: '1620, Oct. 18. John Porter of Felsted and Anna White of Messing.' Anna, as we find from the Messing Parish Register, was bp. 13 Jul 1600 and was the dau. of Robert White of M., by his wife, Bridget (dau. of William) Allgar of Shalford, County Essex, and was probably the sister of Mary White of M., who m. Joseph Loomis, the emigrant ancestor of the Windsor family of that name (see 'Loomis,' p. 432). Another sister, Elizabeth White, m. 7 Nov 1616, William Goodwin of Hartford, and the three are thought to have been the sisters of Elder John White, though this is not yet proven. Both the Loomis and Goodwin marriages are from the 'Shalford Parish Register.' He had land grant in Windsor (see page 164, Vol. I); was appointed constable, 1639/40; juror, 1640; grand-juror, 1643; deputy to General Court, 1646/7, and a prominent man in the community. He 'd. 21 and was bu. 22 April 1648.' (Windsor Records); left a large est. His will is given in Trumbull's 'Col. Rec. Conn.' 'John Porter, Sen'rs, wife' d. 1647. - O.C.R. Children (first 9 born England): A. John. B. James, a merchant, and colonial agent for Connecticut in London (see 'Trumbull,' 1, 406) {m. Sarah Tudor of Windsor}. C. Sarah, b. 1626; m. 24 Oct 1644, Joseph Judson of Milford, Conn., and d. 16 Mar 1696, age 70. D. Samuel, m. about 1659, Hannah (dau. Thomas) Stanley; settled Hadley, Mass.; became ancestor of the H. Porters, whose gen. is given in Goodwin's 'Genealogy Notes'; he d. 6 Sep 1689; she d. 18 Dec 1708. E. Mary, m. 27 May 1658 Samuel Grant of Windsor. F. Anne, m. 24 Feb 1644, William Gaylord of Windsor. G. Joseph. H. {Rebecca.} I. {Rose}, probably the Rose who 'was buried 12 May 1648.' - O.C.R. J. Nathaniel, b. 19 Jul 1640 in Windsor, bp. same year {m. Anna Groves of Stratford, Conn.} H. Hannah, b. 4 Sep 1642 in Windsor; bp. same year {m. John Coleman of Deerfield, Mass.}" 3. Various members of the White family are mentioned in the following excerpt of William Goodwin's biography from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III: "William Goodwin Origin: Braintree, Essex Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150] First Residence: Cambridge Removes: Hartford 1636, Hadley by 1659, Farmington by 1670... Marriage: (1) Shalford, Essex, 7 November 1616 Elizabeth White, daughter of Robert White of Messing, Essex [NEHGR 55:24]; she died before January 1669/70. (2) After 7 December 1654 and by January 1669/70 Susan (Garbrand) Hooker, widow of Rev. Thomas Hooker; she died at Farmington 17 May 1676 [Farm VR Barbour 58, citing FarmLR 2:141]... Associations: William Goodwin's first wife, Elizabeth White, was sister of Mary White, wife of Joseph Loomis of Braintree, and of Anna White, wife of John Porter of Windsor [NEHGR 55:22-31]..." 4. The following partial excerpt concerning the three immigrant sisters of John White is found in the biographical sketch for John White in "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see his notes for full transcript): "JohnWHITE Origin: Messing, Essex Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150]... Birth: About 1597, son of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White of Messing, Essex [NEHGR 55:22-31]... Associations: Three of John White's sisters came to New England with their husbands: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis; Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin; and Anne, wife of John Porter [NEHGR 55:22-31]... Bibliographic Note: In 1901 "A Descendant" published an excellent article on the White family in England, and the connections to other New England immigrants [NEHGR 55:22-31]. In 1915 Frank Farnsworth Starr prepared the best account in print of the immigrant and his children [Goodwin Anc 2:395-419]." 5. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. ...It is believed that three of his daughters came with their husbands to New England, namely: Mary White, wife of Joseph Loomis of Braintree; Elizabeth White, wife of William Goodwin of Bocking; and Anna White, wife of John Porter of Felsted. Matthew Grant's Old Church Record (in Stiles's Ancient Windsor) records the death in 1647 of "John Porter, Sen's wife," and also the death in 1652 of "Joseph Loomis, Sen. his wife." This is valuable information, but it would have been more satisfactory had the record contained the Christian names of these wives. Nor does the entry in the Windsor Town Records of the birth of John Porter's two children, Nathaniel in 1640 and Hanna in 1642, give the mother's name. In the same town records is this entry: "John Porter, Sr., came from England and settled in Windsor in 1639." Mr. Porter was present as a member of the "Committee" of the General Court in Hartford, August 8th, 1639. He died in Windsor 21st April, 1648, leaving a will, an abstract of which is hereinafter given, and it is to be noticed that two of the beloved friends made supervisors of his will were "Mr. William Goodwin of Hartford and Goodman White of Hartford." The marriage of John Porter of Felsted to Anna White of Messing, 18th October, 1620, is found in the Parish Register of Messing. The baptisms of their children, beginning with Anna, September 21, 1621, their first born, down to Mary, October 1st, 1637, the last one there baptized are recorded in the Parish Register of Felsted. They probably went to Messing soon after this date, as the baptism of their daughter Anna (who is supposed to have died in infancy), November 4, 1638, is there recorded. These facts, taken in connection with the information concerning his family contained in the will of John Porter dated April 20th, 1648, and also in the Town Records of Windsor, are regarded as good and sufficient authority for the statement that this John Porter of Felsted and John Porter of Windsor, Conn., were the same person. The names of his children in his will (omitting his two eldest daughters) are the same and in the same order of seniority as the baptisms in Felsted, except that in his will he names first all his sons, and then all his daughters. Two of his children, as already stated, were born in Windsor, Nathaniel in 1640 and Hanna (Anna) in 1642. His two eldest daughters were not mentioned in his will because he had given them their portions at their marriage, as appears from the report hereinafter given of the Committee to the Court in Hartford in 1650, recommending that their portions be made equal to the portions given to their younger sisters. These two eldest daughters were Anna, who married February 24, 1644-5, William Gaylord; and Sarah, who married October 24, 1644, Joseph Judson. Matthew Grant's Old Church Record gives the death in 1648 of Rose Porter, who was buried 12th of May, 1648, doubtless that one of the younger daughters whose death is referred to in the report of the Committee. The burial of their first Samuel is recorded in the Parish Register of Felsted... It deserves to be mentioned that family genealogies have been printed of all the members of Robert White's family who are known to have emigrated to New England, namely: Elder John White and his descendants, in 1860. The Loomis Genealogy, in 1875. Loomis Genealogy, female branches, in 1880. The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn., in 1891. John Porter and his descendants, in 1893. Memorials of Roderick White and descendants, in 1892. From these books some of the preceding facts have been taken, and to these genealogies the reader is referred for full and interesting memorials of these families... Abstract of the Will of John Porter, dated April 20, 1648, proved 7 June, 1649. [Vol. LV. 3] "I give to my eldest son John Porter 100 pounds, and to my second son Jeames Porter I give three score pounds, and to my other six children, to wit: Samuel Porter, Nathaniel Porter, Rebecca Porter, Rose Porter, Mary Porter, Anna Porter, I give to each of them thirty pounds apiece... My son Joseph Judson is to take twenty shillings of Thomas Thornton the next winter. Also I give fifty shillings to the poor of Wyndsor Church. "My desire is that these my beloved friends would be the overseers of this my last Will and testament. Mr. Warham of Wyndsor, Mr. Goodwin of Hartford, Goodman White of Hartford, Matthew Graunt of Wyndsor. Witnesses, Henry Clarke, Abigaill Branker. [Signed] John Porter." His two eldest daughters Ann and Sarah thought the portions given them by their father at their marriage should be made the same as their younger sisters, as appears from the following report of the committee appointed to consider the matter. "March 7th, 1650. "Upon the consideration of the business referred to our consideration touching the children of John Porter of Wyndsor, deceased, We finding some expressions of his that he would make the portions of his two eldest daughters as good as his younger; also we conceive the eldest were helpful to the estate and that the Lord hath taken away one the younger daughters and that the rest of the children are disposed of without damage to their portion; our apprehensions are (if the Court see meet) that the two eldest daughters portions be made up thirty pounds apiece. John Taillcott, William Westwood." Conn. Col. Rec., Vol. 1, pp. 475-6. From the Parish Register of Felsted, Co. Essex, England. Baptisms. 1621, Sept. 22, Anna, dau. of John and Anna Porter. 1622, Feby. 9, John, son of John and Anna Porter. 1624, Mar. 15, Sara, dau. of John and Anna Porter. 1627, Feb. 2, James, son of John and Anna Porter. 1630, Sept. 16, Rebecca, dau. of John and Anna Porter. 1632, May 26, Samuel, son of John and Anna Porter. 1633, June 24, Rose, dau. of John and Anna Porter. 1635, June 2, Samuel, son of John and Anna Porter. 1637, Oct. 1, Mary, dau. of John and Anna Porter. Burials. 1632, July 15, Samuel, son of John and Anna Porter..." 6. The book "The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn., 1635-9," comp. Henry Porter Andrews (Saratoga Springs, 1893), vol. 1, pp. 1-2, 818-19: "Among the early settlers of New England, in the great tide of emigration from England, subsequent to the granting of the charter for the colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1628, came John Porter... This company reached the Connecticut river at a place called by the natives Matteneang, but to which the settlers gave the name of Windsor, many of their number being natives of the place of that name in England. In 1639 the Rev. Ephraim Hewett, of Wraxhall, in Kenilworth, Eng., was called to assist Mr Warham, and it is probable that John Porter accompanied him, as at about that date his name first appears upon the public records. John Porter's residence in Windsor appears to have been located near the "Little River," at its junction with the Connecticut, and between the residences of George Phelps and Joseph Loomis, and nearly opposite those of Henry Wolcott and Matthew Allyn. He was for that period a man of considerable substance, as appears by his will printed in the public records of Connecticut. (See appendix, No. 3) He died in Windsor April 22, 1648; his wife, Rose, having died in July, 1647, (See appendix, No. 2.) Their children were (being of the second generation:) -John Porter, born in England, 1620, married Mary Stanley. -Sarah Porter, born in England, 1622, married Joseph Judson. -Anna Porter, born in England, 1624, married William Gaylord. -Samuel Porter, born in England, 1626, married Hannah Stanley. -Rebecca Porter, born in England, 1628, died unmarried -Mary Porter, born in England, 1630, married Samuel Grant. -Rose Porter, born in England, 1632, died May 12, 1648. -Joseph Porter, born in England, 1638, married Sarah Tudor. - Nathaniel Porter, born Feb. 29, 1640, married Anna Groves. -Hannah Porter, born Sep. 4, 1642, married John Coleman. APPENDIX II: Extract from a letter of Rev I. N. TARBOX, D.D. Boston, Mass., July 17, 1884. Henry Porter Andrews, Esq. Dear Sir: I received your kind note this morning, and it occurs to me to say what perhaps I said to you by letter, some time since, though I am not quite certain. Mr. John Porter seemingly had affinities with the Dorchester company, before it left England. He did not come over with it in 1630, nor did he join it while it remained in Dorchester, 1630-1636. He first appears at Windsor, Conn., with his wife and Children, in the year 1637, and was at once treated as a man known an respected. He was put upon a committee in 1637, and was made a constable in 1639, then a high and responsible office. All the facts connected with him during his life at Windsor, indicate plainly that he was a man of substance and standing. Many years ago I read his will, and wondered why his wife is not mentioned in it. I accepted the record of Mr. Stiles, that she died on the 12th May following, and so she would naturally have been named in such a document, but no trace of her appears in it. ...the present town clerk of Windsor ... John B. Woodford, Esq. ... was speaking … about John Porter's will, and the curious fact that his wife was not mentioned... he said that among certain errors which he had discovered in "Stiles," he thought there was one pertaining to John Porter and family... he showed... from the very early records that the Rose Porter, who was buried May 12, 1648, was the dau. of John Porter, and that his wife died in July, 1647. I think that the dates I have given here, as to John Porter's arrival in this country, the date of his death, and those of his wife and daughter, will be found correct. Very truly yours. Increase N. Tarbox." APPENDIX: III.— Will of John Porter. A particular courte in Hartford, Conn, June 7, 1649. This day was presented to this courte, the last will and testament of John Porter, late of Wyndsor, deceased, and the inventory of his estate, Anno 1648, Apl. 20. Imprimis. This is the last will and testament made by me, John Porter, of Wyndsor. Although now weake and sick in body, yet perfect it memory, do bequeathe my soule to God that gave it, and my body to be buried, and my goods as followeth: Item. I give to my eldest son, John Porter, one hundred pounds, and to my second son, James Porter, I give three score pounds, and to my other six children, to wit: Samuel. Porter, Rebecca Porter, Rose Porter, Mary Porter, Sarah Porter and Anna Porter, I give to them thirty pounds apiece, which is to raised out of my whole estate, as housings, lands, cattle and household goods, and is to be paid as they come to be twenty years of age, or sooner if my overseers see just cause, without whose consent I would not have them to manage; which if they do, it shall be in the power of my overseers to abate of their portions, and give it to the others that are more deserving. And in case of any of my children die before they he married or be twenty years of age, their portion shalt he equally divided amongst the rest, unless the overseers see cause to abate it upon the eldest. In case my estate shall he found upon particular view, to rise to be more in value than these portions above given, or less than the sum, my will is that it shall be proportionally added or rebated to my children's several portions except my overseers see cause to abate my eldest son, that hath the biggest portion, or likewise my second. The particular goods wherein each child shall have his portion paid out of my whole estate, I leave to the direction of my overseers. My son, Joseph Judson, is to take twenty shillings of Thomas Thornton, next winter. Also, I give fifty shillings to Wyndsor church. My desire is that my beloved friends would be the overseers of this my last will and testament, Mr. Warham of Wyndsor, Mr. Goodwin of Hartford, Goodman White of Hartford, and Matthew Griswold of Wyndsor. JohnPorter Witness, Henry Clarke, Abigail Branker." 7. FHL book "Various Ancestral Lines … Goodwin and … Morgan …," by Frank Farnsworth Starr (1915; Hartford), pp. 395-399: "The Family of Robert White. Shalford, a small parish of Essex County, England, is located in the north middle section of the county, four and a half miles northwest of Braintree, the nearest railroad town, and has a population of about 700. The writer visited this parish in August 1891, made an examination of the Church Register which begins in 1558, and found many interesting items. In the record of baptisms are found: 1560 Sept. 9, Mary Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1562 Mar. 11, Brydgette Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1565 Apr. 6, Jdhn Allgar son of William Allgar 1567 Oct. 5, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1583 May 5, Elizabeth Allgar daughter of William Allgar In the record of burials: 1565 Aug. 1, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1575 Aug. 2, William Allgar the elder The following entries were found in the record of marriages: 1575 Oct 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar 1582 Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar 1585 June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgett Allgar The last entry gives us the marriage of Robert White and Bridget Allgar; the daughter of William Allgar of Shalford. Of White's parentage and earlier history we have no knowledge. He seems to have resided at Shalford until after November 7, 1616, the date of the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to William Goodwin then of Bocking, Essex County, later of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other towns in New England. In May 1617, he was a resident of Messing in the same county when he made his will, and where he was buried on the 17th of June following. Thus far, there has not been discovered any record of the death of his wife Bridget, but she is supposed to be the person of that name, to whom one Nathaniel White of Faring, Essex County, in his will made June 9, 1623, left a life annuity of £ 10. (Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts., vol. for 1623-4, 158.) The following is a copy of Robert White's will, as entered in the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, volume Weldon, 40... [Article transcribes will; however, I do not copy it since I already have a transcript of it in a separate note.] It will be interesting to note that of the daughters mentioned in this will, three with their husbands, became residents of New England, as follows: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Connecticut Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; Hadley, Massachusetts, and Farmington, Connecticut Anne, wife of John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut. We have no knowledge of his son Daniel, except that he was made one of the executors of the will; possibly, he was the child of a previous marriage. Child of Robert and ___ White: -Daniel bap. ___ legatee and executor of the will of his father; nothing further known about him. Children of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White (Church Register, Shalford, Essex County, England): -Sarah, bap. Mar 8, 1585, mar. James Bowtell of Little Sating, Essex County, England and was living in May, 1617 (Robert White's will, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London). -Nathaniel, bap. "Laste day of April," 1587; he is supposed to have lived at Feering, Essex County, and to have died in 1623. -Mary, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; mar. June 30, 1614, Joseph Loomis, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn. -Elizabeth, bap. "fyfte March", 1591; mar. Nov. 7, 1614 William "Godwyn of Bocking singleman." He emigrated to America in 1632 and became one of the settlers of Hartford, Conn. -Bridget, bap. Aug. 18, 1594; mar. Sept. 28, 1618, John Christmas. -John, bap. ___, mar. Dec. 26, 1622, Mary (Lev ?)it. -Anne, bap. July 13, 1600; mar. Oct. 18, 1620 John Porter of Felstead, Essex County, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn." [Sources in footnotes;] -Will of Nathaniel White of Feering, Essex County, in Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts, vol. for 1623-4, 158. -Parish Register, Messing, Essex County, England." 8. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), p. 163: "ROBERT WHITE, born at Shalford, co. Essex in 1588; buried at Messing, co. Essex June 1617; married at Shalford 24 June 1585, BRIDGET ALGAR, born at Shalford, co. Essex, England 11 March 1562. Robert was a yeoman and lived most of his life in Shalford, but moved to Messing before his death. He left a long and complete will at Shalford. Children of Robert and Bridget (Algar) White: i. Sarah White, born at Shalford 8 March 1585/6. ii. Nathaniel White, baptized at Shalford 30 April 1587. iii. Mary White, born at Shalford, co Essex, England, 24 August 1590; died at Windsor, Connecticut 21 August 1652; married at Messing, co. Essex 30 June 1614, Joseph Loomis. iv. Bridget White, baptized at Shalford 18 August 1594. v Anna White, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600. vi. ELIZABETH WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1a below) vii. JOHN WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1b below) ELIZABETH WHITE, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600 [an apparent typo by the author]; died at Windsor Connecticut; married in England, WILLIAM GOODWIN (See Goodwin Family.)" 9. The book "Colonial Ancestors. Four lineal genealogies of eastern Connecticut families…," by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg (Camden, Maine; Penobscot Press, 1991), pp. 183-87 [Note: I neglected to copy the source list.]: "Some productive inquiries into the English origins of John White were made by one of his descendants around the year 1900. John is understood to be the youngest child of ROBERTA WHITE, yeoman, well-to-do, born possibly in Messing, county Essex; he died there in 1617. Robert married in Shalford, county Essex, 24 Jun 1585, BRIDGET ALLGAR, where also she had been baptized on 11 Mch 1562, the daughter of William Allgar. Robert and Bridget seem to have lived in her native town or parish, Shalford, most of their married life.[1] Robert White was buried at Messing, 17 Jun 1617, less than three weeks after making his will, which provided for daughters Sarah (called the eldest; mar. James Bowtell), Mary (mar. Joseph Loomis), Elizabeth (mar. William Goodwin), Bridget White and Anna White, in that order; he then names sons Nathaniel and John, the latter being a minor and believed to be the youngest child; finally, he names his wife, Bridget, and his son, Daniel as joint executors.[2] Subsequently, Anna White married at Messing, 18 Oct 1620, John Porter; and John White married at the same place, 26 Dec 1622, Mary (Lev).[3] A sizeable portion of the White family moved from the Old World to New England in the Great Migration, and stayed near to one another in the new land.[4] Moreover, there clearly existed within the family, and with its in-laws, a sense of closeness, mutual support, and common interest. This is apparent from the respect and trust implied in assigned responsibilities, as illustrated in several legal instruments in which members of the family partook. For example, Robert White, wishing to assure sensible marriages for his children, Bridget, Anna and John, by his will conditioned receipt of their full inheritance upon approval of the intended spouse not only by his wife Bridget, but also by his "sonnes in law" Joseph Loomis and William Goodwin.[5] The father's high opinion of these two young men was well substantiated by their later careers as leaders in Windsor and Hartford in Connecticut. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the White children tried to stay together when they settled across the Altantic: when Joseph Loomis and John Porter occupied adjacent home lots in Windsor in 1639, their wives, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, became next door neighbors.[6] The English shire of Essex was one of the prime centers for nonconformist preachers, and of course most of those who came to New England in the two decades after Robert White's death were following their inspiring preachers, often making the move as congregations. It's not surprising, then, to find in Robert White's will an early bequest for "...Mr. Richard Rogers preacher of gods word at Withersfield in Essex...,"[7] and study of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Essex discloses that the parish of Wethersfield adjoins that of Shalford, in the north central part of Essex. For Robert White to attend a lecture by Mr. Rogers, he may have had to travel no more than ten miles. Out of this moderately wealthy English family, comfortably settled in the shire of Essex, but imbued with nonconformist fervor, came the hard working, well liked and increasingly respected man who was to become an early, founding settler of no less than three new towns: Newtown (later Cambridge, Mass.), Hartford, and Hadley." | White, Anne (I297)
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| 7092 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will of 17 Jun 1617: Daniel, co-administrator of will with Robert's wife Bridget. Sarah, eldest dau. and wife of James Bowtell of "little Salinge." "Marie, wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree." Elizabeth, wife of "Willm Goodinge or Goodings of Bockinge." Bridgett, unmarried. Anna, unmarried. Nathaniel John, minor under age 20. Also mentions a kinsman: Ralph Bett, the younger. 2. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... According to his will, hereinafter given, he left surviving a wife Bridget; three sons - Daniel, Nathaniel and John who was his youngest Child; three married daughters - Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth; and two unmarried daughters-Bridget and Anna. As he makes his son Daniel joint executor with his wife, it may be inferred he was his eldest son, and possibly by a former wife. His wife Bridget was the mother of his other children, of whom Sarah, wife of James Bowtell of Little Sailinge in Essex, was the first born. There was a James Bowtell of Salem and Lynn, 1635, freeman 14 March, 1639. His will, dated 22 August, proved 26 November, 1651, mentions wife Alice, sons James and John and daughter Sarah. See Essex Ins. Hist. Coll., Val. I., page 9, for abstract of this will. No connection has been discovered between this testator and Robert Whites's son-in-law, James Bowtell... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr. From Parish Register of Shalford... Baptisms... 1614, Nov. 15, Matthew Bowtell son of James Bowtell. 1616, Feby. 25, James Bowtell son of James and Sara Bowtell. 1618, Jan. 1, Nathaniel Bowtell son of James and Sara Bowtell. 1620, Jan. 2, Stephen Bowtell son of James and Sara Bowtell. Burials... 1615, May 29, Matthew Bowtell son of James Bowtell. 1617, Sept. 30, John Bowtell son of James and Sara. 1626, Aug. 15, Sara Bowtell dau. of James and Sara. From the Parish Register of Messing... Burials... 1616, July 26, James Bowtle child and son of ___ Bowtle of Shalford. 3. FHL book "Various Ancestral Lines … Goodwin and … Morgan …," by Frank Farnsworth Starr (1915; Hartford), pp. 395-399: "The Family of Robert White. Shalford, a small parish of Essex County, England, is located in the north middle section of the county, four and a half miles northwest of Braintree, the nearest railroad town, and has a population of about 700. The writer visited this parish in August 1891, made an examination of the Church Register which begins in 1558, and found many interesting items. In the record of baptisms are found: 1560 Sept. 9, Mary Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1562 Mar. 11, Brydgette Allgar daughter of William Allgar 1565 Apr. 6, Jdhn Allgar son of William Allgar 1567 Oct. 5, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1583 May 5, Elizabeth Allgar daughter of William Allgar In the record of burials: 1565 Aug. 1, John Allgar son of William Allgar 1575 Aug. 2, William Allgar the elder The following entries were found in the record of marriages: 1575 Oct 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar 1582 Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar 1585 June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgett Allgar The last entry gives us the marriage of Robert White and Bridget Allgar; the daughter of William Allgar of Shalford. Of White's parentage and earlier history we have no knowledge. He seems to have resided at Shalford until after November 7, 1616, the date of the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to William Goodwin then of Bocking, Essex County, later of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other towns in New England. In May 1617, he was a resident of Messing in the same county when he made his will, and where he was buried on the 17th of June following. Thus far, there has not been discovered any record of the death of his wife Bridget, but she is supposed to be the person of that name, to whom one Nathaniel White of Faring, Essex County, in his will made June 9, 1623, left a life annuity of £ 10. (Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts., vol. for 1623-4, 158.) The following is a copy of Robert White's will, as entered in the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, volume Weldon, 40... [Article transcribes will; however, I do not copy it since I already have a transcript of it in a separate note.] It will be interesting to note that of the daughters mentioned in this will, three with their husbands, became residents of New England, as follows: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Connecticut Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; Hadley, Massachusetts, and Farmington, Connecticut Anne, wife of John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut. We have no knowledge of his son Daniel, except that he was made one of the executors of the will; possibly, he was the child of a previous marriage. Child of Robert and ___ White: -Daniel bap. ___ legatee and executor of the will of his father; nothing further known about him. Children of Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White (Church Register, Shalford, Essex County, England): -Sarah, bap. Mar 8, 1585, mar. James Bowtell of Little Sating, Essex County, England and was living in May, 1617 (Robert White's will, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London). -Nathaniel, bap. "Laste day of April," 1587; he is supposed to have lived at Feering, Essex County, and to have died in 1623. -Mary, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; mar. June 30, 1614, Joseph Loomis, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn. -Elizabeth, bap. "fyfte March", 1591; mar. Nov. 7, 1614 William "Godwyn of Bocking singleman." He emigrated to America in 1632 and became one of the settlers of Hartford, Conn. -Bridget, bap. Aug. 18, 1594; mar. Sept. 28, 1618, John Christmas. -John, bap. ___, mar. Dec. 26, 1622, Mary (Lev ?)it. -Anne, bap. July 13, 1600; mar. Oct. 18, 1620 John Porter of Felstead, Essex County, who emigrated to America and settled in Windsor, Conn." [Sources in footnotes;] -Will of Nathaniel White of Feering, Essex County, in Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts, vol. for 1623-4, 158. -Parish Register, Messing, Essex County, England." 4. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), p. 163: "ROBERT WHITE, born at Shalford, co. Essex in 1588; buried at Messing, co. Essex June 1617; married at Shalford 24 June 1585, BRIDGET ALGAR, born at Shalford, co. Essex, England 11 March 1562. Robert was a yeoman and lived most of his life in Shalford, but moved to Messing before his death. He left a long and complete will at Shalford. Children of Robert and Bridget (Algar) White: i. Sarah White, born at Shalford 8 March 1585/6. ii. Nathaniel White, baptized at Shalford 30 April 1587. iii. Mary White, born at Shalford, co Essex, England, 24 August 1590; died at Windsor, Connecticut 21 August 1652; married at Messing, co. Essex 30 June 1614, Joseph Loomis. iv. Bridget White, baptized at Shalford 18 August 1594. v Anna White, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600. vi. ELIZABETH WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1a below) vii. JOHN WHITE (Lineal Ancestor See #1b below) ELIZABETH WHITE, baptized at Shalford 13 July 1600 [an apparent typo by the author]; died at Windsor Connecticut; married in England, WILLIAM GOODWIN (See Goodwin Family.)" 5. The book "Colonial Ancestors. Four lineal genealogies of eastern Connecticut families…," by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg (Camden, Maine; Penobscot Press, 1991), pp. 183-87 [Note: I neglected to copy the source list.]: "Some productive inquiries into the English origins of John White were made by one of his descendants around the year 1900. John is understood to be the youngest child of ROBERTA WHITE, yeoman, well-to-do, born possibly in Messing, county Essex; he died there in 1617. Robert married in Shalford, county Essex, 24 Jun 1585, BRIDGET ALLGAR, where also she had been baptized on 11 Mch 1562, the daughter of William Allgar. Robert and Bridget seem to have lived in her native town or parish, Shalford, most of their married life.[1] Robert White was buried at Messing, 17 Jun 1617, less than three weeks after making his will, which provided for daughters Sarah (called the eldest; mar. James Bowtell), Mary (mar. Joseph Loomis), Elizabeth (mar. William Goodwin), Bridget White and Anna White, in that order; he then names sons Nathaniel and John, the latter being a minor and believed to be the youngest child; finally, he names his wife, Bridget, and his son, Daniel as joint executors.[2] Subsequently, Anna White married at Messing, 18 Oct 1620, John Porter; and John White married at the same place, 26 Dec 1622, Mary (Lev).[3] A sizeable portion of the White family moved from the Old World to New England in the Great Migration, and stayed near to one another in the new land.[4] Moreover, there clearly existed within the family, and with its in-laws, a sense of closeness, mutual support, and common interest. This is apparent from the respect and trust implied in assigned responsibilities, as illustrated in several legal instruments in which members of the family partook. For example, Robert White, wishing to assure sensible marriages for his children, Bridget, Anna and John, by his will conditioned receipt of their full inheritance upon approval of the intended spouse not only by his wife Bridget, but also by his "sonnes in law" Joseph Loomis and William Goodwin.[5] The father's high opinion of these two young men was well substantiated by their later careers as leaders in Windsor and Hartford in Connecticut. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the White children tried to stay together when they settled across the Altantic: when Joseph Loomis and John Porter occupied adjacent home lots in Windsor in 1639, their wives, Mary (White) Loomis and Anna (White) Porter, became next door neighbors.[6] The English shire of Essex was one of the prime centers for nonconformist preachers, and of course most of those who came to New England in the two decades after Robert White's death were following their inspiring preachers, often making the move as congregations. It's not surprising, then, to find in Robert White's will an early bequest for "...Mr. Richard Rogers preacher of gods word at Withersfield in Essex...,"[7] and study of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Essex discloses that the parish of Wethersfield adjoins that of Shalford, in the north central part of Essex. For Robert White to attend a lecture by Mr. Rogers, he may have had to travel no more than ten miles. Out of this moderately wealthy English family, comfortably settled in the shire of Essex, but imbued with nonconformist fervor, came the hard working, well liked and increasingly respected man who was to become an early, founding settler of no less than three new towns: Newtown (later Cambridge, Mass.), Hartford, and Hadley." CHRISTENING: 1. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken: "The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant. Robert White of Messing, yeoman, died in 1617. He was a rich man. He seems to have lived in Shalford in Essex most of the time from June 24th, 1585, the date of his marriage to Bridget Allgar, until a few months before his death. The baptisms of nearly all his children are there recorded, and also the marriage of his daughters - Mary in 1614 and Elizabeth in 1616. It was the home of his wife, where she was baptized March 11, 1562, and where her father, William Allgar the elder, was buried Aug. 2, 1575. Shalford is about two miles south of Wethersfield... It deserves to be mentioned that family genealogies have been printed of all the members of Robert White's family who are known to have emigrated to New England, namely: Elder John White and his descendants, in 1860. The Loomis Genealogy, in 1875. Loomis Genealogy, female branches, in 1880. The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn., in 1891. John Porter and his descendants, in 1893. Memorials of Roderick White and descendants, in 1892. From these books some of the preceding facts have been taken, and to these genealogies the reader is referred for full and interesting memorials of these families... Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr. From Parish Register of Shalford. Marriages. 1570, Nov. 11, Richard Bette and Alice Smythe. 1575, Oct. 16, Henry Bette son of John the elder and Anne Allgar. 1582, Sept. 27, Ralfe Bette and Marye Allgar. 1585, June 24, Robert Whighte and Brydgette Allgar. 1614, June 30, Joseph Loomis and Mary White. 1616, Nov. 7, William Goodwyn of Bocking singleman and Elizabeth White of this parish singlewoman. Baptisms... 1585, Mar. 8, Sara Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte. 1587, last day of April, Nathaniel Whighte son of Robert Whighte. 1590, Aug. 24, Mary Whighte, dau. of Robert Whighte. 1591, Mar. 5, Elizabeth Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte. 1594, Aug. 18, Bridget Whight dau. of Robert Whighte. 1600, July 13, Anne Whighte dau. of Robert Whighte..." | White, Sarah (I264)
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| 7093 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23178-22858-32?cc=1949814&wc=M68K-PWG:250713701,250719201,251260001 : accessed 10 August 2015), Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury > Wills > 1604, A-Z > images 293 and 294 of 294; County Record Office, Maidstone. Will of John Wilkin of Throwley, Kent, England Date of will: 20 Nov 1604 - To be buried in Throwley churchyard - "my daughter Agnes ye now wyfe of James Doe of Borden" - "Alyce my daughter ye now wyfe of Thomas Thurston of [Leanan?] husbandman - "Thomas Wylkin by sonne" - "Michaell Wilkin my sonne" - "Maryan Knowlden my kinswoman" - "Thomas Thurston ye sonne of Thomas Thurston" - "Elsabeth my now wyfe" named as executor - Signed by mark - Witnesses: John Wyse and Richard Goodgroome Probated 12 Dec 1604 CHRISTENING: 1. Extraction of Wilkyns from Throwley records using Kent Family History Society CD (FHL DC-ROM 3223), the Parish record (FHL film 1850187, it. 10) and the Archdeacon's Transcript (FHL film 1752238, it. 3) from the beginning 1557 to 1599 for baptisms and marriages and to 1635 for burials: -9 Jun 1560, Alice Wilkyns, bap. -31 Jan 1562/3, Susan Wilkyns, bap. - 20 Jan 1565/6, Dorothee Wilkyns, bap. -7 Apr 1565, Ursula Wilkyns, bur. -27 Mar 1568, Michael Wilkyns, bap. -21 Oct 1571, Agnes Wilkyns, bap. -20 May 1574, Thomas Wilkyns, bap. -31 Aug 1576, Dorathee Wilkyns, bur. -24 Nov 1583, Thomas Thursten and Alice Wilkyns, mar. -17 Jul 1592, James Doe and Agnes Wylkins, mar. -14 Jan 1599/1600, Michaell Wilkin and Obedience Gouldinge, mar. -25 Nov 1604, John Wylkin, bur. -3 Jun 1623, Obedience Wilkins, bur. -14 Jan 1634/5, Katherine Wilkines, wife of Mr. Michaell Wilkines, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Katherine ye wife of Michaell Wilkins.") -1 Feb 1634/5, Michael Wilkins a widower, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Michaell Wilkins ye husband of Catherine.") | Wilkyns, Alice (I4900)
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| 7094 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23178-22858-32?cc=1949814&wc=M68K-PWG:250713701,250719201,251260001 : accessed 10 August 2015), Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury > Wills > 1604, A-Z > images 293 and 294 of 294; County Record Office, Maidstone. Will of John Wilkin of Throwley, Kent, England Date of will: 20 Nov 1604 - To be buried in Throwley churchyard - "my daughter Agnes ye now wyfe of James Doe of Borden" - "Alyce my daughter ye now wyfe of Thomas Thurston of [Leanan?] husbandman - "Thomas Wylkin by sonne" - "Michaell Wilkin my sonne" - "Maryan Knowlden my kinswoman" - "Thomas Thurston ye sonne of Thomas Thurston" - "Elsabeth my now wyfe" named as executor - Signed by mark - Witnesses: John Wyse and Richard Goodgroome Probated 12 Dec 1604. CHRISTENING: 1. Extraction of Wilkyns from Throwley records using Kent Family History Society CD (FHL DC-ROM 3223), the Parish record (FHL film 1850187, it. 10) and the Archdeacon's Transcript (FHL film 1752238, it. 3) from the beginning 1557 to 1599 for baptisms and marriages and to 1635 for burials: -9 Jun 1560, Alice Wilkyns, bap. -31 Jan 1562/3, Susan Wilkyns, bap. - 20 Jan 1565/6, Dorothee Wilkyns, bap. -7 Apr 1565, Ursula Wilkyns, bur. -27 Mar 1568, Michael Wilkyns, bap. -21 Oct 1571, Agnes Wilkyns, bap. -20 May 1574, Thomas Wilkyns, bap. -31 Aug 1576, Dorathee Wilkyns, bur. -24 Nov 1583, Thomas Thursten and Alice Wilkyns, mar. -17 Jul 1592, James Doe and Agnes Wylkins, mar. -14 Jan 1599/1600, Michaell Wilkin and Obedience Gouldinge, mar. -25 Nov 1604, John Wylkin, bur. -3 Jun 1623, Obedience Wilkins, bur. -14 Jan 1634/5, Katherine Wilkines, wife of Mr. Michaell Wilkines, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Katherine ye wife of Michaell Wilkins.") -1 Feb 1634/5, Michael Wilkins a widower, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Michaell Wilkins ye husband of Catherine.") MARRIAGE: 1. FHL film 1850187 item 10, Brenchley Parish Records, shows: Michaell Wilkin and Obedience Gouldinge January 14th 1599." | Wilkin, Michael (I4899)
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| 7095 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23178-22858-32?cc=1949814&wc=M68K-PWG:250713701,250719201,251260001 : accessed 10 August 2015), Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury > Wills > 1604, A-Z > images 293 and 294 of 294; County Record Office, Maidstone. Will of John Wilkin of Throwley, Kent, England Date of will: 20 Nov 1604 - To be buried in Throwley churchyard - "my daughter Agnes ye now wyfe of James Doe of Borden" - "Alyce my daughter ye now wyfe of Thomas Thurston of [Leanan?] husbandman - "Thomas Wylkin by sonne" - "Michaell Wilkin my sonne" - "Maryan Knowlden my kinswoman" - "Thomas Thurston ye sonne of Thomas Thurston" - "Elsabeth my now wyfe" named as executor - Signed by mark - Witnesses: John Wyse and Richard Goodgroome Probated 12 Dec 1604 CHRISTENING: 1. Extraction of Wilkyns from Throwley records using Kent Family History Society CD (FHL DC-ROM 3223), the Parish record (FHL film 1850187, it. 10) and the Archdeacon's Transcript (FHL film 1752238, it. 3) from the beginning 1557 to 1599 for baptisms and marriages and to 1635 for burials: -9 Jun 1560, Alice Wilkyns, bap. -31 Jan 1562/3, Susan Wilkyns, bap. - 20 Jan 1565/6, Dorothee Wilkyns, bap. -7 Apr 1565, Ursula Wilkyns, bur. -27 Mar 1568, Michael Wilkyns, bap. -21 Oct 1571, Agnes Wilkyns, bap. -20 May 1574, Thomas Wilkyns, bap. -31 Aug 1576, Dorathee Wilkyns, bur. -24 Nov 1583, Thomas Thursten and Alice Wilkyns, mar. -17 Jul 1592, James Doe and Agnes Wylkins, mar. -14 Jan 1599/1600, Michaell Wilkin and Obedience Gouldinge, mar. -25 Nov 1604, John Wylkin, bur. -3 Jun 1623, Obedience Wilkins, bur. -14 Jan 1634/5, Katherine Wilkines, wife of Mr. Michaell Wilkines, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Katherine ye wife of Michaell Wilkins.") -1 Feb 1634/5, Michael Wilkins a widower, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Michaell Wilkins ye husband of Catherine.") | Wilkyns, Thomas (I4898)
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| 7096 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father's will: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23178-22858-32?cc=1949814&wc=M68K-PWG:250713701,250719201,251260001 : accessed 10 August 2015), Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury > Wills > 1604, A-Z > images 293 and 294 of 294; County Record Office, Maidstone. Will of John Wilkin of Throwley, Kent, England Date of will: 20 Nov 1604 - To be buried in Throwley churchyard - "my daughter Agnes ye now wyfe of James Doe of Borden" - "Alyce my daughter ye now wyfe of Thomas Thurston of [Leanan?] husbandman - "Thomas Wylkin by sonne" - "Michaell Wilkin my sonne" - "Maryan Knowlden my kinswoman" - "Thomas Thurston ye sonne of Thomas Thurston" - "Elsabeth my now wyfe" named as executor - Signed by mark - Witnesses: John Wyse and Richard Goodgroome Probated 12 Dec 1604. CHRISTENING: 1. Extraction of Wilkyns from Throwley records using Kent Family History Society CD (FHL DC-ROM 3223), the Parish record (FHL film 1850187, it. 10) and the Archdeacon's Transcript (FHL film 1752238, it. 3) from the beginning 1557 to 1599 for baptisms and marriages and to 1635 for burials: -9 Jun 1560, Alice Wilkyns, bap. -31 Jan 1562/3, Susan Wilkyns, bap. - 20 Jan 1565/6, Dorothee Wilkyns, bap. -7 Apr 1565, Ursula Wilkyns, bur. -27 Mar 1568, Michael Wilkyns, bap. -21 Oct 1571, Agnes Wilkyns, bap. -20 May 1574, Thomas Wilkyns, bap. -31 Aug 1576, Dorathee Wilkyns, bur. -24 Nov 1583, Thomas Thursten and Alice Wilkyns, mar. -17 Jul 1592, James Doe and Agnes Wylkins, mar. -14 Jan 1599/1600, Michaell Wilkin and Obedience Gouldinge, mar. -25 Nov 1604, John Wylkin, bur. -3 Jun 1623, Obedience Wilkins, bur. -14 Jan 1634/5, Katherine Wilkines, wife of Mr. Michaell Wilkines, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Katherine ye wife of Michaell Wilkins.") -1 Feb 1634/5, Michael Wilkins a widower, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Michaell Wilkins ye husband of Catherine.") 2. FHL film 1850187 item 10, Brenchley Parish Records: Agnes Wilkyns, October 21, 1571. MARRIAGE: 1. FHL film 1850187 item 10, Brenchley Parish Records: James Doe and Agnes Wylkins, July 17, 1592. | Wilkyns, Agnes (I784)
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| 7097 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in father-in-law's will: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23178-22858-32?cc=1949814&wc=M68K-PWG:250713701,250719201,251260001 : accessed 10 August 2015), Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury > Wills > 1604, A-Z > images 293 and 294 of 294; County Record Office, Maidstone. Will of John Wilkin of Throwley, Kent, England Date of will: 20 Nov 1604 - To be buried in Throwley churchyard - "my daughter Agnes ye now wyfe of James Doe of Borden" - "Alyce my daughter ye now wyfe of Thomas Thurston of [Leanan?] husbandman - "Thomas Wylkin by sonne" - "Michaell Wilkin my sonne" - "Maryan Knowlden my kinswoman" - "Thomas Thurston ye sonne of Thomas Thurston" - "Elsabeth my now wyfe" named as executor - Signed by mark - Witnesses: John Wyse and Richard Goodgroome Probated 12 Dec 1604 2. Extraction of Wilkyns from Throwley records using Kent Family History Society CD (FHL DC-ROM 3223), the Parish record (FHL film 1850187, it. 10) and the Archdeacon's Transcript (FHL film 1752238, it. 3) from the beginning 1557 to 1599 for baptisms and marriages and to 1635 for burials: -9 Jun 1560, Alice Wilkyns, bap. -31 Jan 1562/3, Susan Wilkyns, bap. - 20 Jan 1565/6, Dorothee Wilkyns, bap. -7 Apr 1565, Ursula Wilkyns, bur. -27 Mar 1568, Michael Wilkyns, bap. -21 Oct 1571, Agnes Wilkyns, bap. -20 May 1574, Thomas Wilkyns, bap. -31 Aug 1576, Dorathee Wilkyns, bur. -24 Nov 1583, Thomas Thursten and Alice Wilkyns, mar. -17 Jul 1592, James Doe and Agnes Wylkins, mar. -14 Jan 1599/1600, Michaell Wilkin and Obedience Gouldinge, mar. -25 Nov 1604, John Wylkin, bur. -3 Jun 1623, Obedience Wilkins, bur. -14 Jan 1634/5, Katherine Wilkines, wife of Mr. Michaell Wilkines, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Katherine ye wife of Michaell Wilkins.") -1 Feb 1634/5, Michael Wilkins a widower, bur. (Archdeacon's Transcript: "Michaell Wilkins ye husband of Catherine.") CHRISTENING: 1. Throwley Parish Records (1850187, it. 10): "Thomas Thurston, August 15, 1559." | Thurston, Thomas (I4901)
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| 7098 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. Mentioned in husband's will: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23178-22858-32?cc=1949814&wc=M68K-PWG:250713701,250719201,251260001 : accessed 10 August 2015), Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury > Wills > 1604, A-Z > images 293 and 294 of 294; County Record Office, Maidstone. Will of John Wilkin of Throwley, Kent, England Date of will: 20 Nov 1604 - To be buried in Throwley churchyard - "my daughter Agnes ye now wyfe of James Doe of Borden" - "Alyce my daughter ye now wyfe of Thomas Thurston of [Leanan?] husbandman - "Thomas Wylkin by sonne" - "Michaell Wilkin my sonne" - "Maryan Knowlden my kinswoman" - "Thomas Thurston ye sonne of Thomas Thurston" - "Elsabeth my now wyfe" named as executor - Signed by mark - Witnesses: John Wyse and Richard Goodgroome Probated 12 Dec 1604 MARRIAGE: 1. No remarriage found in Throwley after 1604. BURIAL: 1. No burial found in Throwley with the name Elizabeth Wilkins. | Elizabeth (I4897)
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| 7099 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. No Morgan records found in Bicknor or Stockbury in this couple's child-bearing years. CHRISTENING: 1. Stockbury Church Records (FHL film 1752235, it. 2): William son of Tho. Morgan 27 Jun 1613. MARRIAGE: 1. Family Search has three indexed records in Bicknor with day and month as 25 May; however, the years vary as 1640, 1641, and 1642. 2. Extraction of Bicknor Parish Record (FHL film 1851040, it. 6): 25 May 1641, William Morgan and Joan Knight, marr. [The 1 at the end of 1641 has been transcribed by some as a 2, but it is definitely a 1 in the original Parish Record.] | Morgan, William (I750)
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| 7100 | RESEARCH_NOTES; 1. No record of christening for Thomas is found in Ightham Parish; however, he does show up in the Vistations of Surrey as a son of John. There is a burial recorded in Ightham for "Thomas James, Gentleman," who is very likely this person -- if not, it could possibly by his uncle Thomas James. This is the only Thomas James that occurs in this parish so it seems unlikely to be the uncle. 2. The book "The Visitations of Surrey, 1530, 1572, and 1623" accessed online 20 Aug 2015 [ ] per book and not my notes: "JAMES (Harl. 1561, fos. 224b, 225, 225b, 226, 226b, 227, 227b, 228, 228b.) Arms -- Quarterly: 1, Argent, a chevron between three millrinds sable [James]; 2, Barry wafy of six argent and azure, on a chief or three birds rising sable [James], 3 and 4, [blank]. Chest. -- a garb argent, banded vert. 1-Jacob van Hawsteri borne in Cleue in German. = 2-Willm. James. 2-Theoder James of London. = 3-Abraham James. = 4-Abraham James 1623. 3-Elias James. 3-Jacob James. 2-Roger James of London. = Sara d. & coheire of Hen. Morskin of London. 3. Roger James Vpminster in com. Essex. = Sara d. of John Smyth of London. A. a Rose or. 4. Sr. Roger James of Rigate in com. Surrey Knt. 1623 ob. 26 of March 1637 [sic]. 5. Roger James of Rigate. 5. Anthony James ch. s.p. 5. Elizebeth. 5. Margarett. 4. John James of Rigate 1623. 4. Margerett vx Willm. Bishe of Fenn Place in the p'ish of Worth in com. Sussex. 4. Gora [Sara, Harl. 1433] vx. george Wilkins of Stoke in the hundred of Ho in com. Kent. 3. Arnold James of London. = Mary d. of John Van Hulst of London. 4. John James of Braffin in com. Hertfford. 4. Sara vx. of ___ Drew of Hawle in com. Essex Clark. 4. Sara vx. Ric. Cason of London. 4. Mary. 4. Judith. 3. Willm. James of Ightam in com. Kent. = Jane d. & heire of Henery Kule a natiue of Brenia. 4. William, Thomas, Jane. 3. Thomas James of Stroude Greene in com Midlesex. = ___ d. of ___ Foulk docter of Divinity. 3. Richard James of Mallenden in com Essex. = Gertrud d. of John Smyth. 4. Gertrude, Sara, Richard James, John James, George James, Jane, Emelin. 3. John James of the Manor of Grove in the p'ish of Woodnesborough. = Susan d. & coheire of Peter Vandewall of Antwerp. 4. Henery, Thomas, William, Henery ob. s.p., John s.p., Roger, John, Susan vx. ___ Nutt of London. 3. George James of Mallendine in com. Essex. = Audrey d. of John Smyth. 4. George, Gertrud, Ethelred. 2-Jacob James dyed beyond the Seas." | James, Thomas (I4999)
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