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| 7251 | RESEARCH_NOTES: “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HUGUES, seigneur of Clermont, Breuil-le-Vert, Creil, Gournay, Luzarches, and Mouchy-Saint-Elou, son and heir of Renaud, seigneur of Clermont, Chamberlain of France for King Henri I, by his wife, Ermentrude. He married about 1080 MARGUERITE DE MONTDIDIER, daughter of Hildouin (or Hellouin) II, Count of Montdidier, by Alix, daughter of Ebles I, Count of Reims and Roucy. They had four sons, Renaud (II) [seigneur of Clermont, later Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis), Guy, Hugues le Pauvre, and Raoul [Canon of Beauvais], and five daughters, Ermentrude (wife of Hugues d'Avranches, Earl of Chester), Alice, Marguerite (wife of Gérard de Gerberoy), Richilde (wife of Dreux II, seigneur of Mello), and Béatrice (wife of Mathieu, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise). He witnessed a grant of his father, Renaud, to Fécamp Abbey. At an unknown date, as "Hugues, son of Renaud the Chamberlain," he granted the monks of Fécamp free passage of their ships through Creil. Sometime after 1067 he approved the gift to Engelard, abbot of St. Martin des Champs, by his cousin Waleran the Chamberlain, of half of the land of Rungis. In the period, 1096-99, he gave the Abbey of Saint-Germer-de-Flay the church of Breuil-le-Vert and the tithes of Villiers-St.-Leu. HUGUES, seigneur of Clermont, died between 1101 and 1103. Following his death, his daughter, Alice, wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "daughter of Hugues de Clermont," founded an anniversary at the Priory of Saint-Leu d'Esserent for herself and for her parents, Hugues and Marguerite. Revue Historique Nobiliaire et Biographique 3rd Ser. 1 (1876): 273-275. Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 14 (1877): 7 (Genealogia Regum Francorum Tertiae Stirpis: "Secundam filiam præfati Comitis Helduini de Rameruth, dictam Margaretam, duxit Hugo Comes de Claromonte, de qua nati sunt Guido dictus Qui-non-dormit, et Hugo Paper, et Comes Rainaldus, et sorores Comm. Rainaldus duxit Adelidem Comitissam Viromandensium, defuncto priore viro suo, scilicet Hugone Magno, quæ peperit ei filiam Margaretam, quam duxit Comes Karolus Flandrix; quo mortuo, tradita est Comiti Sancti-Pauli Hugoni, qui dictus est Campus-avenæ. Præclictus Rainaldus, defuncta Adelide, duxit Comitissam de Dammartin, filiam Comitis de Rainaldi de Monzuns, de qua genuit Guidonem, et Rainaldum, et Hugonem archidiaconum Metensem, et Galterum, cum aliis utriusque sexus. Unda sororum Comitis Rainaldi nupsit in Anglia Comiti Hugoni de Cestre; alteram duxit Gislebertus filius Richardi Anglici; tertiam copulavit sibi Matthæus Comes de Bellomonte, de qua genuit alterum Matthæum Comitem, et fratrem ejus, et Elias."). Lépinois Recherches historiques et critiques sur l’ancient Comté et les Comtes de Clermont en Beauvoisis (1877). Luçay Le Comté de Clermont en Beauvaisis (1878): 9-11 ("Ni Suger, ni les chartes que nous avons eues sous les yeux, ne donnent à Hugues le titre de comte; elles le qualifient seulement seigneur de Clermont."). Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS XIII (1881): 251-256: (Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis: "Secundam filiam prefati comitis Helduini de Rameruth dictam Margaretam duxit Hugo comes de Claro-monte; de qua nati sunt Guido dictus Qui-non-dormit et Hugo Pauper et comes Rainaldus et sorores comm."); SS XXIII (1925): 793-794 (Chronica Alberici Monachi Trium Fontium: "Tertia soror Margareta comiti Hugoni de Claromonte Baluacensis peperit comitem Renaldeum et sorores eius, et quarum una fuerent comites Bellimontis."). Muller Prieuré de Saint-Leu d'Esserent: Cartulaire 1 (Pubs. Soc. Hist. du Vexin) (1900): 34-36 (testament of Marguerite de Gerberoy "daughter of Hugues de Clermont" [Ella Hugonis de Claromonte], who having arranged for her burial at the Priory of Saint-Leu d'Esserent, gave the Priory the sixth part of the tithe of Courlaye for the foundation of her anniversary; this document mentions her husband, Gerard; Pierre son of the said Gerard; and Count Renaud brother of the said Marguerite), 44 (charter of Adelaide de Clermont, wife of Gilbert de Anglia [Hadalaidis, Ella Hugonis de Claromonte, scilicet uxor Gisleberti de Anglia]), 195. Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1904): 302-305. Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) Teil II XI 220. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.199. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 653 (sub Clermont). Children of Hugues de Clermont, by Marguerite de Montdidier: i. RENAUD II, seigneur of Clermont, afterwards Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis [see next]. ii. ALICE DE CLERMONT, married (1st) GILBERT FITZ RICHARD (also styled DE CLARE, DE TONBRIDGE), of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, etc. [see CLARE 2]; (2nd) BOUCHARD DE MONTMORENCY, seigneur of Montmorency [see CLARE 2].” | de Rameru, Hildouin or Hellouin II (I6607)
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| 7252 | RESEARCH_NOTES: “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HUGUES, seigneur of Clermont, Breuil-le-Vert, Creil, Gournay, Luzarches, and Mouchy-Saint-Elou, son and heir of Renaud, seigneur of Clermont, Chamberlain of France for King Henri I, by his wife, Ermentrude. He married about 1080 MARGUERITE DE MONTDIDIER, daughter of Hildouin (or Hellouin) II, Count of Montdidier, by Alix, daughter of Ebles I, Count of Reims and Roucy. They had four sons, Renaud (II) [seigneur of Clermont, later Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis), Guy, Hugues le Pauvre, and Raoul [Canon of Beauvais], and five daughters, Ermentrude (wife of Hugues d'Avranches, Earl of Chester), Alice, Marguerite (wife of Gérard de Gerberoy), Richilde (wife of Dreux II, seigneur of Mello), and Béatrice (wife of Mathieu, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise). He witnessed a grant of his father, Renaud, to Fécamp Abbey. At an unknown date, as "Hugues, son of Renaud the Chamberlain," he granted the monks of Fécamp free passage of their ships through Creil. Sometime after 1067 he approved the gift to Engelard, abbot of St. Martin des Champs, by his cousin Waleran the Chamberlain, of half of the land of Rungis. In the period, 1096-99, he gave the Abbey of Saint-Germer-de-Flay the church of Breuil-le-Vert and the tithes of Villiers-St.-Leu. HUGUES, seigneur of Clermont, died between 1101 and 1103. Following his death, his daughter, Alice, wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "daughter of Hugues de Clermont," founded an anniversary at the Priory of Saint-Leu d'Esserent for herself and for her parents, Hugues and Marguerite. Revue Historique Nobiliaire et Biographique 3rd Ser. 1 (1876): 273-275. Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 14 (1877): 7 (Genealogia Regum Francorum Tertiae Stirpis: "Secundam filiam præfati Comitis Helduini de Rameruth, dictam Margaretam, duxit Hugo Comes de Claromonte, de qua nati sunt Guido dictus Qui-non-dormit, et Hugo Paper, et Comes Rainaldus, et sorores Comm. Rainaldus duxit Adelidem Comitissam Viromandensium, defuncto priore viro suo, scilicet Hugone Magno, quæ peperit ei filiam Margaretam, quam duxit Comes Karolus Flandrix; quo mortuo, tradita est Comiti Sancti-Pauli Hugoni, qui dictus est Campus-avenæ. Præclictus Rainaldus, defuncta Adelide, duxit Comitissam de Dammartin, filiam Comitis de Rainaldi de Monzuns, de qua genuit Guidonem, et Rainaldum, et Hugonem archidiaconum Metensem, et Galterum, cum aliis utriusque sexus. Unda sororum Comitis Rainaldi nupsit in Anglia Comiti Hugoni de Cestre; alteram duxit Gislebertus filius Richardi Anglici; tertiam copulavit sibi Matthæus Comes de Bellomonte, de qua genuit alterum Matthæum Comitem, et fratrem ejus, et Elias."). Lépinois Recherches historiques et critiques sur l’ancient Comté et les Comtes de Clermont en Beauvoisis (1877). Luçay Le Comté de Clermont en Beauvaisis (1878): 9-11 ("Ni Suger, ni les chartes que nous avons eues sous les yeux, ne donnent à Hugues le titre de comte; elles le qualifient seulement seigneur de Clermont."). Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS XIII (1881): 251-256: (Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis: "Secundam filiam prefati comitis Helduini de Rameruth dictam Margaretam duxit Hugo comes de Claro-monte; de qua nati sunt Guido dictus Qui-non-dormit et Hugo Pauper et comes Rainaldus et sorores comm."); SS XXIII (1925): 793-794 (Chronica Alberici Monachi Trium Fontium: "Tertia soror Margareta comiti Hugoni de Claromonte Baluacensis peperit comitem Renaldeum et sorores eius, et quarum una fuerent comites Bellimontis."). Muller Prieuré de Saint-Leu d'Esserent: Cartulaire 1 (Pubs. Soc. Hist. du Vexin) (1900): 34-36 (testament of Marguerite de Gerberoy "daughter of Hugues de Clermont" [Ella Hugonis de Claromonte], who having arranged for her burial at the Priory of Saint-Leu d'Esserent, gave the Priory the sixth part of the tithe of Courlaye for the foundation of her anniversary; this document mentions her husband, Gerard; Pierre son of the said Gerard; and Count Renaud brother of the said Marguerite), 44 (charter of Adelaide de Clermont, wife of Gilbert de Anglia [Hadalaidis, Ella Hugonis de Claromonte, scilicet uxor Gisleberti de Anglia]), 195. Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1904): 302-305. Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) Teil II XI 220. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.199. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 653 (sub Clermont). Children of Hugues de Clermont, by Marguerite de Montdidier: i. RENAUD II, seigneur of Clermont, afterwards Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis [see next]. ii. ALICE DE CLERMONT, married (1st) GILBERT FITZ RICHARD (also styled DE CLARE, DE TONBRIDGE), of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, etc. [see CLARE 2]; (2nd) BOUCHARD DE MONTMORENCY, seigneur of Montmorency [see CLARE 2].” | Ermentrude (I6605)
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| 7253 | RESEARCH_NOTES: “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HUGUES, seigneur of Clermont, Breuil-le-Vert, Creil, Gournay, Luzarches, and Mouchy-Saint-Elou, son and heir of Renaud, seigneur of Clermont, Chamberlain of France for King Henri I, by his wife, Ermentrude. He married about 1080 MARGUERITE DE MONTDIDIER, daughter of Hildouin (or Hellouin) II, Count of Montdidier, by Alix, daughter of Ebles I, Count of Reims and Roucy. They had four sons, Renaud (II) [seigneur of Clermont, later Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis), Guy, Hugues le Pauvre, and Raoul [Canon of Beauvais], and five daughters, Ermentrude (wife of Hugues d'Avranches, Earl of Chester), Alice, Marguerite (wife of Gérard de Gerberoy), Richilde (wife of Dreux II, seigneur of Mello), and Béatrice (wife of Mathieu, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise). He witnessed a grant of his father, Renaud, to Fécamp Abbey. At an unknown date, as "Hugues, son of Renaud the Chamberlain," he granted the monks of Fécamp free passage of their ships through Creil. Sometime after 1067 he approved the gift to Engelard, abbot of St. Martin des Champs, by his cousin Waleran the Chamberlain, of half of the land of Rungis. In the period, 1096-99, he gave the Abbey of Saint-Germer-de-Flay the church of Breuil-le-Vert and the tithes of Villiers-St.-Leu. HUGUES, seigneur of Clermont, died between 1101 and 1103. Following his death, his daughter, Alice, wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "daughter of Hugues de Clermont," founded an anniversary at the Priory of Saint-Leu d'Esserent for herself and for her parents, Hugues and Marguerite. Revue Historique Nobiliaire et Biographique 3rd Ser. 1 (1876): 273-275. Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 14 (1877): 7 (Genealogia Regum Francorum Tertiae Stirpis: "Secundam filiam præfati Comitis Helduini de Rameruth, dictam Margaretam, duxit Hugo Comes de Claromonte, de qua nati sunt Guido dictus Qui-non-dormit, et Hugo Paper, et Comes Rainaldus, et sorores Comm. Rainaldus duxit Adelidem Comitissam Viromandensium, defuncto priore viro suo, scilicet Hugone Magno, quæ peperit ei filiam Margaretam, quam duxit Comes Karolus Flandrix; quo mortuo, tradita est Comiti Sancti-Pauli Hugoni, qui dictus est Campus-avenæ. Præclictus Rainaldus, defuncta Adelide, duxit Comitissam de Dammartin, filiam Comitis de Rainaldi de Monzuns, de qua genuit Guidonem, et Rainaldum, et Hugonem archidiaconum Metensem, et Galterum, cum aliis utriusque sexus. Unda sororum Comitis Rainaldi nupsit in Anglia Comiti Hugoni de Cestre; alteram duxit Gislebertus filius Richardi Anglici; tertiam copulavit sibi Matthæus Comes de Bellomonte, de qua genuit alterum Matthæum Comitem, et fratrem ejus, et Elias."). Lépinois Recherches historiques et critiques sur l’ancient Comté et les Comtes de Clermont en Beauvoisis (1877). Luçay Le Comté de Clermont en Beauvaisis (1878): 9-11 ("Ni Suger, ni les chartes que nous avons eues sous les yeux, ne donnent à Hugues le titre de comte; elles le qualifient seulement seigneur de Clermont."). Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS XIII (1881): 251-256: (Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis: "Secundam filiam prefati comitis Helduini de Rameruth dictam Margaretam duxit Hugo comes de Claro-monte; de qua nati sunt Guido dictus Qui-non-dormit et Hugo Pauper et comes Rainaldus et sorores comm."); SS XXIII (1925): 793-794 (Chronica Alberici Monachi Trium Fontium: "Tertia soror Margareta comiti Hugoni de Claromonte Baluacensis peperit comitem Renaldeum et sorores eius, et quarum una fuerent comites Bellimontis."). Muller Prieuré de Saint-Leu d'Esserent: Cartulaire 1 (Pubs. Soc. Hist. du Vexin) (1900): 34-36 (testament of Marguerite de Gerberoy "daughter of Hugues de Clermont" [Ella Hugonis de Claromonte], who having arranged for her burial at the Priory of Saint-Leu d'Esserent, gave the Priory the sixth part of the tithe of Courlaye for the foundation of her anniversary; this document mentions her husband, Gerard; Pierre son of the said Gerard; and Count Renaud brother of the said Marguerite), 44 (charter of Adelaide de Clermont, wife of Gilbert de Anglia [Hadalaidis, Ella Hugonis de Claromonte, scilicet uxor Gisleberti de Anglia]), 195. Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1904): 302-305. Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) Teil II XI 220. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.199. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 653 (sub Clermont). Children of Hugues de Clermont, by Marguerite de Montdidier: i. RENAUD II, seigneur of Clermont, afterwards Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis [see next]. ii. ALICE DE CLERMONT, married (1st) GILBERT FITZ RICHARD (also styled DE CLARE, DE TONBRIDGE), of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, etc. [see CLARE 2]; (2nd) BOUCHARD DE MONTMORENCY, seigneur of Montmorency [see CLARE 2].” | Renaud (I6604)
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| 7254 | RESEARCH_NOTES: “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ENGLAND, illegitimate daughter, married CONAN III le Gros, Duke of Brittany, son and heir of Alain IV Fergant, Duke of Brittany [see ENGLAND 1.vi], by his 2nd wife, Ermengarde, daughter of Fulk IV "le Rechin," Count of Anjou. They had one son, Hoel [II] [Count of Nantes], and two daughters, Bertha and Constance. In 1139 he confirmed the rights of the Abbey of Saint-Melaine of Rennes regarding the tithe of moneying. CONAN III, Duke of Brittany, died in 1148. Morice Méms. pour Servir de Preuves a l'Hist. de Bretagne 1 (1742): 37, 579 (charter of Conan, Duke of Brittany dated 1139; charter witnessed by his mother, Ermengarde). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Bull. & Mémoires de la Société Archéologique du Département d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 70-72 (charter dated 1129-36 of Conan III, Duke of Brittany to the Abbey of Saint Nicholas of Angers; charter names his mother, Countess Ermengarde), 72-73 (charter dated 1136 of Conan III, Count of Brittany to Livre Priory), 74-75 (charter dated 1120-42 of Conan, Duke of Brittany to monks of Marmoutier), 75-76 (charter dated 1132-46 of Conan III, Duke of Brittany, and Ermengarde his mother to Tiron Abbey; charter witnessed by Aimery son of the Count)), 76-78 (charter dated 1143-46 of Conan, Duke of Brittany to the monks of Marmoutier), 78-81 (charter dated 1146 of Conan, Duke of Brittany, son of Alan Fergant to Quimperle Abbey), 81-82 (charter dated 1146 of Conan III, Count of Brittany to the monks of Saint-Florence of Saumur), 82-83 (charter dated 1147 of Conan III, Duke of Brittany to Savigny Abbey), 83-84 (charter dated 1112-48 of Conan III, Duke of Brittany, son of Count Alan to Machecoul Priory), 84-87, 341-343 (charter dated 1112-40 of Conan III, Duke of Brittany to Mont Saint-Michel Abbey; charter witnessed by Countess Mathilde his wife and Hawise sister of Count Conan), 344 346 (charter dated 1128 Conan III, Duke of Brittany to the monks of Saint-Melaine of Rennes; charter witnessed by his mother, Ermengarde, and his wife, Mathilde). C.P. 10 (1945): 780 (chart) (sub Richmond); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stanmtaf eln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.40, XII.661, XIII.1006-XIII.1008. Everard Brittany & the Angevins: Province & Empire, 1158-1203 (2000). Hollister Henry 1(2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Children of Maud (or Mathilde) of England, by Conan III of Brittany: i. BERTHA OF BRITTANY [see next]. ii. CONSTANCE OF BRITTANY, married GEOFFROI II DE MAYENNE, seigneur of Mayenne [see MAYENNE 4].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HENRY nicknamed “Beauclerc,” King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Cotentin, 4th son, born in 1068 or 1069. He married (1st) 11 Nov. 1100 MAUD OF SCOTLAND, daughter of Malcolm III (CeannMor), King of Scots, by his 2nd wife, [Saint] Margaret, daughter of Edward Ætheling [see SCOTLAND 1 for her parentage]. She was born in 1079. They had one son, William, and one daughter, Maud. His wife, Maud, died at Westminster 1 May 1118. He married (2nd) at Windsor, Berkshire 29 Jan. 1121 ALICE (or AELIZ, ALEIDE, ALEYDA, AELIDIS, ADELIDE, ADELIDIS, ADELAIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELIZE, ATHELICE) OF LOUVAIN, daughter of Gottfried (or Godefroy) I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Count of Louvain, by his 1st wife, Ida, daughter of Otto II, Count of Chiny. She was born about 1103. They had no issue. By various mistresses, he had eight illegitimate sons, Robert [Earl of Gloucester], Richard, Fulk, Reynold [Earl of Cornwall], Robert, Gilbert, William de Tracy, and Henry, and nine illegitimate daughters, Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Rotrou II, Count of Perche), Alice, Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Conan III, Duke of Brittany), Juliane (wife of Eustache de Pacy, seigneur of Breteuil and Pacy), Mabel (wife of Guillaume Gouet, seigneur of Montmirail), Constance (wife of Roscelin de Beaumont), Aline (wife of Mathieu de Montmorency), Sibyl (wife of Alexander I, King of Scots), and Isabel.* HENRY I, King of England died at Lyons-la-Forêt (near Rouen), Normandy 1 Dec. 1135, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) after Dec. 1136 but later than summer 1139 WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, Earl of Lincoln, afterwards 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), hereditary Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor to King Henry I [see CLIFTON 3]. They had four sons, William [2nd Earl of Arundel or Sussex], Reiner, Henry, and Godfrey, and two daughters, Alice (wife of Jean I, Count of Eu and Alvred de Saint Martin) and Olive. He was a witness to King Stephen's 2nd Charter of Liberties in 1136. He was created Earl of Lincoln c.1138. He gave shelter to Empress Maud at Arundel Castle in 1139, but afterwards adhered to King Stephen. His earldom was transferred from Lincoln to Sussex before Christmas 1141. In his own later charters he is styled Earl of Chichester. About 1145 he witnessed a charter of Henry Hussey as "Consul Willelmo de Cicesterr." His wife, Alice, presented to the prebend of West Dean in 1150. Alice, dowager Queen of England, died as a nun at Affligem Abbey in Brabant 25 (or 26) March 1151, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. He was influential in arranging the treaty of 1153, whereby the Crown continued with King Stephen for life, though the inheritance thereof was secured to Henry II. He subscribed his name to this instrument as "Comes Cicestrie." By grant dated c.1155, King Henry II confirmed to him as "William, Earl of Arundel" the Castle of Arundel, with the whole honour of Arundel and all its appurtenances. He served as Joint Ambassador to France and to the Pope in 1163/4. He served as Chief Ambassador with Princess Maud to Germany in 1168. He was appointed joint Commander of the royal army in Normandy in 1173. In Sept. 1173 he assisted in the defeat near Bury St. Edmunds of the Earl of Leicester. He founded Buckenham Abbey, Norfolk and Pynharn Priory, Sussex. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), died at Waverley Abbey, Surrey 4 (or 12) October 1176, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk. [Footnote *: In 1824 the Scottish historian Chalmers stated that King Henry I of England had an illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth, who married Fergus, lord of Galloway (died 1161). [see Chalmers Caledonia 3 (1824): 250, footnote k ("Fergus [lord of Galloway] ... was a prince of some note, even at the court of Henry I. of England, is certain : as he took to wife, according to the heralds, genealogists, and chroniclers, Elizabeth, the natural daughter of Henry I.")]. Scots Peerage 4 (1907): 135-136 (sub Galloway), however, debunked Chalmers' statement, noting that the authorities quoted by Chalmers "do not bear out his assertion." Even so, other secondary sources have continued to repeat Chalmers' unfounded claim: See, for example, Mackenzie History of Galloway (1841): 167-172 ("Fergus ... married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. of England"); Anderson Scottish Nation 2 (1862): 195 ("Fergus, lord of Galloway ... married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. of England ..."); M'Kerlie Galloway in Ancient & Modern Times (1891): 155 ("It is necessary to repeat here that Fergus married Elizabeth, the natural daughter of King Henry I. of England."); Maxwell Hist. of Dumfries & Galloway (1896): 47-48 ("Fergus ... married Elizabeth, natural daughter of Henry I., and sister of Sibilla, who married Alexander I., brother of David."); Ramsay Angevin Empire (1903): 90, footnote 7 ("Gunfrith [i.e., Godred] was son of Olaf, by Afreca, daughter of Fergus of Galloway, by 'Elisabeth,' reputed natural daughter of Henry I."); Oram Lordship of Galloway (2000): 60; Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Barrow Robert Bruce (1965): 36, footnote 2 notes that "Roger Howden calls Uchtred son of Fergus of Galloway a cousin of King Henry II (Gesta Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis, ed. Stubbs, Rolls Ser., i, 80)," a relationship which Professor Barrow states "is best explained on the supposition that Fergus married a bastard daughter of Henry I." However, given that King Henry II of England had a Scottish grandmother, a more likely explanation of the kinship between the Galloway and English royal families is that the wife of Fergus was near related to the Scottish royal family, possibly being a sister of William Fitz Duncan, whose grandfather was Malcolm Canmore, King of Scots [died 1093]. This arrangement would make Uchtred son of Fergus and King Henry II of England related in the 3rd degree of kindred (or second cousins).] D'Achery Spicilegium 10 (1671): 612-613 (Continuatio Chronici Afflegemiensis: "Filia præfati Ducis Aleidis juncta matrimonio Regi Angliæ, post obitum secundi con jugis Afflegemiensis Claustri solitudinem ad reliquum vitæ ad humandum corpus elegit in domo turti Ecclesiæ contigua, cum una aut akera ancilla in Fratrum Afflegemiensiurn quieta taciturna multitudine solitaria habitavit, & beato fine quievit, de qua epitaphium: Aleidis Regina Anglim, filia Ducis Godefridi cum barba, Regnum suscepit in Anglia an MCXXI. obiit 9 Kal. Maii [23 April], sepulta è regione horologii nostri."). Rawlinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the City, and Cathedral-Church of Hereford (1717): Addenda, 30 (Kalendar of Obits: "IIII Non. December [2 December]. Obitus Henrici Regis."). Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 32-34. Morice Mémoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 130 (Extract of Cronicle of Robert, Abbot of Mont Saint Michel: "Anno 1135. Obiit Henricus I. Rex Anglorum in prima die Decembris, cum regnasset annis 35. & 4 mensibus."). Brequigny & Mouchet Table Chronologique des Diplômes, Chartes, Titres ... concernant l’Histoire de France 3 (1783): 236 (charter dated c.1155 of Alice Queen of the English [Adelaidis reginæ Anglorum]). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: Kal. Maii [25 April]. Ob. Alexander Rex Scottorum et Soror ejus Matildis Regina Anglorum."), 218 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "IV. Non. Dec. [2 December] Ob Henricus Rex Anglorum."). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Norrnands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXI)). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 169-179. Michel Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois D'Angleterre (1840): 69 ("Li rois Henrie, quant la roine Mehaus fu morte, prist à feme Aalis, la fille Godefroi le duc de Louvaing, la cousine Wistasse [Eustace] de Bouloigne; mais n'en ot nul enfant. Si ot-il de bas .vj. Ills et .vij. fines"). Strickland Lives of the Queens of England 1 (1840): 135-211 (biog. of Matilda of Scotland), 212-256 (biog. of Adelicia of Louvaine). Barrett Memorials of the parochial Church ... in the Parish of Attleborough (1848): 12-41. Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 74 (Maud [of Blois], Countess of Chester, styled "niece" to King Henry I of England [neptis regis1). Ordericus Vitalis Ecclesiastical Hist. of England & Normandy 3 (1854): 482 (Roger Fitz Roger and Walter d'Aufay [Aufai] styled "cousins" to King Henry I at Battle of Bremule in 1119 by Ordericus Vitalis). Arch. Journal 20 (1863): 283 ("Adeliza appears to have used the identical matrux of the seal which had belonged to the first queen of Henry I., the name-Aalidis-having been substituted for Matli[Idis), 287-288 (charter of Queen Alice [Aelidis regina] ... There is appended ... a pointed oval seal of white wax .... device, a female figure standing ... The legend is + SIGILLVM • AALIDIS • SECVND[AE • DE]I • GRACIA • REGINAE • ANGLIE.), 288-289 (charter of Queen Alice [A. Dei gracia Regina]); 22 (1865): 152-153 (charter of William [d'Aubeney], Earl of Lincoln; charter names Queen Alice his wife [regina Adelidis]). Sussex Arch. Colls. 15 (1863): 112-113. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 14 (Margam Annals sub 1151: "Obiit Adelidis, regina secunda Henrici regis."); 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 433 (Bermondsey Annals sub A.D. 1121: "Hoc anno rex Henricus primus duxit Adelizam, filiam ducis Lovaniae, in uxorem, tertio nonas Februarii [3 February]."). 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 ("In the Register of the Priory of Bromhale, we find the record of his death under the date of the 4th day of October, 22nd of Henry II (A.D. 1176), in the following words, `obiit Willielmus Comes Arundel' (no mention of Sussex or Chichester), et `sepultus est in prioratus de Wymondham.’"). Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum 20 (1868): 67 (Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Liber X: Roger Fitz Richard [de Clare) styled "kinsman" [cognatus) of King Henry I of England). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 20, 104-108 (discusses evidence that King Henry I had an illegitimate daughter, Maud (or Mathilde)/Almodis, who was Abbess of Montivilliers). Ellis Antiqs. of Heraldry (1869): 206-207 (Aubigny ped.). Lower Compendious Hist. of Sussex 1 (1870): 70 (Robert de Haia, founder of Boxgrove Priory, styled "king's kinsman" [consanguineus] of King Henry I). Delisle Delisle Chronique de Robert de Tongni 1 (1872): 215 (sub A.D. 1139: "Invitarerat enim eos Willermus de Albinneio, qui duxerat Aeliz quondam reginam, quæ habebat castellum et comitatum Hardundel, quod rex Henricus dederat ei in dote."); 2 (1873): 63-64 ("Cessit etiam in fata Willermus de Albineio, quem vocabant comitem d'Arundel, relinquens filios quatuor, scilicet Guillermum de Albineio pritnogenitum, et alios tres natos ex Aeliza regina, uxore primi Henrici regis Anglorum."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 298 (sub 1176: "comes etiam Willelmus de Arundel obiit quarto idus Octobris [12 October] apud Waverle, et sepultus eat apud Wimundham, cellam scilicet ecclesiæ Sancti Albani, cujus cellæ patronus fuisse dinoscitur."). Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1879): 92 ("Obiit autem Matildis regina Anglia anno regni sui xviiio, kalendis Maii [1 May], et apud Radingas sepulta est."). Merlet Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): cvii-cviii (arms of Henry I, King of England, Duke of Normandy dated 1115: D'argent au cavalier d'azur). D.N.B. 1 (1885): 137-138 (biog. of Adeliza of Louvain). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1(1886): 66 (sub Arundel). Raine Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1886): 169 (History of the Four Archbishops by Hugh the Chantor - King Henry I and Pope Calixtus II were kinsmen: "Nam præter spiritualem patris et filii relationem, carnali consanguinitate propinqui erant, quorum avus et avia frater et soror fuerunt." (Note: Pope Calixtus II was a younger son of William I, Count of Burgundy, whose mother Alice was daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy]). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1 (1887): 5-8 (seal of King Henry I - Obverse. King, seated in majesty, in an undercoat with sleeves tight at wrists, and loose skirts reaching below knees; and long flowing cloak fastened at throat and spreading out behind, which has a border, with indications of a fur of symmetrical pattern. On the head a cap-shaped crown, with three fleurs-de-lis, one at top and one at either side, and two chin-straps hanging loosely at sides, the ends having buckles in shape of trefoils. In right hand, extended outwards from elbow, a sword is held almost perpendicularly. In left hand, similarly extended, an orb, ensigned with a long cross pattee pommettee. Throne, apparently square, and closely resembling that of William II.; the centre curves with a bold cusp inwards, with a string-course, and is the narrowest part. In lower of two compartments thus made, is a footboard, not enough remaining to show original size. On throne a flat cushion with square edge, carrying at each end a hemispherical ornament, intended for pillow. Reverse. King, hauberk of chain-mail; conical helmet, having a blunt point at crown of head, and perhaps armed with projecting nose-piece; single pointed spur of goad form; long lance to which is attached a banner, charged with cross moline, and three pairs of waving streamers. No indication of sword. In left hand, held by interior strap, a kite-shaped shield, seen from within. The horse is walking to the right hand, caparisoned with breast-band, which is ornamented by five globular pendants equi-distant. Saddle of small dimensions; with stirrups. The loosely gathered reins are held up in left hand, which also sustains shield. Legend: + HENRIC' D... ... ...). Round "An Unknown Mistress of Henry I." in Eng. Hist. Rev. 5 (1890): 745-746. Luard Flores Historiarum 2 ((Rolls Ser.) 1890): 69 ("Anno gratix MCLIo [1151]. Obiit Adelicia regina, uxor regis Stephani;" the editor notes that the name "Stephani" is erased in Ch. and altered to "Henrici I."). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Docs. sur la Province du Perche 3rd Ser. 2) (1894): 40-43. Recueil des Historiens des Castles et de la France 23 (1894): 471 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "25 Mart. Obiit Adelicia regina."), 476 (Ex Necrologio Monasterii Crucis Sancti Leufredi: "25 Mart. [Obiit] Adeliza, regina Anglorum."), 578 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Mali. [Obiit] Matildis, regina Anglorum."), 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "12 Oct. [Obiit] Guillelmus, comes de Arundel."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Dec. [Obiit] Henricus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum."). Napier & Stevenson Crawford Coll. of early Charters & Docs. now in the Bodleian library (1895): 31 (William [d'Aubeney], Earl of Chichester dated c.1150; charter names his wife, Queen Alice [regina Adelide]). Bradshaw Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral Pt. 2 (1897): (obits. in the odd volume of the great Latin Bible), ccxxxviii (2 May - "Matildis regina uxor Henrici regis."), ccxlii (2 Dec. - "Henricus, pacificus rex Anglorum."). Trans. East Herts Arch. Soc. 1(1) (1901): 129-135 (charter of Queen Alice widow of King Henry I dated 1136 [Adelidis regina uxor nobillisimi regis Henrici & filia Godefridi ducis lotharingie]. C.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 530 (confirmation of gift of Alice, formerly Queen of England). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 316 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "kal. Maius [1 May] Ob. Matildis, Anglorum regina [1118]."), 523 (Prieure de Longpont: "kaL maii. [1 May] [obit.] Maltidis, Anglorum regina [1118]."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #14 (charter of William [de Albini], Earl of Lincoln dated c.1139-40; charter names his wife, Queen Adeleidis), #27 (charter of William [de Albini], Earl of Chichester dated 1151-2; charter names his wife, Queen Athelice). Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 1-2 (sub Kings of Scotland). Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 25-34. Eng. Hist. Rev. 21(1906): 505-509. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 241 (Obituaire of Prieure de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Henricus, rex Anglorum, frater noster, III nonas decembris [3 Dec.] [1135]."), 661 (Nécrologe of Abbaye de Saint-Jean-en-Vallée: 12 Dec.] IIII non. Obiit Henricus, Anglorum rex [1135], ecclesiarum amator praecipuus."). Scots Peerage 4 (1907): 135-136 (sub Galloway) ("[Fergus, lord of Galloway] is said to have married Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of King Henry I. of England, but the authorities quoted by Chalmers, who makes the statement, do not bear out his assertion."). D.N.B. 1 (1908): 137-138 (biog. of Adeliza of Louvain). Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 167-168 (charter of King Henry I dated c.1111=20). Gomme Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1909): 217 (sub A.D. 1100: Maud of Scotland, 1st wife of King Henry I, styled "kinswoman to king Edward [the Confessor] and of the true royal race of England."), 239-240 (sub A.D. 1127: Henry [de Pouilly-sur-Saone], Abbot of Saint-Jean of Angély (in Poitou), afterwards Abbot of Peterborough styled "kinsman" [mæi] of [Henry I] King of England and [Guillaume] Count of Poitou) [see also Earle and Plummer Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel 1 (1892): 257; English Hist. Rev. 84 (1969): 548-5601. CP. 1 (1910): 233-235, 237 (chart) (sub Arundel); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Round King's Serjeants & Officers of State (1911): 140-165. English Hist. Rev. 34 (1919): 303-382. Farrer Outline Itinerary of King Henry 1 (1920). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) XI 112. Rübel-Blass (1939) 257 (biographical information). G.H. White "Henry I's Illegitimate Children," in C.P. 11 (1949), Appendix D, 105-121. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 216. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19). C.R.R. 12 (1957): 157-158 (Sibyl de Falaise, wife of Baldwin de Bolers, styled "kinswoman" [nepte] of King Henry I of England). Stenton First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (1961). Davis King Stephen (1967): 137 ("[King] Stephen recognized three successive earls of Lincoln ... The first was William d'Aubigny pincerna who married Queen Adeliza, widow of King Henry I, and in her right became lord of the honour and castle of Arundel. He styles himself William Earl of Lincoln in three charters in which his identity is proved by references to his wife. They are in favour of Lewes Priory and the abbeys of Reading and Affligem-and in the case of Affligem there is also a charter of Adeliza referring to her husband as earl of Lincoln (Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville 3245; Warner and Ellis, Facsimiles, no. 14; E. de Marneffe, Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Affligem in Analectes pour servir à l’histoire ecclesiastique de la Belgique, 2o section, pp. 104,106). In royal charters it is usually impossible to distinguish him from his successor, William de Roumare, since the normal style of both was Willelmus comes de Lincolnia, or (before he was an earl) from his father, William d'Aubignypincerna, who died before June 1139 (Reg. iii. 973). If Robert de Torigny is right (Chronicles iv. 137) William had married Adeliza by September 1139, and it is tempting to assume that it was on his marriage that he was made earl of Lincoln, his connection with that county being that his mother, Maud Bigod, was a grand-daughter, and possible co-heiress, of Robert de Tosny of Belvoir. We do not know precisely when he was transferred from Lincoln to Sussex, but it was certainly by Christmas 1141 when he attested a charter as Comite Willelmo de Sudsexa (Reg. iii. 276)."). Chibnall Ecclesiastical Hist. of Orderic Vitalis (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1969-80): 317 (Vol. VI, Book XII - Henry [de Pouilly-sur-Saone] styled "kinsman" [cognato] of King Henry I of England) [see English Hist. Rev. 84 (1969): 548-560]. Albion 10 (1978): 330-340. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 1 (1980): 95 (sub Hainault, Brabant); 2 (1984): 81 (sub England); 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Green Government of England under Henry 1(1986). Hollister Monarchy, Magnates, & Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World (1986). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden Soc. 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 301, 369, 476. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.1.423, XII.371, X11.644-X11.645, XIII.207. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 136 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "7 Kal. [Apr.] [26 March]. Obiit Atheliza regina."), 130 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. Dec. [1 December]. Obiit Rex Anglorum Henricus primus."), 146 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. Dec. [1 December]. Obiit rex Anglorum Henricus i."). Haskins Soc. Jour. 7 (1995): 101-116. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35, 57. Scottish Hirt. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19. Vincent Acta of Henry II and Richard I Pt 2 (List and Index Soc. Special Ser. 27) (1996): 143 (confirmation c. 1172/81 of grant made by Queen Adela) (original published in Jour. of British Architetural Assoc. 17: 312). Scottish Hist. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19. Harper-Bill Anglo-Norman Studies XXI (1999): 145-168. Bartlett England under the Norman & Angevin Kings 1075-1225 (2000). Hollister Henry 1(2001). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.), 313 (Scotland ped.). Weller Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert (2004): 464-4.76 (biog. of Königin Adelheid von England) ("On page 476, Weller states: "Seine Gattin Adelheid von Lowen, die ehemalige Konigin von England, war schon 1151 wahrend des Bürgerkrieges verschieden und wurde in Reading beigesetzt ... Der Begräbnisort Kgn. Adelheids geht aus einem Schreiben Jocelins v. Löwen an Bf. Hilarius v. Chichester eindeutig hervor, vgl. Reading Abbey Cartularies 1, No. 551, 416E; s.a. Bartlett, England 596. Nicht stichhaltig ist demgegeniiber die van Sanderus, Chorographia 1, 45, verbreitete Nachricht, wonach Adelheid vor ihrem Tod in ihre Heimat übergesiedelt und im Kloster Afflighem gestoren and begraben sei; heirnach auch John Horace Round in dem Art.: Adeliza of Louvain, in DNB 1(1885): 137f.; Complete Peerage 1, 235. Allerdings ist Kgn. Adelheid als Wohltäterin von Afflighem aufgetreten unde hat dem Kloster einigen Besitz in England gestiftet; vgl. Cart. Afflighem, No. 79, 121-124 (hier 122)."). Verbeke Medieval Narrative Sources (2005): 21-36. Fleming Henry I & the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister (2006). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006). Children of King Henry I of England, by Maud of Scotland: i. WILLIAM OF ENGLAND, son and heir apparent, born in 1103. As his father's destined successor, he received the homage of the Normans barons in 1115, and that of the English witan in 1116. He married at Lisieux in May 1119 MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ANJOU, daughter of Fulk V, Count of Anjou. He was with his father at the Battle of Bremule in 1119. Early in 1120 King Louis of France invested him with the duchy of Normandy. He was drowned in the wreck of the White Ship 25 Nov. 1120. Wharton Anglia Sacra (1691): 160 (Chronicon Sanctæ Crucis Edinburgensis sub A.D. 1120: "Willelmus filius Henrici Regis, & Ricardus frater ejus & Ricardus Comes de Cestria cum multis Nobilibus naufragio perierunt.”). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. D.N.B. 21(1909): 337 (biog. of William, son of Henry I, King of England). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.644. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 180-181, 192-193, 213-214. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ii. MAUD OF ENGLAND, married (1st) HEINRICH V, King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor; (2nd) GEOFFREY V Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy [see next]. Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by an unknown mistress, (possibly a member of the Bohun family): i. ROBERT FITZ ROY, Earl of Gloucester, married MABEL FITZ ROBERT [see GLOUCESTER 3]. Illegitimate sons of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Ansfride, widow of Anskill, a knight who was a tenant of Abingdon Abbey: i. RICHARD FITZ ROY, born before 1101. He served against the French in 1119, and was captured at Les Andelys. He was set free with his comrades by King Louis, because they had taken sanctuary in the church of Notre Dame du Grand Andely. Later the same year he was with his father at the Siege of Evreux and the Battle of Brémule. In Sept. 1119 he was sent to raise the Siege at Bréteuil. He was betrothed to Amice de Gael, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. He was drowned immediately afterwards in the wreck of the White Ship 25 Nov. 1120. Amice subsequently married Robert of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester [see LEICESTER 6]. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 37, 122-123. Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1879): 92 ("Alium quoque habuit filium Ricardum, et cessavit parere... Navis enim infausta qun regis gestabat filios Willelrnum et Ricardum, submersa est, periitque in scopulis Barbefluvii."). C.P. 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.646. Van Houts Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni 2 (1992): 248-249 (Robert de Torigny: "Ricardus autem, huius comitis uno de patre frater, cum fratre suo Willelmo in sepedicto naufiagio periit."). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). ii. FULK FITZ ROY. Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 37, 122-123. C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): 1(II.647. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Sibyl Corbet: i. REYNOLD FITZ ROY, Earl of Cornwall, Sheriff of Devon, 1173-5. He married in 1140 MABEL FITZ WILLIAM, daughter of William Fitz Richard, of Cornwall. They had one son, Nicholas, and four daughters, Denise (wife of Richard de Redvers, Earl of Devon), Maud, Sarah (wife of Ademar, Vicomte of Limoges), and Emme (wife of Guy V de Laval, seigneur of Laval). By a mistress, Beatrice de Valle (or Vaux) (afterwards wife of William Briwerre, Knt.), he had an illegitimate son, Henry Fitz Count. By an unknown mistress, he also had one illegitimate son, William. He was granted the lands of William, Earl of Mortain, amounting to 215-1/2 fees in Devon and Cornwall. He was created Earl of Cornwall about April 1141. He and Robert, Earl of Leicester, were recognized by contemporaries as "the most powerful men in the kingdom." His wife, Mabel, fell into insanity in the 1140s. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1114-47. In 1153 he witnessed the agreement between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II]. He and Robert, Earl of Leicester, acted as intermediary between the king and Thomas Becket at Northampton in 1164. He played a major part in opposing the rebels of 1173-4 in England. REYNOLD FITZ ROY, Earl of Cornwall died 1 July 1175, allegedly at Chertsey, Surrey, and was buried at Reading, Berkshire. Dugdale Baronage (1675): 702 (sub Briwere) ("[William Briwere] having married Beatrix de Valle, a Concubine, as 'tis said, to Reginald Earl of Cornwall (which is probable, for in a Grant made by Henry Son to the same Reginald [Earl of Cornwall], unto this William [Briwere], of the Mannor of Karswell, and Land of Hakford, he calls him his Brother")) [Note: Dugdale evidently intended to say that Henry Fitz Count's brother was William Briwere the younger, as it was William Briwere the elder was the husband of his mother, Beatrice de Valle]. Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 6, 98 (undated charter of Reynold son of King Henry to William de Botreaux son of Alice Corbet his aunt [matertera]; charter witnessed by his son, Nicholas; his nephews/kinsmen [nepotibus], Ralph and Richard, and his brother, William), 112. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836 11): 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Collectanea Archæologica 1(1862): 263-284. Stubbs Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis (or Chron. of the Reigns of Henry II. & Richard I. A.D. 1169-1192) 1 (Rolls Ser. 49) (1867): 163 ("Deditque ibidem Hereberto filio Hereberti, et Willelmo fratri comitis Reginaldi, et Joelllano de la Pumerai, nepoti eorum, regnum be Limeric pro servitio sexaginta militum"), 172 ("Nam Herbertus, et Willelmus, fratres Reginaldi comitis Cornubiae, et Joellanus de Purnetia nepos eorum, regnum illud havere noluerunt; sed illud reddiderunt domino regi et Johanni filio suo liberum et quietum ab omni calurnnia eorum"). Le Fizelier Mémoire chronologique de Maucourt de Bourjolly sur la Ville de Laval 1 (1886): 136-142. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1896): 251-253 (William brother of Earl Reynold [Willelmus frater Comitis Reginaldi] held 1/2 knight's fee of Robert Fitz Roy in 1166), 261-262 (William brother of the Earl [Willelmus frater Comitis] held four knight's fees Reynold, Earl of Cornwall in 1166). Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 455-456. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 34. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. C.P. 3 (1913): 429 (sub Cornwall); 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1924 (1926): 9, 219. English Hist. Rev. 62 (1947): 352-377 (charter of William de Marsh brother of Reynold Earl of Cornwall [Willelmus de Marisco frater Reginaldi comitis Cornubie]). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 6 (Reynold, Earl of Cornwall, styled "uncle" [avunculo] by Henry [II], later King of England, in charter dated 1147 or 1149). Minor & Butler eds. Letters of John of Salisbury 1 (Oxford Medieval Texts) (1955): 162-163. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 9-10 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1154-65), 10-11 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1146-55), 11 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1155-65), 195-196 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1165-75, witnessed by his son, Nicholas), 196-197 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1155-65), 197-198 (two confirmation charters of King Henry II of England naming his "uncle" [avunculus] Reynold, Earl of Cornwall, one dated c.1174-5, the other dated c.1174-6). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): 1(11.651, X111.996-1000. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Hollister Henry 1(2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).Cornwall Rec. Office: Borough of Truro, BTRU/1 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1161-66) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Child of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, by Mabel Fitz William: a. MAUD OF CORNWALL, married ROBERT II, Count of Meulan [see VERMANDOIS 7]. Illegitimate child of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, allegedly by Beatrice de Valle: a. HENRY FITZ COUNT, of Liskeard, Cornwall and King's Kerswell, Devon, Constable of Totnes Castle, 1209, Governor of Portchester Castle, 1211, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1215, 1217-20, Constable of Launceston Castle and Warden of the Stanneries, 1215. In 1194 he was granted the manors of Liskeard, Cornwall and Diptford and King's Kerswell, Devon by the king. In 1196 he witnessed the Torre Abbey foundation charter issued by his alleged step-father, Sir William Briwerre. In 1215 he had a grant of the county of Cornwall from King John, to farm until the realm should be at peace. The grant was renewed by King Henry III 7 Feb. 1216/7. He resigned the county to the king in 1220, when he took the cross. HENRY FITZ COUNT died a crusader in 1222. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Hunter Catalogue of the MSS in the library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn (1838): 13. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1846): 924 (Torre Abbey foundation charter issued by William Briwer). Oliver Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis (1846): 174 (charter of Henry son of Reynold Earl of Cornwall; charter granted for the souls of his brothers and his mother), 179, 183. Trans. Exeter Diocesan Architectural & Arch. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 (1867): 133-134. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31(1870): 5. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 456. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 21. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 9 (1902): 295-296 ("But Reginald de Dunstanville [i.e., Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall] had also by Beatrix de Valle (who afterwards became the wife of William Brewer, the judge of Henry II. and one of the regents of Richard I.) an illegitimate son named Henry FitzCount (sometimes FitzHenry), who became in after years also Earl of Cornwall."). Genealogist n.s. 20 (1904): 10-11. C.P. 3 (1913): 430 (sub Cornwall). Painter Reign of King John (1949): 231, 290, 348, 358-359. Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 116 (charter of Henry Fitz Count dated 1200-22; charter witnessed by William Brewer). North Devon Rec. Office: Chichester of Arlington, 50/11/29/3 (confirmation of a gift of land dated early 13th Cent. from Henry son of Earl Reginald to William de Tracy of all his land of Wollecombe [in Mortehoe] and Boklande, Devon, which William and his ancestors held of Henry and his ancestors, lords of Bradneys, as the charter of Hugh Ruffus testifies. To have and to hold to the aforesaid William, his heirs and assigns, of Henry and his heirs for ever, rendering all due and customary services. Seal of Henry son of Earl Reginald - Round, natural wax, armorial, surrounded by legend giving name of owner, chipped. The arms on shield resemble those of Courtenay family, but the Courtenays did not become Earls till 14th Cent.) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Henry III Fine Rolls Project (Baldekin styled "kinsman" of H[enry] Fitz Count in a fine roll item dated 1220; by whom he was earlier granted lands in Cornwall formerly held by Robert de Tintagel) (available at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_015.html). Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith, daughter of Forne son of Sigulf, lord of Greystoke, Cumberland. Edith subsequently married ROBERT D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, Constable of Oxford Castle. They had two sons, Henry and Gilbert. He and his wife, Edith, founded Oseney Priory near Oxford in 1129. Robert d'Oilly died in Sept. 1142. Sometime in the period, c.1145-56, his widow, Edith, granted a toft in Huggate and 68-1/2 acres in the fields there to the poor of the Hospital of St. Peter, York. Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 50 (charter of Robert d'Oilly dated c.1139; charter granted with consent of his wife, Edith), 92 (charter of Robert d'Oilly dated before June 1139; charter granted with consent of his wife, Edith, and his son, Henry). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 505-508, 510 (charter of Edith wife of Robert d'Oilly dated c.1145-56), 510-511 (charter of Henry d'Oilly dated c.1145-56; charter witnessed by his wife, Maud), 518-519. Hedley Northumberland Fares. (1968): 233. i. ROBERT FITZ ROY. He held land in Devonshire in 1130. He witnessed a charter of his step-father, Robert d'Oilly, in the period, ?1130-35. He supported his half-sister, Empress Maud, in the Civil War. In the period, 1144-7, he witnessed a charter of his half-brother, Henry d'Oilly. In 1146-7 he witnessed a charter of Empress Maud and her son, Henry. About 1150 he granted 10 pounds of land in his manor of Wantage, Berkshire to the church of Oseney, with the counsel of Henry d'Oilly his half-brother. Sometime in the period, 1153-67, he witnessed a charter of Wigan of Wallingford. He married before 1162 MAUD D'AVRANCHES, widow of William de Courcy (or ?Geoffrey de Crimes?), and daughter of Robert d'Avranches, by ___, daughter of Gelduin de Dol. They had one daughter, Maud. His wife, Maud, was heiress of Richard Fitz Baldwin. In 1162 he granted St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter two ferlings of land in his manor of Calvalegie juxta Cobbalegiam, together with a man named Edwium son of Wranhi; charter was granted with with the consent of his wife, Maud d'Avranches. ROBERT FITZ ROY died 31 May 1172. His widow, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1173. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Farms of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 188 ("C. Rob[er]ti filii Henrici Regis per concessionem Mathildis, filiz Roberti de Avrenchis et heredis Ricardi filii Baldewini, dans totam vincam quam Rob'tus fil. Baldewini et Ricardus fester ejus Eccl. S.N. dederunt."), 382 (charter dated 1162 of Robert son of King Henry, granted with consent of Maud d'Avranches his wife [Robertus filius Regis Henrici, assensu Matillidis de Abrinco uxoris meae to St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter). Dugdale Monasticon Anglican = 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Obijt denique vir ejus secundus, dominus Robertus filius regis Henrici anno Domini M.clxxii. pridie calendas Junii [31 May], et post ipsum vicecomitissa Matildis, itaque de Aubrincis ut prius nuncupata, undecimo calendas Octobris [21 Sept.] anno Domini M.clxxiii. et regni regis Henrici secundi 19."); 6(1) (1830): 253 (charter of Robert son of King Henry [Robertus Henrici regis filius]; charter names his [half-]brother [fratris], Henry d'Oilly). Collectanea Archæologica 1(1862): 263-284. Priory of Hexham 1 (Surtees Soc. 64) (1864): 138 (Chronicle of John, Prior of Hexham: "Emissi sunt autem ducenti milites cum Rodberto, filio Edae et Henrici Regis notho, et Johanne Marascaldo ...."). Freeman Reign of the Norman Conquest of England 4 (1871): 723. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 374 (charter of Robert son of King Henry dated c.1150). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 3 (1881): 1-3. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 137-138 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that he was the son of Hawise, the first born daughter of Maud d'Avranches; Hawise's sister, Maud de Courtenay, who was the plaintiff in the lawsuit, in turn testified that the said Hawise was the daughter of Geoffrey de Crimes (or Crunes, Cruues), the 1st husband of Maud d'Avranches), 404-405; 3 (1887): 450-452 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that his mother, Hawise, was the daughter of William de Curcy, husband of Maud d'Avranches). Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 50-56. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1896): 251-254 (list of knights fees held by Robert Fitz Roy in 1166). Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 53-56. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 73, 75, 101-102. C.P. 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2426-2428. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.650, XIII.995. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 62, footnote 26. Child of Robert Fitz Roy, by Maud d'Avranches: a. MAUD FITZ ROBERT, married REYNOLD DE COURTENAY, of Sutton, Berkshire [see COURTENAY 1]. ii. ALICE FITZ ROY. In the period, ?1130-35, she witnessed a charter of her step-father, Robert d'Oilly, and her mother, Edith. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 72-73 (Alice daughter of the king [Adeliza Lila Reg.] witness to charter of Robert d'Oilly, his wife, and son dated ?1130-35). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Nest, wife of Gerald of Windsor, Constable of Pembroke, and daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwt, Prince of South Wales: i. HENRY FITZ ROY, of Pembrokeshire. He was killed during King Henry II's invasion at Anglesea in 1157 or 1158. He married ___. They had two sons, Meiler Fitz Henry [Justiciar of Ireland] and Robert, and presumably one daughter, Amabilis Fitz Henry (wife of Walter de Ridelisford). Williams ab Ithel Annales Cambriaes (Rolls Ser.) (1860): 47 (sub A.D. 1158: "Henricus filius Geraldi occisus est, velut alii volunt, filius Henrici regis ..."). Dimock Geraldus Cambrensis: Itinerarium Kambrice, et Descriptio Kambriæ (Geraldus Cambrensis Opera 6) (Rolls Ser.) (1868): 130 (Date: A.D. 1157: "Fuerant autem duo nobiles viti, et ejus qui scripsit haec avunculi, cum aliis hue a rege transmissi: Henricus scilicet regis Henrici primi filius, et secundi avunculus, ex nobili Nesta, Resi filii Theodori filia, in australi Kambria Demetiae finibus oriundus; et Robertus Stephani filius, Henrici frater non germanus sed uterinus."), 130, footnote 2 ("The death of Henry, her [Nest's] son by [King] H[enryl I., in this attack on Anglesea, is placed by Brut under 1156, in Ann. Camb. under 1158. By the former he is called Henry son of King Henry; by the latter, Henry son of Girald, or, according to others, son of king Henry. He was the father of the famous Meiler, the great hero of the Irish invasion."). Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 30-31 (charter of Walter de Ridelisford to St. Mary's Abbey; charter granted with consent of his wife, Amabilis Fitz Henry and witnessed by Meiler Fitz Henry). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1 (1911): 18 (ped. chart). Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 46-61. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.656. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 298-299 (biog. of Meiler Fitzhenry). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith: i. MAUD (or MATHILDE, MAHAUT) OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 (as his 1st wife) ROTROU II “the Great,” Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme, son and heir of Geoffroi, Count of Mortagne and Perche, by Beatrix, daughter of Count Hilduin, Count of Montdidier and Roucy. He was born about 1080. Her maritagium likely included the manors of Aldboume and Wanborough, Wiltshire. They had two daughters, Philippe and Felicie. During the 1st Crusade, he fought at the Siege of Nicaea in mid-1097. He commanded a division that broke out of Antioch in June 1098. He crusaded against the Muslims in Spain probably in 1108. In 1114 he aided his father-in-law, King Henry I, at the Siege of Belleme. At the request of his wife, Maud, a hide of land at Wanborough, Wiltshire was given to Lewes Priory. His wife, Maud, was drowned in the shipwreck of the White Ship 25 Dec. 1120. He was Governor of Tudela in Aragon and participated in campaigns in Aragon from 1123 until the mid-1130s. He returned to Perche by 1135. He married (2nd) before 1126 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPEE 2 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffroi, Rotrou (III) [Count of Perche], and Etienne [Archbishop-elect of Palermo]. After King Henry I's death in 1135, he and his nephew, Richer de l'Aigle, extorted the castles of Moulins and Bonmoulins as the price for their support for King Stephen. In 1139 he was taken in the English king's pay and defeated the unruly knights of Breteuil. ROTROU II, Count of Perche, died 6 May 1144 at the Siege of the Towe of Rouen, he then being in the service of Empress Maud and her husband, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. His widow, Hawise, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braille [see DREUX 6], and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Bellème, younger son of Louis VI, King of France, by Alix, daughter of Humbert II, Count of Savoy and Maurienne [see FRANCE 5 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Breteuil, Guy II, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I, seigneur of Torote, Châtellain de Noyon, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). His wife, Hawise, died in 1152. Robert I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Des Murs Hist. des Comtes du Perche de la Fam. des Rotrou (1856). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 173-176. Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 13 (1881): 255 (Genealogiæ Fusniacensis: "Rotaldus comes, prefati comitis filius, duxit filiam regis Anglie, de qua filiam procreavit. "). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 3940 (charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche, dated c.1119; charter witnessed by his sister [soror], Juliane, and her son, Richer), 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe). Money Hist. of the Ancient Town & Borough of Newbury (1887): 62 (Perche ped.). Boulais Receuil des Antiquitéz du Perche (1890). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 33-35. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 419 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "6 [Obiit] Rotrodos comes."). Lalizel Abbaye Royal d'Arcisses (Archives du Diocèse de Chartres 10) (1900): 3-10 (charters of Rotrou, Count of Perche). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 174-186; 12 (1983): 67-86. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Traditio 41(1985): 145-179. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.649. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Thompson Power & Border Lordship in Medieval France (2002). Hollister Henry I (2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth & Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 360-361. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Geoffrey Grossus Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron (2009): 71, footnote 1. Child of Maud (or Mathilde) of England, by Rotrou II of Perche: a. PHILIPPE OF PERCHE, married HELIE OF ANJOU, Count of Maine, younger son of Foulques V le Jeune, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, by his 1st wife, Eremburge, daughter and heiress of Hélie, Count of Maine. They had one daughter, Beatrix (wife of Jean I, Count of Alençon). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe [assensu generis mei Helie filieque mee Romanet de Beaune Geographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Vallée Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (1905): 30-31 ("... Helias vero ...comes Cenomannonun factus est, et xx annis adepto consulatu strenue potitis est. Heres quoque soceri sin Gervasii de Castro Lidi factus est, eujus filiam habuit, ex qua filiam nomine Eremburgem genuit, quam domino suo Fulconi, Andegavorum comiti, in matromonium copulavit … Uxor ejus ei filiam, Eremburgem nomine, peperit, quae, nubilibus annis, Fulconi, Andegavorum tunc comiti, nunc Ierosolymorum regi, nupsit et generosam sobolem genuit: Joffredum et Heliam, Mathildem et Sibyllam, quae filiis regum solemniter nupserunt"). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England, by various mistresses: i. GILBERT FITZ ROY. He was still young and unmarried in 1142. Nothing more is known of him. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 281 286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.660. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). ii. WILLIAM DE TRACY. He died soon after his father. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121 (author states in error that William de Tracy had a daughter and heiress, Grace, wife of John de Sudeley, of Sudeley Castle and Toddington, Gloucestershire). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.659. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). iii. MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ENGLAND, married CONAN III, Duke of Brittany [see BRITTANY 3]. iv. JULIANE OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 EUSTACHE DE PACY (or DE BRETEUIL), seigneur of Bréteuil and Pacy, illegitimate son of Guillaume, seigneur of Bréteuil and Pacy, by an unknown mistress. They had two sons, Guillaume and Roger, and two daughters. In 1119 he took part in the rebellion against King Henry I, who besieged his wife, Juliane, at Breteuil. She fled to Pacy, and in the autumn of 1119 Eustache and Juliane were pardoned by the king. A few years later she became a nun at Fontevrault. EUSTACHE DE PACY died at the beginning of Lent 1136, Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Depoin Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise (1895): 470-476 (Famille d'Ivry). C.P. 8 (1932): 209-210 (sub Lovel); 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X11.648. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 304 (Fitz Osbem ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Norrnandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). v. MABEL OF ENGLAND, married before c.1125 GUILLAUME GOUET (or GORT), seigneur of Montmirail and Alluyes, son and heir of Guillaume Gouet, seigneur of Montmirail, Alluyes, Authon, la Bazoche-Gouet, Brou, and Château-du-Loir, by his wife, Eustachie Crespon. They had one son, Guillaume [seigneur of Montmirail]. He joined his parents and his brothers, Robert and Matthew, in the foundation of the Priory of St. Giles des Chateigniers as a cell of Tiron. In 1114, as William Gouet junior, he was one of the nobles of Thibaut, Count of Chartres, whom the count called to advise him. In 1116, with his father and mother, he gave judgment in a dispute between the abbey of Marmoutier and Gaston de Brou. As "Guillaume Goët le jeune," he witnessed a charter of Guillaume de Mesmerand to the leproserie of Chateaudun c.1120. He succeeded his father before c.1125. He made an agreement c.1125 with the Prior of Saint-Denis de Nogent regarding the churches of Ceton and Saint-Ulphace. He likewise gave c.1125 to the monks of Saint-Denis the church of Unverre that Gaston de Brou gave them and that his mother Eustachie unjustly retained; for which gift he received 10 livres and his wife, Mabel, 100 sous. About 1127 he witnessed a charter of Ives de Courville, by which he quitclaimed his land in Courville to Thibaut IV, Count of Blois. In 1136 he granted various privileges to Tiron Abbey. In 1140 he confirmed the gift of Bois-Ruffin made by Ursion de Meslay. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Guérard Cartulaire de Saint Père de Chartres 2 (1840): 471-476, 483-486, 494-495. Lépinois Histoire de Chartres 1 (1854): /41. Etudes sur le Maine, Noblesse du Maine aux Crusades (1859): 49-50. Charles & Elbenne Cartulaire de Saint-Vincent du Mans (1886-1913): Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbve de la Sainte-Trinité di Tiron 1 (1883): cvii-cix (arms of Guillaume Goet dated 1139: Mi-parti au 1er d'argent à deux chevrons de sable; au 2e trois chevrons brisés d'or), 24-27, 78-79, 104-106. Merlet Inventaire-sommaire des Archives départementales anterieures (11790: Eure-et-Loir, Archives Ecclésiastiques, Serie H 8 (1897): 161. Souancé & Métais Saint-Denis de Nogent-le-Rotrou 1031-1789: Histoire et Cartulaire (1899): LVII-LIX, 103-104 (charter of Guillaume Gouet junior son of Guillaume Gouet dated c.1125), 104-106 (charter dated c.1125 naming Guillaume [Gouet] junior, son of Eustachie wife of [Guillaume] Gouet, and his wife, Mabel), 164-166. Bulls. de la Societé Dunoise Archeologie, Histoire, Sciences & Arts 10 (1904): 171-188. C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.663, XIII.1014. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Child of Mabel of England, by Guillaume Gouet: a. GUILLAUME GOUET, seigneur of Montmirail, married ISABELLE (or ELIZABETH) OF BLOIS, Duchess of Apulia [see DONZY 4]. vi. CONSTANCE OF ENGLAND, married ROSCELIN DE BEAUMONT, Vicomte of Beaumont-en-Maine [see BEAUMONT 3]. vii. ALINE OF ENGLAND, married MATHIEU DE MONTMORENCY, seigneur of Montmorency [see LEICESTER 3 {sic: MONTMORENCY 3}]. v. SIBYL OF ENGLAND, married ALEXANDER I, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 1.v], younger son of Malcolm III (Ceannmor), King of Scots, by his 2nd wife, [Saint] Margaret, daughter of Edward Ætheling [see SCOTLAND 1 for his parentage]. He was born about 1077. They had no issue. By an unknown mistress, he had an illegitimate son, Malcolm. He became King of Scotland in 1107 on the death of his elder brother, Edgar, King of Scots. He and his wife, Sibyl, founded the monastery of Scone in Perthshire in 1113-14. He was also a benefactor to Durham and Dunfermline. He invaded Wales in summer 1114, in cooperation with King Henry I of England. His wife, Sibyl, died suddenly at Loch Tay 12 July 1122. ALEXANDER I, King of Scots, died at Stirling 23 April 1124, and was buried before the great altar at Dunfermline, Fife near his father. Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: “VII. Kal. Mali [25 April]. Ob. Alexander Rex Scottorum et Soror ejus Matildis Regina Anglorum."), 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "VI. Id. Jul. [10 July] Ob. Sibilla Regina Scottorum."). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Turnbull Extracta E Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 68 (Extracts ex Cronicis Scocie sub A.D. 1122: "Sibilla, illustris regine Scocie, uxor regis Alexandri, filia Henrici Beuclerk regis Anglie, apud Lochtay cellam canonicorum de Scona obiit anno Domini Moc.xxij"). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis monachi Chronicon ex chronicis 2 (1849): 78 (sub A.D. 1123: "Alexander rex Scottorum, VII. kal. Maii [25 April], obiit."). Liber Ecclesie de Scone (1863): 1-3 (charter of Alexander I, King of Scots, and his wife, Queen Sibyl; charter witnessed by his nephew [nepos], Alexander, and by William, brother of the queen [frater regine]). Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 3 (sub Kings of Scotland). Lawrie Early Scottish Charters prior to A.D. 1153 (1905): 28-30 (charter to Scone Priory dated c.1120 issued by Alexander I, King of Scots, and his wife, Queen Sibyl, "filia Henrici Regis Angliae"), 262. Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 50-57. C.P. 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.655, XIII.205. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 57. Duncan Kingship of the Scots 842-1292 (2002). Barrow Kingdom of the Scots (2003): 1541-56. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oram David I: The King Who Made Scotland (2004). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 313 (Scotland ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I, by Isabel of Meulan, daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues le Grand Count of Crepy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. Isabel de Meulan married (1st) Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 6 Jan. 1147/8) [see PEMBROKE 3] and (2nd) Ralph Bluet, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire (living 1167) [see PEMBROKE 3]. She was allegedly living in 1172. i. ISABEL OF ENGLAND. She and her mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed two undated charters of her half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Her subsequent history is unknown. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-102 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke) ("Actually there is no reasonable doubt that Isabel [de Meulan]s daughter bore her mother's name, lived with her after the elder Isabel's marriage, and continued to do so after her step-father's death. For the first two witnesses to the 2nd Earl of Pembroke's charter for Usk are the Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter; and in the charter for Goldcliff Priory the first two witnesses are Isabel the Earl's mother and Isabel the Earl's sister. There is no evidence that she ever married."); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.657. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Alleged but unlikely daughter of King Henry I: i. EMMA OF ENGLAND, marri | of England, Maud (I6409)
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| 7255 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. A Possible Solution for Two Wives and Thirteen Children for William Johnson, prepared by Kerry Petersen, kahunakerry@gmail.com The wives of William Johnson are somewhat tentative and even though additional proof would be helpful, we can tentatively construct this family. William himself was not helpful since his will of 30 Dec. 1811 gives no mention of a surviving wife. We have the following proposed listing of wives by Richard Kuntz of Allenwood, N.J. from his website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology [sic] Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," “There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference.” Richard Kuntz adds: “A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782.” Confirming this last statement, I also found the following on FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, Book F, "Records in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N.J.; Bonds for Licenses of Marriage, compilation p. 14, entry 1866. The compiler notes that between the years 1727 to 1791, the law required the filing of a bond to assure that there was no lawful impediment to potential marriage such as consanguinity, another marriage, etc. He notes that these bonds were found in a pile with many lost but many did survive and are now bound. The compiler includes a select few in his compilation including: "June 5, 1782, William Johnston, William Hutchinson and William Montgomery, all of the County of Monmouth, &c, sureties for said William Johnston and Jane Polhemus. Witnessed by David Rhea, Michael Johnston." This more detailed statement is critical in helping us to dismiss Jane Polhemus as one of the wives of our William Johnson. We have no Michael Johnston associated with our family, which means we have to look further off our normal track for him. From the book "History of the Old Tennent church..." by Frank Rosebrook Symmes, publ. 1904, we learn much about the people listed in the marriage bond. Michael Johnston was apparently the same man associated with the Old Tennent Presbyterian Church in Freehold, Monmouth co., NJ, who died 9 Sep 1785 at Freehold, and who had a son William Watson Johnston chr. 30 Sep 1759 at the same Tennent church. As of this writing, no one had proposed a marriage for William Watson Johnston who would have been of the right marriage age for the 1782 marriage. We also know that the Polhemus family was located in this same area and that Jane Polhemus' father Tobias was prominent in the same Presbyterian church. We also find that the other witness to the marriage bond, David Rhea, was baptized 11 May 1755 at the same Tennent Church. All of this leads us to a conclusion that it was Michael Johnston's son William Watson who married Tobias Polhemus' daughter Jane and not our William Johnson who was located near Toms River in Dover Township. Now turning our attention to William’s wife Elizabeth Longstreet, family researcher Kim Matul "I can answer a lot of the names left blank on your site under Elizabeth Longstreet and can connect the dots on who most of them are. I have a copy of the original letter written in 1875 by William Johnson Ashton, Elizabeth (Longstreet) Johnson's grandson, son of Samuel Ashton and Hannah Johnson. His letter answers the request of his nephew Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who is his brother James' son (not to be confused with the other Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who was William and James' brother and my 4th great grandfather). William states: "I will now give you as much a description of my mother's family as I can -- my grandfather's name was William Johnson. He was born in Monmouth County New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War -- fought in battles of Monmouth Brandywine and White Plain. My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth. She was born in Rhode Island. I have no knowledge of the date of her birth. They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your father's recollection." (Note: The reference to “Rhode Island” is most likely a bad recollection for the Longstreet ancestral home of “Long Island,” N.Y. Even though the far eastern tip of Long Island [120 miles from Brooklyn] shares a maritime border with the western border of Rhode Island, there is no Longstreet history suggesting any presence there or in Rhode Island. I also searched databases of early Rhode Island records and not a single reference to any Longstreet or variant thereof was found.) A second documentary witness for a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in Family Search's "NJ Deaths and Burials" database from FHL Film #584577 with the death record of their daughter Naomi (Johnson) Carr. Page 268 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ indicates a death of January 29, 1854 for “Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854.” This helps confirm that William Johnson had a wife named Elizabeth -- presumably Elizabeth Longstreet. A third documentary witness for a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in the Family Search database "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988," ( The New Jersey records thus far have not provided us with a birth record for Elizabeth Longstreet. We may deduce her possible birthdate as being between 20 Apr 1755, when she is not mentioned in the will of her father Gisbert Longstreet (of Shrewsbury, Monmouth, N.J.), and 31 Aug 1757, when her father subsequently mentions her in a codicil to his will. Even though there is the possibility that she was born earlier assuming the father forgot to mention Elizabeth in the original will, it is more probable that she was born in this interval. Elizabeth’s possible 1755 -1757 birth date causes some a problem with her being the mother of the earliest children of William Johnson, which might suggest William had an earlier wife than Elizabeth Longstreet. For example, William’s son Samuel is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770; this would be too early for Elizabeth to be the mother since she would have been age 5 to 15 in a best case or 3 to 13 in the worst case in this same time frame. Richard Kuntz, as quoted above, indicates there was a possible additional wife named Sarah Aumack for whom to date I cannot find any additional information. There were some Aumacks in the area, but I cannot find a link or a suitable Sarah. Considering the error in Richard Kuntz’s quoted source listing Jane Polhemus as a wife of our William, we should view Sarah Aumack, if she existed at all, with some trepidation. This Sarah (if she really even existed) may have been the earliest wife. There is also possibility of her being a subsequent wife to Elizabeth, but there is nothing to steer us one way or another. As a side note, William had daughters named both Sarah and Elizabeth, but none were named Jane - could they have been named for Sarah Aumack and Elizabeth Longstreet? So our best solution for now is that William had potentially two wives with the first being an unknown Mrs. William Johnson and the second being Elizabeth Longstreet. We can dismiss Jane Polhemus and we should reserve judgment for a Sarah Aumack. His last wife, presumably Elizabeth, would have died before William made his will in 1811. He would have married Elizabeth Longstreet by no later than 1773 since their daughter Naomi was born sometime between 1767 and 1774 (see notes below) -- it was her birth reported in her death record which is our earliest calculated account of Elizabeth. On the other hand, there are occasions in this era in Monmouth County of much older men marrying younger girls of about 16 years of age (i.e. the third wife of Tobias Polhemus noted above as the father to Jane Polhemus). Now let’s turn to sorting out the children. William’s grandson, William Johnson Ashton, in the above-referenced letter notes: “My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth … They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas.” This statement would seem to indicate that all of the children were from Elizabeth; however, William Johnson Ashton had some memory lapse in saying “Rhode Island” for “Long Island” and in naming only 12 of the 13 children that can be documented using William’s 1811 will. He may have had a more general memory of Elizabeth being the mother of all children since any first wife of William may have died so early as to have Elizabeth be the effective mother by taking over the raising of the oldest children when those children were very young. As for the children, William’s 1811 will is invaluable in confirming the same 12 children as the letter plus one additional son William. Note also that the ordering of the children varies between William Johnson Ashton’s listing and that of the will. Perhaps neither source is fully chronological in listing the children by seniority as will be seen in the order I construct below. The abstract of William’s will is as follows: “12/30/1811, William Johnston, Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., will of. Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons: Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William and James. Cedar swamp lying north of the road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son, Joel, blacksmith tools, he having had his share of the land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Ashton, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith and Lida Shumand, all moveable estate to be equally divided except 1 bed and bedding which is to be given to Elizabeth Phillips. Executors: Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston, Garret Irons [son of his wife's sister, Nelly]. Witnesses: Samuel Morris, William Phillips [son of Naomi by her first husband?]. Proved 4/2/1812. Inventory 4/1/1812 by Reuben Haines & Samuel Corlies. File 8959M” Even though he followed the same order as the will, Richard Kuntz gave us the following slightly deficient summary of only 12 children by unintentionally missing the child Elizabeth in the will: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868) Using some newer sources just to deal with the question of birth sequence, I believe we can improve on the order of children as follows and tentatively assign them the following placing. The first three listed children would be the candidates for children of the earlier unknown mother: 1. Samuel, b. from 1760 to 1766, say 1766. Samuel “Johnston” is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census for Dover which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770. The same census shows in the immediately subsequent two entries the families of Barzillai Johnston (aged 40-50) and William Johnston (aged 30-40) with a note from the census taker “sons of Samuel.” If this is the same Samuel who married Elizabeth Coward in 1802, then Samuel had an earlier wife to account for these sons. Family Search has the following source attached to the son Barzillai: “Johnson/Hyers Family Bible: Bible Records from the Monmouth County Historical Association Library & Archives, Volume 4, Monmouth County Genealogy Society; Family History Library US/CAN Book 974.946 D2mc: Brazillar Johnson was born, Oct. 9th, 1788.” A gravestone image on Family Search shows the son William: “William S. Johnson died 4 Jul 1870 age 82.” We can assume an age of no less than 21 at time of marriage ca. 1787 which would leave us with an estimated birth date for Samuel of no later than 1766. The identity of Samuel’s wife is undetermined but she is shown in the 1830 census in the same age bracket as Samuel, i.e. 60-70. There is another Samuel Johnson (who may or may not be our Samuel in a second marriage) who married Elizabeth Coward 22 Nov 1802 in Monmouth co. The record 2. Sarah, b. bef. 1790, say 1768. This position could be filled by either of two daughters, Elizabeth or Sarah for whom we have poor sources for more precisely calculating a birth. The 1811 will does list Sarah earlier than Elizabeth, but we have already determined the will does not seem to be a good indicator of sibling seniority. For now, I place Sarah here in an available gap after placing all the other children who, with the exception of Elizabeth, fall into good sequencing up to 1790. Richard Kuntz reports a marriage date for Sarah of 9 Dec 1791 to Robbins Ayers, which if correct would give us an estimated birth date for Sarah before 1772 when she would have been 19. I cannot duplicate this finding and question its validity especially since her father calls her Sarah Johnston (not Ayers) in his 1711 will. New Jersey Marriages does report a marriage between Robbins Ayers and Sarah Jansen 28 Oct 1813 at Salem, Gloucester, N.J., but the location and the wife’s name does not seem pertinent to our family. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor in the 1811 will meaning that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. 3. John, b. 1770-1780, say 1770. John Johnson shows in the 1840 census for Dover in which his age is reported as 60-70 for a birth of 1770-1780. He has a wife who is age 40-50 and some children reported in the same census. Since the available birth spots from 1772 to 1780 are filled with other siblings, 1770 appears to be the best guess. 4. Naomi, b. from 1767 to 1774, say 1772. Naomi has several ages associated with her. One would give a birth year 1768 if we are to believe her age given in 1853 Rev. War pension application for her fourth and last husband Walter Karr. Another would give a birth year of 1774 per her death record as follows: January 29, 1854. Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854. Another would give a birth year of 1767 per the age 87 reported in Naomi's obituary. Her 1850 census has not been found to date and if found, it would give us yet another report. Assuming a birth of 1755 and an age of 16 for Elizabeth at marriage, Naomi would not be born before 1772. 5. Lucretia, b. 5 Dec 1773. Her 1850 census in Ohio confirms a birth of circa 1774. More specifically, Family Search has an image of her tombstone which states: “Lucretia, wife of William Smith, Sen. d. Jan. 17, 1855, 81y, 1m, 12 days. This calculates to 5 Dec 1773. 6. Hannah, b. 1775-1776, say 1776. In the same letter of William Johnson Ashton as referred to above is found: “My father’s name was Samuel Ashton. He was born February 1771 … born and raised in Bucks County … My father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14 1795 and emigrated to Fayette County [Western (?)] Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799 where he remained until the Spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the Spring of 1811 he emigrated to Clermont County Ohio where he endured the hardships of pioneer life.” From this account, we have a firm marriage date from which we can assume Hannah was at least 19 for a birth year no later than 1776 and probably no earlier than her husband’s in 1771. According to Ashton family researchers, her last child was Lucretia, b: bet 1815 and 1820 in Ohio (probably closer to 1815. This child before, John, was born 1813. Assuming a maximum age of 40 for child bearing, the birth date would probably be no earlier than about 1775. 7. Jonathan, b. from 1778 to 1779, say 1778. He married his wife 24 Jan 1801 in Monmouth co., N.J., which would mean he was born before 1780 to be a minimum of 21. Jonathan appears in the 1840 census for Dover Twp., NJ, aged 50-60, for a birth 1780-1790. He appears in the 1850 census for the same place as age 72 for a birth of 1778. FHL Film Number: 584577, page 287 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ from the 1st of June 1856 to the 1st of June 1857 shows a death on April 12 for Johnathan Johnson, male, married, 78, farmer, died at White Oak Bottom (birth place, parents, cause of death not reported) which calculates a birth year of 1779. There is also an 1830 census for Jonathan Johnston in Dover showing him as 60 to 70 with a wife who is 40-50; this is obviously a clerical error for Jonathan. Interestingly, Jonathan’s widow Charity Johnson is reported in the 1860 census in Dover with a young Polhemus family living with her. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 18 Feb 1778, but no authority for such a statement is given. 8. Lydia, b. 1780. Lydia’s death record shows a death 27 Jul 1848 at Cabin Brook, Monmouth, NJ, parents William and Elizabeth Johnson, b. Toms River, age 68. Birth calculates as 1780. Confirms mother as Elizabeth, thus her father was married to Elizabeth Longstreet prior to this time. 9. Joseph, b. 1780-1781, say 1781. Joseph Johnston shows in 1830 census for Dover Twp., Monmouth, New Jersey with his family and as age 40-50 for a birth year range of 1780 to 1790. His next door neighbor is his sister Naomi with her current husband Aaron Bennett. In the 1850 and 1860 censuses for the same place, “Joseph Johnson” shows respectively as age 70 and 79 for a birth year of 1780 and 1781. Joseph married his first wife Hannah Phillips 27 Mar 1803 at Monmouth co., NJ which makes a birth year as 1782 or earlier if he is 21 or older. 10. Joel, b. from 1782 to 1785, say 1783. Joel “Johnston” and his family was enumerated in the census of 1830 as a resident of Dover Township, age 40 to 50 for a birth from 1780 to 1790. Joel Johnson married Mary Bird on 26 Jun 1806. Allowing a minimum age of 21 and probably no more than 25, we have birth years 1781-1785. His preceding sibling Lydia has a fixed birth date of 1780 making Joel’s range more likely 1782-1785 with the earlier date more probable. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 13 Aug 1783, but no authority for such a statement is given. 11. William, b. abt. or bef. 1785, say 1785. There are several William Johnson/Johnstons in Monmouth co., N.J. and so the following is speculative. One William that shows up in many Internet genealogies is William Johnson, b. 16 Nov 1788 in Silverton, N.J., and m. 1 Deborah Hulse 30 Jun 1802 at the Quaker Meeting in Brick Twp. and m. 2 Sarah Tilton 27 May 1810 at a unknown location. The birth information is supposedly from a family bible of his descendants. This birth date would make him only 13 at his first marriage and so I consider the information sketchy. Another William Johnson shows in two censuses both in Jackson Township, Monmouth, NJ, with his wife Phebe Leming. In 1850 he shows as “Johnston” age 58 and in 1860 as “Johnson” age 72, which gives birth years 1792 and 1788. “William Johnson, Jr.” married “Phebe Liming” in Monmouth co. 17 Aug 1806 making him born before 1785 assuming an age of 21 or older. Phebe’s death record gives her birth as 1791 and the gravestone in Casswell Cemetery in Jackson Twp., gives her birth as 1790-91, both being calculated from age. Which William I speculative, but currently I favor the second William who married Phebe for mainly one reason - his marriage record calls him “Jr.” meaning his father is likely William Sr. 12. James, b. abt 1788. James Johnson is a relatively common name and not much is known of him. In the 1840 US for Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ, we find Walter Karr, 1 male 80-90, 1 female 70-90. This is Samuel’s sister Naomi (Johnson) Karr. Directly next door we find “James I. Johnson”, males: 3@5-10, 1@50-60; females: 1@50-60. This is most likely our Samuel and his birth calculates 1780-1790. In the 1850 census Jackson Twp., Monmouth, N.J. we find a household consisting of “James I. Johnson” (62), Euphemy (59). We then find this latter couple in the 1860 census of Hamilton Township, Mercer, New Jersey as “James I. Johnson” and Euphemia Johnson with his age as 72, occupation as a chair maker, and b. Pennsylvania (an obvious error). These two censuses give a consistent birth date of 1788. It is supposition that this is our James, but the 1840 census helps make better odds that this our Samuel. 13. Elizabeth, b. bef. 1790, say 1790. We have nothing to work from except her father’s will. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor and that she had a married name of Smith in the 1811 will. This indicates that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. One patron in Family Search indicates a death date of 5 Oct 1819, but no authority for such a statement is given nor can I reproduce the same result. Since her name is Elizabeth, she may have been named after Elizabeth Longstreet, her potential mother. The date of 1790 is arbitrary only and subject to change if any other sources for her can be found. See notes for child #3 Sarah for more on the placement of Sarah and Elizabeth. 2. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "William Johnson (Benjamin) Note: It is a suppostion that this William is the son of Benjamin. Proof required. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: 1811, Dec 30. Johnston, William, of Dover Twsp., Monmouth Co.; will of: Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons, Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William, James. Cedar swamp lying north of road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son Joel, blacksmith's tools, he having had his share of land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Aston, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Lydia Shumard all moveable estate to be equally divided except one bed and bedding which I gave to Eliza Phillips. Executors, Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston (signed by mark), Garret Irons. Witnesses - Samuel Morris, William Phillips. Proved Apr. 2, 1812. A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782. Note: There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference. William Johnson, b. ca. 1740, d. ca. 1811; m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos b. ?, d. ?Issue: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868)" 3. Mentioned in the 1757 codicil to father's will but not in the 1755 original will: NJ Archives, Calendar of Wills 1751-1760; pg. 204-5; made 20 Apr 1755; Inv taken 13 Nov 1758. "1755, Apr 20. Longstreet, Gisbert, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co. Wife, Rachel. Children - Garret, Gisbert (both under age), Moyca, Nelley, Jane and Rachel. Real and personal estate. Executors - James Irons, Sr, Garret Scanck and John Longstreet, Sr. Witnesses - Koert Schenck, Garret Schanck and Nelley Schanck. Codicil of August 31, 1757, provided that a part of the bequest, given to dec'd daughter Jane, alias Onicha, be give to grandson Guisberd Lake, mentions children of dec'd daughter Moica and a daughter Elizabeth. Witnesses - Moses Richards, Thomas Ellison and John Lake. Proved Nov 8, 1758. Lib G, p 4" "1758, Nov 13. Inventory, ₤1265.15.10, incl. bills, bonds, book debts and cash, ₤704.18.4; 320 bush. of Indian corn. ₤32; 3 Dutch books, 10s; others 12s; half a book called "the Confesions," ₤1; two looking glasses, 16s; 2 negroes, ₤100; made by Thomas Ellison, Ebenezer Cook and David Johnston, with James Irons, Jr, as clerk." 4. If Elizabeth Longstreet is in fact the correct Elizabeth who was married to William Johnson, then her genealogy back is extensive and readily available. More research needed. Mike Morrissey In follow up to the above email, Mike mentions: "Her sister, Moyca Longstreet, married John Lake. It was one of their descendants that tested positive. Below is my list of matrilinear descendants of Elizabeth Longstreet. I don't think I know of any who are currently living. 1 Elizabeth Longstreet b: BET 1755 and 1757 d: UNKNOWN + William Johnson b: ABT 1757 d: 1812 2 Naomi (M) Johnson b: BET 1770 and 1784 d: UNKNOWN + Andrew Phillips b: ABT 1772 d: BEF 1804 3 Elizabeth Phillips d: UNKNOWN + James Hayman d: UNKNOWN + Isaac Winner b: ABT 1758 d: BET 1819 and 1830 2 Lucretia Johnson b: 5 Dec 1773 d: 17 Jan 1855 + William Smith b: 3 Jan 1772 d: 13 Jun 1864 3 Eleanor Smith b: 28 Nov 1795 d: 8 Sep 1875 + William Johnson Ashton b: 29 Aug 1796 d: 13 Jul 1883 4 Lucretia Ashton b: 1819 d: 29 May 1898 + William Doughty b: 1817 d: 1892 5 Mary A. (M) Doughty b: 1849 d: UNKNOWN 5 Susan Doughty b: 1852 d: UNKNOWN + Unknown Bryant d: UNKNOWN 6 Ida (M) Bryant b: BET 1870 and 1900 d: UNKNOWN 6 Lillian (M) Bryant b: BET 1870 and 1900 d: UNKNOWN 4 Maria (M) Ashton b: 1833 d: UNKNOWN 4 Sarah (M) Ashton b: 1838 d: UNKNOWN 3 Elizabeth (M) Smith b: 28 Mar 1799 d: UNKNOWN + Hadley Lewis d: UNKNOWN 3 Delia (M) Smith b: 2 Feb 1801 d: UNKNOWN 3 Deidaemia (M) Smith b: 2 Apr 1804 d: 8 Feb 1872 + Aaron Hutchinson d: UNKNOWN 3 Hannah (M) Smith b: 11 May 1806 d: UNKNOWN + Noah Davis d: UNKNOWN 3 Mahala Smith b: 4 Mar 1810 d: UNKNOWN + Richard Stockton b: 1801 d: UNKNOWN 4 Angeline Stockton b: ABT 1834 d: 5 Apr 1891 + William J. Ashton b: 1829 d: UNKNOWN 5 Emma C. Ashton b: 1859 d: UNKNOWN + John W. Walter b: 1840 d: UNKNOWN 6 Fannie (M) Walter b: 1875 d: UNKNOWN 6 Angeline (M) Walter b: Dec 1879 d: UNKNOWN 4 Catherine D. Stockton b: 1839 d: 1904 + William Tipton b: 31 Dec 1830 d: UNKNOWN 5 Eva Anna Tipton b: 9 Feb 1863 d: UNKNOWN + Henry Howard Myers b: 31 Jan 1864 d: UNKNOWN 6 Edith Della Myers b: 12 Feb 1896 d: UNKNOWN + William O. Hayes d: UNKNOWN 7 Patricia (M) Hayes b: Private 5 Hanna (M) Tipton b: 1864 d: UNKNOWN + Joseph Cobbey b: 1865 d: UNKNOWN 5 Sarah Tipton b: 1866 d: UNKNOWN + Ed Myers d: UNKNOWN 6 Agnes (M) Collins b: BET 1888 and 1910 d: UNKNOWN 4 Maria Cornelia Stockton b: 1844 d: UNKNOWN + John Drummond b: 1850 d: UNKNOWN 5 Nora (M) Drummond b: Apr 1874 d: UNKNOWN + Charles Wardlow b: Apr 1864 d: UNKNOWN 4 Sarah Stockton b: 1857 d: UNKNOWN + Joseph Van Camp b: 1852 d: UNKNOWN 5 Emma (M) Van Camp b: 1876 d: UNKNOWN 5 Lillian (M) Van Camp b: Sep 1885 d: UNKNOWN 5 Bertha (M) Van Camp b: Jul 1888 d: UNKNOWN 5 Bessie (M) Van Camp b: Aug 1891 d: UNKNOWN + Ralph Tomlins b: 1882 d: UNKNOWN 3 Sarah Smith b: 5 Dec 1813 d: 6 Sep 1871 + William C. WALKER b: ABT 1815 d: 6 Sep 1875 4 Emily Jane (M) WALKER b: 23 Mar 1840 d: UNKNOWN 4 Elizabeth (M) WALKER b: 30 Mar 1842 d: 1864 4 Tabitha (M) WALKER b: 29 Mar 1843 d: 23 Mar 1844 4 Mary Ellen WALKER b: 4 May 1852 d: 2 Dec 1929 + Robert McIntyre b: 1843 d: UNKNOWN 5 Sarah Alice (M) McIntyre b: 1870 d: UNKNOWN 5 Nellie L. (M) McIntyre b: 1873 d: UNKNOWN 5 Carrie E. (M) McIntyre b: 1874 d: UNKNOWN 5 Cora A. (M) McIntyre b: 1880 d: UNKNOWN 3 Nancy Clark Smith b: 20 Sep 1817 d: 9 May 1856 + Larson Tedrow b: 23 Mar 1817 d: 17 Feb 1863 4 Lucretia (M) Tedrow b: 28 Aug 1838 d: UNKNOWN 4 Eleanor (M) Tedrow b: 20 Oct 1841 d: UNKNOWN 4 Elvira Tedrow b: 9 Aug 1845 d: 1928 + Benjamin N. McCallister b: ABT 1839 d: 16 Jul 1890 5 Rhoda McCallister b: ABT 1863 d: BET 1880 and 1900 5 Anna McCallister b: ABT 1865 d: BET 1880 and 1900 5 Addie M. McCallister b: 1880 d: BET 1880 and 1900 5 Cora McCallister b: 1885 d: AFT 1930 + Edward Garner b: 1875 d: ABT 1930 4 Sarah Albatean (M) Tedrow b: 17 Sep 1847 d: UNKNOWN 4 Charlotte Tedrow b: 4 Oct 1849 d: UNKNOWN + Aaron James Reeder b: 1848 d: UNKNOWN 5 Annie (M) Reeder b: 1871 d: UNKNOWN 5 Mary Ella Reeder b: 21 Jul 1874 d: 17 Oct 1961 + John Taylor McAllister b: 16 Mar 1871 d: 14 Sep 1956 6 Mary Edna McAllister b: 11 May 1901 d: 25 Feb 1966 + Stanley FISHER b: 3 Aug 1896 d: 8 Jan 1952 7 Theresa Mae (M) FISHER b: 4 Jun 1920 d: 7 Apr 1987 + James Ray Palmer d: 1980 7 Martha Pauline (M) FISHER b: 14 Sep 1921 d: 13 Aug 1986 + Gerhardt Fritz WENZEL b: 19 Dec 1912 d: UNKNOWN 6 Alma Cora (M) McAllister b: 17 Jan 1906 d: 9 May 1975 + Marcellus Dodge b: 22 Dec 1908 d: 31 Dec 1986 7 Mary Vena Dodge b: 11 May 1938 d: 18 Mar 2000 6 Alta Emma McAllister b: 17 Jan 1906 d: 12 Jun 1990 + Evar KARLBERG b: Private 5 Adie (M) Reeder b: 1879 d: UNKNOWN 4 Mary Emma (M) Tedrow b: 12 Feb 1852 d: UNKNOWN 4 Diana (M) Tedrow b: 4 Jul 1855 d: UNKNOWN 3 Alonzo Smith b: 20 Aug 1819 d: WFT Est 1820-1909 2 Hannah Johnson b: 1774 d: 1810 + Samuel Ashton b: Feb 1771 d: 1834 3 Rosanah Ashton b: 26 Nov 1804 d: 26 Feb 1857 + Wright Sopars Curless b: 1 Jan 1802 d: 4 Jul 1870 4 Sarah (M) Curless b: 26 Jan 1825 d: 18 Dec 1853 + Jacob Sipe b: 1821 d: UNKNOWN 4 Mahala Ann (M) Curless b: 3 Feb 1848 d: 1864 3 Hannah (M) Ashton b: ABT 1806 d: UNKNOWN + Unknown Brown d: UNKNOWN + Daniel Carr d: UNKNOWN 3 Lucretia (M) Ashton b: BET 1815 and 1820 d: UNKNOWN 2 Elizabeth (M) Johnson b: 1786 d: UNKNOWN + John? Smith d: UNKNOWN 2 Sarah (M) Johnson b: 1788 d: UNKNOWN 2 Lydia (M) Johnson b: 12 Nov 1789 d: 25 Jul 1848 + Joseph W. Shumard b: 1789 d: 3 Jan 1868 5. Email for Kim Matul "I can answer a lot of the names left blank on your site under Elizabeth Longstreet and can connect the dots on who most of them are. I have a copy of the original letter written in 1875 by William Johnson Ashton, Elizabeth (Longstreet) Johnson's grandson, son of Samuel Ashton and Hannah Johnson. His letter answers the request of his nephew Thomas Hutchinson Ashton l, who is his brother James's son. Not to be confused with the other Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who was William and James's brother and my 4th great grandfather. William states "I will now give you as much a description of my mother's family as I can -- my grandfather's name was William Johnson. He was born in Monmouth County New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War -- fought in battles of Monmouth Brandywine and White Plain. My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth. She was born in Rhode Island. I have no knowledge of the date of her birth. They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Eliazabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your father's recollection." He goes on to say "my father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14, 1795 and immigrated to Fayette county ___?____ Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799. Where he remained until the spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the spring of 1811 he immigrated to Claremont county Ohio where he injured the hardships of pioneer life." This is the end of this letter. The beginning talks about his father Samuel and briefly touches on he grandfather William Ashton and grandmother Phebe Hutchinson Ashton. Longstreet is also spelled Longstreth and Langstraat in records. Langstraat being the oldest version of the name. Elizabeth Longstreet was the daughter of Gisbert Longstreet and Rachel Schenck. Gisbert the son of Stoffel Direksen Langstraat and Mayke Laanen. Stoffel the son of Dirck Stoffels Langstraat and Catherine Van Siddock. The Langstraat's were Dutch. Unfortunately I don't have access to my tree program that has all my supporting documents on the family, only my Ancestry tree. I do have list of siblings etc. I do believe the older generations lived in the Flatlands, Long Island, New York. It was Stoffel Direksen Langstraat and wife Mayke that went to Monmouth, NJ." 6. Letter written by William Johnson Ashton (1796-1883) to Thomas Hutchinson Ashton (1841-1914) per https://www.werelate.org/images/3/3f/Wm_J._Ashton_letter_1875-09-08.pdf accessed 16 Oct 2017: "Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio September 8th, 1875 Mr. Thomas H. Ashton Dear Sir Your letter of the 28th of August is received though [by] accident as it was directed to Williamsburg, Brown County, instead of Clermont County which is my P.O. address. When I received your letter my wife was at the point of death and died on the 3rd of September after three years of severe affliction. I will begin the genealogy of my father as far back as my knowledge extends first my ancestors emigration from England under William Penn the founder and settler of Bucks County Pennsylvania. My grandfather’s name was William Ashton the date of his birth I have no knowledge of. My father’s name was Samuel Ashton. He was born February 1771. He had one sister older than himself who was burned to death when a young woman. They were born and raised in Bucks County. My grandmother’s maiden name was Hutchinson. She had one brother Thomas Hutchinson after whom my brother Thomas was named and one sister Rebecca Hutchinson who married Dr. Edward Chatman a physician who raised my father as his father died when he was only three years old. The Hutchinsons of Massachusetts that you refer to I have no knowledge of. My father had relatives by the name of Taylor. I have forgotten how they were related. All the families I have named were of the Quaker profession. [KM’s note: “In other renditions of this letter they say he used the word persuasion here, but now I can see it is profession as in "profession of faith."] I will now give you as correct a description of my mother’s family as I can - My grandfather’s name was William Johnson, he was born in Monmouth Co, New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War & fought in battles in Monmouth, Brandywine, White Plains. My grandmother’s name was Longstreth. She was born in [Rhode] Island. I have no knowledge of the date of their birth they had a large family twelve children in all six girls and six boys the oldest were girls. The oldest girl’s name was Neomy, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah and Lydia, the boys names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel and James. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your [father’s] recollection. Perhaps he can give you some information that I have failed to give. My father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14 1795 and emigrated to Fayette County [Western (?)] Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799 where he remained until the Spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the Spring of 1811 he emigrated to Clermont County Ohio where he endured the hardships of pioneer life. This narrative is not what I should desire yet it is the best that I can accomplish out of the materials I possess. This is from your true friend, WJ Ashton P.S. Enclosed is a letter to your father James Ashton. Please forward to him and oblige yours truly, WJA" Notes from Kim Matul, November 2013: The original letter is in the collection at the library in the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where Bucks County historical records are held ... This letter was transcribed by Rebekah Medaugh Carlisle and Kim Matul, November 3-4, 2013." 7. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at “GISBERT (Variously spelled Guysbrecht, Gysbrecht, Guisbert, and finally Gilbert), b. ca. 1707, bp. 11-26-1710 (Old Brick Church), m. Rachel Schenck, dau. of Garret Reolofse and Neeltje Coerten (Van Vorhees) Schenck (The Rev. William Schenck: His Ancestors and His Descendants, By A.D. Schenck, 40). He was a resident of Shrewsbury Tp, in 'Squan, and is probably the Gllllytsbrecht Longstreet who was appointed a Justice in Monmouth County on 6-6-1751, and on 3-16-1756 (New Jersey Archives, 22:242). His will (#2301M), dated 4-20-1755, proved 11-8-1758, refers to his wife Rachel, sons Garret and Gilbert (minors), and to daughters Moyca, Molley, Jane and Rachel. The order of birth is not known: -Garret -Gisbert -Moyca -Nelle -Jane -Rachel -Elizabeth” BIRTH: 1. Email from Mike Morrissey [mailto:mikemorr@hotmail.com], April 24, 2004: "Naomi's age (my reflections): The records indicate she was born sometime between 1767 and 1774. Naomi is the first daughter listed in her father's will. Though it is not clear that the children are listed by age, it might be. Lucretia and Hannah have good approximate birthdates (1773 and 1774), so they would be next in order. Naomi has often been listed as being born in the early 1780s, but I think that was because her presumed previous marriage to Andrew Phillips was not known. If Naomi was born in 1772, her mother would have been 15-16, young, but possible." Update 15 Aug 2017 by myself: Elizabeth Longstreet's father Gisbert added a daughter to his will by codicil 31 Aug 1757 (not in earlier will of 20 Apr 1755), so she was probably born in the interim. Perhaps she wasn't and father had just neglected to name her in earlier will. The problem is that Naomi Johnson, dau. of William and Elizabeth Johnson appears to have several ages associated with her. One would give a birth year 1768 if we are to believe her age given in 1853 Rev. War pension application for her fourth and last husband Walter Karr. Another would give a birth year of 1774 per her death record as follows: January 29, 1854. Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854. Another would give a birth year of 1767 per the age 87 reported in Naomi's obituary. Another would be per the 1850 census, but we have not yet located a census return for Naomi. I am going to assume that 1774 would be more realistic making Elizabeth 17 to 19 years of age when she had Naomi, presumably her eldest child. If 1667/8 were correct, then Elizabeth would had been from age 10 to 13, which seems untenable. | Longstreet, Elizabeth (I3251)
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| 7256 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. A Possible Solution for Two Wives and Thirteen Children for William Johnson, prepared by Kerry Petersen, kahunakerry@gmail.com The wives of William Johnson are somewhat tentative and even though additional proof would be helpful, we can tentatively construct this family. William himself was not helpful since his will of 30 Dec. 1811 gives no mention of a surviving wife. We have the following proposed listing of wives by Richard Kuntz of Allenwood, N.J. from his website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology [sic] Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," “There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference.” Richard Kuntz adds: “A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782.” Confirming this last statement, I also found the following on FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, Book F, "Records in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N.J.; Bonds for Licenses of Marriage, compilation p. 14, entry 1866. The compiler notes that between the years 1727 to 1791, the law required the filing of a bond to assure that there was no lawful impediment to potential marriage such as consanguinity, another marriage, etc. He notes that these bonds were found in a pile with many lost but many did survive and are now bound. The compiler includes a select few in his compilation including: "June 5, 1782, William Johnston, William Hutchinson and William Montgomery, all of the County of Monmouth, &c, sureties for said William Johnston and Jane Polhemus. Witnessed by David Rhea, Michael Johnston." This more detailed statement is critical in helping us to dismiss Jane Polhemus as one of the wives of our William Johnson. We have no Michael Johnston associated with our family, which means we have to look further off our normal track for him. From the book "History of the Old Tennent church..." by Frank Rosebrook Symmes, publ. 1904, we learn much about the people listed in the marriage bond. Michael Johnston was apparently the same man associated with the Old Tennent Presbyterian Church in Freehold, Monmouth co., NJ, who died 9 Sep 1785 at Freehold, and who had a son William Watson Johnston chr. 30 Sep 1759 at the same Tennent church. As of this writing, no one had proposed a marriage for William Watson Johnston who would have been of the right marriage age for the 1782 marriage. We also know that the Polhemus family was located in this same area and that Jane Polhemus' father Tobias was prominent in the same Presbyterian church. We also find that the other witness to the marriage bond, David Rhea, was baptized 11 May 1755 at the same Tennent Church. All of this leads us to a conclusion that it was Michael Johnston's son William Watson who married Tobias Polhemus' daughter Jane and not our William Johnson who was located near Toms River in Dover Township. Now turning our attention to William’s wife Elizabeth Longstreet, family researcher Kim Matul "I can answer a lot of the names left blank on your site under Elizabeth Longstreet and can connect the dots on who most of them are. I have a copy of the original letter written in 1875 by William Johnson Ashton, Elizabeth (Longstreet) Johnson's grandson, son of Samuel Ashton and Hannah Johnson. His letter answers the request of his nephew Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who is his brother James' son (not to be confused with the other Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who was William and James' brother and my 4th great grandfather). William states: "I will now give you as much a description of my mother's family as I can -- my grandfather's name was William Johnson. He was born in Monmouth County New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War -- fought in battles of Monmouth Brandywine and White Plain. My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth. She was born in Rhode Island. I have no knowledge of the date of her birth. They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your father's recollection." (Note: The reference to “Rhode Island” is most likely a bad recollection for the Longstreet ancestral home of “Long Island,” N.Y. Even though the far eastern tip of Long Island [120 miles from Brooklyn] shares a maritime border with the western border of Rhode Island, there is no Longstreet history suggesting any presence there or in Rhode Island. I also searched databases of early Rhode Island records and not a single reference to any Longstreet or variant thereof was found.) A second documentary witness for a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in Family Search's "NJ Deaths and Burials" database from FHL Film #584577 with the death record of their daughter Naomi (Johnson) Carr. Page 268 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ indicates a death of January 29, 1854 for “Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854.” This helps confirm that William Johnson had a wife named Elizabeth -- presumably Elizabeth Longstreet. A third documentary witness for a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in the Family Search database "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988," ( The New Jersey records thus far have not provided us with a birth record for Elizabeth Longstreet. We may deduce her possible birthdate as being between 20 Apr 1755, when she is not mentioned in the will of her father Gisbert Longstreet (of Shrewsbury, Monmouth, N.J.), and 31 Aug 1757, when her father subsequently mentions her in a codicil to his will. Even though there is the possibility that she was born earlier assuming the father forgot to mention Elizabeth in the original will, it is more probable that she was born in this interval. Elizabeth’s possible 1755 -1757 birth date causes some a problem with her being the mother of the earliest children of William Johnson, which might suggest William had an earlier wife than Elizabeth Longstreet. For example, William’s son Samuel is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770; this would be too early for Elizabeth to be the mother since she would have been age 5 to 15 in a best case or 3 to 13 in the worst case in this same time frame. Richard Kuntz, as quoted above, indicates there was a possible additional wife named Sarah Aumack for whom to date I cannot find any additional information. There were some Aumacks in the area, but I cannot find a link or a suitable Sarah. Considering the error in Richard Kuntz’s quoted source listing Jane Polhemus as a wife of our William, we should view Sarah Aumack, if she existed at all, with some trepidation. This Sarah (if she really even existed) may have been the earliest wife. There is also possibility of her being a subsequent wife to Elizabeth, but there is nothing to steer us one way or another. As a side note, William had daughters named both Sarah and Elizabeth, but none were named Jane - could they have been named for Sarah Aumack and Elizabeth Longstreet? So our best solution for now is that William had potentially two wives with the first being an unknown Mrs. William Johnson and the second being Elizabeth Longstreet. We can dismiss Jane Polhemus and we should reserve judgment for a Sarah Aumack. His last wife, presumably Elizabeth, would have died before William made his will in 1811. He would have married Elizabeth Longstreet by no later than 1773 since their daughter Naomi was born sometime between 1767 and 1774 (see notes below) -- it was her birth reported in her death record which is our earliest calculated account of Elizabeth. On the other hand, there are occasions in this era in Monmouth County of much older men marrying younger girls of about 16 years of age (i.e. the third wife of Tobias Polhemus noted above as the father to Jane Polhemus). Now let’s turn to sorting out the children. William’s grandson, William Johnson Ashton, in the above-referenced letter notes: “My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth … They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas.” This statement would seem to indicate that all of the children were from Elizabeth; however, William Johnson Ashton had some memory lapse in saying “Rhode Island” for “Long Island” and in naming only 12 of the 13 children that can be documented using William’s 1811 will. He may have had a more general memory of Elizabeth being the mother of all children since any first wife of William may have died so early as to have Elizabeth be the effective mother by taking over the raising of the oldest children when those children were very young. As for the children, William’s 1811 will is invaluable in confirming the same 12 children as the letter plus one additional son William. Note also that the ordering of the children varies between William Johnson Ashton’s listing and that of the will. Perhaps neither source is fully chronological in listing the children by seniority as will be seen in the order I construct below. The abstract of William’s will is as follows: “12/30/1811, William Johnston, Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., will of. Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons: Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William and James. Cedar swamp lying north of the road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son, Joel, blacksmith tools, he having had his share of the land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Ashton, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith and Lida Shumand, all moveable estate to be equally divided except 1 bed and bedding which is to be given to Elizabeth Phillips. Executors: Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston, Garret Irons [son of his wife's sister, Nelly]. Witnesses: Samuel Morris, William Phillips [son of Naomi by her first husband?]. Proved 4/2/1812. Inventory 4/1/1812 by Reuben Haines & Samuel Corlies. File 8959M” Even though he followed the same order as the will, Richard Kuntz gave us the following slightly deficient summary of only 12 children by unintentionally missing the child Elizabeth in the will: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868) Using some newer sources just to deal with the question of birth sequence, I believe we can improve on the order of children as follows and tentatively assign them the following placing. The first three listed children would be the candidates for children of the earlier unknown mother: 1. Samuel, b. from 1760 to 1766, say 1766. Samuel “Johnston” is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census for Dover which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770. The same census shows in the immediately subsequent two entries the families of Barzillai Johnston (aged 40-50) and William Johnston (aged 30-40) with a note from the census taker “sons of Samuel.” If this is the same Samuel who married Elizabeth Coward in 1802, then Samuel had an earlier wife to account for these sons. Family Search has the following source attached to the son Barzillai: “Johnson/Hyers Family Bible: Bible Records from the Monmouth County Historical Association Library & Archives, Volume 4, Monmouth County Genealogy Society; Family History Library US/CAN Book 974.946 D2mc: Brazillar Johnson was born, Oct. 9th, 1788.” A gravestone image on Family Search shows the son William: “William S. Johnson died 4 Jul 1870 age 82.” We can assume an age of no less than 21 at time of marriage ca. 1787 which would leave us with an estimated birth date for Samuel of no later than 1766. The identity of Samuel’s wife is undetermined but she is shown in the 1830 census in the same age bracket as Samuel, i.e. 60-70. There is another Samuel Johnson (who may or may not be our Samuel in a second marriage) who married Elizabeth Coward 22 Nov 1802 in Monmouth co. The record 2. Sarah, b. bef. 1790, say 1768. This position could be filled by either of two daughters, Elizabeth or Sarah for whom we have poor sources for more precisely calculating a birth. The 1811 will does list Sarah earlier than Elizabeth, but we have already determined the will does not seem to be a good indicator of sibling seniority. For now, I place Sarah here in an available gap after placing all the other children who, with the exception of Elizabeth, fall into good sequencing up to 1790. Richard Kuntz reports a marriage date for Sarah of 9 Dec 1791 to Robbins Ayers, which if correct would give us an estimated birth date for Sarah before 1772 when she would have been 19. I cannot duplicate this finding and question its validity especially since her father calls her Sarah Johnston (not Ayers) in his 1711 will. New Jersey Marriages does report a marriage between Robbins Ayers and Sarah Jansen 28 Oct 1813 at Salem, Gloucester, N.J., but the location and the wife’s name does not seem pertinent to our family. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor in the 1811 will meaning that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. 3. John, b. 1770-1780, say 1770. John Johnson shows in the 1840 census for Dover in which his age is reported as 60-70 for a birth of 1770-1780. He has a wife who is age 40-50 and some children reported in the same census. Since the available birth spots from 1772 to 1780 are filled with other siblings, 1770 appears to be the best guess. 4. Naomi, b. from 1767 to 1774, say 1772. Naomi has several ages associated with her. One would give a birth year 1768 if we are to believe her age given in 1853 Rev. War pension application for her fourth and last husband Walter Karr. Another would give a birth year of 1774 per her death record as follows: January 29, 1854. Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854. Another would give a birth year of 1767 per the age 87 reported in Naomi's obituary. Her 1850 census has not been found to date and if found, it would give us yet another report. Assuming a birth of 1755 and an age of 16 for Elizabeth at marriage, Naomi would not be born before 1772. 5. Lucretia, b. 5 Dec 1773. Her 1850 census in Ohio confirms a birth of circa 1774. More specifically, Family Search has an image of her tombstone which states: “Lucretia, wife of William Smith, Sen. d. Jan. 17, 1855, 81y, 1m, 12 days. This calculates to 5 Dec 1773. 6. Hannah, b. 1775-1776, say 1776. In the same letter of William Johnson Ashton as referred to above is found: “My father’s name was Samuel Ashton. He was born February 1771 … born and raised in Bucks County … My father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14 1795 and emigrated to Fayette County [Western (?)] Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799 where he remained until the Spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the Spring of 1811 he emigrated to Clermont County Ohio where he endured the hardships of pioneer life.” From this account, we have a firm marriage date from which we can assume Hannah was at least 19 for a birth year no later than 1776 and probably no earlier than her husband’s in 1771. According to Ashton family researchers, her last child was Lucretia, b: bet 1815 and 1820 in Ohio (probably closer to 1815. This child before, John, was born 1813. Assuming a maximum age of 40 for child bearing, the birth date would probably be no earlier than about 1775. 7. Jonathan, b. from 1778 to 1779, say 1778. He married his wife 24 Jan 1801 in Monmouth co., N.J., which would mean he was born before 1780 to be a minimum of 21. Jonathan appears in the 1840 census for Dover Twp., NJ, aged 50-60, for a birth 1780-1790. He appears in the 1850 census for the same place as age 72 for a birth of 1778. FHL Film Number: 584577, page 287 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ from the 1st of June 1856 to the 1st of June 1857 shows a death on April 12 for Johnathan Johnson, male, married, 78, farmer, died at White Oak Bottom (birth place, parents, cause of death not reported) which calculates a birth year of 1779. There is also an 1830 census for Jonathan Johnston in Dover showing him as 60 to 70 with a wife who is 40-50; this is obviously a clerical error for Jonathan. Interestingly, Jonathan’s widow Charity Johnson is reported in the 1860 census in Dover with a young Polhemus family living with her. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 18 Feb 1778, but no authority for such a statement is given. 8. Lydia, b. 1780. Lydia’s death record shows a death 27 Jul 1848 at Cabin Brook, Monmouth, NJ, parents William and Elizabeth Johnson, b. Toms River, age 68. Birth calculates as 1780. Confirms mother as Elizabeth, thus her father was married to Elizabeth Longstreet prior to this time. 9. Joseph, b. 1780-1781, say 1781. Joseph Johnston shows in 1830 census for Dover Twp., Monmouth, New Jersey with his family and as age 40-50 for a birth year range of 1780 to 1790. His next door neighbor is his sister Naomi with her current husband Aaron Bennett. In the 1850 and 1860 censuses for the same place, “Joseph Johnson” shows respectively as age 70 and 79 for a birth year of 1780 and 1781. Joseph married his first wife Hannah Phillips 27 Mar 1803 at Monmouth co., NJ which makes a birth year as 1782 or earlier if he is 21 or older. 10. Joel, b. from 1782 to 1785, say 1783. Joel “Johnston” and his family was enumerated in the census of 1830 as a resident of Dover Township, age 40 to 50 for a birth from 1780 to 1790. Joel Johnson married Mary Bird on 26 Jun 1806. Allowing a minimum age of 21 and probably no more than 25, we have birth years 1781-1785. His preceding sibling Lydia has a fixed birth date of 1780 making Joel’s range more likely 1782-1785 with the earlier date more probable. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 13 Aug 1783, but no authority for such a statement is given. 11. William, b. abt. or bef. 1785, say 1785. There are several William Johnson/Johnstons in Monmouth co., N.J. and so the following is speculative. One William that shows up in many Internet genealogies is William Johnson, b. 16 Nov 1788 in Silverton, N.J., and m. 1 Deborah Hulse 30 Jun 1802 at the Quaker Meeting in Brick Twp. and m. 2 Sarah Tilton 27 May 1810 at a unknown location. The birth information is supposedly from a family bible of his descendants. This birth date would make him only 13 at his first marriage and so I consider the information sketchy. Another William Johnson shows in two censuses both in Jackson Township, Monmouth, NJ, with his wife Phebe Leming. In 1850 he shows as “Johnston” age 58 and in 1860 as “Johnson” age 72, which gives birth years 1792 and 1788. “William Johnson, Jr.” married “Phebe Liming” in Monmouth co. 17 Aug 1806 making him born before 1785 assuming an age of 21 or older. Phebe’s death record gives her birth as 1791 and the gravestone in Casswell Cemetery in Jackson Twp., gives her birth as 1790-91, both being calculated from age. Which William I speculative, but currently I favor the second William who married Phebe for mainly one reason - his marriage record calls him “Jr.” meaning his father is likely William Sr. 12. James, b. abt 1788. James Johnson is a relatively common name and not much is known of him. In the 1840 US for Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ, we find Walter Karr, 1 male 80-90, 1 female 70-90. This is Samuel’s sister Naomi (Johnson) Karr. Directly next door we find “James I. Johnson”, males: 3@5-10, 1@50-60; females: 1@50-60. This is most likely our Samuel and his birth calculates 1780-1790. In the 1850 census Jackson Twp., Monmouth, N.J. we find a household consisting of “James I. Johnson” (62), Euphemy (59). We then find this latter couple in the 1860 census of Hamilton Township, Mercer, New Jersey as “James I. Johnson” and Euphemia Johnson with his age as 72, occupation as a chair maker, and b. Pennsylvania (an obvious error). These two censuses give a consistent birth date of 1788. It is supposition that this is our James, but the 1840 census helps make better odds that this our Samuel. 13. Elizabeth, b. bef. 1790, say 1790. We have nothing to work from except her father’s will. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor and that she had a married name of Smith in the 1811 will. This indicates that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. One patron in Family Search indicates a death date of 5 Oct 1819, but no authority for such a statement is given nor can I reproduce the same result. Since her name is Elizabeth, she may have been named after Elizabeth Longstreet, her potential mother. The date of 1790 is arbitrary only and subject to change if any other sources for her can be found. See notes for child #3 Sarah for more on the placement of Sarah and Elizabeth. 2. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "William Johnson (Benjamin) Note: It is a suppostion that this William is the son of Benjamin. Proof required. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: 1811, Dec 30. Johnston, William, of Dover Twsp., Monmouth Co.; will of: Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons, Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William, James. Cedar swamp lying north of road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son Joel, blacksmith's tools, he having had his share of land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Aston, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Lydia Shumard all moveable estate to be equally divided except one bed and bedding which I gave to Eliza Phillips. Executors, Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston (signed by mark), Garret Irons. Witnesses - Samuel Morris, William Phillips. Proved Apr. 2, 1812. A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782. Note: There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference. William Johnson, b. ca. 1740, d. ca. 1811; m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos b. ?, d. ?Issue: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868)" | Johnson, Lucretia (I3016)
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| 7257 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. A Possible Solution for Two Wives and Thirteen Children for William Johnson, prepared by Kerry Petersen, kahunakerry@gmail.com The wives of William Johnson are somewhat tentative and even though additional proof would be helpful, we can tentatively construct this family. William himself was not helpful since his will of 30 Dec. 1811 gives no mention of a surviving wife. We have the following proposed listing of wives by Richard Kuntz of Allenwood, N.J. from his website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology [sic] Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," “There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference.” Richard Kuntz adds: “A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782.” Confirming this last statement, I also found the following on FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, Book F, "Records in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N.J.; Bonds for Licenses of Marriage, compilation p. 14, entry 1866. The compiler notes that between the years 1727 to 1791, the law required the filing of a bond to assure that there was no lawful impediment to potential marriage such as consanguinity, another marriage, etc. He notes that these bonds were found in a pile with many lost but many did survive and are now bound. The compiler includes a select few in his compilation including: "June 5, 1782, William Johnston, William Hutchinson and William Montgomery, all of the County of Monmouth, &c, sureties for said William Johnston and Jane Polhemus. Witnessed by David Rhea, Michael Johnston." This more detailed statement is critical in helping us to dismiss Jane Polhemus as one of the wives of our William Johnson. We have no Michael Johnston associated with our family, which means we have to look further off our normal track for him. From the book "History of the Old Tennent church..." by Frank Rosebrook Symmes, publ. 1904, we learn much about the people listed in the marriage bond. Michael Johnston was apparently the same man associated with the Old Tennent Presbyterian Church in Freehold, Monmouth co., NJ, who died 9 Sep 1785 at Freehold, and who had a son William Watson Johnston chr. 30 Sep 1759 at the same Tennent church. As of this writing, no one had proposed a marriage for William Watson Johnston who would have been of the right marriage age for the 1782 marriage. We also know that the Polhemus family was located in this same area and that Jane Polhemus' father Tobias was prominent in the same Presbyterian church. We also find that the other witness to the marriage bond, David Rhea, was baptized 11 May 1755 at the same Tennent Church. All of this leads us to a conclusion that it was Michael Johnston's son William Watson who married Tobias Polhemus' daughter Jane and not our William Johnson who was located near Toms River in Dover Township. Now turning our attention to William’s wife Elizabeth Longstreet, family researcher Kim Matul "I can answer a lot of the names left blank on your site under Elizabeth Longstreet and can connect the dots on who most of them are. I have a copy of the original letter written in 1875 by William Johnson Ashton, Elizabeth (Longstreet) Johnson's grandson, son of Samuel Ashton and Hannah Johnson. His letter answers the request of his nephew Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who is his brother James' son (not to be confused with the other Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who was William and James' brother and my 4th great grandfather). William states: "I will now give you as much a description of my mother's family as I can -- my grandfather's name was William Johnson. He was born in Monmouth County New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War -- fought in battles of Monmouth Brandywine and White Plain. My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth. She was born in Rhode Island. I have no knowledge of the date of her birth. They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your father's recollection." (Note: The reference to “Rhode Island” is most likely a bad recollection for the Longstreet ancestral home of “Long Island,” N.Y. Even though the far eastern tip of Long Island [120 miles from Brooklyn] shares a maritime border with the western border of Rhode Island, there is no Longstreet history suggesting any presence there or in Rhode Island. I also searched databases of early Rhode Island records and not a single reference to any Longstreet or variant thereof was found.) A second documentary witness for a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in Family Search's "NJ Deaths and Burials" database from FHL Film #584577 with the death record of their daughter Naomi (Johnson) Carr. Page 268 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ indicates a death of January 29, 1854 for “Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854.” This helps confirm that William Johnson had a wife named Elizabeth -- presumably Elizabeth Longstreet. A third documentary witness for a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in the Family Search database "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988," ( The New Jersey records thus far have not provided us with a birth record for Elizabeth Longstreet. We may deduce her possible birthdate as being between 20 Apr 1755, when she is not mentioned in the will of her father Gisbert Longstreet (of Shrewsbury, Monmouth, N.J.), and 31 Aug 1757, when her father subsequently mentions her in a codicil to his will. Even though there is the possibility that she was born earlier assuming the father forgot to mention Elizabeth in the original will, it is more probable that she was born in this interval. Elizabeth’s possible 1755 -1757 birth date causes some a problem with her being the mother of the earliest children of William Johnson, which might suggest William had an earlier wife than Elizabeth Longstreet. For example, William’s son Samuel is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770; this would be too early for Elizabeth to be the mother since she would have been age 5 to 15 in a best case or 3 to 13 in the worst case in this same time frame. Richard Kuntz, as quoted above, indicates there was a possible additional wife named Sarah Aumack for whom to date I cannot find any additional information. There were some Aumacks in the area, but I cannot find a link or a suitable Sarah. Considering the error in Richard Kuntz’s quoted source listing Jane Polhemus as a wife of our William, we should view Sarah Aumack, if she existed at all, with some trepidation. This Sarah (if she really even existed) may have been the earliest wife. There is also possibility of her being a subsequent wife to Elizabeth, but there is nothing to steer us one way or another. As a side note, William had daughters named both Sarah and Elizabeth, but none were named Jane - could they have been named for Sarah Aumack and Elizabeth Longstreet? So our best solution for now is that William had potentially two wives with the first being an unknown Mrs. William Johnson and the second being Elizabeth Longstreet. We can dismiss Jane Polhemus and we should reserve judgment for a Sarah Aumack. His last wife, presumably Elizabeth, would have died before William made his will in 1811. He would have married Elizabeth Longstreet by no later than 1773 since their daughter Naomi was born sometime between 1767 and 1774 (see notes below) -- it was her birth reported in her death record which is our earliest calculated account of Elizabeth. On the other hand, there are occasions in this era in Monmouth County of much older men marrying younger girls of about 16 years of age (i.e. the third wife of Tobias Polhemus noted above as the father to Jane Polhemus). Now let’s turn to sorting out the children. William’s grandson, William Johnson Ashton, in the above-referenced letter notes: “My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth … They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas.” This statement would seem to indicate that all of the children were from Elizabeth; however, William Johnson Ashton had some memory lapse in saying “Rhode Island” for “Long Island” and in naming only 12 of the 13 children that can be documented using William’s 1811 will. He may have had a more general memory of Elizabeth being the mother of all children since any first wife of William may have died so early as to have Elizabeth be the effective mother by taking over the raising of the oldest children when those children were very young. As for the children, William’s 1811 will is invaluable in confirming the same 12 children as the letter plus one additional son William. Note also that the ordering of the children varies between William Johnson Ashton’s listing and that of the will. Perhaps neither source is fully chronological in listing the children by seniority as will be seen in the order I construct below. The abstract of William’s will is as follows: “12/30/1811, William Johnston, Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., will of. Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons: Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William and James. Cedar swamp lying north of the road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son, Joel, blacksmith tools, he having had his share of the land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Ashton, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith and Lida Shumand, all moveable estate to be equally divided except 1 bed and bedding which is to be given to Elizabeth Phillips. Executors: Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston, Garret Irons [son of his wife's sister, Nelly]. Witnesses: Samuel Morris, William Phillips [son of Naomi by her first husband?]. Proved 4/2/1812. Inventory 4/1/1812 by Reuben Haines & Samuel Corlies. File 8959M” Even though he followed the same order as the will, Richard Kuntz gave us the following slightly deficient summary of only 12 children by unintentionally missing the child Elizabeth in the will: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868) Using some newer sources just to deal with the question of birth sequence, I believe we can improve on the order of children as follows and tentatively assign them the following placing. The first three listed children would be the candidates for children of the earlier unknown mother: 1. Samuel, b. from 1760 to 1766, say 1766. Samuel “Johnston” is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census for Dover which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770. The same census shows in the immediately subsequent two entries the families of Barzillai Johnston (aged 40-50) and William Johnston (aged 30-40) with a note from the census taker “sons of Samuel.” If this is the same Samuel who married Elizabeth Coward in 1802, then Samuel had an earlier wife to account for these sons. Family Search has the following source attached to the son Barzillai: “Johnson/Hyers Family Bible: Bible Records from the Monmouth County Historical Association Library & Archives, Volume 4, Monmouth County Genealogy Society; Family History Library US/CAN Book 974.946 D2mc: Brazillar Johnson was born, Oct. 9th, 1788.” A gravestone image on Family Search shows the son William: “William S. Johnson died 4 Jul 1870 age 82.” We can assume an age of no less than 21 at time of marriage ca. 1787 which would leave us with an estimated birth date for Samuel of no later than 1766. The identity of Samuel’s wife is undetermined but she is shown in the 1830 census in the same age bracket as Samuel, i.e. 60-70. There is another Samuel Johnson (who may or may not be our Samuel in a second marriage) who married Elizabeth Coward 22 Nov 1802 in Monmouth co. The record 2. Sarah, b. bef. 1790, say 1768. This position could be filled by either of two daughters, Elizabeth or Sarah for whom we have poor sources for more precisely calculating a birth. The 1811 will does list Sarah earlier than Elizabeth, but we have already determined the will does not seem to be a good indicator of sibling seniority. For now, I place Sarah here in an available gap after placing all the other children who, with the exception of Elizabeth, fall into good sequencing up to 1790. Richard Kuntz reports a marriage date for Sarah of 9 Dec 1791 to Robbins Ayers, which if correct would give us an estimated birth date for Sarah before 1772 when she would have been 19. I cannot duplicate this finding and question its validity especially since her father calls her Sarah Johnston (not Ayers) in his 1711 will. New Jersey Marriages does report a marriage between Robbins Ayers and Sarah Jansen 28 Oct 1813 at Salem, Gloucester, N.J., but the location and the wife’s name does not seem pertinent to our family. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor in the 1811 will meaning that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. 3. John, b. 1770-1780, say 1770. John Johnson shows in the 1840 census for Dover in which his age is reported as 60-70 for a birth of 1770-1780. He has a wife who is age 40-50 and some children reported in the same census. Since the available birth spots from 1772 to 1780 are filled with other siblings, 1770 appears to be the best guess. 4. Naomi, b. from 1767 to 1774, say 1772. Naomi has several ages associated with her. One would give a birth year 1768 if we are to believe her age given in 1853 Rev. War pension application for her fourth and last husband Walter Karr. Another would give a birth year of 1774 per her death record as follows: January 29, 1854. Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854. Another would give a birth year of 1767 per the age 87 reported in Naomi's obituary. Her 1850 census has not been found to date and if found, it would give us yet another report. Assuming a birth of 1755 and an age of 16 for Elizabeth at marriage, Naomi would not be born before 1772. 5. Lucretia, b. 5 Dec 1773. Her 1850 census in Ohio confirms a birth of circa 1774. More specifically, Family Search has an image of her tombstone which states: “Lucretia, wife of William Smith, Sen. d. Jan. 17, 1855, 81y, 1m, 12 days. This calculates to 5 Dec 1773. 6. Hannah, b. 1775-1776, say 1776. In the same letter of William Johnson Ashton as referred to above is found: “My father’s name was Samuel Ashton. He was born February 1771 … born and raised in Bucks County … My father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14 1795 and emigrated to Fayette County [Western (?)] Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799 where he remained until the Spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the Spring of 1811 he emigrated to Clermont County Ohio where he endured the hardships of pioneer life.” From this account, we have a firm marriage date from which we can assume Hannah was at least 19 for a birth year no later than 1776 and probably no earlier than her husband’s in 1771. According to Ashton family researchers, her last child was Lucretia, b: bet 1815 and 1820 in Ohio (probably closer to 1815. This child before, John, was born 1813. Assuming a maximum age of 40 for child bearing, the birth date would probably be no earlier than about 1775. 7. Jonathan, b. from 1778 to 1779, say 1778. He married his wife 24 Jan 1801 in Monmouth co., N.J., which would mean he was born before 1780 to be a minimum of 21. Jonathan appears in the 1840 census for Dover Twp., NJ, aged 50-60, for a birth 1780-1790. He appears in the 1850 census for the same place as age 72 for a birth of 1778. FHL Film Number: 584577, page 287 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ from the 1st of June 1856 to the 1st of June 1857 shows a death on April 12 for Johnathan Johnson, male, married, 78, farmer, died at White Oak Bottom (birth place, parents, cause of death not reported) which calculates a birth year of 1779. There is also an 1830 census for Jonathan Johnston in Dover showing him as 60 to 70 with a wife who is 40-50; this is obviously a clerical error for Jonathan. Interestingly, Jonathan’s widow Charity Johnson is reported in the 1860 census in Dover with a young Polhemus family living with her. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 18 Feb 1778, but no authority for such a statement is given. 8. Lydia, b. 1780. Lydia’s death record shows a death 27 Jul 1848 at Cabin Brook, Monmouth, NJ, parents William and Elizabeth Johnson, b. Toms River, age 68. Birth calculates as 1780. Confirms mother as Elizabeth, thus her father was married to Elizabeth Longstreet prior to this time. 9. Joseph, b. 1780-1781, say 1781. Joseph Johnston shows in 1830 census for Dover Twp., Monmouth, New Jersey with his family and as age 40-50 for a birth year range of 1780 to 1790. His next door neighbor is his sister Naomi with her current husband Aaron Bennett. In the 1850 and 1860 censuses for the same place, “Joseph Johnson” shows respectively as age 70 and 79 for a birth year of 1780 and 1781. Joseph married his first wife Hannah Phillips 27 Mar 1803 at Monmouth co., NJ which makes a birth year as 1782 or earlier if he is 21 or older. 10. Joel, b. from 1782 to 1785, say 1783. Joel “Johnston” and his family was enumerated in the census of 1830 as a resident of Dover Township, age 40 to 50 for a birth from 1780 to 1790. Joel Johnson married Mary Bird on 26 Jun 1806. Allowing a minimum age of 21 and probably no more than 25, we have birth years 1781-1785. His preceding sibling Lydia has a fixed birth date of 1780 making Joel’s range more likely 1782-1785 with the earlier date more probable. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 13 Aug 1783, but no authority for such a statement is given. 11. William, b. abt. or bef. 1785, say 1785. There are several William Johnson/Johnstons in Monmouth co., N.J. and so the following is speculative. One William that shows up in many Internet genealogies is William Johnson, b. 16 Nov 1788 in Silverton, N.J., and m. 1 Deborah Hulse 30 Jun 1802 at the Quaker Meeting in Brick Twp. and m. 2 Sarah Tilton 27 May 1810 at a unknown location. The birth information is supposedly from a family bible of his descendants. This birth date would make him only 13 at his first marriage and so I consider the information sketchy. Another William Johnson shows in two censuses both in Jackson Township, Monmouth, NJ, with his wife Phebe Leming. In 1850 he shows as “Johnston” age 58 and in 1860 as “Johnson” age 72, which gives birth years 1792 and 1788. “William Johnson, Jr.” married “Phebe Liming” in Monmouth co. 17 Aug 1806 making him born before 1785 assuming an age of 21 or older. Phebe’s death record gives her birth as 1791 and the gravestone in Casswell Cemetery in Jackson Twp., gives her birth as 1790-91, both being calculated from age. Which William I speculative, but currently I favor the second William who married Phebe for mainly one reason - his marriage record calls him “Jr.” meaning his father is likely William Sr. 12. James, b. abt 1788. James Johnson is a relatively common name and not much is known of him. In the 1840 US for Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ, we find Walter Karr, 1 male 80-90, 1 female 70-90. This is Samuel’s sister Naomi (Johnson) Karr. Directly next door we find “James I. Johnson”, males: 3@5-10, 1@50-60; females: 1@50-60. This is most likely our Samuel and his birth calculates 1780-1790. In the 1850 census Jackson Twp., Monmouth, N.J. we find a household consisting of “James I. Johnson” (62), Euphemy (59). We then find this latter couple in the 1860 census of Hamilton Township, Mercer, New Jersey as “James I. Johnson” and Euphemia Johnson with his age as 72, occupation as a chair maker, and b. Pennsylvania (an obvious error). These two censuses give a consistent birth date of 1788. It is supposition that this is our James, but the 1840 census helps make better odds that this our Samuel. 13. Elizabeth, b. bef. 1790, say 1790. We have nothing to work from except her father’s will. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor and that she had a married name of Smith in the 1811 will. This indicates that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. One patron in Family Search indicates a death date of 5 Oct 1819, but no authority for such a statement is given nor can I reproduce the same result. Since her name is Elizabeth, she may have been named after Elizabeth Longstreet, her potential mother. The date of 1790 is arbitrary only and subject to change if any other sources for her can be found. See notes for child #3 Sarah for more on the placement of Sarah and Elizabeth. 2. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "William Johnson (Benjamin) Note: It is a suppostion that this William is the son of Benjamin. Proof required. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: 1811, Dec 30. Johnston, William, of Dover Twsp., Monmouth Co.; will of: Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons, Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William, James. Cedar swamp lying north of road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son Joel, blacksmith's tools, he having had his share of land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Aston, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Lydia Shumard all moveable estate to be equally divided except one bed and bedding which I gave to Eliza Phillips. Executors, Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston (signed by mark), Garret Irons. Witnesses - Samuel Morris, William Phillips. Proved Apr. 2, 1812. A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782. Note: There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference. William Johnson, b. ca. 1740, d. ca. 1811; m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos b. ?, d. ?Issue: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868)" 3. List of children of Samuel and Hannah (Johnson) Ashton per Worldconnect database "vorrmorr" of Mike Morrissey -William Johnson, b: 29 Aug 1796 in Bucks, PA (variant date 8 Sep 1796). Death: 13 Jul 1883 in Clermont, OH. Burial: Williamsburg Cemetery, Williamsburg, Ohio. Census: 1830 Williamsburg, Clermont, OH. Note: 1880 Census gives place of birth as New Jersey. Married Eleanor Smith. -Thomas Hutchinson, b: 30 Nov 1797 in Bucks, PA. Death: 1 May 1889. Burial: Dudley Fairview Cemetery, NE. Married Elizabeth Cramer of Monmouth Co., NJ. -Samuel, Jr., b: Abt 1798, m. Elizabeth Foster in Clermont Co., OH. -Zachariah, b: 14 Oct 1799 in PA. Death: 5 Mar 1886 in Richland Twp., Defiance, OH. Burial: Ayersville Cem, Ayersville, OH. Married Cassandra Slye. 27 Jan 1818 in Clermont, OH. Three other marriages afterwards. -James M., b: 17 Sep 1802 in Fayette, PA. -George, b: 1803. Married Susan M. Granger, 2 Mar 1828 in Brown, OH. -Rosanah, b: 26 Nov 1804 in PA. Death: 26 Feb 1857 in IA. Married Wright Sopars Curless. -Hannah, b: Abt 1806, m. 1 ___ Brown, m. 2 Daniel Carr. -Alexander Ashton, b: Abt 1810 in OH. Death: Abt 1849 in KY. -John Ashton, b: 1813 in Brown, OH. -Lucretia, b: Bet 1815 and 1820. 4. Letter written by William Johnson Ashton (1796-1883) to Thomas Hutchinson Ashton (1841-1914) per https://www.werelate.org/images/3/3f/Wm_J._Ashton_letter_1875-09-08.pdf accessed 16 Oct 2017: "Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio September 8th, 1875 Mr. Thomas H. Ashton Dear Sir Your letter of the 28th of August is received though [by] accident as it was directed to Williamsburg, Brown County, instead of Clermont County which is my P.O. address. When I received your letter my wife was at the point of death and died on the 3rd of September after three years of severe affliction. I will begin the genealogy of my father as far back as my knowledge extends first my ancestors emigration from England under William Penn the founder and settler of Bucks County Pennsylvania. My grandfather’s name was William Ashton the date of his birth I have no knowledge of. My father’s name was Samuel Ashton. He was born February 1771. He had one sister older than himself who was burned to death when a young woman. They were born and raised in Bucks County. My grandmother’s maiden name was Hutchinson. She had one brother Thomas Hutchinson after whom my brother Thomas was named and one sister Rebecca Hutchinson who married Dr. Edward Chatman a physician who raised my father as his father died when he was only three years old. The Hutchinsons of Massachusetts that you refer to I have no knowledge of. My father had relatives by the name of Taylor. I have forgotten how they were related. All the families I have named were of the Quaker profession. [KM’s note: “In other renditions of this letter they say he used the word persuasion here, but now I can see it is profession as in "profession of faith."] I will now give you as correct a description of my mother’s family as I can - My grandfather’s name was William Johnson, he was born in Monmouth Co, New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War & fought in battles in Monmouth, Brandywine, White Plains. My grandmother’s name was Longstreth. She was born in [Rhode] Island. I have no knowledge of the date of their birth they had a large family twelve children in all six girls and six boys the oldest were girls. The oldest girl’s name was Neomy, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah and Lydia, the boys names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel and James. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your [father’s] recollection. Perhaps he can give you some information that I have failed to give. My father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14 1795 and emigrated to Fayette County [Western (?)] Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799 where he remained until the Spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the Spring of 1811 he emigrated to Clermont County Ohio where he endured the hardships of pioneer life. This narrative is not what I should desire yet it is the best that I can accomplish out of the materials I possess. This is from your true friend, WJ Ashton P.S. Enclosed is a letter to your father James Ashton. Please forward to him and oblige yours truly, WJA" Notes from Kim Matul, November 2013: The original letter is in the collection at the library in the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where Bucks County historical records are held ... This letter was transcribed by Rebekah Medaugh Carlisle and Kim Matul, November 3-4, 2013." MARRIAGE: 1. The source above does not give the place of marriage, only the date. The marriage does not show up in either the existing records of Monmouth nor in Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA., as some have suggested. | Johnson, Hannah (I3015)
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| 7258 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. A Possible Solution for Two Wives and Thirteen Children for William Johnson, prepared by Kerry Petersen, kahunakerry@gmail.com The wives of William Johnson are somewhat tentative and even though additional proof would be helpful, we can tentatively construct this family. William himself was not helpful since his will of 30 Dec. 1811 gives no mention of a surviving wife. We have the following proposed listing of wives by Richard Kuntz of Allenwood, N.J. from his website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology [sic] Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," “There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference.” Richard Kuntz adds: “A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782.” Confirming this last statement, I also found the following on FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, Book F, "Records in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N.J.; Bonds for Licenses of Marriage, compilation p. 14, entry 1866. The compiler notes that between the years 1727 to 1791, the law required the filing of a bond to assure that there was no lawful impediment to potential marriage such as consanguinity, another marriage, etc. He notes that these bonds were found in a pile with many lost but many did survive and are now bound. The compiler includes a select few in his compilation including: "June 5, 1782, William Johnston, William Hutchinson and William Montgomery, all of the County of Monmouth, &c, sureties for said William Johnston and Jane Polhemus. Witnessed by David Rhea, Michael Johnston." This more detailed statement is critical in helping us to dismiss Jane Polhemus as one of the wives of our William Johnson. We have no Michael Johnston associated with our family, which means we have to look further off our normal track for him. From the book "History of the Old Tennent church..." by Frank Rosebrook Symmes, publ. 1904, we learn much about the people listed in the marriage bond. Michael Johnston was apparently the same man associated with the Old Tennent Presbyterian Church in Freehold, Monmouth co., NJ, who died 9 Sep 1785 at Freehold, and who had a son William Watson Johnston chr. 30 Sep 1759 at the same Tennent church. As of this writing, no one had proposed a marriage for William Watson Johnston who would have been of the right marriage age for the 1782 marriage. We also know that the Polhemus family was located in this same area and that Jane Polhemus' father Tobias was prominent in the same Presbyterian church. We also find that the other witness to the marriage bond, David Rhea, was baptized 11 May 1755 at the same Tennent Church. All of this leads us to a conclusion that it was Michael Johnston's son William Watson who married Tobias Polhemus' daughter Jane and not our William Johnson who was located near Toms River in Dover Township. Now turning our attention to William’s wife Elizabeth Longstreet, family researcher Kim Matul "I can answer a lot of the names left blank on your site under Elizabeth Longstreet and can connect the dots on who most of them are. I have a copy of the original letter written in 1875 by William Johnson Ashton, Elizabeth (Longstreet) Johnson's grandson, son of Samuel Ashton and Hannah Johnson. His letter answers the request of his nephew Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who is his brother James' son (not to be confused with the other Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who was William and James' brother and my 4th great grandfather). William states: "I will now give you as much a description of my mother's family as I can -- my grandfather's name was William Johnson. He was born in Monmouth County New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War -- fought in battles of Monmouth Brandywine and White Plain. My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth. She was born in Rhode Island. I have no knowledge of the date of her birth. They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your father's recollection." (Note: The reference to “Rhode Island” is most likely a bad recollection for the Longstreet ancestral home of “Long Island,” N.Y. Even though the far eastern tip of Long Island [120 miles from Brooklyn] shares a maritime border with the western border of Rhode Island, there is no Longstreet history suggesting any presence there or in Rhode Island. I also searched databases of early Rhode Island records and not a single reference to any Longstreet or variant thereof was found.) A second documentary witness for a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in Family Search's "NJ Deaths and Burials" database from FHL Film #584577 with the death record of their daughter Naomi (Johnson) Carr. Page 268 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ indicates a death of January 29, 1854 for “Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854.” This helps confirm that William Johnson had a wife named Elizabeth -- presumably Elizabeth Longstreet. A third documentary witness for a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in the Family Search database "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988," ( The New Jersey records thus far have not provided us with a birth record for Elizabeth Longstreet. We may deduce her possible birthdate as being between 20 Apr 1755, when she is not mentioned in the will of her father Gisbert Longstreet (of Shrewsbury, Monmouth, N.J.), and 31 Aug 1757, when her father subsequently mentions her in a codicil to his will. Even though there is the possibility that she was born earlier assuming the father forgot to mention Elizabeth in the original will, it is more probable that she was born in this interval. Elizabeth’s possible 1755 -1757 birth date causes some a problem with her being the mother of the earliest children of William Johnson, which might suggest William had an earlier wife than Elizabeth Longstreet. For example, William’s son Samuel is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770; this would be too early for Elizabeth to be the mother since she would have been age 5 to 15 in a best case or 3 to 13 in the worst case in this same time frame. Richard Kuntz, as quoted above, indicates there was a possible additional wife named Sarah Aumack for whom to date I cannot find any additional information. There were some Aumacks in the area, but I cannot find a link or a suitable Sarah. Considering the error in Richard Kuntz’s quoted source listing Jane Polhemus as a wife of our William, we should view Sarah Aumack, if she existed at all, with some trepidation. This Sarah (if she really even existed) may have been the earliest wife. There is also possibility of her being a subsequent wife to Elizabeth, but there is nothing to steer us one way or another. As a side note, William had daughters named both Sarah and Elizabeth, but none were named Jane - could they have been named for Sarah Aumack and Elizabeth Longstreet? So our best solution for now is that William had potentially two wives with the first being an unknown Mrs. William Johnson and the second being Elizabeth Longstreet. We can dismiss Jane Polhemus and we should reserve judgment for a Sarah Aumack. His last wife, presumably Elizabeth, would have died before William made his will in 1811. He would have married Elizabeth Longstreet by no later than 1773 since their daughter Naomi was born sometime between 1767 and 1774 (see notes below) -- it was her birth reported in her death record which is our earliest calculated account of Elizabeth. On the other hand, there are occasions in this era in Monmouth County of much older men marrying younger girls of about 16 years of age (i.e. the third wife of Tobias Polhemus noted above as the father to Jane Polhemus). Now let’s turn to sorting out the children. William’s grandson, William Johnson Ashton, in the above-referenced letter notes: “My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth … They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas.” This statement would seem to indicate that all of the children were from Elizabeth; however, William Johnson Ashton had some memory lapse in saying “Rhode Island” for “Long Island” and in naming only 12 of the 13 children that can be documented using William’s 1811 will. He may have had a more general memory of Elizabeth being the mother of all children since any first wife of William may have died so early as to have Elizabeth be the effective mother by taking over the raising of the oldest children when those children were very young. As for the children, William’s 1811 will is invaluable in confirming the same 12 children as the letter plus one additional son William. Note also that the ordering of the children varies between William Johnson Ashton’s listing and that of the will. Perhaps neither source is fully chronological in listing the children by seniority as will be seen in the order I construct below. The abstract of William’s will is as follows: “12/30/1811, William Johnston, Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., will of. Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons: Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William and James. Cedar swamp lying north of the road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son, Joel, blacksmith tools, he having had his share of the land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Ashton, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith and Lida Shumand, all moveable estate to be equally divided except 1 bed and bedding which is to be given to Elizabeth Phillips. Executors: Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston, Garret Irons [son of his wife's sister, Nelly]. Witnesses: Samuel Morris, William Phillips [son of Naomi by her first husband?]. Proved 4/2/1812. Inventory 4/1/1812 by Reuben Haines & Samuel Corlies. File 8959M” Even though he followed the same order as the will, Richard Kuntz gave us the following slightly deficient summary of only 12 children by unintentionally missing the child Elizabeth in the will: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868) Using some newer sources just to deal with the question of birth sequence, I believe we can improve on the order of children as follows and tentatively assign them the following placing. The first three listed children would be the candidates for children of the earlier unknown mother: 1. Samuel, b. from 1760 to 1766, say 1766. Samuel “Johnston” is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census for Dover which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770. The same census shows in the immediately subsequent two entries the families of Barzillai Johnston (aged 40-50) and William Johnston (aged 30-40) with a note from the census taker “sons of Samuel.” If this is the same Samuel who married Elizabeth Coward in 1802, then Samuel had an earlier wife to account for these sons. Family Search has the following source attached to the son Barzillai: “Johnson/Hyers Family Bible: Bible Records from the Monmouth County Historical Association Library & Archives, Volume 4, Monmouth County Genealogy Society; Family History Library US/CAN Book 974.946 D2mc: Brazillar Johnson was born, Oct. 9th, 1788.” A gravestone image on Family Search shows the son William: “William S. Johnson died 4 Jul 1870 age 82.” We can assume an age of no less than 21 at time of marriage ca. 1787 which would leave us with an estimated birth date for Samuel of no later than 1766. The identity of Samuel’s wife is undetermined but she is shown in the 1830 census in the same age bracket as Samuel, i.e. 60-70. There is another Samuel Johnson (who may or may not be our Samuel in a second marriage) who married Elizabeth Coward 22 Nov 1802 in Monmouth co. The record 2. Sarah, b. bef. 1790, say 1768. This position could be filled by either of two daughters, Elizabeth or Sarah for whom we have poor sources for more precisely calculating a birth. The 1811 will does list Sarah earlier than Elizabeth, but we have already determined the will does not seem to be a good indicator of sibling seniority. For now, I place Sarah here in an available gap after placing all the other children who, with the exception of Elizabeth, fall into good sequencing up to 1790. Richard Kuntz reports a marriage date for Sarah of 9 Dec 1791 to Robbins Ayers, which if correct would give us an estimated birth date for Sarah before 1772 when she would have been 19. I cannot duplicate this finding and question its validity especially since her father calls her Sarah Johnston (not Ayers) in his 1711 will. New Jersey Marriages does report a marriage between Robbins Ayers and Sarah Jansen 28 Oct 1813 at Salem, Gloucester, N.J., but the location and the wife’s name does not seem pertinent to our family. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor in the 1811 will meaning that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. 3. John, b. 1770-1780, say 1770. John Johnson shows in the 1840 census for Dover in which his age is reported as 60-70 for a birth of 1770-1780. He has a wife who is age 40-50 and some children reported in the same census. Since the available birth spots from 1772 to 1780 are filled with other siblings, 1770 appears to be the best guess. 4. Naomi, b. from 1767 to 1774, say 1772. Naomi has several ages associated with her. One would give a birth year 1768 if we are to believe her age given in 1853 Rev. War pension application for her fourth and last husband Walter Karr. Another would give a birth year of 1774 per her death record as follows: January 29, 1854. Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854. Another would give a birth year of 1767 per the age 87 reported in Naomi's obituary. Her 1850 census has not been found to date and if found, it would give us yet another report. Assuming a birth of 1755 and an age of 16 for Elizabeth at marriage, Naomi would not be born before 1772. 5. Lucretia, b. 5 Dec 1773. Her 1850 census in Ohio confirms a birth of circa 1774. More specifically, Family Search has an image of her tombstone which states: “Lucretia, wife of William Smith, Sen. d. Jan. 17, 1855, 81y, 1m, 12 days. This calculates to 5 Dec 1773. 6. Hannah, b. 1775-1776, say 1776. In the same letter of William Johnson Ashton as referred to above is found: “My father’s name was Samuel Ashton. He was born February 1771 … born and raised in Bucks County … My father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14 1795 and emigrated to Fayette County [Western (?)] Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799 where he remained until the Spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the Spring of 1811 he emigrated to Clermont County Ohio where he endured the hardships of pioneer life.” From this account, we have a firm marriage date from which we can assume Hannah was at least 19 for a birth year no later than 1776 and probably no earlier than her husband’s in 1771. According to Ashton family researchers, her last child was Lucretia, b: bet 1815 and 1820 in Ohio (probably closer to 1815. This child before, John, was born 1813. Assuming a maximum age of 40 for child bearing, the birth date would probably be no earlier than about 1775. 7. Jonathan, b. from 1778 to 1779, say 1778. He married his wife 24 Jan 1801 in Monmouth co., N.J., which would mean he was born before 1780 to be a minimum of 21. Jonathan appears in the 1840 census for Dover Twp., NJ, aged 50-60, for a birth 1780-1790. He appears in the 1850 census for the same place as age 72 for a birth of 1778. FHL Film Number: 584577, page 287 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ from the 1st of June 1856 to the 1st of June 1857 shows a death on April 12 for Johnathan Johnson, male, married, 78, farmer, died at White Oak Bottom (birth place, parents, cause of death not reported) which calculates a birth year of 1779. There is also an 1830 census for Jonathan Johnston in Dover showing him as 60 to 70 with a wife who is 40-50; this is obviously a clerical error for Jonathan. Interestingly, Jonathan’s widow Charity Johnson is reported in the 1860 census in Dover with a young Polhemus family living with her. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 18 Feb 1778, but no authority for such a statement is given. 8. Lydia, b. 1780. Lydia’s death record shows a death 27 Jul 1848 at Cabin Brook, Monmouth, NJ, parents William and Elizabeth Johnson, b. Toms River, age 68. Birth calculates as 1780. Confirms mother as Elizabeth, thus her father was married to Elizabeth Longstreet prior to this time. 9. Joseph, b. 1780-1781, say 1781. Joseph Johnston shows in 1830 census for Dover Twp., Monmouth, New Jersey with his family and as age 40-50 for a birth year range of 1780 to 1790. His next door neighbor is his sister Naomi with her current husband Aaron Bennett. In the 1850 and 1860 censuses for the same place, “Joseph Johnson” shows respectively as age 70 and 79 for a birth year of 1780 and 1781. Joseph married his first wife Hannah Phillips 27 Mar 1803 at Monmouth co., NJ which makes a birth year as 1782 or earlier if he is 21 or older. 10. Joel, b. from 1782 to 1785, say 1783. Joel “Johnston” and his family was enumerated in the census of 1830 as a resident of Dover Township, age 40 to 50 for a birth from 1780 to 1790. Joel Johnson married Mary Bird on 26 Jun 1806. Allowing a minimum age of 21 and probably no more than 25, we have birth years 1781-1785. His preceding sibling Lydia has a fixed birth date of 1780 making Joel’s range more likely 1782-1785 with the earlier date more probable. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 13 Aug 1783, but no authority for such a statement is given. 11. William, b. abt. or bef. 1785, say 1785. There are several William Johnson/Johnstons in Monmouth co., N.J. and so the following is speculative. One William that shows up in many Internet genealogies is William Johnson, b. 16 Nov 1788 in Silverton, N.J., and m. 1 Deborah Hulse 30 Jun 1802 at the Quaker Meeting in Brick Twp. and m. 2 Sarah Tilton 27 May 1810 at a unknown location. The birth information is supposedly from a family bible of his descendants. This birth date would make him only 13 at his first marriage and so I consider the information sketchy. Another William Johnson shows in two censuses both in Jackson Township, Monmouth, NJ, with his wife Phebe Leming. In 1850 he shows as “Johnston” age 58 and in 1860 as “Johnson” age 72, which gives birth years 1792 and 1788. “William Johnson, Jr.” married “Phebe Liming” in Monmouth co. 17 Aug 1806 making him born before 1785 assuming an age of 21 or older. Phebe’s death record gives her birth as 1791 and the gravestone in Casswell Cemetery in Jackson Twp., gives her birth as 1790-91, both being calculated from age. Which William I speculative, but currently I favor the second William who married Phebe for mainly one reason - his marriage record calls him “Jr.” meaning his father is likely William Sr. 12. James, b. abt 1788. James Johnson is a relatively common name and not much is known of him. In the 1840 US for Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ, we find Walter Karr, 1 male 80-90, 1 female 70-90. This is Samuel’s sister Naomi (Johnson) Karr. Directly next door we find “James I. Johnson”, males: 3@5-10, 1@50-60; females: 1@50-60. This is most likely our Samuel and his birth calculates 1780-1790. In the 1850 census Jackson Twp., Monmouth, N.J. we find a household consisting of “James I. Johnson” (62), Euphemy (59). We then find this latter couple in the 1860 census of Hamilton Township, Mercer, New Jersey as “James I. Johnson” and Euphemia Johnson with his age as 72, occupation as a chair maker, and b. Pennsylvania (an obvious error). These two censuses give a consistent birth date of 1788. It is supposition that this is our James, but the 1840 census helps make better odds that this our Samuel. 13. Elizabeth, b. bef. 1790, say 1790. We have nothing to work from except her father’s will. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor and that she had a married name of Smith in the 1811 will. This indicates that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. One patron in Family Search indicates a death date of 5 Oct 1819, but no authority for such a statement is given nor can I reproduce the same result. Since her name is Elizabeth, she may have been named after Elizabeth Longstreet, her potential mother. The date of 1790 is arbitrary only and subject to change if any other sources for her can be found. See notes for child #3 Sarah for more on the placement of Sarah and Elizabeth. 2. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "William Johnson (Benjamin) Note: It is a suppostion that this William is the son of Benjamin. Proof required. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: 1811, Dec 30. Johnston, William, of Dover Twsp., Monmouth Co.; will of: Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons, Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William, James. Cedar swamp lying north of road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son Joel, blacksmith's tools, he having had his share of land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Aston, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Lydia Shumard all moveable estate to be equally divided except one bed and bedding which I gave to Eliza Phillips. Executors, Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston (signed by mark), Garret Irons. Witnesses - Samuel Morris, William Phillips. Proved Apr. 2, 1812. [The following statement originally read:] A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782. Note: There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference." [In his 2018 revision in deference to my research paper, Richard now states:] A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782. However, recent research (2017) has been brought to my attention that indicate that this marriage for William, was not the William of this family group. At the present time, there is a considerable amount of active research in a attempt to identify the wife (wives) of this William Johnson of Dover Township. William Johnson, b. ca. 1740, d. ca. 1811; m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos b. ?, d. [2018 revision removes marriage information.] ?Issue: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) [2017 revision adds "Elizabeth (? -?)"] -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868)" 3. Internet posting by Shera Thompson 4. Mike Morrissey 5. From Mike Morrissey: "Men enrolled in the Militia in Dover in 1793" (ages 18-45). These are the only men listed with the corresponding surnames. The Irons family are potentially related by James Irons marrying Nelle Longstreet, a daughter of Gisbert Longstreet: Phillips: Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Richard, and Andrew. Johnston: George, William, and Benjamin. Winner: Isaac. Bennett: Aaron. Irons: James and John. There may be other surnames of interest, but these are all that Mike provided to me by email. 6. Email for Kim Matul "I can answer a lot of the names left blank on your site under Elizabeth Longstreet and can connect the dots on who most of them are. I have a copy of the original letter written in 1875 by William Johnson Ashton, Elizabeth (Longstreet) Johnson's grandson, son of Samuel Ashton and Hannah Johnson. His letter answers the request of his nephew Thomas Hutchinson Ashton l, who is his brother James's son. Not to be confused with the other Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who was William and James's brother and my 4th great grandfather. William states "I will now give you as much a description of my mother's family as I can -- my grandfather's name was William Johnson. He was born in Monmouth County New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War -- fought in battles of Monmouth Brandywine and White Plain. My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth. She was born in Rhode Island. I have no knowledge of the date of her birth. They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Eliazabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your father's recollection." He goes on to say "my father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14, 1795 and immigrated to Fayette county ___?____ Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799. Where he remained until the spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the spring of 1811 he immigrated to Claremont county Ohio where he injured the hardships of pioneer life." This is the end of this letter. The beginning talks about his father Samuel and briefly touches on he grandfather William Ashton and grandmother Phebe Hutchinson Ashton. Longstreet is also spelled Longstreth and Langstraat in records. Langstraat being the oldest version of the name. Elizabeth Longstreet was the daughter of Gisbert Longstreet and Rachel Schenck. Gisbert the son of Stoffel Direksen Langstraat and Mayke Laanen. Stoffel the son of Dirck Stoffels Langstraat and Catherine Van Siddock. The Langstraat's were Dutch. Unfortunately I don't have access to my tree program that has all my supporting documents on the family, only my Ancestry tree. I do have list of siblings etc. I do believe the older generations lived in the Flatlands, Long Island, New York. It was Stoffel Direksen Langstraat and wife Mayke that went to Monmouth, NJ." 7. Letter written by William Johnson Ashton (1796-1883) to Thomas Hutchinson Ashton (1841-1914) per https://www.werelate.org/images/3/3f/Wm_J._Ashton_letter_1875-09-08.pdf accessed 16 Oct 2017: "Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio September 8th, 1875 Mr. Thomas H. Ashton Dear Sir Your letter of the 28th of August is received though [by] accident as it was directed to Williamsburg, Brown County, instead of Clermont County which is my P.O. address. When I received your letter my wife was at the point of death and died on the 3rd of September after three years of severe affliction. I will begin the genealogy of my father as far back as my knowledge extends first my ancestors emigration from England under William Penn the founder and settler of Bucks County Pennsylvania. My grandfather’s name was William Ashton the date of his birth I have no knowledge of. My father’s name was Samuel Ashton. He was born February 1771. He had one sister older than himself who was burned to death when a young woman. They were born and raised in Bucks County. My grandmother’s maiden name was Hutchinson. She had one brother Thomas Hutchinson after whom my brother Thomas was named and one sister Rebecca Hutchinson who married Dr. Edward Chatman a physician who raised my father as his father died when he was only three years old. The Hutchinsons of Massachusetts that you refer to I have no knowledge of. My father had relatives by the name of Taylor. I have forgotten how they were related. All the families I have named were of the Quaker profession. [KM’s note: “In other renditions of this letter they say he used the word persuasion here, but now I can see it is profession as in "profession of faith."] I will now give you as correct a description of my mother’s family as I can - My grandfather’s name was William Johnson, he was born in Monmouth Co, New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War & fought in battles in Monmouth, Brandywine, White Plains. My grandmother’s name was Longstreth. She was born in [Rhode] Island. I have no knowledge of the date of their birth they had a large family twelve children in all six girls and six boys the oldest were girls. The oldest girl’s name was Neomy, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah and Lydia, the boys names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel and James. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your [father’s] recollection. Perhaps he can give you some information that I have failed to give. My father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14 1795 and emigrated to Fayette County [Western (?)] Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799 where he remained until the Spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the Spring of 1811 he emigrated to Clermont County Ohio where he endured the hardships of pioneer life. This narrative is not what I should desire yet it is the best that I can accomplish out of the materials I possess. This is from your true friend, WJ Ashton P.S. Enclosed is a letter to your father James Ashton. Please forward to him and oblige yours truly, WJA" Notes from Kim Matul, November 2013: The original letter is in the collection at the library in the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where Bucks County historical records are held ... This letter was transcribed by Rebekah Medaugh Carlisle and Kim Matul, November 3-4, 2013." 8. FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, sb 70, Books A-F = sb 70, vols. 1-6, p. 70, "Extracts from book B. of Miscellaneous Records, 1780-1816": "William Johnson, being duly sworn, deposeth and sayeth, that he was taken prisoner in company with above mentioned Mathias Rue, and that the said Rue dyed the 28th day of Feburary, 1777, and further saith not. William Johnson. Sworn before me this 21st day of January, 1780. P. Schenck, Justice." The testimony just before this affidavit is from John Walton, Ensign, stating that Mathias Rue was a miliaman of Capt. Hankinson's Company of the First Regiment of Monmouth Militia, commanded by Col. Nathaniel Scudder and was taken captive in an engagement of the Highlands of Neversink on 13 Feb 1777. MARRIAGE: 1. FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, Book F, "Reccords in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N.J.; Bonds for Licenses of Marriage, compilation p. 14, entry 1866 [The compiler notes that between the years 1727 to 1791, the law required the filing of a bond to assure that there was no lawful impediment to potential marriage such as consanguinity, another marriage, etc. He notes that these bonds were found in a pile with many lost but many did survive and are now bound. The compiler includes a select few in his compilation[: "June 5, 1782, William Johnston, William Hutchinson and William Montgomery, all of the County of Monmouth, &c, sureties for said William Johnston and Jane Polhemus. Witnessed by David Rhea, Michael Johnston." DEATH: 1. Will abstract: 12/30/1811, William Johnston, Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., will of. Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons: Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William and James. Cedar swamp lying north of the road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son, Joel, blacksmith tools, he having had is share of the land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Ashton, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith and Lida Shumand, all moveable estate to be equally divided except 1 bed and bedding which is to be given to Elizabeth Phillips. Executors: Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston, Garret Irons [son of his wife's sister, Nelly]. Witnesses: Samuel Morris, William Phillips [son of Naomi by her first husband?]. Proved 4/2/1812. Inventory 4/1/1812 by Reuben Haines & Samuel Corlies. File 8959M | Johnson, William (I2965)
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| 7259 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. A Possible Solution for Two Wives and Thirteen Children for William Johnson, prepared by Kerry Petersen, kahunakerry@gmail.com The wives of William Johnson are somewhat tentative and even though additional proof would be helpful, we can tentatively construct this family. William himself was not helpful since his will of 30 Dec. 1811 gives no mention of a surviving wife. We have the following proposed listing of wives by Richard Kuntz of Allenwood, N.J. from his website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology [sic] Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," “There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference.” Richard Kuntz adds: “A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782.” Confirming this last statement, I also found the following on FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, Book F, "Records in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N.J.; Bonds for Licenses of Marriage, compilation p. 14, entry 1866 [The compiler notes that between the years 1727 to 1791, the law required the filing of a bond to assure that there was no lawful impediment to potential marriage such as consanguinity, another marriage, etc. He notes that these bonds were found in a pile with many lost but many did survive and are now bound. The compiler includes a select few in his compilation including: "June 5, 1782, William Johnston, William Hutchinson and William Montgomery, all of the County of Monmouth, &c, sureties for said William Johnston and Jane Polhemus. Witnessed by David Rhea, Michael Johnston." This more detailed statement is critical in helping us to dismiss Jane Polhemus as one of the wives of our William Johnson. We have no Michael Johnston associated with our family, which means we have to look further off our normal track for him. From the book "History of the Old Tennent church..." by Frank Rosebrook Symmes, publ. 1904, we learn much about the people listed in the marriage bond. Michael Johnston was apparently the same man associated with the Old Tennent Presbyterian Church in Freehold, Monmouth co., NJ, who died 9 Sep 1785 at Freehold, and who had a son William Watson Johnston chr. 30 Sep 1759 at the same Tennent church. As of this writing, no one had proposed a marriage for William Watson Johnston who would have been of the right marriage age for the 1782 marriage. We also know that the Polhemus family was located in this same area and that Jane Polhemus' father Tobias was prominent in the same Presbyterian church. We also find the other witness to the marriage bond, David Rhea, was baptized 11 May 1755 at same Tennent Church. All of this leads us to a conclusion that it was Michael Johnston's son William Watson who married Tobias Polhemus' daughter Jane and not our William Johnson who was located near Toms River in Dover Township. Now turning our attention to the William’s wife Elizabeth Longstreet, family researcher Kim Matul "I can answer a lot of the names left blank on your site under Elizabeth Longstreet and can connect the dots on who most of them are. I have a copy of the original letter written in 1875 by William Johnson Ashton, Elizabeth (Longstreet) Johnson's grandson, son of Samuel Ashton and Hannah Johnson. His letter answers the request of his nephew Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who is his brother James's son (not to be confused with the other Thomas Hutchinson Ashton, who was William and James's brother and my 4th great grandfather). William states: "I will now give you as much a description of my mother's family as I can -- my grandfather's name was William Johnson. He was born in Monmouth County New Jersey near Toms River, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War -- fought in battles of Monmouth Brandywine and White Plain. My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth. She was born in Rhode Island. I have no knowledge of the date of her birth. They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas. I have now given you the most accurate account that I possess. I have now traced the family down to your father's recollection." [Note that “Rhode Island” is probably a bad recollection for the Longstreet ancestral home of Long Island, N.Y.] A second documentary witness to a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found Family Search's "NJ Deaths and Burials" database from FHL Film Number: 584577 in the death record of their daughter Naomi (Johnson) Carr. Page 268 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ indicates a death of January 29, 1854 for “Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854.” This helps confirm that William Johnson had a wife named Elizabeth -- presumably Elizabeth Longstreet. A third documentary witness to a wife named Elizabeth for our William is found in the Family Search database "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988," ( The New Jersey records thus far have not provided us with a birth record for Elizabeth Longstreet. We may deduce her possible birthdate as being between 20 Apr 1755, when she is not mentioned in the will of her father Gisbert Longstreet (of Shrewsbury, Monmouth, N.J.), and 31 Aug 1757, when her father subsequently mentions her in a codicil to his will. Even though there is the possibility that she was born earlier assuming the father forgot to mention Elizabeth in the original will, it is more probable that she was born in this interval. Elizabeth’s possible 1755 -1757 birth date causes some a problem with her being the mother of the earliest children of William Johnson, which might suggest William had an earlier wife than Elizabeth Longstreet. For example, William’s son Samuel is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770; this would be too early for Elizabeth to be the mother since she would have been age 5 to 15 in a best case or 3 to 13 in the worst case in this same time frame. Richard Kuntz, as quoted above, indicates there was a possible additional wife named Sarah Aumack for whom to date I cannot find any additional information. There were some Aumacks in the area, but I cannot find a link or a suitable Sarah. Considering the error in Richard Kuntz’s source listing Jane Polhemus as a wife of our William, we should view Sarah Aumack, if she existed at all, with some trepidation. This Sarah (if she really even existed) may have been the earliest wife. There is also possibility of her being a subsequent wife to Elizabeth, but there is nothing to steer us one way or another. As a side note, William had daughters named both Sarah and Elizabeth, but none were named Jane - could they have been named for Sarah Aumack and Elizabeth Longstreet? So our best solution for now is that William had potentially two wives with the first being an unknown Mrs. William Johnson and the second being Elizabeth Longstreet. We can dismiss Jane Polhemus and we should reserve judgment for a Sarah Aumack. His last wife, presumably Elizabeth, would have died before William made his will in 1811. He would have married Elizabeth Longstreet by no later than 1773 since their daughter Naomi was born sometime between 1767 and 1774 (see notes below) -- it was her birth reported in her death record which is our earliest calculated account of Elizabeth. On the other hand, there are occasions in this era of Monmouth county of much older men marry young girls of about 16 years of age (i.e. the third wife of Tobias Polhemus noted above as the father to Jane Polhemus). Now let’s turn to sorting out the children. William’s grandson, William Johnson Ashton, in the above-referenced letter notes: “My grandmother's maiden name was Longstreth … They had a large family 12 children and all. Six girls and six boys -- the oldest were girls -- the oldest girls name was Neomi, Hannah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Sarah & Lydia. The boys’ names were Jonathan, John, Samuel, Joseph, Joel & Thomas.” This statement would seem to indicate that all of the children were from Elizabeth; however, William Johnson Ashton had some memory lapse in saying “Rhode Island” for “Long Island” and in naming only 12 of the 13 children that can be documented using William’s 1811 will. He may have had a more general memory of Elizabeth being the mother of all children since any first wife of William may have died so early as to have Elizabeth be the effective mother by taking over the raising of the oldest children when those children were very young. As for the children, William’s 1811 will is invaluable in confirming the same 12 children as the letter plus one additional son William. Note also that the ordering of the children varies between William Johnson Ashton’s listing and that of the will. Perhaps neither source is fully chronological in listing the children by seniority as will be seen in the order I construct below. The abstract of William’s will is as follows: “12/30/1811, William Johnston, Dover Twp., Monmouth Co., will of. Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons: Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William and James. Cedar swamp lying north of the road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son, Joel, blacksmith tools, he having had his share of the land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Ashton, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith and Lida Shumand, all moveable estate to be equally divided except 1 bed and bedding which is to be given to Elizabeth Phillips. Executors: Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston, Garret Irons [son of his wife's sister, Nelly]. Witnesses: Samuel Morris, William Phillips [son of Naomi by her first husband?]. Proved 4/2/1812. Inventory 4/1/1812 by Reuben Haines & Samuel Corlies. File 8959M” Richard Kuntz gave us also a deficient summary of only 12 children by missing Elizabeth. His list, apparently in random order, is as follows: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868) Using some newer sources just to deal with the question of birth sequence, I believe we can improve on the order of children as follows and tentatively assign them the following placing. The first three children would be the candidates for the earlier unknown mother: 1. Samuel, b. from 1760 to 1766, say 1766. Samuel “Johnston” is identified as being between 50 and 60 in the 1830 NJ census for Dover which calculates to a birth year between 1760 and 1770. Same census shows in the subsequent two entries shows the families of Barzillai Johnston (aged 40-50) and William Johnston (aged 30-40) with a note from the census taker “sons of Samuel.” If this is the same Samuel who married Elizabeth Coward in 1802, then Samuel had an earlier wife to account for these sons. Family Search has the following source attached to the son Barzillai: “Johnson/Hyers Family Bible: Bible Records from the Monmouth County Historical Association Library & Archives, Volume 4, Monmouth County Genealogy Society; Family History Library US/CAN Book 974.946 D2mc: Brazillar Johnson was born, Oct. 9th, 1788.” A gravestone image on Family Search shows the son William: “William S. Johnson died 4 Jul 1870 age 82.” We can assume an age of no less than 21 at time of marriage ca. 1787 which would leave us with an estimated birth date for Samuel of no later than 1766. 2. Sarah, b. bef. 1790, say 1768. This position could be filled by either of two daughters, Elizabeth or Sarah for whom we have poor sources for more precisely calculating a birth. The 1811 will does list Sarah earlier than Elizabeth, but we have already determined the will does not seem to be a good indicator of sibling seniority. For now, I place Sarah here in an available gap after placing all the other children who, with the exception of Elizabeth, fall into good sequencing up to 1790. Richard Kuntz reports a marriage date for Sarah of 9 Dec 1791 to Robbins Ayers, which if correct would give us an estimated birth date for Sarah before 1772 when she would have been 19. I cannot duplicate this finding and question its validity especially since her father calls her Sarah Johnston (not Ayers) in his 1711 will. New Jersey Marriages does report a marriage between Robbins Ayers and Sarah Jansen 28 Oct 1813 at Salem, Gloucester, N.J., but the location and the wife’s name does not seem pertinent to our family. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor in the 1811 will meaning that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. 3. John, b. 1770-1780, say 1770. John Johnson shows in the 1840 census for Dover in which his age is reported as 60-70 for a birth of 1770-1780. He has a wife who is age 40-50 and some children reported in the same census. Since the available birth spots from 1772 to 1780 are filled with other siblings, 1770 appears to be the best guess. 4. Naomi, b. from 1767 to 1774, say 1772. Naomi has several ages associated with her. One would give a birth year 1768 if we are to believe her age given in 1853 Rev. War pension application for her fourth and last husband Walter Karr. Another would give a birth year of 1774 per her death record as follows: January 29, 1854. Naomy Carr, female, widdowed, age 80, occupation of weaver, died at Toms River, born "near Toms River", parents Wm. & Elizabeth Johnson, died from old age, recorded June 8, 1854. Another would give a birth year of 1767 per the age 87 reported in Naomi's obituary. Her 1850 census has not been found to date and if found, it would give us yet another report. Assuming a birth of 1755 and an age of 16 for Elizabeth at marriage, Naomi would not be born before 1772. 5. Lucretia, b. 5 Dec 1773. Her 1850 census in Ohio confirms a birth of circa 1774. More specifically, Family Search has an image of her tombstone which states: “Lucretia, wife of William Smith, Sen. d. Jan. 17, 1855, 81y, 1m, 12 days. This calculates to 5 Dec 1773. 6. Hannah, b. 1775-1776, say 1776. In the same letter of William Johnson Ashton as referred to above is found: “My father’s name was Samuel Ashton. He was born February 1771 … born and raised in Bucks County … My father was married to Hannah Johnson October 14 1795 and emigrated to Fayette County [Western (?)] Pennsylvania in the fall of 1799 where he remained until the Spring of 1807 when he moved to Washington County. In the Spring of 1811 he emigrated to Clermont County Ohio where he endured the hardships of pioneer life.” From this account, we have a firm marriage date from which we can assume Hannah was at least 19 for a birth year no later than 1776 and probably no earlier than her husband’s in 1771. According to Ashton family researchers, her last child was Lucretia, b: bet 1815 and 1820 in Ohio (probably closer to 1815. This child before, John, was born 1813. Assuming a maximum age of 40 for child bearing, the birth date would probably be no earlier than about 1775. 7. Jonathan, b. from 1778 to 1779, say 1778. He married his wife 24 Jan 1801 in Monmouth co., N.J., which would mean he was born before 1780 to be a minimum of 21. Jonathan appears in the 1840 census for Dover Twp., NJ, aged 50-60, for a birth 1780-1790. He appears in the 1850 census for the same place as age 72 for a birth of 1778. FHL Film Number: 584577, page 287 for Dover Twp., Ocean County, NJ from the 1st of June 1856 to the 1st of June 1857 shows a death on April 12 for Johnathan Johnson, male, married, 78, farmer, died at White Oak Bottom (birth place, parents, cause of death not reported) which calculates a birth year of 1779. There is also an 1830 census for Jonathan Johnston in Dover showing him as 60 to 70 with a wife who is 40-50; this is obviously a clerical error for Jonathan. Interestingly, Jonathan’s widow Charity Johnson is reported in the 1860 census in Dover with a young Polhemus family living with her. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 18 Feb 1778, but no authority for such a statement is given. 8. Lydia, b. 1780. Lydia’s death record shows a death 27 Jul 1848 at Cabin Brook, Monmouth, NJ, parents William and Elizabeth Johnson, b. Toms River, age 68. Birth calculates as 1780. Confirms mother as Elizabeth, thus her father was married to Elizabeth Longstreet prior to this time. 9. Joseph, b. 1780-1781, say 1781. Joseph Johnston shows in 1830 census for Dover Twp., Monmouth, New Jersey with his family and as age 40-50 for a birth year range of 1780 to 1790. His next door neighbor is his sister Naomi with her current husband Aaron Bennett. In the 1850 and 1860 censuses for the same place, “Joseph Johnson” shows respectively as age 70 and 79 for a birth year of 1780 and 1781. Joseph married his first wife Hannah Phillips 27 Mar 1803 at Monmouth co., NJ which makes a birth year as 1782 or earlier if he is 21 or older. 10. Joel, b. from 1782 to 1785, say 1783. Joel “Johnston” and his family was enumerated in the census of 1830 as a resident of Dover Township, age 40 to 50 for a birth from 1780 to 1790. Joel Johnson married Mary Bird on 26 Jun 1806. Allowing a minimum age of 21 and probably no more than 25, we have birth years 1781-1785. His preceding sibling Lydia has a fixed birth date of 1780 making Joel’s range more likely 1782-1785 with the earlier date more probable. One patron in Family Search indicates a birth date of 13 Aug 1783, but no authority for such a statement is given. 11. William, b. abt. or bef. 1785, say 1785. There are several William Johnson/Johnstons in Monmouth co., N.J. and so the following is speculative. One William that shows up in many Internet genealogies is William Johnson, b. 16 Nov 1788 in Silverton, N.J., and m. 1 Deborah Hulse 30 Jun 1802 at the Quaker Meeting in Brick Twp. and m. 2 Sarah Tilton 27 May 1810 at a unknown location. The birth information is supposedly from a family bible of his descendants. This birth date would make him only 13 at his first marriage and so I consider the information sketchy. Another William Johnson shows in two censuses both in Jackson Township, Monmouth, NJ, with his wife Phebe Leming. In 1850 he shows as “Johnston” age 58 and in 1860 as “Johnson” age 72, which gives birth years 1792 and 1788. “William Johnson, Jr.” married “Phebe Liming” in Monmouth co. 17 Aug 1806 making him born before 1785 assuming an age of 21 or older. Phebe’s death record gives her birth as 1791 and the gravestone in Casswell Cemetery in Jackson Twp., gives her birth as 1790-91, both being calculated from age. Which William I speculative, but currently I favor the second William who married Phebe for mainly one reason - his marriage record calls him “Jr.” meaning his father is likely William Sr. 12. James, b. abt 1788. James Johnson is a relatively common name and not much is known of him. In the 1840 US for Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ, we find Walter Karr, 1 male 80-90, 1 female 70-90. This is Samuel’s sister Naomi (Johnson) Karr. Directly next door we find “James I. Johnson”, males: 3@5-10, 1@50-60; females: 1@50-60. This is most likely our Samuel and his birth calculates 1780-1790. In the 1850 census Jackson Twp., Monmouth, N.J. we find a household consisting of “James I. Johnson” (62), Euphemy (59). We then find this latter couple in the 1860 census of Hamilton Township, Mercer, New Jersey as “James I. Johnson” and Euphemia Johnson with his age as 72, occupation as a chair maker, and b. Pennsylvania (an obvious error). These two censuses give a consistent birth date of 1788. It is supposition that this is our James, but the 1840 census helps make better odds that this our Samuel. 13. Elizabeth, b. bef. 1790, say 1790. We have nothing to work from except her father’s will. We can at least say that she was not noted as a minor and that she had a married name of Smith in the 1811 will. This indicates that she was most likely at least 21 or born before 1790. One patron in Family Search indicates a death date of 5 Oct 1819, but no authority for such a statement is given nor can I reproduce the same result. Since her name is Elizabeth, she may have been named after Elizabeth Longstreet, her potential mother. The date of 1790 is arbitrary only and subject to change if any other sources for her can be found. See notes for child #3 Sarah for more on the placement of Sarah and Elizabeth. 2. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "William Johnson (Benjamin) Note: It is a suppostion that this William is the son of Benjamin. Proof required. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: 1811, Dec 30. Johnston, William, of Dover Twsp., Monmouth Co.; will of: Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons, Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William, James. Cedar swamp lying north of road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son Joel, blacksmith's tools, he having had his share of land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Aston, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Lydia Shumard all moveable estate to be equally divided except one bed and bedding which I gave to Eliza Phillips. Executors, Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston (signed by mark), Garret Irons. Witnesses - Samuel Morris, William Phillips. Proved Apr. 2, 1812. A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782. Note: There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference. William Johnson, b. ca. 1740, d. ca. 1811; m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos b. ?, d. ?Issue: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868)" | Johnson, Sarah (I3221)
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| 7260 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1900 US: Moreland, Bingham, Idaho, 18 Jun 1900, p. 2of 9, family 185, next door neighbor is probable brother Joseph Warring, b. 1872 in MO, with Joseph's father William, b. Sep 1825, widower, and sister Anna H., b. Jul 1878 in IL: Robert W. Warring, Feb 1870, 30, m. 10 years, IL Eng Eng, farmer. Emma, wife, May 1871, 29, m. 10 years, 5 total children all living, UT NH VT. Sylvia M., dau., May 1890, 10, UT IL UT. John W., son, Jan 1892, 8, UT IL UT. Hazel G., dau., Dec 1893, 6, UT IL UT. Robert W., Jr., son, Dec 1895, UT IL UT. Wilford M., son, Mar 1898, 2, ID IL UT. 1910 US: Lewisville, Fremont, Idaho, p. 174, 29 Apr 1910, family 11: Rob. Wareing, 39, widower, IL Eng Eng, farmer. Jno., son, 18, UT IL UT. Hazel, dau., 16, UT IL UT. Robert, son, 14, UT IL UT. Wilford, son, 12, ID IL UT. Merlin, son, 8, ID IL UT. Sylvia, dau., 20, divorced, 2 total children both living, UT IL UT. Alice Boyce, dau. of Sylvia, 2, ID UT UT. Jennie Boyce, dau. of Sylvia, age unclear, ID ID UT. 1920 US: Pocatello 5th Ward, Bannock, Idaho, 340 N. Carson, family 497, p. 174, 24 Jan 1920: Robert W. Waring, 49, IL Eng Eng. Jennie S., wife, 39, UT Eng Eng. ??ollie, dau., 18, UT UT UT. (This entry is blurred and appears to have son or daughter over written over daughter or son.) Melba F., dau., 14, ID UT UT. Blaine C., son, 9, ID UT UT. Afton L., dau., 5, ID UT UT. 1930 US: District 2, Dubois, Clark, Idaho, p. 6 of 7, 19 Apr 1930, family 81: Robert W. Waring, rents, $5, 60, first marriage at age 20, IL Eng US, mailworker at post office. Jennie S., wife, 50, first married at age 20, UT Eng Eng. C. Blaine, son, 19, ID IL UT. Afton L., dau., 15, ID IL UT. 2. The following individual may be a son from a previous marriage. WWI Draft Registration Records per Ancestry.com image: Robert Washington Waring, age 22, residing in Lewisville, Idaho, b. 19 Dec 1895 at Plain City, Utah, single, no relatives named. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Last name sometimes shown as Wearing. Obituaries of wife's relatives has it both ways. Parents are William Waring and Elizabeth Blackshaw. Robert and Sarah Hales had two children: Chester Blaine Waring, b. 9 Jan 1911 at Lewisville, Jefferson, ID. Lucille Afton Waring, b. 9 Jun 1914 at Dubois, Clark, ID. BIRTH: 1. Ordinance Index cited below for endowment record says he was born 22 Feb 1869 at Berdan, Greene, Illinois with parents as William Wareing and Elizabeth Blackshaw. The censuses support an 1870 date; however, this record was probably recorded by temple from Roberts own report which would take precedent over censuses. Same date is reported in his temple sealing to Rosetta Christiansen 28 Feb 1906. MARRIAGE: 1. Marriages as follows: a. 18 Feb 1889 at Ogden, Weber, Utah: Emma Knight b. 23 May 1871 at Plain City, Weber, Utah; died and buried 15 Feb 1902 or 1903 and buried 19 Feb same year at Moreland, Bingham, Idaho. b. Rosetta Tillie Black Christensen. c. Sarah Jane ("Jennie") Hales. 2. Online "Western States Marriage Record Index" Details For Marriage ID#17741: R.W. Waring residing at Lewisville, Fremont, Idaho and Jennie Shenton residing at Lewisville, Fremont, Idaho married at Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, 9 May 1910. Volume: 2. Page: 408. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per www.hales.org 21 Dec 2002. 2. Per Ancestral File. | Waring, Robert Washington (I2589)
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| 7261 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1900 US: Township 4, San Mateo, California, p. 12 of 28, family 129: Antone Cardoza, Jun 1844, 55, m. 16 years, Port Port Port, immigrated 1864, naturalized, farmer. Mary, wife, Apr 1860, 40, m. 16 years, 11 children total with 7 living, Port Port Port, immigrated 1882. Antone, son, Jan 1885, 15, CA Port Port. Rosie, dau., Aug 1887, 12, CA Port Port. Manuel, son, Dec 1888, 11, CA Port Port. Mary, dau., Feb 1890, 10, CA Port Port. Frank, son, Dec 1894, 5, CA Port Port. Joe, son, Feb 1896, 4, CA Port Port. Louisa, dau., Feb 1899, 1, CA Port Port. 1920 US: Auberry Station, 10th Township, Fresno, California, p. 10 of 23, census of the San Joaquin Power and Light Company, household 14: Joseph W. Cardoza, alone, 24, single, CA Portugal Portugal, bookkeeper. 1930 US: Haywood, Alameda, California, p. 10, 10 Apr 1930, family 252, 764 __all Court: Joseph W. Cardoza, rents, $25, 33, CA Portugal Portugal, banker. Carrie, wife, 30, CA MI CA. Claire, dau., 5-11/12, CA CA CA. 2. Bookkeeper at time of marriage. Banker in 1930. 3. Ancestry.com's "WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918": Registration no. 3231, Joseph Willam Cardoza, b. 4 Feb 1896, age 21, caucasian, address and birthplace was Half Moon Bay, Calif., native born citizen, works as a bookkeeper for National Biscuit Co at 648 Santa Fe Ave., Fresno, California, single, tall, medium build, brown eyes, black hair, not bald, no disabilities, registered at Half Moon Bay 29 May 1917. 3. Parents: Antone S. Cardoza and Maria C. De Mello, both of Portugal. MARRIAGE: 1. Certificate of Marriage - Merced County, Book 4 page 367. Note: Witness Frank P. Cardoza - Los Banos. DEATH: 1. Ancestry.com's "California Death Index, 1940-1997": Joseph William Cardoza, no ssn, b. 4 Feb 1896 in California, d. 18 May 1958 in Merced. | Cardoza, Joseph W. (I3604)
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| 7262 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "Amos Johnson (Benjamin). A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between Amos Johnston and Mary Clayton dated 2/13/1762. Amos was listed in the 1773 Revolutionary Census as a resident of Dover Twp. - Kenn Stryker-Rodda Amos Johnson, b. ?, d. ?; m. (2/13/1762) Mary Clayton b. ?, d. ?" | Johnson, Amos (I3254)
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| 7263 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "Benjamin Johnston... Benjamin was listed in the Dover Twp. tax ratables (GMNJ) for the year 1779. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: A Will for Benjamin Johnson of Dover Twp. was proved on March 23, 1784. The Will lists: wife - Sarah, children: John, Daniel, William, James, David, Amos, Rachel Lemon, Elizabeth Cravat, Hannah Jacobs, Rebecah Cole, Lydia Thomson. Some researchers in the past have identified Sarah, wife of Benjamin, as Sarah Swallow. However, recent research has discounted that assumption. Sarah Swallow was a daughter of Johannes Swallow of East Amwell, Hunterdon County, NJ and the wife of a different Benjamin Johnson, also of Amwell Township who was a contemporary of, but different from Benjamin Johnson of Dover. Benjamin Johnson of Dover Township, died testate there in 1784, and his will was proved on March 23, 1784. [Archives of the State of NJ, First Series, NJ Calendar of Wills, Vol. VI, 1781-1785]... The following events have been recorded: Rachel Johnson married William Liming on 5/17/1750 [NJ Archives Vol. XX Marriage Records] Notes: (1) If one assumes that Rachel was the oldest and married at 15 and Benjamin was at least 20 at the time of her marriage, then Benjamin was born not later than 1715. Benjamin Johnston, b. ca. 1715, d. 1784; m. Sarah Unknown b. ?, d. ? Issue: -John (ca. 1755-1830+); m. Margaret Unknown (? - ?) -Daniel (?-ca. 1792) -William (ca. 1740-ca. 1811); m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos (? - ?) [2018 revision removes wife.] -James (ca. 1755-1830 +) -David (ca. 1755-ca, 1835); m. Rebecca Unknown (? - ?) -Amos (?-?); m. (2/13/1762) Mary Clayton (? - ?)" -Rachel (?-?); m. (5/17/1750) William Liming (? - ?) -Elizabeth (?-?) -Hannah (?-?) -Rebeccah (?-?) -Lydia (?-?)" | Johnson, Hannah (I3098)
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| 7264 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "Benjamin Johnston... Benjamin was listed in the Dover Twp. tax ratables (GMNJ) for the year 1779. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: A Will for Benjamin Johnson of Dover Twp. was proved on March 23, 1784. The Will lists: wife - Sarah, children: John, Daniel, William, James, David, Amos, Rachel Lemon, Elizabeth Cravat, Hannah Jacobs, Rebecah Cole, Lydia Thomson. Some researchers in the past have identified Sarah, wife of Benjamin, as Sarah Swallow. However, recent research has discounted that assumption. Sarah Swallow was a daughter of Johannes Swallow of East Amwell, Hunterdon County, NJ and the wife of a different Benjamin Johnson, also of Amwell Township who was a contemporary of, but different from Benjamin Johnson of Dover. Benjamin Johnson of Dover Township, died testate there in 1784, and his will was proved on March 23, 1784. [Archives of the State of NJ, First Series, NJ Calendar of Wills, Vol. VI, 1781-1785]... The following events have been recorded: Rachel Johnson married William Liming on 5/17/1750 [NJ Archives Vol. XX Marriage Records] Notes: (1) If one assumes that Rachel was the oldest and married at 15 and Benjamin was at least 20 at the time of her marriage, then Benjamin was born not later than 1715. Benjamin Johnston, b. ca. 1715, d. 1784; m. Sarah Unknown b. ?, d. ? Issue: -John (ca. 1755-1830+); m. Margaret Unknown (? - ?) -Daniel (?-ca. 1792) -William (ca. 1740-ca. 1811); m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos (? - ?) [2018 revision removes wife.] -James (ca. 1755-1830 +) -David (ca. 1755-ca, 1835); m. Rebecca Unknown (? - ?) -Amos (?-?); m. (2/13/1762) Mary Clayton (? - ?)" -Rachel (?-?); m. (5/17/1750) William Liming (? - ?) -Elizabeth (?-?) -Hannah (?-?) -Rebeccah (?-?) -Lydia (?-?)" | Johnson, Rachel (I3097)
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| 7265 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "Benjamin Johnston... Benjamin was listed in the Dover Twp. tax ratables (GMNJ) for the year 1779. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: A Will for Benjamin Johnson of Dover Twp. was proved on March 23, 1784. The Will lists: wife - Sarah, children: John, Daniel, William, James, David, Amos, Rachel Lemon, Elizabeth Cravat, Hannah Jacobs, Rebecah Cole, Lydia Thomson. Some researchers in the past have identified Sarah, wife of Benjamin, as Sarah Swallow. However, recent research has discounted that assumption. Sarah Swallow was a daughter of Johannes Swallow of East Amwell, Hunterdon County, NJ and the wife of a different Benjamin Johnson, also of Amwell Township who was a contemporary of, but different from Benjamin Johnson of Dover. Benjamin Johnson of Dover Township, died testate there in 1784, and his will was proved on March 23, 1784. [Archives of the State of NJ, First Series, NJ Calendar of Wills, Vol. VI, 1781-1785]... The following events have been recorded: Rachel Johnson married William Liming on 5/17/1750 [NJ Archives Vol. XX Marriage Records] Notes: (1) If one assumes that Rachel was the oldest and married at 15 and Benjamin was at least 20 at the time of her marriage, then Benjamin was born not later than 1715. Benjamin Johnston, b. ca. 1715, d. 1784; m. Sarah Unknown b. ?, d. ? Issue: -John (ca. 1755-1830+); m. Margaret Unknown (? - ?) -Daniel (?-ca. 1792) -William (ca. 1740-ca. 1811); m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos (? - ?) [2018 revision removes wife.] -James (ca. 1755-1830 +) -David (ca. 1755-ca, 1835); m. Rebecca Unknown (? - ?) -Amos (?-?); m. (2/13/1762) Mary Clayton (? - ?)" -Rachel (?-?); m. (5/17/1750) William Liming (? - ?) -Elizabeth (?-?) -Hannah (?-?) -Rebeccah (?-?) -Lydia (?-?)" | Johnson, Lydia (I3090)
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| 7266 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "Daniel Johnson (Benjamin) Note: It is a suppostion that this Daniel is the son of Benjamin. Proof required. The name Daniel Johns(t)on is found in the following lists: 1787 Dover Town Book as Collector, 1788 Registered earmark - Salter's History, 1790 Monmouth Freeholders List. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: 1792 May 18. Johnston, Daniel, of Dover, Monmouth Co. Int. Adm's - John Rogers. Fellowbondsman - Benjamin Johnston; both of said place. - 17[author dropped two digits] May 16. Inventory (real and personal) made by John Rogers and John Jeffery. Remark: The Benjamin mentioned in the will might be either Daniel's son or brother. Pending addition proof, it will be assumed that Benjamin is the son of Daniel. Daniel Johnson, b. ?, d. ca. 1792. Issue: -Benjamin (ca. 1775-1797+)" | Johnson, Daniel (I3094)
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| 7267 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "James Johnson (Benjamin). Note: It is a supposition that this James is the son of Benjamin. Proof required. The name James Johns(t)on is found on the following lists: 1773 Revolutionary Census as a resident of Dover Twp.; 1783 Tax Lists - Dover; and 1790 Monmouth Freeholder List. James B. was listed in the cesus of 1830 as a resident of Dover Twp. The listing indicated a household: M: 1:70-80; F: 1:70-80 James Johnson, b. ca. 1755, d. 1830 +" | Johnson, James (I3095)
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| 7268 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "John Johnson (Benjamin). There are two individuals named John in Dover during the 1790's that could be the son of Benjamin. One is recorded in the following will abstract 1797 Jan. 25: Johnston, John of Dover Twsp. Monmouth Co. Int. Adm'r - William Eugene Imlay. Fellowbondsmen - William Lloyd and John Jeffrey; all of said Co. The statistics for (1)John are b. ?, d. 1797. The second John is recorded in the Dover Census of 1830 with statistics: (2)John b. ca. 1755, d. 1830+ (See remark on 1830 Census included in the material on son, John R.). The name John Johns(t)on is found in the following lists: 1773 Revolutionary Census, 1779 Dover Ratables, 1783 Dover Tax Lists, and 1790 Monmouth Freeholders List. The birth date for (2) John is consistant with being a son of Benjamin and at the same time, it is possible that (1) is a brother of Benjamin or from another Johnson family. Consequently until further information becomes available, the assumption will be made that (2) is a son of Benjamin and that (1) is either a brother or a member of a different family. The following event has been recorded: Rebecca Street (Johnson) a. 61, d. 9/7/1862, b. Kettle Creek, d. Newport, N.C. f. John Johnson, m. Margaret Johnson [Bt] John Johnson, b. ca. 1755, d. 1830+; m. Margaret Unknown b. ?, d. ? Issue: -John R. (1786-2/10/1863) -Joseph I. (1795-12/29/1860); m. (1) (4/30/1828) Letta Brand (1800 - 1/21/1831) (2) (7/7/1831) Letta Algour (1807 - 10/21/1880) -Rebecca (1801-9/7/1862); m. Jeremiah Street (? - ?) -Mary (?-1855); m. Jeremiah Havens (? - ?)" | Johnson, John (I3093)
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| 7269 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3sbrn/Benjamin.htm accessed 19 Nov 2011, "Geneology Information - Applegates of Ocean County, New Jersey," prepared by Richard Kuntz, Allenwood, NJ "William Johnson (Benjamin) Note: It is a suppostion that this William is the son of Benjamin. Proof required. The following will abstract is found in NJAW: 1811, Dec 30. Johnston, William, of Dover Twsp., Monmouth Co.; will of: Lands to be equally divided between 6 sons, Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, John, William, James. Cedar swamp lying north of road to go with and remain for use of the old place. Son Joel, blacksmith's tools, he having had his share of land. To 6 daughters, Naomi Winner, Sarah Johnston, Hannah Aston, Lucretia Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Lydia Shumard all moveable estate to be equally divided except one bed and bedding which I gave to Eliza Phillips. Executors, Jonathan Johnston, John Johnston (signed by mark), Garret Irons. Witnesses - Samuel Morris, William Phillips. Proved Apr. 2, 1812. A marriage license for Monmouth County is recorded in State Archives First Series Vol. XXII between William Johnston and Jane Polhemos dated 6/5/1782. Note: There is some question as to whether William had a wife before Jane Polhemos, since the 1850 Census has Jonathan's birth ca. 1778 which is 4 years before his marriage to Jane. Some notes located in the Monmouth County Historical Society have indicated that William was married three times. He married first Elizabeth Longstreet, second Sarah Aumack, and third Jane Polhemus. At this point, I have not found official documents that substantiate that inference. William Johnson, b. ca. 1740, d. ca. 1811; m. (6/5/1782) Jane Polhemos b. ?, d. ?Issue: -Jonathon (1778-1857); m. (1/24/1891) Charity Phillips (1781 - 8/24/1865) -Samuel (ca. 1765-1830+); m. (11/22/1802) Elizabeth Coward (? - ?) -Joseph (1780-1862); m. (1) Hannah Phillips (? - ?) (2) Sarah ? (? - ?) -John (ca. 1770-1811+) -William (ca. 1789-2/27/1866); m. (8/17/1806) Phebe Liming (1786 - 12/26/1877) -James (ca. 1788-?); m. Euphemy Unknown (? - ?) -Joel (ca. 1785-ca. 1836); m. (6/26/1806) Mary Byrd (ca. 1792 - 1/1862) -Naomi (?-?); m. (1) Andrew Phillips (1772 - 1804) (2) Isaac Winner (? - ?) (3) Aaron Bennet (1750 - 1834) (4) Walter Kerr (? - ?) -Sarah (?-?); m. (12/9/1791) Robbins Ayers (? - ?) -Hannah (?-?); m. Samuel Ashton (? - ?) -Lucretia (?-?); m. William Smith (? - ?) -Lydia (11/12/1789-4/25/1848); m. Joseph Shummard (1787 - 1868)" | Johnson, Mrs. William (I3246)
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| 7270 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1787: Vestervig parish, Refs District, Thisted county, Randrup Bye (village): Lavrids Jensen, age 60, married once, huusfolk (Housefolks) og daglejere (and dayworker); Inger Nielsdatter, hands kone (his wife), age 58, married once: Christen Lavridsen, deres aegte soen (their son from marriage), age 12. From Internet email:Jep@image.dk hard copy on file with Kerry Petersen. 1801: Vestervig parish for Skadberg farm (FHL film GS8507, pt 35) Anders Laustsen, man, 35, married first time, smallholder with land; Anne Laustdatter, his wife, 39, married first time; Else Marie Andersdatter, 5; Anne Kirstine, 4; Laust Christian Andersen 2; Laust Jensen, his father, 72; Inger Nielsdatter, his mother, 64. 2. Death record from Vestervig parish record C121, nr. 7, side 245 from actual observation of Chris Petersen in Vestervig, Thisted, Denmark. Record reads: "Anders Laustsen dead 27 February (1837) in Skadberg. He is "aftægtsmand" (retired farmer living off welfare of current owner of farm). Buried 8 March. His father's name is Laust (Christensen) Jensen. He was born in Randrup in Vestervig parish." Died at age 69. Note that an indexed burial record is also found in Family Search. "Denmark Burials, 1640-1917," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FVBD-VMV : accessed 22 September 2015), Anders Laustsen, 27 Feb 1837; citing Vestervig, Thisted, Denmark, reference 245; FHL microfilm 53,239. This indexing reports an age of 69 and a father named Laust Christensen Bonde. I am unsure why this name shows in this record for the father. DEATH: 1. Per research notes from Chris Petersen's visit to Denmark, Vestervig Churchbook C121, nr 5 side 151, translation copy in files of Kerry Petersen. Mentions name "Laust Jensen. Skrædder." Skrædder = Tailor. SOURCES_MISC: | Jensen, Laust (I1716)
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| 7271 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Gardner, Nathaniel (I4534)
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| 7272 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Gardner, Martha (I4533)
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| 7273 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Gardner, Mary (I4532)
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| 7274 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Gardner, Abigail (I4531)
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| 7275 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Gardner, Elizabeth (I4530)
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| 7276 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Gardner, Joanna (I4525)
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| 7277 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Gardner, John (I4524)
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| 7278 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Gardner, Samuel (I4523)
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| 7279 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Joanna (I4522)
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| 7280 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. 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. | Elizabeth (I4521)
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| 7281 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia: A. "Married 23 Dec 1780 ... by Charles Webb, Justice of the Peace at Stamford, Conn. 'He enlisted 5 May 1755, in Capt. Thomas Hobby's Company, and was discharged 30 Jun 1775, and again enlisted 12 Jul 1775, in the 1st Comp. of Col. Charles Webb's 7th Conn. Regiment, and was discharged 10 Dec 1775.' (Connecticut in Revolution, p. 66 and 79.) Was in the battles of Flatbush, and Brooklyn, and White Plains in 1776, Monmouth in 1778. Was Orderly Serg. in the Artillery under Capt. E. Stevens of Col. Lamb's Regiment of Conn. troops, and discharged 1780. Was also on boats of Long Island Sound and the East River, and also engaged at Horse Neck and Stamford. (Stamford Reg.)" B. Affidavit in Albany County, State of New York: "On the 7th of December, 1836, personally appeared Betsey Lockwood, of the City of Albany, aged 72 years, doth declare that she married Jared Lockwood, at Stamford, Connecticut, where they then resided, in December, 1780; that her husband fought in the battles of Flatbush and Brooklyn, when the British Army advanced on New York, 1776, and at the battle of White Plains in the same year. That he fought at the battle of Monmouth in June, 1778. The three years preceding the summer of 1780, he had been Orderly Sergeant in the Artillery Company under Capt. Ebenezer Stevens, Col. Lamb's Regiment of troops raised by the States of Conn. and NY, attached to, and forming part of the regular Army of the USA. He was discharged in the summer of 1780. Subsequent to our marriage my husband was constantly engaged in various war services: in cruising in the government arms boats in Long Island Sound, and the East River, reconnoitering within the enemies lines, and in communicating with our friends within the enemies posts. He was in an engagement at a place called Horse Neck. He was in a battle in the eastern part of the Town of Stamford. That he was engaged with a party of the enemy, who in the summer 1782, having landed and secreted themselves, surrounded on a Sunday afternoon the Meeting House in which the Rev. Moses Mather was preaching, and took Minister and Congregation prisoners. She also declares that Betsey Skelding mentioned in the annexed marriage certificate is one and the same person with Betsey Lockwood the deponent. And that she has resided at Albany ever since the death of her husband. Generally called Betsey, though now written Elizabeth. (Signature: Elizabeth Lockwood) Jared Lockwood and Betsey Skelding were married by Charles Webb, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County on Dec. 23d, 1780. The foregoing is a true copy of the Record, Certified by Seymour Jarvis, Town Clerk of Stamford, Conn." BIRTH: 1. From LDS name extraction program of Vermont and Connecticut statewide indexes: 7 Jul 1758, Greenwich Twp., Fairfield, Connecticut. | Lockwood, Jared (I3149)
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| 7282 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The following private manuscript is not found at the FHL library or on the Internet as of 23 Sep 2012: "The Descendants of John Brown, Sr." Compiler address: 8106 Shoreridge Terr, Indianapolis, IN 46236. Some entries on the Internet make reference to it, but I believe it to be mainly a private compilation; however, I did find an online recapitulation of the manuscript data as prepared in 2001 by Richard M. Leland III (from a copy he received directly from Mr. Volnoggle in Apr 2000) at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lelandva/jbrow004.htm#id5421 and entitled appropriately as "The Descendants of John Brown Sr." (accessed 23 Sep 2012). The data purports John Brown Sr. to be the original immigrant whereas I have Robert Brown. No documentation or contemporary quotes showing the presence of John or how the family grouping is derived are given for these two compilers' choice of "John Brown Sr." as the original ancestor. The only sources given are James Volnoggle's compilation. The data for the first generation: "John1 Brown Sr; married Nancy (Ann) ( - ? - ) before 1738 in Ireland; died circa 1803 at Laurens Co., SC. Children of John1 Brown Sr. and Nancy (Ann) ( - ? - ) were as follows: + 2 i. Roger Brown, born circa 1734 at Antrim, Ireland; married Jeaney ( - ? - ); married Rebecca (Bexey) Wallace. + 3 ii. Jane 2 Brown, born circa 1738 at Antrim Co., Ireland; married James Dorroh. iii. William2 Brown; born circa 1741, at Belfast, Antrim Co., Ireland (other sources have born at County Wexford, Ireland, in 1748); married Frances ( - ? - ) or Sarah. William has a land patent in Union Co. Indiana on September 8th, 1812, coming from Wayne Co., on September 16th, 1819 he bought more land in Union Co., Indiana. + 4 iv. David Brown, born circa 1744 at Belfast, Antrim Co., Ireland; married Letitia Cruce. v. Samuel Brown; born circa 1748 at County Wexford, Ireland. + 5 vi. Matthew Brown, born 1752 at County Wexford, Ireland; married Jane Jones. + 6 vii. John Brown, born 7 Apr 1755 at Belfast, Antrim Co., Ireland; married Sarah Weeks." The website downlines for each of the individuals above who have a + sign. I do not have Jane, David, or William listed; they do not have several of the children I list. I include the next generation of Jane and David as well for reference purposes: Jane2 Brown (John1); born circa 1738 at Antrim Co., Ireland; married James Dorroh before 1762 at Antrim Co., Ireland; died 22 Oct 1836 at Laurens Co., SC; buried after 22 Oct 1836 at Dorroh Field Cemetery, near Gray Court, Laurens Co., SC. IGI, Ireland, showed Jane and James the parents of four children, the first born in 1762 in Antrim Co., Ireland. She immigrated before 8 Nov 1772; At the Council Meeting 8 Nov. 1772, a James Daragh, (recently arrived), was granted 350 acres of land. (100 acres-father, 50 acres ea-wife and 4 children under 16) (*This is where some of the disagreements begin, Mathew states he arrived here at twelve years of age, in that case it would be 1764, so it is clear he did not come with Jane and James but they came later. RML3) This land originally Craven County, which was later Berkeley County and is now Laurens County. Children of Jane2 Brown and James Dorroh were as follows: 9 i. Margaret 3 Dorroh; born circa 1765 at Antrim Co., Ireland. 10 ii. Nancy Dorroh; born circa 1766 at Antrim Co., Ireland; married William McDavid circa 1792; died 26 Oct 1840 at Hazlegreen, Madison Co., AL; buried after 26 Oct 1840 at Grimwood Road Cemetery. 11 iii. William Dorroh; born circa 1767 at Antrim Co., Ireland; married Catherine Dunlap circa 1792; died circa 1807 at Laurens Co, SC; buried after 1807 at Dorroh Field Cemetery, Gray Court, Laurens Co, SC. + 12 iv. John Dorroh, born 16 Mar 1769 at Antrim Co., Ireland; married Rebecca Jones. 13 v. Martha Dorroh; born 22 Sep 1776 at Laurens Co, SC; married William Cunningham 11 Feb 1795; died 28 Oct 1866 at Marion, Perry Co., AL, at age 90. 14 vi. James Dorroh; born circa 1779 at Laurens Co, SC; married Sarah Ross; died 25 Feb 1842 at Gray Court, Laurens Co, SC; buried after 25 Feb 1842 at Friendship Church, Gray Court, Laurens Co, SC. David2 Brown (John1); born circa 1744 at Belfast, Antrim Co., Ireland; ckimes has County Wexford same as Mathew; married Letitia Cruce circa 1766; died 20 Nov 1828 at Tipton Co., TN. He lived circa 1777 at Spartanburg, SC. Children of David2 Brown and Letitia Cruce were as follows: 15 i. Isaac 3 Brown; born before 1770. 16 ii. William Brown; born circa 1770. 17 iii. Samuel Brown; born after 1770." 2. 27 Feb 2005 website http://indianasocietysar.org/browmatt.html. The site notes: information provided by Paul Revere DAR Chapter, Muncie, Indiana. Most of the information was given on June 3, 2004 by Mary Ann Bumgarner Statement 1: He came to America when age twelve years old with widowed mother and brothers and sisters. Statement 2: Copied from a record made in 1921 by Landy (Hurst) Brown, from a record by John H.(Herron) Brown in 1905- his 76th year. Done this (?) year by A.B. Brown: Matthew Brown, the elder, with nine brothers and his parents, came to South Carolina from England in 1763, he being at that time 10 yrs. of age. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. Statement 3: From "Memorial Sketch of the Isaac Phares Family of Shelby County, Indiana," transcribed by Richard Weightman: "Mathew Brown, Sr., was born in Ireland, and came to South Carolina with his parents and nine brothers in 1764... He immigrated before 1 Sep 1767; "The following Browns left Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, arrived onboard the Brittania in Charlestown, SC and petitioned for land on Sept.1, 1767 under the Bounty Act of 1761: Robert, Sr. petitioned for 300 acres, equivalent for himself, a wife and three children age fifteen or under. Ann age 42. Mathew age 12. William age 8. Elizabeth age 2. Robert, Sarah, Mary, Roger, John and Rebekah petitioned for 100 acres each, meaning they were all single and sixteen years of age or older. Statement 4: Place: Charleston, SC; Year: 1767; Age: 12; Primary Individual: Brown, Mathew; Source Code: 3627.37; Source Name: Jones, Jack Moreland, and Mary Bondurant Warren. South Carolina Immigrants, 1760 to 1770. Danielsville, GA: Heritage Papers, 1988. 430p. Source Annotation: Place and date of immigrants' or discharged military person's petition requesting reimbursements of passage, additional land, headrights, bounty, etc. from the South Carolina government or of letter expressing satisfaction with the voyage to America. Extracted from The South-Carolina Gazette, "The Governor and Council Journal" (located at the South Carolina Archives), and "Records of the Public Treasurers of South Carolina" (also at the SC Archives in Columbia). Source Page 213. 3. Mathew Brown's Rev. War Pension application states that he was born in 1752 in Wexford Co., Ireland. 4. FHL book 975.7W2r, 1968, "A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763-1773," comp. by Janie Revill. This book states: "The immigrants listed in this volume were protestant refugees from Europe who came to South Carolina on the encouragement of an Act passed by the General Assembly of the Colony on July 25, 1761 called the Bounty Act. A copy of the Act is not available. It is referred to in the published Statutes of So. Carolina... It was a broadening of earlier immigration laws, for the special benefit of these religious refugees. Applicants had to have certificates showing that they were protestants and entitled to receive the benefits allowed by the new Bounty Act, which was evidently modified and renewed from time to time." The dates are for approval of bounties and not necessarily date of immigration even though each group appears to have recently arrived and each listed group was probably from the same ship. The following names are included: Council Journal, 33, page 145, meeting of 28 May, 1767, these two names together in sequence: Andrew Adair - 450 acres. [No known relation.] Alice Adair - 100 acres. [No known relation.] Council Journal, 33, pages 150-157, meeting of 28 May 1767, these four names together in sequence: Mary Adair Alex'dr Adair James Adair Margaret Adair Council Journal, 33, pages 229-234, meeting of 1 Sept. 1767, these seven names together in sequence: Robert Brown - 100 acres. Robert Brown, Sen'r - 300 acres. Sarah Brown - 100 acres. Mary Brown - 100 acres. Roger Brown - 100 acres. [Father of Rebecca Brown who marries Thomas Adair?] John Brown - 100 acres. Rebekah Brown - 100 acres. [Most likely Roger's sister later married to Mr. Bishop.] 5. Could the Robert Brown in the following be this Robert Brown? Probably not since his son Roger Brown's deed transactions were in the Duncan's Creek area in Laurens Co. and there were a lot of Browns in South Carolina at the time. "Location of John Mangum's land in Newberry county is at longitude -81.78675 lat. 34.30267 at the last upper wye in headwaters of Sandy Run Creek just southwest of the town of Bush River, Newberry, South Carolina. Sandy Run drains into the Little River. The town Bush River can be found due east of Newberry and due south of Kinards per copies of aerial photos and topo maps on file with me. Source of information for this is from the book "Laurens and Newberry Counties South Carolina: Saluda and Little River Settlements 1749-1775," by Jesse Hogan Motes, 1994, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, p. 99: "Chain of title for Elizabeth Johnston [Johnson]; Lease and release 5 and 6 Aug 1779: Joseph Hays, blacksmith, of the District of Ninety Six, to John Mnagum, planter, of the aforesaid place, for ₤200, 100 acres in Berkley [old name for Newberry Co.] on the waters of Little River, in the fork between Broad and Saludy Rivers and is one-half of 200 acres of land granted to Elizabeth Johnston granted 19 Jun 1772 and conveyed by her unto sd. Joseph Hays by lease and release 24 Feb 1773 and lies on the southside of the main county road that leads from Rebourn's Creek to Charleston, which sd. road is the dividing line through the sd. aforesaid tract of 200 acres; bounded S by land of John Pitts, Timothy Griffin, and David Richardson. Signed Joseph Hays. Wit: Daniel Williams, Samuel Goodman, James Goodman. Proved by James Goodman before William Caldwell, J.P. 4 Oct 1790. Recorded 27 Nov 1790, W. Malone, Clk. Ct. (Newberry Deed Book A; 1060-3. WPA; 79) Note that on page 94 and 108 are reconstructed plat maps showing nearby neighbors of John Mangum: James Gogans (1771/100 acres)/James Goggans (1778/150 acres from Robert Johnston 1765 conv.), Hamilton Murdock (1768/350 acres), and Robert Brown (1768/100 acres)." | Brown, Robert (I2088)
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| 7283 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website 25 Dec 2007 http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/preston.htm: "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. | Morgan, Isaac (I4535)
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| 7284 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website 25 Dec 2007 http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/preston.htm: "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. 2. No mention of Nathaniel in Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2. | Warner, Nathaniel (I4528)
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| 7285 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website 25 Dec 2007 http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/preston.htm: "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. | Hinsdale, Mehitable (I4527)
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| 7286 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website 25 Dec 2007 http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/preston.htm: A. "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." | Preston, John (I4529)
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| 7287 | 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 (I4526)
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| 7288 | RESEARCH_NOTES: Family Group sheet Jessie Waldo Information from Ella Waldo- Now deceased | Bishop, John Whited (I1437)
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| 7289 | 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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| 7290 | 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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| 7291 | 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)" Another translation made by Chris Petersen: "Eight sons carry their deceased father to the grave. At the funeral of the deceased farm worker of Vester Røjkjær in Vestervig parish Anders Petersen was the deceased father carried to his grave by his eight sons, which made a beautiful and impressive impression. All of the sons are residing in Vestervig parish; the five oldest are married and [in lack of a better word for «bosiddende»] having permanent housing/residence [typically at a farm]. In addition to the eight sons, there are three daughters. (Translated for me by Camilla Rønn Illidi on Facebook - Genealogical Translations, 30 May 2023.) 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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| 7292 | 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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| 7294 | 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 (I3750)
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| 7295 | 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 (I3757)
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| 7296 | 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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| 7297 | 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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| 7298 | 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 (I3065)
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| 7299 | 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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| 7300 | 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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