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| 301 | Rebecca and John had 2 children; John and Rebecca. | Shattuck, Rebecca (I3547)
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| 302 | Rebecca and Philomen had at least 1 child; Orange. | Kenney, Rebecca (I2900)
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| 303 | Rebecca married at the early age of 13 y. 8 m. 26 d., Alexander Sampson. Tradition represents her to have been of a precocious development and of remarkable beauty. "Twice seven consenting years had shed Their utmost bounty on her head." Mr. Sampson is said to have been a reputable gentleman from London, who had visited this country for the benefit of his health, with an intention of a speedy return; but meeting with the beautiful Miss Shattuck, her attractions were too irresistible to allow him to carry out his purpose. He married and remained here; but while upon a pleasure excursion in Boston harbor, his boat was attacked by a shark, and he was tipped overboard and devoured. Rebecca and Alexander had 4 children; Elizabeth, Alexander, John and unknown. | Shattuck, Rebecca (I2314)
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| 304 | Records on Thomas Van Buskirk reflect that he was a landowner in Bergen, Sussex and Hunterdon Counties, NJ and lived all of his life in Bergen Co. and Hunterdon Co. He was appointed a justice of the peace and an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Bergen Co., January 21, 1714/15; he was again appointed a justice of the peace for the same county , August 25, 1725. He was serving as a Justice of the Peace in Bergen Co. as late as 1730. He was also involved in military activities as he was referred to as colonel in 1724. His will was proved October 20, 1748 at Trenton. | Van Buskirk, Major Thomas (I529)
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| 305 | Research done by Frederick J. Nicholson and published in the American Genealogist in 1990 uncovered compelling evidence that Mathew Pratt was in fact Macuth Pratt of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England. Baptismal and marriage records there prove the date and place of baptisms and marriage and identity of further ancestors. This evidence also would approximate the date of his arrival to the Massachusetts Bay Colony at about 1638. This research will supercede the presumed facts found in The Pratt family : a genealogical record of Mathew Pratt, of Weymouth, Mass., and his American descendants, 1623-1889 published in 1890 by Francis Pratt. The name of Pratt occurs upon the records of Weymouth more frequently than that of any other name, and the family has had from the early settlement a larger membership than any other family, and at the present day it courts its numbers among the largest. The original planter Mathew, whose name is sometimes spelled upon the records Macute, Macuth, Micath, and Micareth, but evidently the same individual, was undoubtedly among the earliest settlers of the town, and came, possibly, or rather probably, with the Gorges Company, although there is no positive evidence of the fact. Yet the fact that this name appears upon no subsequent list, and he is found among the list of land-owners in about 1643, the first recorded list, and recognized as "an old resident," makes the probability almost a certainty. In the record of "possessions," which dates about 1643, is a descriptiou of his property, consisting of twenty acres in "the mill field " and eighteen acres "on Mill River," which would locate it centrally in the present village of East Weymouth; and it might be possible with care to indicate very nearly the identical property. In this list his name is spelled Mathew; and since this spelling follows through many successive generations, it was probably his true name. - The Pratt family : a genealogical record of Mathew Pratt, of Weymouth, Mass., and his American descendants, 1623-1889 Mathew Pratt, whose Christian name appears as Macute, Macuth, Macaeth, Micareth, was "an old resident" of Weymouth. He had twenty acres granted to him " in the mill field" (now East Weymouth) and eighteen acres on the west side of "mill River." He was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 13 May, 1640. In Feb. 1648, he was chosen a "townsman" (selectman). He died at Weymouth, 29 Aug. 1672. He made his will 25 Mar. 1672, and it was proved 30 Apr. 1673. To his wife Elizabeth Pratt the use of his estate for her natural life. To son Thomas Pratt lands after his wife's decease, and land at "Hollie" upon condition that he pay "my Daughter Chard" £4. To son Matthew Pratt lands on like condition. To son John Pratt "an ewe and lamb." To son Samuel Pratt land near his house. To son Joseph Pratt a lot at the pond. To his daughter Chard £7, and to her daughter Johannah Chard his best bed. To his daughter White a parcel of land. To his son Thomas Pratt's daughter Sarah £5. To Thomas Pratt's son William Pratt half of a mare. Wife to be executrix. "His Pastor Mr. Samuel Torrey and his Kinsman Elder Edward Bates, and his son Thomas Pratt" to be overseers. Witnesses: Edward Bates and Thomas Dyer. The inventory of Mathew Pratt who deceased Aug. 29, 1672, was taken 12 Dec. 1672. - The Pratt family : a genealogical record of Mathew Pratt, of Weymouth, Mass., and his American descendants, 1623-1889 The will of Mathew Pratt, Suffolk County Probate Office at Boston. It is dated March 25, 1672, probated April 30, 1673, recorded May 20, 1673 and is as follows: Mathew Pratt of Weymouth, being in health of body and having a competent use of his understanding and memory does make this to be his last will and Testament as folloe & saith -- First, I doe and bequeath my Soul to God that gave it, & after my decease my body to be decently buried and all my Debts honestly paide, and then all my wordly goods I dispose of thus -- I doe give to my loving wife Elizabeth Pratt all my whole Estate reall and personall, which is hereafter exprest, that is for her natural life. I doe give to my Son Thomas Pratt after my wives decease, these parcells of land as folloe, four acres of land that did belong to Shaw’s house & my share of land that I bought of James Nash & that fifteen acres I bought of Deacon John Rogers & I doe give her that little Island in the fresh pond. I doe give him ten acres in the Cedar Swamp plaine which was a part of my great lott; Ad I doe give him my share in the two acres & half of Salt Marsh at Hollie, upon the condition hee shall pay to my Daughter Chard at my wives decease four pounds. I doe give to my Son Matthew Pratt at my wives decease these parcells of house & land as follow my now dwelling house with all my houseing and all my Orchard & my land adjoining twenty acres bee it more or less. Ad I doe give him ten acres in the Cedar Swamp plaine which is also a part of my great lott provided hee pay to my Daughter Chard or her assignees three pounds at my wives decease. I doe give to my Son John Pratt an ewe and lamb. I doe give to my Son Samuel Pratt twelve acres of land neere his house. Four acres of it was William Brandems & eight acres of it was John Gurney’s & when hee hath fenet it out as far as it is pasture hee shall have it and not before. & I doe give him one acre of Salt Marsh by John Pratt’s house at my decease. And I doe give him that part of my common lott laide out to mee at Smell Brooke; Ad I doe give him my two acres of Swamp lot where it is in the woods. Ad hee shall have one Cow instead of that spot I thought hee should have in my Orchard. I doe give to my Son Joseph Pratt that lott that was first Edward Bennetts at the pond twenty acres bee it more or less. I doe give to my Daughter Chard seven pound sterling in good pay at my wives decease, which is to bee paide by Thomas Pratt & Matthew Pratt as above is expressed; Ad I doe give to her Daughter Johannah Chard my best bed & Coverlid at my wives decease. I doe give to my Daughter White after my wives decease all that parcell of land that I have in land which is of Marsh & upland about three or four acres which is all except that which is above given to my Son Thomas Pratt & I doe give her two Ewes at my decease -- I doe give to my Son Thomas Pratt’s Daughter Sarah five pounds at my wives decease. I doe give to Thomas Pratt’s son William Pratt that halfe mare and her increase that is between Thomas Pratt & myself to be decided at my decease. I doe appoint my loving wife to bee my Sole Executrix to fulfill all this my last will & to have full power improve my whole Estate for her life & at her decease to give what she leaves to my Children & their Children as she shall then please. I doe desire the Reverend Pastor Mr. Samuell Torrey & my Kinsman Elder Edward Bate & my Son Thomas Pratt to bee the overSeers to see that this my will bee in all points fulfilled; I doe also comit full power into the hands of these OverSeers to sell or dispose of any thing that I have left to my wife; if she shall have need of it for her comfortable livelihood; but not otherwise to dispose of any land but as above expressed, and hereunto I have set my hand & Seal the twenty-fifth of March 1672. Signed Sealed in the presence of us Edward Bate and Thomas Dyer. | Pratt, Macuth (I3595)
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| 306 | Revolutionary War service as follows: Served in the Second Company, Fourteenth Regiment, New York, in active service from July 23 to October 13, 1779, from May 17 to June 17, 1780, and from October 10 to November 24, 1781. He was under Captain Jacob Yates, March 4, 1780, Colonel Peter Yates regiment, and under Colonel Lewis Van Woert. (See "New York Rev. War Rolls.") Martin Van Buskirk lived outside of Cambridge, New York in the hamlet of Buskirk's Bridge from before 1778 until his death in 1828. Buskirk's Bridge named for Martin Van Buskirk was also known by the Indians as “Ty-o-shoke" or variously spelled by the early settlers as Tiossiook, Tiassick or Tiashoke. This hamlet is simply known as Buskirk, New York in modern times. This area was part of the original 70,000 acre Hoosick Patent which Hendrick Van Ness (Maria's gr gr grandfather) was one of the original four grantees in 1638. On the Hoosick river, and partly in the town of Cambridge, is the village of Buskirk's Bridge. The place derived its name from Martin (Van) Buskirk, an early settler, who built the first bridge across the stream (in 1802 or 1804). He was also a pioneer tavern-keeper, his house on the Cambridge side having a wide reputation. Philip Van Ness, John Quackenbush, and Colonel Lewis Van Wort, of Revolutionary times, were among the early prominent settlers near Buskirk’s. There was a store kept by Carpenter, and afterwards by Allen, which enjoyed a large trade in those days. - History of Washington Co. New York, 1874 Martin Van Buskirk was one of 3 original commissioners of the Northern Turnpike Road Company in 1799. The company was incorporated to build a road from Lansingburgh through Cambridge to Salem and ending at the Vermont state line. Tolls were collected at several points. This road opened up travel and commerce as well as bolstering the development of Cambridge. The road is now known as Rt. 22 and many of the original marble mile markers encased in stone still exist along the route. Revolutionary War service as follows:Served in the Second Company, Fourteenth Regiment, New York, in active service from July 23 to October 13, 1779, from May 17 to June 17, 1780, and from October 10 to November 24, 1781. He was under Captain Jacob Yates, March 4, 1780, Colonel Peter Yates regiment, and under Colonel Lewis Van Woert. (See "New York Rev. War Rolls.") | Van Buskirk, Martin (I471)
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| 307 | Revolutionary War Service: Berkshire Co., Mass. militia, Richmond, Eliakim. Col. Joab Stafford's (Independent) co. of volunteers; service, 6 days; company raised from the alarm lists of New Providence, Lanesborough, East Hoosuck, and Gageborough, marched Aug. 14, 1777, and fought in battle near Bennington Aug. 16, 1777. - Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Vol. 13, Page 284 | Richmond, Eliakim (I140)
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| 308 | Revolutionary War service: Davis, James, Holden. Captain of a company of Minute-men, Col. Doolitle's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 19½ days; also, Captain, Col. Benjamin Flagg's (Worcester Co.) regt.; service, 5 days; company marched to Hadley Aug. 19, 1777, on an alarm. - Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols., Vol.4, p.496 | Davis, Capt. James (I1048)
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| 309 | Revolutionary War Service: He was a minuteman on Lexington, alarm. also Corporal in the Massachusetts Line. | Holman, Corp. Daniel (I1687)
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| 310 | Revolutionary War Service: Suttom, Mass. Minuteman | Holman, Sgt. Elisha (I1694)
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| 311 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN. Buried on original grant one half mile southeast of Hartsville, Trousdale (formerly Smith) County known as the Gleaves place. Graves marked with upright slabs now falling through, moderately well preserved. Wall which surrounded graves is scattered and removed Bible Records-Tomb Inscriptions. In the year 1775 he enlisted as a private in the company of Capt. William Brandon, whose sister Mary Brandon he had married, "against the common enemy". In 1776 he was appointed by General Griffith Rutherford, Capt. of a company of spies and in an engagement with the Cherokee Indians at Seven Mile Mountain. In Sept. of that year he received a gunshot wound in the right foot which kept him out of the military service until 1781, when he entered the army again as Capt. in Colonel Wade Hampton's regiment of South Carolina troops and participated in the battles of Cowpens, Fort Motte, Granby, Bigger's Church and the Siege of Ninety-Six. In the year 1796, William Alexander came to Tennessee and settled something like half-a-mile southeast of Hartsville then in Sumner Co., at the place known as the Monroe Graves place, where he resided until his death in 1830. He erected, or had erected, the brick residence which still stands there (as of Sept. 18, 1921). He died suddenly of apolexy while sitting on his front porch. His wife survived him four years, and both of them are buried just back of the garden, the inscriptions on their tombstones being yet legible and their names appearing as William Alexander and Mary Alexander. William Alexander was a gallant soldier and a patriot. He is frequently referred to in Wheeler's History of North Carolina and always as William Alexander or Capt. William Alexander. He was a member of the first County Court of Smith Co. (TN) which met at the house of Tilman Dixon, Dec. 16, 1799 and his name appears on the records of the court as William Alexander. He lived and died as William Alexander. - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/fawial.htm (Contributed by Cathey (Alexander) Green) Lived at Hutchen place across pike North of William Alexander place-operated a tan yard-appeared to be an extensive land dealer. "William the Tanner" ? - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/fawial.htm (Contributed by Cathey (Alexander) Green) The Alexander Family History 1720s To 1899.submitted by Miles Turpin (Richard Alexander descendant) The name Alexander is of Greek origin. It means Helper of Men. Alexander Macdonald, second son of Donald, King of the Isles, had two sons who adopted the christian name of their father as their surname. Numerous clans of Alexanders descended from the ancient clan of MacDonald, including nobility and commoners.The chiefs of these clans at first resided in the South of Scotland around Edinburgh and Glasgow. Their chiefs were the Earls of Stirling and Dovan.. In the period following the Irish Rebellion, James I of England, who was also James VI of Scotland, defeated and outlawed certain of the Irish chiefs. James I then took their vast estates and divided them into small tracts and given to the Scottish Protestants on the condition that they should settle permanently in Ireland. James I had a dual object in view in this act, one to replace the Catholics by Protestants, and the other to secure for himself loyal subjects in the place of rebels. A settlement of Scotch Presbyterians in the midst of the Celtic Catholics meant a perpetual and increasing garrison of friends of the home government in the midst of a hostile population.. The distance from Scotland to Ireland at some points is less than twenty miles, so it was quite convenient for thousands of Scots to emigrate to Ireland and take possession of the confiscated lands. The motivation was not greed, but safety. The borderland from which the migrating Scots came was a violent no-mans-land for hundreds and hundreds of years. There would certainly be struggles with the Irish in Ireland, but nothing could match the unending violence that these families had endured along the northern border of England. Among those who availed themselves of this opportunity were many of the Alexanders who settled in Counties Antrim, Armagh, and Down. These families included both the commonalty and the nobility within the family. Our branch of the family left the Glasgow-Ayrshire region of Scotland and settled in Donegal County, Ireland. James I supported the Scots in Ireland until his death in 1625. His son, Charles I, was not supportive. In 1626, Charles I began a campaign to harrass non-conforming Protestants throughout his kingdom, and that included the Presbyterian Scots of Ireland. So, these loyal subjects were suddenly defenseless in a hostile Irish environment. To make matters worse, the winter of 1639 to 1640 was so severe that it destroyed the Irish potatoe crop and there was great famine in the land. Shortly thereafter the English Parliament rebelled against Charles I. And while that may have seemed like a good thing initially, it ended up being a bad thing. The Scots in Ireland recieved no support from the English Protestants, because Cromwell was too busy fighting the English Civil War to spare anything to help the Protestant Scots. Ultimately, persectution and famine killed thousands of Scots in Ireland, and they began to migrate to America in the 1640s.[2]. William Alexander left Donegal County, Ireland for America in the 1640s. He came to Northampton County, Virginia around 1649, where he became the founder of the Alexander family that populated Somerset Co., Maryland, Cecil Co., Maryland and eventually Mecklenberg Co., North Carolina. William had seven sons and two daughters. Family tradition says that William's sons were William Alexander (b. ca 1646), Andrew Alexander (b. ca 1648), James Alexander (b. ca 1652), Francis Alexander (b. ca 1654), Samuel Alexander (b. ca 1657), Joseph Alexander (b. ca 1660), and John Alexander (b. 1662). So William Alexander came from Ireland to Northampton County, Virginia in the early 1640s to escape persecution. Around the time William Alexander came to the colony, Virginia got a new royal governor - William Berkeley, a staunch supporter of Charles I and the Anglican Church. Nearly all the population of Northampton County belonged to dissenter religious sects. Governor Berkeley was alarmed at the spread of beliefs contrary to his own. In an attempt to drive these non-conformists out of Virginia, Berkeley prohibited all preaching that was not Anglican, denied the entire County of Northampton representation in the House of Burgesses, and taxed all the inhabitants heavily. Despite protests, Governor Berkeley harassed William Alexander and those like him until 1652. It was in March of that year that an English fleet sailed into the Chesapeake Bay and deposed the Royal Governor William Berkeley on order of Parliament. For eight years, from 1652 to 1660, Presbyterians and other dissenters in Northampton County, Virginia were able to practice their religion publicly without harassment. They were free to make a living without being taxed unreasonably. Things were finally looking up for William Alexander. But then Charles II was restored as the King of England. Sir William Berkeley returned as Royal Governor. And so did all his policies. This time the situation was even worse, because England began to wage war with the Netherlands. As part of the war effort, direct shipping (formerly in Dutch ships) of tobacco to Europe was banned. In retaliation, the Dutch fleet sailed into the Chesapeake and captured almost all of the English tobacco fleet. The price of tobacco fell sharply, and Virginia was plunged into and economic depression during the 1660s and 1670s. So William Alexander wasn't much better off than when he was in Ireland. But life improved again for William Alexander. Lord Baltimore offered land, freedom of religion and representation in his assembly to any of the Northampton County Virginians who would cross over into neighboring Maryland. Lord Baltimore did this to form a buffer zone between his colony, Maryland, and the more powerful and populated colony of Virginia. The roll of buffer population was not new to the Scots. They had been buffers against the English in southern Scotland, they had been buffers against the Irish in northern Ireland. They had been buffers against the Indians in Virginia. As a people, they were good buffers. Over the centuries of living as human shields to one country or another, the Scots had developed a culture that helped them survive these precarious living conditions. The culture of these border Scots was extremely violent, rigidly organized by family bonds, and fiercely proud. The assignment in Maryland was one of the best offers these Scots had received in hundreds of years. And so they moved to Maryland, families and all. William Alexander moved his family to Somerset County on the eastern shore of Maryland in the 1670s. After ten years of living in Somerset County, the Alexanders began to plan their next move. Around 1680, Lord Baltimore had opened up land for settlement in Cecil County, Maryland. Not only was Cecil County land more fertile than that of Somerset County, Cecil County's location was at a major crossroad of colonial trade. Cecil County was up in the northeast corner of Maryland near the border of Pennsylvania and Delaware. To the south was Annapolis, Maryland's capitol and key seaport, Wilmington (capitol) and New Castle (seaport) in Delaware were to the east, and just a bit farther was colonial Americas largest city and seaport, Philadelphia. So this land in Cecil County allowed the Alexanders to grow more tobacco, get it to market more easily, and profit by trading other goods along the trade roots that went through their county. Many Alexanders took out 30 year warrants on land in Cecil County, Maryland in the 1680s, but didn't move to the area until around 1700 when their children were old enough to help them clear the land. [10] It was in Cecil County, Maryland on Christmas day in 1746, that our ancestor William Alexander, Sr. and his wife had a son named William, Jr. (who would one day be known as Captain William Rowan Bill Alexander). William Alexander, Sr. (father of Rowan Bill) was a direct descendant of the original William Alexander who came to Northampton Co., Virginia from Donegal County, Ireland. Scottish families were extremely clanish. They adheared to the ancient Scottish code of Thanistry which structured extended family groups like tribes - with an ultimate chieftan and all. They emigrated to this country in family groups, as opposed to individuals. They settled close together and intermarried. When one family member moved to another county or state, the rest of the family moved as well. Sometimes it took a few years, but the whole extended family ended up together in that new area. So when several Alexander families were living in the same area, it was not a coincidence - the families were related to eachother.[12] Our ancestor, William Alexander, Sr. lived in Cecil County Maryland, and then ultimately ended up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. That means that he is related to that band of Alexanders which moved from Northumberland County, Virginia to Somerset County, Maryland, then to Cecil County, Maryland and ultimately ended up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. What William Alexander, Sr.s exact lineage is within that group of Alexanders, I dont yet know.. Cecil County, Maryland was such a wonderful place that it attracted a large number of new settlers. By 1735, the land prices had risen so much that it was difficult for the children of the original settlers to afford property of their own. So many families moved to Penssylvanias Cumberland Valley around 1750. People like the Alexanders were encouraged by the Pennsylvania authorities because the people of Pennsylvania wanted a human buffer between themselves and the Delaware and Shawnee Indians.[13] Families like the Alexanders were interested because the land was good and it was cheap enough for their children to buy as they came of age. Unfortunately, the ensuing violence between the settlers and the Indians escalated until it started the French and Indian War in 1754. It was a war that didnt initially go very well for the English. And so by 1756, most families had fled the Cumberland Valley and returned to Cecil County.. Cecil County had not changed since the Alexanders left. The land was still too expensive for their children to buy their own farms. Between 1755 and 1764 many of the Alexander family moved to North Carolina. They settled in an area between the Yadkin and Catawba Rivers. The land was good and inexpensive. In 1765, the French and Indian War ended and North Carolina was suddenly very safe. That year over a thousand wagons passed through the area. The Alexanders quickly became involved in land speculation as well as farming.[14]. William Alexander, Sr. and his son, Captain William Rowan Bill Alexander were among the first Alexanders who moved to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.[15] William Sr. settled Sugar Creek Church Community, near Charlotte around 1750 to 1755. Eventually, William Sr.s son, Rowan Bill Alexander, owned a farm at the junction of Panther Run and Grants Creek in Rowan County (which borders Mecklenburg County). [16]. The Alexanders were the most numerous group in the Mecklenberg County area of North Carolina. There were so many of them, its hard to keep track of the exact relations. Our ancestor, Captain William, Rowan Bill, Alexanders nickname was used to distinguish him from the two other Captain William Alexanders. [17] The nickname refers to the fact that at the outbreak of the Revolution he was living in Rowan county, North Carolina.. William, Rowan Bill, Alexander was known as Capt. William Alexander because of his service in the Revolutionary War. He initially enlisted as a private in his brother-in-laws regiment (Captain William Brandon) in 1775. In 1776, General Griffith Rutherford named Rowan Bill Alexander Captain of a company of spies sent to fight the Indians. These were both North Carolina regiments. In an engagement with the Indians at Seven Mile Mountain on September 8, 1776, he was wounded so badly he was partially crippled for the rest of his life and not able to fight again until 1781. At that point he was commissioned Captain in Colonel Wade Hamptons Cavalry Regiment (South Carolina), taking part in the battles of Cowpens, Fort Marte, Grosby, Biggnes Church, and the siege of 96.He is a lineal descendant of (James McNutt Alexander who signed the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Captain William (Rowan Bill) Alexander married Mary Brandon and had four kids: Mary Brandon Alexander, who married Gov. William Hall, Jane Alexander who was so beautiful that she was called the Cumberland Beauty married Dr. Redmond Dillon Barry (a native of Ireland, educated at the University of Dublin and a surgeon for the British Navy, he gave up his post to fight with the colonists during the Revolution), William Locke Alexander, who married Susan Allen, daughter of Capt. Grant Allen, and the oldest child, Richard Alexander, who is our ancestor.. Captain William (Rowan Bill) and his wife Mary Brandon Alexander lived in Rowan County, NC up until 1796. The Census of 1790 shows he had 11 slaves; so he must have been fairly successful. The family finally moved to Sumner County Tennessee to claim a 400 acre Revolutionary War grant. Rowan Bill Alexanders son, Richard Brandon Alexander, was born in Rowan County , North Carolina on November 11, 1769. He came with his father,Captain Rowan Bill Alexander, and his mother to Sumner County, Tennessee in 1796. On February 28, 1808, Richard married Nancy Cunningham Saunders (Sanders), the widow of Lt. William Saunders (Sanders) who had died in 1803. Richards new wife Nancy Cunningham Saunders (Sanders) was the daughter of Major William Cunningham, who served as an Aide de Camp to General George Washington in the Revolution). Lt. Sanders had been the recipient of a Revolutionary land grant of 2560 acres located at the mouth of Dixon Creek and after coming to Tennessee, Sanders had bought the triangle of land on which Dixon Springs now stands from a Captain Dixon. There were no buildings there at the time. . After their marriage, Richard and Nancy Alexander bought all the land then held by the Sanders heirs and thereby came into possession of the Dixon Springs area. However they established their residence in the William Sanders house near the Cumberland River, at the mouth of Dry Branch, the site of Bledsoborough.. The first child of Richard and Nancy Alexander was a son, born in 1809. His name was William Sanders Alexander, after Nancys first husband. William Sanders Alexander married Susan Black (b. 1818) of Wilson County, Tennessee. They were married on December 21, 1844. William was deeded 295 acres by his father and he and his wife Susan built a large house on the hill overlooking the village of Dixon Springs. Later he added 205 more acres to his holdings.. William was the postmaster for Dixon Springs for a period of time. He built and operated a general store in connection with the post office. The store was built with bricks(made from clay from the Alexander farm). This building was destroyed by fire in 1985.. Although the Alexander family were Southern sympathizers, their home was used as a Headquarters for Union Officers for a time during the Civil War. William and Susan Black Alexander had seven children: Nancy A.(b 7/28/1843 who married George Madison Allen), Mary A. (b. 1846 who married William Field - a Union Officer from Pennsylvania), William Sanders Alexander, Jr. (b 1847, a Confederate soldier , killed at the Battle of Shiloh at age 16 - his body was never recovered, but his man-servant, Wall Alexander, later managed to bring home his horse and a few belongings), Elizabeth A. (b 1848, married Walter Guild of Sumner County), Lewis Cass Alexander (b 1849 married Mary Barksdale and came into the possession of the family home - which by the way is still owned by family members, the Beasleys, and is listed in the registry of Tennessee Century Farms), Susan A. (b 1853 married a Mr. Downs and moved to Connecticut), and the youngest, Lucy Harris Alexander (b. 1855 married Henry L. Werne of Louisville, Kentucky). Our relative is Lucy Harris Alexander, the youngest of the family. She married Henry L. Werne. He was a jeweller. Lucy ,according to her granddaughter Mary Gist Bryan Steele, had blue eyes with beautiful light colored hair. Lucy and Henry were happily married, but she died very young, leaving her oldest daughter, Willie Alexander Werne, to mother the children. Henry, the father, went on the road to make a living. I could never figure out why. Maybe he had ceased being a jeweller. Willie did a marvellous job raising that family. Her uncle, Joseph Werne would stop by from time to time and give them some money. Apparently, had it not been for that, they might have all starved.The experience took its toll. She later had a family of her own, but she always had a very nervous disposition. She married Miles Turpin, son of Jackson Turpin.Willie and Miles had one child, MIles Alexander Turpin, my grandfather. | Alexander, Capt. William (I73)
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| 312 | Rhoda and Timothy lived in Richmond and Essex Vermont. They had 2 children; Timothy Washington Ranodine and Ira Jay. | Chaffee, Rhoda Sophronia (I707)
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| 313 | Richard Brandon Alexander served as adjutant to Lauderdale's Company of Spies in the Seminole War in 1837 and was 1st Major of the 1st Regiment Tennessee Volunteers, in the war with Mexico. He was wounded at Monterey, but rejoined the regiment in time for the landing at Vera Cruz. He led a wagon train to California in 1849. In 1855, he was representative from Fulton and Hickman Counties to the Kentucky Legislature. - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/fawial.htm (Contributed by Cathey (Alexander) Green) Richard Brandon Alexander served as adjutant to Lauderdale's Company of Spies in the Seminole War in 1837 and was 1st Major of the 1st Regiment Tennessee Volunteers, in the war with Mexico. He was wounded at Monterey, but rejoined the regiment in time for the landing at Vera Cruz. He led a wagon train to California in 1849. In 1855, he was representative from Fulton and Hickman Counties to the Kentucky Legislature. - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/fawial.htm (Contributed by Cathey (Alexander) Green) | Alexander, Maj. Richard Brandon (I18)
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| 314 | Robert remained in Scituate when the family removed to Lancaster. He and Mary were the first to settle in the "Beeches" the family place there. - Genesis of the White Family, 1920 | Whetcomb, Robert (I3704)
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| 315 | Robert served in King Philip's War under Captain Turner in garrison at Hadley, Massachusetts, 1676, et seq. - Colonial Families of the United States, 1920 | Coates, Robert (I816)
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| 316 | Robert was the first rural mail carrier for the Rural Free Delivery of mail in Covert from 1903-1918. | Hartman, Robert John (I2866)
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| 317 | Romanus was a distinguished clergy man and author of religious books. Born in bavaria he was probably one of the Calvinists who was expelled fron that country and other states of Germany where Roman Catholicism was the established religion especially during the persecutions following the outbreak of the Thirty years War in 1618. The armorial bearings claimed for the family are those of teller of the House of Kempton in Bavaria. This crest was on the stained glass window donated by the family to the first church in Albany which was established in 1642. - unknown | Teller, Romanus (I1976)
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| 318 | Ruth Martin and her mother were on the last train out of Galveston on 8 Sep 1900 before the deadliest hurricane and flood ever to hit the United States. The loss of life from the storm and flood was estimated to be about 8000 people. Ruth lost her mother at a very young age, and was raised by a succession of relatives. She trained to be a dietician, working for a while in Texas, and then at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. After her children were raised she worked for some years for the American Red Cross. She retired with her husband to a country home near Augusta, Michigan, where she took great pleasure in her large yard and garden. - notes by Connie Hankins | Martin, Ruth Thornton (I97)
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| 319 | Saint Andrews Episcopal Cemetery | Siddons, Charles Robert (I400)
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| 320 | Salem Witch Trials notes: Accused in Apr 1692 during the Salem witch trials, she escaped conviction. Sarah's sister, Rebecca Nurse, 71, was accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams on March 19, 1692. She was visited by a local delegation on March 21, and arrested the next day. Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examined Rebecca Nurse on March 24. March 27: Easter Sunday, which was not a special Sunday in the Puritan churches, saw Rev. Samuel Parris preaching on "dreadful witchcraft broke out here." He emphasized that the devil could not take the form of anyone innocent. Tituba, Sarah Osborne, Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey were in prison. During the sermon, Sarah Cloyce, likely thinking of her sister Rebecca Nurse, left the meetinghouse and slammed the door. On April 3, Sarah Cloyce defended her sister Rebecca against charges of witchcraft -- and found herself accused the next day On April 8, she and Elizabeth Proctor were named in warrants and arrested. On April 10, the Sunday meeting at Salem Village was interrupted with incidents identified as caused by the specter of Sarah Cloyce. On April 11, Sarah Cloyce and Elizabeth Proctor were examined by magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin. Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth, Isaac Addington (secretary of Massachusetts), Major Samuel Appleton, James Russell, and Samuel Sewall were also present, as was the Rev. Nicholas Noyes, who gave the prayer. Rev. Samuel Parris took notes. Sarah Cloyce was accused in testimony by John Indian, Mary Walcott, Abigail Williams, and Benjamin Gould. She shouted out that John Indian was a "grievous liar" and refused to confess. Among those who accused Sarah Cloyce was Mercy Lewis, whose paternal aunt Susanna Cloyce was Sarah's sister-in-law. Mercy Lewis took a less active role in accusing Sarah Cloyce than she did in accusing others including Sarah's sisterRebecca Nurse. That night, Sarah Cloyce, her sister Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, Dorcas Good, and John and Elizabeth Proctor were transferred to Boston prison. John Indian, Mary Walcott, and Abigail Williams claimed to be tormented by Sarah Cloyce even after her jailing. Mary Easty was arrested on April 21 and examined the next day. She was briefly set free in May but returned when the afflicted girls claimed to have seen her specter. A grand jury indicted Rebecca Nurse in early June; on June 30 the trial jury found her not guilty. The accusers and spectators protested loudly when that decision was announced. The court asked them to reconsider the verdict, and they found her guilty, discovering on reviewing the evidence that she had failed to answer one question put to her (perhaps because she was nearly deaf). She, too, was condemned to hang. Gov. Phips issued a reprieve but this was also met with protests and was rescinded. Rebecca Nurse was hanged, with Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin and Sarah Wildes, on July 19. Mary Easty's case was heard in September, and she was found guilty on September 9. Together, Sarah Cloyce and Mary Easty petitioned the court for a "fayre and equall hearing" of evidence for them as well as against them. They argued that they had no opportunity to defend themselves and were not allowed any counsel, and that spectral evidence was not dependable. Mary Easty also added a second petition with a plea was focused more on others than herself: "I petition your honors not for my own life, for I know I must die, and my appointed time is set .... if it be possible, that no more blood be shed." But Mary's plea was not in time; she was hanged with Martha Corey (whose husband Giles Corey had been pressed to death on September 19), Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott and Samuel Wardwell on September 22. Rev. Nicholas Noyes officiated at this last execution in the Salem witch trials, saying after the execution, "What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there." In December, a brother of Sarah Cloyce helped pay the bond to release William Hobbs from jail. Charges against Sarah Cloyce were dismissed by a grand jury on January 3, 1693. Her husband Peter had to pay the prison for her fees before she could be released. Sarah and Peter Cloyce moved after her release, first to Marlborough and then to Sudbury, both in Massachusetts. In 1706, when Ann Putman Jr. publicly confessed in church her contrition for her part in the accusations (saying that Satan had put her up to it), she pointed to the three Towne sisters: "And particularly, as I was a chief instrument of accusing of Goodwife Nurse and her two sisters [including Sarah Cloyce], I desire to lie in the dust, and to be humbled for it, in that I was a cause, with others, of so sad a calamity to them and their families...." In 1711, an act of the legislature reversed the attainders on many who had been convicted, but since Sarah Cloyce's case was eventually dismissed, she was not included in that act. Sarah Cloyce was the key character in the 1985 American Playhouse dramatization of her story in "Three Sovereigns for Sarah," starring Vanessa Redgrave as Sarah Cloyce in 1702, seeking justice for herself and her sisters. - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/salempeople/a/Sarah-Cloyce.htm The Cloyes were members of the Salem Village congregation of Rev. Parrish. Like the Nurse family, the Cloyes were also displeased with issues revolving around the Parris ministry and by 1692 were also "absenting" themselves from Sabbath. After Sarah's arrest, she was examined and refused to confess. She was fitted with hand and leg irons and placed in Salem jail with her sister Rebecka. Later she was removed to a Boston prison, and then with her sister Mary to Ispwich, and them back to Salem again. Two weeks after Rebecka's execution, a charge of 20 pounds sterling was presented by the blacksmith "for making fouer payer of iron ffetters and two payers of hand Cuffs and putting them on to ye legs and hands of Goodwife Cloys." Sarah's grandneice Rebecca Townes testified against her, just as she had testified against her great aunt Mary, and an indictment followed. Her husband Peter was truly devoted and toiled diligently for her release. Danvers church records note his devotion to her that summer: "Brother Cloys hard to be found at home being often with his wife in Prison in Ipswich for Witchcraft." Peter did the only intelligent thing as the shadow of the hangman's rope drew near in the new round of trials of January 1693. He broke Sarah out of jail and fled south. According to the book "Framingham Historical Reflections,"Clayes was imprisoned in Ipswich and smuggled out along with friends who had come to visit her ... conveyed by night to Framingham." Certainly Peter had been petitioning for a recognizance for his wife and it always possible they simply skipped bail. However they managed Sarah's escape, it was deep in New England winter when they made their way southwest to Framingham, then known as Danforth Plantation, and marked in old records of the times as "the wilderness." This is full 40 miles as the crow flies, but they did not undertake such an unlikely journey on speculation. They knew somehow they had a safe (albeit cold) haven waiting at Danforth Plantation in the wilderness. The only cross-country roads in 1693 were the early bridal paths that followed the old Indian trails. The only such path going southwest toward Framingham wasthe Old Connecticut Path. This wound its way from Watertown southwesterly through the wilderness lands until eventually reaching the shores of the Connecticut River near Hartford. Peter knew Old Connecticult Path, having grown up in Watertown. It was the main path southwest. In fact, it was the only path southwest. He had probably walked the eastern end extensively as a young man.The Cloyes would have carefully picked their way to Boston by night, avoiding encounters. It is unlikely they would have been unable to manage this portion of the trek without assistance from friends who helped smuggle Sarah out of Ipswich jail. For one thing, Sarah wasn't well. Having reached Boston safely, they would have gone west to Watertown and picked up the trailhead of the Old Connecticut Path. The Cloyes traveled this path southwesterly abuot 10 miles, entering the eastern side of the new town of Sudbury (now Wayland), following the lower contour of Reeve's Hill, well above the icy wet river meadows, and then crossing the frozen Cochituate Brook at the ancient wading place. Shortly thereafter they would have entered what is now the northeast corner of Framingham, crossing the Sudbury River at an ancient fordway, and then preceding southwest, a five-mile journey as the crow flies from Wayland. Refuge at Danforth Plantation. It's a strange thing, but Danforth Plantation where the Cloyes sought asylum was owned by one of the early Judges at the Salem Witch Trials. Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth had sat on the early Tribunal. But he had left the tribunal n May, everal months before the hangings began, harboring a secret disgust and ill-ease with the proceedings. In fact, Judge Sewall, a prominent withc trial judge, wrote in his diary that Danforth had done much to put an end "to the troubles under which the country groaned in 1692." It may also be that Danforth's departure from the tribunal in May might have to do with the fact that he was Deputy Governor under Governor Bradstreet, and the Governorship changed hands to Sir William Phips on May 14, 1692. He may simply no longer have had the position or authority to sit on the tribunal. Judging by his later actions, this may have been a disastrous loss for the accused. Danforth had acquired at least 16,000 acres of land in Colonial government grants between 1660 and 1662. This was originally known as Danforth Farm or Plantation, and later renamed Framingham. In a 1999 newspaper article, Herring is quoted as saying he believes that Danforth was the secret "guardian angel" who helped the Cloyes, and more than a dozen other escaping Salem area families who were "all related by blood or marriage," to fine refuge on his Plantation. Danforth subsequently turned over almost 800 acres to Salem families seeking asylum and safety, including the Towne, Nurse, Bridges, Easty and Cloyes families. The new settlement quickly became known as Salem End Road. They came fearing for their lives, seeking a safe haven, and found it on Danforth's Plantation, living in safety on his land as a reparation for their treatment in Salem. The Cloyes' escape and deliberate journey to the Plantation, the subsequent steady arrival of Salem Witch Trial refugees and the awaiting farmland, all smacks of a shadowy hand moving behind th scenes, and a loose network of helpful friends. In short, there are glimmers of a primitive "underground railway" in operation, quietly moving Towne sisters and related families out of Salem Village to a more hospitable locale. Danforth had been on the Tribunal through May, long enough to have observed the character of all three Towne sisters. Records show that the three sisters repeatedly behaved with dignity, piety, firmness and good character to such an extent that the magistrates hesitated repeatedly with their cases. ... The minister of Topsfield vouched for both Mary and Sarah, but to no avail. Sarah wrote elegant appeals that were ignored. It seemed the fates were blindly determined that they should die regardless of the laws of man and god. Many were rightfully impressed with the Towne sisters and deeply distressed with the proceedings. Danforth seems to have been one of those and afterwards made it his business to take in and see to the welfare and reparations of the surviving Towne sister's families, starting with Sarah (Towne) Cloyes herself. Ironically, in Arthur Miller's play The crucibloe, Danforth was unflatteringly portrayed as a "Black-robed paragon of Puritan rectitude." However it was that the Danforth haven became known to those fleeing the accusations and executions, a large boulder on Salem End Road was said to be the official landmark that signaled escaping families that they were on the Plantation and safe at last. A Cold Winter in the Rocks: It is unknown exactly where the Cloyes spent that first bitter winter in Danforth Plantation. But local legend has always claimed it w was in a network of small boulder caves in a steep cliff face (Witch Cliffs) on the Framingham-Ashland line. These caves have always been called Witch Caves. I have explored these caves twice; once in 2001 and more recently in 2007. One thing I can assure above anything else is that these caves are small, cold, drafty, and hard. Little improvement over the stone cell of Salem Town Prison. Of course, I am sure they would have blocked the holes tight with snow, stuffed the place full of leaves, made spruce-bough beds, built a lean-to of logs in front of the entrance, and made a door flap with birch bark. That's pretty much what any outdoorsman would do faced with such a situatoin. Add a fire under the lean-to, and it's a slight much better, and warmer, than you might expect. Peter Cloyes had been an Indian Fighter in the 1675-76 King Philip's war and lived in Wells, Maine, and was likely a rough and tumble woodsman of necessity. I don't think he would have have much trouble turning the caves into a snug burrow for the winter. Sarah was hardly in good health when she escaped Ipswich. She was 50 years old, and had spent nine months in various jails routinely shackled in irons, in unheated quarters, subsiding only on what her family was able to provide her. She emerged from jail that cold winter night a sick and fragile woman. She was very lucky to have survived the ensuing winter in the caves. Having survived the winter in the caves, the spring of 1693 brought new hope and a new start for the Cloyes. Danforth gave them permission to build a house on his land and that year they constructed a new house for themselves on Plantation property. Herring comments on the location, "There was the Cowasock Brook nerby and a relatively friendly Indian village. Just across what must've been a trail then (now Salem End Road), there's an enormous glacial boulder you can see today that probably served as a good landmark. This boulder is the one that escaping families looked for. ... The initial trickle of refugees intensified to a migration, and by 1700 when Peter signed the township petition for Framingham, at least 50 people related to the Towne sisters had re-settled from the Salem Village area to the Salem End Road district, with more than 800 acres given away to them by Danforth. Among the new arrivals included the families of Sarah's two sons from her first marriage, Caleb and Benjamin, Benjamin arriving in the spring of 1693, with Caleb following shortly thereafter. Rebecca's youngest son Benjamin Nurse also relocated with his family in 1693, as did Mary's son John Easty and his family a few years later. The Towne family was also represented early in the migration. Lt. John Towne and his son Israel Towne both relocated their families by 1698 and built on Danforth-gifted land. Lt. John, one of Framingham's original selectmen, was the son of the Towne sister's brother. Needless to say, grandneice Rebecca (Towne) Knight did not join them in Salem End Road. The Nurses changed the spelling of their name to Nourse to distance themselves from Salem, and if you examine Framingham's Old Burying ground, you will find many Towne, Nourse, Bridges, Easty, and Cloyes names represented throughout the years. (One Cloyes, John, was struct down by lightning in 1777.) The Townes did not saty long in the area, but the other "witch" names became part of the founding fabric and ongoing life of the town, and descendants still live there. The earliest existing grave marker left of the original emigres is that of Benjamin Bridges, who died in 1723. This marker, a rough field stone with the crudely cut epitaph, reads, "When he served his generation, by the will of God he fell asleep." ... Three Sovereigns for Sarah: After the court of Oyer and Terminer was dissolved, and all the witchcraft cases cycled through by May of 1693, the processes of petitioning for compensation and overturning the earlier verdicts began. At the fore of this effort was Mary's husband, Isaac Easty. It took almost 20 years, but on October 17, 1710, the General Court passed an act that, "the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and delcared to be null and void." Further, on December 17, 1711, Governor Dudley issued a warrant awarding Isaac 20 pounds sterling in compensation for the injustice of the 1692 verdict against Mary. Mary's sister Sarah received 3 gold Sovereigns, each worth 1/4 of a pound. Sarah retrieved them herself, in her first and only return to Salem. - http://www.boudillion.com/witchcaves/witchcaves.htm: "Sarah was the fourth child of William Towne and Joanna Blessing of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England and Topsfield, Massachusetts. She was their first born in New England, on January 11, 1638, in Salem, Massachusetts, and baptised there on September 3, 1648, along with some siblings. Later, the family moved to Topsfield, Massachusetts, where Sarah married, on January 11, 1659/60, Edmund Bridges, Jr., the son of Edmund Bridges and his wife, Elizabeth. Edmund was born about 1637. Sarah and Edmund had three children in Topsfield by 1667, then moved to Salem, Massachusetts, before 1669, where they had two more children, including Hannah. Edmund died about 1682 in Salem. After the death of Edmund, Sarah married Peter Cloyes of Salem Village, and apparently had 2 children, Benoni, baptised September 2, 1683, and Hepzibah, who married February 3, 1708, Ebenezer Harrington. In 1692, Sarah, along with her sisters Rebecca Nurse and Mary Esty, were accused in the Salem Witch trials. Rebecca and Mary were hanged, but Sarah, who had also been condemned, escaped from the jail in Ipswich. In the spring of 1693, members of the Towne, Bridges, Barton, Cloyes and Elliott families moved away from Salem, no doubt because of the witch trials, and settled in the new community of Framingham, Massachusetts, where Sarah died about 1703. Information for this biography from the privately published book, The Bartons, by Ray Barton Jr.; NEHGR, v. 84, 'The Bartons of Oxford, Massachusetts'; New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Torrey; Genealogical Dictionary of New England, by Savage; Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts (1933), by Blodgett & Jewett, pg 42; the vital records of Ipswich, Topsfield, Salem and Framingham, Massachusetts." - Ken Smith (findagrave.com) | Towne, Sarah (I1452)
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| 321 | Samuel and Chritian had 5 children; Lydia, Sarah, Joseph, Micah, and Benjamin. | Pratt, Samuel (I3619)
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| 322 | Samuel and Patience had at least 2 children; Judith and Samuel. | Pratt, Samuel (I621)
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| 323 | Samuel Blair Martin lived in Madison Tennessee in 1880. Hi lived in McCracken, Kentucky in 1900. He lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi from before 1910 until at least 1935 where he last appears in the city directory with thrid wife Robbie. | Martin, Samuel Blair (I1318)
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| 324 | Samuel D. Kenney, was a native of PA and was born there April 4, 1797. He married Lucy Robbins, a native of MA. She was born in MA on Nov. 13, 1802. Samuel and Lucy were married in Canada where both their families had moved just after the War of 1812. Samuel was a blacksmith and was in the employ of the British Government during the War of 1812. For his service, he received 200 acres of land in Halton Co. and he settled there after his marriage. He lived and died there at the age of 82. His wife, Lucy, died Oct. 17, 1860. Samuel and Lucy had 12 children: Timothy C., William M., Elizabeth Ann, Rebecca M., Samuel W., John S., David R., Lucyntha, Ruth Emily, Nathan C., George C. and Joseph F. - Portrait and biographical record of Kalamazoo, Allegan, and Van Buren Counties, Michigan : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States, Chicago, Chapman Bros., 1892, pg. 341 | Kenney, Samuel David (I2876)
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| 325 | Samuel served in King Philip's War under Captain Gardner. - Colonial Families of the United States, 1920 | Rhodes, Samuel (I72)
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| 326 | Samuel Sherburne (1720-1748) was the third child and oldest son of Lt. John Sherburne. Samuel settled on the homestead in Hampton, and is called a saddler in deeds. He married Lydia Marston, daughter of Deacon Thomas Marston and Deborah Dearborn. There were four children, but only two survived, Samuel and his sister Sarah. Samuel died at the age of twenty-seven. The cause was not listed. - http://grunerheritage.com/theotherside/sherburne/history2.html | Sherburne, Samuel (I3031)
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| 327 | Samuel Sherburne (1744-1824), the only son of Samuel and Lydia, married Phebe Chapman of Epsom, New Hampshire, daughter of Joseph Chapman and Mary Winn. Samuel was a soldier in the American Revolution. He was a private in the New Hampshire militia according to DAR records. He later received a pension for war injuries sustained on an expedition to Rhode Island. He and Phebe had four sons. It is not known exactly when he left New Hampshire, but he died in Mt. Vernon, Maine in 1824. - http://grunerheritage.com/theotherside/sherburne/history2.html | Sherburne, Lt. Samuel (I3029)
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| 328 | Sarah and Garrett had 7 children; Samuel, James, David, John, Garrett, Peter, and Lucinda. | Kenney, Sarah (I2895)
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| 330 | Served in the Revolutionary War | Hamlin, Isaac (I2360)
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| 331 | Served in the Revolutionary War | Hamlin, David (I2362)
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| 332 | Served in the Revolutionary War | Hamlin, Joseph (I2364)
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| 333 | Served in World War I, U.S. Army Nurse | Lange, Amanda Lee (I2148)
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| 334 | Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S508)
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| 335 | Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S509)
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| 337 | Son Finlay's death record lists Margory's maiden name as McDougal. | Campbell, Marjory (I2450)
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| 338 | SP May, p 41- Paul Sears took the oath of "Fidellyte" in 1657, held a commission as a captain in the militia, and made claim for a horse lost in Narragansett war, but I find no record of his services. October 30, 1667, he was one of the grand jury, in an inquest held on the child of Nicholas Nickerson. He was one of the original proprietors of lands in Harwich, between Bound and Stony brooks, known as "Wing's Purchase," as appears by deed of John Wing et als., to Paul Seers et als., dated April 16,1677, recorded at Plymouth. The early town records of Yarmouth were destroyed by fire at the burning of the town clerk's house in 1674, and from the succeeding volume the first twenty-six pages are gone, and others mutilated and worn. The names and dates of birth of his children have been supplied from various sources, and are believed to be correct. I annex copies of the will and inventory of Paul Sears;- the will is signed with his mark, as is also the inventory of John Burge's estate, rendered by him and recorded Barns. Rec II, 1701, p130. He left property valued at L 467 03 03, to his "loving wife Deborah," and to his sons, "Samuel, Paul and John;" that to his sons being charged with a payment to "their brothers, Richard and Daniel, towards their purchase of lands at Manamoy;" having given to his daughters, (whose names are unfortunately omitted) "such parts or portions as I was able or thought fitt." In the ancient cemetery in Yarmouth lies a stone slab, removed from its place to make room for the granite monument to the Searses, which bears the following inscription, surmounted by a cherub's head and scroll work: Here lyes the Body of Paul Sears, who Departed this life February ye 20th 1707, in ye 70th year of his age." It is the oldest dated memorial in the cemetery. His wife was doubtless laid by his side, but there is no stone to her memory. George Willard, the father of Paul Sears' wife, was the son of Richard and Joane (Morebread) W., of Horsmonden, Kent, Eng., where he was bap. Dec. 4, 1614. He settled at Scituate for a time, removing thence it is said to Maryland or Gorgeane Maine. There is some reason to believe that his wife was Dorothy Dunster, dau. of Henry D., of Baleholt, near Bury, Lanc., sister to Eliz'h D., who m. his bro. Simon Willard; and to Rev. Henry D., Pres. of Harvard College. [See Willard Mem., 1858, p. 339] Paul Sears was the first to adopt the present spelling of SEARS. In the name of God, Amen, the Twentieth Day of February, 1707-8. I, Paul Sears, Senr. of Yarmouth, in ye County of Barnstable, in New England, being at this time ill and weak in body but of Disposing mind and memory, Praised be God, Do make, Constitute, ordain and Declare this my Last Will and Testament, in manner and form following: First, and principally. I Comitt my soul to God, most humbly depending upon the gracious Death and merits of Jesus Christ my only Lord and Saviour for Salvation, and to the free pardon of all my sins. And my Body to the Earth to be buryed in such Decent Christian manner as to my Executors hereafter named shall be thought fitt. And as for my outward Estate, as Lands, Chattels and Goods, I do order Give and Dispose in manner and form following; First, - I will that all those Debts and Duties that I owe in Right or Conscience To any person whatsoever shall be truly paid in convenient time, after my Decease by my Executors hereafter named, out of my movable Estate. Item,- I do give and bequeath to my eldest son Samuel Sears, all that my land and meadow in the township of Harwich upon part whereof his house now stands as is comprehended within and between the boundaries now following: (that is to say ,) bounded on the east by Kenelm Winslows Land at ye known and accustomed bounds and on the west side beginning at a remarkable rock, (lying about four Rods eastward from Yarmouth bound Rock at bound brook,) and from the sd Remarkable Rock the line runs Southerly over the Swamp and up ye hill to a great Pine tree marked in sd Yarmouth line: and thence up ye same straight line Southerly to the highway: and thence eastward as the way runs to ye said Winslows Land, (the sd highway being the bounds on ye south side) And the beginning again att ye sd Remarkable Rock the line runs northerly to a stone sett in ye ground: and thence easterly to the edge of ye marsh by a straight line to another stone sett in to the ground, and so bounded by the marsh to another stone sett in the ground northerly on a straight line to a bend of ye main Creek at a stone sett in the Maresh, and on the north side tis bounded by the known and accustomed bounds and of my interest in the undivided lands in sd Harwich, viz.: that is my sd son Saml. shall sixteen acres to himself in ye next Division (ye proprietors make of the undivided Lands) and the one half of all the rest of my interest there. All which sd Lands and Meadows shall be to my sd son Samuel Sears, and to his heirs and assigns forever, he yielding to his mother, my wife, one third part of ye proffits thereof during her natural life, and also paying to his two brothers Richard and Daniel, forty and two pounds in money towards the paying their purchase at Manamoy. I do give him my Try pott and Kettle. It.- I do give and bequeath to my son Paul Sears and to his heirs and assigns forever, one piece of fresh meadow called the Green Meadow which lyeth on the north side of my old house and is bounded eastward at ye Well or Spring, then westward taking in all ye Marsh or ground to ye old cartway (which leads into ye neck) on Joseph Sears fence: thence northeastward as the old sd cartway and fence runs to Zachariah Paddocks fence or line which is ye bounds on ye north side to bound brook, the sd bound brook and well or spring being the bounds on the east side, and also one quarter part of my interest of the undivided Lands in sd Harwich (besides the above sd Sixteen acres given to my son Samuel,) and for the rest of my son Pauls land is in ye neck where he now dwells, and by me confirmed by Deed of Gift formerly, and my Will is that he shall yield to his mother, my wife, one third of the proffits or income of all I have given him, during her natural life, and that he shall pay to his two brothers Richard and Daniel, forty and four pounds in money towards the paying their purchases att Manamoy. My will further is that the Ditch which hath been the accustomed bounds in the marsh betwixt my son Paul, and my kinsman Josiah Sears shall remain forever; beginning southerly att ye upland and running straight northerly to the Creek which did run on ye north side of ye island, which creek shall be the north bounds: And my Will is, and I do give all that slip of meadow on the West side of ye sd ditch unto the said Josiah Sears, his heirs and assigns forever. It.- I do give and bequeath unto my son John Sears, and to his heirs and assigns forever, all the rest of my Homestead, both housings, lands and meadows, also one quarter part of all my interest in the undivided lands in ye sd Harwich, excepting the sixteen acres before given to my son Saml.-he my sd son John allowing and yielding to his mother, my wife, the one third part of my Housing, and the third of the proffits of ye lands during her natural life, and he paying to his two brothers Richard and Daniel, forty and four pounds in money towards their purchase att Manamoy. It.- I do give and bequeath all my movable Estate as Cattle, sheep, horses, swine and household stuff &c, unto my loving wife Deborah, (my Debts and Funerall charges being first paid.) She shall have the rest for her comfort while she lives: and what she leaves at her death to be equally divided amongst my daughters to whom I have each of them given such parts or portions as I was able or thought fitt. Lastly,- I do nominate and appoint my sd son Saml Sears and my Loving Wife Deborah executors to this my last will and testament. In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal ye day and year in ye other side first above written. Signed, sealed & declared in The mark and seal of presence of Paul (=) Sears, Senr. (seal), John Thacher, Zachariah Paddock, Samuel Howes - The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888 | Sears, Capt. Paul (I2704)
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| 345 | Stephen and Salome had one child, Stephen. They lived in Richmond and Swanzey, NH. Stephen was lost at sea and Salome later remarried. | Chaffee, Stephen Harrison (I268)
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| 346 | Stephen Chaffe served in the Revolution as follows: Chaffee Stephen, Rehoboth. Private, Capt. James Hill's co., Col. Williams's regt.; service from Sept. 29, 1777, to Oct. 30, 1777, at Tiverton, R. I.; also, Capt. Peleg Peck's co., Col. John Daggett's regt.; enlisted Jan. 16, 1778; discharged April 1, 1778; service 2 mos. 15 days; company stationed at Warwick, R.I.; enlistment, 3 months; roll sworn to at Swanzey; also, descriptive list of men mustered by James Leonard, Muster Master, dated Taunton, June 1, 1778; Capt. Joseph Franklin's (10th) co., Col. Thomas Carpenter's (1st Bristol Co.) regt.; age, 20 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 10 in.; complexion, dark; hair, brown; eyes, blue; residence, Rehoboth; enlistment, 9 months from time of arrival at Fishkill. - The Chaffee Genealogy 1635-1909 Chaffey, Stephen, Rehoboth Descriptive list of men enlisted from Bristol Co. for the term of 9 months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, June 16, 1778; 10th CO., 1st regt.; age, 20 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 10 in.; complexion, dark; residence Rehoboth; also, list of men returned as received of Jonathan Warner, Commissioner, by Col. R. Putnam, July 20, 1778." [Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution] - The Chaffee Genealogy 1635-1909 Stephen Chaffee was a carpenter and farmer. In 1796 he lived in Pittsford, Vt., and in 1800 in Chittenden, Vt., between 1796 and 1801 buying and selling land in those towns. He is also said to have lived in New Hampshire. About 1817 or 1818 he moved from Wallingford, Vt., to Springville, NY. - The Chaffee Genealogy 1635-1909 | Chaffee, Stephen (I391)
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| 347 | Stephen Goom's first wife died in 1790, leaving him with five small children. It's probable that Sarah Wilkins, 18 at the time, went to work for him as a governess. Sarah may have been the daughter of Thomas Wilkins and Elizabeth Lebeck, who lived near Stephen in the parish of St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey. Seven years after the death of Stephen's first wife, Sarah became pregnant for the first of three children she and Stephen would have together before getting married. All three were baptized in the nearby parish of St George the Martyr, rather than the church in the parish where they lived. Stephen claimed they were married at all three baptisms, but acknowledged they were illegitimate in his will in 1809, and referred to the two surviving children by the name Wilkins Goom. Stephen finally married Sarah in 1803, this time traveling to St Mary Whitechapel to do it. It's possible that health issues finally moved him to marriage. They had one more child in 1806 before Stephen died in 1809. - Ronda L. Oberlin, ancestry.com | Goom, Stephen (I126)
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| 348 | Sunrise Cemetery | Holman, Oliver Perry (I269)
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| 349 | Susanna and Joseph Morse had 7 chilcdren. After Joseph died she married John Fay and had 4 more children. | Shattuck, Susanna (I2328)
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| 350 | Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S506)
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