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Herman Pruss (1842 - 1891) Obit
CAPTAIN HERMAN PRUSS
From Der Nord Westen, 03 Dec. 1891:

After a 3 mo. long severe illness, Hermann Pruss died Mon. night. The deceased, who had been perfectly healthy
heretofore, fell suddenly ill on 26 Aug. with a liver illness. The doctors were unable to stem the course of the disease. His loss was felt throughout the entire city and county. Hermann Pruss was born 27 May 1842 in Neustadt in Schleswig-Holstein. His father was a boatman and so as soon as he finished school he went directly to sea. He rose from ships boy to ordinary seaman to helmsman, traveling to Europe, America, Asia and Africa, finally coming to America in 1854 to New York. Later he settled in New Orleans from where he served on the West Indian route. During the Civil War he was drafted into the Confederate military. After the war he came to Manitowoc on 14 June 1868 and served from here as captain of various sailing ships on the Great Lakes. In later years he gave up the sailor’s life and operated the “ Delmonico” Tavern until his recent hospitalization. Captain Pruss married on 21 June 1868. He is survived by his widow and 3 daughters. His funeral will take place today at 2 p.m. in the city cemetery.

[Herman Preuss/bur. 12-03-1891/age 48 yrs./cause: dropsy]
Der Nord Westen, 03 Dec. 1891: http://www.2manitowoc.com/44Probit.html#prussherman

Pruss, Herman (I31121)

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Herr Morten Beyer, kaptein fra Nordfjord, mer enn det vet vi ikke. Morten var Absalon Larsen Beyer sin morfar og det var og er kanskje vanlig at besteforeldre tar på seg farsrollen. Det kan se ut som det på folkemunne i Bergen het seg at Morten var Absalons far, dog står det Absalon Larsen Beyer i kirkebøkene da Absalon gifter seg. Absalons far het Lars Jonson Fossheim og kom fra gården Fossheim på Breim i Gloppen.

Beyer, Kaptein Morten Absalonsen (I36156)

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Hester Ann Perkins
born: 9 February 1823 in Sumter County, Georgia
died: 20 January 1908 in Daviston, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama
1900 Tallapoosa County (Alabama) Census lists Hester. A. Motley, 77, b February 1823, 11 children with 8 living, in the household of William Cotney and L. A. Cotney (her daughter).
Father: Hezekiah Abraham Perkins
Mother: Mary Ann C. Smith
Spouse: Coleman Pendleton Motley
married: 05 October 1843
Children:
1. John Motley (m. Mattie Floyd)
2.Louisiana Antinette Motley
3. Martha Ann Motley (m. Daniel Moses Cotney)
4. Sarah Elizabeth Motley (m. William Arnold "Billy" Cotney)
5. Coleman Pendleton Motley, Jr. (m. Annis Minerva Williams)
6. James D. Motley (m. T. E. //)
7. Mary Jane Motley (m. James M. Gay)
8. Nancy Motley (m. James Beglar Carlisle)
9. Cornelia Motley (m. Rufus Berry)
10. George Motley (m. Cora Smith)
11. William Motley

Perkins, Hester Ann (I2274)

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Hezekiah Abraham Perkins
born: Connecticut
died: abt 1825 in Sumter County, Georgia
He was an Indian trader, killed by Indians. The first name Hezekiah comes from the notes of Leona Gibson Bozeman, original source is unknown. Abraham Perkins sold land in Clarke County, Georgia, in 1803. He appears on the Militia Muster Roll in 1821. In 1798, an Abraham Perkins witnessed the deed of Peter Perkins in Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1798. Abraham Perkins appears on the Tax Lists of Clarke County, Georgia, in 1802, 1803, and 1819-21. The early tax records and the land sale of 1803 were likely to belong to Abraham Perkins Sr., father of this Abraham. The seller of the land would have to have been of age to make the sale, therefore b in the 1780s.

Perkins, Hezekiah Abraham (I5812)

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Hezekiah was born Oct 3 1728 and married Nov 28 1754 Submit Murdock He was in service during the revolution going to Boston with the first troops raised in Connecticut with a major's commission. Seeing the miserable condition of the arms then in the hands of the soldiers, he went to Philadelphia and made a proposal to congress to return to Windham and open a manufactory for repairing muskets and other arms. On this condition Washington returned his commission, and he served the government many years in repairing and making arms. He claimed that he was the first man in America who made a gun. After exhausting his means in this service he went to Philadelphia and effected a settlement with the government, receiving as his pay 74,000 dollars of continental paper. The value of this suddenly depreciated. so that to use his own language; a hundred dollars of it would not buy a breakfast. The entire package was kept many years in hopes of its redemption by the government, and finally committed by one of his sons to the flames after his death. He and his wife lived about ten years in Walpole NH, but returned to Windham Conn about the year 1803, where he died Sept 17 1807, and his wife April 24 1808 aged 74 years.

Huntington, Major Hezekiah (I18463)

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His birthdate is given in "The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635" (see sources below). His parents and origins are unknown. He arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1632 on "the second boat.". He married first to Patience Hurst, daughter of James Hurst, before June 7 1632 when their son John was born. Patience arrived in Plymouth with her father in 1631.

Henry and Patience moved to Scituate in 1634 and Barnstable in 1639. Henry was a Tavern Keeper and was licensed to draw wine at Barnstable June 5, 1644.

Henry and Patience were member numbers #7 & #8 at the founding of Scituate church on January 8 1634/5. On December 15 1635 he was invested into the office of Deacon at Scituate. He was ordained ruling elder of Barnstable church April 14 1670.

He was educated and signed his name to coroner's jury findings. His inventory included books valued at 24s. He was admitted Freeman on January 1 1632/3. His offices included Deputy for Barnstable, Coroner's jury, Plymouth petit jury and Excise collector for Barnstable. He was on the 1643 list of Plymouth men able to bear arms and on the committee for defense of Barnstable October 10 1643.

He married second to Sarah Hinckley on December 12 1649. She was the daughter of Samuel Hinckley and his wife Sarah Soole. Sarah Hinckley was the sister of Thomas Hinckley who was the Governor of Plymouth Colony from 1681 to 1692.

Henry's will was written April 4 1678 and proved June 3 1679.

CHILDREN WITH 1ST WIFE PATIENCE HURST:
1. John Cobb, who married 1st Martha Nelson and 2nd Jane Woodward
2. James Cobb, who married Sarah Lewis
3. Mary Cobb, who married Jonathan Dunham
4. Hannah Cobb, who married Edward Lewis
5. Patience Cobb, who married 1st Robert Parker and 2nd William Crocker
6. Gershom Cobb, who married Hannah Davis
7. Eliezer Cobb

CHILDREN WITH 2ND WIFE SARAH HINCKLEY:
8. Mehitable Cobb, who died young
9. Samuel Cobb, who married Elizabeth Taylor
10. Sarah Cobb, who died as an infant
11. Jonathan Cobb, who married Hope (Chipman) Huckins, daughter of John Chipman and widow of John Huckins
12. Sarah Cobb, (2nd of that name) who married Samuel Chipman
13. Henry Cobb Jr., who married Lois Hallett. Lois was the daughter of Joseph and his wife Elizabeth (Gorham) Hallett.
14. Mehitable Cobb, no further record
15. Experience Cobb, no further record

SOURCE INFORMATION:
(1) Robert Charles Anderson. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
Description:
The Great Migration Begins aims to provide comprehensive biographical and genealogical information, derived from a broad survey of primary and secondary sources, on all immigrants to New England between 1620 and 1633.

(2) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900; Source number: 1630.006; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Source number: 528.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RGI.

(3) American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI); Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.

(4) Family Data Collection Deaths; Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

(5) Passenger and Immigration Lists index, 1500s-1900s; Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts; Year: 1632; Page Number: 392; Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

Cobb, Henry (I34513)

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His children settled in Pittsylvania County.

Dodson, Greenham (I22222)

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His household contained 2 males under 10, 1 male 10-16, 1 male over 45, 3 females under 10, 2 females 10-16, 2 females 16-26, and 1 female 26-45.

Bennett, John (I21765)

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His name is recorded as Joel L. Bennett in his parents family bible.

Bennett, Joseph Lewis (I21776)

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His origins may be in Co.Shropshire, England.

He was educated at Clare Hall in Cambridge. He became a preacher, but was a dissenter. When the persecutions became highest, he left England and came to New England. He often preached in Massachusetts, but never became a minister. He first settled in watertown, but went to Dedham at the time of its settlement. He was active in the church there and was freeman in 1639. In 1642 he was appointed as a local magistrate and clerk of writs. In 1645 he was authorized to perform marriages in Dedham.

He came to Medfield at its settlement and his house lot was the first granted, on the corner of Main and North Streets. He built a house there by 1652. He was selectman from 1651 to 1654. In 1655, the first school was established, and Ralph was the headmaster. He was a representative to the General Court for several years and held almost every important office in the town. He died on January 11, 1684 in Medfield, his wife Rebecca died there in 1680. At this time, it is not known where Ralph was buried, but it is quite likely that he is buried in Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield, since his wife was buried there only four years previous to his death.

He married, in Wramplingham, Co.Norfolk, England on May 17,1630, Rebecca Clarke.

He may have married a second time very late in life to a woman named Hannah who died in 1682. But this is very doubtful.

Children: Mary Wheelock Miles, Gershom Wheelock, Rebecca Wheelock Crafts, Peregrina Wheelock Warfield, Benjamin Wheelock, Samuel Wheelock, Record Wheelock Ward(wife of Increase Ward), Experience Wheelock Warren, and Eleazer Wheelock.

Wheelock, Ralph (I42411)

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His requests for land patents (almost 1200 acres) are recorded in the Land Entry Book, 1737-1770. He may not have received all this land, but it proves he was living here in order to request the surveys.

Reynolds, Hugh (I2103)

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His third marriage in 1713 was to Marie Elisabeth Jorgendtr Thormohlen, who died in 1742 (her first marriage was to a Councilman Laurids Weiner in Bergen).

Thormöhlen, Marie Elizabeth Jørgensdtr (I167)

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His tombstone reads "Rev. Wm. Dodson Died April 1832 Aged 97 years. A Pioneer Baptist Minister." The cemetery where he is buried is in modern day Alexander County, North Carolina.

Dodson, William (I22260)

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HISTORIC HOMES and PLACES AND GENEALOGICAL and PERSONAL MEMOIRS RELATING TO THE FAMILIES OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS VO

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(II) John Parmenter, son of John Parmenter (I), was born in England and died April 12, 1666. He was a proprietor of Sudbury; was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643; in 1676 signed a petition for relief from taxes. He kept a hotel called Parmenter Tavern, at which the committee of the colonial court and ecclesiastical council for settlement of difficulties in Sudbury in 1655 were entertained. The hotel was situated on the south street of the settlement of Wayland, on a house lot assigned in general allotment in 1639. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, a hotel was conducted at the same spot.... He married Amy ____, who died 1681. Children: 1. John, born about 1639; made executer of his grandfather’s will. 2. Joseph, born March 12, 1642. 3. Mary, born June 10, 1644; married Richard Burk. 4. George, married Hannah Johnson, daughter of Solomon Johnson, and resided at Sudbury and Framingham; died 1727. 5, Benjamin, mentioned below, 6. Lydia, born October 16, 1655; married June 5, 1681, Thomas Pratt, Jr.

Parmenter, John (I4153)

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Historical Context of the David Graves House1825 to present , Lowndes Co., AL

From the Historic American Building Survey, National Park Service, Department of the Interior: "In 1818 David Graves and his father, William Graves received land patents from the Federal government and moved to Alabama. This part of Alabama was then western Montgomery County and the Graves family is mentioned as being pioneer settlers of the area. William Graves was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and was selected for various offices such as Justice of the Peace. In 1821, (William)Graves was appointed to a committee which was to select a site for the Montgomery County Courthouse. In 1822 an election precinct was established at the Graves home and his son David was elected as a tax collector for the county. During these years, the Graves family increased their land holding and built the one story house which remain extant." (See Note #1 below).

In 1830, the western part of Montgomery County was partitioned off to become part of Lowndes County. The 1830 Lowndes County census lists David Graves and a family of 13 occupying land in the northeast part of the county. A second source states that this property consisted of 360 acres. Between 1834 and 1842, a post office for Graves Landing is listed on the Alabama River north of the Graves home to serve the surrounding rural community. Both William Graves, Sr. and his son David died in 1836 and an inventory of their estate shows they were owed in excess of $10,000. David's brother, William Jr., and son Peyton assumed control of the Graves property and continued to increase the size of the plantation.

By 1850, several descendants of William Graves, Sr. had become prominent planters. William Graves, Jr. died in 1854 and his estate was listed as worth over $33,000 and containing 1,072 acres. Other family members such as Peyton Graves and Y.W. Graves are listed as owning substantial acreage and large numbers of slaves. While the exact occupants of the Graves home is uncertain, it is believed that Peyton Graves resided there before the Civil War. In addition to his prominence as planter, Peyton Graves was also a successful lawyer and politician and in 1863 he was elected to the state legislature from Lowndes County. His brother-in-law, Thomas Judge, was also a prominent lawyer serving in the Alabama Senate and Supreme Court.

The Civil War appears to have had a significant influence on the Graves plantation. Most members of the family left the area to settle in Lowndesboro and Montgomery. Peyton Graves moved to Montgomery but retained ownership of part of the plantation. An 1873 Alabama newspaper mentions his ownership of property in Lowndes County and his advanced methods of cotton cultivation. It is unknown which family member resided in the house after the Civil War. Clara Graves owned the property until 1891 and the last interment in the family cemtery occured in 1884. After 1900, the house was purchased by Eli Robinson and occuped by his son, George, who lived there with his family. The Robinsons owned the house until the 1940s although the progression of ownership is not clear. In past years the house has been altered and used by the owner as rental property.

Although the Graves family left the area in the late 19th century, their influence continued to be felt in later years. In 1928, a marker signifying William Graves' participation in the Revolutionary War was placed in nearby Manac by the county chapter of the D.A.R. The Graves family continued to be active in politics and the grandson of Peyton Graves, Bibb Graves, served two terms as governor of Alabama between 1927 and 1939.

Southeast of the Graves house across Highway 40 is the Graves family cemetery which contains twenty marked graves. The cemetery was in use between 1832 and 1884 and contains members of the Graves and allied families. Among those buried in the cemetery are: William Graves, Sr. and his wife Sarah; David Graves and six of his children; and various members of the Hinkle, Fagan, and Judge families." (See Note #2 below)

NOTE #1: Subsequent to this article, the David Graves House was moved to the Ft. Toulouse-Jackson Park, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., AL. The Wetumpka AL website states: " Graves House: Originally located in Lowndes County, this Tidewater cottage was moved to the park to avoid destruction. Built between 1825-1830 by David Graves, the son of a Revolutionary War Hero. It has been restored by the Alabama Historical Commission and now serves as an interpretive center for the park."

NOTE #2: The Graves family cemetery is currently on land owned by General Electric. Permission is required to access the area.

Mary Thompsonadded this on 20 Sep 2007Transcription from the Historic American Building Survey, National Park Service, Dept. of the Interior outling the history of the David Graves House, Lowndes Co., AL

Graves, David (I9129)

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Historical Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1749, 282 rolls); Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Source (S1146)

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History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts

edited by Simeon L. Deyo.

1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co

pages 366-418 of CHAPTER XVI.

TOWN OF BARNSTABLE.

Natural Features. —Early Industries. —Settlement. —Indian Lands and Names. —Names of Settlers. —Incorporation. —Purchase from Indians. —County Road. —Early Mills. —Common Lands. —The Revolution. —War of 1812. —Population. —Schools. —Civil History. —Churches. —Cemeteries and Villages: (Barnstable, West Barnstable, Old Cotuit, Cotuit Port, Osterville, Wianno Beach, Hyannis, Hyannis Port, Centreville, Craigsville, Marston's Mills)—Societies.

—Biographical Sketches [in separate file].
WHILE Yarmouth on the east has been dismembered and Sandwich on the west has become the mother of Bourne, Barnstable, the central town of the original three, and still the central one of the five, remains nearly the same as originally laid out. Its historical prominence as one of the original towns of 1639, and its geographical position, led to its selection as the shire town when the county was organized in 1685. It is trapezoidal in shape, the western bounds, along Sandwich and Mashpee being eleven miles in extent, and the eastern along Yarmouth six. Vineyard sound laves its southern shore along ten miles of beautiful beach, while Cape Cod bay spans six miles of Sandy neck for its northern bound. The ancient Cummaquid harbor extends across its northern part and several bays and harbors indent its southern coast. A high ridge extends east and west across the town north of the middle, south of which the surface is a vast undulating plain sloping toward the sound. The northern part contains the great salt marsh extending nearly across the town along the harbor. The streams are small and run both ways from the central ridge.

The area of ponds in this town is greater than that of any other in the county, being over seventeen hundred acres, besides many small ones unworthy of special mention. The largest is Great pond, variously known as Nine-mile or Iyanough's, embracing an area of seven hundred acres, situated about the center of the town, and having only an artificial outlet which was opened by the Nine-mile Pond Fishing Company. This pond furnishes many kinds of excellent fish.

Of the twenty-seven ponds embraced in the town only three others have visible outlets. Spruce pond, of twelve acres, has Bridge creek, and the pond of eighteen acres south of West Barnstable has Scorton creek for their respective outlets. The other ponds are Long pond of sixty-three acres, in the west part of the town; Steward's, of thirty-

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six; Muddy, of twenty-five acres, at Newtown; Shubael, of fifty; Round pond of thirteen acres, south of Shubael; Cotuit ponds, west of Shubael pond and the plains, the most southerly containing 126 acres, the one north of this 118, and the most northerly one 147 acres; Pondsville pond, eleven acres; Lovell's, forty-eight, in the west part; one north of Osterville has fourteen acres and another fifteen; Mill pond, sixteen, west of Centreville; a pond of twelve acres north of the last; Shallow pond, east of Iyanough, has ninety acres; Hathaway's, fifteen; pond north of the last, twenty-one acres; Israel, twenty-one, in east part; Small, twenty-two; Half-way, twelve: Lewis, ten; Long pond of sixty-nine acres, east of Centreville, this also has an artificial outlet; two ponds west of Hyannis, containing respectively, twelve and ten acres.

The boulders of Barnstable are profusely scattered from the north shore to the summit of the ridge, which extends in an east-westerly direction through the town. Generally these lands are the most fertile. South of the water shed no stones of any significance are found, and the soil is generally sandy. Stone fences, which are general on the north side, are not found on the south side, and the foundation stones for buildings in Osterville and other villages on the south side have been carted from a distance.

The soil on the south side of the town is somewhat sandy on the uplands, and a rich loam in the valleys and around its numerous ponds, while near the north shore the soil is a heavier loam. The varied forms of agriculture, including the great cranberry industry, constitute the principal land occupation of the people in the sparsely settled and rural communities. Brick are manufactured at West Barnstable, and boat building on the south shore is still an industry. Maritime enterprises early furnished employment to many, and became an important source of revenue for the people. In 1839 men of this town were filling every branch of maritime pursuits—from the highest positions in the best ships of the Union to the humblest coaster, to the number of 250, and after that the number increased until about 1855.

The superior advantages from its waters, the vast marshes which furnished an abundance of ha}', the supposed richness of its soil, and the many acres already cleared and cultivated by the natives, were the arguments that induced the whites to make the first settlement of the town. Permission was granted by the Plymouth court in 1639 "for seating a congregation," whose leaders had intended to settle at Sippecan (now Rochester). But a diversity of opinion arose, and the growing wish to settle at Mattacheese led to a division of the congregation into three companies, who should pray for direction in the election of committees " to set clown the township." A former grant of Mattacheese to Mr. Callicot and others, of Dorchester, having

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been rescinded, .and other impediments removed, the little band determined to seek the lands at Mattacheese. This was the Indian name of lands, now in Barnstable and the northern part of Yarmouth, adjoining the ancient Cummaquid harbor. The lands of this township contained other Indian tribes at the south and west, each having its sachem, by whom the community was ruled. The names of the small tribes and their tracts were identical. Iyanough's land and tribe was south—midway between the bay and sound; his name was often spelled Janno and Ianno and Hyanno. Chequaket, now Centreville; Coatuit, Santuit, Mistic, Skanton, partially in Sandwich; and Cotocheeset were communities and lands south of and around Iyanough's. With the remembrance that Cummaquid harbor is now Barnstable harbor, the reader will be better able to follow the first settlement and further purchase of the town.

After the determination of the congregation to "set down at Mattacheese," on the 26th of June a fast was held at Scituate, where this colony were residing, "that the Lord in his presence" go with them to this new land. Rev. John Lothrop, the beloved pastor of the church there, by his letters, found among Governor Winslow's papers, has furnished many facts concerning the trials of himself and associates as to where the settlement should be. Some historians assert that Joseph Hull, Thomas Dimock and their few associates had settled here during the summer, or in advance of Mr. Lothrop and his associates; and there are circumstances that substantiate that. On June 4, 1639 (June 14, N. S.), the colony court granted permission to Messrs. Hull, Dimock and others "to erect a plantation or town at or about a place called by the Indians Mattacheese;" and Rev. Mr. Lothrop, in his diary, said, that upon their arrival at Mattacheese, "After praise to God in public was ended, we divided into three companies to feast together—some at Mr. Hull's, some at Mr. Mayo's, and some at Br. Lumbard's Sr." Prior to this—sometime in 1638—Rev. Stephen Bachilor and a few associates made a fruitless attempt to settle in what is now the northeastern portion of Barnstable. The location was for a time considered as a part of Yarmouth; hence some writers make Rev. Bachilor a settler of Yarmouth.

There is no other record of the settlement of Barnstable until the arrival of Rev. John Lothrop and his associates on the 21st of October, 1639 (N. S.). The greater part of Mr. Lothrop's church accompanied him to Barnstable, leaving the remaining few "in a broken condition." Besides Joseph Hull and Thomas Dimock and their associates as mentioned in the grant, we find here in the autumn of 1639, John Lothrop, the pastor, Mr. Mayo, Mr. Lumbard, sr., Isaac Wells, Samuel Hinckley, Samuel Fuller, Robert Shelley, Edward Fitzrandal, Henry Ewell, Henry Rowley, James Cudworth, William Crocker, John

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Cooper, Henry Cobb, George Lewis, Robert Linnell, William Parker, Edward Caseley, William Caseley, Henry Bourne, Anthony Annable, and Isaac Robinson.

The town was incorporated September 3, 1639, and on the first Tuesday of December, the same year, its deputies took their seats in the general court.

Others came to the town during the fall, winter and spring following, so that in 1640 we find here these heads of families in addition to those already mentioned: Thomas Allyn, Nathaniel Bacon, Austin Bearse, William Bills, Abraham Blush, John Bursley, John Caseley, Henry Coggen, John Crocker, Dolor Davis, Richard Foxwell. Roger Goodspeed, James Hamblin, Thomas Hatch, Thomas Hinckley, Thomas Huckins, John Hull or Hall, Samuel Jackson, Laurence Lichfield, Thomas Lothrop, John Smith, Thomas Shaw, John Scudder, John and Samuel Mayo, Thomas Lombard, Bernard Lombard, and Robert Linnet. Before the lands were divided others had arrived, among whom were: Richard Berry, Francis Crocker, John and Nicholas Davis, William Tilley, David Linnet, Benjamin and James Lothrop, Nathaniel Mayo, Samuel Lothrop, John Foxwell, Thomas Blossom, John Blower, Thomas Boreman, William Pearse, John Russel, Nicholas Sympkins, Laurence Willis, and Samuel House.

A very few of those mentioned returned or removed elsewhere, whose names do not appear again, but the larger portion of these settlers are represented to-day in Barnstable by lineal descendants, and generally by name. Other settlers, and the sons of these already given, are named as freemen and voters in the civil acts of the proprietors, so that the reader will be enabled to trace the "new comers " to 1670.

The settlement thus begun in the Mattacheese territory was confined to the northern portion of the present town until 1644, when on the 26th of August, a further purchase of lands of the Indians was made by the town, being a portion to the southwest of that already settled by the whites. It was purchased of Serunk, a South Sea chief, and extended from the Sandwich line easterly; the consideration paid was four coats and three axes. The deed signed by Serunk, by mark, was witnessed by Anthony Annable, Henry Cobb, Thomas Allen, John Smith, Laurence Willis, and Thomas Dimock.

The second purchase, in 1647, was of Nepoyetum, Indian, by Thomas Dimock and Isaac Robinson, who were appointed by the town to act for them. The deed was signed by the parties and by Thomas Hinckley and Tauonius, Indian, as witnesses, conveying land for which the town was to build three-score rods of fence, give him two coats and do certain plowing.

The next purchase was in 1648, of Paupmunnuck, a South Sea In-

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dian. In this purchase Miles Standish acted for the settlers, and secured the southern part of the town from the Mashpee line east to the Oyster river, and to Iyanough, or Ianno's lands on the east, and to Nepoyetum's lands on the north. The pay for this was two brass kettles and some fencing done. This completed the purchase of the western part of the town from bay to sound and along the northern part; and the bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable were fixed in 1652, substantially as now. The lands at Cotuit were then part of Mashpee, but have been since added to Barnstable. In 1659 the first bounds between Yarmouth and Barnstable were fixed, nearly one mile west of the present bounds.

In 1664 a purchase of the lands of Iyanough was perfected, which gave to the town more substantially its present area. The deed was taken for the town by Thomas Hinckley, Nathaniel Bacon and Tristam Hull, being for land at the South sea extending easterly to Yarmouth, northerly to that bought of Nepoyetum, and westerly to that purchased of Paupmunnuck, except that given to Nicholas Davis, which soon after was purchased by the town. This deed embraced the southeastern part of the present town, except a tract owned by John Yanno, son of Ianough, in and around Centreville, which was purchased of him in 1680 by Thomas Hinckley in behalf of the town. Some subsequent minor purchases of small reservations brought the lands of the town to the ownership of the proprietors, and over this territory the settlers were fast erecting their rude cabins.

Of course difficulties arose regarding bounds of lands, and in 1658 the bounds between Mashpee and Barnstable were set, leaving the lands about Satuit pond to the Mashpees; and later the west bounds of Yarmouth were defined "from the centre of Stoney Cove creek due north to the sea"—substantially the present bounds. The proprietors were yet very careful as to the character of new comers, concerning which rules were made by the general court. In 1661 William Crocker and Thomas Huckins were empowered to take notice of any who should intrude themselves without the town's consent. The underlying reason, however, for such surveillance was that religions not orthodox should be kept away. There was room in town for more people if they were of the right faith, as the entire territory between the Long pond and Shoal pond had no settlers yet, and it was made " commons for the town's cattle."

The main line of travel from these Cape towns in these early days was toward Plymouth, and the subject of a road—a main, well-defined, wide road—was agitated. The road for the time had been opened from Sandwich, south of Scorton hill, south of Honey bottom, so-called, and so easterly near the old church in the West parish, through the woods on the south side of the pond into the present road, to avoid

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the creek that had no bridge. In 1685 the court ordered a road opened through Barnstable, and sixteen men, whose names appear at the bottom of the survey, were empaneled as a jury to lay it out. The road has been since known as the "county road," and is the main street of Barnstable village. By the courtesy of Mr. Gustavus A. Hinckley, of Barnstable, we are enabled to produce a copy of the original survey, verbatim et literatim, that our readers may not only enjoy its quaintness, but locate the settlers on its sides.

"The County road or highway laid out by ye in March and April 1686 through Barnstable is as followeth—beginning at ye bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable, running for ye most part easterly at a rock lying in Ralph Jones, his fence, ye north side of ye sd way and a heap of stones on ye south side of sd way, from thence to a red oak markt tree on ye south side of ye sd way upon ye land that was Capt. Fuller's, from thence to ye fence of John Fuller Jr., on ye south side of sd road, and a markt tree upon ye north side of ye way, from thence to marked trees on both sides of sd way at ye corner of Wm. Troop's fence where ye way goeth down to Scorton, from thence to ye foot of ye hill between ye fence of Wm Troop and a little swamp & so to ye said Troop's stone ditch on ye north side of sd road and a bound set on ye south side within ye fence of sd Troop ye sd Troop's dwelling house on ye north side of sd road, from thence to trees marked on each side of ye way by a swamp and from thence to a marked tree on ye north side of sd road bounded by a stone set in ye field on ye south side of sd road and Mr. Smith's house on ye north side to the fence of John Bursley bounded by trees marked within ye fence of ye Widdow Davis on ye south side of ye way runing between ye dwelling house of sd Widdow Davis and ye barn of sd John Bursley on ye north side of sd way & so over ye bridge called John Bursley's bridge, from thence to a marked tree on each side of sd way upon Peter Blossom's land to a stake set upon Peter Blossom's orchard, leaving ye sd Peter Blossom's house on ye south side of sd road, from thence thro ye lands of Wm Dexter bounded by several marks set up within ye fence of Phillip Dexter on ye north side of sd road, ye house of sd Phillip Dexter on ye north side of sd road & ye house of Increase Clap on ye south side bounded by a stone in ye orchard of sd Clap, through ye lands of Samuel Parker & John Crocker bounded by a markt tree and a stone within ye fence of sd Parker on ye south side of sd road by ye house of Richard Childs & ye house of Lieut John Howland on ye north side of sd road and ye barn of sd Howland on ye south his sheep yard in ye highway runing by ye house of Elder John Chipman on ye north and ye house of John Otis on ye north bounded by three marks set up within his fence on ye south side of sd road runing through or by ye foot of ye lands of Samuel Hinckley

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Senr, bounded by marks set up within John Otis his fence on ye north side of sd way, runing over ye bridge called Hinckley's bridge thro ye lands of Joseph Blish bounded by marks on ye side of ye sd way neer ye marsh between ye lands of Mr. Samuel Allin and sd Blish bounded by three marks set up within ye fence of sd Allin on ye north side of sd road & sd Allins and ye house of Joseph Blish on ye south side of sd road running by ye house of Widdow Annable's and ye house of Thomas Ewer both on ye north side of sd road bounded by two marks set within ye fence on sd Ewer's land on ye south side of sd road, running by or neer ye upper end of Deacon Crocker Junr. his land, on ye south side of a great rock partly at ye head of the lands of Austin Bearce, runing through a valley to coming into ye old road neer ye land of Thomas Huckins, always provided that Dea.. Crocker Junr. make ye way that is turned out of ye old road (at his Desire) or cause it to be made a good convenient passable way till it come into ye old road again, runing above ye houses of Thomas Huckins James Hamlin Senr. Mr. Russel neer by ye meeting house all on ye north side of sd road, by ye pond called formerly Coggins pond on ye north side of sd way leaving ye Governours house on ye south and his barn on ye north side of sd road bounded by three marks set up within his fence on ye south side of sd way, from thence runing by ye house of John Lothrop and Mr. Barnabas Lothrop on ye north side of sd way & so thro ye lands of Capt.. Lothrop between ye house of sd Capt Lothrop on ye southwest & ye house of Melatiah Lothrop on ye northeast side of sd road & along by ye house of Thomas Lothrop on ye north side of sd road being too narrow ye breadth of his stone wall in ye bottom neer his house, & so going along by Isaac Chapman's house and shop on south side of sd way being too narrow is bounded into his land on ye north side of sd way from ye corner of his stone wall to Henry Taylor's fence, sd road going along by ye house of Saml Sarjant on ye south side and ye house of John Davis Senr. on ye north side of sd way up ye hill called Cobbs hill by ye house and shop of Lieut James Lewis on ye south side of sd way too narrow at his barn three foot, & so sd road lying along neer ye house of Mr. Bacon on ye north side of sd way leaving ye house of Serjant James Cobb on ye south side & ye house of Ensign Shobel Dimock on ye north side of sd road sd way too narrow ye breadth of his fence from John Scudders to a stake set in his field in ye swamp, sd way runing along close by ye house of Henry Taylor on north side of sd way bounded by a little stone & a stake in ye swamp within ye fence on ye south side of sd way lying along by ye house of George Lewis & ye house of Thomas Hinckley on ye south side of sd way bounded by a little stone in ye swamp within his piece.. Said way runs by Saml Cobbs house & Josiah Davis his house on ye

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north side of sd way bounded by a stake in his field on ye south side and by Joseph Benjamin's fence by a stone set in his field and by three stones laid together and by a little stone drove into ye ground with little stones laid about it on south side of sd way, runing along thro ye lands of James Gorham leaving ye house of Josiah Hallett and James Gorham on north side of sd way bounded into the field of sd Gorham on south side of sd way by three stones & stones laid together at ye west corner of his fence of sd field & so thro ye lands of John Gorham leaving his house and barn on ye north side of sd road bounded by a stake set within his hay yard fence between his house and barn & so running to ye bounds of Yarmouth neer where are three great stones laid together being laid all along forty foot.

"The names of ye Jury: Capt. Lothrop, Lieut. Rowland, Ensign Dimock, James Gorham, Jabez Lumbart, James Cob, Saml Cob, Nathl. Bacon, Ensign Lumbart, Lieut. James Lewis, John Phinney, Job Crocker, Samuel Hinckley sr., Joseph Blish, Josiah Crocker, James Hamblin jr."
The town, tiring of long trips to Plymouth for grinding, in 1687 ordered that a wind mill be built, either on Cobb's hill or the old Meeting House hill, and appropriated money and land to pay for it. Thomas Paine of Eastham constructed one on Meeting House hill, much to the satisfaction of Barnabas Lothrop and Samuel Allen, who were the committee to oversee the work. The same year John Andrews and others were granted a tract of eight or ten acres at the river by John Goodspeed's, and the benefit of the stream, "to build and keep a fulling mill." but there is no record of its being built. Roads were rapidly laid out, branching from the county road. In 1689 the same jury, whose names have been given, opened a highway into the woods opposite the Dimock house, another into the common field, and by the opening" of this communication permission was given for another fulling mill, which was erected on the river where the Goodspeeds resided—now Marston's Mills—and Thomas Macy, or Massey, was made keeper of it. The contract with the town was that it should be kept running twenty years, and it was. much longer. The reader of the present day can hardly realize that the wool and flax at that time, and a hundred years later, were spun and woven into cloth for domestic use, and the fulling mill was as necessary as the grist mill. In 1696 other roads were laid out. and Mr. Otis had permission to build a warehouse on Rendezvous creek. He was given forty feet

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square of land for the purpose, and this was the first store-house on the harbor in that part of the town east of the present court house. Rendezvous creek is said to have run northerly across the marsh, and had its source in the swamp back of Eben B. Crocker's residence.

Prior to 1700, communities had sprung up and started the various industries that the town needed. The creeks that furnished the power for mills were south of the ridge that lines the marshes and harbor on the north side of the town. In 1696 we find along the south shore John, Benjamin and Ebenezer Goodspeed, Thomas Macy, John, James, William and Andrew Lovell, John Issum, Thomas Bumpas, Dolor Davis, Thomas Lewis, Joshua Lumbert, John Linnel, John Phinney, jr., Edward and John Lewis, Joseph Lothrop, jr., Edward Coleman, and the Hallett, Crosswell. Bearse and Claghorn families. These names are largely represented now along the southern side of the town, at Cotuit, Marston's Mills, Osterville, Centreville and Hyannis.

In 1703, after a controversy of many years, a final division and apportionment of the land of the proprietors was made. They divided about six thousand acres among those who were entitled to the lands, and this bone of contention was removed. Too many who were not proprietors, nor their descendants or assigns, wanted rights in the commons, and the final division was much complicated by the great number of actual owners. They reserved eighty acres for schools, known as the school lot, in the south part of the town, and eight)" for the ministry, known as the minister's lot. on the north side.

There was a poor house, prior to 1768, in the western part of the town, for that year it was "voted to build a new poor house on the site of the old one;" but when the first was built, neither tradition nor records give any date. This house of 1768 was used until 1821, when a new one was built on the farm which Parker Lombard had bequeathed "to the support of the poor forever." This is the house now in use, situated at West Barnstable. The Lombard tract mentioned, extends from the poor house north to the harbor. The old road running from the church to the cemetery is in part the eastern boundary of the tract.

Hinckley, Samuel (I7886)

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HISTORY OF CONCORD by LEMUEL SHATTUCK
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JONES: EPHRAIM, the second son of the first JOHN, m. RUTH WHEELER,1673. He d. 1676; she m . again, THOMAS BROWN, having JOHN and MARY JONES.

Wheeler, Ruth Vinton (I136)

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History of Concord MA with reference to Moses Wheat
Concord, Middlesex co, MA History Chapter III
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The Nine Overseers of Concord 1654
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We shall now recur to the civil history of the town from the time to which it was brought up in the first chapter. As the lands became more cleared, the meadows were somewhat dryer, and ceased to be a subject of frequent complaint. The inhabitants sought other spots for cultivation, more productive than the sandy ones on which they first settled; and those that remained became more contented with their situation. Their numbers soon after began to increase. Some additional land was granted to the town; and parts of the old settlement had become vacant by the removal of the original inhabitants. A second division of lands now took place.

The town met several times to consider in what manner this division should be made. On the 2nd of January, 1654, it was voted to divide the town into three parts or quarters, and to have the lands first divided in the quarters; but this was not entirely satisfactory to the inhabitants. "Much weariness about these things," say the Records, too place before the system was matured. On the 8th of March, 1654, "at a publique training," nine men were chosen, "three out of each quarter, empowered by the town to hear and end former debate, according to their best light, and discresion, and conscience; only eight of the nine must agree to what is determined, or else nothing to be of force; and none voted to the contrarie but Georg Wheeler, Henry Woodies, Joshua Edmands, William Buttrick and Thomas Stow." The labors of this committee resulted in the following agreement:

"We whose names are under written, conclude that 20 acres of meadow shall be resarved for a minister in the Hogepen-walke about Annursnake, and 20 acres of plowland out of the south quarter and 20 acres of woodland in the east quarter. We agree also that 20 acres of woodland shall be resarved for the public good of the towne, lying neer the old hogepen, at each
side of the townes bounds line. That some particular persons shall have some inlargement, whoe are short in lands, paying 12 pence per acre, as others have done, and 6 pence per acre, if the towne consent thereto: - the persons are as follows:

Georg Wheeler 20 acres
Obadiah Wheeler 20 acres
Michel Wood 12 acres
Thomas Daken 10 acres
Thomas Batman 15 acres
Bapties Smedly 14 acres

These to have second division as others have had. That all poore men in the towne that have not commons to the number of four, shall be allowed so many as amounts to foure with what they have already, till they be able to purchase for themselves, or untill the townsmen shall see cause to take it from them, and bestow it on others that want: and we mean those poore men, that at the present are householders. And upon these conditions and thos that follow, the Hogepen-walke is resigned up to the north quarter.

"The divisions of the heighwaies are as foloweth: The north quarter are to keepe and maintaine all their heighwaies, and bridges, over the great river in their quarter; and in respect of their greatness of charg thereabout, and in regard of the ease of the east quarter above the rest in their highwayes, they are to alow the north quarter three pounds. The east quarter are to keepe and maintain all their heighwayes and the bridge over the north river (Darby's bridge) and the heighway there to the heighland, by estimation 3 or 4 rods, where the commissioners of Concord and Lancaster being chosen by their townes to lay out their heighwayes did appoint it. The south quarter are to keepe and maintaine all their heigh-
wayes and bridges over the south river, except that at the north river before expressed that is laid on the east quarter; the south river bridge being to be set where the aforesaid commissioners appointed it, as their agreement declares; and all these heighwayes and bridges are to be maintained forever by the quarters on whom they are now cast. And it is further concluded that if any damage shall come to the towne by the neglect of any part of the towne in any part of their wayes, that part of the towne so neglecting either bridges or wayes, shall beare the damage and secure the rest of the town.

"The limits of each quarter as followeth:

"The north quarter by their familyes are from the north part of the training place to the great river and all on to the north side thereof. The east quarter by their familyes are from Henry Farweles all eastwards with Thomas Brooke, Ensign Wheeler, Robert Meriam, Georg Meriam, John Adames, Richard Rice.

"The south quarter by their familyes are all on the south and southwest side of the mill brooke except those before acsprest (expressed) with Luke Potter, Georg Heaward, Mihel Wood and Thomas Dane.

"We doe choose overseeres in each quarter for the faithful performance of their duty in that case in all particulers, so far as may conduce for the profit and good of these quarters, as to make rates to pay workmen and to see that all persons come in seasonable time and keepe them to their bisiness faithfully, and keep accounts and so see the worke suffisiently done; and they are impoured (implored) to call fitt men and cattle in their quarter to the worke and pay them their wages; and if any shall refuse to attend these nesery workes their names shall be returned to the selectmen of the towne, who shall impose fines according to law upon all
such ofenders in that case. Also the overseeres as aforesaid shall keep an exact account of their owne time expended, and shall have suffisient satisfaction for the same. The names of the overseeres as follow:

"For the east quarter - Ensign Wheeler and William Hartwell
"For the north quarter - John Smedley and Thomas Batman
"For the south quarter - Georg Wheeler, James Hosmer, Georg Heaward and Sargent Buss.

"This company doe for the present joyne to make rates in way as foloweth: the east end 2 pence - parts for all mens estates according as Mr. Bulkeley last rate was made; the north quarter 2 pence and the south quarter 4 pence parts.

"Witness our hands this 7th of the first month 1654.

Simon Willard
Robert Meriam
Thomas Brooks
Joseph Wheler
James Blood
Georg Wheler
Georg Heaward
Thomas Batman
John Smedly."

"It is further agreed by the nine men aforesaid that there shall be a parcell of wood lying on the north of the way that goeth to Lancaster to the number of 5 acres, the most whereof is pines to be set out to Ensigne Wheeler, John Smedley and Georg Heaward for the use of the north bridge."

Regulations were established in each quarter, similar to those in wards of a city. Each chose its own officers, kept its own records, made its taxes, etc. The records of the south quarter (first commencing in 1654, in the hand-writing of Simon Willard, first quarter Clerk), are the only ones now extant.

The second division of lands was made in the quarters, and afterwards recorded in the town book, in which the first and second divisions are particularly described. These municipal regulations were continued in force about 50 years; and the distinction which was then given to the different parts of the town, is still preserved.

To the oldest book of records in the clerk's office in Concord is prefixed an account of the proceedings of the town in relation to recording the individual titles to lands, from which it appears, that "the latter grants of land to particular persons were only written on paper books [?] as granted and not in a register booke."

The selectmen were desired to consider the expediency of obtaining "a new booke to record them and all other land that men now doe hold;" and "the thing tending to peace and prevention of strife," they desired "the help herein" of their "Reverend pastor Mr. Edward Bulkeley, Thomas Brooks and liff. Joseph Wheeler, which company sett about it the 25th of January 1663, and at the end of the day, concluded to call a meeting on the 29th of the aforesaid month, to come to a conclusion about transcribing every man's land in a new booke so that it might be for the comfort and peace of ourselves, and posterity after us."

When the town was assembled, it was agreed, that a new book should be procured, that "what is in the old booke that is useful shall be transcribed into the new, with all lands which men now hold;" - "that every man that hath not his proportion of lands laid out to him, that
is due to him, shall gitt it laid out by an artis" before 1665; and that each one should give to the town clerk a description of the quarter in which he lives, and certified by the quarter-clerk.

For all the facts thus far in this chapter I am indebted to the Town Records. The committee to divide the south Quarter were:

William Wood
George Hayward
George Wheeler
William Buss
John Miles

Note: E, stands for east quarter
N, for north quarter
S, for south quarter in the table on p. 37.

Proprietors No. of Lots Acres Residence Tax in 1666
Grace Bulkeley 1 750
Thomas Wheeler Sr. 16 373 E. Jotham Wheeler's
Francis Fletcher 17 437 E.
Richard Rice 3 189 E.
Widow Heald 6 161 N. Joshua Buttrick's
John Heald 4 86 N. North of the above
William Buttrick 12 215 N. Jonas Buttrick's
John Flint 9 534 N. John Flint's
James Blood, Sr.
James Blood, Jr. 12 660 N. Rev. Dr. Ripley's
John Smedly 17 668 N. south of J. Jones's
Thomas Bateman 7 246 N. near R. French's
Baptise Smedley 10 186 N. Ephraim Brown's
Humphrey Barret 11 316 N. Abel B. Heywood's
Richard Temple 5 291 N. Barret's Mills
George Meriam 16 259 E. near Alms-house
John Blood 1 61 N. near T. Blood's
Robert Blood 4 169 N. ditto
John Jones 9 351 N. James Jones's
Joshua Brooks 11 195 E. Isaac Brook's
Caleb Brooks 12 150 E.
Eliphalet Fox 14 106 E. Bedford Road
Thomas Pellet 1 14
Joseph Dean 1 22 S. William Heyden's
John Meriam 8 262 E. Virginia Road
William Hartwell 20 241 E. Bedford Road
John Hartwell 3 17 E. ditto
Nathaniel Ball 11 137 E. ditto
William Taylor 14 117 E. ditto
John Farwell 18 280 E. ditto
Joseph Wheeler 29 357
William Baker 5 43 E.
William Buss 19 319 S. Elijah Wood's £5 18s 2d
Moses Wheat 22 339 E. Bedford Road
Luke Potter 22 249 S. £2 20s 0d
Robert Meriam 16 595 E. Eb. Hubbard's
John Heywood 13 285 S. £1 15s 0d
George Hayward 10 505 S. £3 6s 10d
Daniel Dean
Thomas Gobble 1 600 S. Jones's Tavern £1 10s 18d
Henry Woodhouse 1 360 S. Joseph Barrett's £5 1s 6d
Joshua Wheeler 11 77 S. John Vose's £1 10s 18d
Boaz Brown 6 86 N. The Dakin house
Thomas Brown 14 186 N. Reuben French's
Nathaniel Billings Sr. 4 51 S. Amos Baker's £1 6s 8d
Nathaniel Billings Jr. 7 196 S. ditto £1 13s 6d
John Billings 6 185 S. ditto £1 1s 1d
John Wheeler 1 67 S.
George Wheeler 24 434 S. near James Adams's
Edward Bulkeley 11 183 S. new Meeting-house
Samuel Stratten 6 254 S. Alms-house
Edmund Wigley 4 87 S. £1 19s 1d
John Miles 23 459 S. Josiah Davis's £3 17s 2d
Thomas Dakin 4 87 S. £1 12s 10d
James Hosmer 4 164 S. £1 8s 7d
Samuel Wheeler 5 21 S.
James Smedley 9 287 S.
John Scctchford 10 120 S. near Cyrus Snow's £1 14s 2d
Michael Wood 13 230 S. Samuel Dennis's £4 3s 4d
Samuel Hunt 13 277 N.
Ephraim Flint 750 E. in Lincoln

It has already been intimated that additional grants of land were made to Concord in 1652. The following details relate to these and other grants.

Chapter III

"To the Honored Generall Court assembled at Boston. The returne of the number of acres (see Part 14) of land granted as an addition to the Towne of Concord according to the order of the General Court in 1654.

"Whereas the Court was pleased to grant to our Towne a village some four years since upon condition they should improve it before others, but neglecting theire opportunity, the plantation of Chelmsford have taken a good parte of the same, also Nattatawants (Tahattawan) having a plantation granted him which takes up a good some also, we whose names are subscribed have taken a survey of the rest remayning and wee finde about seven thousand acres left out, of which Major Simon Willard hath two thousand acres, except a little part of one end of his farme which lyes in the place or parcell of vacant land, that was since given to Shawshine, this tract of land being by the last Court granted to our Towne on this condi-
tion that at this Court we should acquaint the Court of the quantitye of what wee have.

"This is a true copie compared with original on file, as it was exhibited to the Generall Court May 1655 as attest.

Tho. Brooks
Timothy Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler
George Wheeler
George Heaward
John Jones."

Edward Rawson, Secretary.

At the same Court on the 23d, May 1655 "Five thousand acres of Land were granted to the Inhabitants of Concord for feeding, according to their petition, provided it hinder not any former grants." This was all the tract of land described in the above return, excepting the farms belonging to Major Willard. When his farms were granted I have not been able to find out. One of them lay in the southwest part of the tract, and the other at the northeast.

This distinguished individual had several subsequent grants. On the 6th of May, 1657, he had, "for services to the colony, 500 acres of land in any place where he can find it according to law;" and 21st May 1658, he had 500 acres more "on the south side of a river that runneth from Nashua to Merimack, between Lancaster and Groton and is in satisfaction of a debt of £44" due from John, sagamore of Patucket. His execution to be given up. This farm was laid out in May 1659 by Thomas Noyes.

The Praying Indians claimed some right to the land granted to Concord "for an enlargement to the towne;" in consideration of which, "the Towne of Concord doth give to them, the planters of Nashoba, fifteen pounds at six a penny, which giveth them full satisfaction. In witness whereof they doe set to their hands this 20 of the 10 month 1660."

This agreement was signed by "Nassaquaw, marchant Thomas (Thomas Waban), Wabatut, great James Natotos, a blind man - Pompant, and Gomgos," by their marks; and John Thomas, and John Tahattawan, by their names; and witnessed by Joseph Wheeler, John Shepard and John Jones.

[Town Records. The compensation mentioned in this agreement was paid by Lt. Joseph Wheeler for which the town granted him in 1660 a tract of land "lying between Chelmsford line and the line of Nashoba township, and joining to the further corner of the great pond." Nagog Pond appears to have been the southeast corner bound of this township."

"At a General Court held at Boston the 11th of October, 1665.
"In answer to the peticion of Concord for an enlargement of their bounds, this court doe grant them a tract of land conteyned in a plott returned to this court under the hand of Ensigne Noyes, by estimation the whole being about five thousand acres, whereof the court reserveth two thousand acres to be layd out to either the Indians or English, as this court shall see meete hereafter to dispose and grant, and the remaynder, being about three thousand acres, this court grant to Concord so as the same doe not abridge any former grant made by this court; and doe order Leift. Beers and Leift Thomas Noyes to lay out the same and to make returne thereof to the next Court of Election. A true copy.

Attest, Edward Rawson, Secretary."

The following is a copy of the return made 25 May, 1667, and approved by the proper authorities.

"We, Richard Beers of Watertown and Thomas Noyes of Sudbury, being appointed to lay out and measure to the inhabitants of Concord a tract or tracts of land next adjoining to their first grant; in order to which, we the above said, did lay out and measure unto the inhabitants of Concord their second grant, being five thousand acres of land granted in the year 1655, as also their grant of three thousand acres granted in the year 1665, next adjoining to their first grant, beginning at the southwest angle of their old bounds (near Major Hayward's) extending their said southerly line upon a norwest point, four degrees northerly (according
to the Meridian compas) two miles and 280 rods; there making a right angle on a bare hill, and from thence a line upon a northeast point 4 degrees easterly, two miles one half and fifty rods, there meeting with Nashoba plantation line, running the line of the said plantation to their angle one mile one quarter and 60 rods, nearest hand upon an easterly point,
there making a right angle, running a line, being the line of the Indian plantation, two miles one quarter and 60 rods, there being bounded by Chelmsford line and Bilrica line as is more plainly described by a plott; in which plott is contained nine thousand and eight hundred acres of land,
one thousand and eight hundred acres being formerly granted to Major Willard, the other eight thousand being granted to the inhabitants of Concord, and laid out the 5th May, 1666. Given under our hands.

Richard Beers
Thomas Noyes
Surveyors."
Early Grants
Incorporation of Stow, 1683 & Original Inhabitants Named.

These several grants were afterwards known as the "Town's New Grant," - the "Enlargement of the Town by the General Court," - and, generally "Concord Village," till after about seventy-five years they were in great part separated from Concord and incorporated as the town of Acton.

A company was incorporated on the 5th of March, 1658, "to erect one or more iron-works in Concord." These were built near the present (1835) Cotton Factory; and operations were commenced in 1660. The "zinder holes and plates" were cast at Oliver Perchis's iron-works at Lynn and put in by Joseph Jenks.

The company had permission, 30th May, 1660, "to digg iron ore without molestation in any land now in the Court's possession." The southern grant to Major Simon Willard, above mentioned was subsequently sold to this company, and became known as the "Iron-work Farm." It lay partly in Concord, in Acton, and in Sudbury, as they are now bounded.

Nathaniel Oliver, John Eyre and Joseph Parsons of Boston, sold one half of the whole property of this company, on the 23d May, 1684, then consisting of the iron-works and 1,668 acres of land, to the Hon. Peter Bulkeley of Concord and James Russell of Charlestown for £300.

In 1668 the town leased to Captain Thomas Wheeler, for 20 years, 200 acres of upland near Mr. Silas Holden's present (1835) residence and 60 acres of meadow lying in several parcels on Nashobah brook, on condition that he should keep, "except 12 Sabbath days yearly," a herd of 50 cattle for 1 shilling per head, for the inhabitants, to be paid "one third part in wheat, one third part in rye or pease, and the other third part in Indian corn." They were to be constantly watched by a herdsman and kept in a yard at night to protect them from the wild beasts. Capt. Wheeler agreed to build a house "40 feet by 18, and 12 stud," covered with shingles, and to have a "pair of chimneys"; and a barn 40 x 24 and 12 high, to be left for the use of the town after the expiration of the lease.

Lieut. Joseph Wheeler, by trading with the Nashobah Indians, became their creditor, and petitioned the General Court, in 1662, for a grant of 200 acres of land at the southerly part of their plantation as payment for his debt; but it was refused. In 1669, he, with several inhabitants of Concord, petitioned for a tract of land at Pompasitticutt; and the Court
appointed him, with John Haynes of Sudbury, William Kerley of Marlborough, James Parker of Groton and John Moore of Lancaster, a committee to view it and report at their next session. This report was made May 11, 1670; and it was found "to contain 10,000 acres of country whereof about 500 is meadow.

"The greater part of it is very mean land, but we judge there will be planting ground enough to accommodate 20 families. Also there is about 4,000 acres more of land that is taken up in farmes, whereof about 500 acres is meadow. There is also the Indian plantation of Nashobah, that doth border on one side of this tract of land, that is exceedingly well
meadowed, and they do make but little or no use of it."

George Hayward
Joseph Wheeler
Thomas Wheeler
John Hayward
William Buttrick
Sydrach Hapgood
Stephen Hall
Edmund Wigley,

all of Concord, and Joseph Newton and Richard Holdridge, petitioned for this tract of land; and it was granted to them, "to make a village, provided the place be setteled with not less than ten famyles within three years, and that a pious, an able, and orthodox minister be maintained there."

Daniel Gookin, Thomas Danforth and Joseph Cook were appointed "to order the settlement of the village in all respects;" and the various proceedings in relation to, is resulted in the incorporation of the town of Stow, May 16, 1683; which has since been found able to accommodate more than twenty families."

Stow's "Foundation Lots"

Twelve "foundation lots," containing 50 acres of upland and 15 of meadow, were at first granted in the following order:

Boaz Brown, Minister
Gershom Heald
John Buttrick
Ephraim Hildreth
Thomas Stevens
Stephen Hall
Samuel Buttrick
Joseph Freeman
Joseph Darby
Thomas Gates
Shadrach Hapgood.

Others were afterwards granted:

John Wetherby Dec 18, 1679
Richard Whitney, Sr. June 3, 1680
James Wheeler April 8, 1681
Moses Whitney April 8, 1681
Henry Rand Jan 13, 1682
Isaac Heald Jan 13, 1682
Benjamin Bosworth Aug 7, 1682
Thomas Ward Oct 24, 1682
Richard Whitney Jr. Oct 24, 1682
Jabez Rutter Oct 24, 1682
Thomas Stevens, Jr. June 17, 1684
Boaz Brown, Jr. June 17, 1684
Samuel Hall June 17, 1684
Mark Perkins Jan 1, 1685
Richard Burke, Sr. March 1, 1686
Roger Willis March 1, 1686
Benajmin Crane Dec 23, 1682
Joseph Wheeler April 19, 1683
Jabez Brown June 15, 1683
Thomas Williams June 15, 1683
Stephen Handell March 10, 1686
Benjamin Crane March 10, 1686

These were the original inhabitants of Stow, Massachusetts.

In 1653, Concord subscribed £5 a year for 7 years for Harvard College. Thomas Brooks was appointed in 1654 to carry the law to prevent drunkeness among the Indians into effect. The selectmen petitioned to the County Court in 1660 that Sargeant Buss might keep an "ordinary" or tavern in Concord, they having "found much difficulty in procuring such an one as we could rest well satisfied in." The town agreed in 1668 "that all the waste land should pay 2s 6d for every 100 acres for public charges." In 1672, seventeen articles of instruction were given to the selectmen by a committee, consisting of:

Nehemiah Hunt
John Flint
John Miles
William Hartwell
Thomas Wheeler
Joshua Brooks
Joseph Haywood
Gershom Brooks
Humphrey Barret
John Billings

from which the following items are extracted:

"That care be taken of the Books of Marters and other bookes, that belong to the Towne, that they be kept from abusive usage, and not be lent to persons more than one month at one time."

"To take order that all corne fields be sufficiently fenced in season, the crane field and brickil field especially."

"That incorigment be given for the destroying of blackbirds and jays."

"To make a record of all the habitations that are priviledged with liberty at commons."

"To take care that undesirable persons be not entertained; so as to become inhabitants."

"That all persons that have taken the oath of fidelity be recorded."

Concord was presented in 1660 for not having a common house of entertainment, and ordered to get one before next Court under penalty of 2s 6d. Richard Temple recovered 20 shillings damage of John Gobble (Goble) for calling him a "Lying rascal."

Wheat, Moses (I43121)

2470

History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages,
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc. Illustrated. Chicago: Warner, Beers
& Co., 1886.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/beers/beers.htm
______________________________________________________________________

PART II.

HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

CHAPTER XVIII.

BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG.

257 HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT - EARLY REMINISCENCES - LIST OF ORIGINAL LAND
PURCHASERS - EARLY HOTELS IN SHIPPENSBURG - CHURCHES - CEMETERIES -
SCHOOLS - NEWSPAPERS - BANK - SOCIETIES.

SHIPPENSBURG is the oldest town in the valley and, with the exception
of York, the oldest town in the State west of the Susquehanna River.
The first settlement at this place is said to have been made by twelve
families in June, 1730.* In May, 1733, there were eighteen cabins in
the settlement, which had, as yet, no name. These cabins were mostly
at the eastern end of the town, which was the first to present the
appearance of a village. "When the town was subsequently laid out by
the proprietor, the point where Queen Street crosses King was selected
as the centre."

261 HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG.

1 Samuel Montgomery. 82 Adam Carnahan.
2 David Magaw. 83 James Reynolds.
3, 4 Francis Campble. 84 Robert Peebles.
5 Peter Miller. 85 Anthony Maule.
6, 7 William Piper. 86 James Dunlap.
8 John Cunningham. 87 Gideon Miller.
9 Anthony Maule. 88 Andrew Boyd.
10,11 Richard Long. 89 Joseph Parks.
12, 13, 14 Francis Campble. 90 Tristram Miller.
15 Alexander Sterrit. 91 John Redott.
16 William Cowan. 92 Anthony Maule.
17 John Brady. 93 James Reynolds.
18 William Reynolds. 94 George Ehley.
19, 20 James McCall. 95 William Duncan.
21 Robert Chambers. 96 Anthony Maule.
22 John Cesna. 97 John Mains.
23 William Hendricks. 98 Robert Brown.
24 George Ross. 99 John Heap. Meadow lot.
25 Andrew Wilkins. 100, 101 Samuel Rippey.
26, 27 William Barr. 102 Lucinda Piper.
28 Andrew Wilkins. 103 Samuel Rippey.
29 Thomas Finley. 104 Robert Peebles.
30 Humphrey Montgomery. 105 John Smith.
31 Thomas Finley. 106 Anthony Maule.
32 Daniel Duncan. 107 Johnson Smith.
33 Isaac Miller. 108 James Piper.
34 John Montgomery. 109 Samuel Rippey.
35, 36 Samuel Perry. 110 William Wilson.
37 John Corbet. 111 Margaret McDaniel.
38 Daniel Duncan. 112, 113 Benjamin Kilgore.
39 Blank. 114 Blank.
40 Daniel Duncan. 115 Anthony Maule.
41 Archibald Flemming. 116 William Campbell.
42 James Lowery. 117, 118 James McCall.
43 Andrew Keith. 119 George McCandless.
44 James McClintock. 120, 121 Daniel Duncan.
45 William Leeper. 122 Blank.
46 Blank. 123 Blank.
47 David McKnight. 124 David Ellis.
48 William Barr. 125 John Montgomery.
49 William Sutherland. 126 James Russell.
50, 51 John Miller. 127 Blank.
52 Martin Holderbaum. 128 John Montgomery.
53 Samuel Tate. 129, 130, 131 Blank.
54 William Brookins. 132 Thomas Atkinson.
55 Samuel Duncan. 133 Blank.
56 Matthew Adams. 134 Robert Beatty.
57 William McConnel. 135 Samuel Perry.
58 Blank. 136 John Carnahan.
59, 60 Meeting-house, graveyard. 137 Samuel Perry.
61 Richard Long. 138 John Cessna.
62 Henry Davis. 139 Alexander Askey.
63, 64 Edward Lacey. 140 John Mahan.
65 Archibald Mahan. 141 to (and including) 148 Blank.
66 James McKeeny. 149 Alexander Johnston.
67 Jacob Kiser. 150, 151 John Dietrick.
68 Blank. 152 Abraham Beidleman.
69 Dr. Robert McCall. 153 Anthony Maule.
70 Blank. 154 Jacob Lightner.
71 George Taylor. 155 John Gregory.
72, 73 Andrew McLean. 156 George McCandless.
74 Church lot - free. 157 Jacob Kiser.
75 Benjamin Coppenheffer. 158 John Davenport.
76 Robert Reed. 159 Joseph Mitchel.
77 Joseph Campbell. 160 Thomas Moore.
78 John Reynolds. 161 John Dietrick.
79 Jacob Milliron. 162, 163 Frederick Shipley.
80 Valentine Haupt. 164 John Stall.
81 Simon Rice. 165 Christian Gish

262 HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

166 Andrew Patterson 171 Christian Gish.
167, 168 Blank. 172 Frederick Sheval.
169 Casper Sallsgibber. 173 Walter Welsh.
170 David Duncan.

The place in early days was sometimes spoken of as "Shippen's Farm."
As a specimen of the deeds, an indenture made on the 13th of March,
1764, between Edward Shippen of the borough of Lancaster, of the one
part, & Archibald Machan, of the other," conveys, subject to the quit
rent "a certain lot of ground Scituate within a certain new town called
Shippensburg, in the county of Cumberland, containing in breadth sixty-
four feet four inches, & in length 457, 4 inches, No 65, Bounded on the
South by King Street & on the west by Lot No 60 granted or intended to
be granted to James Mackeney, & on the east by Lot No 64 Granted to
Edward Lacey & on the north by a fourteen foot alley, &c. (Signed)
Edward Shippen."

Lacey (DeLacey), Edward (Colonel) (I45728)

2471

HISTORY OF DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK, By James H. Smith, 1882
Chapter XXI. Part Three

John RAU, who emmigrated from Germany with the Palatines about 1712 or ‘15, built, it is supposed, about 1745, the original mill which stood on the site of what is known as the Phineas CARMAN mill. *(This property was sold at auction and bid in by Walter LOUCKS, for $2,520.00, November 1, 1879.) This is believed to be the oldest mill site in this locality. In 1740, if not earlier, John RAU, *(In old documents this name is written RAU, RAUGH, and ROW. It is now almost universally written ROWE.) Had a residence northeast from this mill, where Chauncy ROWE now lives. He was a carpenter by trade, and is said to have built the old portion of the house in which Chauncy ROWE, a descendant, now (1879) lives. The pine beams in the house, which were cut and hewn in the forest on the “pine plains,” over a century and a quarter ago, are doing duty now and are in a good state of preservation. Peter RAU, a son of John RAU, is the first positively known owner of the CARMAN mill. He sold it to his brother Mattice or Mottice, *(A name now known as Matthias.) And soon after the sale emigrated to Scaticoke, Rensselaer county, N. Y. One or two men, of the name of REYNOLDS, succeeded Mattice RAU in the ownership of the mill.

Rauh, Johannes Jurgen (I49664)

2472

HISTORY OF ECHOLS FAMILY by MILNER ECHOLS 1850

A short history of our family from the first that landed in America till the present time, as far as I can ascertain----.

John Echols an Englishman came to America about the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th Century and settled in Caroline County, Virginia, and married a tall redheaded woman named Mary Cave and by her had five sons and three daughters. I shall begin with his sons first and carry out their family as far as my knowledge extends.

John was his first son who left Virginia a young man and settled in the lower part of N. Carolina and raised his family, of whom I know nothing.

Abraham was old John’s 2nd son, married Sarah Tamer and by her had two sons and several daughters. His sons were Joseph and Joshua. Joseph married a Miss King, and by her had 2 sons and 5 or 6 daughters. His sons Abraham and Jeremiah who left Virginia in time of the Revolutionary War and went to Pennsylvania. Of their offspring I know nothing. Joshua married Hannah Brown, had a number of children of whom I know but little. He had one son Darius, a conspicuous man in Habersham County, GA. The rest of his family lives chiefly in the upper part of Georgia. Old Abraham had one daughter who married James Hodges a very worthy man, his family moved to Tennessee. He had one son named Jessee and he had a son named James who was a commanding officer in Tennessee and got drowned in Cumberland River near Cairo. Jessee had one daughter named Tabitha, that is all I know of the family. Old Abraham had another daughter named Sarah who married John Rowden and by her had 4 sons and one daughter. His sons were Abraham, Laban, Josee, and John. Abraham married a woman named Chick, moved to Tennessee. I know nothing of his family. Laban married Milly Adams raised a large family. I know nothing of them only two of his sons to wit, Hubert and Lot, who live in Guinett County, Ga. Josee married Susannah Adams, moved to Tennessee, of his family I know nothing. John married Milly Brewer, a widow, the daughter of old Jeremiah Reeves, sister to Rev. Malachi Reeves and Rev. Jeremiah Reeves. He also moved to Tennessee and was drowned in the Tennessee River. Of his family I know nothing. Old John Rowden’s daughter was Tabitha. She married Glover Crain, had several children by her and then died. He had one son named Joseph Crane who married a Miss Hood. They had several children, one son named John Glover Crane who was a wholesale merchant in Charleston, S.C.Joshua Crane had a daughter married a Mr.Whitman, a Baptist preacher and a teacher in the Penfield Academy, Green County, Georgia.
P.S. James Hodges daughter married John Lacy. Wm Glass and Hally Shaw Lacy had one son named Elijah and he and wife parted. Glass had 5 sons and 3 daughters. His sons were Hubbard, Mason, Frederick who married Betsy Strother and he was killed by the Indians in Alabama. The other three, David, Elish and Eahlij Mason married a Miss Wyatt and lives in Fayett County, Georgia the rest of his sons I know nothing. His daughters were named Tabitha, Patsy, and Sally. Tabitha married Richard Wood and by him had three sons and one daughter. Her sons were Winston, William and Willis. Her son William represented three different counties in the state of Georgia and was Colo. Of the same counties. He then moved to Randolph County, Alabama and represented that county and is Colo. And judge of the court.
Willis, her third son married a Miss Cochran and died young. Richard Wood’s daughter was named Elizabeth and married Samuel D. Echols. Hally Shaw raised a large family in Jackson County, Georgia. I know nothing of his family only E. B. Shaw, his grandson, who lives in Guynett County, and is a very eminent Baptist preacher.

P. S. If I mistake not, old Abraham Echols had a daughter who married a man by the name of Hubbard in Virginia. I know nothing further of them.

The third son of old English John Echols was named William. I don’t know who he married. He had several sons and daughters. His sons were John and William. John was one of the largest men ever raised in Virginia. He was a Quaker preacher. That’s all I know of him or his family as I never saw him but once. William was also a very large man, married a widow Spradlin. By her had three sons and four daughters. His sons were Joel, Elcanah, and William. Joel and Elcanah moved to Tennessee. Settled on Cumberland River near Caro. I was once at Elcanah’s house after his death. He had a large family. I know the names of none of them only his youngest son named Richard. They are a very wealthy family. Joel I think they told me had no child. William, the third son, married a girl by the name of Elizabeth Farmer - a schoolmate of mine in Virginia. He moved to Alabama, settled in Madison County near Huntsville and was a very great wholesale merchant in that town. I know but very little of his family. He had a daughter married Richard Holden also a wholesale merchant in Huntsville and also had two sons who moved to Mississippi. One of them was killed by a man and the other wrote to me about it. I think the one that wrote was by the name of Larkin. The one that was killed I think was by the name of Joseph. That’s all that I know of that family.

Old William Echols daughters married William Wynne, Vardre McBee and Daniel Williams and Richard Anderson. Of Wynne’s family I know nothing as they moved to Tennessee in an early date. Old Vardre McBee moved from Virginia to South Carolina before the Revolutionary War and was a Capt. In that army and was said to have done as much damage to the British and Torries in that part of the country as any Capt. In that country. He had two sons, to wit, Silas and Vardre. Silas was a very large man, went to Mississippi and died there. I know nothing of his family. Vardre still lives in South Carolina, Greenville District. He has six children, only one married, that a daughter, married a Mr. Carson. He has one daughter Malinda single, one son Luther, the rest I don’t know their names. He is said to be the richest man in that part of the state. His property is estimated at one million dollars. Old Vardre has several daughters. I don’t know their names. One married a man by name of Ross. How many children she had I know not. I only know one of her sons who is by name of Rice F. Ross. One married a man by name of Asher. They have one son in Dade County, Georgia, by name of William Asher, a very smart man. That is all I know of that family.

Daniel Williams, who married the third daughter of old William Echols, went to Tennessee, raised his family there. Of his daughters I know nothing. His sons were Sampson and Oliver. Sampson was said to be an uncommon smart man, represented his county many years. There is a very fine town in Tennessee named in hone of his name - Williamsburg. Sampson Williams was a very large man, rather cross-eyed. Richard Anderson married old William Echols fourth daughter, had five children by her and she died. I know the names of two of their sons, which were Medy and John. Medy became very rich, owned the first merchant mill I ever saw, on Banister River in Virginia, where was a considerable town built named Medsville in honor of Medy Anderson’s name. They both had families of which I know but little.

Joseph Echols was the fourth son of old English John Echols. He never married, consequently had no family. He was an afflicted man, had what was called the asthma which prevented him from lying down. He never lay down for forty years-had an instrument made that fitted his forehead and sat and slept. His common vocation was hunting and trapping on the River at which business he made considerable property as he lived in the frontier country where game was plenty.

Richard Echols was the fifth son of English John Echols who married Caty Evans - he was my grandfather - and by her had fourteen children. Three died in infancy. The rest lived to raise families. Their first son was Moses who married Betsy Wynne. They raised a considerable family. Their first son was John who married Fanny Formby and moved from Virginia to Tennessee. I know but little of the family. He was a one-eyed man, he was very smart and had great property. Their second son was Obediah. He married Betsy Terry. He died at about 65 years of age. I know but little of his family, only one son who lives in the western district of Tennessee by name of Champness Terry Echols, a Baptist preacher. Moses third son was by name of Moses who married a Miss Terry - cousin to his brother Obediah’s wife. I know nothing of his family. Their fourth son was by name of Evans who married Anna Terry, sister to his brother Moses wife. They live in Virginia. I know no more of their family. Old Moses daughters were by name of Rebecca, Priscilla, Tabitha, Betsy, Lucy and Frances. Rebecca married Edward Akin. I have no knowledge of their family. Priscilla married David Bates in Halifax County, a very large man who offered for the legislature in the county that he was born and raised in when he was about twenty-five years old. He got every vote that was given in the county and the county was very large. He continued to go to the legislature as long as he stayed in Virginia. He then moved to Georgia, Wilkes County. He became a representative of Wilkes County in Senate and was once appointed President Senate pro tem - you can see his name in the digest of the laws of Georgia. He became so fat that it was supposed by the doctors that his fat melted in him, killed him before he was sixty years old. He weighed nearly four hundred pounds. He raised his family in Wilks County, Georgia but after his death they moved to Tennessee. I have but little account of them since. He had one son named Randolph and one named Anderson. Of the rest I have no account only one daughter named Susanah who marriedJames Johnson of Oglethorpe County.
Old Moses third daughter Tabitha married Nathan Formby. He moved from Virginia to Georgia and died in Walton County. He raised four sons and several daughters. His sons were named Moses, Obediah and Nathan. The other I don’t know the name of, he married a Miss Harvie in Newton County and died there. Moses and Obediah live in Newton County. They both have families but I don’t know the name of either of their wives. Nathan lives in Alabama. I know not of his family. One of old Nathan’s daughters married John Whitaker and one married Henry Nichols. One Israel Moore and one married a Mr. Park. I know nothing of the family.

Old Moses fourth daughter Betsy married Marlin Farmer. I know no more of the family. His fifth daughter Lucy married Jonas Meadows and that’s all I know about them. His sixth daughter Frances married a man by the name of Shelton. I have no account of them further.

Old Richard Echols second son was named John. He married Lucy Koore, raised a large family by her. They had three sons and six daughters. Their oldest son was James. He married Nancy Winbush of South Carolina. He moved to Alabama in an early date, so I know but little of his family. I have heard that one son named George, a doctor, and another named Saml - that is all I know of them.

Old John’s second son was named John. He married a Miss Moore. He also moved to Alabama. I know nothing further of them. Old John’s third son was named Saml. He married Jane Holloway of Elton, Putnam County, Georgia. He moved to Alabama so I know nothing further of them; old John’s daughter was Prudence who married Christopher Irwin. They raised a large family of sons and one daughter who died young. I know nothing more of them only Christopher and David. Christopher lives in Walton County, raised several sons and one daughter. I don’t know the names of the sons tho I am told they are smart young men. His daughter was Sophrony. She married Raman Ray. They live in Cobb County. David Irwin lives in Marietta and is a very imminent lawyer and a very wealthy man. He has a family that I know very little about. Old John’s second daughter was by name of Temperance. She married Jno. Rodgers. They raised several sons. I know of only two of them, Dr. James Rodgers, who married Wm. G. Springer’s daughter and lives in Carrol County. He has represented that county in the legislature of Georgia. David Rodgers lives in Stewart County and has also represented that county in the State Legislature. Old John’s third daughter named Caty never married, died young. His fourth daughter Patsy married Capt. William Ellis. They live in Pike County near Griffin. They have raised several sons and daughters. I know only two of his sons, Richard and Thomas. One of them is a doctor, both very large men. They had one daughter married a man named Wilson who lives near Griffin. Old John’s fifth daughter named Liddy married Skelton Standifer, moved to Alabama. I know no more of them. His sixth daughter Lucy married Nathan Williams and raised their family in Jasper County. I know nothing further of them only one son, a doctor who lives in Meriwether County, Georgia.

Old Richard Echols third son was named James Echols, a very large man, had a very singular mark in his features. He had one black eye and one blue eye. He married Elizabeth Palmer, widow of John Palmer of Richmond County, Virginia. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Milner. By her he had five sons, three daughters. His oldest son was Milner, who married Susannah Sansom, had ten children. Their first son was Samuel Dorril Echols, who married Betsy Wood. By her he had four sons and four daughters. His first son was named Alfred. He married a girl names Thirston. They had one child and then they parted. His second son was named Wood Echols. He married a girl by name of Patrick, had three children, moved to Alabama and died shortly after he went there. I know nothing of his family. Third son named Winston M. Echols married a Miss Summer Cain, had one child and she died. He married again but I know not to whom. His fourth son is named John, a young man not yet married. His oldest daughter was named Maryan. She married Colo. Thos. J. Johnson, who lives in Herd County, near Franklin. They have children but I know not their names or how many. His second daughter was named Mahaley, married Mercer Babb, had one child and she died. Her daughter is a daughter named Antonett. Saml’s third daughter Betsy Ann married a Mr. Hollandworth, lives in Heard County,. They have one child. I know nothing of them. His fourth daughter Susannah not yet married.

Milner’s second son was named James, died an infant by a fall out at the door. His third son was named Richard, died an infant also. His complaint was the Flux. His fourth son was named Robert Milner Echols. He married Mary Melton and by her had twelve children. His first son was named Jonathan Milner Echols, died at the age of seventeen years. His death was caused by an over hard march in the army in very hot weather. His second son was named Dorrel Sampson Echols, died an infant. His third son was named Thomas Jefferson Echols, married Lucinda A. Pate and by her had three sons, the first Jonathan M. Echols, his second son died young, his third son was named Robert Milner Echols. Robert M. Echols, fourth son of Robert Walton Echols, a youth, his fifth son Samuel D. Echols, his sixth son named Richard, died young. His seventh son Joseph a little boy. Robert M. Echols first daughter Rhoda married Thos. J. Trammel, had nine children by him - to wit - Collumbus, Georgia, John Robert, Thos., and Ugnias. Her daughters are Tabitha, Martha and Susan, the youngest not yet named. His second daughter Martha married Doctor John G. Waddel, she had one child and died when it was nine days old, named Thomas Echols Waddel, who lives with his father in Alabama. His third daughter Elisa, his fourth daughter Mary Ann, his fifth daughter Frances, none married. Robert M. Echols was a man that filled many responsible offices. He represented Walton County upward of twenty years in succession, was six or seven years president of the senate. He was Major General. He was also Judge of the Court and one of the Trustees of the University at Athens and - of all he was member of the Baptist Church at Sardis, Clerk of the same. He was appointed by Congress a Colo. In the United States Service to command 13th Regiment in Mexico. He was also appointed by the President to pay off the soldiers in Mexican War - his office was at New Orleans. He died in Mexico at the National Bridge whilst in command of the 13th Regiment on the third day of Dec., 1847 in the 49th year of his age.

Thos. Echols, the fifth son of Milner Echols, married Polly Harper. By her had six children, two of whom died young. His first son was Robert H. Echols, married Elizabeth Morris. His second son, Joseph M. Echols, married Virginia Norton, had by her three children. Thomas’ first daughter, Susannah North Echols, married John Chappel, lives in Merriwether County, has several children. Her oldest is William, her second one named John, the rest small, I don’t know their names. His second daughter Mary not married.
Milner Echols’ sixth son named William Sampson Echols, married Kitty Holder, had by her four sons and two daughters. His oldest son John Thomas Echols married a Miss Kelly, has several small children. His second son Robert M. Echols not married. His third son Lumpkin not married. His fourth son, an infant named Thos. Rhodes Echols. His first daughter Martha who married Jos. Selvy who had one child by her and ran away and left her. Second daughter Frances not married.

Obediah Echols, seventh son of Milner Echols, married Hannah Holder - sister of his brother William’s wife - had five children by her. His first son James Echols, his second Tapley, his third John Bunyan, his first daughter Susannah, his second Nancy who married a Mr. Shaw. Obediah Echols, son of Milner, died in Milledgeville in the 31st year of age. Was a very business man, was appointed Surveyor Genl. before he was thirty years of age.

Milner Echols first daughter named Leah died before she was three years old. Her death was caused by a burn. His second daughter Patsy married Joshua Ammons. She had two children. First daughter Mary married James Mobley. They have three children. Their oldest a son named Samuel Iverson Mobley, second a daughter named Susan Martha Mobley. Joshua Ammon’s second is a son named John Milton Ammons, not married.

M. Echols third daughter named Nancy married A. B. Rose, by him had nine children. First son named Augustus died about his fourteenth year. Second Dolphus, third son Theophelus, fourth son Aurelius, fifth son William, sixth Marcus, seventh Agenius Mercer, none married. His first daughter Sarah died at about Seventeen years of age, second daughter Martha died at about eight years old.

Robert E. Echols was the second son of James Echols. He married Elizabeth Davis, they had three sons and one daughter. His first son was Wm. Milner Echols. He was a tanner by trade and married in Montauleo, Jasper County, Georgia. I know nothing more of this family, only that he lives in Monroe County. His second son was named Jessee Mercer Echols. He married a girl named Sandel Carrel. They had no children. They live in some of the Cherokee Counties. He is in some office on the railroad, the last I heard of him. His third son named James lives in ____ County, Alabama. I know nothing more about him. Robert E. Echols daughter named Lucy married and went to Tennessee. I know no more about her.

Absolom Echols was the third son of James Echols, married Nancy Sansom. They had no children. He was killed by Johnson Hammock in Alabama. Hammock was condemned to be hanged for it but killed in jail before the day of his execution.

Obediah Echols was the fourth son of James Echols. He married Elizabeth Strong. They had one child and his wife and child both died. He then married Elizabeth Flournoy, by her had two children, a son and a daughter. The daughter died an infant and his wife also died about the same time. His son was named Philip Henry Echols. He had a great deal of property left him by his grandfather Flournoy. He was educated at Schenetida college in New York. He studied law under Judge Berrien at the City of Washington and married the Judge’s daughter, Margaret Berrien. He returned to Georgia and practiced law and died on ther Cirquett in Marion County at his uncle Absolom Echols. Obediah then married Elizabeth Jones, a widow in Hancock County and by her had several sons and daughters. His first son by his last wife was by name of James Walter Echols, a very rich man and lives at Auburn, Alabama. His brother Samuel now lives with him, a doctor.

Their father, Obediah Echols, lives in Mississippi, Carrol County, has four daughters married and lives near their father. The names of the men that they married I don’t know, only one married a Mr. Foreman, he has two small sons lives with him, one named Judson, the brother I don’t know the name.

Echols daughter - first daughter was named Leah Echols. She married Robert North. They had four sons and four daughters. Two of their daughters died young. Their first son named Wm. North married Frances Arnold, had several children. I don’t know their names. They live in Coweata County, Georgia. Their second son Anthony North married Polly Hubbard, a second cousin to him. They have a large family of children chiefly grown and several married but I don’t know who to. He has one son named Robert and another named Hubbard and one daughter named Adaline. Their third son named Abraham, married Hiss Holms. They have a large family but I don’t know their children’s names. The fourth son named Marcus married Dosha Thurmond. She had two or three children and died. He then married a widow but I don’t know her name.

Robert North’s first daughter Patsy married a Mr. Hale, never had any children, her husband died. She is now a widow. Second daughter Lucy married James Willis, had several children, moved to Alabama and there she died shortly after she went there.
James Echols second daughter named Mary Echols, married Jeremiah Reeves. They had five sons and four daughters. One of the daughters died young and another fell into the spring and drowned. Their first son Absolom Echols Reeves, who lives at Rome married Elisa Tyas, by her had one daughter who died at about the time she was twenty years old while she was attending Association in Chattanooga County. John N. Reeves, their second son, never married, lives in Augusta. Jeremiah Reeves, their third son, married at about 40 years of age, lives in Walker County. Their fourth son, James M. Reeves, never married. Joseph Reeves, their fifth son, married a Miss Hodge and lives in Chattanooga in Tennessee and keeps a tavern in that town. Jeremiah Reeves first daughter, Leah, married Samuel Neblick, lives in Jackson County, Georgia. I know nothing of their families. Their second daughter Elisa married Ben Powell. I know nothing of their family, only they have one son named Evans Powell. James Echols third daughter named Elizabeth Echols married Thos. M. Fagg. He then ran away, left wife and child and never been heard of since............................................

Benjamin Echols was Richard Echols fourth son. He married Sabra Hendrick, his own cousin and by her had three sons and five daughters. Their first son was Richard, he married Betsy Smith his cousin. They had no children, were very wealthy. They differed, parted and never lived together any more. He died from a fever taken in Floyd’s army in 1815. John Echols, their second son, married a girl named Merrel, raised a large family in Mississippi. I know none of his children, but his oldest daughter Elmira. Benjamin Echols was old Benjamin Echols third son. He married Betsy Ellis, lives Chattanooga County, had a large family of children. His first son is Richard Echols, married but don’t know who. Second son Abner not married, third son Robert lately married to Miss Verner. Their first daughter Caty not married. Second daughter (I know not her name) married Amay Dickson, a very fine man. He had several other daughters but I don’t know their names.

Old Benjamin Echols first daughter Lucy married Samuel Paine, had several children; one son named Samuel lives near Rome. One of his daughters married a man named Williamson. She is now a widow. Benjamin Echols second daughter Betsy never married, died rich. Third daughter Sally married Luis Rolston, had three children, one son Robert, the others daughters. One married a man named Edwards. I know nothing of their family. Fourth daughter Caty married Jacob Lawridge, moved to Mississippi, had several children. I know the names of but two of them, one boy named Legon, one John -- . Fifth daughter named Citty married J. Dyche, moved to Mississippi. He shortly died. I know nothing further of the family ---

Obediah Echols was old Richard Echols fifth son. He married a very rich old Irishman’s daughter. His name was Wm. McDaniel, her name was Caty McDaniel. He had five sons and two daughters. His sons, William who died at about 19 years old, second son Benjamin Echols. He was a nearsighted man, not very bright, but had the most extensive recollection of any man. He inherited a large estate from his grandfather McDaniel’s estate but had not forecast enough to take care of it. He married Betsy Milner in Kentucky, his own cousin. They had several children, one son named Obediah, one daughter named Mariea. I know nothing more of his family as they moved to Tennessee but left Blind Ben - as we called him. Old Obediah Echols third son was James, married Sally Rutledge, raised several children. I know but little about them only one of his sons named Silas Echols said to be a very smart man. James was a great farmer, a great hand to make tobacco, and from that was called Horn Worm James. Old Obediah’s fourth son was named Obediah. He married a Miss Franklin in Virginia but moved to Georgia and died young, left two children, a son named Josephus and a daughter. I know not where they are.

Obediah’s fifth son was named Elijah. He married a girl by name of Willingham. I know nothing more of his family. He was said to be the greatest millright that ever was seen in the State. Old Obediah’s two daughters were named Betsy and Nancy, one married Thos. Rutledge, the other married Wm. Arnold. They both moved to Tennessee. I know nothing further of their families. Old Obediah’s wife died. He then married a widow Jones near Richmond in Virginia. Her maiden name was Jackson, she was a half sister to the great General Lawson. By her he had two sons and one daughter. His first son was Philip Jackson Echols, lives in Crawford County, Georgia, and one son lives in a little town in Monroe or Forsyth County, the name of the town I don’t recollect. That is all I know of his family. He has been Clerk of the Court in Crawford County. His second son was Samuel Echols. He married Sally Booker and moved to Alabama and died. I know but little of his family.

Old Obediah’s daughter was named Polly Echols who married a man by name of Raney, moved to Giles County, Tennessee and died a few years ago, so I was informed by a letter from his daughter. Old Obediah was a Baptist preacher of the highest order of his day. Joseph Echols was sixth son of old Richard. He was a Methodist preacher, married Polly Stamps and by her had five sons and four daughters. First son Ruben married Betsy Owen, of whom I know but little. He moved to Mississippi and died shortly. He had several sons, I don’t know their names. He had one daughter Sarah, married Samuel Marshall, a very fine man, lives in Coweata County. Another daughter Caty married a man by name of Bell, of them I know nothing.

Joseph’s second son was Levi, married a Miss Hubbard, became vastly rich and died soon. He lived in Washington, Wilks County, had but one child, that was a boy named Joseph Hubbard Echols. He is a man of great learning. He is a Methodist preacher and a lawyer and he was the president of the Female Academy in Madison, Morgan County, Georgia. Joseph Echols third son named Simeon married Caroline Van Allen, daughter of Peter L.Van Allen. He was a very great lawyer, and was killed by Wm. H. Crawford in duel on the bank of Savannah River in South Carolina at Braksdale Ferry. Caroline Van Allen was said to be worth $20,000 when Simeon Echols married her. They moved to Mississippi near Columbus to a little town called Athens where he shortly died. His wife lives at the same town and keeps a public house. I know nothing of their family.

Joseph Echols fourth son was Josephus, a very tall man, became a doctor. He went to Alabama to a town called Selma and by his Partner I am told he got very rich. I heard he married but I don’t know who to, consequently know nothing of his family.

Joseph Echols fifth son, William, was also a doctor, never married, had a wen on his neck which was cut out and he died immediately at about 24 or 25 years of age. Joseph Echols first daughter Tabitha married Thomas Cooper, had no child, died in Cowetta County. His second daughter Caty married a very worthy man in Jasper County named Archibald Standifer. She was upward of forty years old when she married, had no child. His third daughter Rebecca never married, lives in Newnan, Cowetta. His fourth daughter Olive married an Englishman named John Daughterty, lives in Coweata County, keeps a public house, he is said to be a very fine man, I know nothing of his children.

Old Richard had five daughters, the oldest named Mary Echols, married Thos. Wynne, had 2 sons and 4 daughters. His first son was Obediah, married Onry Bolton in Virginia, had by her several children, first son John Wynne lives Oglethorpe, married a girl Owen, of his children I know nothing only one son named Glen Wynne married a daughter of Samuel Lumpkin and lives in Coweata County. Thos. Wynne’s second son Thos. Wynne Jr. was left very rich by his father but alas - he was a drunkard and gambler and married onto a very low family, spent his property in a few years and went over seas to some foreign land, his family lives in the upper part of Georgia. He had one daughter married a man by name of J. Brand, and two of his daughters married two brothers named Fincher. I know but little more of the family.

Old Thos. Wynne’s first daughter married Wm. Arnold, had three children, one son and two daughters - she was by name Rhoda, weighed nearly 400 pounds. Her son was William, married a Miss Milner, had two sons by her and died. One of his sons is a wholesale merchant in Charleston, South Carolina, the other one I know but little about. One of her daughters married Samuel Lumpkin of Oglethorpe, the other married David Owen of Newnan, Coweata County, all very wealthy people. Thos. Wynne’s second daughter married Levi Marshall - a brother to the great preacher Abraham Marshall - they had several sons and daughters. First daughter married Robert N. Crawford of Columbia County. I know but little about the rest of their children. Thos. Wynne’s third daughter Kitty married John Bolton, they had three sons and two daughters. Their sons were Thos., Charles and John. Thos. Lives in Newnan, Charles lives Wilks, vastly rich. John died. He lived in Cobb County on the Chattahoochee River near Montgomery’s Ferry. Their daughter Betsy married Philip Cooper and died shortly, their daughter Polly married Thos. Sims, lived in Washington, Wilks County. He died and then she married a man by name of Sherburn, he died.

Old Thos. Wynne’s fourth daughter Lucy married William Booker, had by him three daughters and one son, their names were Polly who died, Sally who married Samuel B. Echols and now lives in Alabama. Third daughter Lucinda married William Galbreath, they have one daughter married Absalom Echols Roberts and another married a Mr. Hester and they also have a young son I know not his name. The son of Wm. Booker was the notorious John W. Booker who died in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia.

Old Richard Echols second daughter, Drucilla, married Wm. Owen, raised a large family. They all went to western countries but one daughter, her name was Rhoda. She married the Rev. Malachi Reeves. I know but little of the family since they went to the west. Old Richard’s 3rd daughter Sally who married John Milner and moved to Kentucky in a very early date raised a very large family. Their sons were Armstead Milner, a very rich man, John Milner and Mark Milner.

Old Richard Echols fourth daughter Anna married James Daniel, had five children, four sons and one daughter. Their sons were Moses, Hopkins, Echols Daniel and Jeremiah. Their daughter Caty never married. Echols Daniel married but never had children by his wife. He is a vastly rich man, lives in Floyd County. Hopkins married the widow Crane, the grandmother of John Glover Crane of Charleston. Jeremiah Daniel married but I don’t know who. He moved to west. I know nothing of his family.

Old Rich Echols fifth daughter Elizabeth married William Raney, had one daughter named Betsy Hunter Raney. She married a very great lawyer by name of Edward Jones who lives in Giles County, Tennessee. Of their family I know nothing more.

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History of Essex County, Massachusetts
edited by Duane Hamilton Hurd
pg 345
LYNN REGIS. — It is within the knowledge of the writer that some good people of the ancient borough of King's Lynn now take a lively interest in what pertains to our own Lynn, which, during its comparatively short life, has so far outstripped its prototype, in population at least. They appear to regard us as
a sort of vigorous child, a little presumptuous, perhaps, but one in whose prosperity they may delight, as if in some mysterious way it contributed to their honor. It is but a few years since they learned anything of us. Less than fifteen years ago a lawyer there assured the writer that to him our Lynn was
only known through Longfellow's "Bells of Lynn." The celebration of our Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, to which some of the authorities there were invited, had much to do with rendering our name familiar. And then the Christian sympathy engendered by the giving and receiving of the stone from the ancient wall of stately old Saint Margaret's, to be wrought into the rising wall of Saint Stephen's, was a significant occurrence. It is true that not a large number of our early settlers came from that place ; but there were one or two
of more than ordinary family connection. It is not necessary to here speak of the eminent Whiting, through whose instrumentality the names of the places were made identical ; nor of some others elsewhere named. But it may be interesting to note in passing, that Richard Hood, ancestor of George Hood, our first mayor, who settled on Nahant Street, was from Lynn Regis. Several old names common
in both places could be mentioned — a fact which, though not conclusive evidence of near family connection, are yet strongly indicative of kinship. For instance:
There was a Thomas Laighton, mayor of Lynn Regis in 1476; and one of our most active and enterprising settlers was Thomas Laighton, who located near Saugus River in 1635. Edward Bakerwas mayor of the borough in 1550 ; and from Edward
Baker, who came hither in 1630, Daniel C. Baker, our third mayor, descended. Benjamin Keene (a later name with us) was mayor of old Lynn in 1683. In 1737 " Charles, Lord Viscount Townsend, was Lord High Steward of Lynn Regis." He undoubtedly belonged to the same Towusend family with

Edward Baker
Edward Baker, a farmer from England, who, accompanied by his wife Joan, came with the fleet commanded by Governor Winthrop which arrived in Boston in June, 1630, and settled almost immediately at Lynn, just accross the bay, at a place still known as Baker's Hill. Edward Baker's descendants were prominent in the early history of Massachusetts and connecticut as soldiers, patriots, and statesmen. [Virginia Woolf writes in her memoirs (Family Flash-Backs & Miscellaneous Memories of Virginia Baker Woolf) that Edward Baker came to this country from London with George Winthrop and settled in Salem, Massachusetts in 1628.]

The Wentworth Genealogy
By John Wentworth
pg 396
Col. Otis Baker was son of Capt. Thomas and Christin6 (Otis) Baker, of Northampton, Mass.; Capt. Thomas was son of Timothy Baker,* who was son of Edward Baker, a freeman at Lynn, Mass., in 1638. Col. Otis Baker was member of the Provincial House of Representatives at Portsmouth, N. H., 1768, 1770-2-3,
and also in 1775, when the Provincial government was abandoned. December 21, 1775, he was chosen a Representative to the revolutionary legislature at Exeter, which resolved itself into an independent State government, and elected him one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he had held under the
Provincial government from the organization of Strafford County, Timothy Baker was a leading character in Northampton, often selectman, on important committees of Town and Church, was called "Mr." from the first, then "Ensign," and finally " Lieutenant." The final record is, " 30 August 1729, Lieut. Timothy Baker died." He married, 1st, 16 January 1672, Grace Marsh, and had Grace Baker, born 1673, died 10 February 1673; and Timothy Baker, born in 1675, died in infancy. His wife died 31 May 1676; and 1678 or 9, he married, 2d, Sarah Atherton, the widow of Rev. Hope Atherton, minister of Hatfield, who was chosen chaplain of Capt. Thomas Lathrop's Company, which was cut to pieces by the Indians at Bloody Brook (Deerfield), Mass. She was a daughter of Lieut. John Hollister, of Wethersfield, and married Mr. Atherton in 1674. She had by him three children. Timothy Baker had by her, John Baker, born 3 February 1680; Thomas Baker, born 14 May 1682; Edward Baker, born 12 November 1685 (left no male issue); Prudence Baker, born 14 May 1687; and Deliverance Baker, born 13 November 1689, died 1710. Capt. Thomas Baker (for whom see -N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, 1851) married Christine" Otis, daughter of Richard and Grizzel (born 6 March 1662, daughter of James and Margaret Warren, of Kittery, Me.) Otis, of Dover, N. H., who was born at Dover, N. H., in March 1688-9, and when the town was taken and destroyed by the Indians, on the morning of 28 June following, she was carried captive with her mother to Canada. The French priests took this child, then three months old, under their care, baptized her by the name of Christine, and educated her in the Romish religion. She passed some time in a nunnery, but declined to take the veil. About the age of sixteen she married a Frenchman, whose name was recorded on the Brookfield, Mass., Records, Le"-Bue, and in Col. Stoddard's Journal (see N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, April 1851), Le-Beau.
But her desire to see Now England was so strong that, upon an exchange of prisoners in 1714, being then a widow, she left her children, who were not permitted to come with her, and returned home, where she abjured the Romish faith. M. Seguenot, her former confessor, wrote her a flattering letter in 1727, warning her of her danger, repeating many gross calumnies which had formerly been vented against Luther and the other reformers. This letter being shown to Gov. William Burnet, he wrote her a sensible and masterly answer, refuting the arguments and detecting the falsehoods it contained. Both these letters, written in French (as neither Christine at that time nor the priest understood English), were translated and printed. A copy may be found in the Athenaeum Library, Boston; it is also reprinted in the Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society. She had three children by her French husband; they remained in Canada. Col. Otis Baker was the sixth of her seven children by her second marriage in 1773, and so continued to hold it until he was elected a State Senator in 1785, which office he held two years. He was one of the N. H. Committee of Safety from 1776 to 1777, and he succeeded Col. John4 (160) Wentworth, of Somersworth (the fourth in descent from Elder William1 by his son Ezekiel2, and grandson Capt. Benjamin3) in command of the old 2d N. II. Regiment. Col. Baker resided in Dover, N. H., on Silver Street (now so called), Christine" (Otis) Baker removed to Dover, N. H., about 1734, with her husband, Cnpt. Thomas Baker. They resided on the northwest corner of Pleasant and Silver Streets. She died 23 February 1773. The New Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, 5 March 1773, says, " She joined the church under the care of Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Mass., and removing to Dover, she there lived in good reputation, being a pattern of industry, prudence, and economy. She bore a tedious illness with much patience and calmness. The number of her posterity of three generations is seventy-two, and fifty-seven of them are now living." " Richard Otis, smith, may inhabit," is the first mention of this emigrant, and is on the Boston records, 28 May 1655. He was taxed at Dover, N. H., the next year, and was a blacksmith there until his death. His first wife was Rose, daughter of Anthony Stoughton, who probably came over with him, and by whom he had seven children. His second wife was Shuah, widow of James Heard, by whom it is supposed he had no children. By his last wife he had two children. He was killed on the morning of 28 June 1689, in the attack on Dover, in which twenty-two were killed and twenty-nine carried into captivity. The garrison houses there were surrounded with timber walls, the gates of which, as well aa the house-doors, were secured with bolts and bars. The neighboring families resorted to these houses at night for safety. Approaching the place with professions of peace, the Indians sent two of their squaws to each house to ask lodgings for the night, with the intention of pening the doors after the inmates were asleep, and giving the signal, by a whistle, to the savages to rush in. The stratagem succeeded. On the night of Thursday, 27 June 1689, in unsuspecting confidence the families retired to rest. When all was quiet the gates were opened and the signal was given. The Indians rushed into Major Waldron's house, and though seventy-four years old, he with his sword drove them from room to room until stunned by a hatchet thrown by an Indian, who came through another room behind him. They then cut him in pieces and set the house on fire. Otis's garrison met with the same fate. He was shot as he was rising up in bed, and his son, Stephen Otis, and daughter, Hannah Otis, were killed, the latter — then two years old — by dashing her head against the chamber-stairs. Another account is that Richard Otis was shot whilst looking out the window on the first alarm. The wife and infant child (of three months old) of Richard Otis with the children of his son, Stephen Otis, and others, twenty-nine in all, were carried captive to Canada, where they were sold to the French, — the first English prison-

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1851

pp 191-200
Her husband Capt Thomas Baker, was born at Northampton, Mass., 14 May, 1682, the son of Timothy Baker, who was the son of Edward Baker, a freeman at Lynn, 1638. Edward went to Northampton about 1658, the fourth or fifth year of its settlement, where he had grants of land from the town. He remained there a number of years, was selectman, &c. ; returned to Lynn and there died, March,
1687. His wife was Jane . He left .in Northampton two sons ; Joseph f and Timothy J ; and had sons, Edward 2 and Thomas * at Lynn ; John,2 who it is believed, settled in Dedham, where his descendants are very numerous ; and perhaps others. His will is dated 16 Oct., 1685, but he names in it only two or three of his children, as he had given them portions by deeds. He appointed " a decent funeral, suitable to my rank and quality," and exhorted his children to live in peace and the fear of God.

Joseph Baker,2 m. Ruth Holton, 5 Feb., 1662, nnd had Joseph, b. 20 Jan., 1664; Ruth, 6 May, 1668; Mary, 5 Sept., 1670; Samuel, 11 Sept., 1672 ; Joseph, 25 Jan., 1675. Of these, Ruth m. Ebenezer Alvord, 1691, and Joseph was slain by the Indians, while at work in his meadow, 1675. Timothy Baker,2 was a leading character in Northampton, often selectman, on important Committees of Town and Church, was called, " Mr." from the first, then " Ensign," and finally, "Lieutenant" The final record is, "30 Aug., 1729, Lieut Timothy Baker died." He m. 1st, Grace Marsh, 16 Jan., 1672, and had Grace,
1673, d. 10 Feb., 1673 ; and Timothy, 1675, d. in infancy. His wife d. 31 May, 1676, and 1678 or 9, he m., 2d, Sarah Atherton, the wid. of Rev. Hope Atherton, minister of Hatfield, who was chosen chaplain of Capt Lathrop's Company, which was cut to pieces by the Indiana at Bloody Brook, (Deerfield.) She was a dau. of Lieut. John Hoilister, of Wethersfield, and m. Mr. Atherton, in 1674. She had by him three children. Timothy Baker had by her, John,* 3 Feb., 1680 ;THOMAS,8 14 May, 1682; Edward,8 12 Nov., 1685, (left no male issue) ; Prudence,' 14 May, 1687; Deliverance,3 13 Nov., 1689, d.
1710. Capt John Baker,* (eldest son of Timothy) m. Rebecca Clark and settled on the old homestead — became one of the most influential men in the town ; had 7 sons, viz : John, Noah, Aaron, Elisha, iSlephen, Timothy, Elijah, and two daughters. All the sons except Timothy, (who lost his life in the expedition against Louisburg, in 1745.) married and settled in Western Massachusetts, all lived to be 80 years old or over, and all left numerous families, whose descendants are scattered all over the United States, from Vermont to Texas. Elijah was the <*rand-father of the Hon. Osmyn Baker, late M. C., from A MI lie IM. Mass., now of Northampton.

Capt Thomas Baker, was an adventurous character, and had no fixed residence, except at his father's house in Northampton, until the consummation of his romantic affair with Christine" Otis. After his birth, his name does not appear again on the Northampton records, until the record of the birth of his daughter, spelled by the clerk " Chrittian." From the fact of finding this record at that place, it is inferred that he had not then fully established himself at Brookfield. He was among the captives who were taken at the destruction of the town of Deerfield, 29 B'eb., 1703-4, and was carried to Canada. He had not been in captivity long, when he with others, determined on making their escape. They had not however, proceeded far in their elopement,
when they were overtaken and carried back, and threatened with immediate
death by being burnt at the stake ; and would have been, had not some of the French interceded in their behalf.

Capt. Baker and his men, went down the Merrimack to Dunstable, and thence to Boston, and made application for the bounty, May 8th, 1712. They brought but one scalp, yet claimed pay for several, as they believed they had killed some wlio.se scalps they could not get. This occasioned some delay, and the men came home. On the 10th of June, the General Court granted 40 pounds, or pay for four scalps, not because they believed so many Indians had been killed, but they were willing to reward the bravery and enterprise of Capt. Baker,
and his 32 men. They allowed Capt. Baker's company wages from 24 Mch, to the 16th of May, 1712. — M&. letter of Sylvester Judd, Esq. The account given by Mrs. Bean, the daughter of Capt. Baker, adds some incidents to this affair. She said that the enemy were composed of a large body of French and Indians, who were coming down from Canada to kill and destroy the English ; that they were in their boati sailing down the River: that Baker, having previously discovered them, secreted his men in ambush, on the the banks of the river.

Capt. Baker died at Roxbury of the "Lethargy", to which disease he had been some time subject — at which place he was on a visit to some cousins of his, by the name of Sumner.* The time of his death is not known, but it was sometime prior to Mr.*. Bean's . marriage, about 1758, as she and her mother were then living with Col. Otis Baker. He was " past his labour," in 1735.
The following is the Petition of Christine Baker, and the order of the General Assembly, of N. H. ; the original of which is in possession of the family of her descendant, the wife of Hon. Paul Wentworth, of Concord, N. H. :To his Excellencie, Jonathan Belcher, Esqvire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Mafties Province of New Hamps'e, The Honourable the Council And House of Repretrnttativet, Now Conven'd in General Asseembly. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF CHRISTINE BAKER, THE WIFE OF CAPT. THOMAS BAKER, OF DOVER, IN NEW HAMP8*E AFFOR SAID, MOST HUMBLY SHOWETH !
That your Petitioner in her Childhood was captivated by the Indians in the Town of Dover, afibre said, (where she was Born) and carried to Canada, and there Brot up in the Romish Superstition and idolitry. And was there Maryed and well settled, and had three children ; and after the Death of her husband, she had a very Great Inclination to see her own country ; And with Great Difficulty obtained permission to Return, leaving all her substance and her children, far by no means could she obtain leave for them ; And since
your Petitioner has been maryed to Capt. Baker, she did undertake the hazzard and fatieug of a Journey to Canada againe in hopes by the interest of friends to get her children, but all in vaine — so that her Losses *re trebbled on her ; first the loss of her house well fitted and furnished, and the lands belonging to it ; Second, the Loss of Considerable part of her New England Substance in her last journey to Canada ; and thirdly, the Loss of her children. Yet still she hath this Comfort since her return : That she is alsoo returned into the Bossum of the Protestant church ; for wen. she
most heartily thanks Almighty God. And now your Petitioner having a large family to support, and by the Changes and chances of fortune here is Reduced to very low Circumstances ; and her husband past his Labour. Your Pet'r Lately made her case known to several Gent, in the Government of the Massa. who out of a Charitable Disposition did supply yor. Petitioner with something to set her in a way to subsist her family ; And also advis'd to keep a house of Entertainment ; And the Gen'll Assembly of that Govermt. took your Petitioner's case into their consideration, and made her a present of 500 acres of land in the Province of Maine, and put it under the care and Trust of Coll. Win. Pepperell, Esq., for the use of your Petititioner (exclusive of her husbands having anything to do with it.) Now your Petitioner by the help she hath had, has hot, a lot of land and Built a house on it on the Contry Rlioade from Dover meeting bouse to Cochecho Boome ; and have bedding and other

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History of Northern Wisconsin, Vol II. Chicago: Western Historical Pub. Co., 1881, p. 532: " Henry Schmidt, of Rasmus, Schmidt & Company, livery and sale stable, Manitowoc, was born Feb. 20, 1840 in Brunswick, Germany. In 1857, he came to Manitowoc County, and followed farming until Sept. 23, 1861, when he enlisted in Co. B, 9th Wis. Inf. Served three years and three months, at the expiration of which time he returned to Manitowoc and was engaged in the saloon business for about six years, when he followed the brewing and soda water business for three years; then returned to farming for two years. In 1875, bought an interest in his present business. Married, Jan. 7, 1869, to Julia Zinns, of Buffalo, N. Y., who was born May 28, 1844, by whom he has four children, one son and three daughters."

Soldiers' And Citizens' Album Biographical Record Grand Army Of The Republic 1888 Page 543: "HENRY SCHMIDT, Manitowoc, Wis., and a member of G.A.R. Post No. 18, was born Feb. 20. 1840, at Halle, Braunschweig, Germany. He was 17 years of age when in 1857, he came to America and located at the place in which he has since been a resident. He was married Jan. 7, 1859, to Julia Zinns at Manitowoc. Their children are named Josephine, Mathilda, Albert, Rosa and Willie. Mr. Schmidt had been prosecuting the business of liveryman at Manitowoc since 1876. He enlisted Sept. 23, 1861, in Company B, 9th Wisconsin Infantry at Manitowoc for three years. He was made corporal in the course of his service and received honorable discharge Dec. 4, 1864, at Milwaukee, the period of his enlistment having expired. Following is the roster of his principal battles: Pine Bluff, Little Rock, Jenkins Ferry, Prairie d'Ane, Camden, Newtonia, Prairie Grove, Rheas' Mills, Pea Ridge and many others. At Camden and again at Jenkins Ferry he was nearly captured by the rebels. At the former place, the regiment was guarding the rear in the retreat and was harassed by Texan rangers. Mr. Schmidt was struggling to assist a wounded comrade to keep up when the rebels came upon them and they escaped with great difficulty. His rubber blanket was folded and strapped to his knapsack and a shot cut 22 holes in it. At Jenkins Ferry the company was detailed as skirmishers and the whole squad narrowly escaped capture in a fierce onset by the rebels. They had to cross an open field under fire, closely pursued by the butterments. After the capture of Camden the command of Steele was attacked by the rebels who had brought disaster on the expedition of Banks and for a month, while getting back to Little Rock the fighting continued every day. The engagement at Jenkins Ferry closed the chase, the rebels being repulsed. Their repeated charges throughout the pursuit were repulsed in every instance until they received a satisfactory thrashing." 1890 Veterans Schedule, Manitowoc County: Henry Schmidt, Pvt 9th, post office Manitowoc 1895 June 20 Veterans Census of Manitowoc County: Henry Schmidt, Cpl B 9 Infantry, post office Manitowoc, WI Der Nord Westen, 16 June 1904: "Miss Josephine Schmidt, eldest daughter of Henry Schmidt here, was married on 26 May in Kansas City, Missouri, to Frank E. Uhl, a plaster and brick contractor there. Mr. Henry Schmidt, who attended the wedding with his wife, met a neighbor of his son-in-law who had served in the Southern Cavalry under General Price. The man told Mr. Schmidt that on 30 Sept. 1862 at Newtonia, Missouri, his troop had clobbered several companies of German troops from Wisconsin. He was not a little astonished when told that he, Schmidt, had been a member of the Ninth Regiment and that his company had actually been on that unfortunate advance in which by error Company A had moved out instead of Company E. Later in the day he had marched toward Newtonia with the rest of the regiment to see if they could reinforce the companies under attack, but they were too late to help. Thus, after many years, two old friends who once were enemies, met each other."

History of Manitowoc County Wisconsin", by Dr. L. Falge, 1911-1912, v.2, p.307-309 (part of son Albert H Schmidt's bio): Hon. Albert H. Schmidt, judge of the municipal court of Manitowoc county and one of Manitowoc's most distinguished citizens, was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and is a son of Henry and Julia (Zinns) Schmidt. Henry Schmidt came from Hanover, Germany, to the United States with his brother, Fred, in 1850, and settled in Kossuth township, where in 1861 he organized a company for enlistment in the Civil war. He was later transferred to Company B, Ninth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, his service covering a period of three and one-half years. After the war he located in Manitowoc, where he became manager of Roef's Brewery, but after a few years engaged in the livery business and contracting, and he has continued to be so engaged to the present time. From 1894 to 1896 he served as sheriff of Manitowoc county, being the only man on the republican ticket to be elected at that time and one of the first republicans elected here. He married Julia Zinns, who was born in Buffalo, New York, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Zinns, of Lorraine, Germany, who came to Wisconsin during the early ‘50s and located in Meeme township, Mr. Zinns being the owner of one of the first grist mills in the county. Judge Schmidt's grandfather, John Zinns, also came to this section at an early day and engaged in the mercantile business. He was a member of the first village council of Manitowoc, where he served as justice of the peace for many years, and also organized the first singing society in this city. Henry and Julia (Zinns) Schmidt were the parents of five children".

Schmidt, Henry (I23975)

2475

History of the Carter Family
The Carter’s of Colonial Virginia

John Carter, immigrated to Virginia from England in 1625 aboard the “Safety”. Living in Jamestown, no one know why he came to the Virginia colony, perhaps to leave the political strife in Great Britain, possible to better his station in an already hard world. Within a year his neighbors were so taken with his character, they asked him to represent them at the House of Burgesses.

In 1642, after acquiring some 13,500 acres in the Northern Neck between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers building his family estate called “Corotoman”. He became a successful planter and businessman, also serving first as an elected Burgess, and then, as a member of the Governor’s Council.

Marrying in 1650, his first wife, Jane Glyn, gave him three children, George, who dies young, Elizabeth and John II. After the early death of his wife, he married Eleanor Eltonhead Brocas in 1656. It was about this time he was elected to the House of Burgesses that automatically made him the commander of the local militia. This militia was responsible for ridding the area of the last of the Rappahannock Indians that brought to its commander more accolades. Eleanor died the next year leaving no children.

His third wife, Anne Carter, daughter of Cleve Carter of England, whom he married in 1658, died within the first year of their marriage, leaving no children.

In 1660, he married Sarah Ludlow, and had two more children, Sarah, who died young, and Robert Carter. Sarah Ludlow Carter died in early 1668 and her family had inscribed on her tombstone, “May her descendants make their mother’s virtues and graces the pattern of their lives and actions”. Little did anyone realize to what great heights her son Robert would achieve.

John Carter took a fifth wife marrying Elizabeth Shirley in late 1668. A son, Charles, was born in 1669. That same year John died. As a young man, Charles moved to England to live and died there sometime after 1690. John Carter the émigré, achieved prominence, wealth, political power, material goods and social prestige that he had earned for himself, but his sons and grandsons were to carve out an empire, such as he had never envisioned.

Upon his death, John’s main estate, holdings and slaves went to his oldest son, John II, with 6,000 English pound’s going to his wife, Elizabeth. Robert “King” Carter was seven years old when his father died. Upon gaining his majority, being a second son, his prospects were not exceptionally bright. He had inherited 1,000 acres near the Corotoman River and one third of his father’s personal estate valued at 1,000 English pounds consisting of a library of Latin books, a few slaves, and some other personal items.

Then by a sudden turn of events, his older half brother, John II, who ad married twice and had one daughter, Elizabeth (1675-1693), died at age 43, leaving Robert the sole adult male representing the family and inheriting the family estate.

Two years later in 1688, now at age 25, Robert married Judith Armistead, who gave him five children. John III (1689), Elizabeth (1692), Judith (1693), who died in infancy, Sarah (1694), who died at eight years of age, and another Judith (1695), named after the first daughter who died. Judith Armistead Carter passed after eleven years of marriage.

In 1697, Robert married his second wife, Elizabeth Landon Willis, the 16 year old widow of Richard Wilis and they had ten children. Anne (1702), Robert II (1704), Sarah (1705) dying as a young child, Betty (1706) who also died as a young child, Charles (1707), Ludlow (1709) who died young, Landon (1710), Mary (1712), Lucy (1714) and George (1716).

Robert Carter, being born into the Tidewater gentry of the young colony, eclipsed his father’s accomplishments. Becoming a member, and later, speaker of the House of Burgesses, a member of the Governor’s Council, a vestryman in Christ Church, a Justice of the Peace, and acting governor of the colony from 1726-1727 until William Gooch arrived. He was also a rector of the College of William and Mary, seeing that institution through the most trying of times. Because he so eclipsed his father, he has been regarded by historians as the founder of this Virginia family and was nicknamed “King”. He ultimately became the richest and perhaps the most powerful man of his day.

Realizing the need that future generations would have for fresh lands, he obtained for his heirs some 333,000 acres.

Robert “King” Carter had arranged that the bulk of his lands would go to his eldest son, John Carter III (1689-1742) who married in 1725 Elizabeth Hill of Shirley Plantation.. He also saw to it that his other sons, Robert II, Charles, Landon and George would have ample estates. Robert “King” Carter died at the age of 69 in 1732 leaving an estate of 333,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and 10,000 English pound, a tremendous fortune in those days.

Robert Carter II (1704-1732) died unexpectedly at age 28, only months after his father, leaving his wife of seven years, Priscilla Churchill (1705-1757), a daughter Elizabeth born in 1725, and a son, four year old Robert III, born in 1728.

Priscilla Carter later married Colonel John Lewis from a family as ancestral and honorable as the Carters. Colonel Lewis was a widower with five children and when Elizabeth moved to his home, “Warner Hall” in Gouchester, her two children joined an already active household.

When Robert Carter III reached his majority, he became the master of more than seventy thousand acres including 5,025 acres in old Prince William County, inheriting his father’s portion of his grandfather’s estate. Young Robert, at age nine, went to the College of William and Mary. When the young man turned twenty-one, he went to England leaving Colonel Lewis in charge of his affairs. For the next two years historians presumed this trip to England was to complete his education following in the footsteps of his grandfather, father and uncles, although it was also a time to explore the arts and other diversions of the day. It was said that a young gentleman, “lacking a broad basis of knowledge would be unfit for any gentlemen’s conversation and therefore a scandalous person and a shame to his relations, not having one single qualification to recommend him”. It was quoted of one colonial father to have said, “that his children had better be never born than illbred”.

Upon young Robert’s return to the colony of Virginia in 1751, he was steeped in public duties. At age 28, he was made a member of the Governor’s Council and, by virtue of his belonging to the Council, he also served as a colonel in the militia. As was customary, he was known as “Councillor” Carter. He lived at Nomini Hall, the elegant manor house his father built about 1729 in Westmoreland County, overlooking the Potomac and Nomini Rivers, a plantation of about 2,000 acres. The square Georgian style home with four chimneys was made of brick, two stories high, located on a hill with a spectacular view of the rivers. Robert “Councillor” Carter married Frances Ann Tasker (1720-1787) on April 2, 1745, in Annapolis Maryland by the Reverend Mr. Malcolm, the minister of St. Anne’s Parish. His wife, the daughter of the Honorable Benjamin Tasker, one of the foremost citizens of the colony of Maryland, brought to the marriage, not only family influence, but also a large dowry. The marriage also enabled her husband to secure a one fifth control of one of her father’s businesses, the Baltimore Iron Works.

Together they had seventeen children. Benjamin (1756) dying at age 23, Robert Bladen (1759), who died unmarried at age 34, Priscilla (1760-1823), all born at Nomini Hall. About 1761, Robert “Councillor” and his growing family moved to Williamsburg to a home he purchased adjacent to the Governor’s Palace where the following three daughters were born. Ann Tasker (1762- ), Rebecca (1762) who died in infancy, and Frances (1764-1795), returning to Nomini Hall for the birth of his remaining children. Betty Landon (1765-1842), Mary (1767) who died at age four, Harriet Lucy (1768- ), Amelia Churchill (1769) who died in her first year, Rebecca Dulany (1770) who also died in her first year. John Tasker (1772- ), Sarah Fairfax (1773-1829), Judith (1775) who died as an infant, George (1777-1846), Sophia (1778-1832), who died without marrying and Julia Carter (1783- ). In spite of such a large family, “Frances Tasker Carter remained elegant and beautiful in a youthful way, ever cheerful and agreeable”. She managed the household with great success and carefully trained and helped educate their children.

Managing seventy thousand acres demanded foresight and planning. Robert III cultivated as many as fifteen large plantations and farms at once. Each plantation and farm had an abundant amount of buildings used for storing tobacco, corn and wheat. Shops for weavers, carpenters, coopers, blacksmiths, as well as the manor houses and/or estate managers quarters. There were many independent buildings such as kitchens, bakeries, dairies, meat houses, slave cabins, stables, mills for grinding grains and factories for the production of textiles. Indentured servants were brought in from Ireland to spin and weave as well as to teach the Carter slaves these skills. The training of slaves in the trades was a necessary result of the conditions of life on large estates where free artisans found it difficult to serve more then a limited clientele. Many Carter slaves were trained as coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths, millers sailors, brick makers and layers and shoemakers. This training also increased their worth.

Though tobacco was the crop of importance, Robert also would devote entire plantations to producing grain and other supplies needed at Nomini Hall. Running the plantation, clearing new land for planting, civic and family duties, proved to be a laborious task. Though the basis of life was agricultural, the great landowners fulfilled a wide variety of other economic functions. They served as factors for their neighbors, buying their crops, and selling them supplies. When European conditions interfered with the import trade, enterprising men frequently set up grist mills, textile factories, and foundries on their plantations, to supply their own and their neighbor’s needs.

Robert “Councillor” Carter was a patriot during the American Revolution and as a member of the court of Westmoreland County he took an oath as prescribed by the Virginia Assembly renouncing allegiance to George III, pledging loyalty to Virginia and to the Continental Congress. At one point, he sent 50 bayonets to Captain Burgess Ball and also furnished him with other supplies. He sent Colonel Thomas Jones beef, hops, 2,950 lbs of flour as well as many loaves of bread. In September 1776, he supplied the commissary of Lancaster County with 2,000 lbs of bread and the same amount of flour. He also secured iron for the manufacture of munitions.

During the American Revolution rapid adjustments had to be made. Wheat, corn, hemp, flax, cotton, oats and barley were cultivated extensively by Robert III, while tobacco became less important in his scheme of operations. By the end of the 18th Century, the tobacco industry had sunk into a state of chronic depression. The rapid depletion of soil, the wasteful agricultural methods and over production were all making themselves felt. Robert III was ahead of his time in raising other grains for cash crops. He had set up and equipped so many plantations and farms that he resorted to naming twelve of them after the signs of the zodiac. Two of these farms, Leo, consisting of 809 acres with 309 acres cleared, and Cancer with 700 acres of which 400 were cleared, were dedicated to the growing of tobacco, shipping 79 hogshead of tobacco, between the two in 1785. In 1791, there were 509 slaves, with an estimated worth of well over a hundred thousand dollars, belonging to Robert III, a number that was large enough to generate efficient cultivation of his many plantations. He was also the largest single slave- holder in Virginia at that time. During the year 1791, Robert “Councillor” Carter provided, in a Deed of Manumission, for the freeing of almost all of his 509 slaves. This was to be accomplished on a gradual basis over a period of twenty years since to have set all free at once would have resulted in great distress for the slaves and chaos for the community. He gave or rented lands to some of his former slaves as they were freed.

Carter, Colonel John (I43334)

2476

History of the Carter Family – Nomini Hall Slave Legacy

History of the Carter Family
The Carter’s of Colonial Virginia

John Carter, immigrated to Virginia from England in 1625 aboard the “Safety”. Living in Jamestown, no one know why he came to the Virginia colony, perhaps to leave the political strife in Great Britain, possible to better his station in an already hard world. Within a year his neighbors were so taken with his character, they asked him to represent them at the House of Burgesses.

In 1642, after acquiring some 13,500 acres in the Northern Neck between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers building his family estate called “Corotoman”. He became a successful planter and businessman, also serving first as an elected Burgess, and then, as a member of the Governor’s Council.

Marrying in 1650, his first wife, Jane Glyn, gave him three children, George, who dies young, Elizabeth and John II. After the early death of his wife, he married Eleanor Eltonhead Brocas in 1656. It was about this time he was elected to the House of Burgesses that automatically made him the commander of the local militia. This militia was responsible for ridding the area of the last of the Rappahannock Indians that brought to its commander more accolades. Eleanor died the next year leaving no children.

His third wife, Anne Carter, daughter of Cleve Carter of England, whom he married in 1658, died within the first year of their marriage, leaving no children.

In 1660, he married Sarah Ludlow, and had two more children, Sarah, who died young, and Robert Carter. Sarah Ludlow Carter died in early 1668 and her family had inscribed on her tombstone, “May her descendants make their mother’s virtues and graces the pattern of their lives and actions”. Little did anyone realize to what great heights her son Robert would achieve.

John Carter took a fifth wife marrying Elizabeth Shirley in late 1668. A son, Charles, was born in 1669. That same year John died. As a young man, Charles moved to England to live and died there sometime after 1690. John Carter the émigré, achieved prominence, wealth, political power, material goods and social prestige that he had earned for himself, but his sons and grandsons were to carve out an empire, such as he had never envisioned.

Upon his death, John’s main estate, holdings and slaves went to his oldest son, John II, with 6,000 English pound’s going to his wife, Elizabeth. Robert “King” Carter was seven years old when his father died. Upon gaining his majority, being a second son, his prospects were not exceptionally bright. He had inherited 1,000 acres near the Corotoman River and one third of his father’s personal estate valued at 1,000 English pounds consisting of a library of Latin books, a few slaves, and some other personal items.

Then by a sudden turn of events, his older half brother, John II, who ad married twice and had one daughter, Elizabeth (1675-1693), died at age 43, leaving Robert the sole adult male representing the family and inheriting the family estate.

Two years later in 1688, now at age 25, Robert married Judith Armistead, who gave him five children. John III (1689), Elizabeth (1692), Judith (1693), who died in infancy, Sarah (1694), who died at eight years of age, and another Judith (1695), named after the first daughter who died. Judith Armistead Carter passed after eleven years of marriage.

In 1697, Robert married his second wife, Elizabeth Landon Willis, the 16 year old widow of Richard Wilis and they had ten children. Anne (1702), Robert II (1704), Sarah (1705) dying as a young child, Betty (1706) who also died as a young child, Charles (1707), Ludlow (1709) who died young, Landon (1710), Mary (1712), Lucy (1714) and George (1716).

Robert Carter, being born into the Tidewater gentry of the young colony, eclipsed his father’s accomplishments. Becoming a member, and later, speaker of the House of Burgesses, a member of the Governor’s Council, a vestryman in Christ Church, a Justice of the Peace, and acting governor of the colony from 1726-1727 until William Gooch arrived. He was also a rector of the College of William and Mary, seeing that institution through the most trying of times. Because he so eclipsed his father, he has been regarded by historians as the founder of this Virginia family and was nicknamed “King”. He ultimately became the richest and perhaps the most powerful man of his day.

Realizing the need that future generations would have for fresh lands, he obtained for his heirs some 333,000 acres.

Robert “King” Carter had arranged that the bulk of his lands would go to his eldest son, John Carter III (1689-1742) who married in 1725 Elizabeth Hill of Shirley Plantation.. He also saw to it that his other sons, Robert II, Charles, Landon and George would have ample estates. Robert “King” Carter died at the age of 69 in 1732 leaving an estate of 333,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and 10,000 English pound, a tremendous fortune in those days.

Robert Carter II (1704-1732) died unexpectedly at age 28, only months after his father, leaving his wife of seven years, Priscilla Churchill (1705-1757), a daughter Elizabeth born in 1725, and a son, four year old Robert III, born in 1728.

Priscilla Carter later married Colonel John Lewis from a family as ancestral and honorable as the Carters. Colonel Lewis was a widower with five children and when Elizabeth moved to his home, “Warner Hall” in Gouchester, her two children joined an already active household.

When Robert Carter III reached his majority, he became the master of more than seventy thousand acres including 5,025 acres in old Prince William County, inheriting his father’s portion of his grandfather’s estate. Young Robert, at age nine, went to the College of William and Mary. When the young man turned twenty-one, he went to England leaving Colonel Lewis in charge of his affairs. For the next two years historians presumed this trip to England was to complete his education following in the footsteps of his grandfather, father and uncles, although it was also a time to explore the arts and other diversions of the day. It was said that a young gentleman, “lacking a broad basis of knowledge would be unfit for any gentlemen’s conversation and therefore a scandalous person and a shame to his relations, not having one single qualification to recommend him”. It was quoted of one colonial father to have said, “that his children had better be never born than illbred”.

Upon young Robert’s return to the colony of Virginia in 1751, he was steeped in public duties. At age 28, he was made a member of the Governor’s Council and, by virtue of his belonging to the Council, he also served as a colonel in the militia. As was customary, he was known as “Councillor” Carter. He lived at Nomini Hall, the elegant manor house his father built about 1729 in Westmoreland County, overlooking the Potomac and Nomini Rivers, a plantation of about 2,000 acres. The square Georgian style home with four chimneys was made of brick, two stories high, located on a hill with a spectacular view of the rivers. Robert “Councillor” Carter married Frances Ann Tasker (1720-1787) on April 2, 1745, in Annapolis Maryland by the Reverend Mr. Malcolm, the minister of St. Anne’s Parish. His wife, the daughter of the Honorable Benjamin Tasker, one of the foremost citizens of the colony of Maryland, brought to the marriage, not only family influence, but also a large dowry. The marriage also enabled her husband to secure a one fifth control of one of her father’s businesses, the Baltimore Iron Works.

Together they had seventeen children. Benjamin (1756) dying at age 23, Robert Bladen (1759), who died unmarried at age 34, Priscilla (1760-1823), all born at Nomini Hall. About 1761, Robert “Councillor” and his growing family moved to Williamsburg to a home he purchased adjacent to the Governor’s Palace where the following three daughters were born. Ann Tasker (1762- ), Rebecca (1762) who died in infancy, and Frances (1764-1795), returning to Nomini Hall for the birth of his remaining children. Betty Landon (1765-1842), Mary (1767) who died at age four, Harriet Lucy (1768- ), Amelia Churchill (1769) who died in her first year, Rebecca Dulany (1770) who also died in her first year. John Tasker (1772- ), Sarah Fairfax (1773-1829), Judith (1775) who died as an infant, George (1777-1846), Sophia (1778-1832), who died without marrying and Julia Carter (1783- ). In spite of such a large family, “Frances Tasker Carter remained elegant and beautiful in a youthful way, ever cheerful and agreeable”. She managed the household with great success and carefully trained and helped educate their children.

Managing seventy thousand acres demanded foresight and planning. Robert III cultivated as many as fifteen large plantations and farms at once. Each plantation and farm had an abundant amount of buildings used for storing tobacco, corn and wheat. Shops for weavers, carpenters, coopers, blacksmiths, as well as the manor houses and/or estate managers quarters. There were many independent buildings such as kitchens, bakeries, dairies, meat houses, slave cabins, stables, mills for grinding grains and factories for the production of textiles. Indentured servants were brought in from Ireland to spin and weave as well as to teach the Carter slaves these skills. The training of slaves in the trades was a necessary result of the conditions of life on large estates where free artisans found it difficult to serve more then a limited clientele. Many Carter slaves were trained as coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths, millers sailors, brick makers and layers and shoemakers. This training also increased their worth.

Though tobacco was the crop of importance, Robert also would devote entire plantations to producing grain and other supplies needed at Nomini Hall. Running the plantation, clearing new land for planting, civic and family duties, proved to be a laborious task. Though the basis of life was agricultural, the great landowners fulfilled a wide variety of other economic functions. They served as factors for their neighbors, buying their crops, and selling them supplies. When European conditions interfered with the import trade, enterprising men frequently set up grist mills, textile factories, and foundries on their plantations, to supply their own and their neighbor’s needs.

Robert “Councillor” Carter was a patriot during the American Revolution and as a member of the court of Westmoreland County he took an oath as prescribed by the Virginia Assembly renouncing allegiance to George III, pledging loyalty to Virginia and to the Continental Congress. At one point, he sent 50 bayonets to Captain Burgess Ball and also furnished him with other supplies. He sent Colonel Thomas Jones beef, hops, 2,950 lbs of flour as well as many loaves of bread. In September 1776, he supplied the commissary of Lancaster County with 2,000 lbs of bread and the same amount of flour. He also secured iron for the manufacture of munitions.

During the American Revolution rapid adjustments had to be made. Wheat, corn, hemp, flax, cotton, oats and barley were cultivated extensively by Robert III, while tobacco became less important in his scheme of operations. By the end of the 18th Century, the tobacco industry had sunk into a state of chronic depression. The rapid depletion of soil, the wasteful agricultural methods and over production were all making themselves felt. Robert III was ahead of his time in raising other grains for cash crops. He had set up and equipped so many plantations and farms that he resorted to naming twelve of them after the signs of the zodiac. Two of these farms, Leo, consisting of 809 acres with 309 acres cleared, and Cancer with 700 acres of which 400 were cleared, were dedicated to the growing of tobacco, shipping 79 hogshead of tobacco, between the two in 1785. In 1791, there were 509 slaves, with an estimated worth of well over a hundred thousand dollars, belonging to Robert III, a number that was large enough to generate efficient cultivation of his many plantations. He was also the largest single slave- holder in Virginia at that time. During the year 1791, Robert “Councillor” Carter provided, in a Deed of Manumission, for the freeing of almost all of his 509 slaves. This was to be accomplished on a gradual basis over a period of twenty years since to have set all free at once would have resulted in great distress for the slaves and chaos for the community. He gave or rented lands to some of his former slaves as they were freed.

Carter, Robert 'Councillor' Churchill III (I47194)

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History of the Town of Cornwall, Vermont, in a list of families settled there before 1800.

Page 284:
BAKER, TIMOTHY (as head of family)[spouses of children listed if known]
Fanny married J. Douglass
Phebe
Clarissa
Oliver
Rhoda
Rebecca
Lucy
Alpheus*
Irene (Cerena on most charts)
Nancy
William
Luman

Timothy's wife is not mentioned. It is noted that Timothy Baker, deceased "about 1812", had a large family. He sold the first house they lived in and built a second one nearby. There is a notation in "History of the Town of Cornwall, Vermont" that Timothy Baker and Daniel Foot, in 1791, sold a lot south of Elisha Hurlbut. It was also noted that Timothy Baker settled on a farm opposite Elisha Hurlbut, indicating that these were two separate properties. After Timothy's death, William Hurlbut bought the property. Cemetery records show death date as May 10, 1816. Timothy served in the Revolutionary War and his son Alpheus was involved in the War of 1812.

DAR Chapter House in Cornwall, Vermont, has a plaque listing Revolutionary Soldiers Buried In Cornwall: among them was Timothy Baker. Although Remembrance Baker was involved with Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, it appears Timothy Baker was with a prior group still in Massachusetts.

Timothy Baker is buried at Cornwall and Weybridge Parish, located on Route 30 (Cemetery Records of Addison County, Vermont: Cornwall, Vol. II)

If Prudence was born in 1750, there is a problem with the children listed; that is, Prudence would have been 62 years old when the last child was born. Since the History of the Town of Cornwall, Vermont, lists Timothy Baker and all of his children, but does not include name of his wife, perhaps he had two wives, which would account for the gap in birth dates. However, since death records available in Ohio differ, I would tend to go along with several other trees (have not found any actual birth record for Prudence Brook) which suggest birth date as 1760, (she was christened in Jun 1760, Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass.). Prudence is buried at the Brandon Cemetery, Miller Township, Knox County, Ohio.

After Timothy's death in 1816, the home property was sold and Prudence accompanied several of her children to Ohio. Since those who served in the War of 1812 would have received Bounty Land Grants, it is reasonable to believe this was the motive for relocating to Ohio as that area had been opened up for settlement as Bounty Lands.

Baker, Timothy (I2126)

2478

History of the Town of Cornwall, Vermont, in a list of families settled there before 1800:
BAKER, TIMOTHY (as head of family)[spouses of children listed if known]
Fanny married J. Douglass
Phebe
Clarissa
Oliver
Rhoda
Rebecca
Lucy
Alpheus*
Irene (Cerena on most charts)
Nancy
William
Luman

* pg. 343-345: In September 1814 a British force 14000 strong invaded Plattsburg, New York. Alpheus joined a company from Brandon commanded by Captain Michael/Micha Brown, which marched to Plattsburg in response. They witnessed a naval battle on Lake Champlain, which the British lost. They then encountered a British land regiment, which fired a volley, then retreated. The Americans had only 2 casualties.

After Timothy Baker's death in 1816, the home property was sold and Timothy's wife Prudence accompanied several of her children to Ohio. Since those who served in the War of 1812 would have received Bounty Land Grants, it is reasonable to believe this was the motive for relocating to Ohio as that area had been opened up for settlement as Bounty Lands.

Baker, Alpheus (I2128)

2479

History of the Ulyard Bakery

Mr. Ulyard rented an adobe and set up a bakery business, using yeast that his wife brought across the Great Plains to their new home. Ulyard "soon sought a new location on the outskirts of the pueblo, at First and Main Street," later he moved to the southwest corner of Fifth and Main, site of the Alexander Hotel.

Ulyard was the first American-born baker in Los Angeles, naming his shop the American Bakery. He was in competition with Jospeh LeLong who was running his Jenny Lind Bakery and baking French bread. Ulyard made "German and American bread and cake, which soon found favor with many; later he added freshly-baked crakers," which he advertised as "baked in Los Angeles, and superior to those half spoiled by the sea voyage" from San Francisco.

The bakery was taken over by Louis Mesmer and then by James Rowan and his son, Thomas E. Rowan. The building was damaged by fire in December 1869, an event that led to the establishment of Los Angeles's first organized fire company.

Mesmer, Louis Aloise (I43808)

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History of Washington and Kent Counties, Rhode Island
by J. R. Cole W.W.Preston & Co., New York, 1889

CHAPTER XI.
TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN.p. 371.

Description.---Population.---Noted Places.---Richard Smith’s Block House.---The Updikes.---The Big Grave.---
Early Settlement and Early Settlers.---List of Freemen.---The Erection of the Town.---Early Pastimes.---Negro
‘Lections.---Town Clerks.---Town Officers.---Land Titles.---The Villages, their Industries, etc.---the Town
Farm.---Murders.---Elm Grove Cemetery.---Schools.---First Baptist church, Allenton.---Quidnessett Baptist
church, North Kingstown.---Six Principle Baptist church.---Other Churches.

NORTH KINGSTOWN is a large, wealthy and flourishing township, bounded on the north by Warwick and East Greenwich, on the west by Exeter, on the south by South Kingstown and on the east by Narragansett bay. Its average length is about eight miles and its average width about seven miles, comprising about fifty-six square miles. The face of the country is uneven. The soil is of a sandy loam in the northern section, favorable to the culture of grain, while the southern section is of a gravelly loam and affords an excellent grazing country. Ship building was extensively carried on in early times in nearly every part of the town. The population of the town at various dates has been: In 1708, 1,200; 1730, 2,105; 1748, 1,935; 1755, 2,109; 1774, 2,472; 1776, 2,761; 1782, 2,328; 1790, 2,907; 1800, 2,794; 1810, 2,957; 1820, 3,007; 1830, 3,036; 1840, 2,909; 1850, 2,971; 1860, 3,104; 1865, 3,166; 1870, 3.568; 1875, 3,505; 1880, 3,949; 1885, 3,804.

Amos Perry, in his census report of 1885, carefully enumerates the places of interest in this town as follows:

Villages.---Wickford, formerly Updike’s Newtown. In 1808 it was a port of entry under the direction of William Ellery, collector of Newport. Lafayette; Hamilton, formerly Bissell’s Mills; Davisville; Bellville; Wickford Junction, formerly Caesar’s Plain; Allenton; Annaquatucket, formerly Esbon Sanford’s; West Wickford, formerly Collation Corner; East Lafayette; Narragansett or Joe Sanford’s; Sandy Hill Mills; Shady Lea; Silver [p.372] Spring; Scrabbletown; Slocumville; South Wickford; Saunderstown, formerly Willettville; Oak Hill; Peirce’s Mills; Shermantown; Swamptown; Wickford Landing.

Corners.---Allens; Hendrick’s; Hulings; Indian.

Hamlets.---Nichols’; Pendar’s; Romes; Smith’s; Belville Station.

Hills.---McSparran; Kitt’s; Barber’s Heights; Sand; Phillips’; Brown’s; Ridge; Spink; Walmesley’s; Wolf; Gould; Mount.

Rivers.---Annaquatucket; Hunt’s or Mattatuxet; Petaquamscutt.

Points.---Allen’s; Calf Pasture; Ferry; Greene’s; Phillips’; Plum Beach; Pojack or Muskechug; Poplar Tree; Quonset or Seconiganset; Rome; Smith’s ; Spink’s; Stillhouse; Pendar’s.

Ponds.---Annaquatucket Mill; North Bellville Mill; South Bellville; Brush; Davisville Mill; Dealing; Kettle Hole; Lafayette; Carr’s (Paussuchuco); Peirce’s Mill; Pettaquamscutt Upper or Bass; Pettaquamscutt Lower; Potowomut; Rome’s; Scrabbletown; Sand Hill.

Reservoirs.---Annaquatucket; Hamilton; Narragansett; Oak Hill; Silver Spring Upper; Silver Spring Lower.

Harbors.---Wickford or Cawcumsquissick; Allen’s Bissell’s; Duck or Greene’s; Spink’s; Wickford Bay.

Ledges.---Ferry; Rome Point; Willett.

Rocks.---Devil’s Foot; Brother’s; Old Sergeant; Patt; Spindle; Black; Clump; Dyer’s; Rolling; Deborah; Hall’s.

Woods.---Austin’s; Cedar Grove; Davis’; Hazard’s; Huguenot Grove; Pine or Plain; Rome; Sherman.

Parks.---Allen’s or Quidnesett; Wilett Farm.

Swamps.---Allen’s; Cedar; Cat or Kenyon; Fones’; Grenne’s; Pine; Rocky; Smith’s; Spink’s.

Islands.---Fox or Sowonexet; Cornelius; Goose.

Brooks.---Carr’s; Cat Swamp; Cawcumsquissick or Stony (called also Cocumsuissic); Cole’s; Congdon’s; Davis’ Mill; Great Meadow; Fones’; Greene’s; Hall’s; Not-a-Brook; Packard’s; Phillip (called also Shewotuck); Rome’s; Shermantown; Slocum’s; Willett’s.

Springs.---Canonicus; Elizabeth; Whaley or Taylor’s; Kettle Hole; Silver; Cold; Great; Cedar.

Historic.---Richard Smith’s Block House, 1641; Roger Williams’ Trading House, built 1648 and sold to R. Smith 1651; Gilbert Stuart’s Birthplace, December 3d, 1755, and near it Hammond [p. 373] Mill, originally built for a snuff mill, but run for over one hundred years as a grist mill; Boston Neck, called Namcook; Hamoganset or Kesikomick; North Ferry; Quidnessett; Great Grave; Site of St. Paul’s church, 1707, removed to Wickford 1800; McSparran Monument; the Hummocks; Plum Beach.

"In the Willett Papers mention is made of the residence of Miantinomo, and the impression is clearly given that this chief resided on Boston Neck, at the head of Pettaquamscutt river, on the east side. The same papers indicate that Canonicus resided on the plain opposite the trading house of Roger Williams."

The building of Richard Smith’s block house is the first step recorded in the settlement of this town. The first notice of a town in this region is the appointment by the council of Connecticut July 10th, 1663, of selectmen and other town officers and the order was to be called "Wickforde." This order was issued two days after the signing of the King Charles II.charter, and no action was taken for its execution. The town was incorporated under the name of "King’s Towne," October 28th, 1674, as the seventh town in the colony, with an area of 178.5 square miles, which territory now belongs to North Kingstown, South Kingstown and Exeter.

Roger Williams had a trading house in North Kingstown called Narragansett. He was here between the years of 1648 and 1651, and from this place he wrote a score or more of letters.

Captain Richard Smith built what has long been designated as the "Old Castle," within one-half mile of the village of Wickford. This, in 1639, was erected for the farm house of Captain Smith, and here the good Roger Williams, who also fled from persecution, often visited. The brave and just old Canonicus and also Miantinomo frequently visited Smith. This castle was built by Smith as a trading post or house, and as a protection against the troublesome Indians. It was fifty feet square, two stories high, and its walls were of rough stone, two feet in thickness. It was used as a garrison and fortification during the Indian war, and it was there that Captain Benjamin Church assembled his forces before marching to the great swamp fight, and after his victory, with the dead and wounded, burying some forty-two of the slain in one grave.

In the year 1664 Gilbert Updike, of New Amsterdam, married Smith’s daughter, and the fitted up the castle in English style by covering it with wood work (inside and out) for a permanent [p. 374] dwelling. And it has remained until the present day, except occasional covering and repairing on the outside. It was retained in the Updike family until the fourth generation. In 1878 it passed into the hands of General Walter R. Chapin. This house was burned down in the Indian war but was rebuilt again and used as a garrison until the Great Swamp Fight.

Mr. Smith did (sic) in 1664. His grave is yet unmarked, save by a common stone with the letters "R.S. died 1664." Richard Smith, Jr., was a major in the service of Cromwell. He died in 1692. His sister married Gilbert Updike, who came from Long Island in 1664 and settled on the old homestead at the heard of the cove. Gilbert had three sons, Lodowick, Daniel and James. Daniel and James were both killed at the swamp fight, and with forty others were brought home and buried in one common grave. Lodowick Updike alone survived his father. He died I 1737, leaving two sons, Daniel and Richard. Daniel was the king’s attorney, and left a son by the name of Lodowick, who was born in 1725 and died in 1804 in the old mansion that still stands upon the foundation walls of the old trading house and garrison of long ago. Lodowick also left sons and daughters, many of whom lived to a good old age.

The scenes in and around the old mansion have been changed since the days of the last Lodowick Updike. In the interior of the mansion, most of the large, square rooms are yet retained in their primitive style.

The Great Swamp Fight of December 19th, 1675, decided the fate of King Phillips’ war and the life of New England. In that fight the colonists lost six captains, one lieutenant and over tow hundred soldiers. Deacon A. B. Chadsey, speaking of the slain on this battlefield, says: "the dead bodies of 42 white men, slain by the Narragansetts in the Great Swamp Fight of Dec. 19, 1675, were transported from the scene of slaughter in South Kingstown in carts to the Block house (a garrison house) of Major Richard Smith in North Kingstown, one mile north of Wickford, and buried in the garden of Major Smith, near the house, in one grave near a large rock on which a few letters have been chiseled to preserve the identity of the BIG GRAVE. The block house, erected by Richard Smith about the year 1640, has been well preserved by timely repairs, and still remains the ‘fist English house’ erected in the thicket of Narragansett country."

Once an apple tree grew upon the grave, but it was blown [p. 375] down in the September gale of 1815. The present lettered builder serves as the only monument to the soldiers here sleeping together.

That the settlement of Smith was the third in the colony and about the year 1639, is forcibly demonstrated in a letter of Roger Williams dated July 24th 1679, in which he says: "Richard Smith, Sen., who for his conscience to God left fair possessions in Gloucestershire and adventured with his relations and estate to New England, and was a most acceptable inhabitant and prime leading man in Taunton in Plymouth Colony. For his conscience sak (sic) (many differences arising) he left Taunton and came to the Narragansett country, where by God’s mercy and favor of the Narragansett sachems he broke the ice (at his great charge and hazard), and put up in the thickest of the barbarians the first English house among them. I humbly testify that about forty years (prior t this date) he kept possession, coming and going, himself children and servants, and had quiet possession of his houses, lands and meadow; and there in his own house, with much serenity of soul and comfort, he yielded up his spirit to God the father of spirits in peace."

In 1639, three years after Roger Williams settled at Providence, Richard Smith established his trading post and commenced a settlement at the head of what is known as Point Wharf Cove.

The materials for the first English dwelling here were shipped form Taunton in boars. Here Smith continued to live and carry on his traffic with the Indians successfully. Soon afterward Roger Williams and Mr. Wilcox moved into the country and settled near Smith, his trading house being near where Royal Vaughn last lived, the next house north of "Spink’s Inn." Mr. Williams in 1651 sold out to Smith his trading house, his two big guns and the small island (Rabbit island) for goats.

In 1659 Randall Holden and Samuel Gorton made an important purchase of land in North Kingstown, consisting of Fox Island and the neck of land between Wickford and Annaquatucket river. This was afterward sold to Richard Smith. A little later and during this same year Humphrey Atherton, in company with others, bought land in Quidnessett and that part of Boston Neck which had not already been sold to Smith. Mr. Atherton came from Plymouth colony.

The assembly in 1671, foreseeing dangers arising from landed proprietors establishing a monopoly, ordered "that persons [p.376] owning large tracts of land in Narragansett should sell it out to persons in want of it." From this time the land began to be divided up into smaller parcels, and settlements became more numerous. The general court, in 1677, had ordered a survey of the Narragansett country, and found that the whole of Boston Neck was owned by Humphrey Atherton, John Winthrop, governor of Connecticut; Richard Smith, Sr., and Richard Smith, Jr., of Cocumscussuc, traders; Lieutenant William Hudson and Amos Richardson of Boston; and John Tinker, of Nashaway, trader. Mr. Richardson was a native of Stonington. His will was proved in 1683. His grandson, Amos, fell heir to his farm on the east side of Pawcatuck river, and to his sons Stephen and Samuel he gave his other lands.

Jonathan, son and administrator of Mr. Atherton, sold all Atherton’s share in the Boston Neck purchase, being about seven hundred acres on the point adjoining Pettaquamscutt harbor, to Richard Smith, July 23d, 1673 for £50. In 1676 Jonathan Atherton sold to John Saffin and Thomas Dean all his own Narragansett rights, and as administrator on his brother, Increase Atherton’s estate, sold his lands, being one twenty-second part, also to John Saffin. In 1679 this John Saffin was "tried before the Rhode Island Court of Tryals" for the offense of adhering to foreign jurisdiction, and sentenced to forfeit all his real and personal estate and pay a fine. Richard Smith was indicted for the same offense at the same time, but the indictment was quashed for informality.

The Atherton purchase was made in direct violation of a law of Rhode Island, and gave rise to a succession of difficulties. The question of jurisdiction over the Narragansett country had not yet been determined, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut each contending for it, but when allowed to choose for themselves every member of the Atherton Company declared I favor of Connecticut.

Major Atherton had been much employed in the negotiations between the Indians and the English, and had made use of the influence he thus acquired to make purchases for himself. These purchases were made in contravention of an express law of the colony, and therefore the government did not consider them valid, but treated him and his company as intruders. Roger Williams informed Major Atherton that his purchases were contrary to law, and refused all his offers of land or to engage him [p. 377] to assist and interpret for him. Major Atherton was employed as superintendent of the praying Indians from 1658 to 1661, and was employed for keeping courts amongst them in divers places and instructing them in their civil conversation.

The northeastern part of North Kingstown, known as the old Quidnessett territory, was formerly a prominent part of the town. In early times it supported two saw mills and one or two grist mills. The latter are still in operation. Considerable trade was carried on from Greene’s, George and Allen’s harbor, with Providence, Newport and other points. The "Sea Flower" and "Two Brothers" carried on quite a trade from the forge mill and anchor works. These vessels were supplanted eventually by the "Emily Ann" and "Lucy Ann."

This country, the Quidnessett, is about six miles long and three broad. It was called by the natives Aquitawaset. It is bounded on the north by the Potowomut river, on the west by the Pequot path or old Post road, south by Wickford harbor and east by Narragansett bay. The block house built by Smith was in the extreme southwest corner of the Quidnessett territory. By the marriage of Smith’s daughter into the Updike family this estate by will was given by her father, Richard Smith, Sen.; it took that name and so continued until it went by purchase into the hands of Captain Joseph Congdon in 1813.

Roger Williams and one Wilcox built trading houses about a mile north---near "Devil’s Footprint"---seven or eight years afterward, and carried on business from 1646 to 1651. It was Judge Sherman’s opinion that Canonicus and Miantinomo resided near by, opposite, on Fones’ purchase, within twenty or thirty rods of the "Devil’s Footprint," in a northerly direction.

June 11th, 1659, the Indian sachem Coqinoquant, of the Narragansett country, made a deed of gift of this country to Major Atherton and his associates, and the next year to several citizens of Newport, Portsmouth, Providence and Warwick, who had come on and purchased farms on the bay and the Potowomut river, extending over half of the Quidnessett territory. Thomas and John Gould, John Sulls, Henry Fowler, Robert Carr, Thomas Hart, Francis Brinley, Walter Couningreve, Thomas Nichols and sons, Henry Tibbetts, Samuel Waite, Nicholas Spink, Captain John Cranston, Robert Wescott, John Sanford, Edward Thurston, John Greene and son, and Valentine Wightman were among the first settlers; and soon after, John Eldred, William [p. 378] Dyre, Arthur Aylesworth, John Allen and Henry Reynolds settled on the southern part of this territory. John Greene and son owned more acres than any others for several years. John Cranston was governor two years and died in office. John Greene was deputy-governor ten years. Governor William Greene and Governor Ward also owned lands in Quidnessett.

John Fones (one of the freemen of Kingstown) and five others bought of Awashuwett, chief sachem of Qushesett, in Narragansett (in Quidnessett), a tract of land there. With the title of captain, he was a member of a court martial at Newport for trial of Indians charged with being engaged in King Phillip’s designs. It was voted at the trial August 24th, 1676, that certain ones were guilty and they were sentenced to be shot. The north line of the Fones’ purchase commenced at a rock on the river, above Hunt’s bridge, on the Post road running straight north to a river running into the Muskachuge Cove. Then the line followed the road easterly to the Potowomut river as high as salt water. From Thomas Hill’s house it ran partly in a south-westerly direction straight to John Andrew’s house on the Post road, then to "Devil’s Foot" rocks.

The proprietors of the northern part of Quidnessett made a division of their lands in 1666. John Greene and son fell heirs to a tract of one hundred and fifty-one acres. The cove now called Allen’s harbor in 1666 was laid out to John Sanford. It was afterward sold to John Greene, and previous to 1800 had been purchased from Greene’s descendants by the Allens, in which latter family nearly all of it is now owned.

In the year 1671, the general assembly held its May session at Acquidnessett.

In January, 1671-2, John Greene, John Fones, Henry Tibbets, John Andrews, John Briggs and Thomas Waterman bought of the Indians a large tract since known as the "Devil’s Foot or Fones’ purchase." All these proprietors were residents of Quidnessett except John Fones, who lived three miles west in Narragansett.

In March, 1681-2, Daniel Greene conveyed one hundred and twenty acres bordering on Allen’s harbor to his son, James Greene, the farm now owned by Mr. Joseph Allen. This family are descendants from William Allen, who came from Wales in 1660 to Prudence Island, where he lived and died. His son John came to Quidnessett and bought the homestead in 1702. Thomas, [p. 379] Christopher, Silas, James and John are in lineal descent. John Greene married Joan ------, and she is known to have been the mother of Daniel and James, and probably of John, Edward and Benjamin. Not far from the brook, between the highway and the dwelling house of Mr. Joseph Allen, a cellar of an old dwelling can be found, which was probably occupied by this Daniel and his son Daniel, and certainly by his grandson John. James Greene, a very early settler of North Kingstown, is spoken of as living in Richard Smith’s house. In 1663 he and others declared for the Rhode Island government.

Beriah Brown was also a resident as early as 1687. In 1703 he was one of the number appointed to lay out the roads of North Kingstown. In 1709 he was one of five persons who received a grant of 792 acres of land in this town. Alexander Brown, his eldest son, a resident of the homestead farm, died in 1758.

Stephen Northup took the oath of allegiance May 19th, 1671. In 1726 he had trouble with Elisha Cole about a mill dam (see sketch by Mr. Peirce). At that time there was no other mill within some miles of this place.

John Cole was a settler in North Kingstown in 1663. He was the son of Isaac, who came to America in 1634 with his father and mother in the ship "Hercules." His father settled at Charlestown, Mass., and from thence John went to Boston. In 1651, December 30th, he married Susannah Hutchinson, daughter of William and Mary (Marbury) Hutchinson. In 1663 he came to North Kingstown. In 1668 he and other inhabitants petitioned the Connecticut authorities to reassume their government, for if not the petitioners might look for government elsewhere, and two years later acquainted the Rhode Island governor and council that he had not yet taken an engagement to any office under Connecticut, but did not know how soon he might do so. For this and other statements he was delivered over to the sergeant till the next court meeting, and was to find bail for £20 to answer for contempt. He was one of the petitioners to the king in 1679 to put an end to the disturbances between Rhode Island and Connecticut. In 1682 he was made conservator of the peace. His son William married Ann Pinder, of North Kingstown, and their son Elisha Cole, was the one who had the difficulty with Stephen Northup in 1726 about a mill dam.

Ann Hutchinson, after being banished from Massachusetts, came to Rhode Island. From thence went with the family [p. 380] to East Chester, N. Y., where they were al killed by the Indians except one daughter, Susannah, who was redeemed, and afterward married John Cole. She lived to a great age.

William Hutchinson came over from England in 1634, and died in Newport in 1642. His daughter Susannah afterward married Nathaniel Coddington, of Newport. John Cole died in 1706-7. Elisha Cole, a son of John Cole, married Elizabeth Dexter in 1713. He died in 1728 in London, where he had gone to attend a law suit. His children were: Judge John Cole, born in 1715, married Mary, only daughter of Daniel Updike, and died about 1777 (He left a son, Edward, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Ichabod Wade); Thomas, born in 1720; Colonel Edward Cole, who served in the war of 1763, and died in Nova Scotia; Susannah, Elizabeth and Abigail. Several of the Cole family were zealous supporters of the English church, and are distinguished in its early records. They were large proprietors of lands in the Boston Neck, a little south of Wickford.

John Cole, the eldest son of Elisha Cole, obtained a good early education and a competent knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages under a private tutor. He studied law in the office of Daniel Updike, the attorney general of the colony, married his only daughter Mary, ad commenced practice in Providence. His talents soon acquired for him a large share of business throughout the colony. He was elected an associate judge of the supreme court in 1763, and the succeeding year was promoted to the chair of chief justice. The stamp act began to agitate the colonies in 1765, to which measure of the home of government Judge Cole was sternly opposed. He resigned his position on the bench in the spring of 1766, and entered the legislature as a representative from Providence. He was one of the committee, with Stephen Hopkins and others, to draft instructions from Providence respecting the stamp act. Their report declared that the contemplated measure of taxation was unconstitutional and had a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American liberty. Mr. Cole was a representative through the stormy period of 1776, and in 1767 was elected speaker of the house.

On the commencement of hostilities in 1775 the legislature erected a vice-admiralty court, and Mr. Cole was appointed advocate general, which office he sustained during life. In advanced life he was induced to enter the hospital at north Providence for inoculation for small pox , a disease particularly prevalent at this [p. 381] period. It proved fatal, and he died in the hospital in October, 1777.

Edward Cole, the third son of Elisha, was a well educated and accomplished gentleman, and was predisposed to a military life, and early entered into the service. He was a colonel of a regiment under the celebrated General Wolfe, at the siege of Quebec, in 1759. He commanded a regiment at the capture of Havana, under Albemarle. Afterward Colonel Johnson, the superintendent of Indian affairs in America, appointed Colonel Cole to treat with the Indians in the west. To effect this hazardous enterprise he suffered great privations in traversing the forests of Ohio, then untrod by civilized man. The object of the mission was to secure the friendship and to prevent the confederation of the native tribes through the influence of the French agents. He effected the object of the mission satisfactorily, and on his return settled in Newport.

In the commencement of our struggle for independence, in opposition to his brother, he adhered to the royal cause. He was suspected, his house was broken open, and his furniture and pictures mutilated. He fled to the enemy, finally entered the British service, and at the termination of the struggle settled in Nova Scotia. He died at an advanced age at the island of St. Johns, in April, 1793.

Joseph Gardiner, the youngest son of Sir Thomas Gardiner, of Yorkshire, England, came over with the first settlers of Kings county, R. I., and died in 1679, aged 78 years. He left six sons, whose names were: Benoni, Henry, William, George, Nicholas and Joseph, from whence sprung the numerous family of Gardners of this state. H. G. O. Gardner is a son of Willett, son of Nicholas (4), son of Nicholas (3), son of Nicholas (2), son of Nicholas (1), who was the son of Joseph the emigrant.

The Allens of North Kingstown descended from William and Elizabeth Allen of Rhode Island. William Allen died in 1675. He and James Greene were appointed as messengers to carry letters from the Rhode Island assembly to Governor Crandall of New Hampshire. His son, William Allen, fell heir to all lands in Potowomut and all lands and houses in East Greenwich.

Arthur Aylesworth, of North Kingstown, was born in 1653. He and forty-one others signed a petition to the king praying that he would put an end to those differences about the government [p. 382] which had been so fatal to the prosperity of the place. This petition was dated July 29th, 1679.

Gabriel Bernon became a resident of North Kingstown. He was a Huguenot, a Protestant merchant of an ancient family of Rochelle, France. He was the son of Andre’ Bernon and Susanne Guillomard. His zeal in the Protestant cause had rendered him obnoxious to the authorities for some time previous to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and he was two years imprisoned. There exists in the family a small edition of the Psalms, which tradition states was printed in a minute form to enable the persecuted owners the more readily to secrete them in their bosoms when surprised at their simple devotions. Gabriel Bernon left his native city and took refuge in England to avoid the persecutions of St. Bartholomew. In those days bigotry reigned and mercy had veiled her face; and as the Catholics propagated the maxims that faith need not be kept with heretics, and to massacre them was just, pious and useful to salvation, the choice of three great evils thus fell to the poor heretics---expatriation, death or recantation, worse than a thousand deaths. In leaving France Gabriel Bernon left brothers and everything that could render life desirable. But all these sacrifices he counted naught in comparison to liberty of conscience. He remained some time in England. He was there in 1687. He came to America soon after and to Providence in 1698, and thence removed into Narragansett country, where the ruins of his house still exist. He purchased several tracts of land in North Kingstown, was elected one of the vestrymen of St. Paul’s in 1718, and in the succeeding year returned to Providence. Mr. Bernon died at Providence February 1st, 1736, in the ninety-second year of his age. He was a gentleman by birth and be estate, and for the cause of true religion fled into New England, where he continued a zealous Protestant. He was courteous, honest and kind, and died in great faith and hope in his Redeemer, and assurance of salvation.

The above will serve to show to the descendants of the Huguenots in this western world the perplexities and embarrassments of those who willingly abandoned the luxuries and refinements of the old world to flee to the shores of an inhospitable wilderness for the purpose of worshipping God according to the dictates of their consciences.

The Phillips family first settled around Wickford. Samuel [p. 383 ] Phillips, it is said, emigrated from Exeter, England, and was among the first who settled in the Narragansett country. He died in 1736, aged eighty-one years. His widow Elizabeth afterward married Colonel Thomas, and died in 1748. The children of Samuel Philips were; Thomas, Charles, Samuel and Mary. Thomas, the eldest, died in 1722, in Exeter. His son Samuel died in 1748 leaving two children, Thomas and Mary. Mary married first her cousin Charles Phillips, and second Henry Wall, sheriff, etc. Among the children of Charles Phillips was Charles, who in 1749 married his cousin Mary, died in 1757, leaving: Major Samuel, Charles, William, Peter and daughters.

Samuel, the third child of Samuel Phillips, married Abigail Brown and was the father of several children. Hon. Peter Phillips, of North Kingstown, who was a member of the convention to form the state constitution, was a son of his. He was born in 1731 and died in 1807. The daughter, Mary Phillips, married John Dickinson in 1818.

Major Samuel, son of Charles Phillips, was born near Wickford December 20th 1749, and died August 10th, 1808. He was four times married. In early life he became an active whig in the revolutionary controversy. In August, 1776, he was commissioned by John Hancock, president of the United Colonies, as captain of the sixth company of the First regiment of the brigade raised by this state, which was taken into continental pay and constituted part of the American army. On the 22d of January, 1777, he was again commissioned by Governor Cooke (the original commissions signed by Hancock and Cooke now remain in the family) captain of a company of state infantry in Colonel Stanton’s regiment. In 1777 captain Phillips was a volunteer and commanded one of the five boats in the expedition led by Colonel Barton for the capture of General Prescott. He was captain of a company in Sullivan’s expedition in Rhode Island in 1778. The next year he entered the naval service as a lieutenant by President Adams, and entered the service. After the treaty with France he settled on his farm near Wickford, where he died August 10th, 1808.

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Peter Phillips was the son of Christopher and grandson of Samuel Phillips. He was born in North Kingstown in 1731. In the revolution he was an inflexible whig, and rendered important service to his country during the war. He represented his native town in the general assembly, and subsequently in 1775, was promoted to the senate, and in May he was elected commissary of the Army of Observation, a body of fifteen hundred men raised by the state, of which Nathaniel Greene was elected brigadier-general. Mr. Phillips was re-elected state senator for the years 1776, 1777, 1778 and 1779. In 1780 the legislature appointed him on o f the judges of the supreme court of the state, a position which he held for five consecutive years. In 1785 Mr. Phillips was elected by the people a delegate to represent Rhode Island in The Confederated Congress, but did not take his seat in that body. In 1786 he declined re-appointment on the bench of the supreme court. The legislature, desirous of retaining Mr. Phillips in the public service, elected him to the office of chief justice of the court of common pleas for his native country in the year 1795. He soon resigned all public honors and retired to private life. All the various civil and military appointments that were conferred upon him he discharged with ability and fidelity.

Mr. Phillips was a man of considerable property, owning a handsome estate in Wickford. He was a very polished gentleman, quite spare in person, wore a wig and always dressed with great neatness.

Gilbert Stuart, the father of the celebrated portrait painter, was an early settler of North Kingstown. He emigrated from Scotland and settled here, where he erected the first snuff mill in the United States. His son, Gilbert Charles Stuart, whose name was destined to be enrolled among the world’s illustrious geniuses, early displayed a fondness for pencil sketching, and soon acquired a marked degree of proficiency in pencil likenesses. He was put under the tuition of one Alexander when about thirteen years old, and accompanied his tutor on a journey through the south, and afterward went to Scotland. Mr. Alexander soon afterward died, and his pupil was left in charge of Sir George Chambers.

The death of Mr. Chambers occurred soon afterward, when Mr. Stuart returned to his own country and resumed his pencil, residing at Newport. In 1775 he returned to England, and remained until 1793. Here his genus attracted the nobility, and [p. 385] his portraits were regarded as possessing the highest order of artistic skill. The inhabitants of the town in which he was born may justly feel a pride in his history, as few painters have received more honors than Gilbert Stuart. Mr. Stuart married Charlotte Coates, of Reading, Eng., by whom he had a large family. He died at Boston, July 28th, 1828, in the seventy-second year of his age.

Theophilus Whalley was at one time a resident of this town. He was a peculiar and eccentric man, and it is supposed he was one of the regicide judges of King Charles I. The latter part of his life was spent on a farm in West Greenwich. He lived to the advanced age of one hundred and three years.

Alexander Phoenix, one of the earliest settlers of Quidnessett, died before 1698, and left a widow, Abigail Phoenix. In 1709, Widow Phoenix and John Hymans purchased 163 acres of land of the colony. Widow Phoenix built a house there. Her daughter, Abigail, married Beriah Brown. Their sons were Alexander and Charles Brown.

This place is near to and just south of Wickford Junction, and west of the railroad, lately owned by Paul G. Henrick, who married Lydia Brown, a lineal descendant of the first owner, and daughter of John Brown, who was the last of the name to own the place.

The Hymans land to the east of this has long since passed into other hands. On the northerly part of this tract now stands most of the village and the railroad station of Wickford Junction, while on its eastern border stands the thriving village of Lafayette. The original tract mentioned was bounded north by the "ten rod road," south by Annaquatucket river, and east by Rocky Swamp, which is partly covered by the Bellville reservoir pond.

Pardon Tillinghast and his brother Philip (sons of Elder Pardon Tillinghast, who died in Providence, January 29th, 1718), were two of thirteen persons who purchased from the committee of the general assembly of Rhode Island the vacant lands in the Narragansett district, being some 35,000 acres, by deed executed June 30th, 1709, for which they paid eleven hundred pounds sterling, or fifteen and three-quarter cents per acre. After selling part to forty-two settlers, the original thirteen had about one thousand acres each. Pardon settled on his share and made it his homestead, called it the Mansion Estate, and established his family cemetery. The first burial was that of his first wife, Mary, [p. 386] on February 6th, 1726, and the headstones show records of family burials down to that of Joseph Tillinghast, February 26th, 1862. Pardon Tillinghast settled at East Greenwich, in that part called Frenchtown, and from him descended the Tillinghasts of East and West Greenwich.

William Chadsey, the founder of the Chadsey family in Rhode Island, came to this country in 1715. He landed first in the Southern states. The next year he came to Newport, and soon after crossed the Narragansett bay and fixed his residence at Sand Hill, in Kingstown, four miles south of East Greenwich. The farm still remains in the family and belongs to his descendants. In the year 1719 he married Susannah Greene, daughter of Jabez, and sister to the father of General Nathaniel Greene. They lived together sixty-eight years, and both died in 1787, on the farm where they first settled. They had four sons and six daughters, viz.: Jabez, Mary, Richard, Susannah, Jane, William, Naomi, Phebe, John and Elizabeth. Jabez, the eldest, was born in 1720. At the age of about thirty he married Honor Huling, daughter of Alexander, by whom he had eight children. She died in the year 1772, and the next year he married Mary Corey, widow of John, whose first husband was Jeremiah Greene. He married for his third wife Martha Grieves, and died in 1820. His children were: Jabez, Tabitha, Joseph, Elizabeth, Honor and Rowland.

The numerous descendants of William Chadsey can now easily trace their origin from the pioneer member of this family. Mr. Jeremiah G. Chadsey, in speaking on this subject, says: "I can trace the lineal descent of Susannah Greene, the wife of William Chadsey, back to her great-grandfather, who emigrated from England in the year 1636 with his family, and settled in Massachusetts, but was obliged to flee from that colony on account of Friendly or Quaker principles. In the year 1642 he came to Rhode Island and took up his abode in Warwick. His name was John Greene. He had four sons: John, Peter, James and Thomas all born in England. James Greene was born in England in 1628, and died in 1698. He had eleven children, Jabez, one of whom, was born in Warwick, in 1673; he was the father of Susannah, wife of William Chadsey, and also the grandfather of General Nathaniel Greene.

Samuel Waite Wightman was born in the town of North Kingstown October 5th 1789, in the house now owned and occupied [p. 387] by Crawford Allen, Esq., for his summer residence. His parents were George and Waity Wightman. His father was an industrious and respectable farmer, the son of Colonel George Wightman, and his mother, the daughter of Deacon Sylvester Sweet of Greenwich. When eighteen years of age he went to Pawtuxet and began the trade of cabinet making, commencing in this business in 1814 and following it for thirty years. Subsequently he invested considerably in real estate. He was postmaster of Pawtuxet for twenty years He was a member of the Pawtuxet Baptist church for a period of fifty years. In 1812 he married Hannah, daughter of William and Phebe Thornton, which tie was dissolved by his death, June 16th, 1869. He was blessed with eleven children, only four of whom are now living.

From an old record, considerably marred, we have been able to transcribe in part the list of freemen belonging to the town of Kingstown in the year of 1696, viz.:

"Joseph Fones, John Fones, Jeremiah Fones, Samuel Fones, Andrew Willett, Jeffrey Champling, James Renolds, Sen., James Renolds, Jr., Henry Tibets, George Whitman, John Cotterell, William Gibson, James Green, Henry Tibets, Jr., John Hinman, Samuel Albrough, Sen., John Briggs, Jr., Edward Green, John Eldred, John Spink, Joseph Place, Daniel Eldred, Arthur Alyworth, John Briggs, Sen., Moses Barber, Samuel Eldred, Nathaniel Niles, George Gardner, Samuel Hopkin, Thomas Hazard, Stephen Hazard, John Crandall, Thomas Eldred, Benjamin Green, John Sweet, Benjamin Gardner, Bennony (Benoni) Sweet, William Condell, Joseph Hull, Sen., Nicholas Gardner, William Cole, Joseph Hull, Jr., William Gardner (cord winder), Samuel Werden, Jr., Samuel Helme, John Watson, Jun., Robert Hannah, Edward Greenman, Samuel Perry, Jobe Jenny, George Cook, Jeffrey Champing, Jr., Robert Hazard, Jr., George Babcock, Jeremiah Hazard, Stephen Wilcox, James Huling, Phillip Aylworth, Charles Brown, Alexander Brown, Robert Gardner, James Kinyon, Robert Eldred, Jospeh Northrup, Nathan Gardner, Thomas Willett, Henry Gardner, Stephen Shearman, Thomas Phillips, Thomas Eldred, Jr., Thomas Bently, Benjamin Sheffield, Edmond Sheffield, Daniel Smith, Christopher Phillips, Nicholas Northrup, Anthony Eldred, John Wells, Jr., James Sweet, Isaac Gardner, Robert Case, Benjamin Sweet, Edward Dyre, Jr., John Jenkins, James Huling, Alexander Huling, George Hasard, Jeffrey Hasard, Benjamin Mumford, Thomas Potter, Ichabod [p. 388] Potter, Henry Northrup, Peleg Mumford, William Sheffield, son of Ichabod Sheffield, George Whightman, John Crowder, William Havens, Jr., Joseph Congdon and Daniel Nichols."

In 1674 the general assembly passed an act establishing a township in Narragansett and called it King’s Town. It was so named as an expression of gratitude to the British sovereign for defeating the machinations of neighboring colonies to get possession of the territory. Its name was, in 1686, changed to Rochester. This change was made under Edmund Andros’ administration, but in 1689 the original name was restored.

The population of Kingstown had increased to such an extent that it was early deemed necessary that there should be a division of the town, and in June, 1722, when Samuel Cranston was governor, the general assembly convened at Newport, enacted that the town of Kingstown be divided and made into two towns by the names of North and South Kingstown. North Kingstown held the records and was declared to be the older town. The town has once since (in 1742) suffered the loss of a large part of its territory when the western portion was set aside and incorporated as the town of Exeter.

The territory now embraced in the town of North Kingstown is comprised in a narrow strip of land on the Narragansett shore not over seven miles in width in any place, and embraced between latitudes 41° , 30’ and 41°, 40’.

The first town meeting under the new organization in 1722 was ordered to be held February 21st, 1723, to choose jurymen who should serve in the next general court of trials, and at the second town meeting held on the third Wednesday of the following month Robert Hull and Francis Willett were elected the first delegates to the general assembly. At this time the population was a little less than two thousand. From the date of its incorporation the town gained stability, and by the harmony of its government, grew in political strength. The discord incident to the breaking out of the revolutionary war, however, shattered society throughout the colonies, and that peace which was once blessed and maintained by a frugal, prosperous and industrious people was marred by an eight hears contest with the mother country.

After the hardships and miseries of the early colonial periods, the beginning of the eighteenth century seemed like the dawning of a golden age. Learning received attention, tokens of [p. 389] courtesy and hospitality were met with on every side, stately mansions and here and there a church were se4n towering among the trees or dotting the green fields, and the country through which Richard Smith and Roger Williams a few years before had with difficulty pressed their way, by the magic touch of civilization became transformed into the garden of America.

As early as 1710 three churches had been organized. In the latter part of the seventeenth century a minister by the name of baker came from Newport and founded a Baptist church in North Kingstown. This was undoubtedly the origin of the Baptist churches in this town, three of which now exist in a flourishing condition. The church at Wickford, whose edifice was built in 1816 and rebuilt in 1836, was an offshoot from the church at Allenton. The house at Allenton was erected in 1848, and the one in Quidnessett in 1842. Elder John Gardner’s Six Principle Baptist church , as it was styled, was founded about the year 1710. Three years prior to this the Episcopal Society erected a church in the south part of town. It was here that for more than thirty years Doctor James McSparran, the friend and companion of the illustrious Berkeley, proclaimed the truth and inspired the people with his eloquence. In the year 1800 the church, which is now the oldest Episcopal edifice in New England, was removed to its present site in Wickford.

The society at this period was marked by much refinement. The landed aristocracy cherished the liberal arts and literature, and secured for their children a generous intellectual training in the families of the learned clergymen. Extensive plantations, some of which have been divided into as many as ten large farms (Daniel Updike’s lands alone embracing three thousand acres), were worked by slave labor and produced abundant crops which, in the West Indies, found a ready market. A degree of sociability existed among the people, which in some respects their descendants might imitate with profit. Every family had its large circle of friends, who were always welcome to its hospitality. The remotest connection by blood was regarded with profound respect, and much visiting and interchange of thought and sentiment established a permanent bond of good feeling. True, some of the entertainments seemingly evinced a prodigality of wealth, but the display was generally in proportion to the abundance of the host and excess was rather the exception than the rule. Every season had its peculiar pastimes. There was the [p.390] annual excursion to Connecticut in May, the glorious old huskings of autumn, the festivities of the holidays in winter, and at every season of the year an occasional wedding. What joy, what mirth, pervaded the country on these gala days of the olden time! Even now, enlightened by tradition, we in imagination stand in the spacious halls, and surrounded by a merry throng, listen to the orchestra of slaves and see gentlemen with swords at their sides in crimson coats and knee breeches, with powdered wigs and queues, an ladies dressed in brocade gracefully walking the intricate mazes of the minuet.

The slaves, who formed a large part of the population---one family sometimes owning as many as forty---were not slow in imitating the manners and amusements of their masters. But in all their festivities none compared with that of the annual election, when, after the manner of the whites, they chose their governor for the year. On these occasions the parlors of the mansion house were thrown open, horses were provided, and money distributed among the negroes according to the means of the respective owners. Party spirit ran high. At the appointed time, arrayed in their master’s clothes, and mounted on their best pacers, with their ladies at their ladies at their sides in high glee, they rode to ‘lection. Here, after games and sports of various kinds, the friends of the two candidates were arranged in two rows, and the chief marshal with his assistants marched between them and made the count. In a loud voice he then proclaimed the governor for the ensuing year. Then followed the grand election dinner, which was held under the trees, the governor-elect sitting at the head of the table, and on either side his wife and unsuccessful candidate, whose prerogative it was to propose the first toast, and then and there drown the sorrows of his defeat. For both master and slaves these were sunny days.

TOWN CLERKS.---Owing to the destruction of the town by the fire no definite list can be given prior to the year 1700. It is known, however, that Samuel Fones and John Fones were clerks under the proprietors, and probably remained so as long as the proprietors, and probably remained so long as the proprietary lasted. The clerks since 1700 have been: Andrew Willett, 1700; Ephraim Bull, 1701; Andrew Willett, 1703; Samuel Fones, March 17th, 1703-4, to April 11th, 1715; Francis Willett, July 11th, 1715, to 1739; Immanuel Hall, 1739, to 1743, when he became the first town clerk of Exeter; Samuel Thomas, 1743 to 1761; George Northrup, 1761 to 1771; George Thomas, December [p. 391] 21st, 1771, to June, 1813; Jonathan Reynolds to June, 1836; Nicholas N. Spink, to the autumn of 1843; Samuel Pierce, to June 1860; Nicholas Spink, to June 1863; John B. Pierce, to June 1885; Charles T. Crombe, present incumbent.

TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1888.---Moderator, George A. Spink; town clerk, Charles T. Crombe; deputy town clerk, Thomas J. Peirce; town council---Edward C. Gardner, John Allen, Timothy Carroll, William L. Hall, Robert R. Rathbun; town auditors---William N. Rose, John Allen; town treasurer, Doctor S. B. Church, collector of taxes, John J. Spink; assessors of taxes---William N. Rose, James R. Healey, Joseph Tisdale, Perry W. Greene, Caleb T. Cottrell; commissioner of town asylum, Francis C. Dixon; sealer of weights and measures, Chester L. Farnham; town sergeant, James R. S. Wightman; truant officer, John J. Spink; school committee---Thomas W. D. Rathbun, Talbot P. Greene, Doctor S. O. Myers, Thomas J. Peirce, Doctor S. B. Church; superintendent of public schools, Doctor S. O. Myers.

LAND TITLES.---The following account of the succession of titles to that part of Boston Neck lying in North Kingstown, R. I., was prepared by Mr. Peleg F. Pierce, of Wickford.

July 4th, 1659, Major Humphrey Atherton and six associates, Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut, Richard Smith, Sr., and Richard Smith, Jr., Captain William Hudson, Amos Richardson and John Tinker obtained a deed of gift of the "Southern" tract or Namcook Neck or Boston Neck purchased from Coquimaquand (Indian sachem).

At a proprietors’ meeting in the latter part of 1659, Edward Hutchinson of Boston was admitted to share equally in said land.

In the early part of 1660 the lower portion only of the "Southern tract," called Boston Neck, was surveyed and divided among the partners, whose shares ran up the "Neck" in the following order: 1. Major Humphrey Atherton, 700 acres; 2. Richard Smith, Sr., 661 ½ acres; 3. Richard Smith, Jr., 661 ½ acres; 4. Governor John Winthrop, 661 ½ acres; 5. John Tinker, 661 ½ acres; 6. Amos Richardson, 661 ½ acres; 7. William Hudson, 661 ½ acres; 8. Edward Hutchinson, 661 ½ acres.

March 21st, 1660-1, at a proprietors’ meeting at the house of Edward Hutchinson, it was agreed that John Brown, Sr. of Seconk, should have one-half of Amos Richardson’s share in Boston Neck.

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April 10th, 1662, John Brown of Seconk, died, and his son, James Brown, succeeded to the farm.

In August, 1675, a second survey of Boston Neck was made by Mr. William Withington, and the Amos Richardson tract was put down in the survey as belonging to James Brown and John Payne, so that Amos Richardson must have disposed of his northern half prior to the above date., probably in 1666, at which time he removed to Stonington, Conn.

November 22d, 1677, the land in Boston Neck formerly belonging to John Payne, containing about three hundred and fifty acres, was conveyed to William Clark. Said land was between land of Captain Thomas Willet, deceased, on the south, and John Brown on the north.

September 3d, 1696, John Brown of Swansey, grandson of John and son of James, sold for £100 to Captain Timothy Clarke, merchant, of Boston.

October 13th, 1696, Captain Timothy Clarke sold to George Havens of Jamestown, a tract containing three hundred and thirty-one and one-half acres of land now in the occupation of George Wightman, half of the late Amos Richardson division. Said division was bounded south by Captain Andrew Willet’s land now in his own improvement; north by the other half share of the late Amos Richardson, now in the tenure and occupation of Stephen and Joseph Northrup; west by pond, east by the bay or salt water.

November 4th, 1699, George Havens and Ellenor, his wife, sold the farm to John Dexter of Sandwich, for £650 current money of New England.

March 30th, 1702, John Dexter sold the farm to Joseph Mory of Jamestown.

August 14th, 1724, Mary (Mory) Coggeshall of Newport, sold to her son, Daniel Coggeshall, of Newport.

February 16th, 1786, Daniel Coggeshall and wife, Elizabeth, sold to Silas Casey of Warwick what has since been known as the "Casey Farm."

About 1702 Benjamin Congdon married Frances Stafford and went to live in Boston Neck.

February 28th, 1738, he sold to his son, John Congdon, land he purchased of Timothy Clarke, and in his will he gives the said John the farm in Boston Neck, "Where I now dwell."

October 1st, 1803, Thomas R. Congdon sold one hundred and [p. 393] fifty acres of the farm to Samuel Packard, since known as the "Packard Farm, " bounded south by the "Congdon Farm," and both now (1888) owned by the divisees of the late Samuel C. Cottrell. The Casey, Congdon and Packard farms cover the Amos Richardson tract of 661 ½ acres. Amos Richardson was a wealthy merchant tailor of Boston. His daughter Sarah married Timothy Clarke. His daughter Katharine married David Anderson of Boston. North of Mr. Richardson’s tract was William Hudson’s division.

June 30th, 1687, it was conveyed to Richard Wharton, Esq., of Boston, by patents from James II., anc called the "Middlefield far." (See Col. Record, vol. 3, pages 225-226.)

August 28th, 1727, John Kenyon of Westerly, calling himself aged seventy years or thereabouts, testified that in the year 1683, or thereabouts, he went to live on the farm that Stephen Northrup of North Kingstown now lives on and paid rental to Major Smith in behalf of Mr. Killum of Boston, and lived there for eight years, and Stephen Northrup went in when he left it.

June 13th, 1712, John Nelson, attorney for the heirs, children and legatees of Richard Wharton, sold to Stephen Northrup for £1,700, money now current in New England, 661 ½ acres of land bounded southerly on land of Captain Timothy Clarke, westerly on Mill river that runs into the head of Pettaquamscutt pond, northerly upon lands of Matthew Allen and David Greene, easterly on Narragansett bay. ("Kingstown" Rec.)

In March, 1716, Stephen Northrup and Mary, his wife, sold to Benjamin Northrup one hundred and fifty acres of land (the northeast portion of this purchase) bounded north by land of David Greene, east by the bay, Plum beach pond and beach belonging to said Stephen Northrup, south and west by land of grantor. This farm, with what is now known as the "Kenyon" meadows and swamp on the west, contains about two hundred acres of land and is now called the "Stephen Tefft farm."

November 17th, 1747, Benjamin Northrup gives to Robert Hazard and Patience, his wife (whom he calls his "loving cousins") one-half of one hundred acres of land bounded west in part by the Mill river and in part by the fish pond. The other half of one hundred acres he gives to Caleb Allen and Mary, his wife, whom he also calls his "loving cousins."

March 29th, 1826, John Hazard (a grandson of Robert above) came into possession of the portion of this parcel of land devised [p. 394] to his grandfather Robert Hazard. He built fisheries and established smelt weir privileges in the southwestern corner of this farm, and it has since been known as the "smelt weir John Hazard land" (the southwest corner of Stephen Northrup’s purchase). The land in the northwest part of this purchase was in the possession of Henry Northrup in 1733. It was a farm of about one hundred and sixty-six acres. The southeastern portion of the purchase was the homestead farm containing about two hundred acres of land. At the northwest corner of this farm, on the bay was established in the earliest time of the colony a "landing place or ferry," known in 1707 as "Daniel’s Landing Place," later as "Northrup"s Ferry," a thoroughfare between Newport and the Narragansett country.

Stephen Northrup was a freeman of Providence in 1658; September 6th, 1687, taxed 5s. ½d. In 1671 he took the oath of allegiance at "Kingstowne." He died in 1687. His son Stephen was born in 1660; married in 1684 Mary Thomas; at "Kingstowne" September 6th, 1687; died June 12th, 1733. He gave to his three sons, Thomas, Henry and Nicholas, certain estate, one third to each (see Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, page 140).

When this tract was conveyed to Mr. Wharton in 1687 the west boundary was by the "Mill river," showing that a mill was in operation prior to this transfer. John Kenyon had lived four years on this tract. His brother James Kenyon was a miller (see Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, page 116). There are ruins of a mill dam about three hundred feet north of the present dam.

In February, 1702-03, the proprietors of Pettaquamsett, viz: Thomas Mumford, Samuel Wilson, Henry Gardner, Samuel Sewell, Jahreel Brenton, and Benedict Arnold, granted to James Kenyon, "millwirght," the mill at the head of Pettaquamscutt pond. James Kenyon was a brother-in-law of Thomas Mumford above.

August 25th, 1718, William Gardiner and his wife Abigail sold to Elisha Cole a tract of land containing 290 acres, with "a mill and other improvements." William Gardiner was assignee of James Kenyon. The 290 acres of land extended from the mill up the south side of the mill pond, subsequently called the "Plane farm."

In 1726, by a decree of the general court of assembly against Elisha Cole in favor of Stephen Northrup "to turn the stream or [p.395] brook between them to his ancient course," the grist mill dam across the said river was pulled down. At the meeting of the next assembly, upon the petition and remonstrance of the inhabitants, it was ordered to be rebuilt in three months (see Colonial Record of Rhode Island at this date, also Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.). Elisha Cole died in 1729.

North Kingstown Continued

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Hogganvik i gamal og ny tid

Av Jens Børretzen

Etter ei gamal segn vart den gamle kyrkja i Vikedal bygd i andre halvdelen av 1600 talet. Ho vart riven i 1880- åra. Det skal vera ekteparet Gudmund Knudsen og Helga Ormsdotter i Hogganvik som stod for kyrkjebyginga. På eine alterstaken står innrita namna deira. På ei kyrkjeklokke som no er borte, skal namna deira og ha stått. Denne klokka vart bytt bort mot ei større. Det var nok Helga som førde ordet og styrde både stakk og brok i Hogganvik den gongen. Det er fortalt at då tømmermennene heldt på med kyrkjearbeidet, kom dei til Helga og ville ha jarnboltar til å ha i dei lange opplengene, for å vera visse på at det vart sterkt nok. Då svara Helga: Gå bort i Eikenberg og hogg eik til naglar. Eg skal våga dei held! Eikenberg er ein lut av heimebøen i Hogganvik.

Seinare vart Hogganvik lensmannsgard. Om lag 1720 kjøpte oberst Christoffer von Krogh fiskeplassen Yrkje i Skjold. Det var han som gjekk under namnet «Gamle Kroken». Yrkjesvågen kjøpte han av danskekongen. Kroken ville gjeme få seg ein uneleg heeim, og kjøpte den eine parten av Hogganvik av Tårn Valentinsen Aubø. Han hadde fått denne gardparten med kona si, Ingeborg Jensdotter. Resten av Hogganvik bytte han til seg av ein som heitte Jakob Lund. Det var garden Melkeråen i Midt- Hordaland som Kroken gav i byte. Det ordet gjekk at gamle Kroken hadde svært godt vit på pengar, og fekk dei til å auka. Difor var det ikkje til å undrast over at han var om seg da kong Fredrik den £jerde, med stønad av biskop Deichman, tok til a selja kyrkjene i Norge.

Kroken kjøpte kyrkjene i Vikedal prestegjeld og andre, mellom dei den namngjetne kyrkja i Røldal, med alle gull- og sølvskattane sine. Det seiest at Kroken førde to hestekløv med sølv og andre kostesame ting derifra. Men han vart sjølv lurt også. Skattefuten Hun i Ryfylke var komen i kassemangel, og Kroken som hadde gått god for han, laut ut med 1500 riksdalar. Det tok han så hardt at han fekk helsott (dødssjukdom) av det. Han døydde i januar 1752. Ja, så fortel segna.

To stader i Hogganvik ber namnet «Major» etter Kroken. Det eine er Majorspranget. Han kom ridande vegen som låg like ved tunet og hesten vart skræmd av ein fugl og for i juvet. Majoren vart hangande i eit tre heilt uskadd. Hesten vart så skadd at han laut avlivast. Den andre staden er Majorhaugen. Der sat han og såg etter arbeidsfolka sine. Fra denne haugen er det fritt utsyn over heile Hogganvik.

General Søren de Fine von Krogh var son av Kroken og kom til å bu i Hogganvik all sin dag. Han døydde i 1795. Eldste son til generalen - kaptein Fredrich Stockfeldt von Krogh , fødd 1762, død 1836, var den siste von Krogh som budde i Hogganvik. Han hadde ingen søner. Han var namngjeten som fiskar og skyttar.

Han låg heile sumrane i Yrkje på fiske. Siste sumaren han levde, rodde han ut dei tunge nøtene heilt aleine. Da var han 74 år. Fredrich hadde 7 døtrer. Den eldste av dei, Anne Marie Katrine, vart gift med Johannes Magnus og dei tok over i Hogganvik. Johannes var fødd i 1795, og døydde i 1881. Han var presteson fra Skjold. Medan faren studerte i København vart han gift med Adriane Johanne Cruys.

Hogganvik in old and new times

By Jens Børretzen

According to an old legend, the old church in Vikedal was built in the second half of the 17th century. She was demolished in the 1880s. It will be the married couple Gudmund Knudsen and Helga Ormsdotter in Hogganvik who were responsible for the church building. Their names are inscribed on one of the altarpieces. On a church bell that is now gone, their names should have stood. This clock was exchanged for a larger one. It was probably Helga who led the way and ruled both the stall and the stall in Hogganvik that time. It is said that when the carpenters continued with the church work, they came to Helga and wanted iron bolts to put in the long spans, to be sure that it was strong enough. Then Helga replied: Go to Eikenberg and chop oak for nails. I will dare them luck! Eikenberg is a lute from the home village in Hogganvik. Later, Hogganvik became sheriff's ward. Around 1720, Colonel Christoffer von Krogh bought the fishing place Yrkje in Skjold. It was he who went by the name "Gamle Kroken". He bought Yrkjesvågen from the Danish king. Kroken wanted to hide and get an unpleasant home, and bought one part of Hogganvik from Tårn Valentinsen Aubø. He had received this part of the farm with his wife, Ingeborg Jensdotter. He traded the rest of Hogganvik to himself from someone called Jakob Lund. It was the farm Melkeråen in Midt-Hordaland that Kroken gave in exchange. The word spread that old Kroken had a very good sense of money, and made it increase. Therefore it was not to be wondered at that he was concerned when King Fredrik the Fourth, with the support of Bishop Deichman, began to sell the churches in Norway. Kroken bought the churches in Vikedal parish and others, among them the eponymous church in Røldal, with all their gold and silver treasures. It is said that Kroken brought two horses' hooves with silver and other expensive things from them. But he himself was also deceived. The tax collector Hun in Ryfylke had run out of cash, and Kroken, who had vouched for him, let out 1,500 riksdalar. He took it so hard that he got sick from it. He died in January 1752. Yes, tell the story. Two places in Hogganvik are named "Major" after Kroken. One is the Major jump. He came riding along the road which lay close to the yard and the horse was spooked by a bird and went into the gorge. The major was hanging from a tree completely unharmed. The horse was so injured that he had to be put down. The other town is Majorhaugen. There he sat and looked for his workers. From this mound there is an unobstructed view over the whole of Hogganvik. General Søren de Fine von Krogh was the son of Kroken and came to live in Hogganvik all his days. He died in 1795. Eldest son of the general - captain Fredrich Stockfeldt von Krogh, born 1762, died 1836, was the last von Krogh who lived in Hogganvik. He had no sons. He was a renowned fisherman and shooter. He spent the whole summer in Yrkje fishing. The last summer he lived, he dug out the heavy nuts all by himself. He was then 74 years old. Fredrich had 7 daughters. The eldest of them, Anne Marie Katrine, was married to Johannes Magnus and they took over in Hogganvik. Johannes was born in 1795, and died in 1881. He was the son of a priest from Skjold. While his father was studying in Copenhagen, he was married to Adriane Johanne Cruys, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Cruys 1655-1727.

Von Krogh, Christopher (I144)

2483

Hole, Gloppen, Sogn og Fjordane

Rÿe, Margrethe Marie (I39528)

2484

Homer L Anthony's first wife Morgianna was his cousin.

According to the gravestone of his second wife, Maggie in the McGehee-White Cemetery, Dr. HL Anthony married in December, 1854.

Found on the 1860 census for DeSoto County Mississippi as a physician in the home of the Dillahunty family. Dr. Anthony's net worth is $10,000. No mention of wife or children.

For the 1870 census, HL Anthony, 40 is living with Mollie Bowdre (his new wife), age 22. Mollie has a daughter named Hosia, age 3. Also living in the home is a child named Homer, age 8, possibly a nephew but not a son, given that his first wife died in 1857, before this young man was born. HL Anthony's net worth in 1870 is $5,000.

For the 1900 Census, Homer's name was falsely given as "Henry L. Anthony", but it is the same man, married to his fourth wife, Augusta (they have been married for 15 years). He is living in Ashley County Arkansas.

Attended the first Baptist World Alliance in London, England in 1904 with Rev. Penn Arthur Anthony. He was killed/murdered in 1907 in London, shortly before marrying for the seventh time (engaged to Martha Davis Anthony).

According to Jack Dandridge in an Anthony Family Genealogy Forum letter dated October 1, 2002:

"... Dr. Homer Anthony ... was murdered. This is a really interesting story. Homer was one of 9 children of William Henry Anthony, Snr. (1798-1866) and Sarah Echols (1811-1853). In January 1853 after the death of his first wife Morgiana in Aug 1852, he moved to Mississippi, where he practiced medicine for 21 years including service in the Confederate Army. He was a surgeon in Armstrong's Brigade and then had charge of a field hospital. Later he was transferred to Jackson, Miss.; afterward to Atlanta, Ga. After the war, he returned to and remained in Mississippi until 1874 when he moved to Ashley Co., Ark. There he divided his time with his profession and planting. He owned 640 acres. In 1880 he was living with his sixth wife, formerly Miss Augusta Shelton of Louisana; they had no children. He was a Mason and a Whig. (Anthony Roots & Branches p.347).

In 1904, on the way to the 1st Baptist World Alliance Convention in London Dr. Homer Anthony showed his shipmate and cousin, Rev. Penn Anthony, a picture of Homer's intended 7th wife, Martha Davis Anthony. While in London, Homer's body was found, absent his money belt, dead on a side road in or near London. Rev. Penn Anthony wrote to Homer's brother for instructions on shipping Homer's body back to the U.S. Uncertain as to which of his six wives to bury him beside, his family instructed Rev. Anthony to have him interred in London.

Anthony, Homer Livingstone MD (I3735)

2485

Hon. Richard Lee III
Richard, the oldest surviving son of Richard Lee & Laetitia Corbin, was born in 1678-9, and died in London in 1718. Somewhere about 1710-11 he had gone over to London and settled there as a Virginia merchant in partnership with his maternal uncle, Thomas Corbin. Very little information can be found concerning him. By the kindness of William Blackston Lee, Esq., the few items were copied from the London records: 1719 ............ 1724. On the 16th of November 1724, there was issued a commission to John Crabb, creditor of the late Richard Lee, late of the parish of St. Olave, Hart Street, London, but who died in the parish of St. Anne Westminister in Co.: Midd. Martha Lee, the relict and George, Martha, and Laetitia Lee, minors, children of the deceased, cited but not appearing. On the 5th of November, 1716, "Richard Lee, of London, son of Richard Lee of Couple parish, in Virgina," leased to Reuben Welch, Thomas Lee and Henry Lee, of Essex, the 2,600 acres whereupon his father had lived. "Yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of one peper corb only on the feast day of the birth of Our Lord God." This lease is mentioned in the will of Thomas Lee. In petition from "Martha Lee, widow of Richard Lee of London," dated the 19th of October, 1720, she mentioned this lease of 1716, and stated her husband was the son of Richard Lee, Sr. & c.; gave her residence in "Goodman's Fields, parish of St. Mary White Chappel, Middlesex," England. William Lee (in 1771) stated that, Richard married an heiress in England by the name of Silk, and by her left one son, George, and two daughters, Lettice and Martha; all of these children went to Virginia and settled. George married a Wormeley, who died leaving one daughter; he then married a Fairfax, nearly related to Lord Fairfax of Yorkshire, and died leaving by his last marriage three sons, that are now minors and are at school in England under the care of Mr. James Russell. Lettuce married a Corbin and her sister a Turberville; their eldest children intermarried, from which.... (did not copy next page).
Richard 3, born in Westmoreland Co. Virginia, moved to London, married Martha Silk of England. All children born in England. After Richard 3 died at 40 years old and Martha about 15 years later, all children moved to Virginia.. Son, George moved in with his Uncle Thomas and later took possession of the home/plantation called Machodoc/Mt. Pleasant in Westmoreland Co. Virginia.
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Richard Lee b. 1679, Leesylvania, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1719, London, England, m. Martha Silk, b. 1680 England. Somewhere about 1710-11, Richard had gone over to London and settled there as a Virginia merchant in partnership with his maternal uncle, Thomas Corbin. Very little information can be found concerning him. In 1719, Richard Lee died in the parish of St. Anne within the Liberty of Westminster, intestate. On the 8th of Nov 1711, William Ellins and Edmund Farrington sold to the said Richard Lee all their wares, merchandises &c. Rice Perry of the parish of St. Catherine Creechurch, London, merchant, appointed the said merchandises. Given at London 2nd January 1718-19. On the 16th of November, 1724, there was issued a commission to John Crabb, creditor of the late Richard Lee, late of the parish of St. Olave, Hart Street, London, but who died in the parish of St. Anne Westminster in Co: Midd. Martha Lee, the relict and George, Martha, and Laetitia Lee, minors, children of the deceased, cited but not appearing. On the 5th of November 1716, “Richard Lee, of London, son of Richard Lee of Cople parish, in Virginia,” leased to Reuben Welch, Thomas Lee and Henry Lee, of Essex, the 2,6000 acres whereupon his father had lived. “Yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of one peper corn only on the feast day of the birth of Our Lord God.” This lease is mentioned in the will of Thomas Lee. In a petition from “Martha Lee, widow of the late Richard Lee, of London,” dated 19th of October, 1720, she mentioned this lease of 1716, and stated that her husband was the son of Richard Lee, Sen’r, &c.; gave her residence in “Goodman’s Fields, parish of St. Mary White Chapel, Middlesex, England.” William Lee (in 1771) stated that, “Richard married an heiress in England by the name of Silk, and had by her left one son, George, and two daughters, Lettice and Martha; all of these children went to Virginia and settled. George married a Wormeley, who died leaving one daughter; he then married a Fairfax, nearly related to Lord Fairfax of Yorkshire, and died leaving by his last marriage three sons, that are now minors and are at school in England under the care of Mr. James Russell. Lettice married a Corbin and her sister a Turberville; their eldest children intermarried, from which union, George Lee Turberville, now at school at Winton College, is the oldest issue.”

His father left him the 2600 acres "in Cople Parish in Westmoreland County, [it] being the land whereon I live." (Westmoreland Co. Deeds & Wills 5, 445ff.).
MARTHA LEE of Goodman's Fields, Whitechapel, Mddx., widow, dated 26 Apr 1725. To my son GEORGE LEE my tenements in Gracechurch Street, London, and in Cople parish, Westmoreland Co., VA. My tenements in Suffolk to my two daughters MARTHA and LETTICE LEE, subject to the payment of L100 to DANIEL WATTS when he is 21 pursuant to the will of my former husband THOMAS MOORE deceased. In case of my children's death, my estate in London is to descend to the children of my late brother JOHN SILK and to my brother ABRAHAM SILK, and my estate in Suffolk to my brother TOBIAS SILK. L10 each to my friend Mr. OLIVER MARTON of the Temple, my brother TOBIAS SILK and WILLIAM WAREHAM, citizen and barber surgeon of London. L25 each to RUTH HILL, widow, and NAOMI HILL her daughter. Residue to the said TOBIAS SILK and WILLIAM WAREHAM who are to be my execs. and guardians of my three children. Wits: JOHN MATHEW, OLIVER MARTON and EDWARD MARTON. Pr. 5 May 1725 by execs. named. (PROB 11/603/114). See NGSQ 63/131. pg.130 - 131.
Register Report for Martha Silk
Generation 1
1. Martha Silk-1. She was born Mar 1683 in St Botolph without Aldgate, London, UK. Will 1725 in Contested by her son George who claimed she was of unsound mind probably because she left her Suffolk property to her daughters. She died Bef. 05 May 1725 in Mansell Street, Goodman's Fields, Whitechapel, London, England.
Notes for Martha Silk: General Notes:
Martha's marriage to her first husband the much older Thomas Moore, Citizen and Distiller of London, seems to have been childless but to have brought her property which must have been attractive to Richard Lee whose business affairs were probably already in trouble at the time of the marriage. Oliver Marton is mentioned in Thomas Moore's will (see below).
After the death of her second husband, Richard Lee, Martha was faced with court action by her husband's former partner and uncle Thomas Corbin. Richard's business affairs were in total disarray, he seems to have died in 1718 and action was taken in July of that year.
In her Will PCC PROB 11/603
Martha Lee left all her property in Gracechurch Street London and in America to her son George and her property in Suffolk to her daughters. In the event of their deaths without issue her London estate was to go to the children of her deceased brother John and the children of her brother Abraham while her brother Tobias was to have the Suffolk estate. Provision was made for the care and education of her children, with Tobias Silk and William Wareham being appointed Trustees and Executors. Her 'very good friend' Oliver Marton, Tobias Silk and William Wareham were all left ten pounds each for mourning and she left five pounds each to Widow Ruth Hill and her daughter for mourning. She also left money to fulfill the wishes of Thomas Moore for a payment to Daniel Watts when he reached the age of twenty one. The Trustees were asked to take the advice of Oliver Marton. Job Mathew, Oliver Marton and ? Marton were the witnesses to the will which received probate on 5 May 1725, having been written on the 26 April 1725.
Thomas Moore is the son of Thomas Moore and Phillipa. He was born on 14 Sep 1647 in Littleton, Middlesex, England. Occupation 1710 in London, England (Citizen and Distiller). He died Mar 1710. Will on 15 Mar 1710 in London, England.
Notes for Thomas Moore: General Notes:
Thomas's family appear to originate to the west of London in what was then the small village of Littleton well away from the city.
Will PCC prob 11/514 Image Reference:274 and 275
This will leaves the bulk of his estate to Martha Silk with various family bequests and two legacies to the children of Daniel Watts, Mariner. Among those to receive a mourning ring is Oliver Marton.
Thomas Moore and Martha Silk. They were married on 12 Nov 1702 in Littleton, Middlesex, England. Marriage License on 12 Nov 1702 in Faculty Office, London, England. They had no children.
Richard Lee is the son of Col Sir Richard Lee and Leatitia Corbin. He was born 1678 in Westmorland, Virginia. Residence 1714 in Savage Gardens, London, England. He died 1718 in ? St Anne, Westminster, Middlesex, UK.
Notes for Richard Lee: General Notes:
Estate in Stutton, Brantham and Taddingstone HB 441/B/34
1710
These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch 1 doc
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Register Report for Martha Silk
Generation 1
Contents:
Copy of lease and release by which John Morley of Halstead (Essex) gent, and Oliver Marton of the Middle Temple, London, purchased 'Buxtons' (186 acres), 'Ingforbyes' (200 acres), 'Pritches' (40 acres), Taddingstone Wood (8 acres), 'Everards' (5 acres), etc, and the advowson of Stutton, from Thomas May of Stutton Hall, formerly of Stoke-by-Nayland, esq, Richard Lee of London, merchant, and John Taylor of London, merchant -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
National Archives, Kew, England reference: E 134/13Anne/East6
Litigation undertaken in 1714 involved Richard Lee in a dispute relating to a loan for £1000 from a widow called Jane Platt, secured against 58 hogsheads of tobacco. This places him as living at Savage Gardens together with John Adamson who gave a sworn deposition in the case. It may be that Savage Gardens was a business address since he also had a house at Plaistow in East London (not far from Stratford Langthorne) and his wife owned property in Goodmans Fields.
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Richard Lee died intestate and after his death Thomas Corbin pursued a court action relating to a partnership of 1706, which reveals that in about September 1716 Richard Lee, faced with probable or actual bankruptcy and owing money to various people and large amounts of tax on imported tobacco, absconded from his house taking with him the account books of the business and possibly also various bills and goods.
His brother-in-law Tobias Silk testified that he was owed money and also that various of Richard Lee's household goods including beds and chairs had turned up later, from where he did not know, and had been given to Richard's widow Martha. Tobias Silk, his wife and fellow defendant Thomas Muspratt, Tobacconist, all denied knowing whether Richard Lee has absconded deliberately in order to defraud Thomas Corbin and sued for their own legal costs.
John Adamson, the former clerk at the counting house testified that he believed that assignments to James Gilbert Ironmonger and John Salter Linen Draper were made fairly and did not include property owing to Thomas Corbin. His testimony creates the impression of increasing tension arising between Corbin and Richard Lee despite the account books and dealings at the Counting House being open to him, and that eventually Richard Lee refused to see Corbin who was 'very passionate' as a result Adamson agreed to keep Lee's whereabouts secret from Corbin. It seems as if Corbin suggested that a salary increase to £50 a year for Adamson was because he acted on Lee's part and against Corbin. Adamson also claimed that the Paderborne and Hessian linen which Corbin claimed had been stolen from him had in fact been distrained by the Exchequor and sold to cover unpaid tax.
Gilbert and Salter produced detailed statements relating to the assignments made by Richard Lee in his attempt to clear his debts to them and various others.
The general impression is of a business that has got into a complete muddle over unpaid tax, monies owed on goods traded and failing relationships. We do not know the cause of Richard Lee's death, but the stress of all this must have contributed.
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Richard Lee and Martha Silk. Marriage License on 27 Nov 1710 in Vicar General. They were married on 30 Nov 1710 in St Bride Fleet St, London, England. They had 5 children.
i. Richard Lee. He was born Abt. 1711. He died on 04 Dec 1712 in St Botolph, Aldgate, London. Burial on 04 Dec 1712 in St Bottolph Aldgate in a vault[1]. Notes for Richard Lee: General Notes:
This child is not confirmed as being the son of Richard Lee and Martha Silk although it seems highly likely given the dates and location and Martha's association with St Bottolph.
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Register Report for Martha Silk
Generation 1 (con't)
The following information has been extracted from the burial register of St Olave Hart Street 1684-1805 [Guildhall Library Ms 28870]:
December 4 1712
Richard son of Mr Richard Lee Marc.t [merchant] buried at St Bottolph Aldgate in a vault
ii. Martha Lee. She was born on 21 Sep 1712 in St Olave Hart Street, London. She died on 12 Nov 1751 in Hickory Hill, Westmoreland, Virginia.
iii. Laetitia (Lettice) Lee. She was born on 08 Sep 1713 in St Olave Hart Street, London. She died on 15 Jan 1768 in Hickory Hill, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA.
2. iv. George Lee. He was born on 18 Aug 1714 in St Olave Hart Street, London. He married Anne Fairfax. They were married on 16 Dec 1752. He died on 19 Nov 1761 in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland, Virginia.
v. Ann Lee. She was born on 30 Jul 1715 in St Olave Hart Street, London. She died on 12 Nov 1715 in St Olave Hart Street, London.
Generation 2
2. George Lee-2 (Martha Silk-1). He was born on 18 Aug 1714 in St Olave Hart Street, London. He died on 19 Nov 1761 in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland, Virginia.
Judith Wormeley.
George Lee and Judith Wormeley. They were married Bef. 1752. They had 2 children.
i. Richard Lee.
ii. Elizabeth Lee.
Anne Fairfax.
George Lee and Anne Fairfax. They were married on 16 Dec 1752. They had 3 children.
i. George Fairfax Lee. He was born 1754.
ii. Lancelot Lee.
iii. William Lee.
Sources
1 OPR St Olave Hart Street, London.
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Richard Lee, III did NOT have a brother named Richard Henry Lee. Richard Henry Lee, Signer was the son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell! I tried to get the information about Richard Henry Lee from another researcher corrected but they declined to do so. Richard Lee, III is NOT Richard Henry Lee either. The signer was the first in the Lee family with the middle name of Henry.

Lee, Richard Henry (I43229)

2486

HONORS: Knighted.

RESIDENCE: Of Hornby Castle, co. York {Hornby Castle, Hornby, Yorkshire, England}.

Conyers, Christopher Knight (I22809)

2487

HONORS: Knighted.

RESIDENCE: Of Spennithorne, co. York {Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of East Bolton, co. York {Bolton Abbey, Skipton, Yorkshire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Swainby, co. York {Swainby with Allerthorpe, Pickhill, Yorkshire, England}
RESIDENCE: Of West Scrafton, co. York {West Scrafton, Coverham, Yorkshire, England}.

LIVING: 1284/1287.

DEATH: Date> Before 1294.

fitz Ranulph Knight, Ranulph (I22852)

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HONORS: Knighted.

RESIDENCE: Of Spennithorne, co. York {Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England}.

Fitz Randolph, Ralph Knight (I22803)

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HONORS: Knighted.

RESIDENCE: Of Spennithorne, co. York {Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England}.

Fitz Randolph, Ralph Knight (I22803)

2490

HONORS: Knighted.
TITLES: Held to have become Lord Lascelles by writ, 1295.

RESIDENCE: Of Kirkby-under-Knowle, co. York {Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire, England}.

de Lascelles, Roger Lord Lascelles (I23095)

2491

Hopkin Awbrey of Abercynfrig m Ann dau of John ap Griffith, by Alson, d of Morgan ap Howel ap Llewelyn ap Howel Vachan by the d of William ap Philip ap Elidur Ddu. Arms--Argent, a buck lodged proper, attired or, with branch in his mouth,vert.

Awbrey, Hopkin (I2288)

2492

hos sin Morfader Provst Anders Daae etter farens død
http://www.bymuseet.no/?vis=423

Tuchsen, Michael (Severin) Sundt (I39519)

2493

hos sine foreldre da mannen døde 1745:
Hans Grøn døde 1745, og Hans hustru Christine Daae og deres 4 sønner, bodde deretter hjemme hos hennes foreldre og her vokste hennes barn opp. Etter farens død 1680 bodde hun sammen med moren og ved skiftet på Vange gård ble det utlagt pXX hennes søsterlod over 3000 rdl. av hvilket av jordegods over 2000 rdl.:
Espesæter 230 rdl., Sæbø 176, Sæble 216, Indre Hamre 162, Stadem, 168 m. fl., av Lysters kongetiende, kirker m. m. samt av løsøre: .......
Etter morens død flyttet hun til sin gård Sæbø og her døde hun 5/9 1782

Daae, Christine (I39531)

2494

House Lord Edward Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald, James Fitzmaurice (I29138)

2495

House of Representatives. <i>Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims Which Have Been Presented to the House of Representatives</i>. <i>Vol. II.</i> Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1853.

Source (S1412)

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Hove steinkirke, Vik (uten barn)

Family: Ove Kristian Leyrdal / Marie Daae (F9353)

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HOWARD SAUNDERS OBITUARY
February 8, 1928 - January 14, 2017 Howard passed away peacefully at age 89. From Brooklyn, he attended Boys High and served in WWII. He later moved to LA where he met his first love, Rose, with whom he shared his life for 29 years before her untimely death. He pursued a career in merchandising, and in 1981, opened Linen Mart, which catered to the design trade. In 1991, he moved to Seattle where he met his love, Jean Varner. They shared vows in 2001 and had a wonderful life together. Howard is survived by Jean and his daughters Marcia (Stan) Israel and Lisa (Keith) Oratz, as well as grandchildren Shawna, Josh, and Jenna. Howard will be remembered for his kindness, love, and compassion, and his quick wit. Services are Sunday, January 22 at Hillside at 3PM.

Saunders, Howard (I4859)

2498

http://archive.org/stream/personalhistori03persgoog/personalhistori03persgoog_djvu.txt

https://archive.org/details/personalhistori03persgoog

Source (S1283)

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http://beta.digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/ft/person/pf01036708058680

Mowinckel, Nanna Vibe Selmer (Beyer) (I23916)

2500

http://beta.digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/ft/person/pf01038248002672

Christensen, Borghild (Isdahl) (I23789)