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Sources state Georg's portrait is to be found at Haagenvik and the Stavanger museum.

From 1670 to 75 Georg was in voluntary imperial service under the Electoral Prince of Pfalzland, the Duke of Lothringen. He was called home in 1675 to become a Lance-Corporal in the Brockenhus Regiment, where he took part in the siege of Wismar, in the battle by Lund. In 1677 he was promoted to regiment quartermaster, and was present during the siege of Kristianstad.

In April 1676 the Danish navy led by Nils Juel captured Gotland, and on June 1 the smaller Danish and Dutch fleet defeated the Swedes off Öland while losing only one ship, giving them command of the sea. King Kristian V led an army of 15,000 men to recapture Scania, and they seized Helsingborg on June 29; the Swedes retreated from Scania to Sweden. However, a Swedish army led by Karl XI defeated Denmark-Norway’s smaller army in the battle of Halmstad at Fyllebro on August 17, and at Lund on December 4 they crushed a larger Danish army, killing more than twice as many Danes and taking 2,000 prisoners. Surviving Danes retreated to the Landskrona fortress. Kristian’s army attacked Malmö on June 26, 1677 and lost about 3,500 men, and the Swedes beat them again at Landskrona on July 14. Nils Juel’s greatest victory was when the Danes destroyed twenty Swedish ships in Køge Bay on the first two days of July. The Danes retreated from Scania, and the Swedes’ besieged the Danes at Kristianstad. Reviving his army with German mercenaries, Kristian led them to relieve the Swedish siege of Kristianstad in July 1678, but seeing a large Swedish army approaching, the Danish king chose to evacuate all his forces from Scania, leaving the garrison to surrender on August 5.

During this war the Danes won most of the sea battles suffering only 375 casualties while the Swedes lost more than 3,000 men. Louis XIV imposed the treaty of Fontainebleau on Denmark and Sweden on August 23, 1679. Then on September 16 they agreed to a peace treaty at Lund which restored Danish conquests in the war to Sweden for a small indemnity, and Kristian Albrecht was restored in Holstein-Gottorp. Denmark and Sweden also made commercial arrangements including a common coinage. Much wheat in fields and barns had been burned in Scania, and thousands of Scanians fought as guerillas against the Swedes. Sweden and Denmark were reconciled as Frederick III’s daughter Ulrika Eleonora married Sweden’s Karl XI on May 6, 1680.

In 1678 Georg was promoted to Captain of the Trondheim Regiment, from 1680-96 he was Commanding Officer of the Outer Sogn Company of the Bergenhus Infantry Regiment, in 1696 he was promoted to the rank of Major, in 1704 to Lieutenant Colonel, and in 1710 to full Colonel and Head of the regiment. He left the military service in 1712, and died October 2, 1721 in Bergen. He was buried October 30 in Nykirken, Bergen.

Georg married three times and sired sixteen children. His 1st marriage, 1681 was to Birgitte Christoffersdtr Munthe (Morgenstierne) born July 13, 1662 in Flahammer, and died there on October 2, 1696. His 2nd marriage was to Marie Thomasdtr Montagne in 1699, and she died in 1709. 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).

Von Krogh, Georg Frederik (I146)

7452

South Carolina County, District and Probate Courts.

Source (S926)

7453

South Dakota Department of Health. South Dakota Marriage Index, 1905-1914, 1950-2013 and South Dakota Marriage Certificates, 1905-1949, 2014-2018. Pierre, SD, USA: South Dakota Department of Health.

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Source (S1465)

7455

Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M123, 118 rolls); Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Source (S356)

7456

Source (S356)

7457

Spotsylvania Co., VA
Deed Book F, 5 Oct 1765
Thomas Waller to Oliver Towles, Jr
Question: Is the adjacent property owner identified as Vincent Vass or Philip Vincent Vass?

Vass, Philip Vincent (I22352)

7458

St. Andrew's

de St. Liz, Simon Earl of Northampton and Huntingdon (I23085)

7459

Stabbed with a knife at Berger's Store by William Bennett. Joel died the next morning. Bennett was convicted of murder, and executed the following January.

Echols, Joel Hubbard (I17125)

7460

Stabskaptein for Hardanger kompani

Daae, Gerhard Heiberg (I39516)

7461

State Board of Agriculture. Population Schedules and Statistical Rolls: Cities (1919–1961). Kansas State Historical Society, Archives Division, Topeka, Kansas.
State Board of Agriculture. Population Schedules and Statistical Rolls: Counties (1953–1979). Kansas State Historical Society, Archives Division, Topeka, Kansas.

Source (S1461)

7462

State of California, United States. Great Register of Voters. Sacramento, California: California State Library.

Source (S975)

7463

State of California, United States. Great Register of Voters. Sacramento, California: California State Library.

Source (S975)

7464

State of California, United States. Great Register of Voters. Sacramento, California: California State Library.

Source (S975)

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State of California, United States. Great Register of Voters. Sacramento, California: California State Library.

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7466

State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Source (S39)

7467

State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Source (S39)

7468

State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Source (S39)

7469

State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

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7470

State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Source (S25)

7471

State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

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7472

State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Source (S25)

7473

State of California. California Divorce Index, 1966-1984. Microfiche. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California.

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7474

State of California. California Marriage Index, 1960-1985. Microfiche. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California.

Source (S40)

7475

State of Florida. Florida Death Index, 1877-1998. Florida: Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, 1998.

Source (S63)

7476

State of Florida. Florida Death Index, 1877-1998. Florida: Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, 1998.

Source (S63)

7477

State of Georgia. Recorder Office. Official Register of the Land Lottery of 1827. Milledgeville, GA, USA: Grantland & Orme, 1827.

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7478

State of Illinois, Williamson County
To JAMES M [Maidson] OZMENT [eldest son]
The People of the State of Illinois, Greetings
Whereas it has been represented to the County Court of Williamson County and State of Illinois at the JUNE TERM AD 1859 that
SUSAN F OZMENT
JOHN B OZMENT and
ADA P [Paralee] OZMENT

Minor heirs of ELI OZMENT DECEASED having an estate and no Guardian, You (JAMES M OZMENT) are therefore appointed GUADIAN of the said MINORS both of their persons and property with full power and authority to perform all lawfull acts as GUADIAN

Witness Jno White, Clerk of the County Court of Said County of Williamson at Office in Marion the 20TH DAY OF JUN AD 1859 – John M WHITE, CLERK (SEAL)

Ozment, James Madison (I53364)

7479

State of Illinois, Williamson County
To JAMES M [Madison] OZMENT [eldest son]
The People of the State of Illinois, Greetings
Whereas it has been represented to the County Court of Williamson County and State of Illinois at the JUNE TERM AD 1859 that
SUSAN F OZMENT
JOHN B OZMENT and
ADA P [Paralee] OZMENT

Minor heirs of ELI OZMENT DECEASED having an estate and no Guardian, You (JAMES M OZMENT) are therefore appointed GUADIAN of the said MINORS both of their persons and property with full power and authority to perform all lawfull acts as GUARDIAN

Witness Jno White, Clerk of the County Court of Said County of Williamson at Office in Marion the 20TH DAY OF JUN AD 1859 – John M WHITE, CLERK (SEAL)

Ozment, Eli (I53366)

7480

State of Minnesota. Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2017. Minneapolis, MN, USA: Minnesota Department of Health.

Source (S38)

7481

State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC, USA: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977.

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7482

State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC, USA: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977.

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7483

State of Virginia, Bedford County

On this 27th day of January 1840 personally appears, before the county court of Bedford, of said state, at its January term – held on the said 27th day of January 1840 at the courthouse of said county. Mrs. Mary Beard whose maiden name was Mitchell a respectable resident of said county aged 83 year; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision, made by the act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836.

That she is the widow of Samuel Beard deceased of said county, who was a private in the Regular service in the Revolutionary War. That he enlisted under Cap. Gross Scruggs on the 10th day of February 1776, and served two years as a regular soldier – as will appear from the letter of the [illegible] Auditor – which is no doubt [illegible] she has frequently heard her deceased husband, Samuel Beard, speak of and relate his Revolutionary service – that he was at the Battle of Brandywine [illegible] to the north – that he drove on of the cannon – and Gen. Washington asked him if he could not drive out of the road so as to let the Army pass.

And she, the said Mary Beard, further declares, that she was married to the aforesaid Samuel Beard after he had left said regular service, in said county by the Rev. John Holt, on the 8th day of September 1778 – and that after she had had two children by the said Samuel Beard her husband – on the 26th Sep 1779 and the other the 7th Sep 1780 – that the said Samuel Beard her husband was called into service in March 1781 to go to the Battle of Guildford on a six-weeks tour – and this being considered a case of emergency, it was to exempt him from a full tour – and she thinks, but is not certain, that he was under Capt. Campbell and she is also under the impression that he held an office of some kind on said tour to Guildford – she has frequently heard her deceased husband Samuel Beard in his lifetime speak of his being at the Battle of Guilford – and related many circumstances that took place there. One was that he saw Capt. Moore and [illegible] after they were wounded – before they died – and spoke of heaven as they suffered from their wounds on the field of battle. Indeed, no person has ever doubted that Samuel Beard her deceased husband was at the Battle of Guildford – common talk in the neighborhood and in the county where he was known especially among the old people – go to establish the fact that her deceased husband Samuel Beard was at the Battle of Guildford in March 1781 which was several years after they were married. That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Beard, died on the [blank] day of October 1814 – that she has remained a widow ever since that period, to the present time – as will more fully appear by reference to the proof [illegible] and now claims a pension at the hands of the general government, as the widow of Samuel Beard, in consideration of his aforesaid services.

Mary Beard

The foregoing declaration was provided and sworn to in open court and thereupon the said declaration together with the letter of Peter Haynes, the Auditor of the county of the marriage bond of Samuel Beard, the affidavits of Mr. James Mitchell, Mrs. Martha Neal, Thomas Patterson, James H. Brand, the certificates of Samuel P. Mitchell, George [illegible], David Saunders, William Reese, Benjamin A Donald, the certificate of affidavit of Robert C. Mitchell and an old [illegible] the affidavit of said James H Beard as a register of marriage and [illegible] (all speaks and [illegible] answers) being fully reviewed and inspected the court doth order it to be a certified to the War Office of the United States that the said Mary Beard (whose maiden name was Mary Mitchell) and the said Samuel Beard were lawfully married in this county on the 8th day of September 1778 by the Rev John Holt (since deceased) and continued to live together as man and wife until the [blank] day of October 1814 when the said Samuel Beard departed this life in this county and the said Mary has ever since remained his widow.

And the court doth further certify that it appears to their satisfaction that the said Samuel Beard in his lifetime was a Revolutionary soldier. That he enlisted under Capt. Gross Scruggs on the 10th day of February 1776 and served a tour of two years from that period as a private in the regular service, that after his return from that tour he was as before stated married to the said Mary and then in the year 1781 was again called upon and served as an officer in the Militia from this county a tour of at least six weeks under the command of Capt Campbell and attached to Col [illegible]. During this service he was at the Battle of Guilford in North Carolina.

And the court doth further certify that the said Mary Beard, James Mitchell (a minister of the gospel in the Presbyterian Church), Martha Neal, Thomas Patterson, David Saunders and James H. Beard are all persons of the highest standing and respectability and the [illegible] of each of them instilled to full faith and conduct. The said Saunders is himself a Revolutionary soldier and the presiding Justice of the Peace of this county.

And the court doth further certify that Robert C Mitchell is clerk of this court and the said Samuel P. Mitchell, George [illegible] and William Reese and Benjamin A Donald each Justices of the Peace in this county duly [illegible] and qualified and the respective signatures of all of them to the papers hereto [illegible] that all [illegible] papers are genuine.

In testimony [illegible] Robert C Mitchell clerk of the county court Bedford in the presence of said court have hereto set my hand and offered the said court this 27 day of January 1840 in the 64th year of the Commonwealth.

Robert C Mitchell

Mitchell, Mary (I28083)

7484

Stavangeren.Nr.1.1994-ASL

Cornelius Cruys
Admiral of the blue flag.

When it comes to emigration from Norway, it is primarily the emigration to the United States. as it is supposed to be, but Norwegians have probably always had more or less the behaviorist struggle. In the 1600s, Norway had a significant trade with the Netherlands and many young men from the Stavanger district went there to find their luck. Many were left and formed a family so that today there are a large number of Dutch people who originate from the relatives who lived in and near the city at that time. The relocation to the Netherlands was not typical for Stavanger, but it probably had the greatest recruitment from each district. Whoever might have done the greatest career in his new homeland was probably Stavangerman Cornelius Cruys, or Nils Olesen as he was baptized. He was born in Stavanger in 1657 and his parents were Ole Gudfastsen from Kvitsoy and Apellone Nilsdatter Koch from Stavanger. Ole Gudfastsen was the son of a fisherman and had at a young age come to tailor-made in Stavanger. He became a respected citizen of the city and he was known for his skill with the "kard". No one else of the city's citizens could get as elegant and dangerous as he did. Apelone was a beautiful woman sorn the real Oluf Godfastsen immediately after he had taken bourgeoisie as a tailor master. Cornelius Cruys was probably born on Skagen or at Bekken. There is a lot of disagreement about this. The parents had an arelang bordered with their neighbor Tom Hansen Glassmaker, Tom Hansen had in his time been one of Apellone Nilsdatter Koch's lovers, but he received a blank rejection. However, he married Anne Hansdatter, daughter of Radmann Hans Pedersen Gammel in Stavanger. The dispute was about one or five quarters of an ounce (one square is about 0.39 square meters). Apellone Nilsdatter Koch was known as an impulsive woman, and she was not afraid to go straight to court. B1.a. we see it in her reaction when the townman with his 6 men in the excess had been ground the ground. She picked up the badge, the pile, which the mayor and his line had put on the ground. Furthermore, she knocked down Tom Hansen's newly built fence. It is said that Apellone was the one who kept the dispute going. It is assumed that the reason mentioned is where the Tarng gallery is today.

Apellone Nilsdatter Koch attends in 1678, Guri Nilsdatter Berland from Gjestdal. According to Apellone, Guri Nilsdatter Berland on St. Hansday had been in handmade with Apellone's son, Hans. Guri Nilsdatter Berland had come to Stavanger and rode along Breiavatnet. Here she came out for Hans Olsen (Apellone's son) and two other tasters who threw stones at her horse. Probably this has happened in the vicinity of the Schoolbook, because one of the convicted wives had been standing on the churchyard wall and seeing how it went. Guri Nilsdatter Berland fell off the horse twice, but she was no more hurt than that she got hold of Hans Olsen as she hit "and put Hannem out in the Brewandet to his knee". Afterwards he was picked up and she "hit him backwards against the stones, so that the blood flowed over his head". When Hans Olsen came home he had holes in his head and the claws were bloody. Otherwise she is mentioned on several occasions in the court records. The property owned by Ole Gudfastesen and Apellone Nilsdatter Koch on Skagen was probably inherited by their daughter Sissel. Sissel was married twice, first with merchant Albert Albertsen Libert, and second in 1700 with merchant Ole Jacobsen Smith. The latter's brother, Hans Jacobsen Smith was married to Sissel's sister, Kirsten. In 1731 Sissel and Ole Jacobsen bought Smith's son-in-law, Jens Abrahamsen Ploug, his in-laws' house in Skagen. The reason for the sale was that Ole Jacobsen Smith would settle her two dotres heritage after their mother, Sissel. In this food, the old family property goes over to the later known trading house Ploug & Sundt on Skagen. Kvitsoy was named by the Dutch for Cruys Inlet (Korsoy) for a stone cross erected in early Christian members. The stone cross could be seen from a distance of seven-seater and eventually became an important brand. During a voyage from Stavanger to Amsterdam, Nils Olesen decided to become a Dutch seaman. His name was from Dutch to Dutch as he wrote about Nils to Cornelius and the family name of Cruys after the stone cross. KVITSØY.

Cornelius Cruy's career was founded on hard labor and after his fifth tour in the Baltic, he was hired by Baltazar van der Wort in Amsterdam. From now on, he led a rather tumultuous existence to him as a thief, the chief officer of the East Indian farmer "Prince Wilhelm", a "pinass" on more than 500 readers with 60 guns. Later, when the captain of "Prince Wilhelm" became ill and dead, Cornelius Cruys took over the command. Cornelius Cruys was married to Katarina Vooght, daughter of one of the directors of the East India Company, Jan Vooght. He continued his career as a captain and, after a while, was appointed as a naval captain in the Dutch territory. His closest superior was Schoutbynacht (Deputy Admiral) Gilles Schey, second in command of the Admiralty. Cruy's first mission was to provide equipment as new naval ships were completed. An English delegation led by Admiral Herbert came to the Netherlands and asked Prince Wilhelm of Orange to come to England to save the country's religion and freedom. Cruys was ordered to make the surface clear. Without his connections in the East India Company, he had hardly been able to obtain all necessary equipment.

The host in 1697 was Cruys in Zaandam to inspect the construction of a new frigate. He was then schoutbynacht. At a visit to the shipyard, he became acquainted with some Russians who were there for lower shipbuilding and construction. One of them was a shipman named Peter Michailow. This was very demanding and noted everything that was said. The same evening, Cruy's dinner at the sideboard "The Three Swans" ate. He sat with Captain Gerrit Musch as Cruys knew from his time in Ostindiafarten. At the neighboring table sat a group of standing Russians. Musch said he knew the Russian tzar from a visit to Arkhangelsk. While they were sitting there talking, the shipman Peter Michailow entered the door. He walked over to his compatriots and gave them a powerful overhaul in sharp words. Peter Michailow hit the table and gave the closest Russians a kick in the back saying he fell over the end. It was when Captain Musch discovered who Peter Michailow really was. Musch went over to him and said, "Your Majesty!" Peter Michailow turned astonished and after a few seconds he smiled recognizingly. Musch and the tsar embraced each other like old friends. Cornelius Cruys was then presented to the Tsar for the first time. They came in a chat that resulted in Cruys being invited to build up the tsar's surface. Cruys was not keen on the offer, but he was later asked by his bosses to accept the challenge when they thought Cruys could create good diplomatic relations. During this assumption, Cruys accepted the position of vice-admiral in the Russian area for a period of three years. He was to be responsible for the construction, equipment and manning of a flat in Voronezh, which was at a donut to Don. He would also command the command over the surface during a Russian commander. His gas was at 15,000 guilders a year and a number of privileges. These were economic conditions that he would never get in the Netherlands.

Together with his family he traveled to Russia in 1698. Cruys' relationship with Tsar Peter was mixed. The Tsar was suspicious because of all the intrigues at the court. During a tantrum, Cruy's "court" became 25 lashes. Tsar Peter very much regretted this cathedral and tried with all means to get Cruys' confidence. Among other things, Cruys and his wife were fiancée when the tsar married, a very large vein that was only awarded to the most distinguished rankers. Cornelius Cruys distinguished himself several times during the Great Nordic War, especially at the Russian conquest of Viborg in 1710.

When, during the attack on Finland in 1713, he lost a ship, he was sentenced to death, but denied. The great Nordic war ended in 1721, and the Swedes fainted for eternal times to Russia, the provinces of Livonia, Estonia, Ingermanland, a more specific part of Karelia with Viborg and Kexholm. On October 21, 1721, the triumphant festivities of St. Petersburg began. In the Russian Senate, Cornelius Cruys was appointed Admiral, Vice President of the Admiralty Colony and Baron of Kexholm County, as well as given the aerial title Admiral of the Blue Flag.

Sources:
Eiliv Odde Hauge: "Admiral of the Blue Flag, Cornelius Cruys", Oslo 1949.
Rogaland History and aettesogelag, 1950.
Erik S. Gundersen: "Admiral Cornelius Cruy's place of birth.

Cruys, Nils Olsen/ Cornelis (I3534)

7485

Stavangeren.Nr.1.1994-ASL
Cornelius Cruys - Admiral of the Blue Flag.
Cornelius Cruys, or Nils Olesen as he was baptized was born in Stavanger in 1657 and his parents were Ole Gudfastsen from Kvitsoy and Apellone Nilsdatter Koch from Stavanger. Ole Gudfastsen was the son of a fisherman and had at a young age became a tailor in Stavanger. He became a respected citizen of the city and he was known for his skill with the "kard". No one else of the city's citizens could get as elegant and dangerous as he did. Apelone was a beautiful woman sorn the real Oluf Godfastsen immediately after he had taken bourgeoisie as a tailor master. Cornelius Cruys was probably born on Skagen or at Bekken. There is a lot of disagreement about this. The parents had an arelang bordered with their neighbor Tom Hansen Glassmaker, Tom Hansen had in his time been one of Apellone Nilsdatter Koch's lovers, but he received a blank rejection. However, he married Anne Hansdatter, daughter of Radmann Hans Pedersen Gammel in Stavanger. The dispute was about one or five quarters of an ounce (one square is about 0.39 square meters). Apellone Nilsdatter Koch was known as an impulsive woman, and she was not afraid to go straight to court. B1.a. we see it in her reaction when the townman with his 6 men in the excess had been ground the ground. She picked up the badge, the pile, which the mayor and his line had put on the ground. Furthermore, she knocked down Tom Hansen's newly built fence. It is said that Apellone was the one who kept the dispute going. It is assumed that the reason mentioned is where the Tarng gallery is today.

Apellone Nilsdatter Koch attends in 1678, Guri Nilsdatter Berland from Gjestdal. According to Apellone, Guri Nilsdatter Berland on St. Hansday had been in handmade with Apellone's son, Hans. Guri Nilsdatter Berland had come to Stavanger and rode along Breiavatnet. Here she came out for Hans Olsen (Apellone's son) and two other tasters who threw stones at her horse. Probably this has happened in the vicinity of the Schoolbook, because one of the convicted wives had been standing on the churchyard wall and seeing how it went. Guri Nilsdatter Berland fell off the horse twice, but she was no more hurt than that she got hold of Hans Olsen as she hit "and put Hannem out in the Brewandet to his knee". Afterwards he was picked up and she "hit him backwards against the stones, so that the blood flowed over his head". When Hans Olsen came home he had holes in his head and the claws were bloody. Otherwise she is mentioned on several occasions in the court records. The property owned by Ole Gudfastesen and Apellone Nilsdatter Koch on Skagen was probably inherited by their daughter Sissel. Sissel was married twice, first with merchant Albert Albertsen Libert, and second in 1700 with merchant Ole Jacobsen Smith. The latter's brother, Hans Jacobsen Smith was married to Sissel's sister, Kirsten. In 1731 Sissel and Ole Jacobsen bought Smith's son-in-law, Jens Abrahamsen Ploug, his in-laws' house in Skagen. The reason for the sale was that Ole Jacobsen Smith would settle her two dotres heritage after their mother, Sissel. In this food, the old family property goes over to the later known trading house Ploug & Sundt on Skagen.

Kvitsoy was named by the Dutch for Cruys Inlet (Korsoy) for a stone cross erected in early Christian times. The stone cross could be seen from a distance of seven-seater and eventually became an important landmark. During a voyage from Stavanger to Amsterdam, Nils Olesen decided to become a Dutch seaman. His name was from Dutch to Dutch as he wrote about Nils to Cornelius and the family name of Cruys after the stone cross. KVITSØY.

sources:
Eiliv Odde Hauge: "Admiral of the Blue Flag, Cornelius Cruys", Oslo 1949.
Rogaland History and aettesogelag, 1950.
Erik S. Gundersen: "Admiral Cornelius Cruy's place of birth.

Gudfastesen, Ole (I3536)

7486

Stayed in 1643 in Sogndalsstrand and later for several years - yet in 1662 - on the farm Myland, from which he was seen by a January 11, 1697 busy thing witness, to have been triggered against 1/2 run butter in Lower Aamodt, which he owned in 1665, and 1 bismerpund butter in Eye in Heskestad. He is seen to have taken over his mother's farmland Hofland, which his widow sold on July 5, 1690. When Niels Lauritzsen moved from Myland, he might as a result of his brother Jacob Lauritzsen's death farm Kielland. This farm, located by the river Sogndalselven a short distance from its outlet in the sea, had from the old time been the beneficiary of Stavanger Cathedral. Kielland sermon is mentioned on July 6, 1577, and the farm is then granted the hearer at Stavanger school, whom it still permits in 1661, as it is listed with a landslide of 1 race 1 spd. butter (now mark 9.36). The farm has its name from a current water-filled pothole, in the language of the village Kjelle, or after the old, for the family name, later preserved spelling "Kielle".Niels Kielland is mentioned as a lawyer on March 4, 1664 and November 26, 1667, and on March 12, 1668, became a lawyer in Sogndal. He died in 1673. The shift after him was held on April 11, 1678, and showed a total fortune on 297 Rd. 1 mark 6.He seems to have been married twice. All the children mentioned at the time, however, were of his marriage to Ingeborg Olsdatter.

Kielland, Nils Lauritzsøn (I36017)

7487

STEBBINS AND ALEXANDER LINES

The STEBBING family is of great antiquity in England; the oldest branch resided in Yorkshire and is descended from Sir Thomas STEBBING, baronet.

The family name was, and still is in England, STEBBING. The termination " ing" in the name may be of Saxon origin, and the name may refer to a field or meadow with stubs in it. There are various forms which the family name took: in the town records of Northampton we can find STEBIN, STEBBING, and especially STEBBINS. In Canada the name was given as STEBEN or STEBENNE. All refer to the same familv.

NOTE: Dates relative to persons and events in New England are given in Old Style(O.S.). The corresponding date in New Style(N.S.) is obtained by adding 10 days until February 28, 1699/1700, and ll days thereafter. The New Style was adopted by England and her colonies only on September 3, 1752.

THE STEBBINS IN ENGLAND

The first STEBBINS that I have been able to find mention of was William STEBBINS born in 1540. He had a son, Thomas STEBBINS born around 1565. We do not know the name of his wife, but he had two sons:

1) Rowland STEBBINS born November 5, 1592.

2) Martin STEBBINS, born April 28, 1594.

Rowland STEBBINS I was baptized in St. Mary's church, Bocking, Essex County, November 5, 1592. In the same church in Bocking, on November 30, 1618, he married Sarah WHITING born in 1591.

On the last day of April, 1634, Rowland STEBBINS embarked for America aboard the Francis, under Captain John CUTTING, from Ipswich, England. With him were his wife Sarah, their children: Thomas, aged 14; Sarah. aged 11; John, aged 8 Elizabeth, aged 6. An earlier daughter called Elizabeth had been buried on June 15, 1625. They also had with them Mary WINCHE, aged 15. It is unknown if she was related to STEBBINS.

The group cleared customs only on November 12, 1634. Rowland STEBBINS settled first in Roxbury near Boston. In 1639 he moved to Springfield (settled only 3 years before by William PYNCHON ), where he obtained a land settlement. About 1668 he was one of the pioneers of Northampton, MA. Sarah, his wife of 31 years, died in Springfield on October 4, 1649, at the age of 58. Rowland died in Northampton on December 14, 1671, aged 78.

FIRST GENERATION IN AMERICA

As I just mentioned, Rowland STEBBINS and Sarah had two sons and two daughters:

1) Thomas STEBBINS born in England around 1620. He became a militia lieutenant. InNovember. 1645 he married Hannah WRIGHT, daughter of Deacon Samuel WRIGHT and his wife Margaret. Hannah died on December 16, 1660. On December 14, 1676 at Springfield, Thomas remarried to Abigail BURT. Daughter of Henry and Ulalia BURT and already a double widow (of Francis BALL and of Benjamin MUNN). He was the father of 9 children. On September 24, 1653, he was a witness of the signing of the Indian Deed of Northampton, one year before Northampton began to be settled. He was a witness at the witchcraft slander trial of Sarah Bridgman in Springfield, in August 1656. He was a juryman on March 29, 1659, at Springfield. and again on March 24. l661 at Northampton. He died in Springfield on September 25 (N.S.), 1683.

2) Sarah STEBBINS, born in England around 1623. On July 14, 1639, she married Thomas MERRICK, in Springfield. They had 5 children. Sarah died in Springfield on October 4, 1649, and her husband Thomas died September 7, 1704. in Springfield.

3) John STEBBINS I, see below.

4) Elizabeth STEBBINS, born in England around 1628. On January 2, 1646/7, in Springfield, she married John CLARK. 'They had four children, and she died in Springfield on October 28, 1700.

John STEBBINS II was born in England, around 1626. He was in Roxbury in 1651, and in that same year bought a house in Springfield. He was one of the first landowners of Pocumtuck (the original name of Deerfield) but never seems to have resided there. Rather, he settled in Northampton in 1656 and lived at the lower end of Pudding Lane, which is now Hawley Street. He was a large farmer and owned real estate valued between 400 and 500 pounds. His saw mill was within the bounds of Easthampton. I will have more to say about him once I have dealt with his marriages and children.

FIRST MARRIAGE OF JOHN STEBBINS I

He married for the first time on May 14, 1646, to Ann [our 913 & 1605], widow of Abraham MUNDEN. and the dauahter of Thomas MUNSON of Hartford. They had 5 children:

A) John STEBBINS II born in Springfield on January 28, 1647. We will deal with him later.
B) Thomas STEBBINS, born in Springfield on February 24, 1649. He died there April 24, 1650, just a bit more than 1 year old.
C) Anna STEBBINS, born in Springfield on April 10, 1651, and died there on May 6, 1652 or 1653.
D) Edward STEBBINS, born in Springfield July 12, l653, and died there October 14 of the same year.
E) Benoni STEBBINS. born in Springfield, June 23, 1655. In 1676, at Deerfield, he married Mary BROUGHTON, the widow of James BENNET. Mary died at Deerfield on August 2, 1689. Benoni remarried. on March 2, 1691, to Hannah ATKISSON, widow of Joseph EDWARDS. By both marriages he had 8 children. Benoni was killed on February 29, 1704, during the Deerfield massacre. He is one of the ancestors of Father Philip BONVOULOIR, A.A.

Ann (MUNSON), the first wife of John STEBBINS I, died in Springfield in 1656.

SECOND MARRIAGE OF JOHN STEBBINS I

John STEBBINS I remarried, in Northampton, on December 17, 1657, to Abigail BARTLETT, born probably in Hartford CT, the dauahter of Robert and Anne BARTLETT. John and Abigail had 11 children, all born in Northampton, and making JOHN STEBBINS I the father of 16 children:
F) Samuel STEBBINS, born at Northampton on Januarv 21, 1659. On March 14, 1678, he married Mary FRENCH, daughter of John FRENCH and ? KINGSLEY. He deserted her, and on March 12, 1692 married Sarah WILLIAMS, in Rhode Island. On December 27, 1692, Mary FRENCH obtained a divorce on the grounds that her husband had had children by Sarah WILLIAMS.
G) ABIGAIL STEBBINS, born September 6, 1660, at Northampton. Married William PHELPS there on May 30,l678.
H) Thomas STEBBINS, born in Northampton ,on May 6, 1662. On September 26, 1684 he married Elizabeth WRIGHT, daughter of Samuel WRIGHT and Elizabeth BURT.
I) Hannah STEBBINS, born July 8, 1664, in Northampton. She married John SHELTON; son of Isaac SHELTON and Mary WOODFORD on November 15, 1679. She died on Februarv 29, 1704, in the Deerfield massacre. Stout resistance had been made at the house of Captain SHELTON, and Indians shot her through a hole chopped in the door of her house. The door is now on display in the small museum in Deerfield.
J) Marv STEBBINS, born in Northampton on September 10, 1666. Married Thomas STRONG there on November 17. 1683.
K) Sarah STEBBINS. born in Northampton on June 4, 1668. Married there to William SOUTHWELL in 1687.
L) Joseph STEBBINS, born in Northampton, on January 17, 1670. Buried there on June 3, 1681.
M) Deborah STEBBINS, born in Northampton, March 5, 1672. Married first to Beniamin ALVORD. Remarried to Benjamin BURT.
N) Beniamin STEBBINS, baptized May 3, 1674, in Northampton. Married Mary ASHLEY, daughter of David ASHLEY and Hannah GLOVER, on December 21, 1709.
O) Rebecca STEBBINS, baptized February 26, 1676. in Northampton. In 1697 she married Nathaniel STRONG.
P) Thankful STEBBINS. born May 11, 1678, in Northampton. Married Jeriah STRONG on July 18. 1700.

Returning as I promised above, to John STEBBINS I. I mentioned that in 1651 he bought a house in Springfield. He must have been a public spirited man because in 1654 he was a selectman and served on various committees: land survey (1659), laying out of public highways (166l), building of a new meeting house (1661). He served as juror in 1661, and was chosen bailiff responsible for clearing cattle and swine from public meadows. On April 18, 1661, he signed a covenant organizing the church of Northampton. He was also keeper of the sawmill. the place where he eventually died on March 9, 1679. He was apparently killed by some runaway logs, but the suddenness of his death seemed suspicious to some of his neighbors.

A twelve man jury of inquest rendered a verdict, which, while it did not directly charge witchcraft, showed that they more than half believed it had something to do with his death. Two examinations were of the remains and two reports were made to the court. In the first one, they declared that there was a "warmth and heate in his bodv yt dead persons are not usual to have"; they reported that there were "fewer places upon his breast yt seemed to have been pintched, though the doctor informed ym that in his lifetime there was a swelling between the Pintches"; his neck was as flexible as that of a living person. Upon his body were found "several hundred of spots" that looked as if "they had been shott with small shott." and when thev were scraped there were holes under them. On the second examination, which must have been made soon after the first one, they found, as would very naturally follow, "the body somewhat more cold yn before, his joints were more limber," and several bruises on different parts of his person. which they had not previously discovered. The jury reported to the County Court in April, and Samuel BARTLETT, brother-in-law to STEBBINS. ,and who seems to have been the witch finder in general for the town, brought in all the testimony he could obtain. This evidence, which cannot be found now, was sent to the Court of Assistants at Boston. but no further action was taken. Undoubtedly the testimony pointed to some suspected person, but no one was named in the records......

After the death of John STEBBINS I on March 9, 1679, his widow, Abigail, remarried on December 28, 1681, to Jedediah STRONG, son of Elder John STRONG. She died on July 15, l689.

SECOND GENERATION IN AMERICA

John STEBBINS II son of John STEBBINS I was born in Springfield. on January 28, 1646/7 and was named after his father. He was a carpenter, and served as a soldier under Captain Lathrop, and under Captain Mosely in 1675-76. He was the only one who escaped unwounded from the Bloody Brook massacre on September 18, 1675. As a company was transporting grain from Deerfield to refugees in Hadley and Hatfield, Indians killed many en route, who were eating wild grapes. This massacre caused Deerfield to be temporarily abandoned, but John II returned there and lived on lot 35. About 1683 he married Dorothy ALEXANDER of Newton. She was 22 or 23 years old at the time.

THE ALEXANDER FAMILY

Dorothy ALEXANDER the daughter of John ALEXANDER II and his wife Beatrice who was still alive in 1690. John ALEXANDER II was son of John ALEXANDER I who had come from Scotland to New-England before 1640 and had settled in Windsor, Connecticut. His wife's name is unknown to us, but we know that he had at least two sons. The ALEXANDER line is part of the Scottish clan of MACDONELL of Glengarry.

THE DEERFIELD MASSACRE

It was during the Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) that the so-called Deerfield massacre took place on February 29, 1'704. Within the palisade protecting the village, there were about 290 people, including 20 soldiers sent to defend the village and 3 Canadians. The villagers rashly relied on the deep snow (3 feet) to protect them. But a blizzard had caused snowbanks to pile up almost as high as the palisade; and 200 French and their Indian allies under the command of Sieur HERTEL de ROUVILLE, easily scaled the wall, attacked at dawn and put much of the town to the torch. By eight o'clock all resistance had ceased. When the invaders retreated. they left 49 English dead. and carried oft some 109 prisoners, including John STEBBINS II, his wife Dorothy and their children. The attackers return trip was through the valleys of the Connecticut, the White, the Winooski Rivers, Lake Champlain, and the Richelieu River. At the White River the group split up, and most of them went to Chambly. Althougth most arrived only in mid-April, Jacques De NOYON, Abigail, his wife, and the STEBBINS family arrived by the end of March, and remained under the protection of the HERTEL family.

Of the 109 prisoners, two had escaped the first day, twenty were killed on the route to Canada, and 59 returned to New Encgland before 1731. Among the returnees were John STEBBINS II, his wife Dorothy and John STEBBINS III. But four of his children (Abigail, Thankful, Ebenezer, and Joseph I) decided to remain in Canada. to their father's great chagrin.

Before we continue our genealogical story of the STEBBINS family, it might be interesting to add here the narration of the Massacre given by Rev. John WILLIAMS, pastor of the community, and himself a captive:

"On Tuesday, the 29th of February, 1703/4, not long before the break of day, the enemy came in like a flood upon us; our watch being unfaithful and evil, whose awful effects in a surprise of our fort should bespeak all watchmen to avoid as they would not bring charge of blood upon themselves. They came to my house in the beginning of the onset, and by their violent endeavors to break open the doors and windows with axes and hatchets, awakened me out of sleep; on which I leapt out of bed and running towards the door perceived the enemy making their entrance into the house; I called to awaken two soldiers in the chamber, and returned to my bedside for my arms; the enemy immediately break into the room. I judge the number to be about twenty, with painted faces and hideous exclamations! I reached up my hands to the bed-tester for my pistol, uttering a short petition to God for everlasting mercies to me and mine ... expecting a present passage through the valley of the shadow of death. Taking down my pistol, I cocked it and put it to the breast of the first Indian that came up; but my pistol missing fire, I was seized by 3 Indians who disarmed me and bound me naked, as I was in my shirt, and so I stood for near the space of an hour; binding me as they told me they would carry me to Quebec. My pistol missing fire was an occasion of my life being preserved. The judgment of God did not slumber long against one of the three which took me, who was a Captain; for by sun-rising he received a mortal shot from my next neighbor's house (Benoni STEBBINS' house). who opposed so great a number of French and Indians as three hundred and yet were no more than seven men in an ungarrisoned house .... The enemy fell to rifling the house, entering in great numbers into every room.... the enemies who entered the house were all of them Indians and Macquas; insulting over me awhile, holding up hatchets over my head, threatening to burn all I had but yet God, beyond expectation, made us in great measure to be pitied for some were so cruel and barbarous as to take and carry to the door two of my children and murder them, as also a Negro woman; yet they gave me liberty to put on my clothes ... and gave liberty to my dear wife to dress herself and our children. About sun an hour high, we were all carried out of the house for a march and saw many of the houses of my neighbors in flames, perceiving the whole fort, one house excepted, to be taken ... Upon my parting of the town, they fired my house and barn. We were carried over the river to the foot of the mountain, about a mile from my house, where we found a great number of our Christian neighbors: men, women, and children, to the number of an hundred, nineteen of whom were afterwards murdered by the way, and two starved to death near Cowass, in a time of great scarcity or famine, the savages underwent there. When we came to the foot of the mountain they took away our shoes, and gave us in the room of them Indian shoes to prepare us for our travel. After this we went up to the mountain and saw the smoke of the fires in the town and beheld the awful desolation of Deerfield. And before we marched any farther, they killed a suckling child of the English. There were slain by the enemy, of the inhabitants of our town, to the number of thirty-eight besides nine of the neighboring towns.

"Whilst we were there, the English beat out a company that remained in the town, and pursued them to the river, killing and wounding many of them; but the body of the army being alarmed, they repulsed these few English that pursued them. I am not able to give you an account of the number of enemy slain, but I observed after this fight no great insulting mirth, as I expected; and saw many wounded persons, and for several days together they buried of their party, and one of chief note among the Macquas. The Governor of Canada told me, his army had that success with the loss of but eleven men: three Frenchmen. one of which was the lieutenant of the army, five Macquas and three Indians."

JOHN STEBBINS II AND FAMILY

The children of John STEBBINS II and Dorothy Alexander were:

1) Abigail STEBBINS, born January 4, 1684, at Deerfield. She was a girl of many names: in documents, she is called Gabrielle until, on May 28, 1708, she was baptized in Montreal under the name of Marguerite. On February 3, 1704 (Old style or February 14, New style) only a few days before the massacre, she married one of the three Canadians who were then living In Deerfield, Jacques DE NOYON, with Rev. John WILLIAMS performing the ceremony. DE NOYON sometimes called DENIO or James DENYO, was from Boucherville in the Province of Quebec. In May 1710, Louis XIV will naturalize her a French citizen. In Canada, Abiqail and Jacques settled in Boucherville, nine miles down the river from Montreal.

Here is a translation of the Catholic baptismal record of Abigail in Montreal: "On Monday, 28 May 1708, was baptized by me, undersigned priest, an Englishwoman, named in her own country Abigail Stebbens, who was born at Deerfield in New England, January 4, 1684 of the marriage of Jean Stebbins inhabitant of that place and of Dorothee Alexander both Protestants, having been baptized by the minister of the place some years after andmarried the 14th February 1704 to Jacques Desnoions now sergeant in Monsieur de Tonty's Company, came with him to Canada toward the end of the following March and lives with him at Boucherville. Her name of Abigail has been changed to that of Marguerite. Her godfather was the High and Mighty Seigneur Messire Philippe de RIGAULT Marquis de Vaudreuil, Knight of the Military Order of Saint Louis and Governor General of New France. Her godmother, Demoiselle Marguerite BOUAT, wife of Antoine PASCAUT, royal treasury clerk of the King's revenue in this country, who have signed with me according to the law. Meriel. priest.

Marguerite STEBBEN Vaudreuil

Mgte BOUAT PASCAUD

A great deal has been written about the DE NOYON/STEBBINS couple, but I'll deal with it only briefly here, because most of it is irrelevant to our genealogy, except that maybe the STEBBINS family was not maltreated after their capture because Jacques DE NOYON (DENIO) was a Frenchman.

A TROUBLED MARRIAGE

Jacques DE NOYON had wanderlust. He was what the Canadians called "coureur de bois" (a bushranger), who were the despair of their families and of the government because they traded with the Indians, offering brandy for furs. His travels included trips to the Canadian West: he crossed Lake Superior, entered the Kaministikwia River near present day Fort Williams, explored Dog Lake, and by the Rainy River discovered the "Lake of the Christinaux" now known as Lake of the Woods (as acknowledged on a map published by the National Geographic Society in June 1853). He spent the winter of 1668/9 on the Ouchichig River (Winnipeg).

In 1700 he is in New York where he wrote to Richard COOTE, the Count of Bellomon, who was governor of New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. He promised to trade with merchants at Albany. He says he will go to Albany with 30 young men to trade furs. And he will bring about a dozen sachems of the Ottawa Indians.

Jacques DE NOYON was almost twice as old as Abigail STEBBINS when they married, and to be well received he claimed to be well established and quite wealthy in Canada. He was a liar, as Abiqail soon discovered; and he provided poorly for his wife and family. In July, 1708, the notary Pierre RAIMBAULT, Councillor to the King, presented the following petition to the King's Council:

"Humbly petitioning, Marguerite STEBE, wife of Jacques DE NOYON, English woman, shows that with the consent of her father and mother she had married in her country the said DE NOYON, who was there at the time; upon his assurance that he would give her a large dwelling (un establissement considerable) and that he possessed much property (de grands biens) in this country where she came with him and where, having found nothing not even a house (pas meme un asile pour se retirer) she has been obliged to support her family by the work of her hands; to live at the expense of charitable persons, receiving nothing from her husband and as her work does not suftice to feed her numerous family, she has been advised to purchase land in Boucherville, which is offered at a reasonable price; agreement for payment during a long term being made in her own name which land she hopes to pay for when due (a constitution de rente en son nom particulier laquelle terre elle espere acquitter le jour par la suite) both by her heirs and labors as by the help she hopes for from her parents when it shall have pleased God to give us peace...."

Jacques, a soldier and trader, was obviously not a homemaker, and since there was no marriage contract, and since by the Quebec law of the time she could hold no property in her own name, she needed the tribunal's empowerment to do so. And here is the affirmative legal answer: "Marguerite STEBE, accepting for herself her heirs and assigns a grant in the seigniory of Boucherville on the slope St. Joseph, of 75 arpents in area (3 x 25), charged with a seignioral rent of 3 livres 15 sous and 3 live hens. Price 200 livres of the country. Made and passed in Boucherville at the rectory the 24 August 1706, present Monsieur de la SAUDRAYE and Monsieur BOUCHER."

Marguerite learned that her father John STEBBINS II had died on December 19, 1724 (0.S.) and on July 6, 1725 (N.S.) she petitioned the Governor General of Canada that she be permitted to visit Deerfield and bring back her oldest son, Rene-Jacques DE NOYON aka Aaron. The permit was valid for three months and her route was determined: the route to Deerfield was to begin from the Fort at Chamb1y, go down the Richelieu River, Lake Champlain, and the Hudson. From Orange (Albany) she was to follow the usual route by the Mohawk Trail to Greenfield and Deerfield. Because she was pregnant at the time, she stayed on in Deerfield and gave birth to a daughter, Marie Anne DE NOYON, February 27, 1726. The child was later baptized in Boucherville. Marguerite (Abiqail,Gabrielle) was buried at Boucherville on November 15, 1740. The record says she was 62; in fact, she was only 56. Her husband, after all his wandering, was also buried in Boucherville on May 12, 1745.

OTHER CHILDREN OF J0HN STEBBINS II AND DOROTHY ALEXANDER

2) John STEBBINS III, born around 1685, in Deerfield. Around 1714, he married Mary __?___ , who died in Deerfield, August 30. 1733, at the age of 37. He remarried at Deerfield, August 25, 1735 to Hannah ALLEN, dauqhter of Edward ALLEN and Mercy PAINTER. He died in Deerfield September 7, 1760.

3) Samuel STEBBINS, born December 25, 1688 in Deerfield. He was still a prisoner in Canada when his father made out his will in 1723. By 1731 he had returned to Deerfield.

4) Thankful STEBBINS a daughter, born September 5, 1691 at Deerfield. She was thus about 12 years old when captured, and it seems that she was ransomed by some member of the HERTEL family at Chambly. Her baptism is recorded on one of the first pages of the Chambly parish register, where she is called Louise Theresse [sic] STEBENS. The document, in French, reads thus in translation:

"This 23 of April, 1707, I, Pierre Dublaron officiating in the parish of Chambly, certify that I have administered the rite of baptism to Louise Theresse Stebens, English girl and baptized in England. [this seems faulty as she was born in New Eng1and]. Her godfather and godmother were Monsieur Hertelle Seigneur of Chambly, and Madame de Perygny, wife of the commandant ot the fort of Chambly, in faith of which I have signed."

She was married as Therese Louyse STEBENS, in Chambly, but the record is on the parish register ot Longueil. I have a photocopy of this marriage certificate which I have numbered GD25. In translation it reads thus:

"February 4, 1711, after the publication of the usual banns made at the parish masses in the church of the Holy Family at Boucherville Jan. 25, Feb.lst & 2nd to which no legal impediment has been found, I, the undersigned priest pastor of Boucherville have married in the said parish church of the Holy Family of Boucherville Adrien Grain, alias La Vallee [our # 450], inhabitant of Chambly, aged 23 years and son of the late Charles Grain and Louyse la Fortune ( aka BONNET) living and inhabitant of Chambly with Therese Louyse Stebens, aged 21 (really only 20), daughter of Jan Stebens and of Dorothee Alexandre his wife, inhabitants of Guiervil (sic for Deerf ield) in New England and have given them the nuptial benediction in the presence of Joseph Mailliot, cousin of the groom, of Sieur Jacques de Noyon brother-in-law of the bride, of Sieur Baribault relative of the bride, of Joseph Roberge witness and friend of the groom who have signed with me according to the law."

There are then the signatures of Pere Jan (Could this be the Jan Stebens, John Stebbins mentioned ?), Joseph Mailliot, J Barbot, Robarge, and of R de la Saudraye, priest.

Charles LEGRAIN who was also known as Adrien LA VALLE, and was a captain in the militia, with his wife. Louise Therese STEBENNE had as children:

A) Francoise ~Therese LEGRAIN. baptized in March. 1713.
B) Guillaume LEGRAIN, baptized conditionally by a Recollect missionary on December 30, 1714, two days after his birth, probably because he had already had a lay baptism, there not being a resident priest yet in Chambly.
C) Marie-Jeanne LEGRAIN. born in 1716.
D) Charlotte LEGRAIN who was baptized on January 6, 1720. She would marry Jean-Baptiste VIENT (our # 224] on February 5, 1742 at Chambly.
E) Isabelle LEGRAIN, baptized January 3, 1722.
F) Antoine La Vallee (LEGRAIN), "son of Adrien Charles and Louise Theraise Stebenne" was born in 1723.
G) Marie Therese La Va11ee (LEGRAIN). '1daughter of Charles Lavalle and Marie Therese Steben" was baptized on February 2, 1725. As we can see, the surnames LE GRAIN/LA VALLEE seem to have been used interchangeably.
H) Veronique LEGRAIN, their last child, born or baptized on July 4, 1729. The labors of this last birth were apparently too much for her, because only seven days later, on July 11, 1729, is recorded the burial of the wife of Charles LEGRAIN, Therese Louise STEBENNE.

Returning now to the remaining children of John STEBBINS II and Dorothy ALEXANDER we have

5) Their fifth child was Ebenezer STEBBINS. who was nine years old when he was captured. He was born in Deerfield. on December 5, 1694. One month after the baptism of his sister Abigail, he too was baptized by Father MERIEL. at Boucherville:

"On Friday, June 29th, 1708, I, the undersigned priest baptized an English boy named in his country Ebenezer Stebbens, who born at Dearfield in New England the ___ 169___ of the marriaae of Jean Stebbens and Dorothee Alexandre both protestants, having been taken 11th Feb. 1704 and brought to Canada, lives at Bouchervi1le with his sister Marguerite Stebbens. wife of Jacques Desnoions, Sergeant of the Company of Tonti. He was given the name of Jacques Charles (after his godfather). His godfather was Jacques Charles de Sabrevoys Esquire Captain of a detachment of marines and his godmother Jeanne Crevier, wife of M. Pierre BOUCHER Seigneur of Boucherville. who have signed with me according to law.

Jeanne CREVIER Meriel, priest de Sabrevoys Denoyons

6) Their sisth child was Joseph Stebbins I who is said to have been four years old when he was captured. Emma Lewis Coleman, in the 2nd volume of her New England captives carried to Canada., published in 1925, says that neither his birth nor marriage records have been found, but declares that he married Marie-Marguerite SANSOUCY also known as LANGLOIS and lived with her at Chambly. The Stebbins Genealogy, published by Ralph Stebbins Greeles and Robert Lemuel Greenleem 1904, affirms that Joseph STEBBINS was born April 12, 1699 at Deerfield and died at Chambly April 23, 1753. On November 15.,1734, he married Marie-Marguerite SANSOUCY, mentioned above, daughter of Guillaume SANSOUCY aka GEMME & JAMES LANGLOIS & Catherine LIMOUSIN. The private marriage contract drawn up the same day at Fort St. Louis (Chambly) and was recorded by notary LOISEAU on November 18, 1734. After the death of Joseph STEBBINS his widow remarried to Jean-Baptiste MENARD, on January 25, 1761. It is through the marriage of Joseph STEBBINS I and M. Marguerite SANSOUCY that the STEBENNE name was established in Canada, it being a gallicisation of the original STEBBINS.

The children of Joseph STEBBINS I and Marguerite SANSOUCY were:

1) Joseph STEBBINS II He was born November 20, 1735. He married twice: first to Marie Barbe VALLIERES, daughter of Antoine & Suzanne BOULERlSSE, at St. Mathias on November 17, 1760. He remarried on.January 7, 1767 Chambly to Marie-Amable BOMBARDIER dauqhter of Jacques BOMBARDIER and Francoise THIBAULT. He had a daughter from the first marriage From the second marriage , he-had:
a) Catherine STEBBINS, who married at St. Mathias on January 14, 1787, Joseph PERRON.
b) Marie-Anne STEBBINS, married at St. Mathias, January 14, 1788 to Joseph MAILLOT.
c) Jean-Baptiste STEBBINS, married at St. Mathias, October 7, 1793 to Marie Genevieve PELLETIER.
d) Marie Susanne STEBBINS, married at St. Mathias, September 19, 1796 to Andre BRAUT.
e) Angelique Stebbins, also known as Josephte born around 1785. She was said to be 17 when she married at St. Mathias de Rouville in Chambly County, on August 16, 1802 to Jean- Baptiste VIEN III son of Jean- Baptiste VIEN II and Marie Josepthe DUFAUT.

The other children of Joseph STEBBINS I and Marguerite SANSSOUCY (LANGLOIS) were:

2) Marguerite, born September 20, 1737. Died 1756.
3) Francois, born March 15, 1741 and died same year.
4) Marie Suzanne, born May 31, 1744; married and died 1776.
5) Louis, who married September 20. 1773
6) Pierre, born July 26, 1746.
7) Francois, born July 12, 1751.
8) Marie Anne, born May 25, 1753 and died same year.
9) Jean-Baptiste, who in 1762 married Josephte MASSE and in 1767 remarried to Marie Claire FONTAINE.

The will of Joseph STEBBINS I is in the Will Book of Hampden County Probate Court, Book 4, page 116. In part, it reads: "And as to my children in Canada, to wit Samuel. Ebenezer, Joseph, Abigail, and Thankful my will is...That each of them have an eighth part of my lands provided they come and live in New England....Those that will not live in New England shall have five shillings and no more...Yet be it forever understood that if my daughter Abigail come not tarry as above said, then Aaron Denieur (for DE NOYON) her son, shall be my heir in her Room and Stead, provided said Aaron continue in this Country then. After my decease and my wife's decease, said Aaron shall enter upon that which should have been his mother's part and possess it until his mother comes, but if she come not and fulfill the above said conditions, and Aaron stays in New Eng1and and doth fulfill them, then the said eighth part of my lands to descend to said Aaron's heirs forever." Aaron did receive these lands, but Abigail came and tarried awhile, long enough to bear her 13th child and doubtless to receive her five shillings.

Genealogical document 009
St. Mathias de Rouvi1le
Comte Chambly

Montreal National Archives
microfilm roll # 333
Mariage
Jean Bte Vient
et
Angelique Stebenne

Le seize aout de l'an mil huit cent deux apres la publication de trois bans de mariage faite aux prones de nos messes paroissiales pendant trois dimanches consecutifs, le premier1 huit et quinze du present entre jean Bte vient, majeur, age de trente ans, Journalier dans cette paroisse, fils de feu Jean Bte vient vivant cultivateur de cette paroisse et de Marie Josephte Dufaut d'une part, et Angelique Stebenne, mineur, agee de dix sept ans environ, fille de feu Joseph Stebenne, vivant cultivateur de cette paroisse et de Marie Bombardier d'autre part. Ne s'etant decouvert aucun empechement ni opposition au dit mariage, les parties ayant obtenu de Missre Francois Chevrier grand vicaire dispense du troisieme et au quatrieme degre de parente laquelle est entre nos mains, nous pretre soussigne, du consentement des parens1 avons recu leur mutuel consentement, do mariage et leur avons donne la benediction nuptiale suivant le rit prescrit par notre mere la Ste Eglise Catholique. apostolique et Romaine et ce en presence de Michel Gilbert ami tenant lieu de pere de Francois Demers ami de l'epoux; et de Jean Bte Stebenne frere tenant lieu de pere, de Simon ?? et Joseph Segin, amis de l'epouse qul n'ont scu signe avoc nous de ce enquis suivant l'ordonnance.

Mi. Gilberte S Robitaille Ptre

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Stebbins, John (I29973)

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Stebbins Family
Genealogical And Personal Memoirs Relating To The Families of The State of Massachusetts, Prepared Under The Editorial Supervision of, William Richard Cutter, A. M., Historian of The New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library: Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," "Bibliography Of Woburn," etc., etc., Assisted By William Frederick Adams, President of Connecticut Valley Historical Society; Publisher of Pynchon Genealogy, "Picturesque Hampden," "Picturesque Berkshire," etc., etc., Volume Ii., Illustrated, New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910.
Stebbins Family
Rowland Stebbins, immigrant ancestor, was born in or near Stebbing, county Essex, England, in 1594, died December 14, 1671, at Northampton, Massachusetts.
At the age of forty he came to America in the ship "Francis," of Ipswich, sailing April 30, 1634, with his wife Sarah, aged forty-three years, and children.
Thomas, aged fourteen;
Sarah, aged eleven;
John, aged eight;
Elizabeth, aged six.
and servant, Mary Winch, aged fifteen.
He resided at Springfield, Massachusetts, soon after its settlement, about 1639; had a grant of land there December 24, 1640, and other grants later: was a proprietor in 1641.
His wife Sarah died at Springfield and was buried October 4, 1649.
He removed to Northampton, about 1668; from Springfield and died there.
His will, dated March 1, 1669, bequeathed to son Thomas and his seven children; to son John and nine children; to daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Clarke and her three children; to son in-law Merrick's three daughters: to Mary Munde; friend John Pynchon and brother Robert Bartlett, overseers.
Children:
1. Thomas, born 1620, married Hannah Wright.
2. Sarah, 1623, married Thomas Merrick.
3. John, mentioned below.
4. Elizabeth, 1628, married John Clarke.
(II) John, son of Rowland Stebbins, was born in England in 1626, died March 7, 1678, at Northampton, Massachusetts.
He was a farmer at Springfield and Northampton and in 1651 was for a time at Roxbury, Massachusetts.
He had grants of land at Springfield, and bought a house there.
He was highway surveyor; selectman in 1655.
In 1656 he moved to Northampton and his home was on the lower end of Pudding lane, now Hawley street.
He owned saw mills there; was measurer of land in 1659-71; committee to lay out highways in 1660; juror in 1661; selectman 1675-78.
He owned the covenant in the church, June 18, 1661; served on the church building committee the same year; was bailiff 1664; contributed to the Harvard College fund 1672-73 ten bushels of wheat.
It was commonly believed that he was killed by witches.
He was part owner of the mill on Broad brook and was killed in some mysterious way while alone in the mill.
He married (first) March 14, 1646, at Springfield, Ann Munden, widow of Abraham Munden.
She married (first) May 16, 1644, and died 1656.
He married (second) December 17, 1657, at Northampton, Abigail Bartlett, daughter of Robert and Anne Bartlett.
She was killed October 10, 1710, by a fall from her horse while on a visit to her children at Coventry, Connecticut.
Children of first wife:
1. John, born January 28, 1647, married Dorothy Alexander.
2. Thomas, February 24, 1649, died April 24, 1650.
3. Anna, April 10, 1651, died May 6, 1652-53.
4. Edward, July 12, 1653, died October 14, 1653.
5. Benoni, June 23, 1655, married Mary (Broughton) Bennett; (second) Hannah Edwards.
Children of second wife, born at Northampton:
6. Samuel, January 21, 1659, married Mary French.
7. Abigail, September 6, 1660, married William Phelps.
8. Thomas, May 6, 1662, mentioned below.
9. Hannah, July 8, 1664, married John Sheldon.
10. Mary, September 10, 1666, married Thomas Strong.
11. Sarah, June 4, 1668, married William Southwell.
12. Joseph, January 17, 1669, died June 3, 1681.
13. Deborah, March 5, 1671-72, married Benjamin Alvord; (second) Benjamin Burt.
14. Rebecca, baptized February 26, 1676, married Nathaniel Strong.
15. Thankful, born May 11, 1678, married Jerijah Strong.
(III) Thomas, son of John Stebbins, was born May 6, 1662, at Northampton, died there April 28, 1712.
He took the oath of allegiance February 8, 1678; was fence viewer 1695-96, 1706-7, 1709-10.
His estate was settled February 13, 1723-24.
He married, September 26, 1684, Elizabeth Wright, born July 31, 1666, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Burt) Wright.
She married (second) John Hannum.
Children:
1. Elizabeth, born October 31, 1685, married William Wait.
2. Thomas, April 2, 1689.
3. Hannah, 1691, married Samuel King.
4. Josiah, born September, 1694, died 1725.
5. Joseph, March 30, 1697, mentioned below.
6. Experience, March 14, 1699, died young.
7. Asahel, April 10, 1701, married Sarah Petty.
8. Experience, March 18, 1703.
9. Mary, December 26, 1705, married Noah Strong.
(IV) Captain Joseph, son of Thomas Stebbins, was born at Northampton, March 30, 1697, died January 31, 1780, at Northfield.
He settled at Deerfield, removed to Northfield in 1726.
He bought a farm of William Clarke at Northfield: was one of the leading opponents of Rev. Mr. Doolittle in the church troubles, 1736-37.
He built a log house near the Ashuelot south of Stebbins Island in the spring of 1750; was surveyor, elected at the first town meeting, September 25, 1753.
On the Indian alarm of 1753 he and his family resorted to the stockaded house of John Evans.
He built a house in 1765 on the west side of the river, covering it with clap-boards and thatching the roof with grass from the meadow.
Stebbins Island belonged to him and descendants for several generations.
He married, 1718, Mary Williams, born February 13, 1701, at Northampton, died December 23, 1786, daughter of Zebediah and Sarah (Arms) Williams.
Children:
1. Mary, born July 11, 1719, died 1765 unmarried.
2. Joseph, January 13, 1721, mentioned below.
3. Zebediah, October 29, 1723, married Thankful Graves.
4. Sarah, January 27, 1727, married Captain Thomas Taylor.
5. Josiah, October 20, 1729, married Mary Howe.
6. Anna, September 5 or 25, 1731, died November 5, 1732.
7. Ann, November 10, 1734, married Thomas Sergeant.
8. Elizabeth, October 8, 1736, married General Ebenezer Walbridge.
9. Elisha, March 16, 1743, married Martha Wright.
( V) Captain Joseph (2). son of Captain Joseph (1) Stebbins, was born January 13, 1721, at Deerfield, died February 6, 1784, at Vernon, Windham county, Vermont.
He was a farmer and member of the church.
He went to Vermont about 1740, bought land of the Merrimans, May 21, 1749: of Titus Belding, February 2, 1753, at Hinsdale, now Vernon, Vermont, on the west side of the Connecticut and he was one of the fourteen proprietors when the town was chartered September 5, 1753.
He and two children had a narrow escape from the Indians, August 20, 1756.
Two Indians laying in wait for him were discovered by his brother Zebediah and Reuben Wright, who exchanged shots with them.
Wright was wounded and the white men were pursued by the savages.
After crossing Island brook Stebbins shot one of the Indians.
Over a century later the grave of this Indian was discovered by George M. Lee while clearing the land in that vicinity.
Joseph and the children, alarmed by the firing, escaped to the garrison house.
He married, 1741, Thankful Belding, born January 6, 1718, at Northfield, died May 9, 1788, at Vernon, daughter of Stephen and Mindwell (Wright) Belding.
Children:
1. Tabitha, born about 1743, married Zurr Evans, of Chesterfield, New Hampshire.
2. Thankful, November, 1745, married Elihu Root.
3. Mary, June 6 or 28, 1747, married Timothy Root.
4. Elijah, baptized April 27, 1749, died young.
5. Elijah, baptized January 6, 1751, married Beulah Dickinson.
6. Lucy, born May 31, 1752.
7. Eliakim, born November 17, 1753, married Rebecca Hawks.
8. Abner, baptized August 9, 1755, mentioned below.
9. Joseph, baptized October 10, 1757, died young.
10. Joseph, born March 1, 1761, married Sarah Severance: (second) Elizabeth Edwards.
(VI) Abner, son of Captain Joseph (2) Stebbins, was born July 18, 1755, at Vernon, baptized August 9, 1755, and died there September 18, 1836.
He was a farmer at Guilford and Vernon, Vermont.
He married Mindwell Mars, of Montague, Massachusetts, died August 3, 1837, at Montague.
Children:
1. Lucy, born September 9, 1782, married, 1813, Jesse Gaines.
2. Abner, February 6, 1785, married Hannah Johnson.
3. Henry, February 24, 1787, married, September 18, 1815, Rebecca Jacobs.
4. Lyman,* November 25, 1789, married Tyler.
5. Tabitha, February 15, 1791, married Joseph Gaines, Jr.
6. Zebina, August 20, 1795.

Stebbins Family: Genealogical And Personal Memoirs Relating To The Families of The State of Massachusetts, Prepared Under The Editorial Supervision of, William Richard Cutter, A. M.,Volume Ii., Illustrated, New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1

Stebbins, Rowland (I29989)

7489

Steinkargata 6 Ownership History:
183 Steinkargata 6
ca 1850 (statskassen - 16b og Zetlitz 50b)
140-132 Jon Johnsen Galde 1801-1807
132-135-137 John Tostensen 1787-1801
137-125-AK1 Arnfinn Tostensen Viste 1776-1780
125-A71-NA232-KB1-NC125-AK1 Thomas Osmundsen Nerstrand 1738-1776 (kongens grunn - 16b)
ND112-AK2-S31-S30-V27-S25-K25-NE106-K19-NF117-NG298 Tore Olsen Langeland tømmermann og Anna Olsdatter eller Ådnesdatter 1707-1738 (1736 leieboer Maria Bay) (kongens grunn - 16b) - udj Appelon Kocks Huuse
Kirsten Olsdatter Creutz og Hans Jakopsen Smidt 1705-1707
S02-E1-V98-V97 Apelone Nilsdatter Kock - Ole Gudfastsen enke 1673-1705
Ole Gudfastsen og Apelone Nilsdatter Kock 1661-1668
Mogens Nilssen i 24 år i det minste i 1643-1648
Endre Olsen i 11 år i det minste i 1629-1631
Gjertrud Bjørnsdatter (= Gjertrud jordmor?) enke etter Endre Salomonssen 1626.

Gudfastesen, Ole (I3536)

7490

Koch, Apellone Nilsdatter (I3535)

7491

Stephen Giles died in a drowning accident in a milling pond according to current residents in the little town where he lived.

Giles, Stephen (I16828)

7492

Stephen Pettus is thought to have been born about 1619 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. He died in St. Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia in 1686. It is generally thought he was a son of the well-known Col. Thomas Pettus, owner of the “Littletown” plantation near Jamestown, although this has not been proven. Stephen cannot be tied clearly to any other Pettus family members.
Col. Thomas Pettus, Stephen’s probable father, was christened in 1598 in Norwich. He served in the British Army in theThirty Years' War in Europe. He was sent to Virginia in command of 40 men to assist the colonists in their struggles with the Powhatan Indians at Jamestown. His exact arrival date is not known but was between 1638 and 1641.

From 1641 to 1660, Col. Thomas served as a member of the prestigious Governor’s Council and was considered a member of the emerging “provincial elite.” He was an active participant in the affairs of Jamestown and is mentioned in many documents of the period. He married a widow, Elizabeth Mourning (Mrs. Richard Durant), in 1645 and acquired additional land as a result of this marriage. When he died in the 1660s, his land passed to his son from this marriage, (Capt.) Thomas Pettus, Jr.

Stephen is thought to have been a son of Col. Thomas’s from his first marriage in England. The name of Col. Thomas’s first wife is not known. Although some report her name as Katherine Morris, this is believed to have been the wife of a different Thomas Pettus who was a nephew of Col. Thomas.
A Virginia Genealogical Histories publication states:

“Col. Thomas Pettus was 40 years old when he came to Virginia. Probably a widower. With him or before him came a Stephen Pettus. Here by 1637. The name Stephen is not found in records of Pettuses of Norwich, England, but Capt. Thomas Pettus [son of Col. Thomas] named a son Stephen. Looks like the “first Stephen” was a son of Col. Pettus by a first wife and named for her family. To summarize: Col. Pettus, Councilor, had son Capt. Thomas and daughters Mary and Ann. Also possibly a daughter who married a Freeman and very probably sons Stephen (“the first Stephen”) and John of Rapahannock and New Kent.”

One story claims that Stephen Pettus and his brother were imported as indentured servants to Virginia by their father in 1637. Importation of “indentured” family members to Virginia during the seventeenth century was not that uncommon, because under the law at the time a man received fifty acres of free land for each “imported servant.” Occasionally the same person was even “re-imported” after a trip back to England.

There is a record showing that on July 12, 1637 a man named Matthew Edloe was granted 1,200 acres on the north side of the James River as compensation for the “transportation of 24 persons.” The list of persons transported includes the name of Stephen Pettus. (from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 6, by Virginia Historical Society, William Glover Stanard)

Stephen patented at least two tracts of land in New Kent County, Virginia. One was on the north side of the Chickahominy River about 25 miles above its mouth. It was here that he started a plantation and made his home.

Stephen married, although his wife’s name is not known. They are generally thought to have had two daughters, one of whom (Susanna) became his heir:
1. Elizabeth Pettus
2. Susanna Pettus, about 1656-1717, married Evan Ragland

In Ragland family traditional history, Stephen Pettus is known as the plantation owner who “acquired” Evan Ragland, a 14-year old who had been shanghaied from England and sold to the highest bidder in the colonies.

At the end of his indenture, Evan Ragland (founder of the Ragland family in America) married Stephen’s daughter Susanna and eventually inherited Stephen Pettus’s land.

Pettus, Stephen (I24582)

7493

Stephen Ragland is first found among the records of St. Paul's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia. In 1711, Stephen is listed as a freeholder with 200 acres of land described as on, "...upper reaches of Chickahominy River..." John Ragland is a neighbor. Parish records list Stephen in various roles in the community. In 1715, Stephen was made overseer of teh preceinct; in 1716 he assisted in clearing the roads; and in 1724 he was named as a superintendent of a road gang. These records indicate that he was a person of responsiblity in the community.
Stephen Ragland married Mary, who Charles J. Ragland identifies as a member of the Hudson family. The only proof of her family name is the use of the "Hudson" name by the Raglands. Charles J. Ragland's idenfication of her as the daughter of John & Elizabeth (Harris) Hudson of Hanover Co., Virginia is believed to be incorrect according to the researchers at the Hudson Family Assciation.
Stephen Ragland removes to North Carolina by 1730. In the NC deeds he is described as "of Hanover County, Virginia." Stephen prospered in North Carolina. By his death in 1747, Stephen has accumulated around 1,690 acres of land and had at least six slaves. He also owned a tobacco warehouse and ran a Ferry. His plantation is said to have been located where present day US HWY 158 crosses the Roanak River into Northampton County. Between 1740 and his death he held the position of Royal Tax Collector of Bertie Precinct.

From Charles J. Ragland, Jr.'s book, The Raglands: History of a British-American Family vol I -
Stephen Ragland of Northampton County, North Carolina, third son of Evan Ragland Sr. and Susanna Pettus, and progenitor of the North Carolina Raglands, was born in New Kent County, Virginia about 1688. He is first mentioned in the public records of Virginia in a 1711 list of property owners for St. Paul's parish (at that time New Kent County but after 1720 Hanover County) as a "freeholder of 200 acres." This property, located on the north side of the Chickahominy Swamp, was undoubtedly part of the tract granted to his grandfather, Stephen Pettus, in 1667. For twenty years following his initial appearence Stephen's name occurs with some regularity in the vestry minutes of St. Paul's parish. In 1715 he was made "overseer of the precinct" and in 1716 was "ordered by the New Kent Court to assist in clearing a new road," and again in 1724 was made Road Gang superintendent for the maintenance of public roads in south central Hanover County. Although Stephen continued to appear in the records od St. Paul's parish as a property holder after 1730, he had in fact moved with his family to North Carolina. Beginning in Jan of 1730 Stephen made several purchases of land "along the north side of the Morottock (Roanoke River)" in what was then Bertie County, North Carolina (Northampton County after 1741) and by the end of the year had acquired 460 acres. Establishing himself on this property, Stephen appears to have been quite busy during the remaining decade and a half of his life. In addition to establishing the plantation; he alsobuilt a number of public warehouses which were leased to the colonial government of North Carolina for the storage and inspection of ter, pitch, and turpentine, and tobacco awaiting shipment to England; and operating a ferry across the Roanoke River. Appointed Royal Tax Collector for the northern part of Bertie Precinct (Northampyon County) in 1740 Stephen assumed not only the responsibility for the inspection of these goods but also for the levying and collection of taxes on all exported goods. He served in this capacity until his death in 1747. During this period he slowly extended his land holdings in Northampton County and across the Roanoke River into Halifax County which by the time of his death had reached a total holding of 1,690 acres. Dying in Jan of 1747 Stephen left in addition to his plantation and land, a ferry crossing, several public warehouses, and six slaves, one of whom was, incidently, an Indian. He married in New Kent County, Virginia about 1713 one Mary (probably Hudson) who survived him by several years dying in Northampton County in 1760. According to his will, Stephen left six children.

Ragland, Stephen (I24588)

7494

STEPHEN RAGLAND Will Feb Court 1747 in Northampton County, North Carolina: --- 20th May 1748

In The Name of God Amen STEPHEN RAGLAND of Northampton County in the province of north carolina Being sick and week in body but thanks bee to almighty God of perfect mind & memory and Calling to mind that it is appointed for all men to die do therefore Constitute and ordain this Present Wrighting To be my last will & testament and my soul I recommend into the hands of Almighty God hoping through the merrits of my beloved savour Jesus Christ to have ---? on for all my sins as to my Body commit to the ground to bee decently Buried at the Discretion of my Executors here after mentioned and as to the temporal Estate as it hath lesed Almity God to Bestow on mee after my Debts and funerall charges bee paid I give and Dispose of as followeth

Impromi ? I give and bequeath to my loving son STEPHEN RAGLAND one hundred and fifty Aker of land be the same more or left together with my ferry --plantation --- the same --negrow woman names -ORK ? after the Dispose of my loving wife MARREY RAGLAND to him and his heirs and assignes forEver

Item my will and desire is that my land and plantation as Bought of ROBERT HARRIS to be sold by my Executors and the money arrising by such sale to be Equally Divided betwen my wife and children sons & Daughters

Item I give and bequeath to my loving son GEORGE RAGLAND my plantation whereon I now Dwell togetherwith one hundred and sixty Akers of land begining at a white oake standing in a bottom betwen my son STEPHEN and my son GEORG his land and to a north --- for the -- to my upper line to him and his heirs & assignes forEver

Item I give & bequeath to my loving son WILLIAM RAGLAND to him and his heirs and assignes forEver one hundred and sixty Aker of land and JAMES --- land & Bound along a line of mark trees to -- & my Dividing line

Item? I give and bequeath to my loving son FREDERICK RAGLAND to him and his heirs and assignes forEver two hundred and Eighty Akers of land bee the same more or less adjoining my other land together with one negrow Boy named RED after the Depose of my loving wife MARY RAGLAND

Item? I give and bequeath to my Loving Daughter AGNESS RAGLAND to her and heirs and assignes forEver one Indian slave named --- ? -- after the Death of my loving wife MARY RAGLAND

Item? I give? and bequeath to my loving son GEORG RAGLAND to him and his heirs and assignes forEver one negrow man named PEETER ? after? the Despose of my loving wife MARY RAGLAND

Item? I give unto my loving wife MARY RAGLAND all the res ? of my Estate Be it as it will with the -- of all my slaves During her natural life after my loving wife -- my will is that what of my Estate is left to be Equally Divided betwen my sons & Daughters the slaves only -- which my will is they be Divided as? & in manner before mentioned all my beloved children and my Desire and will is that what of my Estate that is to bee Divided betwen my wife & children be Equally divided by three of my neighbours freeholders With out troubel to the Corte? or any charges blonging to the same and my will and desires and I hereby Do Nomin ? Constitute and apoint my loving sons EVEN RAGLAND and GEORG RAGLAND to be my Executor to this my last will and Testament and Do hereby -- and Revoke all other wills by mee made and Do Constitute and ordain this to bee my Last will & testament and no other by mee made

Signed Seled and Acknowled to be my last will & testament in the presence of us whose names are and with Subscribed This first Day of march one thousand sevenhundred forty six

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? S RAGLAND (Seal)

ROBERT HICKS Jurat
JOHN HAMILTON

JOHN WEBB Jurat
Northampton County -- February Court 1747
The within written Will of STEPHEN RAGLAND -- was proved in open Court by the oath of ROBERT HICKS & JOHN WEBB two of the subscribing witnesses thereto at same time EVAN RAGLAND? & gEORGE RAGLAND --duly -- Executors thereof

Teste I EDWARD Clerk???

Ragland, Stephen (I24588)

7495

Stephen Wells II
b. bef 1646 England
d. abt Oct 31, 1712, St. Stephens, Richmond Co., Virginia Colony

Alice Howard 3 Dec 1677 Richmond Co., Virginia Colony (see notes)
b. ?
d. ?
her father: Henry Howard
her mother: Lady Eliz. Spencer Craven

his father - Stephen Wells I
his mother - unknown

children with Alice Howard:
1. Stephen Wells III
b. abt 1678 (probably England)
d. 1722-23 St. Stephens, Richmond Co., Virginia Colony;
m. Elizabeth (Williams) Settle (a widow)
2. Mary Wells
b. 1685 Northumberland County, VA
d. before 1712
m. John Favor / Fever (b. 1672 France d. Essex County, VA)

Stephen Wells was an immigrant who married Alice Howard 3 Dec. 1677 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond Co., VA. They seem to have been early immigrants to Virginia. They had two known children, Mary Wells who married John Fever(Faver) about 1712 and Stephen Wells born about 1678 in Settingham Parish, Richmond Co., VA.
1662, On February 10 - Robert Richard was granted 136 acres of land for transporting three persons to the new world, including a Stephen Wells. Ten days later another Stephen Wells was transported to Virginia on another ship. Both of these ships landed in Richmond County, Virginia. By following the way the name Stephen was followed continually for several generations it is believed the line could be traced in England. It is impossible to determine which of these two may have been the father and which the son. The age of Stephen Wells when he came to the colonies is unknown, but he was probably of legal age. He marries in 1667 probably being 21 years old then. Meaning that he was probably born before 1646.
1662, February 20 - William Moseley and John Hill was granted 5,790 acres of land for transporting 116 persons to Virginia, one of whom was Stephen Wells. [records of Robert Jeffries]
1667, December 3, - Stephen Wells married Alice Howard, daughter of Henry Howard, who had been transported to Virginia on April 8, 1664 by Richard White. [The Register of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lunenberg Parish of Richmond County, page 197].
On April 4, 1671 Stephen bought 212 acres of land in Richmond County.
1677- Francis Settle gave a deed of gift to George and Jane Bruce, children of George Bruce. [recorded in Rappahannock County, later Richmond,VA]
1677, Dec 3 - Stephen Wells marries Alice Howard. [Headley Marriages p371]
1681, April 20 - Stephen sued Thomas Perryne. Stephen Wells received a bill from Benjamin Marsh, as ordered by the Rappahannock County court in 1692.
1692 - Stephen Wells was given the Power of Attorney for John Tavener by the Court of Rappahannock County.
1696, July 9 - Two colonial grants in the Northern Neck Region of Virginia were awarded to Stephen Wells of Northumberland County.
2-245: Stephen Wells of Northumberland Co. 166A. adj. to William Barber on Br. of Mattopany, Edward Lewis. 9 July 1696.
2-245; Stephen Wells of Northumberland Co. 36 A. on Br. of Mattopany, adj. to William Barber. 9 July 1696.
[Northern Neck Land grants, Vol. 1, p.18]

1705, February - Stephen Wells brought a suit against Wattakin Price in Richmond County.
1706, Nov. 13- Stephen Wells is a witness to the will of Daniel Jackson, also mentioned is daughter Mary Settle.

Daniel Jackson: will 13 Nov 1706, 5 Feb 1706/07 son David the plant. whereon he now lives if he die with heirs, then plant. to go to son Nathaniel, and if he died without heirs, plant. to go to son then plant. to go to son Daniell sons Nathaniel and Daniel also received other land; daus. Mary Settle, Sarah Gower, and Anne Hutt; ex: son Daniel; wits: Joshua Lawson, Stephen Wells, Thomas Dickenson. [Headley, Wills of Richmond Co. p14-15]

1712, August 16 - Stephen witnessed a land deed from a Trussell to a Millard in Northumberland County.
1712, October 31 - a will was filed on in Saint Stephen's Parish of Northumberland County, which said:
"I, Stephen Wells, being sick in body, but sound and perfect in my mind and memory, give to each of the children of my daughter, Mary Favor (deceased) one shilling. (Mary had married John Favor, who had been born in France in 1672 and died in Essex County. Mary had been born in Northumberland County in 1685.) I then give my son, Stephen Wells, all my land, property, and orchards whichever situate, or being now belonging to me, for and during his natural life and after his death, I give it to my grandson, Stephen Wells. To my grandson, Stephen Wells, I give a young horse. My son, Stephen Wells, is to be the administrator of my estate.
Witness: Tho Williams, Humph: Thomas, tho Dickinson. Proved by oaths of Williams and Thomas. 12.12. This will presented by Steph: Wells Junr the exor. 21 Jan 1718/19. 6.296.
[Northumberland County Wills and Administration Book, Volume I, 1713/1749]
1712, Oct 31 - Faver, Mary dec'd. Bequests to her children, not individually named in the will of her father Steph: Wells. 31st Oct 1712. 1912. [Northunbria Collectanea, 1645-1720, A-L]

Wells, Stephen (I40242)

7496

Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. Volumes 1–22. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921–1922. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922, Oxford University Press, London, England.

Source (S979)

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STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1904, page 1, column 6

FRANK ADAMS CASWELL, 17 Apr 1848 - 02 Nov 1904

Frank Adams Caswell, our friend and neighbor to whoseremains we sadly come to pay our last tribute of respect, was born at Fremont, Ind., April 17, 1848, and died at his home in Pleasant Lake, Ind., Nov. 2, 1904, aged 56 years, 7 months and 15 days. He enlisted as a private in company K, 176th Ohio Inf., in June 1864 at the age of 17 years, was mustered out June 1865 and was a member of the Masonic lodge, Order of G. A. R. and T. P. A. which was an organization exclusively for traveling men which business he was honorably engaged in for thirty years until his health failed. He came to Pleasant Lake to live in 1896 and was married to Miss Kate Perfect in 1898. There remains to mourn the loss his wife, son Wallace of North Manchester and sister Mrs. C. M. Sheldon of Tustin, California, besides
numerous relatives and friends.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Frank Adams Caswell, 17 Apr 1848 - 02 Nov 1904, married 1st, May M. Caswell, born about 1851. Burial place unknown. This 1st marriage is noted in the 1880 United States Census, District 123, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, Family History Library Film #1254265, NA Film Number T9-0265, Page Number 627D which lists:
Frank A. Caswell, age 31, born in IN., salesman.
May M. Caswell, age 29, born in IN., no occupation.
J. Wallace Caswell, age 10, born in IN., at school.
2nd wife, Kate Perfect, is listed in the 1880 United States Census, Pleasant Lake, Steuben County, Indiana, Family History Library Film #1254312, NA Fllm Number T9-0312, Page Number 295A:
Sarah Perfect, widow, age 47, born in OH.
Kate Perfect, daughter, age 14, born in IN.
"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990," by Audree Seibel Lewis, Vol. 2, page 1434, lists a PERFECT, Sarah L., 1831 - 1905, buried at Pleasant Lake Cemetery, Steuben County, Indiana. There is no listing in the cemetery book for Kate Caswell.

Submitted by: Mona Hilden-Beckwith
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Caswell, Frank Adams (I18217)

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Michelet, Simon Themstrup (I39551)

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Bailiff in several shires (Hadeland 1628-1629, Gudbrandsdal 1629-1636, Buskerud and Hallingdalen 1636-1642). From 1643 until his death mayor of Christiania. He was also one of the largest sawmill owners. Stockfleth built himself a stately apartment building on Queen Street in Christiania, and he also possessed Blindern farm in Aker.

Stockfleth, Hans Eggertsen (I13674)

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Litteraturhistoriker og litteraturformidler. Foreldre: Bokhandler Freydar Dekke Høegh von Krogh Beyer (1864–1933) og Flora Charlotte Müller (1862–1912). Gift 22.3.1919 med Eidis Johannessen (16.1.1893–30.5.1977), datter av kontorsjef Edvard G. Johannessen (1848–1922) og Johanne Martine Bartz (1863–1937). Far til Edvard Beyer (1920–); sønnesønn av Fredrik Beyer (1827–1903).

Harald Beyer er først og fremst kjent som formidler av litteratur og litteraturhistorie. Han var en av våre mest produktive litteraturforskere og -anmeldere i første halvdel av 1900-tallet.

Beyer vokste opp i en bergensk bokhandlerfamilie, med tre generasjoner av bokhandlere på farssiden bak seg. Moren var tyskfødt. Ved Bergen katedralskole, der Beyer tok examen artium 1910, opplevde han vitenskapelig aktive lærere som Wergeland-spesialisten Vilhelm Troye, litteraturforskeren Sigurd Høst og filologen Gerhard Stoltz. Blant sine universitetslærere i Kristiania har Beyer selv fremhevet filosofen Arne Løchen, litteraturhistorikeren Gerhard Gran og norrønfilologen Magnus Olsen. (“Den siste lærte meg ved sine interpretasjonsøvelser hva vitenskapelig metode er.”)

Da Beyer tok språklig-historisk embetseksamen 1917, fantes det ennå bare én universitetsstilling i landet i nordisk litteraturhistorie. Den ble 1920 besatt av den bare fire år eldre Francis Bull. Beyers muligheter til selv å oppnå en universitetsstilling var altså små. Han tilhører den siste generasjonen av norske litteraturforskere som måtte dyrke sin vitenskap ved siden av det daglige skolearbeidet. Beyer ble dr.philos. 1924 på en avhandling om Søren Kierkegaard.

Beyer var lektor i den høyere skolen i 34 år, først i Haugesund (1917–22) og senere ved Bergen katedralskole (1922–51), bare avbrutt av et ettårig engasjement som norsk lektor ved universitetet i Hamburg (1930–31). Først 1951 – det året han fylte 60 – fikk Beyer et professorat i europeisk litteraturhistorie, med særlig plikt til å undervise i norsk og tysk litteratur, ved det nyopprettede universitetet i Bergen.

Under disse vanskelige arbeidsforhold var Beyer en av sin generasjons mest produktive norske litteraturforskere, samtidig som han utfoldet en stor anmeldervirksomhet i Bergens Tidende (ca. 1600 artikler i årene 1919–60). Til tross for at styreverv og adminstrasjon vel ikke lå hans hjerte nærmest, tok han også sin tørn i det bergenske kulturliv som formann for Den Nationale Scenes representantskap, preses for Selskapet til Videnskapenes Fremme og medlem av rådet for L. Meltzers høyskolefond. Men da han ble konfrontert med planene om et Institutt for europeisk litteraturhistorie knyttet til sitt professorat, skal han ha avlevert følgende minneverdige replikk: “Jeg vil ikke være noget institutt.”

I sin hjemby Bergen oppnådde Beyer en enestående posisjon som en fargerik og original kulturpersonlighet. Bergenserne kunne nok av og til smile over alle historiene om hans distraksjon i møte med dagliglivets trivialiteter, men det var en godlynt reaksjon som ikke reduserte den store respekt han ble møtt med fra alle lag av byens befolkning.

Beyer tilhørte en generasjon av litteraturforskere som ikke gjerne talte om teori og metode. Generasjonens selvfølgelige teorifundament var 1800-tallets historisme. I sentrum for oppmerksomheten stod ikke de litterære tekstene selv, men tekstenes historiske og idéhistoriske sammenheng. Først og fremst var Beyer komparatist. Det gjelder både gullmedaljeavhandlingen Henrik Wergeland og Henrich Steffens, doktoravhandlingen Søren Kierkegaard og Norge og det store tobindsverket fra hans senere år, Nietzsche og Norden. Selv oppfattet Beyer dette verket som “tredje ledd” i en trilogi: “Steffens (dvs. romantikken) og Wergeland, Kierkegaard og Norge, og til slutt Nietzsche og Norden.”

Beyer har selv opplyst at planene til Nietzsche og Norden går tilbake til 1930-årene og opplevelsen av en dyptgående europeisk kulturkrise, som ikke minst nazismens fremmarsj i Tyskland vitnet om. Under okkupasjonsårene 1940–45 var Beyer en aktiv deltaker i “holdningskampen” mot nazismen, og hadde et kortere fengselsopphold i 1943. I motstandskampen ble Wergeland en inspirator, noe som resulterte både i hans populærbiografi Henrik Wergeland, basert på forelesninger ved Bergens Museum under krigen, og en tekstutgave av Wergelands dikt, Wergeland for hvermann.

Ved siden av de større arbeidene omfatter Beyers vitenskapelige forfatterskap også et betydelig antall artikler, sentrert om de forfattere som stod ham særlig nær: Holberg, Wergeland, Ibsen, Bjørnson, Kielland, Garborg, Hamsun, Duun og Kinck. Utvalg av hans artikler er samlet i Fra Holberg til Hamsun. Skrevet og talt og i et posthumt utgitt minneskrift til hans 70-årsdag ved hans sønn, professor Edvard Beyer, Norsk og fremmed. Artikler i utvalg.

I forlengelsen av sitt vitenskapelig forfatterskap var Beyer en meget aktiv litteraturformidler, lærebokforfatter og tekstutgiver. Han har både skrevet en tyskspråklig oversiktsfremstilling av norsk litteraturhistorie, Norwegische Literatur, e en mindre Norsk litteraturhistorie til orientering og selvstudium og en større Norsk litteraturhistorie (amerikansk utgave 1956). Norsk litteraturhistorie, som vil vise “hvordan norsk natur, lynne og historie blir gjenspeilt i litteraturen”, var fra 1950-årene til midten av 1990-årene den mest brukte lærebok på sitt område ved norske universiteter og høyskoler. Beyer var medlem av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi fra 1946 og av Selskapet til Vitenskapens Fremme.

Ser vi ut over Beyers livsverk, trer dimensjonene i dette frem. “Bortsett fra Francis Bull kunne neppe noen i hans generasjon gjøre ham rangen stridig som nasjonallitterær pedagog” (Fr. W. Thue). Et annet hovedtrekk er den nære sammenhengen hohos ham mellom livsholdning og litteraturvitenskap. Blant de tre komponentene i den europeiske kulturarv som han nevner i innledningskapitlet til Nietzsche og Norden – “den klassisk humanistiske tradisjon”, “de jødisk-kristne trosverdier” og “deen moderne naturvitenskap med sitt biologiske syn på mennesket” – er det gjennom hele hans forfatterskap tydelig hvor han selv stod. Beyer “så det som sin oppgave å formidle åndsverdier, som nok hadde litterær form, men som i siste instans var av moralsk karakter” (W. Dahl). Verker

Bibliografi i H. Beyer: Norsk og fremmed, 1961 (se nedenfor), s. 165–173

Til belysning av 1814 (sm.m. F. Bull, H, Lund, J. Midgaard og S. Norderberg), 1914
Henrik Wergeland og Henrich Steffens, 1920
Søren Kierkegaard og Norge, dr.avh., 1924
Norwegische Literatur, Breslau 1927
Henrik Ibsens Peer Gynt, Det norske studentersamfunds folkeskrifter nr. 14, 1928
Fra Holberg til Hamsun. Skrevet og talt, 1934
Norsk litteraturhistorie til orientering og selvstudium, 1933 og senere utg. (nyn. utg. Norsk boksoge, 1939)
Henrik Wergeland. Thi Frihed er Himmelens Sag, 1946
Wergeland for hvermann. Lyrikk og prosa, 1947
Norsk litteraturhistorie, 1952 og senere utg.
Nietzsche og Norden, 2 bd., UiB Årbok. Hist.-antikv. rekke 1958 nr. 1 og 1959 nr. 1, Bergen 1958–59
Norsk og fremmed. Artikler i utvalg, minneskrift til syttiårsdagen for hans fødsel 15. november 1961, 1961

Kilder og litteratur

Norsk litteraturvitenskap i det 20. århundre. Festskrift til Francis Bull på 70-årsdagen, 1957, s. 184–194
Stud. 1910, 1960, s. 19
F. Bull: “Minnetale over professor Harald Beyer”, i DNVA Årbok 1961, s. 51–54
W. Dahl: “Harald Beyer”, i Fagprofiler ved Nordisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen 1946–1996, Bergen 1996, s. 9–15
N. Roll-Hansen m.fl.: Universitetet i Bergens historie, bd. 2, Bergen 1996, s. 466, 483–484, 487, 490–491, 531

Beyer, Carl Harald von Krogh (I23915)