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CHAPTER II.
SKETCHES OF PROMINENT FAMILIES IN
SOUTHERN OHIO.
The Barnes Family.
CAPTAIN JOHN BARNES was a native of England. He came over from England with his parents, two brothers, Joseph and Henry, and a sister, Susannah, who afterwards married William Lucas, the Revolutionary soldier. Captain John Barnes' Revolutionary record will be found on page 202 of this work. The Revolutionary war record of his brother-in-law, William Lucas, will be found on page 209. Joseph Barnes became the inventor of steam navigation as will be read elsewhere herein. Henry Barnes is said to have been a Captain in the Revolutionary War and to have located in Tennessee after its close. The home of the Barnes family in Virginia was near Shepherdstown, in Jefferson county.
JOHN BARNES, the Revolutionary soldier, was shot in the leg and it was broken. While he was laid up with this injury, he made moccasins for the soldiers. His wife's name was Lemon. They were married in Virginia. He died in 1812, in Pike county. He purchased land in the vicinity of Waverly. He had six children: James, who moved to Terra Haute, Ind.; Allen, and William, who lived and died south of Waverly; Joseph, who moved to Flemigsburg, Ky.; Ruhama, a daughter, who lived and died in Virginia.
JOHN BARNES, another of his sons, was born in Jefferson county, Va., Oct. 19, 1774. He came to the northwest territory in 1801, and located in the northwest part of Scioto county. (now Pike county) in 1803. He was out in the war of 1812. He represented Scioto county together with Lawrence and Pike in the Legislature from December 2, 1822 to January 28, 1823. From December 7, 1829, to February 23, 1830, and again from December 2, 1833, until March 3, 1834, he represented Pike and Jackson counties in the Legislature. He died November 3, 1834, on Sunday. On the previous Thursday he had been kicked by a horse and he died from the effects of it. In politics, he was a democrat. At the time of his death, he owned 1,600 acres of land free and clear of all encumbrances. In 1832, he was the second largest tax-payer in Pike county, and his taxes were $11.60.
He married Elizabeth Boydston, a daughter of Pressly Boydston. She was born February 11, 1784, and died January 17, 1859. John Barnes's second wife left a large family of children.
(1). Mary, born March 9, 1804; married James B. Turner, January 29, 1825; died July 22, 1828; (2). Thomas, born September 4, 1806;
(3). William, born November 17, 1808;
(4). Samuel, born November 16, 1810, married Nancy Price, May 12, 1833;
(5). Pressly, born August 14, 1815;
(6). Lemon;
(7). Isaac Newton, born February 26, 1819, married Mary Sargeant, June 3, 1847;
(8). John M., born September 24, 1821, married Nancy Sargeant, November 28, 1849;
(9). James E., born July 13, 1824, married Malinda Sefton;
(10). Elizabeth Ann, born August 22, 1830.
His youngest daughter is unmarried and makes her home in Piketon. Pressly Boydston emigrated to the Northwest Territory in 1799. His wife's maiden name was Robinson. She died in Berkeley county, Virginia, prior to his emigration.
WILLIAM BARNES, the son of Captain John Barnes, who emigrated from Virginia to Ohio, married Nancy Ann Talbott. Their children were: William Talbott; Lemuel, deceased; Ruhama, deceased; Mary, deceased; John Russell Turner, died at Vienna, June 17, 1861; Eddy C., deceased; James Q., a resident of Salem, Oregon; Elizabeth Ann, deceased; and Thomas Newton.
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The Bentley Family.
WILLIAM BENTLEY, Sr., settled in Rhode Island, prior to 1679. His wife's name was Sarah and they died in 1720. They had five children, William, Jr., was the eldest. His home was Kingstown, Rhode Island. He was a currier by trade.
WILLIAM BENTLEY, Jr., born in 1682, married first to Mary Elliott, April 21, 1703, married to Bersheba Lewis, August 1, 1734. He had thirteen children, eight by the first and five by the second marriage. He died 1760. His son George was the second child.
GEORGE BENTLEY, born 1724, married Jane Crum, had eight children. Benjamin was the sixth child.
BENJAMIN BENTLEY, the son of George Bentley, was born August 14, 1757. He married Mary Baldwin, a widow and daughter of his brother Sheshbazzar's wife. He died September 23, 1818. His son Aholiab, was his thirteenth and youngest child.
AHOLIAB BENTLEY, born May 22, 1807, near Sharon, Mercer county, Pennsylvania. (For more complete sketch of Aholiab see pag 904 and 905.) LINN BENTLEY, his son, has a sketch on page 905.
The Boydston Family.
PRESSLEY BOYDSTON was born in North Carolina, in 1754. He served in the Revolutionary War. He removed to Jefferson county, Virginia. In 1797, he had three married daughters, Katharine, the wife of Samuel Mustard; Nancy Ann, the wife of William Talbott, and Elizabeth, who married John Barnes. He and his daughters and sons-in-law emigrated to the Northwest Territory and settled in what was then Adams county, in the Northwest Territory. He purchased of the government 1,500 acres of land, a part of which is now owned by his granddaughter, Elizabeth A. Barnes. He built him a home on this land in 1803, and it is still standing and occupied. He planted an orchard and some of the trees are yet living. He died on January 13, 1814, from hardships in the war of 1812, having gone out in the general call. His death occurred at Chillicothe, Ohio, and his remains were interred at his home in April, 1814.
The David Brown Family.
The ancestors of this family emigrated from Scotland in 1646, and landed in New England in April of that year. There were eight families in the party. They located in what is now Massachusetts, and made themselves homes in the wilderness, and prepared themselves the best they could for the coming winter. On the 8th of November following their location, a light snow fell. That night the Indians visited the settlement took them by surprise, and massacred the whole company, except one child. The particular Brown, who was the ancestor of this family, had a wife, two daughters and three sons. One 'of the sons was Daniel, aged eight years, who slipped out of the cabin, in the darkness, and hid between the chimney and the cabin. As soon as the Indians had effected their errand they departed, and at daybreak, Daniel Brown crawled out of his hiding place and went into the cabin to find his father, mother, two sisters and two brothers murdered and scalped. The child made his way through the forests to a settlement, and from him,—Daniel Brown—came this family.
Gen. Jacob Brown who was born in New York in 1775, commanded the American troops at Lundy's Lane in 1814, was a grandson of Daniel Brown and the father of Rev. George Brown, D. D. David Brown, a son of Daniel Brown had three sons, Joseph, Amos and David.
DAVID BROWN was born in New York March 24, 1783. He was married to Sallie Hubbard in Massachusetts, and moved to Vermont in 1813. He went back to New York, from whence he came to Scioto county in 1816, and landed at Portsmouth. The Hubbards came from England, and settled in what is now Massachusetts. The first in the line known is Wm. Hubbard, who was born in England in 1621, and came to America in 1630. He was a minister of the Gospel from 1665 to 1703, in Massachusetts. He was the author of a history of New England. Samuel D. Hubbard was born in Connecticut in 1799, and died in
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1855. He was a member of President Fillmore's cabinet. He was Postmaster General from 1852 to 1853. The children of David and Sarah Brown are as follows: Ransom, born in 1804; Huldy, who married Ralph Sampson; John H., Royal, father of Milton W. Brown; David B., Franklin B., Nathan; William H., deceased; Joseph J. Brown, now living at Flat P. 0.. 0. David, Sr., died at his home in Pike County January 9, 1849.
The Burr Family. (Fairfield Branch.)
The Burr Coat of Arms is described as follows: Ermine on a Mount, Vert. issuing from park palings, with gate proper, a lion rampant or holding in dexter paw a scimetar, all proper, or two lions rampant, argent, quartering among others. The motto is, "By the name of Burr."
1. JEHUE BURR was born in England, in 1600. He had four sons. Nathaniel No. 7 was his third son. This Jehue Burr came to New England in 1630. He settled first in Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1632, he was made a freeman. In 1635, he and his wife were members of the church in Roxbury, and he was overseer of the roads between Boston and Roxbury. March 1, 1635, he had a controversy with his neighbor Dumer about the swine spoiling his corn, but it was adjusted by referees. In 1636, he went west to settle. He and the other men went afoot. The women rode horseback. The party located at Springfield, Massachusetts. He and two others bought land of the Indians June 15, 1636, for ten fathoms of wampum, fourteen coats, fourteen hoes, fourteen hatchets, and fourteen knives. He was one of the first settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts. He was the first collector of taxes at Agawam, which was then in Connecticut. In 1644, he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut. In 1645, and 1646, he represented Fairfield in the General Court. In 1660, he was a grand juror. In 1664 and 1668 he was a commissioner for Fairfield. In 1672 he died. There is no record of his marriage or the maiden name of his wife. His grave is unknown. He left four sons.
2. NATHANIEL BURR son of Jehue was born in 1640, and made a freeman in 1664. He was a Representative, October, 1692, March, 1693, February, 1694, and October, 1695. February 16, 1669, he was granted twelve acres, thirty- two rods of land by the town. January 6, 1673, he purchased four parcels of land and was granted fourteen acres by the town. May, 1682, he received a grant of land in the old Indian field and bought five parcels. He had two wives, first, Sarah, daughter of Andrew Ward. His son, John was his third child and the first of his second wife Ann. He died in March, 1712.
3. JOHN BURR was born May, 1673.
4. COL. JOHN BURR of Fairfield died in 1705. His wife was Deborah.
5. JOHN BURR of Fairfield married Catharine Waheman, October 18, 1722.
6. OZIAS BURR was born May 1, 1739. and married Sarah Nichols, January 8, 1764. He had ten children. His son, Ozias the fifth child and third son was born January 13, 1773. This Ozias, 1st, died September 7, 1836. His wife died September 2, 1829, aged eighty-one years.
7. OZIAS BURR was born January 13, 1773. He was married twice, first to Lou Jennings, second to Elizabeth, daughter of Simon Couch of Redding. Connecticut. Erastus Burr was the fourth child. Ozias died August 15, 1845,
8. REV. ERASTUS BURR was horn November 15, 1805. He was married to Harriet Griswold, of Worthington, Ohio. Their children are noted under his sketch in this work—p. 666.
The Burr Family. (Hartford Branch.)
1. BENJAMIN BURR was the founder of the Hartford Branch. He was an original settler of Hartford in 1635. His name appears in a land division in 1639. He is supposed to have come with Winthropls Fleet in 1630. He was the first of his name in Connecticut. In 1693, he had an allotment of six acres. He drew eighteen acres in East Hartford, 1666. He was thrifty and owned several home lots. He died in Hartford, March 3, 1681. A street in Hartford was named for him. His will is dated, January 2, 1677. His wife was Anna Burr. His mother died August 31, 1683
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2. SAMUEL BURR of Hartford was made a freeman in 1658. He was born in England.
3. JONATHAN BURR, of Haddam, Conn., was born March 21, 1713, and was married to Elizabeth Belden, October 29, 1740.
4. JONATHAN BURR of Ludlow, Mass., was born August 3, 1741. He was married to Priscilla Freeman, born September 4, 1745.
5. TIMOTHY BURR of Paris, Oneida county, New York, was born January 19, 1767. He married Hannah Gorham, and died October 23, 1859.
6. JONATHAN BURR of Middletown, Conn., was born in 1769. He was married to Abigail Hubbard, daughter of Nathaniel and granddaughter of George Hubbard, of Middletown. She was born in 1786. He died January 1, 1735.
7. CHARLES BURR, of Madison, Ohio, was born in 1797. He was married to Polly Bester, of Connecticut.
8. HALSEY C. was born in 1841. He is a Banker in Ironton, Ohio.
The Colegrove Family.
For a knowledge of this family we are indebted to "The History and Genealogy of the Colegrove Family in America," published 1894, by William Colegrove, D. D., L.L. D. The name was derived from a grove on the little river Cole in England between Wiltshire and Berkshire. The original grove was near the present hamlet of Coleshill, in Berkshire. The name originated between 500 and 700 years past. There were Colegroves in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. A Colegrove was aid-de-camp to John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and afterwards the same one was Chief of Police in London. There was a Sir Francis Colegrove. In 1700, William Colegrove, Esq. was proprietor on an estate in Essex, near London, known as Cann Hall. One branch of the family has a Coat of Arms. The shield is surmounted by a crest having a mural Crown with cross arrows. On the shield are two red bars across with two arrowheads above and one below. The motto is, "Fidea Constans." It is said of the family that no one ever knew a Colegrove to be afraid of anything.
I. FRANCIS COLEGROVE came from Swansea, Wales, to Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1683. From him all Colegroves in the United States are descended. He came at the age of sixteen and worked his passage as a cabin boy. He was industrious, persevering and upright and he succeeded. These qualities have remained in the Colegrove family, their best inheritance. He was married twice. He had five sons: Eli, Stephen, Francis, John and William, and two daughters, twins. One son and the two daughters were by the second marriage. His first marriage was at twenty-five years, his second at sixty-two years. He lived to the age of ninety, and died in 1759. He was of a lively disposition and fond of joking.
II. FRANCIS, his third son was the ancestor of the Scioto county, Ohio Colegroves. He was from Rhode Island.
III. He had a son JEREMIAH, who had a son
(IV) WILLIAM, one of thirteen children, who located in Scioto county, and had thirteen children.
V. His son, PELEG, born 1815 had a daughter. (1) Harriet Ellen, married Charles Walden of Sciotoville. Peleg Colegrove also had a son, (2) John Allen Colegrove who has a sketch herein. Peleg's daughter (3) Lavinia married John Duduit, the father of Alfred S. Duduit of the Hibbs' Hardware Company:
William (IV's) son, WILLIAM HARRISON, born February 24, 1813, had a daughter, (1) Laura who married Charles W. Erlich, of Sciotoville. Her daughter married F. L. Sikes, Probate Judge of Scioto county. The wife of William Harrison Colegrove was Abigail Burt, of Sciotoville, daughter of Benjamin Burt, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in the old cemetery at the east end of the Little Scioto Bridge, near Sciotoville.
The Corson Family.
The name is French originally and the first spelling known as Corssen. They were French Huguenots. The first ancestor in the United States was Cornelius Corssen who came over in 1685, and landed on Staten Island. He obtained a grant of 60 acres of land there. He died in. 1693 and his will is on
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record. He had a son Benjamin, who emigrated to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1726. He had other sons, Jacob, Christian, Cornelius and Daniel.
The family became Quakers and Doctor Joseph Corson who lived and died in Portsmouth and whose sons: Edward J. and Frank B. M. are residents of Portsmouth, was reared a Quaker.
What follows is taken from The Corson Family, A History of the Descendants of Benjamin Corson, son of Cornelius Corssen of Staten Island, New York, by Hiram Corson, M. D. of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania."
1. BENJAMIN, the first, was the son of Cornelius, the French emigrant. His wife's name was Nelly, family name lost. Benjamin, the second, born in 1704, was their child.
2. BENJAMIN, the second, was born in 1704, on Staten Island, and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 1726. He married Maria Suydam in 1741 and they had eight children, of whom Benjamin the third, the eldest, was born March 6, 1743 and married Sarah Dungan.
3. BENJAMIN, the third, born March 6,1.743, married Sarah Dungan in 1761. They had eleven children, of whom Joseph born March 15, 1764 was the second.
4. JOSEPH CORSON was born March 15, 1764. In 1786 he married Hannah Dickinson and had eleven children, of whom Alan Wright born February 2, 1788, and married Mary Egbert, was the eldest. He died April 4, 1834. His wife died December 17; 1810.
5. ALAN WRIGHT CORSON was born February 21, 1788, married Mary Egbert, November 24, 1811 and had seven children, of whom Joseph was the sixth, born January 20, 1821. Alan Wright Corson died June 27, 1882 at the age of ninety-four years, four months and six days.
6. JOSEPH CORSON, M. D., was born January 20, 1821. He married Martha H. Cutler June 29, 1843. He died July 7, 1866. His children were: (1) Edward Jenner born January 13, 1845, grocer in Portsmouth, 0. (2) Florence born August 16, 1847. (3) Frank B. M. born February 6, 1855, salesman and stockholder in the Tracy Shoe Co., Portsmouth, 0.
The Davidson Family. (Of South Point and Burlington.)
1. WILLIAM DAVIDSON, the First, came to the Colonies before the Revolutionary War, and was killed by Indians.
2. His son, WILLIAM DAVIDSON, the Second, came to the wilds of the North-west Territory from Red Stone near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, by keel-boat down the Monongahela and Ohio rivers in 1799. When he came to Ohio, he was already married to his second wife, Barbara McDole, born in Wales. William was born in 1847, presumably in Ireland, though of Scotch origin. He landed first where Catlettsburg, Kentucky, now stands, but soon crossed the Ohio river and took up land at a point afterward named South Point. He died in 1811 and is buried with his wife, Barbara, at South Point, Ohio, where the inscriptions on their tombstones can yet be easily read. The nine children of the above settled in and around South Point with the exception of the oldest, named Thomas.
3. WILLIAM W., the sixth child of William the Second and Barbara, was for many years Pastor of the Baptist church at South Point and was the father by his first wife, Sarah Short, of Commodore William Funston Davidson and Captain Peyton S. Davidson, pioneer river men on the upper Mississippi and instrumental in building up St. Paul and developing the state of Minnesota. Both these sons amassed fortunes. William W. m. for his second wife, Nancy Lawson Davidson and for his third wife, Levinia Yingling and left thirteen children by his three wives. He was born in Fayette county, Pa.. November 6, 1798, just before his father emigrated to Ohio and he died at South Point, October 5, 1883.
The only other son of William the Second, was JOSEPH, born at South Point, December 26, 1806, and died August 16, 1879. He married Jane Bryson and had thirteen children. Most of the living ones still reside in or near South Point.
The children of William, the Second, by his first wife, Rosanna Hutchinson, were all born in Pennsylvania, near Brownsville. They were Comfort,
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m. McCourtney; John, m. Margaret Armstrong; Lewis, m. Mary Davidson (his cousin); Mary, m. Mark Williams; David, m. Mary Williams.
3. Of these, John and his wife, Margaret Armstrong, came from Red Stone, near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1801, in a keel-boat, just as his father, William the Second, had come in 1799. He settled where Burlington now stands, the extreme southern point of Ohio and took up lands by patent, signed by Presidents Jefferson and Madison. Four of the children of John and Margaret were born in Pennsylvania: (1) Sarah, m. Thomas Kerr; (2) Mary, m. Shryrock; (3) William, m. Hannah Pancake; (4) James, m. Mary Frances Combs. The last three were born in Burlington, (5) John, who married Ruth Bryson; (6) Joseph, m. Maria Thomas'; (7) Jeremiah, m. Eliza Corum. When Lawrence county was formed in 1817, John Davidson, father of the above named children, and William Burton gave the land for the court house square, and Burlington was the county seat of Lawrence county from that time till 1853.
4. James Davidson, son of John, and Margaret Armstrong, was about 'three months old when his father came to Ohio, having been born March 4, 1801, at Red Stone, near Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He died at Burlington, in Lawrence county, Ohio, December 27, 1894. He lived and died upon the same land taken up by his father and at the time of his death was the oldest pioneer in the county. It is believed that he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church when it was first organized in Burlington and it is certain that he was a member in 1829, when he married Mary Frances Combs, who died March 11, 1888. He was of the Scotch Covenanter type, softened by the tenderness of Methodism. His word was as good as his bond. He was a whig, and later a republican. When he was twenty-seven years old, he was commissioned Lieutenant of the First Company in the Second Regiment, Second Brigade and Second Division of the Militia of the State of Ohio, by Governor Allen Trimble, January 19, 1828, to rank as such from October 6, 1827. By the income from his farm and a carding-machine, which he operated for over fifty years, he educated all of his children in the public schools, the home academy which he and a few others established and sustained, and in colleges. Nine children were born to James and Mary Frances Combs. The first and second died in infancy.
(1) Major Jeremiah, (see sketch).
(2) John X., born September 4, 1836, died August 22, 1892, at R. Paul, Minn. He was educated in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and married Susan Lamb. He taught the Ironton High School for many years; later, owned and edited the Ironton Register and was Postmaster. He removed to St. Paul, Minn. at the close of the Civil War and became one of the owners and editors of The Pioneer, now the Pioneer Press, a leading republican paper of the state. He served one or two terms in the State Legislature of Minnesota.
(3) Col. James Hamilton, born January 25, 1839i married Abbey Lamb, in June, 1861. He was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and enlisted in 1861 as private in Company B., 14th Kentucky Infantry, and soon became First Lieutenant because of his knowledge of military drill. He led his Company in the engagement of Middle Creek where he captured a Belgian rifle of a rebel. He was promoted to Captain at Cumberland Gap, in 1862. He was commissioned Major of the Forty-ninth Kentucky 1nfantry, December, 1864. He was mustered out of the service, January 16, 1866, at New Orleans. In 1867, he was admitted to the bar and practiced for many years in ember 23, 1863. He was commissioned Colonel of the 122nd United States Colored Troops, December, 1864. He was mustered out of the service, January 16, 1866, at New Orleans. In 1867, he was admitted to the bar and practiced for many years in St. Paul, Minn., and later in Chicago where he now resides. He is a republican, a member of the Loyal Legion and a Mason and while he has never held public office, he has campaigned in many gubernatorial and presidential elections and is quite an orator.
(4) Margaret Susanna, the only daughter of James Davidson and Mary Frances Combs, was educated first at the Western College, Oxford, Ohio. Later she received the degree of A. M. pro honora, from the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and the degree of Ph. D. on examination from the Syra-
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cuse University, Syracuse, New York. She taught in the Village school at Burlington and in the 1ronton High School. In 1868, she married Rev. J. D. Fry. The years 1873 and 1874 she spent in Europe. From 1876 to 1890, she was Professor of Belles Lettres in the 1llinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois. In 1890 and 1892 she had charge of the English department of the University of Minnesota. In 1893, she was one of the Judges in the Liberal Art Department of the Chicago World's Fair. She is the author of the book, "A Paradise Valley Girl" and of many newspaper and magazine articles. At present she is the Corresponding Secretary of the National W. C. T. U.
(5) Benjamin Armstrong died young.
(6) Joseph McClain was for many years stationer and book-seller in Ironton. He died October 24, 1899, at Red Wing, Minnesota. He served in the Union Army the last year of the war.
(7) Mighill Dustin, the youngest of James Davidson's children, is a farmer and still lives in Burlington, as do some other descendants of the children of John Davidson, who settled there in 1801.
It will thus be s en that the children and grand-children of William, the Second, of 1799 had much to do with the development of the southern part of Lawrence county.
The Dewey Family.
The ancestor of this family in this county was (1) THOMAS DEWEY who settled in Westfield, Connecticut, about 1639. The line of descent from him is as follows.
2. ISRAEL DEWEY, his third son, baptized September 25, 1645.
3. ISRAEL DEWEY, Jr. resided at Stonington, Connecticut.
4. JABEZ DEWEY, born at Stonington, Connecticut.
5. JOSEPH DEWEY, who resided at Stonington, Connecticut.
6. 1SRAEL DEWEY, born at Stonington, Conn., married Abigail Ingraham, November 1789. To them were born: (1) A son, July 13, 1790, and died the same day. (2) Joseph, b. July 4, 1791. (3) Erastus Hyde, b. April 18, 1796. (4) Jesse George, b. June 4, 1799. (5) Abigail, b. October 13, 1801. (6) Warren, b. February 20, 1805, at Sharon, Conn. (7) David, b. at Goben, Conn., February 20, 1808. Of this family Joseph, Erastus Hyde, and Jesse George located at Sinking Springs, in Highland county, Ohio, coming from Conn.
7. JOSEPH DEWEY, born July 4, 1791, married Rosanna P. Tener, May 13, 1809. She was born near Baltimore, Maryland, August 7, 1794. The family of Teners settled near Lobust Grove, in Adams county, Ohio, in 1800. Joseph Dewey had the following children: (1) Abigail, b. February 13, 1820. (2) Katharine A., b. February 13, 1823. (3) Caroline M., b. December 16, 1824. (4) Rosanna P., b. December 31, 1826. (5) Israel J., b. June 15, 1829. (6) Joseph W., b. April 15, 1831. (7) Elizabeth M., b. March 22, 1833. (8) Eliza, b. May 6, 1838. Joseph Dewey, No. 7 died at Harrisonville, Scioto county, Ohio, June 3. 1839. His wife died at the same place, January 17, 1877.
8. CATHARINE A., No. 2 above, married Joseph Harvey Stockham. For her children, see under Stockham Family herein.
The Feurt Family.
The earliest ancestor of the Feurt family, of which we have any knowledge, were FRANCIS, the first, and Mary de Feurt, who emigrated from France settling near Princeton. New Jersey. Of their family of thirteen children, we have the lineal descendants of two sons, (1) Francis and (2) Joseph, who, together with their brother (3) Gabriel, Senior, came to Scioto county, Ohio, in 1796, residing for a time, probably a year, at Alexandria. They remained long enough to give their name, Feurt's Run, to the stream now called Carey's Run; but their crops being destroyed by floods, they were forced to seek higher land.
I. FRANCIS FEURT, second, b. 1741, bought land in the French Grant in 1798 from one of the original French settlers to whom the government had granted land in 1795. This land is still in the possession of some of the French Grant branch of the Feurt family, Francis Feurt, the second, was twice married.
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1. PETER, his son by the tirst marriage, was born in 1767, and died in 1846. His family consisted of (1) Mrs. Nancy Boynton, wife of William Boynton of Haverhill, Ohio; (2) Mrs. Martha Coyle, wife of John Coyle; (3) Mrs. Massie Coyle, wife of Jesse Coyle of Wheelersburg; (4) Mrs. Elizabeth McNeal; (5) Denton and (6) Henry all now deceased.
HENRY FEURT (6 above) (1815-1873) married Miss Marty Winkler, born in 1819, and who lives in Haverhill. To them were born eleven children, five of whom died in childhood and (6) Mrs. Ruby M. Yingling of Haverhill who died April 17, 1890, aged 42 years. Five are still living: (7) Henry Clinton and (8) Fred F. of Franklin Furnace; (9) Peter, of Lamar, Missouri; (10) Mrs. Asa F. Boynton of Haverhill and (11) Mrs. George M. Osborn of Portsmouth, Ohio.
2. DANIEL FEURT (1801-1858) was a son of Francis Feurt, (I) by the second marriage, and the father of (1) Daniel H. Feurt of Wheelersburg; (2) Mrs. Dr. C. G. Gray of Ironton, Ohio; (3) Mrs. Dr. Isaac Gray, deceased; (4) James and (5) Dr. William H. Feurt, Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
II. GABRIEL FEURT, Senior, (1749-1824) married Mercy Davison, May 30, 1773. After coming to Ohio, they resided in Chillicothe, Ohio; but for several years before their deaths had made their homes with Gabriel Feurt, Junior, their nephew. They left no family.
III. JOSEPH FEURT, (1751-1806) married Mary Davison (1756-1840) the daughter of George Davison, who had married Mary Warren on March 1, 1750. Joseph Feurt with his wife and eight children came to Scioto county, Ohio, from New Jersey, in 1796. Tradition says he had been a Sergeant in the war of the Revolution. About a year after his arrival at Alexandria, he removed his family to Pond creek, buying land on what was thereafter called "Feurt's Flats" now "Pine Flats" about Lombardville. Here his wife made her home for many years after the death of her husband in 1806, but spent the last years of her life in the home of her son, Gabriel, of Chillicothe Pike, living to the advanced age of 84 years. Their family consisted of (1) Benjamin F. born 1778; (2) Gabriel, (1779-1850); (3) Mrs. Mary Reeves, (1782-1819); (4) George, (1784- 1818); (5) Mrs. Susana Noel, wife of Colonel Peter Noel. (They were the parents of the late Joseph F. and Abraham Noel, of Joliet, Ill). (6) Mrs. Mercy Noel, (1789-1830) wife of Philip Noel, of Pond creek; (7) Bartholomew (17921.806) and (8) Thomas (1794-1830).
1. BENJAMIN F. FEURT, eldest son of Joseph Feurt, (III) removed in an early day to Lacon, Illinois. His family consisted of six children: (1) Mrs. Levisy Chandler, (2) Mrs. Mary Gapen, (3) Washington Dever Fort (as they spell the name); (4) Mrs. Nancy Dever; and (5) Colonel Greenbury L. Fort, congressman from Illinois, for several years, all late, of Lacon, Ill.
2. Some time in the 40's the widow and children of THOMAS FEURT; who died in 1830, moved to Jamieson, Missouri. The children were (1) Joseph; (2) John; (3) Mrs. Mary Brown, late of Muscatine, Iowa; (4) Thomas; (5) Mrs. Catharine Ford and (6) Gabriel Feurt now living, aged 75 years, in Jamieson, Missouri, the sole representative of his generation in the Feurt family.
3. GABRIEL FEURT, second son of Joseph and Mary Feurt, was born in New Jersey, December 9, 1779, and came to Scioto county with his parents in 1796. He spent some years with his uncle Gabriel in Chillicothe, where he obtained a better education than was usual for the time. He served in the War of 1812. On February 20, 1812, he was married to Lydia Hitchcock, daughter of Caleb Hitchcock, who came at an early age from Connecticut and settled at the mouth of Munn's Run, owning what is now known as New Boston and the Peebles farm. Gabriel Feurt and his brother-in-law. Jacob Noel. entered a large tract of land on the Scioto river about five miles north of Portsmouth. For this and other lands, he was able to pay by following the vocations of surveyor, cooper, and farmer, and by practicing the rigid economy incident to the times; so that, years before his death on September 9, 1850, he owned one of the finest farms in the Scioto valley as the result alone of his labor and that of his wife, a woman of unusually strong character. He served for many years as Justice of the Peace and was most highly respected for his integrity and good judgment. Soon after her husband's death, Mrs. Lydia Feurt moved from the old homestead to Portsmouth, where she died January 10, 1864, aged
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71. To Gabriel and Lydia Feurt were born eleven children, all of whom are deceased: (1) Mrs. Isabella Cutler (1813-1838); (2) Bartholomew (1814-1815); (3) John D. (1816-1898); (4) James H. (1818-1894); (5) Mrs. Mary D. Brown (1820-1838); (6) William M. (1822-1841); (7) Gabriel, (1825-1827); (8) Syrene T. (1827-1832); (9) Mrs. Lavinia H. Flint (1829-1876); (10) Benjamin F. (18351852) drowned at Chillicothe; (11) Thomas J. 1838-).
MRS. LAVINIA H. FLINT, (9) above, daughter of Gabriel and Lydia Feurt, was among the tirst of Portsmouth women to receive a college education. She was possessed of an unusually brilliant mind. She was married in 1854, to John F. Flint, an attorney-at-law, and soon after moved to Texas, where they resided permanently. Her death occurred February 6, 1876, in Waco, Texas. Her children were: Miss Mary 13:, Miss Hallie, Frazier, Monterey, Mexico and John Feurt Flint, late of Waco, Texas.
JAMES HITCHCOCK FEURT, (4) above, the third son of Gabrielsi and Lydia Hitchcock Feurt, was born on the old homestead on the Chillicothe Pike, March 4, 1818. He received but a country school education; but this was greatly augmented by his having an innate thirst for knowledge which led him to become a great reader of history, science and other branches of study. He followed the vocation of a farmer until 1862, when he sold his portion of the old Feurt farm and came to Portsmouth for better educational advantages for his children. He was twice married. In 1855, he was married to Mrs. Nancy Cockrell Johnson, daughter of Jesse and Anna Marsh Cockrell, early settlers of Scioto county, near Lucasville, Ohio. To James H. Feurt and wife were born three children: (1) Mrs. Mary E. Royse, wife of B. Frank Royse, Portsmouth, Ohio; (2) Mrs. Sarah M. Black, wife of Charles Black, Houston, Texas; and (3) a son who died in infancy. Mrs. Nancy Feurt died March 11, 1864, aged 43 years, and James H. Feurt died September 26, 1894, in Portsmouth.
(This sketch of the Feurt family prepared by Mrs. Frank Royse, wife of B. F. Royse, covers a period of nearly 200 years (1707-1902) taken from two family bibles in her possession, one being 150 and the other 101 years old.)
The Forsythe Family.
ABRAHAM FORSYTHE, Sr. settled two miles south of old Steam furnace, in Adams county. He came from Bath county, Kentucky, about 1815 or 1816, after the furnace was built. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He was the second or third generation from Scotland. Abraham Forsythe, Sr., located one hundred acres and built a home. He bought twenty-five acres of a mill tract. He lived and died on that place, and his wife also died there. They are buried on the old homestead in Adams county and their graves are marked. The following are his children: (1) Samuel. (2) John, (3) Abraham, (4) Jacob; (5) Nancy, married Duncan McFarland, (6) Sally, married Joseph Thompson, and (7) James Forsythe, of Empire furnace.
1. The children of JACOB, (2 above) are: Ann, married Robert Brownlee, and is deceased. Her husband died in the army; Easter, died young; Jane, married Robert Brownlee, and is deceased. Abraham, residing at Rarden; John, residing at Fruit Hurst, Alabama, and William lives near Peebles. Jacob Forsythe is buried at the Baptist Church Brush Creek Cemetery, Meigs township. Jacob Forsythe's farm is the home place. He was born in 1802, in Kentucky, and died in 1874. His wife was Rebecca Chapman, daughter of John Chapman. She was born in 1803, and died in 1886. She is buried in a cemetery in the corner of the farm. Jacob Forsythe was a furnaceman, until he married, and then he became a farmer.
2. The descendants of ABRAHAM (3 above), are: Sarah, married a McCollough, deceased; Margaret, never married, deceased; Elizabeth, married John Campbell, and lives in Vanceburg, Kentucky; James, resides at Rome; John, is now in Iowa, formerly Vanceburg; Polk, lives on the old home place above Rome; Thomas died in infancy; and Abraham, died in Vanceburg a few years ago, and left a family.
3. SAMUEL (1 above), son of Abraham Forsythe, Senior, volunteered in the War of 1812. The British took him prisoner with his brother John, and turned them over to the Indians, who tomahawked Samuel and killed him, and took his scalp. They burned John at the stake.
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4. Joseph Thompson, who married SALLY FORSYTHE, daughter of the first Abraham Forsythe, was a prisoner at the same time. He saw Samuel killed with a tomahawk, and John burned at the stake, then he escaped and got home. He lived to be an old man. 5. Jacob Thompson was married to SARAH FORSYTHE before he went into the war. He went in on account of his brother-in-law, and saw them both murdered by the Indians.
The Gould Family.
1. SAMUEL GOULD was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, in 1667, and died in 1712, aged forty-five years.
2. SAMUEL GOULD, a son, was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, in 1696, and died in 1741, aged forty-five years. His wife, Mary Gould, was born in 1761, and died in 1830, aged seventy years.
3. CAPTAIN SAMUEL GOULD, a son, was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, in 1725, and died in 1770, aged forty-five years. His wife was Elizabeth Marble Gould, born in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1723, and died on November 26, 1806. aged eighty-three years.
4. DEACON SAMUEL GOULD, a son, was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, January 8, 1754, and died March 7, 1822, aged sixty-eight years. His wife was Lydia Barron Gould, born in 1761 in Dracut, Mass., and died April, 1786, aged twenty-five years. His second wife, Polly Swan, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 29, 1752, and died August 5, 1824, aged seventy-two years.
5. SAMUEL GOULD, Esq., was born June 5, 1783, at Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, and died August 4, 1864, aged eighty years. His wife, Hannah Young, was born in 1780, and died in 1846, a daughter of Jesse Young, who was born in 1751, and died in 1804. Jesse Young's wife, Ruby Richardson, was born in 1756, and died in 1821. This Jesse Young was a soldier of the Revolution. He was a grandson of Major John Young, a distinguished officer of the French and Indian war, and a descendant of Sir John Young of Dorchester, England, who was one of the five men, who in 1628, purchased the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
6. ORIN BARRON GOULD, the son of Samuel and Hannah (Young) Gould, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, November 20, 1818. In 1859, he was married to Lavinia Seeley, widow of Henry S. Willard. Their children were Orin B., who has a sketch herein, and Winnie Gould McBride. He died at Franklin Furnace, March 20, 1890. He has a separate sketch herein.
7. ORIN BARRON GOULD, the son of Orin B. Gould, Sr., and Lavinia Seeley, his wife, was born at Franklin Furnace, Ohio, January 30, 1863. He has a separate sketch herein.
The Grosvenor Family.
The family name of the Duke of Westminster, the richest peer of England, is Grosvenor. The name is of Norman origin and means "Great Hunter." Some of the early Grosvenors occupied the office of Chief Hunter for the King, hence the name.
The facts herein are taken from "A Brief History of the Allen, Putnam, Hall, Grosvenor and other families. Edited by A. L. Allen and published at Poughkeepsie, New York, January 10, 1895.
1. JOHN GROSVENOR, with Esther, his wife, emigrated from Cheshire, England, in 1680, and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He obtained a grant of lands in Windham county, Connecticut, but never removed there. He died September 27, 1691, in his forty-ninth year. He had six children of whom Ebenezer was the sixth child born.
2. EBENEZER GROSVENOR, son of John Grosvenor, the emigrant, had seven children. His son John, was born May 22, 1711, died in 1808. He settled at Pomfret, Connecticut.
3. JOHN GROSVENOR, son of Ebenezer, married Hannah Dresser, and by her had four sons. His fourth son was Thomas Grosvenor, born September 20, 1744.
4. COLONEL THOMAS GROSVENOR born September 20, 1744, son of John, born May 22, 1711; graduated at Yale College in 1765, and soon after be-
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came a lawyer at Pomfret. He was Second Lieutenant, First Company, Third Regiment, Connecticut minute men, whose Colonel was Israel Putnam, afterwards General. On news of the battle of Lexington, his regiment marched to Cambridge. Mass. He was in the battle of Bunker Hill, and wounded in the right hand. He saw nine British soldiers fall by his rifle. In Trumbull’s picture of the battle, his is the figure in the right fore-ground, accompanied by a negro servant. He was promoted to a Captaincy and served at the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, in the retreat from New York and through the Jerseys. He took part at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. February 6, 1777, he was commissioned Major of the Second Connecticut Regiment and took part in the operations of Washington's army preceding Valley Forge.
On March 13. 1778, he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of Durkeels Regiment and served as such at the battle of Monmouth, June 19, 1778. He commanded the First Connecticut regiment to January 1, 1783, when he retired. He married Ann Munford, and had five children. His son Peter, was born January 25, 1794. Colonel Thomas Grosvenor' was a member of the Governor's Council in Connecticut for twenty years. He was Judge of the Probate Court of Windham county, and Chief Justice of its Court of Common Pleas. He died January 11, 1825, in his eighty-first year.
5. PETER GROSVENOR born January 5, 1794 son of Col. Thomas Grosvenor. married Ann Chase. and had four sons. The second was Charles H.. born September 20. 1833. His father removed to Athens county, Ohio, in 1838. He was in the War of 1812. and a Major in the militia.
6. GENERAL CHARLES H. GROSVENOR, born September 20, 1833, the has a separate sketch herein) married Samantha Stewart, December 1, 1858. She died April 2, 1866. leaving a daughter, Mrs. Constance McKee, of Athens, Ohio. General Grosvenor was married May 21, 1867. to Louise H. Currier. and has had two daughters of this marriage: Louise E.. now the wife of Phelps Leet, of Portsmouth, and Grace, wife of Dr. Cassius M. Shepherd, of Columbus,- Ohio.
The Hurd Family.
1. THE HON. JOHN HURD. was Recorder of Deeds for Grafton county, New Hampshire. 1776. At the same time he was a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. He appears to have been a Colonel in the Militia previous to the Revolution. In a letter written by him on September 30, 1777, N. H. State papers Vol. 8, page 700, he states, "1 am extremely chagrined that my infirm limbs will not permit me to share in the toils and dangers of the field with my countrymen. I have spared two of my family and sent them with horses and provisions for near a month: one of them, my son. Jacob, though hardly of age sufficient, but a well grown lad of good heart and disposition to supply his fatherls place." This same Col. John Hurd war one of the Committee of Safety. three in number, who took charge of all scouting parties in July. 1776.
2. JACOB HURD was in Captain Joshua Hayward's Company, Col. Jonathan Chasels Regiment, Revolutionary War in September, 1777. He was born October 11, 1761, died' April 23, 1812. He married Hannah Brown, born January 11, 1766. died March 2. 1837. She was the daughter of Timothy Barron. and had thirteen children, as follows: (1) Betsey, born December 18, 1783, married Eben Ricker. (2) Jacob. born August 24, 1785, married Cynthia. (3) John, born August 29, 1787, married Mary Young. (4) Polly, born July 23, 1789, married Charlton Kimball. (5) Nathaniel born April 19, 1791, married Eliza Montgomery. (6) Russell, born June 9, 1795, lived in Pittsburg. Pa. (7) Timothy, born November 22, 1797, married Eliza Patridge. (8) Nancy, born March 9, 1800, died August 9, 1800. (9) Jonathan, born November 24, 1803, married Theresa Rives Vancrock in Wheelersburg. 0., died (10) Rebecca, born August 16, 1806, married a Ferguson. (11) Everett. born March 31, 1809, married Hannah Ring. (12) Sally and (13) Moore Russell died very young.
3. JOHN HURD, (No. 3 above) m. Mary Young, sister of Rev. Dan Young. Their children were: (1) Charlotte, b. Sept. 9, 1874, m. Joseph Mills Glidden Smith. (2) Jacob, b. Dec. 25. 1815, m. Elizabeth Clough. (3) Jesse, b. July 1, 1818, m. Catharine Rogers. (4) Mary, h. June 25, 1824, m. Leander
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Comstock. (5) Josephine, b. Feb. 13, 1826, m. Lewis Tomlinson, Dan Glidden and Cyrus Ellison, in succession.
4. CHARLOTTE HURD, m. Joseph Mills Glidden Smith. Their children were: (1) Joseph Warren, m. Matilda Dodge and Phoebe Hannah. (2) Jacob Hurd, m. Adelaide Hall. (3) Mary Elizabeth, m. James W. Bannon. (4) Josephine Hurd, m. James Orin Murtin.
Timothy Barron, the father of Hannah Barron, the wife of Jacob Hurd, No. 2 above, deserves a more than passing mention. He was born in 1739, in Massachusetts. He married Olive Moore, the widow of Col. Russell, in 1759. She was born in 1730. He died Nov. 7, 1797, aged fifty-eight. She died Oct. 11, 1807, aged seventy-seven, at Bath, N. H. Timothy was an aide to Gen. Russell. in the French and Indian War, in 1757. While a boy, his parents moved to New Hampshire. His father was Timothy Barron, also, who commanded a Company of N. H. Militia at the battle of Bennington, July 16, 1777. His son. Jonathan. was with him and conducted himself with great bravery, although a lad of only fifteen years. This is on the tombstone of Capt. Timothy Barron, Jr. at Bath. N. H. "This stone is placed here by Timothy Barron, of Bath, in memory of his grandsire Capt. Timothy Barron who died Nov. 7, 1797 in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He was one of the first settlers of this town, and the tirst person interred in this burying ground. He was seized and possessed of the land he was buried on and there is never to be any conveyance from him or his heirs."
JESSE YOUNG HURD, (No. 3 above) born near Lisbon, N. H.. in 1818, came to Ohio with his father's family in 1820. He resided at the different furnaces in Scioto county. He married a Miss Rogers of Bloom Furnace. His eldest child was James Murfin Hurd, born August 31, 1843, at Bloom Furnace. He was married to Mary Frances Edmunds, Dec. 8. 1877, at Rahway, N. J. He died July 9, 1891, at Jersey City. N. J. His wife was born March 22, 1852, and died at the New Jersey State Hospital, Mont Plains, N. J., July 29, 1893, of hemmorrhage.
Their children were Arthur Lontrel, born March 18, 1880. He attended school at Jersey City, removed to Milwaukee in 1892, and attended school at .Jersey City, removed to Milwaukee in 1892. and attended schools there and at the Military Academy at Fairibault, Minn. He clerked five years in Milwaukee for the T. G. Chapman Co. and worked for the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul R. R. and the Wisconsin Building & Loan Association. In 1899, he went to Chicago and was employed there till April, 1900, when he shipped in the Navy for four years. He is now on the steamship Yorktown and when last heard from was at Yokohama. Japan.
James Murfin Hurd's second son was Victor, porn Nov. 5, 1882. He attended the public schools in Jersey City. He moved to Milwaukee in 1892 and tinished school there. He is traveling for C. M. Paine of Milwaukee, Wis.
Irving Hurd, the third son of James Murtin Hurd, was born June 18, 1884. He attended school in Jersey City. N. J.. till 1892, and then at Milwaukee, Wis. He is stenographer for the H. W. Johnssi Manville Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
Another son, Lon R. Hurd, married Fannie Simpson, of Milwaukee, Wis. They had four children. of whom Chester and Edward are deceased. Dorothy and Rodger reside at West Superior, Wis.
Capt. Hurd had three other children, but they are all deceased. In 1848 he made Portsmouth his home and became a master on Steamboats. He followed the river, usually the Mississippi. He died in Portsmouth, in October, 1867, having contracted the yellow fever while on a trip there to recover the remains of his son, Arthur. who had died at Millikin's Bend, Miss., of the same disease.
The King Family.
I. JOHN KING came from County Kent, England, soon after the year 1700, to America, and settled at Boston.
2. His son RICHARD was a Captain under Governor Shirley, in the spring of 1745, in the expedition against Cape Breton. Richard went to Louisburg and was present at the capture of that fortress and the French army there. Richard King settled in Scarboro, Maine, then a province of Massachusetts, and married Isabella Bragdon, of York, Maine.
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3. Their oldest child was RUFUS KING, who was born at Scarboro, Maine, March 4. 1755. He attended school at Bytield Academy, Newburyport, Massachusetts. at the age of twelve. At eighteen he entered Harvard College. in August, 1773. He graduated in 1777, and went to Newburyport to study law under Theophilus Parsons. In 1778. he became Aide-de-Camp, with rank of Major, to General Glover, in General Sullivan's expedition to retake Rhode Island from the British. His service was short and in September, 1778, he was discharged with the thanks of General Sullivan, the Commander-in-Chief, the expedition being over and the volunteer part of the army, to which Major, King belonged, being disbanded. This brief service was the only military connection of Rufus King with the Revolution. He served his country continuously in other occupations, and died in New York, April 29. 1827.
4. EDWARD KING, the fourth son of Rufus and Mary Alsop King was born in New York. March 13, 1795. He was educated in that city and read law for two years at Mr. Reeves' Law School at Litchfield, Connecticut. He wished to practice in one of the western states, and his father thought it wise that he should pass the last years study in the state in which he proposed to live (Ohio) and so familiarrze himself with the modes of practice and become acquainted with the members of the Bar. In May, 1815, Rufus King wrote to Gov. Thomas Worthington, at Chillicothe. asking him to assist in arranging for Edward Kingls studies and residence in that city and to present him to those who could help him in his profession and to introduce him to social intercourse with their families. This, Governor Worthington promptly agreed to do. Edward left New York for Ohio in October, 1815, and settled at Chillicothe. See his sketch p. '283.
The Lawson Family.
1. The first one of whom we have any account was THOMAS LAWSON, a young man, born and reared in England. He had an excellent education and was of a good family. He accepted the position as steward for an Irish gentleman named Farley and went to Ireland to fulfill the duties of the position. Mr. Farley had a handsome and attractive daughter. Hannah and young Thomas Lawson discovered the fact and fell in love with her. She appeared to reciprocate. The parent Farley discovered the situation and at once assumed the role of an indignant father. Young Thomas Lawson eloped with the girl, married her and took ship to America. He was a fine Latin scholar and opened a Latin school in Philadelphia and taught there. He afterward went to York, Pennsylvania and seems to have made money there. He had a son Thomas, who became the ancestor of all the Portsmouth Lawsons and of the Greenup county, Kentucky Lawsons. Tradition has it that the 1rish gentleman disinherited his daughter for her conduct in eloping with Thomas Lawson and left what he intended for her to a bachelor brother. This brother decided to give his property to his neice, but could not find her, and for that reason devised the property elsewhere.
2. THOMAS, the son of the Emigrant Thomas was born in 1718 and died October 20, 1795, aged seventy-seven years. He is buried at Alaska in Mineral county. West Virginia. •He was brought up at York Pennsylvania. He bought large quantities of land in Hampshire county, Virginia and sent his sons there to locate on it. The second Thomas Lawson was in the Revolutionary War and his record will be found under the title "Revolutionary Soldiers." The following are the children of the second Thomas Lawson, Revolutionary Soldier: (1) William, b. December, 1761. (2) Jacob, b. November, 1763. (3) Catharine. (4) Mary, b. December 21, 1766; m. a Johnson in W. Va. (5) Jane, b. March 31, 1767; m. a Johnson of Va. also. (6) Anna, b. April 14, 1769; m. Samuel Walker of Ky. (7) James, b. March 13, 1770. (8) Elizabeth, b. February 21. 1771; m. a Conner in W. Va. (9) Sarah b. April 26, 1773, m. a Williams in W. Va. (10) Hannah, b. August 19, 1775; m. a McQuillin, in W. Va. (11) Margaret b. May 7, 1777; m. a Burton, of Ky. (12) Thomas, b. April 25, 1779; m. Barbara Earsom. (13) John, b. May 7, 1781. (14) Fannie or Frances, m. a Blue, of W. Va.
3. JOHN married Hannah Blue in Hampshire county, in 1800, and had two children. A daughter Hannah married Moses Mackoy of Greenup county,
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Kentucky. The other child died in infancy. The first wife died soon after the birth of her second child and he married Catharine Taylor in Hampshire county, Virginia, in 1806. The children of John Lawson’s second marriage were: (1) Elizabeth, b. January 20, 1809, m. William Bryson. (2) Mary, b. September 26, 1812, m. Romulus Calver. (3) Jane, b. June 1, 1815, m. Holliday Waring. (4) John Taylor; b. June 13, 1818. (5) Thomas, b. September 5, 1820. (6) Susannah, b. January 16, 1823. (7) William, b. May 10, 1825. (8) Catharine, b. May 24, 1828, m. Robert Johnson.
4. The family of ELIZABETH and William Bryson were: (1) Lawson and (2) James of Mackoy, Kentucky. (3) Catharine married William Withrow. (4) William lives in Sanger, Colorado. (5) Jane Elizabeth, wife of George N. Biggs of Huntington, West Virginia.
The account of William Lawson, the eldest son of Thomas Lawson, the Revolutionary Soldier will be found under this name in the Pioneer Sketches in this work. Thomas Lawson, his brother, was the third settler in Kentucky opposite the mouth of Munn's Run in Ohio. James another brother of William settled in Kentucky adjoining Thomas. One sister married Samuel Walker of Kentucky and another a Burton. Burton has two children Joshua and Hannah, who married Hezekiah Morton.
The Leete Family
can be traced to Gerard Leete who held lands in Morden, Cambridgeshire, in 1209. The family coat of arms is: argent, on a fesse, gules, between two rolls of matches, sable, tired proper, a martlet; or. crest on a ducal coronet, or, an antique lamp, or, fired proper.
1. THOMAS LEETE of Ockington, Cambridgeshire, England, married Maria Slade, of Rushton, Northamptonshire, daughter of Edward Slade. He named two of his sons John. The eldest was John of Dodington, the father of Governor William.
2. JOHN LEETE of Dodington was a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Desiring to provide for his son, William, he was bred to the law and secured his appointment as Clerk in the Bishop's Court at Cambridge where the Puritans were tried for ecclesiastic offences. William Leete listened to the oppressions and cruelties practiced upon them until he was converted a Puritan to the disgust of his family.
3. GOVERNOR WILLIAM LEETE b. 1612, m. in England, in 1638, to Anne Payne, daughter of Rev. John Payne, of Southhoe. He emigrated to New England and located in New Haven, July 10, 1639. He was a deputy to the General Court from 1643 to 1650. He was magistrate of the town from 1651 to 1658, and Deputy Governor of New Haven from 1658 until 1664 when New Haven was united to Connecticut. From 1664 to 1669 he was assistant of Connecticut. From 1669 to 1676 he was Deputy Governor to the Connecticut Colony. In 1676 he was chosen Governor, which position he retained by continuous re-election until his death in 1683. When elected Governor of Connecticut, he removed to Hartford and died and was buried there. His tomb was lost till 1830 when it was discovered and a new monument erected. He was noted for his integrity and wisdom. He always governed well. He was a marrying man and married three times in the course of his life. He had nine children by his first marriage. His second and third wives were widows when he married them. He was the first Puritan in the family. He died April 16, 1683.
4. ANDREW LEETE, son of Governor Leete, was b. in 1643. He married Elizabeth Jordan June 1, 1669. In 1677 he became Colonial Governor of Connecticut and was re-elected annually until his death. He d. October 31, 1702 and his wife d. March 4, 1701. He secreted the charter of the colony when it was sought to destroy it.
5. WILLIAM LEETE, son of Governor Andrew Leete, b. March 24, 1671 and d. January 26, 1736, aged sixty-five, m. Hannah Stone, daughter of William Stone, of Guilford. She was born July 26, 1678.
6. SOLOMON LEETE, son of the second William Leete, was b. in September, 1722, m. Zipporah Stone, daughter of Samuel Stone and Mercy Rowlee, of Guilford. She died June 25, 1800, aged eighty. He died, aged eighty-one, September 6, 1803.
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7. SOLOMON LEETE, son of the above, was b. December 3, 1746, m. Hannah Norton, daughter of Daniel Norton and Sarah Bradley, of Guilford. They removed to Granville, New York and to Tioga county, Pa. He died in 1822, and she died September 22, 1820.
8. URIAH LEETE, son of Solomon, m. in 1815, Mary Ives, daughter of Timothy Ives, of Cambridge, Mass. He had the following children: Betsey Emily, b. February 16, 1816, m. Samuel Chapman, father of Hon. Horace Leete Chapman. She resides in Jackson, Ohio. Horace, b. May 25, 1818, has a sketch herein; Ralph, b. January 12, 1823, m. Harriet E. Hand, has a sketch herein; Timothy J., b. February 11, 1829; Sarah, b. April 11, 1833, m. Walter C. Hood; John R., b. February 22, 1838.
[The above was taken from a book entitled, "The Family of William Leete, one of the first settlers of Guilford Connecticut, and Governor of New Haven and Connecticut Colonies." Compiled by Edward L. Leete, Guilford, Connecticut. New Haven. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers. 1884.]
The Lummis Family
came from Lancashire, England in 1690, landing near the Cape of Delaware, settled near Cape May afterwards, and then moved to Cumberland county, New Jersey.
MINOAH LUMMIS was born in 1712, in Cumberland county, N. J., and lived near Cape May.
He had four sons, one of whom,
1. PARSONS L., was b. in 1740, and d. at seventy-eight years of age. This one was a private in Captain Richard Howell's Company, 2nd New Jersey Regiment, Revolutionary War. He had three children: Hannah, James and George. His son
2. JAMES was born in 1784 in Cumberland county, N. J., married Elizabeth Woods in 1810. and died in 1860. They had eight children:
3. JOHN WOODS was the oldest. He was born in 1813, in New Jersey, and came to Ohio and married Elizabeth Chaffin, February 4, 1849. Their oldest child,
4. SARAH, now the wife of Simeon E. Evans of Jackson, Ohio, was born March 22, 1851. They have two children living: Arthur L., and John Ernest. [John Wood Lummis and his sons, Shadrach Chaffin and Jacob Wood all have sketches herein.]
The McFarland Family
is traced as far back as the year 1150. Gilchrist, ancestor to the Laird MacFarlane, obtained by grant of his brother Maldwin, Third Earl of Lenox. large landed estates of Arrochar and four islands in Lake Lochlomond in the Highlands of Scotland, the charter for which is confirmed in the records of the ,privy seal. These estates remained in the possession of the clan MacFarlane for six hundred years.
Maldwin's son and successor was Perth̊lin, (Gaelic for Bartholomew)— which came to be written Pharlan and Pharlane—(Mac., that is, the son of)— MacPharlan, and MacPharlane, which became MacFarlan or McFarlane, and was adopted as the patronymical surname of the clan. The name became McFarland in the Seventeenth Century by the emigration of some of the Scotch to the north of Ireland, where the pronunciation of MacFarlane became gradually changed to McFarland.
The Highland chiefs of the clan bore an active part in the border wars between England and Scotland. Malcolm, Fifth Earl of Lenox supported by his chiefs of his clan, fought for Robert Bruce at the battle of Hallidon Hill, and lost his life in defense of his friend and companion.
Robert Bruce was crowned at Scone, Scotland, March 27, 1306. Miss Emma Bell, of Portsmouth, Ohio, is a lineal descendant of Bruce, and has in her possession a piece of heavy silk, part of which formed a dress worn at the coronation of Bruce, by Mrs. Heslet, one of Miss Bell's ancestors. A large silver spoon, once belonging to Bruce, is also owned by a brother of Miss Bell.
Sir John MacFarlane was knighted the evening before the battle of Flodden, and lost his life in that conflict. Andrew MacFarlane, with 500 of his clan opposed Queen Mary's forces at Longside, and was victorious, for
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which the crest of the clan was conferred upon him on the evening of the battle.
The armorial bearings of the MacFarlane clan are sculptured upon the marble tomb of Margaret Douglas Stuart, Countess of Lenox, in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey, bearing the inscription: "Countess of Lenox, 1577."
The tomb was erected by King James VI. grandson of the countess. She was the mother of Lord Darnley. who married Queen Mary of Scotland.
The Countess of Lenox was married to Mathew Stuart. Eleventh Earl of Lenox, a Scotch noble of the clan MacFarlane, June 15, 1544, and by this alliance became the foundress of the English royal family of Stuart. She was a cousin of Queen Mary of Scotland and Queen Elizabeth of England, and a niece of King Henry VIII.
The Mackoy Family.
The Mackoy family is of Scotch extraction, being descended most probably from the Highland Clan Mackay, which occupied the extreme North of Scotland, and which is said to have had a fighting force at one time of four thousand men at arms.
1. JAMES MACKOY, the first of the name in this country, emigrated to Virginia after the unsuccessful insurrection of the Earl of Mar and settled in King William county, with his widowed mother and two sisters some time prior to 1718. He became a farmer and later, in 1718, married Sarah Gresham. the (laughter of Charles and Anna (Lawrence) Gresham, of King and Queen County. Mrs. Gresham was a daughter of John Lawrence and his wife, Mary Townley. of England. The issue of this marriage was two sons, James and John. and two daughters, who married brothers by the name of Mason.
2. JOHN MACKOY, son of James, was born in 1722, and resided in King William County, Virginia, as a farmer. In 1760, he married Martha, daughter of Benjamin Roberts (she was born 1740; died February 22, 1800) and shortly before the Revolution moved with her and his family to the state of Georgia. In November. 1774, he died and his widow returned to Virginia with her children, settling in Campbell county, on the Little Falling river some thirty miles east of Lynchburg, Virginia, where her five children grew to maturity. The youngest of these children was John, born December 25, 1772.
3. JOHN MACKOY, the second, born December 25, 1772, married, January 29, 1795, Lavinia Fuqua, daughter of Captain Moses and Judith (Woodson) Fuqua, of Charlotte county, Virginia. He lived in Campbell county, Virginia, until 1799, when he emigrated westward, settling for a while on the Kanawha river. In 1801, he moved further west and located on a farm in Greenup county, Kentucky, on the bank of the Ohio river about ten miles below the town of Greenup. Here he resided until his death September 28, 1843, rearing a large family of ten children. Of these. John, the fourth child, was born September 8, 1802.
4. JOHN MACKOY, the third, born September 8, 1802, lived in Greenup county, until 1829, starting in life as a clerk in the iron business. In that year he left home and went first to Boone and Grant counties, Kentucky. The year following he located in Covington, Kentucky, and resided there until his death, April 6, 1882, becoming a successful merchant of the place and a citizen prominent in everything pertaining to the advancement and development of the community. He was a member of the first city council, serving ten years; he aided in building the Covington and Lexington turnpike and was a director of the company from 1840 to his death. He was Deputy Clerk of both the Circuit and County courts from 1840 to 1854; he was a director of the Northern Bank of Kentucky, from 1843 to his death, and for more than thirty years was an elder in the First. Presbyterian church. On October 25, 1838, he was married to Elizabeth Gravit Hardia, daughter of William Hardia, formerly of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Elizabeth, his wife, (nee Timberlake) and by her had seven children. The oldest child was William Hardia Mackoy, born November 20. 1839.
5. WILLIAM HARDIA MACKOY, of Covington, Kentucky, was born in that town November 20. 1839. He was educated in the private schools of Covington, and at the University of Virginia, from which he graduated with the degree of Master of Arts. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1866, since which time he has been actively engaged in his profession in the states of Ohio and Kentucky. Having his office in Ohio, his practice is about equally di-
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vided between the two states. In 1901, he was elected the first President of the Kentucky State Bar Association. In 1890 and 1891, he was a member of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, and as such served on the Committees on Corporations and Municipalities, drafting the articles of the Constitution relating to those subjects. Mr. Mackoy was married November 18, 1868, to Margaret Chambers Brent, of Paris, Kentucky, daughter of Hugh Innes Brent and his wife, Margaret, nee Chambers. He has two children now living, Harry Brent Mackoy and Elizabeth Cary Mackoy.
6. HARRY BRENT MACKOY, of Covington, Kentucky, was born July 18, 1874. He received his education in the private schools of Covington, and afterwards at the University of Virginia, and at Yale. He graduated from the latter institution in 1894, and then entered the Law School of the Cincinnati College, from which he received his degree in 1897. He was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio in May, 1897, and in Kentucky the following June. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in both states. His office is in Cincinnati, but he resides in Covington. He is unmarried.
The Millar Family.
JOHN WILLIAM MILLAR was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, October 31, 1781. He was brought up to the trade of a tanner. He was of an adventurous spirit and he and his two brothers, Abram and Cornelius Elton, determined to try their fortunes in the northwest territory. Their German ancestors had settled in the valley of Virginia in 1730. John William's father was William Millar, born November 2, 1744. His wife was Elizabeth Ferree, born November 2, 1747. He died in Virginia, October 22, 1790. She died on the Dugan farm in Valley township. William Millar's father was an emigrant from Germany, first to Pennsylvania, and then to Virginia. The location of the Virginia home is now in Warren county, Virginia, formerly Shenandoah.
John W. Millar first visited Kentucky in 1799, and in 1802, he and John I. Vanmeter bought three sections of land, at government price, $2.00 per acre in the Scioto valley. John W. Millar's share was 900 acres. The terms of purchase are stated in the article herein in Congressional lands. John W. Millar died owning the same land and it passed to his son, Abram F. and from him to George B. so that the land has been in the same family since 1802. John W. Millar was a man of great determination, and quick action. As soon as he had secured his land he made up his mind he must have a wife and found a family. He went back to Virginia and there on September 22, 1803, he married - Polly Headley, and immediately began his wedding journey to the wilderness of the new state of Ohio, by wagons and on horseback. They crossed the Ohio at Wheeling by fording and went to Zanesville and thence south to their new home. From Chillicothe they had to make their own road. John W. and his wife each rode horseback. His team was driven by his brother-in-law, William Headley. Their wagon was loaded with their household goods brought from Virginia. Polly Headley Millar was born June 7, 1782.
It was in December, 1803, when the bridal party reached their new home. A squatter had built a pole cabin on the land and they took possession of it, and set up their household goods. The tirst baby came along promptly, as was usual in those days, July 9, 1804. It was a girl named, Elizabeth Elton. She grew to womanhood and married Franklin Reynolds, May 22, 1827. The second child was Sarah N. born September 17, 1805. She married James B. Turner, of Piketon. He died December 9, 1860, in his seventieth year. They had two children, Jane Elizabeth, born November 7, 1830, and John William, born April 29, 1834. Elizabeth married Dr. C. Blaser, October 20, 1850, and had two children, James Turner, born January 20, 1852, and Anna Maria, born February 22, 1854. The third child of John W. Millar was a son, William Headley, born February 28, 1807. The fourth child of John W. Millar, was Maria Minta, born January 13, 1815. She married Gideon Chenoweth, January 27, 1842. The fifth child of John W. Millar, died in infancy, Isaac Newton. The sixth child of John W. Millar was Abram Ferree born May 26, 1818 and died February 23. 1868. He was a well known farmer in Scioto county. He married Harriet F. Peters, March 3, 1840. They had four children: George Bliss Millar, who has a separate sketch herein; Charles William, born November 16, 1844, died September
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6, 1863; Elizabeth Reynolds, born November 28, 1846, died in infancy; Franklin Ferre, born August 28, 1850. He married Mary Elizabeth Thomas, and died December 7, 1880, of typhoid fever in Portsmouth, Ohio, leaving no issue. The seventh child of John W. Millar was Charles, born July 18, 1820. He married Rebecca Millar, October 12, 1844.
The strenous life of the early settlers, the miasma, the discomforts and hardships of the pioneer times, Mrs. Millar, the wife of John W. Millar, could not endure. She died on May 2, 1846, aged forty-three years and eleven months. She was a remarkable woman. The inscription on the grave-stone says, "leaving her disconsolate husband and six children to deplore their irreparable loss. She was a dutiful daughter, an affectionate wife, and prudent mother, a prompt and sincere friend." She was only ill seven days. Her husband had left home in March to go to New Orleans with a flat-boat load of produce and did not reach home till two weeks after her death. John W. Millar survived until January 12, 1857. when he died aged seventy-six years, two months and twelve days. John W. Millar was a well educated man in his time. He was particularly ambitious to keep up with the times and took regularly and carefully read the National Intelligencer, the Ohio State Journal and the old Scioto Gazette. It would be difficult at this time to describe all the qualities of John W. Millar, but with his lands, he transmitted his personal qualities to his son, Abraham F. Millar, who in turn transmitted the character and lands to his son, George Bliss Millar. Those who know the latter, know the qualities of John W. Millar.
The Nash Family.
The name originally was Attenash. When surnames were tirst given, the then ancestor of the Nash family lived near an ash tree tnd he was so distinguished as Attenash. The "N" was put in for euphony and after a time the "atte" was dropped and the name became simply "Nash."
The facts given below are taken from a work entitled, "The Nash Family or Records of the Descendants of Thomas Nash of New Haven, Connecticut." 1640. Collected and Compiled by The Rev. Sylvester Nash, A. M., Rector of St. John's Church, Essex, Connecticut. Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company. 1853.
I. THOMAS NASH. His wife was Margery, a daughter of Nicholas Baker of Hertfordshire, England. He landed at Boston, Massachusetts, July 26, 1637, from the ship Hector, with his wife and five children. He was a gunsmith by trade and in 1638 settled at New Haven, Connecticut. He was from Lancashire, England. He made his will in 1657 and speaks of his old age. In the records, of the town, he is spoken of as "Brother Nash." September 1, 1640 he was made a member of the General Court and received the freeman's charge. February 11, 1655, his wife is spoken of as "Goodwife Nash" and she is assigned a seat in the meeting house. In 1651, he was Town Armorer. He had five children. His son Timothy was born in 1626.
II. TIMOTHY NASH commonly called Lieutenant Timothy Nash, was the youngest child of Thomas Nash, the emigrant, and was born in England, in 1626. .He was in New Haven December, 1645, when he was fined for being absent from general training. He pleaded that he had to bring home his hay, but his plea was not allowed. He took the Freeman’s oath March 4, 1654. He was m. to Rebecca Stone in 1657, the daughter of Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford. April 23, 1660 he was fined for being absent from town meeting. He was a blacksmith and was one of the first settlers of Hadley, April 18, 1659. He was a Lieutenant in the Militia, then an important office. He represented Hadley in the General Court, 1690, 1691 and 1695. He d. March 13, 1699 in his 73rd year. His wife d. in April, 1709. He had twelve children, of whom his son, Ephraim b. in 1682, was the eleventh.
III. EPHRAIM NASH, youngest son of Lieutenant Timothy Nash of Hadley, Massachusetts, was b. in 1682. He m. January 10, 1705, Jonanna Smith, daughter of Dea. John Smith of Hadley. She was b. 1686. He was a farmer and pump maker. He died November 9, 1759 in the 78th year of his age. He had eight children. His youngest was Elisha b. October 8, 1729 and, settled in Granby.
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IV. ELISHA NASH was the youngest son of Ephraim Nash of Granby, Massachusetts. He was b. October 8, 1729, and m. Lois Frost. He d. March 1, 1814, age 84. His wife d. November, 1820, age 83. They had eight children, the youngest of whom was Simeon b. September 8, 1776, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
V. SIMEON NASH was the youngest son of Elisha Nash of Granby, Massachusetts. He was b. September 8, 1776. He settled in South Hadley. He was a farmer and took part in the town affairs and represented it in the General Court. He was m. in 1801 to Amy White b. September 10, 1779. She died December 23, 1824. He was married twice after but there was no issue of the second and third marriages. He had nine children of his first marriage. His second son was Simeon b. September 21, 1804 and settled at Gallipolis, Ohio. His seventh child William was b. July 13, 1815 and settled at Gallipolis, Ohio, where he was Editor of the Gallipolis Journal for many years. His youngest son was Samuel A. b. July 17, 1822, now a resident of Gallipolis, Ohio and one of the ablest lawyers in Southern Ohio. Simeon Nash, the father, d. in South Hadley, July 15, 1850.
VI. SIMEON NASH was b. at South Hadley, Massachusetts, September 21, 1804, and has a sketch herein. He m. December 16, 1831 Cynthia Smith, daughter of James and Mercy Smith of Granby, Massachusetts. He settled at Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1833. He had seven children, the eldest of whom, the late
VII. GENERAL WILLIAM HOIT NASH, who has a sketch herein.
The Nourse Family.
The ancestry of the Nourse family (sometimes spelled Nurse and Nurs) has been traced back for several generations but lack of data prevents the writer from attempting to go farther than the tirst of the name in this country. The family is of Norman descent and came to England at the time of the Norman Conquest.
I. FRANCIS NOURSE, b. January 18, 1618, at Yarmouth, Bristol county, England, m. Rebecca Towne, November 22, 1644. He died November 22, 1695. She was b. at Yarmouth, England, February 21, 1621, and was the oldest child of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne. Rebecca Nourse was the first victim of the Salem witchcraft to be brought to trial. She was executed July 19, 1692. A monument to her memory has been erected and dedicated in the family burying ground at Danvers. It is of granite, eleven feet high, finely lettered and polished, and contains the following inscription by John G. Whittier:
"0 Christian martyr, who for truth could die,
When all about thee owned the hideous lie!
The world, redeemed from Superstition's sway,
Is breathing freer for thy sake today."
Her sister, Mary Estey, was arrested April 22, tried September 9, and executed September 22, 1692. Another sister, Sarah, was accused but escaped the fate of her sisters.
The old Nourse house at Danvers, Massachusetts is yet standing and a picture of it, as it appeared in Rebecca Noursels life time is found herein.
II. FRANCIS NOURSE, son of Francis Nourse (No. 1 above), was b. at Salem, February 3, 1661, m. Sarah Tarbell of Reading, Massachusetts, January 15, 1865 and d. February 5, 1716.
III. BENJAMIN NOURSE, son of Francis Nourse (No. II. above), was b. at Reading, Massachusetts, July 28, 1690, m. Elizabeth Roberts, December 25, 1710 and d. January 6, 1761.
IV. SAMUEL NOURSE, son of Benjamin Nourse (No. III. above), was b. January 10, 1712, m. Hannah Belknap in 1735. She was b. in 1716, d. in 1806. Samuel d _____. They lived at Rutland, Massachusetts.
V. JOSHUA NOURSE, son of Samuel Nourse (No. IV. above), was b. May 18, 1744, m. Elizabeth Rogers, December 8, 1762. She was b. May 6, 1744, d. December 2, 1820. She was a cousin of John Rogers, the famous martyr burned at the stake. Joshua lived at Saratoga, New York. He d. August 10, 1828.
VI. SAMUEL ROGERS NOURSE, son of Joshua Nourse, (Nb. V. above), was b. February 25, 1769. He emigrated to Bainbridge, Chenango county, New
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York. He m. Lucy Bump. b. July 10, 1771, d. September 10, 1823. After her death, he m. Phoebe Binder, b. November, 1770, d. January 9, 1869. From Bainbridge, New York, he came to Franklin county, Ohio, in 1818, purchasing land near Columbus. He was a river man and became dissatisfied with his location and moved to Friendship. Scioto county, Ohio, later moving to the French Grant. He died July 9, 1865.
VII. LEWIS NOURSE, son of Samuel R. Nourse, (No. VI. above), was b._____ He married Sopronia Church. They had seven children. After her death, he married Nancy Vance, in 1859. She was born in Fayette county, West Virginia, in 1837. She died at Tower City, N. D., November 28, 1895. She m. Dr. M. K. Moxley, March 9, 1873. To Lewis and Nancy Nourse were born five children. Lewis Nourse died in March, 1869.
THE OLD REBECCA NOURSE HOME AT DANVERS, MASS.
VIII. LOUIS EDGAR NOURSE, son of Nancy and Lewis Nourse, was b. July 1, 1861. He attended school in Wheelersburg, Ohio and qualified himself as a teacher. He began that profession in 1880. January 28, 1880. he married Mary Lorene Sikes. sister of Probate Judge Frank L. Sikes. They have two daughters Mary Ruby and Emma Lorene. Since April, 1902, Mr. Nourse has been a conductor on the Portsmouth and New Boston Trolley Line.
The Peck Family.
The family has a coat of Arms. The motto is, "Probitatem Quam Divitas," "Honesty rather than riches." The family not only has lived up to the Honesty but has added the riches, without violating the family motto.
I. DEACON PAUL PECK, b. in Essex, England 1608, came to the town of Boston in the ship "Defense" in 1635. Removed to Hartford in 1636. He became a prominent man there and his home lot is still known as the "Peck lot." He was a Deacon in the Congregational Church from 1681 till his decease, December 23, 1695. He made a will which is extant and his inventory was 536£ 5s. He had eight children, of whom his son, Paul, b. in 1639 was the eldest.
11. PAUL PECK, b. 1639, son of Deacon Paul, resided in West Hartford, where he died in 1725. He m. Elizabeth Baisey, daughter of John Baisey, He had seven children, of whom, William was the sixth, b. in 1686.
III. WILLIAM PECK, son of Paul, removed to Litchtield 1727. He m. Lois Webster. He had seven children. Timothy b. March 7, 1830 was his second child.
IV. TIMOTHY PECK b. March 6, 1730, son of William, mar. Sarah Plumb. He d. November 20, 1772. He had seven children, of whom, his son Virgil, was b. September 4, 1769.
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V. VIRGIL PECK, son of Timothy, b. September 4, 1769, m. Mary Wallace, granddaughter of Benjamin Peck, November 28, 1799. He d. October 15, 1804. His widow survived and m. Doctor Abel Catlin, March 20, 1808. She was b. October 13, 1781, d. December 21, 1860. There were three children, two daughters and a son. The youngest child was William V. b. April 16, 1804.
VI. WILLIAM VIRGIL' PECK b. April 16, 1804, d. Dec. 30, 1877, has a sketch herein. Married Mary Ann Cook, daughter of Hugh Cook, July 8, 1830. Their children were: Mary b. January 29, 1832, m. L. C. Damarin, December 27, 1852; William V., b. December 2, 1836, m. Harriet E. McCollister, 1858; John H., b. August 11, 1842; Ellen Lou, b. December 30, 1846, m. E. J. Corson. There were other children who died young.
The Prescott Family.
The name of Prescott is of Saxon origin, and is composed by the contraction of two Saxon words, "priest" and "cottage," and therefore signifies priest cottage, or priest's house.' A metallic coat of mail and armor, such as were worn by ancient Knights, was brought to this country by the emigrant, John Prescott. A coat of arms was conferred upon one of the remote ancestors of the family for his bravery, courage and successful enterprise as a man and as a military officer. It is described in the language of Heraldry by Mr. Burke as follows:
"Sable a chevron between three owls, argent (two in chief, one in base). Crest, a cubit arm, couped, erect, vested, gules. Cuff, ermine, holding in the hand a pitch pot (or hand beacon), sable, fired proper."
The arms of the Prescotts of Dryby in the County of Lincoln, England, and which belong to the descendants of the emigrant, James Prescott, of New Hampshire, are thus described by Mr. Burke, to wit:
"Ermine, a chevron sable-on a chief of the second two Leopard's heads, or crest-out of a ducal coronet or a boar's head and neck ar. bristled of the first."
The first mention of the name found is in the 11th vol., pp. 29, 30, of Thomas Rymer's Foedera, wherein a confirmation of a grant made concerning acqueducts of the City of London by H. de Patershall, treasurer to the King, is addressed to "Magistro Waltero de Prestecote, Vice Cancellario, et al."
The direct lineage of the Prescotts that came to America cannot be traced farther back than the time of Queen Elizabeth, yet it is well known that Prescott was known as an ancient family in the town of Prescott, in the County of Lancashire, England, from which descended James Prescott of Standish, Lancashire, one of the gentlemen of Lancashire, who were required by an order of Queen Elizabeth, dated August, 1564, to keep in readiness horsemen and armor. He married a daughter of Roger Standish, Esq., of Standish, a sister to Ralph Standish.
II. JAMES PRESCOTT m. Alice Molineaux. For his bravery and military prowess and achievements he was created Lord of the Manor of Dryby in Lincolnshire, and had new arms granted to him described above, and was afterwards known as Sir James Prescott. He d. March 1, 1583 leaving a son John, and daughter Anne.
III. JOHN PRESCOTT b. at Dryby; m. ____of Dryby.
IV. JAMES PRESCOTT, among his children was:
V. JAMES PRESCOTT, bap. 1642-3, who emigrated from Dryby in Lincolnshire, England to New England and settled at Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1665. In 1668 he m. Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Grace Boulter, born at Exeter, May 15, 1648. James Prescott moved to Kingston in 1725 where he died Nov. 25, 1728, aged about 85.
VI. JOHN PRESCOTT b. November 19, 1681, m. Abigail Marston August 8, 1701 daughter of Kames and Dinah (Sanborn) Marston of Hampton. She was born March 17, 1679; died in Kensington, December 30, 1760. He was in His Majesty's service in 1707; also in Captain Davis' Scouting party in 1712. He died in 1761, aged 80. Among other articles named in his will which was proved in 1761, are the following: a sword, a gun, a pair of pistols and holsters, powder horn, etc.
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VII. ABRAHAM PRESCOTT, born May 20, 1717, baptized June 18, 1721; married Sarah Clifford, July 2. 1741, daughter of Clifford, and died September 4, 1779. He settled in . Kensington, where his children were born, and where he died June 26, 1789, aged 72. They had 12 children, 8 sons and 4 daughters. He signed the Association Test in 1776.
VIII. JESSE PRESCOTT, born March 15, 1757; married Judith Johnson, of East Kingston, November 15, 1776. She was a daughter of Hon. John Johnson and Sarah Morse Hampstead, N. H., born April 4, 1758; died April 25, 1844. aged 86. He was a cooper. Settled in Deerfield; died December 28, 1833, aged 76 years, 9 months, 13 days.
IX. JOSEPH PRESCOTT, born August 20, 1786; married Rachel Abbott, September 27, 1808, born January 12, 1789; both living in August, 1869. Lived in Bath, Me., where he has descendants.
X. JOSEPH JOHNSON PRESCOTT, born December 14, 1810; married, 1828, Phebe Page, born 1818. He died August 17, 1861.
XI. HENRY PRESCOTT, of Portsmouth, Ohio. (See sketch page 1,102.)
The Kicker Family.
I. MATURIN RICKER came from England in 1672, and located in Dover, New Hampshire. He and his brother George were killed by Indians, June 4, 1706. The brothers then resided at Cocheco. Maturin was killed in his field and his little son Noah carried away captive. The latter was reared among the French in Canada and became a Catholic priest. The name was then spelled Riccor.
II. JOSEPH RICKER was one of four children of Maturin Ricker, whose wife is not given.
III. JOSEPH RICKER married Elizabeth Garland, November 6, 1720. They had nine children, of whom Joshua born April 9, 1737, was the sixth. His mother died in 1760, and in 1761, his father married Mary May. No issue of second marriage.
IV. JOSHUA RICKER born April 9, 1737. He married Betsey Drew, born October 28, 1740. They were married June 28, 1756. They had eleven children. Their youngest child, Ebenezer Ricker, was born June 23, 1782. Joshua Ricker, died March 5, 1818, and his wife died March 4, 1811.
V. EBENEZER RICKER, born June 23, 1782, married Elizabeth Hurd, January 11, 1804. She was born December 18, 1783. They had four children, of whom Jacob Hurd born April 27, 1813, was the first. The mother died March 23, 1818. The husband married April 27, 1819, to a Pall gr, and had five children. Betsey Hurd Ricker, a child of this marriage, was a teacher in Portsmouth for several years. Alexander H. Ricker, the third child of this marriage, was born December 14, 1824. Ebenezer Drew Ricker, the fourth child of this marriage, was born August 10, 1826. Augusta Ricker, born October 2, 1828, taught in Scioto county, and married Edward Jordan.
VI. JACQB HURD RICKER, born April 27, 1813, married Mary Francis Wood, May 4/5, 4840. She was born in January, 184.6 He died March 1895, and she died August 24, 1894. James Wood Ricker was their only chrld.
VII. JAMES WOOD RICKER born July 15, 1841, married Louisiana Moore, November 3, 1870. Their children were: Margaret Tracy, teacher in the Portsmouth High School; William Wood, mechanical engineer, Honolulu; Robert Carlton, Secretary and Treasurer of the Portsmouth Foundry and Machine Works; Elizabeth Virginia, kindergarten teacher; and Mary Frances.
The Riggs Family.
The head of the family in this country was (I) EDWARD RIGGS, who was born in England, probably in Lincolnshire or Yorkshire, about 1590, and came to this country, landing at Boston early in the summer of 1633, with his family consisting of his wife Elizabeth, two sans and four daughters. He settled in Roxbury, then a suburb, but now a part of the city of Boston.
II. EDWARD RIGGS, son of Edward, the immigrant, was born in England about 1614, and came to this country with his father. In 1637, he was a sergeant in the Pequot war and greatly distinguished himself for bravery. In 1640, he settled at Milford, Conn., in a location still known as Riggs Hill. Here
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he built a stockade about his residence, and in his house in 1661, he secreted and protected Whaley and Goff, two of the members of the English Parliament that condemned and executed Charles I, who were being searched for by the emissaries of Charles II along the Connecticut coast. In 1665, he with others from the plantation of. Derby, Conn., settled at Newark, New Jersey.
III. EDWARD, son of Edward (II), was born in Roxbury about 1636, and became a large landed proprietor in New Jersey.
IV. JOSEPH, son of Edward (III). was born in Newark, N. J., about 1675, and died there, leaving a large family.
V. GIDEON, son of Joseph (IV), was born at Orange, N. J., in 1713, and died at Morristown, N. J., January 25, 1786. He was an active member and liberal supporter of the Presbyterian church.
VI. JOSEPH, son of Gideon (V), was born at Morristown, N. J., about 1743. In 1795, he settled on a farm near Amity, in Washington county, Pa., where he died in August, 1814. Was an elder in the Presbyterian church for many years.
VII. STEPHEN son of Joseph (VI), ' was born at Morristown, N. J., March 3, 1771, and married Annie Baird, daughter of Moses Baird, of Fayette county, Pa., September 10, 1795.
VIII. JOSEPH RIGGS, son of Stephen (VII), was born near Amity, Washington county, Pa., July 2, 1796.
The Schafer Family.
SCHAFER is a common name among the Germans. It signifies Shepherd. The Schafer family above referred to, left Wurtemburg, Germany, about 1820, and floated down the Rhine. They took passage at Rotterdam and spent three months on the vogage, owing to their vessel being disabled. Three of the daughters of the family remained in Baltimore, their landing place. The others went overland to the Ohio river, where they obtained flat-boat. The father of the family was Joseph. When they reached Portsmouth, they landed and the father went to work on Aaron Kinney's farm, now a part of the city of Portsmouth.
They were soon able to purchase land On the west side In three and one-half years after landing in Portsmouth, the eldest son walked to Baltimore to bring out his sisters. He made the trip, one way, in fourteen days. This brother brought his sisters out in a wagon. The younger sister, Catherine, remained in Baltimore five years. She afterwards married Joseph Williamson, and became the mother of George Williamson, of the west side. Joseph Schafer afterwards took his family west and became very wealthy. He lived to be ninety-five years of age. His wife died soon after the family arrived in Portsmouth.
The Shonkwiler Family.
I. GEORGE ADAM SHONKWILER, senior, received a good education in Germany. He came to America, in 1797, bringing with him his father, Simon Shonkwiler, then an old man, and his own family, consisting of his wife, Elizabeth, five boys and two girls, Simon, Daniel, Jacob, George Adam, and David. They came to Scioto county about 1800, and settled in what is known as the Fink Bottom, about four miles northeast of Sciotoville. Here Simon Shonkwiler, senior, died.
II. GEORGE ADAM SHONKWILER, junior, was born in Germany, February 14, 1791. He came with his father and settled in the Fink Bottom. He became acquainted with Fannie Marshall, youngest daughter of Samuel Marshall, senior, a Revolutionary soldier, who settled in Scioto county, in 1796, coming from Pennsylvania. Fannie Marshall was the first white child born in Scioto county. She was born February 6, 1796. They were married in September, 1814, and settled near his fatherls place in Fink Bottom. She died July 29, 1870, aged 74 years, 5 months and 23 days. They had twelve children: (1). Eveline, born October 31, 1815, married first to John Adams, and had seven children, four girls and three boys; married second, to H. Farmer, no children; and third, to Jesse Martin. They had one daughter, who afterwards married Judge Dow James. Eveline died September 26, 1843.
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(2). Henrietta, born January 27, 1818, married Samuel Pyle, and had five children, three boys and two girls. She died July 25, 1897.
(3). John Simon, horn March 7, 1820, married Elizabeth Plum and had two children: Steward S., at Lucasville, and Malinda Corner, of Lincoln, Illinois. John Simon, died September 11, 1845.
(4). Sebina, born July 26, 1823 and died September 26, 1843.
(5). Alexander, born November 1, 1825, died September 18, 1844.
(6). Darius, born January 28, 1828, went west and married Nancy Stewart. They have five children, three boys and two girls.
(7). Harriet, born April 2, 1830, married James Stewart. They had one child, Harriet, died November 14, 1850.
(8). Napoleon Bonaparte, born April 14, 1832, married Electa Sarah Fishburn. They had thirteen children, eight boys and five girls; eleven are still living. Napoleon is still living at Bement, Illinois.
(9). Terrana, born July 8, 1835, married William Walls, and had seven children four boys and three girls. She died August 25, 1890.
(10). William Marshall, born November 9, 1837.
(11). Mary, born July 13, 1842, married Job H. Carley, and had ten children, six girls and four boys, seven are still living. Mary is still living at Dunbeck.
(12). Samuel, born December 18, 1845, died December 24, 1848, age two years. The first four children were born at Fink Bottom, the next three were born in Indiana, where they next lived six years, and the remaining five children were born in Scioto county, where they returned in 1830. George Adam Shonkwiler, Jr., died June 18, 1862, age 70 years, 4 months and 4 days. He and his wife belonged to the Christian church.
III. WILLIAM MARSHALL SHONKWILER, son of George Adam and Fannie (Marshall) Shonkwiler, was born at Back Run, Madison township. Scioto county, Ohio, November 9, 1837. His boyhood and youth were spent on the farm. He attended school at the Valley school, now Back Run, and received a common school education. He enlisted in Company E, 140th, 0. V. I., May 2, 1864, as a private, and was discharged September 3. 1864. He enlisted in Company E, 43d 0. V. I. November 25, 1864, and was discharged July 13, 1865. He was married July 4, 1868, to Matilda Catherine Hutchinson, at Dugan's Grove, one mile north of Lucasville. His wife was born May 11, 1848, in Morgan county, and came to Scioto county, in 1862. They had ten children, six boys and four girls, eight are still living. Henrietta, wife of William S. Bricker, of Scioto, Ohio; Howard, married and resides in Spokane, Washington; Homer, married and resides at Springfreld, Illinois; Herod, married, and living at Lecota, North Dakota; Harmon, married and residing at Spokane, Washington; Terrana, the wife of Ernest B. Walters, of Lucasville, Ohio; Heber, living at home; Celia, the wife of William A. Hanson, died September 26, 1899; Sabra, at home, and Marshall, died August 10, 1887, aged 4 months and 11 days. William Marshall Shonkwiler died July 1, 1896, aged 58 years, 7 months and 22 days.
The Sommers Family.
GEORGE SOMMERS was born January 29, 1827, in Sandhoven, Baden, Germany. He came to the United States in 1847, and located in Portsmouth, Ohio. The first work he did was for Dr. Hempstead. After remaining a short time in Portsmouth, he went to Buckhorn Furnace and worked in the ore banks. He was marled near Scioto Furnace in 1861, to Miss Mary Hansgen, a sister of Nicholas Hansgen. They had one child born in 1853. She died in 1854. Our subject married a second time to Mary Glockner, daughter of Bernhard Glockner. There were ten sons and one daughter of this marriage. The sons were (1) George, (2) Bernhardt, (3) Frank J., (4) Leo, (5) Adam, (6) Henry, (7) Hermann, (8) Charles A., (9) Aloysius, (10) an infant son, and a daughter (11) Mary. In 1858, George Sommers, Sr., moved to a farm on Carey's Run and resided there until his death on April 6, 1897. His wife died September 25, 1883. He enlisted May 2, 1864, at the age of 38, in Co. I, 140th 0. V. I., and served until September 3, 1864, 100 days.
Of the sons, John, the eldest, died in 1883; George and Leo own and conduct the hardware store at 220-222 Market street; Aloysius is employed with
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them; Bernhardt and Adam are in the hardware business at No. 311 Chillicothe street; Frank J. and Henry are farmers on Carey's Run; Hermann is a clerk in a grocery at Freeport, Illinois; Charles A., is book-keeper for the Spring Lane Distillery. Of the brothers, George, Leo, Bernhardt, Frank J., Adam, Henry and Hermann are married. Frank J. has six sons; George, has one son; Adam, has one son; Henry, has one son and three daughters; Leo, has two daughters; Charles A., Aloysius and Mary are unmarried and reside together. Leo was in the lumber business from 1883 for 11 years. Henry was in the same business for four years. All the members of the family are communicants of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church. In politics they are democrats. Those engaged in the hardware business are doing a large and extensive trade. George, the eldest son, has been in this business since 1876.
The Stockham Family.
I. WILLIAM STOCKHAM was b. in 1752 in Wales. He emigrated to New Jersey in 1767 and settled at Trenton, where he m. Susanah Paine. He afterwards was in Pennsylvania a short time, and then went to Kentucky for a while. He came to the Northwest territory in 1798 and in 1803 he settled in what was then Madison township, Scioto county, Ohio. His children were: (1)Anna, m. John Bennett; (2) Ruth, m. William Crull; (3) Rachel, m. Judge William Givens; (4) David and (5) Paine, sons; (6) Mary, m. Judge David Mitchell; (7) Joseph was b. June 25, 1784. (8) Aaron, afterwards Col. Aaron Stockham was b. August 3, 1787. William Stockham d. December 17, 1815, in his sixty-third year. His wife, Susanah Payne d. in 1826.
II. JOSEPH STOCKHAM was b. June 25, 1784. He d. July 7, 1833. He
m. Hannah Bennett, March 29, 1808. She was b. April 16, 1786, and d. June 13, 1863. Their children were: (1) Aaron, b. May 28, 1809; (2) Eliza, b. November 26, 1810; (3) Rebecca, b. September 23, 1812; (4) Maria, b. January 4, 1815; (5) Joseph Harvey, b. March 23, 1817; (6) Isabinda, b. February 26, 1819; (7) Matilda, b. September 10, 1821; (8) Samuel, b. October 3, 1823; (9) William J., b. January 13, 1826.
III. JOSEPH HARVEY STOCKHAM, was b. March 13, 1817. and was m. to Catharine Ann Dewey, March 7, 1843. She was b. February 13, 1823. They had the following children: (1) Joseph Dewey, b. December 30, 1843; (2) Caroline Matilda, b. Aubust 17, 1846; (3) Ann Louisa, b. July 16, 1848; (4) Abigail, b. July 6, 1850, d. at about two years of age; (5) George Washington, b. October 28, 1852; (6) Rosanna Ellen, b. April 10, 1855; (7) John Milton. b. January 1, 1857; (8) Maria Elizabeth, b. October 6, 1859; (9) Mary Katharine, b. May 20, 1860; (10) David Harvey, b. May 16, 1862; (11) Samuel Taylor, b. June 20, 1864; (12) Sarah Ella, b. April 18, 1867.
IV. JOHN MILTON STOCKHAM, above (7) was born January 1, 1857, on his father's farm, near Harrisonville, Ohio. has a separate sketch herein as does his brother, Joseph Dewey Stockham, No I above.
[The editor believes that there are more persons in Scioto and adjoining counties descended from William Stockham of New Jersey than from any other ancestor named in this work.]
The Towne Family.
The earliest Towne was in 1274 known as William de la Towne, of Alvely, in Shropshire. In A. D. 1459 William Towne, D. D. was a clergyman at Stow and was appointed Almoner to King Henry VI. December 10, 1470. John Towne. of Irby, county of Lincoln, made his will November 18, 1540. John Towne, of Ludborough, county of Lincoln, executed his will January 24, 1637. He had a brother Richard named as No. 1 herein.
The facts in this article are taken from a Genealogy entitled. "The Descendants of William Towne, who came to America on or about 1630 and settled in Salem, Mass. Compiled by Edwin Eugene Towne. Newtonville, Mass. 1901."
Two of the daughters of William Towne No. II herein were hung for witches. His daughter Rebecca was b. February 21, 1621. She m. Francis Nourse of Salem who d. November 22, 1695. She was executed July 19, 1692
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She was innocent as was her sister Mary Estey b. August 24, 1634 and m. to Isaac Estey. She was executed September 22, 1692. Her petition protesting her innocence has been preserved.
I. RICHARD TOWNE b. , d. 1617 leaving a wife Alice. He
had ten children, of whom William b. in 1600 was the ninth. He was baptised May 21, 1603.
II. WILLIAM TOWNE was b. in England in 1600, the son of Richard Towne of Braceby. He m. Joanna Blessing and emigrated to Massachusetts in 1635 and located at Salem. They had eight children. Jacob b. March 11. 1632 was the fifth child. William Towne was from Yarmouth, England. He was m. March 25, 1620, in the church of St. Nicholas. In 1640, he was in Salem, Mass. He died at Topsfield, Mass. about 1672. His widow died 1682. He became a freeman 1637 and was town clerk in 1639.
III. JACOB TOWNE son of William Towne and Mary Blessing, his wife, bapt. March 11, 1682 in Yarmouth, England, m. Catherine Simonds of Salem June 26, 1657. They resided in Salem twelve years. He d. November 27, 1704, aged seventy-three, leaving a will. He had six children. His son John b. April 2, 1658 was the eldest.
IV. JOHN TOWNE b. at Topsfield, Mass. April 2, 1658 m. Mary Smith, February 2, 1680. He spelled his name without the final "e." He was a selectman of Framingham when it was incorporated and often afterward. In 1712, he removed to Oxford and at the first town meeting was made selectman July 22, 1713. He was at the organization of the church there, made a Deacon and was such during his life. He d. in 1740, aged 82. He had ten children. His son Israel was the third child b. November 18, 1684.
V. ISRAEL TOWNE b. at Topsfield, Mass. November 18, 1684, m. Susannah. Haven, dam of Deacon Moses Haven of Farmingham. Oxford was settled in 1712 and he was one of the first settlers. He d. at Oxford October 29, 1771 and his widow at Belcherton in 1787. They had ten children. Their son Israel b. February 12, 1727 was the eighth child.
VI. ISRAEL TOWNE was b. at Oxford, Mass. February 12, 1727, m. Naomi Stebbins October 17, 1754. She was b. November 9, 1732, d. February 12, 1827. He d. at Belchertown. Mass., December 1805. He had eleven children. His son Amasa was the eldest b. May 18, 1755.
VII. AMASA TOWNE b. at Belchertown, Mass., March 18, 1755, m. Margaret Smith, July 3, 1783. He died December 27, 1820. He had nine children. His son Abner b. April 28. 1797 was the seventh child.
VIII. REV. ABNER TOWNE b. at Belchertown, Mass., April 28, 1797, was a Presbyterian clergyman of note; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, New York. Studied divinity at Andover and was ordained pastor at Litchfield, July, 1825, and d. in less than one year. He m. Sarah Eliza Vinton of South Hadley, Mass., May 10, 1825. She was b. April 2, 1801. She m. a second time Doctor Robert Safford of Zanesville, Ohio.
IX. HENRY ABNER TOWNE b. at Litchfield. New York, January 5, 1826. m. Harriet Nye of Marietta, December 18, 1856. He has a sketch herein. Had an only son. Robert Safford Towne, b. September 17, 1858.
X. ROBERT SAFFORD TOWNE b. at Portsmouth, Ohio, September 17, 1858, son of Henry Abner Towne b. at Litchfield, New York.
The Tracy Family.
(Descent of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Connecticut from the Anglo-Saxon Kings of England.)
I.
1. ECGBERHT, first Saxon King of all England, year 800.
2. AETHELWULF, Saxon King of all England, died January 18, 857.
3. ALFRED, the Great, Saxon King of all England, died October 28, 901.
4. EADWARD the Elder, Saxon King of all England, died in 924.
5. EADMUND the First, Saxon King of all England, assassinated May 26, 946.
6. EADGAR, Saxon King of all England, born 943, crowned 959.
7. AETHELRED II, Saxon King of all England, crowned 978.
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(King Aethelred II. by his second wife Emma had two sons and one daughter, as follows: Eadward the Confessor, crowned King in 1042. Alfred. who died in a monastery, where he was imprisoned.)
8. PRINCESS GODA, daughter of King Aethelred II. by his wife Emma of Normandy held lands in Gloucestershire, in the reign of her brother, Eadward the Confessor, which lands remain in possession of some of her descendants at this time. She married Dreux, Count of Vixin, in France, called by English historians, Walter de Mantes, Count of Mantes. They had four sons.
9. RUDOLPH de MANTES, second son of the Count of Mantes by his wife the Princess Goda was lord of the Manor of Sudeley and Toddington, which he inherited from his mother. He was created Earl of Hereford by his uncle Eadward the Confessor. In the year 1051 he was admiral of fifty ships of the King's Navy.
10. HAROLD de MANTES, Earl of Hereford and only son of Rudolph de Mantes. married Matilda, daughter of Hugh Lupus, a Norman nobleman, and a nephew, of Wiliam the Conqueror. Their .eldest son, John inherited the lands of his father in C'oucestershire, and became lord of Sudeley and Toddington and was called,
11. JOHN de SUDELEY. He married Grace de Traci, daughter and heiress of Henri de Traci, feudal lord of Barnstable in Devonshire. They had two sons, Ralph, who became the heir and successor of his father and William, who inherited from his mother and, taking her family name, became Sir William de Traci. He was one of the four knights who, in 1170, at the instigation of King Henry H. assassinated Thomas a Becket.
II.
Ancestors of GRACE de TRACI.
1. The SIRE de TRACI was a Norman baron, and an officer in the Army with which William, Duke of Normandy invaded England. He was in the battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066 and his name is on the Roll of Battle Abbey.
2. HENRI de TRACI, son of Sire de Traci, died in 1146, leaving a daughter.
3. GRACE, who married John de Sudeley, great-great-grandson of Aethelred
4. SIR WILLIAM de TRACI, whose father was John de Sudeley and mentioned above.
5. SIR HENRY de TRACY, son of Sir William. Changed the name from Traci to Tracy.
6. SIR HENRY de TRACY, his son died in 1296.
7. SIR WILLIAM TRACY, his son omitted the "de."
8. SIR WILLIAM TRACY, his son, was sheriff of Gloucestershire.
9. WILLIAM TRACY, Esquire, of Toddington.
10. SIR JOHN TRACY, of Toddington, died in 1363.
11. SIR JOHN TRACY. Member of Parliament and sheriff of Gloucestershire.
12. WILLIAM TRACY, Esquire, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1395.
13. WILLIAM TRACY, Esquire, Privy Councillor of Henry IV.
14. WILLIAM TRACY, Esquire, married Margery Paunafort.
15. HENRY TRACY, Esquire, married Alia Baldington.
16. SIR WILLIAM TRACY made a famous Will.
17. RICHARD TRACY, Esquire, married Barbara Lucy.
18. SIR PAUL TRACY, Baronet. He was created a Baronet June 29, 1611 by King James I„ being the 13th baronet created in the Kingdom. He married Anne, daughter of Ralph Sharkerley, and they had twenty-one children.
Their son Thomas Tracy, born in 1610, emigrated to America in 1636, and was the Lieutenant Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Connecticut.
(The facts above were taken from a work entitled "The Ancestors of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, of Norwich, Conn., by Lieutenant Charles Stedman Ripley, U. S. Navy, 1895.)
19. LIEUTENANT THOMAS TRACY was a son of Sir Paul Tracy, Baronet, of Stanway, and was born in 1610 on the Tewksbury Estates in Gloucestershire, England. He emigrated to America in 1636 and arrived at Salem, Massachusetts, in April of thaf year and removed to Wethersfield, Conn. the follow-
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ing February. There he married in 1641, Mary, the widow of Edward Mason. and they subsequently removed to Saybrook, where she died in 1659. There was born to them six sons and one daughter. He and his family removed to Norwich, Conn., in 1660, and he was one of the thirty-five original proprietors of that town. He held many local offices, only a part of which we mention. He was a member of the Legislature from Norwich in 1667, 1670, 1671, 1572, 1673, 1675, 1676 and 1678. In 1673, he was commissioned Lieutenant of the New London County Dragoons, raised to fight the Dutch and Indians. He died at Norwich, November 7, 1685. He was well educated for the times, and was a man of consequence in the community, a thorough business man and of the very best personal character.
20. CAPTAIN JOHN TRACY, eldest son of Lieutenant Thomas was born in 1652, at Wethersfield. He married June 10, 1670, Mary Winslow, niece of Gov. Edward Winslow.
21. JOHN TRACY, second son of Johr, the 1st and Mary Winslow, was born January 19, 1673, and married Elizabeth Leffingwell, of Norwich.
22. JOHN TRACY, eldest son of John the 2nd and Elizabeth Leffingwell, was born at Norwich, June 27, 1700. He married January 21, 1724, Margaret Hyde.
23. DAVID TRACY, fifth son of John, the 3rd, and Margaret Hyde, was born at Norwich, March 14, 1738, married September 16, 1762, Mary Johnson, a daughter of Ebenezer Johnson of Norwich.
24. HON. URI TRACY, eldest son of David and Mary Johnson, was born at Norwich, Conn., February 8, 1764, graduated at Yale College in 1789, removed to Oxford, New York in 1791, where on August 28, 1793 he married Ruth, daughter of Gen. Benjamin Hovey. Mr. Tracy was the first Postmaster of Oxford, the first sheriff of the county from 1798 to 1801, County Clerk from 1801 to 1815, a member of Congress from 1805 to 1807, and again from 1809 to 1813. He was the first Judge of the county till he was sixty years of age, the constitutional age limit for holding that office. He died at Oxford, July 21, 1838. The following is an extract from his obituary notice at that time: "As a private citizen no man was more universally esteemed, and few have filled so many important public offices and trusts with equal fidelity." He had six children, three of whom appear below.
(1). Samuel Miles Tracy, the eldest son of Hon. Uri, was born in Oxford, New York, August 20, 1804. He came to Portsmouth in 1826, and has a separate sketch on page 283.
(2). Uri Tracy, Jr., another son of Hon. Uri, was born in Oxford, New York, January 24, 1800. He married January 15, 1826, Persis Packer, daughter of William Packer, Esq., of Preston, New York. He passed his life on the old estate in Oxford and died there April 6, 1856. They had four children. (1) Susan .Hosmer, (married John H. Morris), mother of Mrs. William M. Pursell, of Portsmouth, Ohio. (2) Charles Packer, of Portsmouth, born at Oxford, December 5, 1829; died Jan. 15, 1874. See sketch page 1,162. (3) Henry Read, of Boston. Mass., born at Oxford, December 9, 1833. See sketch page 1,1616. (4) John Bailey, late Treasurer of Scioto county, born at Oxford, April 12, 1838.. See sketch page 1,163,
(3). Charles Oscar, the youngest son of Hon. Uri was born in Oxford, N. Y. August 20, 1804. He came to Portsmouth in 1826. See sketch page 285.
The Tremper Family.
The earliest Tremper emigrant so far as we know, was Jacob Tremper, b. about 1683 in Upper Germany, and came to New York about 1713.
The following article is taken from "American Ancestry: giving the name and descent ,in the male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence, A. D. 1776. Vol. XI. Embracing Lineages from the whole United States. 1898. Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, Albany, New York. 1898."
1. JACOB TREMPER b. in Upper Germany about 1683, came to this country about 1713. He m. Christina Welker and had two children, of whom Jacob b. about 1712 was the eldest.
2. JACOB TREMPER of New York. b. in Upper Germany about 1712. He was a soldier in the New York militia under Captain Gerard Beekman 1738. He m. May 1, 1738 Anna Maria Peffer, dau. of Michael Peffer, freeman of New
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York 1715 and Anna Maria Hoffman. He had five children of whom Michael was the fourth.
3. MICHAEL TREMPER was b. in New York March 13, 1745, admitted a freeman of New York, 1769. He removed with his family to Fishkill after the evacuation of New York 1776, and served in the Duchess County militia under Colonel Abraham Brinkerhoff. He m. March 15, 1767 Leah, dau, of Daniel and Lea Hertje Van Deusen and had eight children. Daniel b. in New York, was his second child.
4. DANIEL TREMPER of New Richmond, Ohio, was b. in New York, bpt. April 15, 1770. He m. May 16, 1791 Ariette Kieffer and had twelve children, of whom Johnson was the tenth. Daniel Tremper d. in New Richmond, Ohio, March 20, 1833.
5. JOHNSON TREMPER, son of Daniel Tremper and Arietta Kieffer, his wife, was b. in Esopus, February 9, 1809. In 1830, he m. Laura Jeffiries, dau. of John Chapman Jeffries and Deborah Starkweather, dau. of Samuel Stark- weather. She was born in Auburn, New York in 1814. He was the father of Dr. William Davis Tremper of Portsmouth, Ohio.
6. WILLIAM DAVIS TREMPER son of Johnson Tremper and Laura Jeffries, his wife, was b. in New Richmond, Ohio, May, 9, 1851. (See his sketch on page 580.)
The Vance Family.
I. WILLIAM VANCE, father of John Vance, was a Revolutionary soldier. He served in the War of the Revolution as Captain in the 12th Virginia, afterwards designated as the 8th (Eighth) Virginia. He was in the service from March, 1777, to March, 1781.
II. JOHN VANCE was a soldier in the War of 1812.
III. ALEXANDER VANCE was a native of Virginia. His parents brought him to Ohio in 1815, three years after his birth. His father was John Vance and his mother's maiden name was Mary English.
Alexander came to Gallipolis in 1832 and resided there the remainder of his life. He was active in public affairs and held many positions of honor and responsibility. He was in Texas when the Texas Revolution occurred. He. took an active part in some of the battles. He entered Co. I., 4th W. Va. Inf., as its Captain August 21, 1861. He resigned on account of ill health February 16, 1863, but during his service he was in all the battles in which his regiment participated. He was Provost Marshal General of the Kanawha Division of the Army of West Virginia during the summer of 1862. His son,
IV. John L. Vance, who has a sketch herein, was Captain of Co. B, of the same regiment. His son, Reuben A., was a Sergeant in the same regiment, entering the service at the age of fourteen years, August 22, 1861, and was discharged for disability September 1, 1864, at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Eliza A. Shepard, the wife of Alexander Vance, was a daughter of Col. Luther Shepard, a native of Massachusetts, whose father, William Shepard, was a Revolutionary soldier. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of Danielson's Massachusetts regiment; later, he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 3d Continental Infantry, and Colonel of the same Regiment. He was wounded at Long Island. He was mustered out of service January 1, 1783.
Col. Shepard came to Ohio soon after its settlement, and was among the early settlers at Gallipolis. He always took a great interest in the progress of the town and county. He was one of the founders of the Gallia Academy in 1809. He was an offrcer of the war of 1812. At one time he was in command of the post at Chillicothe, with six hundred English prisoners in his charge. His wife was Margaret Entsminger, of Virginia, whose father was a Revolutionary soldier.
General John L. Vance's great-grandfather on the paternal side, Samuel English, served in the Revolutionary War as Second Lieutenant of the 5th New York in 1776. He was made First Lieutenant in 1778; retired, 1781.
Alexander Vance was County Auditor and Surveyor of Gallia county; Mayor of Gallipolis for several terms; Justice of the Peace, four terms; member of the Board of Education several terms. He was one of the officers de-
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tailed at Vicksburg to survey and construct a canal and it was in this service that he contracted disease which caused his resignation in 1863.
The Vanmeter Family.
came from Bommel in South Holland in New Amsterdam, in 1663. The emi-
grants were:
I. JAMES GYSTERSIN VANMETEREN and his son aged ten, Kyrn Jan Vanmeteren. The name of the emigrant's wife has not been preserved. He settled in Utrecht. in Kings county.
II. KYRN JANSEN VANMETEREN married Neltje Van Cleef, September 9, 1683. Their children were Jan (John) baptized April 24. 1687, Engelje, Gysbert, Kyrn. Benjamin, Eyda, Joseph, Cyrinius and Janitze.
III. JOHN went to Virginia in 1739 on an exploring expedition and examined the valley of the South branch of the Potomac. The name of his wife has not been preserved. In 1740, he and his four sons, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and John settled in Virginia.
IV. ISAAC VANMETER married and had four children, Henry, Garret, Mary and another daughter who married Jacob Hite and died without issue. He located in Hardy county, Virginia, in 1744. In 1757, he was killed by the Indians outside of the Fort where he resided.
V. GARRET VANMETER was born in New York, in 1732. He married Mrs. Ann Sibley whose maiden name was Ann Markee, in 1756. He was a Colonel of the Militia in the war of the Revolution and intimately acquainted with Gen. George Washington. He had children, Isaac, born, December 10, 1757, Jacob, born May 8, 1764, Ann, born, April 15, 1767.
VI. ISAAC VANMETER, b. 1754, m. Bettie Inskeep and among their children was John Inskeep Vanmeter, No. 7 below. Isaac Vanmeter died December 13, 1837, in Hardy county, Va. A picture and sketch of him is given in "Genealogies and Sketches of Old Families, etc." by Benjamin F. Vanmeter, of Kentucky, published 1901. by John P. Morton and Company; Louisville, Kentucky. Isaac Vanmeter was a strict Presbyterian and a model citizen. He was a member of the Virginia Legislature when it ratified the Federal Constitution.
VII. JOHN INSKEEP VANMETER was b. in Hardy Co., Virginia. February 1798, son of Isaac in No. VI. He attended William and Mary College and afterwards at Princeton, N. J. where he graduated in 1821. He studied law in the celebrated school of Judge Gould, at Litchfield, Conn, and was admitted to the Bar of Virginia in 1824. He commenced the practice of law at Moorefield, Virginia. In the same year he was elected to the House of Delegates from Hardy county. April 11, 1826, he was married to Mary Harness. a daughter of Joseph Harness and took up his residence in Pike county. Ohio, on a farm of 3,000 acres his father had purchased in 1801. From December 5, 1836 to April 3, 1837, he represented Ross, Pike and Jackson counties in the lower house of the Ohio Legislature. From December 4. 1837 to March 19, 1838 he represented the same counties in the House, and from December 3. 1838 to March 18, 1839, he representd the same counties in the Senate. In 1S40. he was a Whig Presidential elector from Ohio. From March 4. 1843 to March 4. 1845. he was a member of the 28th Congress for Pike, Jackson, Hocking and Ross counties. In 1855 he removed to Chillicothe where he resided until his death in August, 1875. He had seven children who grew to maturity Elizabeth H., Joseph H., Isaac, John M., Eliza and Sarah twins, and Mary. Of these only John M. and Mary are surviving. Mr. Vanmeter was a whig during this existence of that party, afterwards he acted with the Democratic party. He was a citizen respected and beloved by all who knew him and possessed of all the civic virtues.
VIII. JOHN MARSHALL VANMETER, son of John Inskeep Vanmeter in No. 7 was born in Pike county, Ohio, in September, 1836. He attended the University of Virginia and graduated from Jefferson College. Pa.. in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1857 and began the practice of law at Chillicothe the same year. In January. 1861, he married Miss Eliza Irwin Sisson, daughter, of Dr. Peleg Sisson. There were three children of this marriage, John I., Eliza I. and Marshall Sisson. who died in young manhood. Mrs. Vanmeter died in 1865. In 1872, Mr. Vanmeter married Miss Susan Cunning-
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ham, of Moorefield, Hardy county, W. Va. There were three children of this marriage, William Streit, Mary Harness, and Sally Cunningham. The son died in childhood. From January to October, 1876, Mr. Vanmeter served as Common Pleas Judge of his sub-division by appointment. In 1881, he retired from the practice of the law and devoted his entire attention to his property interests. He conducts his large farm in Pike county and is President of the Savings Bank of Chillicothe, Ohio. In his political views, he is a democrat.
The Waite Family.
The word "Wait" originally spelled "Wayghte" or "Wayte" is derived from the old High German "Wachten"—to keep watch. The original "Waytes" were found in England immediately after the Norman Conquest.
I. RICHARD WAITE, the immigrant ancestor of the Wait family, became a proprietor of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1637, and resided there many years. From him descended three sons: (1) John, (2) Thomas and (3) Joseph. From Thomas sprung Henry M. Waite, Chief Justice of Connecticut, who was the ancestor of Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice of the United States. Most, if not-all, the grandsons of this immigrant ancestor, were soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Some of these distinguished themselves in the French and 1ndian War, previously, and history records their sufferings and privations while on the march and in prison.
II. JOSEPH had only one son, named John, who kept the Old Waite Tavern on the Post road, between Boston and Albany which was a famous stopping place for travelers for many years.
III. This JOHN WAITE had seven sons: (1) John, (2) Joseph, (3) Thomas, (4) Benjamin, (5) Richard, (6) William and (7) Jeduthan. Joseph, the second son, entered the Provincial Army in 1754 and has a most interesting history and his fame is proved by the fact that at Springfield, Massachusetts, and Clarendon, Vermont, monuments were erected by the citizens as a token of the esteem in which he was held. Waite river in Vermont received its name on account of some of his daring exploits.
IV. BENJAMIN WAITE, the fourth son of John Waite, and one of the ancestors of the Waite family in Scioto county, enlisted in the French and Indian War, at the age of eighteen, and was in forty engagements during this service. At one time he was captured by 1ndians and with two others was made to run the gauntlet. Waite being tall and athletic and understanding Indian ways, grabbed a gun from one of the Indians, clubbed his way through and gained his freedom, but the others failed and were badly beaten. Soon after this, came the boundary dispute between the states of New York and New Hampshire and this young man was one of the Green Mountain Boys in that struggle. Following this difficulty came the battles of Lexington and Concord and he with other patriots at once offered their services and he received a commission as Captain and the official records at Washington mention him first as Major and then as Lieutenant Colonel of Waite's Battalion of Vermont Militia, Revolutionary War. Colonel Waite was a patriot of the highest order for at the breaking out of the war he sold all his property for $4,000 in gold and loaned the money to the government, which was repaid him in Continental Currency which was nearly worthless. 1t is on record that he gave a peddler $1,200 for .a half pound of tea and a quarter pound of indigo, so little value was there in this kind of money. The service required of the army of that locality during the war was of the most arduous kind for they had to deal with the cunning of the savage as well as the civilized foes. He was afterwards commissioned as Brigadier General of the Vermont Militia as one of the rewards for his services. His life subsequent to the war is well known in the history of his state and mention is made of the different positions of honor held by him in these after years of his life. The town of Waitsfield was chartered by him and several others and the records of that place show him to have been both a patriot and a Christian. General Wait born February 13, 1736, at Sudbury, Massachusetts, was married to Lois Gilbert, 1767. She was the daughter of Captain Gilbert another one of the heroes of the Revolution. He died 1822 leaving six sons: Ezra, Benjamin, born at Windsor, Vermont, September 11, 1773, Gilbert, Thomas, Joseph and John.
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V. BENJAMIN, the second son and the ancestor of the Waits of Scioto county, emigrated to Ohio in the year 1814, coming with his family from Vermont to Pittsburg by wagon. Here a boat was secured and family, teams and household goods were loaded and floated down the Ohio, landing near Portsmouth. He had expected to locate in the Scioto Valley. but on arrival and noting the appearance of the inhabitants and hearing their stories of the malaria, became discouraged and located on the knobs of Porter township and there lived the remainder of his life, giving his best efforts in clearing the land and doing other work in the pioneer line of fitting the wilderness for habitation. Here the family was reared and each took his or her part in the duties of the times. Other employments were often entered into for a season for the purpose of getting a little money which was so scarce in that day. Benjamin Wait built one of the first saw mills in this section and for years his little mill on Ward's Run furnished the only lumber used in that neighborhood. The young men of the family made frequent trips to the salt works of the Kanawha Valley and would remain for months working in order to get a little cash. The father made several trips to New Orleans on flat boats, with some of the sons, to sell produce, floating along, standing watch by turns and selling their load, and boat, too, as best they could, and then making their way back, often the greater part of the way on foot, each trip consuming months of time. Benjamin Wait was married to Lavinia Heaton in 1793 and he died January 8, 1858. His wife died October 7, 1872, aged over ninety-six years. Twelve children were born to them, only two of whom, Benjamin F. and John H., spent nearly their whole lives in this county.
VI. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WAITE lived. on a farm in Porter township, at what is now known as Waite's Station. He married Mary Smith. of Kentucky. To them were born: Perlina S. Allen, deceased, Olive A. Hayward of Nebraska, William H. of Iowa, James P., deceased, Abigail Stockham of Scioto county, Joseph B., deceased, Benjamin F. of Nebraska, Lavinia, wife of Captain A. J. Finney of Portsmouth, Jemima Schomberg of Scioto county, Mary, deceased, and Nevada.
John Heaton Waite was born March 22, 1811. He was three years old when he came to Ohio with his father. He was married to Malvina D. Sikes September 12, 1839. Their children were: Isabella Wyeth, deceased, Gilbert D. of Scioto county, Frances W. Leiter of Mansfield, Ohio, Emma W. Avery of St. Albans, Vermont, Sadie S. Holman of Long Dale, Virginia and John W. of Detroit, Michigan.
The White Family.
I. WILLIAM WHITE, who m. Susannah Fuller, came to 'America on the Mayflower, with his wife. They had two sons Resolved and Peregrine 'the latter of whom was born December 10, 1620, being the first born in the Plymouth Colony on board the Mayflower. He died at Marshfield on July 31, 1704.
II. PEREGRINE WHITE m. Sarah Bassett, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wiltiam Bassett, who came to America on the Fortune November 10, 1621. Their children were:
(1) Daniel, b. 1649, m. Hana Hunt at Duxbury, August 19, 1674. (2) Jonathan, b. June 4, 1658, m. Ester Nickerson. (3) Sarah, b. 1663, m. Thomas Young. (4) Mercy m. William Sherman, in 1697, died 1739.
III. The children of DANIEL WHITE (1) and Hana Hunt were:
(1) John, b. April 26, 1675, m. Susannah Sherman, February 18, 1700. (2) Joseph, b. March 1, 1678, m. Elizabeth Dwelley. (3) Thomas, b. May 8, 1680, m. Rachel . (4) Cornelius, b. March 28, 1692, m. Hannah Handel, May 22, 1706. (5) Benjamin, b. October 12, 1864, m. Faith Oakman, December 2, 1814. (6) Eleazer, b. November 8, 1686. m. Mary Doggett, September 29, 1712.
IV. The children of ELEAZER WHITE and Mary Doggett were:
(1) Nehemiah, b. February 14, 1713. (2) Peregrine, b. 1715. (3) Eleazer, b. 1717. (4) Elkanah, b. 1719. (5) Mary, b. 1721. (6) Beniah, b. 1724. (7) Penelope, b. 1727. (8) Thomas, b. 1729. (9) Rebecca, b. 1731.
V. Children of NEHEMIAH WHITE.
(1) Phillip, b. 1734, m. _____ Campbell. (2) Nicholas, h. 1734, m. Ester Wood. (3) Seth, b. 1737, at Woodstock, Conn., moved to New Hamp-
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shire about 1757, then to Greenupsburg, Kentucky, 1779. He died at Greenupsburg, in 1825. (4) Oliver, b. May 1, 1759, m. Abby Turner.
VI. The children of SETH WHITE:
(1) Seth, Jr., was b. in 1757, m. at Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
(2) Abel, born in New Hampshire, 1758.
VII. ABEL WHITE went with his father to Kentucky, in 1779. They floated down the Ohio river on a raft with their household goods and located at Greenupsburg, or about two miles below. They were trappers and hunters. Abel White was a private soldier in Captain Daniel's Company. Elisha Whitcombe was his First Lieutenant, Ephraim Stone, Second Lieutenant, and Aaron Smith, Ensign. Colonel Timothy Bedell was Colonel of the Regiment. This was in January, 1776. He was allowed 4£ 15s for his services, and this was paid to his heirs in Scioto county, in 1831. He traveled 70 miles in this service. The Regiment was raised by resolution of the New Hampshire Legislature, passed January 20, 1776. He afterwards served in Captain John Coles Company. Colonel Ashley's Regiment which marched from Westmoreland, June 28, 1777, and was discharged July 11, 1877. He served eight days at this time and his pay was 1£ 4s. Abel m. Sarah Comfort. Their children were:
(1) Seth, (2) Abel, Jr., (3) Susannah, m. Price Kilpatrick, (4) Rebecca, m. Nathaniel Searl, the father of Judge F. C. Searl, (5) Mary, m. Wyatt Chamberlin, (6) Daniel, grandfather of Jeweller Dan White, (7) John, m. Sylvia Wyman, (8) Asa, (9) Jermiah, lived on the Brushy Fork of the Little Scioto river, and (10) Joel.
Seth and Asa went West and settled at Peoria, Illinois; Daniel, located in Scioto county, about three miles west of Harrisonville.
VIII. DANIEL WHITE was born at Greenupsburg, Ky., on September 24, 1792, and died at Dogwood Ridge, Ohio, June 27, 1857. He was married at Greenupsburg, Ky., on September 25. 1814, to Sarah Osborn, who was born in Greenup county, Ky., September 4, 1796, and died at Dogwood Ridge, Ohio, May 25, 1851. His children were:
(1) Emeline, b. November 2, 1815; m. Simeon Wood; d. June 8, 1875.
(2) Serena, b. September 5, 1817; m. Ira Coriell; d. August 25, 1872.
(3) Osburn, b. January 7, 1820; d. in 1845.
(4) America, b. April 14, 1822; m. Jackson B. Wood at Harrison, Ohio, January 12, 1848; d. at Detroit, Michigan, November 19, 1893.
(5) Mary ("Polly"), b. January 12, 1822; m. Abraham Coriell and d. May 20, 1897.
(6) Columbia, a son, b. March 2, 1826; m. Jerushat Emery and died June, 1897 in Iowa.
(7) Enslow, b. November 23, 1828; m. Sarah Bowers, moved to Mo.; d. in 1865.
(8) Lucetta, b. October 11, 1831; m. Jake Gilland; d. June 4, 1855.
(9) Addison, b. Jan. 16, 1834; d Aug. 12, 1834.
(10) Sarah, b. April 18, 1835; m. Joe Adams; d. September 3, 1894. (11) Electa, b. October 3, 1838; m. Henry Clear, now living at Hawk's Eye, Kansas.
IX. The children of J. B. Wood and AMERICA WHITE were:
(1) Ruth, d. very young.
(2) Eunice, b. May 31, 1850; m. Frederick L. Werback, Detroit, Michigan.
(3) Andrew C. Wood b. September 19, 1852 m. Agnes J. Robb November 11, 1874 at Detroit, Michigan. They had three boys and three girls.
(4) Mary d. when four years old at Jackson, Ohio.
(5) Ann d. very young.
(6) Electa, d. when young, at Nashville, Tennessee.
(7) Ida America, b. April 14, 1864; m. Richard B. Steward, of Detroit, Michigan.
Of the descendants of Peregrine White born on the Mayflower in 1620 and mentioned in this work are Judge F. C. Searl on page 299, Horace White on page 1,181, Daniel White on page 1,180, George W. White on page 1,181, the wife of Milton H. Shumway on page 1,132, the wife of Milton W. Brown on page 915, William B. Coriell on page 939, Orpheus A. Searl on page 1,127, Clinton M. Searl on page 327, Edward Coriell on page 938, Edgar W. Brown on page 913, Charles Wesley Brown on page 913, Henry Asbury Brown on page 915.
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Paul White's Family.
Paul White was born in Pennsylvania, December 17, 1817. His father died when he was a child. Paul removed to Scioto county when he was a youth. He was married to Elizabeth Walker. They had four children: John and Nancy Ann, who m. Wm. Powell, reside at Young, 0.; Drucilla, m. Francis M. Powell, resides near Otway; Elizabeth, m. Frank Morse, resides on Paul White's old home place. His wife died February 25, 1862, and he was married the second time to Serena Powell in 1863. They had two children: Harrison, who resides on the old home place and Laura B., married Dynes Chambers. Paul White was a prosperous farmer, and owned a great body of land on Brush Creek. He was always a democrat in his political views. He was not a church member, but a good citizen. He died in 1882.
The Whitney Family.
The first Whitney was Eustace de Whitney of Flemish descent. Of his mother, Agnes, it is recorded in Doomsday Book, "Agnes, widow of Turstin the Fleming, and Sir Eustace, her son, Lord of Whitney, gave to the church of St. Peter, at Gloucester, one hide (120 acres) of land in Pencomb, etc." Some of the early Lords of Whitney were of Welsh descent, one of whom, Sir Peidge Exrog, was a Knight of the Round Table, and "in King Arthur's time he lived at his castle at Cardmore at Cardiganshire." The Robert Whitney of the parliament of the First Elizabeth, 1558-59, received the honorable order of knighthood in the time of the reign of Queen Mary, and his crest was the head of an ox.
I. JOHN WHITNEY was the tirst Whitney in America. He was the son of Thomas Whitney and Mary Bray, his wife. He was bpt. in St. Margaret's the parish church standing in the shadow of the famous Abbey on the 20th day of July, 1592. He was one of nine children. His mother d. September 25, 1629 and his father died in April, 1637. February 22, 1607 he was apprenticed at the age of fourteen by his father to William Pring of the Old Bailey, London The latter was a "Freeman" of the Merchant Tailor's Company, then the most famous and prosperous of all the great trade guilds. On March 13, 1614 he became a full-fledged member. He was m. in England to Elinor. She was b. 1599 and d. in Watertown, Mass., May 11, 1659. In April, 1635, he registered with his wife and tive sons as a passenger in the ship "Eliza beth and Ann, Roger Cooper, Master," which a few weeks afterward, completed her lading and set sail for the New World. He settled in Watertown, Mass., June, 1635. He m. 2d in Watertown, September 29, 1659, Judith Clement. She d. before her husband. He had ten children, of whom Joshua b. July 5, 1635 was the eighth. He d. June 1, 1673.
II. DEACON JOSHUA WHITNEY b. July 5, 1635 at Watertown, Mass m. Lydia ____ ; m. 2d, Mary ___ . She d. at Groton, March 17, 1671; m. 3d September 30, 1672, Abigail Tarball. He was a deacon and original proprietor at Groton, Mass., and dwelt there probably until it was burned by the Indians, during King Philip's war, in the spring of 1676. He returned to Watertown for a few years and d. in 1719. His will is dated April 17, 1713, and proved October 6, 1719. He was buried in the old burying ground in Groton. He served as a soldier in King Philipls war with his son, Joshua Jr. in 1691-2. He had twelve children, of whom William, born February 28, 1678 was the fourth. He d. August 7, 1719.
III. WILLIAM WHITNEY his son was b. in Groton, Mass., February 28, 1678. He resided in Groton until his marriage. He was m. in Chelmsford, March, 1700, to Lydia Perham, b. February 19, 1673; d. in Groton, August 24, 1716; m. 2d in Newton, April 25, 1717, Margaret Mirick, b. 1683. He removed to Plainfield, Connecticut, about 1720, where he afterwards resided. His will is dated October 15, 1751. In 1751 he gave the heirs of his sister Abigail Hutchings some property by deed. He had six children. William born May 5, 1701 was the eldest.
IV. WILLIAM WHITNEY born at Groton, Mass. May 5, 1701. He was m. at Killingly, Conn., July 16, 1723, to Mary Whitmore. He removed to Connecticut when quite young with his parents. Settling in Killingly he resided there until after his marriage, when he moved to Canaan, not far from 1753.
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He was a cooper by trade, but followed farming nearly all the latter part of his life. While resident in Killingly in 1728, he was elected a member of the first board of surveyors. William h. February 5, 1725 was the oldest of his three children.
V. WILLIAM WHITNEY b. at Canaan, Connecticut, February 5, 1725; m. at Salisbury, Conn., June 4, 1747, to Arcoucher Dutcher; m. 2d to Jane _____. He was a farmer. He had nine children. Christopher b. September 28, 1751 was the oldest.
VI. CHRISTOPHER WHITNEY b. at Salisbury, Conn., September 28, 1761, where he resided until his majority. He was united in marriage at Sharon, Conn., to Mary Ticknor, of Sharon, Conn., and with his bride was said to be the handsomest couple ever married at that place. Soon after his marriage, the war with Great Britain broke out, and he enlisted in his country's behalf. After the war, with other Continental soldiers, he was paid off in lands; he received a grant of 50 acres of land in the town of Solon, Cortland county, New York. lie probably removed there about 1790 or thereabouts from Tinmouth, Vermont, when he moved from Connecticut. He had four children. Ruluff, b. June 25, 1777, was the second.
VII. RULUFF WHITNEY b. at Salisbury, Conn., June 25, 1777, m. at Virgil, New York, about 1800, to Susanna Glenny. He has a sketch herein among the Pioneer Sketches.
VIII. CAPTAIN WILLIAM GLENNY WHITNEY was b. at Dryden, New York, April 11. 1811; m. October 20, 1836, Melvina Fleming, b. June 14, 1814; d. April 29, 1847; m. March 20, 1850, Elcey F. M. Van Voorhees, b. May 5, 1823. He has a sketch herein.
EAST VIEW OF THE GOV. LUCAS MANSION, PIKE COUNTY.
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