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The administration upon Mrs. Wight's estate, granted March 15, 1760, discloses that she had a daughter who was married to Jonathan Thompson. | Thompson, Martha (I26162)
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The Arnold Memorial simply gives "1687, married Susannah, daughter of Ephraim Carpenter." | Family F2339
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The Baxters were early settlers in Bucks county. Some say about 1682, but we have not met with the evidence. In 1762 Margaret Baxter mortgaged her real estate, and afterward paid it off, dying about 1785. William Baxter, silversmith, was in Warwick, 1772, and Robert Baxter, 1813. The name "Baxter" originally "Bakestre" means baker and was spelled Baxter, Beckster and Bexter. In 1631 several families of the name immigrated from Shropshire, England, to Salem, Mass., with John Throckmorton and others. Excommunicated, they went to
Rhode Island where one family remained. Two other Baxter families settled on Throgg's Neck, West Chester county, New York, where Thomas Baxter died 1715. He was there as early as 1685 and served as Alderman, Justice of Peace, church vestryman and captain. The third family of this name is the one that settled in Bucks county. Colonel Baxter who commanded a Pennsylvania regiment in the Revolution was probably a descendant of one of these families. He was killed at Fort Washington and his remains buried at Tenth avenue and 182d street, New York City. An unlettered stone marks the spot.
!THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XXV, WARWICK, 1733.
from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M.,
1876 and 1905* editions.. | Baxter, Thomas (I26352)
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The Bellingham Town Clerk possesses the Samuel Wight Diary which lists the death record of Eli Pond "of Franklin." Eli & Huldah had twelve children according to "Descendants of John Hill." He is described in this source as Eli POND of Holliston, Medway, Bellingham and Franklin. Eli POND was a sadler and first settled at Medway. In 1767 he bought an estate at Holliston of Joseph HILL, and seems to have resided there a short time; in 1769 he bought land in Medway of Amos ELLIS and returned to that town. In 1778 he sold his homestead of eight acres, with the house in which he was then living, to Philemon Metcalf, and removed to Bellingham. He lived there four or five years and then settled at Franklin where he resided until his death. Administration on his estate was granted to his son Eli, 6 July 1802. The inventory showed only $90.
!Daniel POND and His Descendants,E.D. Harris:49
Eli Pond was a drummer in Captain John Boyd's company of minutemen, Col. Greaton's regiment, which assembled and marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775 at Lexington; service 8 days. Also Sergeant, Capt. Samuel Cobb's company, Col. Joseph Read's regiment; muster roll dated August 1, 1775; enlisted 27 April 1775; also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Roxbury, 27 December, 1775; also Sergeant, Capt. Josiah Fuller's company, Col. Wheelock's regiment; service 23 days; company marched from Medway to Warwick, RI, on the alarm of 8 December, 1776; also 2nd Lieutenant, Capt. Moses Adam's (6th) company, Col. Benjamin Hawes's regiment of the Massachusetts militia; list of officers chosen by the several companies in said regiment, dated Wrentham, 26 September, 1777; Pond elected 23 September, 1777; ordered in council 27 September, 1777; also Lieutenant, serving in Captain Amos Ellis' company, Col. Benjamin Hawes's regiment; engaged 25 September, 1777; service to 31 October, 1777, 1 month 7 days at Little Compton, RI; roll dated Bellingham; also list of men returned by committee of the town of Medway 13 April, 1778, as having rendered service at various times subsequent to 19 April, 1775; also Lieutenant, Lt. Hezekiah Ware's company, Col. Nathaniel Wade's regiment; entered service 20 June, 1778; discharged 14 July, 1778; service, 25 days; company detached from 4th Suffolk co. regiment to serve at Rhode Island for 21 days from arrival at headquarters.
!Massachusetts Soldiers & Sailors of the Revolutionary War, 12:529 | Pond, Eliezer (Eli) (I10113)
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The Blue-Eyed Indians
The Story of Adam Crysler and His Brothers in the Revolutionary War
By Don Chrysler - 1999
Chrysler Books
36920 Lakewood
Zephyrhills, FL 33541
copyright Ć 1999 by C. Donald Chrysler
PREFACE
Schoharie historians and Adam Crysler's journal differ on some of the dates of the Revolutionary War. We have used our best judgment on the dates assigned to this biography. Also, we have made no attempt to change the spelling of names and places which are quoted directly from Adam's journal.
Adam Crysler and his brothers have stirred the passions of historical writers like few others. Early writers like Simms and Roscoe have painted them as downright demons in the flesh. Later American writers had a less critical view. It should be understood that war is inherently evil and that atrocities were carried out on both sides, not just by the Loyalists.
To those who read these pages who have ancestors that were victims of the Schoharie raids we extend our sincere condolences. We, too, lost one of the Crysler family. Our purpose now is to present the Loyalists side of the story through the harrowing adventures of Adam Crysler and his brothers. Hopefully it will help heal the rift between the descendants of the once friendly neighbors of that idyllic Schoharie community.
FOREWORD
ADAM CRYSLER'S ANCESTORS
In 1709, Johann Philipp Greisler (39) with his wife, Anna Catharina (39) and two sons, Johann George (8), and Johannes (7) left their home in Guntersblum, Germany to seek a new life in America. (Johann Philip's father was Johannes Kreussler and his grandfather was Leonard Kreussler.) The British Government promised Johann Philipp and Anna Catharina free transportation, forty acres of land, money, clothes, utensils and tools if they would establish a farm in the new colonies.
A total of 3,200 Palatine Germans left England in the spring of 1710 on 12 small ships. The "Lion of Leith" was the first to arrive on June 13, 1710. It was followed the next day by the "Lowestoffe," carrying the British magistrate, Governor Hunter. On July 7, the frigate "Herbert" wrecked off Block Island. Seven more ships arrived prior to July 10. They were the "Fame," "Mary," "Hartwell," "Baltimore," "James and Elizabeth," "Sarah," and the frigate, "Tower." The "Midford" arrived after July 12 and the "Berkley Castle" arrived on August 12, 1710. Sickness and disease caused the death of 470 passengers along the way.
The Greislers (Chryslers) remained in New Amsterdam (New York City) during the winter of 1710 where another son, Johann Henrich Valentin, was born. He was baptized on Sept. 13, 1710 but died as an infant. In 1711 they proceeded up the Hudson River about 90 miles to the settlement at West Camp, NY.
Johann Philipp and Anna Catharina helped establish the West Camp Lutheran Church. According to the Church records written by Rev. Joshua Kocherthal, another son, Johann Hieronymus (Jeronimus) Greisler, was born March 6, 1713 and baptized March 8, 1713 at the West Camp Lutheran Church. He was sponsored by Hieronymus Klein and Johann Planck. Another child, Anna Catharina Greisler, was born October 13, 1714 and baptized October 17, 1714. Her sponsors were Catharina Elisabetha Rau, Appolonia Froelich and Johan Philipp Heller. On December 11, 1733, she married Gabriel Graad at the Catskill Dutch Reformed Church. Johann Philipp and Anna Catharina's last child, Anna Elizabeth, was born about 1716 in West Camp.
Johann Philipp and Anna Catharina remained on the west side of the Hudson at West Camp, Kisketamenesy or Loonenburg until 1733 when Anna Catharina died. She was buried at Loonenburg (now Athens) about 11 miles north of West Camp.
It appears that Johann Philipp remained on the west side of the Hudson for the remainder of his life with his oldest son, Johann George, although one report has him going to Schoharie with his youngest son, Jeronimus, around 1740. At that time, Adam was about eight years old and so accompanied his father, Jeronimus, and family to the wilds of Schoharie.
CHAPTER 1
THE BLUE-EYED INDIANS
Adam Crysler was born in 1732 in the little village of West Camp, about 90 miles north of New York City, on the Hudson River. His Grandfather, Johann Philipp Greisler, and Grandmother, Anna Cathrina Braun Greisler, had settled there when they came from Germany to the Colonies in 1710. Between 1740 and 1742, Adam's father, Jeronimus (sometimes spelled Hieronymus), fourth child of Johann Philipp and Anna Cathrina, left the west side of the Hudson and headed for the "promised land of Schoharie," some forty five miles to the northwest. In 1742, a large patent of land was purchased by "Vrooman, Swartz and Griesler" (Jeronimus) in the southeastern section of New Dorlach (Seward). On April 16, 1744, Jeronimus Crysler, William Bouck and Frederick Lawyer purchased 12,000 acres of land from the Indians for 30 pounds. The property lay southwest of Middleburg along both sides of the Schoharie River. Jeronimus developed 80 acres on the west side of the river where he built his home at Fultonham, ten miles south of the village of Schoharie. Here, in the midst of Indian territory, Adam grew up on the banks of Breakabeen Creek where it enters the Schoharie River.
What a great place that was. The home stood on the south bank of Breakabeen Creek, just above the road that leads north to Middleburg, about five miles away. Across the road from his house was Crysler's Hook, a small bend in the Schoharie River. Near the Hook was Bouck's Island, developed and owned by the Bouck family. The Bouck family was related to the Cryslers by the marriage of Jeronimus' sister, Anna Elizabeth, to William Bouck in 1742 and through the marriage of Adam's sister, Maria, to Johannes Bouck in 1772.
Jeronimus was deeply indebted to the British crown for rescuing his parents out of Germany and delivering them to the Colonies. In 1746, when the Crown requested volunteers from the Germans to fight the French in Quebec, Jeronimus was one of the first to enlist. He was a good soldier and soon became an officer with the rank of Lieutenant.
All of the Cryslers were strong Lutherans and Jeronimus was no exception. After arriving at Fultonham, all his children and grandchildren were baptized in the Lutheran Church of Dominie Peter N. Somers at Schoharie. Jeronimus, Adam and Baltus became active members of the Church and on May 1, 1749, Jeronimus was appointed an Elder.
Adam was about eight when they arrived at Schoharie and was soon found playing with the young warriors in the Indian village near his house. Historians tell us he became a swift runner and was able to outrun most other white boys. In the course of time he began dressing like the Indians and in time was inducted into their ranks as the blue-eyed Indian. Nor was Adam alone. His younger brothers Philip, John and William also followed in his footsteps and enjoyed an equal fellowship with their red brothers.
In 1750, Adam received the Fultonham property from his father and with the help of his brothers and younger Bouck family members built the gristmill and ran the farm on Breakabeen Creek. He had a barn with utensils and wagon and raised wheat in his fertile fields. Before the war he had 14 cattle to graze in his plush meadows and grasslands. He also had 8 horses, 20 hogs and 5 sheep. Jeronimus, his father, died in 1751. On July 10, 1760, Adam married Anna Maria (Hoover) Braun. Philip, John and William then moved to their father's property in New Dorlach, 16 miles to the northwest, where they built their homes. Another brother, Baltus, married Elizabeth Johnson and built a home for his family just south of Middleburg.
All of the Cryslers prospered and were living peacefully with their neighbors and the red men until the 4th day of July in 1776, when news came that a group in Philadelphia had declared their independence from the Crown. The war was now to reach the Schoharie frontier; it was a time to test men's souls. How could these Germans, who owed everything they had to the Crown, take up arms against the King? It was to become a struggle that divided the Schoharie community right down the middle. And not only the white men but the Indians also were hung in the balance. Was not the King the Great White Father? How could they turn against him whom they had been taught to revere? It was an impossible choice to make and one that split the Six Nations during the whole Revolutionary War.
The decision was not difficult for 44 year-old Adam. His father had been an officer for the Crown and he himself had been appointed an Ensign by the British on October 14, 1768. Nor in 1776 was there a question in the minds of his brothers, 37 year-old Philip, 32 year-old John and 30 year-old William, who also took up arms with the Loyalists. Although Baltus reluctantly joined the Rebel cause, he was not trusted and one day in 1777 he was captured by his neighbors, Martines Vroman and Lawrence Mattice, who bolted into his home when his wife, Elizabeth, opened the door in the morning. Capt. Jacob Hager and his committee at the Upper Fort sent Baltus to Albany, "a hotbed of Whigs," where the hangman awaited those who "aided and abetted the enemy." Thus the motive for the Crysler brother's many raids upon their Schoharie neighbors may be better understood.
In the summer of 1777, the British devised a grand strategy by which they intended to defeat the Americans in a three-pronged attack on Albany. General Burgoyne left Crown Point to go down the Hudson and attack from the north. Col. St. Leger left Oswego to attack from the west down the Mohawk, and Sir Henry Clinton was to leave New York and attack from the south. Had they succeeded, the war would have been over and nothing would have ever been known of the escapades of the "notorious Adam Crysler." History informs us, however, that the grand scheme was defeated and so the annals of the blue-eyed Indians were about to unfold.
CHAPTER 2
THE BATTLE OF FLOCKEY
After hearing of the inflammatory writings of Thomas Payne and others, some of the citizens in the Schoharie area felt it was time for them as well to rebel against the King. On July 7, 1777, they began by forming a Defense Committee for their protection. One of their first projects was to build a series of forts on the Schoharie River. The Upper Fort enclosed the home of John Feeck on the west side of the river, about four miles south of Middleburg and about a mile north of Adam's home. It was the strongest of the three forts. The log enclosure consisted of two blockhouses, earthworks, pickets, and barracks for the soldiers and log huts for the citizens. The Middle Fort (Fort Defiance), headquarters of the three forts, enclosed three acres. It included a stone house and had two blockhouses at diagonal corners like the Upper Fort. It had accommodations for both soldiers and citizens and was surrounded by a mote and pickets. It was located on the east side of the Schoharie River at Middleburg. The Lower Fort was downstream about five miles north also on the east side of the river at Schoharie. It enclosed one acre of land including the Dutch Stone Church, which had been built in 1772. The belfry was converted into a sentry box. It had two blockhouses, pickets, barracks and log huts like the others. Each Fort was equipped with two cannons for signaling and battle. Much of the fall and winter of 1777 were used to construct and fortify these forts.
In 1777, Adam Crysler was still an Ensign in the British Indian Affairs Department. In June, his superior, the Indian Captain Joseph Brant, instructed Adam to remain at his home and recruit as many of his neighbors and Indians as possible for the Crown. He was able to recruit 25 Indians and 70 of his fellow citizens. On August 9, 1777, Captain John McDonald with 28 men arrived at Adam's house and planned a raid down the Schoharie River. On August 13, 1777, Capt. McDonald, Ensign Crysler, about 100 Loyalists and 25 Indians proceeded along the river toward Middleburg. They encamped overnight at the north end of Vrooman's Land, about four miles north of Adam's house. Their presence at the Crysler home, however, had been discovered and by the time they approached Middleburg on August 14 they were informed that a band of Cavalry, drawn from Albany, was advancing toward them. Without a Cavalry of their own, they were forced to retreat toward the Flockey (high ground near a swamp) in front of Adam's house where they set an ambush in the pouring rain. When the Cavalry advanced, Adam's men let go with a volley hitting nine of their light horse. Lieu. David Wirt and Private Rose were killed and another Private was slightly wounded. These became the first American casualties in the Schoharie region during the Revolution. McDonald, Adam and his newly initiated band of Loyalists and Indians then retreated toward the British Fort at Oswego on Lake Ontario. After four days, however, Adam fell sick and was left at the Indian camp called the "Butternuts." At the end of November, Adam was better and began recruiting Indians once again. He soon was able to take 100 Indians with him to Fort Niagara. He remained at the Fort for a month and then, according to his Journal, was ordered by Col. John Butler of Butler's Rangers, "to proceed to watch the motion of the Rebels and to keep the Indians as much in favor of Government as laid in my power where I continued all winter." Meanwhile, the American forces of Gen. Washington and Gen. Gates languished half-frozen and starving in Valley Forge and Bemis Heights.
In 1778, the British initiated a number of raids on the Schoharie frontier to disrupt the American cause. Their goal was to take prisoners, capture horses and cattle, burn homes and especially destroy crops that may have found their way back to the American army. In May of 1778, Col. Butler appointed Adam a Lieutenant. On May 30, Capt. Joseph Brant, with a band of Loyalists and Indians, fought a battle in Cobleskill where many homes, including that of Nicholas Warner, were burned. On June 4, Adam was engaged in a battle in the valley of Wyoming, Pennsylvania that caused 460 Rebel casualties. Adam was also involved in the destruction of the whole settlement of German Flats in September of 1778.
On November 11, Brant, with Capt. Walter Butler, Adam Crysler, 200 Rangers and 320 Indians attacked the village of Cherry Valley. The clear policy of the British was to spare women, children and the elderly, but here the policy went terribly wrong. Ignoring the pleas of their officers, the Indians, bent on revenge for losses of their own, attacked everyone who did not reach the safety of the Fort. All property and crops were put to the torch and the cattle returned as a prize to Niagara.
In October of 1779, Adam received his official commission as Lieutenant from Col. Guy Johnson and Captain General Frederick Haldimand. That year, Capt. Brant spent his time observing and retreating from the American General John Sullivan who was on a campaign against enemy Indian camps. Adam's Journal explains his own activities in 1779:
"In the spring I went to Canatasago under the command of Col. Butler and in the month of July I went to the west branch of the Suskahannah under the command of Capt. McDonald with Rangers and Indians and took 30 prisoners and 40 killed and destroyed that whole settlement and then we returned to Col. Butler at Canatasago, and from there we went to Shemung where we faced the whole army of Rebels and were forced to retreat to Oyenyanye where we attacked them again, and from there we retreated to Niagara.
"In October 1779, on Col. Johnson's arrival at this place I was ordered by him to attend Capt. Brant with 80 Indians to go to the Three Rivers by land to meet Sir John Johnson, on our arrival there we sent a party to Oswego who returned and brought accounts that nobody was there, upon which we proceeded to Oswego and from that to Niagara."
The year 1780 became very active on the frontier. On July 3, Adam Crysler and seven Indians stopped at the home of the Loyalist, Michael Merkley, in New Dorlach and spent the night. The next day, July 4, in the same town, they captured William Hynds, his wife and six children. They were all taken back to Niagara as prisoners of war. (After the war, Mr. Hynds returned home with three of the children, his wife and the other children having died in captivity.)
During August of 1780, Capt. Brant with his Indian friend, Seth's Henry, five Loyalists and 73 other Indians raided and destroyed the Canajoharie, NY area. On Aug. 9, accompanied by Adam, they burned the homes and barns near the Upper Fort at Fultonham killing five Rebels and taking two prisoners. They then continued south to Adam's house on Breakabeen Creek where, after removing the flour, they burned Adam's gristmill to prevent it being used by the enemy. They then headed for Panther Creek, about 3 miles south of Adam's home. There they traveled west along the creek to the Charlotte and Susquehanna Rivers and then on to Fort Niagara.
CHAPTER 3
COL. JOHNSON'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST SCHOHARIE
In September of 1780, the British thought a major campaign against the frontier was necessary to break the resistance of the settlers and destroy the recently harvested grain before it fell into the hands of the enemy. They summoned their able Col. John Johnson for the task. Equipped with 500 soldiers and Indians, including Capt. Joseph Brant, Seth's Henry, Lieu. Adam Crysler and his brothers, they set out for the Schoharie area.
On the evening of Oct. 1, 1780, while Sir Johnson was en route, seventeen-year-old Margaret "Peggy" Feeck (Feek), whose home was in the Upper Fort, set in motion a plan to elope with the Yankee sharpshooter, Timothy Murphy. Her parents would have nothing to do with the young Irishman so an ingenious plan was devised. As the sun was setting, her cousin chaperoned her to the milking of the cows. After completing the task, her cousin left. Margaret then spilled a little of the milk and told her mother that one of the cows was not with the rest and so was not milked. Her mother immediately sent her back alone saying, "That cow must be milked!" Margaret obliged and leaving her pail in the cow-yard, made her way some three miles down the Schoharie River toward the Middle Fort. Timothy, on horseback, met his beloved at the Middleburg Bridge. She mounted his horse behind him and rode off to the protection of the Fort. A wagon was quickly produced and the young couple set out for Schenectady to be wed. Accompanying them on the trip as witnesses were Adam Crysler's eldest daughter, nineteen-year-old Margaret, and her Uncle, Johannes Bouck. Upon their return to Middleburg, a party was held and there was much dancing and merrymaking. The honeymoon was brief, however, because Col. Johnson was on his way to the Schoharie valley.
On Oct. 16, as Johnson's army approached from the west, Adam's brother, Philip, was dispatched to his home in New Dorlach to remove his wife, Elizabeth Braun Crysler, and family to the safety of Fort Niagara. Col. Johnson had followed the Indian trail along the Susquehanna, Charlotte, and Panther Creeks and that same night arrived near Adam's home on the Schoharie where he spent the evening. The next morning, Oct. 17, Johnson's party headed north, along the Schoharie River. They bypassed the stronger Upper Fort and continued to the Middle Fort where they laid siege. Three times Johnson sent a soldier with a white flag to accept the surrender of the Fort but each time Timothy Murphy sent a bullet whizzing over the head of the emissary who made a hasty retreat.
At three in the afternoon of the 17th in exasperation, Col. Johnson set ablaze the grain and buildings in Middleburg, including the Dutch Reformed Church. It was rumored that the church was torched by William Crysler in revenge for the capture and death of his brother, Baltus, by a few of its members. Johnson then headed north again to the village of Schoharie, about five miles down stream.
Arriving at Schoharie a little after 4 p.m., Johnson and his soldiers circled the Fort to the west while his Indians circled to the east. They met on the north side of the Fort and set up their cannon for a barrage. They exchanged volleys until darkness approached when they ceased fire. Johnson then proceeded north away from Schoharie after burning over 100 buildings. They moved through Kniskern Dorf and put it to the torch before encamping for the night near Sloansville.
The next day, on Oct. 18, Seth's Henry and 18 Indians were dispatched to New Dorlach to aid in removing Philip's family to Niagara. They used the occasion to attack the village, killing Michael Merckley and his niece, Catharine Merckley. Some of the Indians attacked the home of Sebastian France killing one of their children, John. Philip Crysler's wife, Elizabeth, was a close friend of the France family and when she heard the disturbance, told Philip to put on his Indian clothes and go to their aid. He hurried to their home where he rescued the rest of the family. After the Indians burned the grain and barns, the entire party returned down the Charlotte trail to Niagara. Philip's children did some schooling at the Fort and his two oldest boys, Geronomous aged 12 and John aged 10, were enlisted as drummers in Captain McKinnon's Company of Butler's Rangers.
Col. Johnson and his army continued their march north and Oct. 19, 1780 found them at the Mohawk River. Avoiding Fort Hunter, Johnson decided to attack the village of Stone Arabia. The American Gen. Van Rensselaer notified Col. John Brown to leave the Fort at Stone Arabia and attack Johnson from the front. He assured Brown he would attack from the rear and together they would entrap Johnson's army. Col. Brown did as ordered but Gen. Van Rensselaer failed to follow up and the brave Col. Brown was killed in the fight. Col. Johnson continued through Stone Arabia, past the old Palatine Church to the west and returned to Niagara.
On June 7, 1781, Col. Guy Johnson of the Indian Affairs Office at Niagara issued the following order to Adam:
"You will proceed with the party of Aughquagos now going on service to the place of destination, rendering yourself as agreeable as possible to them on the way, and when there encourage them to act with spirit, and firmness, and to destroy any Magazines, Granaries or other places which affords supplies to the Rebels as well as to kill or take any of them who are our Enemies; or in arms, shewing Humanity to Women, Children or aged Persons and endeavoring to obtain all the Intelligence in your power of the State of Affairs, or to bring off any Person well affected to his Majesty's Service sending me an express with a few lines when you have struck a blow, and returning to this place with convenient Expedition."
The destination of Adam's raid was kept secret but we now know that it was Schoharie. Five Rebels were killed, two taken prisoner; eighteen horses were captured and a number of houses and barns were burned before Adam returned to Niagara. On September 28, 1781, Col. Guy Johnson again dispatched Adam for a raid against Schoharie. In addition to the above directions Adam was to instruct the Indians to:
"..... drive and bring away to this Garrison all or as many cattle as they can, and they shall be regularly paid eight Dollars for every head that they may bring safe for the use of this place."
Adam was en route to Schoharie when on October 19, 1781, the English Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the American forces. After hearing of the surrender, Adam decided it was time to remove his wife, Anna Maria, and children out of Schoharie during the raid. On Nov. 13, 1781, accompanied by Capt. Joseph Brant, Seth's Henry, and 25 Indians he arrived at Vrooman's Land just north of Adam's house. The Indians captured 50 head of cattle and burned two houses. Seth's Henry killed Isaac Vrooman, which set off an instant alarm at the Upper and Middle Forts. The raiding party then retreated to Adam's home to pick up his family.
The sharpshooter, Timothy Murphy, led a party of Rebels to Bouck Island across from Adam's home where they commenced firing. It is possible that by this time, Anna Maria and the children were living with Adam's Uncle and Aunt Bouck on the Island. Murphy's raid was repelled and Adam and his family were able to escape. They headed down the Indian trail toward the Susquehanna River to begin the journey to Niagara. The next morning, however, Captain Jacob Hager with 150 Militia from the Upper Fort caught up to them about a mile south of South Jefferson (now on NYS 10) and a battle ensued. Adam's small group was not able to save the cattle but warded off the attack without serious casualties. Adam's wife and children had to struggle through the rough trail and cold weather to Fort Niagara where they arrived safely on December 11, 1781.
In all ages and in all circumstances women seem the same. The day after arriving at Fort Niagara, Anna Maria went shopping. The following were her purchases at Samuel Street and Co.:
Irish 1 piece Linen 25 yds.; 6 small tumblers
Irish 1 piece Linen 25 yds.; 6 glasses
4 pair women's hose; 1 sugar dish
2 pair boy's hose; 1 pair boy's hose
4 pr. Women's pumps; 1 pair brass candle sticks
1 Doz. Cups and Saucers; 2 brass thimbles
1 large white bowl; 2 small bowls
6 Black handled Ebony knives and forks
CHAPTER 4
THE BATTLE OF BECKER'S STONE HOUSE
In July of 1782, Adam, with William Crysler and a small troop of Indians and Loyalists was sent on his last campaign to the Schoharie frontier to burn property and capture as many prisoners as possible. His first goal was to capture the rebel, George Warner Sr., at his log cabin near Cobleskill. George Sr. was not at home when they arrived so they contented themselves by taking his son, George Jr., prisoner.
On the morning of July 26, 1782, Adam captured two more rebels, John Snyder and Peter Mann. They then attacked the home of Jacob Zimmer of Wright, near Foxes Creek. In the battle, Jacob Zimmer Jr. and a Hessian employee were killed. Peter Zimmer, a brother of Jacob Jr., was taken prisoner and the house and barn set afire. Mrs. Zimmer was allowed to remain at home and was able to put out the fire at the house after Adam's party left.
As Adam continued down Foxes Creek toward Schoharie, he came to the stone house of Major Joseph Becker. Major Becker was home at the time with his wife and some others who were able to put up a good defense of their property. One sharpshooter in the house, John Huff, put a bullet through the brim of Adam's hat. Adam attacked for several hours trying to gain entrance. His Indians tried numerous times to set the house on fire but each time the inhabitants were able to extinguish the blaze. As darkness approached, Adam abandoned his effort to conquer Major Becker and began his journey to Niagara with his numerous prisoners.
The peace treaty between America and the Crown was ratified on September 30, 1783 and quiet once again reigned. All the prisoners were released and allowed to return home. The new American government confiscated the highly valued Crysler property at Breakabeen Creek and New Dorlach. Adam, Philip, John and William were given property in Canada by the British. Adam and William's property is still located on Four-Mile Creek near St. Davids, close to Niagara-on-the-Lake. In 1962 my family and I visited the area and found a descendant, John Crysler, still living on the property. John's father, John Morden Crysler, was the gr. gr. grandson of Adam and was the author of the family history, "Crysler and Other Early Settlers of Niagara." Because I was a cousin, John presented me with one of the few remaining copies of his father's book. John also allowed us to examine another of Anna Maria's purchases: a beautiful cut glass goblet with the name ADAM CRYSLER etched across the front.
Philip and John Crysler with their families were granted property in Williamsburg, Ontario on the St. Lawrence River. Philip's son, John became a Militia Captain and the Battle of Crysler's Farm was fought on his property during the War of 1812.
As was said earlier, Anna Elizabeth Crysler, the sister of Jeronimus, married William Bouck. Their grandson, William C. Bouck, became Governor of the State of New York between 1842 and 1844. He built his mansion on Bouck Island, five miles south of Middleburg, on NYS 30 across the Schoharie River from Adam's old home.
Baltus Crysler, it appears, was executed early in the war. His wife, Elizabeth Johnson Crysler and children, John, Elizabeth, Adam and Richard continued living in Baltus' home after the war. The eldest son, John Crysler, married Maria Hagedorn on July 22, 1787 in the High and Low Reformed Church in Schoharie. In 1788 John is listed with a road crew responsible for maintaining his part of the road between Middleburg and Bouck's Island. At that time that road (NYS 30) went by the farm of Timothy Murphy and his bride, Margaret Feeck. Margaret and her parents had reconciled and she and Timothy set up housekeeping nearby at Fultonham just two miles north of Adam Crysler's old home. Timothy and Margaret had nine children.
In June of 1998, my wife and I spent two weeks visiting the Schoharie frontier. We visited Cherry Valley where the terrible massacre took place. We drove along NYS 165 past New Dorlach (now Seward) and saw the property once owned by Jeronimus and his sons, Philip, John and William. On an 1866 map of New Dorlach, this huge property was still identified as the "Borst and Greisler (Crysler) Patent."
We drove down NYS 10 to Cobleskill and then down NYS 145 to Middleburg. Heading south on NYS 30, we came to the location of Fultonham and the Upper Fort. We then stopped where the Breakabeen Creek flows into the Schoharie River and viewed the site of Adam's home and gristmill between the Creek and teeter Bark Road. We stood where the Battle of Flockey took place and the first casualties of the frontier occurred. We then returned north to Middleburg, the site of the Middle Fort and the home of Baltus Crysler. Five more miles north on NYS 30 took us to the Old Stone Fort at Schoharie where we spent many hours searching their marvelous museum and library.
From Schoharie we crossed Foxes Creek and headed east about three miles where we found the old Becker Stone House much the same as it was when Adam tried to capture it. The State of NY has erected an historical marker at the site, which reads:
BECKER STONE HOUSE
Built 1772
THE TORY, CRYSLER, WITH A BAND OF
INDIANS GAVE BATTLE ON JULY 26, 1782
CHAPTER 5
THE BATTLE OF CRYSLER'S FARM
As we have seen, one of Adam Crysler's younger brothers was named Philip. He, too, was brought up with the Indians and served in the Indian Department with Butler's Rangers during the Revolutionary War. Following the war Philip and his two drummer sons, Geronomous and John, were granted hundreds of acres of land along the St. Lawrence River near Williamsburg and Morrisburg, Ontario, Canada. Here John built a General Store and became a very successful businessman. He kept his ties with the British military and when the War of 1812 began he was commissioned a Captain in the Canadian Militia. The decisive battle of the War of 1812 was fought on his farm. (Later in the war of 1838 he fought in the Battle of the Windmill at Prescott and was promoted to a Lieu. Colonel)
The American plan for the War of 1812 was to descend the St. Lawrence and capture Montreal. They hoped thus to isolate Upper Canada and then conquer the whole country. The American, Major General James Wilkinson, prepared to set out from Sacket's Harbor, New York in October, 1713 with 300 boats carrying artillery and infantry. Gen. Wilkinson fell sick and Gen. John P. Boyd took charge. On November 5, the boats began their trip down the St. Lawrence with 500 cavalry, under Jacob J. Brown, following along the bank. Their estimated total strength was between 2,000 and 4,000, depending on who is telling the story.
By November 10, the Americans were within 90 miles of Montreal. They encamped that night just east of the farm of John Crysler. The British Lt. Col. Joseph Wanton Morrison and his staff spent that evening in the home of Capt. John and Nancy Crysler planning an attack on the Americans at Crysler's Farm. The following morning, November 11, 1813, the Americans engaged 800 British regulars, Canadian Militia and a few Indians all under the command of Col. Morrison.
General Boyd proved to be ineffective and within two hours the Americans began retreating to the boats. The British losses were 22 killed, 48 wounded and 12 missing. The Americans totaled 102 killed and 237 wounded. It proved to be one of the most important battles of the war and virtually ended America's attempt to conquer Canada.
The "Crysler Farm Battlefield Park" is attached to the "Upper Canada Village." Both are located on John Crysler's farm on the St. Lawrence Seaway today. My family and I have visited there numerous times. We have been able to handle the sword that John Crysler used in the battle and hold the medals that he won.
John's store has been restored and is located in the "Upper Canada Village." The beautiful mansion of his son, John Pliney Crysler looks like new and is the centerpiece of the Village. The huge monument that has been erected to commemorate the battle of Crysler's farm stands on a large mound overlooking the St. Lawrence. It's inscription reads:
IN HONOR OF THE MEN WHO FOUGHT AND FELL IN THE
VICTORY OF CHRYSLER FARM ON THE 11th OF NOV. 1813
ERECTED 1895
BATTLE OF CRYSLER'S FARM
IN MEMORY OF CAPT. JOHN NAIR, ST CHAS. DE LORING,
THE CANADIAN FENSIBLE REGIMENT AND THE
NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 49th REGIMENT
AND THE 89th CANADIAN REGIMENT AND CANADIAN
VOLTIGUERS KILLED IN ACTION. | Krčausler, Adam (I47328)
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The burial record at Assington states that he was "of Bures." He was probably living with one of his children when he died, but was buried next to his wife at Assington. Bures Saint Mary and Assington are adjacent parishes and Boxford adjoins Assington on the northeast. | Riddlesdale, John (I49101)
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The cemetery is located at Fort Drum. "Mehetabel Townsend wife of Warren. d 11 June 1854 age 51y 11m" | Thomas, Mehetabel (I24075)
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The cemetery marker lists his death date as 1893. This is incorrect. | Townsend, Loren S. (I5735)
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The church records give his burial as May 21, 1641. They did not place a headstone on the grave because they did not want the Indians to know they had lost a man. | Gibbs, Giles (I29726)
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The claim that Mary was a Newland is unsupported. | Mary (I44404)
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The Corsons, of this and other counties, are descended from Benjamin, son of Cornelius Courson, or Corssen, a Huguenot who left France in 1685 and settled on Staten Island. Benjamin Corson, a son, came to Northampton [Bucks*] county, 1726, and bought 250 acres of Jeremiah Dungan for 350 pounds, on the Middle road, just below Richborough, which was in the family one hundred years. The father died on Staten Island [in 1692-3, his will being probated Dec. 1, 1693.*] Benjamin brought with him to Bucks county his son Benjamin, born 1719 and died in 1774 at fifty-five. His wife was Mary Seidam (2) born 1721, died 1792, aged seventy-one. She and her husband were buried in the graveyard at Richboro. The first Benjamin Corson was buried in the middle of the aisle of the old Reformed Dutch church, North and Southampton, near the Buck tavern in the latter township. Benjamin Corson the second had eight children: Benjamin, grandfather of Doctor Hiram Corson, Plymouth, Montgomery county; Richard,
father of Doctor Richard Corson, New Hope; Cornelius; Henry, grandfather of William Corson of Doylestown; John who died on the old homestead in 1823, married Charity Vansant and had two daughters, Jane and Mary; Abraham; Mary, who married Enoch Marple and left several children in Montgomery county; and Jeannette, who married John Krewson. Benjamin, eldest son of Benjamin the second, married Sarah Dungan, and had eleven sons and daughters who married into the families of Harvey, Bennet, Blaker and Morris. Of this family of eleven children all were living and in good health when the youngest was seventy [fifty*] years of age. They were large, strong and healthy, but are now [1876] all dead. The family are numerous and scattered into various parts of the country. Alongside the Corsons in the old graveyard at Richborough, lie the remains of DuBois, Krewson, Larzelere and other Dutch and Huguenot settlers and their descendants.
(2) The present spelling is Suydam.
!THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: CHAPTER XXI: NORTHAMPTON, 1722
from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905* editions.. | Corssen, Benjamin (I38270)
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The couple Willem Blik and Kaatje Bakelaar traveled accompanied by their three children in 1867 from Rotterdam to New York with the "Arnold Boninger of Prussia". On board were 80 persons from Texel. The Blik-family settled down in Ottawa County, Michigan.
1884 Kent County census has the Blik family living on West Street in Grand Rapids. All who are old enough to read and write are able to. db 1/95
The parents of Willem BLIK must have removed to the island of Texel in the 1820s or 30s. The area they lived there is called Eierland (eggsland) and is the part of Texel reclaimed in the early 1800s.
In the past Eierland was a separate island. There was a channel between Texel and Eierland, the so-called Anegat. It is said that until 1550 smaller boats could pass the channel. Later the ground was only flooded when the tide was unusual high.
Before 1600 there was already a ferry between Texel and Vlieland. The passengers were transported by wagon from Texel to Eierland, and then traveled further by boat. After serious floods in 1625 and 1628 the "Zanddijk" was constructed. This sand dike connected the old land of Texel with Eierland, parallel to the present coast line from De Koog to Eierland. The dike was finished in 1630.
Only a few people lived in Eierland. The "Eierlandse huis" was an important building for the mailservice between Vlieland and Texel. Goods that washed ashore were also stored in the house. The sea near Eierland was and is very dangerous, because several strong currents merge there. As a result, ships were regularly in trouble. Sometimes shipwrecked persons also stayed in the Eierlandse huis. There were many more animals than people. Thousands and thousands of birds, and also many rabbits. Part of the land was fit to be grazed by sheep.
The reclamation - In 1835 Nicolas Joseph de Cock from Antwerpen, Paulus Langeveld Kzn from Giesendam, Willem Langeveld Kzn from Hardinxveld and Marcellus Leendert Plooster from Ameide bought Eierland. The "Socičeteit van Eierland" was founded in April 1835, and 200 shares were issued. A dike of 11.222 meters was constructed in only twenty weeks by 1500 polder workers from the Sliedrecht area.
The first farmers came in the spring of 1836. They were hired by the agricultural director Teenstra and by De Cock. The names of a few pioneers:
Pieter Roelofs Stoepker from Ulrum
Eelke Rens Sinia from Grijpskerk
Cornelis Arijsz Kievit from Stellendam (a cousin of the shareholder L. Kievit)
P.S. Noordhof from Zuid-Holland, he left Texel before 1840
Paulus Jansz den Bleijker from Ouddorp
Johannes van St. Annaland from Ooltgensplaat
Dirk Cornelisz Tanis from Ouddorp, who imported the madder culture
There were also farm hands and craftsmen necessary. De Cock hired the smith Adriaan van der Kloot from Middelharnis, his brother Jacob van der Kloot, who worked as carpenter, the cooper and wagonmaker J. van Houten from Wehe near Leens, and the Belgian tree cultivator Pieter Maris van Bulk.
The agriculture was not immediately a success in the new polder. It was too sandy and a lot of manure was needed. The first farmers got a salary of f 300,- a year from the Socičeteit van Eierland, and also a free house, free food for four cows, four pigs, seven chickens and a cock, f 120,- a year for beer, and so on. So their income was guaranteed. Each farmer was assisted by five farm hands, who were hired from the first of March to the first of December each year. They were allowed to stay in the winter, but only got boarding during the the months December, January and February. There were also six agricultrural laborers for each 100 hectares. They got a salary of f 1,10 a day in the summer, and were paid f 0,80 in the winter. Women and children also were allowed to work, but got at most a salary of 0,50 a day. In the summer the laborers worked 12 hours a day, six days a week.
According to a report of 1846, the situation was not so bad. Compared with the laborers in the cities, the agricultural workers in Eierland lived a better life. Everyone had a job, and although there was a potato disease in 1846, no one in the polder needed support from the municipality or the churches. But the housing and education was unfavourable. Most laborers lived in huts, built with materials like sods or wood from the beach. The children usually did not get an education, but worked with their parents. There was not much contact with the original population of Texel, who had a different lifestyle. The Socičeteit van Eierland divided her properties between the shareholders, and the farmers became tenants. Some of them were able to buy a farm.
Emigration - In the second half of the nineteenth century a lot of people left Eierland. Some of them moved to new reclamations in the Netherlands, like the Haarlemmermeer. The living conditions became worse, due to disappointing harvests and the mechanisation of the agriculture. Less people were needed. From 1873 on there was a big agricultural crisis in the Netherlands, caused by the import of cheap American corn. Between 1850 and 1920 about 1500 residents of Texel emigrated, half of them came from Eierland. In addition to the economic reasons, family ties were important for the emigration. Some of the emigrants were well-to-do, but the most emigrants did not have much property.
The vast majority of the emigrants went to the United States of America. There were concentrations of former Texel people in Holland, Michigan and in Paterson, New Jersey. A couple of oyster fishers continued this occupation in West Sayville, Long Island, New York. More detailed information organized by surname is available on the emigration section of this site.
Sources: "de Convexe Kustboog 1 en 2", " 't Lant van Texsel", "Boerderijenboek", "Hijijij ... is naar Amerika". | Blik, Willem (I251)
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The Daily Democrat: January 3, 1874: "At his Residence, Died in this City, on the 1st inst., John E. Earle, in the 74th year of his age. Funeral from his late residence, No. 103 Lafayette St. Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock." | Earle, John Edward (I33187)
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The date of 7 Sep 1685 found in some secondary sources is probably not correct. On 3 November 1677, Benedict Arnold described himself as "eldest son and heir of William Arnold late of Pautuxett in the said Colony deceased." ! Early Records of the Town of Providence 14:5 | Arnold, William (I12432)
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The death record (Benzie Co., Michigan) for Cyrus, pages 152 and 156 (same record twice), d. 10 Apr 1909, married, 74y, 9m, 20d, Thompsonville, chronic nephritis, b. Canada, farmer, s/o William Meredith and Mary Cutler. | Meredith, Cyrus (I1426)
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The Declaration for Widow's Pension required proof of marriage. A notarized statement was submitted from the acting Town Clerk of the Town of Boonville, Oneida County, NY swearing to the fact that said Marriage Register contains an entry and record of the marriage of Joseph Gibbs of Glendale, Lewis County, State of New York, age 51 years, to Frances Adella Rennie of Grieg, Lewis County, NY, age 48 years, at Boonville, NY February 24, 1892, by Rev. S.O.Barnes. Sworn before me this 17th day of May, 1918. | Family F2281
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The earliest mention of Sampson Mason in New England is in the May 25, 1649 will of Edward Bullock of Dorchester. A debt is specified as "due to Sampson Mason for wifes shoes."
In 1651 he purchased a house and land in Dorchester of William Betts, that he afterwards sold to Jacob Hewins and removed to Rehoboth.
In Rehoboth records, "On December 9, 1657, it was voted that Sampson Mason should have free liberty to sojourn with us, and to buy house, lands or meadow, if he see cause for shis settlement, provided that he lives peacefully and quietly."
Sampson was an Anabaptist and was permitted status of Sojouner and not Freeman in the puritanical colony.
That Sampson Mason became a man of substance, is inferable, not only from the part he took in the settlement of Swansey (granted land there), but also from the fact that he was one of the proprietors of the "North purchase," since Attleboro. | Mason, Sampson (I50761)
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The earliest mention of Sarah STAPLE is found in the records of the First Church at Dorchester, MA. That entry reports her marriage to Increase SUMNER on 26 March 1667. From this is inferred a birth date of 1645 or 1646. On 8 Sep 1667 she is admitted to the church. Her marriage to Increase SUMNER reflects favorably on the marriage between her sister Rebecca and Samuel SUMNER. Sarah and Increase had 10 children born between 1668 and 1686. Increase was a freeman in 1678. In late 1696, at nearly 50 years of age, Sarah and Increase, together with many of their children, joined Rebecca and Samuel and several other families in the migration to Dorchester, SC. !Descendants of Jeffrey & John STAPLE of Weymouth, MA, 1978; | Staple, Sarah (I20095)
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The earliest tax list of Rehoboth in 1671 shows Samuel as a taxpayer. His tax was 3 shillings and that of a Widow Bullock, his stepmother, was 11 pence.
"Swansea Baptist Church Records": "[p. 38] 3d of 5 mo [1673] Sam: Bullock proposed and was admitted as Tho: Barns;" "31 of 5 mo 73 Tho: Barnes and Sam: Bullock were fully assented to an [sic]"
In 1674, he was the only Bullock named on the list of taxpayers in that town. He and his brother, John, were named in the list of freeholders of Rehoboth in Major William Bradfordās Quit Claim Deeds of 26 December 1689. On 10 June 1706, Samuel Bullock of Rehoboth and John Bullock of Providence sold land in Rehoboth - "Aits being ye home lott of our father, Richard Bulluk, deceased". Samuel and Thankful mortgaged land on Palmerās River on 13 February 1716. The mortgage was recorded as paid 17 June 1732 but not signed.
In 1675, Samuel was a contributor to the expenses of King Phillipās War. He was made a freeman in 1680 and was admitted in 1682. In 1696, he was chosen as a representative to the General Court of Massachusetts but declined to serve. He was a Deacon in the 1st Baptist church of Swansea, Mass. As well as being a large landholder in Rehoboth, Samuel was one of the first purchasers in Swansea, MA.
After 1667, men of Rehoboth set up Swansea as a Baptist township and continued to be proprietors and landholders of both Rehoboth and Swansea. Many people from Rehoboth who did not agree with the doctrine of the Congregationalist Church of Christ in Rehoboth continued to live in Rehoboth but became proprietors of Swansea and attended the services at the Baptist Church there. Samuel attended the ordination of the Rev. William Peckham as pastor of the First Baptist Church at Newport, Rhode Island on 15 November 1711 with his pastor, Rev. Samuel Luther who served the Swansea church from 1685 to 1716. | Bullock, Samuel (I44261)
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The family Breen originally came from Ouddorp. Paulus Paulusz Breen and his wife Nellie van der Sluis moved around 1836 to the new polder Eierland. This couple stayed on the island Texel, but several descendants emigrated to the US. | Breen, Paulus Paulusz (I36256)
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The father of George is not known, but there is a John Bryant aged over 45 in the 1820 census at Fort Covington, Franklin County, NY. In that household, there is a male aged 16 to 26 that could be George. We know George was resident in Fort Covington; both paying tax and owning land in 1825.
This BRYANT family probably came from Norwich, Ct. and is connected with Phillip BRYANT b. 1780 in Norwich (son of John BRYANT and Sarah DURKEE). Phillip was the Capt of the company George served in during the War of 1812. George was then only age 14 or 15. It could be that Phillip was George's uncle. Phillip did have a brother named John born 1771 in Norwich, who could be the man of that name in the 1820 census mentioned above; but I have not been able to trace descendants of John with any certainty other than a John Jr. who married Cornelia BLISS in Moira, Franklin County, NY in 1823.
It is less likely, but also possible that George is the great-grandson of Ichabod and Ruth (Staples) Bryant. He may be the grandson of Nathan, Job or Gamaliel Bryant, all of whom may have lived in Vermont and had families. This would place George as a second cousin of William Cullen Bryant which corresponds to family tradition because brothers George and Wooster Bryant claimed they were 2nd cousins to the poet (although once removed, the relationship is still second cousin). | Bryant, George Henry W. (I1689)
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The first authentic record of Cors Pietersen and his wife, Tryntje Hendrickse, occurs under date of June 10, 1638, when we find Cors entered suit against Adam Roelantsen, the first school-master of New Amsterdam, to recover Tryntje's interest in the estate of her deceased mother, Elsje Martense, who after the death of Tryntje's father had become Adam Roelantsen's first wife. Cors Pietersen, the progenitor of the Staten Island-Pennsylvania branch of the Corson families in America, was born at Langeraer, Holland, in the year 1612. Langeraer is a small hamlet, situated about six miles east of Leyden, on a small canalized river, known as the Aar. Langer means longer. At present Langeraer has about 850 inhabitants. It also borders a small beautiful lake called "Westplas." A reproduction of several camera snapshots of this old village, that were taken for the compiler by a friend, Mr. Simka Zijlstra of Rotterdam, is shown on the following page.
PROOF OF AGE
New York Colonial Manuscripts (O'Catlaghan Translations), Vol. 1, p. 55.
"Before me Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary of New Netherlands, appeared at the request of Annetje Jans, wife of E. Bogardus, minister, Cors Pietersen aged 26 years, and hath by true Christian words in place and with promise of an Oath, if needs be, testified, attested and declared that it is true and that he, the deponent, having bought a hog from Annetje Jans above named, did take from the store, in payment for it, as much purple cloth as was sufficient for a petticoat.
All which the deponent declares to be true. Done this 19th October, Ao 1638.
This is the mark X of Cors Pietersen, aforesaid.
The exact date that Cors Pietersen emigrated to New Amsterdam is not known. It has been suggested by some writers that he came with Capt. Petersen de Vries in 1633. From the fact that, in some manner, he very early had become quite versed in the Indian tongue, it is probable that he was in New Amsterdam by 1633 or sooner. Although the records of New Amsterdam after 1638 are fairly complete, previous to this date they seem to have been lost. When we consider that the Hudson River was not discovered until 1609, that the only persons in this section of the country from 1610 to 1624 were a few clerks or traders of the New Netherlands Company messing together in one or two cabins, and no settlers prior to 1624, it can be realized how early Cors Pietersen became identified with the settlement of New Amsterdam, now New York City.
From what has been gleaned from the records, he was apparently a young man of nautical training and seems to have been for a time in the service of Capt. David Pietersen de Vries. His occupation was principally that of skipper of a small vessel freighting between Manhattan and Rensselaerswyck (Albany) and occasionally acting as pilot in the harbor of New Amsterdam. Trading with the Indians was one of the principal occupations of the people of early New Amsterdam, and during his trips up and down the Hudson River, Cors Pietersen was no doubt actively engaged in this exchanging with the Redskins. It was probable while thus engaged that he became proficient in the Indian tongue.
The records tell that Cors got into trouble in these early days by taking a parcel of skins from an Indian and then pitching him overboard from a Dutch vessel. This act later was reciprocated by the Indians slapping Cors in the face with a dead squirrel, which nearly caused a general fight between the Dutch and the Indians. From the records, we also find that Cors Pietersen acted on many occasions as interpreter for the Dutch authorities in their dealings with the Indians.
Cors Pietersen and his wife, Tryntje Hendrickse, lived in their home on the North side of Pearl Street, in New Amsterdam, from 1647, or possibly some years before this date, until his death in 1655. A Royal Patent for this plot was granted to him by the Dutch authorities on June 21, 1647, but as the West India Company allowed persons to build on land sometimes years before they gave them a ground brief (ten years not uncommon), it is probable that they lived there many years before 1647. No doubt all of their children were born in this house, which is located in the view of the Marckveldt and 'T. Water, as illustrated facing page 34. In this view, the house of Cors Pietersen is the second building on the north side of Pearl Street, east of the Marckveldt, and is designated by the letter "H." (Also see the location of Cors Pietersen's house as described in the Guardian's report to the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam, concerning the settlement of Cors' estate, page 37). The building on the North side of 'T Water (Pearl St.) designated by the letter "R" and owned in 1652 by Pieter Cornelissen, became the property of Joannes Nevius prior to 1655. Joannes Nevius, for many years the Town Clerk of New Amsterdam, is a maternal ancestor of some of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Corsons.
On the page following the VIEW OF THE MARCKVELDT AND 'T WATER is a PLAN OF NEW AMSTERDAM as it existed from about 1644-1657. This is a reproduction of a plan of New Amsterdam, compiled from the Dutch and English records, by J. H. Innes in his remarkable volume, NEW AMSTERDAM AKD ITS PEOPLE. The plot is the lower tip of Manhattan Island, which today is the heart of the financial and business district of the largest city in the world, New York City. In order that the site of New Amsterdam as shown on this early map may be made more clear, in its relation to the position of the modern New York City, the location of the present Wall St., Exchange Place, New St., and Broad St. are shown in dotted lines. The location of these modern streets in the New York financial district was furnished by Mr. John R. Goubeaud, of the New York City Engineering Department.
In addition to the references, listed by Mr. Innes on his original plan, the compiler has added the location of four homes of ancestors of the Staten Island~Pennsylvania group of the Corsons in America. The buildings located are:
No.1. The house of Cors Pietersen and his wife, Tryntje Hendricks;
No.2. The house of Fredrick Lubbertsen and his first wife, Styntje Hendrickse, the maternal grandparents of Maritje van der Grift, who became the wife of Cors Pietersen's eldest son, Capt. Cornelis Corssen;
No.3. The house of Cornelis Volkertsen and Maria Du Trieux, whose granddaughter, Blandina Viele, married Benjamin Corssen, a son of Captain Cornelis Corssen of Staten Island;
No.4. The house of Joannes Nevius, about 1655. The great granddaughter of Joannes Nevius, Margarietje Neefies (Nevius) married Cornelis Corsen, of Bucks County, Pa., a grandson of Capt. Cornelis Corssen.
The building (No.2) on the Northwest corner of Maiden Lane and Pearl St., was sold about 1657, by Fredrick Lubbertsen, to Maria Du Trieux and her second husband, Jan Peeck. The building designated No.3, which seems to have been located at the intersection of the modern Exchange Place and Broadway, was probably the first house built on Broadway south of Wall St. after 1644, at which time a lease on this land to Jan Damen expired. Here in this building, Cornelis Volkertsen and Maria Du Trieux kept a tavern, probably until the death of Volkertsen, before 1650. Maria Du Trieux and her second husband, Jan Peeck, seem to have occupied the Lubbertsen house (No.2) until about 1600, when they sold it to Cornelis Clopper. At this time they seem to have acquired the eastern half of the Lubbertsen Lot, which had been sold previously to Albert Cornelissen, and to have erected here a building used as a tavern, which remained in their possession for many years. Mr. Innes on page 302 of his history has the following: "This house, which must have occupied the site, or a part of the site of the present building, No.207 Pearl Street, was just sufficiently removed from the observation of the town authorities to afford a convenient drinking house for Indian visitors to New Amsterdam, and is supposed to have been the seat of the illicit liquor traffic for which Mary Peeck was banished from Manhattan Island in 1664." This incident is related in a subsequent chapter.
You will probably agree with the compiler, that it is a privilege, enjoyed by few American families, to be able, almost three hundred years after, to see, in a view of New Amsterdam, the house occupied by the progenitor, and to see located on a plan of this early settlement, the buildings in which at least five maternal ancestors of our family lived and raised their children.
Tryntje Hendrickse probably came to New Amsterdam from Holland with her father, Hendrick Tomassen and her mother, Elsie Martense, very early, as we find her father had died and his widow had married Adam Roelantsen, the first schoolmaster of the settlement, before 1638. In that year the mother of Tryntje Hendrickse died and Cors Pietersen entered suit against Adam Roelantsen to recover his wife's interest in the estate of her deceased parents. Judgment was awarded the plaintiff and in the release that Cors Pietersen gave to Adam Roelantsen, in the settlement of this suit, the birthplace of Cors Pietersen was given at Langeraer, Holland. The entry regarding the suit brought by Cors Pietersen against Adam Roelantsen occurs under date of June 10, 1638, on page 11, vol. 4, New York Colonial Manuscripts and is listed in the Calendar of Dutch Mss. on page 62. A complete translation of the entry is as follows:
"Cors Pietersen, Plaintiff, vs Adam Roelantsen, Defendant. Regarding the inheritance of the late Adam Roelantsen's wife, who is the Plaintiff's wife's mother. The Court having examined the inventory signed by the Notary and witnesses and all debts, claims, furniture, etc., being deducted, it is decided that 12 gls. 10 st. are still due Cors Pietersen and no more."
In the final settlement the following release was given by Cors Pietersen, which release establishes:
PROOF OF BIRTHPLACE OF CORS PIETERSEN
IDENTITYOF HIS WIFE AND HER PARENTS
New York Colonial Mss., (O'Callaghan Translations), vol. 1, p.72.
"Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary of New Netherlands, appeared Adam Roelantsen and Cors Pietersen from Langeraer, who in the presence of the underwritten witnesses and others in an amicable and friendly manner agreed and covenanted in manner and on the conditions following :
First, Adam Roelantsen shall pay to the above named Cors Pietersen, who is husbandth guardian of his wife, Tryntje Hendrickse, the sum of fifty carolus guilders, reckoned at 20 stivers the guilder, arising from the purchase which the above named Adam Roelantsen hath made of the aforesaid Cors Pietersen, in quality as aforesaid, of what his wife may have to claim from the paternal estate of her deceased father, Hendrick Tomassen, and her mother, Elsje Martense, whereby he, Cors Pietersen acknowledges to be fully paid and satisfied for what is aforesaid by Adam Roelantsen, him hereby releasing from all action and claim which I may in the least or at most have to set up on the part of my aforesaid wife, from her father's and mother's estate: I promise him, Adam Roelantsen from this time forever not to trouble him any more for what is aforesaid, either by myself, my wife or heirs, discharging him from all further demands. Moreover, I Cors Pietersen Promise not to revive any old dispute which has heretofore existed between Adam Roelantsen and me, all in good faith without guile or deceit; for all which I, the undersigned Cors Pietersen and Adam Roelantsen, pledge our persons and properties, movable and immovable without exception under the provincial court of Holland and all other courts, Judges and Justices, all in good faith.
Thus done and covenanted in Fort Amsterdam, this 27th January, 1639. This is the + mark of Cors Pietersen, abovenamed. Everhardus Boghardus, Eccl. Manahat.
Ulrich Lupoltt' Fiscal."
Cors Pietersen and Tryntje Hendrickse were members of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam and their names appear in the list of old members of this Church as recorded on pages 498-9 of the Original Church Records of the Dutch Reformed Church, and a copy of this original record is listed in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 9, pp. 38-40. That they were very active in the affairs of this Church is attested by the many times that they appeared as witnesses in the baptisms of the children of their friends and relatives.
Cors Pietersen and Tryntje Hendrickse had five children baptised as follows, and establishing:
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 5, pp. 33, 86, 91, 96, & 151, listing baptismal records, copied from the original records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, pp. 258, 264, 272, 278, & 288.
June 7, 1643 Kors Pieterszen Elsje Marin Adriaen, Lysbeth Thys, Corn. Bedert, Christina Vymen.
April 23, 1645 Cos Pieterszen Cornelis Dirck Corneliszen, Marritje Lievens, Tryntje Cleas.
May 25, 1648 Cors Pieterszen Grietje Cleas Bording, ]oris Rapalje, Jacob Leendertszen van der Grift, Rebecca Fredrickse.
Mar. 5, 1651 Cors Pieterszen Pieter Fredrick Lubbertszen, en syn huys vr. (and his wife) ]ochem Pieterszen, Peter Anthony.
Nov. 30, 1653 Cors Pieterszen Hendrick ]ueriaen Blanck, Pieter Stough- tenburg, Aeltje van Tienhoven, Hester ter Neuf.
Cors Pietersen died in 1655 at the age of forty-three years, a comparatively young man. When we read of the experiences of these pioneers under the misrule of such Director-Generals as Willem Kieft and Petrus Stuyvesant, and of the depredations of the Indians, it is likely that the short life of Cors Pietersen was full of trials and tribulations. Two years after the death of her husband, Tryntje Hendricks appeared before the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam and stated her intention of marrying Fredrick Lubbertsen.
!THREE HUNDRED YEARS WITH THE CORSON FAMILIES IN AMERICA
ADDITIONAL PROOF OF THE MALE ISSUE OF CORS PIETERSEN AND TRYNTJE HENDRICKS
LOCATION OF THEIR HOME ON PEARL STREET DESCRIBED
(Minutes of the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam, 1655 to 1663) (Translated and edited under the auspices of the Committee on History and Translations of the Colonial Dames in the State of New York, by Berthold Fernow) (Vol. 1, pp. 37-41):
"Whereas Tryntje Hendrickse, widow of Cors Pietersen, intends to become the wife of Fredrick Lubbertsen, widower of Styntje Hendrickse, and whereas said Tryntje has three infant children by Cors Pietersen, and wishes before remarriage to settle upon said children their paternal inheritance, so, that when they come of age or marry they may receive, what is due them. Therefore the Orphanmasters commission as guardians Pieter Stoughtenburgh and Jurrien Blanck, Burghers and inhabitants here, who are hereby authorized to make with said widow as guardians of the children either by inventory or appraisal of the estate, including debts and credits such an agreement on behalf of the children, as they shall deem best, subject to the approval of the Orphan's Chamber, when reported.
Done September 16, 1657."
'Today, the 19th of September 1657, appeared before me, Dirck van Schel1uyne, Notary Public etc. and the below named witnesses, the virtuous Tryntje Hendrickse, widow of Cors Pietersen, assisted by Fredrick Lubbertsen, her present fiance and chosen guardian, parties of the first part, and Sieur Pieter Stotltenburgh with Jurriaen Blanck, guardians of the three children of said Tryntje and Cors, who declared, after having made an estimate of the estate and considered the statement of debts and credits. as far as they, the guardians, could discover them, they had agreed with each other concerning the settlement of their paternal estate for the children as follows : First, said Tryntje Hendricks shall be held and promises honestly to bring up her said three children, named Cornelis Corssen, 12 years old, Pieter 6 years and Hendrick Corssen, 3 years, as well as she can, to have them taught reading, writing and a good trade or occupation, so that in time to come they may earn their own living, further to instruct them in the fear of the Lord and in religious exercises and to do all, a good mother is bound to do, until said children shall come of age or marry; then she is to give to each child the sum of 600 fl. in such money or pay, as then shall be current here, besides she shall then furnish to each a good parcel of clothing, six shirts, six __, six handkerchiefs, inscribing the aforesaid 1800 fl. for her sons specially upon her house and lot on the North side of Pearl Street in this city, bounded on the South by said street, on the West by lsaack Grevenlaad, on the North by Fort Amsterdam, on the East by Pieter van Couwenhoven, and generally binding her person and property, real and personal, present and future, etc. etc,
Signed : This is + the mark of
Tryntje Hendricks
Carel van Brugge, testis
Fredrick Lubbertsen
Hans Kierstede
Pieter Stoutenburg
Jurnaan Blanck
Dirck van Schelluyne, Notary Publ.
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The first Benjamin Corson was buried in the middle of the aisle of the old Reformed Dutch church, North and Southampton, near the Buck tavern in the latter township.
!!THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: CHAPTER XXI: NORTHAMPTON, 1722 from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905* editions.. | Corssen, Benjamin (I38114)
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The First Extant Parish Record of Christ's Church, Fairfield
The History of Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck
1889
Vol II, pgs 483 -
Record of Baptisms 1720 - 1754 | Hull, Thaddeus (I48973)
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The First Extant Parish Record of Christ's Church, Fairfield
The History of Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck
1889
Vol II, pgs 483 -
Record of Baptisms 1720 - 1754 | Hull, Abigail (I48970)
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The first three children were born in New York. Martin moved from Jefferson County to Somerset in Niagara County, New York and in 1870 lived with his Uncle John Dean Townsend and cousin John P. Townsend. It is in Somerset, Niagara County that his future wife is living. Apparently, Martin moved his family to Michigan after 1876 and before 1878. The uncle and cousin remained in Somerset and in fact are neighbors of Martin's father-in-law in the 1880 census.
Voter Registry of North Plains (1859-1882) Martin Townsend, 30 Mar 1878
Voter Registry of North Plains (1913) M. V. Townsend, Hubbardston, 29 Mar 1913.
In the Clinton Republican is published several mentions of M. V. Townsend, including these entries:
22 June 1899 "M. V. Townsend went to Mount Pleasant last Tuesday with C. R. Shicks, Jr. family where they expect to make that place their future home." (This is Charles R. Stuck, Jr. family. Mrs. Stuck was his daughter.)
13 July 1899 "M. V. Townsend went to Grand Rapids last Wednesday and returned Saturday with M. H. Cabalan's trotting horse."
20 July 1899 "M. V. Townsend went to Millbrook last Tuesday with a load of honey bees for Emma Townsend." | Townsend, Martin V. (I1260)
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The following documents in regard to Mr. Bishop's will are recorded in New Haven:
"The last will & testamt of Mr John Bishop Senr of Guilford deceased; prsented as prooued in court at Guilford, Feb. 7th, 1660, by W Robert Kitchell & John Fowler, to ye subscribing, and by Mr Wm Leete and Elizabeth Jordan yt Mr Bishop owned & allowed it soe to stand, adding onely ye legacy there in to his daughter Steele, now upon his death bed : dated Novemb. 1653.
Willm Leete, Esq. Governs."
"An inventory alsoe of ye estate of Mr John Bishop Senr deceased, prsented as prooued in court at Guilford upon oath by Anne Bishop the widdow & relict of ye deceased & John Bishop his eldest sonne & joint executor wth ye widdow, for ye quantity, & by Abraham Cruttenden Senr Jno Fowler & Wm Stone, apprizers, for ye just value as is there in sett donne. Amounting to ye sume of 375 u 17s 1Id, and taken January 7th, 1660.
Willm Leete" | Bishop, John (I22531)
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The founder of the Hudson Valley Kilmer family was indeed Georg Kuhlman/Kilmer. Some published genealogies relating to the family mistakenly give one Philipp Kilmer as the first generation in America; however, this non-existent Phillip came into being through a misreading of the emigrant Philipp Helmer's name found on the West Camp Census of 1710/11.
Georg Kuhlman made his first appearance on the Hunter lists 4 July 1710 with 2 persons over 10 years of age and 3 persons under 10. He was recorded with 4 persons over 10 and 3 under 10 years on 4 August 1710, with 6 persons over 10 and 1 under 10 on 24 June 1712, and with 6 persons over 10 and 2 under 10 on 13 September 1712.
Jurich Kelmer was naturalized 17 January 1715/16 (Albany Naturalizations). Hans Jury Kolemer was on the roll of the Independent Company of the Manor of Livingston 30 November 1715. Georg Colmer with wife and children was a Heessberg circa 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register). The mark of Jury Coolmer was recorded on an old manuscript dated 1718/19 (Livingston Papers, Reel #4). Jury Coelmer/Coolmer was a Palatine Debtor in 1718, 1719, 1722, and 1726 (Livingston Debt Lists). His wife was called Anna Margaretha in 1725 and 1728 (West Camp Lutheran Churchbook and NY City Lutheran Churchbook). | Kuhlmann\Kilmer, Johannes Jurrian (I25615)
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The founder of the Ray family in New England, Simon Ray, emigrated about 1639 or 1640 from Hundon, co. Suffolk, England, with his wife and two children, and settled at Braintree, Mass., and his only son, Simon, born in England, was one of the first settlers on Block Island. | Ray, Simon (I50364)
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The Founders of Saybrook give a date of death, 1668. | Family F1706
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THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
The French and Indian Wars were the first series of actual military conflicts that we have records for and they affected the local Beekman Precinct residents in several ways. First, many of the local men were active in the various campaigns and several of them died. But secondly, this war and its eventual resolution helped pave the way for many of our local families to leave Beekman for other areas. When the local militia units went to the Albany area to do battle they saw good land that could be purchased (rather than leased) and when the threat of the Indian raids had subsided many of them took their billoting money and went north. Dozens of them settled in Schaghticoke, Stillwater and Half Moon and the listing of baptisms in the church records from the local to the northern churches is continuous. Those who were military and county officers at this time were required to take oaths of Abjuration and Fealty as prescribed by King George III, similar to those required by George II. The following men were of Beekman or from families that settled here, with the date they took the oaths:
1760 1 April; Abraham Losee, Captain.
" 2 " Henry Bell, 1st Lieut.
" 2 " Michael Vincent, 2nd Lieut.
" 3 " Simon Flagler, 2nd Lieut.
" 8 " Simeon Wright, 2nd Lieut.
" 9 " William Doughty, Jr. Ensign.
" 21 " Isaac Rhodes, Captain.
" 30 June: Jacob Brill's (mark) Ensign.
" 21 Aug; Silas Deuel, 1st Lieut.
" 27 Sept: Jacob Sharpensteen, 2nd Lieut.
" 29 " Christian Tobias Jr, Ensign.
" 8 Nov; Clear Everitt, Sheriff.
1761 26 Sept; William Doughty, Justice and Asst.
" 14 Oct; William Humphrey, Justice.
" 20 " John Akin, Justice.
" 21 " Timothy Soule, Justice.
" 21 " Mordicai Lester, Justice.
" " " John Palmer, Justice.
" " Nov; James Duncan, Justice. | Deuel\Devol, Silas (I46414)
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THE FRIENDS SETTLEMENT IN 1828
The population at Quaker Settlement, as Philadelphia village was then known, increased very slowly, and in 1828 the heads of families located there were Edmund Tucker and Miles Strickland, proprietors of the flouring-mill; Platt Homan, their miller; Samuel C. Frey and Cyrus C. Dodge, both inn-keepers; Harvey Hamblin, John Cross, W. Mosher, shoemakers; James Cromwell, cabinetmaker; Stephen Roberts, Orrin Cloyse, Elijah Comstock, John Roat, Justin Gibbs, Edmund Hall, Robert Gray, merchant, and successor of Samuel Case who opened the first store in Philadelphia, corner of Main and Antwerp streets, Seth Otis, also a store-keeper, Dr. Almon Pitcher, and Horace Ball. The latter built the first fulling-mill and clothiery, afterwards successively owned by William Comstock, Miles Shattuck, and Hollis S. Houghton. Robert Gray built the first and only distillery in Philadelphia, on the west side of the river, at the Settlement.
!From Childās Gazetteer of Jefferson County, N. Y.; pp. 609 - 629 and ...
!History of Jefferson County, New York, with Illustrations 1797-1878; p.476
From 1807 until about 1830, no headstones were erected at all at the Quaker Graveyard, even though many non-quakers were buried there. The first gravestone erected was in 1831. In 1840, it was determined to enlarge the burial ground at Philadelphia village and a parcel adjacent to the Old Quaker graveyard was obtained.
!History of Jefferson County, New York, with Illustrations 1797-1878; p.476
GIBBS, DEXTER & GIBBS, SHEREBIAH are listed among the early settlers in ANTWERP, Jefferson County. There is also a James, son of Jesse GIBBS in LeRay. James was born in Worcester, MA and came to Jefferson County about 1845, died in 1858. Jesse is found in Greenwich, Hampshire Co, MA in an early census. One of these men may be the father of Justin. He *MAY* be the son of Justus Gibbs born in Litchfield, CT on November 21, 1766. | Gibbs, Justin (I26703)
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The headstone index reads J.T. Hoolbrook. | Holbrook, James Trask (I1672)
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The Hubbardston Advertiser published on November 3, 1887, a list of pupils neither tardy nor absent. Among the High School students named was Eugene Townsend.
The 1910 Census indicates that Eugene and Carrie had a sixth child but not alive in 1910. The 1900 census indicated that child died before 1900. | Townsend, Eugene Martin (I1255)
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The Hubbardston Advertiser published on November 3, 1887, a list of pupils neither tardy nor absent. Among the Intermediate students named was Minnie Townsend. | Townsend, Minnie L. (I1262)
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The Hubbardston Advertiser published on November 3, 1887, a list of pupils neither tardy nor absent. Among the Primary students named were Minnie and Fred Townsend. | Townsend, Fred J. (I1264)
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The Hull family was prominent in early New England history. The first of the name in this country was the Rev. Joseph Hull, who was born in Crewkerne, co. Somerset, England, the son of Thomas and Joanna (Peson) Hull. He matriculated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, 22 May 1612, as a pleb aged 17 years, and took his B.A. degree 14 Nov. 1614. After his graduation from Oxford he was teacher and curate at Colyton, co. Devon, and later rector of Northleigh, in the Exeter diocese, from 1621-1632. Hull was an Episcopalian, with moderate Puritan views, and, in 1635, he emigrated to New England and landed in Boston. That same year he was admitted a Freeman of the Massachusetts Colony, and became the minister at Weymouth, Mass. As a result of his leanings to Episcopacy, he fell into trouble with the Massachusetts authorities and removed to the more tolerant atmosphere of Barnstable in Plymouth Colony in 1639, but, becoming again involved in controversy here, he removed in 1643 to York, in the non-Puritan Province of Sir Ferdinando Gorges in Maine. He preached for some years at York but returned to England, leaving his family in Maine. In 1652 he became minister at Launceston in Cornwall and later at Buryan in that county. On the Restoration in 1662 he was ejected, because of his Puritan leanings, from his living and returned to New England. After his return he preached at Oyster River (Durham, N. H.) and the Isles of Shoals, where he died in 1665, leaving a numerous family. Several of his sons became Quakers and two of them, Hopewell and Samuel, removed to the Quaker settlement at Piscataway, N. J. | Hull, Joseph (I46471)
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The I.G.I gives November as the month of birth, but the gravestone gives September. | Earle, Edward (I33380)
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The I.G.I. gives a date of birth as January 1, 1604. | Barker, Mary (I12411)
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The I.G.I. lists a marriage of John Harrison and Mary Corson in Philadelphia, PA on 26 Sep 1740. Reformed Dutch Church [erroneously called Presbyterian Church]. This John is of Staten Island, born about 1712.
IGI
John L. HARRISON
Sex: M
Event(s):
Born: ABT 1712
Of Staten Island', Richmond, 'New York
Marriage(s):
Spouse: Maria CORSSEN
According to the Vernon Genealogy, John Harrison, son of Caleb and Hannah (Vernon) - b 19 January 1716 , m 14 September, 1745 to Mary Thomas.
Caleb mentions Grandsons in his will, but none of the names of John and Maria match those names.
This all supports my suspicion that the John Harrison that married Maria Corsen was NOT son of Caleb. | Family F2189
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The immigrant ancestor of nearly all persons in North America bearing the surname Bigelow in any of its several variants, is John Biglo of Watertown, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. He lived from 1617 to 1703. Many of his descendants have been recorded in a genealogy entitled Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America, written by Gilman Bigelow Howe, printed 1890.
The book was published by Charles Hamilton of Boston, and is no longer available except by photo-copy reprint. Re-bound used copies occasionally come into the used-book market with the simple title Bigelow Genealogy.
In this book Howe states that be was unable to obtain any satisfactory account of the progenitor of John Biglo, and quotes conflicting traditions stating that the surname is of various national origins. He also quotes the late genealogist H.G. Somerby, who felt that John Biglo came from Wrentham, Suffolk, England, and was son of Randall and Jane Beageley, who had their youngest son, John baptised 16 Feb 1617. Also, from the probate records of Wrentham, Somerby quotes the will of Francis Baguley, blacksmith of Wrentham, who in a will dated 20 Oct 1656, granted five pounds "to his brother John Baguley, now living in New England, if he comes for it within two years." He offered no proof that Francis was son of Randall Baguley.
The rector of Wrentham parish in 1617 was the Rev. John Phillips, who later emigrated to Dedham, Massachusetts. During his years in Dedham, Phillips once stated that the blacksmith John Biglo of Watertown, Massachusetts was the same infant whom he had baptised in 1617 as the son of Randall Beageley, and that he (Phillips) had "known John Biglo from earliest youth upward."
Further, in a civil case in Watertown during his lifetime, John Biglo took the witness stand and identified himself as "John Biglo, formerly of Wrentham, England." From these facts we state the identity and parentage of John Biglo, and through parish and probate records in England, can prove three generations of his English ancestry.
John Biglo seems to have arrived in Watertown, MA by 1632. As early as 1636 he was a resident of Saybrook Fort in Connecticut. He probably came with an older relative, Elizabeth Bigelow, second wife of Deacon Richard Butler, who after a short stay in Massachusetts, followed the Rev. Thomas Hooker to Connecticut. It is assumed that Elizabeth was an older sister or first cousin. No ship's-records exist showing the date of their arrival.
John Biglo took part in the Pequot War of 1636. By 1642 he returned to Watertown. The next public mention we find of him is his marriage in Watertown on 30 Oct 1642--the first marriage recorded in Watertown--before Mr. Nowell, to Mary Warren, daughter of John and Margaret Warren. Mary Warren was baptised 12 Sep 1624 at Nayland, Suffolk, England.
The book Reminiscences of the History of Marlborough, MA 1910, by Ella Bigelow, contains a fictional but colorful description of how John and Mary might have dressed for their wedding.
To quote from Howe's book, "from the list of those who took the oath of fidelity at Watertown 1652, we find that John Biggalough was one of the number, and he became a freeman 18 Apr 1690 which we find from the roll of freemen written as John Bigolo; under the same date we find that Samuel Begaloo was made a freeman, and by another list, date 16 May 1690, we find Samuel Biggilo and John Warren, jr. were made freemen. One the return of soldiers who were in the service of 25 Nov to 3 Dec 1675 [King Phillip's War) we find the names of John Bigulah sr., Michael Flegg, and Isaac Leonard, the last being wounded.
Thus we find the name variously spelled by different officials, but when we find the name written by any member of the family, in those early days it is written Biglo, Bigelo, or Bigelow."
John Biglo appears by various accounts to have been a blacksmith, and again from town records we quote: "Agreed with John Biglo that for ten trees the towne allowed him for the setting up of a shop for a Smithes forge, that he shall either go on with his promise of setting up his trade, which is the trade of a Smith, within one twelfmonth after the date hereof or else to pay unto the towne ten shillings for these ten trees he acknowledged to have off the towne." Dated 4 Mar 1651.
John Biglo was chosen a surveyor of highways in 1652 and 1660, a constable [tax-collector] in 1663, and one of the selectmen or town council, in 1665, 1670, and 1671. His homesite consisted of six acres and was bounded north by Richard Ambler and William Parker, east by Thomas Straight, south by the highway, and on the west by Miles Ives. After the death of his wife Mary on 19 Oct 1691, he married (2) on 2 Oct 1694, Sarah Bemis, daughter of Joseph Bemis. She outlived him. He died on 14 July 1703, at the age of 86 years, as recorded in town records. His will was dated 4 Jan 1703 and was proved 23 July 1703.
The will of John Biglo in its entirety, is as follows:
"In the name of God amen. I John Biglo of Watertown in the county of Middlesex within her Majesties Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, being weeke of body but in sound disposing Memory prais be given to god for the same, Do make this my last will and testament in manner & form following, that is to say first andvprincipally I resign my soul unto the mercy full hands of allmighty god my Creator assuredly hoping through the mercy of my blessed Saviour to obtain pardon remission of all my sins and my body I commit to the earth whence it was taken, to be decently buried by the descreshion of my executors hereinafter named and as for the worldly goods & estate the lord hath lone me I dispose thereof as follows:
"Imp. I give and bequeath unto Sarah my well beloved wife, and to her heirs & assigns forever, all the lands and movable estate, that was hers before our marriage, and fourty pounds in money, twenty pounds of s'd money to be p'd her within one month after my decease and twenty pounds within one year after my dece's I give unto her forty pounds waight of good pork, three bushels of barley, and one bushel of indian corn, five pounds waight in butter and five pounds waight in Chees, and also two Sheep, and half the flax that shall be in the house at my Deces--and that to be in full satisfaction of her thirds.
"2ndly I give & bequeath to my eldest son John Biglo, & to his heirs & assigns forever, twenty pounds in money to be p'd within one year after my Deces, and in case my s'd son have an heir lawfully begotten of his own body, I give & bequeath his s'd heir twenty pounds in money to be p'd to him or her, when it shall be twenty one years of age, or day of marriage which shall first happen, but if it hapon my s'd son deces without an heir as above s'd, then my will is y't ye abolves'd twenty pounds be equally divided between my children then surviving.
"3rdly I give & bequeath to my son Jonathan Biglo, and to his heirs & assigns forever, twenty five pounds in money to be p'd him within one year after my deces.
"4thly I give & bequeath to my son Daniell Biglo and to his heirs & assigns forever, twenty five pounds in money to be p'd him within one year after my deces.
"5thly I give & bequeath to my son Samuel Biglo and to his heirs & assigns forever ten pounds in money besides what he hath already had, to be p'd to him with one year after my deces.
"6thly I give and bequeath unto my son Joshua Biglo and to his heirs & assigns forever two parcels of lands lying on the westerly side of bow brook in s'd town. Purchased of Lieut Chas Hammond as may more fully appear by the deed of the same, and twenty five pounds in money, to be p'd him within one year after my deces.
"7thly I give & bequeath unto my son James Biglo fifteen pounds, which I lent him as may appear by a bond under his hand and seal, and I give & bequeath to my said son James's son James Biglo ten pounds in money to be p'd him if he shall live to the age of twenty one years, but if it so happen that he deces before s'd age, then ye s'd ten pounds to be equally divided between my s'd son James surviving children, when they shall be of the age of twenty one years or day of marriage which shall first happen.
"8thly I give & bequeath to my Daughter Mary Flagg and to her heirs & assigns forever. twenty five pounds in money to be p'd her within two years after my deces.
"9thly I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Stearns' children twenty five pounds in money, to be p'd them, when they are twenty one years of age, or day of marriage which shall first happen.
"10thly. I give & bequeath to my daughter Sarah Learned, and to her heirs and assigns forever, twenty five pounds in money, within three years after my Deces.
"Ilthly. Igive bequeath to my daughter Martha Wood's children, lawfully begotten of her own body, twenty five pounds in money to be p'd them equally alike, when they shall arrive at the age of twenty one years or day of marriage, which shall first happen.
"12thly. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Abigail Herrington & to her heirs & assigns, twenty five pounds in money, to be p'd within four years after my deces.
"And I nominate, ordain, & appoint my above s'd son Joshua Biglo and my son in law Isaac Larned my Sole Executors to see this my last will & testament performed and all the rest and residue of my estate not herein bequeathed, after all my just debts and funeral charges are p'd my will is that it be divided between my s'd executors, that is to say, two parts of three, to my s'd son Joshua, and one third to my son in law Isaac Learnerd, and do request my trusty and well beloved friend, Capt. Benj. Garfield to be overseer of this my last will & testament, my s'd executors to allow him out of my estate for his cost & charges reasonable sattisfaction to his content, Revoking & making null & void all former or other wills by me heretofore made. In witness herof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this fourth day of January one thousand seven hundred two/three, in the first year of the reign of our lady Anna, by the Grace of God over England & Queen.
his
John x Biglo
mark
Signed, seald & Published
Sam'l Livermore
Daniel Harrington Witnesses
Munning Sawin!'
The inventory of John ~Biglo's estate amounted to 627-12-00. This was a middle-class fortune. Among the expenses charged for the funeral were several pairs of black gloves, twenty gallons of wine, bottles for the wine, allspice and sugar, and two men and horses to carry the wine and other articles to the funeral, also "a man and horse to notify Isaac Larned and wife at Sherburne to attend the funeral, and a man and horse to notify John Stearns at Billerica to attend the funeral."
An additional note comes from the Knight family genealogy, in which Joseph Knight and his wife Hannah in 1649 sold 'a mansion and land' to John Biglo. A map of early Watertown is shown in Robinson and Wheeler's book, Great Little Watertown; the land owned by John Biglo appears at the extreme left of the map, as does the adjoining parcel purchased from Joseph Knight.
John Biglo owned several pieces of property, and in 1686 executed a gift-in-deed, conveying to Samuel Biglow and wife, 16 acres and the house thereon "already occupied by my son Samuel." | Bigelow, John (I12405)
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The invention of barbed wire by the American Joseph Farwell Glidden in 1874 had a major influence on the development of the Central and Western United States. The cattle industry in the West had grown up on the great expanses of open range. This was beneficial in some ways because it let the cattle seek their own forage. It had disadvantages, however. Cattle from different owners would get mixed together and have to be separated before being driven to market. The open range was also an invitation to thieves to steal cattle. | Glidden, Joseph Farwell (I16091)
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The inventory of his estate was taken "1654, 4 mo. Inventory of the estate of Joseph Morse of Dorchester which he had at Meadfield apprized at ¹183 by Tho. Wight, George Barbour, and Robt. Heusdall." | Morse, Joseph (I10145)
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The inventory of the estate of 'Mrs. Reana Frost' was taken 3 January 1675/6 and totalled ¹78 10s. 1d., of which ¹37 was real estate: 'land in Watertowne Field, 3 acres,' ¹12; and 'the house, barn & yard with the houseright.' ¹24. | Reana (I15851)
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The Kent Co death record shows his birthyear as 1875. | Holbrook, George H. (I1415)
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The L.D.S. ancestral file lists a daughter, Sarah born 1631 at Nayland, England and she died in 1632 at Salem, MA | Warren, Sarah (I15385)
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The Lake House was built in 1875 by Hiram PRATT, its present proprietor (1882). | Pratt, Hiram (I63760)
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The last Will and Testament of Deacon John Rogers this 8:12:mo:1660 being in perfect memory to our apprehension Who Bequeaths his [illegible] to the persons under mentioned and his spirit to the [Lord god] that gave it he gives and bequeaths unto his beloved wife Judeth Rogers the west end of his dwelling house with one third part of the Barne and halfe his orchard and p[ro]duce thereof and half his [ ] adjoyning to the orchard and these premises to be hers onely during her [life]
And further his will is that his sonne John Rodgers shall pay unto his mother Judeth Rodgers twenty bushells of Corne yearely one third to be paid in wheate one third peare & one third in Indian Corne if his son John refuse or fayle in payment of the said Corne, Then his mother Judeth shall have Half the land to Improve as long as shee lives viz the brok [torn]
Hee Bequeaths unto his wife Judeth his Featherbed and all the furniture thereunto belonging with half of all his houshold goods giveing her power to bestow it on whom shee please provided it be given to Deacon Rodgers Children
Further the said Deacon by this will gives unto his wife Judeth one cow and the use and profit of the other cow the yeare Insueing Except his son John marry then one cow to be his
He gives one heifer to his wife and halfe his swine and halfe his goates and half his sheep
It is his will that his sonne John Rodgers shall keep one cow for his mother and six Goats at winter onely as long as shee lives; If John Rodgers Fayle in refuseing then it is his will that his wife Judeth shall have that part of his medow that is adjoyneing to Deacon Whitmans medow dureing her life
Hee Bequeaths by this will unto his Daughter Mary Rane his great lott which is twelve Akers Bounded by Deacon Phillips great lott: and further gives her Fortie shillings
Further the said Deacon Rodgers gives unto his Daughter Lidda Whitte six Akers of land lying on the East necke or Five pound which he leaves to his Executors Discretion either to give her the land or the five pounds soe it be done in one yeares time after his decease
Hee gives unto his Daughter hanah pratt Five pounds to be paid two yeares after his decease
Hee Gives to his daughter Sarah Fourteen pounds ten pound thereof to be paid a month after her marridge the other five pound to be paid two years after her marridge And in case shee marry not shee is to have fiveteen pounds ten pounds at eighteen years of age and Five pound at Twenty five years old
Further the said Deacon [illegible] John Rodgers the Remaynder of all his [ ] goods chattells houshold stuffe & [ ] him his heires and [ ] provided that his son John Rodgers shall pay unto his Sis[ ] to the tenure of this his last will out of that part of the [ ] which is given byt he said Deacon unto his son John and not out [ ] that part which is given to his wife Judith
Further it is the said Deacons will that if his son John Rodgers dy without wife or child: that then his son in law Joseph White shall have the land that lyes adjoyneing to Thomas Dons house provided that Joseph White shall pay out of it to his son in law John Rane ten pound
It is his will allsoe that his daughter Sarah shall have the remaynder of his land houseing and orchard in case his son John dy as above expressed namely that which belong to his son John And Sarah shall pay to John Rane five pounds and to Samuel pratt Eight pound and to Joseph which fower pounds
Further his will is that William Richards his aprentice shall serve the Remaynder of his aprentiship with his son John And that his son shall cause the said william Richards shalbe taught his trade acording to Indenture
It is allsoe his will that his beloved wife judeth & his son John Rodgers shall be joynt Executors of this his last will and that even [ ]
It is allsoe his will and desire that his beloved Freinds Thomas White and John Holbrooke to be overseers of this his last will and testament and allsoe Thomas Dier
Signed in the presence of John Rogers
William Charde
Thomas Dyar
(Proved 30 April 1660 [sic], Suffolk Probate #264)
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A True Invoice of the Estate of Deacon John Rogers Lately Deaseased being apprised by us whose names are underwritten:
Item wearing apparell 06.00.00
it Beds & bed cloths 14.00.00
it pots kitties warming pan scillet fring pan
seimer hangers 01.15.00
it pewter vessel wth other Houshold vesels 02.10.00
it Table Boards Bedsteads chaires & stooles 03.10.00
It Two Chests 00.15.00
It Cloth stufe & two Bule skines 01.00.00
it Two muskquets two swords & two paier
of Bandeleers 02.14.00
it one loome wth other materialls belonging
to it & wheels 05.00.00
It one servant boy that is ye apprentice 10.00.00
it one Horse 10.00.00
it one yoake of oxen 12.00.00
it Two Cowes & one calfe 09.00.00
it Two Heifers 06.00.00
it one Caffe of one year old 01.10.00
it Sheep 05.00.00
it Goate 07.00.00
it Swine 03.06.00
it one saddle cart & wheeles & plowe
& plowe tackling 04.00.0
it Wheat peas & Indian come 08.00.00
it one Dwelling House Bame outhouse & orchard 60.00.00
it Medow 26.00.00
it Beaake land ten ackers 25.00.00
it pasture Land ten ackers 20.00.00
it Swamp Lands 3 ackers 01.10.00
it Halfe one great Lot 15 ackers 05.00.0
it one Great Lot 12 ackers 04.00.0
it one Lot more of 3 ackers 04.00.0
it one Lot of the Division of Comons 56 ackers 08.00.0
it Hemp & flax 01.00.00
it Barrels pailes & such vessells 01.00.0
it old Lumber 01.00.0
Sume Totall 275
John Holbrook (Suffolk Probate #264) | Rogers, John Deacon (I11784)
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The last will and testament of John Parmerly, late of New Haven deceased, was presented, made the 8th of November 1659, proved by the oath of Deacon Lindon and Deacon Peck, at a court held at Newhaven January 3d, 1659/60. The inventory for the will was dated 2 January 1659/60. He left an estate valued at 78 pounds, 13 shillings.
"Know all men by these presents, I John Parmely of Newhaven being very sicke in body but prfect in minde, doe Institute and ordaine this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following I doe give and bequeathe to my beloued wife Elizabeth Parmely my house-lott and all my whole Estate for her to enjoy and possesse without molestation during the whole time of her life.
"And after her decease I doe give and bequeath half of my house and lott to my sonne, John Parmile of Guilford, the other half, one quarter to my Grandchild Nathaniel Parmile, the sonne of John Parmile of Guilford. And the other quarter part I give to my wife to dispose to her sonne, Stephen [Bradley], if she see cause and for those goods whch shall be left at the dease my will is that my daughter Hannah Johnson the wife of John Johnson of Newhaven, and her dauter Ellen Allan ye wife of John Allen of Newhaven, should have ye greater part equally divided betwixt them and what doth remain I doe leave to her discretion to dispose as she pleaseth." | Parmelee, John (I22437)
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The last will and testament of Josaph Bixby Sener living in Boxford being aged and not expacting to contenew long in this world yet perfact in his understanding and in A Resinal disposing miend: I doe bequeath my Souel to Almity God who gave it mee and my body to bee desantly buriad in the Earth after my deseas: and as for my outward Estat I despos of it as heerit foloweth: and to my son Josaph I will and bequeath forty and fouer Acors and a quarter of land: pearte of it is the land I gave him a pon mariag: which land he now liveeth uppon: also I doe give to my son gorg the Eaighteen acors of land hee now liveath a pon and Elaven acors moer behind durty medow and two acors and three quarters of medow in durty medow and three acors of medow in the slip and an acor of upland lying Round it for convenantsy of fencing of it :
also I doe give to my son Jonathen twenty and Eaight acors of land he now liveath a pon which is the homested I live uppon and fouer acors of medow in long medow which I bout of Captin Chandler: and the Reast of my land shal be Eaqually parted A mongst my 3 sons; and forder my will is that my thre sons Josaph gorg and Jonathen shal keep my wief on cow winter and sommer : and also one hog and a low hir twenty bushel of Endian corn and three bushel of wheat and two of malt one baril of sider and twelve pound of flax tear and six pound of sheeps woll and nien cord of wood all thes a bove sd perticalers aer to be providad yearly during hir wedowhood : also the weast Eand of the hous with the utenses in it: also thes three sons a bove named shal allow thair mother a peec of Eaigh a peec yearly.
my son daniel hath had his porsion alredy and I doe give to my son benjemien three pound to be payed in corn by my sons Josaph gorg and Jonathen Eaqally a mongst them.
my daftar Mary Ston hath had seven pound and three shillings wicth is hir porsion.
and my will is that my dafter Abegal shal have ten pound of that Estat that my wief shal leave behind hir at hir deseas: also my will is that my three sons Josaph goarg and Jonathen doe pay all my honest deats and maintain mee and my wief with meat drink and clothing and wood and tendanc and what wee stand in need of during my natural lief and after my death beury me desantly which charges and disbursments my will is that my three sons Josaph goarg and Jonathen doe bear it eaqually one as much as another.
it is to be understod that I give to my 3 sons Josaph gorg and Jonathen all the undevidad land not hear named Eaqually amongst them
also my three sons Joseph goarg and J onathen aer to begin to doe thair shaers in all that is Exprased in this Enstrument att the deat of this Enstrument: I doe desiar that John Pebody and Thomas Redington shall bee my over sears of this my will that it may bee parfermed in all Respact according to what is Exprased in this my last will and testiment
and in testimoney that this is my las will and testimont I the said Josaph Bixbe sener have seat tow my hand and seall this Elaventh day of november in the year of our Lord one thowsend six hundred nienty and nien
JOSAPH BIXBEE
Sener his J mark and seall SARAH BIXBEE hir marck ? 8 widdow to the desesad hath set hir hand hear to in testimony of hir consent to this will of hir leat husband.
Witneses JOHN PEBODY WILLIAM FOSTER ABRAHAM REDINGTON THOMAS REDINGTON
Ess.ss. Before ye Honbl John Appleton Esqr Judge of ye probates &c in Ipswch March 6, 1703-4 - William Foster & Abraham Redington of Boxford in ye County of Essex appeard & made Oath yt they were prsent & saw Joseph Bigsbee Senjr of Sd Boxford signe seale & heard him publish & declare ye within written Instrmt to bee his last Will and Testamt & wn he so Did he was of a disposeing mind To ye best of their Discerning and yt They sett to Their hands as Witness in his presence - & at ye same Time They Saw John Pebody & Thomas Redington Sett to Their hand as Wittness In his prsence
Upon which This Will was proved approved & allowed
Attest Danl Rogers
On back of Will :
Joseph Bixbees Senr
Will proved approved & allowed Record Examdd 1704 Boxford
Sargent Bixbes will proved approved & allowd | Bixby, Joseph (I48819)
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