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| 601 | Apparently born out of wedlock, because the adjacent page in the register contains record of public absolution for Svend's parents. | Svendsen, Svend (I20947)
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| 602 | Apparently word got out about Witcher's plan. One of the Clement brothers filed his will prior to the meeting at Dickenson's Store. Will of Ralph Alexander CLEMENT, dated 13 Sep 1859 Pittsylvania County, VA, Will Book 3, page 340 Being about to go to attend to the taking of Depositions on the part of my Brother Jas. R. Clement where I have been apprised the other party intends to bring on a difficulty in which death may occur I hereby give and bequeath to my wife E. A. Clement during her life or widowhood all my property real & personal remainder to my daughter M. W. Clement with the right of making such advancements & provisions for my said daughter as my Said wife shall think proper. Should my said daughter die before she attains the age of 21 years my said wife surviving I give and bequeath all my slaves to my wife absolutely. My land I wish to go back to my nearest of Kin on my Father's side. Should my wife marry whilst my said daughter lives I wish her to own a third of my estate for life. remainder to my daughter. Given under my hand this 13 of September 1859. R. A.Clement (Seal) | Witcher, Vincent Oliver (I14183)
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| 603 | Appears as Joseph Bauleke in 1895 Minnesota Territorial Census. Census shows him in Ramsey Cty, St Paul Ward 9, at 38 Valley St., living with Minnie, both aged 27. 1910 US Census shows Joel living as a roomer at 152 Charles St., St Paul, Ward 8. Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002 Name: Joel Bauleke Death Date: 7 Dec 1940 Death County: Ramsey State file number: 026534 Certificate Number: 026534 Certificate Year: 1940 Record Number: 854134 | Bauleke, Joel Henry (I2137)
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| 604 | approx. 1790 James Strickland came from England after the revolution with his wife and one son, James Strickland. James Sr. went to fight in 1812 in Louisana where he died. His wife wife went to find him and died also. James Jr. was raised by cousins. | Strickland, James (I52186)
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| 605 | Apr. 16 1683 To wife Ann Stone, for life, the house where I now dwell, all moveables, six cows, a mare, swine, and poultry; also rents from my houses and lands at Sudbury, now occupied by my son Daniel Stone; at her death my dwelling house in Cambridge to go to my daughters Hannah Bent, Mary Fox, Elizabeth Stowe, Margaret Brown, Tabitha Rice, and Sarah Hill, and the remainder she leaves to be equally divided among my sons Daniel, David, and Nathaniel Stone, they to pay to my above daughters 100 pounds. My dwelling houses and lands thereto belonging in Sudbury, I give to my son John Stone, for life, to be improved for his maintenance by my son Daniel Stone, with remainder to my said son Daniel or his heirs. Wife Ann Stone to be executrix, and brethren John Cooper, Sen., and Samuel Stonem Sen., to be overseers, and executors after the decease of my wife. Proved 12 June 1683. (Middlesex County Probate Records, No. 21596) | Stone, Tabitha (I18053)
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| 606 | April 28, 1828 Page 455 - Minutes of the Circuit Court, Record B, 1822-1829 Age 68 on the 23rd day of Marach, 1828; Shoemaker; Unable to follow any business or labor. Wife: Age 65, who is rendered wholly helpless by infirmity and a chronic disease of 25 years standing, where she has been unable to rise without assistance often. Family: 9 children and 2 orphan grandchildrlen whom he raised, having all grown up and left him. Value of Property: $35.12 1/2cents | Jacobs, Samuel Priestly (I26256)
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| 607 | Arent Andrieszen Bradt was born in 1616 in Fredrikstad, Norway to Andries Arentse Bradt and Aeffie Kinetis. He made his way to Texel, Netherlands and left for America on October 8, 1636 and arrived at New Amsterdam on March 4, 1637, most likely with his older brother Albert. He settled in Rensselaerswyck. He first worked at his brother's tobacco plot. He started work there on April 2, 1637, at f75 a year. Between 1638 and 1646, he sold tobacco van Curler and de Hooges. Years later, Arent ran a sawmill, traded, and may have owned a tavern. He often traveled to Esopus, Manhattan, and Long Island on business. In the late 1640s, Arent married Catalyntje de Vos, daughter of Andries de Vos. They had a total of six children. In 1652, Arent moved to Beverwyck and was one of it's first inhabitants. He recieved full municipal rights then following year. He also owned a lot near the river in the north part of the village. In 1658, he leased an island on the Hudson River. On May 1, 1658, he leased land opposite of Beverwyck. In 1662, Arent became one of the first people to own land in Schenectady. Arent died in 1663 in Beverwyck, Albany County, New York. | Bradt, Arent Andriessen (I10791)
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| 608 | Arizona Daily Sun, 11 May 2017 Elaine Reed Ornes Mack, 94, passed away peacefully after a brief illness on May 6, 2017. She was born April 19, 1923 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Chester and Jessie Ornes. The family moved to Fargo, North Dakota in 1940 where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from University of North Dakota in 1945. She was a member of Alpha Phi. She married Frank Mack in 1955 in Southern California and they moved to Flagstaff, Arizona in 1968 where they worked for many years as owners of Mack Corporation, a manufacturer of robotic components and automation products. Elaine was active in Federated Community Church in Flagstaff where she served as a Presbyterian Elder and was also an active member of Laughlin Community Church in Laughlin, Nevada where they had a second home. In her later years, she became an active member of Desert Palms Presbyterian Church in Sun City West. She was active with Masonic youth serving as Mother Advisor for all three of her daughters in The International Order of Rainbow for Girls. She earned her Grand Cross of Color as well. She is a member of Eastern Star Grand Canyon Chapter #4 in Flagstaff. In 1973-74 she served as President of the Flagstaff Symphony Guild and they honored her as Woman of the Year in 1978. She is preceded in death by her husband of over 50 years and her three siblings. She is survived by three daughters: Sue Manrose of Park Ridge, Illinois; Stacey McEnnan of Woodland Hills, California; Missy Whitehead (Jim) of Sun City West and Flagstaff, Arizona. She is also survived by seven grandchildren: Mindy Warick, Scott Manrose, Jaime McEnnan, Mollie VanderLaan (Jay), Jessie Helmes (Jordan), Carrie Polizzi (Mike) and Mark Manrose. In addition, she is survived by three great-grandchildren: Elle VanderLaan, Reese VanderLaan and Lydia Polizzi. Services will be held Saturday, May 13th, at 10:30 am, in the Chapel at Desert Palms Presbyterian Church, 13459 W. Stardust Blvd., in Sun City West. | Ornes, Elaine Reed (I3066)
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| 609 | Arlington Plantation on the Eastern Shore, John Custis II Posted 30 Jan 2023 by John Moore An enigmatic sign along U.S. 13 near Kiptopeke says "Custis Tombs" and points to the west. After 25 years of wondering about it, curiosity finally won out. I turned onto Arlington Road. A short distance later, Arlington made a sharp left, and I stayed straight onto Custis Tomb Drive, although not without some misgiving. It appears to be a driveway straight to a large yellow house, but the road, in fact, curves right around behind the house and keeps going for a few miles. In 1891 a writer for The New York Times drove down this way to see the Custis Tombs. What was written then still holds true, and I quote: "It does not seem possible that a hundred years ago this was a great plantation with a commerce of its own, but gradually the sites upon which large buildings rested are pointed out, although no sign of them is seen." Today there is an unpaved parking lot outlined with tar-spattered poles laying on their sides, and a lot of grass. So much grass that it lay like hay on the path that had been mowed through the field to allow access to... a slightly greener patch of grass. At this spot along Old Plantation Creek was "the most architecturally sophisticated house of the time," according to an archaeological report about the site, written for the owner, Preservation Virginia. The foundation lines of Arlington, a three-story house built circa 1670, stood out pale green against the hay, and upright poles marked the corners. Some interpretive signs described the now-vanished house, which was built by John Custis II. A member of the Governor's Council, Custis offered refuge to Gov. William Berkeley, who was driven from the colonial capital of Williamsburg in 1676 by Bacon's Rebellion. Supported by other Eastern Shore residents, Berkeley fought back and captured the rebel fleet that had come after him and resumed power. "The clash at Arlington proved to be the decisive turning point of the rebellion," the archaeologists wrote. When John Custis II died, the house went to his grandson, John Custis IV. The house was described by contemporaries as having "a handsome garden and fine orchard" as well as two cellars with plastered walls, brick floors and vaulted ceilings, along with at least three chimneys, three levels and garrets. Arlington prospered until John IV moved to Williamsburg sometime between 1714 and 1721. The house dwindled away until now all that remains is a few bricks and some interpretive signs. A box with a sign reading "Please Take One" was empty, so the meaning of small numbered posts around the site remained elusive. If you're thinking that you've heard the names Custis and Arlington before, you have. John Custis IV was Martha Custis Washington's first father-in-law. After her first husband's death, she married George Washington. Martha's grandson built a fine house on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., which he named Arlington House after the Eastern Shore site. Today, it is the site of Arlington National Cemetery. The family plot on the edge of Old Plantation Creek is much smaller. Surrounded by a brick wall and shaded by trees, it contains two tombs. The smaller one belongs to John Custis II. The larger one belongs to John Custis IV, and on one side is inscribed, "Aged 71 years and yet liv'd but seven years which was the space of time he kept a bachelors house at Arlington on the Eastern Shore of Virginia." | Custis, John II (I47651)
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| 610 | Arlington Plantation, John Custis II (1629-1696) Along the south shore of the Old Plantation Creek inlet where it converges with the Chesapeake Bay close to what is now the quaint little town of Cape Charles, Arlington Plantation was founded on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. This special site is one of the most historic properties in our nation, yet its significance is little known. For many centuries this area was inhabited by native American Indians, until occupation by English settlers of this site and the area up to the Kings Creek inlet three miles north, Sir Thomas Dale established the first permanent settlement of English colonists on the Eastern Shore in 1617 known as Dale’s Gift. Here, half a century later, a plantation was founded by John Custis II, whose prosperity was demonstrated by the construction of the most magnificent mansion on the whole of the Chesapeake Bay. Apparently he named the plantation in honor of his family’s benefactor, Lord Arlington, although the name was possibly derived from the English village Arlington-Bibury, home to the first generation of the Custis family. More than three hundred fifty years after Arlington mansion first rose high above the waters of Old Plantation Creek, the name itself still lives on, engrained in the minds of all Americans as the land upon which thousands of American soldiers rest eternally, Arlington National Cemetary. National recognition of the Custis name began when, in 1759, the widow of John Custis IV’s son Daniel, Martha Dandridge Custis and the heir to Arlington Plantation, married army Colonel George Washington when he was only twenty-six years old. As was the custom of the times, on his way to becoming the father of our country, Washington managed the affairs of his wife’s property here on the Eastern Shore. And in the paradoxical twists and turns of history, Martha’s great-granddaughter, Mary A. R. Custis to whom both Arlington estates passed, married another young Army officer, who would become, like George Washington, an icon of the American story. It is indeed ironic that Robert E. Lee would take reluctant command of the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia which strived to split the nation that was hardwon by his wife’s legendary ancestor, its first President. And so the prestigeous Custis family, which founded Arlington Plantation on the Eastern Shore and Arlington Plantation on the Potomac River, links George Washington, the Revolutionary War and the founding of our nation with Robert E. Lee, the Civil War and the near destruction of the nation. The name of the Custis family ancestral plantation, Arlington, lives on today in the American consciousness despite the destruction of its mansion more than two-hundred fifty years ago. In the early part of the nineteenth century, Martha’s grandson George Washington Parke Custis, who was adopted by General Washington and his wife as their son, built a mansion near Mt. Vernon overlooking the Potomac River. He called it ”Arlington” after the first Custis home on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the vast lands surrounding his mansion became the National Cometary after the Civil War. The Arlington mansion on the Eastern Shore was abandoned sometime during the early part of the 18th century. Its ruins were pilaged and what was left eventually became buried in the farm fields surrounding its site, the only evidence of its grandeur that remained were the prominent tombs of John Custis II and his grandson, John Custis IV. During the spring of 1987, an archeological survey of the Arlington plantation site near the Custis Tombs revealed sections of a brick foundation for a very large structure that was covered by a foot of soil plowed over a hundred years of farming activity. During 1994, an intensive archeological investigation of the cellars of the mansion was conducted. Eye witness accounts of the mansion dating from 1709 offer brief glimpses of its size, elevations and orientation to the Chesapeake Bay. As well, the beautifully preserved historic records in Northampton County courthouse provide additional sources of information about Arlington. A 1688 reference about a visit to the house in a lawsuit filed that year, is one of the first mentions of a separate dining room in an early Colonial home in Virginia. This annecdote substantiates the archaeological findings at Arlington which determined the house to be the most architecturally sophisticated house of that period, at least fifty years ahead of its time. Such a large home, built of brick masonry, required laborers and materials and facilities for making the bricks. It is believed that the kilns for firing the newly made bricks are located 3/8 mile south of the ruins on a 15 acre tract of land that contains a modern two bedroom home and barn with horse stable. Behind the home, hidden in the forest and covered with the detritus of fallen leaves, vines and dirt are piles of old and crumbling bricks. That site is at the head of a shallow tidal pond that probably provided the water necessary for mixing the brick clay. | Custis, John II (I47651)
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| 611 | Armistead Brothers - War of 1812 From the speech by Rev. James E. Poindexter at the presentation of the portrait of Lewis A. Armistead to R.E. Camp No. 1, C.V., Richmond, Virginia, January 29, 1909 (http://www.gdg.org/Research/People/Armistead/armi st1.html): The Armistead family, coming direct from England, settled in Virginia in 1636, and became a family of soldiers. Five brothers, three of them in the regular army, took part in the war of 1812. Col. George Armistead, the oldest of the five, defended Fort McHenry. The flag which waved over it during the bombardment, which Key immortalized as the "Star Spangled Banner," was long guarded as a sacred heir-loom by his descendants. It is now laid up in the National Museum. A second brother, Lewis Gustavus Adolphus, named for the Swedish hero, "The Lion of the North," fell at Fort Erie. Walker Keith Armistead graduated at West Point in 1803, fought in Canada, closed the Seminole war, and was, when he died in 1845, second in command in the regular army. Miss Stanley, who became his wife, was a native of the old North State, and so it happened that Lewis A. Armistead was born at Newbern, N. C., in 1817. According to the War of 1812 Pension Application of John Lumberson of Baltimore, Maryland, he served under Captain John Armistead in a Battery at Fort Southwest Point at Kingston, Tennessee. The Battery received orders to go to support General Andrew Jackson in Florida and then the Battle of New Orleans. They did not reach New Orleans in time to participate in the battle. Their boat was intercepted and their orders were changed to go to Fort McHenry at Baltimore to help defend the fort. They arrived shortly before the last battle where the then Major George Armistead and his brother Captain John Armistead were reunited and defended the Fort with their units. This information is from the records from the National Archives for John Lumberson. | Armistead, Gail Walker Keith (I44459)
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| 612 | Arnold de Fine Composed: Wann Mein Stündlein Vorhanden Ist Source: Royal music from the courts of king Fredrik II and Christian IV. Denmark: Society for udgivelse af dansk musik on phonograph records and videograms. Listen here==> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wann-Mein-Stundlein-Vorhanden-arnoldus/dp/B002RBCLK2 | De Fine, Arnoldus (I906)
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| 613 | Arnold de Fine, 1530-13 Nov 1586, was a Flemish/Danish organist and conductor, who from 1556 lived and worked in Denmark for King Christian the 3rd and Frederik 2. He is believed to come from Antwerp, possibly with the name van Eynde or von End, and died in Helsingør. He is believed to be buried in St. Mikkels kirke i Slagelse, because he allegedly possessed a beneficie there (løngivende but labor-free office). His descendants occupied many public offices in Denmark and Norway, for example as priests, bishops or royal officials, and now known under various derivations of the name (de Fine Olivarius, de Fine Licht and de Fine Skibsted). Many of them bore the first name Arnold. 1556-1560 and again from 1563 he was employed by King Christian 3. In the intervening years he was organist to the Queen. In 1565 he got a stand in the Roskilde Cathedral (temporarily beneficie). Since the chapel after the Nordic Seven needed a reorganization was appointed to de Fine fifth June 1571 to the conductor (for the Royal Chapel), replacing Amsfortius. That same year he renewed his stand in Roskilde, and given his long and faithful service he received a 1583 kannikedømme in Aarhus. These fictitious offices (counsel or præbender) was a tradition from Catholic times, and the king used them as wages to his employees, without any ecclesiastical duties attached to them. The following document from Kjøbenhavns Diplomatarium says that Arnold de Fine on November 24 in 1578 sheep ejendomret to a house in København: "Wij Frederich thend anden etc. giøre alle witterligt, at wij aff wor synderlige gunst och naade haffue wnt, skiøt och giffuet och nu med thette wort obne breff wnde, skiøde och giffue os elskelige Arnoldus de Fine wor capellmester och hans arffuinge ett wort och kronens hus och woning wdj wor kiøpsted Kiøpnehaffn ligendis wdj Leerstredet wd med algaden, østen op till Claus Wit guldsmed, westen op thill Willom apoteckers stald, och strecker sig samme gaard norden ther fran lige emod thuende huse paa Amagerthorre, Hans Thuesen och Thommes Badskier iboer, huilcken forskrefne gaard osv. Actum Koldinghus thend 24 nouembris aar etc. mdlxxviij. Wij Fredrich thend second etc. giøre all Witter that Wij aff hau sins equal favor och mercy haffue WNT, skiøt och giffuet och now Thet wort obne bref wnde, skiøde och giffue us lovable Arnoldus de Fine hau capellmester och his arffuinge a wort och crown house och Woning wdj hau kiøpsted Kiøpnehaffn ligendis wdj Leerstredet wd with Algade east up till Claus Wit goldsmith, Westen up Thill Willom apoteckers barn och Strecker on the same farm north ethers fran just emod thuende houses on Amagerthorre Hans Thuesen och Thommes Badskier iboer, huilcken forskrefne yard etc. actum Koldinghus thend nouembris 24 years etc. mdlxxviij." Transcription: We Frederik 2 publish that we of our grace through this open letter conveyed and provides our highly sat Arnoldus de Fine, our conductor, and his heirs one of ours and crown houses in our town Copenhagen located in Læderstræde toward Algade (now Kobmagergade) between dragonfly Claus Wits house and barn Willom pharmacies and extent up to two houses at Amager Torv, where Hans Thuesen and Thommes Badskier live ... Signed on Koldinghus the 24th november 1578. One source claims that he is giving more from 1581 showed revenues of a little tavern and garden just outside Nørreport in Copenhagen. As a bandleader, he had a boys choir under his special care. Of his contemporaries he is mentioned as a significant writer ( Hans Mikkelsen Ravn in Heptachordum Danicum ). A composition by him: Wann mein Stündlein vorhanden is available on CD Royal music from the courts of King Frederik II and Christian IV at the publisher Dacapo. Arnold de Fine was married 2 times: with Anniken Pedersdatter (d. 1576) and then with Barbara Hieronymidatter Knoff. His son of the first marriage Petrus Arnoldi de Fine (d. 1620) was a singer in the chapel. A son of the second marriage Arnoldus de Fine (Arnold, Arnoldii Arnold v. End) was a pupil of particular Melchior Borchgrevinck and was hired as an instrumentalist in the chapel 1603, but dismissed along with several other 1627 when the chapel diminished as a result of war events. From 1613, he heads with chapel instruments and in 1620 he stand in Roskilde. Sources * Dansk Biografisk Leksikon 1979 Danish Biographical Encyclopedia 1979 * Dansk Biografisk Leksikon 1905 Danish Biographical Encyclopedia 1905 * Fra en 12. From a 12th generations efterkommer generation descendant * Skødebrevet fra 1578 Shot letter from 1578 | De Fine, Arnoldus (I906)
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| 614 | Arnoldus Christiernus von Krogh, b. 1709, 1730 Fennrik, 1733 Premier Lieutenant at the 3rd Trondhj. Reg., died on April 9, 1738, at Ulriksholm in Funen on the return journey from France, where he had spent some years in the Campaign, b. 16 pp. M. in Kjølstrup Church. | Von Krogh, Arnoldus Christiernus (I166)
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| 615 | Arnoldus de Fine - Bishop of Nidaros (Trondheim, Norway) Student from Herlufsholm 1634, Con Rector of Bergen 1637, 1639 Magister, Vice-Lector in Bergen 30 August 1643, Rector of Bergen 1647, Lector theology. 28 Mai 1663 and Vicar in Tab. He was Notary in the chapter in Bergen 5 July 1669 and 11 July 1671 Deputy Bishop of Trondheim with the promise of Succession "while he and thought to be the beginning Nordic Chronicles diligently perfect to terrible and from him deliver within two years in the past." He entered the bishop's office, by Bishop Erik Bredals died on 22 January 1672, was ordained on January 25., But died the same year the cathedral Sacristi. His historical works are lost, "but this loss - Suhm says - has the learned World ei great reason to complain, since he not possessed some healthy criticism." Of his work, it was particularly "Thomis Arctoa, Hafner. 1671" and "Observationes variæ ad Historiam Norvegiæ, anecdot." (The History of Norway to the various observations, anecdot) that led by Chancellor, count Peder Griffenfeld attention upon him and caused his appointment to Bishop, albeit Griffenfeld from reading the latter work was tired, lost patience due to its extensiveness and therefore at the end own hand must have added the following remark: Arnoldus de Fine Scripsit librum sine fine Dabit Deus his quoque finem. English: Arnoldus de Fine He wrote the book without end This also will give the God of the end. http://finnholbek.dk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I48589&tree=2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnoldus de Fine Student fra Herlufsholm 1634, Conrector i Bergen 1637, Magister 1639, Vice-Lector i Bergen 30 Aug. 1643, Rector i Bergen 1647, Lector theol. 28 Mai 1663 og Sognepræst i Fane. Han blev Notarius i Capitlet i Bergen 5 Juli 1669 og 11 Juli 1671 Vicebiskop i Trondhjem med Løfte om Succession „hvorimod han och betænkt skal være den begyndte nordiske Krønnike med Flid fuldkommen at forfærdige og fra sig levere inden 2 Aar i det seneste". Han tiltraadte Bispeembedet, ved Biskop Erik Bredals Død 22 Jan. 1672, blev ordineret 25 Jan., men døde samme Aar i Domkirkens Sacristi. Hans historiske Arbejder ere tabte, „men dette Tab — siger Suhm — har den lærde Verden ei stor Aarsag til at beklage, siden han ei besad nogen sund Kritik". Af hans Arbejder var det navnlig „Thomis Arctoa, Hafn. 1671", og „Observationes variæ ad Historiam Norvegiæ, anecdot.", der henledede Storkansleren Peder Griffenfelds Opmærksomhed paa ham og foranledigede hans Udnævnelse til Biskop, omendskønt Griffenfeld ved Gennemlæsningen af det sidstnævnte Værk blev træt, tabte Taalmodigheden som Følge af dets Vidtløftighed og derfor ved Slutningen egenhændig skal have tilføjet følgende Bemærkning: Arnoldus de Fine Scripsit librum sine fine Dabit Deus his quoque finem. | De Fine, Arnold Hansen (I902)
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| 616 | Around 1753 John Yates/Yeatts built the first blockhouse in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, now the Yates Tavern in Gretna, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This became a waystation on the much traveled Wagon Road to North Carolina, which corresponded with the Great Indian Warpath for much of its length. The blockhouse's purpose was to protect the Indians in nearby Saponi-Town and a nucleus of pioneer families of what became Pittsylvania County from hostile Indians, chiefly the Cherokee and Shawnee. Some of the surnames are Yates, Winn , Sizemore, Adkins, Shelton , Gregory, Tapley, etc. This documents that the Saponi had become "fort Indians" with many intermarriages with the Virginians and at least one of their towns was about ten miles NE of present-day Danville in the 1750s. In the courthouse records of Pittsylvania Co. you will find many taxpayers, slave owners and landowners who are also registered as "Indian" or "Free Colored." Most of these are likely Saponi. | Yates, John Estes "Of Dan River" III (I718)
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| 617 | Around the year 1600, maybe a little before, Cort Jørgensen Coldevei immigrated to Norway. His descendants settled in several places in Norway, first in Tønsberg, later in central and northern Norway. It is unknown where the family came from, but accepted that they immigrated from Denmark in the late 1500-century, but pretty much came from northern Germany. The first period in Tonsberg Cort Coldevei immigrant referred to Tønsberg around 1600. He was followed probably by brothers Jochum and Niels mentioned sporadically in Tønsberg contemporary sources. Cort Coldeveis immigration to Norway coincided with a period of prosperity for Tonsberg, mainly driven by a surge in timber trade and exports. Exports went mainly to Germany, Scotland, and increasingly to the Netherlands, whose low-lying cities demanded pilottering of the houses. For example. Amsterdam is said to have been built on Norwegian timber. Cort Coldevei found his career as a merchant and captain, and he mentioned several times in Tønsberg customs Register. in 1611 when he performs a boat with 10 lasts of salt fish and timber, and when Oluf Lauritsen years after sailing his boat with timber to Rostock. In 1624 founded his own ship, as the following quote from the Norwegian National-Registrants shows [Volume V, p 439]: Cort Coldewers Grant got on a ship to use, not for strangers to Sold. C. IV. G. ow, we graciously gardens exclude and granted this Letter Shows Cort Coldewers, Citizen and inhabitant udi our Kjøbsted Tunsberg that the ship which he now must have udi Building may be used and thus seek his nourishment and Bjering where desires meet him but he must commit not to Selge or dispose of any strangers. Sæm Eker on October 7, 1624. R IV. 337th Depr. VII. 163rd Cort Coldevei be appointed bailiff in Tønsberg and include inter alia in shell accounts in 1627. He then rises up the social ladder and become good marriage, namely Anne George, a daughter of Prime Minister in Tønsberg Jorgen Lauritssøn. With her get Cort Coldevei least seven children, three sons, who are trading citizens in Tønsberg. Especially his sons George and Olufsen continues the family's prosperity. They married into local official genera and achieves both becoming mayors in Tønsberg in the middle of the 1600s. Jorgen Coldevey is a successful merchant and skipper. Like other wealthy people, he puts his money in land, and in 1657 compiled his jordtilligende to 27 ½ hundred-weight, over 10% of tønsbergborgernes total land freight. In 1648, he is alderman, and from 1651 to 1656 (possibly to 1658) he is the mayor of the city beside the mighty Anders Madsen. Jorgen Coldevey marries Johanna Isaac daughter Falck, she also a solid local citizen and official family. One of Mayor George Coldeveys sons Isach Jorgensen Coldevey , was according to some sources priest in Copenhagen. He appears not to Wiberg's pastor story, and when one Isaac Jørgenssøn Coldevin, Tønsberg, in 1693 disposes both Stavnum-farms in the sticks Ivar Franssøn, one must assume that he hardly has moved far from his hometown. It made ??some of his descendants in return. The eldest son George (Georg) Coldevin (1687-1754) was colonel and settled in the frost in Nordtrøndelag. One of his activities was to draw cards, and some of them are today in the University Library in Trondheim, including the 'Carte of Bergen, Trundhiems and North Highlands Districter' and 'Charte over Fraastenske Compagnie-District . He was the progenitor of what one might call an officer genus Coldevin . Another son, Morten Isachsen Coldevin (1694-1735), was captain in Tønsberg in 1720, but moved as a brother of Nordtrøndelag. He was given including son Isach Jorgen Coldevin (1724-93) who was ancestor of the genus Dønnes Coldevin . | Coldevey, Cort Jørgensen (I15998)
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| 618 | Arrival in America William Phelps' actual family--myth and fact: This particular source is the only passenger list that I’ve seen that actually lists the family members upon their arrival in America, but please understand there was no actual "list" of passengers. The "Lists" have been assembled from records of the people once they arrived in America using those dates found in other sources. (The house where the records were stored burned. Much of the erroneous information about the Phelps family's arrival in America probably came from the book "The Phelps Family in America" which was published before he completed his investigations in England; there was no wife Elizabeth. "Great Migration" is accurate.) William’s wife’s name is given as Elizabeth in the passenger list. Fact: His first wife, Mary, died in Crewkerne 13 August 1626. Fact: He married Ann Dover 14 November 1626 in Crewkerne, but he arrives in America with wife Elizabeth...(myth) In “The Great Migration Begins” the author states, “In 1990 Myrtle S. Hyde resolved the problem of the identity of the wives of William Phelps…” , citing William's marriage record to Ann Dover in 1626 after his first wife, Mary died. This wife Elizabeth is part of the myth perpetuated by the published "Phelps Family in America" where the author erroneously believed the Phelps colonists were a family from Tewkesbury. Many of the New England records, and the US and International Marriages records were assembled because of the information in this published Phelps history. This Elizabeth dying in 1635 (as his first wife), and then William marrying a 2nd wife in 1638 information was also perpetuated because of this published Phelps history. It was assumed to be correct information when it was not. There are no real and actual sources to support his theory. There is a real marriage record for William Phelps and Ann Dover marrying in Crewkerne 14 Nov 1626 a few months after his first wife Mary died in Aug. There is a source passenger listing for Anne Phelps on the same ship as William. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Samuel Phelps Family Members: William Phelps and his family arrived in Nantuasket, Massachusetts in 1630 aboard the "Mary & John". His family arriving with him were his wife Elizabeth; brother Richard; son Richard age 10 (1620), son William Jr; daughter Sarah age 7 (1623); son Samuel age 7 (1623); son Nathaniel age 3 (1627); son Joseph age 1 (1629); and brother George. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=1541342&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:Ot herRecord&rhSource=7486 This summary states Elizabeth was the wife/mother's name in error. There is a Passenger list that names Anne Phelps as being on this ship: Anne Phelps arrival year 1630 in Boston, Massachusetts aboard the Mary & John. England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 about Anne Dover http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bi n/sse.dll?db=FS1EnglandMarriages&h=37742369&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t13693 691_p29326486395_kpidz0q3d29326486395z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Anne Phelps http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=743437&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:Oth erRecord&tid=13693691&tpid=29326486395&rhSource=7486 BROTHERS? The ship's list assumed that they were brothers and is part of the myth perpetuated by the published in "Phelps Family in America" where the author erroneously believed the Phelps colonists were a family from Tewkesbury. Stephen M. Lawson clarifies the relationship. PHELPS-GRISWOLD From the files of Stephen M. Lawson The Phelps Immigrants "While there has been various claims about the Phelps ancestry in England, as yet no positive connection to any of the American immigrants (William, George and Richard) has been established. It has also been determined through Y-DNA analysis that William PHELPS and George PHELPS were not brothers and have no identifiable common patrilineal ancestor. The Phelps DNA Projectshows that the modal Y-DNA of descendants of William and George differ in 26 of 37 markers." Here in the ship's list are William’s "brother", Richard, and his "brother" George arriving together. (Further search has shown that George probably arrived in 1634, a year later, on the Recovery.) In researching the cousins of the Phelps family, I see that the family line of George Phelps and of William Phelps both intermarry for generations into the Griswold, Pinney, Holcomb families and have many more family surname marriages in common, and also repeat many of the same family given names. This leads me to believe William and this George are probably related. Although the parents of Richard, William and George Phelps still remains a mystery, we are sure William is of Crewkerne rather than Tewkesbury. Several references to William’s "brother" George are made in “The Phelps Family of America”, but it was an assumption. DNA has proved otherwise. Of course, we can never know about Richard since he was never seen again. About George Phelps, in the “Great Migration Begins”, the author leaves this comment: ASSOCIATIONS: George Phelps of Dorchester and Windsor (not to be confused with GEORGE PHILLIPS of the same two places) may have been a brother of William Phelps [TAG 65; 165-66]. This George Phelps married as his first wife Philura Randal, daughter of PHILLIP RANDALL; he was also, in some manner as yet undetermined, an uncle of Elisha Hart, son of EDMOND HART. | Phelps, William (I32934)
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| 619 | Arrival in America William Phelps' actual family--myth and fact: This particular source is the only passenger list that I’ve seen that actually lists the family members upon their arrival in America, but please understand there was no actual "list" of passengers. The "Lists" have been assembled from records of the people once they arrived in America using those dates found in other sources. (The house where the records were stored burned. Much of the erroneous information about the Phelps family's arrival in America probably came from the book "The Phelps Family in America" which was published before he completed his investigations in England; there was no wife Elizabeth. "Great Migration" is accurate.) William’s wife’s name is given as Elizabeth in the passenger list. Fact: His first wife, Mary, died in Crewkerne 13 August 1626. Fact: He married Ann Dover 14 November 1626 in Crewkerne, but he arrives in America with wife Elizabeth...(myth) In “The Great Migration Begins” the author states, “In 1990 Myrtle S. Hyde resolved the problem of the identity of the wives of William Phelps…” , citing William's marriage record to Ann Dover in 1626 after his first wife, Mary died. This wife Elizabeth is part of the myth perpetuated by the published "Phelps Family in America" where the author erroneously believed the Phelps colonists were a family from Tewkesbury. Many of the New England records, and the US and International Marriages records were assembled because of the information in this published Phelps history. This Elizabeth dying in 1635 (as his first wife), and then William marrying a 2nd wife in 1638 information was also perpetuated because of this published Phelps history. It was assumed to be correct information when it was not. There are no real and actual sources to support his theory. There is a real marriage record for William Phelps and Ann Dover marrying in Crewkerne 14 Nov 1626 a few months after his first wife Mary died in Aug. There is a source passenger listing for Anne Phelps on the same ship as William. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Samuel Phelps Family Members: William Phelps and his family arrived in Nantuasket, Massachusetts in 1630 aboard the "Mary & John". His family arriving with him were his wife Elizabeth; brother Richard; son Richard age 10 (1620), son William Jr; daughter Sarah age 7 (1623); son Samuel age 7 (1623); son Nathaniel age 3 (1627); son Joseph age 1 (1629); and brother George. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=1541342&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:Ot herRecord&rhSource=7486 This summary states Elizabeth was the wife/mother's name in error. There is a Passenger list that names Anne Phelps as being on this ship: Anne Phelps arrival year 1630 in Boston, Massachusetts aboard the Mary & John. England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 about Anne Dover http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bi n/sse.dll?db=FS1EnglandMarriages&h=37742369&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t13693 691_p29326486395_kpidz0q3d29326486395z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Anne Phelps http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=743437&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:Oth erRecord&tid=13693691&tpid=29326486395&rhSource=7486 BROTHERS? The ship's list assumed that they were brothers and is part of the myth perpetuated by the published in "Phelps Family in America" where the author erroneously believed the Phelps colonists were a family from Tewkesbury. Stephen M. Lawson clarifies the relationship. PHELPS-GRISWOLD From the files of Stephen M. Lawson The Phelps Immigrants "While there has been various claims about the Phelps ancestry in England, as yet no positive connection to any of the American immigrants (William, George and Richard) has been established. It has also been determined through Y-DNA analysis that William PHELPS and George PHELPS were not brothers and have no identifiable common patrilineal ancestor. The Phelps DNA Projectshows that the modal Y-DNA of descendants of William and George differ in 26 of 37 markers." Here in the ship's list are William’s "brother", Richard, and his "brother" George arriving together. (Further search has shown that George probably arrived in 1634, a year later, on the Recovery.) In researching the cousins of the Phelps family, I see that the family line of George Phelps and of William Phelps both intermarry for generations into the Griswold, Pinney, Holcomb families and have many more family surname marriages in common, and also repeat many of the same family given names. This leads me to believe William and this George are probably related. Although the parents of Richard, William and George Phelps still remains a mystery, we are sure William is of Crewkerne rather than Tewkesbury. Several references to William’s "brother" George are made in “The Phelps Family of America”, but it was an assumption. DNA has proved otherwise. Of course, we can never know about Richard since he was never seen again. About George Phelps, in the “Great Migration Begins”, the author leaves this comment: ASSOCIATIONS: George Phelps of Dorchester and Windsor (not to be confused with GEORGE PHILLIPS of the same two places) may have been a brother of William Phelps [TAG 65; 165-66]. This George Phelps married as his first wife Philura Randal, daughter of PHILLIP RANDALL; he was also, in some manner as yet undetermined, an uncle of Elisha Hart, son of EDMOND HART. | Phelps, Samuel (I33110)
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| 620 | Arrived on of the Mayflower, the Fortune, the Anne, and the Little James. | Newton Adams, Eleanor (I42191)
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| 621 | Arthur Fuller bought his first land in Granville Co NC in Oct 1752. Listed on Oct 8 1754 French & Indian War Militia Muster, Granville Co. Mar 11 1760 Lord Granville granted Arthur 422 acres in Granville Co in St John Parish on the branches of Taylor's Creek. He continued to get grants until he owned 1487 acres, by 1763 he had sold all land in Granville and was living in Halifax Co VA at the time of the last sale which was 226 acres on Cedar Creek to William Hendly of Halifax Co, Oct 6 1763. In Pittsylvania Co, this Fuller family operated a wagon train as well as one of the first tobacco factories. Contributor: Judith Arnn-Knight Email: jknight@boone.net http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~deschart/z0001313.html | Fuller, Arthur (I19374)
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| 622 | Article from 1912, New Light on George Washington pedigree by Wharton Dickerson. He gives what he refers to as the corrected version of George Washington lineage and also some personal insight. https://www.nytimes.com/1912/02/18/archives/new-light-on-george-washingtons-pedigree.html https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/02/18/100352073.pdf Holder of Whashton-juxta-Ravensworth (*not* Wessington-on-Tyne, where Washington Old Hall still stands) in the 12th century. TRANSLATION. CHARTA OF BONDO DE WYSSINGTON. WASHTON YORK. To all of the Sons of the Church, greeting. Know that I, Bondo de Wassington, have given, and the present charta confirms the gift, the fees of Marring, which the Lord Hervey son of Acery gave my heirs. One half a carrucate of land in Wyssington [Whashton], and one toft belonging to the aforesaid territory. And this half a carrucate of land is given in pure and perpetual charity, free of all service and of any tax whatsoever, in plain, or meadow, or pasture, and in crop or in seed, or water, in any place belonging to said village. Witnesses : Hervey, son of Ackery, Henry, his son, Robert de Lascelles, Gerard, his son, Roger de Ask, William, son of Bond, and others. The charter is undated, but the names of Hervey FitzAcarius and Henry FitzHervey, of what was to become the FItzHugh family, suggest it was near the end of the 12th century or possibly the beginning of the 13th. The last known subholder under this charter was Robert son of Eudo de Whashton, son of Bonde, a minor, circa 1250-52. By the end of the 1280s the overlords, probably represented by Hugh FitzHenry "FitzHugh" (he was the first to use "FitzHugh" as a surname), had reacquired the whole property. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp87-97 First proposed as "the true Washington ancestor" by one James Phillippe of London, who presented a handsomely illuminated - and mainly bogus - pedigree to President Ulysses S. Grant in 1873. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/02/03/george_washington_a_19th_c_genealogist_s_false_chart_of_his_lineage.html What Phillippe didn't realize, nor Albert Welles after him, nor anyone using either one as a source, is that Whashton-juxta-Ravensworth was not the location of Washington Old Hall and had no connection with it or the De Wessington family who held the Hall (for about twice as long as Bondo's descendants were able to hang onto Whashton). | Washington, Lawrence Augustine (I47588)
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| 623 | Arvet Fjærestad, Føli og Hove i Sogn, tils. verdi 502 Rdl. Eiet ved mannes død Hosteland 14 barn hvorav 5 kjent. I hans dødsannonse står 4 barn og i hennes 3 barn. En datter ble avertert 1810. | Haar, Drude Catharine Marie (I39479)
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| 624 | arvet Mellingen i Lindås etter foreldrene | Daae, Anders (I39512)
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| 625 | As an ancestor of Augustine Bearse some things should be cleared up re: Mary Hyanno. Franklin Bearce invented much more than the Hyanno myth, serious genealogists should not perpetuate his "research". Bearse 1. AUGUSTINE b.c.1618 Longstock, Hampshire m. MARY ____ d. after 1686 Barnstable, MA. Augustine supposedly was deported from England at age 20 aboard the "Confidence" which sailed from Southampton and arrived in Plymouth 24 Apr 1638 because he was a Gypsy of the tribe of Herne or Heron. The story goes that no Puritan in Plymouth would marry a gypsy because of religious and racial prejudices so Augustine courted and married an Indian Princess in a traditional ceremony at her village. They were given the best land in Barnstable by her grandfather and it was held by the family for three generations without a deed. He and his wife joined the church of Rev John Lothrop in 1643 which had moved to Barnstable and he was made a freeman in 1652. Austin was surveyor of highways in 1674. Unfortunately, this story of Augustine being a gypsy and marrying an Indian princess came out of the imagination of Franklyn Bearce... This is first disputed by the eminent genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus in an article in The American Genealogist", Vol. XV (1938-9): AUSTIN BEARSE AND HIS ALLEGED INDIAN CONNECTIONS By Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., of New Haven, Conn. A strange story was given circulation in the Utah Genealogical Magazine, July 1935 (vol. 26, pp. 99-100), concerning the wife of Austin Bearse, as follows: The evidence as to the identity of the wife of Austin Bearse is found in an unpublished manuscript, entitled: "Who Our Forefathers Really Were. A True Narrative of Our White and Indian Ancestors," by Franklin Ele-watum Bearse (a Scaticoke and Eastern Indian). This manuscript is a certified copy of an original sworn statement now on file in the office of the Litchfield County District Court, in Connecticut, and accepted by the State Commissioner in Charge of Indian Rights and Claims as an authentic and legal declaration of lineage. It bases its claim as to the identity of Austin Bearse's wife upon statements in the original diary of Zerviah Newcomb, who married Josiah Bearse, a grandson of Austin, and who wrote from personal knowledge of the facts. Her diary is called, "A True Chronicle of the Bearse Family." It is said that the above manuscript is deposited in the Congressional Library, and states that Austin Bearse married by Indian rites at the Mattachee Indian village Mary, daughter of John Hyanno, a Mattachee Sagamore, and son of the Sachem lhyannough who befriended the Pilgrims on their first arrival. In Zerviah Newcomb's diary Austin Bearse was said to be of the Romany or Gypsy race, and the name was originally Be Arce. He belonged to a family of Continental gypsies who had emigrated to England. There was great persecution; for some minor infraction of the English law Austin was deported to the colonies. On arriving at Plymouth, Austin was the only prisoner allotted to Barnstable. No Puritan girl at that time would marry a gypsy, as there were eligible Puritans to select from. It was therefore natural that he should marry an Indian Princess. Further it is said that Mary Hyanno was a lovely flaming-haired Mattachee princess. This story within itself is so improbable that a genealogist familiar with the place and period would hardly give it serious consideration, were it not for the two facts that it has been published in a reputable periodical, and that the claim of documentary evidence is made. The present writer therefore made an attempt to locate this evidence. The Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Litchfield County Conn had no knowledge of it; neither had the State Librarian, Hartford, Conn. A letter directed to the State Commissioner in charge of Indian Rights and Claims, Hartford, Conn. was referred. to the State Park and Forest Commission, which is authorized to act as Overseer of all tribes of Indians residing in the state. An official of this agency has replied: Mr. Franklyn Bearse (Ele-wa-tum) has filed with us a copy of "Who Our Forefathers Really Were" which he claims is a true history of his ancestors. During the past two years I have spent some time in looking up the genealogies of families now living on the three Indian Reservations in the state and in a very few instances have found connections with the persons mentioned in Mr. Bearse's paper. In every case, as I recall, there has been no conflict and although we have no proof that his statements are all correct we have no reason to doubt them. Mr David C Means, Acting Superintendent of the Reading Rooms, Library of Congress, prepared a careful memorandum, which states: We find no record of a diary of Zerviah Newcomb Bearse in our collections. We do have in the Rare Book Room two manuscripts, both by F E Bearse. One is entitled "Who Our Forefathers Really Were," 1933 (CS71.B42 1933) and the other "From out of the past," 1935 (CS71.B42 1935). Both of these works say that Austin Bearse married Mary Hyanno, a daughter of John Hyanno, a full blood Wampanoag Indian. The Library of Congress has no means of checking the authenticity of the statements contained in these books. The memorandum further states that the 1933 manuscript contains an affidavit on the first page signed by Franklin Elewatum Bearce and gives additional particulars. The manuscript not bearing claim of copyright, it was possible to obtain photostatic copies of two pages. None of the agencies addressed had knowledge of the alleged original Zerviah (Newcomb) Bearse diary, nor possessed either the original or a photostatic or certified copy of it. Until the diary can be examined and its exact statements considered, it can hardly be cited as evidence for the statements made in Mr F E Bearce's manuscript account. The present writer must state emphatically that he has no knowledge of and is not concerned with Mr. Bearce's immediate ancestry, which is presumed to correct as stated. Our sole concern is with the alleged Indian ancestry of the wives of Austin' Bearse, of his son Joseph 2, and of his grandson Josiah3. Austin was born over 300 years ago, and his grandson Josiah died in 1753, nearly 200 years ago. Any statement as to their wives cannot therefore be based on personal knowledge, and any tradition passing by word of mouth through several generations requires verification from contemporary record sources before it can safely be accepted. The second page of Mr. F. E. Bearce's 1933 manuscript contains the following statement: The Following Historical and Genealogical Notes and Facts is A true record of our correct line of descent and is Based on Correct Information Handed down from generation to generation by my ancestors and imparted to me by word of mouth by my grand father William Henery Bearce [etc.] and the written Narrative Codgial [sic] of Zerviah Newcomb's Dairy-written by the hand of Zerviah herself-after the death of her husband by law Josiah Bearce lst at New Fairfield Conn. On the fifth page the pedigree of the first three generations of the Bearse family is set forth. According to this, Austin Bearce married in Summer of 1639 Mary Hyanno, born 1625, daughter of John Hyanno, Mattachee Sagamore (and wife Mary), son of lhyannough, Mattachee Sachem (and wife, a princess of the Narragansetts). This is a great deal of detail to be handed down by word of mouth for three centuries. What is actually known about Austin Bearse? He is named as Augustine Bearce, aged 20, in the shipping list of the Confidence of London, which sailed from Southampton the last of April, 1638. Most of the passengers on this ship came in family groups, and a large number of these families settled in Essex County, Mass. The name Augustine (of which Austin is a corruption) is, be it noted, a Christian name, in good usage in England. There is no evidence whatever that any of the passengers on this ship were deported criminals. There is no evidence whatever that Austin was sent to Barnstable as a prisoner. On the contrary, he came to Barnstable with the first company in 1639; he became a member of Mr Lothrop's church 29 Apr 1643, and he is the first person named on the present record of those who joined the church after its removal to Barnstable, He was proposed to be admitted a freeman, 3 June 1652, and was admitted 3 May following. He was called Goodman in the records, bespeaking his good standing. He was a grand juror in 1653 and 1662, and a surveyor of highways in 1674. To quote "Barnstable Families"-(1888) by Amos Otis (vol., 1, pp. 52, 53), "He appears to have been very exact in the performance of his religious duties, causing his children to be baptized on the Sabbath next following the day of their birth........... He was one of the very few against whom no complaint was ever made; a fact which speaks well for his character as a man and a citizen." The wife of "Brother Berce" joined the church, 7 Aug. 1650 [New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Register, vol. 9, p. 281]. To suppose that a Gypsy, a deported criminal, and the husband of an Indian, would have enjoyed such standing in a Puritan community is absurd. In explanation of his marriage to an Indian, the story is told that he was a Gypsy and hence the Puritan girls would not consider him in marriage; yet his children married into the best families of Barnstable and Yarmouth. But would the children of the girls who allegedly stuck up their noses at a Gypsy, have married the half-breed children of that Gypsy and an Indian? Obviously, although the actual evidence is strongly in favor of the conclusion that Austin Bearse was an Englishman and a strict Puritan, and that his wife was one of his own people, it is not possible, until his wife is identified by record proof, to make the negative declaration that she was not an Indian. Unfortunately, any person can claim that the unknown wife of any early colonist was Chinese or Hottentot or Malay, and improbable or impossible as such an assertion might seem, it cannot be absolutely disproved until the real identity is established by records. The burden of proof, therefore, must fall on the person who makes any positive assertion to sustain it by evidence. No such evidence has been presented for the claim that the wife of Austin Bearse was an Indian, and until it is presented, it is the part of discretion to pronounce it unproved and extremely unlikely. The F. E. Bearce manuscript makes statements also relative to the wives of Joseph2 and Josiah Bearse, the son and grandson of Austin', and these statements will be examined as a test of the reliability of the manuscript account. It states that Joseph2 Bearse,. born 1652, married 1676 Martha Tayler [sic], born at Yarmouth 1659, daughter of Richard Tayler of Yarmouth by his wife, Ruth Wheldon, daughter of Gaberiel [sic] Wheldon who came in 1628 and his wife Margaret, a full blood Indian princess, daughter of a Wampanoag Sagamore, a younger brother of Massasoit. There are two errors of date in this statement. The birth of Martha Taylor on a precise date in 1650 has appeared in print, presumably from the Yarmouth records; and she died 27 Jan. 1727/8 aged 77 [Barnstable records in New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Register, vol. 2, p. 316], which also places her birth in 1650, not 1659. Her parents married on or shortly after 27 Oct. 1646, at which date Gabriel "Whelding" gave (consent to his daughter Ruth's marriage. to Richard Taylor [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 2, p. 110]. According to "Early Wheldens of Yarmouth," by J. W. Hawes (Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy, No. 43], Gabriel Whelden, born in England, first appears in Plymouth Colony in 1638, hence he could hardly have come in 1628 as claimed, for the very full records of that region and period did not ignore a settler's presence for a decade. To quote from Mr. Hawe's account: "His children were no doubt born in England and were probably by a first wife. When he died in 1654 his wife was Margaret, who, it seems clear, was his second wife and not the mother of his children. He apparently came to Yarmouth about 1639 with a family of grown children. He left Yarmouth about 1648." Another account is found in "The History of Malden" (1899), by D. P. Corey, p. 158: "Gabriel Wheldon, or Welding, who appears to have been a personal friend of Mr. Matthews, was with that minister at Yarmouth, and took the oath of fidelity with him. He came here [i.e., to Malden] with Mr. Matthews, and in his will calls himself 'of the 'Towne and church of Mauldon.' With his youngest son, John, he sold . . . four parcels of land in Arnold, county Nottingham. Essex Deeds, i. 24. This forbids the conclusion that he was a fellow countryman of Mr. Matthews; but from the apparently close connection of the parties, I am inclined to believe that his wife, Margaret, was from Wales, and perhaps owned a relationship with the pastor.", Further, as to Gabriel: "He died in Malden in January, 1653/4. . . With the exception of a legacy of ten shillings to the Malden church, his estate, valued at £40,11,8, was left to his wife; but the claims of his elder children caused a contention. . . . The widow, who may have been a second wife, returned to England. " She went back in 1655 with Mr. Matthews. Now since Gabriel Wheldon first appears in New England in 1638, and his daughter Ruth was married to Richard Taylor eight years later, it is almost certain that Ruth was born in England. Yet according to the Bearse manuscript, the mother of Ruth Wheldon was Margaret, an Indian princess. (Strange, how every Indian ancestress was a princess!) Did Gabriel Wheldon, one wonders, find the Indian girl straying about the British Isles? And why should the widow Margaret, if born an Indian, return to England with her pastor ? It is also to be noted that two independent students reached the conclusion, from the record sources examined, that Margaret was most probably a second wife, and hence not the mother of Ruth. No conscientious investigator, with any knowledge of conditions in colonial New England, could accept-the statement of the Bearse manuscript, totally undocumented, that the wife of Gabriel Wheldon was an Indian. The Bearce manuscript according to "Early Wheldens of Yarmouth," by J. W. Hawes (Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy, No. 43], Gabriel Whelden, born in England, first appears in Plymouth Colony in 1638, hence he could hardly have come in 1628 as claimed, for the very full records of that region and period did not ignore a settler's presence for a decade. To quote from Mr. Hawe's account: "His children were no doubt born in England and were probably by a first wife. When he died in 1654 his wife was Margaret, who, it seems clear, was his second wife and not the mother of his children. He apparently came to Yarmouth about 1639 with a family of grown children. He left Yarmouth about 1648." Another account is found in "The History of Malden" (1899), by D. P. Corey, p. 158: "Gabriel Wheldon, or Welding, who appears to have been a personal friend of Mr. Matthews, was with that minister at Yarmouth, and took the oath of fidelity with him. He came here [i.e., to Malden] with Mr. Matthews, and in his will calls himself 'of the 'Towne and church of Mauldon.' With his youngest son, John, he sold . . . four parcels of land in Arnold, county Nottingham. Essex Deeds, i. 24. This forbids the conclusion that he was a fellow countryman of Mr. Matthews; but from the apparently close connection of the parties, I am inclined to believe that his wife, Margaret, was from Wales, and perhaps owned a relationship with the pastor.", Further, as to Gabriel: "He died in Malden in January, 1653/4. . . With the exception of a legacy of ten shillings to the Malden church, his estate, valued at £40,11,8, was left to his wife; but the claims of his elder children caused a contention. . . . The widow, who may have been a second wife, returned to England. " She went back in 1655 with Mr. Matthews. Now since Gabriel Wheldon first appears in New England in 1638, and his daughter Ruth was married to Richard Taylor eight years later, it is almost certain that Ruth was born in England. Yet according to the Bearse manuscript, the mother of Ruth Wheldon was Margaret, an Indian princess. (Strange, how every Indian ancestress was a princess !) Did Gabriel Wheldon, one wonders, find the Indian girl straying about the British Isles? And why should the widow Margaret, if born an Indian, return to England with her pastor ? It is also to be noted that two independent students reached the conclusion, from the record sources examined, that Margaret was most probably a second wife, and hence not the mother of Ruth. No conscientious investigator, with any knowledge of conditions in colonial New England, could accept-the statement of the Bearse manuscript, totally undocumented, that the wife of Gabriel Wheldon was an Indian. Finally, we come to the account of Josiah3 Bearse, son of Joseph2 and Martha (Taylor) Bearse. The Bearce manuscript states that be married first, Nov. 1716, Zerviah Newcomb, "By Whom he had no Children"; and that he married second, 1718 at Mashpee, Mary Sissell, mother of all his eleven children. She is described as a full blood Indian princess (another princess), daughter of Isaac Sissell, a Momenet Sagamore, by his wife Mary Tuspuquin, daughter of Watuspuquin-Black William, Sachem at Nahant, by his wife Amie, full blood Indian princess, daughter of Massasoit. Now it is true that Otis in "Barnstable Families," vol. 1, pp. 55, 59, states that Josiah Bearse married first, 2 Nov. 1716, Zerviah Newcomb of Edgartown, and second, Mary --, and that he had no children by his first wife. Whether or not this was one of the numerous errors of Otis, the Newcomb Genealogy (1874) by John Bearse Newcomb gives a different account which is repeated in the revised edition of this work (1923), p. 21 in both volumes. According to this account, Zerviah Newcomb. Daughter of Lieut. Andrew and Anna (Bayes) Newcomb, married 2 Nov. 1716, Josiah Bearse. He resided at East Barnstable but was dismissed from the church there 29 Dec. 1734 to the church at Greenwich, Conn., to which place he soon after moved. In 1738 they removed to New Fairfield, Conn., where he died 31 Aug. 1753. The inscription on his wife's gravestone reads: In Memory of Zerviah Bearss died Sept. 5th in the 91st year of her age 1789." The eleven children are then given, born between 1719 and 1741. No mention is made of an alleged second wife, Mary, and the children are all attributed to Zerviah. It will be noted that Zerviah was married in 1716, survived her husband, who died in 1753, and died herself in 1789. Josiah could not therefore have had a second legal wife. Mr. F. E. Bearce admits this in his reference to Zerviah "after the death of her husband by law." The story therefore is that Josiah Bearse either committed a bigamous marriage, or kept a concubine, and that in spite of this his legal wife accompanied him on his removal to Connecticut. Such a story cannot be accepted, and is seemingly based on an error, either in the book by Otis, or in an original record at Barnstable. Both offenses were serious in the eyes of the law, and although committed occasionally, ,resulted in legal action against the sinner and usually also in divorce. Yet here we find that the church, after the birth of many of Josiah's children, gave him an honorable dismissal to the church in his now home. This proves that he remained in good standing with his church, as had his grandfather before him. If the story were true, he would have been cast out of the church. The vital and land records of New Fairfield were unfortunately destroyed. However, the Danbury Probate records (vol. 2, pp. 43, 45 and files at the State Library) afford quite conclusive evidence:1 Oct. 1753. "Josiah Bearss & Zurviah Bearss are appointed Administrators on the Estate of Josiah Bearss late of Newfairfield in sd District Deceised." 3 Dec. 1753. ".Joseph Bearss son to Josiah Bearss Late of Newfairfield in sd District Decesd Being of Lawfull, age to Chouse his Gardian and having maid Choise of his mother Zurviah Bearss to be his Gardian the Court Doth allow and approve thereof ." Distribution of the estate was not made until I July 1791, in other words after the death of the widow (Zerviah Newcomb). This distribution of "the Estate of Josiah Barss late of Newfairfield decest"; was made to "the heirs of Josiah Decst who was the eldest son of the Decest"; "Thomas Barss the second son of the Decst"; "Martha"; "Anna late wife of Benjamin Stevens her heirs"; "Mary the wife of Gideon Beardsley"; "Josep the third son of the Decst"; and "Benjamin Bars the fourth son of the Decest." So! Are we to believe that the legal wife and widow served as co-administrator on Josiah's estate with his eldest son by a concubine? Are we to believe that one of the younger sons by the concubine chose the legal wife for his guardian, calling her "his mother," and that Zerviah and the Court accepted the choice? And are we to believe that distributors, appointed by the Court, distributed Josiah's estate after his lawful widow's death to his illegitimate children? Such preposterous conclusions are forced upon us if we accept the statements made in Mr. Bearse's manuscript, "Who Our Forefathers Really Were." The children of Josiah and Zerviah (Newcomb) Bearse honored their mother by names which were bestowed on the next generation; "Zerush Bearse" and "Newcomb Bearss" both, married at Danbury in 1778 [Danbury Vital Records, 1-442, 406). It is not our province to inquire why a later descendant prefers to disown Zerviah Newcomb in favor of an alleged Indian concubine, and to besmirch the character of Josiah Bearse by making bastards of all his children. Not an atom of evidence has been adduced to show that Josiah ever had an Indian concubine or secondary wife; and the records quoted above prove conclusively that Zerviah Newcomb was his only wife and the mother of his children. When in three successive generations, such claims of Indian marriage are made, in several details at variance with primary record sources, and involving an entire sequence of improbabilities, we are justified in concluding that this account, whatever its source, traditional or otherwise, cannot be accepted as authentic. Since the alleged claims of Indian marriage and descent in the second and third generations have been exposed as false and unacceptable, we have a legitimate basis for the deduction that the statement about Austin Bearse, the first settler, is of the same unsubstantial texture. In conclusion, a few general observations may be apropos. First: very few white immigrants to New England in colonial days married Indians; differences of race, language and culture were too great, and for much of the colonial period, relations between the European settlers and the native Americans were unfriendly if not actively hostile. Second: many traditions of Indian ancestry have been encountered, but such traditions have rarely been proved, and usually they can be disproved or their improbability clearly demonstrated. Third: some people do not wish to have Indian ancestry proved, while others like the "romance" of a remote Indian "princess" in the ancestral tree. The present writer has no bias in the matter, one way or the other, and desires only to ascertain the historic fact when investigating such a tradition or claim. Every person has a right to examine the historical basis for genealogical statements that have been published either in printed form (as this was in the Utah magazine above cited) or by the gift of manuscript data to libraries (such as the Library of Congress) where they may be consulted by the general public; and every person has the right to publish his own conclusions, based on such an examination. The present writer, in availing himself of this privilege, wishes it clearly understood that the bona fide nature of statements herein criticized is not questioned, merely their historical accuracy. There is also a discussion concerning this Indian ancestry and Mr. BeArce's credibility in an excellent article by John Doer: NOTES ON THE MANUSCRIPT "FROM OUT OF THE PAST" Several years ago, researching the Bearss family, from which I am descended, I became aware of the manuscript of Franklyn Elewatum BeArce, printed in Utah Genealogical Magazine, and a later response to it from the noted genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus. Although the claims made by Mr. BeArce seem somewhat outlandish, a number of Bearss descendants have given them credence, and continue to support them, particularly in the on-line genealogical community. Therefore I decided to investigate the matter myself, to see what might be learned using information readily available to me at the depositories to which I have have access, including the Yale University Library, the NEGHS library, and the library of the NYGBS. The undertaking then, is a brief analysis of the document, "From Out of the Past", by Franklyn Elewatum Swimming Eel BeArce, to see what light can be shed on the claims made within it. My sources are cited at the end of the document. Who was Franklyn BeArce? Franklin Bearce was a steamfitter who lived in Mount Vernon, NY. He married a Swedish immigrant named Marie (as her second husband) and they had a single child that did not survive them. Born in 1878, in Allegan, Michigan, he was the son of a butcher, Noble Bearce, and his wife, Mary Ellen Blaine. In his 50's he became acquainted with several families living on the nearby Schaghticoke reservation in Kent, Connecticut, and began to insert himself into their affairs. In 1933 he applied to the Connecticut State Park and Forest Commission to be certified as a Schaghticoke Indian, but after an investigation, he was denied. His interest in the Schaghticoke was undiminished, however, and in 1939, and again in 1940, Mr. BeArce organized "Pow-Wows" near the reservation, which were attended by several thousand tourists. The 1940 event was promoted by Mr. Bearce as "American Indian Day", and he advertised himself in handbills as "Chief Medicine Man" and "Chief Medicine Sagamore". In 1939, Mr. BeArce called a meeting of the Schaghticoke community and convinced the attendees to allow him to initiate a land claim before the Indian Claims Commission on their behalf, claiming the Bronx, Manhattan, and a large part of Connecticut and New York. BeArce volunteered to do all the work entailed by the filing and he was thereupon unanimously elected "Chairman of the Schaghticoke Indian Claims Commission" by all 17 of those in attendance. The claim worked it's way through the federal Bureacracy and in 1954 was challenged on the grounds that BeArce had no standing as a non-Schaghticoke. He therefore called another meeting, and asked that he be accepted as a member of the tribe in order that he might continue the claim. In another unanimous vote, he was rejected. The suit does not appear to have been renewed. Since the advent of Indian gaming in Connecticut, and the success of the Pequot casino at Foxwood, similar suits on behalf of the Schaghticoke have now been filed, seeking the right to erect and operate a casino on their land, but this time with some of the wealthiest names in the "hospitality" business taking the part of Mr. BeArce. So far, none have been settled. Of course, none of this either adds to or detracts from the document "From Out of The Past", and is not intended as an ad hominum argument for or against. It simply provides some color to the picture we have of the author. He sounds like a colorful character indeed. Proceeding to the manuscript he left, then, and following the suggestion of my esteemed friend Mr. A. Whitney Brown, of Greenwich, Ct, I thought it fruitful to begin by examing those portions which are most easily compared to the historical record. These involve historical persons well documented already. 1. According to Mr. BeArce: "My grandfather James G. Blaine was a son of John Blaine and his second cousin Elizabeth Ann Blaine. My grandfather James G. Blaine, was a first cousin of Games G. Blaine, American diplomat, and Sec of State and one time canidate for President of this commonwealth; There Their ?) fathers were brothers, and they were both named after their Grandfather, James Gillispe Blaine." "From Out of the Past" by Franklyn BeArce (unpublished) The historical record: Bearce's great grandfather John Blain was a half-brother to Ephraim Lyon Blain, (the father of James Gillespie Blain). Since it was Ephraim Blain who m. Maria Gillespie, neither the grandfather, the great grandfather, nor the great great grandfather (James Blain) of Franklin BeArce would have carried the name Gillespie. Franklin BeArce was related to the politician and statesman James Gillespe Blaine as a half-second cousin 3 times removed. 2. According to Mr. BeArce: My grandfather Blain was a studious man and a scholar; He was a slave owener at Preston,N.Carolina, and built wagons and gun carriages for the Confederate Govt, during the cival War. He was pauperized by the collaps of the Southern Confederacy, and come North, first to Whitly Co Indiana, where with several Negroes ex-slaves he bought land, and from there to Allegan Co Mich , where he lived for some years and lies sleeping.He married Nandachine Hoover at the Quaker settlement of West Milton,Miami Co Ohio. He was North Irish stock,--"From Out of the Past" by Franklyn BeArce (unpublished) The historical record: Bearce's grandfather James Blain was the son of John Blain, who came from Cumberland, PA and was an early settler in Noble County, Indiana. He never made wagons or cannons, either for the Union or the Confederacy, never owned slaves, was never rich enough to become impoverished, was not married in West Milton, Miami, OH, and in fact, never lived in North Carolina. His quiet life in Noble County near his family is as well accounted for as can be expected. The only time he "come north" was when he moved the 100 miles or so to Allegan, Michigan, where he lived near the residence of his daughter Mary and her husband Noble Bearce. His background: James Blain was from childhood a resident in Noble County, by trade a blacksmith, and at age 24, on May 22, 1855, married, in Whitley County, Indiana, Nancy J. Hoover. (In 1860 several dozen residents of Noble County, the Blains among them, petitioned for the township they lived in to be transferred to Whitley County. They were successful in this petition, and the county boundaries were moved.) He lived near his parents and brothers, and at the outbreak of the Civil War, the 1860 census shows him there, a blacksmith, his wife a "domestic" with a one year old daughter. There are no slaves or Negroes in the ennumeration district, and it's doubtful he could have afforded one, even with his wife working.His estate is 200 dollars. This is pretty damning for the credibility of BeArce. For a person claiming to know the intimate details of family history to be so wrong about the life of his own grandfather is astonishing, particularly when the grandfather was a neighbor. 3. According to Mr. Bearce: "The ancestrial history of my grandmother Nandachine Hoover, and her sister aunt Millie, were handed down to me by word of mouth of both these women when I was a young man, and verified on the back..." "Nandachine Hoover was a dau of Jesse Hoover and Rebecca Yaunts, who were both in the old Hillsborough district North Carolina; Rebecca Yaunts was a dau of John Yaunts,jr son of Yaunt-ka-ha , and Jesse was a son of John Hoover, the following is a true historical and genealogical record of my my grandmother Nancy Hoovers Indian strains, and the people involved, and is to the best of my knoweledge correct...." "From Out of the Past" by Franklyn BeArce (unpublished) The historical record: Quite a bit is known about Rebecca Yount and Jesse Hoover; they were the great grandparents of President Herbert Hoover, and both the Yount and Hoover families have a proud and careful tradition of keeping family history through the generations. Jesse and Rebecca had nine children before he died in 1856, a short time after the family migrated to Cedar County, Iowa. Rebecca lived another 40 years, well into her 90's, and never remarried, but reportedly adopted another 19 children over the years. She was a true family matriarch. The problem is that she never had a child named Nandachine, Nancy, or even any variation such as Agnes. In addition, all of her children and their marriages are accounted for, and none married a James Blain. Neither she nor any of her children ever lived in Whitley County, Indiana. This is not just a case of an unlisted child. Rebecca Yount lived to the age of 96, and counted her children, grand children, great grandchildren, and great, great, grandchildren as closely as a hen counts her chicks. She had nearly 300 descendants when she died and one of her passions was genealogy. She was part of a very close Quaker community, and the suggestion that one of her children is unaccounted for is not to be credited. Who then was Nancy J. Hoover, the grandmother of Franklin BeArce? A look at the Federal census of 1850 provides some clues. September 24, 1850, Whitley County, Indiana, No township listed p.4 547/565 Jesse Hand 37 NJ Farmer $600 Rebecca 36 NC David 13 OH John 8 OH Samuel 6 IN Rebecca 3 IN Nancy J. Hoover 10 IN Sarah E. " 6 IN Amelia M. " 6 IN David " 3 IN This is certainly the family of Bearce's grandmother, Nancy J. Hoover, complete with her sister Amelia, "Aunt Millie", who later married Moses Daisy. They are but a short distance from the family of James Blain. It presents a complicated situation. Apparently we see the union of two recently made single parents, each with 4 children by former spouses. A marriage record provides assistance: Whitley County Marriages: HAND, Jesse to Rebecca HOOVER on May 6, 1849 - Book 1:36 Jesse Hand is probably the son of Cornelius Hand of Kosciusko County, Indiana, but since we don't know the maiden name of Rebecca, her identity remains a mystery, as does that of her first spouse, Mr. Hoover. She is unlikely to have left us a written record, as both she and Mr. Hand were among the few adults over 25 years of age listed on the page who could neither read nor write. But we can be absolutely sure that she is not Rebecca Yount. Her identity is a project most appropriately left to her descendants, should any wish to honor her name. I can only add that she died at the Whitley County Poor Farm sometime after 1880, forgotten, it seems, even by her own grandchildren. Conclusion Mr. Bearce goes on with a lengthy and ridiculous tale of the Yount family history, and it's Indian origins, similar to the Bearse tale, and to relate it here would serve no purpose other than to amuse the very competent family historians of the Yount clan at the expense of the Bearss' descendants. Since Mr. Bearce emphatically states that he received this "true and historical genealogical record" from his grandmother and aunt, then we are faced with an unpleasant judgement. We can only conclude, bluntly, that someone is lying, either Bearce, or his grandmother and aunt. And this is no casual lie. The account he gives is elaborate, lengthy, and follows enough of the vague outline of historical fact to show familiarity with it. The liar would have to have had some knowledge of the Hoover and Yount families. Common sense would suggest that it was indeed, Mr. BeArce who was the liar. In compiling the manuscript he shows a familiarity with the basics of genealogical research, remarking that there is no Passenger Record for the Yount immigrant ancestor, (Not true by the way.). Had he been deceived, even the barest research would have alerted him to that fact. There can be little doubt that he was the perpetrator of this hoax. As to his motives, we can only guess. Perhaps he hoped to profit as a result of a land claim. If so, he was deluded. Even real Indians have almost no hope in that regard. Perhaps he was inspired by "Grey Owl", the Englishman who posed an Indian in the early 20th century, and toured the world pontificating upon the "The Way of the Great Spirit". In any case, since genealogical conclusions can never be ascertained with absolute surety, the whole endeavor depends on diligence and relies on trust. Genealogists have a difficult enough time correcting unintentional errors, and the study would be made infinitely more difficult were the element of deliberate deception to creep in. Therefore we must dismiss the entire BeArce manuscript with extreme prejudice. To repeat it as a "possible alternative" there is no doubt, is to join in Bearce's perverse fraud. Let us therefore list the "information" contained in this manuscript, and only in this manuscript, unsupported elsewhere, so that we can, without controversy, dismiss it once and for all: 1. The spelling of the name BeArce - this appears nowhere else. 2. The claim that Augustine Bearss was a Gypsy - again, nowhere else. 3. The claim that the children of Josiah Bearss and his wife Zerviah Newcomb were actually the bastards of a relationship Josiah Bearss carried on with an Indian woman. 4. The claim that Rebecca Baldwin, wife of Josiah Bearss, was an Indian. We can add to these additional claims Bearce makes earlier in his own genealogy, such as that Sampson May, the father of Anna May, wife of Elijah Rowe, was an Indian through her father, Sampson May, "a full blood Schaghticoke sagamore" according to Bearce. This Sampson May is listed in the 1820 census of Beekman, Dutchess County, NY, as "Free Black Male". Although Indians often passed for white, for varied reasons, it would be very difficult to mistake an African American for anything but that. These claims, and others contained in the manuscript of Franklin Bearce, the steamfitter from Mt. Vernon, deserve to be dismissed from controversy, removed from notation, and in general ignored. Further, it is incumbent upon those who propagate these claims to cite their source, i.e. the unsubstantiated word of a malicious liar. There are those who continue to pursue historical evidence to support these claims, for whatever reasons of their own, and they are entitled to waste their time in such an endeavor. I would only advise that as in all wild goose chases, whatever they come up with is subject to this basic rule of logic; proof that something might have happened is not proof that it did. I can prove a dozen ways that it was possible for me to have run the Boston marathon this year. After all, it was held in my region, others with the name John participated, my presence cannot be accounted for that day in my home town, not every participant was named on the rolls, I have a pair of running shoes, etc. Without some positive evidence that I actually did participate, these claims are meaningless. I hope this paper is useful to the Bearss descendants, who currently run the risk of being deemed the most gullible of genealogic researchers. This is not the legacy Austin Bearss would have wished for his descendants. Sincerely, John Quinn Doer" Ah... so much for an Indian Princess as an ancestor... guess we'll just have to keep looking in other places! Issue?I. Mary Ann- b. 16 Aug. 1640 Barnstable, m. Andrew Hallet Jr., d. 6 Apr. 1694 Barnstable ? II. Martha- b. 6 May 1642 ? III. Priscilla- b. 10 Mar. 1643/4 Barnstable, m. 1660 John Hall Jr., d. 30 Mar. 1712 Yarmouth, MA? 3IV. SARAH- b. 28 Mar. 1646 Barnstable, m. Aug. 1667 Barnstable, JONATHAN HAMBLIN ? V. Abigail- b. 18 Dec. 1647 Barnstable, m. 12 Apr. 1670 Allen Nichols ? VI. Hannah- b. 16 Nov. 1649 Barnstable ? VII. Joseph- b. 25 Jan. 1651/2 Barnstable, m. 3 Dec. 1676 Barnstable, Martha Taylor, d. 27 Jan. 1727/8 Barnstable ? VIII. Hester- b. 2 Oct. 1653 Barnstable ? IX. Lydia- b. 30 Sept. 1655 Barnstable ? X. Rebecca- b. 26 Sept. 1657 Barnstable, m. 17 Feb. 1669/0 William Hunter ? XI. James- b. 31 July 1660 Barnstable, m. 1684 Barnstable, Experience Howland, d. 7 Oct. 1728 Plympton, MA Ref: 1930 Federal Census Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York Schaghticoke Tribal Nation v. KentSchool Corporation, 3:98CV-0113 COMMENTS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER COMPANY, KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION, AND TOWN OF KENT REGARDING THE PETITION FOR FEDERAL TRIBAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE SCHAGHTICOKE TRIBAL NATION PETITIONER GROUP APRIL 16, 2002 STN Pet.: STN Federal Acknowledgment Petition submitted in 1994. STN AR: Anthropological Report Supplementing the STN Petition, dated April 1997, by Lucianne Lavin, Ph.D. STN HR: Historical Report Supplementing the STN Petition, dated April 1997, by Michael Lawson, Ph.D. STN TCA: Twentieth Century Addendum to the April 1997Supplement, dated March 20, 1998. STN TL: STN Tribal Leadership Report dated February 15, 2002. CT Ex.: Initial Submission of Exhibits by the State of Connecticut,December 2001. Town Ex.: Initial Submission of Exhibits by the Town of Kent,December 2001. May 23, 2002 2002-R-0517 SCHAGHTICOKE LAND CLAIMS AND PETITION FOR FEDERAL RECOGNITION By: Christopher Reinhart, Associate Attorney Biography of James G. Blaine (Norwich, Conn., 1895) by Mary Abigail Dodge "American Statesmen Series," James G. Blaine (Boston, 1905) by CE Stanwood BLAIN, James to Nancy Jane HOOVER on May 22, 1855 - Book 1:211 Whitley County Indiana Marriages 1838-1910 History of Whitley County, Indiana "John Blain and his wife, Elizabeth Blain, are the oldest persons in the township. John Blain was born n Pennsylvania, February 29, 1792, and his wife was born January 29, 1791; they were married in Ohio, near Chillicothe 1816, and have lived together as husband and wife nearly sixty-six (66) years - two generations - on the farm where they settled with their little children in 1836 - forty-six years ago. They are truly old pioneers." Federal Census of 1850, Whitley County, Indiana Federal Census of 1850, Noble County, Indiana Federal Census of 1850, Kosciusko County, Indiana "From Out of the Past" by Franklyn BeArce (unpublished) Federal Census of 1860, Noble County Indiana Federal Census of 1880, Allegan County, Michigan McLean, Hulda Hoover, The Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Revised and Expanded Edition Yount Family History: John Andrew Yount and Elizabeth Little, Pauline Moser Shook c1990. The Yount Family of Europe & America, Edith Warren Huggins, 1986. "A Brief Sketch of the Origin of the Yount Family in America", by W. C. Yount, Alliance OH and Wm. M. Yount, Warren OH, 1936. Mark and Mariah’s Family Tree- | Hyanno (Wampanoag Tribe), Mary " Little Dove" Wilder (I42090)
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| 626 | As Charles Lynch Jr. grew up, it is reasonable to assume that his parent's activities afforded him an oprortunity to come in contact with law, business, politics, management of a plantation, military life, religion, and possibly a disregard for constituted authority, since the Quakers were not prone to pay homage to anyone as their superior. This last-named trait offers some interesting speculation which may help to show how Charles Lynch Jr. stepped so surely in with other American patriots of the Revolution. It is not known that Charles Jr. bad any formal education. Probably he was taught at home by his mother, and his father certainly could have provided his more technical instruction. 'l:hat few of his letters which have been preserved seem to indicate that he would belong to the planter aristocracy of Virginia, intellectually speaking. Of course, he would not rate with a Jefferson, but was above the average man. Little else is known about Charles Lynch Jr. in early life. The first time his name appears in print is in his father's will, dated October 9, 1752 and proved on May 10, 1753, in which Charles Jr. is designated one of his father's executors. Born in 1736, Charles Jr. was only seventeen at the time of his father's death. According to the terms of the will, Charles Jr. was to receive a good tract of land on the Staunton River, five slaves, and to divide the cattle and hogs at Staunton with his brother, John, in 1757 when the former reached his majority. The cultural background of his parents provided him with good intellectual potent1al and his physical needs and start in life were amply provided for in his father's will. There is no doubt that Sarah Lynch governed the thinking and activities of her children altogether for several years after the early death of her husband. Certainly, they acquired her interest in religion and the Quaker Church, and Charles was no exception. Even though the South River congregation had been authorized to hold its own public meetings, there were sorr:e proceedings which had to be approved by the Cedar Creek Church until South River was granted an independent status. Accordingly, Charles Lynch and Anne Terrell published their intention of marriage the first time at Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting on December l4, 1754. Likewise, 1n good Quaker tradition, a committee was appointed to Enquire into the said Lynches Clearness and make a report to the next Monthly Meeting. The committee reported the following month that Charles was "clear in relation to marriage" and the marriage was approved. Charles and Anne Terrell were married on January 12, 1755 according to the prescribed form as reported by the committee appointed to attend their wedding. Attendance at the Cedar Creek Meetings required some little traveling, for it was usually held in Caroline County. Nevertheless, Charles Lynch continued to attend various meetings throughout the next two years as evidenced by his appointment to investigating committees and for permission to sue for just debts. By March, 1758, the South River community had begun to conduct its own Monthly Meetings, and Lynch had risen in importance enough to be appointed to attend the Quarterly Meetine, representing South River. In addition, he was appointed to take over the job of clerk of the Monthly Meeting, a duty which he performed for about six years and which involved writing the proceedings or each meeting in a journal provided for that purpose. Lynch's name appears frequently ln the records throughout 1758 in various committee assignments and as a rei:resentative to tr.e Quarterly Meeting. In one instance, he and several others were appointed to inquire into the failure of a previous committee to make a certain report about prospective members to the Society from Halifax. Lynch's committee was also a failure for several months, but eventually nade its report in December of that year and along with it, satisfactory reasons for the delay of their investigation. Such checking and double-checking on the assignrents of Quaker committees was not uncommon. Frequently there was delay in reporting. Always, in such cases, another group was appointed to investigate the failure of the first, but if satisfactory explanations were forthcoming, then nothine else was ever said about the failure. 27 The purpose of this illustration is to show further the lengths to which the orthodox Quakers went in governing the affairs of their members, as it rray shed so~ light later on the reasons which caused Charles Lynch to break with the church. During the years 1758 through 1763, Lynch was a veritable pillar of the church community in which he lived. Hardly a month passed without his name appearing in the records as a representative to the Quarterly Meeting, appointment to an investigating committee, appointment to prepare the Quarterly Meeting accounts, to attend regular Quaker meetings and assist them in correct procedure, to prepare testifications against other Quakers who were straying from the straight and narrow path, to prepare or deliver disownments to members who did not repent of sinful acts, to repair the meeting house and secure the title to same bylaw, or to perform miscellaneous duties of the clerk. This was the period of his greatest activity among the Quakers and one which it must be assumed that he entered into wholeheartedly or else he could have found ways to shun the various duties required of him. Several other men stand out as prominent members of this cornrr.unity, but in church affairs Charles Lynch played equally as important a part. It was not until the spring of 1?64 that the first clue appears that possibly Lynch was tiring of his church duties. The entry appears in South River records that Charles Lynch requested to be relieved from his duties as clerk, and one William Chandler was appointed to that station.29 After August, 1764 his name does not appear again to any assignment whatsoever. Possibly one of the greatest factors in Lynch's waning interest for the church was the affair in which his brother Chris torher was involved. No specific account of the charges brought against Christorher Lynch by his brethren is found in the Quaker records except that, "Christopher Lynch being in practices contrary to the principles of Truth" will be disowned unless he can give the meeting satisfaction for his actions, whatever they were. This entry was recorded on July 21, 1764, and although it, my be i::ere coincidence that Charles Lynch took no active part in the work of the church after August, it is probable that he sympathized with his brother or else had been contemplating leaving the church for some time. The business with Christopher Lynch ended in October, 1?641 when the two Men appointed to treat with him reported that he no longer claimed any right or title among the Quakers. An interesting pursuit was begun in September, 1765 by the Quakers in their attempts to get back the meeting rapers and other business records belonging to the church which had been retained by Charles Lynch since he bad given up hie post as clerk. Boling Clark and VJilliam Candler were appointed to collect the papers and settle various other rratters with Lynch. For reasons unknown, they were unsuccessful in their task. Several other men were appointed to the committee but each month the record shows them all to be unsuccessful. Almost a year later, on August 16, 1?66, 11The Friends appointed to settle the Meeting tusiness with Charles Lynch report they could not get the accounts nor settle it any other way than it was. They are therefore discontinued till further direction. 11 32 Here the mltter ended, and it is not yet known if the records in question were ever collected. October, 1766 brought on the final round with Lynch and the Quakers. The church entered a complaint against Charles Lynch for taking "solemn oaths" and justifying himself in the action. A committee was appointed to persuade him of his error and also to inform him that he would be testified against unless he rr.ade the rroper repentance to the congregatjon. In November the committee reported that Lynch had again justified himself for taking oaths, so several Quakers were designated to draw up a paper of denial against the accused. There are two events that may have led to the raper of denial against Lynch for takinr, oaths. The first occurred on September 23, 1766, when Lynch and two others were appointed by a Bedford County Court order to settle with the executors of William Boyd's est~te to see that a final settleirent of the will was made.34 Such an order rriay have necessitated taking an oath before Lynch could be approved for the assignment. The second event, although not recorded until Deceniber, 1766, by the House of Burgesses, could have occurred before the Quaker car.plaint and thereby have been its cause. The House of Burgesses resolved "That Captain Charles Lynch, ••• being ordered out on err~rgent Occasions, ~nd not havin~ Tirne to raise the full Complement of 1len to entitle him to Captain's pay, ••• ought to be allowed the Pay of a Captain for his said Services." Lynch's commission as a captain being authorized ry the governrnent, may have involved an oath of alleginnce to England. Even though neither or the events cited are positive illustrations of Lynch's oath taking at this time, both ere plausible. It need scarcely be add~d, that hod Lynch not been disowned for tak1ng oaths, he certainly would have been for participating in the above n:ilitary campaign. Enlistirent in the army or other warlike activities were grounds for disownment by the Quakers. The paper of disownment was drawn up and read to Lynch in January, 1767, by Eoling Clarke, one of Lynch's closest friends while in the church. Lynch was offered a chance to redeem hirnse1r37 but apr~rently never did, for the final statement in the records reads, 'ffllereas Charles Lynch having been a tr.ernber of the Soci~ty of the People Called Quakers & have Con~rary to our known principles been guilty of taking solemn oaths we do therefore testify against him all such practices and the acter thereof from being any longer a rember of our Society till it may please God to convince him of bis error and work repentanc~ in him by a Godly sorrow which is the Sincere desire of us. It is difficult to say precisely why Charles Lynch broke with his religion after spending about ten very active years among the Quakers and having been reared a Quaker by his mother. Maybe his father's aloofness from the church had some bearing on his decisi.on. Certainly he was deeply concerned over the disown~ent of Chriotopher Lynch. It is also possible that Lynch develored some skepticism as to the value of Quaker passive resistance jn the face of Indian nnsaacrea about the countryside around 1?6o.39 He may even have turned the Quakers' own disregard of constituted authority against them, had it occurred to him that the church did a good deal of unwarranted meddling into the private affairs of its rrembers. Whatever his reasons, breaking with the church caused him to radically alter his previous living pattern and enter a variety of activities which he could not have done otherwise. | Lynch, Charles Jr (I37257)
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| 627 | As he was about to sign the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, who was 6’4” and weighed 240 pounds, turned to his thin colleague Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts and said, “I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry, when we are all hanged for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes and be with the angels, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.” Harrison’s gallows humor no doubt elicited nervous laughter, but the men who signed the Declaration had good reason to be concerned that they would be hanged if the Revolution failed, or if they fell into British hands. In January 1781, British General (and notorious traitor) Benedict Arnold was marching his army up the James River toward Richmond. Along the way he paid a visit to Berkeley, Harrison’s home in Charles City County. Alerted of Arnold’s approach, Harrison and his family had escaped. Denied the opportunity to capture Harrison, Arnold emptied Berkeley of all its furniture, paintings and other contents, piled them in the front yard of the home, and burned them. Admiring the house, he chose not to burn it down, deciding instead that he would keep it for himself as a spoil of war after the Revolution was crushed. Things did not turn out as Arnold had hoped, of course, and neither Benjamin Harrison nor Elbridge Gerry had to test the strength of a hangman’s rope. Harrison returned to Berkeley after Arnold’s raid. He was elected Virginia’s fifth governor in 1781 and two of his direct descendants (William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison) served as presidents of the United States. | Harrison, Benjamin V (I47155)
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| 628 | As transcribed by Cornelius Emerson Durkee and listed under Stillwater in volume 2, pages 497 – 500 of Durkee's Epitaphs of Saratoga County, New York. “The foregoing inscriptions were copied from stones standing in an enclosure in an orchard on the south side of the road leading from Bemis Heights to Ketchums Corners, about two miles from the last mentioned place. The inscriptions were copied Sep. 10, 1877 by C.E.Durkee.” (Munger Cemetery is located on the southwest side of Gronczniak Road, ½ mile north of route 423; 1/10 mile north of Munger Hill Road; 7/10 mile south of Robens Road.) page 497 Munger, Sarah, dau. of Ezra & Mary B., d. June 23, 1869, a.23ys. Munger, Edgar, son of Ezra & Mary B., d. May 29, 1849, 1y.6m. Munger, Amelia, dau. of Ezra & Mary B., d. June 16, 1846, 2y.3m. Munger, Naomi, dau. of Timothy & Naomi, d. Feb. 27, 1796, 3d yr. Munger, Naomi, dau. of Timothy & Naomi, d. Apr. 11, 1800, 3d yr. page 498 Munger, Abner, son of Timothy & Naomi, d. Jan. 12, 1812, 12th yr. Munger, Timothy, d. Nov. 8, 1825, 62d yr. Munger, Naomi, widow of Timothy, d. Aug. 5, 1839, 81st yr. Munger, Daniel, d. Dec. 4, 1855, a. 70y.11m. Munger, Elizabeth, wife of Daniel, b. June 5, 1788; d. Jan. 31, 1836. Munger, Lewis, d. Mar. 13, 1840, 23y.10d. Munger, Shelemiah, d. June 26, 1847, 23 ys. Cole, Maria, wife of E.W., d. Oct. 12, 1839, 23 ys. page 499 Munger, Samuel, d. Oct. 1, 1845, 85th yr. Munger, Hannah, wife of Samuel, d. Jan. 20, 1840, 68th yr. Reynolds, Mary, wife of Job, d. Feb. 22, 1841, 46th yr. Munger, Philip, d. Dec. 6, 1809, 74th yr. Munger, Mary, wife of Philip, d. June 9, 1803, 64th yr. Olney, Enos, d. Aug. 27, 1796, 30th yr. Munger, Lydia M., died Mar. 15, 1885, ae 31 yrs. 5 ms. & 18 days. Munger, Mary B., born Dec. 3, 1815, died Oct. 29, 1898. Munger, Ezra, born Aug. 1, 1802, died Aug. 26, 1880. M., B. (no dates, inscribed native stone marker “B.M.”) | Munger, Timothy (I5151)
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| 629 | Asa Brown d: 1876 Asa Brown, an early hotelkeeper, was born in Vermont, and married Lucy Baker, of Ohio. After their marriage they located in Indiana, where Asa was one of the contractors on the Wabash canal. After the completion of the canal he located in Noble county, purchased a tract of land, and founded the village of Lisbon. Here he also erected a hotel which he conducted for several years. In 1861 he removed to Alexandria, Minn., built and conducted a feed and flouring mill, and remained three years. In 1864 he came to Austin, Minn., and purchased what afterward became the Lacy House. Three years later he sold out and purchased a farm in Fillmore county. After farming three years he came to LeRoy and engaged in the hotel business a year. Then he and his wife spent two years in Kentucky, afterward taking up their residence in Lansing township. Here Asa Brown died in 1876 at the age of eighty-three years. His wife died in June, 1909, at the age of eighty-seven. HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, MN. 1911. | Brown, Asa (I4620)
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| 630 | Askvoll og Holmedal ligger på nordsiden av Dalsfjorden, Åsnes ligger i Fjaler på sydsiden av Dalsfjorden. | Hougland, Jens Sørensen (I39621)
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| 631 | Åsnes, Holmedal, Sogn og Fjordane | Tuchsen, Anne Harboe Frimann (I39618)
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| 632 | ass. ved den geografisk landmåling i Jylland til 1785 | Daae, Johan Christopher Haar (I39551)
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| 633 | At a time when churches not only didn’t ordain women, they usually didn’t allow them to speak, Sarah Clark Lynch was the founder and elder of Lynchburg’s South River Quaker Meeting House. She was an energetic anti-slavery advocate long before abolitionism existed outside the Quaker community and her influence led most of Virginia’s Quakers to free their slaves and many to emigrate to states without slavery. | Clark, Sarah (I37109)
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| 634 | At age 15, Charles Lynch ran away from his home in Galway, Ireland and stowed away on a ship bound for America. After reaching Virginia the ship’s captain sold the stowaway Charles as an indentured servant to pay for his passage. The day that his contract was purchased by Christopher Clark was the luckiest day in Charles Lynch’s life. Clark was a prominent and prosperous Quaker in Albermarle County. He took a liking to young Charles and paid for his education. In 1733 Charles and the Clarks’ daughter Sarah were married. With some financial assistance from his father in law, Charles Lynch became a prominent and prosperous planter as well, eventually owning thousands of acres in what is now Campbell County. Charles and Sarah Lynch had six children. Their son John became the founder of Lynchburg, and their son Charles, Jr. was a prominent patriot--a Colonel in the Virginia militia whose summary trials of Tories in what is now Altavista originated the term “Lynch’s Law.” Having grown up Catholic, Charles Lynch never became a Quaker. Charles, Jr. was expelled because of his military service and because he took an oath of office. But John, the founder of Lynchburg, followed in the ardent footsteps of his Quaker mother. | Lynch, Charles (I37255)
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| 635 | At age 15, Charles Lynch ran away from his home in Galway, Ireland and stowed away on a ship bound for America. After reaching Virginia the ship’s captain sold the stowaway Charles as an indentured servant to pay for his passage. The day that his contract was purchased by Christopher Clark was the luckiest day in Charles Lynch’s life. Clark was a prominent and prosperous Quaker in Albermarle County. He took a liking to young Charles and paid for his education. In 1733 Charles and the Clarks’ daughter Sarah were married. With some financial assistance from his father in law, Charles Lynch became a prominent and prosperous planter as well, eventually owning thousands of acres in what is now Campbell County. Charles and Sarah Lynch had six children. Their son John became the founder of Lynchburg, and their son Charles, Jr. was a prominent patriot--a Colonel in the Virginia militia whose summary trials of Tories in what is now Altavista originated the term “Lynch’s Law.” Having grown up Catholic, Charles Lynch never became a Quaker. Charles, Jr. was expelled because of his military service and because he took an oath of office. But John, the founder of Lynchburg, followed in the ardent footsteps of his Quaker mother. After her husband’s death Sarah married John Ward (for whom Ward’s Road is named). Despite having been the founder and leader of the Quaker meeting in Lynchburg, she was expelled for marrying a non-Quaker. Sarah was one of the most influential women in the history of central Virginia, despite living in a time when women had few opportunities to fill leadership roles. Sarah Clark Lynch Ward died on January 20, 1792, two hundred twenty-eight years ago today. She is buried in the cemetery of the old Quaker Meeting House in Lynchburg, shown in the photo (cemetery in the foreground, old meeting house in the background). The cemetery and old meeting house are now owned and maintained by the Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church. | Clark, Sarah (I37109)
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| 636 | At Bannister River Baptist Church by rev Ira Ellis. | Family: Jesse McNeely / Elizabeth Thompson (F4881)
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| 637 | At home of Banyan Payne | Chambers, Caty (I22180)
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| 638 | At home of Spencer T. Hurt | Vass, Vincent (I22352)
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| 639 | At Merrick Sawyer home. | Minott, Mary (I17821)
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| 640 | At Olberg Church. | Family: Gudbrand Gudbrandsen Aaberg / Ingrid Halvorsdatter Bøe (F4497)
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| 641 | At residence of P.K. Montgomery, by Rev. B.M. Drake | Family: John Howard Bondurant / Mary Jane Montgomery (F7129)
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| 642 | At sea | Calvert, Benedict Leonard (I47690)
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| 643 | At the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the town of Bedford lies the Fuqua family cemetery. The location, restoration and dedication in May, 1975 was undertaken and supported by the Peaks of Otter Chapter, Virginia, DAR.Within the walls, still surrounded by the original mock orange, the graves of Joseph and Ralph Fuqua, Revoluntionary soldiers of the 5th Virginia Regiment are found along with thirthy-five others of family members and Revolutionary soldiers. In 1782 Joseph Fuqua and William Downey gave one hundred acres of land upon which the town of Liberty, now Bedford, was built. At the dedication ceremonies this landmark was presented to the City of Bedford. District Chapters Alleghany...General James Breckinridge Botetourt County...General Joseph Martin Colonel Abram Penn...General William Campbell Colonel William Christian...Margaret Lynn Lewis Colonel William Preston...Nancy Christian Fleming Floyd Courthouse...Patrick Henry Fort Lewis...Peaks of OtterFort Mayo...Roanoke Valley | Fuqua, Joseph (I15118)
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| 644 | At the resisdence of her son-in-law Benjamin Hoffmaster near St. James College. | Echols, Elizabeth Nancy (I38130)
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| 645 | Atlantic Ocean enroute from Switzerland | Burget, Mary Ann (I27713)
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| 646 | Attack 17 Sept 1677 Upon the return of peace the scattered inhabitants began to look with longing eyes toward Pocomptuck, and some of the most adventurous returned and began to rebuild their ruined homes. On the 17th of September, 1677, as Sergt. John Plympton, Quintus Stockwell, Benoni Stebbins, John Root, and Samuel Russell were so engaged, they were surprised by a party of Pocomptuck and Nipmuck Indians under Asphelon, who fired upon them and then rushed up with knife and tomahawk. Root was killed and the others captured. Earlier in the day this same party had made a destructive assault upon Hatfield, where they killed 12, wounded 4, and took captive 17 of its inhabitants (all but one of the latter women and children). The Pocomptuck captives were soon joined with these, when the whole party began the fearful march to Canada, the first party of whites ever carried there from New England. It was near dark when they moved, and toward morning they camped in a deep hollow near the mouth of Hearthstone Brook. The next morning the party crossed the Connecticut at Sheldon's Rocks, and again at Peskcompskut, reaching Northfield Meadows the next night. Here they intended stopping to hunt, but, a party of English going in pursuit, they crossed the river and scattered. Benoni Stebbins made his escape soon after. Upon reaching Canada, Sergt. Plympton was tortured to death by fire at a celebration of their success. The rest of the captives, save two who sank on the march, were redeemed through the heroic valor of Benjamin Wait and Stephen Jennings. A full account of their adventurous journey may be looked for in another part of this work. | Stebbins, Benoni (I29992)
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| 647 | AUGUST SCHMIDT (d. 1920) AUGUST SCHMIDT OVERTAKEN BY SUDDEN DEATH Sudden death overtook August Schmidt, pioneer residnet of the city at his home Saturday evening. Mr. Schmidt was up and about during the day and had the evening meal with the family but shortly after complained of being unwell and died at 9 o'clcok. Death was due to heart failure. Mr. Schmidt was 83 years of age, having been born in Germany June 24, 1837. He came to Manitowoc county with his parents when a youth of 17 and the family located at Neshoto. Mr. Schmidt was married Feb. 10, 1861 to Louise Stueck and for many (missing) and flour mill at Shoto, later removing to this city where he was engaged in the lumber business. He was owner of the schooner Lydia and interested in operation of the boat. Mr. Schmidt served as a member of the city council and took active interest in public affairs and was known for his uprightness and honesty at all times, He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. Louis Schuette who is at present in California and will not be able to reach here for the funeral which will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 from the late home, the Rev. Axtell officiating. Manitowoc Herald News, Manitowoc, Wis. April 5, 1920 P. 1 ******** [August Schmidt/bur. 04-06-1920/cause: chronic nephritis] | Schmidt, August (I31130)
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| 648 | Augusta Co. Court Records: March 1754. Neill vs. Dougherty.--Michael Dougherty, of the township of New Londonderry, Chester County, Pennsylvania, storekeeper; William Neale and Thomas Provence of same County, &c. Bond to Simon Hadley of Miler (?) Creek Hundred in County of New Castle on Delaware. 5th January, 1737-8. Witness, James Jordan. | Nealey, William (I21470)
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| 649 | Augustine Bearce was born in Europe 1618, and died between 1686 - 1697 presumably Barnstable, MA. He was a full blood Gypsy of the Romany Race, deported by the British Govt., on the Confidence of London 1638, entered on the passenger list as Augustine Bearce, single age 20 years. Augustine was of the Romany/Gypsy tribe Heron or Herne. He was deported from England by the British authorities because he was Romany and caught on British soil. Augustine married summer of 1639 in Machatache Village Cape Cod, under pagan Indian ceremonial rights, to Mary (Little Dove) Hyanno, full blood Wampanoag Princess, daughter of John Hyanno, Sagamore at Cummunaquad Barnstable Harbor. She was a granddaughter of Highyannough, Sachem of all the Cape tribes; Mary Hyanno's mother was a daughter of the ruling Sachem at Gay Head Martha's Vineyard Island of that period. He was married to Mary (Little Dove) HYANNO in 1639 in Mattacheevillage, Barnstable, MA. | Bearse, Austin Augustine (I42091)
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| 650 | Aun the Old (Aun inn gamli, Latinized Auchun, English: "Edwin the Old"[citation needed]) is a mythical Swedish king of the House of Yngling in the Heimskringla. Aun was the son of Jorund, and had ten sons, nine of which he was said to have sacrificed in order to prolong his own life. Based on the internal chronology of the House of Yngling, Aun would have died late in the 5th century. He was succeeded by his son Egil Vendelcrow (Íslendingabók: Egill Vendilkráka) identified with Ongentheow of the Beowulf narrative and placed in the early 6th century. Ynglingatal Ruling from his seat in Uppsala, Aun was reputedly a wise king who made sacrifices to the gods. However, he was not of a warlike disposition and preferred to live in peace. He was attacked and defeated by the Danish prince Halfdan. Aun fled to the Geats in Västergötland, where he stayed for 25 years until Halfdan died in his bed in Uppsala. Upon Halfdan's death Aun returned to Uppsala. Aun was now 60 years old, and in an attempt to live longer he sacrificed his son to Odin, who had promised that this would mean he would live for another 60 years. After 25 years, Aun was attacked by Halfdan's cousin Ale the Strong. Aun lost several battles and had to flee a second time to Västergötland. Ale the Strong ruled in Uppsala for 25 years until he was killed by Starkad the old. After Ale the Strong's death, Aun once again returned to Uppsala and once again sacrificed a son to Odin; this time Odin told the king that he would remain living as long as he sacrificed a son every ten years and that he had to name one of the Swedish provinces after the number of sons he sacrificed. When Aun had sacrificed a son for the seventh time, he was so old that he could not walk but had to be carried on a chair. When he had sacrificed a son for the eighth time, he could no longer get out of his bed. When he had sacrificed his ninth son, he was so old that he had to feed, like a little child, by suckling on a horn. After ten years he wanted to sacrifice his tenth and last son and name the province of Uppsala The Ten Lands. However, the Swedes refused to allow him to make this sacrifice and so he died. He was buried in a mound at Uppsala and succeeded by his last son Egil. From that day, dying in bed of old age was called Aun's sickness. Knátti endr at Upsölum ána-sótt Aun of standa, ok þrálífr þiggja skyldi jóðs alað öðru sinni. Ok sveiðurs at sér hverfði mækis hlut enn mjávara, es okhreins óttunga hrjóðr lögðis odd liggjandi drakk; máttit hárr hjarðar mæki austrkonungr upp of halda. In Upsal's town the cruel king Slaughtered his sons at Odin's shrine -- Slaughtered his sons with cruel knife, To get from Odin length of life. He lived until he had to turn His toothless mouth to the deer's horn; And he who shed his children's blood Sucked through the ox's horn his food. At length fell Death has tracked him down, Slowly, but sure, in Upsal's town. Historia Norwegiæ The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after Jorund): Iste genuit Auchun, qui longo vetustatis senio IX annis ante obitum suum densæ usum alimoniæ postponens lac tantum de cornu ut infans suxisse fertur. Auchun vero genuit Eigil cognomento Vendilcraco [...] He became the father of Aukun, who, in the feebleness of a protracted old age, during the nine years before his death is said to have abandoned the consumption of solid food and only sucked milk from a horn, like a babe-in-arms. Aukun's son was Egil Vendelkråke, [...] | Aun (I36932)
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