Individual Notes
Note for: Howard Buchman, 2 FEB 1879 - AFT 1930
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Occupation: Place: Machinist (1918-1930) cement factory
Individual Notes
Note for: Rowland Rawling Stebbins, 5 NOV 1592 - 14 DEC 1691
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Individual Note: 30 April 1634. Passengers of the Francis of Ipswich, Mr. John Cutting, cap30 April 1634. Passengers of the Francis of Ipswich, Mr. John Cutting, captain, bound for New England (landed at Plymouth or Boston, MA): from the Pubic Record Office, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, England)
The STEBBINS COAT OF ARMS - The various Coats of Arms granted to this family7 are described as follows:
STEBBING: (of London, Middlesex County and Wisset, Suffolk County England (ref Burke's General Armory page 967 and states... "Quartery, or and gules, on a bend sable, five bezants. Crest, a lion's head erased, argent." This coat of arms and crest was also used by the STEBBINGS of Woodrising, Norfolk County, England and their motto being "Quiescam."
STEBBINS: "Ardent, a Griffin segreant azure, langued and membered gules, between three cross crosslets. It is further alluded toi as follows: "A Coat of Arms in the Northampton, MA family of STEBBINS is expressed in these words: "He beareth Argent a Griffin rampant with wings displayed between three cross crosslets azure, by the name of STEBBINGS." (This taken from a Memoir of the Stebbins Family, published 1851 page 13). This is given as it was taken by Zebina Stebbins (689) from a book of Heraldry in Boston, MA between the years 1780 and 1790. Reitstap (Armorial General, Volume 2, page 828), who probably got this information from the "Memoir of the Stebbins Family," expresses it in French as follows: "STEBBINS ou STEBBING Angl. Etats-Unis. D'arg. a un griffon d'azur, acc. de trois croisettes de gu."
STUBBING: (of West Broughton, Derby County, England. MARGARET, eldest sister and co-heir of THOMAS STUBBING of West Derby, 1611; married George Buxton, Esq. of Bradborn, England.) Quarterly, azure and argent, five bezants in bend. Crest: A lamb segant proper. Collared gules, reposing the dexter foot on a trefoil slipped vert. (Berry's Dictionary of Heraldry Volume 2 and Burke's General Armory page 983).
SAINT MARY'S CHURCH, Bocking, Essex County, England (see pictures) was where Rowland Stebbins was baptised and then in November 30, 1618 he married Sarah Whiting. In about 1634 they imagrated to the colonies landing in Boston, MA. The first Dean (or Rector) of this church was Peter de Wakering (1232-1249 AD). The Dean at the time of Rowland's baptism was John Mullins (1577-1609). The Dean than probably married Rowland Stebbins and Sarah Whiting was Dean John Barkham (1616-1643). From the very first Dean in AD 1232 thru AD 1997 there were a total of 63 Deans (or Rectors). All told St Mary's Church has been serving their community for about 765 years (1997). The grave yard on the premises has many head stones that have long sense lost their inscriptions. (SEE PHOTO ALBUM)
STEBBINS EMIGRANTS (Greenlee, Volume I, page 50, published in 1904)...
"Although no one has found any direct evidence as to the birthplace of ROWLAND STEBBINS, the ancester of probably the majority of the United States Stebbbins descendents, there is a strong probability that he was born in or near the parish of Stebbins, Essex County, England. While in England he is said to have a friend of William Pynchon, who was born at Springfield, Essex County, England (which is about 10 miles from Stebbing), in 1590, being only four years older than Rowland. William Pynchon came to New England in 1629, and was the principal founder of Roxbury, MA, where Rowland settle upon his arrival in New England in 1634 or 1635. In 1636 William Pynchon purchased Agawam (afterwards named Springfield) from the Indians. From 1636 to 1646 the settlers of Agawam were mostly young unmarried men, yet we find Rowland Stebbins there in 1639 with his family. In his will, "my much honored friend Capt. John Pynchon," who was a son of William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, MA."
SARAH (WHITING) STEBBINS is referred to in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 9, page 171 as having been "buried 4 (8) 1649" Springfield, MA records at Boston, MA. Sarah Stebbins is recorded to have died at Springfield, MA.
The first authentic records we have of Rowland Stebbins and his family are in "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality," the title page is shown in Greenlee, Volume I, page 52. This book is commonly known as Hotten's List of Emigrants (page 281) and the rocords are as follows :
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"IPSWICH. A Note of all the names and ages of all those which did not take the oath of allegience or supremacy, being under age, shipped in our port in the Francis, of Ipswich. Mr. JOHN CUTTING bound for New England, the last day of April, 1634" are as follows:
WILL WESTWOOD
John Lea, aged 13 years
Grace Newell, aged 13
ROBERT ROSE
John Rose, aged 15 years
Robert Rose, aged 15 years
Eliz. Rose, aged 13 years
Mary Rose, aged 11 years
Samuell Rose, aged 9 years
Sarah Rose, aged 7 years
Danyell Rose, aged 3 years
Darcas Rose, aged 2 years
WILL FREEBOURN
Mary Freebourne, aged 7 years
Sarah Freebourne, aged 2 years
John Aldburgh, aged 14 years
JNO. BERNARD
Fayth Newell, aged 14 years
Henry Howard, aged 7 years
ABRAHA. NEWELL
Abraham Newell, aged 8 years
John Newell, aged 5 years
Isaac Newell, aged 2 years
EDWARD BUGBY
Sara Bugbie, aged 4 years
JOHN PEASE
Faith Clarke, aged 15 years
Robert Pease, aged 3 years
Darcas Greene, aged 15 years
ROWLAND STEBING
Thomas Stebing aged 14 years.
Sarah Stebing aged 11,
Eliz. Stebing aged 6,
John Stebing aged 8 and
Mary Winche aged 15.
MARY BLOSSE
Richard Blosse, aged 11 years
THOMAS SHERWOOD
Anna Sherwood, aged 14 years
Rose Sherwood, aged 11 years
Thomas Sherwood, aged 10 years
Rebecca Sherwood, aged 9 years
ROBERT COOE
John Cooe, aged 8 years
Robert Cooe, aged 7 years
Benjamin Cooe, aged 5 years
RICH. PEPPER
Mary Pepy, aged 3 and half
Stephen Beckett, aged 11 years
ELIZ. HAMOND
Eliz. Hamond, aged 15 years
Sarah Hamond, aged 10 years
John Hamond, aged 7 years
Ipswitch Custom House, this XIIth day of November, 1634
Edward Mann, Compt. (Persons of Quality - 1600-1700 Edited by John Camden Hotten 1968, page 280).
Nicholas Fennings, aged 22 years;
William Westwood aged 28 and his wife Bridgett aged 32;
Cleare Drap aged 30;
Robert Rose aged 40 and his wife Magery aged 40;
John Bernard aged 36 and his wife Mary aged 38;
William Frebourne aged 40 and his wife Mary aged 33;
Anthony White aged 27;
Edward Bugbye aged 40 and his wife Rebecca aged 32;
Abraham Newell aged 50 and his wife Frances aged 40;
Fust Houlding aged 23;
John Pease aged 27;
Robert Winge aged 60 andhis wife Judith aged 43;
John Greene aged 27;
Robert Pease aged 27;
Hugh Mason aged 28 and his wife Hester aged 22;
Rowland Stebing aged 40 and his wife Sarah aged 43;
Thomas Sherwood aged 48 and his wife Alice aged 47;
Thomas King aged 19;
John Mapes aged 21;
Mary Blosse aged 40;
Robert Cooe aged 38 and his wife Anna aged 43;
Mary Onge aged 27;
Thomas Boyden aged 21;
Richard Wattlin aged 28;
John Lyvermore aged 28;
Richard Pepy aged 27 and his wife Mary aged 30;
Richard Houlding aged 25;
Judith Garnett aged 26;
Eliz. Hamond aged 47;
Thurstan Clearke aged 44.
(NOTE: the spelling of the above names is as they were listed in the original documents which we copied exactly as we read them to be.)
These persons above took the oath of allegence and supremacy, at his Maties Custom House in Ipswich, before His Majesties Officers, according to the Order of the Lords and others of his Majesties Most Honorable Pruvy Councell, the 12th of November, 1634 (signed) Tho. Aerisir and witnessed Edw. Mann, Compt. (Persons of Quality - 1600-1700 Edited by John Camden Hotten 1968, pages 281).
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"ROWLAND STEBBINS died in Northampton, MA December 14, 1671, but no stone was erected to designate the exact spot of interment. Dr. Daniel Stebbins, about the year 1806, had the early burial ground at Northampton, MA examined to discover the precise spot where the remains of Rowland Stebbins were buried, but, failing in this attempt, in 1840 he caused a granite cenotaph to be erected to his memory, in the center of his family square in the new burying ground, on the east side of which is the following inscription. ROWLAND STEBBINS - The supposed ancestor of all of the name in America, came from the west of England to Springfield with his sons John and Thomas, about 1668 removed to Northampton and there died 1671. DANIEL STEBBINS of the 6 generation from Thomas, was born Apr 2, 1766." (Greenlee Volume I, page 56)...
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THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST Whole Number 124, Volume 31, No. 4, October 1955, by John Insley C oddington, F.A.S.C.
THE STEBBINS FAMILY OF COUNTY ESSEX, ENGLAND,
AND ROWLAND, MARTIN, EDWARD AND EDITHA
STEBBING OR STEBBINS OF NEW ENGLAND.
"Reference is made to five accounts of the four above-named member of the Stebbing family of Essex, England, who settled in New England in the 1630's. These accounts are, first the large and excellent work by Ralph Stebbins Greenlee and Robert Lemuel Greenlee, THE STEBBINS GENEALOGY, 2 Vols., Chicago, 1904; secondly, the account of Rowland Stebbing (or Stebbins) in Frank Farnsworth Starr, VARIOUS ANCESTRAL LINES OF JAMES GOODWIN AND LUCY (MORGAN) GOODWIN OF HARTFORD, CT, 2 Vols, Hartford, 1915, Vol 2, pp 21-28 ; thirdly, the (very brief) account ofEditha (Stebbing) (Day) (Maynard) Holyoke in Charles Edwin Booth, ONE BRANCH OF THE BOOTH FAMIY, New York, 1910, p 181; fourthly, the much better and more complete biography of the said Editha and of her husbands, Robert Day (1), John Maynard (1) and Elizure Holyoke (2) in Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgard Francis Waterman, HALE, HOUSE AND RELATED FAMILIES, Hartford, 1952, pp 509-511 and 644-645; fifthly, my articles, "The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith ) Stebbing, Wife of Edward Stebbing, of Hartford, Connecticut, in THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, Vol 30, pp 193-204.
Most of THE STEBBINS GENEALOGY is concerned with the descendents of Rowland Stebbing or Stebbins, who came to America with his wife Sarah on the ship FRANCIS of Ipswich, county Suffolk, which sailed from Ipswich "the last of April " 1634. Rowland Stebbing settle briefly at Ro bury,MA., then at Springfield, MA., and later removed to Northampton , MA where he died 14 Dec 1671, leaving four children, from whom the majority of those who bear the name of Stebbins in America are descended. But THE STEBBINS GENEALOGY also contains (Vol 2, pp 1117-1119) a section of Martin Stebbins, who settled at Roxbury, MA by 1639, later moved to Boston, and died there about October 1659; and a section (vol 2 pp 1005-1014) on Edward Stebbing, who came to New England before 29 March 1632, settled at "New Town" (later Cambridge), moved in 1636 to Hartford, served as deacon of the church there, and died there, in 1668. THE STEBBINS GENEALOGY also includes (vol 1, pp 13-50) a section entitled "Stebbins in England," in which there are many interesting and valuable items, such as an outline of the history of the parish of Stebbing in Hinkford Hundred, county Essex, from which the family undoubtedly derived its surname' pedigrees of the gentry families that successively held the manor of Stebbing; Stebbing, Stubbing and Stybbing, extracts from the Parish Registers of several parishes in Essex, Suffolk and London; full copies of the wills of four Stebbing residents of Essex and abstracts of the wills of thirteen Stebbing residents of Suffolk, and the like. But the compilers of this fine genealogy were not so fortunate as to discover the parishes in which Rowland, Martin, Edward and Editha Stebbing were baptised.
The renowned American genealogist, Frank Farnsworth Starr, while working for the late James Goodwin of Hartford , found the records of the baptisms of Rowland and Martin Stebbing in the fragmentary Parish Registers of St. Mary's Church, Bocking, Essex County. The Bocking Registers also contained references to the Fitch and Goodwin families who settled in Connecticut, showing that a number of residents of Bocking joined the Puritan emigration to New England in the 1630's. Mr. Starr subsequently edited the Parish Registers of Bocking and they were printed in a very small edition at Mr. Goodwin's expense. After pointing out that the existing Registers are sadly lacking in cointinuity (the Baptisms began in July 1561, with gaps from March 1571 to May 1583, from April 1588 to October 1592, from October 1599 to October 1602, and from1639 to 1655; the Burials began in November 1558, with gaps from August 1580 to September 1583 and from 1627 to 1655), he lists the following seven Stebbing records :
1561 Gulielmus Stebinge sepultus est 28 May
1592 Rowlandus Stebing filius Thomae baptizatus 5 November
1594 Marinus Stebing filius Thomae baptizamus 28 April
1603 Johannes Leavens et Elizabetha Stebbin nupti 16 June
1618 Rowlandus Stebbing & Sara Whiting nupti 30 November
1624 Gulielmus Stebbing filius Martini Stebbing
sepultus est 3 September
1625 Elizabetha Stebbing filia Rowlandi Stebbing
sepultus est 15 June
The parish of Bocking is bounded on the south by that of Braintree. In this parish, Mr. Thomas Hooker, the future founder of Hartford, Connecticut, often preached during his ministry in Essex, and among the inhabitants of Braintree were Mr. William Wadsworth, Mr. John Talcott, and the families, who came to New England on the LION in the summer of 1632, and accompanied Mr. Thomas Hooker to Hartford in 1636. The paris Registers of St. Michael's Church at Braintree prior to 1660 have unfortunately been lost, but, as will be seen below, there were also members of the Stebbing family in Braintree in the 1620's.
Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr also compiled for Mr. James J Goodwin the ENGLISH GOODWIN FAMI LY PAPERS, 3 vols., Harford, 1921, which consist of a mass of English records collected by Mr. Starr in the course of his search for the ancestry of William and Osias Goodwin, of Bocking , who also came to New England in 1632, and settled at Hartford in 1636. Here we find the following references:
Vol 2, p 1169 : Braintree Manor Rolls, Easter Monday 1628 : Homage includes Ed(wa)r(d)us Stebbing.
Immediately to the south of Braintree is the parish of Black Notley, and adjoining the latter to the southeast is the parish of White Notley. The late C. A. Hoppin once confided to Dr. Arthur Adams that he was sure that Edward Stebbing, the Hartford settler, was born in one of the two Notleys. Accordingly, I commissioned Miss Helen Thacker of London to examine the parish Registers of both Notleys and abstract all Stebbing records. Miss Thacker found that the Registers of White Notley, which began in 1541, contained no Stebbing entries whatever. But those of SS. Peter and Paul' s Church, Black Notley, which commence in 1570 and were examined through 1640, contained the following records :
BAPTISMS
1593 - Ellin Stebbing the Daughter of Willm Stebbing was baptised the XI day of November 1593.
1594 - Edward Stebbing the sonne of Willm Stebbing was baptised the XXIIII day of February 1594 (1594/5).
1596 - Amy Stebbing the daughter of Willm Stebbing was baptised the 11 day of December 1596.
1598 - Elizabeth Stebbing the daughter of Willm Stebbing was baptised the VII day of May 1598.
1599 - Thomas Stebbing the sonne of Willm Stebbing was baptised the VII day of Marche 1599 (1599/1600).
1603 - Margret Stebinge the daughter of Willm Stebinge was baptised the XVIII day of Marche 1603 (1603/1604).
MARRIAGES
1583 - John Lawson and Elizabeth Stebbing were maried the X day of September 1583.
1584 - Henry Stebbing and Susan Bacon were maried the XIX day of October 1584.
1587 - Henrie Stebbing and Margett Coppin were married the XXIIII day of March 1587 (1587/1588).
BURIALS
1585 - Susan the wife of Henrie Stebbing was buried the XV day of September 1585.
1590 - Dennis the daughter of Thomas Stebbing was buried the XIX day of November 1590.
1600 - Thomas Stebing was buried the first of September 1600.
1603 - Thomas Stebbyng was buried ye XXI of January 1603 (1603/1604).
1606 - Ellen Stebbinge widdow of Thomas Stebbinge was buried the 26th day of January 1606 (1606/1607).
Miss Thacker reported the following lacunnae in the Black Notley Registers: in the Marriages, the bottom portion of a page cut out afterAugust 1606; marriages began again in November 1606 at top of next page Owing to this cut there is also a gap (on the other side of the page) between August 1608 and March 1608/9. Another cut occurs at top of page after September 1632 , and entries begin again in May 1633. This cut causes a gap on the other side of the page from February 1635/6 to April 1636. In the Burials, a page covering parts of 1602-3 was defaced and unreadable; there was a part of 1604 that was unreadable and also a part of 1625.
Miss Thacker was further commissioned to search the Fect of Fines in the Public Record Office in London, to try to find a record of disposal of property in Essex by Rowland , Martin or Edward Stebbing at the time of their emigration to New England. Nothing was found. Moreover, no will was found belonging to Thomas Stebbing of Bocking (the father of Rowland and Martin) or to William Stebbing of Black Notley and Braintree (the presumed father of Edward), and there was no record of the Stebbing family in the Lay Subsidies of Hinkford Hundred, Essex, in the reigns of Elizabeth I , James I or Charles I.
Bearing in mind the limitations of our genealogical data, we may venture to set forth these brief summaries concerning Rowland, Martin, Edward and Editha Stebbing:
1. ROWLAND STEBBING, baptised at Bocking, co. Essex, 5 Nov 1592, son of Thomas Stebbing of Bocking and older brother Martin Stebbing. He married at Bocking, 30 Nov. 1618 , Sarah Whiting, whose baptism does not appear in the existing Register of Bocking. Their five known children were presumably born and baptised at Bocking, but none of the baptisms and only one burial of a child of a Rowland Stebbins appear in the fragmentary Registers of that parish.
Rowland Stebbing and his family sailed from Ipswich, co. Suffolk, on the Francis, "last of April" 1634. The shipping list gives Rowland's age 40, wife Sarah, 43, and children Thomas, 14, Sarah, 11, John, 8, and Elizabeth, 6. On arrival in New England, they settled first in Roxbury. Rowland Stebbing was one of the early settlers of Springfield , MA., moved there about 1639, and received land in the second division of that town, 24 Dec. 1640. Sarah (Whiting ) Stebbing was buried at Springfield 4 Oct 1649. Rowland had a seat in the meeting-house at Springfield in 1663 and some time after Feb. 1664/5 he moved again, to live with his son John at Northampton, MA., where he died 14 Dec. 1671, leaving a will dated 1 March 1669/70. The inventory of his goods and chattels, taken 2 Jan.1671/2, amounted to Pounds 9-5-2; the inventory of his lands, taken 11 Jan. amounted to Pounds 75-3-2; and debts amounted to Pounds 46-2- 0 were owing to him (Stebbins Genealogy, vol 1, pp 51-59)."
Rowland was an intimate friend of William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, Ma.,
who also came from Bocking, England. In 1639 after the war between the Agawam and Pequot
Indians ended, he moved to Springfield, Ma. and built a home just north of Union Street.
The exact date that Rowland and his son John moved t Northampton, Ma. is not known.
He was inlisted as townsman of Springfield in Feb 1664 and his will is dated 1 Jan 1669
in Northampton.
Rowland Stebbin's will was dated 1 Jan 1669 and made his son John Stebbins executor and
friends John Pynchon and Robert Bartlett overseers. Sums of money were given to the seven
children of his son Thomas and to the nine children of his son John. The balance of his
estate was divided equally between sons Thomas and John.
Dr. Daniel Stebbins erected a granite cenotaph in memory of Rowland Stebbins
in the center of his family square in the new burying ground as he was unable to discover
the exact place where the remains were buried.
ROWLAND STEBBINS
The supposed ancestor of all the
name in America, came from
the west of England to
Springfield with his sons
John & Thomas about 1668
removed to Northampton
& there died 1671
DANIEL STEBBINS
The exact spot of Rowland's interment was accidentally discovered in 1850, some
fifty rods north of the present cenotaph. A small marble slab has been placed at the head
of the grave, with no inscription save the name Rowland Stebbins.
Inscription on a monument erected in 1938 reads as follows -
IN MEMORY OF ROWLAND STEBBINS
son of Thomas Stebbins
Born in Bocking, Essex County, England
In the year 1592
Married Sara Whiting Nov. 30 1618
in England
Came to Roxbury, Mass. in 1634
Settled in Springfield , Mass. in 1639
Died in Northampton, Mass. Dec. 14, 1671
Individual Notes
Note for: Wallace Elhassen Sutherland, 27 DEC 1832 - AUG 1906
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Individual Note: Both Charles and Wallace were musicians. On 2/28/1868 there was a party for
the benefit of Charles H. Sutherland who had organized the Manlius Cornet
Band. Wallace Sutherland played the cornet at a concert at Beard Hall in
Fayetteville on 4/3/1866.
1880 census:
Census Place: Pompey, Onondaga, New York
Source: FHL Film 1254906 National Archives Film T9-0906 Page 183A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
W. E. SUTHERLAND Self M M W 47 NY
Occ: Farmer Fa: VT Mo: NY
Celia SUTHERLAND Wife F M W 48 NY
Occ: Keepin House Fa: NY Mo: MA
Burt W. SUTHERLAND Son M S W 16 NY
Fa: NY Mo: NY
Leora B. SUTHERLAND Dau F S W 12 NY
Fa: NY Mo: NY
H. SUTHERLAND Father M M W 81 VT
Occ: Boarder Fa: VT Mo: VT
Laura SUTHERLAND Mother F M W 77 NY
Occ: Boarder Fa: CT Mo: NY
Chloe WILCOX MotherL F W W 76 NY
Occ: Boarder Fa: CT Mo: MA
The Syracuse Herald
Aug 8, 1906
The death of Wallace E. Sutherland occurred at the home of his son at Manlius on Saturday of peritonitis. The funeral will be tomorrow at 11 o'clock and will be private. Burial will be made at Watervale.
Individual Notes
Note for: Reuben Sutherland, 10 APR 1773 - 2 JAN 1853
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Occupation: Place: Farmer (1850)
Individual Note: The 1850 census lists the name as Southerland. Reuben, Sarah, Alfred, and Nelson were in Pompey, Onondaga, New York.
Individual Notes
Note for: Sarah Jones, 13 APR 1779 - 23 MAY 1869
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Burial: Place: Baker Cemetery, Pompey Center, Pompey, Onondaga, NY
Individual Notes
Note for: Samuel Woodworth, 6 NOV 1771 - 29 AUG 1857
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Individual Note: "Five children by Lucinda Beach; Three children by Ann Sprague; Four children by Huldah Sprague. Huldah & Ann were sisters.
Samuel lived at Pompey 6 years, was a member of Assembly in 1812. He moved to Harmony, Ind., where he lived 7 years; afterwards lived at Princeton, Ind., and finally at Savannah, NY, where he died Aug. 29, 1857."
Samuel's migration to Indiana may have been to join a utopian society there, probably the second of the two that were established.
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New Harmony is the site of two of America's great utopian communities. The first, Harmonie on the Wabash (1814-1824), was founded by the Harmony Society, a group of Separatists from the German Lutheran Church. In 1814, led by their charismatic leader Johann Georg Rapp, they left their first American home, Harmonie, PA. Indiana's lower Wabash Valley on the western frontier gave them the opportunity to acquire a much larger tract of land. In 1825, the Harmonists moved back to Pennsylvania and built the town of Economy near Pittsburgh. Robert Owen, Welsh-born industrialist and social philosopher, bought their Indiana town and the surrounding lands for his communitarian experiment.
The Harmony Society established a remarkably well-planned town on the Indiana Frontier. This deeply religious communitarian group had come from Württemberg, Germany to Pennsylvania in 1804 and relocated to the Indiana territory in 1814. In January 1825 they sold the entire town to Robert Owen of New Lanark, Scotland.
The Indiana years proved to be the golden decade of the Harmony society. Their industries prospered. Agricultural and manufactured products were marketed to major cities in the United States and abroad. New Harmony, with it manicured gardens and neat tree-lined street, was renowned for its beauty. The town was largely self-sufficient. There were 2000 acres of highly cultivated land, including a 15-acre vineyard and a 35-acre orchard of choice apple and pear tress. Four large brick dwellings, a steam engine, two large granaries, wool and cotton factories, a threshing machine, a 5-acre vegetable garden, and more than 126 family dwelling houses were carefully cataloged by the Harmonists in a final inventory of the town that was prepared prior to its sale to Robert Owen.
Robert Owen's ambition was to create a more perfect society through free education and the abolition of social classes and personal wealth. World-renowned scientists and educators settled in New Harmony. With the help of William Maclure, the Scottish geologist and businessman, they introduced vocation education, kindergarten and other educational reforms.
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Individual Notes
Note for: Samuel Sutherland, 6 JUN 1747 - 11 MAY 1810
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Volume 122, page 192
Mrs. Carrie Whitney Myers.
DAR ID Number: 121604
Born in Aurelia, Iowa.
Wife of Dr. Franklin Lewis Myers.
Descendant of Sergt. Samuel Sutherland, as follows:
1. Reuben Whitney (1842-1900) m. 1863 Mary McAndrew (1840-88).
2. John Whitney (b. 1803) m. Lanissa Sutherland (b. 1810).
[p.192] 3. Reuben Sutherland (1773-1853) m. Sally Jones.
4. Samuel Sutherland m. 1767 Rachel Purdy (1745-1829).
Samuel Sutherland (1747-1810) served as private and sergeant in the Vermont militia, 1780. He was born in Greenwich, Conn.; died in Manchester, Vt.
Individual Notes
Note for: Roger Sutherland, 1719 - BEF 3 NOV 1798
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Individual Note: Roger Sutherland was a Captain in the 6th Regiment of Dutchess Co. in 1775.
He is also listed as having served in Connecticut by the SAR.
Individual Notes
Note for: William Sutherland, BET 1690 AND 1700 -
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Individual Note: William Sutherland's parentage has not been established. He was said to be the son of "William of Scotland" and also the son of David and Mary Sutherland of Westchester, NY. The latter is hardly credible, as David, who married Mary MacGregorie, was born about 1696, probably a son of William Senior, and a contemporary if not brother to William, Jr. On February 16, 1723, he bought land in Greenwich, CT. He was said to be a carpenter. His date of birth is listed variously, but between 1690 and 1700.
The children listed to William are also questionable in some cases. The youngest child, also named William, was supposedly born in 1745, ten years after the next youngest child. Another William is listed as a son of William, Jr., born about 1728. See notes for him, and also notes for the older William.
Individual Notes
Note for: Hannah Avery, BET 1690 AND 1700 -
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Individual Note: Information about Hannah's ancestry is at best very sketchy and speculative.
Chapter 31
THE AVERY FAMILY
This was an early family in Beekman and was almost
certainly descended from the Edward Avery Branch of the
Family. [See Groton Avery Clan 25]. An Edward Avery was
in Yonkers, NY in 1715 per Fowler Genealogy 114.
NEHEMIAH? AVERY was b. ca. 1710 and m. Dorcas
Fredericks before 1736. He possibly had a brother Griggs
Van Every who had two ch., Dorcas and David, bp. 3 Dec.
1755 at Rombout Presbyterian. Nehemiah Avery was taxed
in Crum Elbow from 1738/9 to June 1748 and next in
Beekman in Feb. 1753 where he remained until Feb. 1757
with an assessment of £1. There was a John Avery in
Beekman from 1745 to June 1760 who was also probably a
relative.
Nehemiah settled on a farm in lot 17 at the
intersection of Freedom Road and Traver Road. This farm
was 215 acres and the house on this property is
presently (1987) owned by Potter. Nehemiah was mentioned
in a land transfer between the Livingston family members
on 13 Dec. 1753. [D 3:164]. There are no records of
rents for the farm and Avery was taxed again in Crum
Elbow in June 1757 through 1762. His widow m. 29 Nov.
1764 widower James Auchmoody which would indicate the
death of Nehemiah Avery about 1762-3.
Children:
i. Nehemiah, b. 29 Aug. 1736. He was taxed in
Crum Elbow 1760 to 1769 and then in Northeast
Town from 1770 to "farm" in 1778. He prob.
m. Mary ____ who was b. 13 Dec. 1729 and d.
May 1804. They had the following ch: [Rev.
Pens R-1716. See our Carpenter fam.]
i. Jane, b. 17 April 1765; m. Barnard
Carpenter 30 Nov. 1784. They had one
child, Rhoda, b. 5 Oct. 1785.
ii. Martha, b. 17 March 1767; m. Thomas
Carpenter 25 Dec. 1782 at Stanford, DC.
[BBCh records show the date as 25 Nov.
1783].
Source:
The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, six volumes. 1990–2001).
Hannah has been linked by some to an Edward Avery, said to be the brother of the New England settler, Christopher Avery.
Land Office of Annapolis, Maryland: "Lieber XI, fol. 104: Know all men by these presents that I Charles Jones of Baltimore County, Gent. have assigned and by these presents do assign unto Thomas Godington of London, Merchant, all my right titiels and interest due me upon record for the transportation of John Foster, Richard Leake, Stephen Harper, Thomas Pierce, Edward Avery, Giles Porter.
Witness hand the XII day of Oct. Annoq. Domini M.D.C.L.XII
"Lieber XII.fol.1513: This may certify that I Edward Avery do assign all my right of land due me for my servitude in this province to John Gibbs of the County of Baltimore, planter.
Witness of my hand and seal this 31st Day of October 1668 his X mark. Edward Avery
Hedges Henry P.: A History of the Town of East Hampton, NY. J.H. Hunt, Printer, Sag-Harbor, NY 1897
Page 214: Additional names of persons or families, transient or resident in East Hampton near the years named:
Avery, Edward, blacksmith. 1668
The Edward Avery Branch.--The Rev. David Avery, in his diary, mentions an Edward Avery, brother of Christopher, who settled near Boston and was "the progenitor of a large and respectable progeny." In the list of original proprietors of Brookhaven, Long Island, begun in 1655 by "a good number of emigrants mostly from the neighborhood of Boston," we find the name of Edward Avery. He left descendants in western Connecticut and along the Hudson River; they have gradually extended to every state in the Union. Great difficulty has been experienced in separating this clan from the Groton clan, owing partly to the great similarity of names. Mr. Morris H. Avery, Woonsocket, R. I., is collecting all possible data relating to the descendants of this Edward Avery.
Source: Bibliographic Information: Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery. The Groton Avery Clan. Cleveland. 1912. p. 25
Edward Avery, St. Peters, Paul's Wharf, London, dyer, and Mary Edgley,
widow of John Edgley, St. Bartholomew-the-less, West Smithfield,
London, at Horsney, Middlesex, Sept. 9, 1626.
Source: ibid, p. 19
Maureen A. Taylor disposes of the story that the Edward Avery who settled in Brookhaven was a brother of Christopher. "...the records do not offer any proof or disproof that Christopher had a brother Edward. There is an Edward Avery as a settler of Brookhaven, Long Island, by 1657 who later appeared in the Hempstead, Long Island, town records. This Edward Avery might be the same person who appeared in Baltimore County, Maryland, in the 1660s, but he bears no relation to Christopher."
The Avery Family: The Ancestors and Descendants of Christopher Avery, edited by Maureen A. Taylor. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2004. Page 11.
Individual Notes
Note for: William Sutherland, - ABT 1724
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Individual Note: William Sutherland emigrated from Scotland to America (New Jersey) in 1684.
Source: Whyte, Donald: A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the USA, Vol.1
Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co., 1972 504p. 2nd pr. 1981 p.432 Prepared for the Scottish Genealogical Society.
This is possibly a brother, and very possibly on the same ship. We know that the ship diverted course to Virginia, where all the passengers disembarked. William went overland with his party to New Jersey. Robert stayed in Virginia and settled there.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Robert Southerland
Year: 1684
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 9760
Primary Immigrant: Southerland, Robert
Annotation: Covers era prior to 1855. Compiled from correspondence and monument inscriptions, 17th and, mainly, 18th century. Prepared for the Scottish Genealogical Society. 6,470 emigrants.
Source Bibliography: WHYTE, DONALD. A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the USA. Vol. 1. Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co., 1972. 504p. 2nd pr., 1981.
Page: 409
There are two documents dated 1709 that mention William. He was on a tax list in Ulster County, New York [later Orange County], and he was granted 1000 acres of land by Queen Anne of England. The latter is contained in: Record Book of Original Grants [Royal papers].
In 1709, William Sutherland and William Chambers bought 1000 acres of land located on the Hudson River in Orange Co. John Ellison, merchant, loaned money to his customers, one of whom was William Sutherland. The loan was made in 1718, Ellison took a mortgage on Sutherland's land and soon after came into its possession.
Source: History of Orange County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Compiled by E. M. Ruttenber and L. H. Clark Philadelphia: Everts & Peck. 1881
In 1720, a William Sutherland was living in Highlandseck, NY and was on a tax list. This may have referred to William, the immigrant, or to his son, William Sutherland, Jr.
A settlement had been made upon the borders of Cornwall at Plum Point and on territory now included in the town of New Windsor. This was by Col. Patrick MacGregorie, and was the first settlement within the limits of the present county of Orange....Of this colony, also, was Wm. Sutherland (or Southerland). He was the ancestor of the present Sutherland families residing in Cornwall. It appears they constitute the sole representatives of this early settlement now remaining in this section, their successive generations having been in this town, or near it, for nearly two hundred years. It is known that Wm. Sutherland had one son, David Sutherland, and that the latter bought, in 1734, 100 acres of land in the Bethlehem neighborhood. There were, doubtless, other sons of William Sutherland, as it is evident several of the numerous branches of the family at the present time do not trace their line though David.
Source: ibid
One Alexander Sutherland (father of three brothers) died in 1777. It is probable that he was a brother of David, and a son of William.
Source: ibid
Two sons of William Sutherland, Alexander & David, settled early in Cornwall. Alexander was buried the day Ft. Montgomery was captured (1777). Children of Alexander were: Alexander, David, and Andrew. [This appears to be an error. David's will lists these three names as his sons, along with Patrick, who had died earlier.] Alexander, son of Alexander, had: Alexander, John D., Andrew, David, and Mrs. John DuBois. Of these, Andrew had Daniel and David, atty.
Source: Pioneer Families of Orange County, New York. Compiled by Martha and Bill Reamy.
It is part of family lore that "three Sutherland brothers sailed together to America from Scotland." This is a common legend that exists in many families, but it may be correct concerning the Sutherlands.
The following is posted at the Clan Sutherland discussion board:
How the O got into SOutherland
by Charles C. Southerland, 8/1/99
We have traced our geneology back to a Robert S(O)utherland who left Scotland in June or July of 1684 on a Charter from the Earl of Perth. When he arrived in the New World, he settled in the "Southern Climes" ie Virginia and later in North Carolina. His Brother(s) who came with him settled in New Jersey.
The following is taken from World Family Tree (Family Tree Maker) volume 48, Tree number 1693
Henry Clay Sutherland of Fairfield, Illinois always said that the Sutherlands were descended from 3 brothers who came to America at an early age.
Robert W. Sutherland of Charles Co, Maryland says that he was always told of the 3 brothers who came to Virginia away back. One stayed there, one came to Maryland, and one went to North Carolina.
Mrs. A. S. Wooten of Mount Olives, North Carolina says that in 1684 Robert Sutherland, 1 of 3 brothers, came to America from Aberdeen, Scotland in the Earl of Perth's New Jersey expedition. But because of ill winds, landed in Virginia. Robert settled where Richmond now is. His brothers went North on foot with a large company.
Between 1497 and 1609 New Jersey was claimed by various nations including the English, French, Spanish and Dutch. The Dutch influenced Monmouth County from 1614 to 1664. In 1664 King Charles II of England granted his brother James, Duke of York, this territory and he, in turn, gave a lease and release for New Jersey to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. On the death of Sir Carteret, his lease rights were sold and eventually the new owners established a Board of Proprietors to administer their lands and rights.
In the late 1600s, James Duke of York, Brother of King Charles II of England, granted patents for all the land in New Jersey, and the right to form a government, to two groups of proprietors. The West Jersey Proprietors were Quakers seeking religious freedom. The East Jersey Proprietors were mostly Scots seeking wealth. Although a few of them made efforts to establish plantations, most were purely speculators, and all sold their land to the real first settlers within a few years. A number of them were very wealthy and influential Scots at a time when the King of England was a Stuart of the Royal Scottish Line.
One of 24 East Jersey Proprietors was John Drummond, younger brother of James Drummond, Earl of Perth. John was granted 1000 acres between the mouth of Holland's Brook and Whiton Road on November 9, 1685.
The Earl of Perth was also one of the 24 proprietors.
In 1680 he had been deputy governor of Edinburgh Castle. Four years later he was named Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland, and raised to an Earl. He enjoyed great influence with King James II of England and later accompanied him into exile in France. There, the King of France made him a Duke. He was considered one of the handsomest men of his time, and the finest dancer of the Royal Court.
I gather from the above that the Earl's New Jersey Expedition was intended to establish settlements in this territory which could then be exploited economically. William Sutherland and his companions, MacGregorie and Toshach, along with MacGregorie's flock of Presbyterian families were persuaded by the Governor of New York to move slightly north into that state. William was granted 1000 acres by Queen Anne, but he shared this with two other men. Later, he borrowed money against the land on two occasions, didn't pay this off, and lost the land. Clearly, he was not wealthy, but it doesn't sound as if he and his brothers (or cousins) were just peasant folk in Scotland.
The TOSCHACH (various spellings) connection:
David Toshach (Toshack, Toshuck) was associated with Col. Patrick MacGregorie and perhaps with William Sutherland.
A History of Deerpark in Orange County, NY, by Peter E Gumaer and Minisink Valley Historical Society, 1890 p.31
"In 1684, Patrick McGregorie, his brother-in-law David Toshuck, who subscribed his name 'Laird of Minivard,' and twenty-five others, principally Scotch Presbyterians, purchased a tract of 4,000 acres, embracing lands on both sides of Murderer's Creek. Here, on Couwanham's Hill, so-called from its aboriginal owner, but now known as Plum Point, McGregorie built his cabin, and in the same vicinity were those of his associates, William Chambers, William Sutherland, and one Collum, while on the north side of the creek David Toshuck and his servant Daniel Maskrig established a trading post. (See Ruttenber's History of Orange County, p. 21,22)"
The connection of William Sutherland to MacGregorie and Toshach is made even stronger by the following: Cornwall, by Lewis Beach, 1873
This book spells out the relationship of Margaret Toshach to the group. She was the sister of David Toshach and wife of Col. Patrick MacGregorie. It also states,
"The names of the several families composing MacGregorie's settlement, cannot now be ascertained. One MacCollum settled near him; William Sutherland, the presumed ancestor of the present Canterbury family of that name, was another; and the name of Daniel Maskrig, in addition to that of Toshuck, also appears. Toshuck died in 1687....Toshuck left a widow and a son, the latter a minor at the time of his father's death." pp10-12
The same book contains a footnote: " Colonel Patrick MacGregorie came to this country with a number of followers, in 1684, first landing in Maryland and then proceeding north to Perth Amboy, in New Jersey. At the suggestion of Governor Dongan in 1685, he removed to Plum Point, just above the Hudson Highlands, where he built a log house and engaged in the Indian trade." p11
A relative of a correspondent was in Scotland and found a copy of the Earl Of Perth's charter for the lands in New Jersey. William Sutherland, Robert Southerland, and an Alexander Sutherland were named in the charter.
[See also notes for David Toshach]
From "Scots in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1635-1783" by David Dobson:
TOSHACH, DAVID, of Monivaird, Perthshire, from Leith to East New Jersey in 1684
For full text of the following, see notes for Patrick MacGregorie
"In a broadside advertisement circulated in Scotland in 1683/84 urging settlers to sign up for East Jersey it states "in the shire of Pearth(sic) let them apply themselves to David Toshach of Monyvard and Captain Macgreiger....etc." After a harrowing crossing, during which one of their vessels was nearly wrecked in a hurricane off the Capes of Virginia they limped into port
in the Chesapeake at the Bohemia River (near the upper end of Chesapeake Bay),and then they had to make their way from there to East Jersey.
They eventually ended up in New Windsor, Orange Co NY, with the Toshachs and a number of Palatine families from Germany. Captain McGregory continued to lead troops, including an excursion ca 1687 into Ontario against the French (and Indians), where he was captured, but returned."
The above descriptions correlate perfectly with a voyage described in "Scottish Colonial Schemes 1620-1686" by George P. Insh, originally published in 1922 and reprinted in 2004. pp 165-167
"During the summer of 1684 two ships cleared from East Coast ports for East New Jersey, one from Montrose the other from Aberdeen. The ship from Aberdeen carried about 160 passengers, a number of whom had joined the vessel at Leith, where it had anchored, probably on its way round from London to Aberdeen. The Montrose ship had a long but comparatively uneventful voyage: 'The Passengers did all very well, though we had some very rough gusts, and were very thronged in so small a vessel, being 130 Souls, besides Sea-men: of these 27 were women, 6 or 7 children only; one man...called William Clark, standing carelessly upon the Forecastle tumbled over boards, and drowned, tho' we put out our boat and endeavoured in vain to save him.' Eighteen weeks after leaving Montrose, and nine weeks after leaving Killabeg in Ireland, this ship reached the American coast. 'The first land we discovered was about the middle of Long Island; it appeared at first like trees growing out of the Sea. Towards night we anchored in Sandy Hook.'
The other ship had a much shorter passage: 'we were only 8 weeks betwixt land and land, and entered the Capes of Virginia the same day 9 weeks we parted from Aberdeen.' But it had a much more exciting passage, 'occasioned by a mighty storm of wind (which happened upon the 12th day of September last) and which blew so tempestuously that, in short, it carried first away our Boltsprit, and afterwards our whole three Masts, Flagstaff and all, by the board, before the Sailors were able to get them out: it likewise took away the awning above our heads, all of which was done in the space of half an hour. We lay thus distressed like a pitiful wreck all that night, (we having lost our masts about 12 of the clock in the day) and two dayes thereafter at the mercie of the waves (which being like mountains occasioned by the great storm of wind) without hope of recovery, being then about 200 leagues from this land of America, tossing to and fro expecting that each wave should overwhelm us: Yet at last it pleased God to turn the storm into a calm: and having preserved all our lower Yards, we made all haste and made Jury Masts of them: with the help whereof (tho' very insufficient ones to drive forward the bulk of so great a vessel) and of God's miracuous Mercie and Providence Who - immediately after we had put our ship in any mean posture for plying out her Voyage - was pleased to send us such a fair and moderate gale of wind, as brought us in sight of the Capes of Virginia, with 15 days after, or thereabouts, having never ceased for the whole time till it brought us thither in safety. So we came within the capes, and sailed up that great Navigable Bay, called Chessapeik bay, up through all Virginia to Maryland, where we landed at the place where our ship was bound to take in her tobacco, for her homeward loadning. But being thus Disabled, and not being able to ply out her Voyage to this place (where she ought to have landed us), we was necessitated to travel from thence by Land to this place, being upwards of 200 English miles, and having left our Goods behind us, (which was thereafter to come about in a Sloup)...' "
In the appendix to Mr. Insh's book, the letter is attributed to "John Forbes, brother to the Laird of Barnla" and it further mentions that another passenger aboard was "Mr. Drummond, brother to John Drummond the Factor in Edinburgh." That would make him brother also to James Drummond, Fourth Earl of Perth. Another set of letters was written by another passenger, who describes the same voyage. He was Charles Gordon. In his letter he mentions "Governor Barclay" as a fellow passenger, as well as one of his own brothers.
Individual Notes
Note for: Daniel Jones, - 24 MAY 1835
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Individual Note: Data for Daniel and Sarah, the existence of Roswell, and the descendants of Daniel, Jr. are from a gedcom at Ancestry.com owned by Brad Jones.
Dates of birth and death are from death certificate.
OBITUARIES- In Manchester, May 24. Mr. John Smith, in the 90th year of his age. For many years he had been a useful and much beloved member of the Baptist Church of that town. As he had lived respected, so he died lamented. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord."
At the end of the obituary column appeared a laudatory obituary in tribute to John Smith & Daniel Jones: In the death of Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones, two aged patriots, the young have lost an example well worthy of imitation. Early in life the truths of Christianity were instilled into their minds, and at the same time they imbued those patriotic principles which induced them to espouse the case of liberty. These were the principles which were ever nourished in their bosoms until the frosts of so many tedious winters whitened their hoary heads to admonish them that their names must be transferred from the rolls of the Revolution and recorded with the vast catalogues of the dead. And now they have gone to join their relatives and friends that have long since gone before them and mouldered into dust. Thus fall the aged oaks that have withstood the blasts and storms of almost a century. But at last the all devouring tide of time with one slight convulsion has tumbled them down. And now those remains that were once so dear will be passed by the heedless stranger, only noticing with curiosity, the little mound that will be heaped over the ashes that was once well worthy by their good examples, of the gratitude and admiration of a grateful people.
>From the Vermont Gazette, published in Bennington, VT, Tuesday June 2nd, 1835, page 3. Provided by MaryLu McClure.
Title: Revolutionary War Rolls
Author: State of Vermont Office of the Adjutant General State Veterans Affairs
Publication: Pages 169, 227, 451
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Title: Lineage Book, Nat'l. Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume LIII
Author: Martha L. Moody, Historian General, page 403
Publication: Washington D.C., 1905
Note: Bennington Chapter of D.A.R.
Repository:
Call Number: 929.2, D26, V.53
Media: Book
Individual Notes
Note for: Ichabod Bosworth, 18 MAR 1675/76 -
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Individual Note: ICHABOD4 BOSWORTH, son of Jonathan3, Jr. (Jonathan2, Edward1) and Hannah (ICHABOD4 BOSWORTH, son of Jonathan3, Jr. (Jonathan2, Edward1) and Hannah (Howland), and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, Mayflower passengers; born in Swansea, Mass., March 18, 1676; died, probably in Bellingham, Mass. (???) (???); married first, SARAH STACY (birth and parentage not found), intention published in Rehoboth, Mass., Jan. 3, 1700-1; died in Rehoboth, Feb. 5, 1710/11; married second MARY ((???)).
Ichabod was a blacksmith and owned a home in Rehoboth with 14 acres of land on which was a blacksmith shop. In the town records of Rehoboth is the following entry, dated
March 19, 1705, "It was voted by the town that Ichabod Bosworth shall have liberty to set up a hammer to go by water for the blacksmiths trade and a shop and coal-house upon the Ox-pasture run where the foot path goeth down the hill at the point of said hill: and the said Bosworth or his heirs are not to raise a dam higher than to flow an acre and a half."
May 21, 1709, Ichabod Bosworth of Rehoboth, blacksmith, for œ33, 15 s. "currant silver money of New England," mortgages to Nathaniel Waterman of Providence, R. I., 14 acres of land in Rehoboth "by the Country Roade that leads out at the northerly end of the towne on the westerly side of saide Roade."
(Signed) Ichabod Bosworth
Mortgage discharged April 6, 1711. (Taunton Deeds, 5-546)
March 22, 1710/11, Ichabod Bosworth of Rehoboth, blacksmith, for œ40 current silver money sells to John Bishop of Rehoboth, potter, 14 acres of land in Rehoboth with a dwelling house and shop standing thereon, bounded "southeasterly to a stake and a heap of stones by the Country Road and so along by Lieut Moses Reeds Land till it cometh to the Ox Pasture (so called) to a stake and a heap of stones for a corner then bounded Northerly and Northeasterly with said Ox Pasture and Southeasterly with said Road as the fence now standeth."
(Signed) Ichabod Bosworth
Acknowledged in Providence Rhode Island Colony same dat
(Taunton Deeds, 16-233)
It will be observed that according to the above, Ichabod sold his home with the land and blacksmith shop, all his possessions in Rehoboth, in a little over a month after the death of his wife Sarah. It appears that Sarah died about the time of the birth of a son named Henry, and Ichabod leaving the town so soon afterward failed to have his birth recorded. Just where Ichabod went at that time it is impossible to state, for a most diligent search in all the surrounding country has failed to yield any trace of him, until in 1712, when we find him, with a second wife named Mary, in Bristol, then in Massachusetts, now in Rhode Island, about ten or twelve miles south of Rehoboth. Here on Oct. 17, 1712, a baby girl was born to this second wife, and following the custom of those times the child was named Sarah from Ichabod's first wife, the daughter by the first wife named Sarah, having died young.
Ichabod's stay in Bristol was probably brief as he did not purchase land, at least no record of any purchase has been found. He probably went from there to a location near what is now the border line between the town of Bellingham, Mass. and Cumberland, R. I., but at that time was a part of Massachusetts. (This location is about 25 miles to the northwest of Bristol and 15 miles from Providence.) We gather this last from the fact that his sons are found later in that neighborhood, also for the reason that the compiler, on visiting this place in 1905, was told by the town clerk of Bellingham, then an old man who had kept the records of the town for many years and made them a study, that the location of Ichabod Bosworth's house was near to that of Capt. John Darling, the leading man of the town whose name heads the request for the incorporation of Bellingham, the location of his house being shown by the chimney still standing. Also, it may be mentioned in this connection, that Ichabod's son Henry, married the daughter of Capt. John Darling.
This town clerk also said, that in the neighborhood of these homes there was a Baptist meeting house that both attended with their families. (This was perfectly natural in Ichabod's case at least, as we have seen that his father, Jonathan Bosworth, Jr., had suffered because of his membership in that denomination.) This church building was afterward sold to the Congregationalists and whatever records were kept by the Baptists have disappeared, at least this compiler after diligent search has been unable to get any trace of them.
It is probable that Ichabod and his second wife lived the remainder of their lives in this locality and died there, but neither the town records of Bellingham, nor any of the surrounding towns furnish proof that such was the case.
NOTE: In such a situation as the above the best we can do is to draw conclusions from such facts as we have, and the compiler feels that in this case they are very convincing. That the Ichabod, son of Jonathan, Jr., who had a wife Sarah who died in Rehoboth, and who afterward sold his property there and went away, was the same Ichabod who married a wife named Mary who was mother of the daughter born in Bristol, and that later lived in Bellingham with a family of five sons and at least one daughter who lived to maturity and married, the compiler, after years of study of the Bosworth family, is fully convinced. The facts referred to are these:
The eldest son of Ichabod4 Bosworth by his first wife, who lived to marry, was Ichabod5, born Sept. 4, 1708. He married in Middleboro, Joanna Cushman and had a son "Stacy" and a daughter "Sarah," both names of his mother. He also had a son Ichabod-, whose son was another Stacy Bosworth. (He was the father of Rev. George Whitfield Bosworth, a well-known Baptist clergyman.) Ichabod5 returned from Middleboro to Bellingham and later died in Cumberland. His widow married Sylvanus Scott, of Bellingham, an attendant of the Baptist church above mentioned.
CHILDREN
of Ichabod4 Bosworth
By first wife Sarah Stacy born in Rehoboth, Mass.
152 i--HANNAH5, b. Oct. 19, 1701; d. Jan. 17, 1702-3.
153 ii--JONATHAN5, b. Dec. 2, 1702; d. March 20, 1702-3.
154 iii--SARAH5, b. July 27, 1704; d. April 7, 1705.
155 iv--MARY5, b. Aug. 6, 1706.
156+ v--ICHABOD5, b. Sept. 4, 1708; d. Dec. 31, 1753; m. Joan
Cushman.
157+ vi--HENRY5, b. (???); d. (???); m. Deborah Darling.
By second wife Mary ((???))
158 vii--SARAH5, b. in Bristol, Mass., Oct. 17, 1712.
159+ viii--JONATHAN5, b. Jan. 2, 1714; d. Dec. 27, 1801; m. Susann
Chillson.
160+ ix--BENJAMIN5, b.(???); d. Nov. 16, 1790; m. Anne Collins.
161+ x--JOSEPH5, b. about 1719; d. Aug. 1, 1769; m. (1) Ruth Fulle
m. (2) Sarah Cobb.
Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bosworth. Bosworth Genealogy vol. 3. San Francisco: n.p., 1928.
Individual Notes
Note for: Abner Woodworth, 2 AUG 1724 - 1809
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Individual Note:
After 1790, he made his way alone on foot to Benton, Yates County, NY, carrying with him his kit of shoemaker's tools, and driving a cow. Two of his sons and two of his daughters [Molly, Hannah, Elisha, and Dyer] soon joined him. He died in 1809, aged 84 years, at the home of his daughter, Molly.
Was a Patriot in the Revolutionary War.
Source: SAR
All of the children apparently were born in Lebanon, after which they moved to Salisbury, Conn. After Hannah's death ca. 1790, he packed his cobbler's tools and driving a cow, made his way afoot to Benton, Yates Co., N.Y. to reside with his daughter until his death. Four of his chidren followed soon thereafter, Elisha, Dyer, Molly and Hannah. Here Abner Woodworth, partriot, served in civil capacity as associate commissioner of Levi Benton in Yates Co., N.Y. as a civil officer. His family was outstanding among those of sterling worth (History of Yates Co., N.Y. by Cleveland) (also referred to as Yerks Co., N.Y.)
Abner (records show Woodward) served as a private in Capt. Benj. Clark's Company, Colonial Obediah Johnson's Regiment, Connecticut Militia in the Revolutionary War. Service in the state of Rhode Island. He entered camp January 8, 1778 and served 2 months and the roll dated at Providence February 16, 1778 shows him present. Abner died in the home of his daughter Molly or Mary Woodworth Benton in 1809 at Benton, N.Y., age 84. Buried there in the Old Benton Farm cemetery.