Note: - Antony Maitland
POOLE FAMILY HISTORY
The final edition of Herbert Armstrong Poole’s genealogy of his branch of the Poole family of New England, completed in the mid 1950’s.
CONTENTS
POOLE FAMILY HISTORY 1
1. CONTENTS 1
Summary of HAP’s Sources: 3
2. POOLE FAMILY HISTORY 7
3. BERT’S BEGATS 7
4. 1 - HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE. 4-1
5. 1A - MAYA LINDSLEY 5-1
6. 2 - OTIS AUGUSTUS POOLE. 6-1
7. 3 - ELEANOR ISABELLA ARMSTRONG 7-1
8. 4 - AUGUSTUS POOLE 8-1
9. 6 - JOHN ARMSTRONG 9-1
1/7. William Rufus Armstrong. 9-6
1/8. Jennie Elvira Armstrong. 9-7
1/9. John Edmond (Jack) Armstrong 9-9
1/13. Percy Wilson Armstrong 9-11
10. 8 - SAMUEL POOLE. 10-16
8A - MARY ELIZABETH POOLE. 10-17
8B - BENJAMIN TREDWELL POOLE. 10-24
8C - RUSHMORE POOLE. 10-26
8D - SAMUEL CHEESMAN POOLE. 10-28
8E - MARY ANTOINETTE POOLE. 10-31
11. 10 - OTIS MANCHESTER. 11-33
12. 12 – Capt JOHN ARMSTRONG 12-36
13. 14 - CHARLES WILSON 13-47
14. 16 - PIERCE POOLE. 14-51
15. 18 - RICHARD CHEESMAN 15-53
16. 20 - ISAAC MANCHESTER 16-58
17. 22 - JAMES INGOLS. 17-61
18. 24 - REVEREND WILLIAM ARMSTRONG 18-63
19. 28 - JOHN WILSON 19-78
20. 32 - JAMES POOLE 20-79
21. 34 - JOHN RUSHMORE. 21-81
22. 36 - JOSEPH CHEESMAN 22-83
23. 38 - GEORGE WEEKES. 23-86
24. 40 - ISAAC MANCHESTER 24-88
25. 42 - JACOB TABER. 25-92
26. 44 - JAMES INGALLS. 26-93
27. 62 - WILLIAM HAUGHTON. 27-94
28. 64 - PIERCE POOLE. 28-95
64A - SOLOMON POOLE. 28-99
64B - WILLIAM POOLE. 28-114
29. 66 - JOHN RUSHMORE. 29-119
30. 70 - JONATHAN SMITH 30-125
31. 72 - EPHRAIM CHEESMAN. 31-130
32. 74 - ANTHONY BADGLEY. 32-131
33. 76 - THOMAS WEEKES. 33-133
34. 80 - JOHN MANCHESTER. 34-134
35. 82 - ABRAHAM BROWNE, 35-136
36. 84 - EBENEZER TABER. 36-137
37. 86 - JOHN B. DENNIS. 37-138
38. 88 - JAMES INGALLS 38-139
39. 90 - JOSHUA SCOTTOW. 39-140
40. 128 - WILLIAM POOLE. 40-141
41. 132 - THOMAS RUSHMORE 41-147
42. 134 - CALEB CARMAN 42-155
43. 140 - JONATHAN SMITH 43-156
44. 144 - THOMAS CHEESMAN. 44-158
45. 150 - SAMUEL HAIGHT. 45-164
46. 152 - THOMAS WEEKES. 46-166
47. 154 - GEORGE TOWNSEND. 47-168
48. 160 - J0HN MANCHESTER 48-171
49. 162 - EDWARD GRAY. 49-172
50. 166 - THOMAS CORY. 50-173
51. 168 - JOSEPH TABER 51-174
52. 170 - THOMAS TABER. 52-175
53. 172 - ROBERT DENNIS, 53-176
54. 174 - SAMUEL WILBOR. 54-177
55. 176 - ROBERT INGALLS. 55-178
56. 178 - JOHN CALL. 56-179
57. 180 - JOSHUA SCOTTOW 57-180
58. 182 - SAMUEL SMITH 58-180
59. 264 - THOMAS RUSHMORE. 59-181
60. 266 - TH0MAS HICKS, 60-186
61. 268 - CALEB CARMAN. 61-196
62. 280 - JOHN ROCK SMITH 62-199
63. 282 - ADAM MOTT 63-201
64. 284 - LAWRENCE ELLISON 64-207
65. 290 - RICHARD VALENTINE, 65-209
66. 300 - NICHOLAS HOYT. 66-214
67. 304 - FRANCIS WEEKES 67-215
68. 306 - RICHARD HARCOURT. 68-221
69. 308 - JOHN TOWNSEND. 69-224
70. 310 - CHRISTOPHER HAWKHURST 70-232
71. 320 - THOMAS MANCHESTER 71-234
72. 324 - EDWARD GRAY. 72-242
73. 326 - PHILIP SMITH 73-243
74. 332 - WILLIAM CORY. 74-244
75. 334 - PHILIP TABER. 75-245
76. 336 - PHILLIP TABER. 76-246
77. 342 - JOHN THOMPSON. 77-247
78. 344 - ROBERT DENNIS 78-250
79. 346 - WILLIAM BRIGGS. 79-251
80. 348 - WILLIAM WILBOR. 80-252
81. 350 - NATHANIEL POTTER, 81-254
82. 352 - ROBERT INGALLS 82-254
83. 354 - DANIEL PARKER 83-255
84. 356 - JOHN CALL 84-255
85. 358 - MICHAEL BRIGDEN. 85-256
86. 362 - ZECHARIAH SYMMES. 86-257
87. 366 - ABEL BENJAMIN 87-258
88. 532 - JOHN HICKS 88-259
89. 534 - ELIAS DOUGHTY 89-261
90. 536 - JOHN CARMAN. 90-265
91. 538 - JOHN SEAMAN. 91-270
92. 562 - JOHN STRICKLAND 92-272
93. 600 - SIMON HOYT. 93-273
94. 616 - THOMAS TOWNSEND. 94-276
95. 618 - ROBERT COLES 95-283
96. 622 - HENRY REDDOUGH. 96-288
97. 640 - HENRY DE MANCESTRE 97-289
98. 642 - JOHN WOOD 98-289
99. 650 - THOMAS LETTICE. 99-290
100. 652 - EDWARD SMITH. 100-291
101. 666 - RALPHE EARLE. 101-292
102. 670 - JOHN COOKE 102-293
103. 674 - JOHN MASTERS. 103-294
104. 686 - FRANCIS COOKE. 104-295
105. 688 - ROBERT DENNIS. 105-303
106. 690 - HENRY HOWLAND. 106-304
107. 692 - JOHN BRIGGS. 107-305
108. 694 - JOHN COOKE. 108-307
109. 696 - SAMUEL WILDBORE. 109-308
110. 700 - NATHANIEL POTTER. 110-310
111. 704 - ROBERT INGALLS. 111-311
112. 706 - THOMAS LEIGHTON. 112-312
113. 708 - JOHN PARKER. 113-312
114. 710 - ABRAHAM ERRINGTON. 114-313
115. 712 - JOHN CALL. 115-313
116. 714 - RICHARD LOWDEN. 116-314
117. 716 - THOMAS BRIGDEN. 117-314
118. 718 - EDWARD WILSON. 118-315
119. 724 - ZECHARIAH SYMMES 119-316
120. 716 - THOMAS GRAVES. 120-318
121. 732 - JOHN BENJAMIN. 121-319
122. 734 - JOHN MIRICK. 122-320
123. 1064 - ROBERT HICKS. 123-321
124. 1068 - FRANCIS DOUGHTY. 124-323
125. 1072 - JOHN CARMAN. 125-326
126. 1078 - THOMAS MOORE. 126-328
127. 1232 - HENRY TOWNSEND. 127-329
128. 1238 - SAMPSON HAWKHURST 128-329
129. 1246 - WILLIAM BURROWES. 129-330
130. 1280 - SIMON DE MANCESTRE. 130-331
131. 1294 - RICHARD FOWLE. 131-331
132. 1322 - RAULPHE EARLE. 132-332
133. 1342 - RICHARD WARREN. 133-333
134. 1372 - RICHARD COOKE. 134-334
135. 1380 - HENRY HOWLAND. 135-335
136. 1388 - THOMAS COOKE. 136-336
137. 1390 - RICHARD BORDEN. 137-338
138. 1408 - EDMUND INGALLS 138-341
139. 1416 - JOHN PARKER. 139-343
140. 1418 - DANIEL FAIRFIELD. 140-343
141. 1426 - RICHARD KETTEL 141-344
142. 1430 - RYSE COLE. 142-345
143. 1432 - THOMAS BRIGDEN. 143-345
144. 1434 - MICHAEL CARTHRICK. 144-346
145. 1438 - ROBERT HALE. 145-346
146. 1452 - JOHN GRAVES. 146-347
147. 1454 - THOMAS GRAY, 147-348
148. 1466 - WILLIAM EDDY. 148-349
149. 1468 - JOHN MYRICK. 149-350
150. 2128 - JAMES HICKS. 150-351
151. 2156 - THOMAS MOORE:, 151-354
152. 2158 - CHRISTOPHER YOUNGS, 152-355
153. 2476 - CHRISTOPHER HAWKHURST. 153-356
154. 2780 - MATTHEW BORDEN. 154-356
155. 2782 - RICHARD FOWLE. 155-357
156. 2936 - WILLIAM MYRICK. 156-358
157. 4952 - JOHN HAWKHURST. 157-358
158. 5560 - THOMAS BORDEN. 158-358
159. 5872 - JOHN MERRICK. 159-359
Summary of HAP’s Sources:
"The Winslows and their Descendants" by David Parsons Holton (l877) (HP10)
Benjamin F. Thompson`s “History of Long Island”, 1918; (HP16)
”Genealogies of Long Island Families”, by Charles J. Werner, New York, 1919: (HP16)
and from Hempstead Town Records (HP16)
"Marriages at St George`s Church, Hempstead", by Josephine G. Frost, (1914); (HP18)
"The Betts Genealogy", by C. Wyllys Betts, (1888). (HP18)
"The Wildbores in America", by John Reid and Benjamin Franklin Wilbour (1933); (HP20)
"Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages", by the American Historical Society, New York (1939): (HP20)
the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vols 101 and 102 (1947-1948). (HP20)
"Ingalls Genealogy", by Dr. Walter Benton Ingalls, (1933) (HP22)
”Benjamin F. Thompson`s “History of Long Island”, 1918
"Marriages at St George`s Church, Hempstead", by Josephine G. Frost, (1914)
(on line at )
Baptisms:
- wills & death notices 1665-1776
Deaths & Marriages 1878-1900
New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 19, page 11, (HP32)
"Abstracts of Wills, Vols 6 to 12 of the New York Historical Society's Collections: (HP34)
"The Rock Smith Family", by Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, L.I., 1937: (HP34)
"The Wright Family of Oyster Bay", by Howard Delano Perrine, 1923: (HP36)
New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 14, pages 93 and 179: (HP36)
Records of the First Presbytarian Church, New York: (HP36)
St. George's Church, Hempstead Records: (HP36)
Long Island Historical Society's Flushing, L.I. Records, by Frank Haviland, 1905. (HP36)
New York Historical Society's Collections, Vol 6, page 53 (HP36)
Bunker's Long Island Genealogies (HP38)
HP64:
Hempstead, L.I., Records.
N.Y. Historical Society's Collections, Abstracts of Wills, vols 6 to 12.
Oyster Bay, L.I., Records.
The History of Oyster Bay, by Henry M. Stotenburgh, 1900.
Queen's County Abstracts of Wills. -
Inscriptions in the Town Cemetery of Hempstead, L.I. by Frank Haviland.
Bunker`s Long Island Genealogies.
Benjamin F. Thompson's Long Island Genealogies.
N.Y. Genealogical & Biographical Records.
First Presbyterian Church Records, New York.
The Christian Intelligencer, Marriages performed @ the Reformed Dutch Ch.
Queensborough Library Records.
Deaths from the New York Evening Post, by Gertrude A. Barber.
St. George's Church, Hempstead, L.I. Records.
The Genealogy of George Weeks. of Dorchester, Mass., by Robert D. Weeks.
The Morrisania Census of 1800, in the N.Y. Gen & Biog Records.
Abstracts of Wills of New York County, by Ray C. Sawyer, 1938.
Genealogical & Family History of Southern N.Y. by Cuyler Reynolds, 1914.
Inscriptions in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers, by Francis P. Spies, 1927.
Register Book of the Parish of Jamaica, kept by the Rev. Thomas Poyar,
Rector of Grace Church from 1710 to 1738.
The Genealogy of Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass., by Dr. Edward Murray Poole.
American Cavalcade, a Memoir of the life and family of be Witt Clinton Poole by John Hudson Poole, Pasadena, Cal., 1959, page 15.
And from our Poole family bibles.
The Life & Times of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton, Philadelphia, 1907.
Source Copies Held:
"The Pedigree of Richard Borden", by Thomas Allen Glenn (1901) (Thomas Borden 5560)
"Underhill Genealogy," by Josephine C. Frost (extracts as Life of)
”The Frost Genealogy” Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, MY. Josephine Frost
”The Descendants of Adam Mott” of Hempstead, Edw Doubleday Harris.
”The Winslow Memorial” Vol II, David Parsons Holton.
”The Wildbores in America” by John H Wilbor.
”The Washburn Family” W.C. Sharpe.
”The Wright Family of Oyster Bay” Paper by John Latting, 1871.
”The Genealogies of Long Island” , Charles J Werner, 1919.
”The Dorland Family in America, Records of”, John Dorland Cremer, 1898.
”Robert Cole - Chart of Some Descendants” – Rootsweb
“The De Witt Family” of Ulster County, NY, Thomas G Evans, 1886.
”Brayton Family History”, Clifford Ross Brayton (2 parts), 1978.
”The history of Edward Poole of Weymouth” Murray Edward Poole, 1893.
”Wills of the Smith Families of New York & Long Island”, Pelletreau, 1898.
”Historical Collections .. of Every Town in Mass.”, John Werner Barber, 1841.
”History of Long Island”, Benjamin F Thompson, 1839.
”Long Island Genealogies”, Bunker, 1888.
”Genealogies of Long Island Families” from the NY Genealogical & Biographical Record – extracts. Hoff. ()
Contents complete
Intro to Vol I
Index to ‘C’
Corey Family
Doughty Family
Fordham Family
Hauxhurst Family
”Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society”:
Vol 1, 1867
Vol 2, 1869.
Vol 3, 1878 – The campaign of 1776 around NY.
Vol 4, 1889 – George Washington & Mount Vernon.
”Quaker records LI”
”Collections of the New York Historical Society”
Vol I 1809.
2nd Series Vol II, 1849
”Records of the Town of Jamaica Long Island, New York”, Josephine Frost
Vol II, 1914.
Vol III, 1914
Collections of the Hew York Historical Society
1809 Vol I – Henry Hudson
2nd Series Vol IL 1849
Vol XXXVIII 1905 – New York Wills Vol XIV 1786-95
The New York Genealogical & Biological Record:
Vols 1, 3,5,6,10,12,13,15,17-27, 29,30,32.34-54
New Nork Genealogical & Biog Record index 1-37
New Nork Genealogical & Biog Record index.
”Records of the Towns of North & South Hempstead”, Ed Benjamin Hicks
Vol I, 1896
Vol II, 1897
Vol IV, 1900
Vol V, 1901
Vol VI, 1892
Vol VII, 1903 (text)
Vol VIII, 1904.
“Cemetary Inscriptions from Hempstead LI”, Josephine Frost.
”History of St George’s, Hempstead”, William Moore, 1881.
”Queens County & Hempstead Papers”
Marriage Licences for the Province of New York, Gordon Tucker, 1860.
Many Poole family appear in this volume.
POOLE FAMILY HISTORY
BERT’S BEGATS
Additional information added by Antony Maitland is to be found in his other family history files: this has been left as an original with no additions or corrections
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--".
Note:
Subject 1. P1 (6/22/52)
1 - HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.
I was born on October 15/1877, at 3731 Forest Avenue, Chicago, Ill., in a house built by my father, a double brick two storied house with basement: the other half was my Aunt Nettie's, father's sister, and occupied by her until her marriage in 1882. The house faced south; on the first floor were a drawing room, dining room, and study, besides the kitchen and pantry: three bedrooms on the second floor with bath: gas-lighting and a hot air furnace in the basement: the house stood about 15 ft from the road: a backyard abutting on an alley: there was a two storied house in the back yard in which father kept chickens for for a year. Having left Chicago so young, I remember but little of it, except that it was one of the few houses on the block, the sidewalk of wood and the street not paved, though this was done while we lived there, and the block entirely built up. Michigan Avenue, two blocks East was a sight on Sunday afternoons, with sleighs streaming past in winter. Father went to the city every day by the old horse car on Indiana Avenue and when the cable cars were installed, he took us riding on the front seat on Sundays: the cars were open: the surge of the car as the cable was picked up, was thrilling. When I was five, I started at the Cottage Grove Avenue School, to which I was led on the first day by a little girl neighbor, Pearl Gilsen. I attended that school for nearly five years, but remember nothing of it but the fire drills and the excitement of the Bleine-Cleveland election. I remember spending one summer at Grandfather John Armstrong's farm at Arcola, 158 miles south of Chicago, a pleasure much diluted by mother insisting on teaching us French. I also remember mother taking me to the Theodore Thomas orchestral concerts in Chicago, which made a lasting impression on me. Mother taught me the piano: having been blessed with "absolute pitch", it came easily, and has helped me all my life. I went back to see our old house in 1915, and found it occupied by negroes, as was most of the neighbor-hood, but it still had the same kitchen range and gas fixtures: I also hunted up Pearl Gilsen: how did I ever think her
beautiful.
Six months before I was ten years old, father decided to make his future life in Japan: for two previous years, he had been in China and Japan for seven months of the year, the other five months spent in travelling around the U.S.A. taking orders for tea, leaving him with only two weeks to spend with us at Christmas. For this reason, he moved us all out to Yokohama, sold his Chicago house, and with our possessions, we went to Yokohama in April 1888. I often wonder how we children would have turned out had we remained in Chicago. We travelled out via Omaha and the Santa Fe Railway to San Francisco. As I look back, it seems that the trains, sleeping and dining cars have been changed but little, except in speed and lighting, the latter then Pintsch Gas. All went well until we arrived at San Francisco and put up at the old Palace Hotel, built around an inner courtyard, into which the carriages drove. Five days before we sailed, Chester came down with scarlet fever so he and mother had to stay behind, and followed us a month later per "Gaelic", father, Elinor and I sailed per "Oceanic", Captain Metcalf, a four masted single screw steel boat of some 3000 tons, chartered by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., from the White Star Line: she carried about 90 passengers, had oil lamps: the only lounge was an oval narrow passage around the open well of the dining saloon below. With favorable winds, square sails were set on all four masts, which kept her heeled over alarmingly. She went to Yokohama direct, in 16 days: in those days only one in every four stopped at Honolulu, which then did not belong to the U.S.A. These steamers had no refrigeration apparatus: cattle, pigs,
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sheep and chickens, were slaughtered on the foredeck, which we watched in fascinated horror. Each table in the dining saloon was presided over by a ship's officer, who served us from platters in front of them. We were lucky to have crossed on the "Oceanic" instead of some of the other boats, which had only paddle wheels instead of propellers. On rough voyages, these small steamers could not carry enough coal to get them across, and sometimes arrived in Yokohama, having had to burn a lot of the cabins and woodwork, or even to stop at the Bonin Islands to get coal. There were no docks or piers at Yokohama: passengers were landed by sampans. We stayed at the Grand Hotel for some weeks, and then moved into 89 Bluff, where we lived for thirty years: this house was destroyed by the great earthquake in 1923. It was a wood bungalow, with drawing, dining and four bedrooms: one bathroom but no running water: waterworks had been installed in the Settlement but not extended to the Bluff until ten years later. Father built a double bath house outside, all the water having to be hauled up from our 100 ft deep well. Drinking water was carried up in buckets from the settlement waterworks. We had kerosene oil lamps: gas was brought in about l900, and electric light some years later. The wall paper in the corners of the rooms was always cracked by the frequent earthquakes. All the rooms but two had fireplaces, warm enough for the mild winters in Yokohama, where it seldom went below freezing. The Bluff road wound along the top of range of hills forming the bluff for about two miles, on which the foreign houses were built - no Japanese houses. Some residents had carriages, but rickshas were the usual mode of transportation: there were ricksha stands at all roads leading up from the settlement, which were steep, necessitating "atoshi", (pushers) at 5 sen per push: rickshas to any place along the bluff cost only ten sen a ride: they used to tear down the hills at an alarming pace and spills were frequent but nobody was ever hurt. Yokohama was a lovely city, the peerless Fuji-yama, 12365 ft high, 75 miles away, dominated every view: the eastern bluff overlooked the bay. We had over a hundred small earthquakes every year, sometime doing considerable damage. In 1891, the whole of our tile roof was shaken into the garden: chimneys often fell, but no serious disaster until 1923, when the whole city was destroyed and great pieces of the bluff sloughed off into the bay. The roads were macadamized: gravel spread on once or twice a year, and left to wear down by traffic: streets were watered by hand cart. Servants were good and cheap: cook Y15, boys Y12 and amahs Y8 per month, and they fed themselves. Kitchen and the servants quarters were always outside the house. Yokohama was then a city of about 800,000, the foreigners of all nations except the Chinese numbering about 2000. The wealthier Japanese never lived on the Bluff, but on the hills to the northwest of the city, and there was but little association with them in a social way, on account of the barrier of language and different customs. The English predominated and formed the character of the city .
The English garrison had been withdrawn before our arrival and all foreigners at that time enjoyed extra-territoriality, under the laws of their respective countries, operating through their consulates: Consuls had judicial powers. This made things complicated, for any national could only be sued in his own Consular Court. The city was policed by Japanese who had to present their cases in the Consular Courts. About 1900, extra-territoriality was abolished, and all foreigners came under Japanese law. All foreign owned property was held under Perpetual Lease, granted by the Japanese Government when the port was opened in 1860-70: property tax was ridiculously low.
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Foreigners paid no other taxes to the Japanese Government, nor to their own either. The Japanese resented this relic of the old Treaty Port days, though when the agreement was made, it was very profitable to the Japanese, who in that way, segregated the foreigners into small hitherto useless sections outside their cities, thus avoiding the sanguinary clashes with truculent Daimyo parties passing through who used to cut down any foreigner in their path, a thing that happened several times, after the unwilling opening of Japan by Commodore Perry.
In 1904 the Japanese Government tried unsuccessfully to have these early treaties cancelled, by submitting the question to the Hague Court. It was not until 1936 that these treaties were finally cancelled, to take effect in 1942, but the second World Was cancelled them automatically.
Our third summer of 1891 was spent at the Tsuiya Hotel at Lake Hakone: the Dodds and James families occupied the rest of the hotel. In those days we went there by train to Kodzu, thence 8 miles by horse car to Yumoto, and were carried up over the Sata Pass by kago, to the lake. A more delightful place in Japan would be hard to find: the view over the lake to Fujiyama was superb. Hakone was very popular then for the reason that it was within the short radius of Yokohama to which foreigners were allowed to go. My first ten years in Yokohama were very pleasant: the numberless trips to Japan's loveliest cities, temples, mountain resorts etc, and the social life, sports such as rowing
swimming, sailing, bicycle riding, tennis, athletic meets, dances concerts, amateur theatricals, etc, at a time when the foreign community of Yokohama and Tokyo were at their zenith, made life very full. I remember the first murder trial in the British Consular Court: Mrs. Cerew, an English woman, poisoned her husband with arsenic: he was secretary of the Yokohama United Club. It was a thrilling experience when the Judge put on the black cap and condemned her "to be hung by the neck until she was dead, and may God have mercy on your soul". Her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment in Holloway Jail in England: she was released after serving 18 years. The case involved a lot of scandal and several important men in town had to leave the country. The Carews lived near us, and I had violin lessons for her for a few months: she was a prize pupil of Ysaye.
Yokohama harbor in those days was filled with British, American, French, German and Russian warships and even one Turkish warship, most of them wooden ships, full rigged, though the British had some new steel ships. We American boys felt bitterly that our men of war were all old wooden ships, the flagship being the "Monocacy", with side paddle wheels: how she ever got across the Pacific Ocean was a mystery - she was anchored in Yokohama for many years, seldom going out of port for a short run: she was finally sold and broken up at Shanghai. These warships used to give frequent parties on board for the foreign children of Yokohama. They were the "Marion", "Trenton", "Susquehanna" and others: when they were all sunk in the great Samoa typhoon of May 1899 we felt it very much. The first American steel wardship to come to Japan was the "Olympia" of Manila battle fame: and later the "Oregon", which looked so queer after 16 ft had been added to her funnels. Our house was always the center of the 4th July fireworks celebration, in which the British boys could not resist joining, somewhat shamefacedly, until one bright English boy discovered the British had won the Battle of Ulundi in South Africa on that date. Another thrill for Yokohama children, was to go down to the Chinatown section of the settlement, when sailors of the men of war in port would get drunk at the grog shops and have the
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the most lovely and gory battles. Another thrill was to go to the
immense fires which swept the native city, burning from one to three
hundred flimsy wooden houses at one time.
Then we arrived at Yokahama in 1888, Chester and I were sent to
the Victoria Public School at 179 Bluff, an institution founded in 1887
on the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee, with a grant from the British
Government. It was carried on in the regular English Public School
tradition, under Professor C.H.H. Hinton, a man far too good for such
youngsters of all nationalities: we were frequent caned. Hinton was
a famous mathematician, noted for his studies of the "Fourth Dimension"
who accepted the post merely to see the world: when the school was
closed, he became professor of mathematics at Princeton University and
later was with the Patent Office at Washington, D.C. The second master
was Mr. H.L. Fardel, an Alsatian: he was killed in the 1923 earthquake.
This school lasted long enough to educate Chester and myself; I
remember mother having to ask him to teach some American history: we
had been drowned in William the Conqueror 1066 &c, but in mathematics
we had lessons up to college grades, far beyond public school grades.
After arriving in Yokohama, mother had me change over from the
piano to the violin: I started under Professor Sauvalet, a German, head
of the Tokyo Academy of Music: he returned to Germany in about a year,
and from then on I was taught by Hans Ramseger, a young amateur from
Hamburg, who taught me most of what I know - a life long- friend until
he died in Kobe in 1930. Later I had lessons from Professor August
Junker, of the Tokyo Academy of Music, a former first violin of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra: then a year's teaching by Max Schluter, a
Dane, fresh from studying with Joachim. I was fortunate in taking part
in many of the concerts these men gave at the Tokyo Academy, and in
string quartet concerts. This brought me into intimate acquaintance
with so many of the world famous musicians of the day who came through
Yokohama on their concert tours. At one of these concerts, Ovide Musin,
the Belgian violinist, played the Beethoven Concerto, with piano and
our string quartet.
After the Victoria School closed father could not afford to
send Chester and I home to college, so he had us tutored in French and
Japanese, and taught shorthand and typewriting: we had of course picked
up Japanese as children, and I eventually learned to speak it almost as
well as English: I learned only 1000 characters, so cannot read and
write the language. In August 1893, when I was almost 17 years old, I
got my first position with the American Trading Co., 28 Main St.,
Yokohama, as stenographer, at Y15 per month! This was one of the great
American import and export concerns of Japan and China: four years with
them were invaluable training. During those years, in vacation tine, I
bicycled to Kobe via Nara and Kyoto, some 325 miles and from there
visited Himeji, Hiroshima then the terminus of the Sanyo Railway, and
down to Moji by steamer thence to Nagasaki and back home.
In 1898, while mother was in America, Chester and I thought
we'd like to set up housekeeping on our on, and rented a Japanese base
on Nakamura Bluff, some two miles away; we both got sick and when
mother got back she promptly brought us back home. Chester and I also
took our first trip away from home on October 10/1899, by the "Sakura
Maru" to Otaru, (via Oginohama (Matsushima) and Hakodate) thence by
rail to Sapporo, thence to Guban (? handwritten) coal mines to see the
strange Ainu at Piratori, and finally to Mucoren (?) and back to
Hakodate by fast jervy.
After four years with the American Trading Co. I had been.
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promoted to their shipping department, and was setting Yen 90 per
month: father didn't think this was enough. Mr. K.W. Frazar of Frazar &
Co., offered me a position at Yen 150 per month for the same kind of
work which I promptly accepted. A year or so after, John Lindsley, the
senior partner, came out to Yokohama and under his high moral and busi-
ness principles, I had my character formed in a way that has been of
inestimable benefit to me all my life. In 1902 he closed out his
interest in the firm, and E.W. Fraser merged it with Sale & Co., an
English firm, whose policies did not seem to as to be honorable: in
fact they were sued for sinking the "Agenor" to obtain the insurance on
a cargo of unsaleable wheat; one of their employees, Lewis, shipped as
supercargo had bored holes in her sides, but she didn't sink and
drifted ashore near Kobe: Lewis was jailed for barratry. Sale
compensated him later, and got off scot free himself.
Just at that time I had an offer to jJoin the German firm of
Moele & Co. in Tokyo, at a salary of Yen 400 per month, a considerable
advance on the Yen 225 I was then getting at Frazar & Co. Mosle & Co,
was a one man show, owned by Alexander George Mosle of Bremen, Germany,
who had a profitable business with the Japanese government, supplying
war materials and machinery from Krupp and from John Cockerill & Co.,
of Liege, Belgina, and other continental factories. Mosle offered me as
extra inducements, a three month trip to Shanghai, Chefoo, Tientsin,
Peking, Newchwang, Mukden, Dalny, Port Arthur and Harbin, the last five
cities then being under Russian control. He also promised me, after two
years service, a trip around the world, with full salary and travelling
expenses for 12 months, and also the post of Belgian Consul, a post
which I held for two years. Mosle's business was not one for which I
had any training, and I knew it was one of his personal friendships
with the Japanese government officials of those days, and would not
outlast the death of those officials, for the government was gradually
turning their orders over to the large and growing Japanese firms.
Besides, I didn't know enough French and German to conduct the
necessary correspondence in those languages but it was arranged that I
should write in English, add they would reply in their own languages,
which I could read well enough. After consultation with father and Mr.
Lindsley it was decided that I was still young enough to risk some
years in this business, besides which, the travel inducements were more
than I could resist. I finally left Frazar & Co., and next day joined
Mosle & Co. in May 1902 at his Tokyo office, Sanjikken-bori, with a
staff of four Japanese and a young German book keeper, Mr. Schmausser.
Mosle and I sailed from Yokohama in May 1902 per "Princess Irene", for
Shanghai, thence per "Tungchow' to Chefoo and Tientsin. Then by train
to Peking, Newchwang and Mukden. During the trip between Newchwang and
Mukden I had the thrill of riding on the locomotive for four hours, the
engine driver drinking steadily out of the spout of a tea kettle -– pure
whiskey. Then to Harbin, back to Dairen, across to Chefoo again, and
back to Kobe per "Sagami Maru"', a two month trip.
While I was with Mosle & Co., I lived part of the time at his
fine estate of 13,000 tsubo in Sandageya, about five miles from the
office. His house was a Japanese style house with certain foreign
conveniences, and a large garden with a lake laid out in formal
Japanese style: I never liked it very much and didn't like living
alone. So I often commuted between Tokyo and Yokohama: I figure I rode
90,000 miles this way. My being Belgian Consul didn't involve much work
- mostly writing reports for the Foreign Office in Brussels about Japan
trade possibilities. It gave me the entree to all Court functions and I
made many friends with the Japanese Ministers of Stats and the
Diplomatic Corps
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I was presented to the Empress and to several of the Princes and
Princesses before whom I played in the concerts of the Uyeno Academy of
Music. I remember one concert at which the Empress was present, in the
middle of which, word came from the Central Observatory that a big
earthquake was expected imminently. The Empress was taken home
promptly, and the concert was not completed, nor did the earthquake
happen. Mrs. Payne, Maya's aunt, who was that day to sing the beautiful
aria "Penelope's Trauer" from Max Bruch's "Odysseus", with orchestra
never got her chance, a bitter disappointment to her. We stood for
hours out in the grounds of the Academy waiting for that earthquake. I
remember another concert there during the Russo-Japanese war, when we
were giving a couple of scenes from "Faust": the Minister of Foreign
Affairs suddenly got up on the stage and announced in French, the
drastic news of the fell of Port Arthur to the Japanese: the enthusiasm
almost broke up the concert. The soloists were members of the
Diplomatic Corps, the Japanese students of the Academy making the
chorus. I attended the opening of the Osaka Exhibition as
representative of Belgium, with the Minister, Baron D'Anethan and his
wife, who was a sister of Rider Haggard. In lieu of uniform which
Americans of the diplomatic service were not allowed to wear, I had to
wear a full dress suit at 9.30 in the morning, in the broiling sun.
A few months after I took charge of Mosle & Co., Mr Mosle left
for Germany for a furlough of two years. We got some very fine orders
and did a good business. Mosle returned in October 1904, and shortly
after my 27th birthday, I sailed on my world tour per "China", on
December 15/1904, via Honolulu for San Francisco. You can imagine my
thrill at seeing my own country for the first time since I grew up: the
first thrill was at Honolulu where I had my first ice cream soda, and
rode in my first electric trolley car. At San Francisco, my first shock
was to see white men doing coolie work, and white servants at the
hotels and restaurants, and especially white women doing servants work.
The Pacific steamers had Chinese servants and Hawaiian crews. I stayed
at the new St. Francis Hotel, and attended my first theater and the
Orpheum. After visiting Los Angeles, then a straggling town with muddy
streets, I left San Francisco for Salt Lake City by the Union Pacific
Railway, and made a side trip to Lake Tahoe. There I changed to the
Denver & Rio Grande and went to Telluride to visit Halstead Lindsley
who had just started his first mining venture. Then via Colorado
Springs to Denver and on to Chicago, where I met many of my relatives,
hitherto just names to me. My Aunt Nettie (father's sister) was the
only one I knew, she having come out to Yokohama for six months in 1901
with father. I visited her and my great aunt Molly Winslow in Beloit.
Father, who had left Yokohama two months before I did, wired me from
New York to come on while he was there and could show me around. It was
the most wonderful experience of my life: he took me to all the operas
and concerts and theaters, and to see my only Poole cousins in
Brooklyn, Marion, Harold and his wife and two children, and Walter. We
stayed in New York at the Argonaut Hotel on Madison and 23rd St: the
rooms had folding beds which I had never seen before (or since). Father
certainly knew where everything interesting was in New York, and I
hardly got any sleep. I remember the approach to Grand Central was an
open cutting with tenement houses on both sides of the track: work on
the new station had already started. I had my first ride on the new
Lexington Avenue subway and have loved it ever since. Brooklyn Bridge
was amazing to me. I heard Caruso, Scotti, De Hetzky, Sembrich, Ysaye,
De Pachman and other stars. In February, father had to start back to
Japan, and I accompanied him to Chicago for a longer visit. from there,
I came East again, via Pittsburgh, Buffalo,
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where I saw my cousin Anna Maude Hoxsie and Niagara Falls, and on to
Boston. I stayed at the new Touraine Hotel: I saw the Lindsleys at
Milton. From there I went to Washington and stayed three days at the
New Willard Hotel, during the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt. The
Union Station was not yet built: we were dumped out of the train on
some mud flats and had to walk across the flats on boards for a long
distance. Then back to New York: I stayed at the new Astor Hotel on
Times Square, I didn't stay long in New York that time as it was too
expensive without father to pay my bills. I sailed for Liverpool on
April 10/1905, per "Baltic", the largest steamer I could pick out, the
voyage taking eight days: the ship was very modestly fixed up compared
to present day steamers. The voyage was very pleasant, as there were
several Japan and China friends among the passengers. From Liverpool to
London by the boat train, the lovely park like scenery different from
anything I had seen. I put up at the Victoria Hotel on Northumberland
Avenue. I had a wonderful time in London, on and off for more than
three months, seeing old retired Japan friends. I bought a 29 inch
Humber bicycle and rode it all around the south of England, in Belgium
and in France: I rode that bicycle for fifteen years after in Japan. I
went to the Cowes Regatta at the time of the Entente Cordiale
festivities, and went aboard the three masted schooner "Atlantic" which
had just won the trans-atlantic race. Then I made a trip to Edinburgh,
Inverness, down the Caledonian Canal to Oban, across Loch Lomond to the
Trossachs, and down to Glasgow and Ayr where I visited mother's
relatives, the Shaws. Then across to Belfast from Ardrossen by the fast
ferryboat "Adder", and visited the home of mother's ancestors at Cherry
Valley, Antrim, see my report under subject 12. Then down to Cavan,
Dublin and Leitrim, where I stayed with mother's cousins the Littles:
they showed the empty field where mother's house formerly stood on the
banks of the river Shannon. Then back to London, via Liverpool. I went
back and forth across the English Channel seven times, to Belgium,
France and Germany, visiting many of the factories with whom we did
business, and visited Antwerp, Ostend, Calais, Brussels, Liege, Namur,
Aix La Chapelle &c. I bicycled from Liege to Luxembourg, and down into
France as far as Pont-a-Mousson, where I inspected a large order for
Water Pipes we had sold to the Tokyo Water Works. Ten years later I was
able to visualise many of the battles of the first World War in these
sections. I visited Waterloo, and then from Cologne, took one of those
palatial steamers up the Rhine, via Coblenz, where I saw Beethoven's
house, and made a side trip up the Moselle to Trarbach, and then on to
Mainz where I left the steamer and went to Wiesbaden, finding several
Yokohama friends there. Then to Leipsig, Augsburg, Dresden and Berlin
where I saw the festivities of the wedding of Crown Princess Cecile
Then to Kiel, crossed to Copenhagen, back to Lubeck, thence to Bremen
and across the Zuidersee to Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, and back
to London. Late in July, I started back home stopping at Paris, where I
saw Faust with the marvellous ballet, a much better performance than in
Mew York, except for the high priced stars which New York was more able
to afford than Paris. Then for a month in Switzerland I bought a season
railway ticket good anywhere in Switzerland and visited every famous
resort, including a trip up the Jungfrau by the new electric railway.
Then down to Italy via the St. Gotthard Pass, stopping off at Como,
Genoa, Milan, Venice, and a side trip to Monte Carlo, where I won 20
francs at the Casino. Then to Rome, Naples, and across to Brindisi,
where I boarded the P & O steamer "Osiris" for Port Said. I transferred
there to the P & 0 steamer "China" and in September 1905 sailed for
Colombo, with regret that I had no more money or time to go to Cairo
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to see the Pyramids: however I saw them thirty years later. As soon as
I got on the "China", I felt near home again, as there were many old
Japan friends on the steamer. At Colombo, as the "China" was going on
to Australia, I transferred to the "Arcadia", via Penang and Singapore
to Hong Kong. I took side trips to Canton and Macao. from Hong Kong
I sailed per "Doric" for Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama, landing just
eleven months from the time I had left. The trip had cost me all of the
7000 Yen I had been saving up for years, and had nothing to show for it
but a bicycle and a London dress suit: the actual round trip first
class was Yen 1080, including rail across the U.S.A., and from London
to Brindisi by rail.
Shortly after returning to Yokohama, I imported my first
motor bicycle, an Ariel, single cylinder, and rode it all around the
country for years, even using it when going to parties at the embassies
in Tokyo with my swallow tails tucked into my pockets. Thanks to this
experience with this moto-bike, I had many chances to drive other
people`s new motor cars, which were just beginning to come in; the
owners seldom could drive and there were no chauffers in those days.
In 1906 Mosle wished to retire from business and live in
Germany. He sold his business to Dodwell & Co., who sent up their
employee E.J. Libeaud to work with me. Just as I had warned Dodwell
when this proposal was talked over, the business began to fall off: the
shifting of orders from the foreign firms to the Japanese companies,
increased rapidly. Many of the old English and American firms began
closing out their branches, and as I saw the handwriting on the wall,
decided to change to one of the more stable American companies, whose
business could not be absorbed by the Japanese. My preference was for
the Standard Oil Co. which had opened its own branches in the Orient
about 1900, but it was some time before I could accomplish this.
Meanwhile I had met in Tokyo, through our common interest in
music, a beautiful and charming American girl, a fine pianist who had
recently returned from studying the piano for three years. she was
Rebecca (Bessie) Nielson Ballagh, daughter of the Reverend James
Ballagh, treasurer of the Meiji Gakuin, Shirokane, Shiba, Tokyo, a
missionary school for Japanese boys and girls: her mother was from
Baltimore. Bessie was born at Tokyo on October 27/1888. We were married
at Trinity Cathedral, Tsukiji, Tokyo, on December 18/1908, by the
Reverend Bishop MoKim. For our honeymoon we went to Miyanoshita, Kyoto,
Nara and Kobe, returning per "Chiyo Maru", and set up housekeeping at
22 Bluff: in a few months we moved to 84 Bluff, across the street from
father's house. We spent that summer at Koshiba, some 8 miles down the
bay between Tomioka and Kanazawa, high on the hill overlooking Tokyo
Bay and Yakosuka. Here Bess contracted spinal meningitis and ten days
after returning home, she died on September 9/1909, less than nine
months after we were married: she was buried in the Yokohama Foreign
Cemetery. Bessie's elder sister Edna had married a few months
previously, Dr. Andrew Macfarlane of Albany N.Y., who had met her in
Berlin: she had one daughter Bessie who married young Lehman of the
Standard Oil Co., Manila branch: in 1943 both of them and their baby
were prisoners of war of the Japanese in a Manila prison camp. Edna
divorced Macfarlane in 1920 and married, 2nd, Yameni Haden, an English
engineer in New York: they had no children and as he drank she divorced
him, and still lived in New York. Bessie's two brothers, Hamilton and
Jack have both died, the former insane and the latter of some
paralysis, neither of them married.
Shortly after Bessie's death, I was transferred to the Kobe
office of Dodwell & Co., Chester also having been transferred there
about
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the same time. We lived at the Melhuishes (Dodwell's manager) for six
months while Mrs. Melhuish was in England, and then sought bachelor
quarters, separately. Late in 1910, I finally accomplished my desire to
join the Standard Oil Co. of New York, at Kobe, and in December that
year, was appointed manager of their Nagasaki office. I left Kobe on
December 1/1910 per "Empress of Japan" for Nagasaki, after a month's
training at Kobe. I replaced Sam Hepburn who then retired: he was the
son of the Reverend Dr. Hepburn who compiled the first Japanese-English
dictionary. I lived alone in batchelor quarters above the office at No
9 Bund, our staff consisting of nine Japanese, my territory being the
whole of Kyushiu and the Loochoo Islands (Okinawa). Nagasaki is the
most beautiful port in Japan, and though the foreign community was
small, the foreign settlement was separated from the Japanese city. The
presence of American men of war and transports, which like the regular
nail steamers always coaled at Nagasaki, and British, Russian and
German war ships, made life very gay, besides the wives and families of
many American Army and naval officers, came up from the Philippines to
spend the summers in the resorts around Nagasaki, Unzen, Obama &c. I
became intimate friends of General Pershing and his family, and his
aide, Major Hines, the Nagasaki quartermaster.
A month after I arrived at Nagasaki, I contracted typhoid
fever, and had to spend six weeks in the International Hospital in
Kobe, but had no complications. For travelling around Kyushiu, the
company provided me with a Buick two seated open motor car, my first
car: I drove it over 5000 miles. On one occasion, at Usuki, I was asked
by the Chief of Police to take his old mother out for a drive. She was
100 years old and was lifted into the car as she could neither stand up
or walk: this secured me all kinds of favors in the island: more than
once I was asked to drive around school playgrounds to show the pupils
what a motor oar looked like. I spent the next two years travelling
around Kyushiu, looking after the almost exclusive business of the
Standard Oil Co., for Kyushiu was rich in being the principal rice
growing part of Japan, the inhabitants remaining loyal to our Jyomatsu
(Atlantic Refining Co) brand of kerosene - the mainstay of the
business: Gasoline was merely a trickle in those days. I was fortunate
in making a good record with the company, my knowledge of the language
helped a lot, and I could live on Japanese chow. In December 1911, I
spent Christmas with Eleanor in Shanghai and enjoyed it immensely: the
Russian captain of our boat, the "Santa Maria" was roaring drunk all
the way over and we narrowly missed sinking in going up the Whang-poa
river by colliding with another steamer: the life boats on the other
ship were torn off, and our boat lost its bridge.
In January 1912, I had the most startling experience of my
life. I happened to be in Kagoshima when the long dormant volcano of
Sakura-jima erupted suddenly, with barely enough time to get the
inhabitants to the mainland. Sakura-jima was an island about 4 miles in
diameter, situated in the middle of Kagoshima Bay, a mile or so from
the mainland on the Kagoshima side and less than a mile on the other.
The cone rises in a beautiful sweep to a height of 4400 ft. The
eruption started at 2 P.M. on a lovely sunny day (there is never snow
in Kagoshima), with a burst of steam and smoke, from a new crater some
500 ft below the summit. At 7 P.M. came the big earthquake which
levelled most of the city. It broke the inlet pipe of our 35 ft tank,
the kerosene ran out, sank into the sand, not 500 ft from the shore:
many months later our New York office instructed us to dig a well under
the tank: most of the kerosene was floating on the subsoil water
seeping in from the bay, and we recovered most of it, good enough to
use in motor fishing boat engines. I ran
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out of the city that night with most of the other 70,000 inhabitants,
and slept in a straw hut at a distant railway switch, put up to keep
switchmen dry in rainy weather. The wind, during the eruption, was away
from the city, but next morning I was covered with three inches of fine
dust. All night the sky was brilliant with flames from the volcano, and
all next day I sat on the sea wall and watched enormous rocks hurled up
into the sky and falling in a wide arc into the sea, marking splendid
bursts of steam and noise. The country was covered with ashes for 20
miles around, the railways blocked, no electric light, the water flumes
having been choked with ashes. Several nights I had to go back to my
straw hut, for most of the houses had been destroyed and those still
standing were too shaky to be safe in the recurring small shakes. The
lava from the crater ran down the mountain very slowly, in two streams,
as I saw later, about 150 ft wide and about 100 ft thick. It took three
weeks for the lava to reach the sea, and it eventually completely
filled the channel between the island and the east shore of the bay,
and made a spur of the mountain 100 ft above sea level!! The channel
before the eruption had been 200 ft deep. Everything on the island was
destroyed, the tree tops just showing above the ashes. Several months
later, when the lava had cooled, I crossed to the island to see the
destruction. Being the one of the only two foreigners who had seen the
eruption, my description of 1000 words was cabled by the Associated
Press to London and New York papers: I had many letters from friends in
America who had read my account.
It was about this time that the news of the sinking of the
"Titanic" was received in Japan, and I remember the shook it gave
everyone to hear of the great loss of life, including several Japan
people. In June 1912 I made an interesting trip to the Loochoo Islands,
(Okinawa) sailing from Kagoshima per "Keijo Mara", a two day trip, and
back by the "Satsuma Maru", an alarming old crock, built in Stettin,
Germany in 1871! The Loochoos are a fairy like set of islands, much
coral, the natives speaking a Polynesian dialect. These islands had
long been in disputed possession of both the Chinese and Japanese, the
King's palace had two entrances, the north one for the Japanese, and
the south for the Chinese who came from Formosa. There was only one
lone America missionary there.
In January 1912, shortly after the Kagoshima volcano
experience, I made a trip to Miyajima in the Inland sea to meet Mrs.
Lindsley and Maya, who were on the way back from a trip to Seoul: we
had a lovely three days together. In the autumn of 1912, mother spent
several months with me at Nagasaki on her return from a visit to
Eleanor at Shanghai.
In 1915 I was transferred from Nagasaki to Kobe, as assistant
manager, and covered that territory as well as Kyushiu. I lived in
rooms above Cabeldu & Co., at 16 Naniwa-dori, and messed at the Club or
the Oriental Hotel. We started a fine amateur orchestra and gave many
concerts and oratorios, Hugh Horne, the British Consul, conducting.
During the summer of 1913 vacation, I took my small yacht by steamer to
Moji and sailed back through the Inland Sea to Kobe, a fairy land for
sailing, some 300 miles, staying ashore at tea houses unless becalmed
far from shore. In February 1914, I made a trip from Kobe to Manila,
via Shanghai and back via Hong Kong, going down on the "Korea" and back
by the "Empress of Asia". I had saved up my summer vacation for this
trip, as February was the time of the Manila carnival and the Hong Kong
races. It was a splendid trip. In 1914, at the outbreak of the first
World-War, I happened to be at Nagasaki, and will never forget the
Sunday we spent at Sanbonmatsu, where the Great Northern Telegraph Co's
cables came ashore from Shanghai and Vladivostok - all cables at this
time were in
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the hands of this Danish monopoly. As the fateful messages came through, those which were in plain English, German or French were read off to us by the operators. Aage Jordan was the head of this cable company, two of his sons being employed by the Standard Oil Co. During my three years at Nagasaki, I made a great friend, Mr. Rospopoff, the Russian Consul, a marvellous pianist, pupil of Anton Rubenstein, with whom I had many delightful musical evenings: a fierce looking black bearded man from Yalta who had brought out a "niece": he afterwards married her. She was forty years younger than him and later ran away with a dashing young Russian naval officer.
In 1915, after five years service with the company I got my first leave, and on June 15/1915, sailed from Yokohama per "Korea", for San-Francisco via Honolulu: Chester got his leave at the same time, and we went together as far as San Francisco, where he left me as he had to go straight through to London. We saw the San Francisco Exhibition together. On the way east, I stopped off at Ogden, and made a three day trip through the Yellowstone Park - a marvellous sight. Then on to Chicago for a few days, seeing my relatives again after a lapse of ten years. Then to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, also a wonderful sight. Then on to Weston, were Maya and I were married at their home 240 Adams St., Milton, on September 25/1915 by the Reverend Stebbins on a lovely autumn afternoon, with crowds of friends around us. Maya was born at 118-A Bluff, Yokohama, on December 25/1884. (For her life, see the Lindsley Genealogy). For our honeymoon, we left that afternoon by train for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the next day going on to Mount Washington, Bretton Woods, returning to Milton a week later. We had planned to go to the Thousand Islands, but it was closed for the winter. After a few weeks at the Belmont Hotel in New York, we left for Japan via Chicago, where my aunts Mollie and Nettie came down from Beloit to see us at the Auditorium Hotel. Then by the Santa Fe railway to the Grand Canyon for a couple of days, and to Yosemite Park for another couple of days. We sailed from San Francisco, per "Shinyo-Maru" on November 20th, via Honolulu, arriving at Kobe December 9/1915. After a few days at the Tor Hotel, we rented "Holydike", a new house high on the hill at Kitano-cho 4 chome, but after a few months, moved next door above to the Zublin house at Sanbonmatsu, while the owners were in Switzerland on six months leave. After that we moved to Mrs. Lightfoot's house on the hill behind the Tor Hotel, 60 Kitano-cho, 4 chome, "Inari-no-shita", a Japanese style foreign house, nestling under the Inari shrine with a magnificent view over Kobe harbor. Both our children John and Eleanor were born here. Maya accompanied me on many business trips before John was born in a small 2 cylinder, two seated "Swift" English car which the company bought for me. I also had a 25 ft motor boat which I named the "Maya-san", but motor boating didn't suit Maya so I sold it. Mrs. Lindsley had given us a Buick for a wedding present but due to the high freights during the war we couldn't afford to bring it to Japan and only used it for a few trips between Boston and New York. Mrs. Lindsley came out to visit us just before John was born, and stayed until Eleanor was born. In January 1916, Maya accompanied me to Moji on the "Atsuta-Maru", and we had the excitement of grounding in Moji harbor at high tide. As the tide ran out, the steamer heeled alarmingly and some Catholic nuns on board made a harrowing scene praying and wailing: it wasn't the least dangerous for the boat was resting safely on the bottom.
In September 1917, another mile stone occurred in my life. Mr. Howard E. Cole, our New York director, while in Shanghai, wired me
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the hands of this Danish monopoly. As the fateful messages came
through, those which were in plain English, German or French were read
off to us by the operators. Aage Jordan was the head of this cable
company, two of his sons being employed by the Standard Oil Co. During
my three years at Nagasaki, I made a great friend, Mr. Rospopoff, the
Russian Consul, a marvellous pianist, pupil of Anton Rubenstein, with
whom I had many delightful musical evenings: a fierce looking black
bearded man from Yalta who had brought out a "niece": he afterwards
married her. She was forty years younger than him and later ran away
with a dashing young Russian naval officer.
In 1915, after five years service with the company I got my
first leave, and on June 15/1915, sailed from Yokohama per "Korea", for
San-Francisco via Honolulu: Chester got his leave at the same time, and
we went together as far as San Francisco, where he left me as he had to
go straight through to London. We saw the San Francisco Exhibition
together. On the way east, I stopped off at Ogden, and made a three day
trip through the Yellowstone Park - a marvellous sight. Then on to
Chicago for a few days, seeing my relatives again after a lapse of ten
years. Then to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, also a wonderful sight.
Then on to Weston, were Maya and I were married at their home 240 Adams
St., Milton, on September 25/1915 by the Reverend Stebbins on a lovely
autumn afternoon, with crowds of friends around us. Maya was born at
118-A Bluff, Yokohama, on December 25/1884. (For her life, see the
Lindsley Genealogy). For our honeymoon, we left that afternoon by train
for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the next day going on to Mount
Washington, Bretton Woods, returning to Milton a week later. We had
planned to go to the Thousand Islands, but it was closed for the
winter. After a few weeks at the Belmont Hotel in New York, we left for
Japan via Chicago, where my aunts Mollie and Nettie came down from
Beloit to see us at the Auditorium Hotel. Then by the Santa Fe railway
to the Grand Canyon for a couple of days, and to Yosemite Park for
another couple of days. We sailed from San Francisco, per "Shinyo-Maru"
on November 20th, via Honolulu, arriving at Kobe December 9/1915. After
a few days at the Tor Hotel, we rented "Holydike", a new house high on
the hill at Kitano-cho 4 chome, but after a few months, moved next door
above to the Zublin house at Sanbonmatsu, while the owners were in
Switzerland on six months leave. After that we moved to Mrs.
Lightfoot's house on the hill behind the Tor Hotel, 60 Kitano-cho, 4
chome, "Inari-no-shita", a Japanese style foreign house, nestling under
the Inari shrine with a magnificent view over Kobe harbor. Both our
children John and Eleanor were born here. Maya accompanied me on many
business trips before John was born in a small 2 cylinder, two seated
"Swift" English car which the company bought for me. I also had a 25 ft
motor boat which I named the "Maya-san", but motor boating didn't suit
Maya so I sold it. Mrs. Lindsley had given us a Buick for a wedding
present but due to the high freights during the war we couldn't afford
to bring it to Japan and only used it for a few trips between Boston
and New York. Mrs. Lindsley came out to visit us just before John was
born, and stayed until Eleanor was born. In January 1916, Maya
accompanied me to Moji on the "Atsuta-Maru", and we had the excitement
of grounding in Moji harbor at high tide. As the tide ran out, the
steamer heeled alarmingly and some Catholic nuns on board made a
harrowing scene praying and wailing: it wasn't the least dangerous for
the boat was resting safely on the bottom.
In September 1917, another mile stone occurred in my life.
Mr. Howard E. Cole, our New York director, while in Shanghai, wired me
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to go to Shanghai: he instructed me to make an inspection trip through
Manchuria. I sailed from Kobe for Shanghai per "Yamashiro Maru", thence
to Dairen per "Sakaki Maru", thence to Newchwang, which was then our
head office in Manchuria. I had a most interesting trip for two months,
visiting Mukden, Antung, Changchun, Kirin, and Harbin, just fifteen
years since I had been there with Mr. Mosle, but now the country was
under the Japanese, with the Russians holding only the part north of
Changchun. Manchuria had developed enormously under the Japanese:
Newchwang had given place to Dairen as the principal export place, and
Mukden the central administrative city. I returned to Kobe through
Korea in time for Christmas. In my report to Mr. Cole, I recommended
shifting our Newchwang office to Mukden, but for almost a year, heard
nothing further and we continued to live in Kobe. In October 1916, I
was notified of my transfer to the North China Division and was
appointed manager for Manchuria in Mukden. Leaving Maya and the
ohildren in Kobe, I sailed for Shanghai per "Takeshinia Maru", and
after a month's training there, went up to Dairen per "Kobe Maru",
opened the office at Mukden and found a house for us to live in. I
returned to Kobe through Korea, and after packing up our things, we all
spent Christmas in Yokohama at Everett Frazar's house, 118 Bluff. In
January 1919 we went to Mukden, sailing from Kobe per "Harbin Maru" for
Dairen. We were soon installed in our new home, a new two storied brick
house belonging to the Scotch-Presbyterian Mission at Wen-wha-shu-yen,
just outside the outer mud wall of the Chinese city, and half way
between that and the Japanese railway town, in the so-called
International Settlement. It was 30 F. below zero, but the house had
steam heat, the winter days always sunny and bright with very little
snow. The house had just been built for the Port Doctor, but never
occupied, as he had gone back to England to serve in the war. It had
only one bath room, entirely empty and no sanitary conveniences. No
waterworks in this section, but I installed a couple of zinc sheet
tanks, one with a small coal oven in it, and with a bathtub from
Shanghai, everything was soon comfortable. Water had to be carried
in buckets from a native well nearby, and the bath water spouted out
from the second story into the yard where it made a big glacier until
warm weather melted it. We had to bring drinking water from the
Japanese city (they had waterworks) in 5 gallon demijohns. The sudden
change in our lives from modern Japan to the primitive facilities in
North China was something to tax one's capabilities, besides wrestling
with a new language and Chinese servants. The children took to the
Chinese easily, promptly forgot what Japanese they knew, and learned
Chinese equally rapidly, especially John, who spoke with the full gamut
of Chinese tones. We brought up from Shanghai, a half Chinese-half
Portugese nurse for the children, Amy Rozario, who spoke both Mandarin
and Shanghai dialects. Mukden was in the center of a vast plain
through which ran the Liao River, 25 miles to the west of Mukden: the
climate was bracing. The dust storms in the winter months were a great
trial, everything being covered with fine brown dust, except when the
wind was from the Gobe Desert, 1000 miles to the west of us: the dust
would then be white and the sun blotted out. Molly was born that year
in July in this mission house: within twelve months we moved into the
new company compound, containing our office, our house, and four others
for the foreign staff, all of red brick and steam heated, and with our
own 360 ft deep well and electric pumping installation. I had a staff
of ten foreigners, mostly American, and some 100 Chinese and two
Japanese. There were five branch offices, at Dairen, Antung,
Changchun, Kirin and Harbin. The business went very well, in spite of
the difficulties of selling in eight different
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currencies, Taels, Silver Dollars, Roubles, Gold and Silver Yen, Kirin
Gighei notes, and Mukden dollars of 100 copper cents, the latter worth
anywhere from 150 to 250 copper cents per Chinese Silver Dollar.
Maya became an exchange expert too, buying our supplies in three
currencies, according to which was cheapest at the day's exchange rate.
My salary increased rapidly, and with a free house, free motor, and
other perquisites, we saved a lot of money in those wonderful years.
The native walled city, the beautiful Ming tombs at Pehling, 10 miles
out of the city beyond the enormous centuries old grave yards, and the
numerous short trips we made with the children to the mountain temples,
made life very pleasant and novel. One temple with over 100 ferocious
idols, fascinated and scared the children. The community numbered some
200 foreigners of all nationalities, centring around the club which had
five tennis courts, flooded in winter for skating. We had an unique
Golf Course of nine holes, among the graves at Pehling, one of the
rules being that no penalty was exacted if one's ball fell into an open
grave. These graves were the breeding places of countless marmots, the
source of some of the mink fur coats sold in the U.S.A. These marmots,
all covered with fleas, were the cause of the great Bubonic Plague
which killed over 40,000 Chinese in 1911. Our house had a lovely garden
and a bathing pool for the children to play in, and ten servants. I
imported an Oakland car in which we drove all around the country over
plain mud roads, not further than ten miles from the city: the roads
didn't go any where. The local famous Chinese Governor, Cheng Tso Lin
and his son Chang Hsueh Liang were very hospitable and often gave
dinners at his Yamen. On his 50th birthday, Chang gave a week's
celebration. We foreigners entertained Chang at the Club on the
occasion of the visit of the American Ambassador at Peking, Dr.
Schurman, when I was president of the American Association. During
those years we entertained many visitors, among them Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, Jane Addams, the whole John D. Rockefeller Jr, and his wife
and daughter Abby.
In December 1920, five years after my last furlough, I was
granted five months leave, and we all left for Shanghai by rail, via
Tientsin, Peking, Nanking &c, and sailed from Shanghai per "Korea
Maru", via Honolulu for San Francisco, a 27 day voyage. Molly learned
to walk on this steamer. We brought along Molly's Chinese amah, Li Bai
Feng, and went east by the Southern Pacific route, stopping off a week
at Carmel, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. We arrived at
Boston on January 25/1921, and after a few days at the Bellevue Hotel,
went into a house at 11 Gloucester Street, Boston, which Mrs. Lindsley
had rented for us, as she was then living in Peterboro, N.H. In
February I started back on a fine trip through Washington, Richmond,
Norfolk, Belhaven, N.C., Palm Beach, Miami and Key West, crossing by
steamer to Havana, thence by United Fruit steamer "Metapan" to Port
Limon in Costa Rica, up to San Jose by rail, then to Bocas del Toro,
and to Christobal, Panama. I took the train alongside the canal to
Panama City on the Pacific side, and back to Colon. Then per "Sixacla"
to Cartagena, Puerto Columbia, Baraquilla, Santa Marta (in Columbia),
Kingston, Jamaica, and back to New York - a three weeks trip. Two
months later, David was born at 11 Gloucester St. Ten days before his
birth, our Chinese amah astounded us by saying she was going to have a
baby immediately: with her Chinese clothes it was not noticeable. We
had to hustle around to find a place for her, and luckily located a
Chinese doctor practising in Boston among the Chinese students at the
various colleges. Dr. Cheng not only looked after her but also arranged
to dispose of her baby girl to a Chinaman in Boston with an Irish wife
but no children. The amah
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had never said anything to us about her condition, and didn't intend
keep the baby as she said her husband in Newchwang would kill her on
her return, as the baby wasn't his, but by our Chinese cook in Mukden.
My furlough was up shortly after so I had to return to China. I left
five days after David was born on May 15th, via Chicago, and sailed
from San Francisco per "Golden State", later renamed "President
Cleveland", via Honolulu to Shanghai, thence per "Sakaki Maru" to
Dairen and Mukden. After I left, Maya and the children moved up to
Mrs. Lindsley's place at Peterboro and stayed all summer, returning to
Mukden in October, sailing from San Francisco to Dairen per "Siberia
Maru", via Honolulu and Japan ports. Maya brought out with her a
Governess for the children, Miss Molly Proctor, who stayed for nearly
three years with us in Mukden. We lived there the next three years,
and took many interesting trips to Peking, Shanhaikwan, Peitaiho and
Hoshi-ga-ura near Dairen, and a couple of trips to Shanghai. The
children were always good travellers: they spent one of those summers
in Karuizawa.
In September 1924, I again got furlough, and we all left
Mukden for the last time, by rail through Korea, stopping off at Seoul,
and sailed from Kobe per "President Cleveland" on October 2/1924 for
San Francisco, via Honolulu: father also made this voyage with us, but
we left him in San Francisco, and went on to Boston by the Union
Pacific railway, via Salt Lake City and Chicago, and went straight up
to Mrs. Lindsley's place in Peterboro, where we spent the winter. We
left Peterboro in February, via New York and New Orleans, through the
Imperial Valley to San Diago where we stayed a week: then sailed from
San Francisco per "President Taft" for Shanghai. On both the way home
and out, we were able to see the terrible devastation in Yokohama of
the great earthquake of September 1/1923: all the Lindsley houses on
The Bluff and in the settlement were entirely destroyed.
The company had notified me that after returning from Boston,
I was to be stationed at Shanghai on the Marketing Board. We stayed for
week or two at the Astor Hotel and then moved to N.G. Maitland's house
at 25 Ferry Road, while my sister Eleanor was in England. After her
return we moved into a splendid house on Edinburgh Road, while the
owner was in England on six months furlough: we then moved to a house
on Yu Yuen Road for two years. The children attended the Shanghai
American School, established by American businessmen and missionaries,
of which I acted as treasurer for two years. The family spent the
summer of 1925 in Karuizawa, going over by the "Korea Maru", and
returning by the "Nagasaki Maru": I went over to fetch than and had ten
days with them. During my years in Shanghai I made many interesting
business trips up country: the first was by rail to Chinkiang on the
Yangtze river, and thence in the comfortable motor launch of the
company, up the Grand Canal to Tsingpiangpu, stopping at Yangchow,
where Marco Polo lived for three years in the year 1280, at that time
on the bank of the Yangtze, but now 40 miles inland. The Grand Canal is
not more than 100 ft wide except where it passes through several lakes,
and is a remarkable waterway 600 miles long, carrying an enormous junk
traffic, towed along the banks by coolies. I travelled through Nanking,
Wuhu, and Kiukiang territories, going up to the mountain resort of
Kuling from Kiukiang. The many fine pagodas along the Yangtze are very
beautiful, 7 to 11 stories high. Also through Hankow territory and in
to the Poyang Lake as far as Nanchang. The finest trip of all, was from
Hangchow to Ichang by steamer, 4 days, and thence through the Gorges
per "King Wo" to Chungking, taking four days, as the steamers only run
in the day time. This remarkable Upper Yangtze river has terrific
variations in level at different seasons.
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At Kweichowfu, not quite half way through the gorges, the high water is
135 ft; above the winter low water level. It is interesting to see the
cargo junks towed up the river from different levels cut out of the
face of the cliffs, according to the different levels of the river, by
one or two hundred collies, always naked, chanting curious songs. It
takes the high powered steamers, limited in length to 105 ft to get
around sharp corners, and capable of 16 knots, over half an hour to go
through some of the worst gorges, not more than a quarter of a mile
long, running under forced draft, flames streaming from their funnels.
We had a lot of Chinese baggage piled around the funnels on deck, and
it caught fire from the red hot metal. When I landed at the gate of our
Chungking installation in June, I stepped off the boat at the front
gate of our compound, but by the time I started back home, I had to
walk down a flight of 150 steps to the boat. Chungking is high on the
north bank of the river, the streets narrow and hilly, without wheel
traffic, transportation being by sedan chairs with long poles,
delightfully springy to ride in. Our company residences were high up on
the second range of hills on the south bank of the river, and twice
daily we were carried in chairs for the 45 minute trip, through miles
of graves and around terrifying precipices, from Chungking I took
another steamer for four more days up the river to Suifu, where
navigation on the Yangtze ceases, over 1600 miles from Shanghai. People
going on to Cheng-tu, ascend the Min river by motor boat or junk, which
puts one not far from the border of Thibet. The greet monastery of O-
mai-shan is there, but I did not get a chance to go to it. One sees
many corpses and dead animals floating in the Yangtze, and our water
supply was scooped up out of the river, settled in big earthen jars,
cleared by stirring alum in it, and then boiled: it takes a little time
to get used to this, but never seems to hurt anyone. The fields along
the upper river are beautiful in poppy time, from which opium is made.
The upper river steamers all have armored wheel houses, into which we
scurried when the siren signalled soldiers on the shore, who shoot at
the steamers for fun: I picked several bullets out of the woodwork in
my cabin to send Maya. Steamers, though carrying armed guards, are not
allowed by treaty to return the fire. They stop for the night at safe
places out of the swift current. In March 1927 we had just moved into a
house on Avenue Foch, when the Shanghai riots occurred, with many
killed in the attack on the Lao-za Police Station. Most of the Shanghai
residents moved their families away and I thought it best to send Maya
and the children to Kobe for a time, where they stayed at the Tor
Hotel. Fortunately, the company, in April, transferred me back to
Japan, our head office then being in Kobe, since the destruction of our
Yokohama office in the earthquake.
I therefore sailed for Kobe on the "President Taft" I was
appointed Assistant General Manager at Kobe, and we lived at the Tor
Hotel until June, when we moved to Shioya, a suburb at the entrance of
the Inland sea, 15 miles west of Kobe, in a house built by a Frenchman
Mr. Saliege, high up on the hill, with a magnificent view of the
Straits of Awaji. We moved back to Kobe in December 1927, to our old
house at Inari no shita: meanwhile the children had been attending the
Canadian Academy, commuting daily by train all by themselves. In June
1928, the new company offices and residences had been completed in
Yokohama, all built of reinforced cement concrete. Our new house was at
Negishi, 3 miles from the city, on a 200 ft cliff overlooking that part
of Tokyo Bay named Mississippi Bay by Commodore Perry in 1854, near the
Race course The company built our house to my design.
My next furlough was then granted, and after packing our
furniture to be shipped to Yokohama, we booked passage by the P & 0
steamer
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"Ranpura" from Kobe for Marseilles, to sail in June 1928. Just a few
days before sailing, our New York office wired me to await the arrival
of our director, Howard E. Cole, so Maya and the children had to go off
alone on the "Ranpura": This was very disturbing to our plans but it
couldn't be helped. It was an educational trip for the children: they
visited Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Columbo and Bombay, where they
saw the "Towers of Silence", the Parsee Cemetery, in which the bodies
are laid on stone slabs to be eaten by the vultures: the via Port Said,
Naples, Marseilles, Paris, and thence to Flims, Switzerland where they
spent the summer at the Waldhaus Hotel. After Mr. Cole's business had
been completed in Yokohama, I left on August 8th to join the family at
Flims. I went by train through Korea and Manchuria to Harbin, changing
there into the Siberian Railway train for Moscow, an eight day trip,
passing through Manchouli, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk,
Sverdlovsk &c. I spent three days in Moscow, seeing the Kremlin and
other sights, then on to Warsaw and Berlin, where I took the train for
Munich and Chur in Switzerland. I arrived at Flims not many days after
the family had reached there, as their voyage took 45 days. We spent
the whole summer there, making several trips to the Engadine, St.
Moritz, &c. I had to start back to Yokohama, so in September, Maya
accompanied me to London, leaving the children with Mrs. Lindsley at
Flims. We stopped at Villars-sur-Bex above Lake Geneva to look at the
place where the family intended to stay till December, to give the
children the benefit of the pure Swiss mountain air. Maya and I had a
pleasant time at Paris and visited my sister Eleanor and her family at
West Byfleet. Maya then went back to Flims, while I sailed in
September per "Leviathan" for New York, then per "President Cleveland"
from San Francisco, arriving at Yokohama late in November. I unpacked
furniture and fired up the new house for Maya's arrival. The children
attended the Alpine College at Villars, and then they all left for
London, spending Christmas at Fleming's Hotel on Half-Moon Street.
While they were at Villars, Mrs. Lindsley's faithful Japanese servant,
Tomi-san, died of a heart attack: he was cremated and his ashes posted
to me in Yokohama to turn over to his family: he had been with the
Lindsleys for fifty years. The family came on to New York by the
"Berengaria", and went to stay at Halstead's house in Lenox, Mass. For
four months: the children studied at the Lenox Academy. In April 1929
they all came out to Yokohama, sailing from San Francisco per
"President Pierce". For the next year or so the children attended the
Tokyo American School commuting daily from Yokohama to Meguro. In July
1929 we brought out from Milton, Mr. William L. Cobb, to tutor John for
the Milton Academy: he stayed a year with us. They spent that summer at
Karuizawa, and took many trips up country, to Miyanoshita and Kusatsu,
the leper colony: the hot springs there were a favorite cure for
lepers, both rich and poor. John was fascinated in talking with people
whose fingers had dropped off and whose noses had fallen in. When I
was stationed in Nagasaki, our agents were a very rich family, all
lepers, (not very far advanced as yet) and I used to squirm when they
called: it is not a very contagious disease: lepers are not segregated
in Japan though there are sanatoriums if they wish to go there. In
1930, we decided to send the children home to Milton, so that John and
Eleanor could enter Milton Academy in the September term: I hoped to
join them in a year or so if the company would allow me to retire. Maya
and the children sailed from Yokohama in August 1930 on the maiden
voyage of the "Empress of Japan", via Vancouver, and on arrival at
Milton, lived
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with Mrs. Lindsley at 302 Adams St., John entering the Academy in Sept-
ember. They spent Thanksgiving with Halstead at Lenor, and Christmas in
Peterboro. In June 1931, the company was still refusing to let me
retire, so Maya brought the whole family out again to Yokohama, via
Vancouver per "Empress of Asia": the children again attended the Tokyo
American School,
In 1932 I received notice that I would be allowed to retire in
January 1933: the company allowed their foreign staff to retire at the
age of 55, instead of 65 as was the case with employees in the U.S.A.
On this account, Maya and the children started back to Milton in August
1932: they sailed via Suez, per "President Pierce" and had another
chance to visit Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Columbo,
Bombay: they left the steamer at Suez, and motored to Cairo to see the
Pyramids, reembarking at Alexandria for Italian and French
Mediterranean ports and via Gibraltar to New York. On arrival at Milton
they again lived with Mrs. Lindsley at 302 Adams St. I finally left
Japan for good on January 12/1933, 44 years after I had first arrived
there. I sailed from Kobe per "President Garfield", via Suez: I took
this route in order to bring our 105 cases of furniture and effects,
direct to Boston without transhipment, and also our two fox terriers. I
stopped off at Cairo to see the Pyramids which I had missed in 1905.
Then by the same boat to Naples. Maya had come over to meet me there on
the Italian line steamer "Augustus", via Tangiers, Madeira Islands and
Gibraltar. Her steamer had arrived at Naples just two hours before
mine. I left the fox terriers on board and cabled Chester to meet them
and keep them till we returned. Maya and I had a wonderful trip
together, visiting Rome, Perugia, to Genoa. Here the 1932-3 depression
struck us, and we had the alarming experience of being unable to cash
our travellers cheques, nor could I draw on my letter of credit.
Fortunately I had enough cash to get to Paris, where Maya and I spent
three days trying to get the branches of the National City Bank and the
Bankers Trust, to cash their cheques: eventually they gave me enough to
get to London and the storm blew itself out. We stayed at the Langham
Hotel for a happy two weeks, seeing Eleanor and her family at West
Byfleet. Maya and I sailed from Liverpool per "Scythia" to Boston
direct - a very rough voyage: John was at the pier to meet us. We lived
at 302 Adams Street until September 1st, when we rented the beautiful
estate of Ernest Howditch at 366 Adams St., Milton, the house having
been designed and built by Stanford White in grounds of 16 acres. We
lived there eight years. I found it very pleasant to be retired and had
lots of time to garden, and to work on the Poole and Lindsley
genealogies: this was a hobby which I had been interested in since I
was 19 years old, at which tine father showed me what data he had of
the Poole family. The summers of 1934 and 1935, were spent at Mrs.
Armstrong's Camp Deephaven at Lake Squam, the children enjoying the
boating and swimming vary much. Chester's family spent the latter
summer with us there. In March 1936, the whole family sailed from New
York per "Queen of Bermuda", and came back on the same boat: this gave
the children a lift over the Easter Holidays at the Princess Hotel. We
went there again the next three years, the last time spending the whole
summer at Walden Gate, across from Hamilton, in Mr. Holbrook's house,
Father being a Republican, I cast my first vote for London as
President - the second time for Wilkie: both were defeated. Maya being
a staunch Democrat like her father, always voted opposite to me.
In 1935 John graduated from Milton and entered Harvard University where
he graduated in 1940.
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In May 1936, I made a three months trip with Halstead, to
Europe, sailing from New York per "Normandie" for Le Havre, landing
there May 17th, and motored in Halstead's Lincoln car through Rouen,
Paris, Geneva, Basle, Interlaken, Chur, St. Moritz, Chiavenna,
Bellagio, Bergamo, Brescia and Padua to Venice. It was most interesting
to revisit these towns, most of which I had visited 50 years before.
Then on through Cortina, Innsbruck, Garmich, Oberammergau, Munich, and
Chur to Marienbad, where Halstead annually took a cure under Dr.
Porges: I, too, took a kind of cure and put on 10 lbs. Halstead and I
separated there, he going back to London, while I took the train to
Pilsen, Prague, Leipzig and Berlin to Hamburg, Brussels, Cologne to
London, where I stayed two weeks with my sister Eleanor at West
Byfleet, and returned to New York by the "Queen Mary", late in July.
In January 1937 I made an interesting trip, sailing from
Boston per "Lady Drake", via Bermuda to St. Kitts, Montserrat, Antigua,
Dominica, Barbadoes, St. Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad and on to Demerara in
British Guiana. Back to Boston by the same boat, touching the same
ports, the whole trip taking 20 days. The family spent the summer 1938
in Bermuda, where they rented "Widrington", the home of George
Butterfield at Pitts Bay.
In November 1938, I made another interesting trip to Porto
Rico, sailing from New York per "Borinquen" for San Juan, going on the
same night to Domingo where we landed next morning at Trujillo and
drove around the country: back to San Juan for two days, then took the
"Catherine" for the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix, which had
particular interest for me, for it was at St. Croix that mother's
Armstrong ancestors had lived for so many years in the 1700-1800s, see
full account of this trip under subject 24, page 14. Returning to
Porto Rico I took a delightful motor trip through the island to Ponce
on the south coast. Then back to New York by the next trip of the
"Borinquan", arriving in Boston before Christmas.
We made our first trip to Palm Beach at Easter 1937, with all
the children, and again at Christmas of that year, staying at the
Breakers about a week each time. No, I'm wrong: Easter 1937 we spent at
the Honey-Plaza Hotel, Miami. In February 1939, while the children at
were in school at Milton, Maya and I made a trip down the west coast of
Florida to Naples, and across the Tamiami Trail to Miami, and came to
the conclusion that Palm Beach was the ideal spot for winter vacations.
In November 1939 I made a trip to Washington, Chicago, Saginaw, Detroit
and Buffalo, renewing my acquaintance with my Armstrong cousins in
Chicago and with cousin Maude Hoxie in Buffalo. The winter of 1940-1,
we spent at Lotus Cottage, Palm Beach: 1941-2 at Sandrift Cottage, and
1942-3 again at Lotus Cottage. These winters we simply locked up our
Milton house, gave the keys to the Milton Police to keep an eye on it.
Maya, John and Eleanor drove our car down and back in two of those
winters, while I travelled by train with the luggage and the dogs. In
November 1941 my prostate was removed by Dr. Edward Young and spent
five pleasant weeks at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston.
In the spring of 1941, the trustees of the Bowditch estate
at 366 Adams St., notified us that they had sold the estate to the
Catholics for a Parochial School: Mrs. Lindsley was 85 years old and
living with us. Maya bought our present house at 1250 Canton Avenue,
Milton, four miles west of Adams Street, and we moved in September 1st.
To avoid the confusion in getting settled, Mrs. Lindsley had gone up to
Peterboro with Thayer and her brother Clarence: she died there on
September 25th.
The second World War soon broke out, and one by one, our
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servants left us to take other better paying war jobs, and we have since done our own house work, something our training in the Orient did not fit us for. In the winter of 1944-5, we rented the Stuyvesant Pierpont house "Keywaydin" on Sunset Avenue, Palm Beach. The next few years we made a few trips to New York, but mostly staying quietly at home. In 1947 in November, we went to Bermuda and rented the Lightbourn house "Overlook" in Paget for six months. Maya, Eleanor and her baby George flew by plane while I followed by the "Amherst" with the luggage and our dog Brownie. Bermuda is really too cold and windy in winter. John flew up from Miami for Christmas, and Molly and George Lenci came down in March for five weeks. I'm afraid we are a restless family, and we all miss the former pleasant trips back and forth across the Pacific to the Orient. My one regret is that I have never been south of the Equator. We returned to Milton on May 24/1948, with Eleanor and George, by the "Lady Nelson" and stayed at 1250 all summer. John came up from Miami in July and had his tonsils out, and sinus enlarged, and a difficult impacted wisdom tooth extracted. David and Jacqueline were living at 309 Marlboro St, Boston, while he was studying for his Master's degree at M.I.T. Molly was at Rochester. In September, Eleanor took George back to Bermuda by a Lady Boat, and rented "Harbor View" for us in Paget. Maya followed by plane, and I per "Fort Townshend", as usual, with the luggage and the dog. Early in February 1949, David graduated from M.I.T. and decided to go to Paris for a couple of years, - Jacqueline had gone ahead of him by plane, just before Christmas. To see David before he sailed, Maya flew to New York by plane on February 12th, and I followed by the "Queen of Bermuda". We stayed at Thayer's 969 Park Avenue apartment, saw David off on the "America", and we stayed in New York until April 6th, when we went to Miami and stayed at "Leafy Way" in Coconut Grove, in Mrs. Swetland's house which Maya had taken for Thayer in November, flying down and back for three days to fix the lease. We spent a pleasant month there, met John's prospective bride, Doris Lorber, a very nice girl, a twin. We met David Fairchild and reminded him of his trip to Japan in 1892 and of the Eldridges there whom he knew. While there, Maya bought a house at 4197 Braganza Avenue for John and put the title in his name, a bungalow of living room, two bedrooms, bath, kitchen and garage, in half an acre of beautifully planted garden. Meanwhile, after we had left Bermuda, Eleanor married again, Tom Gerald David Bamford, a young Englishman with the English Government Cable & Wireless Company. When the lease of Harbor View was up on March 15th, they moved to a little bungalow, Harry Ann Cottage, Paget.
In May 1949, Maya and I returned to Milton, and on June 6th, Eleanor with George and his nurse Marion Pulley, flew in by plane for a six week's visit, with the object of having a suspicious lump in her breast examined. Dr. Young operated, and found it was not malignant, a great relief to all of us. That summer we had our old coal heating plant replaced by a General Electric Oil Furnace. On June 1st, George Lenci completed his year's service with Dr. Pulsifer in Rochester, and made a trip to various States to look over the possibilities: he chose Roseburg, Oregon, and a few weeks later, took Molly and their son Bobby out there. He has made a great success: Molly made us a short visit while their furniture was being shipped out.
On October 1/1949, Maya and I went to Bermuda by the "Queen of Bermuda", and lived four months at Knollwood, Paget, a lovely little place with a quaint garden. John was married at Miami on December 10th, to Doris Katherine Lorber, but we couldn't be present. Shortage of rain water forced us to leave Bermuda, Maya, George and Marion Pulley flew by plane on January 22/1950, while Eleanor and I sailed per "Lady
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Rodney", on January 26/1950. We found the new heating plant at 1250 was working well. David and Jacqueline were still in Paris.
In March 1950, Maya and Eleanor wanted to go to Miami to see John, so they left the 12th, and rented the house of Mrs. Wainwright at 3601 Bay View Road, Coconut Grove, for $800 for a couple of months. On April 12th, I joined then, and we returned to Milton on May 6th. While there, Maya was persuaded by Eleanor to buy the house of Monte V. Wiggins, 929 Tendilla Avenue, Coral Gables, in which to spend our future winters, for $29,000. Maya was doubtful about it and though Eleanor later changed her mind as her children were not well there, the real estate agent buffaloed Maya unwillingly to sign the purchase agreement. We moved into the house for a few weeks but Maya felt strange in that locality, so sold it again, losing $641 on the deal. In June 1950, Doris came up to visit us for a month, and we all attended David Manchester Poole's wedding at Woonsocket, R.I. on the 23rd: we also made a short visit to Peterboro.
Molly's second child, Susan, was born July 24th, and Eleanor's second child Sheila, on the 31st. John's first child, Catherine was born September 24th, thus adding three grandchildren within a month or two. In October l950 I had to undergo an operation for fistula, Dr. Young operating, and spent nine pleasant days at the Faulkner Hospital.
On November 23/1950, we rented Lotus Cottage, Palm Beach, for the winter, the rental being $4500. Maya bought a new Chevrolet in that month but we didn't take it to Palm Beach: instead we took down Eleanor's English Standard car which she had bought in Bermuda, and which she sold when we left Palm Beach. We returned to Milton on May 3/1951.
On June 14/1951, Maya went out to visit Molly at Roseburg for two weeks. During the past winter, Eleanor and Gerald decided to make another trial at living together and he arranged to come to this country and make his career here, leaving his employ at the Imperial Chemicals Co. So Maya in June bought a house for Eleanor at 42, Spafford Road, Milton, for $28,500.
Early in August 1951, Maya complained of being tired, dizzy, and unable to focus her eyes properly. She worried continuously over the boys "drifting", as she called it, not working at any particular job: she was also upset by the overcharge of Arthur King for renovating our kitchen, and other trivial tribulations of our daily lives. She made the remark that she felt as if she were going to have a stroke, but was up and around, and gave a successful lunch party on the 8th. On the 10th, I called Dr. Eugene McAuliffe to see what was wrong and he promised to come in at four o'clock. All morning we had been wrapping up parcels to send Molly and I took them to the Post Office at noon. While I was away, Maya was resting on her bed after lunch, Eleanor being in the garden below her window with the children. Shortly before three o'clock, Eleanor heard her call out, rushed up to her room, and found Maya all twisted up and partly unconscious. She phoned the doctor who came in fifteen minutes: I returned shortly after, and found Maya apparently all well again. The doctor advised her to stay in bed a few days and to get a nurse to see that she did. Maya was entirely normal up to midnight when we all turned in, but at 4 A.M. she called me, and Eleanor and I found her unconscious. The doctor came at 7 next morning: all that day, the 11th, she wade no improvement, in spite of an oxygen tent the doctor brought in. By nightfall Dr. McAuliffe had been able to bring in for consultation, Dr. Raymond Adams, head professor of the Harvard Medical School and the Neurological department of the Mass General Hospital. He recommended moving Maya to the Milton Hospital where there were proper
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facilities, in spite of the danger of moving her at that time. Maya had always hated the idea of going into a hospital, and though Eleanor and I were reluctant to frighten her if she regained consciousness and found herself there the nurse and I took her before midnight in an ambulance to the Milton Hospital, without any bad effect. Dr. Adams confirmed Dr. McAuliffe's diagnosis of a cerebral thrombosis, occuring in the main artery at the base of the skull before the artery branched into both sides of the brain. He told us it was very serious and held out little hope of recovery, and warned us that if she did recover, she would be completely paralysed. Her condition gradually waned and she passed away the 15th at 8.20 P.M., with Thayer, John, David and I at her bedside. Dr. Adams was of the opinion that she was conscious much of the time but could not signify that she knew us. Maya was seldom if ever ill, was in perfect health, no high blood pressure, nor gave any sign of the approaching tragedy, entirely unsuspected and so sudden. Dr. Adams was of the opinion that the degeneration of her arteries had been coming on gradually for a long time, through worry and over exertion. T had wired Thayer and the children the day after her stroke they all except Molly came within 24 hours: Molly could not leave her children. We brought Maya home the next day and she was buried on the 18th at 4 P.M. in her parents' grave in the Milton Cemetery. She left her estate of approximately $300,000 to her four children.
Gerald arrived from England two days after Maya's stroke, and we decided that he and Eleanor and children would live with me here pending the probate of the estate, so Eleanor sold the Spafford Road house. In September Gerald joined the United Carr Fastener Co, at Cambridge. Georgie commenced school at the Milton Academy. My appointment as Executor was approved the end of September, so with all that attendant work, we stayed in Milton that winter. John's second child, William Thayer Lindsley, was born January 5/1952. David returned per "America" in April 1952, Jacqueline remaining in Paris: she came over for the summer but returned to Paris alone in September: David followed her in November, throwing up his job with Thayer again. I visited Chester at Charlottesville in May 1952 for a week. Eleanor's third child was born in July 1952 and John`s third child in March 1953. Early in January 1953, Eleanor took her children and Mrs Swenson to Palm Beach, and lived in a house Thayer rented for her at 247 Sea Spray Avenue till April 12th. I stayed in Milton that winter, and Hope Payne Dawson came to live with Gerald and I from January till Eleanor returned. Molly moved into her new house in March, after being flooded out again in their old house. Molly's third child was born May 18/1953, and David's first son was born in Paris June 26/1953. Doris and her children spent August and September at Peterboro. In September, David again returned home alone per "Queen Elizabeth", but went back to Paris in October, again refusing the job Thayer offered him. In September 1953, Dr Young sewed up my old hernia, (which I get cranking the Buick at Kurume in 1911), - a pleasant ten days at the Faulkner Hospital. Gerald meantime had left Carr Fastener, and joined Harris, Upham & Co., stock brokers in Boston, but left them and started work in Montreal with Nesbit, Thompson & Co., for Thayer's work. Eleanor had meanwhile bought out John, Molly's and David's share of 1250 Canton Ave, and had the kitchen, bathrooms &c modernised.
On December 6/1953, Eleanor, the children and I came down to Palm Beach, El living at a house Thayer rented for her at 347, Australian Avenue, and I living in Thayer`s house, 640 Crest Road, with Mrs Hughes
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Herbert Armstrong Poole cooking all our meals here. Gerald came down and worked for a couple of months at Himes & Himes, accountants, but went back to Thayer's office in New York early in April. John and Doris came up several times to see us. Georgie attended the Palm Beach Private school, learned to read, and to swim and dive. During this winter Eleanor bought a new house at Bahama lane, intending to make Palm Beach her permanent home and sell 1250 Canton Avenue. David returned in February or March 1954, and joined Thayer's office in Toronto: Jacqueline remained in Paris. David went, back to Paris in May 1954, and Eleanor and I returned to Milton on May 26th. In the latter part of June 1954, George and Molly and their three children visited us in Milton for a month, very sorry to miss David, and their visit was an unforgettable pleasure. Later David returned, from Paris but we didn't see him - he went right through to Toronto. In August Eleanor and I spent the month in Peterboro, and experienced the first hurricane there - no damage as it passed east of Peterboro. We returned to Milton and ran into the second hurricane, were without light, or heat or phone for 10 days, Gerald cooking on the outdoor grill he had invented for the kids pleasure - only a few of our trees went down.
On October 6th, Eleanor and Gerald drove the car down to Palm Beach, while Mrs Swenson and I came by train, and lived this winter at Mrs. Burkholtz's house 242 Sea Spray Avenue. Thayer came down for week in April to 640 Crest Road. Georgia again attended the Palm Beach Private School. Eleanor sold her Bahama Lane house and in March, bought a house at 235 Sea Spray Avenue. She also sold 1250 Canton Avenue to Mr. Wendell Jacques, who is selling off five or six lots to pay for it. Early in March, Eleanor want up to Richardson House, Boston, to have her fourth child, Thomas Lindsley Bamford, on March 26th, and during her stay at there with Mrs. Hughes, she dismantled the house, shipped some of the stuff to Molly, John, and some to Palm Beach, the rest being stored at Thayer`s Beverly house, against the time when David may need some. Eleanor returned to Palm Beach April 26th, and I left there May 26th, and lived with Mrs. Guild at 251 Atherton St., Milton while clearing my things out of 1250, and kept Brownie with me. Gerald fortunately went down to stay with Eleanor the month of June. In March, John had an attack of pneumonia and went up to Roosevelt Hospital in New York for an operation to patch up two broken ribs, and to have his lung scraped from some deposit. It was touch and go whether he would pull through, but he got back to Miami late in May, apparently fully recovered. He still has no regular job, but is making some money with a few friends, buying undeveloped land and shaping it into building lots, and selling them. In March David again went to Paris, and returned a couple of months later, saying Jacqueline may come over in August, 1955.
servants left us to take other better paying war jobs, and we have
since done our own house work, something our training in the Orient did
not fit us for. In the winter of 1944-5, we rented the Stuyvesant
Pierpont house "Keywaydin" on Sunset Avenue, Palm Beach. The next few
years we made a few trips to New York, but mostly staying quietly at
home. In 1947 in November, we went to Bermuda and rented the Lightbourn
house "Overlook" in Paget for six months. Maya, Eleanor and her baby
George flew by plane while I followed by the "Amherst" with the luggage
and our dog Brownie. Bermuda is really too cold and windy in winter.
John flew up from Miami for Christmas, and Molly and George Lenci came
down in March for five weeks. I'm afraid we are a restless family,
and we all miss the former pleasant trips back and forth across the
Pacific to the Orient. My one regret is that I have never been south of
the Equator. We returned to Milton on May 24/1948, with Eleanor
and George, by the "Lady Nelson" and stayed at 1250 all summer. John
came up from Miami in July and had his tonsils out, and sinus enlarged,
and a difficult impacted wisdom tooth extracted. David and Jacqueline
were living at 309 Marlboro St, Boston, while he was studying for his
Master's degree at M.I.T. Molly was at Rochester. In September, Eleanor
took George back to Bermuda by a Lady Boat, and rented "Harbor View"
for us in Paget. Maya followed by plane, and I per "Fort Townshend", as
usual, with the luggage and the dog. Early in February 1949, David
graduated from M.I.T. and decided to go to Paris for a couple of years,
- Jacqueline had gone ahead of him by plane, just before Christmas. To
see David before he sailed, Maya flew to New York by plane on February
12th, and I followed by the "Queen of Bermuda". We stayed at Thayer's
969 Park Avenue apartment, saw David off on the "America", and we
stayed in New York until April 6th, when we went to Miami and stayed at
"Leafy Way" in Coconut Grove, in Mrs. Swetland's house which Maya had
taken for Thayer in November, flying down and back for three days to
fix the lease. We spent a pleasant month there, met John's prospective
bride, Doris Lorber, a very nice girl, a twin. We met David Fairchild
and reminded him of his trip to Japan in 1892 and of the Eldridges
there whom he knew. While there, Maya bought a house at 4197 Braganza
Avenue for John and put the title in his name, a bungalow of living
room, two bedrooms, bath, kitchen and garage, in half an acre of
beautifully planted garden. Meanwhile, after we had left Bermuda,
Eleanor married again, Tom Gerald David Bamford, a young Englishman
with the English Government Cable & Wireless Company. When the lease
of Harbor View was up on March 15th, they moved to a little bungalow,
Harry Ann Cottage, Paget.
In May 1949, Maya and I returned to Milton, and on June 6th,
Eleanor with George and his nurse Marion Pulley, flew in by plane for a
six week's visit, with the object of having a suspicious lump in her
breast examined. Dr. Young operated, and found it was not malignant, a
great relief to all of us. That summer we had our old coal heating
plant replaced by a General Electric Oil Furnace. On June 1st, George
Lenci completed his year's service with Dr. Pulsifer in Rochester, and
made a trip to various States to look over the possibilities: he chose
Roseburg, Oregon, and a few weeks later, took Molly and their son Bobby
out there. He has made a great success: Molly made us a short visit
while their furniture was being shipped out.
On October 1/1949, Maya and I went to Bermuda by the "Queen of
Bermuda", and lived four months at Knollwood, Paget, a lovely little
place with a quaint garden. John was married at Miami on December 10th,
to Doris Katherine Lorber, but we couldn't be present. Shortage of rain
water forced us to leave Bermuda, Maya, George and Marion Pulley flew
by plane on January 22/1950, while Eleanor and I sailed per "Lady
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Rodney", on January 26/1950. We found the new heating plant at 1250 was
working well. David and Jacqueline were still in Paris.
In March 1950, Maya and Eleanor wanted to go to Miami to see
John, so they left the 12th, and rented the house of Mrs. Wainwright at
3601 Bay View Road, Coconut Grove, for $800 for a couple of months. On
April 12th, I joined then, and we returned to Milton on May 6th. While
there, Maya was persuaded by Eleanor to buy the house of Monte V.
Wiggins, 929 Tendilla Avenue, Coral Gables, in which to spend our
future winters, for $29,000. Maya was doubtful about it and though
Eleanor later changed her mind as her children were not well there, the
real estate agent buffaloed Maya unwillingly to sign the purchase
agreement. We moved into the house for a few weeks but Maya felt
strange in that locality, so sold it again, losing $641 on the deal.
In June 1950, Doris came up to visit us for a month, and we all
attended David Manchester Poole's wedding at Woonsocket, R.I. on the
23rd: we also made a short visit to Peterboro.
Molly's second child, Susan, was born July 24th, and Eleanor's
second child Sheila, on the 31st. John's first child, Catherine was
born September 24th, thus adding three grandchildren within a month or
two. In October l950 I had to undergo an operation for fistula, Dr.
Young operating, and spent nine pleasant days at the Faulkner Hospital.
On November 23/1950, we rented Lotus Cottage, Palm Beach, for
the winter, the rental being $4500. Maya bought a new Chevrolet in that
month but we didn't take it to Palm Beach: instead we took down
Eleanor's English Standard car which she had bought in Bermuda, and
which she sold when we left Palm Beach. We returned to Milton on May
3/1951.
On June 14/1951, Maya went out to visit Molly at Roseburg for
two weeks. During the past winter, Eleanor and Gerald decided to make
another trial at living together and he arranged to come to this
country and make his career here, leaving his employ at the Imperial
Chemicals Co. So Maya in June bought a house for Eleanor at 42,
Spafford Road, Milton, for $28,500.
Early in August 1951, Maya complained of being tired, dizzy,
and unable to focus her eyes properly. She worried continuously over
the boys "drifting", as she called it, not working at any particular
job: she was also upset by the overcharge of Arthur King for renovating
our kitchen, and other trivial tribulations of our daily lives. She
made the remark that she felt as if she were going to have a stroke,
but was up and around, and gave a successful lunch party on the 8th.
On the 10th, I called Dr. Eugene McAuliffe to see what was wrong and he
promised to come in at four o'clock. All morning we had been wrapping
up parcels to send Molly and I took them to the Post Office at noon.
While I was away, Maya was resting on her bed after lunch, Eleanor
being in the garden below her window with the children. Shortly before
three o'clock, Eleanor heard her call out, rushed up to her room, and
found Maya all twisted up and partly unconscious. She phoned the doctor
who came in fifteen minutes: I returned shortly after, and found Maya
apparently all well again. The doctor advised her to stay in bed a few
days and to get a nurse to see that she did. Maya was entirely normal
up to midnight when we all turned in, but at 4 A.M. she called me, and
Eleanor and I found her unconscious. The doctor came at 7 next morning:
all that day, the 11th, she wade no improvement, in spite of an oxygen
tent the doctor brought in. By nightfall Dr. McAuliffe had been able to
bring in for consultation, Dr. Raymond Adams, head professor of the
Harvard Medical School and the Neurological department of the Mass
General Hospital. He recommended moving Maya to the Milton Hospital
where there were proper
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facilities, in spite of the danger of moving her at that time. Maya
had always hated the idea of going into a hospital, and though Eleanor
and I were reluctant to frighten her if she regained consciousness and
found herself there the nurse and I took her before midnight in an
ambulance to the Milton Hospital, without any bad effect. Dr. Adams
confirmed Dr. McAuliffe's diagnosis of a cerebral thrombosis, occuring
in the main artery at the base of the skull before the artery branched
into both sides of the brain. He told us it was very serious and held
out little hope of recovery, and warned us that if she did recover, she
would be completely paralysed. Her condition gradually waned and she
passed away the 15th at 8.20 P.M., with Thayer, John, David and I at
her bedside. Dr. Adams was of the opinion that she was conscious much
of the time but could not signify that she knew us. Maya was seldom if
ever ill, was in perfect health, no high blood pressure, nor gave any
sign of the approaching tragedy, entirely unsuspected and so sudden.
Dr. Adams was of the opinion that the degeneration of her arteries had
been coming on gradually for a long time, through worry and over
exertion. T had wired Thayer and the children the day after her stroke
they all except Molly came within 24 hours: Molly could not leave her
children. We brought Maya home the next day and she was buried on the
18th at 4 P.M. in her parents' grave in the Milton Cemetery. She left
her estate of approximately $300,000 to her four children.
Gerald arrived from England two days after Maya's stroke, and
we decided that he and Eleanor and children would live with me here
pending the probate of the estate, so Eleanor sold the Spafford Road
house. In September Gerald joined the United Carr Fastener Co, at
Cambridge. Georgie commenced school at the Milton Academy. My
appointment as Executor was approved the end of September, so with
all that attendant work, we stayed in Milton that winter. John's
second child, William Thayer Lindsley, was born January 5/1952. David
returned per "America" in April 1952, Jacqueline remaining in Paris:
she came over for the summer but returned to Paris alone in September:
David followed her in November, throwing up his job with Thayer again.
I visited Chester at Charlottesville in May 1952 for a week. Eleanor's
third child was born in July 1952 and John`s third child in March 1953.
Early in January 1953, Eleanor took her children and Mrs Swenson to
Palm Beach, and lived in a house Thayer rented for her at 247 Sea
Spray Avenue till April 12th. I stayed in Milton that winter, and Hope
Payne Dawson came to live with Gerald and I from January till Eleanor
returned. Molly moved into her new house in March, after being flooded
out again in their old house. Molly's third child was born May 18/1953,
and David's first son was born in Paris June 26/1953. Doris and her
children spent August and September at Peterboro. In September, David
again returned home alone per "Queen Elizabeth", but went back to Paris
in October, again refusing the job Thayer offered him. In September
1953, Dr Young sewed up my old hernia, (which I get cranking the Buick
at Kurume in 1911), - a pleasant ten days at the Faulkner Hospital.
Gerald meantime had left Carr Fastener, and joined Harris, Upham & Co.,
stock brokers in Boston, but left them and started work in Montreal
with Nesbit, Thompson & Co., for Thayer's work. Eleanor had meanwhile
bought out John, Molly's and David's share of 1250 Canton Ave, and had
the kitchen, bathrooms &c modernised.
On December 6/1953, Eleanor, the children and I came down to
Palm Beach, El living at a house Thayer rented for her at 347,
Australian Avenue, and I living in Thayer`s house, 640 Crest Road, with
Mrs Hughes
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Herbert Armstrong Poole
cooking all our meals here. Gerald came down and worked for a couple of
months at Himes & Himes, accountants, but went back to Thayer's office
in New York early in April. John and Doris came up several times to see
us. Georgie attended the Palm Beach Private school, learned to read,
and to swim and dive. During this winter Eleanor bought a new house at
Bahama lane, intending to make Palm Beach her permanent home and sell
1250 Canton Avenue. David returned in February or March 1954, and
joined Thayer's office in Toronto: Jacqueline remained in Paris. David
went, back to Paris in May 1954, and Eleanor and I returned to Milton
on May 26th. In the latter part of June 1954, George and Molly and
their three children visited us in Milton for a month, very sorry to
miss David, and their visit was an unforgettable pleasure. Later David
returned, from Paris but we didn't see him - he went right through to
Toronto. In August Eleanor and I spent the month in Peterboro, and
experienced the first hurricane there - no damage as it passed east of
Peterboro. We returned to Milton and ran into the second hurricane,
were without light, or heat or phone for 10 days, Gerald cooking on the
outdoor grill he had invented for the kids pleasure - only a few of our
trees went down.
On October 6th, Eleanor and Gerald drove the car down to Palm
Beach, while Mrs Swenson and I came by train, and lived this winter at
Mrs. Burkholtz's house 242 Sea Spray Avenue. Thayer came down for week
in April to 640 Crest Road. Georgia again attended the Palm Beach
Private School. Eleanor sold her Bahama Lane house and in March, bought
a house at 235 Sea Spray Avenue. She also sold 1250 Canton Avenue to
Mr. Wendell Jacques, who is selling off five or six lots to pay for it.
Early in March, Eleanor want up to Richardson House, Boston, to have
her fourth child, Thomas Lindsley Bamford, on March 26th, and during
her stay at there with Mrs. Hughes, she dismantled the house, shipped
some of the stuff to Molly, John, and some to Palm Beach, the rest
being stored at Thayer`s Beverly house, against the time when David
may need some. Eleanor returned to Palm Beach April 26th, and I left
there May 26th, and lived with Mrs. Guild at 251 Atherton St., Milton
while clearing my things out of 1250, and kept Brownie with me. Gerald
fortunately went down to stay with Eleanor the month of June. In March,
John had an attack of pneumonia and went up to Roosevelt Hospital in
New York for an operation to patch up two broken ribs, and to have his
lung scraped from some deposit. It was touch and go whether he would
pull through, but he got back to Miami late in May, apparently fully
recovered. He still has no regular job, but is making some money with a
few friends, buying undeveloped land and shaping it into building lots,
and selling them. In March David again went to Paris, and returned a
couple of months later, saying Jacqueline may come over in August,
1955.
From here on typed by O.M.P from H.A.P.'s rough set.
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In July 1955, Eleanor left Our Palm Beach house in charge of
Emma Lou, and with Mrs. Swenson and the children travelled by train to
New York, driving thence to Peterboro in Thayer's beach-wagon, and
spent the Summer at Lake Nubanusit in a house Thayer had bought five
miles West of Hancock. Doris and her children spent August at Thayer's
house in Peterboro, coming up and back by plane. David spent a week
with us at Nubanusit. Gerald spent August driving Christopher Owen to
some of Thayer's mines in Canada. I had a complete examination of my
eyes at the Massachusetts Ear & Eye Infirmary by Dr. W. Morton Grant
who said I had "Open angle Glaucoma", vision much restricted, but
recommended no operation, just pilocarpine drops as usual. Eleanor,
Mrs. Swenson, the kids and I drove from Nubanusit to Penn Station, New
York, on Sept. 18, 1955, in Thayer's beach-wagon, and took the train
down to Palm Beach, where Eleanor's three children attended the Palm
Beach Private School.
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On November 29/1955, Molly had her fourth child, Virginia
Washburn Lenci.
This Summer Thayer Lindsley turned over the Presidency of
Ventures, Ltd. to Robert Anderson, and set up a Trust at the Chemical
Bank New York, for my four children, consisting of 3900 Ventures and
8892 Eureka shares each, from which they will receive only the
dividends until January 1960; thereafter the shares will be turned over
to them. At present market values of Ventures $156,000 and Eurekas
$17,000, it will be a nice nest-egg for their future.
On November 15/1955, Eleanor and Gerald left for London per
"Queen Mary" and returned December 15th by the "Queen Elizabeth". John
and Doris started new additions to their house at Coconut Grove. In
November, Jacqueline, Francis and nurse flew to Toronto and flew back
to Paris a couple of months later. In March 1956 David flew both ways
to Paris for a week. Again in May he went over the S.S. "United States"
and after a few weeks returned by the "Queen Mary
In May 1956, Eleanor divorced Gerald. On May 1st, Iris Payne,
some 40 years of age, divorced, no children, - came over from England
as nurse for Eleanor's children.
On June 5/1956, I went by train to Richmond where Chester met
me and drove me to his home, "Missing Acres", 12 miles West of
Charlottesville, for a week's visit with him and Dorothy. Thence I went
on to Milton, Mass., where I stayed four months with Mrs.Guild, taking
"Brownie" along with me. I returned by train to Palm Beach, October
13th. Meanwhile, in July, Georgie flew up with Jeffrey Gray to Milton
and Peterboro. Mrs. Swenson, Iris, the three younger kids and "Sparky"
flew to Boston, whence Charlie drove them to Peterboro. Eleanor, with
Mrs. Adair, drove our car up, stopping a day with Chester & Dorothy at
Charlottesville. September 5th, Iris, Bertie, Tommy and "Sparky" flew
back to Palm Beach by plane; Eleanor, Georgie and Sheila drove back in
our car, but when El reached Baltimore, exhausted, Thayer had to rescue
her, get a man to drive her car to Washington, where they stayed a
night at the hotel, going on by train next day, while Thayer arranged
for a man to drive her car down to Palm Beach. This Summer, Eleanor had
a swimming pool built in her garden at 235 Sea Spray Ave., and the
garage altered, with two bedrooms upstairs and living room downstairs;
2 baths. The three elder children again at the Palm Beach School
On October 24/1956, David again sailed on the "Queen Mary" for
Paris. Thayer also flew over in October and saw Jacqueline. After
returning to Toronto, David came down to spend Christmas with us and
visited John in Miami. The additions to John's house are not finished
yet. In August 1956, their fifth child was born - Alexandra Manchester
Poole.
In November 1 had to have a skin-cancer under my ear cut out.
Dr. Armstrong had cut one out of the same spot three years ago, but it
grew again.
Gerald has been in England since July.
Eleanor rented her house, 235 Sea Spray Ave., from Jan.15 to
April l5/1957, to Ellsworth Alvord of Washington; so we rented and
moved to Kaltenborn's house at 347 Sea View Avenue. Here George
unfortunately had his two upper front teeth knocked out by a baseball
bat, but the one second tooth was pressed back and I hope will stick.
The other was a first tooth.
Subject 1 21-C
In March 1957, David and Thayer went over to Paris again
to see about David's divorce from Jacqueline. It was granted in May-
June. David then made a trip out to California, - San Francisco and
Santa Barbara; and also visited Molly in Roseburg. Molly, George and
their children flew to Santa Barbara to visit the Lencis for two weeks
in July.
John and Doris stayed through the Summer in Miami, where John
had a serious bout of illness from too many drugs. (medicinal).
Eleanor and I, for the first time, remained through the Summer
at Palm Beach. With air conditioners in every room, and with the
Swimming Pool, it was not too uncomfortable. That Spring, Eleanor had
taken examinations at Orlando for a real-estate saleswoman's license,
and then joined the Robert Wilson Real Estate Co. She has earned
several commissions, one a good one for selling a $30,000 house. My old
fox-terrier "Brownie" died at the end of June, just a week short of 17
years of age; she had become deaf and almost blind. Georgie spent the
two months of July and August 1957 at Camp Yonahnoka in North Carolina.
In July, Mrs. de Bosschere of Brussels spent two weeks with
us. And in August Dick Poole visited us for three days on his way home
to Charlottesville from Bogota, via Nassau.
In August, Thayer and David again went to Paris, where David
is looking for a possible job. He returned in the "Queen Mary" October
29th.
This brings Bert's chronicle up to end of 1957
(handwritten note by OM Poole?)
(this page in original typescript - by HAP?)
Subject 1. P21-B 10/24/57
(does not seem to follow any other pages, AM 1998)
only the dividends until January 1960: the shares will then be turned
over to them. Unfortunately in forming this trust, about one third of
the trust went to pay internal revenue taxes. On November 15/1955,
Eleanor and Gerald sailed for London on the "Queen Mary", and returned
December 15th by the "Queen Elizabeth". John and Doris started new
additions to their house at Coconut Grove. In November 1955 Jacqueline,
Francis and French nurse flew to Toronto, and stayed a month or so in a
rented house with David, then flew back to Paris.
In March 1956, David flew to Paris and back for a week's visit.
In May 1956 he sailed by the "United States" for Paris for a few weeks,
and returned by the "Queen Mary". In May 1955 Eleanor divorced Gerald,
who kept on working for Thayer a month or so, then went to England and
gradually eased out. On June 1st, 1955, Iris Payne arrived by plane via
Nassau and Miami, to be the children's nurse, age fortyish, divorced,
no children. On June 5/1956 I went by train to Richmond where Chester
met and drove to Charlottesville for a week's visit, then train to
Milton, where I stayed four months with Mrs Guild at 231 Atherton St..
taking Brownie along with me: I returned by train to Palm Beach October
15/1956. The rest of the family spent three months in Peterboro from
July 1st, Georgie flying with Jeffrey Gray to Milton to Milton and then
Peterboro: Mrs. Swenson, Iris, the three smaller children and Sparky,
flew up by plane to Boston, Charlie Barrett driving them to Peterboro:
Eleanor, with Mrs. Adair drove our car up to Peterboro, stopping a day
with Chester at Charlottesville. On September 5/1956 Iris, Bertie,
Tommy and Sparky flew to Palm Beach, while Eleanor, George and Sheila
drove her car down, but on reaching Baltimore, was unable to drive
further. She phoned Thayer in New York, who flew down at once, and who
got a Washington taxi man to drive her car to Washington, where they
stayed the night, and on to Palm Beach by train next day, while Thayer
had a taxi man drive her car to Palm Beach. During this summer, Eleanor
had a swimming pool built at 235 Sea Spray Avenue, and the garage
altered to a guest house with three rooms and two bathrooms. On August
14/1956 John's fifth child was born, Allessandra Manchester Poole. On
October 24/1956, David sailed on the "Queen Mary" for Paris, and
returned in six weeks. He came down from Toronto to spend Christmas
with us, and visited John in Miami for a day. In 1957, Eleanor rented
235 Sea Spray from January 15th to April 15th, to the Ellsworth Alvords
of Washington, D.C. for $5500 and we rented the Kaltenborn house at 347
Sea View Ave.. In March 1957, Eleanor went to Orlando and passed the
examinations of the Florida Real Estate Board, and received her license
as a real estate saleswoman, and made over $1200 in commissions this
year, as saleswoman for the Robert Wilson Real Estate Co. of Palm
Beach. Also in March 1957 David and Thayer again went to Paris where
David started divorce proceedings - granted in May. Late in March
Georgia had his two upper front teeth knocked out by a mallet thrown by
a boy in play: one was a first tooth - the other a second tooth, was
pressed back into the gum and though dead, still sticks in 2 1/2 years
later. In May, David made a trip of investigation to San Francisco,
Santa Barbara, and stayed a few days with Molly in Roseburg. Brownie
died here in Palm Beach the last week of June, just a few days before
her 17th birthday: she was deaf and nearly blind. In July 1957, Molly,
George and their children flew to Santa Barbara for a two weeks visit.
John and Doris stayed the summer in Miami, and so did Eleanor and I, in
Palm Beach, not too uncomfortable with the air conditioners, and the
children enjoyed the 15 x 50 foot swimming pool. Georgia spent July and
August at Camp Yonchnaka, North Carolina. During his absence, Mrs. De
Bosschere of Brussels, spent two weeks with us, widow of my colleague
Jacques de
As for previous page 21B Subject 1. P21C 10/24/58
HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.
Bosschere of Mosle & Co., Tokyo, days. Also in August, David and Thayer
went again to Paris, and David travelled through France, Belgium and
Switzerland re prospects for a job; he returned on the "Queen Mary", on
October 29/1957. On October 15/1958, I celebrated my eightieth birthday
at 235 Sea Spray Avenue, with Eleanor and the children. - quite a mile
stone. Late in October Dick Poole visited us a day on his flight from
Bogota to Charlottesville, via Nassau and Miami for his wedding on
November 2nd to Jillian Hanbury. In November 1957 David gave up his
Toronto job and went to Santa Barbara, Cal., where he joined the County
National Bank & Trust Co., as assistant to the manager of the Trust
Department. After a short stay with the Lencis he rented an apartment
and bought a motor car and seemed to enjoy his position and work.
Early in 1958, Thayer became much interested in Jacqueline's
clairvoyant powers, when he went to Paris to look into mining and oil
properties in The Middle East and Africa. To her advice with these
powers, he ascribes his success in parting with Robert Anderson, and
securing a twenty million dollar investment by Mcintyre in Ventures.
In the spring of 1958 he formed his new Paris firm, "Cogamines",
(Compagnie des Gites Mineraux) at 18 Place de la Madeleine, In November
1957, Eleanor rented 235 Sea Spray Ave., to Dr Lee Pollock of Toronto,
for five months for $7500, so we rented 115 Westminster Road, West Palm
Beech, from Mrs. Patricia Lord, a maniac of a woman who made our lives
miserable. Georgie served the whole winter from 7 A.M. as conductor on
the school bus, driven by a teacher, to pick up students from the north
and of Palm Beach. George, Sheila and Bertie attended the Palm Beach
Private School. In April 1958, Thayer asked Eleanor to go to Paris to
help him fix up his new office there. He flew over April 26th, and
Eleanor and Georgie, followed by the French line "Liberte" sailing from
New York, May 22nd. Thayer and Jacqueline met them at Le Havre and
drove them to Paris, where they all stayed at the Hotel Bristol on Rue
Faubourg St. Honore. Mrs. Swenson came down to help with the children
while Eleanor was away. Eleanor found Paris unpleasant with the riots
and disturbances at the assumption of power by De Gaulle, and she
returned on the "United States" in three weeks. Before Eleanor left for
Paris I had a heart check up and everything was found in good shape,
except my eye sight which is slowly getting worse and reading becoming
difficult - also shortage of breath on exertion - emphysema its called.
Molly had a hard time this spring, she and her children coming down
with measles and mumps, and her mother-in-law, Mrs Lenci died of cancer
at Santa Barbara. On July 1/1958 Eleanor, the four children and Iris
went by train to New York, thence by motor to Peterboro and stayed till
September 8th, returning the same way. I stayed here alone with Emma
Lou, keeping cool with the air conditioners. John and Doris came up to
see me September 2nd - I hadn't seen John for 4 1/2 years - his last
visit was when we lived at Crest Road. Early in July Thayer insisted
David re-join his New York-Paris firm, so David resigned his Santa
Barbara job and sailed July 10th (sixteenth) per "Queen Mary" for
Paris. This summer of 1958, Molly built a 30 x 60 foot swimming pool
in their Roseburg garden. On September 12/1958 Thayer and Jacqueline
flew over from Paris far a 10 day visit, and flew back the 22nd.
Eleanor tried twice to go up and stay with Jacqueline at the St.
Moritz Hotel, but illness prevented her.
Continued on File HP1P22-E Subject 1. P22 (4/22/52)
HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.
The following is the list of the steamers which I have
travelled on during my life, totalling some 360 days at sea, far below
father's record. I have never been up in an aeroplane, my family
needing my pension as long as possible.
Date. Steamer. Voyage Duration
Days
May 1888. Oceanic. San Francisco to Yokohama. 18
Oct 1895. Olympia. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
May 1899. Laos. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Oct 1899. Sakura Maru. Yokohama to Otaru. 5
Oct 1899. Tauruga Maru. Muroran to Hakodate. 1/2
Oct 1899. Taganoura Maru. Hakodate to Aomori. 1/2
Aug 1900. Prinz Heinrich. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Aug 1900. Yoshidagawa Maru. Kobe to Unija. 2
Aug 1900, Baken Maru. Ujina to Moji. 1/2
Aug 1900. Empress of India. Nagasaki to Kobe. 1
Aug 1901. Shinagawa Maru. Yokkaichi to Yokohama 1
Jan 1902. Hong Kong Maru. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
May 1902. Princess Irene. Yokohama to Shanghai. 5
May 1902. Tungchow. Shanghai to Tientsin. 3
May 1902. Yinkow. Port Arthur to Chefoo. 1/2
May 1902. Sagami Maru. Chefoo to Kobe. 4
Aug 1902. Hamburg. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Aug 1902, Kobe Maru. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Apr 1903. Kiautschou. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Apr 1903. Siberia. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Spt 1903. Genkai Maru. Aomori to Hakodate 1/2
Spt 1903. Miike Maru. Hakodate-Otaru-Yokohama. 5
Feb 1904, Coptic. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Jun 1904. Vindobona. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Jun 1904. Korea. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Dec 1904. China. Yokohama to San Francisco 18
Mar 1905. Baltic New York to Liverpool. 8
Mar 1905. Maria Henrietta. Dover to Ostend. 1/8
Apr 1905. Princess of Wales. Bologne to Folkestone. 1/8
Apr 1905. Queen. Dover to Calais. 1/8
Jun 1905. Brussels. Antwerp to Harwich. 1/8
Jul 1905. Adder. Ardrossan to Belfast. 1/8
Jul 1905. Earl of Antrim. Dublin to Liverpool. 1/8
Aug 1905. Brighton. Newhaven to Dieppe. 1/8
Spt 1905. Osiris, Brindisi to Port Said. 2
Spt 1905. China. Port Said to Colombo. 14
Spt 1905. Arcadia. Colombo to HongKong. 11
Oct 1905. Doric. Hong Kong to Kobe. 9
Spt 1906. Osumi Maru. Aomori to Hakodate. 1/2
Oct 1906. Higo Marn. Murcran to Aomori. 1/2
Dec 1906. Korea. Yokohama to Kobe. 1.
Dec 1906. Prinz Eitel Frederick. Kobe to Yokohama. 1.
Feb 1907. Kosai Maru. Yokohama to Kobe, 1.
Mar 1907. Coptic. Kobe to Yokohama. 1.
Mar 1907. Zieten, Yokohama to Kobe. 1.
Apr 1907. Tamba Maru, Kobe to Yokohama. 1.
Dec 1907. Prinz Regent Luitpold. Yokohama to Kobe. 1.
Dec 1907. Yeiko Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1.
Dec 1907. Port Maru. Nagasake to Shanghai. 1 1/2
Subject 1. 4/22/52 23.
Dec 1907. Mongolia. Shanghai to Yokohama. 1
Feb 1908. Ernest Simons. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Feb 1908. Yanaguchi Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Mar 1908. Princess Alice. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Jul 1908. Chikuzen Maru. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Jan 1909. Chiyo Maru. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Dec 1909. Prinz Ludwig. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Dec 1909. Polynesian. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Jan 1910. Bulow. Yokohama to Kobe. 1.
Jul 1910. Chikuzen Yara. Kobe to Moji. 1
Aug 1910. Hakuai Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Aug 1910 Hitachi Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Dec 1910. Empress of Japan. Kobe to Nagasaki. 1
Dec 1910. Hakuai Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Feb 19l1. Yamaguchi Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 1
Jun 1911. Manchuria. Nagasaki to Kobe. 1
Jul 1911. Miyazaki Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Aug 1911. Kosai Maru. Nagasaki to Moji. 1.
Aug 1911. Taihoku Maru. Moji to Nagasaki. 1.
Aug 1911. Sanuki Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1.
Aug 1911. Kosai Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 2
Oct 1911. Kosai Maru. Nagasaki to Moji. 1
Nov 1911. Shinyo Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 1
Nov 1911. Hitachi Marc. Kobe to Moji. 1
Dec 1911. Chikugo Marc. Nagasaki to Shanghai. 2
Jan 1912. Tenyo Maru. Shanghai to Nagasaki. 2
Jun 1912. Keijo Maru, Kagoshima to Maha (Okinawa) 2
Jul 1912. Satsuma Maru. Maha to Oshima. 1
Jul 1912. Futami Maru. Oshima to Kagoshima. 1
Jul 1912. Yamaguchi Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 1
Jul 1912. Shinano Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Aug 1912. Daishin Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Aug 1912. Tategami Maru. Moji to Nagasaki. 1
Aug 1912. Kasuga Maru. Nagasaki to Moji. 1
Nov 1912. Kasuga Maru. Nagasski to Kobe. 1
Jan 1913. Kasato Maru, Kobe to Moji. 1
Feb 1913. Shinano Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
May 1913. Mopko Maru. Kobe to Oita. 1
May 1913. Chikuzen Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Jun 1913, Kurenai Maru. Kobe to Takahama. 1/2
Aug 1913. Kasuga Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Aug 1913. Ohikugo Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe, 2
Sep 1913. Yamashiro Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 2
Nov 1913. Gishiu Maru. Kobe to Beppu. 1
Nov 1913. Kasuga Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 2
Jan 1914. Shinano Marn. Moji to Kobe, 1
Feb 1914, Korea. Kobe to Manila. 8
Feb 1914. Korea. Manila to Hong Kong. 6
Feb 1914. Empress of Asia. Hong Kong to Kobe. 6
Mar 1914. Nippon Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 1
Mar 1914. Kasuga Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Apr 1914. Tacoma Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 2
Jun 1914. Chikugo Maru, Nagasaki to Kobe. 2
Jun 1914. Toyen Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 2
Aug 1914. Kasuga Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 2
Feb 1915. Hong Kong Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Subject 1. P24 4/22/52
Jun 1915. Korea. Yokohama to San Francisco. 18.
Nov 1915. Shinyo Maru. San Francisco to Yokohama. 18
Jan 1916. Atsuta Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Feb 1916. Bingo Maru. Moji to Kobe, 1
Spt 1917. Yamashiro Maru. Kobe to Shanghai. 4
Spt 1917. Sakaki Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 2
Feb 1918. Yawata Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Apr 1918. Hong Kong Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Apr 1918. America Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Oct 1918. Takeshima Maru. Kobe to Shanghai. 3
Dec 1918. Kobe Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 3
Jan 1919. Harbin Maru. Kobe to Dairen. 4
Spt 1919. Sakaki Maru. Dairen to Shanghai. 3
Oct 1920. Sakaki Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 3
Dec 1920. Korea Maru. Shanghai to San Francisco. 27
Mar 1921. Metapan. Havana to Christobal. 6
Apr 1921. Sixola. Christobal to New York. 14
Jan 1921. Golden State. San Francisco to Shanghai 21
Jul 1921. Sakaki Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 5
Spt 1922. Sakaki Maru. Dairen to Shanghai. 5
Jan 1924. Sakaki Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 5
Jan 1924. Sakaki Maru. Dairen to Shanghai. 5
Spt 1924. President Cleveland. Kobe to San Francisco, 17
Feb 1925. President Taft. San Francisco to Shanghai. 20
Jan 1926. Dairen Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 3
Feb 1926. Sakaki Maru. Dairen to Shanghai. 3
Jun 1926. Korea Maru. Shanghai to Yokohama. 6
Jul 1926. Nagasaki Maru. Kobe to Shanghai. 2
Apr 1927. President Taft. Shanghai to Kobe. 2
Jun 1928. Katori Maruu Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Spt 1928. Leviathan. Southampton to New York. 5
Nov 1925. President Cleveland. San Francisco to Yokohama. 18
Jan 1933. President Garfield. Kobe to Naples. 43
Mar 1933. Saythia. Liverpool to Boston. 9
Mar 1936. Queen of Bermuda. New York to Bermuda. 2
Apr 1936. Queen of Bermuda. Bermuda to New York. 2
May 1936. Normandie. New York to Le Havre. 5
Jul 1936. Queen Mary. Southampton to New York. 5
Jan 1937. Lady Drake. Boston to Demerara & back. 30
Nov 1938. Borinquen. New York to San Juan. 4
Nov 1938. Catherine. San Juan, St Thomas, St Croix 2
Dec 1938. Borinquen. San Juan to New York. 4
Jul 1939. Monarch of Bermuda. New York to Bermuda. 2
Jul 1939. Monarch of Bermuda. Bermuda to New York, 2
Nov 1947. Fort Amherst. New York to Bermuda. 3
May 1945. Lady Nelson. Bermuda to Boston. 2
Nov 1948. Fort Townshend. New York to Bermuda. 3
Feb 1949. Queen of Bermuda. Bermuda to New York. 2
Oct 1949. Queen of Bermuda. New York to Bermuda. 2
Jan 1950. Lady Rodney. Bermuda to Boston. 2
Subject 1. 4 P25. (8/12/52)
Date. Steamer. Voyage Duration
Days
May 1888. Oceanic. San Francisco to Yokohama. 18
Oct 1895. Olympia. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
May 1899. Laos. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Oct 1899. Sakura Maru. Yokohama to Otaru. 5
Oct 1899. Tauruga Maru. Muroran to Hakodate. 1/2
Oct 1899. Taganoura Maru. Hakodate to Aomori. 1/2
Aug 1900. Prinz Heinrich. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Aug 1900. Yoshidagawa Maru. Kobe to Unija. 2
Aug 1900, Baken Maru. Ujina to Moji. 1/2
Aug 1900. Empress of India. Nagasaki to Kobe. 1
Aug 1901. Shinagawa Maru. Yokkaichi to Yokohama 1
Jan 1902. Hong Kong Maru. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
May 1902. Princess Irene. Yokohama to Shanghai. 5
May 1902. Tungchow. Shanghai to Tientsin. 3
May 1902. Yinkow. Port Arthur to Chefoo. 1/2
May 1902. Sagami Maru. Chefoo to Kobe. 4
Aug 1902. Hamburg. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Aug 1902, Kobe Maru. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Apr 1903. Kiautschou. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Apr 1903. Siberia. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Spt 1903. Genkai Maru. Aomori to Hakodate 1/2
Spt 1903. Miike Maru. Hakodate-Otaru-Yokohama. 5
Feb 1904, Coptic. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Jun 1904. Vindobona. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Jun 1904. Korea. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Dec 1904. China. Yokohama to San Francisco 18
Mar 1905. Baltic New York to Liverpool. 8
Mar 1905. Maria Henrietta. Dover to Ostend. 1/8
Apr 1905. Princess of Wales. Bologne to Folkestone. 1/8
Apr 1905. Queen. Dover to Calais. 1/8
Jun 1905. Brussels. Antwerp to Harwich. 1/8
Jul 1905. Adder. Ardrossan to Belfast. 1/8
Jul 1905. Earl of Antrim. Dublin to Liverpool. 1/8
Aug 1905. Brighton. Newhaven to Dieppe. 1/8
Spt 1905. Osiris, Brindisi to Port Said. 2
Spt 1905. China. Port Said to Colombo. 14
Spt 1905. Arcadia. Colombo to HongKong. 11
Oct 1905. Doric. Hong Kong to Kobe. 9
Spt 1906. Osumi Maru. Aomori to Hakodate. 1/2
Oct 1906. Higo Marn. Murcran to Aomori. 1/2
Dec 1906. Korea. Yokohama to Kobe. 1.
Dec 1906. Prinz Eitel Frederick. Kobe to Yokohama. 1.
Feb 1907. Kosai Maru. Yokohama to Kobe, 1.
Mar 1907. Coptic. Kobe to Yokohama. 1.
Mar 1907. Zieten, Yokohama to Kobe. 1.
Apr 1907. Tamba Maru, Kobe to Yokohama. 1.
Dec 1907. Prinz Regent Luitpold. Yokohama to Kobe. 1.
Dec 1907. Yeiko Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1.
Dec 1907. Port Maru. Nagasake to Shanghai. 1 1/2
Subject 1. 4/22/52 23.
Dec 1907. Mongolia. Shanghai to Yokohama. 1
Feb 1908. Ernest Simons. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Feb 1908. Yanaguchi Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Mar 1908. Princess Alice. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Jul 1908. Chikuzen Maru. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Jan 1909. Chiyo Maru. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Dec 1909. Prinz Ludwig. Yokohama to Kobe. 1
Dec 1909. Polynesian. Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Jan 1910. Bulow. Yokohama to Kobe. 1.
Jul 1910. Chikuzen Yara. Kobe to Moji. 1
Aug 1910. Hakuai Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Aug 1910 Hitachi Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Dec 1910. Empress of Japan. Kobe to Nagasaki. 1
Dec 1910. Hakuai Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Feb 19l1. Yamaguchi Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 1
Jun 1911. Manchuria. Nagasaki to Kobe. 1
Jul 1911. Miyazaki Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Aug 1911. Kosai Maru. Nagasaki to Moji. 1.
Aug 1911. Taihoku Maru. Moji to Nagasaki. 1.
Aug 1911. Sanuki Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1.
Aug 1911. Kosai Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 2
Oct 1911. Kosai Maru. Nagasaki to Moji. 1
Nov 1911. Shinyo Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 1
Nov 1911. Hitachi Marc. Kobe to Moji. 1
Dec 1911. Chikugo Marc. Nagasaki to Shanghai. 2
Jan 1912. Tenyo Maru. Shanghai to Nagasaki. 2
Jun 1912. Keijo Maru, Kagoshima to Maha (Okinawa) 2
Jul 1912. Satsuma Maru. Maha to Oshima. 1
Jul 1912. Futami Maru. Oshima to Kagoshima. 1
Jul 1912. Yamaguchi Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 1
Jul 1912. Shinano Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Aug 1912. Daishin Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Aug 1912. Tategami Maru. Moji to Nagasaki. 1
Aug 1912. Kasuga Maru. Nagasaki to Moji. 1
Nov 1912. Kasuga Maru. Nagasski to Kobe. 1
Jan 1913. Kasato Maru, Kobe to Moji. 1
Feb 1913. Shinano Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
May 1913. Mopko Maru. Kobe to Oita. 1
May 1913. Chikuzen Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Jun 1913, Kurenai Maru. Kobe to Takahama. 1/2
Aug 1913. Kasuga Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Aug 1913. Ohikugo Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe, 2
Sep 1913. Yamashiro Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 2
Nov 1913. Gishiu Maru. Kobe to Beppu. 1
Nov 1913. Kasuga Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 2
Jan 1914. Shinano Marn. Moji to Kobe, 1
Feb 1914, Korea. Kobe to Manila. 8
Feb 1914. Korea. Manila to Hong Kong. 6
Feb 1914. Empress of Asia. Hong Kong to Kobe. 6
Mar 1914. Nippon Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 1
Mar 1914. Kasuga Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Apr 1914. Tacoma Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 2
Jun 1914. Chikugo Maru, Nagasaki to Kobe. 2
Jun 1914. Toyen Maru. Kobe to Nagasaki. 2
Aug 1914. Kasuga Maru. Nagasaki to Kobe. 2
Feb 1915. Hong Kong Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Subject 1. P24 4/22/52
Jun 1915. Korea. Yokohama to San Francisco. 18.
Nov 1915. Shinyo Maru. San Francisco to Yokohama. 18
Jan 1916. Atsuta Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Feb 1916. Bingo Maru. Moji to Kobe, 1
Spt 1917. Yamashiro Maru. Kobe to Shanghai. 4
Spt 1917. Sakaki Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 2
Feb 1918. Yawata Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Apr 1918. Hong Kong Maru. Kobe to Moji. 1
Apr 1918. America Maru. Moji to Kobe. 1
Oct 1918. Takeshima Maru. Kobe to Shanghai. 3
Dec 1918. Kobe Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 3
Jan 1919. Harbin Maru. Kobe to Dairen. 4
Spt 1919. Sakaki Maru. Dairen to Shanghai. 3
Oct 1920. Sakaki Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 3
Dec 1920. Korea Maru. Shanghai to San Francisco. 27
Mar 1921. Metapan. Havana to Christobal. 6
Apr 1921. Sixola. Christobal to New York. 14
Jan 1921. Golden State. San Francisco to Shanghai 21
Jul 1921. Sakaki Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 5
Spt 1922. Sakaki Maru. Dairen to Shanghai. 5
Jan 1924. Sakaki Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 5
Jan 1924. Sakaki Maru. Dairen to Shanghai. 5
Spt 1924. President Cleveland. Kobe to San Francisco, 17
Feb 1925. President Taft. San Francisco to Shanghai. 20
Jan 1926. Dairen Maru. Shanghai to Dairen. 3
Feb 1926. Sakaki Maru. Dairen to Shanghai. 3
Jun 1926. Korea Maru. Shanghai to Yokohama. 6
Jul 1926. Nagasaki Maru. Kobe to Shanghai. 2
Apr 1927. President Taft. Shanghai to Kobe. 2
Jun 1928. Katori Maruu Kobe to Yokohama. 1
Spt 1928. Leviathan. Southampton to New York. 5
Nov 1925. President Cleveland. San Francisco to Yokohama. 18
Jan 1933. President Garfield. Kobe to Naples. 43
Mar 1933. Saythia. Liverpool to Boston. 9
Mar 1936. Queen of Bermuda. New York to Bermuda. 2
Apr 1936. Queen of Bermuda. Bermuda to New York. 2
May 1936. Normandie. New York to Le Havre. 5
Jul 1936. Queen Mary. Southampton to New York. 5
Jan 1937. Lady Drake. Boston to Demerara & back. 30
Nov 1938. Borinquen. New York to San Juan. 4
Nov 1938. Catherine. San Juan, St Thomas, St Croix 2
Dec 1938. Borinquen. San Juan to New York. 4
Jul 1939. Monarch of Bermuda. New York to Bermuda. 2
Jul 1939. Monarch of Bermuda. Bermuda to New York, 2
Nov 1947. Fort Amherst. New York to Bermuda. 3
May 1945. Lady Nelson. Bermuda to Boston. 2
Nov 1948. Fort Townshend. New York to Bermuda. 3
Feb 1949. Queen of Bermuda. Bermuda to New York. 2
Oct 1949. Queen of Bermuda. New York to Bermuda. 2
Jan 1950. Lady Rodney. Bermuda to Boston. 2
Subject 1. 4 P25. (8/12/52)
Issue:-
Issue:-
1/1. John Lindsley Poole. Born at noon December 22/1916, at 60 Kitano-cho
4 chome, Kobe, Japan, in a semi Japanese house we had rented from
Mrs. Lightfoot, way up on the hill nestling under the Inari-no-shita
shrine, near the Tor Hotel. Dr. Martin brought him into the world:
his first nurse was Yamamuro-san: his first amah was a Catholic
Chinese woman named Marie, who we had brought over from Shanghai, but
who had to go back soon as she nearly died of diabetes. His next amah
was Koizuni san who stayed with us until we went to Mukden in January
1919. In May of that year, he and Eleanor had a mild case of typhoid
fever for ten days. His first education was by Miss Molly Proctor, a
governess who Maya had brought out from Boston in 1921 and stayed
with us for three years. From February 1925 to April 1927, he
attended the Shanghai American School: from April 1927 he attended
the Canadian Academy in Kobe until June 1928. In the winter of 1928
he attended the Lenox, Mass., Academy. From July 1929 he was tutored
in Yokohama by William L. Cobb, a teacher in the Milton Academy who
Maya had brought out for a year. After that he attended the Tokyo
America School at Kami-Meguro for a year. From September 1930 to June
1951, he attended the Milton Academy, and for the year after that,
again the Tokyo American School, In September 1932 John again entered
the Milton Academy and graduated in 1935 with the distinction of high
scholarship. He entered Harvard University as a freshman at
Wigglesworth Hall, rooming with Robert Phippin and David Lilly, who
had also graduated from Milton at the same time as John. He attended
the University of Chicago for one year between his junior and senior
years at Harvard: he graduated from Harvard in 1940, B.S. He then
took a course in advertising at Columbia University, New York. On the
outbreak of the second World War, desiring to join the Air Force, he
took and passed the Civilian Pilot Training Program at Warwick, N.Y.
Shortly after, he was inducted into the Army, but on account of his
small knowledge of the Japanese language he was transferred to the
Navy and sent to Boulder, Colo., Navy Language Training School to
study the Japanese language for one year, then two years at Columbia
University, New York. He passed with high marks in both the spoken
and written language, He was then sent to Ann Arbor, Mich,, for final
assignment, but was rejected for asthma, and given his discharge. He
then worked in several advertising agencies in New York but realising
a warmer climate would mitigate the severity of his asthma, he left
in December 1940 and joined the advertising department of Pan-
American Airways, Miami. He remained with them for about a year, and
resigned in February 1948 to work as a free lance writer. In May 1949
his Mother bought him a house at 4197 Braganza Avenue, Coconut Grove,
Miami, where he lived in 1952. He married at the Plymouth
Congregational Church, Coconut Grove, on December 10/1949 Doris
Katharine Lorber, born at Baltimore, Md., September 2/1923, twin
daughter of Charles Adolph and Anna Hildegarde (Dengler) Lorber of
Miami. Doris was educated at Baltimore and Miami schools, and
attended Florida State University, Tallahassee, for two years.
Charles Lorber[?] was for many years a test pilot with Pan-American
Airways, and was the one who plotted the routes from the U.S.A. to
South America, Africa and Australia: he was killed a few years ago
when his plane hit a sunken log in landing on a lake near New Orleans
Issue:- (born at Coral Gables, Miami)
2/1.1. Catherine Armstrong Poole, born September 24/1950.
2. William Thayer Lindsley Poole, born January 5/1952
Handwritten insertion.
3. Elizabeth Quintard Poole, born Coconut Grove Fla., March 9/1953.
4. Charlotte Maya Lindsley Poole, born Miami, Fla., Jan 19/1955.
5. Alessandra Poole, born Miami, Fla., 1956.
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1/2. Eleanor Quintard Poole. Born at the same house as John at Kobe,
Japan, January 25/1918, Dr. Martin attending. Her first amah was O'Tei-san who stayed with us until we went to Mukden in January 1919, Her early education was the same as John, with the exception that when John was tutored by Mr. Cobb, EIeanor and Molly were tutored by Miss Lise, a Canadian teacher who Maya brought out for a year. Eleanor graduated from Milton Academy in 1936, then attended Radcliffe for two years and the University of Chicago for one year. In the war years of 1943 and 1944 she worked at the Radio Research Laboratory of Harvard University. She married, 1st, at St. James (Spanish Place) Church London, England, on December 22/1945, Ernest Edward Hilton, born at Wigan Lancashire, England, March 30/1922 son of Thomas and Marie (Burton) Hilton of Wigan. She met him while he was training at Riddle Field, Okichobee, near Palm Beach with the British Royal Air Force: he got his wings there and returned to England too late to see service before the war ended. They lived at West Byfleet, near my sister, until February 1946, when Eleanor returned to Boston: he joined her after his discharge in June. He returned to England that year and they were divorced in June 1947. She married, 2nd, at Bermuda, on March 5/1949 Thomas Gerald David Bamford, born at Middleton, Lancashire, England, April 3/1926, eldest son of David Smithers and Mary (Taylor) Bamford of Middleton, an architect and building contractor, In 1949 Gerald was on the staff of the British Government Cable & Wireless Co, Bermuda, and they lived at Barry Ann Cottage, Paget, Bermuda. After a short service with Imperial Chemicals, Ltd, England he came to Boston on August 12/1951, and joined the United Carr Fastener Co., Cambridge, Mass. Her mother had bought for Eleanor a house at 42 Spafford Road, Milton, in May 1951, but they never occupied it: she sold it in September 1951 and they lived at 1250 Canton Ave., Milton.
Issue:-(by her first husband)
1. George Quintard Hilton, born at Mass General Hospital, Boston, October 29/1946.
Issue:- (by her second husband)
2. Sheila Ann Bamford, born at Richardson House, Boston, July 31/1950.
3. Herbert Armstrong Bamford, born Richardson House, Boston, July 28/1952.,
4. Thomas Lindsley Bamford. Born at Boston, March 26/1955 (hand)
3. Molly Manchester Poole. Born at Wen-hua-shu-yen, Mukden, Manchuria,
China, July 7/1919, Dr. Mole attending. This was one of the Scotch Presbyterian Mission residences, near the small west gate of the native city. Her first nurse was Yamakita-san and her first amah Li Bai Fang. Molly's early education was the same as her sister's. In the winter of 1927-8 all our children attended the Alpine School at Villars-sur-Bex, Switzerland. Molly graduated from Milton Academy in 1937, and from Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., in 1942. She then joined the Pacific Tel & Tel Co., San Francisco: on July 1/1944 she joined the Public Welfare Department, San Francisco, as social worker, and in November 1945 was appointed Federal Representative in San Francisco, for the Government Civilian War Assistance Program for displaced persons. She resigned in April 1946 and returned to Milton. She married at the Milton Academy Chapel, on August 30/1947, Dr. George Nathaniel Lenci, born at Englewood, N.J., June 29 1918, son of George Nathaniel and Julia Washburn (See) Lenci of Rochester, N.Y. He was educated at Lance School, Summit, N.J., and at Pingree School, Elizabeth, N.J. He graduated from Hamilton College, N.J., in 1940, and
Subject 1. P27 (8/12/52)
from the College of Medicine of the New York University in 1944. In July 1945 he joined the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, served two months at the Waltham Regional Hospital, then at the Medical School, Carlisle, Pa., then at the Separation Camp, Alleghany, Ind., the in the Phillippines, Manila area hospitals: he returned to the U.S.A. in December 1945. After their marriage, he studied another eighteen months at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.: then served a year as assistant to Dr. Pilsifer, at Rochester, N.Y. In July 1949 they moved to Roseburg, Oregon, where he established himself as a medical doctor at 157 North Jackson St., and they lived in a bungalow they bought a few miles out of town. Issue:- 1. Robert Livingston Lenci, born at Rochester, N.Y., February 4/1949. 2. Susan Thayer Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., July 24/1950. 3. Laura Lindsley Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., July 18/1953. 4. Virginia Washburn Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., Nov. 29/1955.
4. David Armstrong Poole. Born at 11 Gloucester St, Boston, Mass.,
May 15/1921, Dr. Arthur N. Broughton attending. David's name was
first registered at Boston as Otis Armstrong, then changed to Otis
Thayer, and finally to David Armstrong. His early education was the
same as his brother and sisters. He graduated from Milton Academy in
1939 and was in his senior year at Harvard when inducted into the
Army Signal Corps, pfc, stationed at Camp Edwards until April 1943,
then at M.I.T. Boston for Specialised Training until November of that
year. He was then sent to Liverpool, France and Germany, serving
mostly in the Vosges district, and into Germany as far as Baden, with
the Sixth Army Group, consisting of the 7th U.S. Army and the First
French Army. Shortly after V.E. day, the Army put him at the Univer-
sity of Nancy for two months, then to Paris where he studied four
months at the Ecole Superieur d'Electricite. He was mustered out on
February 10/1946, as a T/5, after serving three years. He then joined
M.I.T. Boston, and graduated February 27/1949, with a Master's degree
in electrical engineering. He was given his Harvard B.S. degree in
1945. In November 1946 he sailed per "Ile de France" for Paris, on
leave of absence from M.I.T, and married at the Town Hall, 8th
arrondisement, on July 12/1947, in the presence of the bride's father
and Lorna Lindsley, Jacqueline Blanche, Angelina Choin, born at Paris
February 14/1926, only daughter of Edouard and Marie Rose (Bonneau)
Choin. She was educated at the Ursuline Convent, Paris, and at the
Dames de Ste Chlotilde (La Tour), Paris, then studied the piano with
Professor Santiago Riera of the Paris Conservatoire. They came to
Boston the same month. In February 1949 they went back to Paris for
eighteen months, and returned to Boston in the summer of 1950: he
joined his uncle Thayer's firm and they lived in New York until June
1951. Jacqueline had preceded him to Paris to resume study with
Professor Riera, he following her in June, David flew back to Milton
three days before his mother's death., returning to Paris ten days
later. In May 1952 David decided he could not find a job in Paris and
returned alone to New York, where he rejoined his uncle Thayer's
firm, and rented an apartment at 710 Park Avenue: Jacqueline came
over from Paris to rejoin him in August. Both returned to Paris Nov
1952.
Issue:
1. Francis Armstrong Poole, born at Paris, France, June 26/1953.
May 15/1921, Dr. Arthur N. Broughton attending. David's name was first registered at Boston as Otis Armstrong, then changed to Otis Thayer, and finally to David Armstrong. His early education was the same as his brother and sisters. He graduated from Milton Academy in 1939 and was in his senior year at Harvard when inducted into the Army Signal Corps, pfc, stationed at Camp Edwards until April 1943, then at M.I.T. Boston for Specialised Training until November of that year. He was then sent to Liverpool, France and Germany, serving mostly in the Vosges district, and into Germany as far as Baden, with the Sixth Army Group, consisting of the 7th U.S. Army and the First French Army. Shortly after V.E. day, the Army put him at the Univer- sity of Nancy for two months, then to Paris where he studied four months at the Ecole Superieur d'Electricite. He was mustered out on February 10/1946, as a T/5, after serving three years. He then joined M.I.T. Boston, and graduated February 27/1949, with a Master's degree in electrical engineering. He was given his Harvard B.S. degree in 1945. In November 1946 he sailed per "Ile de France" for Paris, on leave of absence from M.I.T, and married at the Town Hall, 8th arrondisement, on July 12/1947, in the presence of the bride's father and Lorna Lindsley, Jacqueline Blanche, Angelina Choin, born at Paris February 14/1926, only daughter of Edouard and Marie Rose (Bonneau) Choin. She was educated at the Ursuline Convent, Paris, and at the Dames de Ste Chlotilde (La Tour), Paris, then studied the piano with Professor Santiago Riera of the Paris Conservatoire. They came to Boston the same month. In February 1949 they went back to Paris for eighteen months, and returned to Boston in the summer of 1950: he joined his uncle Thayer's firm and they lived in New York until June 1951. Jacqueline had preceded him to Paris to resume study with Professor Riera, he following her in June, David flew back to Milton three days before his mother's death., returning to Paris ten days later. In May 1952 David decided he could not find a job in Paris and returned alone to New York, where he rejoined his uncle Thayer's firm, and rented an apartment at 710 Park Avenue: Jacqueline came over from Paris to rejoin him in August. Both returned to Paris Nov 1952.
Issue:
1. Francis Armstrong Poole, born at Paris, France, June 26/1953.
Subject 1-A 8/12/52 P 01
1A - MAYA LINDSLEY
Was born at 118-A Bluff, Yokohama, December 25/1884, and died at the Milton Hospital, August 15/1951, five days after a stroke, cerebral thrombosis, buried in her parents' plot at the Milton Cemetary. She was the daughter of John and Virginia Thayer (Payne) Lindsley of Boston an Yokohama.
Her early education was by governesses in Yokohama. In August 1895, she was taken to Milton with her parents and brothers, and lived the first winter in a house on the corner of Hutchinson and Randolph Avenues. She and her brothers entered Milton Academy in September of that year, where she studied three years. In 1896 the family moved to the Bancroft house on Adams St. On October 10/1898, Maya returned to Yakohama with her parents, per "Empress of India", bringing with them for one year, Miss Elizabeth Balch, a member of an old Boston family - a teacher for many years at St. Agnes School, Albany, N.Y. After the latter returned to America, Maya continued her studies in Yokohama with American, English and German teachers, studying also the piano, violin and singing. In 1902 the family returned to Milton, after completing in Yokohama the building of 118-C Bluff and the Zemma Iron Works at Negishi. They brought four Japanese servants with them and lived at 240 Adams St. Maya, with her parents sailed on May 25/1905 per Cunard "Slavonia" for Naples, accompanied by three of their Japanese servants and spent a year and a half in Burope. They spent the summer in Italy and Switzerland, then took a delightful apartment at 1 Rue de Longchamps Paris. Maya spent the winter of 1905-6 studying the piano with Professor Swan, a pupil of Leschetizky until the spring, and then with Moskowski until August. She spent the summer in Dinard, Brittany: then after spending a month in London, returned to Milton via Quebec, per "Empress of Ireland", arriving in November 1906. She spent the summer of 1907 at North East Harbor and Bretton Woods, and three months of that winter at 191 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. The summer of 1908 Maya spent at Telluride with Halstead, at an altitude of 9000 ft, taking many glorious horseback rides in that neighborhood, sometimes as high
up as 12,500 ft. The winter of 1908 was spent at 386 Beacon St., Boston. Her father died in Milton on June 4/1909. Maya and her mother then spent six months in Europe, going over per Cunard "Carmania", and visited London, Paris, the Black Forest, Germany, Oboramergau, Munich, Vienna and Venice. She spent the winter of 1910 in Milton and the sunmer of 1911 at North Hatley, Quebec. In December 1911, Maya and her mother again went to Europe, per "Lapland", spending Christmas in London, a month in Paris, thence to Berlin, Moscow, and by the Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, thence via Tsuruga to Yokohama, arriving there in March 1912, staying at first with her uncle W.T. Payne; they later moved into their own house at 118-B Bluff. This trip to Japan was made for the purpose of enabling Mrs. Lindsley to look after their Japan properties, after an absence of ten years. In the spring of that year they made a trip to Korea, spent the summer in Karuizawa, and sailed in January 1914 via Vancouver, per "Empress of Russia", for Milton where they lived at 240 Adams St. Maya spent that summer in Idaho Springs with Halstead and Lorna.
Maya married at her home, 240 Adams St., Milton, on September 25/1915, Herbert Armstrong Poole, and shortly after left for Kobe, Japan, via San Francisco, per "Shinyo Maru". For further particulars, see the Lindsley genealogy.
Issue:-
1. John Lindsley Poole. Born at Kobe, Japan, December 22/1916.
2. Eleanor Quintard Poole. do January 25/1918.
Subject 1-A P2
3. Molly Manchester Poole. Born at Mukden, Manchuria, July 7/1919.
4. David Armstrong Poole. Born at 11 Gloucester St. Boston, May
15/1921.
P 0?
Handwritten note:
Halstead Lindsley's family
Feb 11 1959
(seems a selection of extracts - AM 1998)
Was there - he said they all enjoyed it. Good to know each other. The following will explain Joan's marriages etc:- Halstead Lindsley. Born at Yokohama Nov 29/1879, died at New York, March 22/1945. He married 1st, at Boston, on March 30/1909, Margaret Lorna Ashton Stimson, born at Boston Jan 2/1888, died July 12/1955. They were divorced in 1921. He married, 2nd, at Denver, on July 4/1923, Emily Low (Bacon) Benjamin, born at Lenox, Mass. Aug 17/1884, still alive, Emily had married, 1st, at Lenox, on Jan 2/1909, Hamilton Fish Benjamin: they were divorced in 1922 and had no children.
Children:- by his first wife Margaret Ashton Stimson) died 1955.
1. Joan Ashton Lindsley, born at Denver Oct 30/1913. She married, 1st,
at New York, on Dec 28/1932, Clarence Moore, son of the sportsman Clarence Moore whom was lost on the Titanic. Young Clarence became a drunk and is still in an institution in Montana: were divorced, and had no children. Joan married, 2nd, in New York, January 1936, Percy Owen: they were divorced in 1941. Joan married. 3rd, in Jersey City, on Christmas Eve, 1943, as his 2nd or 3rd wife, Austen Herbert Croom- Croom Johnson, an Englishman writing jingles for the N.B.C. commercials: they were divorced in 1947, no children. Joan married, 4th, in Bermuda, on May 12/1948, as his second wifa, Major Ian Stewart Thompson, born 1908. They were later divorced and had no children. Child:- (by her second husband Percy Owen)
2/1. Christopher Lindsley Owen, born in N.Y. City, Nov 15/1937.
Graduated from Milton Academy, couldn't pass Harvard entrance exams and now attending University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
2.Leonore Lindsley, Born at Boston March 13/1917, killed in May 1945 in
a jeep accident while sight seeing at Bertschagarten, Germany, buried in the American Military Cemetery, Metz, France. She never married.
Child:- by his second wife Emily Bacon Benjamin:- (Still alive 1959)
3. Virginia Lindsley. Born in N.Y. City, Dec 8/l924.
She married at Lenox, Mass., July 24/1943, Jacques Gignoux, born at Fontainbleu, Paris France, Jan 22/1922, They were divorced in 1958 (?).
Children:- (all born in N.Y. City)
1.Reginald Gignoux, born Jan 31/1945.
2.Thomas Jacques Gignoux, born Nov 19/1946.
3.Claudine Emily Gignoux, born March 17/1951.
4.Thayer Lindaley Gignoux, born June /1955.
That will give you Joan's family: I hear her son Chris is rather fond of drink (like both his parents - Joan can mop it up too). Chris is a nice appearing and well spoken polite fellow, but not heavy in brains. His father married again and was again divorced. Yes, there were a lot of divorces in the Lindsley family but you're wrong about Mabel and Abby Austin. Neither were divorced but several of their children were, but not Dorothy who has given her life to look after her mother, still alive in Dedham, Mass - Mabel I mean, and of course Dot too. Walter Austin, Mabel's husband died of D.Ts in Boston years ago, but he left her 4 million dollars, held in trust by the Bishop Trust of Honolulu, so the family can't squander the capital. Walter's father made it in sugar. Walter Austin was a life chum of Jommy Wilder, and the Castle boy who was later quite a big bug in the U.S. State Dpt. Hugh Gunn was also a pal of theirs.
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2 - OTIS AUGUSTUS POOLE.
Was born at Beloit, Wisconsin, December 20/1848, and died at Cloyne Court, Berkeley, California, April 1/1929, aged 80 years, of a heart attack after an illness of ten days. His body was cremated and his ashes brought to Yokohama by Mr. E.W. Frazar, and buried in the grave of his wife in the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery.
Otis was the eldest child of Augustus and Maria Bishop (Manchester) Poole of Beloit, see subject 4.
He married at Chicago, on February 17/1876, Eleanor Isabella Armstrong, born at Leitrim, Ireland, August 14/1841, died at 89 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan, June 4/1918, of cancer, daughter of John and Eleanor Isabella (Wilson) Armstrong, see subject 6. Eleanor had married, 1st, at Arcola, Ill., on November 7/1871, Colonel John Washington Young: they were divorced in 1872 and had no children, see subject 5.
Otis wrote the following account of his life:. I was born at Beloit: that nature's alchemy should have precipitated me into this world on the shortest day of the year, must have been for the sake of consistency, for I am short in stature. My father died when I was four years old and my recollections of him are limited to a few instances only. He took me with him one late afternoon when he went a couple of hundred yards from the house into Beloit College grounds, while he shot some wild pigeons which were flying low. Millions of these wild pigeons migrated daily from the rookeries in Michigan to feeding grounds within a radius of three hundred miles and return by sundown. It was no uncommon sight for a hundred flocks to cross the sky in successive waves more than a mile wide from flank to flank. When it was windy, they flew low, and then the shooting was too easy to be good sport except to supply the table. From countless millions that were a menace to the farmer's crops, they dwindled rapidly, and for more than thirty years, several public societies have maintained standing offers of $1000 for a single pair of those birds, without the reward ever being claimed. The early impressions of my father were from what I heard people say of him, and from a couple of daguerrotypes, and from things around the house and garden which he had planned and made. He had a creative and mechanical bent, and was looking forward to giving me the advantages and education to fit me for a civil engineer, which had been an unrealised ambition for himself. At the time of my father's death, my mother was thirty and my grandfather Otis Manchester was fifty eight. My grandfather's home and chief business were then in Utica, N.Y., but he had investments and business interests in Beloit and made frequent visits to Beloit. When my father died, grandfather took charge of the estate for mother, and three years later, cleared out his Utica business and moved to Beloit, moved into the same house with mother, and thus became my titular father as well as grandfather. Insofar as he was thrifty and wise, he was a conscientious deputy father, but he and his family brought with them the emotional sterility of New England Puritanism, and as he was 53 years older than I, there was not much that he could see from a small boy's point of view with any mutual sympathy, and I suffered much from its lack, and my mother suffered vicariously for us three children for the same reason. There was too much Manchester in the combination altogether. Grandfather took me to Utica in 1854-5 to the house on Genessee St. I remember picking cherries from a ladder, and shaking sweet plums from the trees in the garden, and picking up fine yellow pears that had dropped on our side of the fence from Mr. Cooper's garden, and his trying to take them away from ma, and grandfather not letting him do it. I remember gathering beech nuts way out beyond the end of Geneesee St., to eat in church and of sliding down the incline from
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John Street Bridge on Christmas morning and tripping up an old Irish woman on her way to Mass, so I must have been there more than a year. I was in Beloit again soon after, for I was there when the first new nickel one cent pieces came out in 1857. Not long after that, I had my first job earning a little money, outside the usual family chores for which I was paid small sums to encourage the sense of my own money. This was during the winter vacation, and my job was in the Bank of Beloit, counting silver coins and wrapping them up in rolls of post of office paper. Next, I was picked off the gate post by a big college student and taken to his room where I was paid ten cents an hour to read "Marcus Aurelius" to half a dozen students, cramming for examination. Our neighbor opposite, was Judge John M. Kemp, with four children about our ages, and a wife who had once been pretty but that was about all, and a large house with beautiful and extensive ground. He was a famous judge and a man of fine literary talents, but in 1859 was slowly dying of consumption. He found my mother's intellectual companionship one of his chief solaces, and many an evening I was taken over there to sit in the library with then, while mother other read aloud to him. I heard Victor Hugo's Les Miserables read and discussed without being conscious of paying any attention to it, but 20 years later, when I read it, as I supposed for the first time, I found it all coming back to me and there were no unexpected surprises. He was fond of holding up his hand to check the reading, and discussing with my mother, some thought suggested by the subject in hand. I remember on one of these occasions hearing him say:- "Well, Maria, a good many types of men have come under my scrutiny in my career as a judge, but I've never yet seen the man wearing a ring who didn't have a soft spot in his head somewhere". I was not yet twelve, but that remark, coming from a distinguished judge, made such a lasting impression on me that it was after my fiftieth year that I wore a ring on my ringer. It was the Judge's passionate desire to see Lincoln elected, and that was the basis of the will power that kept him alive. He had the best of care and tried any thing that anyone suggested. He was "lord bountiful" to me, as he paid me for gathering mullein leaves which he had been recommended to smoke, and a dollar a dozen for frog legs. Sometimes I had great luck and captured more than his daily requirement and then mother cooked them up for me. Never did Delmonico's later, ever serve frog's legs at $1.50 per portion, that were as good as those Beloit frogs cooked at home. Then, Lincoln was elected and Fort Sumpter fired upon, and the Civil war broke out in the year I was twelve, and before that was over, I had got far enough in school to feel the difference between my clothes and those of other
boys. I realised that the money I could earn between school hours, was not enough to keep me in pocket money and clothes, to say nothing of something towards my board. So when I came home at the end of the winter term of 1863, and found an offer of a clerkship in the book store of Wright & Newcomb at $12.50 per month for six months, I dropped my books, and dashed out to tell Paul, my best chum, who, strange to tell, had a similar offer to go into the drug store next door to the bookstore: we both had to sleep in the stores. Of course neither of our mothers liked that feature of it - mothers are built that way: perhaps there was a certain in concealed exhilaration to a full blooded boy of fourteen at the feel of the loosening of apron strings, but the mothers knew it would have to come sometime anyway. I intended to go back to school again after I had earned some money, but that good intention has been part of the pavement of Hades for nearly sixty years, though I matriculated for, and took a long course in the University of Hard Knocks. These were exciting war times, and our
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book store was the center of distribution for the Chicago morning and evening newspapers, that reached us at 1 and 9 P.M. People were mad for news on the eve of great battles and events of the war, and the second election of Lincoln, and his assassination in 1865, and the first trans-Atlantic under sea cable message in the summer of 1866. This was the stirring period of American history with which I was in close touch in my first independent four years out of school, The prospect of going back to school grew more remote. My free hours were between 1 P.M. and 8 A.M. For hunting, fishing or any other out door sports and games, there was not time enough in the free hours to encourage them, and the social amenities of a small town after curfew, did not contain much easement for a young cub, bashful and painfully self conscious, and without monny to spend and keep up his end - so I took it out in reading. Books of all kinds were on the shelves and I had only to reach for them. I began on the most utter trash, "Beadles Dime Novels", &c, but Mr. Wright mercifully diverted me from them to Marryat's and Cooper's exciting tales, and other books of literary type: I read whole shelves of them. Five years later, I was to learn that this same Mr. Wright had asked my mother to marry him: he was a widower with four daughters. He had held out as an additional inducement, that he would give me a college education that would fit me for a civil engineer, which was my father's ambition for me. Mr. Wright was much older than my mother and needed her in his family of girls: mother was a refined, intellectual, and very pretty woman, but couldn't love him and wouldn't marry him. But it was on her conscience that by not marrying him, she had deprived me of a great advantage. I am thankful her own aversion and her mother's instinct so surely guided her to refuse him: as a step father he would have driven me to the dogs in no time. In April 1867, in my 19th year, I left Beloit for Chicago, where an uncle had found me a position in the supply department of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, at 40 South Clark St., at $40 per month. Seeing that nobody got on here but those who had influence higher up, I left this position the following year and began as a book keeper for Sherman, Hall & Lybrand, on South Water St. at $40 per month. I was boarding in Mr. Sherman Hall's house on West Washington St. at that time. That boarding place was the beginning of my existence in hall bedrooms with all my worldly possessions in one trunk, and I never knew anything more capacious until I was married on February 17/1876. With the exception of a year and a half, following the great Chicago fire of October 9/1871, I was with Mr. Hall until he hopelessly failed in 1875. My mother died at Beloit in 1873. During the time I was with Mr. Hall, I was a horse for work: my hours were long but I was a good book keeper and confidential office man, and earned and got $2500 a year. His failure was a catastrophe, a very personal catastrophe for me, for I was getting ready to be married, and did not want to put it off. Business hadn't recovered from the panic of 1873, and $2500 a year bookeeperships were not plenty, and besides, they had to be grown into by many years of service. The only thing I could find was $75 a month position as book keeper and general utility man with a small tea merchant, Mr Henry Sayres, of Sayres & Thompson: I took it and promptly got married on that and a small savings bank balance, and the sanguine hope of a subsequent advance in salary. But the old skinflint didn't loosen up or come through with an annual advance in salary, in keeping with the service he got. He had everything his way in the deal but he entirely overlooked how much better a tea man I was becoming than a book keeper: a day came in March 1879, when he refused to advance me by $150 per year, from $l200 to $1350, and
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he let my engagement runout and over run a month without settling for the coming year, and meantime, out of the blue sky, came an offer of $1800 as tea buyer for a very big concern, Reid, Murdock & Fisher, which I was free to accept, and did. Four fruitful years with this concern as a tea buyer, qualified me for another transition in the tea game, and rounded out my nineteen years of service in Chicago. Meantime, my 1876 hall bedroom and one trunk full of bachelor belongings, had expanded into a house and lot at 3731 Forest Avenue, an appalling accumulation of house-hold goods, and a wife and three children - some problem in view of the turn in my business affairs. E.A. Schoyer, the importer for whom I had been a salesman on the street for two years, suddenly wanted me to go to China for him, and on less than a month's notice, I sailed from San Francisco on May 2/1886, per "Belgic" for Shanghai, and every summer since, for forty one years, has been passed in the Orient, namely, 2 years in Shanghai and Amoy, 22 years in Yokohama, and 17 years in Shidzucka. On my return from my second year in China, I found the firm had been speculating in coffee, and they failed in 1888. The next day I had three offers to go to the Orient, and closed with the one that wanted me to go to Japan, Smith Baker & Co. Knowing my future was thenceforth to be in the Orient, I sold the Forest Avenue house where all the children had been borne, and disposed of the immovables not likely to be needed in Japan. With the rest, including my wife's square grand Steinway piano, which had survived a trip from the center of the great Chicago fire of 1871 with the loss of one leg, we all said a long goodbye to Chicago friends, and sailed from San Francisco for Yokohama on April 8/1888, par "Oceanic". This is just a bare outline of my life before going to the Orient: to fill in the intermediate spaces would make a big book and run to personalities and rake up memories, violate privacies, and reveal tragedies of wasted opportunities and errors of judgement that would cast a shadow over the myriad joys of a long life".
(end of Otis A. Poole's account).
Otis Augustus Poole was a fine man in every respect, a good husband and father, of gentle disposition, artistic, and with the highest degree of honor and rectitude. He was not self assertive, nor fond of public office, and had educated himself by reading to an extraordinary extent. He was more like a brother to his children then an unapproachable father, and took part in all their interests. He brought to Yokohama in 1889, two thoroughbred fox terriers, and for the next fifty years, had generations of them. Since Otis came to Yokohama in 1888 for Smith Baker Co., he remained with them until 1909, and when that firm was disbanded, he carried on the tea business under the name of Otis A. Poole & Co., until he retired in 1926, moving his office to Shidzucka, 75 miles south west of Yokohama, the center of the tea garden, and living in a Japanese house, for six months in the year. His widely recognized reputation as an exceptional tea expert, made him one of the very few tea buyers in China and Japan who were given "open" orders, that is, importers in the U.S.A. would authorize him to buy any teas he considered good at whatever price he set: his clients were always greatly satisfied. He would walk down a tea counter with over 100 cups of tea, taste them, grade them, and price than as close as five sen per picul (133 1/3rd lbs). The Japanese loved and trusted him, and at his death, the Government conferred on him a high honor for his share in developing the sale of Japan teas to the U.S.A. In 1892, Otis became interested in photography, and for years, took many pictures of life and scenes in Japan, which he used in lantern slides for the many lectures he gave in the U.S.A. It was he who started Burton Holmes, the Travelogue lecturer, on his career, at the request of Burton's grandmother, who was anxious to start the young rich Burton on some career.
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Since he became resident in Yokohama in 1888, his annual trips to the U.S.A. prevented him being with his family at Christmas, but his return in April made a second Christmas for his children. He was very abstemious in his habits and not fond of sports. Though unable to play himself, he was musical, and never missed the opera season in New York. He never learned to speak Japanese and knew no other language. The tea business was not a money fortune maker. He never rode a bicycle, nor drove a motor car, nor ever went up in an aeroplane. He was of a creative and inventive mind, and skilful in the use of tools. His dark room was a mine of interest to his sons, whom he taught the intricacies of of taking, developing and printing photographs: he was happiest in working around the house: he had no interest in gardening. He was an inimitable raconteur, doubtless increased by contacts with many people during his travels. He was a fine swimmer and famous for his long dives, for which he made many records. He always walked to and from his office, generally taking the dogs with him. He was fussy about his diet, but never ill. He was always resourceful: one winter in the 1890s, a day before his departure for San Francisco, an earthquake the previous night, had twisted the brick chimney of our house, a quarter way around just where it came through the roof, so that when the fire was started in the morning, sparks set fire inside the roof, to which there was no access from the inside of the house. He chopped through the wall of a small closet above the front door, and put the fire out with buckets of water which he carried up. This ruined his new suit of clothes, so he had to postpone his sailing for a week. He was never afraid of the frequent earthquakes, and used to sit undisturbed, much to the annoyance of his family who always rushed out doors, day or night. The big earthquake of 1923 proved how dangerous his plan was, for most of the houses fell, and it was those who habitually rushed outdoors who were the majority of those saved. On arrival at Yokohama in May 1888, after a few weeks at the Grand Hotel, Otis took up his residence at 89 Bluff, a bungalow of six rooms, where the family lived until his wife's death in 1915. There were neither water, gas or electricity on the bluff in those days. Our house was entirely destroyed in the great earthquake of September 1/1923.
Otis A, Poole had the distinction of having crossed the Pacific Ocean between the Orient and the U.S.A., eighty two times also covering many of the cities in the U.S.A. between San Francisco and New York, without accident - a remarkable record of the safety of travel. Beyond a few regular steamer captains, he holds the record for the number of crossings. His many voyages add up, at 18 days per trip, to over three years and ten months at sea, quite a record for a non seafaring man. The steamers he travelled on, were as follows:-
Westward. Eastward.
May 2 1887. Belgic. Dec22 1886, City of Peking
Apr 2 1887. Belgic. Dec 12 1887. Oceanic.
Apr 6 1888. Oceanic. Dec 8 1888. Belgic.
Apr 6 1889. Arabic. Jan 7 1890. Oceanic.
Apr15 1890. Oceanic, Dec 19 1890. Belgic.
Apr 2 1891. Oceanic. Dec 17 1891. Oceanic,
Mar26 1892. Oceanic. Dec 10 1891. Oceanic,
Mar14 1893. Oceanic, Dec 17 1893. Gaelic.
Apr 3 1894. Empress of India. Oct 24 1894. Belgic.
Mar26 1895. China. Oct 27 1895, Coptic,
Mar21 1896. Belgic. Nov 7 1896, City of Peking,
Apr 1 1897. Coptic. Nov 10 1897. Gaelic,
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Apr 2 1898. Belgic, Nov 5 1898. City of Peking.
Mar 25 1899. China, Oct 21 1899. Doric.
Mar 31 1900. Kong Kong Maru. Dec 22 1900. Gaelic,
Mar 30 1901. Gaelic. Nov 9 1901. Doric.
Mar 29 1902. City of Peking, Oct 15 1902. Doric.
Mar 27 1903. America Maru. Oct 31 1903. Gaelic.
Apr 9 1904. Coptic. Oct 26 1904. Coptic,
Mar 28 1905. China. Nov 11 1905. Doric.
Mar 31 1906. Coptic. Nov 1 1906. Empress of China,
Apr 2 1907. Coptic. Oct 22 1907. Persia,
Mar 31 1908. Nippon Maru. Nov 5 1908. Mongolia.
Mar 26 1909. Siberia, Oct 27 1909. Machuria,
Mar 22 1910. Korea. Nov 2 1910. Siberia.
Mar 29 1911. America Maru. Oct 24 1911. Tenyo Maru.
Mar 27 1912. Chiyo Maru. Nov 3 1912. Mongolia,
Mar 29 1913. Siberia, Oct 28 1913. Chiyo Maru.
Apr 4 1914. Korea. Oct 24 1914. Siberia,
Apr 3 1915. Shinyo Maru. Oct 25 1915. Shinyo Maru.
Apr 3 1916. Tenyo Maru. Nov 10 1916. Empress of Russia,
Apr 15 1917. Empress of Asia. Dec 14 1917. Ecuador.
Apr 6 1918. Ecuador. Nov 15 1918. Ecuador.
Apr 5 1919. Columbia. Nov 8 1919. Empress of Russia,
Apr 3 1920. Venezuela. Nov 12 1920. Venezuela,
Apr 2 1921. Ecuador. Dec 19 1921. Golden State.
Mar 25 1922. Golden State. Oct 14 1922. President Jackson,
Apr 5 1923. President Lincoln. Nov 15 1923. President Pierce.
Apr 1 1924. President Cleveland. Oct 2 1924. President Cleveland.
Apr 4 1925. President Pierce. Dec 1 1925. President Cleveland,
Mar 30 1926. Siberia Maru. Dec 16 1926. Siberia Maru.,
Westward. Eastward.
May 2 1887. Belgic. Dec22 1886, City of Peking
Apr 2 1887. Belgic. Dec 12 1887. Oceanic.
Apr 6 1888. Oceanic. Dec 8 1888. Belgic.
Apr 6 1889. Arabic. Jan 7 1890. Oceanic.
Apr15 1890. Oceanic, Dec 19 1890. Belgic.
Apr 2 1891. Oceanic. Dec 17 1891. Oceanic,
Mar26 1892. Oceanic. Dec 10 1891. Oceanic,
Mar14 1893. Oceanic, Dec 17 1893. Gaelic.
Apr 3 1894. Empress of India. Oct 24 1894. Belgic.
Mar26 1895. China. Oct 27 1895, Coptic,
Mar21 1896. Belgic. Nov 7 1896, City of Peking,
Apr 1 1897. Coptic. Nov 10 1897. Gaelic,
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Apr 2 1898. Belgic, Nov 5 1898. City of Peking.
Mar 25 1899. China, Oct 21 1899. Doric.
Mar 31 1900. Kong Kong Maru. Dec 22 1900. Gaelic,
Mar 30 1901. Gaelic. Nov 9 1901. Doric.
Mar 29 1902. City of Peking, Oct 15 1902. Doric.
Mar 27 1903. America Maru. Oct 31 1903. Gaelic.
Apr 9 1904. Coptic. Oct 26 1904. Coptic,
Mar 28 1905. China. Nov 11 1905. Doric.
Mar 31 1906. Coptic. Nov 1 1906. Empress of China,
Apr 2 1907. Coptic. Oct 22 1907. Persia,
Mar 31 1908. Nippon Maru. Nov 5 1908. Mongolia.
Mar 26 1909. Siberia, Oct 27 1909. Machuria,
Mar 22 1910. Korea. Nov 2 1910. Siberia.
Mar 29 1911. America Maru. Oct 24 1911. Tenyo Maru.
Mar 27 1912. Chiyo Maru. Nov 3 1912. Mongolia,
Mar 29 1913. Siberia, Oct 28 1913. Chiyo Maru.
Apr 4 1914. Korea. Oct 24 1914. Siberia,
Apr 3 1915. Shinyo Maru. Oct 25 1915. Shinyo Maru.
Apr 3 1916. Tenyo Maru. Nov 10 1916. Empress of Russia,
Apr 15 1917. Empress of Asia. Dec 14 1917. Ecuador.
Apr 6 1918. Ecuador. Nov 15 1918. Ecuador.
Apr 5 1919. Columbia. Nov 8 1919. Empress of Russia,
Apr 3 1920. Venezuela. Nov 12 1920. Venezuela,
Apr 2 1921. Ecuador. Dec 19 1921. Golden State.
Mar 25 1922. Golden State. Oct 14 1922. President Jackson,
Apr 5 1923. President Lincoln. Nov 15 1923. President Pierce.
Apr 1 1924. President Cleveland. Oct 2 1924. President Cleveland.
Apr 4 1925. President Pierce. Dec 1 1925. President Cleveland,
Mar 30 1926. Siberia Maru. Dec 16 1926. Siberia Maru.,
Issue:-
Issue:-
1. Herbert Armstrong Poole. Born at 3731 Forest Ave., Chicago, Ill.,
October 15/1877. See subject 1 for issue and further particulars.
2. Eleanor Isabella Poole,
Born at 3731 Forest Ave., Chicago, Ill.,
December 16/1878. She attended Cottage Grove Ave., School, Chicago
until coming out to Yokohama in 1888, and there attended a school
conducted by a Miss Abersole, and after that by a school kept by a
Mrs. Cahusac at 43 Bluff. Her mother taught her the piano, and she
had finishing lessons by Dr. Von Koeber, at Tokyo: she became a fine
pianist. In March 1903, she sailed par "America Maru" with her father
for a five month trip to the United States, and had a wonderful time
in all the cities visited by her father on his business tour. Eleanor
took part in the Amateur Dramatic plays given in Yokohama: she also
performed at many concerts on one occasion playing the piano part of
the Schubert Trio in B flat, Professor Junker playing the violin and
Rodolphe Schmid the cello parts. In 1902 she met Nathaniel George
Maitland, an Englishman, who had come out to the Chartered Bank of
India, Australia, & China: he had a fine baritone voice, sang
exceptionally well, and took many solo parts in the Amateur Dramatic
operas. They were married at Christ Church, Yokohama, on September
14/1904, and lived first at 84 Bluff. N.G. Maitland was born at
London, England, on November 9/l875, and died at West Byfleet,
Surrey, England, on February 14/1951, of cancer, fifth child and
fourth son of Francis and Annie Jane (Chapman) Maitland of London.
Neither of his parents ever left England, but all his brothers came
out to China, where his uncle, J.A. Maitland, amassed
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a large fortune in the import trade of English piece goods, and whose
name is held in great respect by all old China hands. The eldest
Maitland son never amounted to much and up to 1914 lived in England,
supported by his brothers: he had been married and divorced, and had
one son, Frank Maitland, who went out to Shanghai and for some time
worked for N.G. Maitland. The second Maitland son Frank Maitland,
lived in Hong Kong, where he was head of Linstead & Davies: he
married in 1905, Alice Stepani, born in Hong Kong, of Italian
descent; they had no children. The third son Edward W. Maitland, for
many years manager in Japan of The China Traders Insurance Co.,
married in 1900 at Shanghai, Ethel Wilcoxen, born in Shanghai of
English parents: her father was head of the silk department of Arnold
Karberg & Co., Shanghai. They came to live is Yokohama after their
marriage and after retiring, lived some years in Switzerland, and
then settled West Byfleet, Surrey, England, where he died June
27/1943 of cancer. They had three daughters,
1st, Daisy, who married
in Yokohama, Eddy Adams, employed by one of the American Banks
which sprung up in the Orient during the first World: they have since
lived in Hartford, Conn., and have two children - three more died
young.
2nd, Alice, who married a Mr Daubeny of the Rising Sun
Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of the Shell Oil Co., of London: they are
now retired and live at West Byfleet.
3rd Jean, born in 1918 at
Yokohama, who married on December 31/1938, at West Byfleet, Donald
Foster: they have a son, Anthony Edward Foster, born April 1940.
The fourth child of Francis and Annie (Chapman) Maitland, was Daisy
Maitland, who married in London in 1903, Tom Morrison, first violin
of the London Symphony Orchestra. She died of cancer on March 31/1938
and had no children: Tom then became the manger of some hotel in the
Midlands. Nathaniel George Maitland, after a short service in the
Discount Bank in London, joined the Chartered Bank of India,
Australia & China and in 1902 came out to Yokohama for them. In 1903,
he joined the International Banking Corp., of New York, a subsidiary
of the National City Bank, New York, at their Yokohama branch, and
was soon transferred to their Shanghai branch, where Eleanor joined
him after the birth of their first child in Yokohama. They lived
their until he retired in 1926 to return to live at West Byfleet,
England. After serving some years with the International Banking
Corp, he accomplished his long cherished desire to set himself up as
a Bill and Bullion Exchange Broker in Shanghai: he bought a
partnership with a Mr Edminston, who died a year later and he carried
on this business with great success until he retired with a fortune.
He built a fine house at No 5, Route Ghisi in the French Settlement
of Shanghai, later selling it to the Standard Oil Co. after which
they lived in rented houses on Weihaiwei Road and Ferry Road. In 1919
they took their sons, to England, left them in school, and returned
for seven more years in Shanghai. At west Byfleet he bought the
estate of "Oakhurst" and lived there ten years, then bought "Frandon"
near by, naming it from the first syllables of their eldest and
youngest sons' names. West Byfleet is about 20 miles south of London
on the road
to Southampton.
Issue:-
2/1. Francis George Maitland, born at 84 Bluff, Yokohama, September
3/1905 died at Norwich, England, April 23/1938, of spinal
menengitis, after only a few days of illness, a great tragedy as he
had only been married seven months before. He was educated first at
Shanghai schools, then graduated from the University of Hastings,
Sussex, and later from Clare College, Cambridge University, as a
Medical Doctor.
Subject 2. 8.
After the usual long interneship at St. Thomas Hospital, London, he
was duly qualified as a doctor and surgeon, and entered practice at
Norwich. He married there, on October 2/1937, Ella Joyce Master
born there June 4/1910, daughter of Dr. Humphrey Claude and Violet
Maude Master. Ella married, 2nd, in 1945, as his second wife, Angus
Campbell Walker of Norfolk, a widower, born 1892, with two children,
Ian, born 1929, and Dorothy, born 1935. In 1950 they lived at Horning
on the Norfolk Broads. Walker was for many years in Government
service in the Sudan, Africa.
Issue:-
3/1. Frances Rosella Maitland, born at Norwich, December 3/1938,
seven months after her father's death.
2/2. John Armstrong Maitland born at Shanghai, November 9/1906.
He first attended schools in Shanghai, and in 1919 entered the University
of Hastings, Sussex, England: then graduated from Clair College of
Cambridge University, with the degree of B.A. in engineering. He
joined the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co., of London, a Shell subsidiary
and was sent out to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was stationed also
at Sao Paulo, Recife, and other branches: in 1948 he returned to
their head office in London, as manager. He married at Sao Paulo,
on April 22/1933, Jean Marjorie Macpherson, born at Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 11/1911, daughter of John Gibb and Isabel Bowman (MacCreath)
MacPherson, both of Glasgow, Scotland, who went out to Brazil for
the River Plate Bank, and later entered commerce, and who lived at
Nichteroy, Rio de Janeiro, Jean was educated at St. Paul's school,
Sao Paulo, and at Skerry's College, Glasgow, Sootland. She was then
appointed secretary to the Department of Commerce at Sao Paulo from
1930 to 1932. Jean and her children have dual nationality, both
British and Portuguese: all of them speak Portuguese fluently.
Issue:
3/1. Alistaire John Maitland, born at Rio de Janeiro, August l2/1935.
3/2. Ian Maitland, Born at Sao Paulo in 1939.
first attended schools in Shanghai, and in 1919 entered the University of Hastings, Sussex, England: then graduated from Clair College of Cambridge University, with the degree of B.A. in engineering. He joined the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co., of London, a Shell subsidiary and was sent out to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was stationed also at Sao Paulo, Recife, and other branches: in 1948 he returned to their head office in London, as manager. He married at Sao Paulo, on April 22/1933, Jean Marjorie Macpherson, born at Sao Paulo, Brazil March 11/1911, daughter of John Gibb and Isabel Bowman (MacCreath) MacPherson, both of Glasgow, Scotland, who went out to Brazil for the River Plate Bank, and later entered commerce, and who lived at Nichteroy, Rio de Janeiro, Jean was educated at St. Paul's school, Sao Paulo, and at Skerry's College, Glasgow, Sootland. She was then appointed secretary to the Department of Commerce at Sao Paulo from 1930 to 1932. Jean and her children have dual nationality, both British and Portuguese: all of them speak Portuguese fluently.
Issue:
3/1. Alistaire John Maitland, born at Rio de Janeiro, August l2/1935.
3/2. Ian Maitland, Born at Sao Paulo in 1939.
2/3. Otis Edward Maitland, born in London, England, August 10/1909.
He was educated at Shanghai schools, and graduated from the University of Hastings, but did not go to college. He joined the Anglo-Grecian firm of Conte Michelos, and was sent to Egypt where he worked at their Alexandria office, and later to their branch at Khartoum, Egyptian Sudan - their business was in long staple cotton. He lived there several years and learned to speak Arabic fluently. On the outbreak of the second World War, he was drafted into the Intelligence Division of the British Army, on account of his knowledge of Arabic, and was stationed throughout the war in Egypt and Syria as aide to the Commander in Chief, General Maitland. During the war his family lived with his wife's parents in Byfleet. After being demobilized, he joined several of his fellow army officers and started farming in the south of England, where they lived in 1951. He married at West Byfleet, on October 29/1932, Joan Margaret Haslehurst, born July 17/1909, died at West Byfleet October 15/1955, of cerebral thrombosis, daughter of Guy Bartlett and Janet (Hicks) Haslehust, one of the the partners in Otis' firm, Conte Micholos, Issue:-
3/1. Otis Ragan Haslehurst Maitland, born West Byfleet, August 17/1937.
3/2. Colin Neil Maitland, born at West Byfleet, July 17/1940.
3/3. Frances Ann Maitland, born August 13/1948.
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2/4. Donald Sydney Maitland, born at Shanghai, August 28/1918.
Educated first at Shanghai schools, then at Charterhouse, England, and graduated from Cambridge University with an engineering degree, after which he joined an aeroplane factory. In 1942 he He married on November 8/1941, Rosemary Joyce Lister Parkes, born at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire June 14 /1919, daughter of Arthur Josiah and Ethel Anne (Lister) Parkes of Manor House, Oaken Wolverhampton. Arthur was born in December 1890, and Ethel Anne September 1/1888. In 1951 Donald is a partner in his father-in-law's firm and they live at High Elms, Mill Lane, Codsall, Staffordshire, England.-
Issue:-
3/1. Antony Arthur Armstrong Maitland born at Cairo, Egypt,
October 16/1945. (He transferred this History into Electronic format)
3/2. Eleanor Lindley Maitland, born in Oaken February 5/1949.
(as written, but in fact 6 February at High Elms).
3. Otis Manchester Poole. Born at 3731 Forest Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
September 6/1880. A twin sister died at birth. His childhood years were shared with his brother Bertie and sister Eleanor in Chicago, with occasional visits to His Grandfather Armstrong's farm at Arcola. Like them, he started his schooling at the age of six at Cottage Grove School. On the family's way out to Japan in May, 1888, he came down with scarlet fever at San Francisco, where he and his mother were compelled to stay behind in quarantine at the Palace Hotel following the rest of the family a month later in the O.& O. S.S. "Gaelic" and arriving in Yokohama in June, 1888. He was educated in the Victoria Public School in Yokohama, concluding with a year's private tuition in French, Japanese, shorthand and type- writing. In 1895, at the age of 15, joined the English firm of Dodwell Carlill & Co. in Yokohama, an Import, Export and Shipping concern with Head Offices in London and HongKong and branches at Shanghai, Foochow, Kobe, Yokohama, Victoria and Tacoma. Four years later the firm became Dodwell & Co.Ltd. and additional branches were established in Ceylon, Antwerp, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and New York. Chester rose steadily in the firm and was stationed at various tines in the Hongkong, London and Kobe offices though he remained most constantly in Yokohama. On the death of the Yokohama Manager, George Syme Thomson, in December 1915, Chester was appointed his successor, and three years later became General Manager for the Company's four branches in Japan. Following the Great Earthquake of September 1st, 1923, Chester was transferred to the New York Office and made a Director of the Company, establishing his home in Summit, New Jersey. In 1945 he celebrated 50 years' service with Dodwell & Co. and in 1949 retired to a country estate, "Missing Acres", near Charlottesville, Virginia.
Chester was a great walker and mountain-climber and scaled many peaks in the Japanese Alps. He was a notable golfer and considerable artist, painting many beautiful water-colors, and was also a expert photographer. He travelled three times around the world, - in 1902, 1909 and 1922 as well as a trip from Japan to London and back In 1915. On his second world circuit, he and his companion Orville Bonnet, travelled all through Malaya, India, Egypt, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and Scotland. Their experiences were interesting and often exciting; one of their
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amusing exploits was driving golf balls off the top of the Great Pyramid Cheops in Egypt. Except for three bachelor years in Kobe from 1910 to 1913, Chester's life in Japan was spent in Yokohama, where he held many honorary posts in the community. He married at Yokohama, June 21/1916, Dorothy May Campbell, born at Yokohama, June 21/l895, daughter of William Wallace and Clara Edwina (Rice) Campbell, (called Cala). William Wallace Campbell was born in Quebec August 22/1860 of Scottish forebears who had first settled in Virginia and them moved to Canada after the War of Independence in which they had remained loyalists. He came to Japan in 1889 for the Pacific Mail S.S.Co. and represented them in Yokohama, Kobe and Hongkong for nearly forty years. He was a keen yachtsman and Commodore of the Sailing Clubs in all these ports. He died in Summit, New Jersey, September 21/1938, while on a last visit to his daughter and Chester. Dorothy's mother "Calla" Rice was of New England ancestry, her father George Edwin Rice having been born in Hallowell, Maine in 1843, educated in Roxbury (Boston) and spent his younger days in San Francisco where he married in 1868 Clara Amelia Cummings of Canaan, New Hampshire. George's father, Colonel Elisha Esty Rice, (born 1820 in Union, Maine), was the first American Consul accredited to Japan after the Treaty negotiated by Townsend Harris with the Shogun opened Japan to foreign intercourse and trade. Col. Rice was appointed to the Northernmost Treaty Port of Hakodate and served there for nearly twenty years. He was a very tall man of commanding presence, a brother of Richard Drury Rice, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine and Vice President of the Northern Pacific Railway. George E. Rice joined his father's Consular staff in Hakodate in 1868; and there twin daughters Mabel and Lillie, were born December 22/1868, followed by Calla on September 21//1871. About 1877 Colonel Elisha Rice's term of office expired and he returned to Washington, George bringing his family down to Yokohama where he became a Vice Consul and where they all lived for many years. Calla had a pure, high soprano voice and sang beautifully. Though quite small, she was bright and vigorous and and exceptionally fine tennis player, playing on the Interport Teams for fifty years! She married in Yokohama November 30/1892, and Dorothy was born there May 18/1895, followed by a brother Archibald Kenneth Campbell on October 2/1896. After living in various Far Eastern ports with their parents, Dorothy and Archie were sent home to school in 1907 to Ladies College and Elizabeth College in Guernsey, Channel Islands, Archie eventually entering the ministry and residing in Scotland. in Scotland. After five years in Ladies' College, Dorothy went on to a finishing school in Dresden, Germany: and in April, 1913, returned to Japan via the Siberian Railway to become a Yokohama debutante of just under 18.
When Chester and Dorothy were married in June, 1916, they lived at No. 66 Bluff, only a stone's throw from the Poole bungalow at No.89 where his mother was still living, his father being mostly in Shidzucka, the Tea District. In this pleasant house, with its enclosed garden, their three sons, Anthony, Richard and David were born in 1917, 1919 and 1920. (See below). In 1922 they all had a year's leave in England, spent mostly in the New Forest and Devon; and in 1923 went through the Great Earthquake and Fire of Sept.1st having some terrible experiences but escaping uninjured. Like
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everyone else, they lost all their possessions and were evacuated from the destroyed city to Kobe by ship. Over 150,000 people perished in Yokohama and Tokyo, including one-eighth of the foreign population of Yokohama, among them many lifelong friends. Dorothy's parents were with them throughout the day of peril and her Aunt Mabell, though surrounded by fire near the railway station, escaped by a miracle. Chester's mother had died in 1918 and his father in Shidzucka was beyond the disaster area, as was his sister Eleanor summering in Karuizawe. (Chester has written a graphic account of the terrible event.)
After two years in Kobe following the earthquake, Chester and his family went on four months' leave to Victoria, B.C. during which time he was asked to take over the Company's New York Office. He was also made a Director of the firm and he and his family spent the next 23 years in Summit, New Jersey, until his retirement to Virginia in 1949 at the age of 68. His and Dorothy's three sons thus grew up in their own country, and their brief histories now follow:-
2/1. Anthony Campbell Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama, March 29/1917,
died at Lima, Peru April 18/1944, and buried there. After attending Lance School, Summit, N.J., he graduated from Haverford College and joined W.R.Grace & Co. Tony was a natural artist and studied water- colors under Eliot O'Hara at Goose Rocks Beach, Maine, and anatomy under Bridgman in New York. He also played the piano quite well. He was fair and good looking but his chief characteristic was a blithe spirit that won him many friends.
Following a couple of voyages as assistant purser in Grace's passenger ships plying from New York down the West Coast of South America Tony was stationed at their Cristobal branch where he presently took charge of their Airline service (Pan-American-Grace Airways). Thence he was transferred to La Pas, Bolivia as Manager of Panagra. From this lofty center, he flew all around Bolivia and surrounding countries inspecting and establishing Agencies. He spoke Spanish fluently.
He married at La Pas December 19/l943, Luba Gustus, born at Khabarovsk, Siberia, March 30/1916, daughter of Sergei and Marya (Gramovska) Arlyustin. During the first World War, her father was killed in the confused fighting in Siberia between the White Russians and Bolsheviks, and her mother then married Arthur Gustus, a soldier in the American Expeditionary Forces, whose name Luba took. At the end of the war, her parents settled in San Francisco, where Luba was brought up as a American citizen. When she met Tony she was a Secretary at the America Embassy in La Pas. Immediately after their marriage, they were transferred to Guayquil, Ecuador, and a few weeks later Tony contracted typhoid fever while on an up-country trip; and though flown to Lima by the Company for treatment, died there April 18/1944, a great tragedy.
Luba returned at once to Washington and was sent out by the State Department, at her own request, to the other side of the world, - the American Embassy at Ankara, Turkey. There, by strange fate, she met a young Englishman who might almost have been Tony's brother, - Clive Parry, born July 13/1918, who had served two years in the British Army and with the British Council in the near East, spoke five languages and was at the time
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teaching law at the Ankara University. A year later they were married, on May 20/1945, and arc now living at Cambridge, England, where he is Dean of Downing College and an L.L.D. Through the years, they have visited America frequently, the first time in 1948 when Clive was Legal Adviser to the British Delegation at United Nations on Long Island. Later, he came on other missions and lectured at leading Universities. Chester and Dorothy still regard them as part of their family. They have two children:
1. Katherine Parry, born at Cambridge, England, March 13/1946.
2. Anthony Parry, born in New York, N.Y., January 18/1949.
2/2. Richard Armstrong Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama April 29,
1919, had the same education as his brother Anthony. On graduating from Haverford College with high honors he took the State Department Foreign Service examinations at Washington and passed well. His first appointment was as Vice Consul at Montreal 1941-2, and in `43 he was transferred to Barcelona, Spain. Already speaking French fluently, he soon mastered Spanish and had some intriguing experiences in those war years. In 1944, he was finally permitted to join the U.S. Navy, was sworn in at Casablanca or Madrid, returned to U.S.A. for training at Princeton and Monterey, Cal., and in October, 1945, was shipped by transport to Japan with a contingent of the occupation forces a few weeks after Japan's surrender. There, as a Lieutenant, J.G., he served in Military Government under General Douglas MacArthur in S.C.A.P. Headquarters in Tokyo. A year later, he was released by the Navy and reverted on the spot to the Foreign Service, remaining a further 2 years in Tokyo. During this time he revisited the scenes of childhood, climbed Fujiama and enjoyed jaunts up country. While in the Navy he took part in a inspection trip to the little-known Hachijo Islands, a chain out in the Pacific.
From 1949-51 Dick was stationed in Kuala-Lumpur, Malaya, becoming Full Consul. Thence he was posted to the Embassy at Djakarta Java, visiting Thailand, Cambodia & Angkor Wat en route. After only a month, he was transferred back to Washington to the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs for a 3-year spell. Though having his own apartment in Georgetown, he spent many weekends with his parents at "Missing Acres" in Virginia, usually bringing friends. Dick, like his brothers was just on 6 ft. tall and, having gone in for wrestling in college, broad-shouldered and powerful. He enjoyed tennis, had taken up polo in Malaya, and was the cheery, out-door type. He made many friends in Washington, among them a delightful English girl whom he later married Jillian Hanbury. At the end of 1954, he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy at Bogota, Colombia, as Chief of the Political Section where he spent three active years. Returning to Washington in midsuumer 1957, on short leave, he and Jillian became engaged and were married Nov. 2/1957 in St. Paul's Church, Ivy, Virginia close by "Missing Acres".
Jillian was born in London August 11/1930, daughter of Anthony Henry Robert Culling Hanbury, Esquire, and Una Rawnsley Hanbury, of "Derbyfields", North Warnborough, Hampshire, England. The Hanbury ancestry goes back to Roger and Guy de Hanbury, who flourished in Worcestershire in the 12th century and whose line contains many distinguished persons and beautiful estates. The Rawnsleys too, have interesting forbears, including the famous Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley of Carlisle, one of the founders of the National Trust. Intriguing though they may be, it is impossible to
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incorporate these histories herein beyond mentioning that one of Jillian's Quaker ancestors, John Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex, and Tower Street, London, was from 1730 to his death in 1758, the greatest Virginia Tobacco merchant of his day and played an important part in the affairs of that Colony. Two of his ships were commandeered to bring over General Braddock's army in 1755 to oust the French from the Ohio Valley, a campaign in which Major George Washington with 700 Colonial troops, accompanied him. Their attack was overwhelmingly defeated by the French and Indian allies, on the Monongahela River.
At the age of ten, Jillian accompanied her mother and elder sister Diana to Bermuda, where they dwelt through most of the War, coming on to Washington in 1944. Having been to English and Bermuda schools, she was sent in America to the Cambridge School and Westhill Junior College in Boston, after which she entered Washington University, graduating in 1952. She made two extended trips to Europe, in 1951 and l955, and became a American citizen in 1954. Her sister Diana was educated in Canadian schools and London University and in 1952 married James Cecil King in Washington. They had two children Christopher Hanbury King born June 26/1954, and Sheila Ann King, born February 19/1956. Diana, now divorced, lives with her children in Washington.
(Jillian's father, Anthony Hanbury, a member of the London Stock Exchange, became a Captain in the Royal Artillery in World War II, and the wartime separation from her mother in Bermuda resulted in divorce. Both have since remarried and he is living in Ladysmith, Natal. She, Mrs. John Alan Coatsworth, lives in Washington with two charming step- daughters, Anna born August 7, 1944 in Gerrards Cross, Middlesex, England; and Josephine Charlotte, born October 25/1949, in Istanbul, Turkey.
A few days after Dick and Jillian were married, he went back to Bogota, she following a month later, and they lived there for the next two years. Returning to Washington in 1959, Dick assumed the post of Officer in Charge of Peruvian Affairs in the Department of State, his present assignment. They bought a rambler type house in the woods at McLean, - 3947 Mackall Abenue, Langley Forest, - and have one son, -
3/1. Anthony Hanbury Poole, born February 6/1961 in Washington, and
christened June 3/1961 in the National Cathedral by Dean Sayre and Canon Arterton.
3/2. Colin Rawnsley Poole, born January 14/1964, in Washington, DC.
and christened April 18 /1964, in the National Cathedral.
2/3. David Manchester Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama, July 4/1920. He
was five years old when brought to America from Japan and spent his boyhood in Summit, New Jersey. His education was the same as his brothers Dick and Tony, and graduated from Haverford College in 1942 with a B.Sc. in Engineering. He also learned to fly during his senior year under the C.A.A. program. He then joined Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. at Hartford Conn., and had four of his inventions patented and adopted. Early in 1943, he joined the U.S.Army Air Force, got his wings and commission
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as a Lieutenant in February 1944, and was picked out to be a fighter flying and gunnery instructor and spent the rest of the war at various fields in Florida and the South, never getting overseas. When the war ended, he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and took his Masters Degree in Engineering, (M.S.M.E.) specialising in aircraft power plants. Immediately thereafter, he joined the N.E.P.A. Division of Fairchilds, (Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft, operating at the Atomic Center at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for the Army. When the Army transferred their contract to General Electric in 1951, David stayed with Fairchild, joining their "Stratos" Division in Bay Shore, Long Island and living at Marahopa Lane, Centerport, near Huntington. In 1956 he resigned to join the Nuclear Development Corp. of America, at White Plains, N.Y. as project Engineer, living at Rye on the North Shore of Long Island Sound.
David married at Woonsocket Rhode Island, on June 23/1950 Sally Cooper Jarret, born at Providence R.I. June 15/1927, daughter of Hugo Aram and Isabel (White) Jarret, of 268 Woodland Rd. Woonsocket. Hugo was the owner of a large woollen mill in Woonsocket and came of French Canadian ancestors, being descended from Andre Jarret de Beauregard who arrived in Canada in 1664 as an officer in the Regiment de Carignon Salieres, and whose Seigneurie of Beauregard lay on the St. Lawrence below Montreal, close by that of his elder half-brother Francois de Vercheres. Francois' daughter, Madeleine de Vercheres became one of Canada's beloved heroines by her courageous defence, at the age of 14, of the Seignearie's fort against the Iroquois Indians during the absence of her father who had gone with all his able-bodied men to the defence of Quebec, leaving only a half dozen aged servants with Madeleine in his own domain. Her ruses completely deceived the Iroquois until relief finally came. It is a brave story. Hugo Jarret's maternal grandfather was Aram Joseph Pothior, three times Governor of Rhode Island. Sally's mother, Isabel Rolfe White was of a New Jersey family and a lineal descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, the eldest daughter in each generation bearing the name of Rolfe. Isabel died Oct.12/1958 followed by Hugo on June 6/1959, both in Woonsocket.
Besides Sally, they had two older children:-
1. Hugo Aram Jarret, born Woonsocket January 25/1920,
Married in 1946 Alba Gadoury. Issue: Kristen White Jarret, b.1947.
2. Susanne Rolfe Jarret born in Providence, R.I. Dec.26/1923,
married in December 1943 Edwin Pratt Arnolt. born 1922.
Issue: Peter Jarret Arnolt, born 1945
June Rolfe Anrolt, " 1947
Janice Pratt Arnolt " 1950
Elizabeth White Arnolt " 1955.
David M. Poole like his two brothers, is only quarter of an inch under 6 ft. tall, and in his college years was a fine runner, twice breaking the Haverford mile record and reducing it from 4.34 to 4.26 1/2. He also plays tennis and enjoys water-color painting. Like his grandfather Campbell and Uncle "Bert" Poole, he is above all a keen yachtsman an enthusiasm shared by Sally. During their five years on Long Island, they derived great pleasure from sailing in and around Northport Bay, and brought
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their yacht "Sayonara" with them to Rye, where they sometimes go off on 3 or 4 day cruises around Long Island Sound.
David and Sally have two children:~
3/1. Jeffrey Campbell Poole, born June 11/1952, in Huntington, L.I.
3/2. Cbristopher Jarret Poole, born November 11/1954, in Huntington.
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3 - ELEANOR ISABELLA ARMSTRONG
Was born at Holly Park, Leitrim, Ireland (2 miles from Carrick-on-Shannon), on August 14/1841 and died, aged 76 at 89 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan, on June 4/1918. She was buried in the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery on the Bluff near her home and her husband's ashes were buried in the same grave on his death in 1929. She was the third child and first daughter of John and Eleanor Isabella (Wilson) Armstrong, subject 6 - JOHN ARMSTRONG.
She married, 1st, at Arcola, Illinois, on November 7/1871, Colonel John Washington Young[?]. They were divorced in 1872 and had no children. She married, 2nd, at Chicago, Illinois, on February 7/1876, Otis Augustus Poole, born at Beloit, Wisconsin, December 20/1848, died at Berkeley, California, April 1/1929, son of Augustus and Maria Bishop (Manchester) Poole, see Subject 4. See Subject 2 for issue and further particulars. Of her early life in Ireland, she remembered very little, as she was not quite 12 when her father brought her to America. When she was seven years old, her mother died April 24/1848; and eighteen months later, October 22/1849 her father married her mother's younger sister, Henrietta Wilson, then 23 years old, who outlived him by 22 years and died in Chicago April 16/1914. She was an affectionate and devoted step-mother to Eleanor and her sister Henrietta, two years younger, and was as considerate of them as of her own children who ranged from twelve to 25 years younger than Eleanor. In June 1853, John Armstrong brought his entire family to America, Eleanor being then nearly twelve years old.
The voyage was by sailing vessel, 21 days, from Dublin to New York, whence they proceeded to Chicago and made it their home. Of Eleanor's education, I (her son Herbert A. Poole) know very little, having unfortunately paid scant heed to what she told us of those early days, but her character and accomplishments show that it must have been good, and moreover her father soon prospered in Chicago and would have been able to afford her every advantage. He was always devoted to his eldest daughter and the bond between them was touchingly strong. She applied herself particularly to music and was a prize pupil of Prof. Robert Goldbeck of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, becoming a pianist of exceptional distinction. She must have inherited many of her grandfather, Captain John Armstrong's characteristics for, like him, she had an unusual talent for letter writing and but little taste for cooking, and cared very little for food, often saying that all she wanted was an egg and a cup of tea. She was fond of entertaining, had a brilliant wit and conversational powers, and a surprising interest in scientific matters. (I remember in our school-days in Yokohama, she was a disciple of our Head-Master C.H.Hinton, one of the earliest exponents of the "fourth dimension" and we boys would scurry home from school at noon, and father from his office in the settlement, only to find the dining-room table littered with cubes, figures and designs over which Hinton and Mother were poring with their heads together, the houseboy hovering.
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I obtained the following account of her early life in Chicago, before the fire of 1871, from Mrs Weaver of Canyon, City, Colorado, one of the Burlingame daughters, see under subject 6. Mrs Weaver sent me this account in 1940, when she was very old, and said it was a story she had written for a magazine competition years ago, which was, by the way, not accepted by the magazine. How much fact and how much fiction there is in the article, she could no longer remember, but told me it was based on the facts of the case: the article read as follows:- "I was a little girl of about thirteen when I first saw Eleanor Armstrong in Arcola, and I bowed at her shrine in adoring admiration. Her first visit to Arcola was in the summer, and a brief one, bringing several gay friends with her, to help endure the horrors of country life as she called it, but even with their help she only stayed two weeks. John Armstrong, her father, at that time had two houses on Huron St, his own residence and a double house adjoining, which he had rented to others. My half sister, Emma Munch, with her husband Henry Munch and their two children, lived on one side of the double house: Mr Munch was a broker and he fortunately suffered no loss in the great fire, as his safe was intact. I spent the six months from October 1870 to March 1871 with Emma, studying the piano at the Chicago Conservatory of Music under Robert Goldbeck, who had taught Eleanor for many years. At the time the great Chicago fire broke out, Mrs Armstrong and all the children except Percy and his faithful nurse Ann, were at Maple Grove, Arcola. As the advancing flames crossed the river and moved steadily north, the city waterworks having been already destroyed, Mr Armstrong was frantic with anxiety for his helpless family in the Huron St house, consisting of Mr Goodfellow, Percy and Ann. The entire contents of the house went up in flames, except Eleanor's Steinway piano, which got an expressman to take to the west side, separated by a branch of the Chicago River. In the early fall of 1871, a family picnic was held in one of the city parks, and my cousin, Chandler Robbins seems to have been the head of the party. My sister Emma always said that Chandler was the last person one would expect to present a strange man without credentials, to the ladies. My sister Emma Munch and Eleanor were of the party. During the day a men approached Chandler and how he managed it, no one of the family has ever been able to conjecture, but he did so ingratiate
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himself with Chandler that he introduced him to the ladies of the party. He represented himself as a Colonel in the Cuban Army, said he had visited all the Courts of Europe, &c. Of course he followed up the acquaintance with Miss Armstrong with such success that she invited him to accompany her to Arcola for a few days visit. On Sunday, October 8/1871, I spent the day at Maple Grove and on Monday morning, the 9th, Colonel Young, Eleanor and I took Mrs Armstrong to the Arcola station to board the Chicago train. When we arrived at the station we were appalled to hear that a telegram had been received "Chicago in ashes, send food for the suffering. It was debated whether Mrs Armstrong should go on, but she said she must go. I remember how all the bakeries of Arcola began to prepare food for the stricken city. Eleanor asked her friend Emma Munch when they were alone, "Who is the Captain or General or whatever title he has? He asked me to let him call and for the sake of a new experience I said Yes: there is something so odd about him: he makes me think of descriptions of Tallyrand, not quite so bad looking perhaps, but having a power altogether independent of his physique: is he an American? Emma replied, "I heard him refer to you as that divine creature with the form of a Juno and the face of a Venus: to tell the truth I know very little about him: Cousin Chandler introduced him so I suppose he is allright: yes, he is an American but he has been away from his native land so long as to give him a foreign air: he was in Mexico for some time and then on a filibustering expedition to Cube: he has had some thrilling experiences and he narrowly escaped with his life". A few letters were exchanged by Eleanor and Young and before the winter was over, he asked permission to make her a visit. When John Armstrong found how far matters had gone he was greatly annoyed and worried about it. "Eleanor, he wrote, we know nothing about this man: he may be a mere adventurer from all I can ascertain: I have made diligent enquiries and about the only fact I can learn is that be served in the Cuban Rebellion under Gomez: don't give him my further encouragement until you at least know him better." But all this was to no avail. She had made up her mind and no argument or entreaty could avail. The Burlingames were dismayed when they learned that their idol was to marry a man who impressed none of them favorably and of whom so little was known, and of whom nobody spoke well: they all thought of him as an adventurer whose account of his past life was not to be trusted.
John Washington Young had served in the Civil War, as the following letter shows:-
Adjutant General's Office, Albany, N.Y. May 12/1873.
Captain John W. Young: Company K, 76th New York Volunteers, who was enrolled September 28/1861, was mustered into service as Major, September 30/1863, and taken prisoner May 5/1864 at the Wilderness, Virginia. He was honorably discharged March 12/1865, under provisions of Gen Orders No 108, dated War Dept, A.G.O. April 28/1863. Date of his Commission as Major, July 3/1863, for meritorious conduct.
(signed) John W. Rathbone, Adjutant General.
General Headquarters, State of New York.
Young had some property in Indiana at this time, and he was considered by many of Eleanor's people and friends as a very handsome and fascinating man, large and heavy. John Armstrong always held that he was a bad egg, but could find nothing against him when he asked for her hand, and he very unwillingly consented to their marriage. They were married at Maple Grove, Arcola, on November 7/1871, by the Rev Dr Roberts, Presbyterian Minister. Mrs John Armstrong thought the world of him, (Young). After the wedding they went by train to some place on the Mississippi and thence down the river by one of the old Mark Twain side wheelers to New Orleans.
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They stayed there some days and made a side trip to Galveston. Eleanor's
health then was rather weak, her lungs showing weakness, and she did not
know whether Young faked his business in these warm climes for the
benefit of her health, or not. He chose that direction, partly, he said,
to look after his valuable mining interests in Mexico. They had not been
married two weeks before she had her first insight into his violent
character. They were walking from the hotel to the Opera in New Orleans,
when a couple of men ahead kept turning around and looking at her, as
she was a striking looking girl. Young was very jealous and it happened
on arriving at the Opera House, she ran up the steps for fun, and he
followed her slowly to find her right opposite these two men: he accused
her of running after them and on their return to the hotel, threatened
to shoot her if she were unfaithful to him. They went to Key West and
many of the islands in the Caribbean and then on to Mexico City, riding
on mules, &c., to such benefit to her health and lungs that she has been
strong ever since. Young was very fond of the ladies and even insisted
on having questionable ladies to the house, and he used to fritter his
money away on them. After their return to Arcola, some wonder was
aroused, as week after week passed, the Colonel and his bride still
lingered there. Then it was whispered that the silver mines were all a
myth, and that John Armstrong was furnishing funds for their support.
Young was a magnificent horseman and his daring feats excited much
admiration, but he exercised his fascination in more direct ways, and
more than one girl regarded him as a hero. Young assumed airs of
authority over the farm, and he was always in the gayest of spirits,
thought no labor ever soiled his delicate hands. Through the tales of
one of the servants it was rumoured that he ill treated his wife. In
December invitations were sent out for a big social function for New
Year's Eve at Maple Grove: the Armstrong were always lavish with their
hospitality and their entertainments were the theme for conversations
for weeks after. This was an unusually brilliant affair: the two large
parlours cleared for dancing and the musicians to come from Chicago. The
large rooms rapidly filled and all seemed favorable for an evening of
unalloyed pleasure. After two or three square dances, the musicians
struck up a waltz. Several couples took to the floor and Eleanor asked
a young lawyer, Mr Rogers, to dance with her. How superb she looked that
night: as a chum of her younger half sister, Jennie Armstrong, I was
there, not to take part, but to look on the festivities. As she glided
down from the other end of the room, Young rose quickly, laid his hand
on her arm and told her to come with him. She turned very pale and
seemed about to refuse, but instead gracefully excused herself and left
the room. He reappeared in a few minutes, and with an impressive gesture
of his hand, silenced the musicians. He said "Friends, my wife has
disobeyed my command not to dance a round dance with anyone but myself,
and she suffers the consequences - I have locked her in her room." The
Company stood spellbound for a moment: several of the guests left at
once, among them Cora Blackwell and her fiancee, Mr Rogers. Others said
"it will be less painful for her if we go on as if nothing has
happened." In about half an hour she came downstairs, walked into the
parlour and cordially greeted newly arrived guests. She had naturally a
fine color, but now her cheeks burned crimson: she was always charming
in her manner, gracious and full of wit, but that night she seemed to
surpass herself. Her inimitable tact quickly dispelled all embarrassment, and by the time the party broke up, the episode of the evening was almost forgotten. The town rang with the story of the indignity, supplemented by many others which until now had been merely whispers.
Mrs Armstrong, feeling she must unburden her heart to someone, told my father, Rufus Burlingame, that it was true Eleanor
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was very unhappy, but that she would not let anyone interfer, and I
don't know that it would do any good: his temper was horrible when
crossed. John Armstrong's only comment was "How art the mighty fallen".
But he wrote his son-in-law in such terms that the latter decided a
separate establishment would be more conducive to his comfort. He left
Maple Grove next day and went to Chicago, soon obtaining a position in
the Money Order department of the Post Office. In the spring of 1878
after he had been there about three months, he sent for Eleanor, writing
that he wished her to accompany him on a trip to the Eastern States. A
few days later they were in Washington, reaching the city by an early
train, and after breakfast she went to her room, leaving her husband in
the office reading the newspapers. He entered the room a few minutes
later. "What is the matter, what has happened, she exclaimed", reading
in his face the token of disaster. Eleanor, he said, I am in trouble.
With all his tyranny and dominating will there were times when he was
awed by something in his wife which he could not explain satisfactorily
to himself. He said "The fact is, I've been driven to desperation by my
hard luck and now the police are on my track, and if we don't get out of
here in a hurry, they'll nab me and that will mean a residence in jail
for three or four years: you're a million times too good for me, I know,
but, true as I stand here, I didn't look for things to come out as they
have, when I asked you to marry me: your father could have helped me
but, instead, he as good as turned me out of the house: you know I stood
that dirty Post Office for three months, but I couldn't stand the
drudgery on such a pittance, so I did what thousands of others would
have done in my place - forged money orders and did my own collecting: I
thought we would make a new start in Canada but now I must send you back
to Arcola and make my way alone: I saw in the papers downstairs they
were on my track, so there's no time to be lost: when you go down, lock
the door of the room and leave the key in the office: tell the clerk
that I have gone out for an hour or two: then go to the station and take
the noon train to Chicago." They were able to leave the hotel without
suspicion, although there was a detective on hand to arrest the man
answering to his description. Eleanor was sitting in her room in Arcola
one night: it was late and all the household had retired. Suddenly she
heard footsteps crunch on the gravel path below, then a pebble struck
her window, which she softly raised. She saw her husband and admitted
him, realizing that this unkempt man was him indeed. Always the most
particular man in his appearance, he was now dirt begrimed, unshaven and
his shoes almost in tatters. "You know, of course, that they caught me
before I left Washington, he said, just as I was about to take the
train. I thought it was all over, but before we had travelled far, it
struck me that I might turn my social accomplishments to account, and I
didn't spare myself: I believe that I had half convinced the man that I
wasn't a bad fellow after all: I pretended being seized with violent
pangs in my stomach, and made frequent visits to the toilet: when we
were going through a forest somewhere in Pennsylvania, I opened the
toilet window, and the next thing I found myself lying on an embankment
and the train out of sight: I gave my ankle a nasty wrench but struck
off into the woods: I think I would have died of starvation if I hadn't
met some tramps: they took me with them nearly a hundred miles on
freight trains, and the rest of the way I came on foot, with an
occasional lift: if you will only hide me here till my ankle gets
stronger, I will go away and never bother you again." Eleanor replied:-
"I have no right to do this, this is my father's house and he would
never consent to harbor such a criminal as you." You need not ask his
consent: you will have to tell your step-mother who
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has always liked me, and I am sure she will do what you wish. Eleanor
would make no promise but her step-mother agreed to do this. When John
Armstrong came down from Chicago that weekend he was not so much in the
dark as her step-mother and Eleanor supposed. Through an unguarded
remark of his wife he gained a clue as to what was going on. As Young
was to be there only a few days longer he decided to let things take
their course and thought Eleanor wished to tell him about it, he
discerned her intention and would not permit the confidence. "Eleanor,
he said, looking at her significantly, you know how I feel for you in
your trouble about your husband: the papers stated he had escaped: if he
should come here to be concealed, I would never give my consent." She
understood and was silent. In the dusk of a summer evening, when Young
felt himself sufficiently recovered, he left on foot for the outskirts
of Arcola, intending to board a freight train. When he got there, two
men sprang at him with their revolvers levelled: he fought frantically
for his liberty, but a shot through the shoulder ended the conflict and
he was born off to the Arcola hotel, and taken to Chicago by the
midnight train. His trial was short and he was sentenced to six years
penal servitude in the penetentiary. Eleanor returned him all the
presents he had given her. This gave John Armstrong his chance, and with
her permission, he persuaded her to divorce him. In fact John Armstrong
offered to pay a good lawyer to defend him at the trial, provided she
would file divorce proceedings. This she did through the family lawyer,
Colonel Van Buren, a specialist in such cases, though she went to
particular pains to find out if any other pleas other than being
imprisoned was necessary, as she had a feeling that it was unfair to
thus take advantage of Young's misfortunes, no matter how badly he had
treated her. However, Van Buren said that ipso facto, the imprisonment
was grounds for an annulment, and the thing went through promptly, for
all of which John Armstrong gladly paid. She went back to Arcola after
the divorce and stayed two years. She was just about boss of the place.
She gave Percy his first music lessons. W.J. Calhoun, a lawyer form
Tuscola was often entertained at Maple Grove: he became prominent in
politics and in later years was appointed Minister to the Chinese
Government at Peking. Eleanor met Otis A. Poole while John Armstrong and
his family were boarding at Mrs Wright's at 1801 Indiana Ave: He and his
friend Paul Hayward were also boarding there. Otis Poole was at at
that time with Sayres and Thompson, tea merchants, as accountant. John
Armstrong had, prior to her marriage to Otis Poole, told him all the
particulars of her first marriage to Young. Young, though given a six
year sentence, had everything made easy for him in prison owing to his
extraordinarily captivating ways. The judge in sentencing him, commuted
it to the smallest possible degree, and in prison he was given easy
work. The prison doctor took a fancy to him, and while on sick leave in
prison, he took up the study of medicine of which he had no previous
knowledge. He studied hard and when at the end of four years his liberty
was restored owing to good conduct, he came out of prison and
immediately took his examination for a medical doctor, and passed high.
He went to see his divorced wife, extolled her to the sky, and said she
was his guiding angel, even thought she had meanwhile divorced him and
married another man. He went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and practised very
successfully as a physician and died there in 1907. Shortly after he
went to Fort Wayne, he married again but his wife soon divorced him. The
third time he married the daughter of a Methodist Minister and she kept
him very much under her thumb: he had two sons by her, both of whom took
up the medical profession, one practising in Texas successfully. Eleanor
never saw Young after the final interview, but for years after going to
Japan was in terror that he
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might come out and start a scandal which she had kept buried even from
her children. But he never turned up and when he died, none of her
Chicago relatives told her about it. Mrs John Armstrong kept the
newspaper containing the notice of his death and showed it to her on the
occasion of her visit to Chicago in 1908.
Eleanor Isabella was a woman of much force of character, frank,
impulsive and- always able to swing things. Her great musical talent
made her house the center of musical activity in Yokohama, where every
musician of note who came to Japan for thirty years, invoked her aid in
getting up concerts, most of whom she accompanied on the piano until her
daughter took this work off her hands. Ovide Musin the violinist Merck
the cellist, Minnie Hauk, De Kontski, Terschalk, Belinfante and many
lesser musicians all thronged to her house. A great deal of the musical
knowledge of her children is due to going to sleep so many nights to the
sound of good music in the Drawing Room. In spite of gouty fingers she
still played until her death, and practised hours every day. She was a
great card player and played solitaire almost every evening. After Otis
Poole moved to Shidzucka, and her children had left the home of thirty
years at 89 Bluff, a bungalow of seven rooms, she stayed there: she
tried living at Shidzucka but didn't like the Japanese house or the
loneliness when Otis Poole was away five months of the year on his
yearly trips to America. Her latter years were not lonely as Chester
lived only a few doors away. In 1912 she had her right breast removed
owing to the appearance a small cancer, but late in 1917 the disease
reappeared, and in spite of radium and X ray treatments she grew rapidly
worse, her right arm being painfully swollen and numb. She took to her
bed in April and died at 5 A.M. on Tuesday, June 14/1918. Her daughter
Eleanor had been with her two months until early June when she had to
return to Shanghai to give birth to her fourth son. Eleanor had been
under the influence of increasing doses of morphine for two months and
passed away in her sleep. Eleanor in always generous and kindly towards
many in Yokohama who were sick or needed assistance. She was 5 ft 8
inches tall and had the most lovely long white hair. She kept her
children under a rather strict control, much to their benefit. She kept
her son Herbert and daughter Eleanor at their practising until they
became very good players. She never became very closely acquainted with
the Japanese ladies, and never learned more than a few words of their
language. In all her years in Yokohama she only returned to Chicago
twice, once in 1898 and again in 1908. She went to Shanghai twice to
visit her daughter, once to Nagasaki to stay with her son Herbert and
once to Kobe, when he had typhoid fever. Beyond trips to Kyoto, Nikko,
Myanoshita and other places in the country near Yokohama, she never
travelled much in Japan. She took her children to Hakone Lake in 1889
and was in Karuizawa several summers. Her greatest musical friends in
Yokohama were Hans Ramsegers, a German amateur violinist, and Prince &
Princess Lobanow de Rostov: he was Russian Consul and she a Greek from
Athens, a fine soprano and sister of Princess Trubetskoi. Eleanor
usually attended the Presbyterian Church (in Chicago - handwritten
addition) also the Episcopalian church on the Bluff. (in Yokohama)
Handwritten: the Armstrongs were from the North of Irelands and were not
Catholic.
They stayed there some days and made a side trip to Galveston. Eleanor's health then was rather weak, her lungs showing weakness, and she did not know whether Young faked his business in these warm climes for the benefit of her health, or not. He chose that direction, partly, he said, to look after his valuable mining interests in Mexico. They had not been married two weeks before she had her first insight into his violent character. They were walking from the hotel to the Opera in New Orleans, when a couple of men ahead kept turning around and looking at her, as she was a striking looking girl. Young was very jealous and it happened on arriving at the Opera House, she ran up the steps for fun, and he followed her slowly to find her right opposite these two men: he accused her of running after them and on their return to the hotel, threatened to shoot her if she were unfaithful to him. They went to Key West and many of the islands in the Caribbean and then on to Mexico City, riding on mules, &c., to such benefit to her health and lungs that she has been strong ever since. Young was very fond of the ladies and even insisted on having questionable ladies to the house, and he used to fritter his money away on them. After their return to Arcola, some wonder was aroused, as week after week passed, the Colonel and his bride still lingered there. Then it was whispered that the silver mines were all a myth, and that John Armstrong was furnishing funds for their support. Young was a magnificent horseman and his daring feats excited much admiration, but he exercised his fascination in more direct ways, and more than one girl regarded him as a hero. Young assumed airs of authority over the farm, and he was always in the gayest of spirits, thought no labor ever soiled his delicate hands. Through the tales of one of the servants it was rumoured that he ill treated his wife. In December invitations were sent out for a big social function for New Year's Eve at Maple Grove: the Armstrong were always lavish with their hospitality and their entertainments were the theme for conversations for weeks after. This was an unusually brilliant affair: the two large parlours cleared for dancing and the musicians to come from Chicago. The large rooms rapidly filled and all seemed favorable for an evening of unalloyed pleasure. After two or three square dances, the musicians struck up a waltz. Several couples took to the floor and Eleanor asked a young lawyer, Mr Rogers, to dance with her. How superb she looked that night: as a chum of her younger half sister, Jennie Armstrong, I was there, not to take part, but to look on the festivities. As she glided down from the other end of the room, Young rose quickly, laid his hand on her arm and told her to come with him. She turned very pale and seemed about to refuse, but instead gracefully excused herself and left the room. He reappeared in a few minutes, and with an impressive gesture of his hand, silenced the musicians. He said "Friends, my wife has disobeyed my command not to dance a round dance with anyone but myself, and she suffers the consequences - I have locked her in her room." The Company stood spellbound for a moment: several of the guests left at once, among them Cora Blackwell and her fiancee, Mr Rogers. Others said "it will be less painful for her if we go on as if nothing has happened." In about half an hour she came downstairs, walked into the parlour and cordially greeted newly arrived guests. She had naturally a fine color, but now her cheeks burned crimson: she was always charming in her manner, gracious and full of wit, but that night she seemed to surpass herself. Her inimitable tact quickly dispelled all embarrassment, and by the time the party broke up, the episode of the evening was almost forgotten. The town rang with the story of the indignity, supplemented by many others which until now had been merely whispers. Mrs Armstrong, feeling she must unburden her heart to someone, told my father, Rufus Burlingame, that it was true Eleanor
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was very unhappy, but that she would not let anyone interfer, and I don't know that it would do any good: his temper was horrible when crossed. John Armstrong's only comment was "How art the mighty fallen". But he wrote his son-in-law in such terms that the latter decided a separate establishment would be more conducive to his comfort. He left Maple Grove next day and went to Chicago, soon obtaining a position in the Money Order department of the Post Office. In the spring of 1878 after he had been there about three months, he sent for Eleanor, writing that he wished her to accompany him on a trip to the Eastern States. A few days later they were in Washington, reaching the city by an early train, and after breakfast she went to her room, leaving her husband in the office reading the newspapers. He entered the room a few minutes later. "What is the matter, what has happened, she exclaimed", reading in his face the token of disaster. Eleanor, he said, I am in trouble. With all his tyranny and dominating will there were times when he was awed by something in his wife which he could not explain satisfactorily to himself. He said "The fact is, I've been driven to desperation by my hard luck and now the police are on my track, and if we don't get out of here in a hurry, they'll nab me and that will mean a residence in jail for three or four years: you're a million times too good for me, I know, but, true as I stand here, I didn't look for things to come out as they have, when I asked you to marry me: your father could have helped me but, instead, he as good as turned me out of the house: you know I stood that dirty Post Office for three months, but I couldn't stand the drudgery on such a pittance, so I did what thousands of others would have done in my place - forged money orders and did my own collecting: I thought we would make a new start in Canada but now I must send you back to Arcola and make my way alone: I saw in the papers downstairs they were on my track, so there's no time to be lost: when you go down, lock the door of the room and leave the key in the office: tell the clerk that I have gone out for an hour or two: then go to the station and take the noon train to Chicago." They were able to leave the hotel without suspicion, although there was a detective on hand to arrest the man answering to his description. Eleanor was sitting in her room in Arcola one night: it was late and all the household had retired. Suddenly she heard footsteps crunch on the gravel path below, then a pebble struck her window, which she softly raised. She saw her husband and admitted him, realizing that this unkempt man was him indeed. Always the most particular man in his appearance, he was now dirt begrimed, unshaven and his shoes almost in tatters. "You know, of course, that they caught me before I left Washington, he said, just as I was about to take the train. I thought it was all over, but before we had travelled far, it struck me that I might turn my social accomplishments to account, and I didn't spare myself: I believe that I had half convinced the man that I wasn't a bad fellow after all: I pretended being seized with violent pangs in my stomach, and made frequent visits to the toilet: when we were going through a forest somewhere in Pennsylvania, I opened the toilet window, and the next thing I found myself lying on an embankment and the train out of sight: I gave my ankle a nasty wrench but struck off into the woods: I think I would have died of starvation if I hadn't met some tramps: they took me with them nearly a hundred miles on freight trains, and the rest of the way I came on foot, with an occasional lift: if you will only hide me here till my ankle gets stronger, I will go away and never bother you again." Eleanor replied:- "I have no right to do this, this is my father's house and he would never consent to harbor such a criminal as you." You need not ask his consent: you will have to tell your step-mother who
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has always liked me, and I am sure she will do what you wish. Eleanor would make no promise but her step-mother agreed to do this. When John Armstrong came down from Chicago that weekend he was not so much in the dark as her step-mother and Eleanor supposed. Through an unguarded remark of his wife he gained a clue as to what was going on. As Young was to be there only a few days longer he decided to let things take their course and thought Eleanor wished to tell him about it, he discerned her intention and would not permit the confidence. "Eleanor, he said, looking at her significantly, you know how I feel for you in your trouble about your husband: the papers stated he had escaped: if he should come here to be concealed, I would never give my consent." She understood and was silent. In the dusk of a summer evening, when Young felt himself sufficiently recovered, he left on foot for the outskirts of Arcola, intending to board a freight train. When he got there, two men sprang at him with their revolvers levelled: he fought frantically for his liberty, but a shot through the shoulder ended the conflict and he was born off to the Arcola hotel, and taken to Chicago by the midnight train. His trial was short and he was sentenced to six years penal servitude in the penetentiary. Eleanor returned him all the presents he had given her. This gave John Armstrong his chance, and with her permission, he persuaded her to divorce him. In fact John Armstrong offered to pay a good lawyer to defend him at the trial, provided she would file divorce proceedings. This she did through the family lawyer, Colonel Van Buren, a specialist in such cases, though she went to particular pains to find out if any other pleas other than being imprisoned was necessary, as she had a feeling that it was unfair to thus take advantage of Young's misfortunes, no matter how badly he had treated her. However, Van Buren said that ipso facto, the imprisonment was grounds for an annulment, and the thing went through promptly, for all of which John Armstrong gladly paid. She went back to Arcola after the divorce and stayed two years. She was just about boss of the place. She gave Percy his first music lessons. W.J. Calhoun, a lawyer form Tuscola was often entertained at Maple Grove: he became prominent in politics and in later years was appointed Minister to the Chinese Government at Peking. Eleanor met Otis A. Poole while John Armstrong and his family were boarding at Mrs Wright's at 1801 Indiana Ave: He and his friend Paul Hayward were also boarding there. Otis Poole was at at that time with Sayres and Thompson, tea merchants, as accountant. John Armstrong had, prior to her marriage to Otis Poole, told him all the particulars of her first marriage to Young. Young, though given a six year sentence, had everything made easy for him in prison owing to his extraordinarily captivating ways. The judge in sentencing him, commuted it to the smallest possible degree, and in prison he was given easy work. The prison doctor took a fancy to him, and while on sick leave in prison, he took up the study of medicine of which he had no previous knowledge. He studied hard and when at the end of four years his liberty was restored owing to good conduct, he came out of prison and immediately took his examination for a medical doctor, and passed high. He went to see his divorced wife, extolled her to the sky, and said she was his guiding angel, even thought she had meanwhile divorced him and married another man. He went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and practised very successfully as a physician and died there in 1907. Shortly after he went to Fort Wayne, he married again but his wife soon divorced him. The third time he married the daughter of a Methodist Minister and she kept him very much under her thumb: he had two sons by her, both of whom took up the medical profession, one practising in Texas successfully. Eleanor never saw Young after the final interview, but for years after going to Japan was in terror that he
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might come out and start a scandal which she had kept buried even from her children. But he never turned up and when he died, none of her Chicago relatives told her about it. Mrs John Armstrong kept the newspaper containing the notice of his death and showed it to her on the occasion of her visit to Chicago in 1908. Eleanor Isabella was a woman of much force of character, frank, impulsive and- always able to swing things. Her great musical talent made her house the center of musical activity in Yokohama, where every musician of note who came to Japan for thirty years, invoked her aid in getting up concerts, most of whom she accompanied on the piano until her daughter took this work off her hands. Ovide Musin the violinist Merck the cellist, Minnie Hauk, De Kontski, Terschalk, Belinfante and many lesser musicians all thronged to her house. A great deal of the musical knowledge of her children is due to going to sleep so many nights to the sound of good music in the Drawing Room. In spite of gouty fingers she still played until her death, and practised hours every day. She was a great card player and played solitaire almost every evening. After Otis Poole moved to Shidzucka, and her children had left the home of thirty years at 89 Bluff, a bungalow of seven rooms, she stayed there: she tried living at Shidzucka but didn't like the Japanese house or the loneliness when Otis Poole was away five months of the year on his yearly trips to America. Her latter years were not lonely as Chester lived only a few doors away. In 1912 she had her right breast removed owing to the appearance a small cancer, but late in 1917 the disease reappeared, and in spite of radium and X ray treatments she grew rapidly worse, her right arm being painfully swollen and numb. She took to her bed in April and died at 5 A.M. on Tuesday, June 14/1918. Her daughter Eleanor had been with her two months until early June when she had to return to Shanghai to give birth to her fourth son. Eleanor had been under the influence of increasing doses of morphine for two months and passed away in her sleep. Eleanor in always generous and kindly towards many in Yokohama who were sick or needed assistance. She was 5 ft 8 inches tall and had the most lovely long white hair. She kept her children under a rather strict control, much to their benefit. She kept her son Herbert and daughter Eleanor at their practising until they became very good players. She never became very closely acquainted with the Japanese ladies, and never learned more than a few words of their language. In all her years in Yokohama she only returned to Chicago twice, once in 1898 and again in 1908. She went to Shanghai twice to visit her daughter, once to Nagasaki to stay with her son Herbert and once to Kobe, when he had typhoid fever. Beyond trips to Kyoto, Nikko, Myanoshita and other places in the country near Yokohama, she never travelled much in Japan. She took her children to Hakone Lake in 1889 and was in Karuizawa several summers. Her greatest musical friends in Yokohama were Hans Ramsegers, a German amateur violinist, and Prince & Princess Lobanow de Rostov: he was Russian Consul and she a Greek from Athens, a fine soprano and sister of Princess Trubetskoi. Eleanor usually attended the Presbyterian Church (in Chicago - handwritten addition) also the Episcopalian church on the Bluff. (in Yokohama) Handwritten: the Armstrongs were from the North of Irelands and were not Catholic.
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4 - AUGUSTUS POOLE
was born at Herricks, Queens County, L.I., on April 12/1820 and died at
Beloit, Wisconsin, on April 6/1855, at the early age of 33 years, and
only five years after he was married. He the was the 4th son and 5 the
child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole of Hempstead, LI. He was
born sixteen years after his parents' marriage, see subject 8. I
believe he died of tuberculosis.
As Augustus died when his son Otis A. Poole was only four year
old, my father knew little about him. Augustus was educated in
Hempstead after which he went to Buffalo and worked in his brother
Rushmore Poole's office for a few years, and then emigrated further
west to Beloit with his brother Benjamin Tredwell Poole. The following
entry appears in the diary of Sheridan Poole, when he was 16 years old,
son of Benjamin Tredwell Poole:- February 25/1853. "Uncle Guss has
been ailing ever since Christmas: he and Oty are spending the day here
(probably Beloit). I took Uncle Guss out this morning: he had some
fever. We have had a very pleasant winter so far: it is quite warm
and springlike today. I go to school to Mr. James and study arithmetic,
history and Physiology."
Augustus married at Utica, N.Y., on September 20/1847 Maria Bishop
Manchester, born at Utica, N.Y. December 15/1828, died at Beloit March
5/1873, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. She was the eldest child of Otis
and Hannah (Ingols) Manchester, his second wife: Maria was named after
Otis' first wife, see subject 10. The death of Maria in recorded thus
in the diary of Mrs. Julliet (Thompson) Poole, wife of Benjamin
Tredwell Poole:- "Died March 5/18735, Maria Bishop Manchester Poole
aged 50. Her disease was cerebro-spinal meningitis. Doctors Merriman
and Cary attended her. She was sick to her bed but three days. Present
at the dying scene were her father, daughter, sister, sister in law,
Hitchcock, Miss Anna Keep and others. Her funeral took place on April
7th from her house, Rev. Fayette Royce officiating. The weather
proved quite rainy a part of the afternoon, but ceased as the
procession moved to the cemetery. There, all that was earthly of our
dear Maria was buried from our sight, but she, the real woman, the
animating life force, the true Maria with all her lovely
characteristics, is more alive than ever, since she has escaped from
the cloy of clay that so heavily pressed upon her when it became
diseased. I do not doubt that she was happy to escape from the fetters
that confined her spirit body. I had forgotten to mention that her son
Otis arrived from Chicago in time to witness a few of her last
respirations."
The following letters written by Augustus Poole and his wife Maria
Bishop Manchester, give some details of their lives:
Beloit. February 4th, 1847.
Sister Martha dear:- (actually his sister in law, wife of Rushmore
Poole).
It is so long since I have received a word from Buffalo that I almost
doubt whether I ever had any acquaintances in such a city, and I am
aware that it is my fault only, for I always get letters called
"answers" enough when I can so far forget myself as to believe I can
write a letter that will not be considered worthless mail encumbrance.
But the longing desire to hear from the friend of my boyhood, can no
longer be contained, so I have ventured to unburthen myself to you
Martha, knowing that you were the lightest hearted and therefore less
likely to be vexed by a trifling scrawl like this: still hoping that
the troubles and vexations such as all are likely to encounter during
the journey through life may have left you the same happy 'two and
six'. You will hardly believe me when I tell you that I have received
but one letter from Buffalo during the whole year
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of 1846 A,D,, and that one, of the compassionate Good Samaritan sort,
the contents of which was swallowed like the inebriate's first sciddum,
and like that one, created a thirst for more, which is yet unquenched.
Now I must have a letter from somebody, and I can't think of anybody
who can write about everything, just to please such a body as myself,
so as well as you: only one, if I can't get more.. Think of how little
I ask for: only one to sustain me through the whole of the year 1847,
but don't let it be one of the lean and hungry kind - a good long one I
want, The subjects I would have you treat of are the progress and
prospects of the sons and daughters under thirty five, and the
biography of particular individuals in your city of Buffalo. I would
specially have remembered my little niece City, and the trinity Jane,
Aley and Jeanetta. What is going-on in the social line this winter? Who
are giving the largest parties. who are flirting. who are going to
marry each other, &c? Any kind of such information will be particularly
interesting to me, an exile. With me the prospect is anything but
propitious: our business is of the small potato kind, and in the social
line there is not anything to do, but now and then to get up a sleigh
ride. However, our village has, through the past season, received the
addition of a dozen or more real cute 'gals' from New Hampshire and
Maine, such as are not to be sneezed at: they help drive dull care
away. I must tell you of one choice spirit from Utica, N.Y., only
spending the winter west with her brother. I am slightly acquainted
with her, and I should be after making love to her if I only knew how,
and circumstances had no particular objections. But there it is,
prospects won't listen to it. She sings so prettily, and then we
seldom hear such in this wilderness. Is it not discouraging: Miss
Manchester is her name. She is acquainted with Miss Campbell that was,
and Miss Wright, that used to be in Williams Seminery on Pearl Street.
Our sleigh ride parties are generally on a grand scale and require some
skill and management to get them up. I think you would laugh to see us
out with all styles of sleighs, from the large lumber with seats on the
sides, omnibus fashion, down to the dry goods box on hickory poles,
with the marks still on, viz, "Western Line - this side up with care"
all heaped up running over with girls. We generally go to Janesville,
a neighboring village, have a supper, dance all night, and get home by
morning if we don't get lost on the prairie, which we sometimes do. We
have had extreme cold weather from January 1st at which tine we had a
heavy snowstorm and there is no prospect of its going for a month to
come. For twentyfour days the thermometer ranged from zero down to 25
below. I used to write to Henry Kipp occasionally but since he ceased
to be one of us, I have been rather afraid to do so. Tell him when you
see him that I hear from John quite often and that he is yet hammering
for a lead with undiminished faith. Offer my regards to the Pickerings,
Charles Peck, Mrs. Starkweather, Mrs. sterling and the Perkins, the
three afore-mentioned, and of course others too numerous to mention.
Yours sincerely,
To Mrs. Rushmore Poole, Buffalo. Augustus Poole.
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Beloit, February 9th, 1847.
My very dear Parents:-
I presume that you are prepared for the subject of this letter by
what has already been written by Mr. Reynolds and Clark Manchester, and
are perhaps surprised that I so long delay giving you my confidence and
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asking your advice when I so much need it. It is true that I have
given my heart's beat affections to one who, four short months ago, was
an entire stranger to me, when we first came here, an intimacy sprang
up between my brother Clark and Augustus Poole and they have ever since
been like brothers. I studied his character very closely at first,
because I wished to know under what influence my brother was placed: as
far as I could judge found him to be a person of good principle, and
one with whom a sister would be willing and pleased to have a brother
associate: I have seem him a great deal this winter. I received his
attentions for some time as a compliment to my brother, but my heart
has long told me that he was more then a brother's friend to me,
although I did not know his intentions until a week before last. He
has since then spoken more plainly to me and I have promised to be his
wife, provided I have my parents' approbation and consent to our union
for without that I should not be happy. He asked at first for
permission to speak to my father when he came out in the spring. I gave
it to him, and until then we shall form no plans, nor come to any
decision. I do not feel that I have acted rashly in this affair, I
think I know my own heart and that I love him well enough to leave all
for him, and I place implicit confidence in the affection he has
professed for me. It is very pleasing to me and I presume it will be
to you, to know that my friends, Mr & Mrs Reynolds and Mr. & Mrs. Keep,
are satisfied with the step I have taken, and think that we are suited
to make each other happy. He is one whom I hope and think you will be
willing to receive as a son and grant a share of that love you have
ever bestowed upon me. He is pleasing in his personal appearance,
gentlemanly in his manners, and kind and affectionate in his
disposition. He is not wealthy, but has enough of this world's goods to
satisfy me. Our engagement is suspected here but not known by any but
the family. I do not wish it to be, until father comes on and his
advice is given. Also I would rather, my dear parents, that it should
be known by no one but yourselves at home, for the present, at least.
So often, mother, during the past week, I have wished that you were
here to be my adviser: I feel more than ever, the need of a mother's
counsel. I do not feel that I love you, my dear father and mother,
any the less because I have learned to love another, nor that I shall
be loved the less by you because I ask you to bestow a share of your
parental affection upon that other. I shall expect to hear from you
soon. Can you tell me, father, when you expect to be here? Feeling
confident that we shall have your blessing and your prayers,
I remain
your affectionate daughter,
Maria.
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Dear Sir:- Beloit, March 23rd, 1847.
Being an entire stranger to you, it is with some feeling of
awkwardness that I address you upon a subject deeply interesting to
your daughter Maria and myself, and has, and no doubt will, cause you
no little anxiety. You have had from her an acknowledgement of our
mutual protestations, and it is natural that you should want to know
all about the man with whom she has consented to unite her destiny. I
shall be as frank to you concerning my prospects, as I have been to
her. That her circumstances will be bettered by the union, I am not
sanguine enough to believe, for were I anywhere else than in the west,
I could not marry: my circumstances would not permit. But for the time
I have been in Beloit, I consider my business sufficiently encouraging
to warrant me in saying that I can support a wife, not in luxury, but
comfortably, as most men in
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Wisconsin can, where are all new beginners like myself, poor. Had all
men had good prospects east, the west had never been settled, and I am
emboldened by the example of many others that have had to commence the
world as I have done and obtained competence, and I am encouraged by
the hope that with patience and economy, I shall have like success.
That she may be happy, I shall never cease to strive. Of my character
and principles, I can say nothing, for in speaking of myself, little
shall I grace my cause. Your approval is not to be obtained by my
professions unless substantiated by the opinion of others. My father
was a farmer and merchant in Hempstead, Long Island, where my mother
now resides in humble circumstances, but respected, whose aim was to
know what was right and practice what he knew, He died fourteen years
ago, leaving us children to commence the world as he had done -–without
anything. I left home in 1835 at fifteen years of age, and went to
Buffalo in a store with my brother who is still there, where I was a
resident eight years until 1843. If you have any acquaintance in that
city I trust you will make enquiries, and I feel sure that my
reputation will appear unsullied. Since leaving there I spent nearly
two years in St. Louis, Missouri, and have been established here since
October 1845. Such is a brief account of one who asks a father the
best gift he can bestow. At first it was thought better to defer any
arrangements in regard to the finale of our present wishes, until I had
had the pleasure of meeting you face to face, as it was your intention
to be here in the spring. But now, our plan agreed upon is this -– Maria
will return to Utica with you, and in the fall I will come after her ,
provided the stranger shall be approved: and in the interim you will
have learned more about him.
Respectfully
To Otis Manchester. esquire Utica Augustus Poole
Issue:-
1. Otis Augustus Poole. Born at Beloit, Wisconsin, December 20/1848,
died at Berkeley, California, April 1/1929 of a heart attack. He married at Chicago, on February 17/1876, Eleanor Isabella (Armstrong) Young, born at Leitrim, Ireland, August 14/1841, died at Yokohama Japan, June 4/1918 of cancer, daughter of John and Eleanor Isabella (Wilson) Armstrong, see subject 6. Eleanor had married, 1st, at Arcola, Ill., on November 7/1871, Colonel John Washington Young: they were divorced in 1872, see subject 3 - ELEANOR ISABELLA ARMSTRONG. See subject 2 - OTIS AUGUSTUS POOLE. for issue and further particulars,
2. Antoinette Manchester Poole. Born at Beloit, May 24/1851, died there
October 22/1922. She married on January 12/1882, Louis M. Husted, born September 9/1850. They were divorced in 1890 and had no children. He married again, since which time nothing is known about him.
3. Sarah Cheesman Poole. Born at Beloit, August 29/1852,
died there January 1/1862.
Added to HP4:
IGI 3/11/93,
MANCHESTER, Maria B M: 27 Sep 1847
Spouse: Augustus POOLE Utica, Oneida, New York
MANCHESTER, Maria Bishop C: 1 Jan 1825
Father: MANCHESTER First Presbyterian Church, Utica,
Mother: Oneida, New York
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6 - JOHN ARMSTRONG
Was born December 29th, 1820, at Cherry Valley, County Antrim,
Ireland, and died at Chicago, Ill., on September 24/1892,of kidney
disease. He was the only child of Captain John Armstrong and his second
wife Ellen Kirk, see subject 12.
He wrote a short Genealogy of his family on July 28/1890 for his
son Will as follows:- "I am unable to furnish the genealogy of our
family very fully or minutely. The particulars now given are partly
from by own personal knowledge of the parties, from hearsay, and from
other statements I remember made by relatives, and from other sources
which commonly impress the young, and are retained in this memory while
memory lasts. My Mother, the second wife of my father John Armstrong,
was a Scotch-Irish lady named Ellen Kirk. They were married at Cherry
Valley. I do not know where she was born. I was the only issue of the
marriage, which occurred in the year 1818. My Mother died in the year
1820. Of my Mother's family I never learned any particulars, or I
cannot remember. They all lived in some part of Scotland. My first
schooling was with a Doctor Alexander, in County Antrim, for several
years during the period I was living with my father, and members of his
first family, except Mrs. Shaw. After my father's death on August
8/1830, I lived with my half brother Charles William Armstrong, at
Crumlin, County Antrim, but was later sent to the care of my first
cousin John Goodfellow in the city of Dublin, where I was sent to
school. I accompanied John Goodfellow in the year 1832, when he went
to live on his property, Shannon Lodge in County Leitrim. Hence I had
no opportunity of knowing very much of my own family and connections.
I continued to live with John Goodfellow until I married in the year
1840. I was never put to any trade, business or occupation, because of
the neglect of my half brothers, my own disinclination probably, and
having an annuity of £500 per annum towards my support, under my
father's will. Having lived in my youth, so much separated from my
relatives at intervals, when attending schools, I was deprived of that
particular knowledge of my own people, which I would have acquired by
sojourning constantly with them. From the age of eleven until I was
nearly twenty years old, I had lived with my first cousin, before
mentioned. Hence genealogical details are necessarily limited. All
the persons whose names are on record so far, are all dead except
myself, and of their posterity I know nothing. The last time I had
seen any of them was in December 1850. I came to America in June 1853,
by sailing vessel, and my family are conversant with the course and
events of my life since that time."
It is said that John Armstrong came from Ireland to America, on
account of a serious dispute with his half brothers, who were said to
have jockeyed him out of considerable money, but he evidently got part
of it, as he came to America with about £10,000.
John Armstrong married first, at Dublin, (by the Rev. John Fisher),
on January 20/1840, Eleanor Isabella Wilson, born in Roscommon County,
Ireland, in August 1817, died in Ireland, April 24/1848, eldest
daughter of Charles and Eleanor Isabella (Mullarkey) Wilson, see
subject 14.
John Armstrong married 2nd, in Ireland, on October 22/1849,
Henrietta Wilson, born in Roscommon County, Ireland, January 6/1826,
died in Chicago, Ill., April 16/1914, aged 88 years, youngest daughter
of Charles and Eleanor Isabella (Mullarkey) Wilson, see subject 14.
There were four children of his first marriage, two boys being the
eldest, both of whom died in Ireland, and two daughters, Eleanor
Isabella and Henrietta. The eldest son of his seconds marriage died in
Ireland a month after his birth.
When John Armstrong came to America he brought the two daughters
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of his first wife, his second wife, and their second child which died a
month after arriving in Chicago. John Armstrong is said to have come to
America through the advice of his cousin John Goodfellow and his wife
Mary. John Armstrong came straight through to Chicago, and it is not
known where they lived first, but probably some where on Pine Street,
now named Lake Shore Drive. They next lived at 95 Huron Street,
between Sedgwick and Orleans Streets, which at that time was a fine
residence street with big lots and trees &c. It had a large lawn to
the East, and at the back, a brick wall, with grapes, and tree in the
back yard. The neighbourhood sidewalks were on different levels, with
steps, which was characteristic of Chicago at the at time, when streets
were to be raised to higher levels later.
Shortly after his arrival in Chicago, John Armstrong happened to
meet Rufus P. Burlingame, an inventor, liked him, and they became and
always were close friends. Mr. Burlingame was then in the grain
business, and offered him a place with him. They both, later, joined
the firm of Buckingham, Sturges & Co. who were in a similar business,
as well as operating a chain of Elevators along the Illinois Central
Railway line. John and Ebenezer Buckingham, and Solomon Sturges, (a
relative of the Buckinghams) were the partners: Ebenezer's son
Clarence afterwards joined the firm. Mr. Burlingame went to Arcola in
charge of the Elevators, while John managed the Chicago office. He was
associated with them for many years. He had a membership on the
Chicago Board of Trade, and conducted all their operations there in the
selling of their grain, a position of much responsibility and requiring
exceptional ability, which he fulfilled with remarkable success. John
Armstrong and his family always travelled on the Illinois Central with
passes, as they were such large grain shippers.
The following account of the Burlingame family was given to
me in February 1940, by the two surviving daughters of Rufus P.
Burlingame, May Weaver and Neva (Daisy) Martin, living at Canyon City,
Colorado, both over 85 years of age:- "My father's ancestors on the
Burlingame side, came from England in the 17th century. His cousin
Anson Burlingame was appointed by President Lincoln as Minister to
China at Peking for the years 1861-1867, and who made the treaty
between the U.S.A. and China which is still in effect today. On his
mother's side, my father was descended from Rufus Putnam, a brigadier-
general in the Revolutionary Army. He was the leader of the expedition
which settled the Northwest Territory, including what arc now the
States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. The
expedition landed at the Junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers:
they founded the town of Marietta, where my father Rufus P. Burlingame
was born. General Putnam died at a great age: the house which he built
of blocks used in the fort on Campus Martins, is now owned by the State
of Ohio, and furnished by the D.A.R. General Putnam's daughter,
Susanna, married Christopher Burlingame, an officer in the U.S. Navy in
the war of 1812. Rufus P. Burlingame's wife was a Miss Gurley, whose
relative, the Reverend Ralph Gurley, visited England in the interests
of African colonisation: he spoke in Exeter House and was presented to
Queen Victoria. The earliest Gurley ancestor was a highly esteemed
friend of King Edward III of England: the King gave him the estate of
King's Craig in Scotland. A later Gurley was burned at the stake in
defence of his father. In the war of 1812, Commodore Hull, (one of the
Gurley family) commanded the "Constitution" and won the fight with the
British Man of War "Gussiere". General William Hull was a brother of
Miss Gurley, but we do not say much about him because he surrendered
the fort of Detroit to the British.
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Rufus P. Burlingame was one of the pioneers of Chicago, then called
Fort Deerborn. He and his cousins John and Ebeneezer Buckingham formed
the firm of Buckingham and Sturgis. John Armstrong and his family then
arrived from Ireland: I do not know how he met my father, but he gave
him a position in their office and was able to help John Armstrong. My
father had the inventive faculty which was eventually his ruin
financially and led to his leaving the firm in 1870. He invented
something for weighing grain, used for many years after, but not
patented. After several years of fruitless inventions, the Buckinghams
put my father in charge of their grain business at Rochelle, Ill., and
transferred him to Arcola in 1867. I think you knew my sister Stella
Treat: Sam Treat was born in New Haven, and served in the Civil War. He
was an architect and was with one of the large firms in Chicago when he
married my sister Stella. The Chicago fire of 1871 was the making of
him as an architect. He went into business for himself and was very
successful. They lived at the Lakota Hotel for 17 years and died there
in 1910. I left Arcola in September 1874 for Sioux City, Iowa, and
married in 1876. We saw the Armstrongs frequently during the month we
spent at the Columbian Exposition in 1893: our children, 9 and 12 years
old played with Jennie's and Hettie's children. Emma Munch, my half
sister said my father sent John Armstrong to business school first.
John Armstrong paid many times over, this obligation in later years. At
72 years of age my father was working on a contrivance to supersede the
bicycle: he invented corn shellers and many other things but never made
any money out of them.
In 1869, Mrs John Armstrong, her son William, and her step daughter
Eleanor Isabella, went back to Ireland for a visit of some months, and
while they were away, the frame house was raised, and a basement built
underneath, with kitchen, dining room, store room, laundry, and rooms
for the servants. John Armstrong and the rest of his family, lived in
tthe house while it was being raised and altered, and after the return
of his wife from Ireland, they all lived in this house until it was
burned in the great Chicago fire of October 9th, 1871. The fire did
not reach the house until the day after it started, and with the help
of men from the Buckingham Elevators, (who were very fond of John
Armstrong, and who did yeoman service for him at that crisis, a great
many of their effects were saved, and taken to Maple Grove at Arcola.
Some of the children got lost in the confusion and were afterwards
found in a vacant lot some distance away. Previously to the fire, John
Armstrong had, on the suggestion of Mr. Burlingame, bought a 120 acre
farm at Arcola, a short mile west of the town on the Springfield road.
Arcola is 158 miles south of Chicago. He bought it on April 2/1870,
from Samuel Cheney for $55 per acre, and the deed was registered at the
Douglas County Court at Tuscola, in the name of his wife Henrietta.
About 1880, he bought another 80 acres from a Mr. Boyd, for $75 per
acre. There was a house on this latter place, which was occupied by
one of the farm help, and his family. John Armstrong's idea was to use
this farm as a country place for the family. The house on the original
lot was in fairly good condition, which was altered and improved for
their occupancy: also an orchard. A kitchen was added and a school
room built in the barn and completely fitted up: later the school room
was in the basement of Maple Grove. Mrs. Armstrong was very fond of
the country and wanted a place near Chicago, to which she could go
from time to time. After the Chicago fire, John Armstrong decided to
build extensively on the farm. He employed Sam Treat as the architect:
the latter had married Stella Burlingame, a life long friend of Mrs.
O.A. Poole. Stella lived laterly in Los Angeles and died there
sometime after 1928, Mr. Treat having died years before in Chicago.
Mr. Treat designed a large house, which was built about 1872. It cost
$12,000 and besides the house John Armstrong built barns, horse and cow
stables, cribs, mill hog barns and stock feed cooking utensils. He
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built fences, set out thousands of pines, spruce, elm, sycamore, maple
and other trees, as well as a variety of fruit trees to the south of
the new home: some fruit trees were on the farm when he bought it. The
total cost of the finished farm was about $40,000. Grain, cattle and
horses were raised on the farm, but more as a hobby than serious
farming. The planting of the trees and the landscaping was taken care
of by a lovable old Irishman, Frank Dailey, employed by the
Buckinghams, and who must have been a gardener in the old country. He
did his job well, as was evidenced by the results of later years. The
building of the house and various farm buildings took carloads of
materials, and most of the workmen were from Chicago. In later years
the farm presented a beautiful and unusual sight in that prairie
country: it caused much wonder and speculation amongst the natives.
During the building at Maple Grove, John Armstrong, on account of his
business being in Chicago, boarded there with a Mrs. Wright, at 18th
Street and Indiana Avenue, and lived there until the family removed to
Cass St. in 1877. At Maple Grove, everything gradually was licked into
shape, and the family settled in the occupation of the new house, at
which time a large house warming was given. There was often company
from Chicago, and parties were frequently held. On October 22nd 1874,
the silver wedding of John and Henrietta Armstrong was celebrated at
Maple Grove. The Douglas County Democrat, published at Arcola, carried
the following article:-
"On Thursday evening, October 22nd, there assembled at Maple Grove, the
residence of John Armstrong, the elite and fashion of Arcola, to assist
in commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Mr.
and Mrs. Armstrong. Mr. John Armstrong and Miss Henrietta Wilson were
married in Dublin, Ireland, by the Rev. John Fisher, on the 22nd
October 1849, and in 1853 became residents of the United States. After
twenty five years of, as Mrs Armstrong told us, uninterrupted happiness
in the marriage relation, it was fitting to mark the anniversary with
appropriate ceremonies. Right merrily and heartily did the numerous
guests enter into the spirit of the occasion, and an evening of such
enjoyment was spent, that all seemed loath to leave the hospitable
mansion. Among the guests present, were Mrs. Chandler Robbins, of
Champaign, Mr. James Slater, Mrs. J.W. Young, and Mr. Eugene Wheeler of
Chicago. The friends were not unmindful of the amenities of the
occasion, and many costly silver tokens of esteem were presented to
Mrs. Armstrong. Among those were a satin lined Morocco case,
containing Sugar Duster, Fruit Ladle and Jelly Spoon from Mr. John
Armstrong. A satin lined Morocco case containing Jelly Dish and Spoon
from Mr. Eugene Wheeler. A satin lined Morocco case containing Cake
knife from Mrs. J.W. Young. Drinking cup from Mrs. L. Wright of
Chicago. Card Received from Mr. and Mrs. H. Wells of Arcola. Spoon
holder from Mrs. Slater and Miss A.MacDonald. One set consisting of
salt and pepper casters, napkin ring and fruit knife from Mr. A.
Pollard of Arcola. Syrup Jug from Miss M. Mahern of Arcola. Silver
frosted napkin ring from an unknown donor. Conspicuous among the
presents was a silver Dollar, with the congratulations and regrets of
Mr. Otis A. Poole of Chicago, engraved thereon. This was so decidedly
unique as to attract universal attention. The evening was lowery,
threatening rain, which deterred numbers from attending. They have our
sympathies, for truly they missed a great pleasure. We look forward to
the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong,
with an appetite whetted by the recollection of pleasures of the
twenty-fifth, and hope that host, hostess and guests, all may live to
celebrate their diamond or seventy-fifth anniversary."
In 1877, it was decided to again have a home in Chicago, and John
Armstrong and family settled in a dwelling at 216 Cass St. N.W. corner
of Chestnut Street, afterwards re-named North Wabash Avenue. At this
time John Steinhouse looked after the farm at Maple Grove. In March
1879, Mrs. Armstrong wanted to go back to Maple Grove, so John
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Armstrong arranged with a Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Allen, to take over the
Cass St. house, with the proviso that he and his son Will were to live
with them. The Allens were the parents of Anamode Morgan, who later
married William. Her father Morgan having died, her Mother married
Thomas Allan: they had no children. Mrs. Armstrong lived at Arcola
with her daughter Jennie and Mrs. Otis Poole at times and also her son
Jack, (John Edmond) . With them also lived John Goodfellow, (his wife
died before the fire), and who John Armstrong cared for all his later
life: he was physically broken and was a great care. John Armstrong
lived on at Cass St with the Allens until Will was married in 1880 and
then he went to board with a Mrs. Trumbull at 225 Ohio St., and
continued there until he went back to Arcola to live in 1883, until
December 1891, when he returned to Chicago on account of being ill with
Bright's Disease. He lived at 1437 Wrightwood Ave. until his death
1892. With him at this time lived Mrs. Armstrong and Percy, and
sometimes Jennie. When John Armstrong died, Mrs. Armstrong and Percy
lived in a flat at 676 Burling St. for about a year, and then gave it
up. Mrs. Armstrong went to live with her daughter Jennie, while Percy
lived with his brother Jack.
When John Armstrong was so ill in 1891, the farm at Maple Grove was
sold to a Mr. Kemp for $8000, who resold it to Mr. Mel Crews of Arcola
at a higher price. Crews was an uneducated man, a horse breeder and
farmer, and he still owned the farm in 1939. He bought all the farms
for a mile along the Springfield road to the west of Arcola, and
operates them most successfully. He made a lot of money and has one of
the best houses in Arcola town, where he lived. He had a manager living
in the Maple Grove house, which being some 70 years old, was in bad
condition, the whole basement being a mass of wreckage. All the fences
had then gone and most of the trees and the cupola and verandahs. The
cribs, horse and cow barns were still there, also a new chicken house:
The hog barn and mill were also gone. There always was a fine gravel
pit on the south west corner of the farm and the gravel was used on the
farm from the beginning and a good deal sold during John Armstrong's
time. Crews has done good business in it. Crews bought young pigs and
steers, fattened and shipped them to the stockyards in Chicago growing
most of the feed corn for his animals. The farm gave me (H.A. Poole) an
eerie feeling to visit Arcola again on Nov15/1939 some fifty two years
after I had spent a summer there as a small boy: I remembered a good
deal more of the place than I had imagined.
So much might be said about John Armstrong's wonderful character
and disposition, which won him friends and the esteem of all who knew
him. He was always generous with his money and help. He was a fine
tall man, and in his later life had a full head of snow white hair and
white beard. Mrs. Armstrong used to say that he had never spoken a
cross word to her and they were a most devoted couple. Mrs. Armstrong
had a sweet disposition and would make any sacrifice for her family:
quiet and unassuming, but would fiercely resent any slight to her
children. John Armstrong helped many of his relatives and Irish
friends to come to America, and provided for them. He took on his
shoulders all the responsibility of his relatives, notably Mr. and Mrs.
Goodfellow. Mr. Goodfellow died at Maple Grove on January 18/1877 aged
85 years and is buried in the Armstrong plot at Graceland Cemetery,
Chicago, as is also his wife Mary Jane Goodfellow, who died March
6/1866 aged 66 years 9 months. John Armstrong brought over from Ireland
and provided for Christiana Vaugh, afterwards Mrs. Slater, and her
brother Haughton Vaugh who went insane and died in a sanatorium at
Topeka, Kansas. Tom Little was another beneficiary of his. Also Mrs.
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Sleeth a relative of John Armstrong, and her two sons, John and
William, and her daughter Emily, who he brought over from Ireland.
They were at Maple Grove for a time the boys helping Will to run the
farm after Will's marriage. The Sleeths got jobs in Chicago later on.
John Armstrong bought a plot in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago in 1866
a plot 12 x 25 ft., no. 276, Section B. The interments are as follows,
the first four were first buried at Arcola:-
Interment Name Date of death Yrs Mth
4.11.1866 Mary Armstrong 12.21.1853 1 8
4.11.1866 Chas W Armstrong 11.16.1864 6
4.11.1866 Mary Jane Goodfellow 3.6.1866 66 9
4.12.1866 Maud Armstrong 2.22.1865 1 5
8.6.1866 Eugene Chas Armstrong 8.5.1866 6 14
7.14.1868 Alice Armstrong 7.13.1868 2
10.4.1876 Mary Stewart 10.3.1876 55 2 18
1.20.1877 John Goodfellow 1.18.1877 85
11.25.1877 Child/John.P. Slater 11.24.1877
7.16.1883 Child/J.D. Sleeth 7.16.1883
6.23.1885 Child/J.P. Slater 6.18.1885
9.26.1892 John Armstrong 9.24.1892 72 8
1.8.1906 Warren Armstrong 1.6.1906 20
7.12.1906 William Rufus Armstrong 7.10.1906 51
4.16.1914 Henrietta Armstrong 4.14.1914 88
There are gravestones for all the above except Warren, but the older
ones are so weather worn that the inscriptions are almost obliterated.
No further interments are expected to be made in this plot. Near the
Armstrong plot is the Wheeler plot, containing the graves of the
following, relations by marriage of the Armstrongs.
Name Birth Death
Hiram Wheeler Aug 20/1809 Nov 22/1892 Eugene's father
Julia Wheeler May 15/1813 Feb 2/1903 Hiram's wife
Eugene Wheeler May 11/1844 Mar 15/1918 Hiram's son
Henrietta A Wheeler. Jun 11/1843 Jun 24/1870 Eugene's wife
Bertha Wheeler May 28/1868 Feb 2/1875 Eugene's daughter
Eustacia Wheeler May 4/1854 Dec 10/1936 Eugene's 2nd wife
Both Eugene's first wife and their daughter Bertha died of
tuberculosis.
Issue: (by his first wife, Eleanor Isabella Wilson)
1/1. Son Born and died in infancy in Ireland
1/2. Son Born and died in infancy in Ireland
1/3. Eleanor Isabella Armstrong. Married 1st John Washington Young in
1868,
died 1907. They were divorced - no children. Married 2nd,
Otis A. Poole (see subject 2).
1/4. Henrietta Armstrong. Born in Ireland June 11/1843, died at
Chicago,
June 24/1870 of tuberculosis. She married at Chicago, on November 30/1865, Eugene Wheeler, born May 11/1844, died March 15/1918. They had one daughter Bertha, born May 28/1868, died February 3/1875. After Henrietta's death, Eugene married again and had one son.
This next small section from an earlier edition:
The children of John Armstrong, by his second wife, Henrietta Wilson, were:-
'Copied from entries in the Armstrong Family Bible, written in John
Armstrong's own handwriting, and now in the possession of Henrietta
Hobert McIntyre at Saginaw Michigan.)
Birth Died
1. John Henry Armstrong Sept 23/1850 Oct 28/1850 in Ireland
2. Mary Goodfellow Armstrong Apr 28/1852 Dec 21/1853 in Chicago
3. William Rufus Armstrong Oct 18/1854 Jul 10/1906 in Chicago
4. Jennie Elvira Armstrong Nov 13/1857 Aug 22/1935 in Saginaw
5. John Edmond Armstrong Mar 18/1860 Mar 23/1912 in Beloit
6. Charles Wilson Armstrong May 22/1862 Nov 11/1862 in Chicago
7. Maud Mary Armstrong Sept 22/1863 Feb 22/1865 in Chicago
8. Eugene Charles Armstrong Jan 22/1866 Aug 5/1866 in Chicago
9. Percy Wilson Armstrong Mar 27/1867 Lives in Glencoe Ill.
10.Alice Maud Armstrong Apr. 26/1868 Jul 21/1868 in Chicago
The following are the histories of the four surviving children of John Armstrong, as listed above:-
1/7. William Rufus Armstrong.
Born in Chicago October 18/1854, and died
there July 10/1906, buried at Gracelands, Chicago. He married on
January 6/1880, at Chicago, Anamode Morgan, born there October 6/1858,
died there May 5/1946, aged 88 years. His early education was by a
Governess, Miss A. Macdonald, whom John Armstrong engaged to each all
his children while they were at Maple Grove. Later he attended the
Bryant and Stratton School in Chicago. He then studied law with
Colonel Robert Rae, (of the 1st Regiment of State Militia), passed his
examinations and worked in Col Rae's firm, also joining the same
regiment. At the time of the Spanish War, Col Rae formed a regiment for
service in that war, in which Will was to be a Captain, but the war
stopped before arrangements had been completed. Will was a charter
member of the Company A, 5th Illinois Infantry at Arcola, its Colonel
being Reilly M. Smith. After Will married in 1880, John Armstrong
wanted him to look after Maple Grove. Two years later, a Dry Goods
Store was opened at Arcola, for Will and Tom Little, under the name of
Armstrong and Little, financed by John Armstrong. Later, Tom pulled
out and returned to his former employers, J. V. Farwell and Co. of
Chicago, where he had been a salesman. Tom Little afterwards went out
to Caldwell, Idaho and made money in his own Dry Goods store and lived
there until his death. Will and his brother Jack (John Edmond)
continued the business but it did not prosper, and it was sold out, an
expensive thing for John Armstrong, as he paid up all indebtedness, but
at the use of much of his resources, causing the first mortgage on
Maple Grove. Will then went out to Bozeman, Montana, where he bought
an interest in a law and insurance firm, run by a man named Ives, which
required further financing by John Armstrong. Ives turned out to be a
rascal: Will left Bozeman a year later, after the railway was extended
to Helena, Montana, and was a manager in a wholesale grocery store
there, for three years. Will then went off on a wild goose chase to the
new mining town of Coeur d'Alene, Canada, his wife not knowing where he
was. He got stranded there, and money had to be sent to bring him and
his family home. Then he went to La Crosse, Michigan, with an oil
Company, and later to St. Paul, where Anna's brother-in-law got him a
position in a wholesale Fruit Company. He then returned to Chicago and
got an excellent position in the Press Division of the University of
Chicago, where he worked three years. After that he went to Odebolt,
Iowa, and worked for A. E. Cook, who ran a general store for the farm
hands on twelve sections of surrounding farms, for two years. From this
time Will commenced to go down hill from drink and his wife Anna was
obliged to leave him. She came to Chicago, stored the furniture, which
she later lost through a mortgage held by A.E. Cook. At the time of
the Columbian Exhibition, she kept roomers for two and a half years.
Then through the help of her brother-in-law, Mr. Bruce Powers, she got
an excellent position with Marshall Fueld & Co. in the ladies dress
department, which she filled with remarkable ability and success for
eleven years, meanwhile supporting herself and her two sons until they
died. On June 9/1909 Anna married Robert. W. Faulkner who died in
Chicago in 1929, she had three sons, Howard E., Albert W. and Roy N.
Faulkener. He left Anna comfortably off in 1936 lived in a charming
apartment in the Grassmere Hotel in Chicago. Will was a Mason.
Issue:-
2/1. John Lester Armstrong. Born in Chicago Sept 18/1881. Died on November
24/1908 of T.B. at a Catholic Hospital in California, near San Francisco. He never married.
2/2. Warren Grant Armstrong. Born at Chicago Aug 2/1885. Died Jan 6/1906
there of T.B. Buried at Graceland. He never married.
1/8. Jennie Elvira Armstrong.
Was born in Chicago, November 13/1857,
and died at Saginaw, Michigan, on August 22/1935 at the home of her
daughter, very suddenly of heart disease. She is buried with her
husband at Beloit, Wisconsin. Her girlhood was spent at Arcola, (Maple
Grove) and at Chicago. She was educated first by her Governess Miss.
A. Macdonald at Maple Grove and later went to Bishop Helmuth's College
near London, Ontario, Canada, for two years. She married on March
24/1881, Clarence Fay Hobert, born March 7/1855, died at Saginaw, July
16/1928. For two years after their marriage, they ran the farm at Maple
Grove, where their daughter Henrietta was born. Clarence Hobert came
from Ottawa, Illinois, where his father was a dentist: he had five
brothers, Arthur, Fred, George and Henry and three sisters, Ethel,
Louise,and May all of whom died before 1939. Jennie met Clarence at
Tom Little's house, as the latter's wife Minnie Holliker, also came
from Ottawa Ill. Clarence had a very lovable disposition, always kind
to everyone, and unassuming. After leaving Arcola, Clarence took up
the profession of teaching, for which he was well fitted, a graduate of
the State Normal School at Bloomington, Illinois. His first post was
at a small school at Tuscola,just north of Arcola. During the summer
vacations, he sold school supplies, nursery stock &c. His next post
was at a school in Time in Pike County - no railroad there. Jennie
accompanied him but was often at Arcola. His next post was at Neoga
where he had a good school for three years: they were burned out here
and lost everything. Then he got a school at Lostant for three years.
Then at Hannover for two years. Then he got a post at Hampshire for
five years, a large school. Then two years at Pingree, and three years
at Union, all in Illinois. Then Clarence gave up the teaching
profession and went into the house painting business. Their daughter
Henrietta was married at Union, to Harold Edward McIntyre on November
2/1903. McIntyre was then with the Fairbanks Morse Co. at Beloit,
Wisconsin but spent his vacations with the Roberts. Henrietta was a
quiet studious girl. After their marriage, the McIntyres went to
Beloit, and Clarence and Jennie followed, where Clarence got a positioposition n
with the Fairbanks Morse Co. and had their own home. When the
McIntyres went to Saginaw, Clarence and Jennie went too, and they
retired on their savings. Clarence kept chickens for a hobby, with
some profit too: one day he went out to the chicken house, failed to
return and he was found dead of heart disease in the yard:-
Issue:-
2/1. Henrietta Wilson Hobert. Born May 30/1882.
She married at Union, Ill. on Nov 2/1903 Harold Edward McIntyre, born at Algonquin, Ill Nov 2/1883, son of Harvey Moon McIntyre, born Dec 22/1861 at Harpers Field, N.Y. died in Oregon: and Winnie May Lincoln, born Spring Valley, Ill. Mar 6/1865: married Dec 17/1880. H. E. McIntyre when married was working at the Fairbanks Morse Co. in Beloit, and was with them fourteen years working up from a laborer to the position of Systematizer. Then then joined the J.I. Case Co. of Racine, Wis. for two years as General Foreman. Then for a year with Sawyer. Massey & Co. of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, makers of agricultural machinery. Then for six months at Eau Claire, Wis. as Foundry Superintendent of the Phoenix Mnfs. Co. He then joined the General Motors Co. at Saginaw as General Foreman, Foundry expert, trouble shooter, and now is superintendent of the Core Finishing Dept. with a total service of twenty years. The General Motors factory at Saginaw, made all the castings for 7000 Chevrolet cars per day and McIntyre was a most responsible position. He was man of fine character and has always done well for his family. For many years he was active in the Boy Scouts, and was awarded the highest honour for this work - the Silver Beaver. He retired on his pension in 1945 and in 1952 they lived at 203 West Clark St., Milwaukee, Saginaw, Michigan. Issue:- 3/1. Henrietta Mary McIntyre. Born Jan 30/1905.
She married on Sept 24/1927 to Andrew Watt Forbes, of Dundee, Scotland, who came to America when a boy of nineteen and worked his way through the University of Michigan. In 1952 ha was with the General Motors Co. at Saginaw, in the personnel department. He and his wife are both graduates of the University of Michigan.
Issue:-
4/1. Andrew McIntyre Forbes. Born Nov 17/1929, died July 28/1943,
during an operation for appendicitis
4/2. Donald Hobert Forbes. Born Oct 23/1930
4/3. John Melville Forbes. Born Apr 5/1937
4/4. Joyce Evelyn Forbes, born September 20/1944.
3/2. Joyce Armstrong McIntyre. Born Aug 11/1908. Died in 1943 of
Tuberculosis. Not married. Contracted T.B. and spent some years in a sanatorium. She graduated from the State Normal School at Kalamazoo, Michigan with a teachers degree and was teaching French at a Saginaw High School when she died.
3/3. Henry Hobert McIntyre. Born Apr/23/1910. Married Sept 30/1935 to
Ruth Bruske, daughter of Frederick and Florence (McNally) Bruske. He graduated from the Central State Normal School, and worked in the General Motors Co. at Saginaw. In 1948 he was with the Dow Chemical Co. Midland Mich, makers of plastics.
Issue:-
4/1. Ruth Kay McIntyre. Born June 6/1936
4/2. Gail Ann McIntyre. Born May 30/1938
4/3. Lynn Louise McIntyre, born July 4/1949
4/4. Harold Frederick McIntyre, born March 1952.
3/4. Janet Elizabeth McIntyre. Born Nov 19/1913. Married April 28/1935
to Ray Allen Stevens, son of Lawrence and Verna (Ely) Stevens, both of good pioneer stock whose ancestors fought in the revolution. He is graduate of the Central State Normal : his wife Janet attended there two years. In 1940, they bought a farm near Fayetteville, Ohio, which they still operated in 1952. In the 2nd World War he served 2 years in an Army Hospital at San Antonio, Texas, as an aide.
Issue:
4/1. David Ray Stevens, born November 18/1940
4/2. Daniel McIntyre Stevens, born May 4/1942.
4/3. Paul Joseph Stevens, born October 16/1944 (daughter Rose - AM).
4/4. Timothy Allen Stevens, born April 4/1948.
4/5. Jonathan Edward Stevens, born August 21/1949.
1/9. John Edmond (Jack) Armstrong
was born in Chicago March 18/1860. Died in Beloit, Wisconsin March 23/1912 of Pneumonia, aged 52 years, buried there in a lot bought by his wife which she later gave to the Hoberts, who are also buried there.
His early education was by his Governess Miss A. Macdonald at Maple Grove, Arcola, where he lived until 1877, but was not up to any work as he was never very strong. In 1877 his father John Armstrong got him a job with Edwin Hunt Sons, Hardware. In 1882 he joined Will in the Dry Goods business at Arcola, but was only mildly interested in it. When it was closed out, he followed his brother Will to Bozeman Montana, where he worked in a General Supply Store. In 1885 he returned to Arcola. he was well liked by the people he was with in Bozeman, and had excellent prospects. He was at Arcola till the following summer, and married secretly at Tuscola, Hettie Warner Rust on June 16/1886. She was born Mar 23/1862, died at Chicago, July 3/1936, daughter of Luther Collins Rust, (born at Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware on Jan 11/1818, shot himself Feb 14/1873 at Arcola, and buried there) his 2nd wife, Emily (Niles) Rust, born Apr 10/1832 in Baltimore, married in 1860: she died in Chicago Dec 26/1915 at Arcola. Luther has married, 1st, in 1846, her sister Adelaide Niles, who died in Arcola in 1857. There were eleven children of these two marriages: he was in the grain business in Arcola. When Jack and Hettie were married she was teaching school at Arcola, and for fear of losing her position as a married woman, their marriage was kept secret. After their marriage they moved to Chicago where Jack got a position with the Lincoln Ice Co. where he worked there until the Knickerbocker Ice Co bought them out, when he went with them.
Some years later, the sons of the original founder of the old Lincoln Ice Co. started in business again, and Jack went back to them as book keeper, and was with them for many years in a confidential capacity. One of the firms brothers was found to have been embezzling the firm's money, and Jack was deemed to have known it and of not reporting it to the other brothers; This caused Jack's discharge and he was unable to find another position in Chicago: he went to Beloit where he got a position with the Fairbanks Morse Co. and lived with his sister Jennie and her husband and his Mother until his death in 1912. In the meantime his wife Hettie and her daughters lived in Chicago and kept up the home: the girls were employed and she did some sewing to help out. Later, her brother gave her an annuity which enabled her to live comfortably. She made several trips to California to visit her daughter Rena: and also to York, Nebraska, to visit her sister, Nellie: the latter predeceased her by three months. In April 1935, Hettie had a stroke while in California but recovered from that and in March 1936 made another trip to York, Neb, to be at her sister's deathbed. She then went to Palm Springs where in April she again had another stroke, from which she never recovered, and died July 3/1936. Rena went out there after Hettie had been in the Hollywood Hospital for four weeks, and brought her back to Chicago where she lived seven weeks more: she died at Rena's home at 3749 KImball Avenue and is buried in Graceland Cemetery beside her mother, sister and brother. She was an active Church worker and was loved by all.
Issue:-
2/1. Rena Rust Armstrong. Born Sept 24/1887 at Decatur, Ill, run over
and killed by an automobile while crossing the street in front of her house in March 1952. She married on Aug 26/1911 to Thomas Erwin Grant, born July 15/1880 at Connersville, Indiana. After their marriage they went to Lake Worth, Florida to look at a farm offered them, but finding it under water, they returned to Chicago. In 1912, they bought a farm in Lincoln County, Wisconsin and lived there for five years; a tree fell on Grant and broke his leg. They sold the farm for twice as much as they paid for it and went to Racine, Wisconsin where he got a position with the J.I.Case Co through Harry McIntyre. However the work was hard, so he came back to Chicago and got a position with the Newspapers and through that got several trucks of his own working in the circulation department. Shortly after, he went into business himself and was quite successful until the depression in 1929. in 1931, Rena divorced him and on April 6/1931, married Emil Max Panter, born in Germany October 20/1887, coming to America as an infant. In 1940, Emil had been employed by the Golblatt Brothers for the last eleven years in the traffic department and they lived at 4118 North Sacramento Avenue in their own house which they remodelled. Rena had no children by him.
ISSUE:-(By her first husband Thomas Erwin Grant).
3/1. William Rust Grant. Born at Chicago March 20/1915: graduated
from Lake View High School in 1931 and was employed by Goldblatt Bros for five years. Then took the Civil Service Examination and passed with a high of 96 plus, and became a mail carrier from the Kedzie-Grace Station in Chicago. In the second World War he served in the Army in Germany, and was five years in a prison camp, released VE day. In 1946 he joined the Berkeley, Cal. post office. He married on Nov 11/1939, Viola Eccarius of Chicago (of Greek ancestry): in 1948 lived in Fayetteville, Cal.
Issue:
4/1. William Rust Grant, Jr, born Lafayette, July 13/1947.
2/2. Eleanor Poole Armstrong. Born Feb 1/1891 at Chicago. Married at
Los Angeles on Aug 25/1924, to Frank William Martineau, born Nov 30/1889 at Rochester, N.Y. of Hugenot descent whose parents came from Canada. Frank was with the New York Life Insurance Company for many years. In 1935 they lived at 1717 Anacopa St, Santa Barbara, Cal.
Issue:-
3/1. Jeanne Margaret Martineau. Born May 29/1925. She graduated from
Palm Springs High School, and from the University of Arizona. She married at Our Lady of Carmel Church, Santa Barbara, on November 16/1947, William Austin Curtis, a graduate of the University of Illinois. In the second World War he served in the US navy.
Issue:
4/1. John William Curtis, born December 25/1949.
4/2. Kathleen Marie Curtis, (adopted), born July 21/1953.
3/2. Julie Annette Martineau. Born Mar 11/1929. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and then served as a hostess on one of the airlines flying out of Los Angeles. She married at St Paul the Apostle Church, Westwood Cal, on January 29/1949, Edgar Frank Smith, born Little Rock, Ark, November 12/1924, son of Frank Morton and Laura Emily (Webster) Smith
Issue:
4/1. Gary Morton Smith, born Los Angeles, March 14/1954.
3/3. John Armstrong Martineau. Born Jul 29/1931 in L.A. He graduated
from the University of Southern California.
2/3. Margaret Whittaker Armstrong. Born Nov 28/1896 at Chicago.
Married on Nov. 20/1917 to Logan Walters Green, born Oct 9/1891. No child. They were divorced and had no children. She again married 2nd, Robert J. Reed of San Francisco: they were divorced and had no children. 3rd, Herbert J Dawes: no children.
1/10. Charles Wilson Armstrong Born Chicago, May 22/1862, died there
November 11/1862.
1/11. Maud Mary Armstrong Born Chicago, September 22/1863, died there
February 22/1865
1/12. Eugene Charles Armstrong Born Chicago, January 22/1866, died
there August 5/1866.
1/13. Percy Wilson Armstrong
was born March 27/1867 at 96 Huron St. Chicago, situated between Market (Now Orleans) and Sedgwick streets, which at that time was a section of fine houses where lived many of Chicago's North Side families. He died at Palatka, Florida, January 6/1953, almost 86 years old, buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Evanston, Ill. Percy has written an interesting account of his life, and also gave me most of the information in this history of John Armstrong and his descendants, which I quote:- My first memory is of the great Chicago fire in 1871: I remember being taken out of bed and seeing the glow in the distance. Mother used to go back and forth between Chicago and Maple Grove frequently: sometimes I accompanied her. About 1877 it was again decided to have a home again in Chicago and we settled in a dwelling at 216 Cass St. N.W. corner of Chestnut St. In 1875 I had a severe attack of measles supposed to have been brought back from Chicago by Father, who had attended the funeral of our dear little niece Bertha Wheeler, of my own age, who died of measles Feb 3/1875. Her mother was Nell's younger sister, who had married Eugene Wheeler: she died of T.B. June 4/1870, before the fire. My early education was by Miss A. Macdonald. She was a fine woman and always a staunch friend of the family in later years. After we came to Chicago I attended the old Ogden School at State and Chestnut Streets. Mother's unrest and desire to be back and forth between Chicago and Maple Grove led to the house being rented to the Allens, with whom Father and Will lodged. Their daughter Anamode Morgan (Allen was her step father) and Will were married in Jan 6/1880. I had gone to live with Nell (Mrs O.A. Poole) after the change in the family affairs, and attended the Douglas School on 35th St. and continued there until Mar 4/1879, when I was sent to the Morgan Park Military Academy, where I stayed till June 1883, spending vacation at Maple Grove and seeing Father in Chicago over occasional weekends. In 1881 I won the Gold Scholarship Medal and was appointed Sergeant. Mother and I spent the summer of 1883 with Will in Bozeman, Montana. Mother was called back to Chicago as Father was taken ill, and I stayed on till the Fall, when I joined Father and Mother at Maple Grove. Things had gone wrong with Father - his health made it necessary to give up business and his finances were sadly depleted. This was undoubtedly caused in great measure by the strain thrown upon him in the previous several trying years. We continued to live at Maple Grove, experiencing many setbacks in our efforts to keep our heads above water. Others had to be helped out of difficulties, which loomed up just when the horizon seemed to clear. In the fall of 1890, I planned and built a greenhouse at Maple Grove and had it completed and stocked by the following spring. We happened to have enough funds on had to take care of the outlay, which was small for what we had. This would have been successful had we been able to carry on, but Father's health was such that we had to sell Maple Grove at a big sacrifice and return to Chicago. The place was disposed of in December 1891. Mother and Father returned to Chicago while I stayed on for several weeks, getting the furniture packed up and shipped as well as selling and getting rid of unneeded articles. Meanwhile the folks had taken a flat on Wrightwood Avenue, near Lincoln, and with the arrival of the furniture we soon got settled. We had entirely too much household stuff, so that Will and Jack came in for a good deal of it. I attended the Powers Business School for several months in the Spring then joined Gage Bros and Co. a wholesale millinery concern at a small salary. Father's health did not improve and after several weeks of painful and severe illness, during which he was operated on for prostate removal, he passed away Sept 24/1892. After Father died, Mother and I gave up the flat: my salary was barely enough for my personal needs, and what remained of our resources had to be carefully managed. Although I had held things together during the eight years at Maple Grove, it was thought best for Will and Jack to manage Mother's affairs. I never knew how the money went as during that winter I lived with Christiana Vaugh Slater in Ravenswood. The next spring Mother and I took a small flat on Burling St. and kept it a year. We had plenty of company the following summer for the Centennial Exposition in 1876 of which I saw but little. When we gave up the flat I made my home with Jack and Hettie and so continued till Jennie and I were married. Mother went to stay with Jennie and Clarence. I met Jennie Tilt in the fall of 1894, and finally became engaged on the evening of August 21st. Her mother approved but my financial condition meant a long delay in going any further. I lost my job at Gage Bros in October, then following a period of much discouragement, until in December a friend, Henry Jameson and myself, made a deal with the Waltham Manufacturing Co. of Waltham, Mass to open and manage a store for the sale of their bicycles, which were then all the rage. I made strenuous efforts in this new work, made several trips to neat by towns and settled down to boosting business. The future began to look rosy so there seemed to be no reason for a longer wait, and we set April 29th for our wedding. We were married in St Peters Church by Mr. Edsall, (afterwards Bishop). John Slater was groomsman, Dora Tilt bridesmaid. We left for Milwaukee after the reception, stayed at the Pfister Hotel until the following Friday and thoroughly enjoyed our short honeymoon. We made the trip back to Chicago on the old sidewheeler "City of Chicago". We lived in a flat at 1220 Rokeby St., moving into an upper flat in a new building at No 1198, with steam heat, for which we paid $22 per month. In the fall business prospects had not come up to expectations, and finally the bicycle craze came to an end with the advent of Motors. I opened a bicycle store at 1605 North Clark St. near Belmont, but that soon petered out. I closed this business in December and soon after had a chance to travel through Missouri and Nebraska for the Indiana Bicycle Co. of Indianapolis at $75 per month for three month, but as bicycles were the last thing that dealers wanted, the factory switched to making electric automobiles, but finally stopped altogether. I returned to Chicago and got a job with Borden & Sellect Scale Co. to take charge of their bicycle department agents for several eastern makers. But there was no business and they closed the department June 1st. We had moved to 1316 Osggod St that spring. In September we moved to 1518 Belmont Ave, and lived there till April 1900, when we moved to Hermitage Ave. near Cornelia St. Unable to find a job I solicited and delivered orders for tea and coffee, using my bicycle when weather permitted, otherwise on foot. Those were days of hardship and small returns. Jennie, her Mother and the two children visited Canada in the summer of 1899. I secured a position as collector for a Publishing House at a small salary. The children went to a little private kindergarden in a near by church. In June 1902 we moved to Briar Place where Wilson was born. In November of that year, through the efforts of the family physician Dr. Gray, I got a position with J.B. Clow and Sons, at a small salary, but prospects were good. This was really the first job I had that offered hopes of a future, which the following years proved to be true. The children started in Public School in due course. We stayed at Briar Place for three years, and then moved to Roscoe St. and lived there till April 22/1908, when we came to Glencoe. With a small settlement for a street car accident, we were able to make a deal for a small lot on Grove St. Glencoe, hoping to build on it later. Then an opportunity was presented to secure our present house at 861 Bluff St. Glencoe, on very easy terms, so we sold the Grove St. lot. A new life opened up in Glencoe for all of us. Different environment gave us an entirely changed outlook for the future. It was possible to do a lot of gardening, a life long passion with Jennie and myself, and as the children grew and housekeeping cares diminished, it has produced a substantial financial return. Our house when bought, was crude and before we remodelled it in 1915, I spent many hours hard labour making it more comfortable, excavated sufficient space under the house for the installation of a heating plant and later also a laundry. I left J.B. Clow in the fall of 1917, to take a position with the Refinite Co. and had a profitable connection with them until their failure two years later. I went then with the International Filter Co. until March 1923 when I was appointed Post Master of Glencoe on May 1st, and held that position till Jan 1934, when the change in national politics caused by retirement. After leaving the Postal service, I became associated with the Miles-Murphy Oil Co. and have continued so up to the present November 1943. At our present ages, Primrose Lodge, as we have named our home, was too heavy a burden and in 1945 we sold it and moved to Florida, settling at Palatka, on Pine Lake Road, near St Augustine. End of Percy's story.
In 1947, Percy had a cataract removed from one eye and regained a large part of his vision. His mother also was blind in her later years from the same trouble, the removal of the cataract in her case was not successful in restoring her sight. Percy and Jennie celebrated their golden wedding on April 29/1946, while on a visit to their son John at Great Neck, L.I.
Percy married at Chicago, on April 29/1906, Jennie Tilt daughter of John Tilt of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who was born in Ireland Sept 7/1837: he died in Galt, Ont. Jan 22/1876 and Susannah (Kelly) Tilt, born in Ireland Sept. 16/1850, died at Orangeville, Ontario, Canada on Nov 15/1901.
Issue:-
2/1. Susannah Winifred Armstrong, Born March 11/1897 at Chicago.
Married as his 2nd wife, on Sept 2/1939, to Laurence Vail Coleman, born at New York City, Sept 19/1893, son of Thaddeus Vail Coleman, born May 1/1854, died Apr 27/1937: and Kate Bradley (Pratt) Coleman, born Feb 13/1862, still living in New York City, (in Nov 1939). Laurence was divorced from his first wife by whom he had three sons. Laurence and Susannah had no children. Laurence Vail Coleman attended both Yale and Harvard Universities, and in 1943 was Director of the American Association of Museums, with headquarters at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. He is the author of many books on Museums, and is the most noted authority on this subject in the United States. They live at 1530 Sixteenth St. Washington, D.C. Susannah was a fine pianist and composer, many of her compositions, having been published. Her musical studies were started with Hilda Brown, in Chicago, then with Victor Garwood, followed by a full course at the North-western University Music School, where she obtained the bachelor degree. Susannah then spent a year in Germany, and studied with Arthur Schnabel and after she returned to Chicago with Levine. Due to her sorority connections she was given an opportunity to go to the MacDowell Colony at Peterboro, N.H. This proved to be most stimulating and helpful in her musical composition. So much so that she welcomed the opportunities of attendance in following years. For a number of years she was connected with the music department of New Trier Township High School. In 1934, she decided to go to New York and was sufficiently successful, through her musical ability, to make her way there. She had arranged to return and continue her work there, but marriage changed her plans. Latterly vacation times have been divided between home and Peterboro. It was there she met her husband, Laurence Vail Coleman, in 1938. The "Glencoe News" of May 31/1930, carried the following article:-
Miss Susannah Armstrong, Glencoe pianist and composer, has recently been presented with a fellowship for the MacDowell colony at Peterboro, N.H. by the Evanston MacDowell Society of Allied Arts. The fellowship was formally announced by Parke E. Simmons, president of the Evanston Society, at the annual meeting recently, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus G. Dawes in Evanston. Madame Elsie Harthan Arendt, soprano, who was the artist of the evening, included in her programme, one of Miss Armstrong's songs, "Sea Shell", Stanley Seder was at the piano. Miss Armstrong is a member of the music department of New Trier High School, where she is in charge of the harmony and creative work in music. At Peterboro this summer, she will be able to have three months of intensive work in composition. The Macdowell colony was established by Mrs. Edward MacDowell in memory of her husband, the eminent American composer, and it provides quiet and inspiration for artists in the different branches of creative art. As only a limited number of artists can be accommodated, the fellowships are bestowed with great discrimination. Miss. Armstrong has had her songs sung in recitals along the north shore, and she has always received very favourable comment on them. They show imagination and a sense of tone colour, the accompaniments often being quite independent of the melody and furnishing a colorful background. Her Mother Goose songs are particularly charming.
When, as a girl, Susannah began to show great musical promise, her admiring uncle, Otis A. Poole, gave her a Steinway Grand Piano to encourage her aspirations, which has been a great joy to her through the years, and which she still has.
After their marriage, Susannah and Laurence lived for many years in an apartment in Washington, DC. In 1951/2 they lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, owning their own house in Wayside Place, but returned to city life in Washington.
Since the above was written, Laurence Coleman, after serving the American Association of Museums as its Director for 35 years, retired in 1958 and was elected Director Emeritus in appreciation of his notable accomplishments during that period. Since his retirement, Laurence and Susannah have travelled extensively abroad, in the Caribbean and Europe, dwelling chiefly in Florence, Italy.
2/2. John Tilt Armstrong. Born in Chicago May 23/1898. Married in
Evanston, Ill. on June 30/1928, to Mildred Elizabeth Bowers born March 11/1901 in Chicago, daughter of Edward Kendall Bowers, born Aug 15/1871 in Ohio, and Stella (Ent) Bowers, born Jan 19/1874 in Ohio. John went through Grammar School in Glencoe, Ill and attended New Trier High School two years and after war service, attended Northwestern University School of Commerce. He was an industrious boy and always looking for a chance to get ahead. He started caddying as soon as we let him, got up early and delivered newspapers while attending school. He got a summer job with J. V. Farwell and Co., a wholesale dry goods concern, and when school started again, he decided to remain with Farwell. In February 1917 he joined the Illinois Naval Reserve, and was automatically in the U.S. Navy with our entrance into the World War in 1917. He was first stationed on the U.S.S. "Vermont", later on the supply ship "Stephen R. Jones", which crossed the Atlantic to France. He was appointed Yeoman, while on the "Jones". He was mustered out April 6/1919, just two years to the day after entering the service . He remained, however in the US Naval Reserve, ultimately attaining the rank of full Commander. John lived at home till his marriage to Mildred Bowers, June 30/1929. He continued in the textile business after World War 1. This necessitated considerable road work which was successful, but the slump caused the Botany Worsted Mills to close down their Chicago office, and he was let out in 1931. He went to New York and at once secured the position he now has with J.P. Stevens and Co. 350 Fifth Avenue, remaining with them for 32 years and retiring in 1963 as Senior Sales Representative. During these years in New York, he and his family dwelt in Great Neck, LI, where he owned three successive homes, the last two on Vista Hill Road When America entered World War 11 after Pearl Harbour, John rejoined the Navy and as a Lieutenant Senior Grade, was stationed in 1942 at Balboa, Canal Zone, 15th Naval District, where he became Officer in charge or the Pacific End of the Panama Canal Harbour Entrance Control for the next two years. This had to do with all surface and underwater defence of the shipping lanes into that area as well as control of all friendly inbound and outbound traffic. From Balboa, he was transferred to Fisher's Island at the Eastern entrance to Long Island Sound, as Lieut. Commander, where his family joined him. On Germany's surrender, he was immediately transferred to the Presidio at San Francisco, where he was in charge of harbour entrance until the surrender of Japan in 1945. When the Post was closed in November 1945, he was mustered out as full Commander, USNR, and returned to JP Stevens Co New York, who had generously continued his pay throughout his war service. Like John, Mildred Bowers attended Glencoe Grammar School and New Trier High School and Northwestern University (B.A. '23 in Liberal Arts). She then took a post-graduate course at the University of Chicago, Wisconsin College and Hunter's College, New York. She taught English in High School and wrote pleasing and thoughtful verse. Her collection "Twist o'Smoke" was published by Yale University Press.
Issue:-
3/1. Elizabeth Giles Armstrong. Born in Evanston June 25/1929
She graduated from Syracuse University, NY, and, married at Douglaston, LI, on April 17/1954 an English chemist, John Rufford Harrison, son of Mr & Mrs John L Harrison of Nottingham, England. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from King's College, London and is now a research chemist with E.I. Dupont de Nemours Co. They were stationed first at Niagara Falls and later at Wilmington, Delaware.
Issue:
4/1. Elizabeth McCrae Harrison, born May 7/1958, Wilmington
4/2. John Bryce Harrison, born April 2/1960, Wilmington.
3/2. Joanne Armstrong. Born Jan 14/1934 at Port Washington
Attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia University, New York. Later she became a Social Worker for the Youth Employment Division of the State of New York, interviewing seniors in High Schools.
2/3. Wilson Hobert Armstrong. Born in Chicago Nov 13/1904 Died March 21st
1931. Following a mastoid operation he became epileptic and died in a sanatorium, buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Evanston, Ill.
1/14. Alice Maud Armstrong Born at Chicago, April 26/1868, and died
there in infancy July 21/1868.
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8 - SAMUEL POOLE.
Was born at Hempstead, LI., April 29/1777, and died at Omega,
L.l., April 21/1833, buried at Christ Church, Manhasset, L.I,
He was the second son of Pierce and Elizabeth (Rushmore)
Lawrence Poole, see subject 16. Samuel was a farmer and merchant, and
was Inspector at Schools in Hempstead in 1819.
He married at St George's Church Hempstead, on May 20/1804
Sarah (Sally) Cheesman, born October 6/1784. died October 9/1863,
buried at Christ Church, Manhasset, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth
(Weekes) Cheesman of Hempstead, see subject 18.
Issue:-
1. Mary Elizabeth Poole. Born April 1/1806, died December 27/1890,
buried at Manhasset, she married there on December 20/1824, James Parshall Smith, born at Smithtown, L.I. December 22/1802, died at Lakeville, L.l., April 5/1889, buried at Manhasset, son of Jonas Mills and Sara Joanna (Mapes) Smith. See subject 8-A for issue and further particulars.
2. Benjamin Tredwell Poole. Born at North Hempstead, L.I., April
10/1807, died at Beloit, Wisc. February 1/1854. He married at Lakeville on June 12/1835, Juliet Thompson, born April 3/1810. died April 30/1878, a niece of Chief Justice John Marshal. See subject 8-B for issue and further particulars.[?]
3. Rushmore Poole. Born at Herricks, L.1.. September 7/1810 died at Buffalo,
N.Y., October 14/1885 of apoplexy. He married at Annsville, Le Roy, Oneida County, New York, on April 13/1837, Martha Maria Fitch, born February 4/1818, died at Buffalo, June 10/1903, daughter of Benjamin & Phebe (Brown) Fitch of Le Roy. See subject 8-C for, issue and further particulars.
4. Samuel Cheesman Poole. born January 8/1815, died June 22/1867,
buried at Manhasset. He married at Whitestone, N.Y., on April 8/1839, Esther Lax Powell, born September 25/1818, died March 19/1874, buried at Manhasset, sixth child of Thomas and Esther (Lax) Powell, see subject 8-E for issue and further particulars.
5. Augustus Poole. Born at Herricks, L.I., April 12/1820, died at Beloit, Wisc,
Apr 6/1853. He married on September 20/1847, Maria Bishop Manchester, born December 15/1822, died at Beloit, March 5/1873, daughter of Otis and Hannah (Ingols) Manchester (his second wife), of Utica and Beloit. See subject 4 for issue and further particulars.
6. Mary Antoinette Poole. born April 17/1826, died October 19/1875, buried in
Flushing Cemetery with her husband. She married at Christ Church, Manhasset, on August 4/1847, Jonathan Peck, born August 27/1825, died December 5/1889, son of Jonathan and Caroline (Cornell) Peck of Greenwich, Conn. See subject 8-E for issue and further particulars.
Note by Herbert A. Poole, who compiled this Genealogy:-
By marrying into the Cheesman family, Samuel Poole seems to
have been the first to break away from the farming occupation of his
forbears. The Cheesman family, with their Weekes and Townsend
forebears, were a more highly educated group and better situated
financially, amongst whom were many who had gone out to different parts
of the world. Thus Samuel's sons were well educated, wrote beautiful
English, and were the first of this Poole family to emigrate West.
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8A - MARY ELIZABETH POOLE.
Born at Hempstead, L.I., April 1/1805, died December 27/1890, aged 85 years, buried at Manhasset, eldest child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole, see subject 8.
She married at Christ Church, Manhasset, L.I., on December 20/1824, James Parshall Smith, born at Smithtown, L.I., December 22/1802, died at Lakeville, L.I., April 5/1889, buried at Manhasset, son of Jonas Mills and Sara Joanna (Mapes) Smith. He was a descendant of Richard, (died 1692) and Sarah (Folger) Smith, who settled in Southampton, L.I., in 1642, and who were known as the Bull Rider Smiths of Long Island: this name was given from the fact that Richard was given a tract of land as large as he could ride a bull around it in a certain specified time. James' middle name Parshall was given him after his great grandmother Keziah Parshall: the Parshalls came from Staffordshire, England, in 1642, and settled in Southold, L.I. James and Mary Elizabeth celebrated their sixty fifth wedding anniversary, the occasion being attended by a great number of their relatives and friends. I have a copy of the chart of the ancestors of James Parshall Smith.
James came to live at Lakeville until he went to Allaire, N.J., near Red Bank, where he was associated with James P. Allaire, after whom this town was named, in the iron industry. Allaire is in Monmouth County, where the iron deposits had been worked since 1670, around Shrewsbury: in 1925 the output of iron had dwindled to 165,000 tons, valued at $578,000. James eventually returned to Lakeville to farm the land his uncle Ebenezer Smith had left him: Ebenezer was a carpenter and builder, and in 1947 his house was still standing in a plot of many acres now in the possession of the Milburn family, polo players.
Issue: -
1. Sarah Joanna Smith. Born at Lakeville, March 30/1826, died there
Born at Hempstead, L.I., April 1/1805, died December 27/1890,
aged 85 years, buried at Manhasset, eldest child of Samuel and Sarah
(Cheesman) Poole, see subject 8.
She married at Christ Church, Manhasset, L.I., on December
20/1824, James Parshall Smith, born at Smithtown, L.I., December
22/1802, died at Lakeville, L.I., April 5/1889, buried at Manhasset,
son of Jonas Mills and Sara Joanna (Mapes) Smith. He was a descendant
of Richard, (died 1692) and Sarah (Folger) Smith, who settled in
Southampton, L.I., in 1642, and who were known as the Bull Rider Smiths
of Long Island: this name was given from the fact that Richard was
given a tract of land as large as he could ride a bull around it in a
certain specified time. James' middle name Parshall was given him
after his great grandmother Keziah Parshall: the Parshalls came from
Staffordshire, England, in 1642, and settled in Southold, L.I. James
and Mary Elizabeth celebrated their sixty fifth wedding anniversary,
the occasion being attended by a great number of their relatives and
friends. I have a copy of the chart of the ancestors of James Parshall
Smith.
James came to live at Lakeville until he went to Allaire,
N.J., near Red Bank, where he was associated with James P. Allaire,
after whom this town was named, in the iron industry. Allaire is in
Monmouth County, where the iron deposits had been worked since 1670,
around Shrewsbury: in 1925 the output of iron had dwindled to 165,000
tons, valued at $578,000. James eventually returned to Lakeville to
farm the land his uncle Ebenezer Smith had left him: Ebenezer was a
carpenter and builder, and in 1947 his house was still standing in a
plot of many acres now in the possession of the Milburn family, polo
players.
Issue: -
1. Sarah Joanna Smith. Born at Lakeville, March 30/1826, died thereJanuary 12/1891. She married, as his second wife, at Christ Church, Manhasset, on June 28/1854, Robert Alexander Gregory, born at either Cregan or Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland, August 19/1821, died at Brooklyn, October 1/1868, son of Mr. and Sara (Colquhoun) Gregory of Cunningham Manor, Ireland. Robert came to join his elder brother in America about 1840. Robert had married, 1st, Elizabeth Good (or Goode) and had one son by her, William Gregory. Robert was a member of the Orange Society, an association of Irish Protestants who derived their name from King William III (Prince of Orange), who defeated King James the second, at the Battle of Boyne River in 1690, and thus saved Ireland from the popish cause.
Issue:-
2/1. Julia Poole Gregory, born at 363 Sixth Ave., New York City,
April 4/1855, died at Montclair, N.J., January 5/1935. She married at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York City, on December 6/1881, James Flynn, born at Inchbridge, County Clare, Ireland, June 29/1843, died of a heart attack in a 9th Avenue Elevated Express on the morning of February 20/1903, while on the way to his office. He came to America when a boy, about 1859, and served in the Union Army as a captain in the Civil War, after which he studied law at Elmira, N.Y., and practiced at the State Bar and at the Federal Courts. He was School Commissioner from 1879 to 1883, and was one of Corporation Counsel Whalen's assistants. He was a member of the Lafayette Post, G.A.R., the Friendly Sons of St Patrick, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence. He had a law office with J.B. Tanner at 141 Broadway, and lived at 130 West 132nd St., New York City.,
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Issue:
3/1. Gregory Flynn, born at Brooklyn, October 9/1885, died at New
Rochelle, N.Y., July 8/1940, a salesman. He married at New York on September 5/1917, Olive Kelly, born at Lincoln Nebraska, in November 15/1889, daughter of Simon and Katherine (0'Neill) Kelly.
Issue :-
4/1. Gregory Flynn, born June 10/1918.
He married on May 20/1944, Virginia Grolla.
4/2. John Van Varick Flynn, born November 3/1919. f
He was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and was lost in 1944 in the Straits of Hollandia, South Pacific. He was not married.
4/3. David Mapes Flynn, born August 13/1923.
In 1947 he was a student at the University of Havana, Cuba.
3/2. Wilton Poole Flynn, born at Brooklyn, January 1/1890,
died there April 25/1891.
3/3. Kirtland Flynn, born at Brooklyn, December 31/1893.
Graduated from Columbia University in 1916: in 1947 was a chemical engineer Superintendent at the Celanese Corp., Newark, N.J. He married at Philadelphia on May 18/1916, Jane Elizabeth Miller, born at Cambden, N,Y., June 26/1893, daughter of George Briton McClellan Miller of Allentown, Pa., and Elizabeth Von Gamuenden of Philadelphia, whose parents originally came from Alsace. In 1947 they lived at 212 North Grove Ave. East Orange, N.J.
Issue: (born at East Orange, N.J.)
4/1. Kirtland Flynn, born August 27/1922. In the second World War
he served as a lieutenant in the US Marine Corps as a fighter pilot in the Pacific area. In 1947 he was an accountant with the Helicopter Air Transport Co., Camden, N.J. and was not married.[?]
4/2. Marjorie Flynn, born March 9/1928.
2/2. Sarah Gregory, born November 16/1657,
died in New York City, October 24/1937. She was not married,
2/3. Lizzie Good Gregory, born in New York City, December 15/1856,
died at East Orange, May 6/1928. She married at Brooklyn on April 24/1889, Arthur Percy Caldwell, born at Brooklyn, September 22/1883, died at Summit, N.J,, August 15/1936, son of William, (died 1876) and Elizabeth Garth (Lowndes) (died at East Orange January 2/1922) Caldwell. Arthur had a weighing and gauging business in New York.
Issue:-
3/1. Arthur Percy Caldwell, born at Brooklyn, October 4/1892.
He graduated from the University of New York, and then from M.I.T, Boston. In 1947 he was vice president at the Chemical Bank & Trust Co,, New York City, and they lived at 130 East End Avenue. He married at Belmont, Mass., on June 15/1918, Barbara Chase, born at Haverhill Mass., May 11/1869, daughter of Henry Ward and Adelia Leach (Giddings) Chase,
Issue:
4/1. Elizabeth Garth Caldwell, born in New York City,
January 10/1925,
2/4. Robert A. Gregory, born March 25/1851,
died in California, November 17/1934. He was not married.
2/5. Antoinette Gregory, born April 12/1853,
died at Montclair, N.J,, September 1/1934. She was not married.
2/6. Virginia Gregory, (twin), born February 8/1867, died February 6/1868.
2/7. Minnie Gregory, (twin), born February 8/1867 in New York City,
died there May 16/1935, She married at Brooklyn, on April 20/1892,
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Eugene Albert Demonet, born at Spring Valley, N.Y., August 12/1866, died at Short Hills, N.Y., December 27/1950, son of Jean Baptiste (born in Alsace-Lorraine), and Anna Cecile (Vaucher) (born at Lode, Switzerland), Demonet, who came to America in 1845. Eugene was export manager of the National Paper & Tube Co., New York. In his early life he lived in Brooklyn and was president of- the Lincoln Club there He was a member of the Huguenot Society and Mistletoe Lodge 647 F.A.M. Brooklyn. He was a veteran of the 13th Regiment of New York National Guard, Brooklyn. Since 1941 he lived with his son Eugene in Short Hills, and had a large place on Cove Road, Huntington, L.I. where they spent the summers.
Issue:
3/1. Cecile Antoinette Demonet, born 1893, died in a few days.
3/2. Eugene Albert Demonet, born July 27/1896. He served in the first
World War in the Navy, then graduated from Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, with an electrical engineering degree. He then Joined the Western Union Telegraph Co. as consulting engineer and has been with them ever since. He married at Red Bank, N.Y., in September 1936, Eleanor Louise Horr, born at Newark July 12/1905, daughter of Luther William (born at Chicopee, Mass. in 1859) and Mary Eleanor (Lucas) (born at Brownsville, Pa., in 1852) Horr. Luther lived in Newark, associated with Minot, Hooper & Co., suppliers of Sweet, Orr & Co., makers of overalls. In 1951 they lived at 322 Taylor Road, Short Hills, N.Y.
Issue: (all born at Newark)
4/1. Eugene Albert Demonet, born February 5/1938.
4/2. Laurence Gregory Demonet, (twin), born March 5/1940.
4/3. David Lucas Demonet, (twin), born March 5/1940.
3/3. Gregory Faure Demonet, born December 26/1898. In the first World
War he served in the U.S. Navy Air Force as ensign, an instructor at Pensacola, Fla. In the second World War he rejoined the Navy Air Force, first in the Eastern Seas Frontier Patrol Force for submarines, then at Seattle and Alaska in similar patrol work. He was then appointed Chief of Air Forces at Guantanamo, Cuba, and finally in charge of the air base at Chincatogue, Virginia. He married in New York City, on October 12/1940, Irene Margaret Regina Sullivan of Brooklyn. They had no children and in 1947 he was in the paper business with Yohanesen, Wales & Sparre, at 250 Park Ave., New York City.
3/4. Claude Robert Demonet, born November 5/1901, died 1904.
3/5. Cecile Antoinette Demonet, born April 27/1903. She never married
and was a trained nurse: in 1950 she was superintendent of Macy's Hospital, New York City, and lived at 55 West 11th St.
1/2. Ensley Mills Smith. Born at Lakeville, L.I., August 8/1828, died there
May 7/1886, buried at Manhasset, L.I. In 1855 he went to Charleston, S.C., where he remained a few years, then went to Peru from 1859 to 1865 working in shipping offices, and at one time at the Americas, Consulates in Lima and Callao. He married on April 4/1867, Beulah May Scranton, born at Rochester, N.Y., January 15/1835, died at Attica, N.Y., January 1/1900, buried at Rochester. Beulah was the fourth daughter of Edwin and Mary Ann (Sibley) Scranton of Rochester, and widow of Isaac H. Weaver of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, whom she had married on January 17/1853, but had no children by him. Beulah was educated at the Mary B. Allen School, Rochester, and graduated from Converse Seminary, Burlington, Vt. Beulah's sister Bertha Sibley Scranton, born November 29/1848, married James Poole of Rochester: I wonder if he was any relation of our Pooles.
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(This is from "The Scranton Genealogy", by the Reverend Erastus Scranton, Burlington, Conn., 1855).
Issue:-
2/1. Emalita A. Smith, born April 12/1868, died at New York City,
September 29/1879 of diptheria, after their return from Peru.
2/2. Mary Elizabeth Smith, born July 6/1870, died at New York City,
October 13/1879 of diptheria, after their return from Peru.
2/3. Ensley Boyd Smith. He lived some years in Honolulu then came
to Oakland, Cal., where he married a Miss Jerome, daughter of James Jerome. Ensley was living there in 1905.
Issue:-
3/1. Leslie Jerome Smith.
1/3. Virginia Smith. Born January 25/1830, died in July 1830.
1/4. Rushmore Poole Smith. Born in New York City, February 3/1833, died
June 9/1907. For several years he was employed at the Treasurer's office of Long Island City. He married on October 1/1862, Emma Appelby born November 26/1843, died January 4/1927, buried in the Appelby plot in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. She was a sister of his younger brother Howard's wife. In 1904 they lived at 85 Norman St.,
Brooklyn.
Issue:-
2/1. Adelaide Rushmore Smith, born at Manhasset, L.I., February 24/1864,
died July 4/1913, buried in the Appelby plot in Greenwood Cemetery. She married on February 1/1893, as his second wife, Alexander Waldron June, born March 22/1852, died March 18/1908. He was captain of boats plying on the Hudson and East Rivers on Long Island Sound, and in New York harbor, one of his boats being the "Emma Southard". He was an ice yacht enthusiast and won many races with his famous ice yachts "Hermes" and "Scud". Captain June had married, 1st, on January 16/1881, Sarah Ackerman, born June 18/1858, died January 28/1890, by whom he had:-
3/1. Sadie June, born December 8/1883, died in ten days.
3/2. Ella Conklin June, born January 8/1884, died October 21/1942.
She married on April 23/1903, George Whitefield Mackie, born December 4/1880, died July 23/1940, tenth child of William John Mackie, (born September 26/1836, died March 31/1895), and Hannah Gibbs Whiting, (born January 2/1838, died April 28/1915), who were married April 28/1861.
Issue:-
4/1. Mildred June Mackie, born September 17/1906. She never married
and in 1947 was a high School teacher, in Staten Island where she lived at 650 Victory Boulevard.
3/3. Alexander June, born August 26/1886, died November 8/1889.
Issue:- (of Alexander Waldron and Adelaide Rushmore (Smith) June.)
3/1. Howard Rushmore June, born January 2/1894, died January 27/1895.
3/2. Emma Appelby June, born March 8/1896, died August 4/1896.
3/3. Orrin Brenner June, born March 1/1901. he married on July 17/1932,
Pearl Elizabeth Blackburn born August 31/1902 eldest daughter of John Henry Blackburn, (born February 9/l875) and Hannah Lawton Gibbs Mackie, (born April 3/1876), who were married April 30/1901. Hannah was the elder sister of George Whitefield Mackie mentioned above. In 1947 they lived at 221 Rivercliffe Drive, Devon, Conn. They had no children.
1/5. James Augustus Smith. born at Allaire, N.J., February 8/1835,
died June 4/1921, aged 86 years, buried in Flushing Cemetery, L.I. When he
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was 12 years old he came to Lakeville: at the age of 16 years be began a four year apprenticeship with the Neptune Iron Works, at the foot of 8th St., on the New York side of the East River. When 20 years old, he went to sea in a small steamship to South America, where he became an assistant engineer in the Chilean Navy. In 1862 he made a voyage to Shanghai in the barque "Benefactress", the trip taking 135 days. This ship was in the tea trade, owned by A.A. Low, the father of Seth Low, one time Mayor of Brooklyn, and later Mayor of Greater New York. The barque carried machinery for a large sized side wheel steamer, which James erected in China for service on the Yangtze River, named the "Fujiyama". In 1865 he made another voyage to China in the side wheel steamer "Chusan", as chief engineer, taking only 75 days for the voyage. Her side wheels were fitted with feathering floats, probably the first departure from the radial wheel. While in China, James had charge of machine shops, and all kinds of river craft. In 1875 he made another voyage around the world, and on his return, married on October 18/1876, his next door neighbor, Celia Jane Arthur, born at Lakeville, June 12/1845, died there July 18/1933, aged 87 years, daughter of Elbert and Jane (Lawrence) Arthur, farmers at Lakeville. In 1883 James became engineer in charge of the Baisley Pumping Station of the Brooklyn Water-works, during the administration of Seth Low and Ripley Ropes, Commissioners of Public Works. Subsequently he joined the Jamaica Pumping Station. He served 32 years on active duty at the Waterworks, and retired in 1905.
Issue:-
2/1. Arthur Augustus Smith, born at Lakeville, L.I., November 5/1877,
died March 11/1944, buried in Flushing Cemetery. He decided to make his career in the engineering profession, like his father, and served his apprenticeship with Fletcher & Harrison, Hoboken, N.J., where he made several trial trips. He was then appointed assistant engineer on the crack Atlantic liner S.S. "St Louis", one of the famous passenger ships of those days, plying between New York and Southampton, England. He then took an examination at the New York Navy Yard for a warrant machinist, passed with high marks, and though a civilian, was appointed on August 19/1903 to the battleship "Kearsage", then the flagship of the Atlantic fleet. This fleet was at that time being reviewed by President Theodore Roosevelt, Admiral Dewey and Secretary of War Moody, at Oyster Bay.. On the subsequent cruises of this ship, Arthur visited Culebra, Porto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, and Pensacola. On May 14/1904 the "Kearsage" sailed for the Azores, Lisbon, Corfu, Trieste, and back via the Straits of Gibraltar to the U.S.A. On May 30/1908, he was assigned to the U.S.S. "Buffalo", stationed at San Francisco, which sailed July 19/1908 for Cavite, P.I He was there transferred to the U.S.S. "Denver", and sailed for Shanghai, arriving August 19/1908. From there she cruised to Chefoo, Port Arthur and Nagasaki, thence back to Manila for target practice. He served in the Philippines until 1910, when he was transferred to the U.S.S. "Charleston", bound for Yokohama and home to Bremerton Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash. On October 20/1910 he was assigned to the U.S.S. "Colorado", which cruised to San Francisco, San Diego, and back to Bremerton. On April 29/1911 at Bremerton, he was given his commission in the Navy and appointed a lieutenant. On August 18/1916 he was ordered to the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn for land duty. On June 13/1922, he was assigned to the U.S.S. "Sapelo", a supply ship carrying oil to the various naval ports, on
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which he served until July 24/1926. He was then transferred to the U.S.S."Crane Ship No 1", which sailed for the Bremerton Navy Yard via the Panama Canal. The same year he was ordered to the U,S.S. "Tennessee" at San Diego and served till April 17/1927 at Bremerton. On May 17/1927, he was transferred to the U.S.S. "Ramapo", at Mare Island, Cal., until March 24/1928. He retired in 1932, after nearly thirty years service in the U.S. Navy. It is interesting to note that he was at one time, a shipmate of Lieutenant Simpson, one of Wally Warfield's husbands later the Duchess of Windsor. Arthur married at Brooklyn, on September 25/1913, Agnes Flye, born at Brooklyn, July 15/1877, died June 22/1936, a Catholic. No children.
2/2. Ethel May Smith, born at Brooklyn, January 12/1879, died
January 7/1882 of pneumonia.
2/3. Lulu Smith, born at Brooklyn, May 21/1880, died January 8/1882.
2/4. Grace Poole Smith, born at Brooklyn, January 8/1882. She never
married and in 1952 lived at 87-86, 153rd St., Jamaica 2 N.Y., with her sister Jane and brother in law Frederick Fitz Randolph. I have often visited them and she collected for me most of the information about this section of the Poole family.
2/5. Jane Lawrence Smith, born at Jamaica, L.I., September 11/1883.
She never married and in 1952 lived with her sister as above.
2/6. Lyman Munson Smith, born at Jamaica, October 9/1885.
He never married and was a farmer at Vernon, N.Y., about 18 miles from Utica, N.Y., where in 1952 he lived, retired.
2/7. Cecilia Arthur Smith, born at Jamaica, April 9/1887, died there August
30/1946, of cancer. She married on November 15/1928, Frederick Fitz Randolph, born at Brooklyn, August 20/1870, son of Thomas and Anna (McClure) Fitz Randolph, whose ancestors were early settlers of Barnstable, Mass. He was in the publishing business, first for five years with Harpers, seventeen years with D. Appleton & Co., and finally twenty eight years with the Oxford University Press, New York City, in their medical works publishing department. They went to Bermuda for their honeymoon. In 1952 he was retired and lived with his sisters in law Grace and Jane Smith, above. They had no children.
2/8. Ernest Almet Smith, born at Jamaica, May 21/1891. He graduated from
Pratt Institute in machine construction. In 1947 he was a designing engineer with the General Electric Co., Schenectady. He married on September 3/1921, Elsie Homan, born at Cape May, N.J., June 26/1898, daughter of Walter Mason (born May 20/1876) and Mary Smith (Chambers) (born May 24/1880) Homan of Cape May, a graduate of Trenton Normal School. In l952 they lived at 947 Park Ave., Schenectady, N.Y.
Issue: -
3/1. Ernest Almet Smith, born at Cape May, September 14/1922.
In 1947 he was with Pan-American Airways, stationed at Leopoldsville, Belgian Congo: transferred to Ankara, Turkey, then to Damascus in 1948. He was not married.
3/2. Elsie Arthur Smith, born at Schenectady, June 1/1924.
She graduated from Oberlin College in 1946, then taught school at Rochester N.Y. She married on August 2/1947, Robert Wood Herendeen of Canandaigua, N.Y., born September 27/1923, son of Stanlet and Irma (Wood) Herendeen. In 1947 he was studying electrical engineering at the University of Technology, Rochester, N.Y. and they lived at 354 University Avenue.
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3/3. James Homan Smith, born at Schenectady, June 17/1930.
In 1947 he was attending High School and lived with his parents.
1/6. Oscar Cheesman Smith. Born December 26/1838, killed September 19/1864,
fighting on the Confederate side at the Battle of Winchester, Fisher's Hill. He was in Company P, Third Alabama Regiment and got a bullet through his neck. When he was 19 years old he went to Alabama, and there fell in love with Emma House, a southern girl who lived at Wetumpka, Ala.: this caused him to fight on the Confederate side in the Civil War: unfortunately he was killed before they were married.
1/7. Mary Holbrook Smith. Born June 29/1840, died March 25/1841,
1/8. Howard Mapes Smith. Born August 19/1848, died February 24/1920.
He was given his middle name after his paternal grandmother, Sarah Joanna Napes, (1782-1812), a descendant of Thomas Mapes (1628-1687), and Sarah Purrier, (1630---), daughter of Captain William Purrier who came from Buckinghamshire, England in the "Hopewell" in 1635 and settled at Southold, L.I. Howard was General Passenger Agent for the Long Island Railway for 25 years and lived at 593, 7th St., Brooklyn. He married on November 19/1873, Adelaide Appelby, born November 11/1848, died August 18/1917, sister of his elder brother Rushmore Poole Smith's wife, see page 4.
Issue:.
2/1. Oscar Cheesman Smith, Born June 17/1876, died at the Bronx,
N.Y., April 7/1932. He was an insurance agent on Maiden Lane, N.Y. He married, 1st, on May 13/1898, Anna Marie Zimmerman of Elizabeth, N.Y., who died in 1902: 2nd, in New York City, on June 18/1903, Edith Danielson, daughter of Henry and Lizette (Steele) Danielson. In 1948 Edith lived at 45 May St., New Rochelle N.Y.
Issue:. (by his first wife Anna Marie Zimmerman)
3/1. Vanita Appelby Smith, born at Brooklyn, January 21/1899.
Owing to her mother's early death, she was brought up by her grand parents. For 21 years she was organist and choir director of St. Joseph's Episcopal Church, Queens Village, L.I. In 1950 she was director of the Music Department at St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N.J. She married on April 14/1923, Charles George Smith, (no relation), born at Brooklyn, September 29/1895, son of George and Minerva Smith. He was with the Bell Telephone Co., New York City for twenty years and in 1948 they lived at 92-22, 241st St., Bellerose, L.I. In 1949 he deserted her, went to one of the southern States and married again.
Issue:-
4/1. Charles George Smith, born January 21/1925, In 1943-4 he
was with the Naval Reserve, and graduated from Harvard University in 1947 under the G.I. Bill of Rights. In 1948 he served in the Army of Occupation in Heidelberg, Germany, and while there, his future wife who was serving at the United Nations in Paris. He married at the Protestant Church, Garmisch, Austria, on February 14/1948, Betty Benton, daughter of J. Thomas Benton of Alberquerque, New Mexico, who graduated from the University of New Mexico and from the Sorbonne, Paris. In 1951 he again studied at Harvard for a degree in music.
4/2. Vanita Irene Smith, born April 6/1926. She married on May
11/1945, Eugene William Denton, born at Woodhaven, L.I., July 19/1925, son of William Eugene and Anna Rachel (Petersen) Denton. In 1947 she was a student at Adelphi College, and in 1951 they lived at 20 Spoke Lane, Levittown, L.I.
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Issue:-
5/1. Bonnie Anne Denton, born December 10/1947.
5/2. William Eugene Denton, born March 6/1951.
5/3. Robert Craig Denton, born December 17/1953.
4/3. Margery Betsy Smith, born April 8/1927.
In 1951 attended college at Burlington, N.J.
4/4. Phyllis Anne Smith, born October 22/1934. She graduated
from Endicott Junior College, Berkeley, Mass., in June 1954.
Issue:- (by his second wife Edith Danielson)
3/2. Margery A. Smith, born in New York City, April 17/1913,
died there November 28/1915.
3/3. Howard Mapes Smith, born in New York City, March 3/1916, a twin.
In 1948 he was a radio engineer with the Sperry Gyroscope Co., New York City. He married at Dumont, N.J., on June 7/1941, Virginia Catherine Straube, born at Union City, N.J., March 31/1915, daughter of Edward Joseph and Cecilia (Hyland) Straube of 14 Bergman Terrace, Dumont, N.J. In 1948 they lived at 89-43, 2l8th St., Queen's Village, L.I.
Issue:-
4/1. Linda Gail Smith, born February 5/1950.
3/4. Muriel Dollard Smith, (twin), born March 3/1916.
She married, 1st, in New York City, on July 3/1935, Robert Campbell, born in New York City, December 30/1909, died there January 12/1936. He was an upholsterer with the New York Central Railway. She married, 2nd, at Harrison, N.Y., on December 31/1937 Murrill Bishop[?], born at Huntington, West Va., October 3/1909, son of Raymond and Virginia (Kincaide) Bishop. In 1948 he was in the painting and decorating business and they lived at 45 May St., New Rochelle, N.Y., with her mother.
Ray and Virgie moved to Larchmont Village area of Westchester County, NY. They were living there, per the 1930 U.S. Census record.
Issue:- (by her second husband Murrill Bishop)
4/1. Barbara Jean Bishop, born in New York City, October 10/1939.
4/2. Carol Linda Bishop, born in New York City, January 15/1950.
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8B - BENJAMIN TREDWELL POOLE.
Was born at North Hempstead, L.I., April 10/1807, and died at
Beloit, Wisconsin February 1/1854. He was the second child of Samuel
and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole, see subject 8.
In 1820 he went to Lakeville, and in 1827 to New York City, In
1837 he built a new house at Lakeville, selling it in 1844 to his
brother Samuel. In 1845 he visited Beloit and Chicago: in 1845 he
returned to Flushing for a few months, and then departed with his
brother Augustus for Beloit. He married at Lakeville, on June 12/1835,
Juliet Thompson, born April 3/1810, died April 30/1878, a school
teacher from Massachusetts, and a niece of Chief Justice John Marshall,
Issue:-
1/1. Sheridan Poole. Born February 5/1837, died in New York City,
August 23/1904, buried in Green Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. He went to Beloit with his parents in 1845. When be grew up, he commenced business in Chicago, in the clothing business, and had stores there, and in New York and Brooklyn. His firm in Chicago was Collins & Poole, boys clothing. His store was burned out in the great Chicago fire of October 9/1871, started by the famous Mrs O'Leary's cow. His insurance company failed and he lost everything. As his wife could not stand the climate of Chicago, he moved to New York1 selling his Chicago branch to his partner Collins. From 1871 to 1890 be had stores in New York City and Brooklyn, and retired from active business in 1890. He married at Chicago, on September 2/1863, Josephine Carter, born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 2/1838, died January 3/1890, daughter of Samuel Peters and Mary Ann (Buell) Carter. Josephine was the organist of the church he attended in Chicago, where he met her. Samuel Peters Carter was born at East Bloomfield, N.Y., August 29/1812, died at Chicago, March 15/1880: he married at East Bloomfield on August 5/1835, Mary Ann Buell, born at Goshen, Conn., June 17/1813, died March 1883, daughter of Theron and Love Lee (Collins) Buell. Samuel Peters Carter was the son of Darius and Samuel and Martha (Buell) Carter of Hebron, Conn. Samuel was the son of Thomas and his second wife, Sarah (Gilbert) Carter, born at Woburn Mass., June 8/1855: Thomas was the son of the Reverend Thomas Carter of Hinderclay, Suffolk County, England. Theron Buell was the son of Captain Timothy Buell, born in Goshen, Conn., May 22/1787, died September 13/1833: he moved to East Bloomfield in 1799 and married there on December 5/1810, Love Lee Collins, daughter of the Reverend Aaron Collins of Troy, N.Y. Theron was a carpenter and proprietor of an hotel at East Bloomfield, N.Y.
Issue:-
2/1. Marian Carter Poole. Born July 1665, died at New York City,
December 11/1930 of cancer. She never married and was a church organist for many years and lived at the Martha Washington Hotel, New York.
2/2. Josephine Poole, born September 27/1867, died young.
2/3. Harold Sheridan Poole, born Brooklyn. August 4/1870, died there
March 2/1945, of a heart attack. After graduating at City College, New York, he joined the London, Liverpool & Globe Insurance Co. in New York. in 1904 he joined the Home Insurance Co. of New York, becoming Secretary & Treasurer in 1921: be retired In 1944. He married on September 15/1897, Poratha Powell, born July 7/1874, died April 15/1956, daughter of James and Amelia (Fowle) Powell of London. They lived at 488 Putnam St, Brooklyn, and moved in
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1921 to 999 Sterling Place, where Mrs. Poole lived in 1955.
Issue: (all born in Brooklyn).
3/1. Dorothy Poole, born November 13/1898. She married there on
October 19/1921, Eric Harman Louis Arpert, born at Brooklyn, June 6/1897, son of Herman Edward and Hulda Louise (Nelson) Arpert. He was then with the American & Foreign Insurance Association, New York, and in 1949 was secretary of that concern. They lived at 974 Sterling Place, Brooklyn N.Y.
Issue:- (all born at Brooklyn)
4/1. Dorothy Poole Arpert, born August 11/1924. She was educated
at Froebel Academy, Then graduated from Syracuse University. She married at Brooklyn, on February 5/1944, Christen Skaar, born at Brooklyn, September 23/1919, son of William and Martha (Christensen) Skaar of Glen Cove L.I., who came to the U.S.A. in 1910 from a town near Bergen, Norway. After graduating from Syracuse University Christen was inducted into the Army Signal Corps on May 20/1943, served in the Panama Canal Zone, and discharged as captain on June 29/1946. In 1951 he was an instructor at Syracuse University, where they lived 1955.
Issue: - (all born in Brooklyn)
5/1. Herbert Martin Skaar, born January 29/1947, died next day.
5/2. Eric Christen Skaar, born Decanter 26/1947.
5/3. Sheridan William Skaar, born Nov 14/1950, died same day.
5/4. Stephen Bard Skaar, born June 15/1953.
4/2. Janet Powell Arpert, born June 6/1927. She married at Brooklyn
on Sept 8/1945, Dexter Ralph Davison, born at Rutland, Vt., June 7/l9l6, son of Herbert Filton and Vesta (Dexter) Davison of Rutland. Dexter graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., and from the Julliard School of Music, New York. In 1948 he was Music director of St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.
Issue:-(all born in Brooklyn)
5/1. Dexter Ralph Davison, born September 4/1946.
5/2. John Carter Davison, barn July 24/1948.
5/3. James Eric Davison, born August 18/1953.
5/4. Jennifer Dorothy Davison, born November 1/1955.
4/3. Eric Sheridan Arpert, barn March 6/1935.
3/2. Herbert Powell Poole, born June 4/1900. In 1948 he was an
insurance broker on Maiden Lane, New York City. He married at Brooklyn on April 25/1940, Dorothy Eva Walden, born at Brooklyn, June 15/1903, daughter of Charles Frank and Eva Virginia (Ferris) Walden of New London, Conn. They had no children,
3/3. Fanny Carter Poole, born July 27/1904. She graduated from Adelphi
College and taught school ever since. She never married and in 1955 lived with her mother.
3/4. Harold Sheridan Poole, born June 4/1906. In 1935 he joined the
Hartford Fire Insurance Co., Syracuse, N.Y. He married there on October 22/1938, Helen Claire Bayley, born at Cleveland Ohio, January 24/1914, daughter of Harry Jacques and Helen Augusta (Huntley) Bayley of Syracuse: Helen graduated from the University.
Issue:- (all born at Syracuse),
4/1. Charles Bayley Poole, born October 30/1939.
4/2. Helen Frances Poole barn March 5/1942.
4/3. Harold Sheridan pools, born August 25/1943.
4/4. Barbara Jean Poole, born October 19/1947,
4/5. Herbert Richard Poole, born October 18/1950.
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2/4. Welter Frederick Poole, born in Brooklyn, February 10/1876, died
at Prattsville, N.Y., July 9/1942, of a heart attack, after helping a motorist push his car into the street. He never married and was a freight broker with Carman & Co., for coastwise, river and other steamers, and later for motor trucks along the Hudson river.
1/2. Frederick A. Poole. Born August 1/1847, lived only one year.
Subject 8C P1 (83)
8C - RUSHMORE POOLE.
Was born at Herricks, L.I., September 7/1810, and died at his home, 198
Seventeenth Street, Buffalo, N.Y., October 14/1885, of apoplexy. He
was the third child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole, see subject
8.
He married at Annsville, le Roy, Oneida County, N.Y., on
April 13/1837, Martha Fitch, born February 4/1818, died at Buffalo,
June 10/1903, daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Brown) Fitch of Le Roy.
I quote from the Buffalo Historical Society's Register as
follows: "The name of Rushmore Poole is closely associated with the
social and business history of early Buffalo. At the age of fifteen
years, he was sent to Buffalo to learn the crockery business in a store
which New York relatives had established there, and the first of its
kind,in these western wilds. In 1833 he was a partner in this firm of
Weekes & Cheesman, and in 1836 bought out the New York men. In the
panic of the early 40s, he failed. He then became purchasing agent of
E.C. Brown & Co., crockery, later bought by Homan & Co. of Boston.
About 1865, he and his son Arthur established P. Poole & Son, of Seneca
Street. His son Arthur was killed while going to a fire, and Mr Poole,
then 68 years old, never recovered from the effects of this affliction
and sold out to a nephew from Long Island, Edgar Cheesman Poole, and
retired from business. Although by nature, one of the most gentle and
retiring of men, probably due to his Quaker antecedents, his refinement
and accomplishments made him prominent in the little pioneer town, and
he became one of its most popular bachelors. He was one of the earliest
members of the Young Men's Association, and was a member of the
Volunteer Fire Department, which was composed of the best men of the
town. He lived in bachelors apartments which he furnished himself, and
owned a box at the old Eagle St Theatre, where many of the best
operatic stars of the day appeared and where Mr &-Mrs John Drew were
member of a stick company. Mr Poole was noted, for his beautiful
handwriting which could not be told from Copper Plate engraving. In
1837, Mr Poole married Martha Fitch, one of the four Fitch sisters' of
Le Roy, who were remarkable for their beauty and sprightliness. Mr
Poole was an episcopalian and one of the founders of Trinity Church at
Buffalo where he was a vestryman for seventeen years, part time acting
as as treasurer and clerk of the Vestry as well. He conducted the music
of Trinity Church for nineteen years, and while Mrs Poole gave her
services as soprano for twelve years, be filled the position of choir
master, basso and organist as required. He was a natural Musician, a
pianist of more than average ability, played the organ and flute and
also sang very well He also played the flute in an amateur orchestra.
Through his musical talents and those of his daughter, who became an
accomplished pianist and vocalist, at an early age, he became
intimately acquainted with many of the musicians who cane to Buffalo.
First and foremost was the illustrious Patti family, consisting of
Adelina, then a young girl who sang in Buffalo before she made her
formal debut in New York, Carlotta Patti, her sister, also a wonderful
soprano, Madame Maurice Strakosch, the famous pianist. In the early
40s, Buffalo was an important place on the threshold of the Great
West:, in summer it was full of business bustle, being a coaching
terminal and a distributing point for the western territories, but in
winter, with the Erie Canal and Lake traffic at a standstill, the
little city put aside business cares and became the gayest of social
centres. Its card parties, suppers, dances, musicals, and winter
frolic, are not excelled even in this day of luxury, and were enjoyed
with a singleness of heart which we today wot not of. No
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gathering was complete without Mr. & Mrs, Poole, and in return, their
house was the scene of many hospitalities. Mr. Poole reached his 75th
birthday with a marvellous serenity of spirit and resignation to the
divine will, and his beautiful life and character justified the
scriptural promise, "blessed are the pure in heart" for they shall see
God".
The Buffalo Commercial of June 11/1903, carried the following
notice of the death of Mrs. Poole:- "Mrs, Martha Fitch Poole, widow of
the late Rushmore Poole, died at the residence of her son in law Dr.
Joseph T. Cook, Wednesday morning June 10th, aged 85 years. she was
born in Annsville on February 4/1818, her parents moving to Le Roy a
few years later. The two elder sisters having married West Point
officers, several years of her girlhood were passed with them at Fort
Niagara, Fort Brady, and Bedloe's Island. She came to Buffalo to
reside permanently in 1835, with her aunt, Mrs. Rodman Starkweather,
with whom she lived until her marriage in 1837, in the residence still
standing at the corner of Washington and Mohawk Sts. She was probably
the last and only survivor of Old Trinity Church. Maria Fitch was
descended from a long line of distinguished ancestors. Among those who
came to this country in 1620 and 1640 were Elder William Brewster of
Mayflower fame, the Rev. James Fitch of Norwich, Conn., and the
Reverend Henry Whitfield of Guilford, Conn. She was a noted beauty and
gifted with it and conversational powers, which with a cultured mind,
made her rarely attractive to all who knew her. Mrs. Poole was
prominent in early Buffalo since her entry into society at the age of
seventeen. Her identification with Trinity Church dates from a time
when this organisation met in a building on South Division St, prior to
the erection of Old Trinity at the corner of Washington and Mohawk Sts.
Mrs. Poole, whom was possessed of a fine voice and rare musical
appreciation, held the position of soprano in the quartett choir for 12
years, giving her services regularly until prevented by her advanced
age. She is survived by an only daughter, Mrs. Joseph T. Cook, and one
grandchild, Miss Anna Maude Hoxie. Mrs. Poole was & very loveable and
loving woman, earnest in good works, unwavering in her affection for
her friends, charity for all, and steadfast faith in the Heavenly
Father. Funeral services were held at the family residence, 636
Delaware Ave., Friday, June 12/1903: burial at Forest Lake Cemetery.
Issue :
1/1. Anne Ware Pool. Born December l8/1838, died December 29/1929,
aged 91 years. She, married, 1st, at Buffalo, on April 14/1863, Augustus Chapman Hoxsie, M.D., born at"Thorn Hill', Onondaga County, N.Y., October 14/1838, died at Buffalo, May 23/1865, son of Roland Robinson and Almira (Chapman) Hoxsie. She married, 2nd, at Buffalo, on August, 1/1888, Joseph Tottenham Cook, M.D., born at Ludlowville, N.Y., November 4/1855, died at Buffalo, July 15/1939 aged 94 years, sixth child of Reverend Philos Gunicos and Clarissa (Tottingham) Cook: Joseph changed the spelling of his middle name. They lived at 636 Delaware Ave., and had no children. He graduated from medical college and then studied obstetrics in London and Vienna.
Issue:- (by her first husband Augustus Chapman Hoxie)
2/1. Anna Maude Hoxsie, born at Buffalo, July 30/1869. Died February
27/1959. Her tragedy was that as a girl of 19, she fell in love with her future step father, 14 years her senior, but he married her mother who was 17 years his senior. Maude never married and lost much money in the 1929 crash, thus having to sell the fine Delaware Ave. house: she lived many years at 175 North St. Buffalo, and in 1954 lived at the Erie County Infirmary, Wende, Alden, N.Y. HAP obtained much genealogical information from her.
1/2. Edwin Long Poole. Born July 6/1847, died March 3/1858
1/3. Arthur Augustus Poole. Born July 16/1850, killed July 10/1876,
when he was thrown from the fire engine going to a fire: he was a member of the city amateur fire brigade.
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8D - SAMUEL CHEESMAN POOLE.
Was born January 8/1815, and died June 22/1867, buried at
Manhasset, L.I. He had a general store on Horace Harding Boulevard,
near lake Success, L.I. He was the fourth child of Samuel and Sarah
(Cheesman) Poole., see subject 8.
He married at Whitestone, N.Y., April 8/1839, Esther Lax
Powell, born September 25/1818, died March 19/1874, buried at Manhasset
sixth child of Thomas Powell, (born August 1/1777) and Esther Lax,
(born an England, October 15/1783, married May 23/1803). Esther Lax was
the daughter of Thomas and Isabella Lax. (see subject 268, page 4 for
her brother Thomas Lax who married Rachel Carmen)
Issue:-
1/1. Edgar Cheesman Poole. Born April 17/1840, died at Buffalo N.Y.,
July 15/1904, buried at Manhasset, L.I., as were also his wives, He was first a merchant in New York and resided in Brooklyn. About 1874 he bought out his uncle Rushmore Poole's crockery store in Buffalo, and carried it on until his death. He married, 1st, Emma A. Tredwell, born October 2/1844, died April 12/1865, fourth daughter of John Henry Tredwell, (born April 10/1803, died June 29/1870, a farmer at Hempstead) and Martha Burtis (Dodge) Tredwell, (born October I0/1815, died December 26/1885, daughter of Isaac H. and Jane (Burtis) Dodge.) This is from "The Descendants of Edward Tre(a)dwell, by William A. Robbins, New York, 1911, which gives the Treadwell ancestry. Edgar married, 2nd, on July 5/1871, Elizabeth Emeline Barker, born May 8/1846, died at Orchard Park, February 14/1906, of David Doty and Julia Ann (Barnes) Barker of Pougkeepsie, N.Y. They had no children.
Issue:. (by his first wife Emma A. Tredwell)
2/1. Child died young: Emma died soon after.
Issue:- adopted after his second marriage)
2/2. Florence Poole, adopted when she was 18 years old, born in New York
March 4/1872. She married on February 17/1897, Howard Mason Albee born at Buffalo, December 7/1870. They were living in Buffalo in 1918, where he owned the H.M.Albee Coal & Coke Co.: He was the eldest son of Samuel Howard and Jane (Dempster) Albee.
(This is from "The Albee Family Record", by Robert S. Albee, Washington, D.C. 1920._
Issue: (all born in Orchard Park)
3/1. Florence Albee, born December 6/1898.
3/2. Edgar Howard Albee, born December 22/1900, a civil engineer.
3/3. Samuel Alvin Albee, born December 18/1907.
3/4. David Dempster Albee, born November 18/1908.
3/5. Mary Elva Albee, born January 28/1911.
1/2. Samuel Eugene Poole. Born November 6/1843, died May 14/1900,
buried at Manhasset, L.I. He married Anna Florence Kissam, born 1837, died March 31/1897, buried in Grace Church, Jamaica, L.I., daughter of Philip Platt Kissam, (born May 28/1808, died June 12/1891 at Jamaica, a merchant and later a stock broker in New York), and Madeleine Louise Kissam, (born 1814, died October 26/1892, daughter of Richard S Kissam M.D., of New York) who were married November 26/1832. Phillip was the sixth child and third son of Daniel Kissam of Rocky Hill, L.I., (born August 21/1759, died April 6/1848, Justice of the Peace an 1783, and a member of the New York Assembly 1809-1820). who married on December 15/1785, Phebe Platt, (born 1768, died December 19/1855, daughter of Philip Platt). Daniel was descended from John Kissam of Flushing, L.I.
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born July 1644 of English ancestry, and Susannah Thorne of Jamaica, L.I. (This to from "The Kissam family in America", by Edward Kissam, New York, 1892). Samuel and Anna had not lived together for many years, and they had no children.
1/3. Mary Augusta Poole. Born August 22/1849, died July 15/1925, buried
at Manhasset, L.I. She married at Flushing, on August 25/1872, Robert Jacobia, born 1847, died April 17/l901, buried in the Oddfellows Cemetery. He was a baker at Little Neck, L.I., a much esteemed and highly respected man.
Issue:-
2/1. Franklin Jacobia born July 10/1874, died August 4/1874.
2/2. Samuel Wilbur Jacobia, born July l5/1876.
He married Emma Brown, born September l7/1886, died May 3/1942. In 1947 he lived at St James, L.I., just beyond Smithtown, L.I.
Issue:-
3/1. Robert Jacobia, born November 3/1903.
He married in 1921, Viola Ruth Youngs, born March 9/1903.
Issue :-
4/1. Robert Wilbur Jacobia, born August 12/1922.
He married on July 3/1942, Elizabeth Kassy, born June 3/1921.
Issue:-
5/1. Elizabeth Viola Jacobia, born December 26/1947.
3/2. Mary Jacobia, born November 9/1905. She married, 1st,
a Mr. Doerlinger, born July 17/1901: 2nd, a Mr. Mullins: 3rd, a Mr. Camp. In 1948 she lived at 105-34, 96th St., Ozone Park, N.Y.
Issue:- (by her first husband Mr. Doerlinger)
4/1. Richard Otto Doerlinger, born December 2/1924.
4/2. Arthur Joseph Doerlinger, born July 5/1927.
4/3. Leonard Roger Doerlinger, born November 27/1826.
4/4. Robert George Doerlinger, born November 22/1931.
2/3. Esther Jacobia, born December 50/1878, died November 14/1879.
2/4. Isabelle Whitney Jacobia, born March 22/1880, died March 24/1926.
She married Richard Aliger Kissam, born January 11/1872, died February 14/1919.
Issue:-
3/1. Marion Poole Kissam, born September 9/1909. She married on
June 30/1930, Alfred Voorhees Huff, of Blairstown, N.J., born November 8/1898, son of Charles Alfred Huff and grandson of Charles Wesley Huff, a Civil War veteran. During the second World war, Alfred travelled in British Guiana, Trinidad, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands, doing contracting work. In 1947 he was a real estate broker at 19 Albany Ave., Amityville, N.Y. where they lived. Issue: -
4/1. Alfred Voorhees Huff., Jr., born April 27/1931.
4/2. Harriet Jeanette Huff, born May 3/1932.
4/3. Charles Richard Huff, born November 25/1934.
3/2. Ruth Alma Kissam, born November 15/1911. she married on
June 16/1932, James Chester Stevenson, born June 17/1909, a Veterinary Doctor, who conducted a small animal hospital at 319 Union Ave., Westbury, L.I., where they lived in 1947. Ruth is active in the P.T.A., and the Girl scouts.
Issue:-
4/1. Christopher Remsen Stevenson, born March 4/1938.
4/2. Linta Belle Stevenson, born September 12/1939.
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3/3. Ethel Kissam, born March 4/1913. She married on September 15/1939,
Frank Howard Ketchman, born September 24/191. In the Second World War, he served two years in the U.S.Navy but not leave the USA In 1947 he was an auditor at the Garden City Bank, and they lived on White Rd. Mineola, L.I.
Issue:
4/1. Jeffrey Howard Ketchmam, born November 26/1942.
4/2. Russell Alan Ketchman born September 17/1946.
3/4. Daniel Redman Kissam. born January 12/1919. Before and during
the second World War he served in the U.S.Navy, in Pacific area, saw a lot of action but was not wounded. In 1947 he was with the Maritime Service in San Francisco. He married in July 1942, Mary Yanek or Yanak, of Mt Carmel, Pa., and in 1947 and in 1947 they lived at 708 West K Street, Benicia, California.
Issue:-
4/1. John Richard Kissam, born September 23/1944.
3/5. Herbert Jacobia, born August 31/1883. He married Bessie Eckart,
and in 1947 lived near Queensboro Hospital, Flushing, L.I.
Issue:-
4/1. William Jacobia.
4/2. Herbert Jacobia.
4/3. Clarence Jacobia.
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8E - MARY ANTOINETTE POOLE.
The following is from family records, and from the Sources
mentioned in subject 64.
Mary Antoinette Poole was born April 17/1826, and died October
19/1875, buried in Flushing Cemetery1 L.I., with her husband. She was
the sixth child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole, subject 8.
She married at Christ Church, Manhasset, L.I., on August
10/1847, Jonathan Peck, a merchant in Long Island City in 1874, born
August 27/1825, died December 5/1889, son of Jonathan (born at
Greenwich Conn., January 26/1786, died at New York, September 19/1833)
and Cornelia (Cornell) Peck. Jonathan was the grandson of Richard and
Theodosia (Lockwood) Peck of Greenwich, a man of great sagacity and
business enterprise. He was descended from William and his first wife
Elizabeth (--) Peck, who cane to America in 1637 in the ship "Hector",
with Governor Eaton, the Reverend John Davenport and others. The ship
arrived at Boston from London on June 26 1637, the emigrants wishing to
escape from the persecutions of Archbishop Laud, during the reign of
King Charles I. From Boston, William, with his eldest son Jeremiah,
removed to New Haven, where he was one of the founders of that colony
in 1638. William's house and lot of one acre, was on ground now covered
by the Connecticut Savings Bank, the Clark Building, and the Odeon
Theater, fronting on Church St, towards Chapel St.
Issue:-
1/1. Eugene Cheesman Peck. Born September 17/1848, died August 19/1877.
He was not married.
1/2. Samuel Poole Peck, Born February 24/1851, killed June 11 or
16/1874, while backing his wagon up to a store door. He had his team by the head, when the pole struck him in the face, knocking him down, the horses tramping him to death.
1/3. Isabel Peck. Born at Flushing, L.I., May 1/1857, died at Scarsdale, NY.,
March 7/1933, buried in Flushing Cemetery. She married at Ravenswood, Astoria, N.Y., on April 27/1880, Isaac Edward Ditmars, an architect of Dutch descent, born at Clementsport, Nova Scotia, September 9/1850, died at Scarsdale, February 28/1934, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Ditmars - a distant relative) Ditmars. Edward and Elizabeth were United Empire Loyalists, who, after the revolution, fled to Nova Scotia to remain British subjects. Isaac and Isabel lived first at 22, Garfield Place, Brooklyn, then Ravenswood, and finally Scarsdale, N.Y.
Issue:
2/1. Harold Edward Ditmars, born at Hoboken, N.J,, January 25/1883,
died suddenly at Brooklyn, June 29/1952, buried in Flushing Cemetery with his wife. He graduated from Philips-Exeter, and from Harvard in 1906. From then until 1919 he was aipployca in architectural and engineering works in and near New York, He then joined the Northern Dock Co,, 57th St and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn as general pier superintendent: he retired in 1932, and since then has been secretary of the Holland Society of New York. He served during the first World War with the U.S. Shipping Board and was a corporal in Company F, 10th Regiment, Police Reserve. He married at Brooklyn, on April 30/1912, Gertrude Martense Vanderveer, born at Flatbush, October 26/1889, died suddenly at Brooklyn an April 14/1952, daughter of Edward Bennett and Helen Van Brunt (Prince) Vanderveer. They lived many years at 699 East 18th St., Brooklyn.
Issue:-
3/1. Edward Bennett Vanderveer Ditmars, born October 12/1913. He
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served in the second World War as Boatswain on the U.S.M.S, "Benjamin Holt", of the U.S, Maritime Service. He married on April 19/1940, Hazel Elizabeth Baker, and in 1951 lived at Westport, Conn.
Issue:-
4/1. John Robert Ditmars, born at Norwalk, Conn., October 26/1941.
4/2. Edward Vanderveer Ditmars, born September 30/1945.
3/2. Marjorie Isabel Ditmars, born at Brooklyn, September 12/1922.
She was paralyzed from birth and in 1951 lived with her parents.
2/2. Marjorie Ditmars, born at Brooklyn, December 15/1889. She
married, 1st, on April 22/1913, Du Bois Beal of Hudson, N.Y., born January 29/1895, died February 1/1930, son of Charles Frederick Tiffany and Margaret (Du Bois) Beale, a lawyer in New York City: no issue. She married, 2nd, on March 16/1932, Pompeo Margherita Maresi, born at Brooklyn, August 20/1888, died August 10/1940, a lawyer of New York City: no issue. He was given his middle name after his godmother Queen Margherita of Italy. She married 3rd, at Chicago, on October 24/1944, Charles Yates Graysan, born at Luray, Virginia February 29/1884, son of William Edwin and Sarah Elizabeth (Roads) Grayson, a relative of Admiral Grayson, President Wilson's physician. Charles went to work when he was 12 years old: in 1914 he joined the Remington Typewriter Co., now Remington-Rand Corp., office equipment, with whom he remained all his business life, retired in 1946. They then bought a charming house at 111 Lowry St., Delray, Florida, where they lived in 1951: no issue. Charles Grayson had married, 1st, on August 4/1905, Catheryn Kinzer, born April 23/1885, died September 9/1917, by whom he had, 1st, Charles Yates Grayson, Jnr, born June 8/1906, who married at Toledo, Ohio, on April 2/1932, Mrs. Marguerite Ballentine: no issue. Charles Grayson, Sr., had married, 2nd, on October 12/1918, at Bronxville, N.Y., Marie Borsleman, born in Germany, June 5/1887, who came to America when 3 years old: they were divorced in 1944, by whom he had, 1st, Ruth Elizabeth Grayson, born December 23/1919, who married in September 1946, John Salva of Pittsburg, Pa,, by whom she had Linda Marie Salva, born August 26 1948.
1/4. Mary Antoinette Peck. Born 1860, died November 21 1946.
She married at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, on December 20/1883, Frank Poynton Lockitt, born October 3/1852, died at Suffern, N.Y., December 20/1921, buried in Flushing Cemetery. He was a commission merchant on the Produce Exchange, Bowling Green, N.Y. City. They later moved to Suffern, N.Y., where they lived the rest of their lives.
Issue:-
2/1. Frank Poynton Lockitt, born March 11/1888,- died July 24/1909,
buried in Flushing Cemetery. He was not married.
2/2. Kenneth Poole Lockitt, born March 2/1890, died March 13/1945.
He married at Providence, R.l., on April 11/1917, Marjorie Whritner, born at Black Lake, Quebec, Canada, August 9/1894, daughter of Harry Charles and Lily Eugene (Penhale) Whritner, who lived the last 20 years of their lives at Beatyestown, N.J. In 1951, Marjorie lived at 151 Washington Ave,, Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Issue:-
3/1.Robert Penhale Lockitt, born at Winsted, Conn,, December 7/1921,
a mechanical engineer: in 1951 was not married and lived with his mother.
3/2. Philip Poynton Lockitt, born at Nutley, N.Y., February 19/1925,
a teacher of mathematics: in 1951 not married: lived with mother.
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3/3. Patricia Lockitt, born at Nutley, N.J., August 9/1928. In 1951
she worked in a Bank: was not married and lived with her mother.
3/4. Cynthia Lockitt, born at Nutley, N.J., August 29/1931. In 1951
she was at college in Massachusetts - not married.
1/5. Chauncey Culver Peck. Born July 21/1865, died November 1/1883, in
Colorado, of tuberculosis. He was not married.
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10 - OTIS MANCHESTER.
The following is mostly from family records, given me by Aunt Molly Winslow and cousin Bessie Manchester: and also from "The Winslows and their Descendants" by David Parsons Holton (l877), on file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston.
Otis Manchester was born at Tiverton, R.I. on March 17/1795
and died June 7/1880
He married, 1st, Maria Bishop, at Utica, N.Y. on January 13/1822, 2nd, Hannah Ingols, born August 1/1799 at Northampton, Mass, died January 27/1864.
I have a Tiverton Newspaper clipping of 1865 reading as follows:-
A remarkable family meeting: Six brothers, the youngest of whom is 57, and whose united age is 356, all met together for the first time in their lives this week in the city, and a fraternal time they have had of it. They were all born at Tiverton and by means of Colonial Records can trace their Rhode Island lineage back as far as 1643. The brothers are Robert, our estimable surveyor of lumber, aged 75: Isaac of Bridgewater, aged 73: Otis of Beloit, aged 70: Humphrey of New Bedford, aged 62: Jacob, of the firm of Manchester Hopkins & Co of this city, aged 59: and Eli of Utica, aged 57. After spending two or three delightful days together, these brothers separate again this morning for their several homes, whence they can scarcely expect to gather again in one fraternal chain on this side of the dark river. But the pleasant memories of this meeting will not fail to cheer and refresh the hearts of all, as their shadows lengthen eastward, and they look forward to a reunion indissoluble and abiding forever. I, (H.A.P.) have a photograph of them, taken at the time of this meeting, showing them all baldheaded and wearing wigs, and all of them with beards. The Manchesters were all of short of stature.
Issue- (by his second wife)
1. Maria Bishop Manchester. Born December 13/1822 in Utica, N.Y., and
died in Beloit on March 5/1873. She married on September 20/1847, Augustus Poole, born April 12/1820 at Herrick, L.I, and died April 6/1853 at Beloit, Wisconsin. See Subject 4 for issue and further particulars.
2. Thomas Clark Manchester. Born at Utica 1825, died February 16/1895
at Detroit, Mich, and buried there. He married on January 20/1848, at Beloit, Julia Elizabeth Parrish, born 1833 in New York City: the Reverend D. Clary, Minister of the Gospel, performed the ceremony. She was only 15 years old when married, and died June 10/1893 at Detroit, Michigan.
Issue :-
2/1. Allen Elisha Manchester, born in Utica in 1852, and died at Detroit
on September 11/1924. He was a heavy drinker, deserted his family and went to Spokane, Wash: he reformed his ways in the last 5 years of his life. When a young man he was sent to a Military School, where he married a common Irish girl, by whom he had three children, two of whom died. In his last years be tried to persuade his sister Elizabeth to support him: he was 17 years older than she.
2/2. Augustus Poole Manchester, born in New York City November
30/1853, died at Elmira, N.Y. September 3/1873, and was brought to Detroit for burial.
2/3. Emily C. Manchester, born at Detroit 1855, died 1859 at Utica.
2/4. Philip B. Manchester, born May 22/1863. He married Mary Allen,
who in 1904 was living in New Hampshire. I had the pleasure of seeing him in Chicago in 1904, and also his brother Percival. They were agents there for the Railway Appliances Co in the Colonial Building.
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2/5. Elizabeth Ingols Manchester, (Bessie) was born at Detroit
November 23/1869. She never married and was, for years a librarian in Detroit: I believe she is still alive (1943). She inherited half her Aunt Molly Winslow's money and in her later years deeded her money to the Christian Science Society in return for looking after her for the rest of her life, which she has spent at their various hostelries around Boston. She was a pretty girl and I had the pleasure of seeing her In Beloit in 1904 and again in our Milton home in 1935.
2/6. Percival Manchester, born January 15/1870. He was married on
June 6/1902, name of wife unknown, and lives in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago.
2/7. Frederick Manchester, born in Detroit in 1871, died August 2/1872.
3. Elisha Wells Manchester. Born May 14/1826, died 1907 at San Francisco.
He married on January 19/1852, Mary Abigail Porter, born December 23/1834. He was a heavy drinker and spent the latter part of his life in San Francisco. He was bald, with a long beard, and a very patriarchal looking man, of pleasant and kindly ways. I saw him in San Francisco in 1888 on our way out to Japan.
4. Henrietta Ingols Manchester born October 16/1830, died January 1/1858.
She married on August 11/1857, Andrew Battin of New Orleans.
5. Mary Ingols Manchester (Molly). Born April 22/1837 in New York City,
died January 17 in her own house at 716 Parker Ave, Beloit, of a sudden attack of Angina Pectoris, in great suffering. She was married by the Rev Fayette Royce at Beloit on September 10/1872 to Charles Dickson Winslow, born at Salem, N.Y. on July 1,1835, died at Beloit July 2/1897. He was a distant connection of hers, as the Manchesters and Winslows had intermarried in Tiverton between 1600 and 1700. He was the son of Jared Goodrich Winslow, born at Hillsdale, N.Y. March 6
1807, and Charlotte Dickson, born October 10/1813, at Middlefield, Hampshire County, Mass. They were married on October 15/18534 at Salina, Otaga County, N.Y. Jared was Supervisor and Member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature. His ancestry goes back from Jared, Prince, John, Kenelm and Kenelm, born April 29/1599; Kenelm 1st, came to Plymouth, Mass with his brother Josiah and died at Salem, Mass on September 13/l672. Kenelm, the first emigrant was the third son of Edward Winslow and his second wife Magdelene (Ollyver) Winslow, of
Droitwitch, Worcestershire, England. Charles Dickson Winslow was a Hardware Merchant, a good and successful business man, who left Molly well off. They had no children. Charles had a brother five years younger than himself, named the Rev Lyman Walker Winslow, who graduated at Beloit College in 1863 and Andover in 1867, and rode across the plains by horseback to California for his health in 1868. He became Pastor at Hydesville, California until 1872, and returned to Wisconsin at Peshtigo, where he was Pastor at the Congregational Church. Molly was a tiny woman, alert, keen, except hearing, to the end of her 85 years of life. Far many years in her later life, Aunt Nettie Poole Husted lived with her in Beloit and looked after her. She left her money to Nettie and Bessie Manchester, in equal shares: on her death Nettie left her money to her brother Otis Angustus Poole.
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The following paragraph appears on H.A.Poole's copy of Subject 10, OTIS MANCHESTER, page 1.
A book entitled "Pioneers of Utica", by Dr. M.M.Bagg, Utica,
1877, page 449, has the following account of Otis Manchester:-
About 1818, a merchant tailor named F.W.Tryon, set up a business in which he was joined a year or two later, by Otis Manchester. Thus was originated a house which, though it underwent some changes, has had its representative here to a quite recent period. The former, a man of gentlemanly bearing, had learned his trade in Clinton and there gotten his wife, Miss Laura Hobby of Whitesboro. About 1826 Mr.Tryon left Utica and went to the metropolis where he was a fashionable tailor and an importer of cloths, popular and prosperous. Mr. Manchester, with varying partners, remained in the concern until after 1845, when he gave it up to his brother Eli Manchester and Grove Penney, both of whom had been trained in the shop. Penney established an interest in the firm. Otis, after being a little while with Mr.Kingsley, moved to Beloit, Wisconsin. The house was always in good favor and Mr.Manchester too obliging and honorable ever to have an enemy.
See also Subject 2, sheet 1, Otis Augustus Poole's description of his grandfather Otis Manchester, after he had moved to Beloit.
IGI 5/11/93, file MANCH01:
MANCHESTER, Maria B M: 27 Sep 1847
Spouse: Augustus POOLE Utica, Oneida, New York
MANCHESTER, Maria Bishop C: 1 Jan 1825
Father: MANCHESTER First Presbyterian Church, Utica,
Mother: Oneida, New York
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12 -– Capt JOHN ARMSTRONG
A few corrections have been added by A Maitland Nov 2012 from an original copy of the Dalrymples of Langlands (Scottish National Library). They are in italics.
Captain John Armstrong married, 1st, on March 12th 1801, Macrae, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Major-General Stair Park Dalrymple, of Langlands (near Kilmarnock). The date of her birth is not known: she died in childbirth at Prestwick, in 1811, and was buried in Governor Macrae's private burial ground in Orangefield.
Handwritten correction to original: 2 june 1814 (AM 11/2012)
He married a second time, in December 1818, a Miss Ellen Kirk, whose people lived somewhere in Scotland: it is not known where she was buried. She died shortly after giving birth to her only son. It seems strange that Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangen did not mention this second marriage in his history of the Armstrongs. Her son John Armstrong, (subject 6) explains his lack of knowledge of his mother's people etc by the fact of his having been so early sent by his father to be taken care of by the Goodfellows (see subject 6), his cousins in Dublin.
In 1904, I (HAP) wrote blindly to a Mr. Shaw in Ayr, Scotland, who I had been assured by Uncle William Rufus Armstrong, still lived there and was a lawyer. My letter brought the following reply, from James Edward Shaw, County Buildings, Ayr, dated February, 1904:-
Dear Sir,
My father died in May 1902, and I have received your letter of the 18th January. I have in my possession a book printed for private circulation, which contains a very interesting account of the Armstrongs of Cherry Valley. The book is a history of the Dalrymples of Langlands, and deals fully with their connections. There is a full account of the Armstrong family and particularly of Captain John Armstrong, who married Macrae Dalrymple, daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands. The account is long and the book is out of print. I shall have the information regarding the Armstrong copied for you. It contains an account of the family written in 1854 by Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan, Ireland. He claims descent from Johnny Armstrong the Scottish Border Chief. I hope the war will do you no harm (Russo-Jap). Yours truly, James C. Shaw.
The account reached me in August 1904, and reads as follows:-
John Armstrong, who married General Dalrymple’s eldest daughter, Macrae, was the youngest son of the Rev. William Armstrong, a clergyman Killashandra in the County of Cavan , in Ireland. (See report under Subject 24). At the age of 15 or 16 he went to live with his brother William, who was about 20 years his senior, and was then a merchant in London. According to a sketch of his life, drawn up in 1853 by his nephew, Dr. Wm. Armstrong of Rathangan, near Kildare (son of Thomas Armstrong), he was a very wild boy, always getting into scrapes, and at last had some foolish quarrel about a lady with another youth. They fought a duel and fired four shots each, but fortunately neither was wounded. This appears to have given him a taste for fighting, as he soon afterwards became a midshipman in the same ship and at the same time as our late sovereign, William the Fourth. (Prince William Henry commenced his naval career as a midshipman under Capt. Digby, in the "Royal George" of 98 guns in the year 1779). Life in a cockpit did not suit him, so he left the Navy, after having served a year or two: but having acquired a knowledge of navigation, his brother William appointed him Captain and supercargo of one of his West Indiamen. In her he performed but two voyages, being quite sick from the want of excitement. His brother quarrelled with him in consequence, and he was turned penniless upon the world. At that time the War in India with Hyder and Tippoo excited great interest, and he decided on joining the British Army, and applied to the recruiting officer of the 52nd
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Regiment to enlist him, who, surprised at a well dressed gentlemanly lad taking such a step, and supposing it the effect of some fit of anger or temporary difficulty, made him a present of a guinea, and told him he would not enlist him unless he should continue of the same mind for a week. At the end of a week, he came back, was enlisted, and joined the depot at Chatham. In a few days the Sergeant told him it was his turn to cook. He answered "I can't cook, I never saw a dish cooked in my life". A soldier who was present said "I will cook for you if you will write a letter for me". Whilst he was writing it, the Commanding Officer of the detachment came behind him, read it, and was surprised, for he had an extraordinary talent for letter writing. He at once marked him for promotion, and he was made a non-commissioned officer, as soon as he was drilled and made acquainted with his duties. In a short time the detachment went to India, and he served there about 15 years. Dr. Armstrong continues "I know nothing of his campaigns, for he never boasted, except that I read the memorial he sent to the Governor of Nova Scotia, when applying for the 500 acres of land, which were granted to him in that colony in which he stated that he had been at 15 sieges and four general engagements, led four forlorn hopes, and was three times wounded". (Captain Armstrong when at Halifax with his regiment in 1808 or thereabouts, had arranged to start on a Monday morning with a party of soldiers to take possession of this piece of land, which was situated at Picton: but on the Saturday the route came, and he left America without ever having seen his property. It was afterwards given by his eldest son, Charles William Armstrong, to Major Hamilton, who was the reputed son of Hamilton Rowan, the Irish Rebel, and who married "Bonny Peggy Bowie", sister of Dr. Bowie, for many years a well known practitioner at Bath. This memorial, however, probably referred only to Mr. Armstrong's services as a commissioned officer. While he was yet in the ranks of the 52nd he was present at the siege of Seringapatem in 1792 and was doubtless with his regiment throughout the whole war with Tippoo, of which some mention has already been made and in which, according to Stewart's "sketches of the Highlanders" the East India Company captured 70 forts or fortified places and 300 pieces and 300 pieces of cannon. The 52nd also formed part of the force employed in the expedition against Ceylon fitted out by Lord Hobart, the Governor of Madras, and commanded by General James Stewart in 1795. A fort was taken back on the coast next the Continent.
The troops then embarked to sail round to the principal forts and towns at the opposite side of the island, leaving their sick and wounded behind, among whom was Mr. Armstrong. Next day he felt well enough to join his regiment, and set out with a native servant to cross the island on foot, taking a few days provision with him.
They had to march through the jungle, avoiding the natives, subjects of the inhuman King of Kandy, and at night to sleep alternately close to fires made to scare off the tigers, elephants and other wild beasts. On the third day the native servants broke down, and was never heard of after. Dr. Armstrong proceeded and had the pleasure to receive the troops that went by water on their landing, to their great astonishment. (Mr. Armstrong wrote an interesting account of this journey, but it does not appear to have been printed, and the manuscript has been lost). The next events of importance in Mr. Armstrong's life are thus recorded in the "London Gazette"- "War Office, Feb 28/1797 - 71st regiment of Foot. Sergeant Major John Armstrong to be Ensign, vice Armsby, promoted in the 75th Foot." "War Office, 5/1797 -71st Regiment. To be Lieutenant-Ensign John Armstrong, from the 52nd Foot, by purchase, vicea Bowles, who retires". Dr. Armstrong's narrative continues as follows:- Soon after Dr. Armstrong's joining that Corps (the 71st), a superb dinner was given to Colonel Dalrymple
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by his brother officers, Mr. Armstrong being the only exception. Next day the Colonel sent for him and asked his reason: his answer was their acquaintances was but short, and he had no money to spare. The Colonel then told him he should never receive an indulgence from him while he held command to which he answered that he did not look for any, and hoped to perform his duty so that he should not be in any man's power. The Colonel was an enthusiast in his profession and soon observed what an excellent officer he was, but paid him no compliments until the adjutancy of the regiment became vacant, when he offered it to him. His answer was "I must decline accepting it, as if you were to speak to me as I have heard you do to the late adjutant I should act so as to forget my commission". To this the Colonel replied "If you will accept this adjutancy I promise never to use such language to you, or if I
inadvertently do so, I shall take no notice of it". On this promise he became adjutant.
(This was probably an acting appointment, for Mr. Armstrong did not become adjutant of the regiment until November 29th, 1800, less than four months before his marriage, which took place on the 12th March 1801, and after Colonel Dalrymple had been made a Brigadier-General. The following is the official announcement which appeared in the "Gazette" of March 21/1801:- "71st Foot: Lieutenant John Armstrong to be Adjutant without purchase, vice Falconer, resigned. Dated November 29th, 1800)."
The regiment was soon afterwards ordered to Scotland, and the Colonel went to his estate, Langlands. There he found himself a stranger, even to his wife and three daughters, and partly from esteem and partly to have someone to talk to about military matters he invited Mr. Armstrong to spend a month with him. The invitation was accepted reluctantly, for I have often heard him say he had been so long out of female society, that he would rather face a Frenchman with a drawn sword than enter a drawing room where there were ladies, and as to small talk, it was a foreign language to him. The Colonel's daughters were amused by the extreme diffidence of the brave soldier, and by their kindness and good nature soon made him feel at ease, and, to their father's great surprise, a day or two before his leave expired, he proposed for the eldest. The Colonel asked him, had he any private fortune? The answer was " Not a guinea nor do I owe a guinea". That, said the Colonel is the answer I expected, and I will not give my daughter to a subaltern, who has nothing but his commission, though there is no man of whom I have a higher opinion. Mr. Armstrong then said "Sir, we paid you the compliment to ask your consent, but our minds are made up, we are both of age, and since we are not so fortunate as to obtain it, we will marry without. The Colonel on reflecting, thought it best under the circumstances to consent, and they were married.
In about a year after, General Dalrymple purchased a Company for his son-in-law in the 64th Regiment, then stationed at St. Croix in the West Indies. (His departure in this recorded in Mrs. Armstrong's diary; "My dear Armstrong left this for St. Kitts in the West Indies, the 8th day of February, and sailed from Greenock on the 2nd March, 1803. May the God of Heaven bless and protect him, and send him safe home to our little one and M.A.). On joining the regiment, Colonel, afterwards Sir Edward Pakenham, the Commanding Officer, received him very coolly. This was owing to his having had a quarrel with Captain Armstrong's brother William, who was then an extensive planter, and one of the most influential persons on the island. But the Colonel soon perceived what an acquisition he was, and when the regiment was ordered to St. Lucia, was glad to avail himself of his advice in taking the island, as he happened to be the only man in the regiment who had ever seen a shot fired. In storming the fort, Col. Pakenham was dangerously wounded in the neck, and a great many more were killed and wounded. This caused panic, and would have ended
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in defeat, except that Captain Armstrong rallied the regiment and called on the Irishmen to revenge their Colonel. The fort was taken and the Colonel soon afterwards was ever Captain Armstrong's best friend.
When Col. Pakenham recovered from his wounds, he was appointed to the command of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and finding the situation of Paymaster vacant, offered it to Captain Armstrong, who, as a father and husband thought it his duty to sell his Company (in February 1806 for £1,100) and accept it, and to his patron's surprise, proved himself at once an expert man of business and an excellent paymaster. He soon became the friend and advisor of every officer of the regiment who deserved it, and as the subalterns were any of them very young, and many of them of noble families, he was of great service to them and became a universal favorite.
He accompanied the First Battalion to Copenhagen, Nova Scotia, Martinique, Spain, Portugal etc. Mrs. Armstrong notes the departure to Nova Scotia as follows: My dearest Armstrong sailed for Halifax the 17th May 1808. God Bless him, and send him soon home to his wife and dear little ones." He finally retired from the army in 1812, and became agent to Sir Edward Pakenham, and an extensive farmer on his estate, Langford Lodge, in the County of Antrim, on the borders of Lock Neagh. Capt. Armstrong resided at Cherry Valley, near the village of Crumlin). "I visited him in 1816 and found his was considered a model farm. He had introduced all new improvements and machines, both there and in his garden and offices and even in his poultry yard and kitchen. He was considered so good an agent that he was offered more agencies, but refused to accept them. He was, besides, a most active magistrate and grand juror. In fact he had energy and talent enough to get through more business than any man I ever knew, and whatever he undertook, he executed perfectly and in society he was remarkably cheerful, and enjoyed it as much as if he had nothing on his mind."
Immediately after retiring from the army and becoming Pakenham's agent, he was obliged to devote consider able time and attention to the state of his deceased father-in-law's affairs, (General Dalrymple), which were much involved in consequence of the Tanjore speculations. A meeting of the General's creditors had been held on May 15th, 1811, the result of which was that the estate of Langlands was conveyed to Mr. Wilson, as a trustee for all parties concerned, and a deed of compromise, to which the General's sister, Miss Sarah Park, was a party, was entered into in the month of March 1813, under which the sum of £3000 was paid to Mr. Colt, as a representative of one of the principal creditors.
An arrangement was also entered into with the East India Company, by which they agreed to advance certain sums for maintenance of Mrs. Dalrymple, and her daughters, on the security of the money due from the Rajah of Tanjore, and a bond executed by Mrs. Dalrymple and Capt. Armstrong on the 22nd August 1812.
On the 22nd July 1813, Langlands was formally conveyed to Capt. Armstrong, and on the following day he granted a charitable bond over the property for £2000 in favour of Captain Donald Harrow, of Leamington Priors, in Warwickshire. This £2000 is believed to have been borrowed early in the year on the understanding that security was to be given on the Langlands estate, as soon as Capt. Armstrong got a proper conveyance of it, and to have formed part of the £300 paid to Mr. Colt, pursuant to the Deed of Compromise.
Up to about the time when this arrangement was made, Capt. Armstrong's family appears to have resided with Mrs. Dalrymple at Langlands, but on the 14th April 1813, the whole family, then consisting of Mrs. Dalrymple, her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Isabella Dalrymple, Capt. Armstrong's four children, General Dalrymple's sister, Miss Peggy Park, left Langlands, and after spending some months on their way, arrived at Cherry Valley on the 6th August 1813.
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Soon afterwards it was found not only expedient but necessary to sell the Langlands property. It had previously (in 1806) been valued at from £16,000 to £20,000, the rental being about £500 a year, but having been for some years neglected, the houses having become older and disrepair, and the value of the land much decreased, it was sold August 20th/1817 to Mr. Dunlop, for £13,500, a sum greatly under what it is worth now, as a considerable part of the new town of Kilmarnock, has since that time been built upon the property, and the site of the old dwelling house is now occupied by buildings now belonging to the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Station.
In 1818 Mrs Dalrymple died, and on the 31st October that year a bond was granted by Capt. Armstrong and Capt. Donald Harrow to the East India Co. for the repayment of such sums as the Company should advance to the said John Armstrong for the support of the daughter, sisters, and grandchildren of Major-General Stair Park Dalrymple, pending the consideration of the claim of the said Major-General Dalrymple, or his representatives, against the Rajah of Tanjore.
In June 1830, Capt. Armstrong went to London, and on his way back to Ireland, paid a visit to his old friend Capt. Donald Harrow at Leamington. Here he was attacked by a fit of the gout, and after an illness of three weeks, died on the 8th August 1830 in the 68th year of his age. He left a Will dated 15 May 1830 by which he appointed David Shaw, Alexander Mackay, and Edward Pakenham Armstrong the executors thereof, and which was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 5 Nov. 1832.
The following notices of his death appeared in the newspapers of the day. "At Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, on the 8th instant in the 68th year of his age, John Armstrong Esquire, J.P. of Cherry Valley, Crumlin, County Antrim Ireland . Capt. Armstrong at an early period of his life, served on board the same vessel with his present Majesty, and afterwards in the 52nd, 71st, 64th and 7th Regiments on Infantry."
Another notice read:
"Died in Portland Street, in this place, on Sunday last, Captain John Armstrong of Cherry Valley, leaving two sons and two daughters, to lament the loss of a brave soldier, a good father, a kind and constant friend, and a sincere Christian. In his younger days Capt. Armstrong had the honour of serving on board the same ship with his present Majesty. He afterwards served in the 52nd, 71st, 64th, and 7th regiments of Infantry, both in the East and West Indies, and in Africa and in America, and his uniform display of very noble quality that could adorn the soldier and the man, gained him the love of his brother officers, and the respect and attachment of his men. Capt. Armstrong was also a magistrate of the County of Antrim for many years. In his discharge of the arduous duties of that office he acquired and preserved the esteem of all parties of every persuasion, by happily uniting the firmness and impartiality of the Magistrates with the judicious advice and conciliatory manners of the friendly mediator, thus frequently preventing that vexatious and petty liquidation by which trifling and temporary quarrels are too often magnified and perpetuated into irreconcilable feuds. The writer of this (probably Capt. Donald Harrow) had the happiness of Capt. Armstrong's acquaintance for six and thirty years: and his affliction at the loss of an esteemed friend is alleviated by the consoling reflection that, during an illness of three weeks, everything that the first medical talent could suggest, and all that the assiduous attentions of attached friends could minister was none to soothe and mitigate the suffering of a sick bed. On Saturday the deceased received the consolation of religion from the respected Vicar of Leamington, and his last hours were distinguished by an expression of cheerful resignation and a frequent and grateful acknowledgment of the
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kind enquiries and attentions of his acquaintances. The remains of Captain Armstrong were interred in the churchyard of the Parish on Wednesday.
The funeral cavalcade, conducted by Messrs Woodhouse and Hadden (of this place), moved in the following order:
Rev R. Downes, Vicar D’Arcy boulton esq
Mr Treadgold Mr Edw Wodhouse
Pall bearers
Mr George Smith Mr John Hadden
Mr James Bird Mr William Smith
Mr John Russell Mr Thomas Court
Chief Mourner
Edward Armstrong esq
Re Mr Ward capt Harrow
Mr Jas Stanley Chirchwardens Mr Rich Robbins
(inserted by AM from original 11/2012)
The following inscriptions on his monument in the churchyard at Leamington:-"In memory of Captain John Armstrong, late of Cherry Valley, in the County of Antrim, Ireland, 1830."
"In memory of William Armstrong, formerly of the Island of St. Croix, West Indies, 1830. This memorial was erected by the children of Captain John Armstrong, in commemoration of their lamented Father and Uncle, whose bodies are interred herein." "Here rest the mortal remains of Donald Harrow, formerly Paymaster of the 2nd Battalion, 71st Regiment of Foot, who lived in the hearts of a numerous circle of friends, and died shrouded by their grief, Jan 6/1833, aged 70 years."
The Honourable H.R. Pakenham, afterwards Sir Hercules Pakenham, who had succeeded to the estate of Langford Lodge on the death of his brother, Sir Edward Pakenham, sent the following reply to Capt. Harrow's letter announcing the death of his friend:- Langford Lodge, Aug. 13th, 1830. Sir Your letter of the 10th instant has given me more pain and grief than I can attempt to express. My excellent, upright, intelligent friend, my companion in arms, my assistant in peace, was such a comfort to me and such a blessing to this district, that his loss is universally deplored by all. His family have been so astounded by the blow, that for some time they cannot look steadily around them. I trust that you may continue to them the friendship and advice their beloved father so highly prized. I know our departed friend was a sincere Christian, that he looked for salvation through our Blessed Saviour, and that in God's time we shall meet covered with the same robe of righteousness, to part no more. I remain, Sir, with the highest respect, Most truly yours, H.R.P.
At a numerous meeting of the tenantry of the Hon. Col. Pakenham, held in Mrs. Henderson's Dec 31/1831, Rev. W. Campbell, Chairman, the following address was agreed upon and presented to Col. Pakenham:- Sir, being anxious to erect a monument with a suitable inscription to the memory of the late Capt. Armstrong, with great impartiality and; much mildness among us, and as we believe, with strict fidelity to your interest, we beg your sanction so to do. We embrace this opportunity of expressing to you the deep sense of gratitude which we feel for the many comforts our forefathers and we, have enjoyed under your honourable and considerate landlord, who permitted him to abate the high price of our farms at which many of them were let during the French War, to a more moderate rate. We are happy in living under you, and we trust that you will be long preserved with the most lengthened life. R. Campbell, Chairman.
His reply was as follows:-
Dear Sir:- Langford Lodge, Dec 31/1831
In reply to the address which you have this day communicated to me , I beg to inform my esteemed tenantry that I feel the utmost gratification in hearing they are about to erect a testimonial of respect to our departed friend, Captain Armstrong. My acquaintance with him was of long standing, and under all circumstances, I ever found his conduct marked by integrity, intelligence, and good feeling. As to myself, my object has ever been to merit the esteem and confidence of those with whom I am connected by the interest of property. A considerable regard to their well being is, I am convinced on my part, the best worldly policy, and, alive to the responsibility of the station I hold, I trust I may have reason to merit the support of a self approving conscience when called upon to give an
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account of my stewardship. I sincerely hope that my tenantry may continue in that same respectable course by which they have been so much distinguished, and that our district may never be involved in the mischief and misery by which so many parts of the Kingdom have been afflicted. With the most sincere wishes for their welfare, I remain, Sir, Most truly yours
H. R. Pakenham.
The monument referred to in the foregoing address was erected at the entrance to Gartree Church from The main road.
(Addition by H.A. Poole - Today July, 25th 1905, when I visited this church I read the inscription on an ornamental gate at the entrance from the road. "Erected by the Spontaneous and Voluntary Contributions of a Grateful people, to the memory of John Armstrong, Captain of the 7th Fusiliers, the late truly respected agent of the Hon. Hercules Pakenham, who, while in that office, discharged the Duty thereof, with great impartiality and much mildness among the tenantry, and with the strictest fidelity to the landlord. Obiit August 8th, 1830.
Aetatis68. Bred to arms and conversant in Camps, it could not be expected that he would have understood or regarded with interest, the toils and difficulties of farmers. But with these, he soon rendered himself acquainted with the sanction of the Landlord, (who has on all occasions identified his interests with those of his tenantry) lowered the high rate of rent laid on their farms during the French War, to one more proportionate to the produce of the land in peaceful times."
Issue:- (by his first wife)
1/1. Glencairn Dalrymple Armstrong . Born May 12/1802,
died November 17/1868. She married on November 1/1826, David Shaw of Ayr, Scotland, born November 5/1788, died May 1902, at the remarkable age of 114 years: David Shaw was writer to the Signet in Ayr, Keeper of the Peculiar Register of Sassines for In County of Ayr, Bailiary of Kyle, Carrick and Cunningham, till the discontinuance at that office on September 30/1869, pursuant to the provisions of The Lands Register (Scotland) Act of 1868, and Clerk to the Commissioners of assessed taxes, Justices and County Prison Boards, admitted a Writer to the Signet in 1812[?].
Issue:-
2/1. John Shaw, born September 5/1827, an attorney of the High Court
of Madras. He married Sophia Alicia Byam, second daughter of Captain John Houlton Gunthorpe, of the Madras Horse Artillery.
Issue:-
3/1. David James Shaw.
3/2. Margaret Glencairn Dalrymple Shaw.
3/3. John Byam Diston Shaw.
2/2. Charles George Shaw, born November 3/1830. He was a solicitor in
Ayr, and Clerk to the Commissioners of assessed taxes, Justice of the Peace, County Prison Board, County Police Commission, District Lunacy Board: he married Flora Campbell, daughter of William Whiteside, M.D. of Ayr. (prob the one who died 1902, not his father David).
Issue:-
3/1. David William Shaw.
3/2. Patrick John Shaw.
3/3. Charles Alexander Shaw.
3/4. Flora Glencairn Whiteside Shaw.
3/5. Elizabeth Dalrymple Shaw.
3/6. James Edward Shaw.
(This is The man who sent me the above history of John Armstrong. I, (H.A.P.) visited him on July 18/1905 at his residence, Martnaham lodge, near Ayr).
3/7. Philip Armstrong Shaw.
2/3. David Shaw. Born June 7/1832, died April 7/1834.
2/4. Elizabeth Dalrymple Shaw, born June 20/1835, died July 6/1851.
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2/5. Edward William Shaw. Born July 24/1837, a Captain in the Madras Staff
Corps. He married Jane Isabella, daughter of John Houldsworth of Cranstoun Hill.
Issue:-
3/1. Hellen Dalrymple Shaw.
2/6. Reverend Glencairn Alexander Shaw, born January 17/1840.
He was Vicar of Sharfleet in the Isle of White.
2/7. Carolina Anna Shaw, born February 6/1840.
2/8. Barbara Jane Shaw.
1/2. Charles William Armstrong. Born May 18/1805, died February 8/1858.
succeeded his father as agent to Sir Hercules Pakenham and to the house
and farm of Cherry Valley, which was held upon a renewable lease for
three lives. He was also agent to Sir Hercules's two sons, Lt Colonel
Edward Pakenham, of the Grenadier Guards, who succeeded to the estate
of Langford Lodge on the death at his father in 1850, and was killed at
the Battle of Inkerman, on November 5/1854: and the Revered Arthur
Pakenham who succeeded his brother. He married on September 4/1844,
Louise Isabelle, daughter at Richard Boyle Bagley, by Alicia, daughter
of Richard, 2nd Baron Castlemain, but he died without issue on February
7/1858. The following notice of his funeral appeared in a local paper:-
"On Tuesday last the mortal remains of this kind hearted agent and
popular magistrate was conveyed from Cherry Valley to Gartree Burying
Ground. Although the distance was nearly two miles, the tenants on the
estate intimated to the friends of the deceased, their desire to carry
the bier. This was at once acceeded to and 48 were selected for the
purpose. They walked two and two behind the coffin, and in turn, eight
by eight, they performed the duty allotted to them. After these came
the servants belonging to Cherry Valley and Langford Lodge, then the
carriages of the friends containing the friends the deceased: about 40
carriages followed in order. An immense number of friends from a
distance, as well as the agriculturialists of the neighbourhood, on
horse and on foot paid the last respect to the memory of the deceased.
Having arrived at Gartree, the remains were deposited in a grave
adjoining the vault of the Pakenham family. The solemn service of the
Church of England was read by the Reverend Mr Roe, incumbent of
Gartree, and the Rev CJ Smyth of Glenavy. Rarely has there been
witnessed such a feeling of sorrow as was evinced by the numerous
servants present.
The body was afterwards removed to Glenavy and buried beside Mr
Armstrong`s grandmother, Mrs Glencairn Dalrymple who died August 1816.
Mrs Louise Isabella Armstrong, the wife of Charles William Armstrong,
married again, secondly: on February 17/1863, Robin Alexander of the.
Bengal Civil Service, and had children whose names are unknown.
1/3. Anna Maria Armstrong. Born March 28/1807. She married on March 21/1833,
William Dysart Smith, proprietor of a large distillery and of several Mills in County Antrim, Ireland, where they lived.
1/4. Edward Pakenham Armstrong. Born December 31/1808. Never married,
He was Vicar of Skellingthorpe, Leicester and, and succeeded on the
death at his brother to the barren honour of representing Dalrymple of
Langlands, the last member of the family now bearing the name of
Dalrymple being Miss Margaret Dalrymple, of Lansdown Crescent,
Cheltenham, the third daughter of Captain Charles Dalrymple of
Orangefield.
He died at Cheltenham, 16 june 1879, aged 75 (had addition to the original, 11/2012)
Issue: (by his second wife)
1/5. John Armstrong,. Born December 21/1820 at Cherry Valley, County Antrim,
Ireland, died September 24/1890 at Chicago, Illinois. He
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married on January 20/1840, 1st, Eleanor: Isabella Wilson, born August
1817, died April 28/1848 in Ireland, daughter of Charles and Eleanor
Isabella (Mullarkey) Wilson. He married 2nd, Henrietta Wilson, born
January 6/1826, died April 16/1914 in Chicago, the youngest sister of
his first wife: they were married in Ireland. See subject 6: for issue
and further particulars.
The end of the John Armstrong Genealogy.
In 1905, I, (Herbert Armstrong Poole), went on a trip around the
world and while in the British Isles, went up to Ayr to visit James
Edward Shaw, who had sent me the long history of the Armstrongs. The
following are extracts from the letters I wrote home to Yokohama,
telling of this visit:
Glasgow, July 22/1905: I took the 12.30 train for Ayr, an hour's ride.
I located Mr Shaw's office but found it closed and that be lived about
6 miles out of town at a place called Martnaham Lodge. I drove out in
a taxi in about 40 minutes over hill and dale to a small Loch on the
further side of which was a big forest-like clump of trees, wherein his
place is situated. Down a long driveway, through a wild garden to
a two storied stone house on the shore, with peacocks and other birds
walking around. I sent my card in to Mrs Shaw as the maid told me Mr
Shaw was away in Camp on the other side of Ayr at Irvin. I did not
know whether he had told his wife about my coming, but she said when I
met her that her husband had told her a cousin of his might turn up. I
didn't think I was a close enough relative to be called a cousin. She
was pretty and very nice about 30 years old, and showed me round the
place. It is not at all well kept, all unshaven and wild, but she
explained they had only had it a year and were gradually fixing it up.
They have just built an addition to the old house. My taxi driver told
no it was a howling wilderness when they got it: they have the fishing
rights on the loch too, which is entirely disregarded by the frequent
poachers. She showed me many old family portraits which did not
interest me much, as they were all of Shaws & Dalrymples. She said
David Shaw had a great many of the old family pictures, so I am sorry I
shall not be able to see him. She thought I was Scotch and was
surprised to find I was an American, and more surprised to find I had
been in Japan for so many years. She said Mr Shaw would be home next
day, and asked me to lunch at that time, which I accepted. He has the
rank of Colonel in the Volunteers. I went back to Ayr for the night and
drove out again next morning in a spanking dogcart, the driver of which
was very Scotch and very voluble, and told me of all the notables in
the place, of which David Shaw is the principal. His place is out at
Dumfries and is part of the Bute estate, he being Agent of the Marquis
of Bute, living there six months of the year in the discharge of his
duties. The Shaws still keep up their old established law firm, the
reputation of which is the highest. James Shaw later told me that
Martnaham Lodge is not his own, but part of the Marquis of Ailsa's
estate, whose affairs are in his keeping. I arrived at Martnaham Lodge
at 1 P.M. and met Mrs Shaw out walking with her baby in a pram, and her
nurse. Mr Shaw had not yet arrived from Camp, but just as we reached
the house, he drove up in his motor. Mr Shaw was surprised to learn who
I was, and said he was very glad I had taken the trouble to come out
and see them. He is about 32, tall and broad, light haired, yellow
mustache, and very sunburned from his week's soldiering. After lunch we
had a talk about cause of the dispute between our grandfather and the
knowledge about the cause of the dispute between our grandfather and
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the latter's brother before he emigrated to the United States. He says
that Cherry Valley is still intact, so I shall certainly go there from
Belfast. I drove back to Ayr by a roundabout way, past the Burns
cottage and the banks of the "Bonny Doon", past many lodges and manors
of Lord and Marquis so-and-so. Belfast, July 26/1905. I came across the
Irish Channel from Ardrossan by the fast ferry steamer "Adder", and
this morning caught the 8.50 A.M. Motor Coach for Crumlin, about 1 1/2½
hours distant. The country was very pretty as we went along, much more
wooded than in England. The houses are generally only thatched huts,
nice and clean and whitewashed. At Crumlin I asked the first man I met
on the street if he knew where Cherry Valley was. Oh yes, he said, its
about a mile down the road and belongs to a Mr McConnell. I walked
there, along lovely lanes, a jolly long mile too, but at last got to
the gates. I at least knew who to expect inside, so marched boldly in:
its a tremendous place with a long driveway. The house looked so pretty
but smaller than I had imagined, two-storied with cement walls,
finished like stone, and with white windows and green blinds. The trees
on the lane are wonderfully old, with signs of having been carefully
trimmed for many years. The tennis court to one side looked so well
kept and inviting, and two red headed girls of about 16, were just
putting up the net. I of course came in for a considerable stare, but
walked up to the door and rang the bell. Soon one of the girls came
over and let me in: I explained why I had come and she welcomed me with
open arms and went to fetch her elder sister, also red headed, about
25. She told us her father, Mr McConnell, was in Dublin, attending a
meeting of the Irish Land Commission, of which he is a member. She said
she knew well about the Armstrongs, and that her grandfather had bought
the place when it was sold by the executors of Captain Armstrong's
Will. Miss McConnell was most kind and showed all over the place,
first over the building, which had been much changed in recent years.
She pointed out the rooms which had not been changed, such as the oak
panelled dining room, and the little room used by Captain Armstrong as
his study. Then outside, she showed me all the old buildings now used
mostly as stables, and the original old yard surrounded by a stone wall
to keep the cattle out. There is a curious old tower about 20 feet
high at one angle at the wall, with a bell on top which used to be rung
at lunch time to call the hands in; many orchards also. The arrangement
of the grounds and buildings is very like Grandfather Armstrong's farm
at Arcola, Ill, and I imagine he tried to follow the Cherry Valley plan
when he built it. The place has about 200 acres. There seem to be
about three McConnell girls and one son now at the Edinburgh
University. What Mcconnell does, I don't know, probably a man of
leisure. I took a few photos of the place, but there are too many trees
about, and the ground slopes down from the house, so the house will
look dwarfed in the photos. The house is very low anyway the ground
floor being the same level as the ground outside. They insisted on my
having some coffee and cake to which I succumbed rather easily. I was
sorry to miss Mr McConnel as I could probably have got much information
from him. I left about 11.30 and walked on further to Langford Lodge,
the Pakenham's place, about a mile further, right on the shore of Loch
Neagh. As the ground slopes gradually from Cherry Valley to the Loch,
you can see the Pakenham place from it. Loch Neagh is an immense body
of water and Langford Lodge occupies one whole promontory - about 3000
acres. I had to walk all the way as there was no conveyance and it was
a hot walk. The country here is very sparsely settled, but the fields
are all cultivated and growing something or other. I came at last to
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the Lodge gate and found the Cemetery was another mile farther, way
round on the other side at the estate. I also found the Pakenhams were
home for the summer with a big house party, so didn't dare go in,
especially as it was half a mile from the gate to the house. I found
the cemetery, a lovely spot, with a nice little church built for the
Pakenham's own use.
The gate is a handsome stone arched gate, and happening to look up, saw
Captain Armstrong's name staring me in the face. It proved to be the
gate erected by the tenentry to him, as their kind and helpful master.
I copied out the inscription for our "tree", and got a good photo of
the gate and church. The graveyard doesn't show: I routed out the
sexton's wife who fetched the keys and let me in. It is private ground
and named Gartree. Most of those buried there are Pakenhams their
retainers and servants: none refereed to our family. The Pakenham's
vault is under the Church and they don't have any door and steps
leading down to it; but they wall it in each time and fill in the
earth, so that to open it is a three day job. The most recent addition
has quite a horrible history. It was the youngest Pakenham, about 28
who served in the Boer War: he was wounded and has been queer ever
since. Early this year in married an English girl named Markham, and
three days later, while here on honeymoon, committed suicide by
drowning himself in the loch. I remember now, seeing the notice of this
in the London papers when I first arrived. It took me an hour's fast
walking get back to the station, and caught the 1.45 P.M. to Glenavy,
the next station to Crumlin, as I had to see the graveyard where I knew
several Armstrongs were buried. I found the church on the banks of a
little river, and the Armstrong enclosure, with head stones of Macrae
Dalrymple and her eldest son Charles Armstrong. But no stone of the
second wife Ellen Kirk. I found there, too, the graves of Ann Jane
Dickson and her husband John, the mother and father of Mrs Goodfellow,
with whom Grandpa lived first when he was being educated. They were
the school teachers in Cherry Valley. This Ann Jane Dickson was the
daughter of William Haughton, Mother's direct ancestor on her maternal
side. I suppose it was through them that Grandpa met the Wilsons, as
Charles Wilson married the other daughter. Glenavy is even smaller than
Crumlin: as I had to spend another night in Belfast I decided to return
there via Antrim instead of via Lismore, as on my way out in the
morning. You see, Cherry Valley is on a branch line connecting the
north and south lines out of Belfast. I got to Antrim and though I
might as well look it the churchyard there: I did so and found a big
church and graveyard, and happened on a whole nest of Kirks. So I
fetched the sexton and asked him about these graves: none bore the name
of Ellen. Antrim was the home of the Kirks, and as it was barely eight
miles from Cherry Valley, I thought I was on the right track. The
sexton told me that the Kirks were still going strong, and that the
present oldest Kirk living was the Magistrate of Antrim. I happened to
run into him on coming out of the church: the sexton introduced me. He
is a big grey haired and bearded man, florid and well fed. I explained
what I wanted so he brightened up and began to think: he said this was
taking him back to his grandfather's time, but he had never heard of
any one of his family marrying one of the Cherry Valley Armstrongs. He
also said that Ellen was not a family name of theirs, and that she was
probably of some other Irish family of that name. However, I then
remembered that Grandpa said his mother`s family lived somewhere in
Scotland. The old man was interested to hear I came
from Japan and asked me to stay to dinner, but I had to catch the 7
p.m. train back to Belfast. His son is in South Africa so he said he
always thought a lot of anyone who cane from a foreign country. The
old chap is over 60 and looks like pictures of Abraham Lincoln.
For the continuation of Bert's trip to Longford and Holly Park, see
under Charles Wilson
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The following is a copy of a letter from JH Connell, written
to me from Cherry Valley, Crumlin, date March 3 1906:
Your letter
from Tokyo dated January 8/1906, I duly received, and my daughter
received the photo of this house, also the Japanese souvenir, which is
very beautiful, and for which she thanks you. I was exceedingly sorry
at missing you when you were here last summer and when I got home from
my official work about a week later, I wrote to you to the London
address given, which at the time I thought meager, but it never reached
you, as it was returned six weeks or two months later. Relative to our
predecessors, my father purchased Cherry Valley from the Reverend
Edward Armstrong in November 1838, who was I think the youngest son of
Captain Armstrong, but I regret that I do not know anything of Captain
Armstrong, or his wife Ellen Kirk. I have been making enquiries from
some old people in the neighbourhood, but they can give me no reliable
information about either. From some old assignments I have, I think
the Armstrongs came from West Meath, but I have not a thread of
evidence of where Miss Kirk came from, or who she was. If you can tell
me from what county she came from, I will try to find something out
about her. ??? many, for your kind invitation to Japan -– nothing
would please me better, but as I have a rather good appointment from
the Government, and as my vacation is too short, I fear there is little
chance of my being able to visit your adopted and grand country. Well
may you be proud at the prowess at arms of the Japanese people: they
have astonished the world and are a worthy ally of dear old England.
Should you revisit our shores in days to come, I shall be very pleased
to put you up for a while, and show you around where your forefathers
lived, one of whom my father constantly spoke of in the highest terms,
I mean the Rev Edward Armstrong, from whom he bought the property, and
whom be knew.
Believe me, Yours truly,
J.H.Connell.
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14 - CHARLESharles WILSONilson
The following is from The Family Bible & Records of John
Armstrong, subject 6, written by him in 1880.
Charles Wilson's birth date is not known: he died Jan 7/1841.
He was of Roscommon County, Ireland, and a Lieutenant in the local
militia. He married Eleanor Isabella Mullarkey, who a died 1826,
daughter of Michael and Eleanor Mullarkey, nee Haughton. Michael was a
Justice of the Peace, and was knighted.
Issue:
1. John Henry Wilson. lived only nine months.
2. Eleanor Isabella Wilson. Born August 1817, died August 24/1848.
She married, as his first wife, on January 20/1840, John Armstrong,
born December 29/1820, died at Chicago, Ill. on September 24/1892.
See subject 6 for issue and further particulars.
3. Isabella Wilson. Born 1819, died November 22/1852.
She lived her
whole life in Ireland. She married in 1838, John George Little,
born 1800, died October 10/1870 in Ireland. After her death he
married, 2nd, Margaret Munns, but had no children by her.
Issue :- (by his first wife).
2/1. John Wilson Little, born August 22/1840, who in 1905 lived at Longford,
Ireland. He married Mathilda J. Cody.
Issue :-
3/1. George Edward Little. Born July 19/1857. Lives in Longford.
3/2. Walter Joseph Little. Born Sept 10/1868. Married Eva Turner.
3/3. John Armstrong Little. Born June 24/---- Lives in New Zealand.
3/4. Herbert Wilson Little. Born March 7/1878. Lived in Canada in 1905.
3/5. Jane Isabella Little. Born Feb 24/ 1888. Lives in Longford 1905.
In 1905, 1, (H.A.P.) went to Ireland and visited the above family in
Longford: I quote from a letter I wrote home telling of this visit.
Longford, Ireland, July 29/1905. I came down from Belfast by the 8 A.M.
train on a fine clear day: for 31/2 hours the train kept going fairly
well and we passed through the greenest and most unpopulated place I
had ever seen. We finally reached Cavan, the terminus of the railway
from Belfast: while waiting far the connecting train to Longford, I
walked into the village to get lunch, past a smeIly streamlet and small
houses; the only thing - which was clean, was the whitewash. Caven
boasts of three streets and three hotels: the Farnhan Arms looked the
best and the food was fair. At 5 p.m. I caught the train for Longford,
1 1/2 hours run: we passed long stretches of peat bog, with the peat
cut and stacked up for the winter's use. The passengers were a dirty
drunken lot, and I had a hard time dodging swigs from their whisksey
bottles. Arriving at Longford, on walking across the tracks, a cheerful
face turned into smiles and said "I'm sure you belong to the Armstrong
family", and I recognised Mr Little senior, a man much older than
cousin Tom, The old gentleman was as kind and pleasant as if I had been
a long lost son, he handed my bags to a man, telling him to take them
to his house: he told me I was to stop with them. Its only a big
village and I, being from Japan, was the curiosity of the place. I
soon saw how remarkably like Grandma, Mr Little is: he has an identical
voice and pronunciation and laughs like her. The houses were all either
plaster finished or rough stone and brick, whitewashed. The streets are
never cleaned and all the shops are small and dirty. Every few steps,
some acquaintance would stop and ask if this was the expected cousin
from Japan, it was great fun and Mr Little got such pleasure out of it.
I didn't know what his business was, but he soon said "here we are" and
I found myself
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outside & Draper shop with a big placard with red letters reading
"Great Bargain Sale &c". Its a regular country draper's store, with a
little of everything in it. The shop was shut and we went around to the
back, down a cow alley and into a low door. A year ago they were burned
out and the new building isn't quite finished yet, a big 15 roomed
building besides the shop on the ground floor. With all the usual
Irish failings the Littles are a most hospitable and pleasant crowd and
I had an unparalled welcome. Little's wife is dead and he has three
sons and a daughter here:- another son is in Canada. He had invited to
meet me, a nephew Cody from New York and a cousin of his daughter's
from Dublin, Nellie Leahy, so when we had crawled up unfinished and
unpainted stairs, I had to meet a battery of kindly but critical eyes.
The eldest son George is about 38 and is a funny gawky looking chap but
canny as they make them. Then Jack, about 34, married: his wife was not
here nor his four kids. Next Walter, also married who I only saw that
once, s he went off for to weekend with his wife. Then comes the only
daughter Jennie, 17 years old, with her hair down yet, a quiet sweet
girl who treats her farther nicely and always thinks of others'
comforts. Nelly Leahy was a fair haired pert girl, with the sweetest
way of speaking and accent. They had all finished dinner by the time I
arrived, but they put a grand beefsteak before me. They had been, five
years in Australia and have another son in South Africa. Little is
retired now, his sons looking after the business: they must be well off
but they don't spend much money. They lost £2000 in the fire,
uninsured, of course. Little was full of anecdotes about Mother, and
told me much of her visit here in 1869: he couldn't say enough as to
what a beautiful and accomplished girl she was. Jennie does most of the
work with a fat old Sarah to help her cook and do the hard work, but I
think its hard on her as they could easily afford more servants.
Everything is a curious Irish mixture of plenty of money and dirt, and
luxury and discomfort. Baths and sanitary arrangements are on a
soldier's camp basis, and the back yard full of old cans, boxes, cows
and muck.
The property has a street frontage of 100 ft and goes back for over
a quarter of a mile. The next day the boys suggested that we go to the
Lenabane Races for this is the great meeting of Roscommon, 18 miles
way. We bicycled out and back after a good breakfast. The tablecloth
stays on all day. The people we passed on the road called out 'God
bless you". Lots of beggars in the streets, old women, bare foot and
hardly able to walk. The Race track was only marked with stones every
ten feet, and was a bare spot in the peat bog. There were only six
races, small fields, and no surprises, but great fun. The side shows on
the grass were typical and the crowd an unending source of
entertainment, I can hardly understand some of them, their brogue is so
thick. Little insisted on taking me to Leitrim, so with a piece of cake
in his pocket, we caught the 6 A.M. train, and on arriving at the
station of Carrick-on-Shannon, hired a Jaunting car to Leitrim, some 2
miles away. Got there at 10 and we couldn't find Holly Park. A man
named Padden nearby with a pretty daughter, who gave me two glasses of
delicious cold milk, offered to lead us to Holly Park: he remembered
the Wilsons, Goodfellows, &c. He brought us to Holly Park which is just
the same, in size as it was before, though not a vestige remains of
mother`s old house: nothing but a hay field now. It runs right
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from the lane, down to the River Shannon. Goodfellow's house is still
there. A man named Marmaduke Church owns the whole place now. What a
tiny village Leitrim is, only one street and poor as possible. I wonder
if Mother ran around the village barefoot, as I saw the girls doing: if
she did, I hope her face was cleaner. We drove on to Boyle, where Jack
Little's place is and lunched at their house with his wizened wife and
a lovely red headed daughter Elsie, twelve years old. Next day at
Longford, was market day, everyone within a radius or 20 miles coming
in with hay, cattle, sheep, dairy produce &c for sale: the village
street was alive with all kinds of cows and calves running loose chased
by good sheep dogs. It was a weird sight and the variety of donkey
carts and other country rigs was a show by itself. After selling their
stuff the farmers make the round of the shops, buying what they want,
so Saturday is the Littles' busy day: they keep open till 11 p.m. They
have about 11 assistants in the shop, dressmakers, etc. Little has to
board his help, feed and clothe then too, in the back part of the shop
on the ground floor. I left next for Dublin and after seeing the town,
which is better than Belfast, boarded the ferry for Liverpool end
sailed at 8 pm.
2/2. Ellen Isabella Little. Born February 10/1843. She married
William Bridgeman Harlow, born November 17/1834, died August 28/1897 in Dunedin, New Zealand, where Ellen now lives (1906).
Issue
3/1. George Arthur Harlow. Born August 27/1865. Has 1 son Arthur Harlow
3/2. Elizabeth Margaret Harlow, Born Feb 25/1868. Never married.
3/3. Isabella Mary Harlow. Born Oct 20/1869. 1 son 2 daughters.
3/4. Ellen Georgina Harlow. Born June 11/1871. Never married.
3/5. John Little Harlow. Born May 29/1873. Never married.
3/6. Wilhelmina Harlow. Born April 11/1875.
3/7. William Bridgeman Harlow Born Sept 25/1880. Lives in Dunedin, N.Z.
3/8. Mary Little Harlow. Born Sept 9/1888.
On July 22/1906, I (H.A.P.) received a letter from William Bridgeman Harlow, saying that most of his family are now living in Dunedin, at No 22 Cargill St, and that they only recently moved there from Maori Hill, where they had resided for 26 years. Elizabeth Margaret has long been proprietress of a large fancy goods shop, with rooms for hairdressing, face massage and manicuring, with a branch at Christchurch, managed by her youngest sister Mary Little Harlow. Wilhelmina was until 1905, mistress of a large school at Dunedin, but had to give it up on account of an infection of the throat, and now helps in Elizabeth's shop, with ten other young ladies. Ellen Georgina is the housekeeper for all the Harlow family in Dunedin. Isabella Mary married Frank Wright, born 1866, died October 24/1937. He was born at Naseby, Central Otego, N, Z.. He founded Fairbairn Wright & Co at Dunedin, and retired in 1913. She lives in a suburb called Roslyn. Wright & Co are large indentors, having branches in Wellington and Christchurch.
George Arthur also lives In Roslyn and is accountant in the office of HF Wheeler Ltd, Mining & manufacturing agents . John Little Harlow is employed by Laidlaw & Gray, hardware.
2/3. Fanny Little, died in infancy.
2/4. Tom Kirkwood Little. Born October 26/1850. He was brought over from
Ireland by John Armstrong and worked many years in J.V.Farwell & Co, Textile merchants in Chicago (see subject 6). He married Minnie Holliker at Ottawa, Ill, and had one daughter Annabel, who
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married in 1914, name unknown to me. Tom lives in Caldwell, Idaho, where he had a Wholesale Drygoods shop. I believe they had other children whose names I do not have.
2/5. Joseph B. Little. Born October 28/1848. Married Fanny McGill.
2/6. Charles K. Little. Born October 26/1852.
1/4. Mary Wilson. Born 1821, died March 10/1876 in Arcola, Ill, and is buried
at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. She married, 1st, her cousin Launcelot Vaugh of Sligo County, Ireland. They were brought over from Ireland to Chicago by John Armstrong. After her husband's death she married, 2nd, John Stewart and went out to Australia. Many years later, after his death, she returned to Arcola and lived with John Armstrong's family. No children by her second husband.
Issue:
2/1. Isabelle Vaugh. Born 1843, died 1854.
2/2. Christiana Vaugh. Born December 25/1849 in Ireland, died June 21/1897
in Chicago. She married on July 19/1873 in Arcola, James P. Slater, born March 26/1843 in Edinburgh, Scotland, died September 10/1916 in Chicago of heart failure.
Issue :
3/1. John Wesley Slater. Born September 6/1876 in Chicago,
died June 28/1933 in the Great Lakes Hospital, North Chicago. He was a Spanish American War Veteran. He married, 1st. about 1900, Jeanette May Osborne, who was an actress, but the marriage didn`t take, and they were divorced. Shortly after, John went to Lansing, Michigan, where he had a fine position as auditor for the Michigan United Railways, holding this position until he became ill. Soon after arriving in Lansing he married in 1907 Ethel King. His firm then moved its offices to Jackson Michigan, and their daughter was born there. Again the firm moved to Detroit.
Issue:- (by his second wife)
4/1. Avis Irene Slater, born October 28/1911 in Jackson and married
in Detroit in 1934, Lloyd Beemer, a druggist. They moved to Port Huron, Michigan.
Issue:-
5/1. Barbara Avis Beemer, born in Port Huron May 12/1937.
3/2. Mary Isabella Slater. Born January 19/1879 in Chicago.
She lives with her sister Martha Barnett at 1616 North 3rd St, St Joseph, Missouri. She married on November 12/1903, Thomas B. Fidler, born in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky on December 25/1881. They were divorced in June 1906: he died August 26/1936. No children. Mary secured a position as front office clerk at the old Great Northern Hotel, one of Chicago`s fine hotels in those days and did very well for a number of years. She married 2nd, Fred S. Merchant, born October 4/1872, died April 13/1937. No children by her second marriage. They married on March 14/1921.
3/3. James Garfield Slater, born October 5/1880 in Chicago,
died September 1/1936. He married, 1st, in South Haven, Michigan, Abbie Matters of Aurora, Ill. The marriage was an elopement, and like most elopements did not last. James came to live in Kansas City with his sister Martha, and was with the Santa Fe Railway for about 22 years, running out of Kansas City. He married there, 2nd, Mildred Johnston at Holton, Kansas in 1923.
No children by either wife.
3/4. Martha (Mattie) Irene Slater. Born May 30/1882 in Chicago.
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She married, 1st, on January 28/1908 in Chicago, Eugene C. Farmer born December 16/1881 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They were divorced in 1922. No children. After the divorce Martha secured a position as drug clerk in the Fred Harvey Drug Store, located in The Union Station in Kansas City, and remained there eight years, when she married, 2nd, in Chicago on December 24/l929, Charles Barnett, born April 17/1869. No children. They live at 1616 North 3rd St, St Joseph, Missouri.
2/3. Haughton Vaugh. Born 1852, He went insane and
died in a Sanatorium in Topeka, Kansas. Never married.
1/5. Henrietta Wilson. Born January 6/1826, died April 18/1914.
She
married on October 22/1849, John Armstrong, as his second wife, his
first wife having been Henrietta's elder sister, Eleanor Isabella,
who died April 24/1845 after eight years of married life. See subject
6 for further details and issue.Note:
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert
Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete
document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation
numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject
are "1/--".
Subject 16. Page 1 (111) 28/9/1949
16 - PIERCE POOLE.
The following is from family records: from Benjamin F.
Thompson`s History of Long Island, 1918; from Genealogies of Long
Island Families, by Charles J. Werner, New York, 1919: and from
Hempstead Town Records.
Pierce Poole. was born at Hempstead, L.I. on January 30/1750
and died September 5/1778. The New York Historical Societies
Collections, Vol 9, page 322, states that letters of administration
were granted on July 5/1781, for the estate of Pierce Poole, who died
intestate, to his widow Elizabeth and his father James Poole, In Vol
13, page 387, it again states that letters of administration were
granted on July 4/1785, for the estate of Pierce Poole of Queen's
County, a carpenter. to his widow Elizabeth. This is puzzling: do
these two reports refer to the same people? Pierce is said to have been
buried at Christ Church, Manhasset but I could not locate his grave.
The Rector told me the Church was not established until 1805, and that
their records had never been published.
Pierce Poole married at Hempstead, August 29/1772 Elizabeth (Rushmore) Lawrence: this is confirmed in Record of Marriage Bonds and Licenses printed by the Secretary of State at Albany, N,Y[?]., 1880, page. ??5. Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Philena (Smith) Rushmore and widow of Gilbert Lawrence, who she had married on August 2/1767[?], also confirmed in Albany Marriage Bonds & Licenses. Werner says she was the daughter of John and Mary (Carman) Rushmore, and both Werner and Benjamin F Thompson give a lot more incorrect information about her:
see what I have written under subjects 32, 34, and 36.
Issue:-
1/1. James Poole. Born January 8/1773, died July 17/1846. Hempstead Town
Records Vol 6, state he was an Overseer in 1795, Constable and
Collector 1795-1802, Fence Viewer in April 1807 to 1812, Overseer of
Highways 1815, Assessor and Inspector of Schools 1814-1817, and
appointed to regulate Sheep Partings, 1815-1818. Sheep Partings were
the occasion of much festivity, side shows, dancing, and Feats of
strength the naming of these Sheep Partings was the separation of all
inhabitant's sheep, which had bean pastured together for the summer
season, identification being by the ear marks of each owner, duly
registered by the Town Council. James Poole was Postmaster at Little
Neck from 1805 to 1812, and in 1830 lived at North Hempstead. His
place was the tavern on the corner of Jericho Turnpike and Guinea
Road, owned in 1948 by Mrs Paul Gardner. James was an Independent
Republican, and on October 11/1830, the Republican Nominations
Committee met at his house and nominated Francis Granger for
Governor. James married, on July 16/1803 Martha Hicks, born October
27/1785, died September 29/1874, aged 89 years, second child of
Stephen and Mary (Hewlett) Hicks, a descendant of John Hicks, who
died In 1492, and a lineal descendant of Sir Ellis Hicks, who was
knighted at Poitier, France, in 1356, for capturing a set of colours
from the French. Both James and Martha are buried at Christ Church
Cemetery, Manhasset,L.I.: their tombstones to the North West of the
Church, are of white marble, and though much weathered, can still be
read: many of their children end descendants are buried nearby. His
will, dated June 8/1846, probated June 29/1846, appointed his son
James and his brother in law Richard Hicks, as executors, see Queen's
County Wills, Vol 4, page 29.
Issue:-
2/1. Mary Elizabeth Poole, born February 19/1805, died April 2/1828.
She married Richard Morrell, merchant, of New York City. After
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Mary's early, death. Richard married 2nd her sister Julia Ann Poole. They are all buried at Christ Church, Manhasset.
Issue :-
3/1. William Henry Morrell- born December 6/1825, died Feb 14 1834.
3/2. James Poole Morrell, born January 31 1828, died Feb 28 1834.
2/2. Hannah Antoinette Poole, born Oct 4 1806, died April 21 1820.
2/3. Julia Ann Poole Born October 13 1808, died before 1848,
as her husband's will of that date describes himself as a widower. She married as his second wife, Richard Morell, husband of her elder sister Mary Elizabeth Poole.
Issue:-
3/1. Richard Morrell, born July 12 1832, died February 18/1850.
3/2. Robert Morrell, born July 12 1832, died Feb 12 1895.
He married Sarah Latham Mitchell, born May 22 1840, died May 5/1888.
Issue:-
4/1. Julia Morrell, born October 20 1861, died November 25 1862.
4/2. Robert Morrell, died young.
4/3. Edward Morrell died young.
4/4. Albert Richard Morrell, born Feb 11 1873,
died September 5/1926. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and was buried at Christ Church, Manhasset.
4/5. Monroe Morrell, died young.
4/6. Helen Morrell, died young.
3/3. William Edgar Morrell. No data.
3/4. Horatio Poole Morrell, No data.
2/4. James Horatio Poole, born June 11/1811, died June 14/1871.
He was appointed Postmaster at Little Neck, succeeding his father.
2/5. Sophia Emilly Poole, barn June 7/1817, died May 7/1842,
seven months after her marriage. She married, at St. George's Church, Hempstead on October 19/1841, the Honorable Wessel S. Smith of Jamaica L.I., born 1801, died September 3/1872, buried at Christ Church, Manahsset. After Sophia's death, he married, 2nd, on April 19/1850, Elizabeth H. Cornwell born 1818, died January 2,1899, daughter of Richardson and Martha (Cornell) Cornwell of North Hempstead L.I. Elizabeth was buried next to Wessel's grave:
Sophia was buried next to her Parents. Wessell Smith was a member of the Assembly from 1847 to 1849.
1/2. Samuel Poole. Born April 29/1777. died April 23/1833, aged 56 years.
He married, on May 20/1804, Sarah (Sally) Cheesman, born October 6/1784 died October 9/1863, aged 79 years. Samuel was a merchant and a farmer at Hempstead, and died at Omega, L.I. buried at Christ Church Cemetery, Manhasset, L.I. See Subject 8 for issue and further particulars.Note:
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert
Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete
document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation
numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject
Subject 18. Page 1. (113) 3/1/1948
18 - RICHARD CHEESMAN
The following is from family records: from records of Miss Anna
Maude Hoxie of Buffalo: from "Marriages at St George`s Church,
Hempstead", by Josephine G. Frost, (1914); and from "The Betts
Genealogy", by C. Wyllys Betts, (1888).
Richard Cheesman was born at Hempstead, L.I., on June 3/1756,
and died there January 18/1832, buried at George's Church, Hempstead. His
headstone is in that part of the graveyard near the south gate, and is of red
stone, much worn and sadly cracked. The Warden told me these stones were
imported from England as ballast in sailing ships of those days.
He married on August 11/1782 Elizabeth Weekes, born March
3/1764 died September 17/1852, daughter of George and Sara (Hall)
Weekes.
Issue:-
1. Joseph Cheesman. Born December 15/1782-3, died May 25/1852. He married,
1st, Maria Mitchill, born 1789, died July 30/1819, ninth daughter of James and Mary (Frost) Mitchill of Manhasset, and a descendant of Sir Humphrey Mitchill of Old Windsor, Berkshire, England. He married, 2nd, Sarah Waterbury, who died August 17/1826.
Issue:- (by his first wife Maria Mitchill)
2/1. Mary Elizabeth Cheesman, died in New York City. She married on
August 14/1839, John Fiske Holbrook of New York City, born August 10/1802, died August 27/1872, a descendant of John Holbrook of Weymouth, Mass who came to America in 1640.
Issue:-
3/1. Oscar Holbrook. No data.
3/2. Mary Louise Holbrook, born May 12/1847. She married on
October 16/1867, Frederick Henry Betts, born at Newburgh, N.Y., March 8/1843, died in November 1905, son of Frederick J. and Mary Ward (Scoville) Betts. He graduated at Yale in 1864 and at Columbia Law School in 1866, and became a famous patent lawyer and was very wealthy. He wrote the Betts Genealogy, which had been commenced by his brother C. Wyllys Betts. They lived first in Irving Place, then built an imposing house on Madison Avenue where there was a whole floor for their daughter Elliot`s family. After Mr Betts death, Mrs Betts had a duplex apartment on Park Avenue and 72nd Street. Miss Hoxsie writes as follows about them:-
"Mrs Betts was always held up to me as a pattern of elegant womanhood, and when I grew up I visited her in New York and knew her very well. I also knew her daughter Eliot very well, as Mr Betts had a sister living in Buffalo and when Eliot visited her as a young girl, I was with her a great deal. While I saw Mrs Betts every time 1 went to New York, I saw very little of Eliot. I never knew a lovelier or more cultured couple: they were simple kindly and sincere. They travelled extensively and had collections of treasures gathered here and there. I remember particularly Silver Chalices and Cypriaj Glass. Mr Betts belonged to the Grolier Club besides countless others: Mrs Betts sang, gave musicals, and went to all operas and concerts: they attended St George's Church. Mr Betts was superintendent of the Sunday School and they were both in all of the philanthropic, movements of the day. With all this, they went with the most fashionable society of New York, the Vanderbilts, &c, and their house was exquisitely run and appointed, the most beautiful silver on the table, butler, footman, a French maid for Eliot, and a personal maid for Mrs Betts, and I don't know
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how many others. In those days they had a carriage. To the day of her death, Mrs Betts had every hour of the day and evening filled with engagements, social, civic and philathropic, but never Lost her unfailing sweetness of disposition and sincerity.
Issue:-
4/1 Louis Frederick Holbrook Betts, born May 21/1870.
He never married and was a patent Lawyer in New York.
4/2. Mary Eliot Betts born October 19/1871 still living in 1940.
She married, on January 28/1892, Russell Hotchkiss Hoadley, born February 17/1869, third son of Russell Hotchkiss and Alice Rowland (Wesson) Hoadley. He graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1890. On July 1/1891 he was made a partner in his father's banking and commercial business, Hoadley & Co. He was a descendent of William Hoadley, who came from the South if England to Branford Conn in 1863. His uncle Charles Wyllys Betts left him "The Mallows', and `Sandy Bourne Farm " at Southampton, L.I. Her marriage was a great disappointment as he drank end she had to leave him several times, and finally divorced him.
Issue:-
5/1. Sheldon Eliot Hoadley,, born November 20/1895 or 4.
5/2. Louise Russell Hoadley, born March 20/1896, she was married.
5/3. Helen Hoadley, born May 20/1897.
4/3. Wyllys Rossiter Betts, born May 12/1875.
He married, on April 4/1899, Ada Godfrey. His uncle Charles Wyllys Betts left him "The Mill", "Nighbrink" and the farm at Southampton,. L.I.
Issue:-
5/1. Wyllys Rossiter Betts, born December 4/1900.
2/2. William Edgar Chessman, born 1816, died at Charleston, S.C.,
January 28/1851. He Married on April 17/1845, Sophia D. Oakley, daughter of Cornelius Oakley, of 60 West 4th St., and they lived at 251 West 126th Street, New York City.
Issue:-
3/1. William Chessman, born in Brooklyn, February 14/1853, died at
Auburn, N.Y. May 7/1912. He was a high living batchelor of wild habits, and died being cared for at his aunt Mrs John Fiske Holbrook's expense.
2/3. Harriet S. Chessman. She never married and was buried in
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn ,N.Y.
2/4. Oscar Cheesman, born in New York City, January 1/1818,
died in Philadelphia, September 6/1890. He was a Crockery merchant at 71 Warren St., New York City. He married on June 5/1867, Harriet F. Pollock, who died April 13/1897, daughter of James F. and ??? - (Byrne) Pollock of Philadelphia. Oscar was a widely cultured man with a great Love of music and the opera: it was he who looked after the musical career of his cousin, Martha Fitch, wife of Rushmore Poole of Buffalo: before her marriage, he took her to New York to all the operas and concerts where the great stars of the world appeared.
Issue:-
3/1. Marie Cheesman, born 1868. She married Dudley W. Van Ingen,
a dry goods merchant at 216 Church St., New York City. She was a charming girl and a great friend of Anna Maude Hoxie of Buffalo. They had no children end she died early in her
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married life of consumption. Much of this Cheesman history is due to Dudley, who looked it up for Anna Maude Hoxsie.
Issue:- (by his second wife Sara Waterbury)
2/5. Katherine Weeks Cheesman, born in Now York City is 1825, died at 254
Amity St.. Flushing, L.I., September 27/1898, buried in Green Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. She never married.
2/6. Malcolm W. Cheesman, died December 31/1858, buried Green Wood Cemetery
2/7. Josephine Cheesman. She married Alfred Douglas, a lawyer of Boston, who
died at Copake, N.Y., October 3/1876, son of Earl and Julia (Hempstead) Douglas of New York. Earl was an importer of glass and china from Europe. Alfred was a Crockery merchant, like many of the Weekes. He was a charming man but did not live long. They lived in Great Barrington, and when Josephine was last heard from in 1915, she was living in seclusion on Staten Island, she quarrelled violently with her cousin Mrs Betts and With most of her family and never got over it. After years of silence, Mrs Rushmore Poole heard from her in 1915, and when the former answered, she suggested foolishly that after so many years peace might be made: she never heard from her again. Issue:- 3/1. Malcolm Douglas, a newspaper man. married and had children. 3/2. Julia Douglas, had a fancy goods shop at l45 Greenwich St.N.Y.
3/3. Henry Douglas. He sold linens at 102 Franklin St., and lived at
2009 Fifth Ave., New York City.
3/4. Three other children, probably died young.
1/2. Sarah Cheesman, born October 6/1784, died October 9/1863, She married,
on May 20/1804, Samuel Poole, born April 29/1777, died April 2/1853, buried with her husband at Christ Church Cemetery, Manhasset, L.I. see Subject 8 for issue and further particulars.
1/3. George Weekes Cheesman, born January 28/1787, died before 1832.
He lived in Birmingham County, N.Y. Name of wife unknown.
Issue:-
2/1. Anna Augusta Cheesman, born December 23/1816, died January 20/1896.
She married George Hoyt Penfield, born at Catskill, Greene County, N.Y., January 21/1813, died March 2/1896. They both lived to be over 80 years old.
Issue:-
3/1. Henry Penfield, born July 18/1851, died soon,
3/2. Son, born and died July 27/1856.
1/4. Jothan Cheesman, born September 2/1789, died September 8/1791.
1/5. Phebe Cheesman, born February 10/1792, died September 22/1831.
She married at North Hempstead, L.I., on January 26/1813, George Rapelye, baptised June 17/1787, died October 13/1836, son of Abraham and Marya (Schenck) Rapelye of Oyster Bay, L.I. (This is from "The History of Oyster Bay", by Henry M Stotenburgh, 1900)
Issue;-
2/1. Abraham Rapelye, baptized October 16/1814, died July 12/1831.
2/2. Richard Cheesman Rapelye, baptised August 18/1816, died May 17/1848.
He married at Hempstead, on January 10/1838, Anna Maria Van Nostrand, born 1820, died December 13/1902, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Seaman) Van Nostrand. They lived at Bodine St., West New Brighton, Staten Island.
Issue:-
3/1. William Cheesman Rapelye.)
3/2. Laura A. Rapelye ) in 1880 all lived at S Norwalk, Ct.
3/3.Charles R. Rapelye. ) (or L.I.)
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2/3. Martin Rapelye, baptized October 22/1818, died at Whitestone, N.Y.
August 8/1872. He married at Bayside, L.I., on July 3/1844, Ann Elizabeth Roe, born March 27/1827, died November 5/1895, daughter of John and Anne (Underhill) Roe of Flushing, L.I.
Issue :-
3/1.Isabelle Rapelye. She married a Mr. De Bevoise and in 1880
lived at Whitestone, N.Y.
3/2. Maria Elizabeth Rapelye. In 1880 lived at West New Brighton, N.Y.
3/3. Martin Rapelye. In 1880 lived at West New Brighton, N.Y.
3/4. Charlotte Rapelye, born February 1/1857, lived at Duluth, Minn.,
in 1928. She married, 1st, at Whitestone, on September 13/1877, Arthur Seaman who died April 17/1897. She married, 2nd, on May 21/1901, Gorge M. Clark of Soranton, Pa., who died in 1914, but had no children by him.
Issue:- (by her first husband Arthur Seaman)
4/1. Thaddeus A. Seaman, born 1879.
4/2. Susan Seaman. In 1880 lived at Baldwin, N.Y.
4/3. Mabel L. Seaman, born 1883.
3/5. Chessman Rapelye. In 1880 lived at West New Brighton, N.Y.
3/6. Ann Elizabeth Rapelye. Ditto
3/7. Mary Emma Rapelye. ditto.
2/4. Mary Elizabeth Rapelye, baptised February 13/1821,
died December 9/1849. She married Samuel R. Welling.
Issue:-
3/1. Marie Antoinette Welling, born November 1/1848, died May 9/1849.
1/6.Catherine Cheesman, (twin). Born August 10/1794, died September 30/1852.
She married on June 22/1816, Joseph Dodge, born September 8/1782, died April 30/1835, son of Joseph and Sarah (Hicks) Dodge, a farmer, book keeper and County Judge at Lakeville, L.I.
Issue:-
2/1. Hampton Dodge, born in New York City, March 16/1817,
died at Detroit, Mich., April 15/1901. In 1850-52 he went to Buffalo, N.Y. He married, 1st, at Jamaica, L.I., on June 6/1838, Sarah Underhill, born 1820, died at Buffalo in 1851, daughter of John and Maria (Weekes) Underhill. He married, 2nd, on December 27/1855, Mary E. Morrell, a widow, born at Flushing, June 22/1822, died July 10/1870, and had three children by her, names unknown.
Issue:- (by his first wife Sarah Underhill)
3/1. Loudon Underhill Dodge, born September 16/1839,
died at Rochester, N.Y,, March 26/1897, a fine arts dealer, and a member of the 74th Buffalo Regiment. He married at Rochester, on September 2/1862, Katherine Husbands, born December 26/1839, daughter of Joseph Dottin and Frances (Buckinghem) Husbands of Cooperstown N.Y. In 1909 Katherine lived at 270 West 93rd St., New York City.
Issue:- (from the Underhill Genealogy by Josephine C, Frost)
4/1. Joseph Hampton Dodge, born September 16/1864.
He married, 1st, on November 15/1900, Elizabeth M. McGuire, who died September 10/1902. He married, 2nd, on April 17/1900, Ruby Porter Bridgman and lived in Rochester, N.Y.
4/2. Florence Louise Dodge, born at Buffalo, July 19/1863.
She married Hiram Peasley Frear of Rochester, where she lived in 1909 with her mother.
3/2. Sarah Emma Dodge, born at Buffalo: she married a Seymour.
3/3. Joseph Cheesman Dodge. He lived in Detroit.
3/4. Fanny Dodge.
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2/2. Catherine May Dodge, born October 7/1820, died September 21/1826.
2/3. Loudon Dodge, born September 7/1824, died April 7/1825.
2/4. Cheesman Dodge, born at Success, L.I. He married on September 1/1863,
Martha Cornell.
1/7. Mary Cheesman. (twin). Born August 10/1794. In 1880 she lived in Astoria,
N.Y. She married, on December 4/1820, Isaac Miles Cornell, born February 4/1793, died March 1/1873, son of Hallett and Elvira (Hicks) Cornell, a descendant of Thomas Cornell (born 1595) and Rebecca Briggs (born 1600), who came to Boston in 1638, and lived in Washington Street, between Summer and Milk Streets, where he was an inn keeper, and who later moved to Providence, R.I. (This is from the Cornell Genealogy, by the Reverend John Cornell).
Issue:-
2/1. Charles Miles Cornell, born April 14/1823, died July 7/1875.
2/2. Frances E, Cornell. She married a Mr. Poyer.
1/8. Elizabeth Cheesman. Born February 19/1797, died July 26/1869.
She married on December 26/1821, as his second wife, Robert Stocker Woolley, born October 1/1790, died August 19/1857, of paralysis. They lived at Lakeville, L.I. Robert had married, 1st, on May 30/1811, Phebe Tredwell, born February 3/1790, died August 8/1820, and had 5 children.
Issue:-
2/1. Charles Woolley. )
2/2. Nelson Cheesman Woolley. ) In 1880 they lived at Geneva, N.Y.
2/3. Sadie Cheesman Woolley. )
1/9. Richard Cheesman. Born August 15/1799, died January 26/1819, buried in
St. George's Church Cemetery, Hempstead, L.I., next his parents.
1/10. Susannah Cheesman. Born May 2/1802. she married, at St. George's Church,
Hempstead, on May 10/1828, John Armstrong.
Issue:-
2/1. Susan A. Armstrong, Born after 1829. In 1880 she lived at Buffalo.
The Jones Genealogy says she married in 1856, as his second wife, William A. Hewlett, born 1785, died 1866, son of Samuel and Ruth (Willis) Hewlett, who had married, 1st, in 1812, Martha Thorne. I don't think this is correct.
1/11. William Poole Cheesman. Born January 30/1805, died before October
22/1880, at Buffalo, N.Y. He never married, The notice of the probate of his will, dated December 15/1880, was addressed to the following heirs. "To the people of the State of New York, and to Mary E. Holbrook, Oscar Cheesman, Catherine Cheesman, William E. Cheesman, Josephine Douglas, Sheridan Poole, of New York, George Cheesman of Birmingham County, Anna A. Penfield of Catskill, N.Y., Otis A. Poole and Nettie Poole of Chicago, William C. Rapelye, Laura A. Rapelye, Charles R. Rapelye, of South Norwalk, Conn., Charles Woolley, Nelson C. Woolley, Sadie C. Woolley, of Geneva, N.Y., Edgar C. Poole of Garden City, Susan Armstrong, Rushmore Poole and Hampton Dodge of Buffalo, Elizabeth Smith and Robert S. Woolley of Lakeville, Mary Cornell of Astoria, Cornelia W. Allen, Emma Woolley of Great Neck, S. Eugene Poole, Mary Augusta Jacobia, of Little Neck, Belle Rapelye, Maria B. Rapelye, Martin Rapelye, and Ann E. Rapelye, Lottie R. Seaman, Phebe A. Fontaine, of West New Brighton, N.Y., John H. Rapelye of Port Richmond, N.Y,, Susan Seaman of Baldwin, N.Y., Isabella De Bevoise, Annette Peck and Chauncey Peck of Long Island City, heirs at law and next of kin of William Cheesman, late of the city of Buffalo, deceased."
1/12. Cornelia Cheesman. Born September 1889. Perhaps married a Mr. Allen,
as mentioned in her brother William's will above: she died June 17/1826.
Note:
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert
Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete
document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation
numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject
are "1/--".
Subject 20. P1 (118) 22/2/1952?
20 - ISAAC MANCHESTER
The following is from family records: from "The Wildbores in
America", by John Reid and Benjamin Franklin Wilbour (1933); from
"Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages", by the American Historical
Society, New York (1939): and from the New England Historical and
Genealogical Register, Vols 101 and 102 (1947-1948).
Isaac Manchester was born at Tiverton, R.I., August 4/1756,
and died there May 31/1820. He was a private in Colonel John Cook's
Regiment, Rhode Island Militia, from May 22/1777 to July 4/1779.
He married on May 11/1783, Alice Taber, born June 4/1765,
died March 6/1834, daughter of Jacob and Susannah (Dennis) Taber. (See
subject 42)
Issue:-
1. John Manchester. Born May 19/1783. He married, 1st, ----:
2nd, Lydia Seabury. He had seven children.
2. son. died soon.
5. Otis Manchester. Born January 28/1786, died April 26/1788.
4. Susannah Manchester. Born March 26/1788. She married a Mr. Hammond.
5. Robert Manchester. Born August 21/1790, died January 3.1872.
He was a Surveyor General of Lumber at Tiverton. He married on March 5/1812, Hope Miller, born July 5/1792, died October 27/1883, daughter of Nelson and Sarah (Allen) Miller.
Issue: -
2/1. Robert Manchester, born, October 7/1812, died March 31/1891.
He married in Boston, on August 30/1836, Maria Theresa Shedd, born July 11/1815, died in Providence, R.I., December 28/1886, daughter of George and Maria Amanda (Field) Shedd. They lived in Providence, where for many years he was a surveyor of lumber for the port. They had ten children.
2/2. Alexander Manchester, born September 5/1814.
He Married Eleanor Bailey Lewis.
2/3. Cornelia Hope Manchester, born December 4/1816, died January 4/1918,
at the remarkable age of 102 years. She married, lst, in 1848, John H. Slade, born 1817, died 1867: 2nd, on September 2/1875, John F. Munroe, who died in 1901.
2/4. James Manchester, born October 4/1818, died April 18/1882.
He married on August 19/1841, Harriet Linley Thomas, born August 19/1819 died March 5/1903, daughter of Benjamin and Harriet (LinleyI Thomas.
2/5. Maria Bartlett Manchester, born March 9/1820, died February 6/1858.
She married Samuel J. Townsend, who died June 3/1862.
2/6. George H. Manchester, born October 27/1823, died September 11/1902.
He married on May 12/1846, Mary Jane Howard, born May 7/1824, died May 23/1910, daughter of William L. and Ruth Stacey (Clark) Howard.
2/7. Caroline Manchester, born February 5/1827, died September 23/1913.
She married on July 8/1845, John Dean Benton, born May 12/1823, died in 1890.
2/8. Sarah Alice Manchester, born March 25/1829. died March 9/1879.
She married John Dunwell Potter.
2/9. Harriet Manchester, born October 9/1830. She married,
1st, Tobias Warner: 2nd, Benjamin Ryder: 3rd, A.C. Hathaway.
2/10. Mary Eleanor Manchester, born July 1/1837, died October 25/1907.
6. Isaac Manchester. Born September 29/1792, date of death unknown.
On October 6/1857 he sold 240 acres of his land to Elizabeth H. Barker of Brooklyn, N.Y., for $7500. On June 7/1862, he sold thirty
Subject 20 P2 (119)
three thousandths of an acre to the Newport and all River Railway, for their new line. He later removed to Bridgewater, Mass. He married Mary Peirce.
Issue:.
2/1. Mary Pierce Manchester, born at Tiverton, October 18/1839.
She married on December 25/1865, Captain Daniel T. Church, born 1836. died at Tiverton, March 17/1903, son Joseph end Jemima (Boomer) Church. Captain Daniel was engaged in the fishery business, and at 17 years of age was captain of a vessel. He served as mate on a ship carrying fruit from Cuba to Charleston, S.C., for four years. He was twice Democratic candidate for Governor and was elected to the Senate, but never took his seat. He was Town Treasurer for many years.
Issue:-
3/1. Mary Ida Church, born Decenber 11/1866.
3/2. Calista Church, born October 24/1868.
She married George Robert Lawton.
3/3. Edna Gertrude Church, born January 16/1876.
2/2. Isaac Manchester. No data.
7. Son. probably died young.
8. Otis Manchester. Born March 17/1795, died probably at Beloit, Wisc.,
June 7/1880. He married, 1st, Maria Bishop, of whom I have no data. He married, 2nd, on January 13/1822, Hannah Ingols, born August 1/1799, died January 27/1864, 5th child of James and Mary Jane (Beals) Ingols. See subject 10 for issue and further particulars.
9. Willard Manchester. Born May 12/1797: no data, probably died young.
10. George Manchester. Born August 20/1799: ditto
11. Humphrey Manchester, Born August 10/1803, died at Oakland Cal.,
December 3/1883. He lived most of his early life in New Bedford, R.1, He married in January 1826 Ann Hovey Bartlett, born 1803, died 1891, daughter of Ellis and Ann (Hovey) Bartlett.
Issue:-
2/1. Elizabeth Howland Manchester, born November 20/1828,
died September 20/1908. She married John James Scotchler.
2/2. George Otis Manchester, born May 22/1830, died September 24/1831.
2/3. Eli Lewis Manchester, born January 6/1832, died December 22/1835.
2/4. Lucy Anna Manchester, born December 6/1833, died March 5/1892.
She never married,
2/5. Henry Barton Manchester, born December 22/1835.
He married Annie Howland Beauvais.
2/6. Lyman Humphrey Manchester, born November 30/1837, died May 12/1869.
He married Elizabeth Hathaway Greenman, born 1839, died 1882.
2/7. Martha Bartlett Manchester, born September 1/1839.
She married Charles Drinkwater Hayes.
2/8. Sarah Burgess Manchester, born April 3/1843.
2/9. Ellis Bartlett Manchester, born June 19/1847, died June 4/1903.
He married Jessie May Journey.
12. Jacob Manchester. Born May 2/1806. died June 29/1871. He was a member of
the firm of Manchester, Hopkins & Co., of Tiverton, R.I. He married, 1st, on September 3/1827, Caroline Pettey, who died on June 6/1838: 2nd, on December 25/1838, Thankful Stevens, born September 25/1817, died September 15/1892, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Hilliard) Stevens.
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Issue:- (by his first wife Caroline Pettey)
2/1. Caroline Frances Manchester. born September 14/1828
died August 18/1904. She married Norval B. Lamb.
2/2. William Dart Manchester, born March 13/1834, died 1877.
He married, lst, Imogen Babbitt: 2nd, Josephine Babbitt.
2/3. Mary Ann Manchester, born 1838, died 1878.
Issue:- (by his second wife Thankful Stevens)
2/4. Daughter.
2/5. Lucy Hammond Manchester. born 1841 died 1846.
2/6. Jacob Manchester, born 1843, died 1846.
2/7 Emma L. Manchester, born July6/????
2/8. Mary T. Manchester, born December 9/----.
2/9. Eleanor Lewis Manchester, born 1854, died 1857.
2/10. Willard Manchester, born July 27/1857, died May 1/1910.
married in 1879, Vesta Louise Trescott or Prescott.
2/11. Willard Manchester, born August 16/1859. He married,
1st, Ida Davis, Daughter of James & Julia Davis: 2nd name unknown.
13. Eli Manchester October 21/1808, died April 3/1891 at New Haven, Conn.
He moved from Tiverton to Utica, N.Y., and later to New Bedford, RI. He married 1st on January 23/1833, Marietta Smith, born 1811, died 1854: 2nd, on January 23/1856, Mary A. Bradish, born 1820, died 1862: 3rd, on January 12/1865, Sarah A. Scaritt, born 1820, died 1904: no children by his third wife.
Issue:- (by his first wife Marietta Smith)
2/1. George Otis Manchester, born October 12/1833.
He married Ella Boynton, daughter of Lepha (Stowell) Boynton.
2/2. Francis Oscar Manchester, born September 21/1842. He married
Ann E. Kingley, daughter of Thomas L. and Julia (Lathrop) Kingley.
Issue:- (by his second wife Mary A. Bradish)
2/3. Daughter, born May 15/1857, died the same day.
2/4. Eli Manchester, born January 20/1862. He married Mary Ann Northrop,
daughter of John and Mary (Parker) Northrop.Note:
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert
Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete
document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation
numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject
are "1/--".
Subject 22. P1 (121) 3/1/1948
22 - JAMES INGOLS.
Was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 31/1761, and died
there on May 8/1835, according to the "Ingalls Genealogy", by Dr.
Walter Benton Ingalls, (1933). His grand daughter Emily Cutter Ingols
told me he was born on January 2/1771. He and all his family spelled
the name Ingols, but Dr Ingalls, as well as the "Norcross Genealogy",
spells the name Ingalls; the most usual spelling used by the greater
number of this family. However, there are twelve different spellings
of the name, used by various descendants of Edmund Ingalls of England,
the Progenitor of the family in New England. (see subject 44)
He married on August 24/1791, Mary Jane (Polly) Beals, born
March 31/1776, died about 1820. She was but a few months over fifteen
years of age when she was married and gave birth to over 17 children
before she died aged 34. Her name is not mentioned in the Beal
Genealogy, but there were many Mary Janes among her ancestors. After
her death, James married, 2nd, a Miss Putnam.
Issue:-
1/1. Jane Ingols. Born February 11/1792. She married Asher Shepard.
1/2. James Ingols. Born January 3/1794, died in December 1863.
He married, 1st, Fanny Sage, and they had five children, two of whom died young. He married, 2nd, Harriet Bates.
Issue:- (by his first wife Fanny Sage)
2/1. Clara Ingols, born about 1824. She married a Mr Graves, and had
one daughter, Mrs Miller, who in 1905 lived in Oak Park, Chicago. I had the pleasure of meeting her in 1904 when she lived with Mrs Miller.
2/2. James Ingols. He died when he was 34 years old.
2/3. Augustus Ingols. Living in 1904 in Denver.
He took his son abroad to study the violin.
1/3. Robert Ingols. Born April 16/1796, died 1798.
1/4. Levi Ingols. Born May 29/1798. He married on March 8/1825, Emily Cutter,
born May 11/1799, died July 1/1864.
Issue:-
2/1. Nathaniel Lombard Ingols.
2/2. Emily Cutter Ingols born about 1825. She married, on July 9/1841,
William Rowland Norcross, son of Chaplin and Susan (Donforth) Norcross of Philadelphia. They had three children. In 1905 she was living at 12 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, Mass., with her daughters.
2/3. George Henry Ingols.
2/4. Caroline Cutter Ingols, died about 1904.
2/5. Isaac Parker Ingols.
2/6. James Edward Ingols.
2/7. Frederick Augustus Ingols.
2/8. Margaret Rae Ingols.
1/5. Hannah Ingols. born August 1/1799, died January 27/1864. she married,
as his second wife, on January 15/1822, Otis Manchester, born March 17/1795, died June 7/1880. - See subject 10 for issue and further particulars.
1/6. Benjamin Ingols. Born September 27/1801.
1/7. Abigail Ingols. Born July 9/1803, died 1887. She never married.
1/8. Miranda Ingols. Born August 29/1804, died 1835. She was not married.
1/9. Robert Ingols. Born November 22/1805, died 1806.
1/10. Thomas Jefferson Ingols. Born April 27/1807. Never married.
1/11. Samuel Russell Ingols. Born September 5/1808.
He was a soldier and was drowned.
1/12. Henrietta Ingols. Bern December 6/1809, died 1811.
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1/13. Thomas Shepard Ingols Born March 12/1811
1/14. Clarissa Trask Ingols Born January 2/1813. Never married.
1/15. William Henry Ingols. Born June 20/1814.
1/16. Twin. unnamed Born 1815 died soon.
1/17. Twin, unnamed Born 1815, died soon.
Seven more children born in between the above, stillborn:.
Subject 24. Page 1. 27/6/1951 (123)
24 - REVEREND WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
The following information was sent to me on February 18/1904,
by James E. Shaw, County Buildings, Ayr, Scotland, copied from a book
in his possession entitled "The History of the Dalrymples of
Langlands", in which there is a full account of the Armstrongs of
Cherry Valley, near Belfast, Ireland, and particularly of Captain
John Armstrong who married Macrae Dalrymple, eldest daughter of General
Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands. This account was written in 1854 by
Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan, Ireland, who was the second son of
Thomas Armstrong, the fourth son of the above Reverend William
Armstrong, see page 5. I have amplified this with further information
given me by Douglas Leffingwell of Bar Harbor Maine, likewise a
descendant of Thomas Armstrong - see page 9.
The Reverend William Armstrong is said to have been born
about 1720, and to have died in 1808. He was a clergyman at
Killashandra, County Cavan, Ireland, and was said to have come from
County Sligo.
The name of his first wife was Jane Irwin, of a very respectable
family: she was said to have had a large mouth and thick lips.
He married a second time at an advanced age, but the name of this
second wife is not known.
Issue:- (by his first wife Jane Irwin)
1. William Armstrong. Born at Killashandra about 1752, died about 1829
at Cheltenham or Leamington, England. The name of his wife is not
known. Further details about William will be found on this page below.
2.James Armstrong. Dates of birth and death unknown.
Further details
about James will be found on page 2.
3. Son. name unknown. Nothing is known about him except
that he was
an attorney at Cork, Ireland,
4. Thomas Armstrong. Born at Killashandra in 1756, shot to death in
1787.
He married at St. Croix, B.W.I,, Mary Aletta Biggs, born
about 1770, daughter of Dr. and -- (Heyleger) Biggs of St. Croix.
Further details about Thomas will be found on pages 2 to 14.
5.John Armstrong. Born at Killashandra in 1762, died at Leamington
Priors,
Warwickshire, England, August 8/1830. He married, 1st, on March
12/1801, Macrae Dalrymple, eldest daughter of General Stair
Park Dalrymple, date of birth unknown, died in 1818. He married,
2nd, in 1818, Ellen Kirk, who died in 1820. See subject 12 for
issue and further particulars.
6. Mary Armstrong. Born at Killashandra, date unknown, died 1808.
She married John Goodfellow, a British Army officer. Further
details about Mary will be found on pages 14-15.
Dr. William Armstrong's narrative contains the following;-
"We are, I believe, all descended from a man who was hanged for
stealing cattle, the famous Johnny Armstrong, the Scottish Border
Chief. Raiding the northern English counties and stealing their
cattle, was the favorite pastime of the Scottish Border Chiefs in those
days. His history of the above six children of the Reverend William
Armstrong is as follows:-
1. William Armstrong, Born at Killashandra about 1752, died about 1829
at Cheltenham or Leamington, England. He was buried in the same tomb as
his younger brother John: the tombstone is inscribed as follows:- "In
the memory of William Armstrong, formerly of the island of St. Croix,
in the British West Indies, 1830. This memorial of affection was
erected by the children of Captain John Armstrong, in commemoration of
their lamented father and uncle, whose bodies are interred herein", It
is not known what was the name of William's wife[?], but she is said
(AM 1996: found at Leamington Buried 13/4/1830 age 78).
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to have been a sister of a bank director in London, and a sister of
Lady Broughton, whose father, the Rev. Thomas Broughton County
Stafford, the sixth baronet, married thirdly in 1794, Mary, daughter of
Michael Keating, of the County of Cork, and widow of Thomas Scott
Jackson Esq., one of the directors of the Bank of England. William had
a place called Roundwood in Queen's County, Ireland, where he appears
to have had an estate. He was spoken of as "Billie the Beau". I know
very little of him after he left Ireland, except that he became a quack
doctor in London. Some time later he was a West India merchant in
London. He then went to St. Croix, where he bought an estate named
"Pearl": "Lebanon" was also mentioned. He resided there for several
years, and they said he lived like a prince. He lost the estate through
the mismanagement of his son-in-law Cuvalie, the price of sugar, and a
succession of dry seasons and bad crops. He owed Dr Biggs, the father
of the wife of his younger brother Thomas, a very large sum, and one of
the estates he had later bought, named "Lebanon", was sold to one of
Thomas' sons for £15,000. of this neither principal nor interest, was
ever paid, for the emancipation of the negroes ruined him. He had a
hundred slaves worth £10,000, all of which he lost, and has now to pay
and support sixty of them, which he could not do and support his family
in the most humble manner. He then returned to London, and I have heard
that he married again, a short time before his death, and left his
widow five or six thousand Pounds, which he had inherited from some
relative.
Issue:-
2/1. James Armstrong, died at St. Croix, leaving a wife and family.
2/2. Thomas Armstrong, no data.
2/3. Anna Maria Armstrong, who Dr. William Armstrong said he had the
pleasure of meeting at Lady Broughton's house. She went to St.
Croix, and married a Mr. Cuvalie, It is believed Lady Broughton
left her three or four hundred Pounds per annum. Anna's husband died
at St. Croix, and I don't know what became of her or her family.
2. James Armstrong. Birth and death dates not known. HWe want out to St.
Croix, and later emigrated from there to Demerara, British Guiana, with
his wife, children and negroes. The ship and cargo represented his
entire property: the ship was wrecked. the cargo lost, and he saw his
wife, children, ship's crew, and negroes, die one by one of starva-
tion. He finally landed at Demerera, but I believe died soon after.
3. Son. name unknown. Nothing of him is known except that he was an
attorney at Cork,Ireland.
4. Thomas Armstrong.
Born in 1755 at Killashandra, shot to death from
ambush in 1787. As a young man, he was sent out to St. Croix by his
elder brother William to look after the latter's estates there, a very
young man for such a position. There was living in St. Croix at that
time, an Englishman by the name of Dr. Biggs, who had become rich
through buying sick slaves, curing them, and selling them again.
Thomas then had an estate called "Lebanon", worth £100,000. Dr. Biggs
at that time, had a daughter still in her teens named Mary Aletta
Biggs, with whom Thomas fell in love. Dr Biggs' wife was a Dane by
the name of Heyleger. Thomas wooed and won Mary Aletta, much against
the wishes of her father. Naturally he was opposed as she was so very
young, not over fourteen years of age. Mary Aletta became engaged to
Thomas, but her father forbade them to marry, so a woman friend came to
the rescue,
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and helped her to elope with Thomas. She threw a feather mattress
out of the window for Mary to alight on so she would not hurt herself.
They then drove into the town to the clergyman's house. Dr. Biggs was
aroused and started off on horse back in post haste, partly dressed,
one shoe off and one shoe in stockings. When he got to the clergynan's
house, they would not let him in, so he called out "when you get
through come home again". A day or two after, when Thomas returned from
town, he found his youthful wife sitting up in a tree, playing with her
dolls. I believe they were married in the year 1784. Thomas and his
bride then returned to Ireland, where Thomas became overseer of his
brother William's estate at Roundwood, because William was busy in
London, and William's younger brother John in the Army. One morning
early, Thomas went out to make a tour of the estate: time passed and he
failed to make an appearance: he was found dead, having been shot from
ambush from the other side of the hedge by which the estate was
surrounded, by one of the employees with whom he had had a dispute over
the stealing off timber. He left a wife not quite eighteen years old,
and three sons. I do not know where Mary Aletta died. In 1793, Mary
Aletta married, 2nd, Mr. Luke Flood, an estated gentleman of Roundwood,
whose name is found in "Vicar's List of Prerogative Wills", Dublin.
Luke died within seven years, leaving three children. First, Fanny
Flood, who married Milliard Stubbers and had nine children. Second,
Edward Flood, who married, 1st, at 18 years of age, Miss Driscoll, by
whom he had six children: she died after eight years, and he married
another young lady by whom he had four children: his eldest son married
an English lady who died leaving six children: his eldest daughter
Fanny Flood. married her cousin Sewall Milliard Stubbers: his next two
children, Oliver and Caroline, are well married and comfortable: his
two youngest children, William and Robert, spoke of going to America.
tThird, Luke Flood, about whom I have no information. In 1810, Mary
Aletta was persuaded by a friend to venture into matrimony for a third
time, and the choice of herself and her friend, was James Horan, an
estated gentleman, but of very cranky and disagreeable disposition.
She left him soon, after they had a child who died in infancy.
Issue:- (of Thomas and Mary Aletta (Biggs) Armstrong)
2/1. Benjamin Armstrong,
who became a subaltern in the 71st, and
aide de camp to General Dalrymple: he died at 22 years of age on a
voyage to the Cape of Good Hope when his regiment formed a part of
General Beresford's army in 1808. He was born before his father was
shot.
2/2. William Armstrong,
who wrote this history of the Armstrongs. He
wrote about his life as follows:- I was nursed in a cabin, according
to the Irish custom at that time, and became ricketty. I could not
walk at three years of age. My grandfather Biggs often told me that
I inherited nothing from my grandfather or grandmother Armstrong,
but the Irwin mouth. Then, in consequence of my mother's second
marriage, I was sent to an old great-aunt, one of whose sons I
killed accidentally when I was 11 years of age. I went to Edinburgh
college at 14 years of age. Then took out my diploma as physician,
surgeon and accoucheur at 12 years of age, being the youngest of
fifty students. I then entered the Army as Assistant Surgeon of the
7th Royal Fusileers. at 19 years of age. I was elected president of
the Royal Physical Society at Edinburgh at 17 years of age. I was
surgeon and physician to the forces at 26 years of age. I went to
Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1812, to marry
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my first wife, Miss Taylor, who was the only child of a wealthyEnglish merchant at Halifax. Supposing I had £5000 at St. Croix, Iresigned my commission in 1813, with the intention of living a quietdomestic life. I soon discovered that I had no chance of any income from St. Croix, and my father in law, in consequence of several of his ships being taken by the Americans during the war, was reducedto poverty and could not assist us, so I found myself compelled tocommence private practice in a town I had never heard of untilinformed of the resident doctor's death. In a year and a half, afterhaving such high expectations, I was living in a small lodging ortwo apartments, and my wife a corpse after having given birth to mytwin sons. I soon got sufficient practice to maintain me respectablyand all went well until my brother proposed to purchasemy step mother's share of our West Indies property, and go to St.Croix to take the estate into his own hands. She being a minor, her father's executors insisted on my joining, as my brother's security, and I unfortunately consented to sign the bonds he gave for theamount agreed upon. on his arrival at St. Croix, he wished to cancel the bargain on my account, but she would not consent, and I wasplaced in the power of her husband. He threatened me with jail, to avoid which I went to America, giving up a practice of £600 p.a.annum. Disappointment there, and letters from my patients in Ireland, induced me to return to Ireland in three months, and I hadto borrow the means to do so I immediately got into a practice worthnearly £500 a year, and three months after I returned, married my present dear wife (name not given), and at the and of a year, herfortune and my practice gave us an income of £760 per annum. At the end of six years I became deaf. That, and the delicate state of my wife's health, made me decide to give up practice, and coming to live in Rathangan, ten years since, my brother in law had me arrested, but my wife's property being entailed upon herself as if unmarried, he could get nothing, and it appearing, when brought before the Commissioner of the Insolvent's Court, that I had no just debt, my character was not injured. Previous to her death, my wife made a will, leavings the interest on the £4100 she had diedpossessed of, to me, until proceeded against by my creditors, and then to my sons, and left me a disposing power of the £4100 at my death. My wife's aunt, Mrs. Price, after her niece's death, made a will in my favor, and requested me to continue to live with her, and in gratitude, I have consented to do so. So after all my campaigns in Copenhagen, Martinique, Spain and Portugal, I am doomed to spend the evening of my life as companion to an elderly lady, and she a Quaker. She died at the ripe old age of 92 years.
Issue:- (by his first wife Miss Taylor)
3/1. William Rufus Armstrong, twin, born at Halifax, N.S., in 18l3-14
When his grand parents, Mr. & Mrs. Taylor, who were living in Halifax, heard of their daughter's death, they immediately went overto Ireland and took charge of the infants. Here for the next tenyears, they grew up in the care of their grandmother Taylor, duringwhich time their grandfather died, and their father had gone to theUnited States and to St. Croix. William Rufus married Kate, granddaughter of Judge Gay of New Brunswick, Canada, by whom be had threesons and a daughter named Glencairn, He had & farm of 150 acres, orrather an estate, in Wisconsin, and says he is happy and prosperous:he is a Justice of the Peace.
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3/2. Thomas John Armstrong, twin, born 1815-14 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He was a commission merchant at St. Croix, and the American Vice Consul. He was a man of high character and did well.
2/3. Thomas Armstrong born at Carrick, West Meath, Ireland, on
February 23/1787, died at New London, Conn., August 3/1863, buried here with his wife.
Nothing is known of his early youth or education. He married on May 31 1810, Catherine Louisa Cornelius, born at Springfield, County Cork, Ireland, April 11/1792, died at New London, Conn. May 5/1852. Her father, Henry Cornelius was said to have come from Holland and was twice married, probably living at Springfield, Cork, with his first wife, the pretty Kate Connor of Cork. Henry married, 2nd, a widow named Mrs. Rogers, many years younger than himself, and they lived at Montrath, Queen's County, where Henry was agent of the Earl of Mountrath. This probably explains how Catherine met Thomas Armstrong. Catherine was the daughter of Henry Cornelius' second marriage, and she had two sisters, Margaret, who married William Penrose Robinson of Shaxarook Lawn, Douglas, County Cork, and Bessie Cornelius. Catherine also had three brothers, Henry Cornelius, Captain Charles Cornelius of the 71st Regiment, and Richard Cornelius a captain in the army. Through the interest of her father Henry Cornelius, Thomas Armstrong got a sinecure position in Dublin worth £300, and they lived there nine years. This position he resigned to go to St. Croix. During their nine years in Ireland, eight children were born, four of whom lived to grow up. In 1819, Thomas and Catherine Armstrong went out to St. Croix, leaving five daughters behind. At St. Croix he bought an estate called Lebanon Hill from Dr. Biggs: he also got an estate named Mount Welcome which he got from his uncle William. The five daughters left in Ireland were placed in the care of relatives, and were sent to a school kept by Madame Despard in Dublin, and were taught music, dancing and deportment In St. Croix, seven children had been added to the family. Then preparations were made for the five sisters to come out from Ireland in the care of Dr. William Armstrong, who wanted his family to come over also. So on September 25/1825, the regular packet ship "Silas Richards", sailed from Liverpool, having on board as passengers, the five sisters, and their twin boy cousins, all under charge of the boys' grandmother Mrs. Taylor. After a somewhat tempestuous voyage, the ship arrived at New York on October 28/1828, with dry goods to Fish, Grinnell & Co. The ship was built in New York about 1822 for Grinnell, Minturn & Co., who established the Swallow Tail Line of packets: she was of 453 tons. The girl's father Thomas Armstrong, who had become acquainted with Captain Joseph W. Alsop of Middletown, Conn. was doing business with him, and arranged that the little girls should go to St. Croix in Captain Alsop's brig "Condor", Captain Goodrich commanding. The next outward voyage was not for two months, so the little girls had a delightful visit in New York. They stayed with a friend of Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Cadwallader Golden, whom she had met in England. They visited the Museum and other places of interest. Mrs. Taylor liked to show them off when walking on Broadway and they often heard persons passing by say:-"there go the little English girls". The "Condor" sailed on December 23/1828 from New York for St. Croix. The boys must have remained in New York with their father, and I'm sure Mrs. Taylor never went to St. Croix: I don't know what became of her. The little girls were in the care of the captain and the voyage was
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progressing favorably, when one day the Captain observed a strange sail on the horizon, coming nearer and nearer. The Captain, not liking the looks or the vessel, grew very uneasy as it was in the days of piracy. The Captain made the girls go down into the cabin and locked them in, telling them to remain very quiet. The vessel turned out to be a pirate, but unfortunately for the latter, the men were in a half starved condition and weak from want of food, and told the Captain that if he would only give them food, they would not molest them. The Captain considered they had had a most fortunate escape, and told the girls they might have been taken, but that he was prepared to shoot them before letting them fall into the pirate's hands. The voyage must have taken about three weeks, so around January 20/1829, they arrived at St. Croix, to be greeted by the mother who they had not seen for ten years, and by brothers and sisters they had never seen. I doubt that there were any opportunities for education at St. Croix. Up to the present, Thomas and Catherine had had fifteen children, several of them having passed away, and ere eight years had flown by, three more were added to the household. The name of the estate they lived at was Mount Pleasant, though the name Mount Welcome comes to my mind. In December 1832 the family were in Middletown, Conn., at what is now 180 Washington St. At this time their child Anna Maria received burns from the fireplace in the dining room, which caused her death. Thomas Armstrong was in New London in June 1839, and still there in June 1940. He was offered a lot by Captain Mather for $4000: the western half was 98 ft on Washington St. and 93 ft on the Rope Walk. At this time the Robert Beattys came back to the States, and Thomas Armstrong and his family went back to St. Croix, having bought the "Lebanon" estate from Robert Beatty for $14,474.97. There was also a fountain which cost $300. The family were in St. Croix in August 1844, by which time their son Thomas had gone out west to where his brother William was living, on the border of a lake where the hunting and fishing were excellent: Thomas was devoted to both sports. Thomas had left a name in St. Croix of being the most correct young man in business, and it was a pity that his talents should have been wasted in the back woods. Thomas and Catherine were still at Lebanon in 1849: there must have been an insurrection previous to this time end many people feared there would be another. There was a very strict Governor who was determined to have the strict laws obeyed. They were still there in 1851. Catherine had been in St. Thomas, as she was not well, and it was decided to send her to the States in Captain Tikiole's vessel to New Haven, as the doctors said it was the only chance for her health. Her husband Thomas had the hardest time that summer to get along: he was anxious to sell out and the family were anxious to leave St. Croix. Lebanon Hill was an estate of 500 acres, and was appraised on November 2/1849 for $24,424. The crops were sugar rum and molasses, which for the year 1849 were:-84 hogsheads and 145 barrels of sugar, 41 puns and 3 barrels of rum, and 53 casks of molasses, and the net proceeds were $3165.17. Mount Pleasant estate was rented to Mr. S. Kelton for $298. Lebanon Hill would rent for $200. Mrs. Mary Cummings, who died in 1846, and Mrs Wittroz were interested in the Lebanon Hill property. Thomas, Catherine and their family must have come to the states in 1852, the year in which Catherine died unexpectedly. Their coming may
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have been hastened by the insurrection. They did not have a large supply of this world's goods to bring with them. Thomas Armstrong's last years were spent in New London with his daughters Frances and Elizabeth keeping house for him. Amongst some of the silver of Thomas and Catherine which has come down through the family, is a spoon, with the crest of the Armstrongs of King's County, Ireland, which was "An armed hand holding a broken ulig spear, ppr". The motto is "Vi at Armis". The spoon has the hall mark of John Pitter, Dublin, 1810.
Issue:- (of Thomas and Catherine Armstrong)
3/1. William Armstrong, born in Dublin, May 22/1811, died May 24/1812.
3/2. Mary Aletta Armstrong, born in Montrath, June 22/1812,
died June 1813,
3/3. Catherine Louise Armstrong, born at Montrath, Ireland, May 13/1813
died at Brooklyn, N.Y., December 5/1891, buried in Green Wood Cemetery there. She married on May 21/1831, Robert Beatty, who died April 18/1850. In 1840 they lived in New York City. He left her $40,000 in securities to provide for her.
Issue: -
4/1. Margaret Beatty, born about 1832, died December 25/1901.
She married, 1st, about 1851, Mr. Whittaker: 2nd, Mr, Timpson,
Issue:- (by her first husband)
5/1. Louisa Whittaker, born 1852.
4/2. Ann Catherine Beaty, born September 12/1833, died April 19/l85O.
She married on April 13/1852, Reverend Thomas Strafford Drowne, born July 9/1823, son of Henry B. and Julia (Strafford) Drowne.
Issue;-
5/1. Thomas Strafford Drowne.
4/3. Robert Beatty, died July 3/1901. He married Sarah Moore,
who died March 9/1880, daughter of John T. Moore.
4/4. Jane Almira Beatty, born December 8/1836, died April 11/1918.
She married Arthur Benson, born July 20/1836, died October 23/1911, (See Riker's History of Harlem for Benson ancestors).
Issue:-
5/1. Gertrude Benson.
5/2. Josephine Benson. She married on April 15/1896,
James Napper Jaffares.
5/3. Robert Beatty Benson, born April 6/1868, died Oct 21/1904.
5/4. Arthur Benson.
5/5. Walter Benson,
5/6. Emma Hutchinson Benson, born September 30/1875.
She married on April 5/1899, Russell Johnson Perrine, born October 20/1876, son of Duncan Kendig and Mary Emma (Johnson Perrine. See Genealogy of Daniel Perrin, Huguenot, by Howland Delano Perrine
Issue:-
6/1. Josephine Keziah Perrine, born April 17/1903.
6/2. Arthur Johnson Perrine, born January 19/1909.
5/7. Jane Benson, No data.
4/5. John Cumming Beatty, born at St, Croix, B.W.I,, January 8/1838,
died March 10/1922. He married on January 28/1868, Hettie Bull, born June 26/1846, died August 9/1906, only daughter of William Gedney and Maria Matilda (Chetwood) Bull,
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Issue:- (from the Barber Genealogy: N.Y. Gen & Biog Rec Vol 62),
5/1. William Gedney Beatty, born June 27/1869.
He was not married and was an architect in New York City, in 1930.
5/2. Robert Chetwood Beatty, born May 18/1872. He graduated from
Columbia University in 1894. He married, 1st, on January 30/1901, Jean Burlingame, daughter of Edward Liver-more and Ella Frances (Badger) Burlingame: they were divorced and he married, 2nd, at Portland, Conn., on November 11/1911, Dee Burke, still living in 1923.
Issue:- (by his first wife Jean Burlingame)
6/1. Ann Burlingame Beatty, born in New York City,
March 15/l9O2, living in 1927.
6/2. Hettie Burlingame Beatty, born in New Canaan, Conn.,
October 8/1906: living in 1923.
Issue:- (by his second wife Dee Burke)
6/3. James Chetwood Beatty, born at Allenhurst, N.J.
July 15/1920.
5/3. Alfred Chester Beatty, born in New York City, February
7/1875. He graduated from Columbia University in 1898, and became a mining engineer at Denver. In 1930 he lived in London and became a British subject. He married, 1st, on April 18/1900, Ninette Grace Madelin Rickard: 2nd, at London, England, on June 21/1913, Edith Dunn, widow of a Mr. Stone: no children by her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Ninette Rickard)
6/1. Ninette Beatty, born at Denver, Colo, June 1/1901.
6/2. Alfred Chester Beatty, born in New York City, October 17/1907.
4/6. Elizabeth Beatty, born at St. Croix, B.W.I, May 19/1939.
She married Richard Jones Timpson, born 1841, died December 15/1900. He was a salesman for many years with Tiffany & Co., Union Square, New York City. They had several children: one daughter married and lived for a while in South Africa, and may possibly live in Ireland now.
4/7. Frances Beatty. She, too, married a Timpson: three sisters
married three brothers. Frances and her husband lived in Ireland: was it Woxford? No children.
4/8. Catherine Beatty, born October 7/1841, died December 14/1848.
4/9. Emma Beatty, died May 24/1900. She married, 1st, a Mr.
Hutchinson, son of Samuel Hutchinson: 2nd, on April 24/1877, William Johnson Hutchinson, brother of her first husband.
Issue:-
5/1. Clara Elizabeth Hutchinson, born February 8/1865.
She married on October 22/1889, Thomas Ormiston Callander, born September 14/1862, died February 26/1919, son of James and Agnes (Hodge) Callander.
Issue:-
6/1. Ruth Callander, born December 18/1892.
She married on April 10/1917, Le Roy Martin, born March 29/1890, died February 28/1919. She married, 2nd, on November 8/1929, Julian Percy Fairchild, born August 15/1881, died June 15 1934, son of Julian D. and Florence (Bradley) Fairchild.
Issue:- (by her first husband Le Roy Martin)
7/1. Le Roy Callander Martin, born November 13/1918.
6/2. Louise Hutchinson Callander, born February 2O/1901.
She married on April 25/1928, Ramon Ormiston Williams, born July 12/1899.
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4/10. George Beatty, born February 10/1844, died March 10/1882.
He never married.
3/4. Margaret Elinor Armstrong. The Underwood Genealogy spells her
middle name Eleanora. Born at Mountrath, Ireland, July 27/l8l4, died at Syracuse, N.Y., May 31/1897, buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. Margaret cane to Middletown in 1830 to visit the Alsops there. Joseph Alsop was much attracted to her and wanted to marry her, but she fell in love with his brother Charles, and was married to him on December 30/1833, by the Rev. Smith Pyne, Rector of Christ Church, Middletown. She made one voyage to the islands to visit her sister Ellen Raupach in 1869: she returned to Middletown and lived in the house afterwards owned by Governor Weeks, now the property of the Weslyan University, 202 Washington St., until 1883 when circumstances forced her to sell the old house. She went to live in Troy, finally removing to Syracuse, living with her son Frank Alsop, where she died in 1897. She married Charles Richard Alsop, born December 25/1802 died March 5/1865, son of Joseph Wright and Lucy (Whittlesey) Alsop. Charles Alsop was president of the Middletown-Boston Railway.
Issue:- (from the Underwood Genealogy)
4/1. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born November 12/1834', died June 1922.
She never married: she was engaged to her cousin Theodore William Riley whose life was out short on March 31/1839 by tuberculosis.
4/2. Catherine Beatty Alsop, born November 7/1835, died April
27/1908. She married, on October 7/1857, Christopher Starr Leffingwell, born December 15/1827, died April 11/1902. son of Lucius Wooster and Olive Douglas (Starr) Leffingwell. Christopher was a minister at Bar Harbor, Maine, for 25 years.
Issue:-
5/1. Alsop Leffingwell, born July 23/1858.
5/2. Mary Mutter Leffingwell, born August 6/1859.
5/3. Infant, (twin), born and died May 21/1800.
5/4. Infant, (twin), born May 21/1860, died September 7/1860.
5/5. Douglas Leffingwell, born March 4/1863, died at New Haven,
Conn., November 23/1942. He lived at Bar Harbor, Maine. He was the one who gave me the information about the Beatty and Alsop families.
5/5. Charles Richard Alsop Leffingwell, born May 3/1865,
died August 25/1865.
5/7. Christopher Leffingwell, born December 21/1867.
5/8. Aimee Gilbert Leffingwell, born December 25/1873.
She married on July 30/1908, Kenneth McKenzie, born July 24/1870, son of the Rev. Alexander and Ellen (Eveleth) McKenzie.
5/9. Alice Glencairn Leffingwell, born June 2/1875.
4/3. Richard Alsop, born February 11/1838, died at Valparaiso, Chile,
May 17/1860, buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, New London. He never married.
4/4. Charles Henry Alsop, (name changed to Charles Richard),
born October 22/1840, died October 22/1922. He married on May 15/1862, Elizabeth Gould Beers, who died March 25/1924, daughter of Henry Judd and Driscilla (Thorp) Beers.
Issue:.
5/1. Margaret Elinor Alsop, born March 7/1863, died December
1/1898. She married in 1878, Dr. Webster C. Langdon.
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Issue:-
6/1. Jesse Dyson Langdon, born May 11/1881. He married on
May 1/1903, Marie Violet Burbank.
6/2. Margaret Adelaide Langdon, born January 21/1887.
She married on May 6/1905, George Davis Harlan.
Issue:-
7/1. Davis Langdon Harlan, born January 11/1911.
5/2. Adelaide Beers Alsop, born April 9/1865, died February
18/1929 She married on March 4/1899, Samuel Edouard Robineau, born December 20/1856, died 1936, son of Pierre and Marcellin (Stapfer) Robineau.
Issue:-
6/1. Henry Maurice Robineau, born July 28/1900.
He married on July 21/1922, Gladys Blanch Hood: they were divorced. He married, 2nd, Fanny Bell Zike,
Issue:-
7/1. Germaine Robineau, born October 1931.
6/2. Priscilla Madeline Robineau, born March 5/1902.
She married on September 17/1925, Dana Arthur Kelley, born March 15/1902, son of Alfred Merrill and Mabelle Enid (Call) Kelley.
Issue:-
7/1. Dana Robineau Kelley, born November 14/1927.
6/3. Elizabeth Helene Robineau, born April 10/1906.
5/3. Charles Richard Alsop, born August 1/1866,
died September 3/1867.
5/4. Clara Pomeroy Alsop, born November 5/1869,
died February 19/1872.
5/5. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born March 23/1873, died March 28/1873.
5/6. Aimee Armistead Alsop, born May 31/1876,
died February 2/1934. She married on January 10/1901, William Cryer Parsons, an Englishman.
Issue:-
6/1. Margaret Elizabeth Parsons, born August 18/1904.
5/7. Priscilla Alsop, born September 20/1879, died April l2/l883.
5/8. Clara Mutter Alsop, born November 20/1882.
She married on July 15/1903, Walter Stewart Stillman.
Issue:-
6/1 Donald Edward Stillman, born April 3/1912.
6/2. Barbara Stillman, born October 25/1920.
5/9. Armistead Thorpe Alsop, born August 12/1885,
died Spt 11/l886
4/5. Aimee Elizabeth Alsop, born May 15/1843, died January 19/1932.
She married on June 16/1864, William Eaton Gilbert, born 1839 died September 29/1898, son of Uri and Frances Harriet (Granger) Gilbert.
Issue: -
5/1. William Alsop Gilbert, born March 15/1868.
5/2. Chauncey Mclean Gilbert, born April 16/1882.
He married on August 23/1910, Frances Marguerite Young, daughter of Henry A. Young.
Issue:-
6/1. Chauncey Mclean Gilbert, born May 18/1911.
6/2. Charles Richard Alsop Gilbert, born May 26/1916.
4/6. Thomas Mutter Alsop, born March 11/1845, died November 27/1848
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4/7. Henry White Alsop, born May 7/1849, died December 18/1936.
He married at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York City, on June 7/1871, Elizabeth Elliman Benbow, born June 7/1847, died January 18/1898, daughter of Charles and Jessie (Elliman) Benbow.
Issue:
5/1. Harry Theodore Alsop, born April 29/1872. He married on
September 8/1897, Agnes Lillian Fuller, born December 22/ 1877, daughter of George Franklin and Agnes McKenzie (Bell) Fuller.
Issue: -
6/1. Elizabeth Alsop, born August 8/1904.
6/2. Margaret Alsop, born November 16/l9O7. She married at
Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo, N.D., on September 14/ 1929, Clarence Oliver Wheeler, born May 16/1903, son of Henry Oliver Wheeler of Hammondsport, N.Y.
Issue:
7/1. Donald Alsop Wheeler, born August 16/1931.
7/2. Elizabeth Wheeler, born October 20/1934.
6/3. John Fuller Alsop, born June 11/1912.
5/2. Infant, born August 1/1874, died next day.
5/3. Jessie Margaret Alsop, born September 27/1875.
5/4. Clara Pomeroy Alsop, born February 24/1878 died July 20/1878
5/5. Frederick Chauncey Alsop, born August 9/1879.
He married on August 12/1907, Inez Clare Bentley.
Issue:
6/1. Gladys Content Alsop, born August 21/1908.
She married on January 29/1933, John Pope: they were divorced and she married again.
6/2. Elvie Inez Alsop, born September 20/1909.
She married on August 26/1931, Keith Alton Matheny.
Issue:
7/1. Kent Alton Matheny, born May 15/1933.
7/2. Allen De Wayne Matheny, born December 5/1934.
6/3. Chauncey De Wayne Alsop, born April 25/1912.
6/4. Ethel Berenice Alsop, born August 22/1917.
6/5. Faith Clare Alsop, born February 9/1922.
5/6. Ernest Benbow Alsop, born September 26/1882,
died June 15/1934. He married on January 18/1912, Grace Clark, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Clark.
Issue:
6/1. Lucille Alsop, born January 14/1913, died Oct 15/1921.
6/2. Clark Richard Alsop (twin), born October 23/1914,
6/3. Clinton Elliman Alsop (twin), born October 23/1914.
5/7. Charles Richard Alsop, born September 5/1883,
died June 6/1910.
5/8. Archibald Stewart Alsop, born June 21/1891.
He married on September 4/1935, Margaret Marion Reid.
4/8. Francis Oliver Alsop, born November 24/1853, died March 24/1929.
He married on November 1/1879, Sarah Ranger Bainbridge, born November 9/1855, died December 10/1936, daughter of Robert and Charlotte (Ranger) Bainbridge.
Issue;-
5/1. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born June 17/1883.
5/2. Robert Bainbridge Alsop, born March 6/1887. He married
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on January 19/1911, Susan Merle Gleason, who died October 30/1927. He married, 2nd, on March 3/1928, Lavaun Kimball.
Issue:- (by his first wife Susan Marie Gleason)
6/1. Robert Bainbridge Alsop, born December 3/1912.
6/2. Sarah Berenice Alsop, born July 10/1916.
Issue:- (by his second wife Lavaun Kimball)
6/3. Bainbridge Kimball Alsop, born August 18/1933.
3/5. Mary Aletta Armstrong, born at Mount Mellick, Ireland,
date unknown, died in December 1830 in Ireland.
3/6. Frances Armstrong, born at Montrath, Ireland, July 2/1816,
died October 14/1907, aged 91 years. Her last years were spent with her grand niece Clara Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Callander. She lived at Lebanon Hill, St. Croix in 1847, where she was the housekeeper, and a first rate one at that. She was always called Fanny, and was a victim of Hay fever and for several years would spend a month or so at Schroon Lake, near Ticonderoga, N.Y. She never married.
3/7. Elizabeth Armstrong, born at Castletown, Ireland, December 1/1817,
died January 7/1899, aged 82 years. She was at Lebanon Hill, St. Croix in 1847 with her sister Fanny. Elizabeth, was always known by the young Alsops as Bessie, Aunt West Indies, on account of the marvellous stories she told of her life there. Elizabeth wanted to come to the States, but would have to stay with her younger sister Emma who was subject to convulsions. She kept house in New London, Conn., for her father Thomas Armstrong in the last years of his life, and after his death, spent many years in Middletown, with Mrs Richard Alsop and Mrs Joseph Alsop, the former having died in 1878. She passed the last years of her life with her niece Jane Benson: she was buried in New London, Conn., with her father and mother.
3/6. John Armstrong, born at Castletown, Ireland, November 28/1818,
and died there December 1/1818.
3/9. Thomas Armstrong, born at St. Croix, B.W.I., June 14/1820,
Died there in March 1827.
3/10. Charlotte Cornelia Armstrong, born at St. Croix, September 16/1821
died in New York City, May 30/1907, aged 86 years, buried in Ceder Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn. The married at Middletown Conn., on March 18/1847, John W. Culbert. In 1844 she was at St. Thomas, B.W.I., with her younger sister Ellen who had married Otto Raupach, a Dane, making a prudent and industrious wife.
Issue:-
4/1. John Culbert, born January 12/1848.
4/2. Robert Culbert, born May 1850,
4/3. Augustine Culbert.
4/4. Mary Culbert. She married Mr. McCormack.
Issue:-
5/1. Mildred McCormack.
5/2. Lucy Bell McCormack, died January 1930,
4/5. Aimee Culbert. She married Herbert Brunswick Harding,
who died January 4/1930.
Issue: -
5/1. Ethel Harding, born 1881, died June 6/1924.
She married on June 14/1900, Charles Stewart Mott.
Issue:-
6/1. Aimee Mott. She married Patrick Butler, son of Emmet Butler.
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6/2. ---- Mott. She married Hamish Mitchell,
6/3. Charles Mott.
5/2. Matilda Harding. She married on March 22/1901, name not known.
4/6. Margaret Elinor Culbert, born June 17/1859.
She married Samuel Barton Hazzard, who died December 6/1893.
Issue : -
5/1. Margaret Elinor Hazzard, died December 24/1918.
5/2. Perle Hazzard. She married Robert M. Vanderbilt,
son of Jacob R. and Annie (Hazzard) Vanderbilt.
5/3. Samuel Barton Hazzard, Name of wife unknown.
Issue:-
6/1. Eleanor Hazzard. She married in 1936,
Dewitt Mirick Foster.
4/7. Lucy Alsop Culbert, died January 23/1923. She married Charles
Zippel, who died July 13/1906, buried at New Haven,
Issue
5/1. Lucy Zippel. She married in 1929, Pierre Grenier of Havana,
3/11. Anna Maria Armstrong, born at St. Croix, March 3/1823,
died December 23/1832.
3/12. Henry Cornelius Armstrong, born at St. Croix, March 21/1824,
died there August 5/1834,
3/13. Ellen Augustine Armstrong, born at St. Croix. July 16/1825,
died March 1897. She married in 1844, Otto Raupach, a Danish gentleman who was a planter at St. Thomas, B.W.I., and who later lost 20 of his 40 negroes, by cholera. In 1847 Raupach wanted to sell his estate in St. Thomas, and had no employment: his family were living at Bassin, St. Thomas. They were still there in 1851. The Raupachs must have visited the Beattys in Newark in 1848, for Robert Beatty thought his children who were ill, had caught measles from the Raupach children.
Issue: -
4/1. Thomas Ford Raupach, born June 1848.
4/2. Otto Armstrong Raupach, born September 1854,
4/3. Carl H Raupach.
3/14. Daughter, stillborn October 6/1826 at St. Croix.
3/15. William Armstrong, born at St. Croix, June 2/1828,
died November 20/1845. In 1842 he was at school in the States, living with the Beattys. At 16 he returned to St. Croix and became an over-seer of a plantation: his employer said he was the best he had had, and that in two years he would be able to take the position of manager of an estate. But, alas, a year later he caught fever, and died in his seventeenth year.
3/16. Emma Armstrong, born at St. Croix, November 2/1829,
died June 18/1860. She was in the States in 1844 and wanted to get back to St. Croix. She was not strong and subject to convulsions.
3/17. Louisa Armstrong, born at St. Croix, July 16/1834. No data,
3/18. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born at St. Croix, December 12 or 31/1836,
died December 1878. He married at New London, Conn., on September 1/1857, Eliza Ann Nevins. (Her middle name is given by Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan as Jane). Thomas was a fine lad and employed as head clerk by John W. Culbert in his New York office, and he paid him #100 a year beside board and lodging.
Issue:-
4/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born May 27/1858. He married in
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August 1890, Charlotte Moulton.
4/2. Catherine Louisa Armstrong, born June 22/1863: never married.
4/3. John Nevins Armstrong, born August l4/l865.
He married on July 30/1890, Elizabeth Mary Lance.
Issue:
5/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born June 20/1891.
He married on August 12/1914, May McMahon.
Issue:-
6/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born July 3/1915.
5/2. Aimee Louise Armstrong, born October 1/1893.
She married on March 31/1921, Orlin Lewis Oatman.
Issue
6/1. Amee Elizabeth Oatman, born October 4/1922.
6/2. Orlin Lewis Oatman.
5/3. Elizabeth Nevins Armstrong, born March 11/1896.
5/4. Grace Augusta Armstrong, born December 10/1898.
5/5. Lillian Cornelius Armstrong, born April 10/1901.
She married on May 23/1923, Arthur Wallace Leslie.
Issue:
6/1. Barbara Jean Leslie, born March 14/1924.
6/2. Virginia Louise Leslie, born November 20/1927.
5/6. Virginia Amelia Armstrong, born April 10/1907,
died April 12/1927.
4/4. Aimee Armstrong, born March 8/1868.
She married on June 7/1892, Charles Brinkerhoff,
4/5. Lillian Cornelius Armstrong,
She married on April 6/1891, Frank Victor Van de Myer.
Issue:
5/1. Howard Cargill Van de Myer, born December 29/1891.
he married on May 19/1910, Naomi Elizabeth Hogle.
Issue:-
6/1. Catherine Louisa Van de Myer, born August 15/1920.
1/5. John Armstrong. Born at Killashandra, County Cavan, Ireland,
in 1762, died at Portland St,, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, England, August 8/1830. He married, 1st, on March 12/1801, Macrae Dalrymple, date of birth unknown, died at Prestwick, Scotland, in 1818, eldest daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands, Scotland. She was buried in Governor Macrae's private burial ground in Orangefield, Scotland. He married, 2nd, in 1818, Miss Ellen Kirk, who died in 1820, shortly after giving birth to her only son: her parents lived in Scotland, but their names are not known, See subject 12 for issue and further particulars.
1/6. Mary Armstrong, Date of birth unknown, but about 1764, died 1808.
Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan wrote about her as follows:- She made an unfortunate marriage when she wed John Goodfellow, an Officer in the British Army, who deserted her and her two sons at Cork, Ireland, and left her penniless. John Goodfellow went to Nova Scotia, and soon after his arrival there, married, but he and his wife, if she could be called so, his real wife being alive, were burned to death in the conflagration which destroyed the town of Annapolis, N.S. his real wife, Mary Armstrong, was a woman of nerve and talent, and rather than accept assistance from her brothers, contrived to support her children by becoming a mid-wife at the Lying-in hospital of Dublin, where she was considered a most respectable person in her situation. The last time I saw her, was soon
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after the death of Princess Charlotte on November 6/1817, and when I next called to see her, she had left the hospital and I have never seen her since, She had one son named John Goodfellow, who married Jane Dickson, the grand daughter of William Haughton, subject 62. This John Goodfellow and his wife were those who looked after John Armstrong, subject 6, while he was being educated in Ireland, and who later came to the United States and lived their later years with John Armstrong at Chicago and Arcola, Illinois. They had no children and are both buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, in the Armstrong plot.
End of the Reverend William Armstrong Genealogy,
In November 1938, I, (Herbert Armstrong Poole) made a trip to
St. Croix, to see if I could find any of our relatives living there
still & sailed from New York on the Porto Rico line "Borinquen" to San
Juan, Porto Rico, and thence per "Catharine", via St. Thomas to St.
Croix. On arriving at Christiansted, I put up at the Pentheney
Boarding House, and met there a Dr. Knott, the port doctor, sent down
by the U.S. Government to look after the inhabitants. I asked him if he
knew of an old sugar estate named Lebanon, which had belonged to my
Armstrong ancestors about the year 1800. Certainly, he replied, it now
belongs to a Mr. Douglas Francis Armstrong, Chief Marshall and Chief of
Police at St. Croix, and Chief Magistrate under the Governor of the
three Virgin Islands, whose headquarters are at St. Thomas. Dr. Knott
said that the names of the estates never change, no matter who owns
them. He took me to call on "Captain" Armstrong. who disclaims any
right to this title, I found him a fine big man about 40 years of age,
over 6 feet tall and weighing 200 lbs, leathery of face from the
tropical sun, and a suspicion of red hair, now much thinned. A pleasant
man, to whom I showed my Armstrong History. He became much interested,
and motored me out to his estate called Beeston Hill, about five miles
west of Christiansted. I met his wife Rachel born at Bitter Root,
Montana, whom he had met at Washington, D.C. They have two children, a
boy and a girl about 5 or 6 years old. He has a fine big house with
spacious rooms, his own electric light plant, cisterns and water
pumping installation and plumbing, for there are no waterworks at St.
Croix - they have to depend on rain water - no wells or springs. He
motored me to his mother's house (she was a Miss Skeoch) at her estate
"The Grange", almost adjoining his. She was pleasant lady over 70
years of age, and has Douglas' two younger twin brothers living with
her. She glanced through the History and remembered a lot of the names
mentioned therein. She said the name Heyleger, the Danish wife of Dr.
Biggs, should be spelled Heiliger, and that there were still some of
this clan owning estates on the island. However, Douglas Leffingwell of
Bar Harbor, Maine, tells me that he has an old account book of his
ancestor Thomas Armstrong when he owned Lebanon Hill in the 1840s, in
which occurs the name of W.H. Heyleger & Co. Mrs. Armstrong showed me
with pride, the grave of Alexander Hamilton's mother in her garden;
namely, Mrs. Fawcett (also spelled Faucette), who married a Dane named
Levine, but didn't live with him long, for he treated her badly. Mrs.
Fawcett was born on the island of St. Kitts, B.W.I., and after her
separation, went back there to her father Dr. Fawcett, and eventually
went to live with a Mr. Hamilton, whom she could not marry, as Levine
had arranged the divorce so she was forbidden to marry again. She
lived with Hamilton the rest of her life, and bore him an illegitimate
son, the famous Alexander Hamilton. Miss Fawcett (or Levine) died at
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Mrs. Armstrong's estate, and is buried in her garden. The novelist
Gertrude Atherton lived with Mrs. Armstrong when she was writing her
great novel about the life of Alexander Hamilton, "The Conqueror".
Douglas Armstrong then drove me to Fredericksted, some 16 miles west,
the only port where large steamers can anchor, very exposed and rough
except when the east trade winds are blowing. The other port,
Christiansted, on the north side of the island, is approached by a
narrow, twisting and shallow channel: it is used by the small steamer
"Catherine" for its protection in stormy weather. At Fredericksted, we
called on Douglas' aunt, Mrs. Merwin, an elderly lady who has many of
the family records: Mr. Merwin was a merchant from New Hampshire, in
the sugar trade. Driving back to Fredericksted, Douglas turned off the
main road to the left, about half way home, to show me the Lebanon Hill
estate. It is about 500 acres, stretching from the main road back to
the slope of the 2000 ft high ridge along the north coast of the
island: part is on the slope but most of it is level and fine arable
land, suitable for cane. All the original buildings were burned in the
uprising of the negroes about 1868. The ???ller and machinery remain
where they fell; the 40 ft brick chimney is standing as good as new.
The residence must have been of fine propor-tions, but the foundations
are almost obliterated and grown up with lime, mahogany and guava
trees. Some of the outhouses for slaves are still standing, one of
them occupied by a negro caretaker. Douglas bought back this estate
some ten years ago, is now clearing it and hopes to build later on. He
grows no cane on this land himself, but leases it to a Fredericksted
Sugar Central, which grows cane for its own use. The abolition of
slavery made it too expensive to grow cane in competition with San
Domingo, Porto Rico and Cuba. The U.S. Government is trying to find
some industry to make the Virgin Islands prosperous again. The present
idea is to turn the sugar into molasses, and make rum out of it at St.
Thomas. Douglas is building two bungalows on his estate to rent to
winter tourists, and hopes to extend this growing trade. Douglas is a
director of the Virgin Islands Bank, as is also his mother's brother
Robert Skeoch. Douglas told me Lebanon Hill is worth today about $30
per acre, though the original Armstrongs paid £38,000 for it. Even at
that high figure, they made much money, as they were then selling sugar
in London at 75 cents a pound: today sugar is quoted between 2 and 4
cents per pound! St. Croix has about 40,000 acres of good sugar lands,
but the rainfall is irregular and on the whole not enough for growing
cane. At present beans, tomatoes and other vegetables are being grown
for the' New York market: little tobacco is grown as the land is not
high enough. Douglas' mother told me that the name of her husband was
Robert, as was two of his ancestors. Their family have been British
Vice Consuls for three generations, during the several hundred years
the Danes owned the Islands. The United States bought the islands in
1920, and Douglas became a naturalized American citizen then. The
population of St Croix is mostly negro, a rather turbulent strain,
difficult to control, and not docile like those in many of the other
British West Indies. Douglas' father was killed in a motor accident in
1912. He was driving his car then a new thing in the islands, and on
coming around a corner, frightened a horse drawing a wagon: the horse
reared, and in coming down, the shaft of the wagon struck Mr Armstrong,
piercing his chest, killing him instantly. I have tried to get Douglas
to dig up his family records, to find where our ancestors meet, but he
is not interested, and his mother and aunt too old: I wish I could go
down again and ferrit it out myself. The old English Churchyard should
reveal many of our ancestors: I found the stones badly disintegrated
and overgrown with lush tropical vegetation. H.A.P.
In November 1938, I, (Herbert Armstrong Poole) made a trip to St. Croix, to see if I could find any of our relatives living there still & sailed from New York on the Porto Rico line "Borinquen" to San Juan, Porto Rico, and thence per "Catharine", via St. Thomas to St. Croix. On arriving at Christiansted, I put up at the Pentheney Boarding House, and met there a Dr. Knott, the port doctor, sent down by the U.S. Government to look after the inhabitants. I asked him if he knew of an old sugar estate named Lebanon, which had belonged to my Armstrong ancestors about the year 1800. Certainly, he replied, it now belongs to a Mr. Douglas Francis Armstrong, Chief Marshall and Chief of Police at St. Croix, and Chief Magistrate under the Governor of the three Virgin Islands, whose headquarters are at St. Thomas. Dr. Knott said that the names of the estates never change, no matter who owns them. He took me to call on "Captain" Armstrong. who disclaims any right to this title, I found him a fine big man about 40 years of age, over 6 feet tall and weighing 200 lbs, leathery of face from the tropical sun, and a suspicion of red hair, now much thinned. A pleasant man, to whom I showed my Armstrong History. He became much interested, and motored me out to his estate called Beeston Hill, about five miles west of Christiansted. I met his wife Rachel born at Bitter Root, Montana, whom he had met at Washington, D.C. They have two children, a boy and a girl about 5 or 6 years old. He has a fine big house with spacious rooms, his own electric light plant, cisterns and water pumping installation and plumbing, for there are no waterworks at St. Croix - they have to depend on rain water - no wells or springs. He motored me to his mother's house (she was a Miss Skeoch) at her estate "The Grange", almost adjoining his. She was pleasant lady over 70 years of age, and has Douglas' two younger twin brothers living with her. She glanced through the History and remembered a lot of the names mentioned therein. She said the name Heyleger, the Danish wife of Dr. Biggs, should be spelled Heiliger, and that there were still some of this clan owning estates on the island. However, Douglas Leffingwell of Bar Harbor, Maine, tells me that he has an old account book of his ancestor Thomas Armstrong when he owned Lebanon Hill in the 1840s, in which occurs the name of W.H. Heyleger & Co. Mrs. Armstrong showed me with pride, the grave of Alexander Hamilton's mother in her garden; namely, Mrs. Fawcett (also spelled Faucette), who married a Dane named Levine, but didn't live with him long, for he treated her badly. Mrs. Fawcett was born on the island of St. Kitts, B.W.I., and after her separation, went back there to her father Dr. Fawcett, and eventually went to live with a Mr. Hamilton, whom she could not marry, as Levine had arranged the divorce so she was forbidden to marry again. She lived with Hamilton the rest of her life, and bore him an illegitimate son, the famous Alexander Hamilton. Miss Fawcett (or Levine) died at
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Mrs. Armstrong's estate, and is buried in her garden. The novelist Gertrude Atherton lived with Mrs. Armstrong when she was writing her great novel about the life of Alexander Hamilton, "The Conqueror". Douglas Armstrong then drove me to Fredericksted, some 16 miles west, the only port where large steamers can anchor, very exposed and rough except when the east trade winds are blowing. The other port, Christiansted, on the north side of the island, is approached by a narrow, twisting and shallow channel: it is used by the small steamer "Catherine" for its protection in stormy weather. At Fredericksted, we called on Douglas' aunt, Mrs. Merwin, an elderly lady who has many of the family records: Mr. Merwin was a merchant from New Hampshire, in the sugar trade. Driving back to Fredericksted, Douglas turned off the main road to the left, about half way home, to show me the Lebanon Hill estate. It is about 500 acres, stretching from the main road back to the slope of the 2000 ft high ridge along the north coast of the island: part is on the slope but most of it is level and fine arable land, suitable for cane. All the original buildings were burned in the uprising of the negroes about 1868. The ???ller and machinery remain where they fell; the 40 ft brick chimney is standing as good as new. The residence must have been of fine propor-tions, but the foundations are almost obliterated and grown up with lime, mahogany and guava trees. Some of the outhouses for slaves are still standing, one of them occupied by a negro caretaker. Douglas bought back this estate some ten years ago, is now clearing it and hopes to build later on. He grows no cane on this land himself, but leases it to a Fredericksted Sugar Central, which grows cane for its own use. The abolition of slavery made it too expensive to grow cane in competition with San Domingo, Porto Rico and Cuba. The U.S. Government is trying to find some industry to make the Virgin Islands prosperous again. The present idea is to turn the sugar into molasses, and make rum out of it at St. Thomas. Douglas is building two bungalows on his estate to rent to winter tourists, and hopes to extend this growing trade. Douglas is a director of the Virgin Islands Bank, as is also his mother's brother Robert Skeoch. Douglas told me Lebanon Hill is worth today about $30 per acre, though the original Armstrongs paid £38,000 for it. Even at that high figure, they made much money, as they were then selling sugar in London at 75 cents a pound: today sugar is quoted between 2 and 4 cents per pound! St. Croix has about 40,000 acres of good sugar lands, but the rainfall is irregular and on the whole not enough for growing cane. At present beans, tomatoes and other vegetables are being grown for the' New York market: little tobacco is grown as the land is not high enough. Douglas' mother told me that the name of her husband was Robert, as was two of his ancestors. Their family have been British Vice Consuls for three generations, during the several hundred years the Danes owned the Islands. The United States bought the islands in 1920, and Douglas became a naturalized American citizen then. The population of St Croix is mostly negro, a rather turbulent strain, difficult to control, and not docile like those in many of the other British West Indies. Douglas' father was killed in a motor accident in 1912. He was driving his car then a new thing in the islands, and on coming around a corner, frightened a horse drawing a wagon: the horse reared, and in coming down, the shaft of the wagon struck Mr Armstrong, piercing his chest, killing him instantly. I have tried to get Douglas to dig up his family records, to find where our ancestors meet, but he is not interested, and his mother and aunt too old: I wish I could go down again and ferrit it out myself. The old English Churchyard should reveal many of our ancestors: I found the stones badly disintegrated and overgrown with lush tropical vegetation. H.A.P.
Subject 28 (139)
28 - JOHN WILSON
The following is from the Family Records and personal memory
of John Armstrong (subject 6).
John Wilson was of County Sligo, Ireland. Beyond this, there is
no information about his life.
He married Eleanor Gardiner.
Issue:-
1. Charles Wilson. Date of birth unknown, died January 7/1841.
He was of Roscommon County, Ireland, and a Lieutenant in the local militia. He married Eleanor Isabella Mullarkey, daughter of Michael and Eleanor (Haughton). See subject 14 for issue and further particulars.
2. John Wilson. Surgeon in the 2nd West India Regiment,
died in India about 1845. Never married.
5.George Wilson. Was a farmer who lived in County Sligo, Ireland.
He married Mathilda Burrowes and was last heard of in 1842.
6. Henry Wilson. died young.
7. Marianne Wilson. Married Russell Hunter.
6. Eleanor Wilson. Married John Lilly.
7. Margaret Wilson. Never married, probably died young.
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32 - JAMES POOLE
The following is mainly from our own family records, and from the various records mentioned below.
James Poole was baptised at Grace Church, Jamaica, L.I., on July 14/1728, son of Pierce and Mary (---) Poole, subject 64, according to the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 19, page 11, in which appears a copy of the Register Book for the Parish of Jamaica, L.I., kept by the Reverend Thomas Poyer, rector from 1710 to 1732, of Grace Church, reading:- "James, ye son of Pierre Pool and Mary, his wife, baptised July 14/1728". The Register Book prints the name as Pierre Pool but this is evidently a misreading of the original manuscript Pierce[?]. James Poole died May 4/1804.
James Poole, according to our family bibles, married (date not given) Hannah Rushmore, born 1724, died November 1/1809, daughter of John and Mary (Carman) Rushmore of Hempstead, L.I., see subject 6
The only records of James Poole which I have been able to find in Hempstead Town Records, are as follows:-
September 2/1762: James witnessed the will of Thomas Seaman of Jerusalem, L.I.
May 23/1767, H.T.R. Vol 5, p118:- At the request of a sufficient number of freeholders of the township of Hempstead, to us, Peter Titus and John Williams, Commissioners for the laying out of a certain highway, running from the road that leads to Jerusalem, beginning at the mouth of a lane that parts John Seaman's land from the land that Jacob Seaman bought of John Jackson, Esquire, thence running easterly as the fence now stands, till it comas to the east side of John Seaman's land, thence eastwardly four rods wide on the south side of Solomon Seaman's fence, easterly as the road now goes, till it comes from the path that leads from Thomas Allin's Hollow, to James Poole's house, keeping along the path by James Poole's, down to the road that leads across the South Necks, the same width of four rods: we further establish a road from the Oyster Bay line, westerly across We Necks, till it comes to Obadiah Jackson's mill.
April 25/1775, H.T.R. Vol 6, pp 46-48:- An indenture made this day between James Poole and Hannah Rushmur and John Rainor, that for £50, do sell one certain piece or parcell of wood land, situated, lying and being in the South Woods, within the township and patent of Hempstead the quantity of 13 acres, all which John Rushmur, father of the said Hannah Rushmur, purchaised of Jonathan Smith, as may appear by his deed bearing date April 1/1753. Reference thereunto may more fully appear all, which 13 acres of wood land lying, standing or growing thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever of them, the said James Poole and Hannah Rushmore of in and to the same and every part and parcell thereof on the part of James Pool he purchaised of his son Percy Pool and Elizabeth Pool his wife, as may appear by their deed for the sane, bearing date, the 17th April 1773: signed by James Pool and Hannah Rushmure'.
April 1782:- At a town meeting held in Hempstead the first Tuesday in April 1782, James Pool was chosen as Pender for the ensuing year: again chosen in 1783 for the same office.
April 22/1782:- In the will of Prince Hawes of Hempstead of this date, Prince Hawes' store is described as "near the public house or tavern of James Poole, lying upon the Great Neck, north side of Hempstead Plains.
The First Census of the U.S.A. in 1790, printed by the
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Government Printing Office, Washington. D.C., 1908, states that in the town of North Hempstead, L.I., James Poole was a resident, head of a family of three males over 16 years of age, 1 male under 16, and five females, ages not given. In figuring out the names of James Poole`s family as above, the three males over 16 may have been himself, his grandson James, born 1773, son of James' son Pierce who had died in 1778, and the James Poole who was baptised at St. George's Church as an adult on October 26/1787, hence born before 1766, although I can find no record of his being a son of James. The male under 16 may have been James grandson Samuel, born 1777, second son of his son Pierce who had died in 1778. It seems probable that when James Poole's son Pierce died in 1778, leaving young children, that James took them in to live with him. The five females of his household may have been James' wife Hannah, his son Pierce Poole's widow Elizabeth, and three more daughters of James or of his son Pierce: James' daughter Mary had died in 1776: one of these unknown three females may have been the Elizabeth Poole who was baptized at St. George's Church, Hempstead, as an adult, on October 26/1787, hence born before 1769, possibly a daughter of James Poole, though I can find no record of his having such daughter.
From all of the above data, I therefore compile the names of his children as follows - only the first two are proved to have been his children by existing records.
Issue:-
1/1. Pierce Poole. Born January 20/1750, died September 5/1778.
In "Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County", by Henry Onderdonk, 1884, page 68, it states that Pierce Pool was a Sergeant of the 7th Company of Militia of the Eastern part of Queen's County, under British authority commanded by Captain Charles Cornell of Success, L.I. The New York Historical Society's Collections, Vol 9, p 322, states that Pierce Poole of Hempstead died intestate, and letters of administration were granted on July 5/1781 to his widow Elizabeth and his father James Poole. In Vol 13, page 387 of the same Collections, it states that letter's of administration were granted to his widow Elizabeth on July 4/1785, for the estate of Pierce Poole of Queen's County, a carpenter. This second grant of letters of administration is puzzling. Pierce Poole married, on August 29/1772, his cousin Elizabeth (Rushmore) Lawrence, born about 1750-1, died May 16/1797, daughter of John and Philena (Smith) Rushmore and widow of Gilbert Lawrence, whom she had married at Hempstead, on August 2/1767, see subject 34. See subject 16 for issue and further particulars.
1/2. Mary Poole: Born April 29/1752, died September 27/1776.
Edward Murray Poole, author of the Poole Genealogy, of Ithaca, N.Y., wrote to Miss Anna Maude Hoxsie of Buffalo, on September 1/1905, that Mary Poole was married, (name unknown), and had a son as below. I cannot locate where Edward Murray Poole got his information.
1/3. James Poole. Born before 1766, as he was baptized at St. George's Church,
Hempstead, as an adult, on October 26/1787, (parents not stated). I However, I have no proof whatever that he was a son of James.
Issue:-
2/1. Benjamin ---, born August 20/1776, died October 27/1779.
1/4. Elizabeth Poole. Born before 1769, as she was baptized at St. George's
Church, Hempstead, as an adult, on October 26/1787, (parents not stated). I likewise have no proof that she was a daughter of James 1/5. May have been other daughters, according to the 1790 North Hempstead Census.
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34 - JOHN RUSHMORE.
The following is from "Genealogies of Long Island Families", by Charles J. Werner, New York, 1919: from Hempstead Town Records": from "Abstracts of Wills, Vols 6 to 12 of the New York Historical Society's Collections: from "The Rock Smith Family", by Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, L.I., 1937: from "The Dorland Family in America", by John Dorland Cremer, Washington, D.C., 1898: from Henry Alanson Tredwell's Bedell Genealogy, in the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 53, p 389, and Vol 77, page 3.
John Rushmore's birth date cannot be found, but he must have been born about 1725, and died intestate on July 10/1759, when his wife Philena was named administratrix of his estate. Werner gives only his name but neither his wife nor children.
He married at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on May 8/1749, Philena Smith, dates of birth and death unknown, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Ellison?) Smith, see subject 70: the Smith genealogy spells her name Philonah. After John's death, Philena married, 2nd, on June 20/1761, Elias Dorlon of Troy, N.Y., near Poughkeepsie, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Freedenburgh) Dorlon: no children mentioned by this second marriage.
Issue: (may not be complete nor in order)
1/1. Elizabeth Rushmore. I can find no record of her birth but it must have
been shortly after 1750: she died May 15/1797. Werner gives a lot of incorrect information, see what I have written under subject 66. She married, 1st, on August 2/1767, Gilbert Lawrence, and had a son John Lawrence, born 1768, the father of Gilbert, Andrew, James, Elizabeth and Martha: (this is from "Albany Marriage Bond & Licenses"). She married, 2nd, on August 29/1772, Pierce Poole, born January 20/1750, died September 5/1778, son of James and Hannah (Rushmore) Poole, see subject 32: (this is also from "Albany Marriage Bond & Licenses"). The Lawrence genealogies confirm this first marriage, but neither that, nor Werner say she married a second time. Her second marriage is confirmed by our own family bibles, which call her sometimes Elizabeth Rushmore and sometimes Betsey Lawrence. Pierce Poole was Elizabeth's first cousin.- See subject 16 for issue and further particulars.
1/2. Hannah Rushmore. I can find no record of her birth but it must have been
between 1750 and 1755: she must have died about 1795. That she was the daughter of John Rushmore of this subject, is proved by the item in Hempstead Town Records, Vol 6, pp 21-25, dated March 13/1779, reading: "Agreement made this day between Hezekiah Bedell of Hempstead, blacksmith, and Hannah his wife on the one part, and William Rushmore on the other, for £110 paid by William for half dwelling house and land at Turkel Hook, Hempstead, 50 acres, which was derived unto Hannah Bedell as one of the co-heirs of her father John Rushmore, deceased". She married at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on April 28/1777, Hezekiah Bedell, probably son of Sylvanus and Mary (Cromwell) Bedell of Hempstead, Sylvanus deeded to his son Hezekiah, in consideration of £200, a tract of land formerly a part of Jeremiah Bedell's homestead. Sylvanus and Mary (Cromwell) Bedell were married on March 19/1750. Hezekiah Bedell was born March 6/1755, and died March 16/1819, buried in Hempstead Town Cemetery: (from Records by Frank Haviland in the Long Island Historical Society). His will, dated February 18/1819, proved April 10/1819, mentioned his second wife Elizabeth, daughters Mary and Phebe, sons Hezekiah, Sylvanus, Cromwell, David Sammis, and Stephen, all probably by his second wife: his children by his first wife Hannah Rushmore were not mentioned, but the New York Gen & Biog Record, Vol 53, page 389, states that the following children were
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baptized at the First Presbyterian Church, Hempstead in 1806 (no day or month given), the parents being Hezekiah and Elizabeth (Craft) Bedell, and the birth dates as given below. From this data I have compiled the list of Hezekiah's children as follows:-No further data about them.
Issue:- (by his first wife Hannah Rushmore)
2/1. Ann Smith Bedell, born January 16/1778.
2/2. Sarah Bedell, born November 25/1782.
2/3. Elizabeth Poole Bedell, born January 28/1790.
2/4. Hannah Rushmore Bedell, born October 18/1794.
Issue:- (by his second wife Elizabeth Craft) (no data about her)
2/5. Mary Bedell, born February 5/1805, was alive in 1818.
2/6. Phebe Smith Bedell, born March 30/1806, was alive in 1818.
2/7. Hezekiah Bedell, born ---, was alive in 1818.
2/8. Sylvanus Bedell, born ---, was alive in 1818.
2/9. Cromwell Bedell, born ---, was alive in 1818.
2/10. David Sammis Bedell, born ---, was alive in 1818.
2/11. Stephen Bedell, born ---, was alive in 1818.
1/3. Thomas Rushmore. (from the Underhill genealogy). I have no proof
that he was the son of this John Rushmore, but he doesn't fit in to any other of the Rushmore families, and from the birth data of his son Moses, Thomas must have been born about 1755, so it seems likely, and therefore I am leaving him here, pending further research. He married, 1st, Miriam Hellock: 2nd,???. They were not quakers.
Issue:-
2/1. Moses Rushmore, horn July 25/1789, died November 5/1842.
In 1836 he bought a 15 acre farm at Renssalearville, Westchester County, N.Y., He married Phebe Underhill, born February 12/1787, died December 4/1853, daughter of John and Deborah (Dickenson)Underhill. Phebe was a Quaker and was dismissed on March 27/1811 for marrying out.
Issue:-
3/1. Thomas Rushmore, born February 24/1812, died May 12/1857,
probably at Schenectady, N.Y,, where he had a store. He married on February 8/1838, Rebecca Chadwick, daughter of Aaron and Martha (Hoag) Chadwick. They had no children.
3/2. Esther Rushmore, born January 25/1815, died May 25/1837.
3/3. Betsey W. Rushmore, born August 31/1817, died September 18/1854
at Rensselaerville. She married on February 20/1840, Jacob Spencer, son of Caleb and Mary (Bedell) Spencer. They removed to Coeymans, and had a son Byron M. Spencer.
3/4. Maria Rushmore, born January 14/1820, died May 12/1893.
3/5. John Underhill Rushmore, born October 21/1822, died at Albany, N.Y.
February 19/1904. He was a farmer at Cooksburgh, N.Y. He married Sarah Drake, daughter of Israel and June (Palen) Drake, and had four children.
3/6. Samuel Cary Rushmore, born December 28/1824, died at Troy, N.Y.,
September 5/1905. He married on February 7/1849, Marilla Keeler Davenport, born June 16/1822, died at Bethlehem, N.Y. February 3/1892, daughter of William Doty and Phebe Carpenter (Marshall) Davenport, and had four children.
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36 - JOSEPH CHEESMAN
Much of this Cheesman data was received from my Cousin, Miss
Anna Maude Hoxsie of Buffalo: some of it is from "The Wright Family of
Oyster Bay", by Howard Delano Perrine, 1923: from the New York
Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 14, pages 93 and 179: from
Records of the First Presbytarian Church, New York: from St. George's
Church, Hempstead Records: and from the Long Island Historical
Society's Flushing, L.I. Records, by Frank Haviland, 1905.
Joseph Cheesman was born November 5/1715, and died between
April 7 and June 11/1772, the dates of his will and its probate, see
New York Historical Society's Collections, Vol 6, page 53. His will
left to his son Joseph £5, and all the rest of his estate to his wife
Sarah for the maintenance and bringing up of his children till of age,
and then to be divided among them, with the advice of "my good friend
Isaac Smith": witnesses Philip Thorne and James Cornell. Hempstead Town
Records of January 29/l718-l9, recorded his ear mark. In 1738 he bought
land of his father Ephraim. In 1762 he and his family were converted to
Episcopalianism and joined St. George's Church in Hempstead. On March
5/1762, he, his wife Sarah, and adult children Anthony, Richard,
Elizabeth and Samuel were all baptized there. In 1765-70 he was
Overseer of Highways.
He married in 1738, Sarah Badgley, dates of birth and death
not known, daughter of Anthony and Phebe (Haight) Badgley, see subject
74.
Issue:
1/1. Joseph Cheesman. Born in 1744, died 1800. He married Elizabeth
Crawford: I have not been able to ascertain her birth and death dates
nor the name of her parents. His will, dated July 21/1800, proved
October 21/1800, left to his three sons £50 each, to be paid when the
youngest arrived at the age of 21, to be paid out of the rent of his
estate: also the ground rent and taxes to be paid out of the rent
yearly. His executors to give his two youngest sons good learning and
trades. The rent of his estate to be divided among his five children,
once in every three years. To son Joseph, his Bible. All remainder of
his estate to sons John, Samuel and Joseph, and daughters Phebe Ashly
and Elizabeth Barney, when my youngest son arrives at age, Brother
Samuel and brother in law Samuel Wright, executors. Witnesses were
Benjamin Cheesman and Timothy S. Chessman, a house carpenter.
Issue:-
2/1. John Cheesman, born May 18/1770, will dated April 17/1805,
proved July 8/1806. He was a mason. He married at the Presbyterian Church, Hempstead, on November 10/1792, Rachel Armstrong, who survived him, daughter of John Armstrong, a cartman, who died intestate: Rachel was granted administration of her father's estate on July 12/1796. John Armstrong was perhaps the son of John Armstrong, whose will was dated December 17/1748, proved April 10/1749 of Brookhaven, L.I., a laborer, which mentioned a wife Mary and children John, (then under age) Mehitabel, Hannah, Obadiah and Nathaniel.
Issue:- (from his will)
3/1. Elizabeth Cheesman.
3/2. Mary Susannah Cheesman, born January 20/1803.
3/3. Matilda Cheesman.
3/4. John Cheesman,
2/2. Isaac Cheesman, born July 7/1772, probably died young as he was not
mentioned in his father's will.
2/3. Susannah Cheesman, born June 20/1774, not mentioned in her father's
will. She married at the Presbyterian Church on April 6/1793, Jabez Pell.
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2/4. Joseph Cheesman. No data.
2/5. Phebe Cheesman, born July 10/1779. She married at the Presbyterian
Church, on November 12/1796, William Ashly.
2/6. Elizabeth Cheesman, born May 15/1782. She married a Mr. Barney.
2/7. Samuel Cheesman, born February 17/1785.
1/2. Mary Cheesman. She married on December 4/1761, Isaac Lawrence.
1/3. Sarah Cheesman. She married on February 20/1765, Fordham Burtis,
baptized January 2/1742 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, L.I. In 1800 they lived at Clinton, Dutchess County, N.Y. and had one son over 16 and under 42, one daughter over 16 and one daughter under 16, names not given.
1/4. Anthony Cheesman. Born before 1755 as the Census of 1800 called him over
45 years of age: he was baptised at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on March 5/1762. He married at St. George's Church on December 17/1780, Hannah Smith, under 45 years of age in the Census of 1800; parents names unknown. Anthony's will was dated May 9/1805 proved July 8/1805.
Issue:- (from his will)
2/1. Elizabeth Cheesman, over 16 in 1800.
2/2. Fanny Cheesman, under 16 in 1800.
1/5. Richard Cheesman. Born June 3/1756, Died January 18/1832. He married on
August 10/1782, Elizabeth Weekes, born March 3/1764, died September 17/1852, daughter of George and Sarah (Hall) Weekes, subject 36. See subject 18 for issue and further particulars.
1/6. Elizabeth Cheesman. Dates of birth and death unknown, She married on
August 18/1779, Philip Thorne, son of Thomas and Mary Thorne of Cow Neck, Hempstead. In 1766 Philip was Overseer of Highways: in 1771 he bought 6 acres of land for £306.0.0.
Issue:-
2/1. Abigail Thorne. She married on March 17/1799, Joseph Mott, born January
1/1762, died December 4/1801, son of William and Elizabeth (Allen) Mott, see subject 282, page 7, for their issue and further particulars. After Joseph's death, Abigail married, 2nd, in 1814-5, a Mr. Griffin of Dutchess County, but had no children by him. Abigail died July 4/1836.
1/7. Samuel Cheesman. Dates of birth and death unknown. He married Femmetje
(Fanny) Van Cott, born at Oyster Bay, October 2/1768, twelfth child of Nicholas and Jannetje (Wortman) Van Cott of Oyster Bay, L.I.
Issue : -
2/1. Sarah Cheesman, baptized at Success, L.I., August 8/1790,
died August 17/1826.
1/8. Phebe Cheesman. Born May 27/1766, died January 14/1850. She married at the
First Presbyterian Church, New York, on May 13/1786, Samuel Wright, born at Rye, N.Y., August 27/1761, died July 5/1806, a carpenter and builder, son of Jotham and Tabiatha (Sammis) Wright of Huntington, L.I. After their marriage they settled on Essex St., later removing to 3 Jones St., New York City. He substituted as a sergeant on November 7/1778 in Captain Aorsen's Company, 3rd New York Regiment, to serve two years in the place of Thomas Nelson, a sergeant in Captain Tiebeut's Company in the same regiment.
Issue:-
2/1. Sarah Wright, born July 28/1787, died August 8/1789,
2/2. Joseph Cheesman Wright, born January 1/1790, died January 16/1834.
2/3. Mary Wright, born September 12/1792, died November 14/1876,
She married Benjamin Lyon of New Castle, N.Y.
Issue:-
3/1. Samuel Lyon, who died when he was 21 years old.
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2/4. Sarah Wright, born March 15/1795, died November 8/1884. She married on
September 25/1813, James de Gray Oliver of New York City, born December 13/1792, died February 4/1871.
Issue:-
3/1. Emily Augusta Oliver, born October 21/1814, died March 8/1891.
She married on November 8/1831, Joseph Ireneus West of East Granville, Mass., born April 11/1809, died June 14/1895, Son of Joseph and Olive (Rosa) West.
2/5. Charles Wright, born April 24/1800.
2/6. Susannah Wright, born January 9/1804.
Some unplaced Cheesmans whom I cannot identify yet.
From the N.Y. Evening Post Deaths, by Gertrude Barber. 1940.
John Cheesman. Born 1782, died March 23/1852. Is he the
same man as below?
John A. Cheesman. whose daughter, as below
Martha Isabella Cheesman. born September 1/1815, died January
22/1844, was the widow of Augustus Jacobus.
Joseph R. Cheesman. born 1786, died July 29/l869, son in law
of John H. Reed.
Julia R. Cheesman. Born 1827, died December 13/1840, daughter
of Joseph Cheesman of New York., Was she The daughter of Joseph and his 2nd wife Sarah (Waterbury) Cheesman, subject 18, p3?
Sarah Cheesman. Born December 6/1836, died January 11/1838.
Jeanette Elizabeth Cheesman.Born August 5/1852, died August 22/1854.
From various volumes of the N.Y. Gen & Biog Records.
Isabella Cheesman. Daughter of Richard Cheesman. Married in 1756, Capt
Joseph Thorne, born about 1730, died 1810-1825, who after his marriage lived on a farm at Haddonfield, (Vol 20, p 79). which says the Cheesmans of Hempstead in the 18th century were large land holders in Gloucester County, N.J. Joseph was vestry man at St. Mary's Church, Colestown, Gloucester, N.J., was captain of a Volunteer Company for the Revolutionary Army, lived to the age of 90 years had eight children (unnamed).
Phebe Cheesman. born 1764, died April 6/1845. She married at Hempstead,
L.I., on August 12/1786, John Vedeto.
Ann Cheesman. She married at Hempstead, on January 29/1785, John Williams.
William Cheesman. He married Phebe Hawkhurst, born December 14/1791,
died July 21/1849, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Oakley) Haukhurst. (Vol 33, p 27).
Edward Cheesman. Born at Cow Neck, L.I. 1779, died September 25/1821.
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38 - GEORGE WEEKES.
The following is from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies: from
Hempstead Town Records: and from "Marriages at St. George's Church,
Hempstead".
George Weekes was born October 5/1732, probably at Hempstead,
and died there June 22/1797, buried in St. George's Church cemetery,
with his wife, son George end the latter's two wives, in the Weekes
plot on the north side of the Church.
His will, dated February 11/1790, proved July 25/1797, made his
wife Sarah and his son Richard, his heirs: executors son Richard and
Joseph Hall.
He married on February 20/1758[?], Sarah Hall, born 1732-3, died September 4/1822, probably daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Lewellin) Hall who were married July 9/1727. Benjamin Hall's will, dated South Hempstead, June 2/1791, proved March 28/1793, gave as his heirs, daughters Mary, Hannah, Catherine, Sarah and Phebe: grand daughters- Phebe Petit, Jane Hubbs, Hannah and Jane Haviland, son Benjamin, and grandson Benjamin Hubbs: witnesses Thomas Rich and George Weekes.
Issue:-
1/1. Thomas Weekes. Born November 10/1758.
1/2. John Weekes Born September 19/1760, died December 27/1824.
1/3. Sarah Weekes. Born December 2/1761, died October 7/1781.
1/4. Elizabeth Weekes, Born March 3/1764, died September 17/1852.
She
married on August 11/1782, Richard Cheesman, born June 3/1756, died
January 18/1832, son of Joseph and Sarah (Badgley) Cheesman, subject
35. See subject 18 for issue and further particulars.
1/5. William Weekes. Born October 13/1765, died November 18/1847. He married
in July 1792, Elizabeth Begel, born 1773, died July 1/1855. She was of Dutch ancestry, her family recorded in the Dutch Church.
Issue:-
2/1. Maria Weekes, (twin), born August 21/1796, died 1883. The Underhill
Genealogy says she married at Whitestone, N.Y., John Underhill, son of John and Elizabeth (Prior) Underhill, and had Sarah born 1820 who married Hampton Dudge, see subject 18, page 4. However, the Underhill genealogy says Maria was born November 1800, so it may be another Maria.
2/2. Gilbert Weekes, (twin), born August 21/1796.
1/6. Mary Weekes. Born March 4/1768
1/7. George Weekes Born January 31/1770, died July 21/1854. He married,
1st, on February 25/1792, Mary Carman, born at Hempstead in 1770, died September 29/1798-9, daughter of Stephen end Sarah (Petit) Carman, see subject 268, page 2. He married, 2nd, on June 12/1802, Rachel Raynor, born 1783, died February 11/1825, sixth child of Elijah and Rebecca (Smith) Raynor.
Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Carman)
2/1. Benjamin Weekes, born September 28/1792.
2/2. Jotham Weekes, born October 8/1794, died 1864,
He married Maria Walters, born 1801, died 1845. Another source lays he married, probably a second wife, a Miss Woolsey.
Issue:- (by his first wife Maria Walters)
3/1. Charlotte Hudson Weekes, born 1842, died 1917.
She married in 1860, Wilbur Fisk Herbert.
Issue:- (by his second wife Miss Woolsey)
3/2. Edward Woolsey Weekes.
2/3. William Weekes, born February 15/1797.
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2/4. Maria A. Weekes, born May 7/1798-9. she married at St. George's Church,
Hempstead, on April 17/1816, Benjamin Seaman of New York.
Issue:- (by his second wife Rachel Raynor)
2/5. Valentine Weekes, born June 19/1804.
2/6. Mary Weekes, born September 15/1806.
2/7. Eliza Ann Weekes, born August 5/1809.
2/8. Susan Weekes, born December 5/1811
2/9. Hobart Weekes, (twin) born December 3/1815.
2/10. Lambert Weekes, (twin), born December 3/1815.
2/11. Grover Weekes, born November 7/1816.
2/12. Adeline Weekes, born June 4/1819.
2/15. James Weekes born March 9/1822.
1/8. Gilbert Weekes. Born November 6/1771, died September 4/1791.
1/9. Richard Weekes. Born December 28/1773, died in November 1838.
He married on October 21/1798, Rebecca Smith, born October 1788, died August 19/1866.
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40 - ISAAC MANCHESTER
The following is from the same sources as mentioned under subject 20 - ISAAC MANCHESTER.
Isaac Manchester was born at Tiverton, R.I., June 27/1731, and
died there, July 17/1792. In 1755 he was a Lieutenant in the Tiverton
Militia, and Captain from l756 to 1758, Justice of the Peace at
Tiverton, in 1767, and a member of the General Assembly from 1777 to
1778.
He married, 1st, on November 1/1750, Abigail Brown, born
February 21/1731-2, died l769, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Cory)
Brown. He married, 2nd, at Tiverton, on April 9/1769. Deborah Cook,
born November 3/1723, died in 1801, whose will was dated April 3/1801,
probated on August 8/1801, daughter of Thomas and Phila Cook.
Isaac Manchester's will, dated October 12/1785, reads as
follows: I, Isaac Manchester, of Tiverton, in the County of Newport, in
the State of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Gentleman: being
at this time in a state of bodily health and of a sound disposing mind,
perfect memory, and understanding, as in my life past, praised be the
Lord: therefore and calling to mind the mortality of my body, and on
finding that it is appointed for men once to die, do make and ordain
this my last will and testament: that is to say principally, and first
of all, I give and recommend my Soul unto the hand of God, my most
merciful Creator, from whom I had my first being, and my body I commit
to the earth therein, to be decently interred, according to the
direction of my executors, herein after named and appointed: and as to
such worldly estate as it has pleased God to bless me with, I give,
devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:
Imprimis, my will is and I do hereby will and order my executors
hereinafter named and appointed, to pay all my just debt and funeral
charges, equally between them.
Item:- I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Deborah
Manchester the use and improvement of the great room and bedroom
adjoining in my new dwelling house as long as she remains my widow with
a privilege in my sellars sufficient for all necessary uses of her own,
also a sufficient privilege around the house, at or near the house,
into and from the well, and in case then water should fail in my well,
at or near the house, then I order my executors to fetch from my spring
a sufficiency of water for my said wife, always when the water is not
to be got from my well at the house. I further also give my said wife
Deborah, yearly and every year during the time she remains my widow,
fifty pounds of good pork, fifty pounds of good beef, six bushels of
Indian Corn, two bushels of Barley, six gallons of Molasses, fifty six
pounds of wheat flour, six pounds of sugar, fourteen pounds of rice,
two pounds of chocolate, two pounds of coffee, twenty pounds of sheep
wool, twenty pounds of flax from the swingle, two barrels of cider, six
bushels of winter apples, and a privilege in my orchard to get what
apples she may have occasion for her own eating, thirty pounds of new
milk cheese, twelve pounds of butter, a sufficiency of milk for her own
eating, a sufficiency of sauce for all sorts that is commonly raised
among us, and a sufficient quantity of firewood brought to the door and
cut to a suitable length for her fire, all which said articles above
enumerated, for the use of my said wife Deborah, by four of my sons,
namely, Phillip, Isaac, Abraham and John, yearly and equally every year
between them, so long as she remains my widow. I also give unto my said
wife Deborah, all the estate she brought me after our marriage, and the
same to be made as good as it was when she
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brought it to me. I also give unto my said wife Deborah, my green plush
Side Saddle, all the said gifts to my said wife Deborah, is to be in
lieu of her rights of Dower, and power of thirds, and into my Estate,
if she sees cause to accept it no such.
Item:- I give and bequeath to my beloved son Thomas Manchester, two
hundred and fifty Spanish Mill Dollars, one feather bed, underbed,
bedstead and cords, one coverlet, three blankets, two sheets, one
bolster and case, two pillows and cases, two large silver spoons,
twelve silver Jacoat buttons, such as is now in my house, the money to
be paid unto him in one year after my decease, by my four other sons
equally between them, namely, Phillip, Isaac, Abraham and John
Manchester, the bed, bedding and spoons and buttons given to my son
Thomas to be delivered unto him at my decease.
Item:- I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Sarah Baley,
wife of Isaac Baley, two large silver spoons, one iron Trammel, the
Trammel she now hath in her possession. I also give unto my said
daughter Sarah Baby, six pounds lawful silver money, and the same is to
be paid unto her in one year after my decease by four of my sons,
namely, Phillip, Isaac, Abraham and John Manchester equally between
them.
Item:- I give, devise, and bequeath unto my well beloved daughter
Phebe Manchester, two feather beds, two underbeds, two bedsteads and
cords; one suit of curtains, six bed blankets, eight sheets, three
bolster cases, six pillow cases, three table cloths, six towels, one
high case of Draws, one chest of draws, one oval table, one small
table, twelve chairs, one woollen wheel, one linning wheel, three
pewter platters, three pewter basins, six pewter porringers, twelve
pewter plates, six silver teaspoons, three large silver spoons, six
China cups and sausers, one tea kettle, one teapot, one fire shovel,
and tongs, one large iron kettle, one small iron kettle, one iron pot,
six case knives and forks, two candlesticks, one bed iron and heaters,
one iron trammel, and my new side saddle: all to be delivered unto her
soon after my decease.
Item:- I further give unto my said daughter Phebe Manchester, six
pounds lawful silver money and the same to be paid unto her in one year
after my decease. I also give unto my said daughter Phebe, a home in my
new dwelling house, so long as she remains unmarried.
Item:- I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Phillip Manchester,
two large silver spoons. I also give unto him, my said son Phillip,
that Gun and Plate Buttons of mine, that he hath now in his posession.
Item:- I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son Isaac
Manchester, the Gun that he call, his own, also three large silver
spoons, and twelve silver Jacoat buttons.
Item:- I give and bequeath to my well beloved son John Manchester,
my watch, two large silver spoons, and twelve silver Jacoat buttons,
Item:- I further give and bequeath unto my aforesaid daughter Phebe
Manchester, two bolsters and four pillows, also my gold sleeve buttons,
one gold necklace and locket and two gold rings.
Item:- I give, devise and bequeath unto my four beloved sons
namely, Phillip, Isaac, Abraham and John Manchester, all my land and
buildings, divided and undivided, together with all Personal Estate,
that is not heretofore given away, in this my last will and testament,
equally to be divided among then, share and share alike, they
performing and fulfilling this will in every part, as I have
hereinbefore ordained. Lastly I do hereby nominate, make, ordain,
constitute and appoint my aforesaid four beloved sons, joint executors.
Subject 40 P3 (151)
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day
and year first before written.
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the said
Isaac Manchester to be his last will and testament in the presence or
the subscribers.
Rebecca Burrington.
Eli Handy Isaac Manchester (seal)
Walter Cook.
A Codicil or Shadule.
Know all men by these presents, that whereas I, Isaac Manchester of
Tiverton, in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations, Gentleman, by the present Codicil, do ratify
and confirm my said last will, I gave amongst other things and
privileges, unto my daughter Phebe, a home in my dwelling house, so
long as she remained unmarried, and as she has, since making said will
been married and left a widow, and as doubts may arise whether, by said
will she may be entitled to said privileges, I do therefore, hereby
will and order that my said daughter Phebe, now Phebe Cook, shall have
and enjoy the same privilege as though her said marriage had not taken
place.
Item:- I give and devise unto my son Abraham Manchester, all the
profits of my estate arising this present year, and for him to pay the
cost of my present sickness, which if insufficient, the remainder
thereof to be paid in the same way and manner as in and by my said last
will, is ordered and directed.
In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this 21st day of
June 1792, in the presence or
William White
Mary Cook. Isaac Manchester (seal)
Samuel Tabor.
Issue:- (by his first wife Abigail Brown)
1/1. Phillip Manchester, Born at Tiverton, R.I., August 23/1751, died
in 1819, He was an Ensign and Lieutenant in the Militia. He married at Tiverton, R.1., on December 25/1775, Eliphal Cory, born October 3/1755, daughter of Thomas and Deborah (Amy) Cory.
Issue:-
2/1. Deborah Manchester, born March 10/776.
2/2. Ellary Manchester, born June 15/1779
2/3. Abigail Manchester, born September 23/1781.
Married Capt Joseph Amy.
2/4. Phillip Manchester, born June 10/1785.
2/5. Sarah Manchester, born April 20/1787.
2/6. Marettee Manchester, born April 29/1790.
2/7. Mamoy Manchester, born February 2/1792.
2/8. Bridget Manchester, born June 7/1793.
2/9. Gory Manchester, born September 15/1795.
1/2. Sarah Manchester. Born at Tiverton, October 1/1755, died August
1/1828. She married on June 21/l77O, Isaac Bailey, born June 15/1747, died September 11/1813 son of John and Mary Bailey. They had seven children.
1/3. Isaac Manchester. Born at Tiverton, August 4/1756, died May 31/1820.
He married on May 11/1785, Alice Taber, born June 4/1765, died March 6/1834, daughter of Jacob and Susannah (Dennis) Taber. See Subject 20 for issue and further particulars.
Subject 40 P4 (152)
1/4. Thomas Manchester. Born at Tiverton, April 5/1759, died September 26/1825.
He married on June 23/1812, Cynthia Sawyer, born June 22/1783, died May 21/1859.
Issue :-
2/1. Andrew Manchester, born September 23/1813.
2/2. Clarke Manchester born February 6/1815.
2/3. Albert Manchester, born January 20/1817, died February 22/1895.
2/4. Phebe Manchester. No data.
1/5. Abraham Manchester. Born at Tiverton, August 8/1761,
died there April 27/1848. He resided in Tiverton and served in the Revolution. He served also as lieutenant and captain of Militia, 1794 to 1798. He married on December 13/1792, Anna Cook, born in 1777, died May 5/1861, aged 87 years and four months, daughter of William Cook.
Issue:-
2/1. William Cook Manchester, born September 20/1793.
2/2. Charles Manchester, born May 22/1795.
2/3. Thomas Manchester, born May 13/1797.
2/4. Ruth Manchester, born February 16/1799,
2/5. Frederick Manchester, born June 24/1801.
2/6. Anna Manchester, born June 7/1803, died in 1880.
She married in 1825, Seth Hathaway of New Bedford, R.I., born 1800, died 1859; son of Henry and Mary Evans (Bailey) Hathaway.
Issue:-
3/1. Caroline Frances Hathaway, born 1845, died 1887.
She married Asa Nash, born 1844, died 1897, a lumber merchant of Norwich, Ct.[?]
1/5. Abraham Manchester. Born at Tiverton, August 8/1761, died there
April 27/1848. He resided in Tiverton and served in the Revolution.
He served also as lieutenant and captain of Militia, 1794 to 1798.
He married on December 13/1792, Anna Cook, born in 1777, died May
5/1861, aged 87 years and four months, daughter of William Cook.
Issue:-
2/1. William Cook Manchester, born September 20/1793.
2/2. Charles Manchester, born May 22/1795.
2/3. Thomas Manchester, born May 13/1797.
2/4. Ruth Manchester, born February 16/1799,
2/5. Frederick Manchester, born June 24/1801.
2/6. Anna Manchester, born June 7/1803, died in 1880. She married in
1825, Seth Hathaway of New Bedford, R.I., born 1800, died 1859;
son of Henry and Mary Evans (Bailey) Hathaway.
Issue:-
3/1. Caroline Frances Hathaway, born 1845. died 1887. She married
Asa Nash, born 1844, died 1897, a lumber merchant of Norwich, Ct.
2/7. Almira Manchester, born July 13/1805.
2/8. Adeliza Manchester, born July 25/1807. Married --- Seabury
2/9. Clarissa Manchester, born November 18/1809. Married Sherman White.
2/10. Abraham Manchester, born April 17/1814.
1/6. John Manchester. Born at Tiverton July 10/1764.
1/7. Phebe Manchester. Born August 22/1766. She married Walter Cook.
1/8. Abigail Manchester. Born February 9/1769, probably died young.
Subject 42. (153) 7/7/1948
42 - JACOB TABER.
Born October 2/1735. I can't find anything more about this man
except that he married on September 29/1763, Susannah Dennis, born
January 29/1737. Further investigation needed. (see subject 86 for John
B Dennis)
Issue:- (may not be complete)
1. Abigail Tabor. Born June 4/1765, died March 6/1834.
She married, on May 11/1783, Isaac Manchester, born October 4/1756, died May 31/1820. See Subject 20 for issue and further particlars.
28/12/96: HP gives daughter Abigail in this page, but calls her Alice elsewhere. IGI calls daughter Alice.
Subject 44. (154) 24/3/1948
44 - JAMES INGALLS.
The Ingalls Genealogy by Dr. Walter Renton Ingalls, (1933), page 141, does not give the dates of his birth and death.
It states that he married, 1st, on October 12/1769, Abigail Scottow, born September 17/1740 at Charlestown, daughter of Joshua and Mary Scottow: he married, 2nd, on February 13/1773, Hannah Dowse, born June 23/1745, daughter of Jonathan Dowse. Issue:- (by his first wife Abigail Scottow)
1. James Ingols. Born in Charlestown, Mass., December 31/1769,
according to Dr W.R. Ingalls: his grand daughter Emily Cutter lngols stated that he was born January 2/1771, which seems more correct. He died on May 8/1835. He married, 1st, Mary Jane Beals (Polly), born March 31/1776, died about 1820. He married, 2nd, a Miss Putnam, but had no children by her. (see subject 22 for issue and further particulars).
2. Abigail Ingols. Born in Charlestown, Mass., August 4/1771,
died in Utica N.Y., January 21/1854. She never married.
Issue:- (by his second wife Rannen Dowse)
3. Robert Ingols. Born December 5/1773.
4. Child. Name unknown.
5. Child. Name unknown.
Subject 62. (155)
62 - WILLIAM HAUGHTON.
The following is from John Armstrong's (subject 6) family
records, and family Bible
William Haughton was of Holly Park, Leitrim, Ireland. Holly
Park was old inherited property of the Haughtons for generations. Of
his marriage nothing is known. He died in June 1780.
Issue:- (all born before 1800).
1. Jane Haughton.
She married John Dickson, an Englishman and an
officer in the British Army.
Issue :-
2/1. Mary Jane Dickson, born 1799, died March 6/1866 in Chicago and
buried in Graceland Cemetery. She married John Goodfellow, born in
Cavan, the first cousin of John Armstrong, subject 6. John
Goodfellow was the son of John Armstrong's aunt Mary Armstrong,
the only daughter and sixth child of the Rev William Armstrong,
subject 24. Goodfellow was a carriage builder.
2. Anne Haughton. She married William Vaugh, Irish, a farmer.
Issue:-
2/1. Margaret Vaugh, married Sans Pierce, Superintendent of a Cotton
Manufacturing Co at Manchester, England. A native of Leitrim.
2/2. George Vaugh, married Margaret Hewitt. Both died in America
between 1850 and 1855. He was a farmer.
2/3. James Vaugh, a trader in produce.
2/4. Maria Vaugh, married Francis Erwin, a tanner, who came to
Greenbay, Wisconsin, and who was killed by a tree falling on him
in 1840.
2/5. John Vaugh, a farmer who came to America and died about 1846.
He married a Miss Nichols.
2/6. Launcelot Vaugh, was an engineer and died in 1852. He married
Mary Wilson, daughter of Charles & Eleanor Isabella (Mullarkey)
Wilson, an only child. She was born in 1821 and died March
10/1876 at Maple Grove, Arcola, and buried in Graceland Cemetery.
Further details about her will be found under subject 14.
2/7. Jane Vaugh, married William McCormick,
Sergeant-Major in Her
Majesty's 84th Regiment of Foot.
3. Isabella Haughton. Married Richard Jordan, Irish, rank unknown.
Issue:-
2/1. Mary Jordan, married John Reid, Scotch, Captain in the 5th
Regiment of Foot, who served in both the Peninsular and Waterloo
campaigns, and who was killed at Waterloo. Both died between 1850
and 1855.
2/2. Jane Jordan, married Mr Atkins, Irish, an Attorney and
Counsellor at Law. He died in 1839. She married, 2nd, George
Lockhart.
4. Elizabeth Haughton. She married Oliver Haskin, Scotch-Irish,
an
oofficer in the British Army.
Issue
2/1. William Baskin, married Maria Deaker of Dublin. He was
Superintendant of Long's Carriage Factory.
2/2. Mary Baskin, married Robert Thompson of Dublin. He was Cashier
of the La Touche Bank in Dublin and died 1867.
2/3. Isabella Baskin. Never married.
5. Eleanor Isabella Haughton. She married Sir Michael Mullarkey, Irish,
a Justice of the Peace, and Queen's Counsel for County Sligo.
Issue :- (handwritten: possibly part only)
2/1. Eleanor Isabella Mullarkey, married Charles Wilson of County
Roscommon, Lieutenant in the Royal Roscommon Militia. She died
about the year 1828: he died January 7/1841. See subject 14
for issue and further particulars.
Subject 64. P1 (156) 2/2/1951
64 - PIERCE POOLE.
The following is compiled from the undermentioned records.
Hempstead, L.I., Records.
N.Y. Historical Society's Collections, Abstracts of Wills, vols 6 to 12.
Oyster Bay, L.I., Records.
The History of Oyster Bay, by Henry M. Stotenburgh, 1900.
Queen's County Abstracts of Wills. -
Inscriptions in the Town Cemetery of Hempstead, L.I. by Frank Haviland.
Bunker`s Long Island Genealogies.
Benjamin F. Thompson's Long Island Genealogies.
N.Y. Genealogical & Biographical Records.
First Presbyterian Church Records, New York.
The Christian Intelligencer, Marriages performed @ the Reformed Dutch Ch.
Queensborough Library Records.
Deaths from the New York Evening Post, by Gertrude A. Barber.
St. George's Church, Hempstead, L.I. Records.
The Genealogy of George Weeks. of Dorchester, Mass., by Robert D.Weeks.
The Morrisania Census of 1800, in the N.Y. Gen & Biog Records.
Abstracts of Wills of New York County, by Ray C. Sawyer, 1938.
Genealogical & Family History of Southern N.Y. by Cuyler Reynolds, 1914.
Inscriptions in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers, by Francis P. Spies, 1927.
Register Book of the Parish of Jamaica, kept by the Rev. Thomas Poyar,
Rector of Grace Church from 1710 to 1738.
The Genealogy of Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass., by Dr. Edward Murray Poole.
American Cavalcade, a Memoir of the life and family of be Witt Clinton Poole by John Hudson Poole, Pasadena, Cal., 1959, page 15.
And from our Poole family bibles.
The Life & Times of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton, Philadelphia, 1907.
Pierce Poole, according to our family bibles, was born about 1709, (probably as early as 1700), and died at Hempstead, L.I., in 1775, place of birth not known. The name Pierce is spelled in various documents as Pearce, Pearse, Pierssey, Percy, Pearcy, and Pars: our family bible spelled it Pearce, but Pierce seems to be the most common spelling. Our family records state he was an Englishman by birth, the father of James Poole: that he lived in Jerusalem, L.I., and that he bought the old Poole place at North Side, L.I., where he and his son James lived their whole lives.
I can find no actual record of the names of his parents, but from the records of Brookhaven, L.I., its proximity to Hempstead, and the name William, the third son of Pierce Poole, it is probable that Pierce was the son of William Poole of Brookhaven. See what I have written under Subject 128.
Hempstead Town Records prove that Pierce Poole lived there from 1721-2 to 1769 as follows:- Vol 3, p 164 states that "Pierssey Poole, his earmark is a happeny aforesaid each ear, and a nick in each hapenny, entered this 12th day of October 1736, by me, Micah Clark". In the will of Samuel Thurston of Jamaica, L.I., dated January 25/1721-2, Percy Pool signed as a witness. On November 5/1769, Percy and his sons James and Solomon, signed a road petition.
Pierce Poole married, 1st, Mary - (last name not given), as per the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 19 page 11, containing a copy of the Register Book of the Parish of Jamaica, L.I., kept by the Reverend Thomas Poyar, Rector of Grace Church from 1710 to 1732, in which was recorded the baptism of his son James, son of Pierce and Mary Poole. There is no record of Mary's maiden name, nor her birth and death dates.
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However, there is mentioned in Hempstead Town Records, a Lawrence Poole who was an ensign in a military company there in 1746. As an ensign he would have been about 16 years of age, making his birth about 1730. This would suggest that Pierce Poole's first wife was a Lawrence, of the large Lawrence family in Hempstead, but I cannot trace her in the Lawrence genealogies.
Pierce Poole married, 2nd, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, LI, on July 5/1740, Sarah Pearse (spelled Pierce in the St. George's Church Records), daughter of William and Elizabeth Pearse of Hempstead, William Pearce's will appears in the New York Historical Society's collections, Abstracts of Wills, Vol 3, p 258, dated January 15/1738-9, proved May 26/1739, in which he wrote:- "I leave to my wife Elizabeth, one third of all the money made by the sale of my estate, and the other two thirds to my daughters Sarah, Rosannah (who married on November 17/1752, Thomas Birdsall) Hannah, and Phebe, (who married on March 21/1761, Albert Albertson), hut as it is likely that my wife is with child, that child is to have an equal portion". Executors, my brothers James Pearse, and my friend Joseph Hallett: the witnesses were Samuel Langdon, John Carman, and Mordecai Lester.
Issue:- (by his first wife Mary (Lawrence?):-
1. James Poole Baptized at Grace Church, Jamaica, L.I., July 14/1728, *
died May 6/1804. He lived and died at the old Poole Homestead. He married, (date not given), Hannah Rushmore, born 1724, died November 1/1809, daughter of John and Mary (Carman) Rushmore: this is confirmed in Augustus Poole's bible, and in several land transfers. There is, however, a very puzzling entry in St. George Church Records, that a James Poole married on December 4/1748, Mary Langdon, daughter of Joseph Langdon: this must be some other James Poole. whom I have not been able to locate yet. See subject 32 for issue and further particulars.
2. Solomon Poole. Dates of birth an death unknown, but he must have been born
in Hempstead about 1730-35. He died at West Farms, (now Fordham), Westchester County, N.Y., but the Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery there (his church) was destroyed and the records lost when the Southern Boulevard and the Elevated Railway were constructed. His earmark was registered at Hempstead in 1771. He married at Hempstead on September 8/1766, Letitia Jackson, dates of birth and death unknown, but she was alive in 1812 at West Farms, Morrisania, Westchester County, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Townsend) Jackson, who were married in 1738, see subject 616, page 6. His history is so long, I am putting it under Subject 64-A, which see for their issue and further particulars,
3. Lawrence Poole. No record exists of his being a son of Pierce, except
an entry in Hempstead Town Records, stating that Lawrence Poole was an ensign in a military company in Hempstead in 1746. An ensign would have been not over 16 years of age, making his birth about 1750, and as there was no other Poole in Hempstead in that year, he was probably a son of Pierce. This also suggests his mother was a Lawrence. Issue:- (by his second wife Sarah Pearse)
4 William Poole. Date of birth unknown but it was after 1741. His will in the
New York Society's Collections, Vol l2,p 40, dated March 6/1779, proved March 29/1783, gives the approximate date of death. He married, date unknown, Mary Langdon, daughter of Ezekiel and Sarah (---) Langdon of Hempstead. Ezekiel's will in Vol 6. p7, dated
Subject 64 P3 (158) 22/6/1952
August 3/1760, proved October 25/1760, mentioned sons Richard, Archelos, and Samuel, and daughters Mary, Elizabeth and Milly, who were all minors in 1760. His history is so long that I am putting it under subject 64B, which see for his issue and further particulars.
Subject 64 P4 (159) 2/2/1951
I note here, for future reference, various bits of information culled from the sources mentioned, about the Pooles, which may be relations of Pierce Poole, but I cannot as yet identify them.
Mary Poole. In a will of William Johnson of Hempstead, dated January 11/1818, proved July 30/1818, he mentions his heirs, sons Gilbert and John and daughter Mary Poole and Mary's son Richard Poole. What Poole she was the wife of I haven't discovered yet. The N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 56, page 26, says a Richard Poole died March 16/1849, aged 58 which would make his birth 1791. This Richard married at Hempstead, on February 8/1815, Sarah Ackley of Rockaway, baptized at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on July 29/1795, daughter of William and Rachel Ackley of Hempstead. Richard's will, dated June 8/1849 (?), proved April 9/1649, names his wife Sarah, daughter Martha Ann, wife of William Davison, and her children Sarah Ann and Lucinda, art son Richard William Poole, and the latter's daughter Mary Poole: he also mentions Eliza and Elijah Southard, probably children of David and Ruth Southard of Hempstead: David Southard's will was dated October 29/1840, proved May 30/1844. The N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 53, page 242 mentions a Richard Pool who married at the First Presbyterian Church, Hempstead, on March 24/1810, Martha Abrahams. Who was he? In the "Portrait and Biographical Record", of Queens County, L.I., by the Chapman Publishing Co. of New York, 1896, Vol 2, page 692, a Richard W Poole of Rockville Center, Hempstead, born at Hempstead in 1856, son of Richard W. and Mary (Story) Poole, natives of Hempstead. This Richard W. Poole died in 1887 and was in the real estate business and a farmer. Who was he?
In the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vols 7 to 30, containing the records of the First Presbyterian Church, New York, appear the following Pooles, who I think were not any relation of our Pooles. Ann Poole. She married Thomas Lincoln and had five children. Agnes Poole. Vol 9, p 70. She married on June 21/1762, Donald Forbes. William Poole. He married on August 26/1773, Evangelica Broadwell, and had a son John Vredenburgh Poole born September 27/1774 (?). Thomas Poole. He married Jane McCord and had Sarah, born September 23/1767 and Mary, born July 3/1770.
Hempstead Town Records show a Lawrence Poole who was a member of a military company there in 1746. Who was he?
The Christian Intelligencer gives the following Pooles, whom l cannot yet identify:-
James Poole. Died in Brooklyn, September 8/1861, aged 87 years,
making his birth 1774.
Lydia Poole, Wife of James Poole, died at New Utrecht, N.Y., on
July 8/1856, aged 74, making her birth 1782.
James Hubbard Poole,Died at Brooklyn, April 25/1860, aged 48, making his
birth 1812. Rev. Poyer's record says he married on October 4/1840, Phebe Maria Cornwell of Kings County.
Joseph Poole. Died September 17/1859, aged 87, making his birth 1772.
Mrs Elizabeth Poole. Died January 5/1852, aged 74 years, making his birth 1778.
Rebecca A. Poole, Of West Farms, Westchester, N.Y, She married at Fordham
on January 2/1850 Percy P. Weeks. of West Farms. Deaths from the N.Y. Evening Post, by Gertrude A. Barber, 1940, records her death on May 21/1872.
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Samuel H. Poole. N.Y. Evening Post Deaths records his death on March
21/1867, aged 35, making his birth 1832.
Samuel R. Poole. Queensboro Library Records records his birth on
February 13/1832, died March 22/1867. Same man? Or son
Julia Meigs Poole. Queensboro Library Records say she was born November
13/1837, died December 24/1867, daughter of Charles Austin and Julia Augusta (Van Zandt) Meigs. She married Samuel Poole. Was she the wife of above Samuel H. Poole and mother of Samuel R. Poole?
Sarah Elizabeth Poole. Died at Brooklyn, December 20/1869, aged 23,
making her birth 1846, youngest daughter of George Pool and wife of Jacob De Hart Bergen. (From the Bergen Genealogy by T.G. Bergen, Albany, N.Y., 1876, page 319.) I don't think she was any relation of ours
In St. George's Church, Hempstead, records is the baptism on October 26/1787, of James and Elizabeth Poole, adults. who were they?
The New York Tribune of July 27/1901, says that Pierce N Poole, alderman and chief clerk in the Attorney's office at salary of $l500, was removed by attorney Philbin. Pierce acknowledged he had a liquor store and saloon at 618 Grand Avenue. and its income helped to support his fanily of eight children, because his salary as clerk at the attorney's office was not enough. Who was he?
Letitia Poole. She married at the Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, L.I.
on February 10/1811, Enoch Sopher. Who was she?
Subject 64-A. P1 2/2/51 (161)
64A - SOLOMON POOLE.
Was the second son of Pierce and Mary (---) Poole of
Hempstead, L.I.,(see subject 64.) and brother of our ancestor, James
Poole, subject 32.
Solomon Poole's birth and death dates are not known, but he
was probably born between 1730 and 1735 at Hempstead, and died at
Morrisania, now called Fordham) in Westchester County, New York. He was
probably buried at West Farms Cemetery there, but this cemetery has
been obliterated in the construction of Southern Boulevard: the grave
stones have been lost, and none of the cemetery records recorded
anywhere.
Solomon was living in Hempstead in 1771, when his ear mark was
registered, and he was probably still living there in 1787 when his
youngest daughter Elizabeth was baptized at St. George's Church. He
must have moved to Morrisania before 1790, as the First U.S.A. Census
of that year, printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington,
D.C., stated that Solomon was a resident of Westchester Township, and
that his household consisted of three males over 16 years of age, three
under 16, three females (ages not given), and one negro slave. The
Census of 1800 in the District of Morrisania, gave Solomon's family as
consisting of himself and his wife, both over 45 years of age, with two
sons, one under 10 and one under 16 years of age - no mention of any
daughter. Solomon and all his family were members of the Reformed Dutch
Church of Fordham, which stood just beside the present Elevated Railway
Station at Fordham.
Solomon married[?] at Hempstead, on September 8/1766, Letitia
Jackson dates of birth and death unknown, but she was still living in
1812, the date of her sister Jemima's will, mentioning her as living in
Morrisania. Letitia was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Townsend)
Jackson, see subject 616, page 5 for her ancestry and brothers and
sisters. There is a record of a Letitia Poole who married at the
Reformed Dutch Church, Flatbush, on February 10/1811, Enoch Sopher.
Could this be her second marriage?
The following pages show that Solomon Poole's descendants
stayed in New York State, many drifted back to Long Island, while the
descendants of Solomon Poole's elder brother James Poole, emigrated
west, and into many far countries of the world.
Issue:- (taken from his will, so may not be in proper order)
1/1. Townsend Poole. The De Vos Genealogy gives his birth as 1766-7,
but the family records of William Earle Poole (see below), gives his
birth as 1769 at Hempstead, L.I., and his death at Fordham on October
27/1852, over 83 years of age. He married at Trinity Church, New
York, on 1 September 26/1789, Euphemia (Effy) Devoe, born at Fordham
in 1772, died there November 3/1852, seventh child of John and Maria
(De Bevoise) De Voe, and grand daughter of Daniel and Margaret
(Colyer) De Voe, and great grand daughter of Frederick and Hester
(Tourner) De Voe. Euphemia's father John De Voe, lived in Morrisania
and raised products which he shipped by boat to New York. The
"Genealogy of the De Voe Family", by Thomas F. De Voe, New York,
1885, states that the De Veaux or De Vos family were Huguenot
refugees who fled from France after the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes, first to Mannheim, Germany, thence to England. The first of
the family to come to America, were Mattheus De Vos and his wife, who
arrived at New York as early as 1655. The next to arrive, were
Nicholas and Daniel De Vos, who came to Now York in 1674, with a son
Edmund De Vos. Daniel was the progenitor of all the Devoes in this
genealogy.
Issue:- (from Records of the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham)
2/1. Solomon Poole, born at Fordham, January 11/1790, died at
Tremont, (Bronx) N.Y., May 4/1858. He married at Fordham, on
December 3/1823,
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his cousin, Deborah Corsa, born at Morrisania in 1798, died at
Tremont, N.Y., January 30/1862, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Poole)
Corsa, see page 6.
Issue:- (from the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham, records)
3/1. Townsend Poole, born at Fordham, April 7/1826, date of death
unknown. He married at Eastchester, N.Y., on November 20/1856, his
cousin, Mary Ann Weeks, daughter of John and Melicent (Poole)
Weeks. I haven't discovered her birth and death dates, nor the
names of their children.
2/2. Townsend Jackson Poole, born at Fordham, August 22/1796,
died in
the early 1830s: (this is from William Earle Poole's records). He
married at Fordham, on June 24/1820, Deborah Cromwell, who died at
Paterson, N.J., between 1845 and 1850. After Townsend's death, she
married, 2nd, a Mr. Burgoyne.
Issue :-
3/1. Augustus Poole, born at Morrisania, August 2/1821.
3/2. Mary Poole, born at Morrisania, September 10/1825.
3/3. Oliver Cromwell Poole, born at Morrisania, March 17/1827,
died
at Kingsbridge, N.Y., December 11/1903. He married at Fordham, on
July 28/1853, Cecilia Angeline Wood, born at Morrisania, July
28/1834, of South Yonkers, died at Kingsbridge, September 18/1917.
Issue:-
4/1. Anna Eveline Poole. born at Kingsbridge, August 4/1854, died
at Huntington, b.I., September 18/1917. She married at Inwood-
on-Hudson, on April 2/1891, Abraham C. Lefurgy of Ardsley,
N.Y., probably son of Abraham C. and Francine (Austin) Lefurgy
of Dobbs Ferry and Hastings-on-Hudson, who were married on
November 2/1854.
Issue:- (both born at Ardsley)
5/1. Ethel Poole Lefurgy, born January 24/1892, died at
Huntington, L.I., November 26/1927. She married at
Kingsbridge, on April 17/1912, Walter J. Smith.
Issue :-
6/1. Marjorie Evelyn Smith,
born at Patchogue, L.I., February
23/1913.
5/2. -- Oliver Cromwell Lefurgy, born May 25/1895,
died there
February 6/1896.
4/2. Jane Eliza Poole, born at South Yonkers, March 15/1856,
Died
at Thomaston, May 2/1932. She married at Inwood-on-Hudson, on
November 16/1881, Albert L. Purdy.
4/3. Harold Cromwell Poole, born at South Yonkers, March 19/1858,
died there October 27/1909. He married at Inwood on August
25/1880, Minnie Oliver, who died at Kingsbridge, July 2/1906.
4/4. William Augustus Poole,
born at South Yonkers, January
4/1860, died at Kingsbridge, December 21/1887.
4/5. George Edward Poole, born at South Yonkers, December 10/1863,
died at Huntington, L.I., July 28/1936. He was a policeman
in New York City. He married at Kingsbridge, on February
16/1904, Jennie Messinger Tilt, born at Piedmont, N.Y., Decem-
ber 31/1869, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Tilt, and widow of
Mr. Lake. In 1949 Jennie lived at 21 Grandview Avenue,
Huntington, L.I.
Issue:- (born at Kingsbridge, N.Y.)
5/1. William Earle Poole, born July 8/19O5.
He married at
Huntington, on December 31/1929, Barbara Smilie Gray, born
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Glasgow, Scotland, May 31/1908, daughter of William Miller
and Isabella (Reid) Gray of DalIry, Scotland. In 1949 William
Earle Poole was a partner in Pools & Cumela, contractors and
builders, Huntington, and they lived at 85 Grandview Avenue.
Issue
6/1. Dorothy Reid Poole, born at Huntington, January 21/1931.
5/2. Dorothy Poole, born November 21/1906. When she was 18
years old she was stricken with infantile Paralysis, and in
1949 lived with her mother.
4/6. Alma E. Poole, born at South Yonkers, February 12/1868, died
at Huntington, April 6/1934. She was not married.
2/3. Euphemia Poole, born 1798-9. She married at Fordham on November 1/1820,
William Weeks. I cannot find his parents' names.
2/4. John Devoe Poole, born February 13/1802. He married at Fordham, on
November 17/1824, Phebe Devoe, born 1803, died 1876, daughter of Charles and Eliza (Valentine) Devoe. Charles Devoe's will, dated May 4/1836, mentions his daughter Phebe but says it was his daughter Mary who married John Devoe Poole: I don't know which is correct.
Issue:
3/1. Charles Devoe Poole, born August 29/1825. he married, about
1848, his cousin Mary Elizabeth Hopper, born March 4/1831, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Devoe) Hopper. Elizabeth Devoe was the daughter of Charles and Eliza (Valentine) Devoe
Issue:-
4/1. John Poole, born January 31/1850.
4/2. Hannah Hopper Poole, born February 10/1852.
4/3. Charles Henry Poole, born February 25/1855.
4/4. Frederick Hitchcock Poole, born February 8/1858.
4/5. Edmund Mclean Poole, born December 26/1860.
4/6. George Robinson Poole, born October 14/1862.
4/7. William Edgar Poole, born May 18/1865.
3/2. Euphemia Poole, born September 22/1827. No further data.
3/3. Mary Elizabeth Poole, born at Highbridge, N.Y., February
23/1834. She married there, on October 15/1862, George Washington Robinson, born at Middletown, Conn., August 25/1832, son of Harvey and one of his three wives, names unknown, Robinson. he was a relative of Theron Robinson who married Amanda Poole, see page 9.
Issue:- (all born at Highbridge)
4/1. Phebe Lydia Robinson, born May 27/1864.
4/2. John Poole Robinson, born July 12/1868.
4/3. George Washington Robinson, born May 1/1874.
3/4. Smith Devoe Poole, born at Morrisania, October 20/1839.
2/5. Mary Poole, born at Morrisania, February 23/1804.
2/6. Elizabeth Poole, born at Morrisania, August 23/1807. She married
at Fordham, on November 9/1825, Jeremiah Cromwell of West Farms. The "History of Westchester, N.Y.", by the Reverend Robert Bolton, New York, 1905, says Jeremiah was descended from John and Mary Cromwell, the supposed son of Col. John Cromwell, who lived in Westchester Township in 1686: Col. John Cromwell was the son of Sir Oliver Cromwell of England, and a cousin of the renowned Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, (1599-1658). The Cromwells of Westchester were possessed of considerable property in Harrison, N.Y., their old homestead being on the south east side of Rye Pond. These Cromwells claim descent from the same parent stock as that of the Lord Protector of England.
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Issue:-
3/1. Townsend Poole Cromwell, born at Fordham, September 20/1826,
died September 14/1864 in the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Ga., buried in the National Andersonville Cemetery, Grave No. 8695. Like his illustrious ancestor Oliver Cromwell, he was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War, a private in Company C, sixth New York Artillery. Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia, 60 miles southwest of Macon, from November 1863 till the close of the Civil War, was a Confederate Military prison in an open stockade of 26 1/2 acres. The sufferings of the prisoners from congestion, insufficient food, exposure and pollution of the water supply, and disease, were terrible. Of the 49,485 prisoners, about 13,000 died. After the war, the superintendent, Henry Wirz, was tried by a court martial and hanged on November 10/1865. The prisoner's burial ground was made a National Cemetery, and contains 13,737 graves, of which 1040 are marked "unknown". Townsend Poole Cromwell married his cousin, Sarah Weeks, eldest daughter of John and Melicent (Poole) Weeks, see page 6. I have not been able to find the names of their children, if any.
3/2. Susannah Emily Cromwell, born February 26/1829.
3/3. Edmond Cromwell, born February 28/1831.
3/4. Williem Morris Cromwell, born November 28/1834.
3/5. Gilbert Guion Cromwell, (twin) born July 21/1841.
3/6. Euphemia Maria Cromwell, (twin), born July 21/1841.
1/2. Pierce Poole. born at Hempstead, L.I., before 1774, date of death
unknown. I cannot find the name of his wife, nor her birth and death dates. He moved to Monnisania with his parents some time before 1790. The Morrisania Census of 1800 records him as living there with his wife, both over 16 and under 26 years of age, with three daughters under ten years of age. The only records of him are as follows:- He and his father Solomon, witnessed the will of John Devoe, dated November 1/1804, whose wife was Maria Be Bevoise. This will mentioned daughters Effy (Euphemia) who married Pierce's elder brother Townsend Poole: Elizabeth Berrien, Anna Berrien, and Sarah Weeks Devoe. Pierce Poole signed as a witness on December 27/1803, the will of Hezekiah Ward. I am assuming the following were his daughters, whose marriages are recorded at the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham, as they do not belong to any of Pierce's brothers. He may have had sons born after the Morrisenia Census of 1800. Issue
2/1. Letitia Poole, dates of birth and death unknown, but she was under 10
years of age in 1800. She married at Fordham, on May 13/1828, Elijah Searing. I have not been able to find out anything of them.
2/2. Millicent Poole, dates of birth and death unknown, but she was
under 10 years of age in 1800. She married at Fordham, on November 12/1828 John Weeks, born 1805, died 1877, son of John and Sally (Devoe) Weeks. The "Genealogy of George Weekes of Dorchester, Mass by Robert P. Weeks, 1885, page 296, states that John and Millicent (Poole) Weeks lived at Tremont, the Bronx, N.Y., from 1828 to 1854, at East Chester from 1854 to 1865, and gives the names of their children as follows, who lived at Tremont, N.Y. until 1885: no birth or death dates given.
Issue: -
3/1. Sarah Weeks. She married her cousin Townsend Poole Cromwell,
born September 20/1826, cied at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Ga., September 14/1864, of scorbutus, son of Jeremiah
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and Elizabeth (Poole) Cromwell, see page 4 for further particulars
3/2. Frederick Weeks.
3/3. Mary Ann Weeks. She married at Fordham, on November 20/1856,
her cousin, Townsend Poole, born at Morrisania, April 7/1826, son of Solomon and Deborah (Corsa) Poole, see page 1. I have not found the names of their children, if any.
3/4. Jackson Weeks.
3/5. Elizabeth Weeks.
3/6. John M. Weeks.
3/7. George Augustus Weeks.
3/8. Jennie Weeks.
2/3. Daughter, name, birth and death dates unknown, mentioned in the
Morrisania Census of 1800 as one of Pierce Poole's three daughters.
1/3. Mary Poole. Born at Hempstead, L.I., February 10/1777, baptized at
St. George's Church, Hempstead, August 9/1783, died at Yonkers, N.Y., January 26/1859, buried in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers. (This and much of the below is from "Inscriptions in St. John's Cemetery", by Francis F. Spies, Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1927). Mary Poole was brought by her parents to Morrisania (now Westchester) some time before 1790: in 1851 she was recorded as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church at West Farms, Fordham, N.Y. She married at Fordham, (date not given), as his third wife, Andrew Corsa, born at Fordham, January 14/1762, died November 21/1852. He served as a soldier in the Revolution. Andrew was the second son of Isaac and Mary (Gibb) Corsa, and grandson of Benjamin and Jannetje (Reyers) Corsa. Andrew's father Isaac Corsa, (1735-1761), was captain of an expedition of 95 men against the French and Indians in 1755. Andrew's grandfather Benjamin (1692-1772), had his homestead on the grounds of the present Fordham University, and this house was still standing there in 1914, used as an infirmary. Benjamin Corsa's parentage is given in two different versions: one by Cuyler Reynolds in his "History of Southern New York", states that Benjamin's father was Cornelius Corsa, (1645-1692-3), who married Marritje Jacobs Van der Grift. Francis F. Spies, however, states that Benjamin's father was Jan Corszen, baptized at Recife, Brazil, August 1/1649, and that Jan's wife was Metje Gray, daughter of Theunis Gray, and that Jan was the son of Christiaen Janss Corsa and Jennetjen Christiaens of Hollend. I don't know, which is correct. The name Corsa appears in early Dutch records in a variety of forms, such as Corse, Corsa, Corsse, Corssen, and Coursen: the name appears to have been derived from Cornelius, as the Dutch often used many shortenings of names, Cornelius being shortened to Cors. In Westchester County, the family wrote it as Cursa, and the will of Benjamin is recorded under the name of Coursen. The first record of this family in America is of Cornelius Pieterse Vroom Corssen, who married Tryntje Hendricks: he died before 1657, and she married, 2nd, on August 17/1657, Frederick Lubbertse of Brooklyn, N.Y. Andrew Corsa had married, 1st, Helena Bussing, born October 28/1763, date of death unknown, daughter of Peter and Charity (Williams) Bussing. Andrew married, 2nd, Mary Bussing, born January 23/1766, sister of his first wife Helena, date of death unknown. Cuyler Reynolds "History of Southern New York", states that Andrew's first two wives, Helena and Mary Bussing, were daughters of Peter and Susannah (Myer) Bussing: I don't know which is correct. Not knowing the dates of Andrew's three marriages, I give below all his children, for I cannot tell who their mother's were: it is proved and recorded that his sixth to ninth children were by his third wife Mary Poole.
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Issue:- (by either his first or second wife)
2/1. John Corsa, born March 16/1796-8, died August 1876, buried in St
John's Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y. He married at Fordham, on September 21/l818, Dorcas ---, born May 21/1804, died July 2/1870, buried in St John's Centetery.
Issue
3/1. Helen Corsa, born January 12/1824, died August 17/1890, She married
William Ward, born November 13/1822-28, died November 1896.
2/2. Deborah Corsa, born 1798, died at Tremont, N.Y., January 30/1862.
She married at Fordham, on December 3/1823, Solomon Poole, born at Morrisania, January 11/1790, her cousin, son of Townsend and Euphemia (Devoe) Poole. See page 2 for their issue and further particulars.
2/3. Solomon Corsa, born April 9/1800, died March 21/1892, buried in
St.John's Cemetery, Yonkers. He married at Fordbam, on October 5/1825, Elizabeth Devoe, born March 1/1807, died July 12/1880 buried in St, John's Cemetery, Yonkers, daughter of John and Sarah (Weeks) Devoe, and grand daughter of John and Maria (De Bevoise) Devoe, see page 1.
Issue:- (only the first two recorded at Fordham)
3/1. Robert Weeks Poole Corsa, born at Fordham, July 31/1826.
3/2. Andrew Corsa, born at Fordham, December 17/1828.
3/3. Elizabeth Corsa,
3/4. Martha Corsa.
3/5. Edmund Corsa, born August 10/1836, died January 11/1860.
He married Hannah F-----.
Issue;-
4/1. Hannah F. Corsa, died May 22/1860, in infancy.
3/6. Matilda Corsa, born 1838, died 1870. She married Homer A. Kidd,
born 1830, died 1900, buried in Walden, N.Y.
3/7. Emma Corse, died April 4/l885, buried in St. John's Cernetery,
Yonkers. She married at Fordham in 1866, her cousin, John H. Devoe, born 1840, son of William Henry and Elizabeth (Corsa) Devoe, see page 7.
3/8. Harriet Corsa,
3/9. John Devoe Corsa, born February 7/1846, died December 11/1876.
3/10. J. Walton Corsa, born Janusry 14/1850, died December 11/1874.
2/4. Ellenor Corsa, born April 19/1803, died July 19/1819, unmarried.
2/5. Martha Corsa, born December 29/1805, died in December 1873. She married
at Fordham, on October 12/1825, Peter Bussing, born October 10/1792, died October 7/1864, son of John and Sarah (Valentine) Bussing. He was one of the first trustees of the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham. He was a dieect descendant of Arent Hermanse Bussing, who came from the province of Westphalia, Germany, on the border of the Overyssel, Holland, about the middle of the 17th century, settled first in Flatbush, L.I., then in Harlem, N.Y., where he bought 127 acres in what is now Washington Heights. His wife was Susannah de Ia Maistre, later spelled Delemater. (This is from "The History of Harlem", by James Riker, New York, 1904).
Issue:- (all born in Morrisania)
3/1. Matilda Ann Bussing, born October 16/1827.
3/2. Martha Bussing, born April 7/1829.
3/3. John Bussing, born May 1/1831, died January 8/1877.
He married on July 8/1863, Amanda Valentine.
Issue:- (born in Morrisania)
4/1 .Martha Valentine Bussing, born April 10/1864, died unmarried.
4/2. Mary Bussing. She married on July 2/1890, Relph O. Ives,
and had one child.
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4/3. Sarah Amanda Bussing, born November 6/1871, died unmarried.
4/4. John Bussing, born July 15/1877, died unmarried.
3/4. Mary Bussing, born September 1/1833. She married at Fordham on
November 15/1853, William Johnson of Mott Haven or Carmansville.
3/5. Peter Washington Bussing, born February 22/1836, died young,
3/6. Hannah Bussing, born October 7/1838, died unmarried,
3/7. Martha Jane Bussing, born June 7/1841. She married at Fordham on
May 20/1862, James B. Sheridan of Philadelphia and had four children.
3/8. Peter Valentine Bussing, born August 20/1843, died 1902 unmarried.
3/9. Sarah Elizabeth Bussing, born February 2O/1847,
died January 31/1863, unmarried.
2/6. Letitia Corsa, born August 19/1809, died December 1/1879, buried in
St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y. Her mother was Mary Poole. She married at Fordham on December 5/1826, Christopher Walton, born March 20/1801-1810, died November 10/1864. In 1868 she moved to White Plains, N.Y.
Issue:- (all born in Morrisania)
3/1. Mary Walton, born November 1/1827.
3/2. Elizabeth Walton, born April 10/1829, died at Yonkers,
September 11/1830.
3/3. Hannah Elizabeth Walton, born July 23/1830, died October 21/1831.
3/4. Matilda A. Walton, born September 4/1832, died February 8/1885.
She married, 1st, Charles L. Nodine, buried in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers, She married, 2nd, as his second wife, on February 22/1860, Samuel Gregory, born at Danbury, Conn., February 26/1823, died June 5/1905, son of Preston and Clara (Hickok) Gregory. Sanuel was first, adjutant, then Commander of the Volunteers in 1862-1863, and later Colonel in the Miilitia: lived in Danbury.
Issue:- (by her first husband Charles L. Nodine)
4/1. Emma Nodine, born November 11/1851, died July 11/1853.
Issue:- (by her second husband Samuel Gregory)
4/2. Sarah Walton Gregory, born January 31/1862.
3/5. Sarah Maria Walton, born June 26/1837.
3/6. Isaac Poole Walton, born January 7/1840.
3/7. Samuel James Walton, born October 13/1842.
3/8. William Andrew Walton, born January 7/1846.
2/7. Hannah Corsa, born March 20/1812, died October 1/1878.
Her mother was Mary Poole. She was buried in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers. She married Elisha Hallar or Haller, born November 3/1793, died March 19/1869, a merchant in New York City.
2/8. Elizabeth Corsa, born May 13/1815, died June 1/1885.
She married, 1st, at Fordham, on July 12/1837, William Henry Devoe, born 1811, died before 1851. She married, 2nd, John Aitchison, a soldier in Company A, 17th New York Infantry in the Civil war. Both are buried in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers.
Issue:- (by her first husband William Henry Devoe)
3/1. John H. Devoe, born 1840. He married in 1866, his cousin,
Emma Corsa, who died April 4/1885, daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Devoe) Corsa, see page 6.
Issue
4/1. Chauncey Levoe, born 1874, lived in Highbridge, N.Y.
2/9. Amelia Corsa, born March 2/1816-20, died May 20/1887, buried in
St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers. She married at Fordham on January
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28/1843, Thomas Oliver, born January 1/1809, died May 17/1881, son
of Nicholas and Mary (Hobbs ) Oliver.
Issue :-
3/1. Thomas Oliver, born at Bath, England, April 2/1844,
Died
1921. He was a soldier in Company G, 37th New York Volunteers
in the Civil War. He mairried in 1866, Emma L. Browne, born
July 27/1846, died in September 1900.
Issue
4/1. Hattie Oliver, born October 17/1871,
died May 4/1894: single.
1/4. Jackson Poole. Dates of birth and death unknown but he was born
before 1774, as the New York census of 1790 said he was over 16 years of age. He was not mentioned in the Morrisania Census of 1800. He married at the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham, on November 12/1808, Mary Eleanor Corsa, born January 22/1786, date of death unknown. I have not discovered the names of her parents, but there is a record of the marriage at Hempstead, L.I., on April 4/1769, of Benjemin and Jemima (Chapple) Corsa: could these be her parents?
Issue:- (from the Dutch Reformed Church Records)
2/1. Eleanor Poole, born at Morrisania, June 24/1812, died March 21/1815
2/2. Mary Poole, born at Morrisania, April 14/1815, date of death not known.
There was a Mary Poole who married at Fordham, on November 16/1830, a James Poole: could he have been a son of Pierce Poole, page 4, born after the 1800 Census? I cannot find anything about them.
2/3. Isaac Poole, born at Morrisania, July 9/1818, died at Little Neck,
L.I., April 29/1900, buried in Christ Church Cemetery, Manhasset, L.I. He married at Fordham, on February 25/l840, Sarah Ann Valentine, born at Fordham, March 17/1819, died at Little Neck, June 3/1889, daughter of Peter and Mary (Briggs) Valentine, who were married at Fordham on December 19/1812. Sarah was buried at Christ Church Cemetery, Manhasset, L.I., with two of her children.
Issue:- (given me by William Wilkins Robinson)
3/1. Amanda Poole, born at Morrisania, February 14/1840 (?),
Died at Great Neck, L.I., September 29/1928, buried in Christ church Cemetery, Manhasset. She married, 1st, at Little Neck, on May 7/1867, Theron Robinson, born at Chaplin, Conn, February 19/1835, died at New Haven, Conn., November 3/1877, son of Willian and Sophia (Robbins) Robinson, his second wife. Theron came to Little Neck to teach school, then to Lakeville, L.I., but on account of his health moved to New Haven, where he had a grocery store. Theron was a direct descendant of the Reverend John Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrims at Leyden, Holland, born at Sturton, Lincolnshire, England, in 1575, and his wife Bridget Whyte, who were married on Fehruary 15/1603-4. The Reverend John Robinson was the one who gathered together the band of Pilgrims, who came to England on the "Mayflower" in 1621: he died in England before they sailed. His son Isaac was the progenitor of the Robinson family in America. (This is from the "Genealogy of the Robinson Family in America", by the Robinson Genealogy Society of Newport, R.I.) Amanda married, 2nd, at Little Neck, Benjamin Edgar Williams, born May 19/1842, died May 24/1892, son of William and his second wife Cecilia (Dicks) Williams. Benjamin was a farmer at Lakeville, and at Plattsdale, L.I.
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Issue:- (by her first husband Theron Robinson)
4/1. Isaac Poole Robinson, horn at Little Neck, May 5/1868,
Died there August 17/1937, buried in Douglaston, L.I. He was an architect. He married at Little Neck, on April 30/1894, Maria Anderson Fowler, born there, June 16/1868, daughter of Benjamin 1817-1892) and Ellen Maria (Bennem) 1827-1894) Fowler. In 1949 Maria lived at 41-32 Landing Road, Little Neck, L.I., (phone Bayside 9-4983-J).
Issue:- (all born at Little Neck, L.I.)
5/1. Hope Robinson, born July 26/1896.
She married in New York City, on May 19/1937, Samuel Tilden Swenarton, born at Newtown, L.I., March 17/1885, son of Robert and Laura Jenkins (Wood) Swenarton. Samuel was in the printing business: they had no children.
5/2. Evelyn Bennem Robinson, born May 1/1899.
In 1949 she was a librarian at the New York Public Library, 135th St branch and lived with her mother. She was not married.
4/2. Charles Granville Robinson, born at Little Neck, April 14/1871.
He married on March 21/1905, Nellie Pirnie Onderdonk, born November 3/1868, eldest child of Benjamin Hoogland and Mary Adelaide (Underhill) Ondordonk. They had no children and in 1949 lived at 7t Fifth St., Orange, N.J.
4/3. Willian Wilkins Robinson, born at New Havn, Conn., April 9/1875.
He was in the plumbing business and in 1949 lived at 15 Arbor Road, Great Neck, phone 2-2146. He married, lst, at East Northfield, Mass., on October 4/1905, Henrietta Newton, born there December 3/1882, died at Great Neck, September 3/1905 in childbirth, daughter of Edward H. and Mary (Carp) Newton. He married, 2nd, at Little Neck, on April 10/1910, Mary Jane Onderdonk, born at Glen Cove, L.I., October 21/1875, third child of Benjamin Hoogland and Mary Adelaide (Underhill) Onderdonk of Thomaston, Conn. They had no children.
Issue :- (by his first wife Henrietta Newton)
5/1. Jeanette Newton Robinson, born at Great Neck,
September 3/1905. She married at the Dutch Reformed Church, Manhasset, on August 4/1927, Lewis Franklin Kayel, born at Brooklyn, N.Y., April 9/1896, son of Joseph and Mary Royal, He was a salesman with Mack Trucks and later with the General Salvage Co., Hempstead, L.I. In 1949 they lived at Greendale, L.I.
Issue:-
6/1. Michael Robinson Kayel, Born in N.Y. City, Nov 18/1934.
4/4. Theron Le Roy Robinson, born in New Haven, July 5/1877,
died at Great Neck, May 6/1947, buried in Bantam, Conn. He was a building contractor. He married at Bantam on June 22/1912, Flora Glover, born at Bantam, June 3/1888, daughter of Monshel H. and Lucy (Morse) Glover. In 1949 they lived at 21 Third Street, Great Neck, L.I.
Issue:-
5/1. Louise Glover Robinson, born at Manhasset, July 3/1914.
She married at Great Neck, on September 11/1937, Carl Emden Habermann, born in New York City, March 24/1915, son of Charles and Mathilda (Kahn) Habernann. Charles was born at Hanau, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau,
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14 miles from Frankfurt, and came to New York in 1888, and died in 1949. In 1949 Carl was supervisor in the automotive engineering division of Socony-Vacuum's laboratory: in 1950 he transferred to the Research division at Paulsboro, N.J., and they lived at 48 Beachwood Road, Manhasset, L.I.
Issue:-
6/1. Richard Carl Habermann, born September 5/1940.
6/2. Joan Louise Habermann, born July 13/1944.
5/2. Lucy Amanda Robinson, born at Mineola, L.I.,
September 25/1926. She married at Great Neck on April 20/1946, John Franklin Holton, born at Macon Ga., February 22/1922, son of Benjamin Franklin and Essie (Williams) Holton. John was a marine engineer and in 1949 they lived at 21 Third St., Great Neck, LI. They had no children.
Issue:- (by her second husband Benjamin Edgar Williams)
4/5. Sarah Cecilia Williams, born at Plattsdale, L.I.,
December 8/1881. She married at Great Neck on June 8/1912, Clarence Mortimer Onderdonk, born July 11/1879, fourth child of Benjamin Hoogland and Mary Adelaide (Underhill) Onderdonk. For twenty years Clarence had been a building pricer in the Assessor's office at Hempstead and in 1940 they lived at 96 Millington Place, Mineola, L.I. The "Genealogy of the Onderdonk Family", by Andrew I. Onderdonk, New York, 1910, states that the first Onderdonk emigrant to America may have been Dr. Adrian Var Der Donck or his brother Daniel, but it has sincs been proved that the progenitor of all the Onderdonks in America was Andries (or Adrianse) Onderdonk, born 1653, died 1686 at Jamaica, L.I., and his wife Maria Van Der Vliet of Cow Neack, near Manhasset L.I.
Issue
5/1. Benjamin Edgar Onderdonk, died at birth, December 11/1915.
3/2. Jane Haskin Poole, born August 2/1843, died at Great Neck, L.I,
May 25/1891, buried in the Quaker Cemetary, Manhassat . She married at Little Neck on June 17/1874, John Willets, born March 31/1841, died March 21/1888, ninth son of Daniel (Feb 11/1799-Oct 24/1850) and Jane Willets. John Willets was a Quaker and a farmer at Manhasset. The first Willets to come to America was Richard, born at Butcorm, Somersetshire, England in 1612, died 1664-5: he married before 1650, Mary Washburne, dauqhter of William and Jane Washburne: he came to Hempstead in 1657 and was Surveyor of Highways: he removed to Jericho among the early settlers of that place. His son Thomas, born March 1650, died April 15/1714, married at Secatague, L.I., Dinah Townsend, born at Warwick, L.I. in 1651, died at Secatague, October 18/1732, daughter of Richard and Deliverance (Coles) Townsend, and had nine children, see subject 616, page 4.Issue:- (all born at Manhasset, both parents over 35 years old)
4/1. Arthur Willets born January 22/1878. Educated at Manhasset and
Little Neck schools and High School at Flushing. Being orphaned when he was 13 years old, he went to Watts Flats, Chant County, N.Y., where his uncle George Willets lived. In 1900 at 22 years of age, he bought a partnership in a General store there. He married at Watts Flats on September
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20/1900, Gertrude Grace Bagley, born at Coneawago Valley, Catt County, N.Y., August 14/1878, daughter of William Henry and Cynthia Rebecca (---) Bagley of Watts Flats. In 1906, on account of health, he sold his business and removed to Great Neck, and went into the plumbing and heating business, and sheet metal and roofing business. in 1909 he returned to Watts Flats and worked up a good business in the same line until the first World War in 1914, when prices went so high it wrecked his business. He then removed to Erie, Pa., and established business in sheet metal work for eight years. In 1922 he removed to Westfield, N.Y., and bought a grape farm, and raised grapes until prohibition killed the price of grapes. His brother John Amos Willets also had a grape farm there at the same time. Arthur then removed to a farm in Washinston County, N.Y., near Ticonderoga and farmed it until 1945, when be removed to De Land, Florida, where in 1949 they lived at 642 North Hayden Avenue,
Issue:- (all born in Watts Flats)
5/1. Arthur William Willets, born June 26/1902.
In 1949 he was with the New York Life Insurance Co., and they lived at 1162 West 10th St., Erie, Pa. He married at Erie on October 24/1924, Bernadette Leamcy or Leamy of Erie: they had no children.
5/2. Leslie V. Willets , born September 14/1934, now dead.
5/3. Richard marvin Willets, born May 3/1910. In 1953 he joined
Swift & Co., Chicago and in 1949 they lived at 600 East 83rd St., Erie, Pa. He married at Jersey City, on April 17/1936, Edith M. Davis, born there September 9/1917, daughter of William and Mollie (Collins) Davis of Hasbrook Heights, N.J.
Issue:- (1&2 born at Hasbrook Heights, 3 at Chicago)
6/1. Patricia Willets, born June 2/1938.
6/2. Richard William Willets, born October 30/1943.
6/3. Lourie Jane Willets, born March 27/1947.
5/4. Viola Jane Willets, born July 30/1912. In the second World
War she served with the WACS: her husband also was in the Army. She married at De Land, Fla., on April 25/1943, Frederick Hartleb of Erie, born October 30/1910, son of Peter F. and Frances (---) Hartleb. In 1950 Frederick was a salesman and route supervisor for the Erie Daily Times, and they lived at 605 West 8th St, Erie. They had no children.
4/2. Samuel Jackson Willets, born June 6/1880. Since his 18th year
he was in the printing business and in 1949 was with the B.T. Press, William H. Beattie proprietor at 6235-43 Linwood Ave., Detroit, Mich. He married at Jamestown, N.Y. on October 6/1907, Grace Sarah Morningstar, born at Warren, Pa., October 29/1887, died October 30/1939, daughter of Elias and Lillian (Rappole) Morningstar of Warren and Jamestown, where Grace was educated. In 1949 they lived at 6239 Linwood Ave., Detroit 8 Mich.
Issue:-
5/1. Laura Beatrice Willets, born at Jamestown, N.Y., August
24/1908. She married at Toledo, Ohio, on April 28/1934,
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Lincoln Claude Welsh, born at Haskins, Ohio, November 15/1908, son of William and Diana (Demuth) Welsh. In 1949 Lincoln was manager of the catalogue department of the Toledo Steel Products Co., and they lived at Waterville, Ohio, Box 212.
Issue: -
6/1. William Lincoln Welsh, born at Toledo, July 7/1938.
5/2. Samuel Jackson Willets, Jr., born at Jamestown, N.Y.,
March 19/1914. In 1949 he was a Remodelling contractor at Toledo, Ohio. He married at Toledo in Gotober 23/1948, Ethel (Minnick) Brown, born at Toledo daughter of Claude Levi and Christina Florence (Spuehler) Minnick, and the former wife of Mr. Brown: they lived at 962 South Street, Toledo, Ohio.
Issue:-
6/1. Steven Michael Willets, born at Toledo, Sept 25/1949,
5/3. Donald Rappole Willets, born at Toledo, O., August 7/1917.
In 1949 he was a sales;an with the Buckeye Supply Appliance Co., Toledo, sporting goods, and lived at 2446 Evans St, He was not married.
5/4. Robert Eugene Willets, born at Toledo, O., November 5/1919.
He married at Toledo, on June 12/1942, Mary Kathleen Kirkman, born at Toledo, December 26/1922, daughter of Cloid and Ruth (Patton) Kirkmian. In 1949 Robert was an auto salesman and accountant with the Bauer-Harrington Auto Sales Co., and they lived at 423 Waggoner Boulevard, Toledo, Ohio.
4/3. Laura Deborah Willets, born September 19/1882. She married,
1st, at Great Neck, on September 3/1904, Frank Warren Place, born December 3/1870, died January 20/1929, son of Warren and Sophia Place, of 281 Lawrence St., Flushing, L.I. Frank was a forwarding agent. She married, 2nd, at Manhasset, on March 6/1948, Harold Leslie Bell, son of William Henry and Minnie (Chapman) Bell. Harold was a manufacturers representative at Marlow, N.H., where they lived on Forest Road.
Issue:- (by her first husband Frank Warren Place)
5/1. Frank Roger Place, born at Flushing, August 26/1908.
He served in the second World War in the U.S. Navy, as first Cless storekeeper at Staten Island, and on Guam Island. He married on July 3/1941, Ruth Gallaher, born at Flushing, February 21/1908, daughter of Frank and Mona Gallaher. They had no children. In 1949 Frank owned the Pierce & Place Garage, at 214-19, 42nd Ave., Bayside, L.I., and they lived at Levittown, L.I.
5/2. Laura Vivian Place, born at Flushing, September 23/1912.
She married on September 15/1934, her second cousin Charles Earle Willets, born at Manhasset, November 9/1906, son of William Duryea and Ida May (Dodge) Willets, who were married on November 22/1882. In 1949 Charles was a maintenance man with the Manhasset & Lakeville Fire Dept, and they lived at 137 Hillcrest Ave, Manhasset, L.I. William Duryea's father was the eldest brother of Vivian's grandfather John Willets, who married Jane Haskins Poole. William Duryas's father was Charles H. Willets, who married Anby Duryea.
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Issue:-
6/1. Warren Place Willets, born April 15/1944.
4/4. John Amos Willetts, born March 19/1887. He spells his name with
two ts. He was a tool and die maker by trade, and for many years was a factory superintendent with the Tamar Slide Fastener Corp,, 120 East 16th St,, New York City. He married at Jamestown, N.Y., on June 12/1906, Ethel Irene Wellman, born at Watts Flats, N.Y., June 9/1888, daughter of Edmund P. and Alice (Sharp) Wellman of Watts Flats. In 1949 they lived at 218 Prospect Place, Brooklyn 17 N.Y.
Issue:-
5/1. John Vincent Willetts, born at Westfield, N.Y.,
April 17/1915. In 1949 he was not married.
5/2. Mary Elizabeth Willetts, born at Westfield, N.Y., August
5/1917 She married at Meadville, Pa., on June 20/1937, William Clair Sherwood, born at Meadville, April 26/1916, son of William and Rose (Hessinger) Sherwood. In 1949 William was a mechanic at the Newcastle Engineering Works and they lived at 1010 Beckford St., Newcastle, Pa.
Issue:- (all born at Newcastle, Pa)
6/1. John Willetts Sherwood, born May 13/1940.
6/2. Allan Murray Sherwood, born September 15/1943.
5/3. Doris Jane Willetts, born September 26/1919. She married at
the Spencer Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, on November 22/1944, Stanley Brucker Chapman, M.D., born at Ridgefield Park, N.J. son of Henry S. and Augusta (Brucker) Chapman of Bath, N.Y. In 1949 they lived at 132 West Morris St., Bath, N.Y.
Issue
6/1. Stanley Willetts Chapman, born at Brooklyn, Aug 2/1946.
6/2. John Henry Chapman, born at Bath, September 11/1947.
3/3. Mary Helen Poole, born June 6/1852, died January 8/1877, buried
in Christ Church Cemetary, Manhasset. She was not married.
3/4. Isaac Jackson Poole, born in New York City, November 21/1853,
died at his home in Searingtown, L.I., November 23/1918, buried with his wife in Christ Church Cemetery, Manhasset. He was a truck farmer. He married on July 14/1888, Abby Fowler, born March 16/1859, died February 3/1917, daughter of Benjamin and Ellen Maria (Bennem) Fowler, elder sister of her nephew Isaac Poole Robinson's wife.
Issue:- (all born in Little Neck, L.I.)
4/1. Lester Jackson Poole, born February 7/1889.
In 1949 he was a civil engineer with the Great A & P Co., at 420 Lexington Ave., New York City, and lived at 41-36 Little Neck Parkway. He married at Little Neck, on March 8/1916, Josephine Coyle, born at Brooklyn, December 25/1893, daughter of James Augustus and Josephine (Walter) Coyle.
Issue:- (all born at Little Neck)
5/1. James Jackson Poole, born November 28/1922. In 1949 he was
an accountant with S.D. Leidersdorf, New York City. He married on August 14/1948, Betty Wagstaff Young, born March 11/1923, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Wagstaff) Young.
5/2. Abby Jane Poole, born April 3/1928.
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4/2. Myron Valentine Poole, born April 14/1890.
He married at Mineola, on May 13/1916, Anna Skinner, born there June 1/1891. daughter of Henry Wickham and Phebe Ann (Van Nostrand) Skinner. In 1949 they lived at 188 Pomander Road, Mineola, L.I.
Issue:- (both born at Mineola)
5/1.Dorothy Ann Poole , born May 15/1920.
She married at Mineola on July 4/1947, John Coger Martling, born at East Norwich, L.I., February 20/1913, son of Percy and Dorothy (Hall) Martling. In 1949 John was with the Nassau Co., engineers, and their address was East Norwich, Box 35. The History of Staten Island by Charles W. Lang, New York, 1930, Vol 2, states that the first Martling in America was Barent Martling, born in Staten Island in 1676, son of Johannes Martling, a Huegenot who fled from France to the island of St Eustace, in the Leeward Islands, West Indies, and then to America. Barent married in 1702, Deliante (Deborah) Van Namen. In 1918 he served in the militia and in 1736 he was a Justice of the Peace in Staten Island.
Issue:- (born at East Norwich, L.I.)
6/1. John Coger Martling, born February 14/1948.
6/2. Robert Mott Martling, born February 28/1950.
5/2. Janet Skinner Poole, born May 13/1924.
She married at East Norwich on August 9/1948, Leonard Woodhall Martling, born at East Norwich, December 19/1919., son of Percy and Dorothy (Hall) Martling. In 1950 Leonard was with the Jericho Water District, East Norwich, L.I.
Issue:-
6/1. Leonard Woodhall Martling, born June 13/1950.
4/3. Edgar Willets Poole, born March 22/1891, a farmer.
He married at Freehold, N.J., on April 26/1919, Clara Elizabeth Pine born at Mineola January 7/1892, daughter of George W. and Sedalia (Carman) Pine. In 1951 they lived at Gordon Corner Road R.D.I., Freehold, N.J.
Issue:- (both born at Freehold)
5/1. Carolyn Carman Poole, born June 13/1921.
5/2. Harriet Abby Poole, born November 10/1925.
In 1949 she worked at the Boyce Thompson Institute, Yonkers, plant research. She married at Freehold, on December 18/1950, Arch Mathews, born at Sea Cliff, L.I., November 23/1921, son of Samuel George and Lillian Mae (Buck) Mathews of Southfield, Mass., a retired commercial artist. In 1951 Arch was a senior at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where they lived at Federal Circle, Apt H-5.
4/4. Sanfora Gowdy Poole, born August 1/1892, died at Little Neck,
July 22/1950. He was a partner in Read & Poole, Gulf Oil Filling Station, corner of Northern Boulevard and Middleneck Road, Great Neck, L.I. He married in 1918, Isabel Heather, born June 26/1896, daughter of Frederick and Isabel (Bunn) Heather. In 1950 they lived at 48-11 Browvale Drive, Little Neck, L.I.
Issue: (both born at Little Neck)
5/1. Isabel Vira Poole, born December 31/1919. She married at
Little Neck, on October 19/1946, Robert Roy Brown, born at Hagerstown, Md., July 4/1917, son of Thomas Luke and Mabel (Hashinger) Brown of Great Neck. In 1951 Robert
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was with Duffy-Mott Co., Inc. New York City, handling orders and shipments of fruit products. After their marriage they lived at 335 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, but in 1949 they moved to Millersville, Penn.
Issue:-
6/1. Susan Jane Brown, born February 13/1948.
6/2. Robert Roy Brown, born July 3/1950.
5/2. Margaret Jean Poole, born May 31/1927
4/5. Ida Maria Poole, born May 20/1898. She married at Little Neck on
October 15/1927, Frederick Heather, born there October 3/1904., son of Frederick and Isabel (Bunn) Heather. He was a builder and in 1949 they lived at 48-17 Browvale Drive, Little Neck, L.I.
5/1. Lois Heather, born at Little Neck, September 29/1929.
3/5. Ida Maria Poole, born August 31/1855, died at Pelham, N.Y., June
9/1942, aged 57 years, buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead, L.I. She married at Little Neck on April 19/1882, James Harvey L'Hommedieu, Jr., born at Great Neck February 7/1856, died in New York City, October 15/1912, son of James Harvey and Henrietta (Good) L'Hommedieu. James Senior built the Cathedral and St. Paul's School at Garden City, L.I. James junior had a business in building materials, coal, wood and hardware at Pelham, N.Y. Benjamin F. Thompson's History of Long Island, states that the first L'Hommedieu to come to America, was Benjamin L'Hommedieu, born 1656, a Huguenot refugee from the old town of La Rochelle, capital of the Dept of Charante-Inferieur, 90 miles south east of Nantes on the Paris-Bordeaux Railway. From the 14th to the 16th century, La Rochelle was one of the greatest seaports of France. Its old Episcopal Palace was occupied in turn by Sully, Prince of Conde, then Louis the 13th and Anne of Austria, and the scene of the marriage of Alphonse VI of Portugal with a princess of Savoy. Under Louis, it became the head of the Huguenot party, and the principal port between France and the Colony of Canada. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, caused some thousands of its most industrious citizens to emigrate, and this ruined its commerce. Amongst these was Benjemin L'Hommedieu, who came to Southold, L.J., in 1686, where he died in l748. He had a house and store there on the corner of Town St. and Harbor Lene, and was a merchant and a man of prominence. He married the daughter of Nathaniel and Margaret (Robert) Sylvester of Shelter Island, L.I. The Sylvesters came from the Barbadoes, and were Lords of the Manor at Shelter Island. He had two sons, 1st, Benjamin. who married Martha Bourne, parents of Ezra L'Hommedieu, born August 30/1734, died September 27/1811, graduated from Yale University in 1754. Ezra married, 1st, on December 24/1756, Charity Floyd, daughter of Nicoll Floyd of Brookhaven, L.I., who died July 31/1785: Ezra married, 2nd, on June 15/1793, Catherine Havens, daughter of Nicoll Havens of Shelter Island. Ezra was a famous lawyer, elected to the Provincial Congress of New York from 1779 to 1788, and a member of the New York Senate until his death: he had an only daughter. The first Benjamin's second son was Sylvester L'Hommedieu, one of 20 men who originated the town of Shelter Island, incorporated in 1730. Sylvester was the father of Samuel L'Hommedieu of Sag Harbor, the progenitor of all the
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L'Hommedieus of Long Island. Issue:-
4/1. Le Roy L'Hommedieu, born at Great Neck, October 22/1887.
He married in New York City, on April 21/1917, Beatrice Clementine Mott, born at Utica, N.Y., April 15/l895, died at Rahway, N.J.., December 9/1919, daughter of Joseph Clement and Clara (Vandenburg) Mott. In 1949 Roy worked at the Lenox Laundry, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and lived with his sister Sara Gould.
Issue:-
5/1. Richard Harvey L'Hommedieu, born at Rahway, N.J.,
December 6/l9l7. He married at the Bronx, N.Y., on July 27/1945, Kathleen O'Connor, born at Brooklyn, March 25/1923, daughter of Thomas and Rhetta O'Connor. In 1949 Richard was an engineer at the Lenox Laundry and they lived at 7 Lockwood St., Eastchester, N.Y.
Issue :- (born at Washington Heights, N.Y.)
6/1. Lynn L'Hommedieu, born July 28/1946
4/2. Sara L'Hommedieu, born at Great Neck, June 25/1889.
She married in New York City, on December 29/1915, Floyd Trafford Gould, born at Flushing, L.I., May 19/1888, died at Montclair, N.J., June 6/1934, son of Ora Bancroft and Maria Estelle (Trafford) Gould. Floyd was a bond salemian, Federal Reserve Bank, New York City. In 1949 Sara lived at 643 Lafayette Ave., Mt. Vernon, N.Y. (Phone 7-5608)
Issue -
5/1. Floyd Trafford Gould, born in New York City, June 16/1917.
He served in the 2nd World War in the U.S. Army Chemical Division: saw action in Europe and the South Pacific. In 1949 was Captain, Officers Reserve Corps and studying to be an executive secretary: unmarried: lived with his mother.
5/2. Glenn L'Hommedieu, born at Montclair. N.J. July 7/1919.
He served in the war with the U.S. Wavy, a fighter pilot on the aircraft Carrier "Saratoga" in the South Pacific. In 1949 was Lt. U.S. Naval Reserve, and a mechanical engineer with J.G. White Engineering Corp, New York City: unmarried and lived with his mother.
4/3. Jeanette Hall L'Hommedieu, born at Freeport, L.I., February
16/1897. She married in New York City, on October 26/1918, Herbert Vernon Taylor, born at Mt. Vernon, September 19/1894, son of Theodore and Clara (Kapp) Taylor. In 1949 Herbert was owner and president of the Lenox Laundry, Mt. Vernon, and they lived at 10 Sturgis Road, Bronxville . They had no children.
2/4. Samuel Jackson Poole, born at Fordham, N.Y., September 22/1830.
He moved to Ninevah and Deposit, hear Binghampton, N.Y., a farmer. Name of wife unknown: he had a son William Henry Poole. Miss Hope Robinson has a recollection that Samuel was rather a cousin than the son of Jackson Poole: as he was born 12 years after his elder brother, she may be correct, I cannot trace him or his son.
1/5. Elizabeth Poole, Born before 1767, date of death unknown.
She married a Mr. Archer. That she was one of Solomon Poole's daughters is proved in the wills of her aunt Jamima and uncle Townsend's wills, who called her Elizabeth Archer. I cannot trace either of them.
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64B - WILLIAM POOLE.
Was the third son of Pierce Poole, by his second wife Sarah Pearse (spelled Pierce in St. George's Church Records, Hempstead), see subject 54.
William Poole's birth date is unknown, but it was 1741 or after. His will, in the New York Historical Society's Collections, Abstracts of Wills, Vol 12, page 40, dated March 6/1779, proved March 29/1783, left his moveable estate to be sold and the proceeds to be divided as follows:- One fourth to wife Mary Langdon, three fourths to daughters Sarah, Lette and Elizabeth Poole, equally to be divided among them: when they reach the age of 18, Lands, tenements, &c., to be sold and the proceeds, after debts and funeral expenses are paid, to sons Thomas and Pearse, equally to be divided and paid when Peerse is 21 years of age. Wife Mary to have the interest of the money for the bringing up of the children till they are of age. I appoint my executors, my brother in law Archelos Langdon and my wife Mary. The will of William's wife Mary (Langdon) Poole, dated May 23/1793, proved June 22/1793, mentioned as her heirs, daughters Sarah Wright, Letitia Vernon, and Elizabeth, and son Pearce Poole: executors James Poole and Daniel Hewlett: witnesses Charles Wright and Samuel Langdon.
William Poole married, date unknown, Mary Langdon, dates of birth and death unknown, daughter of Ezekiel and Sarah Langdon of Hempstead, L.I. Ezekiel's will, in Vol 6, page 7 of the New Historical Society's Abstracts of Wills, dated August 3/1760, proved October 25/1750, mentions sons Richard, Archelos and Samuel, and daughters Mary, Elizabeth and Milley, who were all minors in 1760.
Issue:
1/1. Sarah Poole. Dates of birth and death unknown. She married, on
June 24/1792, Charles Wright of Oyster Bay, (1st Presbyterian Church Records). Queen's County Abstracts of Wills, Vol 4, p 22, gives the will of Charles Wright, dated July 20/1844, proved May 28/1845, in which he mentions his wife Sarah and the following children: executors James and Jackson Vernon.
Issue:-
2/1. Hannah Wright. Charles' will also mentions her daughter Hannah.
2/2. Mott Wright
2/3. William Poole Wright.
2/4. Pierce Poole Wright.
2/5. Stephen Wright.
2/6. Phebe Wright.
2/7. Letitia Wright.
1/2. Letitia (Lette) Poole. Born 1769, died August 10/1850, aged 91 years.
She married John Vernon, who died in 1814. His will in Queen's County Abstract of Wills, dated January 20/1814, proved June 16/3.814, states that he was of Norwich in the township of Oyster Bay. Her brother Pierce's will called her Rolettashee. Henry M. Stotenburg's History of Oyster Bay, states that during the Revolutionary War, John Vernon, a young Englishman came to America and settled in Philadelphia, and when that town was in the possession of the British forces, John was pressed into the service of the British Army, and being a capable teamster, was sent to Hempstead, L.I., from whence it was his duty to convey provisions to English ships anchored at Lloyd's Neck, L.I. One dark night, Vernon deserted and found a house with a Quaker family named Jackson of Syosset, L.I. After the war, John married Letitia Poole at Brooklyn, and began farming and subsequently purchased a farm in East Norwich, L.I., where he lived until his death.
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Issue:-
2/1. William Vernon, born 1792, died February 3/1871. He married Margaret
Suydam, baptized January 4/1796, died July 8/1876, daughter of ---- and Mary (---) Suydam, and grand daughter of Cornelius and Antye (Nostrand) Suydam.
Issue:-
3/1. Percival Vernon. He married, 1st, on December 14/1845, Sarah Van
Wincklen, born March 3/l824 daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montfoort) Van Wincklen, and had two children. He married, 2nd, Phebe Smith and had one son by her.
3/2. Thomas Poole Vernon, born 1823, died March 7/1899.
He married Phebe Snediker, born 1828, died October 26/1890, daughter of John R. and Deborah (Lewis) Snediker, and had four children.
3/3. Jackson Vernon. He married Mary L. Baylis, daughter of
George and Jane (Waldron) Baylis.
3/4. Samuel Vernon. No data.
3/5. Martha Vernon. She married James Isaac Waldron,
born February 25/1833, died October 18/1902, son of James and Hannah Moore (Hendricksen) Waldron, and had four children. He was a wheel wright at East Norwich, Oyster Bay, L.I.
3/6. Letitia Vernon. She married on February 11/1852, John Van Wicklen
born May 20/1818, died at Roslyn, L.I., August 3/1853. They had no children.
3/7. Mary Ann Vernon. no data.
2/2. James Vernon, born November 15/1794, died April 16/1880.
He married Ann Hendrickson, born 1797, died April 4/1882, daughter of Carman H. Hendrickson.
Issue:-
3/1. John Vernon, born February 21/1820, died February 25/1898.
He married Sarah Hendrickson.
Issue :-
4/1. William Vernon, born April 20/1850. He married on April 20/1881
Mary L. Dowling, born November 12/1854. at the Court House when he was Sheriff, daughter of George S. and Rachel (Bedell) Dowling.
Issue :-
5/1. John Vernon, born August 20/1882, died February 21/1903.
5/2. George Dowling Vernon, born November 21/1885,
died July 19/1889.
5/3. William Vernon, born February 1888.
4/2. Marianna Vernon, born November 26/1851.
She married on May 14/1873, Richard Downing, born March 8/1858, son of George Snedeker and his second wife Rachel (Bedell) Downing, and they had four children.
4/3. Emma Vernon. She married Wilbour Johnson.
The Underhill genealogy says she married, 2nd, (possibly) William Nostrand, born 1841, son of Jacob T. and Sarah Ann (Underhill) Nostrand.
4/4. Eddie Vernon, born July 26/1857, died February 11/1862.
4/5. James Vernon, born December 1/1860, died February 11/1862.
3/2. Sarah Vernon. She married Charles Tiebout, son of Vernon J. and
Louisa (Horton) Tiebout, and went to Texas. Louisa Horton was the daughter of Webley and Susan (Valentine) Horton.
3/3. Mary Vernon, born April 30/1835, died February 20/1864.
She married, about 1859, Halstead M. Frost, born June 7/1832, died
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July 9/1924. Halstead owned the "Norwich Enterprise", which he founded in 1880, and published at East Norwich until his death. He was a prominent Quaker. After Mary's death, he married, 2nd, Mary Stearns, born June 6/1845, daughter of the Rev. Charles and Susan (Martin) Stearns, by whom he had Clara L. Frost, and Helen Halstead Frost.
Issue:- (from the Underhill genealogy)
4/1. Halstead H. Frost, born May 7/1860.
He married on April 14/1885, Mary Louise Downing, daughter of Charles and Sarah Jane (Hicks) Downing.
Issue: -
5/1. Holloway Halstead Frost, born April 11/1889. He graduated
from Annapolis Naval Academy in 1906, and in 1911 served as midshipman in the U.S. Navy.
5/2. Esther May Frost, born March 30/1892.
5/3. Charles Lawrence Frost, born April 26/1898.
4/2. Mary Frost, born August 15/1862.
She married on June 23/1904, Rev. Alvin Philip Knell, son of Philip and Alvina (Schackerman) Knell.
3/4. Charles Vernon. He settled in the Western States.
3/5. George Vernon. He settled in Illinois.
3/6. Albert Vernon, born October 17/1832, died October 21/1869.
He married a Miss Brush.
3/7. Carman Vernon, born 1823, died August 26/1858. He married Margaret
Brown, born 1820, died March 24/1895: two children.
3/8. William Vernon, born March 17/1825.
3/9. James Vernon. He died in the war of 1861.
2/3. Jackson Vernon, born October 22/1802, died September 12/1873,
He married Hannah Hendrickson, born 1801, died December 22/1839.
Issue:-
3/1. Amelia Vernon, born February 18/1830, died March 9/1830,
3/2. James Vernon, born March 26/1831, died November 2/1856: single.
3/3. Sarah Vernon, born July 5/1833, died September 3/1865: single.
3/4. Andrew Vernon, born March 29/1835, died January 2/1855: single.
3/5. Henry Vernon. He married Eliza S. Downing, only daughter of
George and Eliza (Snedeker) Downing.
2/4. Mary Vernon, born April 3/1797, died November 7/1828. She married
William Hoogland, born September 9/1793, died July 3/1857, son of Cornelius and Catrina (Luyster) Hoogland. He was a farmer and served in the war of 1812. After Mary's death, he married, 2nd, Maria Nostrand, baptized April 12/1801, died August 15/1852, daughter of Garret and Mary W. (Valentine) Nostrand.
Issue:-
3/1. John Vernon Hoogland, born July 28/1816, died May 6/1861.
He married on June 10/1840, Sarah Ann Nostrand, born July 9/1813, died August 28/1887, daughter of John and Sarah (Walters) Nostrand and had three children.
3/2. Alfred Hoogland, born January 17/1819, died April 11/1902.
He had a butcher shop with his brother in law and later bought a farm. He married on December 5/1849, Mary Van Cott, born March 29/1823, still living in 1903, daughter of George and Mary (Titus) Van Mott and had three children.
3/3. Phebe Ann Hoogland, born September 23/1821, died May 3/1873.
She married James Muttee, born 1816, died June 2/1893, son of Baruch and Fanny (Lewis) Muttee, and they had three children.
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3/4. Cornelius Hoogland, born December 20/1823. He was a blacksmith at
East Norwich, Oyster Bay, and later a butcher at Roslyn, where he died. He married in 1847, Mary Elizabeth Duryea, daughter of James Voorhis and Jane (Cashow) Duryea and had two children.
3/5.Jackson Hoogland, born November 5/1826. He married Adelina Wicks,
born January 11/1834, daughter of Charles and Sarah A. (Youngs) Wicks. They had no children but adopted a daughter.
3/6. Mary Hoogland, born November 17/1827, died September 23/1849 in
childbirth. She married in 1848, William H. Remsen, born 1828, died June 2/1893, son of Abraham and Deborah (Downing) Remsen. He married, 2nd, Henrietta Lane, born March 16/1828, died September 29/1900, daughter of William and Lydia (Van Cleef) Lane, and had four children by her.
2/5. Martha Vernon. She married on February 7/1828. Daniel Durland, born
October 6/1801, of Goshen, Orange County, N.J., son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cheshire) Durland.
Issue :-
3/1. William Vernon Durland, born 1828. He married a Smith.
Issue:-
4/1. Henrietta Durland. She married, 1st, a Schultz; 2nd, a Mccain.
4/2. Emma Durland. She married Benjamin Dubois.
4/3. Amelia Vernon Durland. She married E. Wannamaker.
4/4. Charles Winfield Durland. He married Margaret Loss.
4/5. Martha Durland,
3/2. Mary Elizabeth Durland, born May 1834.
3/3. George Mapes Durland, born September 1837.
He married, 1st, a Smith: 2nd, Fanny McCoy.
2/6. Amelia Vernon, born 1806, died 1876. She married on September 22/1829,
Samuel S. Durland, born December 17/1804, died November 30/1835, a farmer in Chester, Pa., son of Joseph and his second wife Sarah (Satterly) Durland of Goshen. He was a descendant of Jan Gerritse Dorlandt, who came from Holland to the New Netherlands in 1652. Amelia married, 2nd, James Durland, born September 14/1811, died at Chester, Pa., in 1888, brother of her first husband Samuel.
(This is from "The Dorland Family in America", by John Dorland Cremer, Washington, D.C., 1898.)
Issue:- (by her first husband Samuel S. Durland)
3/1. Joseph Durland, born March 16/1832. He married on February 25/1857,
Nancy Kingsland Board, born November 1/1835, daughter of James J. Board. Joseph was a bank president and merchant in Chester, Pa.
Issue:-
4/1. James Board Durland, born April 28/1858. He married on November
8/1884, Sarah Andrews, born March 1861, and they had four children, and lived at Chester, Pa.
4/2. Frank Durland, born March 25/1860. He married on
April 22/1891, Mary Burt Sanford, and had two children.
4/3. Amelia Vernon Durland, born July 15/1862.
4/4. Marion Durland, born October 22/1865
4/5. Nettie Eugenia Durland, born February 14/1878.
3/2. Sarah Letitia Durland, born August 23/1833.
She married on February 26/1852, Henry Wisner wood, born February 11/1826. They had four childrsn and lived in Chester, Pa.
Issue:- (by her second husband James Durland)
3/3. Jane Durland, born May 6/1837, died September 23/1867. She
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married on January 26/1859, J, Bartlett Tuthill, born November 4/1828.
3/4. Samuel S. Durland, born January 21/1840.
He married on November 6/1867, Margaret Seeley, born August 30/1839. He had a farm at Chester, Pa., and they had two children.
3/5. Maria Durland, born March 2/1842, died September 21/1846.
3/6. Martha Durland, born September 16/1844, died February 15/1896.
She married on February 25/1869, Alfred B. Roe, born August 12/1840 and had five children, They lived at Chester, Pa.
3/7. Charles Durland, born August 14/1846, died September 14/1846.
3/8. John Durland, born December 1/1847. He was a merchant at La Crosse,
Wisconsin. He married Julia Blakely, and they had two children.
1/3. Elizabeth Poole. Dates of birth and death unknown. She married,
1st, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on July 29/1797, Gilbert Baldwin, perhaps son of Stephen and Mary Baldwin of Oyster Bay, baptized July 11/1784. In the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 33, p 224, is the record of The marriage at the First Presbyterian Church, Hempstead, on August 22/1822, of Mary Poole Baldwin to Jacob Baldwin, born April 1802, died October 30/1851, probably their daughter.
1/4. Thomas Poole. Dates of birth and death unknown. In a will of William
Stokam of Hempstead, who married at Hempstead, on October 17/1784, Sarah Armstrong, dated April 19/1818, proved January 31/1820, he states that his daughter Elpheer Stokam married Thomas Poole: his other daughter Elizabeth married at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on June 15/1791, Langdon Wright. I don't know if this will refers to this Thomas Poole or not, but it seems probable. St. George`s Church records call William Stokam's wife Sarah Abrahams.
1/5. Pierce Poole. From "Inscriptions in the Town Cemetery of
Hempstead", by Frank Haviland, his birth is given as January 31/1780, and his death as March 27/1808. He was probably not married. In "Queens County Abstract of Wills", Vol 1, p 97, appears the will of Pearse (Pars) Poole of Hempstead, dated March 24/1808, proved May 30/1806, in which he states his sister was Sarah Poole, wife of Charles Wright, and mentioned his nephew William Wright. He also mentioned brother Thomas, and sister Elizabeth Baldwin: also sister Rolettashea, wife of John Vernon, and their son William Vernon. He also mentioned Elizabeth Southard, wife of James Southard: also Margaret Langdon, daughter of Samuel. His executor was Archelos Langdon.
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66 - JOHN RUSHMORE.
The following is from "Genealogies of Long Island Families", by Charles J. Werner, New York, 1919: from Hempstead Town Records: from Oyster Bay Town Records, Vol 1: from the New York Historical Society's Collections of Abstracts of Wills, Vols 6 to 12: from "The Carman Genealogy", by William Stillwell Carman, 6 vols, in the New York Public Library, (the only copy extant): and from "The Genealogy of John Carman", by Henry Alanson Tredwell, Brooklyn, 1946.
The birth and death dates of John Rushmore cannot be found, but he was born about 1696: he was mentioned in the Hempstead Census of 1698, and he was alive in 1753, according to Hempstead Town Records quoted below.
Werner says he was the son of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore, subject 264, but this must be wrong as Thomas and Martha were married about 1650: further, Werner says John's eldest son Carman was born about 1725, which would make John about 70 years old when his son was born. Werner gives no dates. I therefore think that this John Rushmore was the son of Thomas and Sarah (Hicks) Rushmore, subject 132, and grandson of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore, subject 264. Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore had a son John, who was mentioned in the Hempstead Census of 1698, with a wife Mary, so it could not be the John Rushmore of this subject, born 1696.
Werner goes on to say John Rushmore married Mary Carman, daughter of John Carman, no dates given. None of the Carman genealogies mention a Mary Carman who married a John Rushmore, nor any Mary Carman, daughter of a John Carman. However, the fact that the John Rushmore of this subject named his eldest son Carman Rushmore, his wife Mary was doubtless a Carman. I therefore think that this John Rushmore's wife Mary Carman was the daughter of Caleb and Margaret (---) Carman, see subject 268,; p 1. This seems the more likely in that John Rushmore witnessed the will of Caleb Carman, dated January 3/1744. Caleb and Margaret were married in 1700, but Caleb's will lists his sons first and then his daughters, and I cannot find the date of birth of his daughter Mary. I have no proof that my assumptions above are correct: Henry Alanson Tredwell is inclined to agree with me. At any rate, the children given below, are probably correct, from the dates of their birth and the wills quoted.
The following Hempstead Town Records refer to This John Rushmore.
September 22/1738.John Rushmore signed as a witness on documents.
September 1741.Vol 8, p 393. Had 10 acres of South Woods, valued at £3.7.0.
July 1/1742.John Rushmore requested a survey of a road.
January 3/1744.John Rushmore witnessed the will of Caleb Carman, born 1682, which mentioned sons Caleb, John, Silas, Joseph, and daughters Hannah, Margaret, Phebe and Mary.
April 30/ 1745.John Rushmore signed as witness on documents.
May 14/1746.John Rushmore signed a will as witness.
October 30/1748.A road was surveyed, passing his home.
April 30/1751.John Rushmore signed as a witness on documents. April 1/1753.John Rushmore, father of Hannah, bought property from Jonathan Smith.
Issue:- (according to Carman Rushmore's will)
1/1. Hannah Rushmore. Born 1724, died November 1/1809. She married James Poole,
baptized July 14/1728, died May 5/1804, son of Pierce and Mary (---) Poole of Hempstead. See subject 32 for issue and further particulars.
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1/2. Carman Rushmore. Date of birth given as 1724 or 1725,
died October 30/1812, buried in Hempstead Town Cemetery. He married, 1st, (no date) --- Bedell, daughter of Richard Bedell whose will, dated May 13/1761, proved April 25/1762 mentioned wife Phebe, son in law Carman Rushmore, and daughter Mary Carman, (wife of Benjamin Carman, son of Caleb Carman) and Mary's children Samuel, Stephen, Mary, Anna, and Rachel, see subject 268, page 3, which differs slightly. He married, 2nd, at Hempstead, on September 22/1760[?], Hannah Raynor, born 1729, died the same day as her husband, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Coombes) Raynor of Hempstead. Carman Rushmore's will, dated November 20/1810, proved November 18/1821, mentioned his wife Hannah, but no children: it also mentioned his sisters Martha, Phebe, Abigail and Hannah: also Richard Ellison, and Thomas, Benjamin and William Rushmore: also heirs of his brothers Thomas and John Rushmore. Carman evidently had no children.
1/3. John Rushmore. Werner gives no birth and death dates - simply his name.
He must have been born between 1725 and 1727: he died intestate on July 10/1759, his wife Philena being named administratrix. He married at Hempstead, on May 8/1749, Philena Smith, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Ellison or Platt) Smith. See subject 34 for issue and further particulars.
1/4. Thomas Rushmore. Born about 1726-1728, died 1792. His will, dated
October 8/1788, proved May 9/1792, confirms Werner's and Carman's list of his children, see Abstracts of Wills for Queen's County, 1787-1813, by Ray C. Sawyer, 1934. He married Ruth Bedell, whose will dated March 7/1796, proved September 23/1799, named as her heirs, sons William and John, daughter Abigail Briant, grand daughter Abigail Van der Water, Ruth Rainer, and Elizabeth Downing.
Issue:-
2/1. William Rushmore, born October 14/1744, died August 4/1796,
buried in Hempstead Town Cemetery. He married in 1774, Mary Carman, born 1756, died January 26/1834, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Bedell) Carman who were married in 1740, see subject 268, page 4. After William's death, Mary married, 2nd, William Losee, who died in 1832, leaving his estate to his wife Mary and her children by her first husband.
Issue :-
3/1. Abigail Rushmore, born 1775. She worried Adam Mott and had
Mary and William. The Mott genealogy doesn't confirm this.
3/2. Thomas Rushmore, born September 30/1779, died December 4/1826.
He married at Huntington, L.I., on February 24/1798, Jane Seaman, born October 15/1779, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Hall) Seaman.
Issue:-
4/1. Lewis Rushmore, born October 11/1799.
The Seaman genealogy says he married Mary Seamen, born about 1822, daughter of Samuel L. and Elizabeth (Smith) Seamen.
4/2. William Rushmore, born August 21/1801.
He married Susan Ireland, daughter of Job Ireland.
Issue:-
5/1. Caroline Ireland.
5/2. Lewis Elbert Ireland, born September 12/1848.
4/3. Samuel Rushmore, born July 29/1803, died January 19/1813.
4/4. Lorenzo Dow Rushmore, born July 30/1806. He was a minister.
He married at the first Presbyterian Church, Hempstead, on August 31/1826, Ann Gildersleeve, daughter of David Gildersleeve.
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Issue: -
5/1. William T. Rushmore, born May 21/1827.
5/2. Merwin Rushmore, born September 13/1834.
5/3. Emily Rushmore, born March 25/1837.
5/4. William Fisk Rushmore, born March 13/1839.
4/5. Elbert Rushmore, born April 22/1809, died at Hempstead,
April 16/1841. He married on October 11/1836, Sarah Frances Fanning, born at Albany, September 11/1817, died December 9/1878, daughter of Ames and Sarah (Hazen) Fanning, a lawyer of Albany, N.Y. (This is from "The History of the Fanning Family', by Walter Frederick Brooks, Worcester, 1905.)
Issue :-
5/1. Alonzo Hazen Rushmore, born 1837.
5/2. Adelia Jane Rushmore, born October 24/1839.
5/3. Elizabeth Dorland Rushmore, born June 19/1846.
She married Henry Clay Bennett.
5/4. James Dorland Rushmore. He married Kate Johnson Skidmore.
5/5. Emma Martin Rushmore.
She married Percy Butler Bromfield of Hempstead.
5/6. George Crosby Rushmore.
He married Alice Irene Daffy of Brooklyn.
5/7. Frederick Hazen Rushmore.
4/6. Elizabeth Rushmore, born November 24/1811.
She married on December 30/1834, John S. Seabury.
Issue
5/1. Harriet H. Seabury.
5/2. Elizabeth E. Seabury.
5/3. Jane A. Seabury.
4/7. Sarah Rushmore, born March 22/1814. She married John French.
Issue: -
5/1. Sarah French.
5/2. June French.
5/3. John French.
4/8. Stephen Rushmore, born July 23/1817. He married Margaret Butler.
Issue :-
5/1. Elizabeth Rushmore.
4/9. Thomas Rushmore, born June 6/1820. He married
on June 21/1846, Mary Francis, and had one child born 1847.
3/3. Carman Rushmore, born January 4/1783, died March 30/1832.
He married on May 24/1801, Ruth Pine, born March 1/1782, daughter of Reuben and Jemima (---) Pine.
Issue:- (from his will)
4/1. John Rushmore, born at Smithtowm, August 15/1802.
(This is from the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 42, p 292)
4/2. Amelia Rushmore.
4/3. Ann Rushmore, born August 26/1809. She married on August
26/1847, as his second wife, Samuel Snedeker, born April 28/1791.
4/4. Rachel Rushmore.
4/5. Elizabeth Jane Rushmore.
4/6. Benjamin Carman Rushmore.
4/7. Hannah Rushmore.
4/8. Mary Rebecca Rushmore.
3/4. Benjamin Rushmore, born April 17/1785. In 1813 he signed a
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extra page with more details on Carman Rushmore:
4/?. Stephen Rushmore, born July 23/1817, died May 12/1890.
He married Margaret Louise Butler, born August 16/1819, died April 27/1902.
Child:-
5/1. Elizabeth Rushmore.
4/9.Thomas Rushmore, born June 6/1830. He married on June 21/1848,
Mary Francis and had one child born in 1847.
3/3. Carman Rushmore, born January 4/1783, died March 30/1832.
He married on May 24/1801, Ruth Pine, born March 1/1782, died March 27/1858, both buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead.
Children:- (from his will and Greenfield Cemetery records)
4/1.John Rushmore, born at Smithtown, L.I., August 15/1802,
died May 7/1873. His wife's name is not known.
Child:-
5/1. Edward Carman Rushmore, born 1830, died May 3O/1881.
He married Mary Eliza Dunn born August 31/1850, died June 17/19l1, both buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead,
Child:-
6/1. Charles E. Rushmore, born 1860, died l931.
He was a lawyer with Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern, New York City. He married Jeanette E. Carpenter, who died October 31/1950. He had a large estate "Carmore", at Woodbury Falls, near Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Mount Rushmore, 6000 ft, in The Black Hills of South Dakota, was named after him. I quote as follows from the book entitled "Mount Rushmore", by Gilbert C. Fite, published in 1952 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla .:- "In 1883, a tin mine, the Etta, was opened, which caused excitement among Eastern investors, shortly after, James Wilson, a New York mining promoter, engaged Professor Gilbert E. Bailey, state geologist of Wyoming, to examine mining claims in the area where Keystone was later located. In need of talent, as well as geological advice, Wilson hired Charles E. Rushmore, a young but able New York attorney, to check the titles to properties on which Bailey reported favourably. Although an Easterner, Rushmore quickly made friends among the miners and prospectors. One day he was returning to headquarters of the Harney Peak Consolidated Tin Co., Ltd., located at Pine Camp, which was north of the great granite peak soon to bear his name. With him were David N. ??anzey, a local business man, and William W. Challis, a prospector and guide. As they neared this spectacular mountain, Rushmore turned to Challis and asked its name, Challis jestingly replied: "Never had any but it has now - we'll call the damn thing Rushmore". Thus in 1885, the chance remark of a rough miner to a visiting lawyer, fastened a permanent name to the mountain. The United States Board of Geographic Names officially recognised the name "Mount Rushmore" in June 1930." Forty years later, Charles E. Rushmore donated $5000 towards Gutzon Borglum's sculpture of the four presidents' heads on the mountain - the largest single contribution. The Memorial was dedicated by President Coolidge on August 10th, 1927. Child :-
7/1. Jean Rushmore. she married, 1st, Mr. Patterson: they
were divorced and she married, 2nd, Edmund Le Roy Wilson, who graduated from Princeton in 1918. In 1956 Jean lived at 400 Park Ave., New York City.
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Continues from P3:
petition for a road in Cedar Swamp: 1816 lived in Babylon: from 1834 to 1840 Town Clerk: 1848 gave a large tract of his land for the Hempstead Old Town Burying Ground: January 11/1844 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He married, 1st, on February 16/1809, Sarah Sammis, born December 28/1789, died September 17/1812, daughter of David Sammis; 2nd, on February 14/1816, Elizabeth Clowes, born November 12/1796, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Searing) Clowes, (From N.Y. Gen & Biog Record Vol 50, pp 163-5.)
Issue:- (by his first wife Sarah Sammis)
4/1. Martha Rushmore, born June 7/1810.
She married in 1837, William Bennett.
Issue : -
5/1. William Bennett,
5/2. Sydney Bennett.
Issue:- (by his second wife Elizabeth Clowes)
4/2.Sarah Elizabeth Rushmore, born July 17/1817.
She married in 1836, Joseph Hall.
4/3. Benjamin Franklin Rushmore,. born August 8/1820.
He married at Hempstead on February 29/1848, Catherine Tredwell, born 1825, daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Simonsen) Tredwell.
4/4. Cornelia S. Rushmore, born December 26/1826, died May 12/1828.
4/5. Caroline Rushmore, born March 16/1829.
4/6. Henry Edgar Rushmore, born November 7/1834, died April 2/1841.
4/7. Edwin Rushmore, born August 7/1836.
4/8. Harriet Antoinette Rushmore, b June 29/1838, d April 7/1839.
3/5. Ann Rushmore, born 1787, died January 20/1838,
buried in Hempstead Town Cemetery. She married Gilbert B. Hutchins,
Issue:-
4/1. Rushmore Hutchins.
4/2. George Hutchins.
4/3. Hamilton Hutchins.
3/6. Ruth Rushmore. She married Israel Hutchins.
Issue:-
4/1. William Hutchins.
3/7. William Rushmore, born April 14/1783. He married, 1st, on October
27/1812, Rebecca Gould, born October 23/1794, died December 18/1828, daughter of Thomas Gould. He married, 2nd, on December 3/1829, Huldah E. Jones, born October 28/1795, widow of the Reverend William Ross.
Issue:- (by his first wife Rebecca Gould)
4/1. Emeline Rushmore, born December 3/1814, died 1896.
She married on April 30/1832, Isaac Hand Herbert, born 1810, died March 5/1846, son of Joseph and Frances (Hand) Herbert and had six children. (This is from Virkus Genealogical Dictionary)
4/2. Cornelia Rushmore, born October 14/1816.
She married on August 18/1836, J. Sands, who died December 1/1840, and had Anna Louise and Rebecca Jane Sands
4/3. William C. Rushmore, born October 8/1818.
He married on March 11/1841, Henrietta Dikeman.
Issue:-
5/1. William H. Dikeman Rushmore, born May 16/1842.
5/2. John Dikeman Rushmore, born September 5/1845.
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4/4. Mary Rushmore, born July 24/1820.
4/5. Thomas L. Rushmore, born in Brooklyn, December 2/1822,
died April 13/1904, buried in Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, N.Y. He married on November 25/1845, Eliza Vail Moser, who died June 9/1911, daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Vail) Moser, who were married in 1834.(?)
Issue:-
5/1.Samuel Rushmore, born May 26/1847.
5/2. Thomas Hoyt Rushmore, born --, died at Rye, N.Y., aged 25.
5/3. Everett Rushmore, born August 27/1853, died November 1/1856.
5/4. Rebecca Gould Rushmore.
She married William Henry Carpenter, born October 29/1849, died April 20/1910, son of Henry N. and Deborah (Cornell) Carpenter, a real estate dealer. They lived in Mamaroneck, and had one son.
5/5. Lucinda Vail Rushmore. She married William Thomas Cornell,
born November 11/1845, died January 1/1907, son of William and Sarah (Theall) Cornell
4/6. George Rushmore, born December 24/1827, died August 2/1846.
Issue:- (by his second wife Huldah E. Jones)
4/7. Henrietta Rushmore, born December 6/1830.
4/8. Charles Rushmore, born February 28/1833.
2/2. Abigail Rushmore, born about 1746. She married on October 17/1763,
Jacob Bryant, and had a daughter Hannah.
2/3. Elizabeth Rushmore. Not mentioned by Werner but mentioned in her
mother's and her brother John's will. She was married and had Abigail, Ruth and Elizabeth who married a Mr. Downing.
2/4. John Rushmore, born 1751, died November 26/1838: never married.
His will, dated April 5/1826, proved December 28/1838, named as his heirs, his brother William's children, and his sister Abigail's child Hannah: also his sister Elizabeth's children: also Elizabeth Raynor.
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70 - JONATHAN SMITH
The following is from "The John Rock Smith Family", by Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, L.I., 1937: from "Smith Wills", by Pelletreau: from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies: from "The Haviland Genealogy", by Josephine C. Frost, New York, 1915: and from "The Cornelius Family of America", by Charles S. Cornelius, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1926.
Jonathan Smith's birth and death dates are unknown. His will, dated May 17/1746, proved September 13/1748, left to his oldest son Jonathan, five shillings and his large bible. To wife Elizabeth, the use of the east room in the house, two thirds of the farm lands, and his best riding mare, during her widowhood. To his three married daughters, Elizabeth Matthews, Jane Haviland, and Hannah Tredwell, each a cow and a calf. To daughter Philena, her riding saddle and her Dutch spinning wheel. To eldest son Jonathan, half of a tract of land bought from John Dean, except 20 acres which he sold a his brother Gersham, deceased: the said half was 55 acres, situate near the plains on the east side of the Merrick Road, and one third of a lot of meadow at Little Merrick, 100 acres, bounded north by land which he gave to his son John, and half a tract joining to the north side of Josiah Raynor's land, except 12 acres which he gave to his son John. The whole is 97 acres, and Jonathan is to pay to the essigns of John and Jonathan Searing, £28 for what he owed for it. To son John, the 12 acres above mentioned, and a certain messuge and piece of land and meadow at Little Merrick, that was bought of Thomas Frost and Nathaniel Oakley, by deed of April 29/1745, and he is to pay Daniel Hewlett £70. To John, one quarter of his undivided lands. To son Henry, half the tract lying north of Josiah Raynor's land, except 12 acres, and all other lands which he had given him by deed of gift. To son Cornell, all land, which he had given him. Executors were his sons John and Henry, and son in law Timothy Tredwell: witnesses were Benjamin Smith, Benjamin Hewlett, John Rushmore and Samuel Willis.
Jonathan married Elizabeth ---: Henry Alanson Tredwell says she may have been an Ellison, Platt, or Plant). They were probably married about 1690, as their eldest child Elizabeth was born in 1700. Valentine W. Smith' genealogy comments about Jonathan's children as follows:.. "tardiness in marriage, childless marriages, and bachelorhood, have bean characteristic of his children". His children below may not be in proper order as they were taken from his will which named his sons first and than his daughters. Valentine W. Smith gives the birth date of only son John: Bunker gives Elizabeth's birthday as 1708, so I put her as the eldest.
Issue:
1/1. Elizabeth Smith. Born 1708. She married, 1st, on December 23/1725,
Elias Cornelius, born November 2/1703, died June 25/1743, son of Elias and Sarah (Harnatt or Harned) Cornelius of Great Neck, now known as Minell Place, Seaford. They lived in Oyster Bay; L.l. Elias was a descendant of Aaron Cornelius, captain of a privateer, the Canary Bird, an English vessel which sailed from Vlissingen, Holland, in 1639 to Flushing, L.I, Elizabeth married, 2nd, in 1745, Ezekiel Matthews.
Issue:- (by her first husband Elias Cornelius)
2/1.Elias Cornelius, born May 12/1729, died 1762.
2/2. Jane Cornelius, born September 20/1731, died November 12/1815.
She married on March 6/1752, Johannes Covert, who died February 14/1794,
Issue:.
3/1. William Covert, born January 1/1753, died February 17/1841.
He married Jane Stymitz: had son John who married Loretta Lefferts.
3/2. John Covert, born 1755, died 1835. He married on March
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3/1781, Catherine Hoaglend, born April 6/1769, died September 15/1839, They had eight children.
3/3. Jacob Covert, born April 30/1758: he lived in Oyster Bay in 1799.
He married Catherine Powell, born 1760, daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Scott) Powell.
3/4. Elizabeth Covert, born February 1/1763. She married at Hempstead
on February 1/1783, Fulkert Duryea, baptized at Oyster Bay, June 27/1753, son of Hendrick and Maria (Brinkerhoft) Duryea. The Census of 1800 gave them as living at Brooklyn, with three sons and three daughters, of which I have the names of only:-
Issue: -
4/1. Cornelius Duryea, baptized at Hempstead, July 19/1785.
4/2. Mary Duryea, baptized at Hempstead, July 9/1786.
4/3. Garret Duryea, baptized at Hempstead, June 28/1788.
3/5. Jane Covert. She married on June 24/1782, Henry Lounsberry,
and had five children.
3/6. Moses Covert, born June 1765, died March 24/1787.
2/3. Patience Cornelius, born April 22/1734, died unmarried.
2/4. Jonathan Cornelius, born January 26/17536, died 1820.
He married in 1757, Sarah Baldwin, and had six children.
2/5. John Cornelius, born December 22/1739, died April 10/1814.
He married on August 3/1765, Mary Powell, born October 30/1739, died March 21/1822, daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Hallock) Powell.
They had one child.
2/6. Moses Covert Cornelius, born April 21/1743, died 1796.
He married Ann Carman and had five children.
1/2. Jonathan Smith. Dates of birth and death unknown. He married at
St. George's Church, Hempstead, on January 28/1736, Philena Weeks. His will, dated June 4/1767, proved June 19/1767, left to his son Jonathan, his wagon, oats and flax: to wife Philena, his furniture: his executors were to sell his homestead, and after paying his debts, the rest was left to his wife. Executors his brother William Smith and friend George Hewlett. Valentine W. Smith's genealogy doesn't mention any brother William.
Issue:-
2/1. Jonathan Smith, born about 1737: his will dated June 22/1777,
proved January 20/1778, mentioned his wife Mary ---.
2/2. Sarah Smith, born about 1739. She married Stephen Willis, born 1730,
son of John and Abigail (Willets) Willis.
1/3. Henry Smith. Date of birth unknown: his will, dated October 19/1769,
proved March 13/1770, mentioned his wife Joycey, to whom he left all household goods and use of his farm. Executors were to sell the land and after bringing up his children, the proceeds to go to the children.
Issue:-
2/1. Isaac Smith.
2/2. Mary Smith.
2/3. Philena Smith.
2/4. Elizabeth Smith.
2/5. Hannah Smith.
1/4. Cornell Smith. Date of birth unknown: his will, dated May 28/1781,
proved July 28/1781, mentioned wife Mercy.
Issue :-
2/1. Amos Smith. His father left him his gun and cutlass and all land bought
from brother Jonathan.
2/2. John Smith.
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2/3. Elijah Smith.
2/4. Jacob Smith. His father left him the remainder of the farm bought from
Nehemiah Sammis.
2/5. John Smith. His father left him the sword that was Elijah's.
His father left to him and his brother David, the homestead "where I now liveth".
2/5. David Smith.
2/7. Susannah Smith, under age in 1781, according to her father's will.
2/8. Mary Smith. She married a Raynor.
2/9. Cornell Smith. Mentioned in his father's will.
1/5. John Smith. Born 1717, died May 4/1778. His will, dated August 10/1777,
proved May 20/1778, left to son Joseph, his homestead and lands at Merrick, derived from his father Jonathan: to wife Rachel £30: and all undivided lands in Hempstead to his three daughters. He married Rachel Valentine, born 1732, died March 31/1817.
Issue:
2/1. Joseph Smith, born April 25/1754, died April 21/1844.
He married Sarah Willets, born May 7/1776, died November 8/1871.
Another source says He married Elizabeth Gildersleeve, born February 20/1771, died June 19/1831, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Gildersleeve. I don't know which is correct.
Issue:-
3/1. Valentine Smith, born at Hempstead, October 2/1791,
died June 25/1873.
3/2. Joseph Smith, born November 9/1793, died June 8/1870,
90 years old less three days. He married on December 24/1818-9, Harriet Raynor, born March 10/1799 died October 17/1886, daughter of Whitehead and Mary (Seaman) Raynor.
Issue:-
4/1. Carman Smith, born 1819, died December 27/1902.
He had a general store at Freeport, L.1. He married Ruthella ---
Issue:-
5/1. Joseph Nelson Smith, born 1856, died 1873.
5/2. Samuel Raynor Smith, born 1852, died 1931.
5/3. Emily E. Smith. She married a Mr. Wallace.
4/2. Valentine Smith, born 1820. He married Mary Carman,
born June 1832, died December 20/1895. This is wrong, see the Valentine Smith on the next page.
4/3. Sydney Smith, born 1831, died 1880.
He was a tin smith at Freeport, L.I., and postmaster there from 1874 to 1880. He married, 1st, on October 20/1853, Harriet Peck: 2nd, on May 24/1860, Ellen Blake: 3rd, on October 18/1875, Emeline Seabury: 4th, on December 8/1877, Ruthella Carpenter. He had six children, but by which of his wives was not stated.
4/4. Nelson Horatio Smith, born 1834, died may 8/1901.
He had a general store at Freeport, L.I. He married Catherine J. Smart, and had two children.
4/5. Eliza Ann Smith. She married a Powell.
4/6. Mary Smith. She married a Johnson.
4/7. Emily Josephine Smith.
She married Wright Pearsall born August 20/1840, died 1899, son of Uriah and Matilda (Davison) Pearsall of Hempstead.
3/3. Elizabeth Smith, born September 15/1795, died October 12/1858.
She married a Carman.
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3/4. Ann Smith, born October 20/1797, died August 9/1846.
She married before 1822, Stephen Wood, born March 9/1798. Six children.
3/5. Philetus Smith, born October 25/1799, died August 23/1843.
His wife was Phebe ---.
3/6. Elijah Smith, born May 11/1803, died October 25/1826.
3/7. William Smith, born January 11/1805, died August 10/1884.
He was a gentleman farmer at the old Merrick farm. He married, on February 1/1828, Amy Mott Smith, born 1804, daughter of George and Amy (Mott) Smith.
Issue:-
4/1. Elijah Smith, born February 10/1829, died July 21/1893.
He inherited the Merrick farm from his father. He married on May 27/1857, Delia Fish, born February 24/1839, died June 20/1924, daughter of William Fish.
Issue
5/1. Charles Corwin Smith. Married Minnie Anderson: no issue.
5/2. Harvey Buchanan Smith. Married Fannie B. Powell.
5/3. Willet Fish Smith, died in infancy.
4/2. Valentine Smith, born December 10/1830, died April 2/1911.
He married on February 10/1854, Mary Carman, born June 23/1832, died December 20/1895.
Issue :-
5/1. William Carman Smith, born January 10/1855,
died at Freeport, 1927. He married Annie Maria Tredwell.
5/2. Franklin Valentine Smith, born 1860.
He had a general store at Merick. He married Mary Combes.
5/3. Anna Eliza Smith, born November 30/1856.
She married Amos Williams.
5/4. Henrietta Smith, born June 22/1861.
5/5. Alvin Gilbert Smith, born 1864.
He was a county engineer at Nassau, L.l. He married Mary Haff.
5/6. Amy Mott Smith, born March 18/1866, died June 20/1877.
4/3. J. Gilbert Smith, born November 18/1853, died March 22/1904.
He was a boat builder and built several boats for carrying coal and wood to New York. to later grew Oysters. He married on December 26/1866, Mary Powell, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Smith) Powell.
Issue :-
5/1. Valentine W. Smith,
the author of the John Rock Smith Genealogy, from which I have copied these items. He married Lila Carman Denton.
5/2. Charles Powell Smith. He married Eugenia Mean.
3/8. Phebe Smith, born January 18/1808, died January 19/1872.
She married a Raynor and had a daughter Catherine.
3/9. Mary Ann Smith, born August 15/1810, died June 23/1867.
3/10. Burtis Smith, born March 29/1815, died December2/1854.
3/11. George G. Smith, born July 29/1815, died September 16/1815.
3/12. Rachel Smith, born December 1/1816, died November 1/1818.
2/2. Phebe Smith. No data.
2/3. Ann Carman Smith, born December 12/1760, died June 21/1794.
2/4. Elizabeth Smith. No data.
1/6. Philena Smith. Dates of birth and death unknown.
She married at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on May 8/1749, John Rushmore, born about 1725, died intestate, July 10/1759, son of John and Mary (Carman) Rushmore, see subject 66. She married, 2nd, on June 20/1761,
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Elias Dorlon of Troy,N.Y., son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Freedenburgh) Dorlon, but had no children by him. See subject 34 for issue and further particulars.
1/7. Hannah Smith. Dates of birth and death unknown.
Her father's will says she was the wife of Timothy Tredwell, but the Tredwell Genealogy doesn't confirm this. Valentine W. smith, Bunker, and Henry Alanson Tredwell's genealogies say she married between September 22/1738 and May 17/1746, Timothy Bedell, born about 1720, still living on September 20/1773, and had three children, Benajah, Timothy and Hannah.
1/8. Jane Smith. Baptized at the same time as her eldest son: died in 1780.
She married at Hempstead, on February 17/1733-4, Benjamin Haviland, who died July 20/1751, son of John and Sarah (--) Haviland. He lived in oyster Bay, and his estate was valued at £485,16.0.
Issue:-
2/1. Benjamin Haviland, baptized September 18/1743, died before 1776.
He was a carpenter. He probably married Rohamah Steed on July 8/1761, and had John, Joseph and Benjamin.
2/2. John Haviland, baptized October 27/1744, living in 1780.
2/3. Luke Haviland, baptized May 4/1747, died between 1776 and 1781.
He never married and left his estate to Benjamin's three sons.
2/4. Joseph Haviland.
2/5. Jane Haviland.
2/6. Peter Haviland.
Subject 72. (192) 6/20/52
72 - EPHRAIM CHEESMAN.
The following is from Hempstead Town Records, and from Oyster Bay Town Records, Vol 1, p 654.
Ephraim's birth date is not known: he died before January 3/1748, son of Thomas and --- (Valentine) Chessman, see subject 144.
His ear mark was registered at Hempstead in 1714. H.T.R. Vol 3, p 183, dated December 7/1736, records his purchase of land from his father Thomas Cheesman for #300 of good current money of ye colony of New York, a certain farm or plantation at the north side of yr Great Plains, at a place called Herricks, containing about 80 acres, part of which was a 22 acre lot which Richard Valentine did grant unto his father Thomas Cheesman, and ye other part of which Thomas Cheesman purchased from Nathaniel Pearsall and George Pearsall. On August 15/1737, Ephraim and his wife Esther, sold property marked by trees for #240. In 1738 he sold lands to his sons Joseph and Benjamin. In 1747 he sold his homestead for #340.
He married, 1st, before 1714, Sarah Haight: I can find nothing about her: she is not mentioned in the Hoyt Genealogy by David W. Hoyt.
He married, 2nd, before 1737, Esther ---: I can find nothing about her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Sarah Haight)
1. Joseph Cheesman. Born November 5/1715, died between April 7 and
June 11/1772, the date of his will and its probate. He married in 1738, Sarah Badgley, dates of birth and death unknown, daughter of Anthony and Phebe (Haight) Badgley of Flushing, L.I., see subject 74. See subject 36 for issue and further particulars.
2. Benjamin Chessman. No data.
Subject 74. Page 1 (193)
74 - ANTHONY BADGLEY.
The following is from the Long Island Historical Society's,
Records, Flushing, L.I., by Frank Haviland, 1905: and from "Dutchess
County Burial Grounds".
Anthony Badgley's birth date is not known: the Society of
Friends Records gives his death as February 3/1732 (old calendar). His
father was known as Anthony Senior of Flushing. He had a sister Phebe,
who married at Flushing on September 15/1715, Peter Wilcosts, (Rev.
Poyer's records).
His will is given in L.I. Historical Society's records,
Vol 3 pp 54-5, dated March 26/1732, proved April 8/1737, He left to his
daughter Sarah, his negro wench Ginney, and all his deceased wife's
woollen clothes and apparel. To Elizabeth, all his wife's linen clothes
and apparel. Then "my executors to sell all my mills, goods etc, and
from the proceeds to pay Sarah #£50, Elizabeth £#100, and the rest to my
sons Anthony, Samuel and Stephen. Witness Jacob Haight.
Anthony married on November 12/1719, Phebe Haight born before
1701, died January 20/1751, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Noble) Hoyt
or Haight of Flushing, see subject 150. The Hoyt genealogy confirms
this marriage but does not give the names of their children. Most of
the children moved to Dutchess County, N.Y., and were buried in
Pleasant Valley Cemetery. After Anthony's death, Phebe married, 2nd, in
November 1939, Jonathan Holmes of Plymouth, Mass. Anthony and Phebe
were Quakers.
Issue: (from his will).
1. Sarah Badgley. Dates of birth and death unknown. She married in
1738, Joseph Cheesman, born November 5/1715, died between April 7 and
June 11/1772. See subject 36 for issue and further particulars.
2. Elizabeth Badgley, No data.
3. Anthony Badgley. Born July 2/1721, died at Clinton, Dutchess County,
N.Y., October 12/1810. He married Sarah --, born September 26/1722,
died April 1/1805.
4. Samuel Badgley. He married Elizabeth Tobias, daughter of Christian
TTobias and Ruth Tobias of Charlotte Precinct, Dutchess County, N.Y.
Perhaps this Christian, or his son Christian, was the one referred to
in the following record:- Christian Tobias, on September 9/1785, was
captain of the Militia Company No 14, destined for Annapolis, Nova
Scotia, by Sir Guy Carleton, Knight of the most noble Order of Bath
and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces within the Colonies,
lying on the Atlantic Coast from Nova Scotia to West
Florida,inclusive.
5. Stephen Badgley. No other data in his father's will, but "Abstracts
of Wills of Columbia County, N.Y. Vol 1 page 34, gives the will of
Stephen Badgley of Chatham, dated March 20 1797, proved May 7/1800,
which names his sons John and Anthony, and daughters Elizabeth,
Hannah, Sarah, Phebe, Ann and Abigail, and Abigail's sons Joseph and
Henry: Executors, John and Joseph Badgley.
The Pleasant Valley Cemetery lists the following Badgleys
probably descendents of the above, but I cannot find which they belong
to.
George Badgley. Born June 21/1741, died September 10/1825.
Elizabeth Wife of George, born Sept 15/1753, died Aug 28/1828.
Elisha Badgley. Son of George and Elizabeth, born September 30/1796,
died October 7/1822.
John Badgley. He married at the Baptist Church, Bagnall, Dutchess
County, on April 17/1785, Mary Dodge, daughter of
Hezekiah and Elenor (Hough) Dodge, and had three
sons and six daughters.
Mary Badgley. She married at the Baptist Church Bagnall, Dutchess
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County, N.Y., on November 2/1786, Joseph Bump.
Joshua Badgley. Born August 20/1776, died August 50/1840.
Anthony G. Badgley. Born 1783, died April 29/1854.
Hester Wife of Joshua, born 1784, died August 22/l831.
Emma Badgley Wife of Jonathan, born Dec 26/1786, died May 11/1831.
Joseph Badgley. Son of Joshua and Hester, born May 13/1812, died
May 23/1857.
Abraham Badgley. Son of Anthony G. and Eunice, born February 3/1806,
died May 10/1829.
George Badgley. Born February 8/1791, died November 3/1881.
George
E Badgley Son of George. born May 21/1823, died Oct 19/1824.
Mary
Elizabeth Daughter of George, born Jan 15/1825, died Feb 22/1842
Phebe P. Badgley. Born June 5/1821, died December 11/1874.
Ann Badgley Born June 8/1821, died at Catskill, N.Y, Mar 31/1887
Catherine Badgley. Daughter of Anthony E. and Jemima, born February
16/1841, died March 22/1841.
Note:
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert
Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete
document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation
numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject
are "1/--".
Subject 76. 9/26/48
76 - THOMAS WEEKES.
The following is from Bunkers Long Island Genealogies: from Hempstead
Town Records: and from Marriages at St George's Church, Hempstead
Thomas Weekes was born at Hempstead, L. T., on June 4/1684 or 6,
and died there February 18/1761. His will, dated January 19/1761,
proved February 25/1761, left to his son George, all teams, plows and
utensils of husbandry, cows, a bed, a painted chest, also the building
he has erected east of my dwelling house. To Gilbert, my weaving shop.
To Richard, £#10, a bed and furniture. All the rest to my sons Thomas,
George, and Gilbert, with all lands, buildings and moveables.
He married Sarah Townsend, born May 14/1685. or 1694, died March
15/1759, daughter of George and Mary (Hawkhurst) Townsend.
Issue:-
1. Thomas Weekes. Born November 11/1713, died November 18/1762.
2. Ezekiel Weekes. Born July 27/1715, died February 19/1734.
3. Mary Weekes. Born October 17/1717, died November 13/1717.
4. Richard Weekes. Born August 13/1719, died November 29/1734. This
date is either wrong or there was subsequently another son named
Richard, as he was mentioned in his father's will of 1761.
5. Gilbert Weekes. Born March 4/1726, died August 1774.
He married at Hempstead, on November 26/1751, Phebe Hall, perhaps daughter of
Benjamin Hall, whose will of June 2/1791, probated March 28/1793,
mentioned daughter Phebe, and Sarah.
6. George Weekes. Born October 5/1732, died June 22/1797. He married on
February 20/1756, Sarah Hall, born 1732, died September 4/1822,
Perhaps daughter of Benjamin Hail, and sister of his elder brother
Gilbert's wife. See subject 58 for issue and further particulars.
Subject 80 Page 1. 6/20/52
80 - JOHN MANCHESTER.
The following is from "Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages", by the American Historical Society of New York, 1939: from Virkus Compendium of American Genealogy": and from the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Vols 101-102, 1947-8: and from "The Durfee Family", by William F. Reed, Washington, D.C., 1902.
John Manchester was born at Tiverton, R.I., in 1695, where he lived his whole life. He was a Justice of the Peace on January 27/1746.
He married on June 22/1719, Phebe Gray, born September 6/1699, date of death unknown, daughter of Edward and Mary (Smith) Gray, see Subject 162.
Issue: -
1/1. William Manton Manchester Born February 9/1719-20, died before
1772. He married on October 7/1742, Rebecca Cook, who died October 1/1809. He was Lieutenant in the Tiverton First Militia Company in 1748-1749: Captain from 1750 to 1754.
Issue:-
2/1. Phebe Manchester, born July 21/1743.
2/2. Gilbert Manchester, born April 9/1745, probably died before
1800. He married at Tiverton, in 1767, Mercy Durfee born there, March 11/1745, daughter of Samuel and Mercy (Durfee) Durfee.
Issue:-
3/1. Eliphal Manchester, born December 13/1758.
He married Canaan Clifford.
3/2. James Manchester, born June 6/1781. He married at Tiverton,
on July 28/1803, Hannah Almy, born at Little Compton, March 20/1785, daughter of Sanford and Lydia (---) Almy. 4 children.
3/3. Son.
3/4. Son, born between 1791 and 1800.
2/3. Godfrey Manchester, born September 19/1746, died January 1/1816.
He resided in Tiverton and was captain of the sloop Lady Washington, out of Providence, R.I., of 73 tons, 10 guns, carrying a letter of marque from the Governor of Rhode Island in 1776. He married on November 23/1769, Elizabeth Simmons, born October 15/1745 or 7, died 1834, daughter of John and Comfort (Shaw) Simmons.
Issue:-
3/1. Lucinda Manchester, born October 20/1773.
She married Otis Almy and had nine children.
3/2. Wanton Manchester, born November 1777, died 1859. He married,
1st, Elizabeth Gray: 2nd, Almy Gray, and had eight children.
3/3. Cinderella Manchester, born December 9/1779.
She married William Gray.
3/4. Greene Manchester, born December 20/1781.
3/5. George Washington Manchester, born March 10/1789, died 1856.
2/4. Rhody Manchester, born May 11/1748.
2/5. John Manchester, born November 7/1749. He lived in Tiverton and
served in the Army of Observation in 1775. He married on March 1/1772, Sarah Church Bailey, born September 25/1749, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Church) Bailey.
Issue:-
3/1. George Manchester, born May 28/1772.
3/2. Cornelius Manchester, born in 1773.
3/3. William Cook Manchester, born at Little Compton,
January 10/1775. He married Anna Sowle and had seven children.
3/4. Ruth Manchester, born November 10/1776.
She married Captain Benjamin Seabury.
3/5. Sarah Manchester, born November 20/17--, died in 1846.
3/6. Loring Manchester, born December 1/1781.
3/7. John Manchester, born 1783, died 1859.
He married Elizabeth Britton and had fourteen children.
2/6. Alice Manchester, born May 21/1753
2/7. Thaddeus Manchester, born January i/l756, died 1789.
2/6. Priscilla Manchester, born November 28/1761.
She married on September 12/1795, William Gray, Jr.
1/2. Philip Manchester. Born February 11/1722.
1/3. John Manchester, Born February 12/1724, died young.
1/4. Mary Manchester. Born January 25/1726.
1/5. John Manchester, Born April 17/1728.
1/6. Isaac Manchester. Born at Tiverton, June 27/1731, died July
17/1792. He married, 1st, on November 1/1750, Abigail Brown, born February 21/1731-2, died 1769, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Cory) Brown, see subject 62. He married 2nd, on April 9/1769, Deborah Cook, born November 3/1723, died July 19/1801, daughter of Thomas and Phila Cook, See subject 40 for issue and further particulars.
Subject 82. 4/22/51 (198)
82 - ABRAHAM BROWNE,
The following is from "The Genealogy of the Cory Famlly", by Mrs. Hildenbrand, New York.
Abraham Browne's birth date and parents' names, cannot be found. He died before 1750. There are plenty of Abraham Brownes in Portsmouth, R.I. records, but I cannot find which he belonged to.
He married at Tiverton, R.I., on December 17/1731, Sarah Cory, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Taber) Cory, subject 166. After Abraham's death, Sarah married, 2nd, Robert Burrington, son of Roger and Elizabeth (Sheriff) Burrington.
Issue:- (probably incomplete)
1.Abigail Browne. Born February 21/1731-2, died 1769. She married on
November 3/1750, Isaac Manchester, born at Tiverton, June 27/1731, died July 17/1792, son of John and Phebe (Gray) Manchester, subject 80. See subject 40 for issue and further particulars. After Abigail's death, Isaac married, 2nd, on April 9/1769, Deborah Cook, born November 5/1723, died 1801, daughter of Thomas and Phila Cook.
Abigail shown on IGI b 21/2/1731
married 1/11/1750.
Subject 84. 7/7/48 (199)
84 - EBENEZER TABER.
I can find nothing about this man except that he married his cousin Abigail Taber, born May 2/1693, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Thompson) Taber, subject 170. It looks as if there must have been another generation in between. Further investigation necessary.
Issue:- (not complete)
1. Jacob Taber born October 2/1735. He married on September 29/1763,
Susanna Dennis born January 29/1737. see Subject 42 for issue and further particulars.
Subject 86. (200)
86 - JOHN B. DENNIS.
The following is from "The Descendants of Thomas, son of Philip Taber", by G.L.Randall (1924): and also from "The Wildbores in America", by John R. Wilbor (1907): and also from "Jesse Dennis of Sussex County, N.J.", by Charles E. Stickney, all on file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston.
John B. Dennis was born June 24/1706 at Tiverton, R.I. He was married, by Thomas Church, Justice, on January 9/1731, to Hannah Wilbor, of Little Compton, R.I. who was born February 9/1709.
Issue :-
1. Robert Dennis. Born December 14/1732. He married on
January 2/1755, Joanna Hilliard, daughter of Oliver and Sarah Hilliard.
2. Thomas Dennis. Born November 9/1734, died October 12/1813.
He married on January 22/1756, Hannah Wilcox.
3. Susannah Dennis. Born January 29/1737.
She married on September 29/1763, by Restome Sanford, Justice, Jacob Taber, born October 2/1735. (see subject 42 for issue) and further particulars.
4. Humphrey Dennis. Born October 8/1739.
5. Lucy Dennis. Born December 4/1740.
6. Shadrach Dennis. Born February 19/1742, died May 13/1838.
He married on November 19/1763, Abial Hennesey and they had 12 children.
7. Jerusha Dennis. Born March 17/1747. She married in 1763, John Woodman,
son of Sylvester & Bathsheba (Dring) Woodman. They had six children.
8. Samuel Dennis. Born November 11/1749. He married on March 17/1774,
Mercy Palmer, daughter of Moses and --- Palmer of Little Compton, R.I.
9. Redford Dennis. Born December 30/1751. He married on May 7/1780,
Abigail Simmons, daughter of Benjamin & Mary --- Simmons.
10. Hannah Dennis. Only mentioned in one of the above genealogies.
Subject 88.
88 - JAMES INGALLS
The following is from the "Ingalls Genealogy" by Dr Walter Renton Ingalls, (1933). on file at the New England Historical and Genealogical Society of Boston.
James Ingalls was born about 1705 in Boston, died at Charlestown previous to l755. He died in Charlestown, and was a Potter.
He married on March 14/1734, Joanna Call of Charlestown, daughter of John & Joanna Call, born March 8/1714. She was a widow in 1752 and lived at North Hatch's in Reading after 1775.
Issue:
1. Joanna Ingalls. Baptized August 31/1735, died the same year.
2. Joanna Ingalls. Baptized February 8/1736.
She married in 1778, Samuel Edes of Boston.
3. James Ingalls. Baptized March 25/1739, died 1802.
He married, 1st, on October 13/1769, Abigail Scottow, born September 17/1740: 2nd, on February 13/1773, Hannah Dowse, born June 23/1745, daughter of Jonathan Dowse. See subject 44 for issue and further particulars.
4. Anne Ingalls. Baptized August 29/1741, died young.
5. Anne Ingalls. Baptized August 10/1743: was sick February 9/1764.
Subject 90.
90 - JOSHUA SCOTTOW.
The following is from Charlestown Genealogies by Thomas Bellows Wyman, (1879), Vol 2, p 850.
Joshua Scottow was born May 5/1708 at Charlestown, Mass, and died July 5/1778. He was a tailor.
He married on November 7/1734, Mary Smith, born November 23/1711, daughter of Samuel & Mary Benjamin Smith. When she was 83 years old, she received aid from the town, and died August 6/1795. Joshua left his daughter Rebecca 5/-, and two thirds of the estate to children Mary, Samuel and John, and the residue to his grandchildren.
Issue:-
1. Mary Scottow. Born August 27/1735.
2. Joshua Scottow. November 23 1736.
3. Rebecca Scottow. January 19/1759. She married John Bodge.
4. Abigail Scottow. September 17/1740.
She married on October 12/1769, James Ingols, born March 25/1739, died 1802.
5. Sarah Scottow. September 26/1742, probably died young.
6. Samuel Scottow. December 10/1744.
7. Sarah Scottow. September 7/1746.
8. John Scottow. September 4/1745, died 1837.
9. Lydia Scottow. September 9/1750.
10. Joseph Scottow. August 9/1752, died April 28/1758.
27/6/51 Subject 128.
128 - WILLIAM POOLE.
In this Poole Genealogy which I am compiling, here is where I enter the realms of guess work, for we have no records in our family, earlier than Pierce Poole, subject 64, nor can I find any records which would prove that Pierce Poole was the son of the William Poole of this subject 128. It is unfortunate that the Hempstead Town Records between the years 1643 and 1653 were lost, for they might have thrown much light on the subject. However, Hempstead Town Records from April 1/1659 to November 6/1679, that one or two William Pooles were resident there. Brookhaven Records from 1665 to 1671 and from 1716 to 1774, also show one or two William Pooles were resident there. It must not be forgotten that Hempstead in those years, covered the whole tract of land between the Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, including both Hempstead and Brookhaven, the latter a short distance from Hempstead on the Atlantic side.
The Hempstead Town Records are as follows:
April 1/1659. Vol 1, pp 79-80. William Poole agreed with the Town of Hempstead on April 1/1659, to keep the herd of 90 calves for the present year for a wage of 14/6 per week, payments to be made at the rate of one pound of butter for each calf, and twelve pence in wampum, the remainder to be paid on or before February 15/1660. He to go out ye first Sabbath and afterwards each fourth Sabbath. The Corne which he shall receive is to be paid him in Indian and Wheate of each of his half quarter payment, the wheate at 5/- per bushel and Corne at 3/-per bushel. This contract was transported unto Lawrence Mott, June 1/1659.
As this was the last Hempstead record of a William Poole until 1679, and that the Brookhaven records commenced in 1665, it would look as if the first William Poole left Hempstead and removed to Brookhaven.
November 6/1679. William Poole's ear mark was registered at Hempstead.
This would seem to refer to the second William Poole, son of the first William Poole: and that the second William remained in Hempstead.
The Brookhaven Town Records are as follows:-
April 21/1665. Vol 1 (1924) p 144. William Poole and John Dier are hired to keep cows till the fields are open and is to be payd one pound of butter per cow by the last of June and the rest of the pay one halfe wheate or pease and the other, Indian. Wheate at 4/6, Pese 3/6. Indian 3/- per bushell and the wages 12/- per weeke and to be payd one halfe in December next and the remainder in March next.
February 1/1666. Vol 1, pp 99-100, William Pool hath the 4th lott in the little neck, lying on the west of Robert Ackerly lott in the neck.
April 25/1667. Vol 1, p 124. Agreement between the Town on the one part and William Pool and Francis Muncy on the other part, to ceep the towne cowes suffissiently as cow ceepers ought to do, to begin May Day and to end when the fields is clered and open, and to receive two shillens a day.
December 18/1667. Vol A, p 27. It was voted by the Town that William Pool shall have a piece of land in the old field, 2 or 3 acers, as it falls out. This same record appears in Brookhaven Town Records, Vol 1.
April 2/1667. Vol 1, p 129. Same as above,
December 5/1668. Vol A, p ---. The Town voted that it is agreed that William Pool shall have the home lott that Mr Woodhull have laid out of the south side of Mr. Bayley's home lott, he paying purchase according to what he enjoys.
October 10/1669. Vol 1. Eighteen of the inhabitants of Brookhaven, amongst them William Poole, agree to give ten shillings and five days work for building a mill to grind the Town's corn,
November 15/1670, Book B (1932) p 33, Andrew Miller have bought a ten acre lot of William Pool, lying on the south side of the way by William Crammels, which was laid out for a home lot as also the 4th part of his commonage that belongs to a 40 acre lot, and Miller is to pay William Poole for it, one cow fair with calf or a calf by her side the next May ensuing after the date hereof.
November 15/1670. Vol 1, p 161. William Pool have bought a horse of John Bud, a sorell colored horse, branded with this town's brand, and in consideration of the same, the sayde Poole is to pay for him in three years, that is to say, 3 Pounds per yere, in all niene pounds in currant pay.
March 30/1671. Book A (1932) pp 3-4. Whereas I, William Poole, have sold the above lot and the 4th part of commonage to Andrew Miller for a cow, I do therefore by these presents, make the said cow over to Mr. Richard Brian of Milford for security, in lew of the said land until I have satisfied the said Richard Brian the sum of money that I mortgage the land for, and that the cow shall stand as the land doth in way of mortgage, and to the truth or this, I set my band. (William Poole always signed as a mark, for he evidently could not write.)
April 3/1671. Vol 1 (1924), p 118. Agreement made with William Poole that the sayed Poole have taken the cows to ceape faithfully and truly to take them at the pound in convenient tyme in the morning and bring them again at nite to the same place and if he loose any, to goe the same way the next day to fiend them out and in consideration, the inhabetents doth ingaeg to give him twelfe shillens a weeke to be paied halve Ingon Corn and halfe wheat and pese when it is thrashed or merchantable and a pound of butter for every cow that haue a calue this yere and to the true performance of the same I do herevnto set my hand, this to begin 1 day of May and to ceep tele the feeld be cleere.
October 16/1671. Book B (1932) pp 352-3. William Poole of Brookhaven in ye 22nd yeare of ye Raine of our Sovereign Lord, Charles ye second, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, in ye east riding of Yorkshire on Long Island, sold to Andrew Miller, his house and home lot which I had of Samuel Akerly, the son of Robert Akerly, which was formerly his home. Also a lot given by ye town with a small parcel of land in ye old field and upland and meadows with housing, orchard, garden yards, and backsides fencing. And William Poole's wife has assented to the sale. Signed William Poole, his mark.
(This record is the only one in which a wife of William Poole is mentioned.)
There is no further record in Brookhaven of a William Poole until l716, 45 years later. My assumption is that all the above Heupotead and Brookhaven records refer to the first William Poole, who probably died after 1671, and that his son, the second William Poole, whose ear mark was registered in Hempstead on November 5/1679, removed to Brookhaven to inherit his father's estate, if any, and remained there the rest of his life. Pierce Poole, who I presume was the son of the second William Poole, remained in Hempstead.
Brookhaven Records of William Poole begin again in 1716, which I assume refer to the second William Poole, as follows:-
1716. Records of the Town of Brookhaven up to 1800, by the Town Clerk, published at Patchogue in 1880, one volume, page 107. List of the lots of meadow at Fireplace in 1716. Last division:- William Poole, No 26.
1716. Same page, same volume:- Drawers of lots of meadow. at Old Men's Beach in 1716: William Poole, No 11.
1716. Same volume, page 108. Lots at Wading River meadow, last division in 1716:- William Poole, No 3, and again in 1728, No 53.
1720. Same volume, p 110. Meadow land laid out 1780, last division, William Poole, No 5.
January 16/1720. Same volume1 p 111. Lots on east side of Connecticut River from Yaphank north, William Poole, Lot No 19.
May 4/1731. Same volume, p 123. Lots south side of country road, William Poole, No 17.
March 10/1734. Same volume, p 128. Two divisions of land on the north side of the country road, beginning near Smithtown and running east to the Wading River Great Lots. Long lots, west division, William Poole, No 45. Long lots, east division, William Poole, on June 10/1734, No 51.
March 26/1755. Same volume, p 136. Drawing of a division of several skirts, William Poole, No 21.
April 14/1739. Same volume, p 146. Lots laid out at Long Swamp on south side of country road; William Poole, No 16.
April 24/1739. seine volume p 144. Lots on east side of Connecticut River, William Poole, No 50, 17 rods wide.
January 3/1742. Same volume, p 126. East Division, often called Great Divison, William Poole, No 2. west Division, now called Little Division, William Poole, No 14.
May 2/1743. Same volume, p156. Small Division near Naskeague. William Poole, No 29.
I think the above Brookhaven records refer to the second William Poole. There is one further Brookhaven record, as follows, which I think must refer to a third William Poole, son of the second William.
July 4/1774. Same volume, p 188. Lots on South Beach from Whale House Point, west to Long Cove, drawn on July 4/1774, William Poole, Lot 39, 12 chains, 53 links wide. This third William poole was probably a brother of Pierce Poole, and he may be the ancestor of some of the unplaced Pooles listed under subject 64.
Turning now to the question of where the first William Poole came from, (who was in Hempstead April 1/1659), Savage Dictionary, p 456, states that he may have been a son of Captain William Poole of Taunton, Mass. However, Francis Baylies' history of New Plymouth, Vol 1, p 284, Boston, 1866, shows that Captain William Poole's son William was born at Roxhury, Mass., June 20/1658. "Pioneers of Massachusetts", by Charles Henry Pope, Boston, 1900, p 357 states that between 1638 and 1641, a William Poole, servant of Colonel John Endicott, lived at Salem, Mass. I cannot find any mention of this servant in any Endicott genealogy, nor was he a passenger on the "Abigail" in 1628 when the Endicotts came to America. He is not on any passenger list of other vessels arriving in those times. The "History of Salem, Mass.," by Sidney Perley, 1926, Vol 1, p 57, states that at Salem Court, on September 25/1638, William Poole, a servant of John Endicott, was sentenced for running away from his master, to do 12 months further service for him. He was again before the same Court on March 30/1641, for stealing stockings from Thomas Root and taking away a canoe belonging to Emery, and was ordered to return the stockings, and to be whipped for lying. At Salem Town Meeting Of March 1/1655-6, William's request to become an inhabitant was refused, and from that time on, his name disappeared from the local records. Lets hope he was not the William Poole of Hempstead, L.I., in 1659!!
In the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Volume 27, page 131, "Marriages at St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, London", appears the following:- William Poole and Agnes Sparrowhawk were married July 30/1609". Many emigrants from London came from Southwark district to America: could they be the parents of the Endicott servant William Poole?
In connection with the foregoing inconclusive data as to the parentage of William Poole, I list the following earliest Pooles in the United States of America, none of which I believe are connected with William Poole. I have come across several by the name of Pool, which I believe were originally named Vanderpoel: I am not listing them as none seem to be in any way connected with the Poole families.
1621. DANIEL POOLE. A Frenchman and his wife and young child who came in the ship "George", and appear in the muster of Mr. George Sands in Virginia.
1624. ROBERT POOLE. A resident of James City. (Jamestown) Virginia, is recorded in a muster of the inhabitants of that colony under Mr. Edward Blaney, January 24/1624.
1630. SAMUEL POOLE. Applied to be admitted a freeman of Boston on October 19/1630. He was a merchant in Boston in 1640 and was admitted a member of the church in 1640.
1630. CAPTAIN WILLIAM POOLE. Born l594, died February 24/l675. Giles Memorial, by Vinton, page 324, says William Poole settled at Dorchester, Mass., in 1650, afterwards removing to Taunton, Mass.; where his sister Elizabeth Poole, the "virgin mother of Taunton", held large tracts of land, having founded that settlement. He later returned to Dorchester, lived there in pious repute the rest of his life, and died in the odor of sanctity, aged 81 years. He was the fourth son of Sir William Pole, of Taunton, England, a noted antiquary and historical analyst, whose lineal descendant is the present Sir William Templar Pole, late M.P. of Taunton, Somerset, England. The descendants of William of Dorchester were distinguished merchants of Boston for several generations.
The Savage Genealogical Dictionary of the first settlers of New England, by James Savage, Boston, l86l, says William Poole was at Dorchester, perhaps as early as 1630, at Taunton from 1637 and several years after: he was called Captain in 1641, brother of the patron saint of that newer town. He returned to Dorchester in l659, and was town clerk and school master, but whether this was before he went to Taunton or after he returned to Dorchester is not known. Not long after the death of his sister, from whose will we learn more than by all other means of his family, he came back to Dorchester where he passed the last 18 or 20 years of his life. He married, perhaps as early as June 1638, Mary Richmond, daughter of John Richmond, who died August 29/1690. (Charles H. Pope says William Poole's wife was named Jane, who left her children her share in the Taunton Iron Works - Taunton had the first iron works in New England).
Pioneers of Massachusetts, by Charles H. Pope, says Elizabeth Poole, an ancient maid, chief founder of the Plantation of Taunton, Mass., came in 1637, where she lost much cattle and endured many hardships in Indian raids and died May 21/1654, aged 65 years, She bequeathed her estate to her brother Captain William Poole and her nephew John Poole. Francis Baylies' History of New Plymouth, Boston, 1866, Vol 1, p 284, says: In 1626, Elizabeth Poole, a lady of family and fortune from Taunton, Somersetshire, England, who first settled at Dorchester, conceived the bold design of occupying Cohannet, (now Taunton, Middleboro and Bridgewater), 26 miles south of Plymouth, Mass. It was an ardent love of religion, an enthusiastic desire to plant another church in the American wilderness, which impelled this pious Puritan to encounter the dangers and hardships and forming a settlement amidst the Indians. Her tomb is in the Taunton Cemetery, and bears the following inscription: Here rest the remains of Elizabeth Poole,, a native of old England, of good family, friends and prospects, all which she left in the prime of her life to enjoy the religion of her conscience in this distant wilderness of Taunton, a chief promoter of its settlement and its incorporation in 1639-40, about which time she settled near this spot, and having employed the opportunities of her virgin state, Captain William Poole had the following children:
1. John Poole. He removed to Boston and married, on March 21/1692,
Elizabeth Brenton, seventh daughter of the Honorable William Brenton Royal Governor of Rhode Island from 1660 to 1668. Had many children.
2. Nathaniel Poole, probably died young.
3. Timothy Poole, drowned at Taunton on December 15/1667.
4. Mary Poole. She married, on March 28/1672, as his second wife,
Daniel Henchman.
5. Bethesda Poole, She married in 1686, John Filer.
6. William Poole. Baptized at Roxbury Mass., June 20/1658,
died at Dorchester, Mass., April 21/1687. (Savage says he probably went to Brookhaven, L.I., but this must be incorrect as the William Poole of Brookhaven was an adult there in 1659)
7. Theophilus Poole, born at Dorchester May 27/1580.
1632. JOHN POOLE, He was at Cambridge, Mass., (then Newton) in 1632, and removed to Lynn village in 1634, afterwards called Reading: where he, with Lord Brook, Thomas Townsend, and several others, were each granted large tracts of land. He died in 1667 and left two children, a son and a daughter, who married and left large families. This is from Morrison's History of Windham, H.H., and from the "History of Reading, Mass.," by Eaton.
1635. EDWARD POOLE. From Weymouth, England, born 1609, fled from religious persecution, emigrated thence with Robert Allyn and others and founded Weymouth, Mass, near Plymouth, in 1655: he died at Weymouth in 1664. His descendants are probably more numerous than any other Poole family. See the Poole Genealogy of Edward Poole, by Dr. Edward Marray Poole, of Ithaca, N.Y.
1635, ROBERT POOLE. Aged 20, appears as a Passenger in the ship "Truelove" from London, for the Bermudas, "having taken the oath of allegiance and cupremacie", before sailing. It is probable he went to Virginia subsequently,
1635. THOMAS POOLE. Aged 43, came from London to Virginia in the ship "Primrose", Captain Douglas, having taken the oath as above on July 27/1634. Among the patents granted in Virginia in that year, was one to Thomas Poole of 100 acres, situated in Warosquoiack Plantation, "down from Hog Island by the river 14 miles", This is probably situated in Warwick County.
1691. JOHN POOL. Of Gloucester, now Rockport, Mass, born 1670; came from Taunton, England in 1691: resided first at Beverley, where he married, then removed to Cape Ann, being one of the first two settlers there.
The Coat of Arms of the Pooles of Devonshire, Dorset, Gloucester & Wiltshire.
Arms: Azure, a lion rampant, argent, between eight fleur de lis, or. Crest: a stags head, cabossed gules, attired barry of six or and azure Motto: Pollet Virtus (virtue avails).
The following is further information about Captain William Poole, mentioned in the previous page, copied from the Winthrop-Babcock Genealogy by Josephine C. Frost, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1927.
William Poole, of Shute, Devon, England, Esquire, made a will proved October 14/1587 in which he made bequests to the Vicars of Colyton and Seaton, and gave his wife for life his Manor of Blackborne, and his moiety in the Manor of Beare and the occupation of his house and park in Shute for "three score years if she live that long", and then to his son William four score years if he live that long, after that to his son William and then to "heirs of my body for one thousand one hundred years". He married Katharine Popham, sister of Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and sister also of Captain George Popham, the leader of the short lived colony that settled in August 1607, near the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine. William Poole was buried in Shute, August 24/1587, and his wife on November 9/l586.
Sir William Pole (Poole). of Colcombe, Devon, Knight son of William and Katherine (Popham) Poole, made his will December 30/1635, proved February 1636, wherein he states that ha was 74 years of age, the 30th August last. He requests burial near his father on "the South side of my Aisle". To his wife, Lady Jane, jewels and other property and certain monies. he died in February 1636, and his burial is entered in the Colyton Register as March 10/1635-6, in the appendix to his publication "Collections to-wards a Description of Devonshire", printed in London in 1791, it states that he died February 9 at his house in Colcombe. There is ant original picture of him at Shute House. He married, 1st, Mary, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Periam, Knight, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who was the mother of all his children. He married, 2nd, Jane, daughter of William Symes, esq., and widow of Roher How, merchant of London. He left issue:-Sir John, William, Periam, William, Arthur, Franklin, (the last three triplets), Mary, Katherine, Elizabeth, Anne and Eleanor.
The Poole arms may be seen in the Heraldic Journal, Vol 1, P9. William Poole. Son of William and Mary (Periam) Poole, was one of the triplets, baptized at Shute, England, December 4/1593. He was matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, March 23/l6O9-10: B.A., November 3/1612: student of the inner Temple 1616, as of Colyton. He and his sister Elizabeth came to New England as early as 1637 and settled in Dorchester, Mass., but for a short time only, thence made their home in Taunton, where he was Deputy in 1639, 1641-43 and Member of the Council of War 1658. Before 1660 he had returned to Dorchester where he was Clerk of the Writs, and school master, and in the Vital Records his death is recorded as follows "Mr William Pole, that Sage, Reverend, Pious man of God, departed this life February 24/1674. On his tomb was engraved an epitaph of his own composition. He married Jane, maiden name not known, who died at River House, Boston, September 9/1690. He was probably married in America, for his oldest son was born in 1639.
She was related to Katharine Northcote, of Hoxton, Middlesex, England, widow, who made her will March 11/1683, in which she mentions her dear kinswonan Mrs. Jane Poole of Boston in New England, if she be living, and if not, five pounds shall be paid to her son Theophilus Poole. His children were: John, Nathaniel, Timothy, Mary, Bethsbeba, all born in Taunton, Mass., and Theophilus, born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1660.
John Poole, Eldest son of William and Jane Poole, was born In 1639, and married in Dorchester, Mass., March 28/1672, Elizabeth Brenton, born at Newport, R.I., in 1650, died October 17/1694, buried in the old Salem, Mass, Cemetery. Children:- John, Elizabeth, Courtney, William, Jane and others.
Jane Poole. daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brenton) Poole, was baptized at the Old South Church, Boston, Mass., November 12/1682, and married in Boston, on November 15/1705, as his first wife, Timothy Lindall: she died in Boston December 15/1710. Timothy Lindall, son of Timothy and Mary (Veren) Lindall, was born at Salem, Mass., November 4/1677, died October 25/1760, aged 93 years. He graduated from Harvard in 1695, and was a merchant at Salem until 1704 when he moved to Boston and married there.
He married, 2nd, in Salem, on May 27/1714, Bethiah Kitchen, who died in Salem June 20/1720, aged 31 years. He married, 3rd, soon after December 6/l749, when the banns were published, Mrs. Mary Henchman of Lynn, who died February 6/1767, aged 8O years. He returned to Salem after his second marriage and relinquished mercantile pursuits. He represented Salem at the General Court 1717-1721, 125, l726 and 1728, was Speaker of the House, and for many years Judge of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas, and served on all the most important committees of his times. In his will he left his grandson John Borland, his iron ore at Raynham and all his estate in Boston: to grandson Francis Lindall, to great grandsons John Lindall Borland and Francis Lindall Borland:
and grand daughter Winthrops children, John, Jane, Francis, Ann, William, Joseph, her six eldest, two thousand pounds to be put at interest until they are of age. To her son Thomas Lindell Winthrop, his warehouse, wharf, flats , &c., in Salem, and after the death of his widow, he to have the Mansion House in Salem. and the farm in Danvers.
Children by his first wife Jane Poole:-Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, Pool, and Mary:
:- by his second wife, Bethiah Kitchen:- Bethiah and Mary. His name is preserved in Boston by Lindall Street and Lindall Place.
Note:- Josephine C. Frost does not give the name of William Poole, son of Captain William and Jane Poole, which is given in Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, as having been born at Roxbury June 20/1658, died there April 21/1687.
Subject 132. Page 1 16/7/52
132 - THOMAS RUSHMORE
The following is from Hempstead Town Records: from
"Genealogies of Long Island Families", by Charles J. Werner, New York,
1919: from Long Island Genealogies, by Mary Seaman Bunker, 1898: from
"The Seaman Family in America", by Mary Seaman, 1928: from "The
Encyclopaedia of American Quaker Genealogy", Vol 3, by William Wade
Hinshaw, Ann Arbor Mich., 1940: from "The John "Rock" Smith Family", by
Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, N.Y, 1937.
Thomas Rushmore was the son of Thomas and Martha (Hicks)
Rushmore of Hempstead, L.I., the progenitor of this family in America,
subject 264. His birth and death dates are not known but he must have
been born about 1655: he was alive in l705, and was mentioned as
deceased in 1733, in a land transaction in H.T.R. Vol 3, page 157. That
he was the son of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore, is confirmed in
H.T.R, Vol 2, pages 267-8, reading:- I, Thomas Rushmore of Hempstead,
alias Nassau in Queens County, sell to Henry Allin, my right and title
of undivided land in Hempstead, belonging to me by purchase, produced
from William Yates and John Horges, derived from my deceased father
Thomas Rushmore, late of Hempstead, dated May 3/1705". H.T.R. Vol 8, pp
174-6, dated December 1/1695, states that Thomas Rushmore of Madnans
Neck, Hempstead, sold to Samuel Denton, 3 eight acre lots: page 180,
same date, states he sold to Peter Titus, 100 acres of land in
Hempstead, inherited from his father Thomas Rushmore, deceased. Vol 1,
p 364 states that Thomas Rushmore was awarded ten shillings damages by
the Court against John Smith, Jr., for mowing his meadow without his
leave or liberty. The Seamen Genealogy says that in 1669, Ensign Thomas
Rushmore, who was appointed Ensign in 1665, was ordered to give up the
Colors which he had received from the Governor, to Captain John Seaman.
Werner says Thomas Rushmore married, (about 1693-1695), Sarah
---, date of birth unknown, said to have died about 1723, probably
earlier. Thomas and Sarah's names were bracketed in the Hempstead
Census of 1698. Some genealogies say that Thomas' wife Sarah, was the
daughter of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Doughty) Hicks, who were
married in 1676, see subject 266, but neither Thomas Hicks' will of
1728, nor the Hicks Genealogy by Benjamin D. Hicks, mention any
daughter Sarah. It might be possible that Thomas Hicks' will of 1728
failed to mention her, if she died before he made his will. However I
carry on the Hicks line
:*ow Martha Hicks, who married James Poole, subject 16, page 1.
1. Thomas Rushmore.
Dates of birth and death unknown, but he must have been born about 1693-5. He died about 1753, as on that date, H.T.R. Vol 4, p 475, states:- "Plains near Jerusalem and 28 acres of land paid out to the heirs of Thomas Rushmore, unto five ninths of the patent right of Thomas Rushmore, which 128 acres lie on the north end of above tract", He lived in Oyster Bay. H.T.R. Vol 5, p 49, of January 13/1728, states that he was a blacksmith, and that he sold for £60, lot 36 in Oyster Bay to Thomas Carman, which be bought from Joseph Clement on May 3/1725. Oyster Bay Town Records, Vol 5, p 162, states that Thomas and Anekey Rushmore sold for £220 to Samuel Prior, 50 acres of land at Little Plains near Cedar Swamp, on July 27/1730.
Same volume, page 22, says he bought from Giles and Letitia Seaman for £l00.18.0, about 20 acres of land in Oyster Bay on March 10/1742-3. He married, about 1715, Anneke Hendricksen, dates of birth and death unknown: both H,T,R. Vol 5, p 62 and Hinshaw, confirm that Anneke was his wife, a Quaker. I cannot find the names of her parents: she died probably about 1741-2. All his children were by Anneke. He
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married, 2nd, Elizabeth Seaman, born about 1680, daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Titus) Seaman, and widow of James Worden. In 1753 Thomas and Elizabeth were disowned by the Quakers for marrying out: in 1759 Elizabeth was re-instated. He had no children by her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Anneke Hendricksen)
2/1. Martha Rushmore, born September 14/1716, died young.
2/2. Jacob Rushmore, born August 5/1720, died December 28/1754.
He married in 1744 Mary Mott, born 1720, died May 5/1762, daughter of James and Jane (Burling) Mott, see subject 282, page 2.
Issue:-
3/1. James Rushmore, born April 26/1745-7, died May 9/1823.
He married on May 7/1766, Deborah Whitson, born April 26/1747, died 1796, daughter of John and Deborah (Powell) Whitson of Huntington, L.I.
Issue:-
4/1. Jacob Rushmore, born 1767, died July 21/1824.
He lived at Halfway Hollow Hills, Huntington. He married on July 31/1794, Esther Dingee, died December 23/1818, daughter of Arthur Dingee.
Issue:- (from the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record Vol 22, pp 77-80)
5/1. Mary R. Rushmore, born about 1790, died March 16/1884.
She married on November 27/1823, Alfred Burrell Crossman, born August 27/1799, died February 3/1859, son of Gilbert and Betsey (Finch) Crossnan. Mary was then disowned by the Quakers for marrying out. They had eight children.
4/2. John Rushmore, born 1770, died 1775.
4/3. Mary Rushmore, born 1772, died 1796, unmarried.
4/4. Deborah Rushmore, born November 26/1778, died November 26/1857.
4/5. Anna Rushmore, born 1782, died April 22/1837.
She married at Jericho, L.I., on February 22/1810, Elkanah Wood, born in L.I. June 1782, died April 22/1837, son of Caleb and Abigail (Powell) Wood.
Issue:- (may be part only)
5/1. James Rushmore Wood, born in New York City,
September 14/1816, died there May 4/1882. He was one of the most eminent surgeons of his day and was a director of the Bellevue Hospital, New York City. He married a daughter of James Rowe of New York City.
2/3. Sarah Rushmore, born October 1/1722, died 1765.
She married on April 27/1748, as his second wife, Daniel Cock of Glen Cove, L.I born October 5/1699, died 1771, son of John and Dorothy (Harcourt) Cock, see subject 306, page 1. The Cox Genealogy by G.W. Cocks, New York, 1912, states that Daniel had married, 1st, after 1734, Levine Kissam, born October 29/1706, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Coombes) Kissam, and widow (?) of John Carman, born 1707, died January 29/1771, son of Joseph and either Grace "Rock" Smith or Martha Ellison, whom Levine had married on August 18/1731, and to whom she had borne two children, see subject 536, page 4. See the "Genealogy of John Carman" by Henry Alanson Tredwell, Brooklyn 1946, which says that John Carman married, 2nd, on February 8/1739-40, Mary Smith, widow of Joseph Doughty, see subject 534, page 2. Therefore either the Cox or the Carman genealogy must be wrong, or else John Carman divorced Levine Kissam before 1739. The Kissam Genealogy gives only Levine's first marriage to Daniel Cock. After Sarah's death, Daniel Cock married, 3rd, Susannah Youngs, daughter of Richard and Phebe (Weekes) Youngs, see subject 304, page 5 but had no children by her.
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Issue:- (from the Cox Genealogy)
3/1. Sarah Cock, born March 6/1749,
died September 18/1798 of yellow fever. She married at Matinecock, L.I., on July 4/1765, Jacob Coles born March 3/1743, died June 3/1808, son of Daniel and Anne (Carpenter) Coles of Duck Pond, Glen Cove, L.I., see subject 618, page 2. After Sarah's death, Jacob married, 2nd, in 1800, Jean Mudge, daughter of Coles and Dorothy (Coles) Mudge of Musketa Cove, see subject 618, page 4.
Issue:-
4/1. Sarah Coles, born September 18/1766, died July 26/1790.
She married on January 6/1785, Isaac Titus, born April 26/1764, son of Thomas and Martha (Powell) Titus.
4/2. Anne Coles, born August 23/1768, died May 25/1786.
She married on May 25/1786, Divine Hewlett, born at Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., February 5/1767, died October 28/1846, son of John and Sarah (Townsend) Hewlett, see subject 308, page 8.
4/3. Daniel Cock Coles, born May 24/1771, died December 29/1824.
He married on October 12/1794, Eleanor Cashow, born November 4/1777, died December 7/1853, daughter of Jacob and Lena (Stockholm) Cashow. They had nine children.
4/4. Amelia Coles, born May 7/1773, died July 8/1799. She married
on June 27/1793, Benjamin Hicks, son of Silas and Rachel (Seaman) Hicks, and had two children, see subject 266, page 6.
4/5. Loretta Coles, born April 2/1775, died January 10/1802.
She married Richard Kelsey and bad one daughter Loretta.
4/6. Solomon Coles, born May 1/1778, died October 31/1854.
He married in 1808, Phebe Travis, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (---) Travis,
4/7. Jacob Coles, born December 15/1780, died September 5/1798.
4/8. Ethelinda or Ethelanah Coles, born July 9/1782,
died October 16/1852. She married Hewlett Townsend of Cedar Swamp, L.I.
4/9. Martha Coles, born August 5/1784, died August 17/1859.
She married William Moyles Hewlett of Beaverbrook, L.I., born December 17/1789, died January 1/1864, son of Townsend and Margaret (Jones) Hewlett end had one daughter Martha.
4/10. Phebe Coles, born May 22/1792, died September 7/1793.
4/11. Joshua Coles, born April 21/1794, died August 28/1798.
2/4. Thomas Rushmore, born January 1/1724, died a young man.
2/5. Silas Rushmore, born July 20/1727. In 1755 he freed his negro slave.
He married on February 3/1753, Phebe Titus, born October 7/1732, daughter of Edmund and Sarah (Titus) Titus.
Issue;-
3/1. Martha Rushmore, born May 17/1754.
3/2. Samuel Rushmore. Was it his will, dated September 2/1825, proved
March 25/1826, which mentioned wife Dinah and daughters Rachel and Rosettie: executor Townsend Rushmore, witness Stephen Rushmore?
3/3. Jacob Rushmore.
3/4. Jeremiah Rushmore.
3/5. Sarah Rushmore. She married Richard Weekes of Cedar Swamp
and had thirteen children.
3/6. Mary Rushmore.
2/6. Stephen Rushmore, born January 5/1731, died young.
2/7. Isaac Rushmore, born February 8/1733, died August 16/1779.
He lived in Oyster Bay. He married on April 18/1757, Sarah Titus,
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born October 27/1735, died June 19/1775-6, daughter of Edmund and Sarah (Titus) Titus. Isaac was a blacksmith with William Loines in New York City. In 1765 he acknowledged at the Quaker Meeting, enlisting, bearing arms and hiring a substitute. In 1776-7 he freed his negro slaves Sambo and Micah.
Issue:-
3/1. Phebe Rushmore, born February 18/1758, died July 26/1843.
she married on October 2/1777, Silas Downing, born October 11/1747, died April 16/1822, son of Benjamin and Phebe (Willis) Downing of Hempstead, see subject 290, page 2. Silas was a Quaker preacher.
Issue:-
4/1. Isaac Downing, born July 25/1779, died January 30/1847.
He married Theodosia Valentine, born April 27/1776, daughter of Charles and Mary (Frost) Valentine, see subject 290, page 3.
4/2. Stephen Downing, born June 1/1783, died March 3/1844.
4/3. Phebe Downing, born September 17/1789, died November 29/1824.
4/4. Sarah Downing, born April 23/1793.
3/2. Mary Rushmore, born February 11/1760, died April 28/1837.
She married at Oyster Bay on February 10/l780, as his second wife, Charles Frost, born February 18/1750, died March 9/1820, son of William and Jemima Frost. Charles had married, 1st, in 1773, Esther Cock, born April 22/1756, daughter of William and Dinah Cock, by whom he had one daughter Jemima, born February 24/1774, died July 28/1835, who married three times, 1st, Isaac Titus, 2nd, Stephen Cock, and 3rd, Edward McDermott.
Issue:-
4/1. Isaac Frost, born March 9/1783, died May 18/1810.
He married on December 23/1807, Hannah Whitson, born April 24/1784, died December 14/1858, daughter of Amos and Amy (Willets) Whitson. They had two children.
4/2. Esther Frost, born November 27/1784, died November 27/1801.
4/3. Phebe Frost, born May 7/1786, died September 14/1854.
She married on November 21/1810, Samuel R. Titus, born April 14/1787, died July 11/1852, son of Samuel and Abigail (Robbins) Titus. They had three children.
4/4. Edmund Frost, born March 4/1788, died March 28/1842.
He married Abigail Carman, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Carman.
4/5. Stephen Frost, born February 7/1791, died January 22/1829.
He married on February 11/1815, Phebe Craft, born April 30/1793, died August 30/1824, daughter of James and Hannah (Doty) Craft. They had one son, Isaac Craft Frost. The name Craft was originally Thornicraft, but the family split their names, some took the name of Thorne and some Craft.
4/6. Sarah Frost, born March 11/1793, died January 20/1864.
She married on June 21/1815, Stephen Mott, born March 19/1783, died September 23/1873, son of James and Amy (Powell) Mott. They had three children.
4/7. Charles Frost, born November 9/1795, died May 18/1882.
He married on May 22/1821, Martha Titus, born June 22/1800, died November 23/1889, daughter of Timothy and Margaret (Hoogland) Titus. They had ten children
4/8. William Frost, born January 13/1798, died Aug 18/1869: single.
4/9. Mary Frost, born November 27/1801. She married Joseph Hubbs.
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3/3. Stephen Rushmore, born May 1/1763, died November 10/1852
at Wheatly, L.I. He married at Westbury, L.I., on February 7/1787, Phebe Townsend, born November 23/1768, died 1866, aged 98 years, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Loines) Townsend, see subject 616, page 4. The Townsend Genealogy by Margaret Townsend has an account of this remarkable Quaker woman at the age of 96.
Issue:-
4/1. Isaac Rushmore, born May 19/1788, died July 3/1875.
He married on March 24/1813, Lydia Post, born 1789, died July 12/1841, daughter of Edmund and Catherine (Willets) Post.
Issue:-
5/1. Stephen Rushmore, born September 8/1814, died January 13th,
1890. He married at Westbury on September 27/1837, Matilda Powell, daughter of John W. and Sarah (Johnson) Powell.
Issue:-
6/1. Isaac Rushmore, born September 27/1841, died Jan 30/1842.
6/2. Lydia M. Rushmore, born August 14/1843, died Jan 11/1844.
6/3. Edward Rushmore, born May 8/1845.
In 1869 he was an assessor at Hempstead, L.I.
6/4. John Howard Rushmore, born February 28/1847,
died October 12/1891. He married on September 23/1869, Julia Ann Barker, daughter of David C. and Julia Barker.
6/5. Child, born August 26/1850, died in three days.
6/6. Child, born November 20/1858, died in two days.
5/2. Edmund Rushmore, born February 20/1816,
died February 3/1817.
5/3. Edmund Rushmore, born April 12/1818, died January 26/1890.
5/4. Lydia Rushmore, died 1844.
4/2. Sarah Rushmore, born at Cedar Swamp, L.I., October 9/1790,
Died October 3/1893, aged 103 years! She married at Westbury, on January 29/1812, John Doughty Hicks, born March 20/1791, died October 10/1829, son of Isaac and Sarah (Doughty) Hicks of Hempstead. See subject 266, page 4 for issue and further particulars.
4/3. Townsend Rushmore, born August 5/1792, died February 3/1870.
He married at Jericho, L.I., on January 29/1824, Amy Willis, born September 12/1797, died January 26/1881, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Pearsall) Willis, see subject 282, page 6.
Issue:-
5/1. Esther Rushmore, born May 13/1825, died August 4/1896.
She married on September 5/1844, Robert W. Titus, and had one daughter Emily.
5/2. Maria Rushmore, born April 22/1827.
5/3. Rachel Rushmore, born March 11/1830, died February 7/1861.
5/4. Isaac Rushmore, born January 20/1832. He married Phebe ---.
5/5. Phebe Rushmore, born April 13/1834.
5/6. Samuel Willis Rushmore, born November 12/1836.
He married Frances Gertrude Lowerre, born in Brooklyn, March l8/1841, died July 7/1920, daughter of Benjamin H. and Annie M. Lowerre. After Samuel's death, Frances married, 2nd, on April 15/1888, Silas Albertson Underhill, born at Glen Cove, March 28/1840, but had no children by him.
Issue:-
6/1. William Rushmore, born March 1864, died June 6/1868.
6/2. Anna Rushmore. She married a Mr. Ewer.
6/3. Samuel W Rushmore, of Plainfield, N.J.
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5/7. Henry W. Rushmore, born October 25/1838, died April 21/1902.
5/8. William Townsend Rushmore, born May 29/1841,
died March 11/1881.
4/4. Mary R. Rushmore, born July 13/1794, died May 17/1875.
She married on November 22/1815, Edmund Post, born October 5/1792, died July 2/1832, son of Edmund and Catherine (Willets) Post. They had five children.
4/5. Jane Rushmore, born August 7/1796.
She married on November 6/1817, Valentine Willets, born March 20/179?, died August 27/1895, son of William and Letitia (Valentine) Willets of Cow Neck, L.I., see subject 290, page 3.
Issue:-
5/1. Letitia Willets, born November l2/1818.
She married Charles W. Allis.
5/2. Phebe Rushmore Willets, born May 10/1824.
She married Charles Samuel Underhill, born 1827, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whelply) Underhill. In 1886 they lived at Glenham, N.Y.
Issue:-
6/1. Alice Emily Underhill, born July 4/1852,
died at Mohegan Lake, unmarried.
5/3. Mary Willets.
5/4. Sarah Willets.
4/6. Thomas Rushmore, born March 6/1799, died April 30/1878,
of Roslyn, L.I. He married Jane Valentine, born 1806, died January 11/1896, daughter of Oliver Valentine.
Issue:
5/1. Elizabeth Rushmore, born May 7/1834, died December 11/1888.
She married on December 1/1864, John Augustus Prior, born 1826, died March 4/1885, son of John and Elizabeth (Fros.) Prior. They had no children.
5/2. Stephen T. Rushmore, born at Roslyn, September 7/1840,
died May 7/1926. He married on November 13/1879-80, Adelaide Halstead, born 1849, daughter of Henry P. and Sarah F. (Prior) Halstead.
Issue:-
6/1. Thomas H. Rushmore, born October 9/1880.
He married at Jericho, 1st, on September 7/1904, Anna H. Robbins, born April 17/1877, died June 5/1928, daughter of Walter and Sarah E. (Hubbs) Robbins of Jericho. He married, 2nd, on June 30/1937, Adele Jones, daughter of William H. Jones of Westbury, L.I.
Issue:- (by his first wife Anna H. Robbins)
7/1. Lilian Rushmore, barn December 9/1905. she married on
September 10/1930, Le Roy R. Newell
7/2. Elizabeth R. Rushmore, born September 14/l909.
She married on October 15/1932, Porter O. Daniel.
7/3. Walter S. Rushmore, born January 23/1912.
He married on July 5/1940, Florence Keppler.
Issue:- (by his second wife Adele Jones)
7/4. Thomas Rushmore, born December 16/1938.
6/2. Halstead Rushmore, born November 8/1881, died 1929.
He married on June 27/1925, Emily smith, born at Rye, N.Y. daughter of Halsey M. and Sarah (Underhill) Smith of Glen Cove, L.I.
HP140 P7 (216)
Issue: -
7/1. Constance Rushmore, born at Roslyn, L.I.,
May 12/1925.
6/3. Leon Augustus Rushmore, born at Roslyn, August 23/1883.
He was a trustee and director of many organisations. He married at Glen Cove, L.I., on January 2/1909, Mary Willets Seaman, born at Jericho, L.I., June 4/1891, daughter of Samuel Jackson and Matilda (Willets) Seaman
Issue:
7/1. Leon Augustus Rushmore, born at Roslyn,
June 2-4/1910. He married at Germantown, Pa., on February 6/1932, Caroline A. Jackson, born September 12/1909, daughter of Arthur C. and Edith (Wilson) Jackson. In 1948 they lived on Roslyn Road, Roslyn, L.I.
Issue:-
8/1. Mary Lee Rushmore, born January 5/1934.
8/2. Carley Jackson Rushmore, born November 28/1935.
8/3. Stephen Rushmore, born March 12/1945.
7/2. Robert Seaman Rushmore, born at Roslyn,
February 15/1914. He married, 1st, on January 31/1942, Elizabeth (Van Sickelen) Dunkerton, who died September 28/1944, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (House) Dunkerton:one daughter Sarah Elizabeth Rushmore.
6/4. Edna L. Rushmore, born September 1885, died June 1/l887.
6/5. Byron Rushmore, born November 1/1887.
He married Marie Masek, daughter of John and Marie (Sowa) Masek of Hicksville, L.I.
6/6. Lillian T. Rushmore, born October 1891, died May 18/1893.
4/7. Phebe T. Rushmore, born October 6/1803. She married at Westbury,
L.I., on December 15/1831, Isaac R. Gifford, son of William and Freelove Gifford of Dartmouth, Mass. They had four children.
3/4. Jane Rushmore, born April 12/1768. She married on January 7/1790,
Lewis Valentine of Oyster Bay, born April 22/1765, died March 2/1846, son of Charles and Mary (Frost) Valentine, see subject 290, page 3. After Jane's death, Lewis married, 2nd, on April 3/1802, Jane (Titus) Post, and had four children by her.
Issue:- (from his will)
4/1. Jacob Valentine, born December 13/1790. He married Martha Titus,
daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Robbins) Titus, and had four children.
4/2. Isaac Valentine, born December 11/1792. He married Freelove
Craft, daughter of Stephen and Abby Craft: one son Joseph.
4/3. Silas Valentine, born July 10/1794, died March 11/1831: single
4/4. Stephen Valentine, born August 18/1796. He married Ann Titus,
daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Robbins) Titus: 3 children.
4/5. Townsend Valentine.
4/6. George Valentine. Had a daughter Jane.
4/7. Elizabeth Valentine.
3/5. Edmond Rushmore, born November 27/1771, died June 17/1782.
2/8. Phebe Rushmore, born February 22/1736, died young.
2/9. Benjamin Rushmore, born September 4/1738, died December 15/1820.
He married Jemima Coles, born 1741, died July 24/1819, daughter of Joseph and Temperance (Valentine) Coles: other genealogies say Jemima was the daughter of Joseph and Temperance (Albertson) Coles,
Subject 140P8 (217) 20/6/1952
see subject 618, page 1. I think the latter is correct, in view of Jemima's brothers being named after her grand father Derick Albertson. Benjamin lived at Cedar Swamp aid suffered British depredations during the Revolution. - On March 27/1787 he freed his negro slave named Henry Rushmore.
Issue:-
3/1. Charles Rushmore, born 1772, died October 8/1817.
He married at Jericho on June 2/1796, Elizabeth Willets, born December 25/1771, died March 18/1836, daughter of Jacob and Martha (Williams) Willets.
3/2. Coles Rushmore, born 1770, died March 25/1825.
3/3. Elizabeth Rushmore, born June 6/1774, died November 29/1798.
She married Samuel Prior.
Issue:-
4/1. Mary Prior, born August 14/1797.
She married Willets Underhill, born January 3/1796, died August 8/1870, son of Israel and Mary (Wright) Underhill, and had four children. After Mary's death, Willets married, 2nd, Sarah Hopkins and had two children.
3/4. Jemima Rushmore. No data.
2/10.Jemima Rushmore, born March 17/1741, died young.
1/2. John Rushmore. Dates of birth and death unknown, but he must have been
born about 1695-6. H.T.R. mention him as being alive in 1753. He was listed in the Hempstead Census of 1698, as were also his uncle John, and wife Mary Rushmore. He was not a Quaker. I think he was the man who married Mary Carman, probably daughter of Caleb and Margaret (--) Carman, subject 268, page 1. Werner states that the John Rushmore who married Mary Carman, was the son of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore, subject 264, but he must have mistaken him for this John Rushmore, because the John referred to by Werner would have been over 70 years old when his son Carman was born (about 1725). Werner also states that Mary Carman was the daughter of John Carman, but none of the Carman genealogies give John Carman a daughter Mary. See what I have written under subject 264 about John Rushmore. See subject 66 for this John Rushmore, his wife Mary Carman, and their issue and further particulars.
1/3. Sarah Rushmore. Werner gives her as a daughter of this Thomas Rushmore,
but the eminent historian Coombes says this Sarah was not a daughter, but rather the wife of this Thomas Rushmore, namely Sarah Hicks.
1/4. Ann Rushmore. Werner gives her as a daughter of this Thomas Rushmore
but this is wrong, according to some genealogies.
1/5. Martha Rushmore. The same remarks apply as to the above Ann.
I have been unable to straighten this out.
subject 134. 2/2/1951
134 - CALEB CARMAN
The following is from the same sources as quoted under subject 536. Son of Caleb Carman, subject 268.
Caleb Carman was born in 1682, and died in 1745, son of Caleb and Hannah (Seaman) Carman, see subject 268. His will was dated January 31/1744, and one of the witnesses was John Rushmore, subject 66, who I think was his son in law.
Caleb married in 1704, Margaret -- surname unknown, who outlived him.
The names of his children are taken from his will which names his sons first, and then his daughters. I can find no record of the dates of their births, so the order in which they are given below may not be correct.
Issue: -
1. Caleb Carman,
2. John Carman.
3. Silas Carman.
4. Joseph Carman.
5. Hannah Carman.
6. Margaret Carman.
7. Phebe Carman.
8. Mary Carman. I believe she is the Mary Carman who married John Rushmore,
born 1696, see subject 66, but there is no record to prove it. Werner states that John Rushmore's wife was Mary Carman, and that their eldest son Carman Rushmore was born in 1725, although Werner's information as to their parents was wrong. As Mary's parents were not married until 1704, she must have been born between 1705 and say 1709-10. See subject 66 for issue and further particulars.
Subject 140. 2/2/1951
140 - JONATHAN SMITH
The following is from "The John Rock Smith Family", by Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, L.I., 1937: from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies": from "Adam and Anne Mott", by Thomas C. Cornell, Yonkers, 1890: from "The Genealogy of John Carman", by Henry Alanson Tredwell, Brooklyn, 1945: from "The Genealogy of the Rev. R. Denton", by George D.A. Coombes, Rockville Center, N.Y., 1936: and from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 77, page 132. These all differ considerably.
Jonathan Smith's birth date is not known, but it must have been before 1650: his will was dated March 6/1724. He was a farmer and a sur- veyor. He received three military commissions, dated 1690, 1697 and 1698, as a Lieutenant in the King's service, signed and sealed by Richard, Earl of Belmont, still in the possession of his descendants, who lived on the farm he owned at Merrick, L.I. The old house has been moved back from the road and kept as an heirloom.
Jonathan married in 1671, Grace Mott, born about 1653, daughter of Adam and his first wife Jane (Hewlett) Mott, see subject 282, page 3. His children as below, are taken from the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 77, page 132, and may not be in proper order as the sons are given after the daughters, and all their birth dates are not given.
Issue:-
1. Jane Smith. She married Lucas Eldert, baptized December 25/1677,
Son of Lucassen Stevense and Styntje (Janse) Eldert of Jamaica, L.I. see "The Bergen Family", by T.G. Bergen, Albany, N.Y., 1876, for the Eldert Genealogy.
Issue:-
2/1. Eldert Eldert, baptized October 27/1704.
2/2. Jannetje Eldert, baptized May 15/1712.
2/3. Grace Eldert.
2. Grace Smith. Born 1678. She married, perhaps, Joshua Carman, born 1674,
died after 1742, a farmer at Cow Neck, L.I., son of John and Hannah (---) Carman, see subject 268, p 5, for which see their issue and further particulars: this is from Tredwell's Carman genealogy.
3. Martha Smith. she married Johannes Eldert, baptized December 26/1681,
died before 1714, son of Lucassen Stevense and Styntje (Janse) Eldert of Jamaica, L.I,
Issue:-
2/1. Son, baptized April 10/1705.
2/2. Johannes Eldert, baptized April 14/1707.
2/3. Grace Eldert.
4. Mary Smith. No data, except that her father's will called her an invalid
and left a trust fund of £146.8.0 for her.
5. Jonathan Smith. Born about 1673-4, died about 1748.
His will, dated May l7/1746, proved September 13/1748, called his wife Elizabeth, no surname given: she is supposed to have been an Ellison, Platt, or Plant. See subject 70 for issue and further particulars.
6. Adam Smith. Date of birth unknown: he died intestate on October
29/1730. Thomas Whitehead was appointed administrator of his estate, but as Thomas died, Adam's widow, Rachel was appointed administratrix on December 28/1733. He married Rachel Eldert, daughter of Lucassen Stevense and Styntje (Jense) Eldert.
Issue:-
2/1. Lucretia Smith, baptized April 10/1711.
7.John Smith. Date of birth unknown: his will, dated Hempstead, L.I.,
July 12/1732, proved April 3/1733, mentioned his wife Isabell --.
Subject 140. p2
Issue:- (from his will)
2/1. Elias Smith.
2/2. Benjamin Smith.
2/3. Silas Smith.
2/4. Amos Smith.
2/5. Hannah Smith.
2/6. Abigail Smith.
2/7. Phebe Smith.
2/8. Susannah Smith.
8. Gershom Smith. Date of birth unknown: will dated September 8/1735,
proved October 10/1735, gave his wife (name not mentioned) all his lands: to son Gershom 100 acres of land: to son Thomas half his homestead and meadows. His wife was named Mary ---.
Issue:- (from his will)
2/1. Thomas Smith.
2/2. Gershom Smith.
2/3. Elizabeth Smith.
2/4. Martha Smith, born September 30/1709, died in 1759.
She married, 1st, on May 27/1728, Samuel Mott, born 1707, died February 15/1736, son of Joseph and Miriam Mott, see subject 282, page 3. She married 2nd about 1738, John Hicks, born December 25/1711, died 1789, son of Jacob and Hannah (Carpenter) Hicks, see subject 266, page 4.
2/5. Uriah Smith.
2/6. Israel Smith.
2/7. Sarah Smith.
2/8. Jane Smith.
9. James Smith. No data.
10. Benjamin Smith. Dates of birth and death unknown. He married, 1st,
in 1718, Charity Treadwell, born 1700, died 1729, daughter of Captain Thomas and Hannah (Denton) Tredwell, and had six children. He married, 2nd, Amy Spragg and had four children. Another genealogy says he married, 2nd, in 173-, Elizabeth (Cornell) Denton, who died in 1743, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Smith) Denton, and widow of James Denton and they had one daughter. Benjamin Smith was also reported to have married, 3rd, in 1737, Amy Hedger, widow of Robert Betts, whose will was dated September 30/1733, proved November 1/1733, in which he left to his wife Amy £25, his brown horse, a sadle and a bed, and said his children by Amy were Augistine and Sarah, and that his wife Amy was then pregnant. I have not been able to straighten out these several marriages.
subject 144 p1 (221) 1952
144 - THOMAS CHEESMAN.
The following is from Hempstead Town Records, and from data collected by Miss Anna Maude Hoxie, (subject 8C, page 2), who in turn got it from Dudley Van Ingen (who married Marie Cheesman, subject 18, page 2).
Thomas Chessman's birth and death dates are unknown, nor where he came from, There were many Cheesmans in New Jersey, older than Thomas, so be may have come from there but I cannot trace any connection. This seems the more likely as four of his children moved back to New Jersey.
He must have been born before 1660 as he was married in 1680, and was alive as late December 7/1736, according to the Hempstead Town Record of that date quoted below.
Thomas Cheesman married, before 1680, ---- Valentine, born between 1650 and 1668, the birth dates at Richard Valentine's sons: his daughter's birth dates not given. She was the daughter of Richard Valentine, subject 290. The Valentine Genealogy confirms that one of Richard Valentine's daughter married Thomas Cheesman.
The Hempstead Town Records referring to Thomas Cheesman are as follows:
August 10/1680, Vol 1, p 206. States that Thomas Chessman was the son in law of Richard Valentine, and was in possession of Richard's farm.
--------1685. His ear mark was registered at Hempstead.
December 16/1700. Vol 2, p 209. States that Richard Valentine, son of Richard Valentine Sr. confirmed that his father gave 22 acres of land at Herricks to Thomas Cheesman, his brother in law.
-------- 1703, Vol 2, pp 415-6. States that Thomas Cheesman bought land of Nathaniel Pearsall, being situate on the north side of the Great Plains, at a place called Herricks, being bounded at the north east corner by a great chestnut tree, and running southwards from thence to a thick swamp, thence running eastwards till it comes within three rods of a great white oak, which stands on the west side of the cart path, and from thence running northwardly into the said Thomas Cheesman's fence, until it comes to the chestnut tree first above mentioned.
January 4/1709-10. Vol 2, pp 367-8. Thomas Chessman of Northside, acquired Hungry Harbour (at Rockaway), from Hendrik Anton.
November --/1719. Vol 2, p 369, States that Thomas Cheesman bought land from George Pearsall in the township of Hempstead, bounded northerly by his own land, westward by the George Pearsall land, southwardly by Daniel Pearsall's land and eastwardly upon the highway upon the north side of a place commonly know by the the name of Herricks.
December 7/1736. Vol 3, p 183. States that Thomas Cheesman sells for £300 of good current money of ye Colony of New York, paid by his son Ephraim Chessman, a certain farm or plantation at the north side of ye Great Plains, at a place celled Herricks, containing about 80 acres, part of which was a 22 acre lot which his father in law Richard Valentine late of Hempstead purchased from Nathaniel Pearsall and George Pearsall.
Mr. Dudley Van Ingen wrote the following account of the Cheesman ancestry, but I dont know where he got it. There is no proof that Thomas Chessman was a descendent of any of them.
The Cheesman family was originally of Norman extraction, said to have gone to England with William the Conqueror, where they soon became rich and distinguished. They were probably cheese merchants in Normandy, France, hence their name Cheesmongre, later anglicized to Chessman. Richard and Thomas were among their family names and some members of the family emigrated to Virginia and became prominent. There was a
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Richard Cheesman mentioned in Virginia in 1685, but Thomas Cheesman is more likely to have been a descendant of Richard Cheesman, Chasmore, or Chessmongre of Massachusetts and Warwick, L.I., who was taken prisoner by both governments in 1656-7, see N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 8, pp 293 and 362. He was a Quaker, and in 1661 was in Jamaica, L.I., with Henry Townsend and John Townsend and his wife, who "listened" to George Wilson: whereupon the governor quartered soldiers in their houses to prevent further misdemeanors. In the same year, Richard Chasmore was among the Oyster Bay "Friends". It is possible that Richard was the father of Thomas Chessman, and also possible that Richard married Hannah Stringham of Flushing L.I., as shown in the will of Peter Stringham of Flushing, dated August 6/1676, proved February 13/1727, which mentions daughter Hannah, wife of Richard Cheesman, see N.Y. Historical Society Collections, Vol 35, p 59.
The Cheesman family were of Sussex, England. In the Tower Record of London, there is a deed from Alan and Alicia Chasmongre, dated 1286, granting the land upon which the College and Priory of Hastings, Sussex, were built. This date carries the family origin back to within two hundred years of the Norman conquest of England in A.D. 1066-87. These names Alan and Alicia, suggest the origin of the surname Cheesman, and are distinctly Norman names. Their ancestors were Normans from Normandy, across the British Channel, now the northern part of France. Being cheese merchants or mongres, the name Chessman became by adoption, the name of the family as long ago as the 13th century. It is said by the Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol 15, p 151, that Alan and his wife Alicia Cheesmongre were then citizens of Hastings. It was at Hastings, one of the Cinque Ports, that William the Conqueror and his army landed.
The tomb of Eleanor Cheesman in a church at Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, bears the following inscription:- on a brass tablet:- "Here lyeth Elinor Palmer, wyffe unto Edward Taylor, Esquire, of Kentishtown, and one of ye daughters of Edward Cheesman, who was Cofferer to King Henry the sixth, whych Elynor dyd give two acares of medowe grownd in Kentishtown holden or ye Prebend of Cantalons unto ye use of the Poore of this town forever: whych said Elynor, deceased the 29 daye of Februarie in Anno Dom 1558".
Nottingham is a hamlet which lies partly in the parish of Eltham and partly in that of Chiselhurst, Blackheath Hundred, County of Kent. It was anciently called Modingham, from the Saxon words Modig, proud and lofty, and Ham, a dwelling. These premises in the 14th year of King Henry VI, 1436, were in the possession of Robert Chessman of Lewisham and East Greenwich, who by his marriage with Jeane, daughter of Bernard Cavell of Chiselhurst, had considerably increased his property in that place. The Cavells possessed this estate as early as the reign of Edward I. The last of the Cheesmans who held this estate, whose heir was Alice, carried it in marriage to Robert Stoddard: and his son, George Stoddard, and Anna, his wife, in the year 1560, built the present Mansion House, called Nottingham Place. In the old house were the following dates and Coats of Arms. On the inside of the turret, 1560, on a chimney, 1561, on an outward gate, 1635. In the glass of the windows, these Arms: Party per Chevron, enbattled sable and argent, three mollets, pierced and countercharged, Cheesman. (See Hasted's History of Kent, Vol 1, p 479-80)
Alice, daughter and heiress of Thomas Cheesman, Esquire, a descendant of the said Robert, married Robert Stoddard, Esquire. In an old church at Chipping Barnet, also now in London, there is an altar tomb
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in memory of Eleanor, daughter of Edward Cheesman, Esquire, Cofferer to Henry VII, who married John Palmer, Esquire, and died in 1558.
John Cheesman, Esquire, owner of the Manor of Lewistown, near London, in 1525. Th the church at Bethnal Green, London, there is a tomb of a Mr. John Chessman, 1738. Daniel Lysons, author of "Environs of London", written in 1795, says Kensington Place is a large irregular edifice, built at various tines. The palace contains a good collection of pictures by the old masters, and many valuable and interesting portraits one of them being of Robert Cheesman, with a hawk in his hand, painted by Holbein. Robert Cheesman purchased Osterly House for 28 years, from Philip and Mary: it afterwards belonged to Sir Thomas Greshem.
Norwood, a parish of Middlesex, was an ancient memorial estate in 1785, 12 miles from London, between Hounslow and Uxbridge Roads. Edward Cheesman, Esquire, who died anno 1570, was seized of the Manor of Norwood, and held under the Bishop of Canterbury. His son Robert, who died in 1547, left a daughter Anne, who married Francis Chamberlyne, Esq. The latter's son Robert Cheesman, married Alice Dacres of Dorman's Well, in the parish of Norwood. Norwood's Chapel, (see picture in Vol 3, p 322 of Lyson's Environs of London, is a small structure consisting of a nave, chancel and north aisle. On the north wall is a monument with obtuse Gothic arch, to the memory of Robert Cheesman, Esquire, who died in 1547. Near by, is the Coat of Arms of the Cheesmans and Dacres, impaled.
I cannot find any record of the birth dates of Thomas Cheesman's children, but he, his wife, and the following children, were all mentioned in the l698 Census of Hempstead, L.I.
Issue: -
1/1. Margaret Cheesman. She married on November 1/1742, the Reverend James
Carman, son of Joseph and Hannah (--) Carman, see subject 268, page 6. At the time of their marriage, they were residents of Middlesex County, New Jersey. In the marriage record, her name was so illegibly written that it has been transcribed in the printed records as Presmeal.
The Reverend James Carman was the executor of his brother in law William Cheesman's will of 1753. I can find no record of their children.
1/2. Thomas Cheesman. Died in June 1777. He removed from Hempstead to
Gloucester, N.J., in 1726. Mr. Dudley Van Ingen said he married, at Gloucester, on May 11/1727, Sarah Clement, daughter of Edward Clement of Waterford, Gloucester County, N.J., whose will of March 11/1714-5 called Sarah a minor. In August 1727, Sarah received her share of her father's estate, and was then the wife of Thomas Cheesman. They had the children mentioned below. However, New Jersey Archives, Vol 25, (Abstracts of Wills) 1670-1750, p 97, states that Thomas Cheesman married Sarah Colemans. I don't know which is correct.
Issue:-
2/1. Mary Cheesman. She married in January 1758, John Brackney, ,son of
Matthias and Frances Brackney: Frances' will of April 8/1766, left her son John five shillings and to John's brother £116.
2/2. Sarah Cheesman. She married in November 1758, Ephraim Haines, of Salem,
N.J., who died in 1789, son of Richard Haines: Ephraim and Sarah were married in Haddonfield N.J.
2/3. William Cheesman, died September 1773.
1/3. William Cheesman. Died 1753. On August 15/1685, he petitioned for 100
acres of land at Hempstead, L.I., at 6 pence per annum quit rent, and got it. He removed to New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey. His will dated December 3/1753, proved January 30/1759, inventoried his estate at £225.2.2, including several negroes, and mentioned his
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wife Martha ---, and the following children.
Issue:-
2/1. Mary Cheesman.
2/2. Martha Cheesman.
2/3. Catherine Cheesman.
2/4. William Cheesman, born about 1725, died 1824, nearly 100 years old.
He is said to have married his cousin Lydia Cheesman, daughter of Benjamin and --- (Dill) Cheesman, see below.
Issue: -
3/1. Joseph Cheesman.
3/2. Enoch Cheesman.
3/3. Abijah Cheesman.
3/4. Reuben Cheesman. He married on November 29/l759, Sarah Ogden.
2/5. John Cheesman.
2/6. Joseph Cheesman.
2/7. Benjamin Cheesman.
2/8. Samuel Cheesman
1/4. Ephraim Cheesman. Died before January 3/1748. He was the only child
who stayed in Hempstead, L.I. He married, 1st, in 1714 Sarah Haight: the Hoyt Genealogy doesn't mention her, nor can I find the names of her parents. He married, 2nd, before 1737, Esther ---, about whom I cannot find anything. See subject 72 for issue and further particulars
1/5. Benjamin Cheesman. He married --- Dill.
Issue:-
2/1. Lydia Cheesman. She married her cousin William Cheesman,
Born about 1725, son of William Cheesman, see above.
1/6. Samuel Cheesman. Born about 1688: his will was dated 1722.
He married, about 1714, a widow, Anne Coles, born December 3/1692, daughter of Nathan and Rachel (Hopkins) Coles, see subject 618, page 4. Anne had married, 1st, William Mudge, who died in 1713, son of Moses and Mary Mudge, by whom she had Coles Mudge, born July 10/1711, and Michael Mudge, born August 30/1713. Three of Anne's children by Samuel Cheesman are given in Nathan Coles Will, in Oyster Bay Town Records, Vol 1, p 654, as follows. Samuel moved to Westchester County, N.Y.
Issue:-
2/1. Benjamin Cheesman, born November 15/1716, died between 1800 and 1808,
the date of his will and its probate. His earmark was registered on April 9/1748, (H.T.R. Vol 4, p 412) His will does not mention a wife, probably predeceased him, and left his estate to the following children.
Issue:-
3/1. Benjamin Cheesman, dates of birth and death unknown,
but in the Hempstead Census of 1800, he and his wife Deborah ---, were both over 45 years of age, with one son and two daughters, unnamed.
Issue:-
4/1. Nancy Cheesman, born March 27/1773. Was she the Ann Cheesman who
married at Hempstead, on January 29/1807, John Williams?
4/2. Timothy Cheesman, mentioned as a grandson in Benjamin's will.
Was he the Timothy S. Cheesman who married at Hempstead, on October 31/1807, Phebe Bricket, born 1784, died Sept 5/1858. (This is from Deaths in the New York Evening Post)
3/2. Jerusha Cheesman.
3/3. Martha Cheesman.
3/4. Mary Cheesman.
3/5. Hannah Cheesman.
3/6. Freelove Cheesman.
3/7. Phebe Cheesman.
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2/2. Samuel Cheesman, born January 23/1719. He moved to Westchester County,
N.Y. The only records of him which I can find, is that he signed as a witness to the will of William Ogden of Northcastle, Westchester County, on February 26/1769. He again signed as a witness to the will of John Williams of Westchester County, on March 3/1774. The name of his wife is not known, nor the names of his children, but one was probably:-
Issue:- (part only)
3/1. Ruth Cheesman, born between 1740 and 1750, date of death unknown.
She married John Wright, born 1736, died 1820, son of
John Wright of Long Island.
2/3. Ann Cheesman, date of birth unknown: not mentioned in Nathan Coles'
will as a daughter, but her elder brother Samuel called her his sister, when he witnessed Ann's sale of land as follows:- Oyster Bay Records state that on April 13/1742, she and her half brother Coles Mudge, sold to Colas' younger brother Michael Mudge of Musketo Cove, Queen's County, L.I., 17 acres of land for £71.
2/4. Thomas Cheesman, born January 15/1721. I cannot find any further
records in Hempstead about this man, but it seems likely that he was the Thomas Cheesman, whose will was dated at Philadelphia on November 9/1782, proved July 1/1785. His will called himself a shipwright of New York, of advanced age: perhaps 61 was considered an advanced age in those days. His will mentioned no wife, but the St Nicholas Society's Genealogical Record, 1905, names her Elizabeth Forman. The Forman and Haight families of Long Island were intermarried, but I cannot locate Elizabeth's parents. This would seem to indicate that this Thomas Cheesman was originally from Long Island and had moved to Philadelphia as a young man. Moreover his grandson John C. Cheesman married a Hicks of Long Island. His will instructed his executors to sell his house on Queen's St, Montgomery Ward, New York City, to apply to the maintenance of his children Sarah, Thomas and Forman, till the latter was 21 years old (in 1782 he was only 14 years old). Sarah was to have a room in the shipyards as long as she was unmarried. Forman was to inherit the shipyards when he was 24 years old. The rest of his estate was to be divided amongst the following children.
Issue:- (according to his will)
3/1. Ann Cheesman, born about 1753. She married James Brewster.
3/2. Elizabeth Cheesman, born about 1756-8. She married John Arthur.
3/3. Mary Cheesman, born about 1759. She married James or John Eyre.
3/4. Sarah Cheesman, born about 1761. Unmarried in 1782.
3/5. Thomas Cheesman, born about 1763.
3/6. Forman Cheesman, born at Philadelphia in 1768, died February
13/1820, according to Hinshaw's Quaker Genealogy. The St Nicholas Society's record gives his birth as 1763, and states his wife was Ann Cummings, born 1768, died 1820.
Issue:-
4/1. Jacob Cheesman, baptized 1786.
4/2. John Cummings Cheesman, born July 20/1788, died October 11th,
1862. He married at New York City, on December 15/1813, Martha Matlack Hicks, born between 1786 and 1798, died in New York City, July 2/1872, daughter of Willet and Mary (Matlack) Hicks.
Issue: -
5/1. Ann Cheesman, born August 11/1815.
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5/2. Alexander Cheesman. No data.
5/3. Willet Hicks Cheesman, born August 18/1817.
5/4. John Cummings Cheesman, born August 26/1818,
died August 15/1825.
5/5. Timothy Matlack Cheesman, born October 22/1524, died 1888.
He married Maria Louisa Smith, born 1829, died 1903. (This is from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 51, pl28, from "The Livingston Family', by Florence Van Rensselaer, New York, 1949, and from the St Nicholas Society Record, 1905-31)
Issue:-
6/1. Kate Cheesman, born 1851.
She married George Washington Riggs, born 1848.
6/2. Timothy Matlack Cheesman, born New York City, January
29/1853, died at Garrison on Hudson, February 25/1919. He graduated from Columbia University, A.B. 1874, and M.A. 1877: from Columbia College of Physicians, M.D. 1878. He was a specialist in Eye, Ear and Throat, and professor of Bacteriology there, and finally a Trustee of the University: he was a 33rd degree Mason. He married at St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, on November 6/1884, Clara Livingston, born June 24/1861, daughter of Frances Armstrong and Sarah Jane (Arden) Livingston.
Issue:-
7/1. Sarah Ann Cheesman. She married Albert Harkness.
7/2. John Cummings Cheesman, born November 27/1886,
died November 1/1898.
7/3. Louis Montgomery Cheesman, born February 12/1891,
died September 10/l891.
7/4. Timothy Matlack Cheesman, born December 29/1892,
died May 2/1893.
7/5. Timothy Matlack Cheesman, born June 24/1894,
Died August 28/1894.
6/3. Louis Matlack Cheesman, born 1858, died January 12/1885,
a professor, P.H.D.
5/6. John Cheesman, born June 26/1826, died August 11/1827.
5/7. John Cheesman, born 1831, died August 28/1832.
4/3. Eliza Cheesman, born 1790, died May 29/1830. She married on
April 15/1813. Lindley Murray, son of John and Catherine
4/4. Margaret Cheesman.
She married before December 4/1822, a Mr. Sweet.
4/5. Benjamin F. Cheesman. No data except:-
Issue:-
5/1. George W. Cheesman, born 1843, died March 8/1855.
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150 - SAMUEL HAIGHT.
The following is from "The Genealogy of the Hoyt, Haight and Hight Family", by David W. Hoyt, 1871: from Huntington's History of Stamford, 1861, and from the New York Historical Society's Collections Abstracts of Wills, Vol 2, page 97.
Samuel Haight (or Hoight as he spelled it in his will), was born at Windsor, Conn., on May 1/1647, and died at Flushing, L.I., in September 1712. He was a Quaker: see the Hoyt Genealogy for further details.
His wife was Sarah Noble, according to "The Richard Washburn Family Genealogy", by Ida C, Haight.
His will, dated July 21/1712, proved October 21/1712, left to Sarah, all estate, house, barn, orchard and land in Flushing,and one piece of 30 acres at Bayside, for her use until son John is 21 or married. To son Nicholas, "my 20 acre lot where he now dwells on the Hills, and four 10 acre lots under the Hills, also half share of meadows in Tiers Neck." To son Jonathan, half lot in Rye, Westchester County, provided he pay Mary Tillman a debt of £27 which I stand bound for. To son David, the other half let in Rye. To son John, my dwelling house, orchards, farm, and Flushing town lands, half at his marriage, and the other half at the decease of my wife. To grandson James Hoight, my fresh meadows. I order my negro man Luke sold and the money to go to my daughters Hannah and Phebe. I give Sarah Titus, a negro boy. My executors to sell 200 acres land of lot 6 in Rye, to pay to Samuel Bayard and Rip Van Dam, a debt of Thomas Cordall that I an bound for. The remaining part of said tract to go to my five daughters, Susannah Griffen, Sarah Titus, Mary Halstead, and Hannah and Phebe Hoight.
Issue:-
1. Samuel Haight. Born 1667-1682, died between July 1 and 21/1712.
He married Charity --- and lived in Flushing. He was a Quaker.
Issue:-
2/1. James Haight. He married Anna Pope.
2. Nicholas Haight. Born 1670-1682. His will was dated December 7/1730,
proved February 20/1731. He married on July 5/1704, Patience Titus, born December 4/1678, daughter of Edmund and Martha (Washburn) Titus. He was a Quaker and lived at Flushing: they had five children.
3. Jonathan Haight. Born 1670-1684, died after 1752.
He married Rebecca ---, and lived in Rye, N.Y.
4. David Haight. Born 1670-1690, died before November 27/1760.
He married Phebe ---, and had a 300 acre farm in Rye, N.Y.
5. John Haight. Born 1691-1696, died May 13/1740.
He married on March 14/1716, Phebe Titus, born October 8/1693, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Powell) Titus, and had Elizabeth, Sarah, Phebe, Mary, Martha, and Charity Thorn. He lived in Flushing and was a Quaker. After John's death, Phebe married, 2nd, on July 21/1743, Caleb Cornell of Hempstead, L.I.
6. Susannah Haight, Born before 1684. She married before 1712, a Mr. Griffen.
7. Sarah Haight, Born before 1685. She married on December 8/1704, Silas Titus,
born August 3/1676, died 1750, son of Edmund and Martha (Washburn) Titus, and had nine children.
8. Mary Haight. Born before 1693. She married at Flushing on April 31/1711,
David Halstead of Westchester County, N.Y. The Hoyt genealogy wrongly gives his name as David Heustis or Husted.
9. Hannah Height, Born before 1699, The Hoyt genealogy says she may have
married before 1730, Robert Field. A will, dated November 12/1742-3 of Phebe (Titus) Field, widow of Robert Field disproves this.
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10. Phebe Haight. Born before 1701. She married on November 12/1719,
Anthony Badgeley of Flushing, L.I., who died between 1732 and l737. After Anthony's death, Phebe married, 2nd, in 1739, Jonathan Holmes. See subject 74 for issue and further particulars.
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152 - THOMAS WEEKES.
The following is from "The Genealogy of Francis Weekes of Providence, R.I., Gravesend, Hempstead, and Oyster Bay", by Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks, Kipton, Ohio, 1938. It differs from "American Ancestry", Vol 9, p 85. Dr. Weeks spent so many years in compiling three editions of his genealogy that I am taking his information as correct.
Thomas Weekes was baptized July 9/1651, and died in 1716. He lived at Oyster Bay, on the south east corner of the highway to the Cove and Burial Hill Road, but evidently had other lands, as be gave his daughter Elizabeth, 30 acres of land at Fort Neck, Oyster Bay south, in 1698. In 1710 he gave to his son Thomas, all lands in the Old Purchase of the town of Oyster Bay, "reserving for myself six barrels of cider per annum, during the life of myself and my now wife Isabella.
The name of his first wife is unknown. He married, 2nd, in 1679, Isabella, born 1662, believed to have been the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Potter) Harcourt, see subject 306.
Issue:- (by his First wife, name unknown)
1/1. Elizabeth Weekes. Born 1674, died December 20/1762.
She married Thomas Alling (or Allen).
Issue:-
2/1. Sarah Allen, born November 11/1775: she married John Seaman, who died May 11/1798, son of Thomas and Mary (---) Seaman.
Issue:- (by his second wife Isabella Harcourt)
1/2. Thomas Weekes. Born June 4/1686, died February 18/1761.
He married Sarah Townsend, born May 14/1685, died March 15/1759, daughter of George and Mary (Hawkhurst) Townsend, see subject 154, page 1. See subject 76 for issue and further particulars.
1/3. Jonathan Weekes. Died April 26/1730. He married Elizabeth ----.
1/4. Isabel Weekes. Died before 1730. he married before 1707, Robert Brush,
born at Huntington, L.I., June 30/1685, died before June 20/1766, youngest son of Richard and Joanne (Sammis) Brush. After Isabel's death, he married, 2nd, on February 6/1733-4, Mary Brush, widow of Jacob Brush.
Issue:- (from the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record Vol 66, p 218)
2/1. Reuben Brush, born about 1708.
2/2. Daniel Brush, born about 1710, died 1775-1781.
He married in December 1755, Amy Barto who died 1795-1798.
2/3. Jonathan Brush, born 1715.
2/4. Mary Brush. She married James Pine.
She may have been the daughter of Robert Brush by his second wife Mary Brush, widow of Jacob, or the daughter of Jacob Brush.
1/5. Deborah Weekes. Date of birth unknown, but probably between 1680 and 1690.
She died October 10/1739. The Weekes Genealogy says she married Richard Ellison, who died March 26/1719, son of Lawrence Ellison of Hempstead. However, the "Alison, Allison Family in America", by Leonard Allison Morrison, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1926, states that this Richard Ellison was the grandson of Lawrence Ellison by Lawrence, a son Richard, and that the husband of Deborah was born February 7/1660, and that he lived in Hempstead in 1686, removed in 1715 to Monmouth County, N.J.: and that his wife was Alice or Elsie ---: and that he gave his Hempstead lands to his sons. That Deborah married an Ellison, is confirmed in her brother Richard Weekes' will, dated September 13/1717, see below, in which he called her Deborah Ellison. The Townsend Genealogy further complicates this, by saying Deborah married Absalom Townsend, born about 1690, son of Henry and Eliphal (Wright) Townsend, see subject 616, page 2, and had four children. I have not been able to straighten this out.
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Issue:- (by Richard Ellison)
2/1. Daniel Ellison.
2/2. Richard Ellison.
2/3. Samuel Ellison.
2/4. Sarah Ellison.
2/5. Ruth Ellison.
2/6. Mary Ellison.
2/7. Susannah Ellison.
1/6. Richard Weekes. He was not mentioned in the Weekes genealogy.
Date of birth unknown. His will, dated September 15/1717, left the whole of his estate to his brother Jonathan, he to pay £23 to each of his brothers and sisters, namely, Thomas, Elizabeth Allen, Isabel Brush, and Deborah Ellison. Richard was evidently not married.
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154 - GEORGE TOWNSEND.
The following is from "Colonial Families", by the American Historical Society, New York, 1929: from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 32, page 175: from Bunker's Long Island Genea- logies: from "The Wright Family of Oyster Bay", by Howland Delano Perrine, New York, 1923: from "The Townshend, Townsend Genealogy", by Margaret Townsend, New York, 1909: and from "The Cox, Cocks, Cock Family in America", by George William Cocks, New York, 1912.
George Townsend was born at Oyster Bay, L.I., about 1661, and died in 1697 of smallpox at the early age of 36 years, the "year of the great sickness", as it was known for 70 years after, He inherited the homestead on South St., Oyster bay. With his brother James, he also owned a tract of land in Norwich, L.I., which place they named after their home in England.
He married, on November 17/1684, Mary Hawkhurst, born 1660, daughter of Christopher and Mary (Ruddick) Hawkhurst, see subject 310, page 1. After George's death, Mary married, 2nd, in 1697, Abraham Alling, who died in 1732, by whom she had Penelope and Freelove: the latter married Thomas Underhill, see subject 308, page 6.
Issue:-
1/1. Sarah Townsend. born May 14/1685, died March 15/1739.
She married Thomas Weekes, born June 4/1686, died February 18/1761, son of Thomas and his second wife Isabella (Harcourt) Weekes, see subject 152. See subject 76 for issue and further particulars.
1/2. George Townsend. Born October 18/1687, died May 11/1762.
He was a surveyor. In 1712 the town gave him one whole right on which he built a house where he lived his whole life. He married on March 18/1711, Rosanna Coles, born October 2/1691, died June 19/1757, daughter of Nathaniel and Rose (Wright) Coles of Oyster Bay, see subject 618, page 3.
Issue:-
2/1. Rosanna Townsend, born March 14/1712, died about 1780.
She married in 1730, Hezekiah Cock, born at Oyster Bay, September 28/1703, died April 4/1768, son of John and Dorothy (Harcourt) Cock, see subject 306, page 1. After Hezekiah's death, Rosanna married, 2nd, as his second wife, Daniel Underhill, born 1700, died 1790, son of John and Elizabeth (Willets) Underhill: they were later separated and had no children. Daniel had married, 1st, Abigail Crooker, born 1703, died November 4/1765, and they had five children.
Issue:- (by her 1st husband Hezekiah Cock)
3/1. John Cock, born November 27/1731, died January 31/1735.
3/2. Penn Cock, born May 6/1733. He married, 1st, Phebe Coles, born
April 4/1733, daughter of Joseph and Charity (Valentine) Coles, see subject 618, page 2, and had five children. He married, 2nd, on January 13/1772, Elizabeth Weekes, daughter of Michael and Joanna (Cock) Weekes, and had two daughters by her who died unmarried.
3/3. John Cock, born November 10/1735, died January 10/1819.
He married on December 20/1764, Freelove Latting, born August 25/1747, died May 19/1820, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Parrish) Latting. They had sixteen children.
3/4. Violetta Cock, born 1737, died before 1768.
She married Dr. Jonas Baldwin: no children.
3/5. Dorothy Cock, born June 5/1742. She married on June 25/1761,
James Cock, born February 6/1732, died before 1781, son of
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Benjamin and Ann (Brinton) Cock of Thornbury, Penn., and had four children.
3/6. Sarah Cock, born February 14/1750, died April 24/1807.
She married on May 31/1769, Stephen Frost, born June 27/1748, died May 3/1832, son of William and Jemima (Coles) Frost, see subject 618, page 2. They had ten children.
3/7. Gabriel Cock, born December 15/1753, died of yellow fever.
He married on February 20/1779, Phebe Birdsall, probably daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Smith) Birdsall, see subject 600, page 2. They had eight children.
2/2. George Townsend, born November 12/1715, died May 14/1802. He was
a tall large man of strong original mind, great energy and an active Whig: he was called Squire. He married on November 18/1743 Rosannah Youngs, born June 15/1725, died December 12/1794, daughter of Samuel and Penelope (Allen) Youngs of East Norwich, L.I. They had eight children.
2/3. William Townsend, born February 13/1715, died May 5/1777 of smallpox.
He married in 1741, Elizabeth Cook, born December 14/1715, died November 30/1794, twin daughter of Henry and Mary (Feake) Cock: they lived at Duck Pond. He was a man of unquestioned integrity and was executor of many estates. In the Revolution, he was a warm Whig and in consequence had his house filled with both troops and refugees, to his great loss and annoyance.
Issue:-
3/1. James Townsend, born April 25/1742, died December 12/1798.
He married on February 4/1762, Freelove Townsend Wilmot, born February 25/1744, died July 21/1809, daughter of the Reverend Walter and Freelove (Townsend) Wilmot, see subject 616, page 3. They had seven children.
3/2. Rosanna Townsend, born September 4/1751, died April 10/1831.
She married on December 20/1768. her cousin Daniel Cock, born March 26/1747, died October 22/1804, son of James and Deborah (Feake) Cock, see subject 306, page 3. They had no children.
1/3. Richard Townsend. Born 1690, died March 30/1750.
He married Susanne Weekes, daughter of John and Hannah (Townsend) Weekes, see subject 304, page 5. They settled in Norwich, L.I.
Issue:-
2/1. John Townsend, died June 6/1771. He married Elizabeth Seaman,
born about 1714, daughter of Richard and Jane (Mott) Seaman, see subject 282, page 2.
2/2. George Townsend of Lattingtown, a farmer and member of Congress in
1815 to 1819. He married Deborah Cook, born February 5/1776, died April 1/1854, daughter of Daniel and Rosannah (Townsend) Cock, see subject 306, page 2.
Issue:-
3/1. James Cock Townsend, born October 15/1797, died October 30/1882.
He married, let, on November 5/1823, Anne S. Valentine, who died in 1836, daughter of the Hon. Richard and Phebe (Williams) Valentine. He married, 2nd, on December 5/1838, Margaret Elizabeth Townsend, born March 24/1809, died February 11/1879, daughter of William and Margaret (Townsend) Townsend of Oyster Bay.
Issue:- (by his first wife Anne S. Valentine)
4/1. Cornelia Townsend, born 1825. She married David Youngs.
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4/2. George Townsend, born April 9/1815, died October 29/1854.
He married on May 22/1838, Anna Frost, born May 18/1824, died November 2/1910, daughter of Jarvis and Phebe (Underhill) Frost. They had no children.
1/4. Samuel Townsend. Born 1692, died February 24/1747.
In 1742 Samuel sold the homestead on South St., Oyster Bay, reserving the graveyard for the use of his great grandson John Townsend, for the use of his family forever. He settled on the place now owned by the heirs of John Townsend at the steam boat dock. He also owned a large tract of land at Yellow Coats, where his son Joseph settled. He married Sarah Cooper, who died March 3/1751, daughter of Dr. Robert Cooper, son of Simon and Mary Cooper who left Robert only forty shillings - all that I resolve he should have of my estate". Both Samuel and Sarah are buried at Fort Hill.
Issue:-
2/1. Samuel Townsend, born July 7/1717, died June 22/1801.
He married, 1st, Elizabeth Colwell, who died January 31/1759, by whom he had one son: 2nd, Meribah Allen, born 1736, died November 7/1827, aged 89 years, by whom he had five children. He lived first at the steam boat dock but later at Yellow Coats.
2/2. Daniel Townsend, born May 12/1721, died February 27/1751, unmarried
2/3. Phebe Townsend. She married Job Weekes.
Issue:-
3/1. Rachel Weekes. She married, 1st, Nicholas Wright, son of Edmond and
Sarah (Wright) Wright: 2nd, Albert Albertson, who died in 1730, son of Derrick and Dinah (Coles) Albertson, see subject 618, page 2.
3/2. Phebe Weekes. She married Israel Townsend, son of John and Sarah
(Wright) Townsend, see subject 616, page 4. In 1775 they moved to North Castle, Westchester County, N.Y. and had ten children.
2/4. Sarah Townsend. No data.
2/5. Mercy Townsend, born November 30/1730. She married Daniel Birdsall
born June 1/1724, son of Samuel and Sarah (Wright) Birdsall, see subject 600, page 2.
2/6. Joseph Townsend, born February 17/1728, died in 1812:
his will was dated July 4/1811, proved January 30/1813. He married, 1st, at Huntington, L.I., on October 15/1752, Susannah Youngs, who died in 1761, daughter of Richard and his second wife Phebe (Weekes) Youngs, see subject 304, page 5. He married, 2nd, in 1763, Margaret Weekes: they lived at Yellow Coats.
Issue:- (by his first wife Susannah Youngs)
3/1. Daniel Townsend, born October 5/1755, died March 16/1850,
aged 97 years. He married Sarah Latten, born March 22/1762, died October 4/1838, and had five children.
3/2. Sarah Townsend, born 1755. She married William McCoun, born 1750,
died 1818, son of Thomas and Mary McCoun. Thomas came from Scotland to Oyster Bay in 1658. They had six children.
3/3. Joseph Townsend, born about 1758, died in 1843, aged 95 years.
He married, 1st, in February 1786, Hannah Youngs, born 1770, died 1859, daughter of Daniel and Susannah (Kelsey) Youngs of Huntington, L.I. They had four children.
3/4. Phebe Townsend. Mentioned in her mother's will.
She married Daniel Weekes, and had Mary and Hannah: the latter married an Albertson.
Subject 160. (234)
160 - J0HN MANCHESTER
The following is from the same sources as quoted, under subject 320.
John Manchester was born in Portsmouth about 1656 (handwritted on original) son of Thomas and Margaret (Wood) Manchester and died there in 1708. He was admitted freeman of Portsmouth on April 25/1672, and served as town constable in 1694-5.
He may have married Mary ---, who died in 1705.
Issue:-
1. Elizabeth Manchester. born in 1682-85.
2. Mary Manchester. born in 1683-5.
3. Margaret Manchester. born in 1607-1705.
4. John Manchester., born in 1685-1695. He married on March 22/1719,
(other records give this date as June 22/1719) Phebe Gray, born September 6/1699, daughter of Edward and Mary (Smith) Gray. See Subject 80 for issue and further particulars.
Subject 162. 20/6/1952 (235)
162 - EDWARD GRAY.
The following is from the "Cooke Family Descendants and Relatives of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower", and various other Rhode Island records: also from "The Durfee Family", by William F. Reed, Washington, D.C., 1902.
Edward Gray was born January 31/1667 and died June 7/1720, son of Edward and his second wife Dorothy (Lettice) Gray, subject 324.
He married, 1st, Mary Smith, daughter of Philip and Mary (Sherman) Smith, subject 324.
He married, 2nd, at Tiverton, R.I., Mary Manchester, died 1729, daughter of William and Mary (Cooke) Manchester, subject 320, page 5. Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Smith)
1. Edward Gray (The Durfee Genealogy names him Thomas), born January 10/1693.
He married Sarah Bennett.
Issue:-
2/1. Mary Gray.
2/2. Edward Gray.
2/3. Elizabeth Gray.
2/4. Sarah Gray.
2/5. Hannah Gray. She married on September 22/1727, Philip Cory, son of
Thomas and Sarah (Taber) Cory, subject 166, and had 7 children.
2/6. Phebe Gray, born at Tiverton, November 14/1740, died February 12/1819.
She married on December 15/1757, John Durfee, born at Tiverton, August 31/1736, died there August 31/1812, son of Job and Mary (Earle) Durfee of Portsmouth and Tiverton. Nine children.
2. Elizabeth Gray. Born January 3/1695.
3. Sarah Gray. Born April 25/1697.
4. Phebe Gray. Born September 6/1699. She married on March 22/1719,
John Manchester, born at Tiverton, 1685-95, son of John and Mary (---) Manchester, subject 160. See subject 80 for issue and further particulars.
Issue:- (by his second wife Mary Manchester)
5.John Gray. Born August 3/1712.
6. Lydia Gray. Born May 12/1714.
7. William Gray. Born July 17/1716. He married Lydia Dennis, a twin,
born February 18/1718, daughter of Robert and Susannah (Briggs) Dennis, see subject 172.
8. Samuel Gray. Born August 31/1718.
subject 166. 20/4/1951 (236)
166 - THOMAS CORY.
The following is from. "The Genealogy of the Cory Family", by Mrs. Hildenbrand, New York, 1938: from the "Cory-Sherman families", a scrap book containing clippings from the Boston Transcript: from "The Manchester Family of Rhode Island"', by Alden C. and Rita C. Manchester, in The New England Historic Genealogical Society's Register, Vols 101 and 102: and from "The Descendants of Thomas, son of Philip Taber", by George L. Randall, 1924.
Thomas Cory was born at Portsmouth, R.I., about 1661 and died there in 1738, son of William and Mary (Earle) Cory, subject 332.
He married, 1st, Sarah Taber, born 1668-71, daughter of Philip and Mary (Cooke) Taber, subject 336.
He married, 2nd, at Tiverton, R.I., on February 24/1732, Susanna Manchester, born 1686-1693, died 1774, daughter of William and Mary (Cooke) Manchester, subject 320, and widow of John Taber, born July 16/1684, died before October 11/1728, by whom she had eight children. Thomas Cory had no children by this second marriage.
Issue:- (by his first wife Sarah Taber)
1. William Cory. He married on February 22/1722-3,
Mercy Allen of Tiverton. They lived in Newport, R.I.
2. Philip Cory. He married on September 22/1727, Hannah Gray of Portsmouth,
daughter of Edward and his first wife Mary (Smith) Grey, subject 162. They had seven children.
3. Thomas Cory. Born about 1700, died before 1735.
He married at Tiverton, on May 5/l725, Ann Durfee, daughter of Benjamin Durfee. They lived at Dartmouth, Mass., and had one son Thomas Durfee Cory.
4. Patience Cory. She married at Tiverton, on October 2/1738, Samuel Cooke.
5. Mary Cory. She married at Tiverton on December 20/1716, Thomas Durfee.
6. Sarah Cory. She married at Tiverton on December 17/1731, 1st,
Abraham Browne, who died before 1750, subject 82, about whom I can find nothing but this record of his marriage, and his daughter Abigail Browne. After Abraham's death, Sarah married, 2nd, Robert Burrington, son of Roger and Elizabeth (Sherrif) Burrington of Portsmouth, R.I.
Subject 168. 23/4/1951 (237)
168 - JOSEPH TABER
The following is from ""The Descendants of Thomas, son of Philip Taber", by George L. Randall, 1924; from "The Genealogy of Francis Weekes", by Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks, Kipton, Ohio: and from "The Tillinghast Family, by John Gifford Tillinghast, Providence, R.I., 1889.
Joseph Taber was baptized in 1646, son of Philip and his first wife Lydia (Masters) Taber, subject 336.
His wife was Hannah ---, about whom I can find nothing else.
Issue:
1. Ebenezer Taber. Born about 1685. I have no information about him.
He married his cousin Abigail Taber, born May 2/1693, daughter of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Thompson) Taber, subject 170. See subject 84 for issue and further particulars.
2. Philip Taber. Born February 7/1689, died December 27/1750.
He married Elizabeth Tillinghast, born about 1684, died 1750, daughter of the Reverend Pardon and Lydia (Taber) Tillinghast, subject 336, page 2. They had six children.
Subject 170. 22/4/1951 (238)
170 - THOMAS TABER.
The following is from "The Descendants of Thomas, son of Philip Taber", by George L. Randall, 1924: from "The Genealogy of Francis Weekes", by Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks, Kipton, Ohio. Thomas Taber was baptized at Yarmouth, Mass., in February 1644, and died there November 11/1730, son of Philip and his first wife Lydia (Masters) Taber, subject 336
In 1672 Thomas was at Dartmouth, Mass,, village of Fairhaven. He served as selectman, surveyor, town clerk, assessor, and was a captain in the Militia. In 1675 his house burned: he then built a stone house at Oxford in Fairhaven, Mass., then called Dartmouth.
He married 1st, in 1667, Esther Cooke, born at Plymouth, Mass., August 16/1650, died at Dartmouth in 1671-2, daughter of the Reverend John and Mary (Warren) Cooke, subject 670. She was a direct ancestor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
He married, 2nd, in June 1672, Mary Thompson, born 1650, died May 3/1754, daughter of John and Mary (Cooke) Thompson, subject 342.
Issue:- (by his first wife Esther Cooke)
1. Thomas Taber. Born October 29/1668, died young.
2. Esther Taber. Born April 17/1671. She married in October 1689,
at Sandwich, Mass., Samuel Perry, born March 2/1665-8. Nine children.
Issue:- (by his second wife Mary Thompson)
3. Lydia Taber. Born August 8/1673.
She married John Kinney and had five children.
4. Sarah Taber. Born November 28/1674, died 1735.
She married at Dartmouth, Mass., on December 1/1712, William Hart, born at Portsmouth, R.I., in 1677, died 1735. They had seven children.
5. Mary Taber. Born March 18/1677. She married Manasseh Morton,
born at Plymouth, Mass., February 3/1668, son of George and Joanna (Kempton) Morton, and had five children.
5. Joseph Taber, Born at Dartmouth, March 7/1679, died 1752.
He married there on August 12/1701-2, Elizabeth Spooner, born there June 19/1683, died July 14/1743, daughter of John and Lydia (Gifford) Spooner. They had thirteen children.
7. Thomas Taber, (twin). Born February 22/1681, died at Dartmouth 1724.
He married on July 4/1701, Rebecca Harlow, born at Plymouth, January 27/1678, daughter of Samuel and Priscilla Harlow. Seven children.
8. John Taber, (twin). born February 22/1681, died at Dartmouth 1760.
He married Phoebe Spooner, born May 11/1687 and had nine children.
9. Jacob Taber. Born July 26/l683, died April 4/1773 at Dartmouth.
He married Sarah West, born August 1/1685, died December 5/1775, and had eight children.
10.Jonathan Taber. Born at Dartmouth September 22/1685, said to have died in
the woods, his mind impaired. He married on November 11/1727, Lois West.
11.Bethia Taber. Born at Dartmouth September 2/1687, died at Rochester, Mass.,
August 6/1758. She married Caleb Blackwell who died November 23/1762, and had five children.
12.Philip Taber. Born at Dartmouth December 7/1689 (or February).
He married Susannah Tucker, and had nine children. In 1730 they removed to New Jersey.
13.Abigail Taber. Born May 2/1693. She married her cousin Ebenezer Taber,
son of Joseph and Hannah (---) Taber, subject 168. See subject 84 for issue and further particulars.
Subject 172 24/4/1951 (239)
172 - ROBERT DENNIS,
The following is from "Dennisiana", by Stickney: and from "The Generations of the Briggs Family", by Pearl Leona Heck. These differ in dates from Tiverton Vital Statistics, which are given below.
Robert Dennis was born in 1677 and died January 5/1730, son of Robert and Sarah (Howland) Dennis, subject 344.
He married on June 22/1700, Susannah Briggs, born April 9/1681, died April 1744, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Cooke) Briggs, subject 346.
Issue:-
1. Comfort Dennis. Born March 12/1703. She married Philip Taylor.
2. Anne Dennis. born July 3/1704. She married on May 16/1738, Peleg Sanford.
3. John Dennis. Born January 24/1706. He married on January 6/1731,
Hannah Wilbor, born February 9/1709, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Potter) Wilbor, subject 174. See subject 86 for issue and further particulars.
4. Humphrey Dennis. Born May 12/1708, died before 1720.
5. Thomas Dennis. Born March 17/1710.
6. Tabitha Dennis. Born September 3/1712.
7. Sarah Dennis. Born November 2/1710. She married a Mr. Soule.
8. Lydia Dennis, (twin), Born February 18/17l8. She married William Gray, born
July 17/1716. son of Edward and Mary (Manchester) Gray, subject 162.
9. Elizabeth Dennis, (twin). Born February 18/1718, died in infancy,
10. Deborah Dennis. Born March 24/1722.
She married on January 6/l745, Paul Brownell.
11. Mary Dennis. Born November 8/1723.
She married on October 12/1746, Joseph Crandall.
Subject 174. (240)
174 - SAMUEL WILBOR.
The following is from "The Wildbores in America", by John Reid Wilbor and Benjamin Franklin Wilbour" (1933): and also from "The Wildbores in America", by John H. Wilbor, St Paul, Minn, (1907), both on file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston.
Samuel Wilbor was born 1664 and died 1740. He lived in Little Compton, R.I. on what was the Oliver H. Wilbor place on the west road. Samuel settled in Little Compton before 1700. It was he who laid out the old Wilbor Cemetery in 1740, on his farm, used by So many generations of his descendants.
He married in 1689, Mary Potter, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Stoke) Potter. She came from what is now Central Village: her father's farm was a little west up a lane to Adamsville.
His Will dated January 14/1729, gave his son Samuel, his now dwelling house and all lands lying eastward of the Cole Brook line, and Sterling money in good bills of credit. To son William, my sole executor, my now dwelling house and rest of my land, that is to say the west half of all my homestead farm, and my andirons and my old gray mare. To son Issac, half my homestead, the east end thereof and also my gun and ironbound chest, my new bridle and saddle, my new Bible, and also stock of cattle, hogs, sheep and my wearing clothes. To daughters Martha Pearce and Johanna Taylor, Mazy Brownell, Thankful Irish and Elizabeth Peckham, £40 each.
Issue :-
1. Martha Wilbor. Born October 22/1690, died September 22/1760.
She married on March 5/1712, James Pearce, born September 4/1691, died September 2L/1755, son of George & Alice (Hart) Pearce. 10 children.
2. Samuel Wilbor. Born November 7/1692, died April 28/1752. He married on
December 24/1713, Elizabeth Carr, born July 29/1691, died March 1764, daughter of Esek & Susannah Carr. They had 13 children.
3. William Wilbor. Born January 6/1695, died September 1774.
He married on June 21/1717, Esther Burgess, born 1696, died 1760, daughter of Thomas & Esther (Richmond) Burgess. They had 12 children.
4. Mary Wilbor. Born October 29/1697. She married on July 6/1717,
Charles Brownell, born December 23/1694, died February 1774, son of Thomas & Mary (Pearce) Brownell. They had 7 children.
5. Joanna Wilbor. (twin), Born June 8/1700. She married on December 29/1719,
John Taylor, born January 7/1694, died June 1762, son of Thomas & Mary (Pearce) Thalor. They had 12 children.
6. Thankful Wilbor. (twin), Born June 8/1700. She married on May 10/1720,
John Irish, born May 1/1699, died July 1773, son of John & Elizabeth Irish. They had 10 children.
7. Elizabeth Wilbor, Born December 23/1702. She married on November 5/1723,
Joseph Peckham, son of John & Mary Peckham. 1l children.
8. Thomas Wilbor. Born December 29/1704,
9. Alice Wilbor. Born May 27/1707. She married on April 5/1742, Thomas Palmer,
son of William & Mary Palmer. They had 6 children.
10. Hannah Wilbor. Born February 9/1709. She married on January 6/1731,
John B. Dennis, born June 24/1706 at Tiverton, son of Robert and Susannah Dennis. See subject 86 for issue & further particulars.
11. Isaac Wilbor. Born August 24/1712, died September 1795.
He married on March 10/1735, Mary Brownell, daughter of John & Mary Brownell. They had eight children.
Subject 176. (241)
176 - ROBERT INGALLS.
The following is from the "Ingalls Genealogy", by Dr Charles Burleigh (1903): and also from the "Ingalls Genealogy", by Dr Walter Renton Ingalls, (1933), correcting several errors in the earlier genealogy, both on file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston.
Robert Ingalls was born at Lynn, Mass, on July l6/1684. He married at Charlestown, Anna Parker, born November 4/1687, daughter of Daniel & Anne (Errington) Parker.
Issue:-
1. Hannah Ingalls. Born July 18/1708.
2. James Ingalls. Born April 22/1711. He married on March 14/1754, Joanna Call.
See subject 88 for issue and further particular's.
3. Rebecca Ingalls. Born January 25/1713.
4. Robert Ingalls. Born July 17/1715.
He married on October 23/1740, Naomi Hoar.
Subject 178. (242)
178 - JOHN CALL.
The following is from Charlestown Genealogy, by Thomas Bellow's Wyman (1879), on file at tin New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston.
John Call was born November 2/1687 at Charlestown, Mass. He was a Ship Wright and admitted to the Church June 2/1717. In 1760 be lived In Boston.
He married on April 26/1711, 1st, Joanna Brigden, born February 14/1690, and died of smallpox on December 14/1721. 2nd, in Boston on March 11/1725, Susannah Landman. 3rd, on November 1736, Hannah Sprague of Melden, Mass.
Issue:- (by his first wife)
1. Joanna Call. Born March 8/1713-4. She married on March 14/1734,
James Ingalls. See subject 88 for issue and further particulars
2. John Call. Born February 5/1715-6,
died September 28/1775 at a Boston Almshouse.
3. Martha Call. Baptized September 15/1717.
4. Timothy Call. Baptized May 3/1719, died soon.
5. Timothy Call. Baptized January 31/1720,
died September 3/1779 in a Boston Almshouse. He was a Chair Maker.
Subject 180. (243)
180 - JOSHUA SCOTTOW
The following is from Charlestown Genealogies, Vol 2, p 850, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, on file at the New England Historical and Genealogical Society of Boston.
Joshua Scottow was a tailor in Boston. No data as to his birth, death, or where be came from.
He married, 1st, on May 25/1697 at Boston, Sarah Symmes, born May 20/1672, died March 15/1709. 2nd, on July 11/1710, Abigail Watkins, born 1667, died April 4/1733. 3rd, on June 5/1734, Mary Davis, born 1688, died March 31/1746.
Issue:- (by his first wife)
1. Rebecca Scottow. Born about 1698. She married in 1750, Joseph Austin.
2. Lydia Scottow. Born August 17/1704. She married Henry Le Bosquet.
3. Joshua Scottow. Born May 5/1708, died July 5/1778 at Charlestown.
He married on November 7/1734, Mary Smith, born November 23/1711, died August 6/1793. See subject 90 for issue and further particulars.
4. John Scottow. No data.
Subject 182. (244)
182 - SAMUEL SMITH
The following is from Charlestown Genealogies, Vol 2, p 877, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, on file at the New England Historical and Genealogical Society of Boston.
There is no other data about this man, than he married on November 30/1710, Mary Benjamin, and had children, amongst whom were:
Issue:
1. Mary Smith Born November 23/1711. She married Joshua Scottow,
born May 5/1708, died July 5/1778. They were married on November 7/1734, and she died August 6/1793. For issue and further particulars, see subject 90.
Subject 264. 2/2/1951 (244)
264 - THOMAS RUSHMORE.
The following is from Hempstead Town Records: from the Genealogy of Long Island Families, by Charles J. Werner, New York, 1919: from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies: from Benjamin F. Thompson's History of Long Island: from the John "Rock' Smith Family, by Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, N.Y., 1937.
Thomas Rushmore was born in Wales, England, in 1609, and died at Hempstead, L.I., in 1682-3. He came to Hempstead in 1648, and was a blacksmith.
The first mention of Thomas Rushmore is in Hempstead Town Records, Vol 1, p 28, in a list of cattle owned by the inhabitants of Hempstead on June 11/1657, together with the number of acres of land taken up by each of them in 1658. Instead of copying the literal spellings of the names, I have as far as possible used the spellings which later became standard.
Acres Cows Acres Cows
Lawrence Ellison 10 18 Ambrose Sutton 10 4
Thomas Ellison 10 Simon Seryn 10 6
John Ellison 10 John "Rock" Smith 10 14
Mary Pearsall 12 James Pine 10 5
Thomas Demyut 1 John German 10 6
Joseph Scott 3 Henry Livingstone 8
Adam Mott 3 Thomas Rushmore 10 1
Francis Weekes 3 John Sturgis 6
Richard Gildersleeve 10 1 Mr. Washburne 10 17
George Hewlett 10 4 Robert Ashnan 10 21
William Yeates 6 5 Jeremy Wood 10 5
Robert Marvin 10 7 John Simons 30
John Hicks 24 William Jaycocks 10 5
William Seeing 5 Mr. Strickline 8
Richard Wilis 10 0 Robert Jackson 10 20
Edward Raynor 10 7 William Smith 8
Jonas Ralstead 8 Thomas Jaycoeks 10 1
Timothy Halstead 6 13 Thomas Foster 10
Thomas Ireland 13 William Foster 10
Aaron Forman 3 Richard Valentine 10
Thomas Langdon 5 Thomas Southard 5
Thomas Carle 10
Hempstead was the first town in the East end of Long Island to be settled by the English, after the Dutch had made settlements on the western part of the island as early as 1636. In 1645, John Carman and the Reverend Robert Fordham, acting for their associates in Stamford, Conn., purchased from the Indians, title to the land at Hempstead, and on November 16/1644, procured a patent for the same from William Kieft, the Dutch Governor of the New Netherlands. The first actual settlement of the town was made in 1644 by between forty and fifty families from Stamford, Conn., among whom were:-
Rev. Richard Denton. William Raynor. Richard Gildersleeve. John Coe. John Carman. Jonas Wood.- Robert Coe. Robert Jackson. Jeremy Wood. Benjamin Coe. Simon Searing. Rev. Robert Fordhsm. John Ellison Most of these families came originally from Wethersfield, Conn., and there is a tradition that they emigrated together from Hemel-Hempstead, a market town in Hertfordshire, England. On their arrival they were joined by John Hicks and Daniel Whitehead of Flushing, and subsequently by others,
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amongst whom was Thomas Rushmore. In 1642, Captain John Seaman from the East end of Long Island, settled on land adjoining the eastern boundary of Hempstead, and had secured title to 12,000 acres of lend, which in 1685 became a part of the town of Hempstead. English colonists settled within the territory, over which the Dutch East India Company claimed jurisdiction, and were allowed to acquire land after taking the oath of allegiance to The Dutch Government. Hempstead, Gravesend, Jamaica, and Newtown were settled in this way. Hempstead was originally occupied by portions of the Indian tribes of Rockaway, Merokees, and Matinecocks, all belonging to the great Algonquin race of savages, which occupied the entire eastern seaboard of North America and extended west to the Rocky Mountain.
The following items in Hempstead Town Records give details of Thomas Rushmore: there are many more which I have not copied.
Vol 1, page 134, dated January 19/1663:- At a general town meeting held at Hempstead, the 4th day of February, was given and granted to John Smith and Thomas Rushmore, Thomas Champion, and Thomas Sonthard, each of them 8 acres apiece on the north side, bounded upon ye east by Hope Washburne's allotment at Herricks. In this Vol 1, various documents were signed by Thomas Rushmore as clerk of Hempstead town from 1666 to 1678. From 1664 to 1680 there are several deeds of sale of his land. On page 303 is an interestingly worded bill of sale of his dwelling houses and home lot to Robert Marvin.
Vol 1, page 363, dated December 2/1668, it is stated that at a Court of Constables and Overseers, by his Majesty's authority, and our honoured Governors, appointed under His Royal Highness the Duke of York, Martha Rushmore, wife of Thomas Rushmore, enters an action against John Tredwell, her son in law, for abusing her swine, and reasonable damages shall be thought met by the Court.
Vol 1, page 392, of Oyster Hay Town Records, dated August 4/1680, Thomas and Martha Rushmore sold to Moses Mudge, one eighth part of a property at Hempstead Plains, the Hollows. This same sale is in Hempstead Records, Vol 2, page 25, dated 1680, reading:- Thomas Rushmore of Hempstead in the North Riding of New Yorkshire, sells to Moses Mudge of Musketa Cove, one sixth part of homestead plains, signed Thomas Rushmore and Meelber Rushmore. The name Meelber must be an error for Martha.
Vol 2, page 71, dated June 23/1681, states that at a town meeting in Hempstead, Thomas Rushmore was made choice of by the major vote of the town, to present a petition to the next Governor that shall arrive at New York that is commissioned to be Governor over Yorkshire in America.
Vol 2, page 271 reads:- William Yeates of Hempstead, sells to Thomas Rushmore of aforesaid place, "all my right and title" of howes and lands within limited bounds of Hempstead".
Vol 1, page 421, dated February 23/1683, gives a valuation or apprisement of the estate of Thomas Rushmore of Hempstead, Queens County, deceased, made by Nathaniel Pearsall and Jonathan Smith, by order of ye Justice, all valued answerable to money, as follows:-
Ffirst by One Dwelling house valued at £31.00.0
One lot of land which the house stands upon,
containing 40 acres.
More 150 acres Of land lying between a run called
Johnsons run and Suckcess Pond
More by a parole of land given by ye towns to Thomas
Rushmore, lying southward of their sawmill, ye
quantity being nott yett knowne, all vallued at -
seven shillings an acker, which comes to £66.l0.0
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More One feather bed, one bowlster and case, two
pillows, four pillow drawers, four blankets,
one red rug, one sett curtains, at £14.05.0
More One pair of bellows, one sledge, one hand
hemmer and rivetting hammer, two air tongs
one grett vice, &c, &c, valued at 9.00.0
More Half a hundred weight of iron 12.6
More One oxen, two cows, 2 three years old steers,
two yeare olds, one year old, at 32.00.0
More One lot of meadow land, lying at a neck called
Hixis (Hick's) neck, containing 15 ackers or
thereabouts, valued at 18.00.0
More Two rights of comnonage in ye township of
Hempstead, but ye bigness we cannot yett know.
One saw mill and a grist mill with all tackling
belonging to them as the mill bills, ye doggs
and bitch, ye can hooks end rope, ye crow, and
a corn row, and all other tackling belonging to
them, valued at 140.00.0
More Other articles, not copied out here 26.06.0
Total value of estate £357.13.6
Thomas Rushmore married, 1st, Martha ---, said to have been a Hicks, but I cannot find the name of her parents, nor birth and death dates: she may have been a sister of John "Rock" Smith.
Thomas Rushmore married, 2nd, Martha Smith, who died before 1695, daughter of John, "Rock" and Horod (Long) Smith, see subject 280, whose will proves this marriage, and also that after Thomas' death, Martha married, 2nd, Francis Chappelle, and bore him two sons, William and Stephen Chappelle. Francis was town clerk at Hempstead.
Issue:- (by his first wife, Martha Hicks'?)
1/1. Thomas Rushmore. Dates of birth and death unknown, but he must
have been born about 1650-1655, as H.T.R. says he was an ensign in the militia in 1665: in those days ensigns were appointod at the age of 16 years. He was called deceased in 1733. Werner says he married Sarah ----. His and Sarah's names were bracketed in the Hempstead Census of 1693. Some genealogies say Sarah was the daughter of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Doughty) Hicks, who were married in 1676, but this is doubtful as Thomas Hicks' will mentioned no daughter Sarah. However I carry this Hicks line on in this genealogy, to show the ancestry of Hartha Hicks who married James Poole, subject 16, page 1. See subject 132 for issue for further particulars.
1/2. Elizabeth Rushmore, Dates of birth and death unknown. There is no
record of her having been married, but in the Hempstead Census at l698 her name and that of Thomas Ellison were bracketed: it might be that she was merely being his housekeeper. Thomas Ellison may have been the fifth child of Richard and Thomasin Ellison of Braintree Mass., born there January 1/1655, who came to Hempstead in 1657. (This is from "The Allison Family in America", by Leonard Allison Morrison, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1926.
1/3. John Rushmore. bate of birth unknown but he must have been born
between l650 and 1660: he may have died after 1713, the last mention of him in Hempstead Town Records. Werner says he married Mary Carman daughter of John Carman, and that his son Carmen Rushmore was born in 1725. There is something wrong about this, as he would have been
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way over 60 years old, if not over 70 years old, when this son was born. There is no record of his marriage and no record of any of his children, nor is there any record of his wife in any of the Hempstead Town Records about him. Werner must have mistaken this John Rushmore for his nephew John Rushmore, son of his older brother Thomas Rushmore. The Hempstead Census of 1698 brackets the names of this John Rushmore and Mary ---, Mary's surname not given. This Mary might just as well have been his half sister Mary. Beyond Warner's statement that this Mary was a Carmen, there is no evidence that he was married. Further, none of the Carman genealogies say that John Carmen had a daughter Mary, nor did he have any daughter who married a Rushmore. John Carmen's will didn't mention a daughter Mary, though she might have died before he made his will in 1684. The following are the only H.T.R. of this John Rushmore.
May 2/1701. Signed as witness on documents. -
February 5/1705. Earmark registered, Vol 2, p 124.
March 15/1705-. Witnessed a will.
December26/1705. Signed as witness on documents.
January31/1708. Signed as witness on documents.
March 28/1709. `Witnessed the will of Elias Nezreau.
April 5/1709. `Vol 2, p 253, in a sale of land by Henry Allin, Henry states:-
"I release the equal half of the Hollows, that was Thomas Rushmore's land, late of Hempstead, ye father of John Rushmore". See under subject 132 for Henry Allin's purchase of this land from Thomas Rushmore.
May 2/1710. Signed as witness on documents.
February 18/1712. Vol 2, p 450. John Rushmore releases all his right and title
to the fourth part of a parcel of swamp land, lying to Pine Hill, with upland adjoining it, unto Isaac Jarman of Hempstead, which had been allotted to John Rushmore and others.
April 5/1712. Vol 2, p 435. John Rushmore chosen for assessor in the run of
Thomas Langdon who refused to serve. April /1713. Vol 2, p 445. Jorm Rushmore chosen assessor.
1/4. Jacob Rushmore. Dates of birth and death unknown. Werner says he
was the son of Thomas and his first wife Martha (Hicks?) Rushmore: others say he was the son of Thomas and his second wife Martha (Smith) Rushmore: that Werner was right is proved by John "Rock" Smith's will, which mentioned no Jacob as his daughter Martha's child. Jacob Rushmore married Mary Hicks, daughter of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Douphty) Hicks, see subject 266. This is confirmed in Thomas Hicks' will, which called her wife of Jacob Bushlar, a mis- spelling of Rushmore. Bunker says Mary Hicks was born about 1694, probably much earlier, and died May 5/1765. The only record of any of their children is in Thomas Hicks' will, as follows:-
Issue:-
2/1. Sarah Rushmore, dates of birth and death unknown. Thomas Hicks'
will called her his grand daughter Sarah Everitt, by his daughter Mary. She married at Jamaica, L.I., on June 10/1713 Richard Everitt of Fosters Meadow in ye parish of Hempstead, (this is from the Reverend Poyer's Jamaica Grace Church records), probably son of Richard and Elizabeth (Clare) Everitt.
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Issue:- (by his second wife Martha Smith)
2/1. Ann Rushmore. no data.
2/2. Mary or Martha Rushmore. No data.
Werner, Bunker and many other genealogies and records, give varied and incorrect information of the children of Thomas and his second wife Martha (Smith) Rushmore, but they are clearly given in John "Rock" Smith's will, reading, in part, "£20 to Ann and Mary Rushmore and the two Chappelle children of my daughter Mary".
Note. In a will of Elizabeth Regnier, daughter of Colonel and Joanna
Markham of Philadelphia, and wife of Jacob Regnier, dated July 2/1715, proved August 3/1716, she left something (not stated what), to Regnier Rushmore, nephew of Thomas Hicks of Long Island.
I have not been able to ascertain which Rushmore he was the son of. From the date of the will, he must have been a son of either of the three sons of Thomas and his first wife Martha (Hicks?) Rushmore.
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266 - TH0MAS HICKS,
The following is from the following sources:-
The Hicks Genealogy, by Benjamin Doughty Hicks, 8 volumes manuscript,
the only copy extant being at the Long Island Historical Society library in Brooklyn, New York.
From "Adam and Anne Mott", by Thomas C. Cornell, Yonkers, 1890.
From Bunker's Long Island Genealogies.
From "The Van Wyck Family", New York, 1912.
From "The Jones Family of Long Island", by John Henry Jones.
From the New York Historical Society's Abstracts of Wills, vols 1 to 3.
From "The Doughty Family", by Ethan Allen Doty, in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, vol 43, page 273.
From "Thomas Stevenson of London and his descendants", by John R. Stevenson, Flemington, N.J., 1902.
Thomas Hicks was born probably at Weymouth, Mass., in 1640, and
died at Little Neck, L.I., in 1740, just over 100 years of age, son of
John and his first wife Horod (Long) Hicks, see subject 532.
Thomas Hicks was brought to Long Island about 1642, shortly
after his father came. In 1666 Thomas bought from Governor Nicholls,
a patent of 4000 acres of land in the vicinity of Little Neck, built a
good house and lived as Lord of the Manor for many years. In 1691 he
was Judge of the Court of Queens County.
According to Savage, Bunker and Stevenson, Thomas Hicks married,
1st, after 1658, in Long Island, as her second husband, Mary (Butler)
Washburn, daughter of Richard Butler of Stratford, Conn., who had
married, 1st, John Washburn, who died August 30/1658. However, the
Jones Genealogy says that the Mary Washburn who married Thomas Hicks,
was the daughter of John and Sarah (---) Washburn, uncle of the John
Washburn who married Mary Butler. The John Washburn who married Sarah
---, was a man who lived in Flushing, and whose will of February 23/1687
was made after he returned to England and died in the parish of Saint
Beedolph, near London, in which he mentioned his daughters Sarah and
Mary. It seems to mwe that the Jones genealogy is the more correct, for
it is more likely that Thomas Hicks' wife Mary Washburn, came from
Flushing, rather than from Stratford, Conn. The St Nicholas Society
records say Thomas Hicks' wife was Mary Cornell Washburn. I don't know
which is correct. They had two children, see below.
Thomas Hicks married, 2nd, on July 6/1676-7, MWary Doughty, born
about 1658, died 1713, daughter of Elias and Sarah (---) Doughty of
Flushing, L.I., and grand daughter of the Reverend Francis Doughty, see
subject 534, and 1068. The Cornell Genealogy says Mary Doughty was the
daughter of Thomas Doughty - this must be wrong.
Thomas Hicks' will is given in the New York Historical Society's
Abstracts of wills, vol 3, p 352, and was dated May 15/1727, proved
January 28/1741-2. He left to his grandson Thomas Hicks, the eldest son
and heir of his son Thomas Hicks, the sum of five shillings: he left to
his son Isaac, his Great History Book, called Speed's Chronicle of
England: he left to his son Benjamin, his silver tankard: he left to
his son Stephen, all his houses, lands and meadows in the bounds of
Flushing, except his right on the great plain of Hempstead: also a bed
and furniture, and the remainder of his books, two hatchetts, and his
wearing apparel. He left to his six sons John, Joseph, Isaac, Benjamin
William and Stephen, all his right on the great plains of Hempstead.
To his daughter Phebe Simmons, £100: (this same should have read
Seaman). To his daughter Charity, £250: to daughter Mary Bushlar £100:
(this name should have read Rushmore). He left to his grand daughter
Mary Hicks,
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daughter of his son William, his silver tumbler. All the rest of his
property to his four daughters Phebe, Elizabeth, Charity and Mary, and
to his grand daughter Sarah Everitt. His Indian and negro slaves and
his live stock, were to remain for his son Stephen. His sons Benjamin
and Stephen were to be serviceable to his daughter Charity in her
affairs. His son Stephen was his executor.
His will did not mention a wife, so she must have predeceased
him, nor does it mention his sons by his first wife. His children below
are taken from his will, which lumped the sons first and the daughters
after: hence the order below may not be correct.
Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Washburn)
1/1. Thomas Hicks. The Stevenson Genealogy gives his birth as 1667:
he died between April and October 1712. Bunker wrongly says he married Deborah Valentine, born 1657, daughter of Richard Valentine, He married Deborah Whitehead, born 1675, whose will dated April 14/1712, proved July 24/1712, confirms that she was the wife of Thomas Hicks: she was the daughter of Daniel and Abigail, (Stevenson) Denton Whitehead. Abigail was born in 1640, and was the daughter of Edward and Anne Stevenson: she had married, 1st, about 1660, Daniel Fenton, born in Yorkshire, England, about 1628, died 1703, son of the Reverend Richard Denton, to whom she bore two children. They were divorced in 1672, and Abigail married, 2nd, in that year, Daniel Whitehead and bore him seven children, Deborah's will mentions the same children as in her husband's will. Thomas Hicks made his younger brother Jacob, his executor. Thomas left to his wife Deborah, the use of his homestead, to wit, that part which was James Clements', together with 10 acres of woodland at the north west corner of his 100 acres, and all the housing and orchards during her widowhood. Also the use of the meadow he bought of Richard Chew, with all the 100 acres he bought of John Hinchman, except the ten acres at the north east corner which he left to his son Augustine: also the meadow that was formerly James Clements after his wife`s decease. He left his son Augustine all his homestead that was James Clements', as all the meadow that was Francis Doughty's, with all the haying and orchards. He left his son Whitehead all the 10 acre lots, bought and purchased by his father in law Daniel Whitehead, deceased, situate and lying upon the south side of the Hills, to him and his heirs and assigns. And his son Thomas was to pay his brother Whitehead £25 when he was of age: and his son Augustine was to pay him £10. And his son Thomas was to pay his brother Stevenson £100 when of age. He left to his six daughters Abigail, Deborah, Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah and Martha, two thirds of moveables. His wife Deborah's will left £15 in money to Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth Field with her youngest son Stevenson to bring him up. She left the rest of her estate to her seven children. She bequeathed her daughter Martha to her loving friend Martha Thorne, and her daughter Hannah to her dear cousins Robert and Phebe Field, desiring them to bring up her dear children in the way of truth and the fear of God. She appointed her loving friends John Rodman, Robert Field, Francis Doughty, and Samuel Bowne as executors.
Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy)
2/1. Thomas Hicks, date of birth unknown, but a minor in 1712, died in 1777.
He was a Judge of Queen's County, Long Island from 1738 until his death in 1777. He married in 1755, his
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cousin Margaret Hicks, daughter of his uncle Judge Isaac Hicks, see page 10.
Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hick genealogy)
3/1. Catherine Hicks, born May 8/1726, died November 12/1804.
She never married.
3/2. Whitehead Hicks, born August 24/1728, died October 4/1780.
He was admitted to the Bar in 1750 and became a distinguished judge. He was Mayor of New York from 1766 to 1776. When he was appointed a judge to the Supreme Court of New York, he soon resigned, as he was called a traitor by the British and a Tory by the patriots of the Continental Congress. He married on October 15/1757, Charlotte Brevoort, born in New York City, May 22/1740, died February 28/1790, the only surviving of the three daughters of John Annes and Louisa Abigail (Kockerthal) Brevoort, and by this marriage became possessed of the Brevoort fortune.
Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy)
4/1. John Brevoort Hicks, (twin), born December 18/1761,
died March 23/1762.
4/2. Margaret Hicks, (twin), born December 18/1761,
died May 16/1763.
4/3. Louisa Hicks, born January 8/1763, died July 19/1766.
4/4. John Brevoort Hicks, born January 7/1765,
died February 7/1828 of apoplexy. He married on January 18/1789, Sarah Moore Titus, born July 29/1769, died January 1798, daughter of David Titus of Newtown, L.I. Four children.
4/5. Charlotte Hicks, born February 28/1770, died February 12/1775
4/6. Thomas Hicks, born January 14/1771, died July 5/1815.
He married on March 10/1794, Martha Buchanan, born October 26/1771, died September 26/1844, daughter of Thomas and Almy (Townsend) Buchanan, see subject 308, page 4.
Issue :-
5/1. Almy Townsend Hicks.
5/2. Charlotte Brevoort Nicks.
5/3. Margaret Louisa Hicks, born August 23/1807,
died February 26/1873. She married on November 20/1838, Henry Rogers Winthrop, whose grand daughter Alice Winthrop married Robert Gardner Payne, son of William Thomas and Alice (Gardner) Payne of Yokohama and New York.
4/7. Elias Hicks, born December 25/1771, died April 19/1844.
He married on May 29/1815, Mary Pemberton Lewis, born July 25/1777, died December 16/1859, daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Lawrence) Lewis of Philadelphia. Three children.
4/8. Margaret Hicks, born August 4/1773, died in childbirth, January
2/1799. She married on November 29/1797, Samuel Titus.
3/3. Amelia Hicks, born October 12/1731, died 1779.
She married in 1777, John Thorne. They had no children.
3/4. Gilbert Hicks, born September 4/1736, died 1776.
He married on May 26/1765, Mary Allen, born January 18/1746, died September 27/1826, daughter of Henry and Phebe Allen: five children.
3/5. Mary Hicks, born April 16/1737. She married on June 8/1781,
Jacob Suydam. They had no children,
3/6. Sarah Hicks, born March 22/1738, died May 13/1810. She married 1st,
on June 3/1769, her cousin Cornelius Van Wyck, who died in July 1784, son of Cornelius and Mary (Hicks) Van Wyck, by whom she had four children. She married, 2nd, James Burling,
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born January 1732, died January 28/1813: no children.
2/2. Whitehead Hicks, a minor in 1712, died January 2/1720.
2/3. Augustine Hicks. A merchant in New York in 1739. Wife Jane --.
2/4. Stevenson Hicks, died November 24/1725: not married.
2/5. Abigail Hicks, died before 1778. She was said to have married
William Van Wyck, but the Van Wyck genealogy does not confirm it.
2/6. Deborah Hicks.
She married on October 15/1697? (date must be wrong) Thomas Lawrence.
2/7. Mary Hicks.
2/8. Elizabeth Hicks. She married Robert Field, born at Newtown, L.I.
May 12/1698, died December 19/1767, son of Elnathan and Elizabeth (---) Field, a Quaker. For their nine children see the Field Genealogy.
2/9. Hannah Hicks, born 1704. She married in 1721, William Stevenson,
born 1690-1700, died 1708, son of Edward and Charity (Field) Stevenson. He was Assessor at Newtown, L.I. until 1724, then moved to Burlington, N.J., and later to Yonkers: he died in New Jersey. They had twelve children.
2/10. Martha Hicks, died September 10/1762. She was not married.
1/2. Jacob Hicks. Born 1669, died 1755. He lived at Rockaway, L.I.
He married, probably in 1690, Hannah Carpenter, born 1672, died July ---, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter, who came from Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, to Providence, R.I. and Warwick, R.I., and then in 1663 to Long Island, N.Y.
Issue:- (from Thomas C Cornell's genealogy)
2/1. Samuel Hicks. born October 1702, died May 10/1735,
He married in 1723, Martha Doughty born 1705, died July 19/1758, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Williams) Doughty, see subject 534 page 3. After Samuel's death, Martha married, 2nd, as his second wife, in 1759, Nathaniel Townsend born February 25/1698, died May 22/1754, son of James and Audrey (Almy) Townsend, see subject 308 page 4. Issue:-(from the Benjamin B. Hicks genealogy)
3/1. Samuel Hicks, born 1725, died 1759.
He married in 1748, Mary Middagh, daughter of John Middagh of Brooklyn, N.Y. They had two children.
3/2. Barnabas Hicks, born 1750.
3/3. Mary Hicks, born 1732, died at Oyster Bay, July 2/1796,
who took the name of her step father Nathaniel Townsend. She married on April 2/1757, her cousin, Dr. James Townsend, born December 17/1729, died May 24/1790, Son of Jacob and Phebe (Seaman) Townsend, see subject 308, pages 2-3, for their issue.
2/2. Stephen Hicks, born July 18/1704, died January 4/1775.
The Hicks genealogy says he married on September 8/1755, Elizabeth Moore, born October 7/1734, died 1803, daughter of James Moore, of Putnam, N.Y., and had two children.
2/3. Thomas Hicks, born May 2/1706, died March 10/1776.
He married on November 14/1727, Temperance Titus, born October 14/1707, died February 12/1738, daughter of Silas and Sarah (Haight) Titus – of Flushing, L.I., see subject 150, page 1. They had six children.
2/4. Jacob Hicks, born June 14/1708, died March 6/1769.
He married, 1st, on May 8/1732, Mary Seaman, daughter of Samuel and Phebe (Hicks) Seaman, see page 11. He married, 2nd, Ruth Carman, born 1710, daughter of Thomas and Mary (---) Carman, see subject page 4, and widow of Solomon Powell, who died in 1736 who she had married in 1730.
Issue: - see next page.
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Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Seaman)
3/1. Charles Hicks, born December 6/1736, died March 23/1772.
He married on March 26/1767, Abigail Cornell, born May 6/1748, daughter of William Cornell and had two children.
Issue:- (by his second wife Ruth Carman)
3/2. James Hicks, born June 13/1738.
3/3. Elizabeth Hicks, born October 12/1741.
She married on August 5/1761, John Jansey of New York.
3/4. Hannah Hicks, born February 18/1743.
She married on June 27/1762, David Seaman, born August 30/1739, son of David and Mary (Willets) Seaman and had five children.
3/5. Abigail Hicks, born May 28/1746, died February 14/1823.
She married on October 30/1774, Whitehead Cornell, born March 10/1747, died in December 1803, son of Thomas and Helena Whitehead) Cornell, and had nine children.
3/6. Mary Hicks, born January 3/1749, died July 10/1800: unmarried.
2/5. Sarah Hicks, born August 8/1710, died March 12/1785.
She married Jacob Haight, born April 3/1705, died November 12/1767, son of Nicholas and Patience (Titus) Haight, see subject 150. They had nine children and lived in Dutchess County, N.Y,
2/6. John Hicks, born December 25/1711, died 1789. He married, 1st, about
1738, Martha (Smith) Mott, daughter of Gershom and Mary Smith, see subject 140, page 2, and widow of Samuel Mott, born 1707, died February 15/1735, whom she had married on May 27/1728, son of Joseph and Miriam (---) Mott, see subject 282, page 3. They were Quakers. John Hicks married, 2nd, in 1765, Phebe Powell, born June 13/1716, daughter of John and Margaret (Hallock) Powell, a Quaker: they had no children.
Issue :- (by his first wife Martha (Smith) Mott)
3/1. Samuel Hicks, born March 29/1739.
3/2. Joseph Hicks, born February 26/1741.
3/3. John Hicks, born July 1/1743, died March 26/1808.
He married on January 8/1766, Amy Willis, born August 12/1747, died March 29/1832, daughter of Jacob Willis: they had five children.
3/4. Elias Hicks, born at Rockaway, L.I., March 19/1748,
died at Jericho, L.I., February 27/1829, a famous preacher. He founded the so called Hicksite or liberal branch of the Society of Friends. He married on January 2/1771, Jermina Seaman, born September 21/1750, died March 17/1829, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Willis) Seaman. They had ten children.
3/5. Stephen Hicks, baptized September 9/1750, died December 20/1816.
He married on November 9/1777, Mary Hewlett, born November 17/1758, died March 30/1831, daughter of Colonel Richard and Mary (Townsend) Hewlett, see subject 616, page 5.
Issue:-
4/1. John Hicks, born February 15/1778 (?), died March 4/1826.
He married on January 8/1803, Phebe Hicks, born February 1/1782, died November 23/1861, daughter of Silas Hicks, and had seven children.
4/2. Sarah Hicks, born September 18/1779, died October 30/1809.
She married on April 6/1802, John Cornell, born September 27/1773, died February 22/1824, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Thurston) Cornell. They had one child.
4/3. Oliver Hewlett Hicks, born June 30/1781, died September 17/1832.
He married on April 19/1801, Julia Bush, born
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July 4/1782. died March 21/1871, daughter of Stephen Bush of Greenwich, Conn. They had ten children.
4/4. Stephen Hicks, born October 7/1783, died June 25/1833.
he married on April 2/1803, Mary Birdsall, born 1787, died 1837, only daughter of Samuel Birdsall: six children.
4/5. Martha Hicks, born October 29/1785, died September 29/1874,
aged 89 years. She married at Hempstead, on July 16/1803, James Poole, born January 8/1773, died June 19/1846, son of Pierce and Elizabeth (Rushmore) Lawrence Poole, see subject 32. See subject 10 for issue and further particulars.
4/6. Richard Hicks, born August 4/1788, died June 11/1807.
He married in December 1825, Mary Hewlett, born 1804, died 1862, daughter of William Hewlett and had four children.
4/7. Abraham Hicks, born January 16/1791, died May 6/1827.
He married on December 27/1815, Rachel Seaman, born April 10/1789, died August 13/1878, daughter of Gideon and Elizabeth (Keese) Seaman. They had five children.
4/8. Phebe Hicks, born March 22/1793, died February 8/1856.
She married on October 3/1816, William H. Imlay, born January 15/1780, died September 4/1858, son of William Imlay of Hartford, Conn. They had nine children.
4/9. Mary Hicks, born May 1/1795, died January 14/1872; unmarried.
4/10. Whitehead Hicks, born September 20/1797,
died March 1/1843. He was at one time Mayor of New York, and owned a farm in the seventh ward. He married on February 2/1826, Mary Ann Merritt, born February 1/1799, died after 1877, daughter of Jesse and Mary (Cornelius) Merritt of Bethpage, L.I. After Whitehead's death, Mary Ann married, 2nd, on April 18/1867, as his third wife, Robert Seaman, born October 31/1792, died October 31/1870, son of David and Sarah (Kirby) Seaman.
Issue:-
5/1. Merritt Hicks, born March 3/1827, died September 20/1849.
5/2. Williams Hicks, born July 7/1830, died July 21/1905.
He married on October 6/1853, Letitia Seaman, born October 6/1833, daughter of Benjamin and Jemima (Seaman) Seaman. They had seven children.
5/3. Mary Hicks, born February 22/1832, living in 1878.
4/11. Samuel J. Hicks. Born June 1/1800, died June 15/1838.
He married on July 22/1822, Elizabeth Brown: seven children.
3/6. Jacob Hicks, born July 11/1753, died May 4/1800. He married,
1st, on October 2/1774, Phebe Hewlett, born 1754, died 1793, daughter of Colonel Richard and Mary (Townsend) Hewlett, see subject 616, page 6: they had two children. He married, 2nd, on November 18/1794, Phebe Mott, daughter of Patrick Mott but they had no children.
2/7. Benjamin Hicks, born January 29/1713, will dated April 20/1743,
proved June 18/1743. He married on December 2/1736, Phebe Titus, born July 29/1717, died February 2/1800, daughter of Silas and Sarah (Haight) Titus, see subject 150.
Issue : -
3/1. Silas Hicks, born April 10/1737, died before 1784.
He married on February 3/1702, Rachel Seaman, born 1742, died 1797, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Valentine) Seaman and had four children. After Silas' death, Rachel married, 2nd, on January 5/1785, Joseph Willets.
3/2. Benjamin Hicks, born March 23/1739 died April 2/1811.
He married, 1st, on April 26/1765, Elizabeth Mott, (the Hicks
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genealogy says Mary Mott), daughter of Benjamin Mott, and had Mott Hicks, born 1766, died 1842. He married 2nd, on February 3/1774, Mary Mott born 1752, died October 15/1824, daughter of John and Ruth (Powell) Mott, and had eight children.
3/3. Samuel Hicks, born August 30/1741, died November 20/1819.
He was a tailor in Westbury District: he inherited no fortune, and became a prosperous man. He married, 1st, on June 26/1765, Phebe Seaman, born June 4/1747, died September 21/1790, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Valentine) Seaman. He married, 2nd, on February 20/1794, Amy Shotwell, born 1748, died September 18/1815, daughter of Joseph Shotwell of Rayway, N.J., and widow of Charles Brooks, an Englishman who she had married on August 28/1788, by whom she had Abraham Brooks: Samuel had no children by her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Phebe Seaman)
4/1. Isaac Hicks, born April 19/1767, died January 10/1820.
He was a prominent ship owner of New York. One of his ships first carried the newly adopted flag of the U.S.A. to the Black Sea in Russia. He married on May 12/1790, Sarah Doughty, born March 27/1768, died August 3/1847, daughter of John and Abigail (Hicks) Doughty of Brooklyn.
Issue: -
5/1. John Doughty Hicks, born March 20/1791, died October
10/1829. He married on January 29/1812, Sarah R. Rushmore born September 10 or October 9/1790, died March or October 3/1893, aged 103 years, daughter of Stephen and Phebe (Townsend) Rushmore, of Westbury, L.I., see subject 132, page 5.
Issue:-
6/1. Lydia Hicks, born February 15/1813,
died September 29/1895. She married, on November 3/1830, Joseph Hicks. They had ten children.
6/2. Isaac Hicks, born March 7/1815, died March 13/1900.
He married on March 24/1836, Mary F. Willis, born January 14/1817, died February 28/1898, daughter of John and Mary (Kirby) Willis of Syosset: 4 children.
6/3. Phebe Hicks, born January 16/1817, died January 4/1821.
6/4. Samuel Hicks, born June 26/1820, died April 28/1898.
He married on September 17/1841, Rachel Willis, born July 21/1820, died May 7/1905, daughter of John and Mary (Kirby) Willis of Syosset, L.I. Two children.
6/5. Stephen Rushmore Hicks, born February 18/1823,
died January 21/1892. He married on September 17/1846, Hannah Whitson Underhill, born in New York City, December 10/1825, died in Brooklyn, January 26/1916, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Whitson) Underhill. They had six children.
6/6. Valentine Hicks, born February 5/1826. He married on
April 19/1848. Margaretta Chapman, born March 20/1832, daughter of Austin Chapman: ten children.
6/7. John Doughty Hicks., born November 13/1829,
died December 20/1907.
5/2. Robert Hicks, born March 15/1793, died May 26/1849.
He married on May 19/1814, Mary Udall Mott, born February 28/1793, died October 30/1862, daughter of Adam and Anne
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(Mott) Mott of Manhasset, L.I. Two children.
5/3. Benjamin Doughty Hicks, born February 11/1797,
Died September 17/1835. He married on April 10/1823, Elizabeth T. Hicks, born January 21/1803, daughter of Whitehead and Margaret (Titus) Hicks.
Issue:-
6/1. Marianna Hicks, born August 31/1829,
died February 14/1834. (Hinshaw gives this date as 1894).
6/2. Benjamin Doughty Hicks, born in New York City, 24/1836,
three months after his father's death, died at Westbury, L.I., September 19/1906, a Quaker. He inherited a competent fortune, and instead of engaging in mercantile pursuits, devoted his life to public affairs and charity. He was one of the organizers of the Title Guarantee & Trust Co., and the Bond Mortgage Co., and a director of both. He was president of the Rosslyn Saving's Dank, the Nassau County Bank, and the Bank of Hempstead Harbor. He was vice president of the S.P.C.A. He published the ten volumes of the Hempstead Town Records, and wrote the Hick Genealogy, 8 volumes, at the Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn. He married, 1st, on June 21/1859, Maria Louisa Herrick, born August 17/1836, died January 29/1861, daughter of Elias Hicks and Jane Maria Taylor of New York: no children. He married, 2nd, on April 28/1883, Alice Albertson, daughter of Thomas Albertson of Mineola, L.I.: no children. He adopted Frederick Hicks Cocks, a descendant of Isaac and Sarah (Doughty) Hicks.
5/4. Isaac Hicks, born April 26/1802, died November 19/1804.
5/5. Elizabeth Hicks, born June 10/1805, died January 2/1865.
She married, 1st, at Westbury, on October 30/1822, Doctor William Ferris Seaman, born February 13/1797, died January 12/1827, son of Valentine and Ann (Ferris) Seaman: they had two children. She married, 2nd, on October 19/1831, William T. Cock born November 26/1803, died January 18/1885 son of Samuel Cock of Buckram, L.I.: 2 children.
5/6. Mary Hicks, born September 20/1807, died December 12/1820.
4/2. Elizabeth Hicks, born May 19/1771, died November 13/1789.
4/3. Samuel Hicks, born October 20/1778, died October 12/1837.
He married on October 14/1801, Sarah Haydock, born June 13/1781, died October 15/1832, daughter of John Haydock of New York: Three children.
4/4. Valentine Hicks, born April 2/1782, died at Jericho, L.I.,
March 5/1850. He married at Jericho on February 23/1804, his second cousin, Abigail Hicks, born March 3/1782, died February 26/1850, a week before her husband, daughter of Elias and Jermine (Seaman) Hicks, see page 5. He was a Quaker, in business with his father and brother Isaac: after a few years with the firm, he retired with fifty thousand dollars and passed the rest of his life in leisure, saying he loved his children too well to leave them rich. The town of Hicksville, L.I., was named after him. His name appears at the head of the list of the State of Yew York representatives in the Senate and Assembly, in an act to incorporate the Long Island Railway on April 24/1834, of which he was the second president.
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Issue:-
5/1. Phebe Hicks, born December 24/1804, died in New York
City, June 23/l852. She married at Jericho, on May 25/1826, Adonijah J. Underhill, born August 16/1800, died in New York City, June 27/1854, son of Daniel or David and Mary (Jackson) Underhill. The Quakers disowned Phebe in 1830 for "marrying out". They had no children.
5/2. Mary Hicks, born August 17/1806, died August 13/1825.
5/3. Caroline Hicks, born July 11/1808, died February 22/1868.
She married on June 23/1831, Dr.William F. Seaman, born July 2l/1796, died April 19/1855, son of David and Sarah (Kirby) Seaman of Jericho. Three children.
5/4. Elizabeth B. Hicks, born August 1/1812. died Nov 29/1820.
5/5. Elias Hicks, born June 12/1815, died January 10/1853.
He married on June 8/1836, His cousin Sarah Hicks, born February 28/1818 died October 27/1884, only daughter of Robert and Mary (Udall Mott) Hicks, see page 7. They had four children.
4/5. Phebe Hicks, born May 5/1785, died August 12/1851. She married
on December 27/1815, John Clapp, born August 30/1781, died July 17/1857, son of John Clapp of Greenwich, Conn. They had six children
3/4. Sarah Hicks, born October 13/l744, died May 5/1818. She married
on September 7/1764, Derrick (or Richard) Albertson, born 1736, son of Derrick or Richard and Rebecca (De Grove) Albertson and had five children.
3/5. Phebe Hicks, born October 18/1753, died August 13/1811.
Her birth date must be wrong as her father died in 1743. She married John Carle and had three children.
2/8. Elizabeth Hicks, born 1716, died July 11/1750.
She married Richard Williams and had four children.
2/9. Joseph Hicks, born August 12/1714. Was he the Joseph whose will dated
February 28/1755, proved September 26/1756, mentioned wife Bethia, and children Bishop, Joseph, Samuel Elizabeth, Bethia and Mary?
2/10. Hannah Hicks, born 1718. She married In 1741, David Titus, born 1719,
son of Silas end Sarah (Haight) Titus, and had two children. She married, 2nd, Thomas Hallett of Newtown, L.I.
Issue :- (by his second wife Mary Doughty, in the order of his will)
1/3. John Hicks.
No data in Benjamin T. Hicks genealogy, but there is a will of John Hicks, dated Flushing November 12/1727, proved April 28/1730, in which he mentions wife Ellinor and sons Robert, Ellis, William and Thomas, and brother in law Thomas Ellison. Could this be his will? It would seem so, as John's sister Elizabeth (named Sarah by Werner), had a sister in law who married Thomas EIlison, see subject 264, page 3.
1/4. Joseph Hicks. No data in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy.
1/5. Isaac Hicks. Bunker estimates his birth as 1678, and he died in 1745,
his will dated August 3/1745, proved September 30/1745. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1723, and a member of the Assembly in 1716 and 1738. He married Elizabeth Moore, born about 1693, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Reed) Moore, of Newtown, L.I. (This is from "William Henry Moore and his Ancestry", by L. Effingham De Forest, New York, 1934).
Subject 266.
Issue:- (in the order, given in his will)
2/1. Benjamin Hicks. Was he the Benjamin who married Elizabeth Rodman,
born September 25/1719, died October 14/1750, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Scott) Rodman and had five children.
2/2. Gilbert Hicks. He married Mary Rodman born February 1/1717,
daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Lawrence) Rodman, and moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
2/3. James Hicks, born 1722, died January 14/1760.
He married on June 8/1754, Deborah Hicks, daughter of William Hicks, see below, They had two children.
2/4. Mary Hicks. She married Cornelius Van Wyck, born October 19th, 1702,
died 1769, son of Johannes and Phebe (Kortright) Van Wyck, and had six children, amongst whom was Cornelius who married his cousin Sarah Hicks, see page 3.
2/5. Thomas Hicks, will dated December 23/l765, proved February 1/1786,
He married about 1740, Charity Stevenson, daughter of John and Abigail (Perkins) Stevenson of Newtown, L,I., and Throg's Neck, Westchester County, N.Y. They later moved to Middletown, Monmouth County, N.J.
Issue:-
3/1. George Hicks.
3/2. Evan Hicks.
3/3. Abigail Hicks.
3/4. Oliver Hicks. He married on March 10/1775, Catherine Cook.
2/6. Henry Hicks.
2/7. John Hicks, born 1716, died February 21/1746.
He married on July 5/1738, Martha Mott, born 1718, died 1745. daughter of James Mott, and had six children.
2/8. Isaac Hicks.
2/9. Margaret Hicks. She married in 1725, her cousin
Thomas Hicks, born after 169l, died 1777 of Thomas and Deborah (Whitehead) Hicks, see pages 2 and 3, for issue and further particulars.
1/6. Benjamin Hicks. No data in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy.
1/7. William Hicks. Bunker estimates his birth as about 1680.
No data about him in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy. Name of wife unknown.
Issue:-
(only the two below mentioned as his children in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy - therefore may not be complete)
2/1. Deborah Hicks. She married on July 5/1738, her cousin James Hicks,
born 1722, died January 14/1760, son of Isaac Hicks, see above. They had two children.
2/2. Mary Hicks, born about 1717, died December 20/1751.
He married on October 13/1737, Samuel Rodman, born February 6/1715, died 1780, son of Joseph and his first wife Sarah (Lawrence) Rodman of New Rochelle, N.Y. and had seven children. After Mary`s death, Samuel married, 2nd, Mary Pell, daughter of Caleb Pell.
1/8. Stephen Hicks. No data in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy.
1/9. Phebe Hicks. Bunker estimates her birth as about 1672, though her parents
were not married until 1676, and her death in 1732. Her father's will called her Phebe Simmons, a misspelling of Seaman. She married in 1695, Samuel Seaman, born 1668, died 1732, son of John and his Second wife Martha (Moore) Seaman, see subject 538, page 2.
Issue:-
(may not be complete as the Seaman genealogy says they had seven children)
2/1. Samuel Seaman, born about 1696. He married at Hempstead, L.I.,
on September 30/1729-30, lsabella Allen, and had some children.
2/2. Mary Seaman. born about 1698, died before 1737. The Benjamin D.
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Hicks genealogy says she married on May 8/1732, her cousin Jacob Hicks, born July 14/1708, died March 6/1769, son of Jacob and Hannah (Carpenter) Hicks, see Pages 4 and 5 for their issue. However the Seaman genealogy says Jacob Seaman married Mary Hicks, and that Jacob was the son of Benjamin and Martha (Titus) Seaman. I think this is an error, for Martha, see below,
2/3. Martha Seaman, Born about 1699. She married on March 25/1731,
her cousin James Seaman, who died in 1781, son of Benjamin and Martha (Titus) Seaman, and had four children.
2/4. Hicks Seaman, born at Jerusalem, L.I., in 1700.
He married at Hempstead, on October 30/1726, Elizabeth Barnes, born 1717, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Jackson) Barnes and had five children. In 1764 they went to Westchester County, N.Y., and had a farm near the Craton River.
1/10. Elizabeth Hicks, mentioned in her father's will,
but no further data and therefore probably died young.
1/11. Charity Hicks. Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy says she was not married.
The Cornell genealogy says she was born in 1674, (this is two years before her parents married), and that her will was dated March 1762, proved February 14/1767, and that she married, as his second wife, on December 20/1712, (when she was about 45 years old), Thomas Cornell, born 1675, died 1719, son of Richard and Elizabeth (---) Cornell.
1/12. Mary Hicks. Her father's will called her Mary Bushlar, a mispelling of
the name Rushmore: the will also mentioned Mary's daughter Sarah Everitt. She married Jacob Rushmore, son of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Doughty) Rushmore. See subject 264 for their issue and further particulars.
1/13. Sarah Hicks. Her father's will mentioned no daughter Sarah, nor does
Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy give her as a daughter. However, some genealogies state Sarah was a daughter, and that she married Thomas Rushmore, born about 1650, died before 1733, son of Thomas and his first wife Martha (Hicks), Rushmore, see subject 264. I cannot find any proof that Sarah was a daughter of Thomas Hicks.
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268 - CALEB CARMAN.
The following is from the same sources as quoted under subject 536 - JOHN CARMAN. Caleb Carman was born about 1658, and died between 1720 and l729, the dates of his will and its probate, son of John and Hannah (---) Carman, see subject 536. He was a farmer and a freeholder in Hempstead, L.I., in 1683. In 1684 he received from the town, a home lot near that of his brother Benjamin. Between 1723 and 1729 his hone was in South Woods, north of Samuel Embree's land. In 1685 be owned 180 acres of land in Hempstead. He was Town Assessor between 1690 and 1718.
He married about 1680, Hannah Seaman, who died 1694-98, daughter of Captain John and his second wife Martin (Moore) Seaman. Hannah was not mentioned in the Hempstead Census of 1698, see subject 538.
He married, 2nd, after 1698, Ann Seaman.
Issue:- (by his first wife Hannah Seaman)
1/1. Caleb Carman. Born 1682, died 1745. His will was dated January 31/1744,
and John Rushmore, his son in law, was one of the witnesses. He married in 1704, Margaret --, who outlived him. See subject 134.
Issue:- (from his will)
2/1. Caleb Carman.
2/2. John Carman.
2/3. Silas Carman.
2/4. Joseph Carman.
2/5. Hannah Carman.
2/6. Margaret Carman.
2/7. Phebe Carman.
2/8. Mary Carman. Having no dates of the birth of these children, Mary
may not have been the youngest. I believe she married John Rushmore, born 1696. See subject 66 for their issue and further particulars.
1/2. Hannah Carman. Born 1684.
1/3. Phebe Carman. - Born 1686.
1/4. Benjamin Carman. Born 1688, died before 1735. He probably married
Ann Mott, born 1688, daughter of Adam and Mary (Stillwell) Mott, see subject 282, p2. The Mott genealogy doesn't confirm this.
Issue :-
2/1. Ann Carman, born 1710. She marred at Hempstead in 1729,
John Langdon, son of Joseph Langdon and had John.
2/2. Mary Carman, born 1712. She married John Wood of Hempstead,
who died in 1765 and had Samuel, Mary, Catherine and Hannah.
2/3. Benjamin Carman, born 1714, died October 10/1795.
He married at Hempstead, in 1740, Mary Bedell, daughter of Richard and Phebe Bedell.
Issue :-
3/1.Samuel Carman, born 1749, died April 30/1819.
He married in 1769 Mary De Mott, born 1755, died July 4/1824, daughter of John and Maria (Colyer) De Mott.
Issue :-
4/1. Catherine Carman, born July 8/1770, died October 17/1832.
She married on December 28/l783, (only 13 years old ?), Abraham Bedell and had fourteen children, see Tredwell's Carman genealogy for their names.
4/2. Ann Carman, born December 5/1771.
She married on November 17/1790, Abraham Snedeker and had three children, see Tredwell's Carman genealogy for their names.
4/3. Mary Carman, born 1776.
She married Richard Wiggins, who died April 4/1847.
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4/4. Abigail Carman, born November 20/1777. She married on
June 18/1791, Isaac Clowes, born October 14/1755, died September 8/1825, son of Samuel and Rebecca (Dorlon) Clowes: no issue.
4/5. Sarah Carman, born July 19/1778. She married William Nichols,
and had Samuel, William, Carman, Elizabeth, Abigail and Mary.
4/6. Elizabeth Carman, born 1780. She married on October 17/1798,
Gilbert Dorlon, born May 6/1786, and had seven children,
4/7. Samuel Carman, born February 10/1783, died December 4/1846.
He married on September 1/1800, Ann Ellison, born May 29/1782, daughter of David Ellison and had nine children, see Tredwell's Carman Genealogy for their names.
4/8. Richard Carman, born September 2/1783, died in May 1825.
He married on January 1/1807, Ann Carman, daughter of Thomas, and had 13 children, see Tredwell's Carman Genealogy for the names.
3/2. Stephen Carman, born 1751, died 1827.
The St. Nicholas Society Records say he served twenty two terms in the New York State Legislature. He married in 1769, 1st, Sarah Petit, daughter of Joseph Petit: 2nd, in 1775, Sarah Raynor, daughter of James Raynor 3rd, Nancy Smith, daughter of John Smith: 4th, in 1796, Elizabeth Smith, daughter of David Smith and widow of Joseph Dorlon, born September 22/1745, died after 1818 (?), son of John and Mary (Bedell) Dorlon, whom she had married on November 7/1780,
Issue:- (by his first wife Sarah Petit)
4/1. Mary Carman, born 1770, died September 29/1798-9.
She married George Weekes, born January 31/1770, died July 21/1854, son of George and Sarah (Hall) Weekes, see subject 38, page 1 for their issue and further particulars.
Issue:- (by his second wife Sarah Raynor)
4/2. Benjamin Carman, baptized 1778.
4/3. James Carman, baptized 1779. He married Elizabeth Dorlon,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Smith) Dorlon, see above.
4/4. Elizabeth Carman, baptized 1779.
4/5. Sarah Carman, baptized 1783. She married Jacob Valentine.
4/6. Samuel Searing Carman, baptized 1783.
He was married, and had Nelson, James and Valentine.
Issue:- (by his third wife Nancy Smith)
4/7. Rachel Carman, born about 1788.
She married, 1st, Thomas Lax, born about 1783, probably son of Thomas and Isabella Lax. See subject 8-D, page 1, for his sister Esther Lax, born in England, October 15/1783, who married Thomas Powell. After Thomas' death, Rachel married, 2nd, Samuel Downing, born October 7/1778, son of Benjamin end his second wife Martha (Hopkins) Downing, see subject 290, page 2. She had one daughter Isabella by her first husband, who married Joseph Weekes, and two children by her second husband.
4/8. Joseph Smith Carman.
Issue:- (by his fourth wife Elizabeth Smith)
4/9. Stephen Carman, baptized 1797.
3/3. Mary Carman, born 1754, died January 26/1834. She married in 1774,
William Rushmore, born October 14/1744, died August 4/1796, son of Thomas and Ruth (Bedell) Rushmore, see subject 66, page 2 for their issue and further particulars. After William's death, Mary married, 2nd, William Losee, who died in 1832, leaving his estate to his wife Mary and her children by her first husband.
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3/4. Ann Carman, born about 1756.
3/5. Richard Carman, born about 1756. he married at Hempstead in 1779,
Sarah Horsefield, born 1764, died 1835, daughter of Thomas Horsefield. They went to St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1783, where he died. Be was a United Empire Loyalist and wished to remain a British subject.
3/6. Elizabeth Carman. She married in 1781, Joseph Clowes.
2/4. Rosanna Carman, born 1715. She married in 1733, John Smith,
and had Milly, Caleb, John, Mary, Ann, John and Rosanna.
2/5. Samuel Carman, born 1719, died 1783-4.
He married Sarah and had seven children.
2/6. Adam Carman, born February 4/1725, died 1804.
He married in 1750, Philadelphia Titus, daughter of Jacob Titus, and removed to Dutchess County, N.Y. They had eleven children.
1/5. Martha Carman. Born 1690,
1/6. Abigail Carman. Born 1692.
Issue:- (by his second wife Ann Seaman)
1/7. Samuel Carman. Born 1699, died before 1759.
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280 - JOHN ROCK SMITH
The following is from "The John Rock Smith Family", by Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, L.l., 1937: from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies: and from "The Descendants of Edward Tredwell", by William A. Robbins, New York, 1911.
John Smith's birth date is not known, but it must have been about 1615, as in a deposition he made in 1675, he gave his age as sixty. He died at Merrick, Hempstead, L.I. in 1706: his will was dated May 10/1695, proved April 3/1706. In the same deposition he stated that he got his name "Rock" as a distinction from other Smiths. No reason can be traced for this designation except for a legend that he built a house in New England, with a fire place carved out of a rock inside his house. This designation was used intermittently in the family for four generations. Valentine W. Smith states that there were six distinct Smith families on Long Island, namely, the Weight Smiths, the Rock Smiths, the Blue Smiths, the Tangier Smiths, the Bull Rider Smiths, and the Arthur Smiths. Charles J. Werner gives the following reasons for these designations:- The Weight Smiths possessed the only set of scales and weights: the Blue Smith's ancestor always wore a blue coat on every possible occasion of which he was exceeding1y proud: the Tangier Smiths were descended from Colonel William Smith, Mayor of Tangier, Africa, then a British Colony where he resided before coming to America: Arthur Smith was one of the original proprietors of Brookhaven, L.I. All of these Smiths were originally unrelated.
There were two John Smiths originally in Hempstead, known as senior and junior, and it is not known whether they were father and son or not. The first mention of John Rock Smith is in Huntington's History of Stamford, who states that John Jr, and his father John Sr, together with Henry Smith, came to Stamford from Wethersfield, Conn., in the spring of 1640. In that year, a company of dissatisfied and restless men in Wethersfield were anxious to end the contentions and feuds which for four or five years had rendered their home in this colony of Connecticut, including the towns of Windsor and Hartford, comfortless and unprofitable. The reasons for that distracted condition among a band of men who had left England, not six years before, to seek a quiet and peaceful home for themselves, may never be fully known. So decided the Church committee from Watertown, Mass,, who had been sent out into the wilderness, to look after the brethren who had so recently emigrated from their company. So decided also, that princely pioneer among the worthies of that age, the Reverend John Davenport, who had gone up from New Haven to see if fraternal counsel would not restore harmony to that distracted community. They finally decided to remove to Stamford: 28 of them came to Stamford in the summer of 1641. At the end of 1642, both John Smith senior and junior and Henry Smith were residents of Stamford. They were under the leadership of Richard Denton, who had been a minister at Halifax, Yorkshire, England. The colony, not liking the overshadowing influence of the New Haven juris- diction, found a leader in Richard Denton, and in 1644, he removed with them to attempt a new settlement at Manetos, New Netherlands, now Hempstead, under the Dutch government. Denton returned to England in 1659 where he died in 1662, aged 76 years. On arrival at Hempstead, John junior bought land in the extreme westerly part of Hungry Marbor, near Rockaway. He must have been an astute real estate operator for he left properties of many acres at Rockaway, Hempstead, and Little Neck. His farm at Merrick extended from the Merriok or Meadowbrook river on the west, to Cedar Swamp on the east.
According to the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 30, p 203, John Rock Smith's wife was a daughter of Lieutenant John
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Strickland, one of Saltonstall's party of emigrants, and one of the first settlers of Hempstead in 1657. The Tredwell Genealogy says his wife's name was Hannah Murry,
Issue:
1. John Smith. He was dead by May 20/1690. He had sons Timothy and Richard,
and presumably daughter Sarah (who married William Pine) and Mary.
2. Joseph Smith. Bunker says he was married and had a son Joseph.
3. Jonathan Smith. Born before 1650, will dated March 6/1724.
He married in 1671, Grace Mott, born about 1653, daughter of Adam an his first wife Jane (Hewlett) Mott, see subject 282, page 3. See subject 140 for issue and further particulars.
4. Mary Smith. She married in 1661, Samuel Denton, born 1632-4,
son of the Reverend Richard Denton who owned 240 acres of land in Hempstead.
Issue:-
2/1. Samuel Denton, born 1665, will dated February 14/1717,
proved May 27/1719 in which he left everything to his wife Abigail. He married, 1st, in 1686, a Mr. Smith: 2nd, Abigail (Barlow) Roeland. He had Joseph, Mary, Deborah, Jemima and Anne, all under age in 1717.
2/2. Mary Denton, born 1668. She married, 1st, in 1684, Peter Smith:
2nd, Jonathan Nostrand.
2/3. James Denton, born 1670, will dated March 7/1713,
proved February 3/1723. He married in 1723, Jane Titus, born 1670, daughter of Edmond and Martha (Washburn) Titus and had two children.
2/4. Hannah Denton, born 1673, died August 17/1748. She married in 1695,
Capt Thomas Tredwell, born 1670, died 1722, and had Timothy, Elizabeth Halstead, Charity, Hannah Sands, Thomas Star Tredwell, and John.
2/5. Abraham Denton, born 1675.
2/6. Jonas Denton, born 1677. he married in 1690,
Jane Seaman, probably daughter of Jonathan and Jane (---) Seaman.
2/7. Phebe Denton, born 1679, died 1728. She married, 1st, in 1699,
Richard Thorne: 2nd, Robert Mitchell.
Issue:- (by her first husband Richard Thorne)
3/1. Phebe Thorne, born 1701. She married on May 7/1725,
Micah Smith, born 1704, died May 1747, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Underhill) Smith. They bad five children.
2/8. Martha Denton, born 1681.
She married in 1717, Jonah Halstead, born 1692, died 1762, son of Timothy and Abigail (Carman) Halstead, and had eight children.
2/9. Elizabeth Denton, born 1684. She married in 1709, Jonathan Seaman,
who died in 1748, son of Jonathan and Jane (---) Seaman. In 1712 they removed to Kikiat, N.J., and had eleven children.
1/5. Martha Smith. Died before 1695. She married, 1st, as his second wife,
Thomas Rushmore born in Wales, England, in 1609, died at Hempstead, L.I,, 1682-3. She married, 2nd, Francis Chappell, town clerk at Hempstead, and had William and Stephen Chappell. See subject 264 for issue and further particulars.
1/6. Hannah Smith. Living in 1706, died probably before her husband.
She married, as his second wife, before July 5/1682, John Tredwell, born before December 7/1644, died between January 12/1712 and January 25/1719, son of Edward and Sarah Tredwell of lpswich, Mass., who probably came from Kent, England, in 1637. John had married, 1st, in Long Island, on March 6/1666, Elizabeth Starr, who died before 1682, probably daughter of Thomas Starr of Charlestown, Mass, by whom she had John and Thomas Tredwell. Hannah had no children.
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282 - ADAM MOTT
The following is from "Adam and Anne Mott", by Thomas C. Cornell, Yonkers, 1890: from "The Descendants of Adam Mott", by Edward Doubleday Harris, 1906, which corrects many mistakes in Thomas C. Cornell's work: and from "The Jones Family of Long Island", by John Henry Jones, N.Y., 1907.
Adam Mott was born in Essex, England, about 1620, as his will, dated March 12/1681-2, proved April 8/1690, described himself as about sixty years old, and a yeoman. The inventory of his estate was £182.9.6. He was probably the Adam Mott who came to America in 1638 in the ship "Bevis", a taylor who had relatives in Providence, R.I. with whom he tarried a while, but later went to New York, about 1646, as on April 25/1646, the Dutch government of the New Netherlands, granted him twenty five morgens (about 50 acres) of land at Newtown Creek, now Bushwick, L.I. He moved to Hempstead about 1656. On March 17/1657, Adam was chosen a townsman of Hempstead. At that time, and for long after, the neck of land in the northern part of the town between Hempstead Harbor on the east, and Cow Bay (now Manhasset Bay) on the west, was a common pasture for the cattle of the town and hence was called Cow Neck. It was enclosed by a fence about three miles long, from the head of the harbor, now Roslyn, to the head of Cow Bay, now Manhasset. Inside this fence to the Sound, was about five miles in length from north to south, and from two to three miles in width, about 8000 acres, Adam Mott's descendants have been living in Cow Neck for more than two centuries. In 1657, public notice was given that all who wished their calves kept by the keeper, should give in their number to Adam Mott before April 24/1657. The fence consisted of 526 panels or gates and was maintained by sixty contributors, whose "right of pasture" was proportioned to the panels or gates which each maintained. Adam Mott at that time had 5 oxen, 2 milch cows, 2 calves, and 20 acres of allotted meadow.
In the absence of any bell, it was in those days, custom to call people to town meetings or to church by beating a drum, and in 1659, Adam Mott was paid by the town of Hempstead, six shillings for beating the drum for four days. On April 22/1665, Adam was commissioned Lieutenant, in the Hempstead Militia. On January 28/1670, he purchased land from Henry Disbrowe at Madnan's Neck, now Great Neck, formerly the property of Captain John Seaman, where he settled soon after, and grew tobacco with great success. On October 11/1685, the assessment list of 155 names of Hempstead residents, included those of Adam senior, £390: Adam junior, and various amounts for the latter's sons James, John and Joseph. The last record of Adam Mott was dated March 26/1685. His father Adam and his mother Anne were also living in Hempstead, but beyond that, nothing is known about them.
Adam Mott, known as junior, married at New Amsterdam, on July 28/1647, Jane Hulet (Hewlett), daughter of Lewis Hewlett of Buckingham, England, the marriage record bearing the words "neither previously married". Dates of Jane's birth and death are not known. The Jones genealogy states that she was probably a sister of George Hewlett, who family tradition states, was the first of his name in America, and who was a Judge of the Court under Cromwell's Commonwealth, who refused allegiance to Charles II, and fled to America with his four sons. They settled at Merrick, L.I.
Adam Mott married, 2nd, probably in 1667, Elizabeth Richbell, daughter of John and Ann (Parsons) Richbell, who first lived in Oyster Bay and later an original patentee of Mamaroneck in 1662. Edward D. Harris says that Elizabeth was the daughter of Ann Richbell's first husband, a Mr. Redman. After Adam's death, Elizabeth married, not long before
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November 5/1691, Robert Hubbs, and was living as his wife in 1698, the date of the Hempstead Census. The order given below of Adam's children may not be correct, birth records of only the first two being known: the others are estimated.
Issue:- (by his first wife Jane Hewlett)
1/1. Adam Mott. Baptized at New Amsterdam, November 14/1649.
He married in 1678, Mary Stillwell, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Stillwell. He was a Justice of the Peace in Hempstead and in 1715 lived at Rockaway: nothing is known of them after 1718.
Issue :-
2/1. Jane Mott, born 1680, died August 21/1769.
The Seaman genealogy says she married in 1695-4, Richard Seaman, born at Hempstead 1673, died at Westbury, L.I., September 6/1749, a Quaker, son of Captain John and his second wife Martha (Moore) Seaman, and had fifteen children, of whom twelve were mentioned in his will.
2/2. Mary Mott. She married on March 5/1705, Solomon Seaman,
son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Linnington) Seaman, and had two children.
2/3. Adam Mott, died 1749. He married before 1719, his half cousin Elizabeth
Mott, daughter of Richbell and Elizabeth (Thorne) Mott, and had four children. He settled in Staten Island in 1713 and was a member of The Assembly in Richmond County 1737 to 1739, but later removed to Pennsylvania.
2/4. Ann Mott, born 1688. She married Benjamin Carman, born 1688,
died before 1735, son of Caleb and Hannah (Seaman) Carman, see subject 268, page 1 for their issue and further particulars.
1/2. James Mott. Baptized October 5/1651, died 1707.
In 1679, then a prisoner in New York, he petitioned to be forgiven for selling liquor to the Indians: he was given a home lot in Hempstead that same year. In 1692 he removed to Mamaroneck and was a captain in the militia and a Justice of the Peace. He married, 1st, on September 5/1670, Mary Redman, who died in 1698, step daughter of his brother Richbell Mott. He married, 2nd, Elizabeth ----.
Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Redman)
2/1. Elizabeth Mott. Listed in the Hempstead Census of 1698.
2/2. Grace Mott. ditto.
2/3. James Mott. In 1728 be lived in Mamaroneck. He married in 1717,
Jane Burling, born May 17/1684, daughter of Edward Burling of Flushing
2/4. Phebe Mott. No data.
2/5. Martha Mott. No data.
1/3. Grace Mott. Probably born in 1653. She married in 1671, Jonathan Smith,
who died in 1724, son of John "Rock" Smith, subject 280. see subject 140 for issue and further particulars.
1/4. Elizabeth Mott. Born about 1655. She married John Oksson, so spelled,
but spelled correctly Kissam, son of John and Susannah (Thorne) Kissam, of Jamaica, L.I. The early spelling of the name was Okersam, probably a Dutch name. They settled in Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
1/5. Henry Mott. Born about 1657, died November 21/1680. His father's will
said his wife was Hannah --, and that he had three children.
1/6. John Mott. Born about 1658, last trace of him in 1727.
He lived at Rockaway in land given him by his father. He married in 1688, Sarah Seaman, daughter of Captain John and his second wife Martha (Moore) Seaman, and had six children.
1/7. Joseph Mott. Born about 1661, died 1735-6. He married Mariam ---,
perhaps a Smith and lived at Cow Neck.
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Issue:-
2/1. Mariam Mott. She married on February 8/1712-3, perhaps,
Richard Cornell, born before 1685, died 1772-78, and had six children. Bunker calls her Ann and said she married Samuel Cornell.
2/2. Jane Mott, born November 15/1682. died July 15/1729.
She married Benjamin Seaman, born 1685, died September 7/1729, son of Benjamin and Martha (Titus) Seaman and had ten children: lived in Westbury.
2/3. Joseph Mott, born 1696, died 1765. He went to Dutchess County, N.Y.
he married his half cousin Deborah Mott, daughter of Richbell and Elizabeth (Thorne) Mott, see below. They had seven children. He married, 2nd, on June 5/1759, Catherine Boerum and had 5 children.
2/4. Samuel Mott, born 1707, died February 15/1736.
He married on May 27/1728, Martha Smith who married, 2nd, John Hicks, son of Jacob and Hannah (Carpenter) Hicks, see subject 266, page 2.
2/5. Jacob Mott, born August 9/1714-5, died October 6/1805.
He married on July 16/1735, Abigail Jackson, born November 18/1720, died September 28/1781, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (--) Jackson, and had twelve children.
1/8. Gershom Mott Born about 1663, died about 1733, will proved March 30/1733.
On December 2/1703 he was Lieutenant of Militia at Newtown, L.I. See the account of his descendants in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 25, p 49. In 1685 he moved to Middleton, Monmouth County, N.J., where he was High Sheriff:in 1697 he was a member of the Provincial Assembly. He married in 1695, Catherine Bowne daughter of Captain John and Lydia Bowne: they had six children.
Issue:- (by his second wife Elizabeth Richbell)
1/9. Richbell Mott. Born probably 1668, died 1734.
He married on October 14/1696, Elizabeth Thorne of Flushing, L.I., who died March-April 1739, daughter of John and Mary Thorne. Richbell settled at Little Neck and was a man of standing and force. In 1708 he received a tract of land on the Sound on the west side of the entrance to Hempstead Harbor, the deed reading 260 acres, though it must have been considerably larger. The old Mott homestead still stood on the shore as late as 1890. On April 2/1715 he sold this plot to his brother Adam for £269. In 1713-5 Richbell was surveyor of highways and fence viewer.
Issue:-
2/1 .Edmond Mott, born about 1700, will dated August 4/1741,
proved June 13/1744: he left his wife £200, daughter Margaret £170, son Richbell half his farm, sons Edmond and John a quarter each of his farm. He married in 1726, Catherine Sands, daughter of Captain John and Sybil (Ray) Sands. They were both Quakers.
Issue :-
3/1. Margaret Mott.
3/2. Richbell Mott, born August 3/1728, died May 9/1758.
He married in 1749, Deborah Dodge, born April 15/1728, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (---) Dodge of Cow Neck, L.I.
Issue:-
4/1. Margaret Mott, born September 21/1749.
She married on March 17/1772, the Hon. Melancthon Smith, born at Jamaica, L.I., in 1744, died July 29/1798, son of Samuel Smith, who had married, 1st, Sarah Smith of New Jersey who died in 1770.
Issue :-
5/1. Richbell Mott Smith, born 1780,
died off the coast of Japan, October 23/1800.
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5/2. Melancthon Smith. He was a Colonel in the U.S. Army.
He married, 1st, Cornelia?Jones, daughter of Dr. Gardner Jones of New York: 2nd, Anna Green, daughter of Israel Green of Dutchess County, N.Y.
Issue:- (may be part only)
6/1. Rear Admiral Melancthon Smith, born 1810,
who joined the U.S. Navy on March 1/1826, retired in 1870 and lived at Oyster Bay, L.I.
5/3. Sydney Smith.
5/4. Phebe Smith. She married John Bleeker.
4/2. Phebe Mott, born August 21/1751.
3/3. Edmond Mott, born August 25/1730.
3/4. John Mott, born August 1/1732, died 1780-1.
2/2. Richbell Mott, died unmarried soon after his majority.
2/3. Elizabeth Mott. She married in 1719, her half cousin Adam Mott,
son of Adam and Mary (Stillwell) Mott and lived on Staten Island. See page 2 for their issue.
2/4. Mary Mott. She married in 1718 John Tredwell,
born 1696 died 1741 son of Thomas and Hannah (Denton) Tredwell, see subject 286, p 2. They had four children.
2/5. Richard Mott, born 1710, died of yellow fever August 15/1743.
He married on January 26/1741, Sarah Pearsall, born November 6/1714, died at Hudson, N.Y., September 1800, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Underhill) Pearsall. After Richard's death, Sarah married, 2nd, on April 3/1747, Richard Alsop and had five children by him.
Issue:-
3/1. James Mott, born August 6/1742, died 1823.
He married Mary Underhill, born 1745, died 1766.
2/6. Ann Mott, born 1700, died September 20/1796. She married Daniel Kissam,
born 1701, died 1728, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Coombes) Kissam of Great Neck. After Daniel's death, Ann married, 2nd, on October 11/1730, Jotham Townsend of Oyster Bay, who died in 1752, son of John and Johanna (---) Townsend who had married, 1st, Martha Coles, daughter of Nathaniel and Rose (Wright) Coles, by whom he had Freelove and John Townsend, see subject 616 page 3.
Issue:- (by her first husband Daniel Kissam)
3/1. Daniel Kissam, born October 13/1726, died 1782.
He married on April 20/1746, Peggy Tredwell, born 1728, daughter of Colonel Benjamin and Phebe (Platt) Tredwell and had two children.
3/2. Elizabeth Kissam,
2/7. Jemima Mott. She married Stephen Wood.
2/8. Kezia Mott. She married John Jackson, son of Col. John and Elizabeth
(Hallett) Jackson who died January 12/1775. They had ten children.
2/9. Deborah Mott. She married her half cousin Joseph Mott, born 1696,
died 1765, son of Joseph and Miriam (--) Mott of Dutchess County, NY, and they had seven children. After Deborah's death Joseph married, rue, on June 5/1759, Catherine Boerum and had three children, see p 5
1/10. Mary Ann Mott. Born about 1671.
1/11. Adam Mott. Born about 1672, died December 10/1738.
His elder brother by is father's first wife was also named Adam, who was still alive, so his father called them by the names "my older son Adam" or "my younger son Adam". He married at Westbury, L.I., on November 5/1731-2, Phebe Willets, born February 14/1699, died at Cow Neck, September 7/1782, daughter of Richard and Abigail (Powell) Willets of Jericho, L.I. He was 59 years old when he was married and his wife was 27 years
Subject 282.
younger than he was, Phebe, before her marriage, had already been a famous Quaker minister for several years. Adam built his homestead on the land he bought from his brother Richbell and had a well stocked farm of 600 acres. After Adam's death, Phebe married, 2nd, on November 28/1741, as his second wife, Tristram Dodge who died in 1760, son of Tristram and Dorcas (Dickens) Dodge. She had no children by him.
Issue:- (all their children were double first cousins)
2/1. Elizabeth Mott, born May 51/1753, died September 13/1785.
She married on March 5/1755, John Willis, a Quaker Minister, born February 8/1734, died March 4/1789, son of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis.
Issue:-
3/1. Adam Willis, born July 1757, died 1758,
3/2. Samuel Willis, born March 5/1759, died 1838. He married Rachel
Pearsall, who died May 31/1855, daughter of Thomas Pearsall.
Issue:-
4/1. Henry Willis, born May 2/1786. He married Phebe Post.
4/2. Phebe Willis, born October 14/1787. She married James Post,
4/3. John Willis, born January 2/1790. He married Mary Kirby,
daughter of Jacob and Mary Kirby and had seven children.
4/4. Amay Willis, born September 12/1797, died January 26/1881.
She married at Jericho, L.I., on January 29/1824, Townsend Rushmore, born August 5/1792, died February 3/1870, son of Stephen and Phebe (Townsend) Rushmore. See subject 132, page 5 for their issue and further particulars.
3/3. Phebe Willis, born April 5/1761, died December 29/1851.
She married Joshua Powell, born October 15/1754, died 1817, son of Joshua and Phebe (Post) Powell and had five children.
3/4. Child.
2/2. Adam Mott, born October 10/1734, died December 18/1790.
He married, 1st, on March 5/1755, (the same day as his sister Elizabeth), Sarah Willis, born July 14/1736, died of tuberculosis January 10/1783, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis, and had four children. He married, 2nd, at Westbury, on January 6/1785, Abigail Batty, born 1753, died December 12/1807, daughter of David Batty of S. Hempstead.
2/3. Stephen Mott, born February 1/1736, died November 11/1813.
He married on October 6/1762, Amy Willis, born March 27/1738, died November 10/1822, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis. They had Daniel, Phebe, Mary, Jane, Abigail, Stephen and Henry.
1/12. William Mott. Born January 20/1674, died June 30/1740. He was a Quaker of
Great Neck, L.I. He married on April 12/1705, Hannah Ferris, born March 5/1679, died June 24/1759, daughter of John and Mary Ferris of Westchester County, N.Y.
Issue :-
2/1. Elizabeth Mott, born January 1/1706, died December 25/1721: single.
2/2. William Mott, born August 6/1709, died March 25/1786.
He married on June 18/1742, Elizabeth Allen, born 1719, died November 6/1780, daughter of Henry and Mary (Udall) Allen of Great Neck, L.I. Issue:-(from the Jones Genealogy) 3/1. William Mott, born January 8/1743, died at Great Neck, March 30/1825. He was a partner in the firm of William and John Mott, merchants, 240 Water St., New York, and lived in Great Neck, L.I. He married on December 2/1789, Mary Willis, born 1761, died August 5/1842, daughter of William Willis, and had William, James and Robert, all with the middle name Willis. See the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 36, p 28 for their issue.
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3/2. Hannah Mott, born June 4/1744, died March 15/1750.
3/3. James Mott, born August 29/1745, died September 16/1782.
3/4. Elizabeth Mott, born February 5/1747, died September 7/1829.
She married David Underhill, son of Amos Underhill who died February 7/1811, and had two children,
3/5. John Mott, born February 17/1749, died March 7/1750.
3/6. Samuel Mott, born at Hempstead, December 16/1751,
died April 1/1791. He married on April 7/1784, Sarah Franklin, born July 25/1756, died December 11/1801, daughter of Henry and Mary (Seaman) Franklin and had four children.
3/7. Hannah Mott, born April 18/1753, died February 8/1805.
3/8. John Mott, born June 24/1755, died November 20/1823: no issue,
3/9. Henry Mott, born at Hempstead, May 31/1757, died at New York City,
December 17/1839. Dr. Henry Mott practiced medicine at 545 Broadway, New York City. He married on January 1/1783, Jane Way, born 1761, died April 12/1834, daughter of Samuel and Esther (Valentine) Way of Maspeth, L.I., see subject 290, page 2.
Issue:-
4/1. John Way Mott, born October 19/1783, died October 25/1827.
4/2. Valentine Mott, born at Glen Cove, L.I., August 20/1785,
died April 26/1865. He graduated from Columbia University in 1806, and completed his medical education in London and Edinburgh. From 1809 he was Surgeon at the Columbia University Hospital, New York City, and became the most famous surgeon of his day. He was highly honored in England and was said to have performed more operations than any other surgeon. He lived at No 1, Grammercy Park, New York City. His father's will stated that as his education had cost so much that he left all his money to his daughters. He married in 1817, Louisa Dunmore Munn, born 1796 of Philadelphia, who survived him and died in 1873. They had nine children, see the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 36, page 28 for their names, &c.
4/3. Esther Way Mott, born April 16/1789, died March 20/1854: single.
4/4. Eliza Mott, born August 25/1792, died April 1866, unmarried.
4/5. Maria Mott, born January 31/1796, died February 8/1877.
She married Seth M. Hobby, and had Henry Mott Hobby, born April 18/1826, died September 25/1826.
3/10. Richard Mott, born August 20/1759, died September 25/1795.
3/11. Joseph Mott, born at Hempstead, January 11/1762,
died at New York City, December 4/1801. He was a merchant at 250 Eater St, New York. He married on May 17/1799, Abigail Thorne, who died July 4/1836, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Cheesman) Thorne, see subject 36, page 2. After Joseph's death, Abigail married, 2nd, in 1814-16, a Mr. Griffin of Dutchess County, N.Y. but had no children by him. See the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 36, page 283 for their descendants.
3/12. Benjamin Mott, born at Hempstead, March 19/1765, died at New York,
October 2/1816. He was a flour merchant and lived at 131 Cherry St., New York City. He married on December 17/1798, Elizabeth Ackerly, born October 11/1779, died February 5/1838, daughter of Jacamiah Akerly of New York. They had three children, see the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 36, p283 for their descendants.
2/3. Hannah Mott, born February 22/1714. She married on March 5/1731,
Phillip Pell, son of the Hon. Thomas Pell of Pelham, N.Y. 3 children.
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Issue:-
3/1. Phillip J. Pell, born September 2/1732, died 1788.
He married Glorianna Tredwell.
3/2. Hannah Pell, born July 9/1734. She married David Stephenson.
3/3. Martha Pell, born January 17/1735. She married John Allyn.
1/13. Charles Mott. Born about 1676, died 1740. He was a farmer and miller at
Cow Neck and owned three negro slaves. He was a Quaker of Great Neck. He married before 1695, Elizabeth --- who predeceased him.
Issue:- (may not be in the proper order)
2/1. Charles Mott, born 1696, died 1748. He married before 1729,
Deborah --- and had Joseph, Samuel and Sylvanus who settled on their father's land at Kikiat, N.J.
2/2. Gershom Mott, died 1758. He settled at Kirkiat, and inherited his
father's negro slave girl Abigail. He married Ruth ---: 6 children
2/3. Jacob Mott, died 1737-8.
2/4. Amos Mott, died 1745-6 at Oyster Bay, L.I.
2/5. Benjamin Mott, died 1748 at Oyster Bay.
2/6. Adam Mott. He may have married Elizabeth Smith: four children.
2/7. Mary Ann Mott. She married, 1st, Joseph Starkin and had Joseph:
2nd, in 1730, Patrick Carrell.
2/8. Elizabeth Mott. She married a Hunter:
she inherited her father's negro slave girl Peggy.
2/9. John Mott. Was alive in 1728 and had two children.
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284 - LAWRENCE ELLISON
The following is from Benjamin F. Thompson's History of Long Island and from "The Allison Family in America, by Leonard Allison Morrison, Grand Rapids, Mich, l926, who says the name was spelled Ellison in Long Island, and by many of the descendants.
Lawrence Ellison (or Allison), the progenitor of this family in America was a Puritan who came from Halifax, Yorkshire, England, and settled first in Watertown, Mass, then Wethersfield, Conn., Stamford, and finally came to Hempstead, L.I.,. with Richard Denton in 1644. In 1658 he had land allotted to him and was chosen a townsman in 1659. He died in Hempstead in 1664. On January 2/1665, letters of administration for his estate were granted to his three sons, Richard, Thomas and John. His wife's name is not known.
Issue:- (all lived in Hempstead.)
1/1. Richard Ellison. Born probably before 1620.
He was evidently at one time a resident of Braintree, Mass., as the record of the births of his children appear on Braintree records, showing he was resident there in 1645 to as late as 1660: He appears on the Hempstead records in 1663. The name of his wife Thomasin appears on the Braintree records, and it appears in his will. In 1663 he lived at Mao Nan's Neck, a strip of land which was granted that same year to his brothers a John and Thomas, and to Thomas Hicks. He was granted several pieces of land in Hempstead and was living there in l682. His will dated February 14/1680 at the Surrogate's Office in New York City, proved June l3/1683, gave his wife £10 and the bed and its furniture "she now lyeth on". To son John, 150 acres of land to: to Thomas, 22 acres. He remembered his sons in law Jonathan Smith and Joshua Jannock.
Issue:- (all born in Braintree, Mass).
2/1. Mary Ellison, born June 15/1646.
2/2. Hannah Ellison, born May 24/1648.
2/3. John Ellison, born June 20/1650, died an unmarried: will dated
November 8/1684, giving his property to his brother Thomas.
2/4 Sarah Ellison, born October 4/1852. Perhaps married Joshua Jannock.
2/5. Thomas Ellison, born January 1/1855: he was living on January 10/1688
2/6. Experience Ellison, born June 2/1857. She married at Hempstead in
1677-78, Richard Gildersleeve of Freehold, born l655, died 1717, son of Richard and Dorcas Gildersleeve..
2/7. Richard Ellison, born February 7/1660. He was in Hempstead in 1685
and was living in 1715 in Monmouth County, N.J. His wife was Alice or Elsie ---. He gave his Hempstead lands to his sons.
Issue :-
3/1. Daniel Ellison.
3/2. Richard Ellison.
3/3. Samuel Ellison.
3/4. Sarah Ellison.
3/5. Ruth Ellison.
3/6. Mary Ellison.
3/7. Susannah Ellison.
2/8. Rachel Ellison. She married Jonathan Smith.
This Jonathan cannot be the man who married an Ellison as his will named her Elizabeth: Rachel's birth date is not given but it was after 1660, and Bunker gives Elizabeth's birth date as 1708.
1/2. Thomas Ellison. born about 1622, died 1697. He was allotted land in
Hempstead in 1658, and was chosen townsman in 1662. His will
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names his wife Martha ---.
Issue:-
2/1. Thomas Ellison.. He was in East Jersey in 1702.
2/2. John Ellison.
2/3. Grace Ellison.
2/4. Mary Ellison.
2/5. Elizabeth Ellison. Was she wife of Jonathan Smith, subject 70?
2/6. Martha Ellison.
1/3. John Ellison. Born about 1624. In 1677 he got land in Hempstead.
He left no will. He had a son John who went to Kikiat, Orange County, N.J. and died 1754. He had perhaps a son Thomas, wife unknown, with nine children.
1/4. Daughter. Who married John Ellington.
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290 - RICHARD VALENTINE,
The following is from "The Valentines in America", by T.W. Valentine, New York, 1874: from Bunker`s Long Island Genealogies: from the "Davol-Willets Genealogy', by Josephine C. Frost, New York, 1925: from "The Memorial of Thomas Hicks Seaman", by Mary Thomas Seaman, 1927: from "The History of Oyster Bay", by Henry A. Systenburgh, New York, 1900: and from "Colonial Families in America", by the National American Society of New York, 1936 and 1941. These all differ considerably.
Richard Valentine was born about 1620 and died at Hempstead, L.I., before 1684. He emigrated from England to America and settled at Hempstead about 1644. He was then a young man, probably about 25 years old. From what part of England he came, is not known, but probably from the parish of Eccles, Lancashire. He was possibly a descendant and probably a relative of Richard Valentine who lived in Lancashire and made a will as early as 1540. Richard was a common name among the Valentines of Lancashire. Richard was probably also a relative of the Puritan Benjamin Valentine, who was a noted man in the House of Commons in England about 1620. He was probably also a relative of John Valentine of Boston in 1675. In 1657 he had land at Merrick and was chosen a townsman of Hempstead in 1676 and constable in 1679.
Richard must have been married soon after emigrating, if not before, for in 1685 he had four sons and probably more. His wife's name was said to have been Rachel. About that time, the widow Valentine was assessed tax on 40 acres of land in Long Island: her son Obadiah on 44 acres, William on 40 acres, Ephraim on 40 acres, and Richard Junior on 71 acres: in 1679 son Jonah had 100 acres, (name also spelled Jonas). Richard senior must have died between 1682 and 1685. He is said to have had five sons and several daughters - only one of these daughters is named. There is a tradition that Richard's farm contained 600 acres in Hempstead, which town at that time was one of the largest on Long Island, extending from the Sound on the north to the Atlantic on the south, and from Oyster Bay on the east, to Jamaica on the west. The first division of land among the 66 proprietors took place in 1647. The Valentines were quite partial to the British Crown, and they did not acknowledge allegiance to the American Government until October 1776, though after this they appear to have been patriotic enough.
Issue: -
1/1. Richard Valentine. Born about 1650,
died between December 19/1723 and November 20/1725, the dates of his will and its probate. He lived in Hempstead Harbor. He married, 1st, before 1674, --- name unknown. He married, 2nd, in 1685, Sarah Halstead, daughter of Timothy and Hannah (Williams) Halstead who were married in 1657. Timothy in his will of 1686, devised to his son in law Richard Valentine, a Quaker.
Issue: - (by his first wife, name unknown)
2/1. Richard Valentine, born at Hempstead about 1675, died March 10/1766.
He married in 1725, Phebe Haines, born 1707, died May 21/1793. Richard left Hempstead in 1728 and settled in Scotch Plains, N,Y., a part of Elizabethtown, where Richard owned lots 35 and 44. Both Richard and his brother Ichabod died in the small pox epidemic of 1766: Ichabod took it first and Richard caught it while waiting on him. His will of November 28/1763 mentioned the following children.
Issue:- (all under age in 1763.)
3/1. Richard Valentine.
3/2. Abigail Valentine.
3/3. Sarah Valentine.
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3/4. Mary Valentine.
3/5. Phebe Valentine.
3/6. Martha Valentine.
2/2. Sarah Valentine, born about 1677. She married a Mr. Smith.
2/3. Phebe Valentine, born about 1679, died 1735-6.
Her father left her his negro slave girl. She married, as his second wife, after 1695, George Downing, born at Oyster Bay in 1665-70, who had married, 1st, in 1692-3, Mary Coles, born about 1674, daughter of Daniel and Maha Shalal (Gorton) Coles, see subject 618, page 1.
Issue:- (may not be in proper order)
3/1. Isaac Downing.
3/2. Daniel Downing.
3/3. Richard Downing.
3/4. Henry Downing, died between 1794-1799: wife Jemima --: 5 children.
3/5. Sarah Downing, born about 1710. She married on August 3/1728,
her cousin Jacob Valentine, born about 1705, son of Obadiah and Mary Valentine, see page 5.
3/6. George Downing, born about 1720.
He married Amy Hopkins, daughter of Daniel and Amey (Weekes) Hopkins, and had four children, see subject 304, page 4.
3/7. Benjamin Downing, born July 22/1722, died October 17/1805.
He married, 1st, Phebe Willis, born March 1/1718, daughter of Henry and Phebe (Powell) Willis. He married, 2nd, in 1770, Martha Hopkins, born April 27/1740, died August 17/1817, daughter of Daniel and Amey (Weekes) Hopkins, see subject 304, page 4. Their children as below are from Stotenburgh's History of Oyster Bay).
Issue:- (by his first wife Phebe Willis)
4/1. Silas Downing, born October 11/1847, died April 16/1822.
He married on October 2/1777, Phebe Rushmore, born February 18/1758, died July 26/1843, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Titus) Rushmore, see subject 132, p 3 for issue and further particular
4/2. Benjamin Downing. He married Loretta Weekes,
and had Phebe who married Harry Wright.
Issue:- (by his second wife Martha Hopkins)
4/3. Amy Downing, (twin), born May 10/1772.
She married, 1st, Thomas Williams: 2nd, Amos Willis.
4/4. Daniel Downing, (twin) born May 10/1772,
died March 7/1818, when he fell off a load of sticks and was killed. He married Margaret Duryea, born June 28/1767, daughter of Daniel and Margriatta (Cock) Duryea: they had six children.
4/5. Abram Downing, (twin), born June 1/1774, died August 2/1794.
4/6. Isaac Downing, (twin), born June 1/1774.
He married on April 15/1815, Charity Dodge, who died within a year, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Hicks) Dodge.
4/7. Esther Downing, (twin), born April 14/1776.
She married, 1st, William Kirk: 2nd, Herman Hinman.
4/8. Phebe Downing, (twin), born April 14/1776, died October 5/1828.
She married, 1st, at Hempstead, on May 22/1805, Tristram Dodge, who died in 1816, son of Joseph and Sarah (Hicks) Dodge, but had no children, She married, 2nd, Obadiah Willis.
4/9. Samuel Downing, born October 7/1778.
He married Rachel Lax, born 1788, daughter of Stephen and his third wife Nancy (Smith) Carman, and widow of Thomas Lax, and had two children. See subject 268, page 2.
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4/10. Anne Downing, (twin), born November 30/1780,
died September 3/1866. She married in 1818, as his second wife, Derick Craft, born at Musketo Cove, L.I., in 1774, died January 30/1841, son of Peter and Helena (Downing) Craft, who had married, 1st, in I796, Sarah Cock, born 1777, died 1815, daughter of Zoar and Ruth (---) Cock, by worn he had three children. The name was originally Thornicraft, but some of