My Grant ancestor, Hannah Grant, wife of Edward Hazen, seems to have a connection to a fraudulent lineage.
In 1914, the Grant Family Association published a lineage in their reunion pamphlet stating that Mathew Grant [born in 1601] was the son of John Grant and Alice Turberville. Mathew is notable in that he was an ancestor of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
The Genealogy Magazine Vol III, December 1915 [p. 63-64] brought that lineage into question. The John Grant who married Alice Turberville had earlier married Jane Watson in 1593 at Cottingham, Yorkshire. Presumably, Jane died before 1600 and John traveled 300 miles south to Woodbridge and married Alice. Mathew was the result of this union.
The odds of someone traveling 300 miles to marry in 1600 were slim. The Genealogy Magazine article cited the Visitation of Yorkshire with mention of John as the son of George and Julian [Clargenet] Grant, but has no further information on John. Furthermore, no record of Alice had been located.
Other family trees have traced Gen. Grant's ancestry back to Mathew. Mathew become a dead end. Mathew is identified as the immigrant ancestor of the family.
Returning to John and his "1st wife" Jane, they had a son Thomas, who married Jane Haburne. That couple did sail for New England in 1639. Thomas and Jane were Hannah Grant Hazen's parents.
Apparently, the Grant Family Association located John Grant, who married Alice, and decided he fit in as John, son of George and Julian.
More to come as I flesh out early Grants, minus Mathew.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Gaymer update: Richard and daughter Lydia
The update on the Gaymers came courtesy of the NEHG Register [Vol. 151, July 1997, p. 286-289] article Lydia Gaymer, the Wife of Humphrey Turner of Scituate by Vernon Dow Turner.
Richard Gaymer: Richard Gaymer's estate was probated in 1613 in the Archdeaconry Court at Colchester, Essex, England. The will, written 8 October 1613, is preserved at Somerset House [Box 6, file 'Baker', number 45.]
In the will, Richard identifies himself as a miller of Terling, Essex. He makes bequests to his wife Joane and his children John [eldest son], Andrew [2nd son], James [3rd son], Richard [4th son], Francis [5th], Judith, Sarah, Elizabeth, Lydia [daughters] and others.
It would appear that Gaymer was a prosperous miller and landowner in Terling. The village engaged in exporting grain to London and nearby cities and towns. Richard was a literate man who served jury panels in the area between 1595 and 1601.
Lydia Gaymer: Lydia's baptism [xviiith day of May 1602] was recorded in the Terling parish registers, identifying her as the daughter of Richard Gaymer. Her marriage to Humphrey Turner on 24 October 1618 was also recorded at Terling.
Lydia was only two months old when her mother died and 11 at the death of her father.
She and Humphrey Turner were married in the parish of Sandon. Reverend Gilbert Dillingham of Sandon Parish frequently performed weddings for couples eager for a quick ceremony. Why Lydia and Humphrey chose to marry in that particular parish is not known.
Richard Gaymer: Richard Gaymer's estate was probated in 1613 in the Archdeaconry Court at Colchester, Essex, England. The will, written 8 October 1613, is preserved at Somerset House [Box 6, file 'Baker', number 45.]
In the will, Richard identifies himself as a miller of Terling, Essex. He makes bequests to his wife Joane and his children John [eldest son], Andrew [2nd son], James [3rd son], Richard [4th son], Francis [5th], Judith, Sarah, Elizabeth, Lydia [daughters] and others.
It would appear that Gaymer was a prosperous miller and landowner in Terling. The village engaged in exporting grain to London and nearby cities and towns. Richard was a literate man who served jury panels in the area between 1595 and 1601.
Lydia Gaymer: Lydia's baptism [xviiith day of May 1602] was recorded in the Terling parish registers, identifying her as the daughter of Richard Gaymer. Her marriage to Humphrey Turner on 24 October 1618 was also recorded at Terling.
Lydia was only two months old when her mother died and 11 at the death of her father.
She and Humphrey Turner were married in the parish of Sandon. Reverend Gilbert Dillingham of Sandon Parish frequently performed weddings for couples eager for a quick ceremony. Why Lydia and Humphrey chose to marry in that particular parish is not known.
Monday, October 8, 2018
Updated Bio for Thomas Treadway
Thomas Treadway was born about 1700, most likely in England, based on a 1774 deposition in which he gave his age as "seventy-four years or thereabouts." No records of Treadway's birth has yet been located in Maryland records.
Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, states that he was born 6 March 1711 to Richard and Jane [Parker] Treadway, however, research notes on the Descendants of Thomas Treadway page suggest that this was another Thomas Treadway. Thomas [aged 10], son of Richard and Jane, was bound to Antil Deaver, along with his Mary [aged 12] following the deaths of his parents in 1720. The elder Thomas, subject of this sketch, had boarded with Deaver two years earlier.
According to one story of Thomas' family, his father Crispen and grandfather John left Rutland, England for Maryland in 1700. John died on the voyage. Crispen settled at the head of the Bush River, west of Bynum, in Baltimore [later Harford] County. Another story has Thomas as a nephew of the aforementioned Richard. (Of note: The name Richard does not appear in Thomas' family, but Crispen does.)
It is entirely possible that Thomas was related to Richard and/or Crispen. If not a son, then nephew or cousin.
Thomas arrived in Baltimore County about 1718 and boarded at the home of Antil Deaver in the Bush River region. Thomas went to work for John Webster on his "Best Endeavor" property in 1719. It also appears that Treadway was named in the will of Peter Glover on 8 February 1722, although the name is difficult to make out.
The identity of Thomas' first wife is open to debate. Her first name was Ann. No marriage record has been locate to date. Among the candidates for the first Mrs. Treadway are:
[1] Mary Ann Glover, daughter of Peter mentioned above. The basis for this is Thomas being named in Peter's will.
[2] Ann Underhill: Her birth year is given as 1690 and 1703. At least one tree has her father given as John, b. 1680 - only ten years Ann's senior.
[3] Ann Hynson: The years given for her birth, 1702 and 1705, are plausible. Her father is also given as John.
[4] Ann Deaver: Ann is named as a possible candidate based on Ann Treadway witnessing the will of John Deaver and Mary Cunningham witnessing the will of Mary Deaver. There are also several land transactions between Treadway, various Deavers and other neighbors. Ann was believed to be the daughter of Richard Deaver and Mary Ruff.
Thomas and Ann married about 1822. By her, he had three sons and a daughter. Following Ann's death in 1734, he married Mary Bull and fathered three more sons. Treadway went on to marry two more times, to Elizabeth McComas [1743], by whom he had two sons, and Mary Gittings [1759].
Thomas was granted a license to operate a "publick house or ordinary" in 1740 after putting up a bond of £40. John Paca and John Stinchcomb guaranteed the bond. The license was renewed in November of 1743 and again in 1744 and 1745. He also owned a plantation and raised tobacco.
The following exerpts are from "Gentleman's Progress-The Intinerarium of Alexander Hamilton, 1744," University of Pittsburg Press, 1948
"Dr. Alexander Hamilton was a Physician from Scotland who emigrated to Annapolis c 1741. Dr. Hamilton took a tour of the colonies, and wrote of his experiences. The following is what he wrote in regards to Thomas Tredway:
[pp. 6-8] I put up at one Tradaway’s about 10 miles from Joppa. The road here is pritty hilly, stonny, and full of small gravell. I observed some stone which I thought looked like limestone.
Just as I dismounted at Tradaway’s I found a drunken club dismissing. Most of them had got upon their horses and were seated in an oblique situation, deviating much from a perpendicular to the horizontal plane, a posture quite necessary for keeping the center of gravity within its propper base for the support of the superstructure; hence we deduce the true physicall reason why our heads overloaded with liquor become too ponderous for our heels. Their discourse was as oblique as their position; the only thing intelligible in it was oaths and God dammes; the rest was an inarticulate sound like Rableais’ frozen words a thawing, interlaced with hickupings and belchings. I was uneasy until they were gone, and my landlord [Thomas Treadway], seeing me stare, made that trite apology – that indeed he did not care to have such disorderly fellows come about his house; he was always noted far and near for keeping a quiet house and entertaining gentlemen or such like, but these were country people, his neighbors, and it was not prudent to disoblige them upon slight occasions. ‘Alas, sir!’ added he, ‘we that entertain travellers much strive to oblige every body, for it is our dayly bread.’ While he spoke thus, our Bacchanalians, finding no more rum in play, rid off helter skelter as if the devil had possessed them, every man sitting his horse in a see-saw manner like a bunch of rags tyed upon the saddle.
I found nothing particular or worth noticing in my landlord’s character or conversation, only as to his bodily make. He was a fat pursy man and had large bubbies like a woman. I supped upon fry’d chickens and bacon, and after supper the conversation turned to politicks, news, and the dreaded French war; but it was so lumpish and heavy that it disposed me mightily to sleep. This learned company consisted of the landlord, his overseer and miller, and another greasy thumb’d fellow who, as I understood, professed physick and particularly surgery. In the drawing of teeth, he practiced upon the house maid, a dirty piece of lumber, who made such screaming and squalling as made me imagine there was murder going forwards in the house. However, the artist got the tooth out att last with a great clumsy pair of black-smith’s forceps’ and indeed it seemed to require such an instrument, for when he showed it to us, it resembled a horsenail more than a tooth.
The miller, I found, professed musick and would have tuned his crowd to us, but unfortunately the two middle strings betwixt the bass and treble were broke. This man told us that he could play by the book. After having had my fill of this elegant company, I went to bed at 10 o’clock.
Friday June 1st The sun rose in a clear horizon, and the air in these highlands was, for two hours in the morning, very cool and refreshing. I breakfasted upon some dirty chocolate, but the best that the house could afford, and took horse about half an hour after six in the morning.
[ pg. 198]: On his journey home- I dined att my old friend Tradaway's, whom I found very much indisposed with fevers. He told me it had been a very unhealthy time and a hot summer. I should have known the time had been unhealthy without his telling me so by only observing the washed countenances of the people standing att their doors and looking out att their windows, for they looked like so many staring ghosts. In short I was sensible I had got into Maryland, for every house was an infirmary, according to an ancient custome."
Ann Tredway witnessed the will of John Deaver on 3 January 1731/2. John Deaver left part of a tract of land called Turkey Hills to son Richard that bordered the land of Richard Ruff and Benjamin Jones and a tract called Come By Chance. He left his home plantation to son Samuel upon the death of his wife Hannah. Also named in the will were children John, Antil, Elizabeth [Preston] and Mary. Wife Hannah was named executrix.
On 9 July 1749, Mary Treadway Cunningham and Thomas and Elizabeth Treadway witnessed the will of Mary Deaver. Mary named kinswoman Mary Hollandsworth, apprentice Alexander Nicholle and his sister Phoebe and Elizabeth Wood. Also named were son John, son Daniel, granddaughter Mary [daughter of son Richard] and son Richard, who was named executor. [Proved 4 November 1749]
Thomas Treadway, son of Richard and Jane, made his will on 21 July 1749. He left his estate "in the hands of my beloved friend Thoas Tredway until my cousin Thomas Brown arrives to the age of Twenty one years." At the age of 21, Brown would inherit the estate. The elder Thomas was to have the estate appraised and see to the younger Thomas' burial. If Thomas Brown died before the testator, then Mary Cunningham was to inherit the estate. [Mary being the daughter of the elder Treadway.] The will was probated on 2 August 1749. Antil Deaver, employer of the elder Thomas and guardian of the younger was a witness to the will.
Deed of 1752 giving location of Teadway's inn: The deed was for one acre of a tract called Turkey Hills conveyed by Daniel Deaver to Richard Ruff located at the head of the middle branch of the Bush River at a place commonly called Bush Town where that line crosses the main road leading from James Run to Thomas Treadway's door. [There is no record of Thomas acquiring the land where his inn was located. It is possible that he acquired the land through his marriage to Ann. Daniel Deaver would have been her brother and Richard Ruff, her grandfather.]
The Turkey Hills tract and another tract called Strawberry Hills were closely tied to the Deavers. In 1720, John Deaver petitioned the Maryland Assembly for title to Strawberry Hills and Turkey Hills. He had agreed to buy the tracts totalling 323 acres from John Mortimer in 1704 for £50. Mortimer died before the deal was completed. In 1708, John and Hannah [Beall] Deaver conveyed 81 acres of a division of the two tracts to Zachariah Brown in 1708. Zacariah was the grandfather of Thomas Brown, nephew/cousin of Thomas Treadway who died in 1749. Turkey Hills was mentioned in John Deaver's 1731 will witnessed by Ann Treadway.
On 10 June 1757, William and Elizabeth Smith coveyed to Thomas Treadway, inn keeper, over 1600 acres called Turkey Hills and Srawberry Hills. On 4 May 1759, Thomas and Elizabeth Treadway sold 40 acres at White Oak Bottom and 70 acres at Strawberry Hills to John Goodwin. Thomas and Mary Treadway conveyed 50 acres of Turkey Hills and Strawberry Hills to Joseph Stiles on 25 April 1769. Treadway also purchased a tract of land called "Come By Chance" that year for £600.
A notice appeared in the 14 August 1766 edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette announcing the sale of of the house and lot where Thomas Treadway and George Stewart lived in Bush Town, Baltimore Co., Maryland. The house had four rooms and four chimneys below the stairs. Above the stairs were four rooms and two chimneys. The house had a good cellar and kitchen. The property included about 50 acres of land located about a quarter mile from town. Half of the land was cleared, the rest woodland, with rails sufficient to fence in 8 acres. There was a second house in town, nearly finished, with 6 acres. The property included a "Negro wench," a good washer and drudge in the kitchen, several sorts of household goods, good beds, tables, chairs, etc. The title to the land was good and a warrant would be issued to the purchaser. For terms, the subscriber, living on the prermises, was to be contacted. James Osborn's name followed the notice of sale.
(From GenealogyBank.com ©American Antiquarian Society, 2004)
On 12 September 1766, Treadway wrote a note to his brother-in-law, Solomon MacComas requesting that Solomon to provide £8.15 for Thomas' son, Moses, who had recently left for Virginia. The note was well-written for the time and suggested that Thomas had received an education, probably from a hired tutor. The tutor could have been William Bradford, identified as a schoolmaster in local records.
Thomas eventually retired to Long Green Valley in Baltimore County. The retirement may have taken place in 1766, based on the property sale mentioned above.
The part of Baltimore Co. in which Treadway resided became Harford County in March of 1774.
Treadway made his will in Harford County on 22 May 1782. Half of his estate went to son, Daniel, who was named administrator. The other half went to grandsons Thomas, George, James, Daniel and Crispin Cunningham. The will went to probate 13 August 1782. The inventory of the estate was taken on 2 September and settled 12 November
Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, states that he was born 6 March 1711 to Richard and Jane [Parker] Treadway, however, research notes on the Descendants of Thomas Treadway page suggest that this was another Thomas Treadway. Thomas [aged 10], son of Richard and Jane, was bound to Antil Deaver, along with his Mary [aged 12] following the deaths of his parents in 1720. The elder Thomas, subject of this sketch, had boarded with Deaver two years earlier.
According to one story of Thomas' family, his father Crispen and grandfather John left Rutland, England for Maryland in 1700. John died on the voyage. Crispen settled at the head of the Bush River, west of Bynum, in Baltimore [later Harford] County. Another story has Thomas as a nephew of the aforementioned Richard. (Of note: The name Richard does not appear in Thomas' family, but Crispen does.)
It is entirely possible that Thomas was related to Richard and/or Crispen. If not a son, then nephew or cousin.
Thomas arrived in Baltimore County about 1718 and boarded at the home of Antil Deaver in the Bush River region. Thomas went to work for John Webster on his "Best Endeavor" property in 1719. It also appears that Treadway was named in the will of Peter Glover on 8 February 1722, although the name is difficult to make out.
The identity of Thomas' first wife is open to debate. Her first name was Ann. No marriage record has been locate to date. Among the candidates for the first Mrs. Treadway are:
[1] Mary Ann Glover, daughter of Peter mentioned above. The basis for this is Thomas being named in Peter's will.
[2] Ann Underhill: Her birth year is given as 1690 and 1703. At least one tree has her father given as John, b. 1680 - only ten years Ann's senior.
[3] Ann Hynson: The years given for her birth, 1702 and 1705, are plausible. Her father is also given as John.
[4] Ann Deaver: Ann is named as a possible candidate based on Ann Treadway witnessing the will of John Deaver and Mary Cunningham witnessing the will of Mary Deaver. There are also several land transactions between Treadway, various Deavers and other neighbors. Ann was believed to be the daughter of Richard Deaver and Mary Ruff.
Thomas and Ann married about 1822. By her, he had three sons and a daughter. Following Ann's death in 1734, he married Mary Bull and fathered three more sons. Treadway went on to marry two more times, to Elizabeth McComas [1743], by whom he had two sons, and Mary Gittings [1759].
Thomas was granted a license to operate a "publick house or ordinary" in 1740 after putting up a bond of £40. John Paca and John Stinchcomb guaranteed the bond. The license was renewed in November of 1743 and again in 1744 and 1745. He also owned a plantation and raised tobacco.
The following exerpts are from "Gentleman's Progress-The Intinerarium of Alexander Hamilton, 1744," University of Pittsburg Press, 1948
"Dr. Alexander Hamilton was a Physician from Scotland who emigrated to Annapolis c 1741. Dr. Hamilton took a tour of the colonies, and wrote of his experiences. The following is what he wrote in regards to Thomas Tredway:
[pp. 6-8] I put up at one Tradaway’s about 10 miles from Joppa. The road here is pritty hilly, stonny, and full of small gravell. I observed some stone which I thought looked like limestone.
Just as I dismounted at Tradaway’s I found a drunken club dismissing. Most of them had got upon their horses and were seated in an oblique situation, deviating much from a perpendicular to the horizontal plane, a posture quite necessary for keeping the center of gravity within its propper base for the support of the superstructure; hence we deduce the true physicall reason why our heads overloaded with liquor become too ponderous for our heels. Their discourse was as oblique as their position; the only thing intelligible in it was oaths and God dammes; the rest was an inarticulate sound like Rableais’ frozen words a thawing, interlaced with hickupings and belchings. I was uneasy until they were gone, and my landlord [Thomas Treadway], seeing me stare, made that trite apology – that indeed he did not care to have such disorderly fellows come about his house; he was always noted far and near for keeping a quiet house and entertaining gentlemen or such like, but these were country people, his neighbors, and it was not prudent to disoblige them upon slight occasions. ‘Alas, sir!’ added he, ‘we that entertain travellers much strive to oblige every body, for it is our dayly bread.’ While he spoke thus, our Bacchanalians, finding no more rum in play, rid off helter skelter as if the devil had possessed them, every man sitting his horse in a see-saw manner like a bunch of rags tyed upon the saddle.
I found nothing particular or worth noticing in my landlord’s character or conversation, only as to his bodily make. He was a fat pursy man and had large bubbies like a woman. I supped upon fry’d chickens and bacon, and after supper the conversation turned to politicks, news, and the dreaded French war; but it was so lumpish and heavy that it disposed me mightily to sleep. This learned company consisted of the landlord, his overseer and miller, and another greasy thumb’d fellow who, as I understood, professed physick and particularly surgery. In the drawing of teeth, he practiced upon the house maid, a dirty piece of lumber, who made such screaming and squalling as made me imagine there was murder going forwards in the house. However, the artist got the tooth out att last with a great clumsy pair of black-smith’s forceps’ and indeed it seemed to require such an instrument, for when he showed it to us, it resembled a horsenail more than a tooth.
The miller, I found, professed musick and would have tuned his crowd to us, but unfortunately the two middle strings betwixt the bass and treble were broke. This man told us that he could play by the book. After having had my fill of this elegant company, I went to bed at 10 o’clock.
Friday June 1st The sun rose in a clear horizon, and the air in these highlands was, for two hours in the morning, very cool and refreshing. I breakfasted upon some dirty chocolate, but the best that the house could afford, and took horse about half an hour after six in the morning.
[ pg. 198]: On his journey home- I dined att my old friend Tradaway's, whom I found very much indisposed with fevers. He told me it had been a very unhealthy time and a hot summer. I should have known the time had been unhealthy without his telling me so by only observing the washed countenances of the people standing att their doors and looking out att their windows, for they looked like so many staring ghosts. In short I was sensible I had got into Maryland, for every house was an infirmary, according to an ancient custome."
Ann Tredway witnessed the will of John Deaver on 3 January 1731/2. John Deaver left part of a tract of land called Turkey Hills to son Richard that bordered the land of Richard Ruff and Benjamin Jones and a tract called Come By Chance. He left his home plantation to son Samuel upon the death of his wife Hannah. Also named in the will were children John, Antil, Elizabeth [Preston] and Mary. Wife Hannah was named executrix.
On 9 July 1749, Mary Treadway Cunningham and Thomas and Elizabeth Treadway witnessed the will of Mary Deaver. Mary named kinswoman Mary Hollandsworth, apprentice Alexander Nicholle and his sister Phoebe and Elizabeth Wood. Also named were son John, son Daniel, granddaughter Mary [daughter of son Richard] and son Richard, who was named executor. [Proved 4 November 1749]
Thomas Treadway, son of Richard and Jane, made his will on 21 July 1749. He left his estate "in the hands of my beloved friend Thoas Tredway until my cousin Thomas Brown arrives to the age of Twenty one years." At the age of 21, Brown would inherit the estate. The elder Thomas was to have the estate appraised and see to the younger Thomas' burial. If Thomas Brown died before the testator, then Mary Cunningham was to inherit the estate. [Mary being the daughter of the elder Treadway.] The will was probated on 2 August 1749. Antil Deaver, employer of the elder Thomas and guardian of the younger was a witness to the will.
Deed of 1752 giving location of Teadway's inn: The deed was for one acre of a tract called Turkey Hills conveyed by Daniel Deaver to Richard Ruff located at the head of the middle branch of the Bush River at a place commonly called Bush Town where that line crosses the main road leading from James Run to Thomas Treadway's door. [There is no record of Thomas acquiring the land where his inn was located. It is possible that he acquired the land through his marriage to Ann. Daniel Deaver would have been her brother and Richard Ruff, her grandfather.]
The Turkey Hills tract and another tract called Strawberry Hills were closely tied to the Deavers. In 1720, John Deaver petitioned the Maryland Assembly for title to Strawberry Hills and Turkey Hills. He had agreed to buy the tracts totalling 323 acres from John Mortimer in 1704 for £50. Mortimer died before the deal was completed. In 1708, John and Hannah [Beall] Deaver conveyed 81 acres of a division of the two tracts to Zachariah Brown in 1708. Zacariah was the grandfather of Thomas Brown, nephew/cousin of Thomas Treadway who died in 1749. Turkey Hills was mentioned in John Deaver's 1731 will witnessed by Ann Treadway.
On 10 June 1757, William and Elizabeth Smith coveyed to Thomas Treadway, inn keeper, over 1600 acres called Turkey Hills and Srawberry Hills. On 4 May 1759, Thomas and Elizabeth Treadway sold 40 acres at White Oak Bottom and 70 acres at Strawberry Hills to John Goodwin. Thomas and Mary Treadway conveyed 50 acres of Turkey Hills and Strawberry Hills to Joseph Stiles on 25 April 1769. Treadway also purchased a tract of land called "Come By Chance" that year for £600.
A notice appeared in the 14 August 1766 edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette announcing the sale of of the house and lot where Thomas Treadway and George Stewart lived in Bush Town, Baltimore Co., Maryland. The house had four rooms and four chimneys below the stairs. Above the stairs were four rooms and two chimneys. The house had a good cellar and kitchen. The property included about 50 acres of land located about a quarter mile from town. Half of the land was cleared, the rest woodland, with rails sufficient to fence in 8 acres. There was a second house in town, nearly finished, with 6 acres. The property included a "Negro wench," a good washer and drudge in the kitchen, several sorts of household goods, good beds, tables, chairs, etc. The title to the land was good and a warrant would be issued to the purchaser. For terms, the subscriber, living on the prermises, was to be contacted. James Osborn's name followed the notice of sale.
(From GenealogyBank.com ©American Antiquarian Society, 2004)
On 12 September 1766, Treadway wrote a note to his brother-in-law, Solomon MacComas requesting that Solomon to provide £8.15 for Thomas' son, Moses, who had recently left for Virginia. The note was well-written for the time and suggested that Thomas had received an education, probably from a hired tutor. The tutor could have been William Bradford, identified as a schoolmaster in local records.
Thomas eventually retired to Long Green Valley in Baltimore County. The retirement may have taken place in 1766, based on the property sale mentioned above.
The part of Baltimore Co. in which Treadway resided became Harford County in March of 1774.
Treadway made his will in Harford County on 22 May 1782. Half of his estate went to son, Daniel, who was named administrator. The other half went to grandsons Thomas, George, James, Daniel and Crispin Cunningham. The will went to probate 13 August 1782. The inventory of the estate was taken on 2 September and settled 12 November
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Treadway update, maybe
There may be an update on the Treadway front. I was contacted by a researcher interested in my post on Thomas Treadway marrying Mary Ann Glover. He has Ann Deaver as a possible spouse for Thomas.
Thomas' daughter, Mary [Mrs. Clothworthy Cunningham] witnessed the will of Mary Deaver of Baltimore Co., MD in 1749. It is suspected that Mary might have been the granddaughter of Mary Deaver. The researcher's notes give the possible identity of Mary Deaver as Mary Ruff, wife of Richard.
Ann Tre(a)dway witnessed the will of John Deaver on 3 Jan 1731/2. Ann is believed to have been Ann Deaver, daughter of Richard Deaver and Mary Ruff.
The Treadway line would be:
[1] Thomas Treadway married Ann Deaver
[2] Mary Treadway married Clothworthy Cunningham
If I have the Deaver line sorted correctly
[1] Mary Treadway married Clothworthy Cunningham
[2] Ann Deaver married Thomas Treadway
[3] Richard Deaver married Mary Ruff
[4] John Deaver married Hannah Beall
A wrinkle in the story is that there is a 1703 marriage for Richard 'Devor' to a Mary, whose name was apparently illegible!
Thomas' daughter, Mary [Mrs. Clothworthy Cunningham] witnessed the will of Mary Deaver of Baltimore Co., MD in 1749. It is suspected that Mary might have been the granddaughter of Mary Deaver. The researcher's notes give the possible identity of Mary Deaver as Mary Ruff, wife of Richard.
Ann Tre(a)dway witnessed the will of John Deaver on 3 Jan 1731/2. Ann is believed to have been Ann Deaver, daughter of Richard Deaver and Mary Ruff.
The Treadway line would be:
[1] Thomas Treadway married Ann Deaver
[2] Mary Treadway married Clothworthy Cunningham
If I have the Deaver line sorted correctly
[1] Mary Treadway married Clothworthy Cunningham
[2] Ann Deaver married Thomas Treadway
[3] Richard Deaver married Mary Ruff
[4] John Deaver married Hannah Beall
A wrinkle in the story is that there is a 1703 marriage for Richard 'Devor' to a Mary, whose name was apparently illegible!
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Surame update
Some minor tweaking has been completed with the C surnames. Here is the list on surnames. As always, if anyone is curious about what info I have on any of them, drop me a line.
Direct line: [12]
CAWBY
CHEESMAN
CHRISTOFFELS / CHRISTOPHER
CLARK
COLLIER
COLLINS
CONNINGSBY
CRAIL
CREIGER
CROUSORE
CUNNINGHAM
CURTIS
Collateral: [4]
Cannon
Christlieb
Church
Cool
Direct line: [12]
CAWBY
CHEESMAN
CHRISTOFFELS / CHRISTOPHER
CLARK
COLLIER
COLLINS
CONNINGSBY
CRAIL
CREIGER
CROUSORE
CUNNINGHAM
CURTIS
Collateral: [4]
Cannon
Christlieb
Church
Cool
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Isaaac Clark bio
Isaac Clark [1792 KY - 1874 IN]:
Isaac Clark was the son of Samuel Clark, who was a native of Pennsylvania. The elder Clark migrated to Maryland during the 1780s and then to Kentucky. Isaac was born in Kentucky in 1792. The family moved to Fairfield Twp., Butler Co., Ohio, where Samuel purchased government land in 1807.
Isaac married Polly Enyart in 1812. The couple had two sons, Samuel and Lewis. Polly may have died in childbirth in 1814. Isaac remarried in 1815 to Catherine Miller. The couple had twelve children. The 1820 census lists Isaac Clark with neighbors Samuel Clark and Amos Partlow. Lewis Enyart [Polly's father?], John Clark, and Jacob Partlow were also living nearby. It would appear that Isaac's father died sometime during the 1820s, as Samuel was not listed on the 1830 census. [A Martha Clark, presumably Isaac's mother, married James Bartlow in 1827.] Amos, Jacob, and Morgan Partlow and John Wear were among the neighbors. Isaac Clark was still residing in Reily Twp., Butler Co., Ohio in 1840.
Isaac purchased an additional quarter section in 1835/36. He sold tracts of 60 and 87 acres between 1840-1846. Isaac and Catherine loaded up most of their family and set out on a flatboat from Cincinnati to Madison, IN IN 1849. From there the Clarks took a train to Indianapolis. They then moved to Hendricks Co., IN and settled four miles north of Bridgeport. On 15 March 1850, Isaac purchased 200 acres in Washington Twp. from John Triggs for $2800. [SW¼ of Sec. 32 and the E½ of the E½ of the SE¼ of Sec. 31 in Twp. 16N, Range 2E.] Salem Clark, their eldest surviving son, remained in Ohio. Isaac's sons by Polly Enyart also appear to have stayed in Ohio, or died young.
Isaac and Catherine, with minor children Martha Jane, Isaac, and Nancy, were living in Washington Twp., Hendricks Co., IN in 1850. Mary Clark and her husband Isaac H. Pierson were living next to them. Son Carmon was living with the Piersons. Ann Eliza Clark and her husband, James Wear were living nearby. The Wears also took a flatboat to Madison, IN, where they boarded a train for Indianapolis and on to Hendricks Co. Alfred, Daniel, and Almira [Eaker] all joined their parents and siblings during the 1850s.
Isaac died in 1874 and Catherine died in 1879. Both were buried at Shiloh Methodist Cemetery near Avon.
Isaac Clark was the son of Samuel Clark, who was a native of Pennsylvania. The elder Clark migrated to Maryland during the 1780s and then to Kentucky. Isaac was born in Kentucky in 1792. The family moved to Fairfield Twp., Butler Co., Ohio, where Samuel purchased government land in 1807.
Isaac married Polly Enyart in 1812. The couple had two sons, Samuel and Lewis. Polly may have died in childbirth in 1814. Isaac remarried in 1815 to Catherine Miller. The couple had twelve children. The 1820 census lists Isaac Clark with neighbors Samuel Clark and Amos Partlow. Lewis Enyart [Polly's father?], John Clark, and Jacob Partlow were also living nearby. It would appear that Isaac's father died sometime during the 1820s, as Samuel was not listed on the 1830 census. [A Martha Clark, presumably Isaac's mother, married James Bartlow in 1827.] Amos, Jacob, and Morgan Partlow and John Wear were among the neighbors. Isaac Clark was still residing in Reily Twp., Butler Co., Ohio in 1840.
Isaac purchased an additional quarter section in 1835/36. He sold tracts of 60 and 87 acres between 1840-1846. Isaac and Catherine loaded up most of their family and set out on a flatboat from Cincinnati to Madison, IN IN 1849. From there the Clarks took a train to Indianapolis. They then moved to Hendricks Co., IN and settled four miles north of Bridgeport. On 15 March 1850, Isaac purchased 200 acres in Washington Twp. from John Triggs for $2800. [SW¼ of Sec. 32 and the E½ of the E½ of the SE¼ of Sec. 31 in Twp. 16N, Range 2E.] Salem Clark, their eldest surviving son, remained in Ohio. Isaac's sons by Polly Enyart also appear to have stayed in Ohio, or died young.
Isaac and Catherine, with minor children Martha Jane, Isaac, and Nancy, were living in Washington Twp., Hendricks Co., IN in 1850. Mary Clark and her husband Isaac H. Pierson were living next to them. Son Carmon was living with the Piersons. Ann Eliza Clark and her husband, James Wear were living nearby. The Wears also took a flatboat to Madison, IN, where they boarded a train for Indianapolis and on to Hendricks Co. Alfred, Daniel, and Almira [Eaker] all joined their parents and siblings during the 1850s.
Isaac died in 1874 and Catherine died in 1879. Both were buried at Shiloh Methodist Cemetery near Avon.
Friday, September 21, 2018
Biography of Samuel Clark
My Clark family received a little attention. I have fleshed out the bio of Samuel Clark [c1750 PA - 1820-26 OH] and done some minor editing on his son, Isaac's bio.
Samuel Clark:
According to the biography of F.M. Clark in Commerative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianaapolis, Samuel Clark was the father of Isaac and was born in Pennsylvania. Samuel's father was Isaac Clark, who came from England about 1731. The elder Isaac settled in Pennsylvania and engaged in farming.
Samuel grew up in Penn's Colony and eventually migrated to Maryland. F.M. Clark's bio claimed that Samuel went to Butler Co., Ohio from Maryland, but other sources place Samuel in Kentucky before moving to Ohio. His son, Isaac's place of birth is variously given as Maryland or Kentucky.
A Samuel Clark was taxed in Nelson Co., Virginia [later Kentucky] in 1786. He was taxed for one white male and one horse. I t is likely that Samuel married in Nelson Co. and that his only known son, Isaac was born there. All that is known about Samuel's wife is that her first name was Martha. They probably married about 1790, as Isaac was born in the spring of 1792. He was on the Nelson Co. tax lists until 1795.
Exactly when Samuel moved to Ohio is not known. The name Samuel Clark appears on the 1800 cesus for Ohio, NW Territory. In 1806, there are two entries for Samuel Clark in Butler Co., three in 1807, two in 1809 and four in 1810.
At least one other Samuel Clark resided in Butler Co., Ohio. That man married Jane or Martha Jane Doty and lived in Fairfield Twp. It is probable that Samuel was in Butler Co. by at least 1806.
Samuel appeared in deed records by 1811, when he purchased land in Sec. 12, Twp. 2, Range 3 from Benjamin and Mary Enyart. Benjamin was probably related to Polly Enyart, Isaac Clark's first wife.
Samuel was listed on the 1812 tax list for Butler Co.
Samuel and Martha sold the property purchased from Enyart in 1814. They purchased land from Jehu and Elizabeth John in 1819. [S34, T4,R1] The Clarks sold land to James Martin that same year. [S11, T2, R2] Martha signed the deeds with her mark.
Samuel and Martha were on the 1820 Census for Reily Twp., Butler Co., OH.
Clark witnessed a deed between Samuel and Mary Davis to Isaac Clark, his son, in 1820.
Samuel died sometime during the next seven years. Martha Clark married James Bartlow on 22 May 1827.
When son, Isaac, moved his family to Indiana in 1849, Martha went with them. She was listed as Martha Partlow, widow, on the 1850 census.
The marriage record shows the name as Bartlow, but the 1850 census for Hendricks Co., IN gives Martha's surname as Partlow. Beyond the marriage, no records for a James Bartlow or Partlow have been located.
Martha undoubtedly died in Hendricks Co., IN during the 1850s, as she did not appear on the 1860 census. Her place of burial is unknown
Samuel Clark:
According to the biography of F.M. Clark in Commerative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianaapolis, Samuel Clark was the father of Isaac and was born in Pennsylvania. Samuel's father was Isaac Clark, who came from England about 1731. The elder Isaac settled in Pennsylvania and engaged in farming.
Samuel grew up in Penn's Colony and eventually migrated to Maryland. F.M. Clark's bio claimed that Samuel went to Butler Co., Ohio from Maryland, but other sources place Samuel in Kentucky before moving to Ohio. His son, Isaac's place of birth is variously given as Maryland or Kentucky.
A Samuel Clark was taxed in Nelson Co., Virginia [later Kentucky] in 1786. He was taxed for one white male and one horse. I t is likely that Samuel married in Nelson Co. and that his only known son, Isaac was born there. All that is known about Samuel's wife is that her first name was Martha. They probably married about 1790, as Isaac was born in the spring of 1792. He was on the Nelson Co. tax lists until 1795.
Exactly when Samuel moved to Ohio is not known. The name Samuel Clark appears on the 1800 cesus for Ohio, NW Territory. In 1806, there are two entries for Samuel Clark in Butler Co., three in 1807, two in 1809 and four in 1810.
At least one other Samuel Clark resided in Butler Co., Ohio. That man married Jane or Martha Jane Doty and lived in Fairfield Twp. It is probable that Samuel was in Butler Co. by at least 1806.
Samuel appeared in deed records by 1811, when he purchased land in Sec. 12, Twp. 2, Range 3 from Benjamin and Mary Enyart. Benjamin was probably related to Polly Enyart, Isaac Clark's first wife.
Samuel was listed on the 1812 tax list for Butler Co.
Samuel and Martha sold the property purchased from Enyart in 1814. They purchased land from Jehu and Elizabeth John in 1819. [S34, T4,R1] The Clarks sold land to James Martin that same year. [S11, T2, R2] Martha signed the deeds with her mark.
Samuel and Martha were on the 1820 Census for Reily Twp., Butler Co., OH.
Clark witnessed a deed between Samuel and Mary Davis to Isaac Clark, his son, in 1820.
Samuel died sometime during the next seven years. Martha Clark married James Bartlow on 22 May 1827.
When son, Isaac, moved his family to Indiana in 1849, Martha went with them. She was listed as Martha Partlow, widow, on the 1850 census.
The marriage record shows the name as Bartlow, but the 1850 census for Hendricks Co., IN gives Martha's surname as Partlow. Beyond the marriage, no records for a James Bartlow or Partlow have been located.
Martha undoubtedly died in Hendricks Co., IN during the 1850s, as she did not appear on the 1860 census. Her place of burial is unknown
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