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| 201 | ******************************************* THE FOURTH GENERATION: Theophilus Clark (Jr.) 1724-Before 1756) It might be appropriate to call Theophilus Clark (Jr.) the “Mystery Clark” for there is almost no historical information readily available about his life. We know that he was born on April 19, 1722 in Medway, Massachusetts, the second child of the marriage between Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark. At the age of 23 he married 18 year old Bethiah Billings in Ashford, Connecticut where they both lived. They had four children born between the years 1746 and 1752. Theophilus died sometime before his mother’s Will was written in June of 1756 (possibly he died as early as 1754) for in her will she refers to “my son Theophilus Clark deceased. .” and to his four sons, Benjamin, William, Samuel, and Theophilus (III). There are no documents that we could find that describe the cause of his death. He was only in his early 30s when he died. It is possible that he was a casualty in the French and Indian War which had begun in 1754. We know that Theophilus had a cousin also from Medway, who was killed in the war in 1760, therefore it is not such a reach to suggest that Theophilus may have fallen to the same fate in the same cause. After Theophilus’ death, Bethiah remarried at least twice more, outliving both her second and third husbands. When and where Bethiah died could not be determined. ********************************************************** * FROM Baker Family Tree | Clark, Theophilus II (I24)
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| 202 | ******************************************* ** Bethiah Otis married twice. William Billings was first *** *** Reverend Samuel Moseley was second husband Rev Samuel Moseley Born 15 Aug 1708 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial Americamap Ancestors ancestors Son of Ebenezer Moseley and Hannah (Weeks) Maudesley Brother of Ebenezer Moseley [half] and Nathaniel Moseley Husband of Mary (Clark) Moseley — married [date unknown] [location unknown] Husband of Bethia (Otis) Moseley — married 4 Jul 1734 in Hampden Windham Connecticutmap Descendants descendants Father of Hannah (Moseley) Curtis, Samuel Moseley, Anna (Moseley) Dunham and Abigail (Moseley) Clark Died 26 Jul 1791 in Hampton, Windham, Connecticut, United Statesmap Profile manager: Karen Willliams private message [send private message] Profile last modified 3 Jul 2018 | Created 10 Jul 2012 This page has been accessed 388 times. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 Children 3 Sources 3.1 Acknowledgments Biography Samuel was the s/o Ebenezer Maudesley and Hannah Weeks. Samuel married Bethiah Otis. Born on 20 Nov 1703 in Scituate, MA. Bethiah died in Hampton, CT, on 29 May 1750; she was 46. She is buried at the North Cemetery in Hampton. Bethiah first married Rev. William Billings, son of Capt. William Billings (ca 1660-8 Jun 1728) & Hannah Sterry (18 Aug 1672-). Born on 16 Feb 1697 in Stonington, William died in Hampton, CT, on 20 May 1733; he was 36. On 4 Jul 1734 when Bethiah was 30, she second married Rev. Samuel Moseley, son of Ebenezer Moseley (4 Sep 1673-19 Sep 1740) & Hannah Weeks (28 Feb 1678-27 Mar 1747).158 Born on 15 Aug 1708 in Dorchester, MA. Samuel died in Hampton, CT, on 26 Jul 1791; he was 82. Samuel graduated from Harvard in 1729 and was ordained 15 May 1734 of the Second Church at Windham After Bethiah's death in 1750, Samuel re-married to the widow Mary Clark Gaylord on April 1, 1752, in Hampton, Windham County, Connecticut. Mary Clark was born in Connecticut on July 11, 1720. She had previously been married to Aaron Gaylord at Hartford, CT. on July 7, 1841. Aaron Gaylord had also died in 1750. Mary Clark Gaylord Moseley died on March 10, 1794, in Hampton, and is buried in the North Cemetery at Hampton, as is her husband Samuel Moseley Children Children of William and Bethiah (Otis) Billings: 1. William Billings, b. 18 Mar 1724/5; 2. Bethiah Billings, b. 4 Nov 1727; 3. Hannah Billings, b. 8 Nov 1729; 4. Patience Billings, b. 3 Jun 1731; and 5. Patience Billings, b. 8 Apr 1733. Children of Samuel and Bethiah (Otis) (Billings) Moseley, born at Windham: 1.Hannah Moseley, b. 31 Mar 1735/6; 2. Elizabeth Moseley, b. 15 Nov 1737; 3 .Samuel Moseley, b. 27 Apr 1739; 4. Ebenezer Moseley, b. 19 Feb 1740/1; 5. Mary Moseley, b. 13 Nov 1743; 6. Anne Moseley, b. 23 May 1746; 7. John Moseley, b. 27 Feb 1747; and 8. Bethiah Moseley, b. before 29 May 1750. From website https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Moseley-201 | Otis, Bethiah (I27)
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| 203 | ******************************************* Ebenezer P. Clark was assessed in Towanda in 1812. He lived near Myer's Mills, and afterwards in Towanda, thence moved down the river opposite Wyalusing. ********************************************** FROM Page 81 of book History of the Towandas, 1770-1886 : including the aborigines, Pennamites and Yankees together with biographical sketches and matters of general importance connected with the county seat by Clement Ferdinand Heverly ************************************************************* ************************************************************* | Clark, Ebenezer Pemberton (I14)
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| 204 | ******************************************** ** 1815 Petition for road construction **** Road from Breakneck Run to State Road— At a court of quarter sessions, county of Bradford, May 1815, the petition of John Spalding, Zephon Flower, David Paine, Lodawick Carner, Henry Boyer, Ebenezer P. Clark, Wm. Coolbaugh, David Eiklor, Wm. Fergason, Walter Wheeler, Moses Warfold, David S. Blackman, Asa Stevens, Elijah Horton, Wm. W. Spalding, Elijah Towner, Franklin Blackman, Thomas Bull, John Lent, Wilber Bennett, Ebenezer Shaw, Jonathan Stevens, Joseph Kinney and Wm. Myer, inhabitants of Ulster and Wysox, was presented, setting forth that "it would be practicable to make a road along the narrows below where the road turns off at the lower end of Breakneck to go over the mountain to Wysox: that such road would not only save traveling over a very bad mountain, but would shorten the distance a quarter of a mile and be of great public utility; that it may not be improper to inform the court that it is the expectation of the inhabitants of Ulster and Wysox to open the road (if laid out) by subscription; therefore petitioners pray for the appointment of viewers," etc. Whereupon the court appoint Joseph Kingsbury, Richard Horton, Elijah Horton, Jr., Adonijah Warner, Stephen Patrick and Robert Ridgway. At September sessions viewers report "that they have viewed the ground and are of the opinion that it is practicable for a road, and have accordingly laid one out agreeably to the courses and distances and plot hereto annexed, and believe the same will be of public utility." This road began on the State road, opposite the court house, about 50 rods from the river, running nearly north along the side of the mountain toward the river to what is now the present road, about one-half mile south of the railroad bridge. From here the course of the road was the same as now along the river to Breakneck run at the Johnson place. The report was finally confirmed at December sessions and road ordered to be opened of the breadth of 30 feet. ******************** FROM History of Sheshequin 1777---1902 C. F. Heverly pub.1902, Towanda, Pa. ********************* ************************************************** | Clark, Ebenezer Pemberton (I14)
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| 205 | ******************************************** Children ******************************************* William and Elizabeth Hart had eight children, six of whom married. 1. Jane Hart the eldest child, born June 28, l779, married Joseph Carr of Warwick township, she was the grandmother of Miss Josephine S. Carr and John Hart Carr of Philadelphia. 2. John Hart born December l7, l780, never married, died r.7, l8ll, and is buried at Neshaminy; 3. Mary Hart born February l9, l783, married her second cousin, Samuel Hart, the son of Colonel Joseph and Elizabeth Hart. 4. Colonel Joseph Hart was the son of William Hart and Margaret Means, She died February 8, l828, Their children will be spoken of in a subsequent chapter, 5. James Means Hart, born March 6, l785, married Jane Baird of Warwick. He died January 7, l844, 6. Grizelda Hart, born March l0, l787, remained a spinster all her life and died April 5, l368, at the age of eighty-one; she is buried at Neshaminy. She was named after her grandmother on her mother's side, William Hart born January 4, l789, married, Martha Carr, he died February 23, l855. 7. Joseph Hart, born November 9, l790, married Mary Carr, the sister of his brother's wife. Martha and Mary Carr were the daughters of Adam and Frances Carr of Warwick. Joseph Hart died November 4, l873. 8. Elizabeth Hart, the youngest of the family, was born April l4, l794, and married her first cousin* William Hart, the son of John and Mary Hart; she died December 2l, l862. Thus we find from these six marriage, two Harts married two Harts, one a first cousin, the other a second cousin, and that two brothers married two sisters. All of which, to say the least is somewhat uncommon of occurrence. It has been incorrectly stated that Colonel Hart married Grizelda Patterson: this is of course, altogether wrong, as Grizelda Patterson married John Means, and it was their daughter, Elizabeth, whom Colonel Hart married. This fact is stated merely to prevent any possible confusion as there are in existence several unaccounted for "trees" of the family with such a mistake upon them. ********************************************************** | Hart, Colonel William (I2924)
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| 206 | ******************************************** Children ******************************************* William and Elizabeth Hart had eight children, six of whom married. 1. Jane Hart the eldest child, born June 28, l779, married Joseph Carr of Warwick township, she was the grandmother of Miss Josephine S. Carr and John Hart Carr of Philadelphia. 2. John Hart born December l7, l780, never married, died r.7, l8ll, and is buried at Neshaminy; 3. Mary Hart born February l9, l783, married her second cousin, Samuel Hart, the son of Colonel Joseph and Elizabeth Hart. 4. Colonel Joseph Hart was the son of William Hart and Margaret Means, She died February 8, l828, Their children will be spoken of in a subsequent chapter, 5. James Means Hart, born March 6, l785, married Jane Baird of Warwick. He died January 7, l844, 6. Grizelda Hart, born March l0, l787, remained a spinster all her life and died April 5, l368, at the age of eighty-one; she is buried at Neshaminy. She was named after her grandmother on her mother's side, William Hart born January 4, l789, married, Martha Carr, he died February 23, l855. 7. Joseph Hart, born November 9, l790, married Mary Carr, the sister of his brother's wife. Martha and Mary Carr were the daughters of Adam and Frances Carr of Warwick. Joseph Hart died November 4, l873. 8. Elizabeth Hart, the youngest of the family, was born April l4, l794, and married her first cousin* William Hart, the son of John and Mary Hart; she died December 2l, l862. Thus we find from these six marriage, two Harts married two Harts, one a first cousin, the other a second cousin, and that two brothers married two sisters. All of which, to say the least is somewhat uncommon of occurrence. It has been incorrectly stated that Colonel Hart married Grizelda Patterson: this is of course, altogether wrong, as Grizelda Patterson married John Means, and it was their daughter, Elizabeth, whom Colonel Hart married. This fact is stated merely to prevent any possible confusion as there are in existence several unaccounted for "trees" of the family with such a mistake upon them. ********************************************************** | Means, Elizabeth (I4458)
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| 207 | ********************************************** From https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2018/08/21/discovering-franny-reese-park/ *********************************************** Franny Reese, as it turns out, was the grande dame of the Hudson Valley River Valley, helping to spearhead an early, formative group of crusaders who sought to protect Storm King Mountain from becoming the site of the world’s largest hydroelectric plant — something that would have forever changed the landscape of the river valley. With Reese’s unbridled energy, this band of early riverkeepers — soon to become known as Scenic Hudson — was able to keep the utility powerhouse Con Edison off Storm King Mountain. Born in Manhattan, Reese was enthralled by the beauty and history of the Hudson River Valley, and after this victory, continued to champion all the efforts that spun off from this first victory to protect the region and preserve its many iconic landmarks. She served as Scenic Hudson’s chairwoman for almost two decades, into the era when the organization mounted its campaign to get GE to remove health-threatening PCBs dumped in the river north of Albany. A champion of Scenic Hudson’s land preservation efforts, she helped form the organization’s separately incorporated land trust during the early 1980s. Since that time, the Scenic Hudson Land Trust has created or enhanced more than 40 parks and preserves up and down the Hudson River for the public to enjoy. A number of these were polluted former industrial sites that were reclaimed. To commemorate her contributions, Scenic Hudson named this 251-acre park after Reese, who was killed in an automobile accident in Cold Spring in 2003, when she was 85 years old. | Stevens, Frances (I4835)
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| 208 | ********************************************** ** 1ST LT 12TH AIR FORCE USA WW II ** ********************************************** | Koelle, Richard Carl (I1734)
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| 209 | ********************************************** ********************************************** Samuel Prescott Bush, b. Brick Church, N. J., 4 Oct. 1863, in 1920 president of a steel company living in Franklin Co., Ohio, in 1930 living in Franklin Co., Ohio, d. University Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, 8 Feb. 1948 m. Columbus, Ohio, 20 June 1894 *********************************************** | Bush, Samuel Prescott (I707)
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| 210 | *********************************************** The Premature Death of Elizabeth Underwood *********************************************** -- Elizabeth Underwood married Theophilus Clark 1716, his second wife. *********************************************** The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 126 July 1972 No. 3 pp. 157-160, "The Premature 'Death' of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler by Leland G. Darrow of Belmont, Mass.: The Rev. Abner Morse in his 1867 compilation, A Genealogical Record of Several Families Bearing the Name of Cutler (p. 27) stated that Nathaniel3 Cutler, son of Nathaniel2 (John1) and Mary (----) Cutler was born 12 March 1659 at Reading, Mass., and died 7 June 1714, ae. 55 years and two months, being called "Mr." on his gravestone. Morse said that Nathaniel's first wife, whom he marred (sic) 24 May 1700, was Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown, and that his second wife, whom he married 21 Feb. 1709, was Elizabeth Haines of Reading. Morse futher reported that the second wife married, secondly, 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway, "took all her children with her, and saw them trained up in the way they should go, Mr. Clark having lost his first wife Rebecca, Dec. 1, 1717, and three children, 1716." Morse lists as children of Nathaniel3 and Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler: Nathaniel, Elizabeth and John; and as the only child of Nathaniel by the alleged second wife: Jonathan. Morse's account was followed substantially by Nahum S. Cutler in A Cutler Memorial (1889), pp. 325-6, except that a fourth child of Nathaniel and first wife is listed: Mary. The account again found its way into print in Henry Cutler's History of the Holliston Branch of the Cutler Family (1897), p. 13, which continues with the descendants of Jonathan4 Cutler. Turning to Lucien M. Underwood's compendious The Underwood Families of America (1913), 1:6, one finds that Elizabeth3 Underwood, daughter of Joseph2 (Joseph1) and Elizabeth Underwood, was born 8 May 1679; married 24 May 1700, Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, Mass., and had children at Reading: Nathaniel Cutler, b. 8 Dec. 1702; Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1704 or 1705, and John, b. 30 Oct. 1707. Underwood continues: "She must have died soon after 1707 because Nathaniel Cutler is recorded as married to a second wife in 1709, and another child is recorded to him at Reading: Jonathan Cutler, b. 17 Feb. 1711." A start on the right track with respect to this family group was made by Charles L. Newhall in The Record of my Ancentry (sic) (1889), p. 191, when he noted that Elizabeth Haines was the second wife of Nathaniel2 Cutler, not of his son Nathaniel3. However, Newhall perpetuated the story of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler's predeceasing her husband, showing a second wife, name unknown, for Nathaniel3. Vital and probate records clearly show that Elizabeth Underwood survived her first husband, Nathaniel3 Cutler; was, in fact, the mother of all of his five children; that she then married Theophilus Clark of Medway as his second wife, born him four children; and survived Clark by 20 years. Nathaniel2 Cutler (John1) married Mary ____ at Reading 29 Sept. 1655 (V.R.) and had among others, son Nathaniel, born 12 March 1658/9 (ibid.). Mary, wife of Nathaniel, died 4 Feb. 1707/8, at Reading (ibid.). He married secondly, 21 Feb. 1708/9 at Reading Elizabeth Haines (ibid., he being called "Nathaniel, Sr." in the record). Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Sr., died 4 March 1714 at Reading (ibid.). He died before 1 Dec. 1724, intestate, when letters of administration in the estate of Nathaniel Cutler Sr., of Reading were granted to a daughter, widow Lydia Walker (Middlesex County Probate, No. 5548). Nathaniel3 Cutler (Nathaniel2, John1) was born 12 March 1658/9 at Reading (V.R.) and married there 24 May 1700, Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown (ibid.) born to Joseph and Elizabeth Underwood at Watertown 8 May 1679 (Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families... of WATERTOWN, MASS., 1860), p. 610. Nathaniel Cutler Jr. died 7 June 1714 in his 56th year at Reading(V.R.) The inventory of his estate, filed 18 Oct. 1714, showed an estimated value of L750. 13s., and other papers in the file showed that the administratrix was Elizabeth Clark, "formerly widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, now the wife of Theophilus Clark of Medway." The appraisers were Nathaniel, the eldest son of deceased; Samuel Harding, husband to Mary, daughter of deceased; Raham Bancroft and John Eaton, guardians of under-age children of deceased. The widow allegedly released her dower (but see her will, supra), and distribution was to the five chidren: Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, John and Jonathan (Middlesex Count Probate, No. 5544). Chidren, all recorded to Nathaniel and Elizabeth at Reading, (V.R.): i. Mary 3, b. 18 Feb. 1711/01; mentioned as wife of Samuel Harding in record of father's estate. ii. Nathaniel, b. 8 Dec. 1702; mentioned as deceased in mother's will in 1756 (supra). iii. Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1705; mentioned as daughter Elizabeth Chandler in mother's will. iv. John, b. 30 Oct. 1707; mentioned in mother's will. v. Jonathan, b. 17 Feb. 1710/11, mentioned in mother's will. Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler married, as her second husband, at Reading 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway (V.R.). He was the son born to Benjamin and Dorcas Clarke at Medfield 24 Sept. 1670 (V.R.). He and his first wife Rachel had 12 children recorded at Medfield between 1696 and 1710, and she died 1 Dec. 1717 at Medway (V.R.). "Mr. Theophilus Clark" was buried in the Old Cemetery at Ashford, Conn., the tombstone recording his death on 3 Oct. 1737 in his 76th year. Elizabeth Clark, "wife to Lieut. Theophilus Clark" is also buried there, she having died 25 Dec. 1757 in her 82nd year. The will of Elizabeth Clark of Ashford, Windham County, Conn., dated 4 June 1756 and proved 2 Feb. 1758, gives: (T)o the heirs of my son Nathanael Cutler deceased: all that is due to me from his estate as dowry out of my first husbands estate and that is all I will to them from my estate. . . to my son John Cutler (the same) . .. to my son Jonathan Cutler (the same). . . to my daughter Mary Harding (the same). . . to my daughter Elizabeth Chandler all that is due to me from her which is all the portion I will give her. . . to my son Benjamin Clark seventy six pounds old tennor which is duue to me from him by a certanin note of hand dated June 5th 1751 this I give to him to be to his proper use and benefit during his natural life and at his deceas it is my will that it shall be given to the heirs of my sone Theophilus Clark deceased and this is all the portion I give him considering what I have given him before. . . I give and bequeath to my daughter Esther Eastman all that she or her husband are indebted to me and also all my houshold goods and cloathing which are mine at my deceas and also the three hundred and thirty pounds which is now in Doct. David Holmes hand, which is in lawfull money aquivolent to three hundred and thirty pounds, old tennor, and it is my will that one hundred pound of the three above mentioned shall be given to Philip and Timothy Eastman sones to the above named Esther Eastman when they arrive to the age of twenty one years. . . to the heirs of my son Theophilus Clark deceased namedly William Theophilus Benjamin and Samuel Clark the five hundred pounds old tennor which is now due to my from my son Benjmain Clark to be made good to them when they arrive to the age of twenty one years in old tennor or lawful money aquivolent to five hundred pounds, old tennor, with the interest and to have it equally destributed to each of them as they come of age Likewise it is my will that the fifty five pound old tennor which my son Benja Clark owes me for the cow he had of me shall be given to the above heirs of my son Theophilus deceasd and that it shall be made good to them when they come to the age of twenty one years and and distributed equally to each of them. . . to my daughter Bethiah Clark all that she owes me to be given to her younger son Ebenezer Martin Clark when he come to the age of twenty one years and this is all I give to her for the child. . . inasmuch as the surcumstance of the case is such in my thought that it is not proper that either of my sons should be my executour of this my last will and testament I appoint and ordain granson Moses Chandler of Woodstock to be my sole Executor. Witnesses were Obadiah Brown, Ruth White (by mark) and Benjamin Russell. Among debtors of the estate were Timothy Eastman, Doct. David Holmes, Jno Southworth, Edw. Marcy, Joseph Mason and Benja Clark. The appraisers were Tho. Chandler, Benja Sumner and Benja Russell (Pomfret Probate District, No. 1097; deposited at State Library, Hartford). Children, first recorded to Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark at Medway, Mass. (V.R.): i. Esther Clark, b. 1 Jan. 1719; mentioned as Esther Eastman in mother' will of 1756; she and husband Timothy Eastman executed release and receipt, 27 Nov. 1758. ii. Theophilus Clark, b. 19 Apr. 1722; mentioned as deceased with four sons surviving, in mother's will. iii. Benjamin Clark, b. 19 March 1724; mentioned in mother's will. iv. Bethiah Clark; mentioned in mother's will as mother of at least two sons. | Clark, Benjamin Esq (I153)
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| 211 | *********************************************** The Premature Death of Elizabeth Underwood *********************************************** -- Elizabeth Underwood married Theophilus Clark 1716, his second wife. *********************************************** The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 126 July 1972 No. 3 pp. 157-160, "The Premature 'Death' of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler by Leland G. Darrow of Belmont, Mass.: The Rev. Abner Morse in his 1867 compilation, A Genealogical Record of Several Families Bearing the Name of Cutler (p. 27) stated that Nathaniel3 Cutler, son of Nathaniel2 (John1) and Mary (----) Cutler was born 12 March 1659 at Reading, Mass., and died 7 June 1714, ae. 55 years and two months, being called "Mr." on his gravestone. Morse said that Nathaniel's first wife, whom he marred (sic) 24 May 1700, was Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown, and that his second wife, whom he married 21 Feb. 1709, was Elizabeth Haines of Reading. Morse futher reported that the second wife married, secondly, 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway, "took all her children with her, and saw them trained up in the way they should go, Mr. Clark having lost his first wife Rebecca, Dec. 1, 1717, and three children, 1716." Morse lists as children of Nathaniel3 and Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler: Nathaniel, Elizabeth and John; and as the only child of Nathaniel by the alleged second wife: Jonathan. Morse's account was followed substantially by Nahum S. Cutler in A Cutler Memorial (1889), pp. 325-6, except that a fourth child of Nathaniel and first wife is listed: Mary. The account again found its way into print in Henry Cutler's History of the Holliston Branch of the Cutler Family (1897), p. 13, which continues with the descendants of Jonathan4 Cutler. Turning to Lucien M. Underwood's compendious The Underwood Families of America (1913), 1:6, one finds that Elizabeth3 Underwood, daughter of Joseph2 (Joseph1) and Elizabeth Underwood, was born 8 May 1679; married 24 May 1700, Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, Mass., and had children at Reading: Nathaniel Cutler, b. 8 Dec. 1702; Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1704 or 1705, and John, b. 30 Oct. 1707. Underwood continues: "She must have died soon after 1707 because Nathaniel Cutler is recorded as married to a second wife in 1709, and another child is recorded to him at Reading: Jonathan Cutler, b. 17 Feb. 1711." A start on the right track with respect to this family group was made by Charles L. Newhall in The Record of my Ancentry (sic) (1889), p. 191, when he noted that Elizabeth Haines was the second wife of Nathaniel2 Cutler, not of his son Nathaniel3. However, Newhall perpetuated the story of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler's predeceasing her husband, showing a second wife, name unknown, for Nathaniel3. Vital and probate records clearly show that Elizabeth Underwood survived her first husband, Nathaniel3 Cutler; was, in fact, the mother of all of his five children; that she then married Theophilus Clark of Medway as his second wife, born him four children; and survived Clark by 20 years. Nathaniel2 Cutler (John1) married Mary ____ at Reading 29 Sept. 1655 (V.R.) and had among others, son Nathaniel, born 12 March 1658/9 (ibid.). Mary, wife of Nathaniel, died 4 Feb. 1707/8, at Reading (ibid.). He married secondly, 21 Feb. 1708/9 at Reading Elizabeth Haines (ibid., he being called "Nathaniel, Sr." in the record). Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Sr., died 4 March 1714 at Reading (ibid.). He died before 1 Dec. 1724, intestate, when letters of administration in the estate of Nathaniel Cutler Sr., of Reading were granted to a daughter, widow Lydia Walker (Middlesex County Probate, No. 5548). Nathaniel3 Cutler (Nathaniel2, John1) was born 12 March 1658/9 at Reading (V.R.) and married there 24 May 1700, Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown (ibid.) born to Joseph and Elizabeth Underwood at Watertown 8 May 1679 (Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families... of WATERTOWN, MASS., 1860), p. 610. Nathaniel Cutler Jr. died 7 June 1714 in his 56th year at Reading(V.R.) The inventory of his estate, filed 18 Oct. 1714, showed an estimated value of L750. 13s., and other papers in the file showed that the administratrix was Elizabeth Clark, "formerly widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, now the wife of Theophilus Clark of Medway." The appraisers were Nathaniel, the eldest son of deceased; Samuel Harding, husband to Mary, daughter of deceased; Raham Bancroft and John Eaton, guardians of under-age children of deceased. The widow allegedly released her dower (but see her will, supra), and distribution was to the five chidren: Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, John and Jonathan (Middlesex Count Probate, No. 5544). Chidren, all recorded to Nathaniel and Elizabeth at Reading, (V.R.): i. Mary 3, b. 18 Feb. 1711/01; mentioned as wife of Samuel Harding in record of father's estate. ii. Nathaniel, b. 8 Dec. 1702; mentioned as deceased in mother's will in 1756 (supra). iii. Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1705; mentioned as daughter Elizabeth Chandler in mother's will. iv. John, b. 30 Oct. 1707; mentioned in mother's will. v. Jonathan, b. 17 Feb. 1710/11, mentioned in mother's will. Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler married, as her second husband, at Reading 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway (V.R.). He was the son born to Benjamin and Dorcas Clarke at Medfield 24 Sept. 1670 (V.R.). He and his first wife Rachel had 12 children recorded at Medfield between 1696 and 1710, and she died 1 Dec. 1717 at Medway (V.R.). "Mr. Theophilus Clark" was buried in the Old Cemetery at Ashford, Conn., the tombstone recording his death on 3 Oct. 1737 in his 76th year. Elizabeth Clark, "wife to Lieut. Theophilus Clark" is also buried there, she having died 25 Dec. 1757 in her 82nd year. The will of Elizabeth Clark of Ashford, Windham County, Conn., dated 4 June 1756 and proved 2 Feb. 1758, gives: (T)o the heirs of my son Nathanael Cutler deceased: all that is due to me from his estate as dowry out of my first husbands estate and that is all I will to them from my estate. . . to my son John Cutler (the same) . .. to my son Jonathan Cutler (the same). . . to my daughter Mary Harding (the same). . . to my daughter Elizabeth Chandler all that is due to me from her which is all the portion I will give her. . . to my son Benjamin Clark seventy six pounds old tennor which is duue to me from him by a certanin note of hand dated June 5th 1751 this I give to him to be to his proper use and benefit during his natural life and at his deceas it is my will that it shall be given to the heirs of my sone Theophilus Clark deceased and this is all the portion I give him considering what I have given him before. . . I give and bequeath to my daughter Esther Eastman all that she or her husband are indebted to me and also all my houshold goods and cloathing which are mine at my deceas and also the three hundred and thirty pounds which is now in Doct. David Holmes hand, which is in lawfull money aquivolent to three hundred and thirty pounds, old tennor, and it is my will that one hundred pound of the three above mentioned shall be given to Philip and Timothy Eastman sones to the above named Esther Eastman when they arrive to the age of twenty one years. . . to the heirs of my son Theophilus Clark deceased namedly William Theophilus Benjamin and Samuel Clark the five hundred pounds old tennor which is now due to my from my son Benjmain Clark to be made good to them when they arrive to the age of twenty one years in old tennor or lawful money aquivolent to five hundred pounds, old tennor, with the interest and to have it equally destributed to each of them as they come of age Likewise it is my will that the fifty five pound old tennor which my son Benja Clark owes me for the cow he had of me shall be given to the above heirs of my son Theophilus deceasd and that it shall be made good to them when they come to the age of twenty one years and and distributed equally to each of them. . . to my daughter Bethiah Clark all that she owes me to be given to her younger son Ebenezer Martin Clark when he come to the age of twenty one years and this is all I give to her for the child. . . inasmuch as the surcumstance of the case is such in my thought that it is not proper that either of my sons should be my executour of this my last will and testament I appoint and ordain granson Moses Chandler of Woodstock to be my sole Executor. Witnesses were Obadiah Brown, Ruth White (by mark) and Benjamin Russell. Among debtors of the estate were Timothy Eastman, Doct. David Holmes, Jno Southworth, Edw. Marcy, Joseph Mason and Benja Clark. The appraisers were Tho. Chandler, Benja Sumner and Benja Russell (Pomfret Probate District, No. 1097; deposited at State Library, Hartford). Children, first recorded to Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark at Medway, Mass. (V.R.): i. Esther Clark, b. 1 Jan. 1719; mentioned as Esther Eastman in mother' will of 1756; she and husband Timothy Eastman executed release and receipt, 27 Nov. 1758. ii. Theophilus Clark, b. 19 Apr. 1722; mentioned as deceased with four sons surviving, in mother's will. iii. Benjamin Clark, b. 19 March 1724; mentioned in mother's will. iv. Bethiah Clark; mentioned in mother's will as mother of at least two sons. | Clark, Esther (I151)
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| 212 | *********************************************** The Premature Death of Elizabeth Underwood *********************************************** -- Elizabeth Underwood married Theophilus Clark 1716, his second wife. *********************************************** The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 126 July 1972 No. 3 pp. 157-160, "The Premature 'Death' of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler by Leland G. Darrow of Belmont, Mass.: The Rev. Abner Morse in his 1867 compilation, A Genealogical Record of Several Families Bearing the Name of Cutler (p. 27) stated that Nathaniel3 Cutler, son of Nathaniel2 (John1) and Mary (----) Cutler was born 12 March 1659 at Reading, Mass., and died 7 June 1714, ae. 55 years and two months, being called "Mr." on his gravestone. Morse said that Nathaniel's first wife, whom he marred (sic) 24 May 1700, was Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown, and that his second wife, whom he married 21 Feb. 1709, was Elizabeth Haines of Reading. Morse futher reported that the second wife married, secondly, 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway, "took all her children with her, and saw them trained up in the way they should go, Mr. Clark having lost his first wife Rebecca, Dec. 1, 1717, and three children, 1716." Morse lists as children of Nathaniel3 and Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler: Nathaniel, Elizabeth and John; and as the only child of Nathaniel by the alleged second wife: Jonathan. Morse's account was followed substantially by Nahum S. Cutler in A Cutler Memorial (1889), pp. 325-6, except that a fourth child of Nathaniel and first wife is listed: Mary. The account again found its way into print in Henry Cutler's History of the Holliston Branch of the Cutler Family (1897), p. 13, which continues with the descendants of Jonathan4 Cutler. Turning to Lucien M. Underwood's compendious The Underwood Families of America (1913), 1:6, one finds that Elizabeth3 Underwood, daughter of Joseph2 (Joseph1) and Elizabeth Underwood, was born 8 May 1679; married 24 May 1700, Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, Mass., and had children at Reading: Nathaniel Cutler, b. 8 Dec. 1702; Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1704 or 1705, and John, b. 30 Oct. 1707. Underwood continues: "She must have died soon after 1707 because Nathaniel Cutler is recorded as married to a second wife in 1709, and another child is recorded to him at Reading: Jonathan Cutler, b. 17 Feb. 1711." A start on the right track with respect to this family group was made by Charles L. Newhall in The Record of my Ancentry (sic) (1889), p. 191, when he noted that Elizabeth Haines was the second wife of Nathaniel2 Cutler, not of his son Nathaniel3. However, Newhall perpetuated the story of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler's predeceasing her husband, showing a second wife, name unknown, for Nathaniel3. Vital and probate records clearly show that Elizabeth Underwood survived her first husband, Nathaniel3 Cutler; was, in fact, the mother of all of his five children; that she then married Theophilus Clark of Medway as his second wife, born him four children; and survived Clark by 20 years. Nathaniel2 Cutler (John1) married Mary ____ at Reading 29 Sept. 1655 (V.R.) and had among others, son Nathaniel, born 12 March 1658/9 (ibid.). Mary, wife of Nathaniel, died 4 Feb. 1707/8, at Reading (ibid.). He married secondly, 21 Feb. 1708/9 at Reading Elizabeth Haines (ibid., he being called "Nathaniel, Sr." in the record). Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Sr., died 4 March 1714 at Reading (ibid.). He died before 1 Dec. 1724, intestate, when letters of administration in the estate of Nathaniel Cutler Sr., of Reading were granted to a daughter, widow Lydia Walker (Middlesex County Probate, No. 5548). Nathaniel3 Cutler (Nathaniel2, John1) was born 12 March 1658/9 at Reading (V.R.) and married there 24 May 1700, Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown (ibid.) born to Joseph and Elizabeth Underwood at Watertown 8 May 1679 (Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families... of WATERTOWN, MASS., 1860), p. 610. Nathaniel Cutler Jr. died 7 June 1714 in his 56th year at Reading(V.R.) The inventory of his estate, filed 18 Oct. 1714, showed an estimated value of L750. 13s., and other papers in the file showed that the administratrix was Elizabeth Clark, "formerly widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, now the wife of Theophilus Clark of Medway." The appraisers were Nathaniel, the eldest son of deceased; Samuel Harding, husband to Mary, daughter of deceased; Raham Bancroft and John Eaton, guardians of under-age children of deceased. The widow allegedly released her dower (but see her will, supra), and distribution was to the five chidren: Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, John and Jonathan (Middlesex Count Probate, No. 5544). Chidren, all recorded to Nathaniel and Elizabeth at Reading, (V.R.): i. Mary 3, b. 18 Feb. 1711/01; mentioned as wife of Samuel Harding in record of father's estate. ii. Nathaniel, b. 8 Dec. 1702; mentioned as deceased in mother's will in 1756 (supra). iii. Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1705; mentioned as daughter Elizabeth Chandler in mother's will. iv. John, b. 30 Oct. 1707; mentioned in mother's will. v. Jonathan, b. 17 Feb. 1710/11, mentioned in mother's will. Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler married, as her second husband, at Reading 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway (V.R.). He was the son born to Benjamin and Dorcas Clarke at Medfield 24 Sept. 1670 (V.R.). He and his first wife Rachel had 12 children recorded at Medfield between 1696 and 1710, and she died 1 Dec. 1717 at Medway (V.R.). "Mr. Theophilus Clark" was buried in the Old Cemetery at Ashford, Conn., the tombstone recording his death on 3 Oct. 1737 in his 76th year. Elizabeth Clark, "wife to Lieut. Theophilus Clark" is also buried there, she having died 25 Dec. 1757 in her 82nd year. The will of Elizabeth Clark of Ashford, Windham County, Conn., dated 4 June 1756 and proved 2 Feb. 1758, gives: (T)o the heirs of my son Nathanael Cutler deceased: all that is due to me from his estate as dowry out of my first husbands estate and that is all I will to them from my estate. . . to my son John Cutler (the same) . .. to my son Jonathan Cutler (the same). . . to my daughter Mary Harding (the same). . . to my daughter Elizabeth Chandler all that is due to me from her which is all the portion I will give her. . . to my son Benjamin Clark seventy six pounds old tennor which is duue to me from him by a certanin note of hand dated June 5th 1751 this I give to him to be to his proper use and benefit during his natural life and at his deceas it is my will that it shall be given to the heirs of my sone Theophilus Clark deceased and this is all the portion I give him considering what I have given him before. . . I give and bequeath to my daughter Esther Eastman all that she or her husband are indebted to me and also all my houshold goods and cloathing which are mine at my deceas and also the three hundred and thirty pounds which is now in Doct. David Holmes hand, which is in lawfull money aquivolent to three hundred and thirty pounds, old tennor, and it is my will that one hundred pound of the three above mentioned shall be given to Philip and Timothy Eastman sones to the above named Esther Eastman when they arrive to the age of twenty one years. . . to the heirs of my son Theophilus Clark deceased namedly William Theophilus Benjamin and Samuel Clark the five hundred pounds old tennor which is now due to my from my son Benjmain Clark to be made good to them when they arrive to the age of twenty one years in old tennor or lawful money aquivolent to five hundred pounds, old tennor, with the interest and to have it equally destributed to each of them as they come of age Likewise it is my will that the fifty five pound old tennor which my son Benja Clark owes me for the cow he had of me shall be given to the above heirs of my son Theophilus deceasd and that it shall be made good to them when they come to the age of twenty one years and and distributed equally to each of them. . . to my daughter Bethiah Clark all that she owes me to be given to her younger son Ebenezer Martin Clark when he come to the age of twenty one years and this is all I give to her for the child. . . inasmuch as the surcumstance of the case is such in my thought that it is not proper that either of my sons should be my executour of this my last will and testament I appoint and ordain granson Moses Chandler of Woodstock to be my sole Executor. Witnesses were Obadiah Brown, Ruth White (by mark) and Benjamin Russell. Among debtors of the estate were Timothy Eastman, Doct. David Holmes, Jno Southworth, Edw. Marcy, Joseph Mason and Benja Clark. The appraisers were Tho. Chandler, Benja Sumner and Benja Russell (Pomfret Probate District, No. 1097; deposited at State Library, Hartford). Children, first recorded to Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark at Medway, Mass. (V.R.): i. Esther Clark, b. 1 Jan. 1719; mentioned as Esther Eastman in mother' will of 1756; she and husband Timothy Eastman executed release and receipt, 27 Nov. 1758. ii. Theophilus Clark, b. 19 Apr. 1722; mentioned as deceased with four sons surviving, in mother's will. iii. Benjamin Clark, b. 19 March 1724; mentioned in mother's will. iv. Bethiah Clark; mentioned in mother's will as mother of at least two sons. | Clark, Theophilus II (I24)
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| 213 | *********************************************** * THOMAS MAYHEW (Matthew4), bapt. 1 Apr. 1593 at Tisbury, Eng., is the Governor, first of the name in this country, whose personal history has been sufficiently detailed in the two preceding volumes. The name of his first wife is not known nor has any clue to the date and place of the marriage been found. Neither is it known when or where she died. [Iris Gardner Some interesting additional facts have also been discovered by the compiler respecting the early life of Gov. Mayhew. It will be recalled (Vol. I, p. 114) that a contemporary writer states that the Governor was "a merchant bred in England, as I take it, at Southampton." FROM: http://history.vineyard.net/mayhew.htm ********************************************************* During a recent visit of the compiler to England confirmation of this was obtained which shows that this statement is correct. The following is verbatim copy of a record in the "Book of Free Commoners" belonging to the corporation of Southampton: "Nono die ffebr' 1620 (i.e. 1621) Thomas Mayhew late servant and apprntiee unto Richard Masey of the Towne and countie of Southampton mrcer havinge well and truely served his spprntiship with his said mr whoe beinge prsent testified to the same And he the said Thomas Mayhewe (desieringe to be admitted a free commoner of the said Towne to use his trade of a mrcer in this said Towne and his said mr likewise desieringe the same) was therefore this prsent daie admitted and sworren a free commoner accordingly." An interesting and important statement is therein found which recalls the statement of Thomas Macey of Nantucket (who is said to have emigrated from Chilmark, co. Wilts), that Governor Thomas Mayhew was his "honored cousin" (N. Y. Col. Mss., Vol. 25) and here is found documentary evidence that Thomas Mayhew was an apprentice of Richard Macey, a Southampton merchant. Richard Macey, his master, was a native of Chilmark and in his will of 20 Nov. 1633 he provided for his burial in that parish (Arch. Sarum X. 30). Undoubtededly further search would reveal the exact relationship of this Richard to Thomas Macey, the emigrant, and thus show the kinship between the families of Mayhew and Macey. Governor Mayhew had the following named children: By First Wife: 20. THOMAS, b. (1620­1). By Second Wife: 21. HANNAH, b.15 June 1635; m. (1) THOMAS DAGGETT (3); (2) SAMUEL SMITH. 22. BETHIAH, b.6 Dec. 1636; m. (l) THOMAS HARLOCK; (2) RICHARD WAY 1675. [Iris Gardner 23. MARY, b.14 Jan. 1639­40; Prob. d.y. 24. MARTHA, b. (1642); m. THOMAS TUPPER 27 Dec. 1661. [*From this marriage was descendant the late Sir Charles Tupper, prime minister of Canada.] ********************************************************* | Mayhew, Gov Thomas (I3061)
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| 214 | ************************************************ From https://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Bucks_County/Plumstead_Township/Wismer.html ************************************************** It takes its name from the Wismer family whose ancestor, Hans Michael Wismer, arrived at Philadelphia in the ship Priscilla, Captain William Wilson, from Rotterdam and Cowes, September 12, 1750. The history of the family shows that many members took part in the Mennonite migration to the Niagara peninsula, Ontario, Canada. "Among them was Isaac Wismer, who married Anna High and Catherine Wismer, who married John High. They were brother and sister of my great grandfather, Henry Wismer, who was a farmer, drover, and clock and watchmaker, whose farm in Plumstead Township was located on both sides of Durham Road between North Branch of Neshaminy Creek and Hinkletown. It was his custom to visit his brother and sister in the Niagara peninsula and to bring back with him to Bucks County droves of horses. While on such a journey in 1828, he died from typhoid fever at the residence of his brother Isaac along the shore of Lake Ontario, on a farm now owned and occupied by Isaac's grandson, William Andrew Wismer." [ms. of Henry W. Scarborough] Samuel Hart was landlord in 1764 of a tavern which stood on Stump Road, half a mile east of Wismer. It was here the body of Moses Doan, the outlaw, was taken after he was slain. Only the foundations remain today. The identity of this Samuel Hart is uncertain, but he is probably a son of William Hart, landlord of Plumsteadville Tavern. Elias Wismer, who kept a small store at the northwest corner of the crossroads, was succeeded by his son Henry prior to 1860. May 21, 1872, he became postmaster and held the office until his death, February 12, 1920. He was one of the organizers of Union Creamery and its treasurer and was also a director in Point Pleasant Bridge Company and Danboro and Point Pleasant Turnpike Company. He was successful in business. He formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Joseph Lear, in the store business and after Lear's death conducted the store alone. During the World War the post office received more War Savings Stamps than any other office of its class in the county. Daniel F. Merganthaler, the canvasser, had the remarkable record of selling about $14,000 worth maturity value. The first mail between Wismer and Point Pleasant was carried by Lewis Wismer. His successors were Jacob Eisentrager and Asher R. Lear. This stage line was quite profitable in Lear's time until the trolley line was built, when he started in the creamer business. After the death of Henry Wismer, the store property was sold. It had several owners, Frank Kolbe being the last postmaster. The post office was move to Smiths Corner and then in 1930 to Melchers Corner. ---------------------- Samuel Hart, the Pioneer, had a 364 acre plantation situated in the village of Wismer (according to the Hart Book Thomas Hart 1920) | Hart, Samuel C the pioneer (I1044)
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| 215 | ************************************************ * Obituary Vero Beach Press Journal (FL) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001 ************************************************ Mr Robert Allen Gilbert, 84 OBITUARIES Vero Beach Press Journal (FL) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001 Robert Allen Gilbert, 84, of Vero Beach, died December 14, 2001 after a short illness. He was born in Philadelphia, PA on January 27, 1917. He graduated from Trinity College in 1938 and also attended Temple University Graduate School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was very active in Alumni work at Trinity College where he was awarded the 150th Anniversary award for distinguished service. Mr. Gilbert graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1946 and was made Commanding Officer of a Coast Guard Cutter. The last year of the war he spent in Alaska servicing radar and loran installations throughout the territory. Mr. Gilbert was a management consultant for a number of years in New York City for McKinsey and Company. He then went with The New York Stock Exchange in charge of systems and methods where he retired in 1978. He married Jean Macan Selby in 1941 and they lived in Princeton, NJ. She died in 1981. Mr. Gilbert married Mary Elam Roorbach in 1983. They lived in Vero Beach for 18 years. He was a member of The Marine Commission of Vero Beach, the Center for The Arts, and The Nassau Club of Princeton. He was also a member of The Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, NJ and the Community Church of Vero Beach. He is survived by his wife, Mary R. Gilbert; four children, Barbara Berkman of Trenton, NJ, Katherine Hinckley of Milford, CT, Mary Frank of Elverta, CA, and John Roorbach of Roseburg, OR; and four granddaughters, Sarah Berkman of Denver, CO, Lisa Frank of Sacramento, CA and Caroline and Wendy Hinckley of Milford, CT. A son, George Selby Gilbert, died in 1972. A Memorial Service will be held 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 19th, at the Community Church of Vero Beach. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to The Center for The Arts, 3001 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach, 32963. Interment will be at a later date in Lawrenceville, NJ. Information provided by Lowther Cremation Service, Vero Beach. | Gilbert, Robert Allen (I42)
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| 216 | ************************************************ * Served in WW1 in 113th Trench Mortar Battery * * Camp Hancock, Augusta, GA ************************************************ | Hart, Thomas (I6)
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| 217 | ************************************************* * From Baker Family Tree ************************************************* THE SEVENTH GENERATION: James Clark (1794-1878) James Clark, the second oldest child of John T. Clark and Cynthia Campbell, was born in Bradford County in 1794. He married Sarah Simmons in 1818 and together they had at least nine children born between the years 1818 and 1835. All of their children were born in Burlington, Pennsylvania. Sometime in late 1837, the family moved westward ultimately arriving in Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana in February of 1838. In a history of Fairmount it is written: “The Clark family came in two wagons, one drawn by horses and the other by an ox team.” What motivated James Clark to move his family 600 miles from Burlington, Pennsylvania to Grant County, Indiana can only be assumed. Perhaps it was to seek a better life for himself and his children; perhaps it was just in his genes to migrate. James’ 4th great grandfather, Joseph, had journeyed from England to America in 1637, his 2nd great grandfather, Theophilus, had moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut in 1733, His grandfather, Benjamin, had relocated his family from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in 1770, and now he, James Clark, had crossed 600 miles of wilderness to start over again in Indiana. The Clark family continued to display an incredible pioneer spirit. ******************************************************* | Clark, James H. (I4272)
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| 218 | ************************************************* * From book "A Record of the Hart Family of Philadelphia * ************************************************ CHAPTER VI, HARTSVILLE AND ITS 0RIGIN;—l793—l930. As has been said, Hartsville was named after Colonel William Hart, in the latter part of the seventeen hundreds; l793 is the earliest date at which we can confidently say that the village was so known. It is located about 30 miles north of Philadelphia, not far from the count y seat of Doylestown, and approximately l08 miles east of the city of Harris burg. General Davis tells us that in l876, it contained a "store, tavern, Presbyterian Church, which came of the division at Neshaminy in the war of schools, (in l836), a hall for public lectures and twenty-five dwellings", In l887, Hartsville station, at the termination of the Northeast Pennsylvania Railroad, nearly two miles from Hartsville proper, was known as a post-office under the name of Ereadysville and comprised eight or ten houses along the Bristol fcoad, principally in Warminster^ "The tavern at Hartsville, in Warwick", continues General Davis, "was kept for many years at the close of the last and beginning of the present century by William Hart, who had for his sign the human heart.—-—He was one of the captors of the Doans and died in l83l, aged eighty-four years. A postcffice was established there in l826. The old stone bridge over the Neshaminy on the York Road, above the village, built in l793, had a heart cut on the date stone. ******************************************************** | Hart, Colonel William (I2924)
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| 219 | ************************************************* * Note about her on ournorthernroots.com ******** Her brother, Amos, remembered her in his will with $2000. She was practically blind by 1948. ********************************************************* | Kiehle, Carrie Louise (I1420)
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| 220 | ************************************************* ** From http://wikimarion.org/Gabriella_Havens ** ************************************************* Gabriella Havens (101 YEARS OLD) “I was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1820. In 1837 my father, mother and father and their nine children came to Ohio where we remained long enough to raise a crop (or about a year) then we came on to Grant County, Indiana. Father did not like the country and did not want to stay but we children started to clearing the land and so we remained. “When I grew older I taught four terms of school, receiving two dollars per week. By and by a man came along who had a farm and he persuaded me to come and live with him. I would have been happier if I had not gone with him. Girls, never marry; just stay in Marion and teach until you are gray-headed; Lord, you ought to be happy! “I was twenty-two years old when I married. I have done a lot of hard work. My husband and I cleared twenty acres of land. He would get discouraged with the farm work, then. I would go out into the fields and help him. We had eight children, so I had to work hard. “My husband died June 30, 1863, and I was left with the care of the children, the youngest one being but three years of age; but we managed to get along. I would go out into the fields and work like a man. I raised those children with my own two hands. “I had many chances to re-marry but I did not want a man. I never ran after the men; if I had, I’d a got one. One day I was out in the orchard with my children when a neighbor man came and asked me to marry him. ‘I guess not,’ I said, and turning to my children—’I will not leave them for any man.’ “What church do I belong to? I was a Methodist all my life until 1879 when I became an Adventist. Oh, I believe in it. “You ask if my father had slaves? No-o-o-o, I guess not. Why, I would have burned my shirt to make a light for a run-away slave. My uncle sheltered Fred Douglas for four days in an ‘underground station,’ that being his cellar. He hid behind potato barrels, and they covered him with comforts to hide him from the slave owner. “My great grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. My grandfather was seven years old when his father was called to war. The mother soon died and left grandfather with the care of four little sisters, two of them being twins but six wec’1-s old. Some neighbors took the little girls and grand father was sent down the river seventy miles with a flock of sheep. He took a saddle horse and food enough to do him a week. He was only seven years old and got lost in the woods. At night he tied himself to his horse so he could sleep and not lose it. For three weeks he wandered about and when his food was gone he ate with the horse—roots, grass, etc. At last he came to a ‘clearing’ and begged food. They took him in, but~he never got back to his family for seventeen years. “Yes, those were heart-rending times. “Oh, must you go? I wish you could stay longer. Well, girls, remember what I said—DON’T marry, and may the dear Lord bless you. Tell your friends that an old woman one hundred and one years old blessed you. Good-bye.” This dear aged old lady was interviewed by Miss Gladys Cole (Senior, 1921) and Miss Straughan. She was sitting quietly in her old chair when they entered her room, apparently asleep, but when told there were two ladies who wished to talk with her she was instantly alert and delighted to talk with them about her “early days.” It was an inspiration to see, the “light that fades not” in her countenance-and feel the benediction of her last words. “Of such is the Kingdom.” | Clark, Gabrielle (I4274)
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| 221 | *************************************************** * Benedict Arnold was born on January 14, 1741 in Norwich, Connecticut. Arnold was one of a number of Benedict Arnolds including his father and his great-grandfather, an early governor of Rhode Island. Arnold's mother was Hannah Waterman King, a wealthy widow, before her marriage to the elder Arnold. The family prospered until some poor business deals caused financial problems. Arnold's father turned to the local taverns for solace. Arnold attended school at Canterbury. While there, two sisters and one brother died from Yellow Fever. Without money, Benedict Arnold was withdrawn from school. With the lack of the structure of formal schooling, and lax parental control, young Benedict was often in trouble. His mother finally found help from family: cousins Daniel and Joshua Lathrop took Arnold in as an apprentice to their large and successful apothecary business. He left his apprenticeship a couple of times to join the army for periods of time during the French and Indian War, but remained in the employ of his cousins for years. ******************************************************* | Arnold, General Benedict Jr. (I4381)
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| 222 | *************************************************** * WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT * In Williamsport, Dec. 27th, 1873[sic], by Rev. William Paret, D. D., FREDERICK MOTT CLARK, of Towanda, to Miss ALICE ANDERSON KAPP, of Northumberland, Pa. --------Sunbury American, May 26, 1876 * ******************************************************* | Clark, Frederick Mott (I9)
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| 223 | *************************************************** -Nathan is one of founders of First Baptist Church *************************************************** FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH The organization of the First Baptist Church of Franklin took place on the 15th day of January, 1793, at the house of Gad Merrick. The meeting was opened by singing, followed by prayer. Elder Adam Hamilton was chosen moderator, and Hugh Thompson clerk. The moderator then read the articles of faith and church covenant of the church in Westville, Mass., and they were unanimously adopted by the meeting. The moderator then gave the right hand of fellowship to the following named persons, constituting them a "Baptist church of Christ:" Nathan Tupper, James Webster, Asa Turner, Gad Merrick, Archelaus Green, Solomon Green, Levi Bride, Abel Buell, Hugh Thompson, Chauncey Parker, Oliver Abell, Polly Case, Patty Clark, Isabel Turner, Sarah Parker, Polly Andrews, Abigail Tupper, Ruth Wattles, Lucy Hughston and Mary Thompson. -------------------------- From Delaware County NY Genealogy and History Site The History of Delaware County W.W. MUNSELL 1797-1880 THE TOWN OF FRANKLIN | Tupper, Nathaniel (I103)
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| 224 | **************************************************** History and geography of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 1615-1924 Chapter XVIII. Ulster Township Page 209 Benjamin Clark, a native of Tolland, Connecticut, removed to the Wyoming Valley and was among the first to build a house on the town-plot of Wilkes-Barre. He was a Corporal in the first Independent Company of Wyoming under Capt Robert Durkee and served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of Wyoming after the fatal battle and was in the army of General Sullivan against the Indians. In 1784, he removed from Wyoming to Asylum, and the next year, settled in Ulster on what is known as the Ross Farm. His house was the place of entertainment for travelers and the home of Methodist itinerants who held religious meetings there. He was an ardent Federalist, captain of militia and popularly known as Captain Clark. By his first wife, Nabbe, he had children: John T, Polly (Mrs Blanchard) and Abigail (Mrs George Culver). He married second, Keziah Yarrington, widow of Silas Gore, who was slain at the Battle of Wyoming, and had children: Lucinda (Mrs Nathaniel Hovey), Urusula (Mrs Samuel Treadway), William and Julia Ann (1st Mrs John Overton, 2nd Mrs Joseph Passmore). Captain Clark died, 1834, aged 87 years. **************************************************** | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 225 | **************************************************** Born 1747 at Tolland Co., Connecticut, died aug 9, 1834 at Ulster, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania, 86 or 87 years, buried at Ulster Cemetery, Ulster, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania Benjamin Clark, a native of Tolland, Connecticut, removed to the Wyoming Valley, and was among the very first to build a house on the town-plat of Wilkes-Barre. He was a corporal in the First Independent Company of Wyoming, under Capt. Robert Durkee, and served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of Wyoming after the fatal battle, and was in the army of General Sullivan against the Indians. For his services he received a pension of $96 per year. Subsequently, he was appointed a captain of militia, and was known by the older settlers as "Captain Clark." In 1784 he removed from Wyoming to Asylum, and the next year settled in Ulster on what is known as the Ross farm. His house was a place of entertainment for travelers and a home of the Methodist itinerant for many years, and in it the first preaching was held in "Old Sheshequin." Captain Clark was an ardent Federalist and a member of the Methodist church. He took an active interest in public affairs, and for years filled the most important local offices. He died at Ulster, August 9, 1834, aged 87 years. Captain Clark was twice married. The Westmoreland town records contain the following: "Births of the children of Benjamin Clark and Nabbe, his wife--John Theophilus, born July 8, 1770; Polly, born March 3, 1774; Sally and Milly (twins), born March 5, 1777. Nabbe, wife of Benjamin Clark, departed this life, March 12, 1777, in the 24th year of her age." Their children selected partners as follows: John T. married Cynthia, daughter of James Campbell, and settled in Burlington, where he died. They had 12 children who married as follows: Billings to Charlotte Nichols; James to Sally Simons; Cephas to Sally Wilcox; Benjamin died, aged 19, from being kicked by a horse; Sally to Timothy C. Wheeler; Betsey to Abraham Reeves; Ursula to Earl Nichols; Celestia to Harry L. Ross; Polly, first to Amos Alexander, second to Zepheniah Lane; Jane died unmarried; Cynthia to Eliphalet Gustin; Melissa to Mortimer Knapp. Polly (Mary) married a Mr. Blanchard. Nabby (Abigail) married George Culver and moved to the Lake country. For his second wife, Captain Clark married Keziah Yarrington, widow of Silas Gore, who was slain at the battle of Wyoming. She died August 12, 1837, aged 91 years, and lies beside her husband in the Ulster cemetery. Their four children, who married as follows, were: Lucinda, to Nathaniel Hovey, an officer in the War of 1812, who died at Sackett's Harbor in 1814. Ursula, to Samuel Treadway and removed to Illinois. William, to Sylvia, daughter of Ezra Niles and removed to Cairo, Illinois. Julia Ann, first to John Overton, and after his death to a Mr. Passmore, with whom she moved West. **************************************************** | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 226 | **************************************************** From Genealogy Message Board - 2007 (user = nabbe68: Benjamin Clark was born 15 Jun 1750 in Ashford, Bradford Co, Conn. His parents were Theophilus Clark (1722-?1754) and Bethiah Billings (1727-17--, don't have that with me right now). Benjamin married about 1769, Nabby ????. They had five children, the last two twin girls born 5 Mar 1777. Nabby died 12 Mar 1777 in the Wyoming Valley,Pennsylvania.(The place is a long story). Benjamin became a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Keziah Yarrington was born 24 Jun 1751 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. She married Silas Gore (1747 -1778). They had three daughters. Silas was killed at the Battle of Wyoming in July, 1778. It is not clear when Benjamin and Keziah married. Probably 1783 after Benjamin was released from the army. Their children were Lucinda, Ursula, William and Julia Ann. Lucinda married Nathaniel Hovey and stayed in Luzerne/Bradford Co. Ursula was born 10 Jun 1781. She married Samuel Treadway. She died 4 Oct 1845 in Denison Twp, Lawrence Co., Ill. Julia Ann (?-?) married (1) John Overton & (2) Joseph Passmore, his second marriage. They moved to Lawrence Co with their combined children. William Clark was born 5 Sep 1789. He married Sylvia Niles 6 May 1810. William moved to Lawrence Co, about 1818. Children were: Charles Wesley b. 26 Jun 1811 mar. Mary Neal Fidelia (twin) b. 13 Dec 1813 mar. John Lukin Croelia(?Celia) (twin) b. 13 Dec 1813 William Asbury b. 20 Apr 1816 mar. Mrs. Mary Ann French Sylvia Ann b. 6 Aug 1818 mar. (1) Chauncy P. Durkee (2)--Simons Keziah b. 6 Sep 1820 mar. Charles Passmore Hester Ann b. 12 Apr 1823 mar. ?William Mieure Mary b. 15 Nov 1825 Margaret Curry b. 17 Feb 1828 mar. ?James s. Barbee Benjamin H.C. b. 8 Oct 1830 mar. ? Martha M. ----- John Fletcher b. 9 Feb 1833 mar. Margaret McMahan (this is my line) Emily J. b. 6 Jul 1835 mar. (1)William True (2)Joseph H. Bertrand Sylvia Niles Clark died after 1850. Benjamin married 27 August 1853, Jane (Adams) Lemmons. He died after 1770 and before 1879. Jane died 3 Mar 1879, a widow at that time. Lemmons is spelled Lemmon, Limon, Lyman, etc. Not sure what the spelling was meant to be of Janes first husband Samuel. **************************************************** | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 227 | ***************************************************** * Born jul 8, 1770 at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, died sep 6, 1849 at Burlington, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania, 79 years John T. married Cynthia, daughter of James Campbell, and settled in Burlington, where he died. They had 12 children who married as follows: 1. Billings to Charlotte Nichols; 2. James to Sally Simons; 3. Cephas to Sally Wilcox; 4. Benjamin died, aged 19, from being kicked by a horse; 5. Sally to Timothy C. Wheeler; 6. Betsey to Abraham Reeves; 7. Ursula to Earl Nichols; 8. Celestia to Harry L. Ross; 9. Polly, first to Amos Alexander, second to Zepheniah Lane; 10 Jane died unmarried; 11 Cynthia to Eliphalet Gustin; 12 Melissa to Mortimer Knapp. ******************************************************** | Clark, John Theophilus (I3744)
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| 228 | ***************************************************** Joseph Clark had one wife Alice Fenn. See: Christopher Gleason Clark, THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF JOSEPH CLARK (1613-1683) OF DEDHAM AND MEDFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS in NEHGR vol 152 p 3-23 NGSQ Robert Charles Anderson, "Clark, Hunting, and Wheelock Families of Dedham, Massachusetts: Some English Clues," National Genealogical Society Quarterly [hereinafter NC.SQ], 74 [1986]: 3-6. Previous biographies stating his wife was Alice Pepper were disproved in 1998. ********************************************************** | Clarke, Joseph The Immigrant (I34)
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| 229 | ****************************************************** James Campbell, born November 01, 1739 in Blandford, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; died December 28, 1813 in Sugar Creek, Burlington, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. He was the son of David Campbell, Sr. He married 23. Jane Knox January 10, 1760 in Blandford, Hampden Co., Massachusetts. Jane Knox, born February 03, 1744 in Blandford, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; died October 16, 1840 in Sugar Creek, Burlington, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania.She was the daughter of John Knox, Sr and Rachel Freeland. Children of James Campbell and Jane Knox are: i. Betsy Campbell, born March 06, 1782 in Nobletown, New York; married (1) Stephen Smith Abt. 1790; born Abt. 1765; married (2) Oliver Sherman Abt. 1795; born Abt. 1765. ii. Cynthia Campbell, born June 23, 1772 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died in Burlington Center, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married John Theophilus Clark Abt. 1785; born July 08, 1770 in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania; died in Burlington Center, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. iii. David Campbell I, born July 11, 1767 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died December 15, 1848 in Burlington, Pennsylvania; married Hannah Chase Abt. 1784; born Abt. 1767. iv. Eleanor Campbell, born May 18, 1765 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died 1855 in Burlington, Pennsylvania; married Gamaliel Jaqua 1785; born January 29, 1764 in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut; died April 20, 1835 in Jefferson Twp., Preble Co., Ohio. v. James Child Of James And Jane Campbell, Jr., born April 16, 1763 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died 1847 in Marion, Indiana; married Mehitable McPherson Abt. 1812; born Abt. 1765. vi. John Campbell, born May 11, 1761 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died October 18, 1846 in Orangewille, Wyoming Co., New York; married Lydia Whiting 1784; born 1762. vii. Rachel Campbell, born September 09, 1769 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died in North Towanda, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married Stephen Wilcox, Jr. Abt. 1785; born Abt. 1765; died in North Towanda, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. viii. Sally Campbell, born January 16, 1787 in Nobletown, New York; died October 03, 1862; married Jeremiah Miller May 17, 1808; born 1785 in Burlington, Pennsylvania; died 1859. ix. William Campbell, born August 10, 1779 in Nobletown, New York; died 1854 in West Burlington, Pennsylvania; married Polly Miller Abt. 1802; born March 14, 1788; died March 16, 1847. x. Cephas Campbell, born March 29, 1777 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died March 05, 1857 in Burlington Center, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married (1) Sally-Sarah Bingham March 1806; born 1786 in Ulster, Pennsylvania; died February 07, 1821; married (2) Eleanor Miller February 23, 1827; born January 28, 1788; died January 29, 1875. 11 xi. Jenny-Jane Campbell, born November 30, 1774 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died August 10, 1818 in Sugar Creek, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married George Head, Jr. 1795 in Burlington, Burlington Twp., Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. **************************************************** | Campbell, Cynthia (I2109)
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| 230 | ****************************************************** * Notes posted on Find A Grave ****************************************************** Ezekiel Lathrop III was born around 1803 in Bridgewater, the son of Ezekiel Lathrop II and Lydia Crocker, both of Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut. His father was one of the original settlers of Bridgewater township around the year 1800. Bridgewater township was then in Luzerne County, but later split up and became part of the newly formed Susquehanna County. Ezekiel married Lorinda Lathrop of Rush, the daughter of Dea. William and Sarah (Brown) Lathrop. The marriage took place on February 26, 1829 in New Milford, Pennsylvania. Ezekiel's older sister Sybil also married Lorinda's older brother, Rev. William Lathrop Jr. Lorinda was a "4th cousin once removed" to Ezekiel Lathrop III and shared the common ancestor the Hon. Samuel Lathrop (son of Rev. John Lothroppe of early fame). The lineage of each: Ezekiel Lathrop III Ezekiel II Ezekiel Sr. Israel Jr. Israel Sr. Hon. Samuel Lathrop Lorinda Lathrop Dea. William Ezra Jr. Lt. Ezra Sr. Samuel III Samuel II Hon. Samuel Lathrop Ezekiel and Lorinda Lathrop had at least 6 children: 1) Leury (Laurie or Lorinda?) Lathrop b. abt 1836 (no further record) 2) unknown female b. between 1836-1839 assumed to have died young 3) Ira Lathrop b. abt 1839 (no further record) 4) Ambrose ("Ambers") Lathrop b. 1841 m. Mary A. Cobb (had children: Alice, Ella A., Lottie M., ..). Ambrose was a lawyer. 5) Luther Lathrop b. 1843 m. Frances (last name unknown) had son named Lloyd 6) Harriet H. Lathrop b. Sep. 9, 1846 d. Sep. 23, 1864 (did not marry) The 1830 census of Rush, Susq. Co., PA indicates that Ezekiel and Lorinda had no children and were living with one adult between 60-70 yrs of age. The 1840 census of Rush, Susq. Co., PA indicates there was a boy under 5, a girl under 5, and a girl under 10. The boy under 5 would have been Ira and the girl between 5-10 would have been Leury. Therefore, there must have been another girl who wasn't Leury who probably died young. The 1850 census shows the 5 named children above. The 1860 census shows Ira, Ambrose, Luther, and Harriet now living in the town of neighboring Vestal, New York. The 1870 Census shows only Luther (21 yrs old) still living at home. The 1875 census shows Luther (28 yrs old) still living at home with parents. Ezekiel (73 yrs old) is listed as "Blacksmith". "Miranda wife" (sic, "Lorinda") is 69 yrs old. Son Ambrose with wife Mary, and daughters Alice and Ellen living next door. Ezekiel and Lorinda Lathrop are interred in the Vestal Center Cemetery with a shared headstone that is deteriorated to the point that it's very difficult to read. | Lathrop, Ezekiel III (I1168)
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| 231 | ****************************************************** Married – At Sheshequin, on the 4th of July, by Jared HOLCOMB, Esq., John OVERTON to Miss Julia-Ann CLARK. | Clark, Julia Ann (I3747)
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| 232 | ****************************************************** Prescott Sheldon Bush, b. [as Sheldon Prescott Bush] Columbus, Ohio, 15 May 1894 [vol. 6, p. 126, and not 1895 as in published accounts], in 1920 a general manager of a hardware store living in St. Louis, Mo., in 1930 a banker, full partner in Brown Brothers Harriman and Co, living in Greenwich, Conn., U.S. Senator from 1952 to 1963, d. Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, N. Y., 8 Oct. 1972 [SSDI 091-26-7848] m. Church of St Anne, Kennebunkport, Maine, 6 Aug. 1921 ******************************************************** | Bush, Prescott Sheldon Sr (I708)
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| 233 | ******************************************************* * Find A Grave Notes ************************************************ Caroline Treadway Bailey Birth 1808 Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA Death 2 Mar 1858 (aged 49–50) Lawrence County, Illinois, USA Burial Denison Cemetery Lawrence County, Illinois, USA (Grand-daughter of Benjamin Clark of Ulster) ------------------------------------------------- Caroline Treadway was the daughter of Samuel Treadway and Ursula Clark. She married James Bailey in Pennsylvania and removed to Lawrence County, Illinois in the early 1830's. Caroline died in 1858 and her husband and members of her family removed to Texas in 1873. She was the mother of several children including: Mary wife of Memomen O'Donnel Samilla wife of Thomas W. McLain John husband of Sarah Armstrong Emily Thomas husband of Mary Stiles James Ursula There is a biographical sketch on pages 309 & 310 in the 1886 History of Knox and Daviess Counties Indiana, of Thomas Bailey, Caroline's son that gives some of the above information. | Treadway, Caroline (I4329)
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| 234 | ******************************************************* * He was named in honor of his mother's cousin, Judge * Frederick Mott of Iowa. * ******************************************************* | Clark, Frederick Mott (I9)
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| 235 | ******************************************************* Alice Fenn was born about 1619 in England, was christened on 25 March 1623 in St. Mary Aldermary,London, England, and died on 17 March 1709/10 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States at age 91. Alice marriedJoseph Clarke on 15 April 1640 in Banham, Norfolk, England. ********************************************************* | Clarke, Joseph The Immigrant (I34)
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| 236 | ******************************************************* From message-board posting on Ancestry.com ( https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/thread.aspx?m=932&p=surnames.clark&dc=25 ) ******************************************************* Their children were Lucinda, Ursula, William and Julia Ann. Lucinda married Nathaniel Hovey and stayed in Luzerne/Bradford Co. Ursula was born 10 Jun 1781. She married Samuel Treadway. She died 4 Oct 1845 in Denison Twp, Lawrence Co., Ill. Julia Ann (?-?) married (1) John Overton & (2) Joseph Passmore, his second marriage. They moved to Lawrence Co with their combined children. William Clark was born 5 Sep 1789. He married Sylvia Niles 6 May 1810. William moved to Lawrence Co, about 1818. Children were: Charles Wesley b. 26 Jun 1811 mar. Mary Neal Fidelia (twin) b. 13 Dec 1813 mar. John Lukin Croelia(?Celia) (twin) b. 13 Dec 1813 William Asbury b. 20 Apr 1816 mar. Mrs. Mary Ann French Sylvia Ann b. 6 Aug 1818 mar. (1) Chauncy P. Durkee (2)--Simons Keziah b. 6 Sep 1820 mar. Charles Passmore Hester Ann b. 12 Apr 1823 mar. ?William Mieure Mary b. 15 Nov 1825 Margaret Curry b. 17 Feb 1828 mar. ?James s. Barbee Benjamin H.C. b. 8 Oct 1830 mar. ? Martha M. ----- John Fletcher b. 9 Feb 1833 mar. Margaret McMahan (this is my line) Emily J. b. 6 Jul 1835 mar. (1)William True (2)Joseph H. Bertrand Sylvia Niles Clark died after 1850. Benjamin married 27 August 1853, Jane (Adams) Lemmons. He died after 1770 and before 1879. Jane died 3 Mar 1879, a widow at that time. Lemmons is spelled Lemmon, Limon, Lyman, etc. Not sure what the spelling was meant to be of Janes first husband Samuel. | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 237 | ******************************************************* http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28946402 ******************************************************* James, a farmer decended from Scottish ancestors, is the son of David Campbell and Janet (Robertson) Campbell. He married Jane Knox on January 10th, 1760 in Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts James Campbell, a native of Blandford, Mass., who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, removed from Massachusetts with his family, 1791, and settled in the wilderness on Sugar Creek in Burlington, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. He had married Jane Knox, their children being John, James, David, Cephas, William, Eleanor, Rachel, Cynthia, Jane, Betsy and Sally. John, James and David were soldiers in the struggle for Independence. Mr. Campbell died upon his farm, December 28, 1813, in his 75th year. Notice of his death says, "He was the father of 5 sons, 6 daughters, 6 sons-in-law, 93 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren, making in all 137. He was a member of the Methodist society and was much respected for his virtues." He was of Scotch descent The farm he settled is still owned and occupied by his descendants. His wife, born February 3, 1744, died October 16, 1840. Both are buried in the family plot upon the homestead. | Campbell, James Sr. (I4327)
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| 238 | ******************************************************** As the county seat, Newtown played a strategic role during the Revolutionary War. Newtown not only had the courthouse and jail, but also housed the county treasury. The treasury proved to be an irresistible temptation to the Doan gang, a band of Tory sympathizers, who terrorized the countryside during the Revolutionary War. On the night of October 22, 1781, the Doan gang rode into town and broke into the house of County Treasurer John Hart who lived on State Street. They captured Hart and after ransacking his house, forced him to take them to the county treasury where they promptly relieved it of its entire contents. **************************************************************** From website http://www.buckscountymag.com/magazine/a-tale-of-two-newtowns/ | Hart, John (I2918)
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| 239 | ******************************************************** Became involved with Westmoreland Coal Company 1881. Elected Secretary 1886. 1892 elected Vice-President in charge of sales. Died 1917 in car accident ********************************************************* | Adams, Harry Clifton (I1737)
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| 240 | ******************************************************** From ROSTER OF REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS, p. 121: Clark, Benjamin, b. 1747, Tolland, Conn., died 9 aug., 1834, Ulster Pa., m. 1769, (1) Nabbe (Abigail) Clark, b. 1753, d. 12 March 1777, (2) Mrs. Silas Gore (Keziah Y.) of Ulster, Pa. SERVICE: Enlisted at Wyoming, PA, 6 Sept. 1776 and served as pvt. in Capt. Robert Durkee's Independent Co. In Sept. 1777, the company was attached to Col. John Durkee's Conn. Reg. In Feb. 1778, he was Corp in same Co. then commaned by Capt. Simon Spalding in same regt. In summer of 1779, the Co. was attached to Col. Hubley's Expedition against the Indians, and in Feb. or March, 1781, the co. was restored to Col. John Durkee's Conn. Regt. and he later served in Cols. Thomas Grosvenor and Zebulon Butler's Conn. Regt. and was discharged 7 June 1783. CHILDREN: John Theophilus Clark, b. 8 July 1770, m. Cynthia Campbell; Polly (Mary) Clark, b. 3 March 1774; m. ? Blanchard; Sally and Milly CLark, b. 5-3-1777. Above children are from first marriage to Nabbe Clark. Lucinda Clark, m. Nathaniel Hovey; Ursula Clark, m. Samuel Treadway; William, m. Sylvia Niles, daugh of Ezra; Julia Ann, m. John Overton (1 mar.) Niles Passmore (2 mar.). Last 4 children are of Benjamin Clark and Keziah Yarrington. ******************************************************* | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 241 | ******************************************************** From ROSTER OF REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS, p. 121: Clark, Benjamin, b. 1747, Tolland, Conn., died 9 aug., 1834, Ulster Pa., m. 1769, (1) Nabbe (Abigail) Clark, b. 1753, d. 12 March 1777, (2) Mrs. Silas Gore (Keziah Y.) of Ulster, Pa. SERVICE: Enlisted at Wyoming, PA, 6 Sept. 1776 and served as pvt. in Capt. Robert Durkee's Independent Co. In Sept. 1777, the company was attached to Col. John Durkee's Conn. Reg. In Feb. 1778, he was Corp in same Co. then commaned by Capt. Simon Spalding in same regt. In summer of 1779, the Co. was attached to Col. Hubley's Expedition against the Indians, and in Feb. or March, 1781, the co. was restored to Col. John Durkee's Conn. Regt. and he later served in Cols. Thomas Grosvenor and Zebulon Butler's Conn. Regt. and was discharged 7 June 1783. CHILDREN: John Theophilus Clark, b. 8 July 1770, m. Cynthia Campbell; Polly (Mary) Clark, b. 3 March 1774; m. ? Blanchard; Sally and Milly CLark, b. 5-3-1777. Above children are from first marriage to Nabbe Clark. Lucinda Clark, m. Nathaniel Hovey; Ursula Clark, m. Samuel Treadway; William, m. Sylvia Niles, daugh of Ezra; Julia Ann, m. John Overton (1 mar.) Niles Passmore (2 mar.). Last 4 children are of Benjamin Clark and Keziah Yarrington. | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 242 | ********************************************************* From Ulster Township History (Tri-Counties site): About the same time (if not together, from Wyoming) that Colonel Spalding and others went to Sheshequin in 1783 and 1784, settlers came into Ulster. Of these may be mentioned as one of the pioneers, Captain Benjamin Clark, who was among the very first to build a house on the "town-plot," of Wilkes-Barre, having emigrated from Tolland County, Connecticut. He was a Corporal in the First Independent Company of Wyoming, under Captain Robert Darkee, and served seven years in the Revolutionary war. In the battle of Mud Fort, the man in front of him had his head shot off by a cannon ball. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of the citizens of Wilkes-Barre, and was only a day too late--to save the inhabitants from the fate of the tomahawk, and the fiendish tortures of the red men. He was in the army of General Sullivan, which devastated the Indian country in 1779. In connection with General Sullivan’s expedition, Mr. Clark gave the following among his recollections: "At the battle of Newtown, (near where Elmira now is) after the engagement had actively opened, and the Indians were being hard pressed, they knocked down a cow which they had in their possession, cut her up in pieces without skinning her, then took to their heels and made their escape. This they would not have accomplished had General Poore completed his circuit in closing the circle surrounding them. However, the Indians were easily tracked, from the blood which dropped from the cow’s flesh. They were very wrathful at their defeat, and to express it they withed together young hickories." Mr. Clark received for his services a pension of $96 per year. Subsequently he was appointed captain of militia, and was known by the old settlers as "Captain Clark." After peace, Captain Clark remained in Wyoming one year. In the spring of 1784 he moved to the place now called Frenchtown, (Bradford County) and in the year after came up to Ulster, built a log house on the bank of the river on what is known as the "Watkins place," and moved his family into it in the spring of 1785. It will be remembered that an unusually severe rain fell in October, 1786, causing an unusual rise in the river, called the "pumpkin freshet," from the large quantity of that vegetable that floated down the river. Captain Clark’s house stood on the low flat near the river. The water began to rise rapidly, the family became alarmed and fled to the hills and Mr. Clark commenced moving his goods from the house; and so rapidly did the water rise that across a low place between his house and the hillside, where was dry ground when he went for his last load of goods, he was compelled to swim his oxen on the return. The water came up to the eaves of the house, but the building resisted the force of the current, and after the flood subsided the family moved back into it. The winter before the great ice freshet (1784) Mr. Clark was at Sheshequin, and in company with Sergeant Thomas Baldwin, went down to Wilkes-Barre in a canoe. There had been a thaw accompanied with rain, and the river was bank full when the weather became suddenly cold. It was with great effort, the two men could keep from freezing. The reached Wilkes-Barre that same day, but so intensely cold had the weather become that, high as the river was, it froze over that night. Like other Connecticut settlers, Captain Clark took up his farm in Ulster under the Connecticut title, but this proving worthless, he purchased the State title through Thomas Overton. Mr. Clark occupied what is now known as the "Watkins place" until 1816, when he moved to other lands of his, now included in the farm of Benjamin Ross. Here in 1817, he erected a frame dwelling which is yet standing; and our esteemed friend, Rev. S. C. Hovey, a grandson of Mr. Clark, who kindly pointed out the old land-marks for us--rode the horse when a boy nine years old that was hitched in front of the ox-team that drew the logs to the mill for this building. here Mr. Clark lived until the time of his death, which occurred in August, 1834, at the age of eighty-seven years. Captain Clark was an ardent Federalist and a member of the Methodist church. His house was a place of entertainment for travelers, and the home of the Methodist itinerant for many years, and in it the first preaching was held in Sheshequin. Here in 1810 the preaching of Rev. Loring Grant, H. B. Bascom, late Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was converted and received into the Church. It may be said that Mr. Clark kept the first hotel in Ulster. ************************************************************ | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 243 | ********************************************************* Note: 1. The American Genealogist, Vol. 23 page 229. Will of Theophilus Clark: Theophilus Clark of Ashford (Windham Co.), will 5 Oct 1737, proved 7 Nov. 1737. Elisabeth, wife, and children: Ebenezer, Caleb, Deborah, Dorcas, Mary, Abigail, Theophilus, Benjamin and Esther. | Clark, Theophilus I (I28)
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| 244 | ********************************************************** The seeds of Benedict Arnold's treason were probably sown in Philadelphia, where he was forced to defend himself against court-martial charges brought by the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Arnold's skills as a diplomat did not match his skills as a military leader, and he was popular neither with the civilians he attempted to govern nor the officers with whom he fought. He was considered to be impetuous and imprudent in speech, with an overbearing personality and aggressiveness. During the long wait for his trial, Arnold's financial position deteriorated due in part to his preference for the high life, and in part to the slowness of Congress in reimbursing him for the monies which he advanced from his own pocket for the support of his troops. The complaints of his treatment were listened to with sympathy by his new wife, Peggy Shippen, and her decided Tory leanings most likely magnified Arnold's sense of ill treatment. It was probably in this time period that the first British overtures to him were made. A year after charges were filed, Arnold was found guilty of two charges and, on 6 April 1780, received the ordered reprimand from General Washington. Though considered nothing but a tap on the wrist by many, Arnold perceived this sentence as a betrayal, even though he was subsequently given command over West Point. It was in this state of mind that Arnold listened to an offer from Major Andre, the British adjutant-general. The offer was for 20,000 pounds and a commission as major-general in the British army if Arnold succeeded in turning West Point over to the British. If he tried and the takeover failed, he was still guaranteed his expenses and a commission as a brigadier-general. But the plan never got that far because Andre was captured before he could return to his ship. The papers found on him were evidence of the plot and it was only because of a warning by a courier of Andre's that Arnold was able to flee in time to avoid arrest. Andre was executed as an enemy spy, and Arnold took up arms with the British for the remainder of the war. ******************************** FROM http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/arnold/arnold.htm ******************************** | Arnold, General Benedict Jr. (I4381)
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| 245 | ********************************************************** ********************************************************** The Scotch Irish in Pennsylvania "Scotch Irish" or "Scots Irish" is an American term, coined in the mid-19th century, to refer to a group of immigrants from northern Ireland who arrived in America largely during the 18th century. These people were known elsewhere as Ulster Scots. Their history as a people is interesting. After English armies had put down a rebellion of Irish lords with considerable damage to the countryside, the first Scottish king of Great Britain, James I, decided to form a colony in Ulster, largely made up of lowland Scots. This was known as the "Ulster Plantation." These Scots settled in the Ulster counties throughout the 1600s. After a few generations, they thought of themselves as Irish, but reportedly there was not much intermarriage between them, who were predominantly Presbyterian, and their Catholic neighbors. By the 1700s, the English had begun to raise the rents on the lands and to practice some religious discrimination against the Presbyterians. There were also some problems with drought. By the thousands, the Ulster Scots stood up and emigrated to America, largely to Pennsylvania and the other middle Atlantic states. In Pennsylvania, they eventually moved west, into the Ohio valley region. Strongly Whigish, and somewhat embittered with the English, they fought in large numbers in the Revolutionary War. They spread throughout the Appalachian mountains and moved west. When the potato famine caused widespread immigration of southern, Catholic Irish to America, the earlier immigrants coined the term, "Scotch Irish," in an attempt to distinguish themselves. Although millions of Americans are descended from these Scotch Irish immigrants, they simply think of themselves as Americans. Many, such as my line, have intermarried with other Americans of German, English or other descent. The term, while perhaps still known in some circles, has lost much significance in the general culture. This is perhaps unfortunate, because these ancestors of ours have a long, complex and colorful history. Their contributions to our American society have been immense. *** From website http://www.tomcool.us/genealogy/scotchIrish.html *********************************************************** | Hart, Samuel C the pioneer (I1044)
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| 246 | ********************************************************** From the Baker Family Tree, Chapter 17, The Clarke Family: http://bakerfamilytree.blogspot.com/2008/02/chapter-17-clarke-family_27.html ********************************************************** THE FIFTH GENERATION: Benjamin Clark (1750-1834) Benjamin did not remember his father; his father had died when he was only five years old. When Benjamin was twelve years old his mother remarried a Mr. Walden but Mr. Walden died suddenly after less than four years of marriage. His mother again remarried less than a year following her second husband’s death and this time she moved with her new husband to Norwick, Connecticut leaving behind Benjamin and his brothers in Ashford. Benjamin, then seventeen, went to work and live at his uncle Theophilus’ tavern on Ashford Green in the village of Ashford. Benjamin Clark met his future wife “Nabbe” from the nearby community of Tolland, shortly before his nineteenth birthday. When they married in early 1769 Nabbe was only sixteen and Benjamin had just turned nineteen. [“Nabbe” and Benjamin are our daughter-in-law’s 6th great grandparents. Unfortunately, we know little about the background of Nabbe. It is believed that her proper name was Abigail but her surname is not known. A number of sources give her name as Abigail Hunt which would be very exciting because Abigail Hunt’s great-great grandfather, Thomas Loring, was the sister of Welthean Loring who is our son’s 11th great grandmother. This, if it were true, would mean that our son and his wife, our daughter-in-law, share common ancestors, the parents of Thomas and Welthean Loring. It is also exciting because Abigail Hunt is a descendant of a Mayflower passenger. As is often the case, information found on Ancestry.com is often bogus and after some research I believe that it is unlikely that it was Abigail Hunt who married Benjamin Clark. For one thing she was born and died in a town in Massachusetts that is not located anywhere near where Benjamin lived. Furthermore, the date of her death does not match the known date of Nabbe’s death. New note added December, 2008: Based on reasearch provided by Paula Hart, a distant cousin of my daughter-in-law's and a Clark descendant, she determined that Abigail Hart actually married a cousin of Benjamin Clark's who also was named Benjamin Clark. Their fathers were brothers. This helps explain why some of the genealogists using Ancestry.com confused the names. In Chapter 8 of our family’s history we write about two of our ancestor families, the Hammonds and the Tubbs. Both families relocated in the early 1770s from New London, Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley (along the Susquehanna River near the present day city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania). The background for this move to the Wyoming Valley was described as follows: “In 1753, an association was formed in Connecticut, called the Susquehanna (Land) Company, the object of which was to plant a colony in the Wyoming Valley, a region claimed by Connecticut by virtue of an ancient but somewhat questionable Charter granted to it by the English Crown in the 1600s. . . In February 1769, the Susquehanna Company finally sent its first group of forty Connecticut settlers into the Wyoming Valley. They were followed in the spring of 1769 by another two hundred families . . . .” [More information about this new colony and its history in the Revolutionary War is described in Chapter 8]. The tempting offer of inexpensive and fertile farm land was enough to entice not only my ancestors, the Hammond and Tubbs families, to relocate but also Benjamin and his brother Samuel and their families, who in early 1770 made the long overland trip to this new community in the Wyoming Valley. Despite the fact that hundreds of Connecticut Yankees moved to this new community in northeastern Pennsylvania over the next four or five years, it is likely that the Clarks (our daughter-in-law’s ancestors) and the Hammonds and Tubbs (our son’s ancestors) were neighbors and well acquainted. In fact, in August of 1776 both Benjamin Clark and Samuel Tubbs enlisted together as privates in the Wyoming Company that was formed to join forces with the army of George Washington. Their Company marched to New Jersey and joined with Washington’s Continental Army on January 1, 1777. Nabbe was pregnant when Benjamin left with his regiment. Benjamin and Nabbe Clark’s first son, John Theophilus Clark, was born on July 8, 1770 in their newly built two room log home constructed shortly after their arrival in the Wyoming Valley. In 1772, a second child, a daughter, was born to the couple and in 1774 the couple was blessed with a third child. On March 5, 1777, Nabbe gave birth to twin daughters, however the births of the twins did not go well, and her new babies died. The complications from the births were too much for Nabbe. Her husband was away at the war when she finally surrendered her life on March 12, 1777. She was just 24 years old. Benjamin was devastated when he learned a month later of his young wife’s death. Benjamin Clark and the Connecticut Regiment from the Wyoming Valley played a very active role in the Revolutionary War. In 1777, they were engaged in actions at Milstone River and Bound Brook in New Jersey [home of another Revolutionary War patriot, our ancestor, Peter Harpending] and in battles at Brandywine and Germantown, before joining Washington’s army at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78. In the spring of 1778, some of their regiment having heard rumors of a threatened attack upon their community in the Wyoming Valley, returned home to assist in the protection of their homes. Benjamin however, elected to stay with the Continental Army and was not present at the Battle of Wyoming on July 3, 1778. [See Chapter 8 for more details]. In June of 1778, Benjamin’s regiment was engaged in the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey. Shortly after the battle his troops were ordered to return to Wyoming however they failed to arrive before the Indian attack and the massacre of so many of their friends. Benjamin was discharged from duty on July 5, 1778. In the summer of 1779, Benjamin joined Sullivan’s expedition against the western Indians which took him as far north as Seneca Lake in Central New York. Further military records indicate that Benjamin served in the army from March 1781 through June 1783. In 1818 at the age of sixty-nine years old, Benjamin Clark then residing in the Township of Ulster in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, applied for and was awarded a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War. In his application for the pension he noted that his discharge papers from the military were lost in February 1793 when “his home was consumed by fire together with all his effects . . “ [Chapter 9 describes Peter Harpending’s involvement in the Battle of Monmouth, Chapter 12 has a section describing the Sullivan Expedition, and Chapter 15 outlines many of our ancestors who fought alongside Benjamin Clark in the American War for Independence. If only we could go back in time to see how often the Clark family and our family crossed paths in the course of our country’s early history. It would be a fascinating adventure.] Somehow, between the time he was discharged in July of 1778 and the time he re-enlisted in the summer of 1779, Benjamin Clarke managed to get remarried. His new wife was 28 year old Keziah Yarrington. Keziah had lost her first husband, Silas Gore, the previous year at the Battle of Wyoming. Together they had four children born between the years 1781 and 1787. In the late 1780s, the Clark family including Benjamin’s brother and his family, moved north up the Susquehanna River to settle a new community in Ulster in present day Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Joining them was Benjamin’s oldest son, John Theophilus Clark, and John’s future bride, Cynthia Campbell. Benjamin lived to the ripe old age of 87 and he is buried alongside his second wife in Ulster. Their gravesite in Ulster is located about 67 miles south of our cottage on Seneca. | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 247 | ************************************************************* Benjamin Clark, a native of Tolland, Connecticut, removed to the Wyoming Valley and was among the first to build a house on the town-plot of Wilkes-Barre. He was a corporal in the first Independent Company of Wyoming under Capt. Robert Durkee and served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of Wyoming after the fatal battle and was in the army of General Sullivan against the Indians. In 1784 he removed from Wyoming to Asylum , and the next year, settled in Ulster on what is known as the Ross farm. His house was the place of entertainment for travelers and the home of Methodist itinerants who held religious meetings there. He was an ardent Federalist, captain of militia and popularly known as Captain Clark. By his first wife, Nabbe, he had children John T., Polly (Mrs. Blanchard) and Abigail (Mrs. George Culver). He married, second, Keziah Yarrington, widow of Silas Gore, who was slain at the battle of Wyoming, and had children: Lucinda (Mrs. Nathaniel Hovey) , Ursula (Mrs. Samuel Treadway) , William and Julia Ann (1st. Mrs. John Overton, 2nd, Mrs. Joseph Passmore). Captain Clark died, 1834, aged 87 years. | Clark, Julia Ann (I3747)
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| 248 | ****************************************************************** Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania: Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Page 547, Issue 1280 "Mrs. Philinda (Lathrop) Irwin was born in Bridgewater township, Susquehanna county, daughter of Oliver Lathrop, and granddaughter of Spencer and Clarissa (Tupper) Lathrop, of Connecticut, who settled in Susquehanna county in pioneer times. Oliver Lathrop was born in Susquehanna county, January 5, 1815, and early in life began reading medicine, but as his family needed his help he gave up his cherished plans. For some years he taught school successfully, and later engaged in farming. In 1860 he located at our subject's present homestead, where he died in December, 1875. In politics he was a Democrat, and at times he held township" ********************************************************** | Lathrop, Philinda (I4124)
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| 249 | ********************************************************************* James Clement Reeve and Mary Ann Milligan were the parents of George C. Reeve born August 27 1868, John Crandell Reeve born June 28 1871, Amanda Olive Reeve born Augut 27 1876, Charles Bertain Reeve born April 10 1883. | Reeve, James Clement (I4450)
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| 250 | ************************************************************************ 10. Abigail Lathrop Abigail’s husband John Huntington was born 15 Mar 1666 in Norwich, New London, CT. His parents were Christopher Huntington and Ruth Rockwell. John died 7 Nov 1732 in Norwich, New London, CT. They had nine children: Abigail Huntington, born Feb. 19, 1687 ; married James Calkins; John Huntington, born April 20, 1688, and died in 1690. John Huntington, born July 4, 1691, and married Thankful Warner, of Windham, Ct., and settled in Tolland; Hannah Huntington, March 25, 1693-4, and married Joseph Rockwell, of Windsor; `Martha Huntington, born Dec. 9, 1696, and married Noah Grant, of Tolland, and became the ancestress of President Ulysses S. Grant. (From website - https://minerdescent.com/2010/11/30/samuel-lathrop/ ************************************************************************ | Lathrop, Abigail (I3820)
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