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1 - HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.

I was born on October 15/1877, at 3731 Forest Avenue, Chicago, Ill., in a house built by my father, a double brick two storied house with basement: the other half was my Aunt Nettie's, father's sister, and occupied by her until her marriage in 1882. The house faced south; on the first floor were a drawing room, dining room, and study, besides the kitchen and pantry: three bedrooms on the second floor with bath: gas-lighting and a hot air furnace in the basement: the house stood about 15 ft from the road: a backyard abutting on an alley: there was a two storied house in the back yard in which father kept chickens for for a year. Having left Chicago so young, I remember but little of it, except that it was one of the few houses on the block, the sidewalk of wood and the street not paved, though this was done while we lived there, and the block entirely built up. Michigan Avenue, two blocks East was a sight on Sunday afternoons, with sleighs streaming past in winter. Father went to the city every day by the old horse car on Indiana Avenue and when the cable cars were installed, he took us riding on the front seat on Sundays: the cars were open: the surge of the car as the cable was picked up, was thrilling. When I was five, I started at the Cottage Grove Avenue School, to which I was led on the first day by a little girl neighbor, Pearl Gilsen. I attended that school for nearly five years, but remember nothing of it but the fire drills and the excitement of the Bleine-Cleveland election. I remember spending one summer at Grandfather John Armstrong's farm at Arcola, 158 miles south of Chicago, a pleasure much diluted by mother insisting on teaching us French. I also remember mother taking me to the Theodore Thomas orchestral concerts in Chicago, which made a lasting impression on me. Mother taught me the piano: having been blessed with "absolute pitch", it came easily, and has helped me all my life. I went back to see our old house in 1915, and found it occupied by negroes, as was most of the neighbor-hood, but it still had the same kitchen range and gas fixtures: I also hunted up Pearl Gilsen: how did I ever think her beautiful.
Six months before I was ten years old, father decided to make his future life in Japan: for two previous years, he had been in China and Japan for seven months of the year, the other five months spent in travelling around the U.S.A. taking orders for tea, leaving him with only two weeks to spend with us at Christmas. For this reason, he moved us all out to Yokohama, sold his Chicago house, and with our possessions, we went to Yokohama in April 1888. I often wonder how we children would have turned out had we remained in Chicago. We travelled out via Omaha and the Santa Fe Railway to San Francisco. As I look back, it seems that the trains, sleeping and dining cars have been changed but little, except in speed and lighting, the latter then Pintsch Gas. All went well until we arrived at San Francisco and put up at the old Palace Hotel, built around an inner courtyard, into which the carriages drove. Five days before we sailed, Chester came down with scarlet fever so he and mother had to stay behind, and followed us a month later per "Gaelic", father, Elinor and I sailed per "Oceanic", Captain Metcalf, a four masted single screw steel boat of some 3000 tons, chartered by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., from the White Star Line: she carried about 90 passengers, had oil lamps: the only lounge was an oval narrow passage around the open well of the dining saloon below. With favorable winds, square sails were set on all four masts, which kept her heeled over alarmingly. She went to Yokohama direct, in 16 days: in those days only one in every four stopped at Honolulu, which then did not belong to the U.S.A. These steamers had no refrigeration apparatus: cattle, pigs,

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sheep and chickens, were slaughtered on the foredeck, which we watched in fascinated horror. Each table in the dining saloon was presided over by a ship's officer, who served us from platters in front of them. We were lucky to have crossed on the "Oceanic" instead of some of the other boats, which had only paddle wheels instead of propellers. On rough voyages, these small steamers could not carry enough coal to get them across, and sometimes arrived in Yokohama, having had to burn a lot of the cabins and woodwork, or even to stop at the Bonin Islands to get coal. There were no docks or piers at Yokohama: passengers were landed by sampans. We stayed at the Grand Hotel for some weeks, and then moved into 89 Bluff, where we lived for thirty years: this house was destroyed by the great earthquake in 1923. It was a wood bungalow, with drawing, dining and four bedrooms: one bathroom but no running water: waterworks had been installed in the Settlement but not extended to the Bluff until ten years later. Father built a double bath house outside, all the water having to be hauled up from our 100 ft deep well. Drinking water was carried up in buckets from the settlement waterworks. We had kerosene oil lamps: gas was brought in about l900, and electric light some years later. The wall paper in the corners of the rooms was always cracked by the frequent earthquakes. All the rooms but two had fireplaces, warm enough for the mild winters in Yokohama, where it seldom went below freezing. The Bluff road wound along the top of range of hills forming the bluff for about two miles, on which the foreign houses were built - no Japanese houses. Some residents had carriages, but rickshas were the usual mode of transportation: there were ricksha stands at all roads leading up from the settlement, which were steep, necessitating "atoshi", (pushers) at 5 sen per push: rickshas to any place along the bluff cost only ten sen a ride: they used to tear down the hills at an alarming pace and spills were frequent but nobody was ever hurt. Yokohama was a lovely city, the peerless Fuji-yama, 12365 ft high, 75 miles away, dominated every view: the eastern bluff overlooked the bay. We had over a hundred small earthquakes every year, sometime doing considerable damage. In 1891, the whole of our tile roof was shaken into the garden: chimneys often fell, but no serious disaster until 1923, when the whole city was destroyed and great pieces of the bluff sloughed off into the bay. The roads were macadamized: gravel spread on once or twice a year, and left to wear down by traffic: streets were watered by hand cart. Servants were good and cheap: cook Y15, boys Y12 and amahs Y8 per month, and they fed themselves. Kitchen and the servants quarters were always outside the house. Yokohama was then a city of about 800,000, the foreigners of all nations except the Chinese numbering about 2000. The wealthier Japanese never lived on the Bluff, but on the hills to the northwest of the city, and there was but little association with them in a social way, on account of the barrier of language and different customs. The English predominated and formed the character of the city .

The English garrison had been withdrawn before our arrival and all foreigners at that time enjoyed extra-territoriality, under the laws of their respective countries, operating through their consulates: Consuls had judicial powers. This made things complicated, for any national could only be sued in his own Consular Court. The city was policed by Japanese who had to present their cases in the Consular Courts. About 1900, extra-territoriality was abolished, and all foreigners came under Japanese law. All foreign owned property was held under Perpetual Lease, granted by the Japanese Government when the port was opened in 1860-70: property tax was ridiculously low.

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Foreigners paid no other taxes to the Japanese Government, nor to their own either. The Japanese resented this relic of the old Treaty Port days, though when the agreement was made, it was very profitable to the Japanese, who in that way, segregated the foreigners into small hitherto useless sections outside their cities, thus avoiding the sanguinary clashes with truculent Daimyo parties passing through who used to cut down any foreigner in their path, a thing that happened several times, after the unwilling opening of Japan by Commodore Perry.

In 1904 the Japanese Government tried unsuccessfully to have these early treaties cancelled, by submitting the question to the Hague Court. It was not until 1936 that these treaties were finally cancelled, to take effect in 1942, but the second World Was cancelled them automatically.

Our third summer of 1891 was spent at the Tsuiya Hotel at Lake Hakone: the Dodds and James families occupied the rest of the hotel. In those days we went there by train to Kodzu, thence 8 miles by horse car to Yumoto, and were carried up over the Sata Pass by kago, to the lake. A more delightful place in Japan would be hard to find: the view over the lake to Fujiyama was superb. Hakone was very popular then for the reason that it was within the short radius of Yokohama to which foreigners were allowed to go. My first ten years in Yokohama were very pleasant: the numberless trips to Japan's loveliest cities, temples, mountain resorts etc, and the social life, sports such as rowing swimming, sailing, bicycle riding, tennis, athletic meets, dances concerts, amateur theatricals, etc, at a time when the foreign community of Yokohama and Tokyo were at their zenith, made life very full. I remember the first murder trial in the British Consular Court: Mrs. Cerew, an English woman, poisoned her husband with arsenic: he was secretary of the Yokohama United Club. It was a thrilling experience when the Judge put on the black cap and condemned her "to be hung by the neck until she was dead, and may God have mercy on your soul". Her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment in Holloway Jail in England: she was released after serving 18 years. The case involved a lot of scandal and several important men in town had to leave the country. The Carews lived near us, and I had violin lessons for her for a few months: she was a prize pupil of Ysaye.

Yokohama harbor in those days was filled with British, American, French, German and Russian warships and even one Turkish warship, most of them wooden ships, full rigged, though the British had some new steel ships. We American boys felt bitterly that our men of war were all old wooden ships, the flagship being the "Monocacy", with side paddle wheels: how she ever got across the Pacific Ocean was a mystery - she was anchored in Yokohama for many years, seldom going out of port for a short run: she was finally sold and broken up at Shanghai. These warships used to give frequent parties on board for the foreign children of Yokohama. They were the "Marion", "Trenton", "Susquehanna" and others: when they were all sunk in the great Samoa typhoon of May 1899 we felt it very much. The first American steel wardship to come to Japan was the "Olympia" of Manila battle fame: and later the "Oregon", which looked so queer after 16 ft had been added to her funnels. Our house was always the center of the 4th July fireworks celebration, in which the British boys could not resist joining, somewhat shamefacedly, until one bright English boy discovered the British had won the Battle of Ulundi in South Africa on that date. Another thrill for Yokohama children, was to go down to the Chinatown section of the settlement, when sailors of the men of war in port would get drunk at the grog shops and have the

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the most lovely and gory battles. Another thrill was to go to the immense fires which swept the native city, burning from one to three hundred flimsy wooden houses at one time.
        When we arrived at Yokahama in 1888, Chester and I were sent to the Victoria Public School at 179 Bluff, an institution founded in 1887 on the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee, with a grant from the British Government. It was carried on in the regular English Public School tradition, under Professor C.H.H. Hinton, a man far too good for such youngsters of all nationalities: we were frequent caned. Hinton was a famous mathematician, noted for his studies of the "Fourth Dimension" who accepted the post merely to see the world: when the school was closed, he became professor of mathematics at Princeton University and later was with the Patent Office at Washington, D.C. The second master was Mr. H.L. Fardel, an Alsatian: he was killed in the 1923 earthquake. This school lasted long enough to educate Chester and myself; I remember mother having to ask him to teach some American history: we had been drowned in William the Conqueror 1066 &c, but in mathematics we had lessons up to college grades, far beyond public school grades.
       After arriving in Yokohama, mother had me change over from the piano to the violin: I started under Professor Sauvalet, a German, head of the Tokyo Academy of Music: he returned to Germany in about a year, and from then on I was taught by Hans Ramseger, a young amateur from Hamburg, who taught me most of what I know - a life long- friend until he died in Kobe in 1930. Later I had lessons from Professor August Junker, of the Tokyo Academy of Music, a former first violin of the Boston Symphony Orchestra: then a year's teaching by Max Schluter, a Dane, fresh from studying with Joachim. I was fortunate in taking part in many of the concerts these men gave at the Tokyo Academy, and in string quartet concerts. This brought me into intimate acquaintance with so many of the world famous musicians of the day who came through Yokohama on their concert tours. At one of these concerts, Ovide Musin, the Belgian violinist, played the Beethoven Concerto, with piano and our string quartet.
        After the Victoria School closed father could not afford to send Chester and I home to college, so he had us tutored in French and Japanese, and taught shorthand and typewriting: we had of course picked up Japanese as children, and I eventually learned to speak it almost as well as English: I learned only 1000 characters, so cannot read and write the language. In August 1893, when I was almost 17 years old, I got my first position with the American Trading Co., 28 Main St., Yokohama, as stenographer, at Y15 per month! This was one of the great American import and export concerns of Japan and China: four years with them were invaluable training. During those years, in vacation tine, I bicycled to Kobe via Nara and Kyoto, some 325 miles and from there visited Himeji, Hiroshima then the terminus of the Sanyo Railway, and down to Moji by steamer thence to Nagasaki and back home.
        In 1898, while mother was in America, Chester and I thought we'd like to set up housekeeping on our on, and rented a Japanese base on Nakamura Bluff, some two miles away; we both got sick and when mother got back she promptly brought us back home. Chester and I also took our first trip away from home on October 10/1899, by the "Sakura Maru" to Otaru, (via Oginohama (Matsushima) and Hakodate) thence by rail to Sapporo, thence to Guban (? handwritten) coal mines to see the strange Ainu at Piratori, and finally to Mucoren (?) and back to Hakodate by fast jervy.
       After four years with the American Trading Co. I had been.

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promoted to their shipping department, and was setting Yen 90 per month: father didn't think this was enough. Mr. K.W. Frazar of Frazar & Co., offered me a position at Yen 150 per month for the same kind of work which I promptly accepted. A year or so after, John Lindsley, the senior partner, came out to Yokohama and under his high moral and business principles, I had my character formed in a way that has been of inestimable benefit to me all my life. In 1902 he closed out his interest in the firm, and E.W. Fraser merged it with Sale & Co., an English firm, whose policies did not seem to as to be honorable: in fact they were sued for sinking the "Agenor" to obtain the insurance on a cargo of unsaleable wheat; one of their employees, Lewis, shipped as supercargo had bored holes in her sides, but she didn't sink and drifted ashore near Kobe: Lewis was jailed for barratry. Sale compensated him later, and got off scot free himself.
Just at that time I had an offer to join the German firm of Moele & Co. in Tokyo, at a salary of Yen 400 per month, a considerable advance on the Yen 225 I was then getting at Frazar & Co. Mosle & Co, was a one man show, owned by Alexander George Mosle of Bremen, Germany, who had a profitable business with the Japanese government, supplying war materials and machinery from Krupp and from John Cockerill & Co., of Liege, Belgina, and other continental factories. Mosle offered me as extra inducements, a three month trip to Shanghai, Chefoo, Tientsin, Peking, Newchwang, Mukden, Dalny, Port Arthur and Harbin, the last five cities then being under Russian control. He also promised me, after two years service, a trip around the world, with full salary and travelling expenses for 12 months, and also the post of Belgian Consul, a post which I held for two years. Mosle's business was not one for which I had any training, and I knew it was one of his personal friendships with the Japanese government officials of those days, and would not outlast the death of those officials, for the government was gradually turning their orders over to the large and growing Japanese firms. Besides, I didn't know enough French and German to conduct the necessary correspondence in those languages but it was arranged that I should write in English, add they would reply in their own languages, which I could read well enough. After consultation with father and Mr. Lindsley it was decided that I was still young enough to risk some years in this business, besides which, the travel inducements were more than I could resist. I finally left Frazar & Co., and next day joined Mosle & Co. in May 1902 at his Tokyo office, Sanjikken-bori, with a staff of four Japanese and a young German book keeper, Mr. Schmausser. Mosle and I sailed from Yokohama in May 1902 per "Princess Irene", for Shanghai, thence per "Tungchow' to Chefoo and Tientsin. Then by train to Peking, Newchwang and Mukden. During the trip between Newchwang and Mukden I had the thrill of riding on the locomotive for four hours, the engine driver drinking steadily out of the spout of a tea kettle – pure whiskey. Then to Harbin, back to Dairen, across to Chefoo again, and back to Kobe per "Sagami Maru"', a two month trip.
While I was with Mosle & Co., I lived part of the time at his fine estate of 13,000 tsubo in Sandageya, about five miles from the office. His house was a Japanese style house with certain foreign conveniences, and a large garden with a lake laid out in formal Japanese style: I never liked it very much and didn't like living alone. So I often commuted between Tokyo and Yokohama: I figure I rode 90,000 miles this way. My being Belgian Consul didn't involve much work - mostly writing reports for the Foreign Office in Brussels about Japan trade possibilities. It gave me the entree to all Court functions and I made many friends with the Japanese Ministers of Stats and the Diplomatic Corps

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I was presented to the Empress and to several of the Princes and Princesses before whom I played in the concerts of the Uyeno Academy of Music. I remember one concert at which the Empress was present, in the middle of which, word came from the Central Observatory that a big earthquake was expected imminently. The Empress was taken home promptly, and the concert was not completed, nor did the earthquake happen. Mrs. Payne, Maya's aunt, who was that day to sing the beautiful aria "Penelope's Trauer" from Max Bruch's "Odysseus", with orchestra never got her chance, a bitter disappointment to her. We stood for hours out in the grounds of the Academy waiting for that earthquake. I remember another concert there during the Russo-Japanese war, when we were giving a couple of scenes from "Faust": the Minister of Foreign Affairs suddenly got up on the stage and announced in French, the drastic news of the fell of Port Arthur to the Japanese: the enthusiasm almost broke up the concert. The soloists were members of the Diplomatic Corps, the Japanese students of the Academy making the chorus. I attended the opening of the Osaka Exhibition as representative of Belgium, with the Minister, Baron D'Anethan and his wife, who was a sister of Rider Haggard. In lieu of uniform which Americans of the diplomatic service were not allowed to wear, I had to wear a full dress suit at 9.30 in the morning, in the broiling sun.
A few months after I took charge of Mosle & Co., Mr Mosle left for Germany for a furlough of two years. We got some very fine orders and did a good business. Mosle returned in October 1904, and shortly after my 27th birthday, I sailed on my world tour per "China", on December 15/1904, via Honolulu for San Francisco. You can imagine my thrill at seeing my own country for the first time since I grew up: the first thrill was at Honolulu where I had my first ice cream soda, and rode in my first electric trolley car. At San Francisco, my first shock was to see white men doing coolie work, and white servants at the hotels and restaurants, and especially white women doing servants work. The Pacific steamers had Chinese servants and Hawaiian crews. I stayed at the new St. Francis Hotel, and attended my first theater and the Orpheum. After visiting Los Angeles, then a straggling town with muddy streets, I left San Francisco for Salt Lake City by the Union Pacific Railway, and made a side trip to Lake Tahoe. There I changed to the Denver & Rio Grande and went to Telluride to visit Halstead Lindsley who had just started his first mining venture. Then via Colorado Springs to Denver and on to Chicago, where I met many of my relatives, hitherto just names to me. My Aunt Nettie (father's sister) was the only one I knew, she having come out to Yokohama for six months in 1901 with father. I visited her and my great aunt Molly Winslow in Beloit. Father, who had left Yokohama two months before I did, wired me from New York to come on while he was there and could show me around. It was the most wonderful experience of my life: he took me to all the operas and concerts and theaters, and to see my only Poole cousins in Brooklyn, Marion, Harold and his wife and two children, and Walter. We stayed in New York at the Argonaut Hotel on Madison and 23rd St: the rooms had folding beds which I had never seen before (or since). Father certainly knew where everything interesting was in New York, and I hardly got any sleep. I remember the approach to Grand Central was an open cutting with tenement houses on both sides of the track: work on the new station had already started. I had my first ride on the new Lexington Avenue subway and have loved it ever since. Brooklyn Bridge was amazing to me. I heard Caruso, Scotti, De Hetzky, Sembrich, Ysaye, De Pachman and other stars. In February, father had to start back to Japan, and I accompanied him to Chicago for a longer visit. from there, I came East again, via Pittsburgh, Buffalo,

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where I saw my cousin Anna Maude Hoxsie and Niagara Falls, and on to Boston. I stayed at the new Touraine Hotel: I saw the Lindsleys at Milton. From there I went to Washington and stayed three days at the New Willard Hotel, during the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt. The Union Station was not yet built: we were dumped out of the train on some mud flats and had to walk across the flats on boards for a long distance. Then back to New York: I stayed at the new Astor Hotel on Times Square, I didn't stay long in New York that time as it was too expensive without father to pay my bills. I sailed for Liverpool on April 10/1905, per "Baltic", the largest steamer I could pick out, the voyage taking eight days: the ship was very modestly fixed up compared to present day steamers. The voyage was very pleasant, as there were several Japan and China friends among the passengers. From Liverpool to London by the boat train, the lovely park like scenery different from anything I had seen. I put up at the Victoria Hotel on Northumberland Avenue. I had a wonderful time in London, on and off for more than three months, seeing old retired Japan friends. I bought a 29 inch Humber bicycle and rode it all around the south of England, in Belgium and in France: I rode that bicycle for fifteen years after in Japan. I went to the Cowes Regatta at the time of the Entente Cordiale festivities, and went aboard the three masted schooner "Atlantic" which had just won the trans-atlantic race. Then I made a trip to Edinburgh, Inverness, down the Caledonian Canal to Oban, across Loch Lomond to the Trossachs, and down to Glasgow and Ayr where I visited mother's relatives, the Shaws. Then across to Belfast from Ardrossen by the fast ferryboat "Adder", and visited the home of mother's ancestors at Cherry Valley, Antrim, see my report under subject 12. Then down to Cavan, Dublin and Leitrim, where I stayed with mother's cousins the Littles: they showed the empty field where mother's house formerly stood on the banks of the river Shannon. Then back to London, via Liverpool. I went back and forth across the English Channel seven times, to Belgium, France and Germany, visiting many of the factories with whom we did business, and visited Antwerp, Ostend, Calais, Brussels, Liege, Namur, Aix La Chapelle &c. I bicycled from Liege to Luxembourg, and down into France as far as Pont-a-Mousson, where I inspected a large order for Water Pipes we had sold to the Tokyo Water Works. Ten years later I was able to visualise many of the battles of the first World War in these sections. I visited Waterloo, and then from Cologne, took one of those palatial steamers up the Rhine, via Coblenz, where I saw Beethoven's house, and made a side trip up the Moselle to Trarbach, and then on to Mainz where I left the steamer and went to Wiesbaden, finding several Yokohama friends there. Then to Leipsig, Augsburg, Dresden and Berlin where I saw the festivities of the wedding of Crown Princess Cecile Then to Kiel, crossed to Copenhagen, back to Lubeck, thence to Bremen and across the Zuidersee to Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, and back to London. Late in July, I started back home stopping at Paris, where I saw Faust with the marvellous ballet, a much better performance than in Mew York, except for the high priced stars which New York was more able to afford than Paris. Then for a month in Switzerland I bought a season railway ticket good anywhere in Switzerland and visited every famous resort, including a trip up the Jungfrau by the new electric railway. Then down to Italy via the St. Gotthard Pass, stopping off at Como, Genoa, Milan, Venice, and a side trip to Monte Carlo, where I won 20 francs at the Casino. Then to Rome, Naples, and across to Brindisi, where I boarded the P & O steamer "Osiris" for Port Said. I transferred there to the P & 0 steamer "China" and in September 1905 sailed for Colombo, with regret that I had no more money or time to go to Cairo

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to see the Pyramids: however I saw them thirty years later. As soon as I got on the "China", I felt near home again, as there were many old Japan friends on the steamer. At Colombo, as the "China" was going on to Australia, I transferred to the "Arcadia", via Penang and Singapore to Hong Kong. I took side trips to Canton and Macao. from Hong Kong I sailed per "Doric" for Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama, landing just eleven months from the time I had left. The trip had cost me all of the 7000 Yen I had been saving up for years, and had nothing to show for it but a bicycle and a London dress suit: the actual round trip first class was Yen 1080, including rail across the U.S.A., and from London to Brindisi by rail.
         Shortly after returning to Yokohama, I imported my first motor bicycle, an Ariel, single cylinder, and rode it all around the country for years, even using it when going to parties at the embassies in Tokyo with my swallow tails tucked into my pockets. Thanks to this experience with this moto-bike, I had many chances to drive other people`s new motor cars, which were just beginning to come in; the owners seldom could drive and there were no chauffers in those days.
          In 1906 Mosle wished to retire from business and live in Germany. He sold his business to Dodwell & Co., who sent up their employee E.J. Libeaud to work with me. Just as I had warned Dodwell when this proposal was talked over, the business began to fall off: the shifting of orders from the foreign firms to the Japanese companies, increased rapidly. Many of the old English and American firms began closing out their branches, and as I saw the handwriting on the wall, decided to change to one of the more stable American companies, whose business could not be absorbed by the Japanese. My preference was for the Standard Oil Co. which had opened its own branches in the Orient about 1900, but it was some time before I could accomplish this.
          Meanwhile I had met in Tokyo, through our common interest in music, a beautiful and charming American girl, a fine pianist who had recently returned from studying the piano for three years. she was Rebecca (Bessie) Nielson Ballagh, daughter of the Reverend James Ballagh, treasurer of the Meiji Gakuin, Shirokane, Shiba, Tokyo, a missionary school for Japanese boys and girls: her mother was from Baltimore. Bessie was born at Tokyo on October 27/1888. We were married at Trinity Cathedral, Tsukiji, Tokyo, on December 18/1908, by the Reverend Bishop MoKim. For our honeymoon we went to Miyanoshita, Kyoto, Nara and Kobe, returning per "Chiyo Maru", and set up housekeeping at 22 Bluff: in a few months we moved to 84 Bluff, across the street from father's house. We spent that summer at Koshiba, some 8 miles down the bay between Tomioka and Kanazawa, high on the hill overlooking Tokyo Bay and Yakosuka. Here Bess contracted spinal meningitis and ten days after returning home, she died on September 9/1909, less than nine months after we were married: she was buried in the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery. Bessie's elder sister Edna had married a few months previously, Dr. Andrew Macfarlane of Albany N.Y., who had met her in Berlin: she had one daughter Bessie who married young Lehman of the Standard Oil Co., Manila branch: in 1943 both of them and their baby were prisoners of war of the Japanese in a Manila prison camp. Edna divorced Macfarlane in 1920 and married, 2nd, Yameni Haden, an English engineer in New York: they had no children and as he drank she divorced him, and still lived in New York. Bessie's two brothers, Hamilton and Jack have both died, the former insane and the latter of some paralysis, neither of them married.
          Shortly after Bessie's death, I was transferred to the Kobe office of Dodwell & Co., Chester also having been transferred there about

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the same time. We lived at the Melhuishes (Dodwell's manager) for six months while Mrs. Melhuish was in England, and then sought bachelor quarters, separately. Late in 1910, I finally accomplished my desire to join the Standard Oil Co. of New York, at Kobe, and in December that year, was appointed manager of their Nagasaki office. I left Kobe on December 1/1910 per "Empress of Japan" for Nagasaki, after a month's training at Kobe. I replaced Sam Hepburn who then retired: he was the son of the Reverend Dr. Hepburn who compiled the first Japanese-English dictionary. I lived alone in batchelor quarters above the office at No 9 Bund, our staff consisting of nine Japanese, my territory being the whole of Kyushiu and the Loochoo Islands (Okinawa). Nagasaki is the most beautiful port in Japan, and though the foreign community was small, the foreign settlement was separated from the Japanese city. The presence of American men of war and transports, which like the regular nail steamers always coaled at Nagasaki, and British, Russian and German war ships, made life very gay, besides the wives and families of many American Army and naval officers, came up from the Philippines to spend the summers in the resorts around Nagasaki, Unzen, Obama &c. I became intimate friends of General Pershing and his family, and his aide, Major Hines, the Nagasaki quartermaster.
A month after I arrived at Nagasaki, I contracted typhoid fever, and had to spend six weeks in the International Hospital in Kobe, but had no complications. For travelling around Kyushiu, the company provided me with a Buick two seated open motor car, my first car: I drove it over 5000 miles. On one occasion, at Usuki, I was asked by the Chief of Police to take his old mother out for a drive. She was 100 years old and was lifted into the car as she could neither stand up or walk: this secured me all kinds of favors in the island: more than once I was asked to drive around school playgrounds to show the pupils what a motor oar looked like. I spent the next two years travelling around Kyushiu, looking after the almost exclusive business of the Standard Oil Co., for Kyushiu was rich in being the principal rice growing part of Japan, the inhabitants remaining loyal to our Jyomatsu (Atlantic Refining Co) brand of kerosene - the mainstay of the business: Gasoline was merely a trickle in those days. I was fortunate in making a good record with the company, my knowledge of the language helped a lot, and I could live on Japanese chow. In December 1911, I spent Christmas with Eleanor in Shanghai and enjoyed it immensely: the Russian captain of our boat, the "Santa Maria" was roaring drunk all the way over and we narrowly missed sinking in going up the Whang-poa river by colliding with another steamer: the life boats on the other ship were torn off, and our boat lost its bridge.
In January 1912, I had the most startling experience of my life. I happened to be in Kagoshima when the long dormant volcano of Sakura-jima erupted suddenly, with barely enough time to get the inhabitants to the mainland. Sakura-jima was an island about 4 miles in diameter, situated in the middle of Kagoshima Bay, a mile or so from the mainland on the Kagoshima side and less than a mile on the other. The cone rises in a beautiful sweep to a height of 4400 ft. The eruption started at 2 P.M. on a lovely sunny day (there is never snow in Kagoshima), with a burst of steam and smoke, from a new crater some 500 ft below the summit. At 7 P.M. came the big earthquake which levelled most of the city. It broke the inlet pipe of our 35 ft tank, the kerosene ran out, sank into the sand, not 500 ft from the shore: many months later our New York office instructed us to dig a well under the tank: most of the kerosene was floating on the subsoil water seeping in from the bay, and we recovered most of it, good enough to use in motor fishing boat engines. I ran

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out of the city that night with most of the other 70,000 inhabitants, and slept in a straw hut at a distant railway switch, put up to keep switchmen dry in rainy weather. The wind, during the eruption, was away from the city, but next morning I was covered with three inches of fine dust. All night the sky was brilliant with flames from the volcano, and all next day I sat on the sea wall and watched enormous rocks hurled up into the sky and falling in a wide arc into the sea, marking splendid bursts of steam and noise. The country was covered with ashes for 20 miles around, the railways blocked, no electric light, the water flumes having been choked with ashes. Several nights I had to go back to my straw hut, for most of the houses had been destroyed and those still standing were too shaky to be safe in the recurring small shakes. The lava from the crater ran down the mountain very slowly, in two streams, as I saw later, about 150 ft wide and about 100 ft thick. It took three weeks for the lava to reach the sea, and it eventually completely filled the channel between the island and the east shore of the bay, and made a spur of the mountain 100 ft above sea level!! The channel before the eruption had been 200 ft deep. Everything on the island was destroyed, the tree tops just showing above the ashes. Several months later, when the lava had cooled, I crossed to the island to see the destruction. Being the one of the only two foreigners who had seen the eruption, my description of 1000 words was cabled by the Associated Press to London and New York papers: I had many letters from friends in America who had read my account.
         It was about this time that the news of the sinking of the "Titanic" was received in Japan, and I remember the shook it gave everyone to hear of the great loss of life, including several Japan people. In June 1912 I made an interesting trip to the Loochoo Islands, (Okinawa) sailing from Kagoshima per "Keijo Mara", a two day trip, and back by the "Satsuma Maru", an alarming old crock, built in Stettin, Germany in 1871! The Loochoos are a fairy like set of islands, much coral, the natives speaking a Polynesian dialect. These islands had long been in disputed possession of both the Chinese and Japanese, the King's palace had two entrances, the north one for the Japanese, and the south for the Chinese who came from Formosa. There was only one lone America missionary there.
         In January 1912, shortly after the Kagoshima volcano experience, I made a trip to Miyajima in the Inland sea to meet Mrs. Lindsley and Maya, who were on the way back from a trip to Seoul: we had a lovely three days together. In the autumn of 1912, mother spent several months with me at Nagasaki on her return from a visit to Eleanor at Shanghai.
         In 1915 I was transferred from Nagasaki to Kobe, as assistant manager, and covered that territory as well as Kyushiu. I lived in rooms above Cabeldu & Co., at 16 Naniwa-dori, and messed at the Club or the Oriental Hotel. We started a fine amateur orchestra and gave many concerts and oratorios, Hugh Horne, the British Consul, conducting. During the summer of 1913 vacation, I took my small yacht by steamer to Moji and sailed back through the Inland Sea to Kobe, a fairy land for sailing, some 300 miles, staying ashore at tea houses unless becalmed far from shore. In February 1914, I made a trip from Kobe to Manila, via Shanghai and back via Hong Kong, going down on the "Korea" and back by the "Empress of Asia". I had saved up my summer vacation for this trip, as February was the time of the Manila carnival and the Hong Kong races. It was a splendid trip. In 1914, at the outbreak of the first World-War, I happened to be at Nagasaki, and will never forget the Sunday we spent at Sanbonmatsu, where the Great Northern Telegraph Co's cables came ashore from Shanghai and Vladivostok - all cables at this time were in

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the hands of this Danish monopoly. As the fateful messages came through, those which were in plain English, German or French were read off to us by the operators. Aage Jordan was the head of this cable company, two of his sons being employed by the Standard Oil Co. During my three years at Nagasaki, I made a great friend, Mr. Rospopoff, the Russian Consul, a marvellous pianist, pupil of Anton Rubenstein, with whom I had many delightful musical evenings: a fierce looking black bearded man from Yalta who had brought out a "niece": he afterwards married her. She was forty years younger than him and later ran away with a dashing young Russian naval officer.
In 1915, after five years service with the company I got my first leave, and on June 15/1915, sailed from Yokohama per "Korea", for San-Francisco via Honolulu: Chester got his leave at the same time, and we went together as far as San Francisco, where he left me as he had to go straight through to London. We saw the San Francisco Exhibition together. On the way east, I stopped off at Ogden, and made a three day trip through the Yellowstone Park - a marvellous sight. Then on to Chicago for a few days, seeing my relatives again after a lapse of ten years. Then to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, also a wonderful sight. Then on to Weston, were Maya and I were married at their home 240 Adams St., Milton, on September 25/1915 by the Reverend Stebbins on a lovely autumn afternoon, with crowds of friends around us. Maya was born at 118-A Bluff, Yokohama, on December 25/1884. (For her life, see the Lindsley Genealogy). For our honeymoon, we left that afternoon by train for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the next day going on to Mount Washington, Bretton Woods, returning to Milton a week later. We had planned to go to the Thousand Islands, but it was closed for the winter. After a few weeks at the Belmont Hotel in New York, we left for Japan via Chicago, where my aunts Mollie and Nettie came down from Beloit to see us at the Auditorium Hotel. Then by the Santa Fe railway to the Grand Canyon for a couple of days, and to Yosemite Park for another couple of days. We sailed from San Francisco, per "Shinyo-Maru" on November 20th, via Honolulu, arriving at Kobe December 9/1915. After a few days at the Tor Hotel, we rented "Holydike", a new house high on the hill at Kitano-cho 4 chome, but after a few months, moved next door above to the Zublin house at Sanbonmatsu, while the owners were in Switzerland on six months leave. After that we moved to Mrs. Lightfoot's house on the hill behind the Tor Hotel, 60 Kitano-cho, 4 chome, "Inari-no-shita", a Japanese style foreign house, nestling under the Inari shrine with a magnificent view over Kobe harbor. Both our children John and Eleanor were born here. Maya accompanied me on many business trips before John was born in a small 2 cylinder, two seated "Swift" English car which the company bought for me. I also had a 25 ft motor boat which I named the "Maya-san", but motor boating didn't suit Maya so I sold it. Mrs. Lindsley had given us a Buick for a wedding present but due to the high freights during the war we couldn't afford to bring it to Japan and only used it for a few trips between Boston and New York. Mrs. Lindsley came out to visit us just before John was born, and stayed until Eleanor was born. In January 1916, Maya accompanied me to Moji on the "Atsuta-Maru", and we had the excitement of grounding in Moji harbor at high tide. As the tide ran out, the steamer heeled alarmingly and some Catholic nuns on board made a harrowing scene praying and wailing: it wasn't the least dangerous for the boat was resting safely on the bottom.
In September 1917, another mile stone occurred in my life. Mr. Howard E. Cole, our New York director, while in Shanghai, wired me

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to go to Shanghai: he instructed me to make an inspection trip through Manchuria. I sailed from Kobe for Shanghai per "Yamashiro Maru", thence to Dairen per "Sakaki Maru", thence to Newchwang, which was then our head office in Manchuria. I had a most interesting trip for two months, visiting Mukden, Antung, Changchun, Kirin, and Harbin, just fifteen years since I had been there with Mr. Mosle, but now the country was under the Japanese, with the Russians holding only the part north of Changchun. Manchuria had developed enormously under the Japanese: Newchwang had given place to Dairen as the principal export place, and Mukden the central administrative city. I returned to Kobe through Korea in time for Christmas. In my report to Mr. Cole, I recommended shifting our Newchwang office to Mukden, but for almost a year, heard nothing further and we continued to live in Kobe. In October 1916, I was notified of my transfer to the North China Division and was appointed manager for Manchuria in Mukden. Leaving Maya and the ohildren in Kobe, I sailed for Shanghai per "Takeshinia Maru", and after a month's training there, went up to Dairen per "Kobe Maru", opened the office at Mukden and found a house for us to live in. I returned to Kobe through Korea, and after packing up our things, we all spent Christmas in Yokohama at Everett Frazar's house, 118 Bluff. In January 1919 we went to Mukden, sailing from Kobe per "Harbin Maru" for Dairen. We were soon installed in our new home, a new two storied brick house belonging to the Scotch-Presbyterian Mission at Wen-wha-shu-yen, just outside the outer mud wall of the Chinese city, and half way between that and the Japanese railway town, in the so-called International Settlement. It was 30 F. below zero, but the house had steam heat, the winter days always sunny and bright with very little snow. The house had just been built for the Port Doctor, but never occupied, as he had gone back to England to serve in the war. It had only one bath room, entirely empty and no sanitary conveniences. No waterworks in this section, but I installed a couple of zinc sheet tanks, one with a small coal oven in it, and with a bathtub from Shanghai, everything was soon comfortable. Water had to be carried in buckets from a native well nearby, and the bath water spouted out from the second story into the yard where it made a big glacier until warm weather melted it. We had to bring drinking water from the Japanese city (they had waterworks) in 5 gallon demijohns. The sudden change in our lives from modern Japan to the primitive facilities in North China was something to tax one's capabilities, besides wrestling with a new language and Chinese servants. The children took to the Chinese easily, promptly forgot what Japanese they knew, and learned Chinese equally rapidly, especially John, who spoke with the full gamut of Chinese tones. We brought up from Shanghai, a half Chinese-half Portugese nurse for the children, Amy Rozario, who spoke both Mandarin and Shanghai dialects. Mukden was in the center of a vast plain through which ran the Liao River, 25 miles to the west of Mukden: the climate was bracing. The dust storms in the winter months were a great trial, everything being covered with fine brown dust, except when the wind was from the Gobe Desert, 1000 miles to the west of us: the dust would then be white and the sun blotted out. Molly was born that year in July in this mission house: within twelve months we moved into the new company compound, containing our office, our house, and four others for the foreign staff, all of red brick and steam heated, and with our own 360 ft deep well and electric pumping installation. I had a staff of ten foreigners, mostly American, and some 100 Chinese and two Japanese. There were five branch offices, at Dairen, Antung, Changchun, Kirin and Harbin. The business went very well, in spite of the difficulties of selling in eight different

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currencies, Taels, Silver Dollars, Roubles, Gold and Silver Yen, Kirin Gighei notes, and Mukden dollars of 100 copper cents, the latter worth anywhere from 150 to 250 copper cents per Chinese Silver Dollar. Maya became an exchange expert too, buying our supplies in three currencies, according to which was cheapest at the day's exchange rate. My salary increased rapidly, and with a free house, free motor, and other perquisites, we saved a lot of money in those wonderful years. The native walled city, the beautiful Ming tombs at Pehling, 10 miles out of the city beyond the enormous centuries old grave yards, and the numerous short trips we made with the children to the mountain temples, made life very pleasant and novel. One temple with over 100 ferocious idols, fascinated and scared the children. The community numbered some 200 foreigners of all nationalities, centring around the club which had five tennis courts, flooded in winter for skating. We had an unique Golf Course of nine holes, among the graves at Pehling, one of the rules being that no penalty was exacted if one's ball fell into an open grave. These graves were the breeding places of countless marmots, the source of some of the mink fur coats sold in the U.S.A. These marmots, all covered with fleas, were the cause of the great Bubonic Plague which killed over 40,000 Chinese in 1911. Our house had a lovely garden and a bathing pool for the children to play in, and ten servants. I imported an Oakland car in which we drove all around the country over plain mud roads, not further than ten miles from the city: the roads didn't go any where. The local famous Chinese Governor, Cheng Tso Lin and his son Chang Hsueh Liang were very hospitable and often gave dinners at his Yamen. On his 50th birthday, Chang gave a week's celebration. We foreigners entertained Chang at the Club on the

occasion of the visit of the American Ambassador at Peking, Dr. Schurman, when I was president of the American Association. During those years we entertained many visitors, among them Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Addams, the whole John D. Rockefeller Jr, and his wife and daughter Abby.
In December 1920, five years after my last furlough, I was granted five months leave, and we all left for Shanghai by rail, via Tientsin, Peking, Nanking &c, and sailed from Shanghai per "Korea Maru", via Honolulu for San Francisco, a 27 day voyage. Molly learned to walk on this steamer. We brought along Molly's Chinese amah, Li Bai Feng, and went east by the Southern Pacific route, stopping off a week at Carmel, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. We arrived at Boston on January 25/1921, and after a few days at the Bellevue Hotel, went into a house at 11 Gloucester Street, Boston, which Mrs. Lindsley had rented for us, as she was then living in Peterboro, N.H. In February I started back on a fine trip through Washington, Richmond, Norfolk, Belhaven, N.C., Palm Beach, Miami and Key West, crossing by steamer to Havana, thence by United Fruit steamer "Metapan" to Port Limon in Costa Rica, up to San Jose by rail, then to Bocas del Toro, and to Christobal, Panama. I took the train alongside the canal to Panama City on the Pacific side, and back to Colon. Then per "Sixacla" to Cartagena, Puerto Columbia, Baraquilla, Santa Marta (in Columbia), Kingston, Jamaica, and back to New York - a three weeks trip. Two months later, David was born at 11 Gloucester St. Ten days before his birth, our Chinese amah astounded us by saying she was going to have a baby immediately: with her Chinese clothes it was not noticeable. We had to hustle around to find a place for her, and luckily located a Chinese doctor practising in Boston among the Chinese students at the various colleges. Dr. Cheng not only looked after her but also arranged to dispose of her baby girl to a Chinaman in Boston with an Irish wife but no children. The amah

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had never said anything to us about her condition, and didn't intend keep the baby as she said her husband in Newchwang would kill her on her return, as the baby wasn't his, but by our Chinese cook in Mukden. My furlough was up shortly after so I had to return to China. I left five days after David was born on May 15th, via Chicago, and sailed from San Francisco per "Golden State", later renamed "President Cleveland", via Honolulu to Shanghai, thence per "Sakaki Maru" to Dairen and Mukden. After I left, Maya and the children moved up to Mrs. Lindsley's place at Peterboro and stayed all summer, returning to Mukden in October, sailing from San Francisco to Dairen per "Siberia Maru", via Honolulu and Japan ports. Maya brought out with her a Governess for the children, Miss Molly Proctor, who stayed for nearly three years with us in Mukden. We lived there the next three years, and took many interesting trips to Peking, Shanhaikwan, Peitaiho and Hoshi-ga-ura near Dairen, and a couple of trips to Shanghai. The children were always good travellers: they spent one of those summers in Karuizawa.
In September 1924, I again got furlough, and we all left Mukden for the last time, by rail through Korea, stopping off at Seoul, and sailed from Kobe per "President Cleveland" on October 2/1924 for San Francisco, via Honolulu: father also made this voyage with us, but we left him in San Francisco, and went on to Boston by the Union Pacific railway, via Salt Lake City and Chicago, and went straight up to Mrs. Lindsley's place in Peterboro, where we spent the winter. We left Peterboro in February, via New York and New Orleans, through the Imperial Valley to San Diago where we stayed a week: then sailed from San Francisco per "President Taft" for Shanghai. On both the way home and out, we were able to see the terrible devastation in Yokohama of the great earthquake of September 1/1923: all the Lindsley houses on The Bluff and in the settlement were entirely destroyed.
The company had notified me that after returning from Boston, I was to be stationed at Shanghai on the Marketing Board. We stayed for week or two at the Astor Hotel and then moved to N.G. Maitland's house at 25 Ferry Road, while my sister Eleanor was in England. After her return we moved into a splendid house on Edinburgh Road, while the owner was in England on six months furlough: we then moved to a house on Yu Yuen Road for two years. The children attended the Shanghai American School, established by American businessmen and missionaries, of which I acted as treasurer for two years. The family spent the summer of 1925 in Karuizawa, going over by the "Korea Maru", and returning by the "Nagasaki Maru": I went over to fetch than and had ten days with them. During my years in Shanghai I made many interesting business trips up country: the first was by rail to Chinkiang on the Yangtze river, and thence in the comfortable motor launch of the company, up the Grand Canal to Tsingpiangpu, stopping at Yangchow, where Marco Polo lived for three years in the year 1280, at that time on the bank of the Yangtze, but now 40 miles inland. The Grand Canal is not more than 100 ft wide except where it passes through several lakes, and is a remarkable waterway 600 miles long, carrying an enormous junk traffic, towed along the banks by coolies. I travelled through Nanking, Wuhu, and Kiukiang territories, going up to the mountain resort of Kuling from Kiukiang. The many fine pagodas along the Yangtze are very beautiful, 7 to 11 stories high. Also through Hankow territory and in to the Poyang Lake as far as Nanchang. The finest trip of all, was from Hangchow to Ichang by steamer, 4 days, and thence through the Gorges per "King Wo" to Chungking, taking four days, as the steamers only run in the day time. This remarkable Upper Yangtze river has terrific variations in level at different seasons.

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At Kweichowfu, not quite half way through the gorges, the high water is 135 ft; above the winter low water level. It is interesting to see the cargo junks towed up the river from different levels cut out of the face of the cliffs, according to the different levels of the river, by one or two hundred collies, always naked, chanting curious songs. It takes the high powered steamers, limited in length to 105 ft to get around sharp corners, and capable of 16 knots, over half an hour to go through some of the worst gorges, not more than a quarter of a mile long, running under forced draft, flames streaming from their funnels. We had a lot of Chinese baggage piled around the funnels on deck, and it caught fire from the red hot metal. When I landed at the gate of our Chungking installation in June, I stepped off the boat at the front gate of our compound, but by the time I started back home, I had to walk down a flight of 150 steps to the boat. Chungking is high on the north bank of the river, the streets narrow and hilly, without wheel traffic, transportation being by sedan chairs with long poles, delightfully springy to ride in. Our company residences were high up on the second range of hills on the south bank of the river, and twice daily we were carried in chairs for the 45 minute trip, through miles of graves and around terrifying precipices, from Chungking I took another steamer for four more days up the river to Suifu, where navigation on the Yangtze ceases, over 1600 miles from Shanghai. People going on to Cheng-tu, ascend the Min river by motor boat or junk, which puts one not far from the border of Thibet. The greet monastery of O-mai-shan is there, but I did not get a chance to go to it. One sees many corpses and dead animals floating in the Yangtze, and our water supply was scooped up out of the river, settled in big earthen jars, cleared by stirring alum in it, and then boiled: it takes a little time to get used to this, but never seems to hurt anyone. The fields along the upper river are beautiful in poppy time, from which opium is made. The upper river steamers all have armored wheel houses, into which we scurried when the siren signalled soldiers on the shore, who shoot at the steamers for fun: I picked several bullets out of the woodwork in my cabin to send Maya. Steamers, though carrying armed guards, are not allowed by treaty to return the fire. They stop for the night at safe places out of the swift current. In March 1927 we had just moved into a house on Avenue Foch, when the Shanghai riots occurred, with many killed in the attack on the Lao-za Police Station. Most of the Shanghai residents moved their families away and I thought it best to send Maya and the children to Kobe for a time, where they stayed at the Tor Hotel. Fortunately, the company, in April, transferred me back to Japan, our head office then being in Kobe, since the destruction of our Yokohama office in the earthquake.
I therefore sailed for Kobe on the "President Taft" I was appointed Assistant General Manager at Kobe, and we lived at the Tor Hotel until June, when we moved to Shioya, a suburb at the entrance of the Inland sea, 15 miles west of Kobe, in a house built by a Frenchman Mr. Saliege, high up on the hill, with a magnificent view of the Straits of Awaji. We moved back to Kobe in December 1927, to our old house at Inari no shita: meanwhile the children had been attending the Canadian Academy, commuting daily by train all by themselves. In June 1928, the new company offices and residences had been completed in Yokohama, all built of reinforced cement concrete. Our new house was at Negishi, 3 miles from the city, on a 200 ft cliff overlooking that part of Tokyo Bay named Mississippi Bay by Commodore Perry in 1854, near the Race course The company built our house to my design.
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"Ranpura" from Kobe for Marseilles, to sail in June 1928. Just a few days before sailing, our New York office wired me to await the arrival of our director, Howard E. Cole, so Maya and the children had to go off alone on the "Ranpura": This was very disturbing to our plans but it couldn't be helped. It was an educational trip for the children: they visited Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Columbo and Bombay, where they saw the "Towers of Silence", the Parsee Cemetery, in which the bodies are laid on stone slabs to be eaten by the vultures: the via Port Said, Naples, Marseilles, Paris, and thence to Flims, Switzerland where they spent the summer at the Waldhaus Hotel. After Mr. Cole's business had been completed in Yokohama, I left on August 8th to join the family at Flims. I went by train through Korea and Manchuria to Harbin, changing there into the Siberian Railway train for Moscow, an eight day trip, passing through Manchouli, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk &c. I spent three days in Moscow, seeing the Kremlin and other sights, then on to Warsaw and Berlin, where I took the train for Munich and Chur in Switzerland. I arrived at Flims not many days after the family had reached there, as their voyage took 45 days. We spent the whole summer there, making several trips to the Engadine, St. Moritz, &c. I had to start back to Yokohama, so in September, Maya accompanied me to London, leaving the children with Mrs. Lindsley at Flims. We stopped at Villars-sur-Bex above Lake Geneva to look at the place where the family intended to stay till December, to give the children the benefit of the pure Swiss mountain air. Maya and I had a pleasant time at Paris and visited my sister Eleanor and her family at West Byfleet. Maya then went back to Flims, while I sailed in September per "Leviathan" for New York, then per "President Cleveland" from San Francisco, arriving at Yokohama late in November. I unpacked furniture and fired up the new house for Maya's arrival. The children attended the Alpine College at Villars, and then they all left for London, spending Christmas at Fleming's Hotel on Half-Moon Street. While they were at Villars, Mrs. Lindsley's faithful Japanese servant, Tomi-san, died of a heart attack: he was cremated and his ashes posted to me in Yokohama to turn over to his family: he had been with the Lindsleys for fifty years. The family came on to New York by the "Berengaria", and went to stay at Halstead's house in Lenox, Mass. For four months: the children studied at the Lenox Academy. In April 1929 they all came out to Yokohama, sailing from San Francisco per "President Pierce". For the next year or so the children attended the Tokyo American School commuting daily from Yokohama to Meguro. In July 1929 we brought out from Milton, Mr. William L. Cobb, to tutor John for the Milton Academy: he stayed a year with us. They spent that summer at Karuizawa, and took many trips up country, to Miyanoshita and Kusatsu, the leper colony: the hot springs there were a favorite cure for lepers, both rich and poor. John was fascinated in talking with people whose fingers had dropped off and whose noses had fallen in. When I was stationed in Nagasaki, our agents were a very rich family, all lepers, (not very far advanced as yet) and I used to squirm when they called: it is not a very contagious disease: lepers are not segregated in Japan though there are sanatoriums if they wish to go there. In 1930, we decided to send the children home to Milton, so that John and Eleanor could enter Milton Academy in the September term: I hoped to join them in a year or so if the company would allow me to retire. Maya and the children sailed from Yokohama in August 1930 on the maiden voyage of the "Empress of Japan", via Vancouver, and on arrival at Milton, lived

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with Mrs. Lindsley at 302 Adams St., John entering the Academy in September. They spent Thanksgiving with Halstead at Lenor, and Christmas in Peterboro. In June 1931, the company was still refusing to let me retire, so Maya brought the whole family out again to Yokohama, via Vancouver per "Empress of Asia": the children again attended the Tokyo American School,
In 1932 I received notice that I would be allowed to retire in January 1933: the company allowed their foreign staff to retire at the age of 55, instead of 65 as was the case with employees in the U.S.A. On this account, Maya and the children started back to Milton in August 1932: they sailed via Suez, per "President Pierce" and had another chance to visit Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Columbo, Bombay: they left the steamer at Suez, and motored to Cairo to see the Pyramids, reembarking at Alexandria for Italian and French Mediterranean ports and via Gibraltar to New York. On arrival at Milton they again lived with Mrs. Lindsley at 302 Adams St. I finally left Japan for good on January 12/1933, 44 years after I had first arrived there. I sailed from Kobe per "President Garfield", via Suez: I took this route in order to bring our 105 cases of furniture and effects, direct to Boston without transhipment, and also our two fox terriers. I stopped off at Cairo to see the Pyramids which I had missed in 1905.
Then by the same boat to Naples. Maya had come over to meet me there on the Italian line steamer "Augustus", via Tangiers, Madeira Islands and Gibraltar. Her steamer had arrived at Naples just two hours before mine. I left the fox terriers on board and cabled Chester to meet them and keep them till we returned. Maya and I had a wonderful trip together, visiting Rome, Perugia, to Genoa. Here the 1932-3 depression struck us, and we had the alarming experience of being unable to cash our travellers cheques, nor could I draw on my letter of credit. Fortunately I had enough cash to get to Paris, where Maya and I spent three days trying to get the branches of the National City Bank and the Bankers Trust, to cash their cheques: eventually they gave me enough to get to London and the storm blew itself out. We stayed at the Langham Hotel for a happy two weeks, seeing Eleanor and her family at West Byfleet. Maya and I sailed from Liverpool per "Scythia" to Boston direct - a very rough voyage: John was at the pier to meet us. We lived at 302 Adams Street until September 1st, when we rented the beautiful estate of Ernest Howditch at 366 Adams St., Milton, the house having been designed and built by Stanford White in grounds of 16 acres. We lived there eight years. I found it very pleasant to be retired and had lots of time to garden, and to work on the Poole and Lindsley genealogies: this was a hobby which I had been interested in since I was 19 years old, at which tine father showed me what data he had of the Poole family. The summers of 1934 and 1935, were spent at Mrs. Armstrong's Camp Deephaven at Lake Squam, the chidren enjoying the boating and swimming vary much. Chester's family spent the latter summer with us there. In March 1936, the whole family sailed from New York per "Queen of Bermuda", and came back on the same boat: this gave the children a lift over the Easter Holidays at the Princess Hotel. We went there again the next three years, the last time spending the whole summer at Walden Gate, across from Hamilton, in Mr. Holbrook's house, Father being a Republican, I cast my first vote for London as President - the second time for Wilkie: both were defeated. Maya being a staunch Democrat like her father, always voted opposite to me. In 1935 John graduated from Milton and entered Harvard University where he graduated in 1940.

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          In May 1936, I made a three months trip with Halstead, to Europe, sailing from New York per "Normandie" for Le Havre, landing there May 17th, and motored in Halstead's Lincoln car through Rouen, Paris, Geneva, Basle, Interlaken, Chur, St. Moritz, Chiavenna, Bellagio, Bergamo, Brescia and Padua to Venice. It was most interesting to revisit these towns, most of which I had visited 50 years before. Then on through Cortina, Innsbruck, Garmich, Oberammergau, Munich, and Chur to Marienbad, where Halstead annually took a cure under Dr. Porges: I, too, took a kind of cure and put on 10 lbs. Halstead and I separated there, he going back to London, while I took the train to Pilsen, Prague, Leipzig and Berlin to Hamburg, Brussels, Cologne to London, where I stayed two weeks with my sister Eleanor at West Byfleet, and returned to New York by the "Queen Mary", late in July.
          In January 1937 I made an interesting trip, sailing from Boston per "Lady Drake", via Bermuda to St. Kitts, Montserrat, Antigua, Dominica, Barbadoes, St. Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad and on to Demerara in British Guiana. Back to Boston by the same boat, touching the same ports, the whole trip taking 20 days. The family spent the summer 1938 in Bermuda, where they rented "Widrington", the home of George Butterfield at Pitts Bay.
          In November 1938, I made another interesting trip to Porto Rico, sailing from New York per "Borinquen" for San Juan, going on the same night to Domingo where we landed next morning at Trujillo and drove around the country: back to San Juan for two days, then took the "Catherine" for the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix, which had particular interest for me, for it was at St. Croix that mother's Armstrong ancestors had lived for so many years in the 1700-1800s, see full account of this trip under subject 24, page 14. Returning to Porto Rico I took a delightful motor trip through the island to Ponce on the south coast. Then back to New York by the next trip of the "Borinquan", arriving in Boston before Christmas.
          We made our first trip to Palm Beach at Easter 1937, with all the children, and again at Christmas of that year, staying at the Breakers about a week each time. No, I'm wrong: Easter 1937 we spent at the Honey-Plaza Hotel, Miami. In February 1939, while the children at were in school at Milton, Maya and I made a trip down the west coast of Florida to Naples, and across the Tamiami Trail to Miami, and came to the conclusion that Palm Beach was the ideal spot for winter vacations. In November 1939 I made a trip to Washington, Chicago, Saginaw, Detroit and Buffalo, renewing my acquaintance with my Armstrong cousins in Chicago and with cousin Maude Hoxie in Buffalo. The winter of 1940-1, we spent at Lotus Cottage, Palm Beach: 1941-2 at Sandrift Cottage, and 1942-3 again at Lotus Cottage. These winters we simply locked up our Milton house, gave the keys to the Milton Police to keep an eye on it. Maya, John and Eleanor drove our car down and back in two of those winters, while I travelled by train with the luggage and the dogs. In November 1941 my prostate was removed by Dr. Edward Young and spent five pleasant weeks at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston.
             In the spring of 1941, the trustees of the Bowditch estate at 366 Adams St., notified us that they had sold the estate to the Catholics for a Parochial School: Mrs. Lindsley was 85 years old and living with us. Maya bought our present house at 1250 Canton Avenue, Milton, four miles west of Adams Street, and we moved in September 1st. To avoid the confusion in getting settled, Mrs. Lindsley had gone up to Peterboro with Thayer and her brother Clarence: she died there on September 25th.
             The second World War soon broke out, and one by one, our

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servants left us to take other better paying war jobs, and we have since done our own house work, something our training in the Orient did not fit us for. In the winter of 1944-5, we rented the Stuyvesant Pierpont house "Keywaydin" on Sunset Avenue, Palm Beach. The next few years we made a few trips to New York, but mostly staying quietly at home. In 1947 in November, we went to Bermuda and rented the Lightbourn house "Overlook" in Paget for six months. Maya, Eleanor and her baby George flew by plane while I followed by the "Amherst" with the luggage and our dog Brownie. Bermuda is really too cold and windy in winter. John flew up from Miami for Christmas, and Molly and George Lenci came down in March for five weeks. I'm afraid we are a restless family, and we all miss the former pleasant trips back and forth across the Pacific to the Orient. My one regret is that I have never been south of the Equator. We returned to Milton on May 24/1948, with Eleanor and George, by the "Lady Nelson" and stayed at 1250 all summer. John came up from Miami in July and had his tonsils out, and sinus enlarged, and a difficult impacted wisdom tooth extracted. David and Jacqueline were living at 309 Marlboro St, Boston, while he was studying for his Master's degree at M.I.T. Molly was at Rochester. In September, Eleanor took George back to Bermuda by a Lady Boat, and rented "Harbor View" for us in Paget. Maya followed by plane, and I per "Fort Townshend", as usual, with the luggage and the dog. Early in February 1949, David graduated from M.I.T. and decided to go to Paris for a couple of years, - Jacqueline had gone ahead of him by plane, just before Christmas. To see David before he sailed, Maya flew to New York by plane on February 12th, and I followed by the "Queen of Bermuda". We stayed at Thayer's 969 Park Avenue apartment, saw David off on the "America", and we stayed in New York until April 6th, when we went to Miami and stayed at "Leafy Way" in Coconut Grove, in Mrs. Swetland's house which Maya had taken for Thayer in November, flying down and back for three days to fix the lease. We spent a pleasant month there, met John's prospective bride, Doris Lorber, a very nice girl, a twin. We met David Fairchild and reminded him of his trip to Japan in 1892 and of the Eldridges there whom he knew. While there, Maya bought a house at 4197 Braganza Avenue for John and put the title in his name, a bungalow of living room, two bedrooms, bath, kitchen and garage, in half an acre of beautifully planted garden. Meanwhile, after we had left Bermuda, Eleanor married again, Tom Gerald David Bamford, a young Englishman with the English Government Cable & Wireless Company. When the lease of Harbor View was up on March 15th, they moved to a little bungalow, Harry Ann Cottage, Paget.
In May 1949, Maya and I returned to Milton, and on June 6th, Eleanor with George and his nurse Marion Pulley, flew in by plane for a six week's visit, with the object of having a suspicious lump in her breast examined. Dr. Young operated, and found it was not malignant, a great relief to all of us. That summer we had our old coal heating plant replaced by a General Electric Oil Furnace. On June 1st, George Lenci completed his year's service with Dr. Pulsifer in Rochester, and made a trip to various States to look over the possibilities: he chose Roseburg, Oregon, and a few weeks later, took Molly and their son Bobby out there. He has made a great success: Molly made us a short visit while their furniture was being shipped out.
On October 1/1949, Maya and I went to Bermuda by the "Queen of Bermuda", and lived four months at Knollwood, Paget, a lovely little place with a quaint garden. John was married at Miami on December 10th, to Doris Katherine Lorber, but we couldn't be present. Shortage of rain water forced us to leave Bermuda, Maya, George and Marion Pulley flew by plane on January 22/1950, while Eleanor and I sailed per "Lady

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Rodney", on January 26/1950. We found the new heating plant at 1250 was working well. David and Jacqueline were still in Paris.
       In March 1950, Maya and Eleanor wanted to go to Miami to see John, so they left the 12th, and rented the house of Mrs. Wainwright at 3601 Bay View Road, Coconut Grove, for $800 for a couple of months. On April 12th, I joined then, and we returned to Milton on May 6th. While there, Maya was persuaded by Eleanor to buy the house of Monte V. Wiggins, 929 Tendilla Avenue, Coral Gables, in which to spend our future winters, for $29,000. Maya was doubtful about it and though Eleanor later changed her mind as her children were not well there, the real estate agent buffaloed Maya unwillingly to sign the purchase agreement. We moved into the house for a few weeks but Maya felt strange in that locality, so sold it again, losing $641 on the deal. In June 1950, Doris came up to visit us for a month, and we all attended David Manchester Poole's wedding at Woonsocket, R.I. on the 23rd: we also made a short visit to Peterboro.
       Molly's second child, Susan, was born July 24th, and Eleanor's second child Sheila, on the 31st. John's first child, Catherine was born September 24th, thus adding three grandchildren within a month or two. In October l950 I had to undergo an operation for fistula, Dr. Young operating, and spent nine pleasant days at the Faulkner Hospital.
       On November 23/1950, we rented Lotus Cottage, Palm Beach, for the winter, the rental being $4500. Maya bought a new Chevrolet in that month but we didn't take it to Palm Beach: instead we took down Eleanor's English Standard car which she had bought in Bermuda, and which she sold when we left Palm Beach. We returned to Milton on May 3/1951.
       On June 14/1951, Maya went out to visit Molly at Roseburg for two weeks. During the past winter, Eleanor and Gerald decided to make another trial at living together and he arranged to come to this country and make his career here, leaving his employ at the Imperial Chemicals Co. So Maya in June bought a house for Eleanor at 42, Spafford Road, Milton, for $28,500.
       Early in August 1951, Maya complained of being tired, dizzy, and unable to focus her eyes properly. She worried continuously over the boys "drifting", as she called it, not working at any particular job: she was also upset by the overcharge of Arthur King for renovating our kitchen, and other trivial tribulations of our daily lives. She made the remark that she felt as if she were going to have a stroke, but was up and around, and gave a successful lunch party on the 8th. On the 10th, I called Dr. Eugene McAuliffe to see what was wrong and he promised to come in at four o'clock. All morning we had been wrapping up parcels to send Molly and I took them to the Post Office at noon. While I was away, Maya was resting on her bed after lunch, Eleanor being in the garden below her window with the children. Shortly before three o'clock, Eleanor heard her call out, rushed up to her room, and found Maya all twisted up and partly unconscious. She phoned the doctor who came in fifteen minutes: I returned shortly after, and found Maya apparently all well again. The doctor advised her to stay in bed a few days and to get a nurse to see that she did. Maya was entirely normal up to midnight when we all turned in, but at 4 A.M. she called me, and Eleanor and I found her unconscious. The doctor came at 7 next morning: all that day, the 11th, she wade no improvement, in spite of an oxygen tent the doctor brought in. By nightfall Dr. McAuliffe had been able to bring in for consultation, Dr. Raymond Adams, head professor of the Harvard Medical School and the Neurological department of the Mass General Hospital. He recommended moving Maya to the Milton Hospital where there were proper

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facilities, in spite of the danger of moving her at that time. Maya had always hated the idea of going into a hospital, and though Eleanor and I were reluctant to frighten her if she regained consciousness and found herself there the nurse and I took her before midnight in an ambulance to the Milton Hospital, without any bad effect. Dr. Adams confirmed Dr. McAuliffe's diagnosis of a cerebral thrombosis, occuring in the main artery at the base of the skull before the artery branched into both sides of the brain. He told us it was very serious and held out little hope of recovery, and warned us that if she did recover, she would be completely paralysed. Her condition gradually waned and she passed away the 15th at 8.20 P.M., with Thayer, John, David and I at her bedside. Dr. Adams was of the opinion that she was conscious much of the time but could not signify that she knew us. Maya was seldom if ever ill, was in perfect health, no high blood pressure, nor gave any sign of the approaching tragedy, entirely unsuspected and so sudden. Dr. Adams was of the opinion that the degeneration of her arteries had been coming on gradually for a long time, through worry and over exertion. T had wired Thayer and the children the day after her stroke they all except Molly came within 24 hours: Molly could not leave her children. We brought Maya home the next day and she was buried on the 18th at 4 P.M. in her parents' grave in the Milton Cemetery. She left her estate of approximately $300,000 to her four children.
Gerald arrived from England two days after Maya's stroke, and we decided that he and Eleanor and children would live with me here pending the probate of the estate, so Eleanor sold the Spafford Road house. In September Gerald joined the United Carr Fastener Co, at Cambridge. Georgie commenced school at the Milton Academy. My appointment as Executor was approved the end of September, so with all that attendant work, we stayed in Milton that winter. John's second child, William Thayer Lindsley, was born January 5/1952. David returned per "America" in April 1952, Jacqueline remaining in Paris: she came over for the summer but returned to Paris alone in September: David followed her in November, throwing up his job with Thayer again. I visited Chester at Charlottesville in May 1952 for a week. Eleanor's third child was born in July 1952 and John`s third child in March 1953. Early in January 1953, Eleanor took her children and Mrs Swenson to Palm Beach, and lived in a house Thayer rented for her at 247 Sea Spray Avenue till April 12th. I stayed in Milton that winter, and Hope Payne Dawson came to live with Gerald and I from January till Eleanor returned. Molly moved into her new house in March, after being flooded out again in their old house. Molly's third child was born May 18/1953, and David's first son was born in Paris June 26/1953. Doris and her children spent August and September at Peterboro. In September, David again returned home alone per "Queen Elizabeth", but went back to Paris in October, again refusing the job Thayer offered him. In September 1953, Dr Young sewed up my old hernia, (which I get cranking the Buick at Kurume in 1911), - a pleasant ten days at the Faulkner Hospital. Gerald meantime had left Carr Fastener, and joined Harris, Upham & Co., stock brokers in Boston, but left them and started work in Montreal with Nesbit, Thompson & Co., for Thayer's work. Eleanor had meanwhile bought out John, Molly's and David's share of 1250 Canton Ave, and had the kitchen, bathrooms &c modernised.
On December 6/1953, Eleanor, the children and I came down to Palm Beach, El living at a house Thayer rented for her at 347, Australian Avenue, and I living in Thayer`s house, 640 Crest Road, with Mrs Hughes

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                   Herbert Armstrong Poole cooking all our meals here. Gerald came down and worked for a couple of months at Himes & Himes, accountants, but went back to Thayer's office in New York early in April. John and Doris came up several times to see us. Georgie attended the Palm Beach Private school, learned to read, and to swim and dive. During this winter Eleanor bought a new house at Bahama lane, intending to make Palm Beach her permanent home and sell 1250 Canton Avenue. David returned in February or March 1954, and joined Thayer's office in Toronto: Jacqueline remained in Paris. David went, back to Paris in May 1954, and Eleanor and I returned to Milton on May 26th. In the latter part of June 1954, George and Molly and their three children visited us in Milton for a month, very sorry to miss David, and their visit was an unforgettable pleasure. Later David returned, from Paris but we didn't see him - he went right through to Toronto. In August Eleanor and I spent the month in Peterboro, and experienced the first hurricane there - no damage as it passed east of Peterboro. We returned to Milton and ran into the second hurricane, were without light, or heat or phone for 10 days, Gerald cooking on the outdoor grill he had invented for the kids pleasure - only a few of our trees went down.
       On October 6th, Eleanor and Gerald drove the car down to Palm Beach, while Mrs Swenson and I came by train, and lived this winter at Mrs. Burkholtz's house 242 Sea Spray Avenue. Thayer came down for week in April to 640 Crest Road. Georgia again attended the Palm Beach Private School. Eleanor sold her Bahama Lane house and in March, bought a house at 235 Sea Spray Avenue. She also sold 1250 Canton Avenue to Mr. Wendell Jacques, who is selling off five or six lots to pay for it. Early in March, Eleanor want up to Richardson House, Boston, to have her fourth child, Thomas Lindsley Bamford, on March 26th, and during her stay at there with Mrs. Hughes, she dismantled the house, shipped some of the stuff to Molly, John, and some to Palm Beach, the rest being stored at Thayer`s Beverly house, against the time when David may need some. Eleanor returned to Palm Beach April 26th, and I left there May 26th, and lived with Mrs. Guild at 251 Atherton St., Milton while clearing my things out of 1250, and kept Brownie with me. Gerald fortunately went down to stay with Eleanor the month of June. In March, John had an attack of pneumonia and went up to Roosevelt Hospital in New York for an operation to patch up two broken ribs, and to have his lung scraped from some deposit. It was touch and go whether he would pull through, but he got back to Miami late in May, apparently fully recovered. He still has no regular job, but is making some money with a few friends, buying undeveloped land and shaping it into building lots, and selling them. In March David again went to Paris, and returned a couple of months later, saying Jacqueline may come over in August, 1955.

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        In July 1955, Eleanor left Our Palm Beach house in charge of Emma Lou, and with Mrs. Swenson and the children travelled by train to New York, driving thence to Peterboro in Thayer's beach-wagon, and spent the Summer at Lake Nubanusit in a house Thayer had bought five miles West of Hancock. Doris and her children spent August at Thayer's house in Peterboro, coming up and back by plane. David spent a week with us at Nubanusit. Gerald spent August driving Christopher Owen to some of Thayer's mines in Canada. I had a complete examination of my eyes at the Massachusetts Ear & Eye Infirmary by Dr. W. Morton Grant who said I had "Open angle Glaucoma", vision much restricted, but recommended no operation, just pilocarpine drops as usual. Eleanor, Mrs. Swenson, the kids and I drove from Nubanusit to Penn Station, New York, on Sept. 18, 1955, in Thayer's beach-wagon, and took the train down to Palm Beach, where Eleanor's three children attended the Palm Beach Private School.

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        On November 29/1955, Molly had her fourth child, Virginia Washburn Lenci.
       This Summer Thayer Lindsley turned over the Presidency of Ventures, Ltd. to Robert Anderson, and set up a Trust at the Chemical Bank New York, for my four children, consisting of 3900 Ventures and 8892 Eureka shares each, from which they will receive only the dividends until January 1960; thereafter the shares will be turned over to them. At present market values of Ventures $156,000 and Eurekas $17,000, it will be a nice nest-egg for their future.
        On November 15/1955, Eleanor and Gerald left for London per "Queen Mary" and returned December 15th by the "Queen Elizabeth". John and Doris started new additions to their house at Coconut Grove. In November, Jacqueline, Francis and nurse flew to Toronto and flew back to Paris a couple of months later. In March 1956 David flew both ways to Paris for a week. Again in May he went over the S.S. "United States" and after a few weeks returned by the "Queen Mary

        In May 1956, Eleanor divorced Gerald. On May 1st, Iris Payne, some 40 years of age, divorced, no children, - came over from England as nurse for Eleanor's children.

        On June 5/1956, I went by train to Richmond where Chester met me and drove me to his home, "Missing Acres", 12 miles West of Charlottesville, for a week's visit with him and Dorothy. Thence I went on to Milton, Mass., where I stayed four months with Mrs.Guild, taking "Brownie" along with me. I returned by train to Palm Beach, October 13th. Meanwhile, in July, Georgie flew up with Jeffrey Gray to Milton and Peterboro. Mrs. Swenson, Iris, the three younger kids and "Sparky" flew to Boston, whence Charlie drove them to Peterboro. Eleanor, with Mrs. Adair, drove our car up, stopping a day with Chester & Dorothy at Charlottesville. September 5th, Iris, Bertie, Tommy and "Sparky" flew back to Palm Beach by plane; Eleanor, Georgie and Sheila drove back in our car, but when El reached Baltimore, exhausted, Thayer had to rescue her, get a man to drive her car to Washington, where they stayed a night at the hotel, going on by train next day, while Thayer arranged for a man to drive her car down to Palm Beach. This Summer, Eleanor had a swimming pool built in her garden at 235 Sea Spray Ave., and the garage altered, with two bedrooms upstairs and living room downstairs; 2 baths. The three elder children again at the Palm Beach School

        On October 24/1956, David again sailed on the "Queen Mary" for Paris. Thayer also flew over in October and saw Jacqueline. After returning to Toronto, David came down to spend Christmas with us and visited John in Miami. The additions to John's house are not finished yet. In August 1956, their fifth child was born - Alexandra Manchester Poole.
        In November 1 had to have a skin-cancer under my ear cut out. Dr. Armstrong had cut one out of the same spot three years ago, but it grew again.
        Gerald has been in England since July.

        Eleanor rented her house, 235 Sea Spray Ave., from Jan.15 to April l5/1957, to Ellsworth Alvord of Washington; so we rented and moved to Kaltenborn's house at 347 Sea View Avenue. Here George unfortunately had his two upper front teeth knocked out by a baseball bat, but the one second tooth was pressed back and I hope will stick. The other was a first tooth.

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        In March 1957, David and Thayer went over to Paris again to see about David's divorce from Jacqueline. It was granted in May- June. David then made a trip out to California, - San Francisco and Santa Barbara; and also visited Molly in Roseburg. Molly, George and their children flew to Santa Barbara to visit the Lencis for two weeks in July.

         John and Doris stayed through the Summer in Miami, where John had a serious bout of illness from too many drugs. (medicinal).

         Eleanor and I, for the first time, remained through the Summer at Palm Beach. With air conditioners in every room, and with the Swimming Pool, it was not too uncomfortable. That Spring, Eleanor had taken examinations at Orlando for a real-estate saleswoman's license, and then joined the Robert Wilson Real Estate Co. She has earned several commissions, one a good one for selling a $30,000 house. My old fox-terrier "Brownie" died at the end of June, just a week short of 17 years of age; she had become deaf and almost blind. Georgie spent the two months of July and August 1957 at Camp Yonahnoka in North Carolina.
         In July, Mrs. de Bosschere of Brussels spent two weeks with us. And in August Dick Poole visited us for three days on his way home to Charlottesville from Bogota, via Nassau.
         In August, Thayer and David again went to Paris, where David is looking for a possible job. He returned in the "Queen Mary" October 29th.

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only the dividends until January 1960: the shares will then be turned over to them. Unfortunately in forming this trust, about one third of the trust went to pay internal revenue taxes. On November 15/1955, Eleanor and Gerald sailed for London on the "Queen Mary", and returned December 15th by the "Queen Elizabeth". John and Doris started new additions to their house at Coconut Grove. In November 1955 Jacqueline, Francis and French nurse flew to Toronto, and stayed a month or so in a rented house with David, then flew back to Paris.
       In March 1956, David flew to Paris and back for a week's visit. In May 1956 he sailed by the "United States" for Paris for a few weeks, and returned by the "Queen Mary". In May 1955 Eleanor divorced Gerald, who kept on working for Thayer a month or so, then went to England and gradually eased out. On June 1st, 1955, Iris Payne arrived by plane via Nassau and Miami, to be the children's nurse, age fortyish, divorced, no children. On June 5/1956 I went by train to Richmond where Chester met and drove to Charlottesville for a week's visit, then train to Milton, where I stayed four months with Mrs Guild at 231 Atherton St.. taking Brownie along with me: I returned by train to Palm Beach October 15/1956. The rest of the family spent three months in Peterboro from July 1st, Georgie flying with Jeffrey Gray to Milton to Milton and then Peterboro: Mrs. Swenson, Iris, the three smaller children and Sparky, flew up by plane to Boston, Charlie Barrett driving them to Peterboro: Eleanor, with Mrs. Adair drove our car up to Peterboro, stopping a day with Chester at Charlottesville. On September 5/1956 Iris, Bertie, Tommy and Sparky flew to Palm Beach, while Eleanor, George and Sheila drove her car down, but on reaching Baltimore, was unable to drive further. She phoned Thayer in New York, who flew down at once, and who got a Washington taxi man to drive her car to Washington, where they stayed the night, and on to Palm Beach by train next day, while Thayer had a taxi man drive her car to Palm Beach. During this summer, Eleanor had a swimming pool built at 235 Sea Spray Avenue, and the garage altered to a guest house with three rooms and two bathrooms. On August 14/1956 John's fifth child was born, Allessandra Manchester Poole. On October 24/1956, David sailed on the "Queen Mary" for Paris, and returned in six weeks. He came down from Toronto to spend Christmas with us, and visited John in Miami for a day. In 1957, Eleanor rented 235 Sea Spray from January 15th to April 15th, to the Ellsworth Alvords of Washington, D.C. for $5500 and we rented the Kaltenborn house at 347 Sea View Ave.. In March 1957, Eleanor went to Orlando and passed the examinations of the Florida Real Estate Board, and received her license as a real estate saleswoman, and made over $1200 in commissions this

year, as saleswoman for the Robert Wilson Real Estate Co. of Palm Beach. Also in March 1957 David and Thayer again went to Paris where David started divorce proceedings - granted in May. Late in March Georgia had his two upper front teeth knocked out by a mallet thrown by a boy in play: one was a first tooth - the other a second tooth, was pressed back into the gum and though dead, still sticks in 2 1/2 years later. In May, David made a trip of investigation to San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and stayed a few days with Molly in Roseburg. Brownie died here in Palm Beach the last week of June, just a few days before her 17th birthday: she was deaf and nearly blind. In July 1957, Molly, George and their children flew to Santa Barbara for a two weeks visit. John and Doris stayed the summer in Miami, and so did Eleanor and I, in Palm Beach, not too uncomfortable with the air conditioners, and the children enjoyed the 15 x 50 foot swimming pool. Georgia spent July and August at Camp Yonchnaka, North Carolina. During his absence, Mrs. De Bosschere of Brussels, spent two weeks with us, widow of my colleague Jacques de

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                         HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.

Bosschere of Mosle & Co., Tokyo, days. Also in August, David and Thayer went again to Paris, and David travelled through France, Belgium and Switzerland re prospects for a job; he returned on the "Queen Mary", on October 29/1957. On October 15/1958, I celebrated my eightieth birthday at 235 Sea Spray Avenue, with Eleanor and the children. - quite a mile stone. Late in October Dick Poole visited us a day on his flight from Bogota to Charlottesville, via Nassau and Miami for his wedding on November 2nd to Jillian Hanbury. In November 1957 David gave up his Toronto job and went to Santa Barbara, Cal., where he joined the County National Bank & Trust Co., as assistant to the manager of the Trust Department. After a short stay with the Lencis he rented an apartment and bought a motor car and seemed to enjoy his position and work.
         Early in 1958, Thayer became much interested in Jacqueline's clairvoyant powers, when he went to Paris to look into mining and oil properties in The Middle East and Africa. To her advice with these powers, he ascribes his success in parting with Robert Anderson, and securing a twenty million dollar investment by Mcintyre in Ventures. In the spring of 1958 he formed his new Paris firm, "Cogamines", (Compagnie des Gites Mineraux) at 18 Place de la Madeleine, In November 1957, Eleanor rented 235 Sea Spray Ave., to Dr Lee Pollock of Toronto, for five months for $7500, so we rented 115 Westminster Road, West Palm Beech, from Mrs. Patricia Lord, a maniac of a woman who made our lives miserable. Georgie served the whole winter from 7 A.M. as conductor on the school bus, driven by a teacher, to pick up students from the north and of Palm Beach. George, Sheila and Bertie attended the Palm Beach Private School. In April 1958, Thayer asked Eleanor to go to Paris to help him fix up his new office there. He flew over April 26th, and Eleanor and Georgie, followed by the French line "Liberte" sailing from New York, May 22nd. Thayer and Jacqueline met them at Le Havre and drove them to Paris, where they all stayed at the Hotel Bristol on Rue Faubourg St. Honore. Mrs. Swenson came down to help with the children while Eleanor was away. Eleanor found Paris unpleasant with the riots and disturbances at the assumption of power by De Gaulle, and she returned on the "United States" in three weeks. Before Eleanor left for Paris I had a heart check up and everything was found in good shape, except my eye sight which is slowly getting worse and reading becoming difficult - also shortage of breath on exertion - emphysema its called. Molly had a hard time this spring, she and her children coming down with measles and mumps, and her mother-in-law, Mrs Lenci died of cancer at Santa Barbara. On July 1/1958 Eleanor, the four children and Iris went by train to New York, thence by motor to Peterboro and stayed till September 8th, returning the same way. I stayed here alone with Emma Lou, keeping cool with the air conditioners. John and Doris came up to see me September 2nd - I hadn't seen John for 4 1/2 years - his last visit was when we lived at Crest Road. Early in July Thayer insisted David re-join his New York-Paris firm, so David resigned his Santa Barbara job and sailed July 10th (sixteenth) per "Queen Mary" for Paris. This summer of 1958, Molly built a 30 x 60 foot swimming pool in their Roseburg garden. On September 12/1958 Thayer and Jacqueline flew over from Paris far a 10 day visit, and flew back the 22nd. Eleanor tried twice to go up and stay with Jacqueline at the St. Moritz Hotel, but illness prevented her.

Continued on File HP1P22-E                       Subject 1. P22 (4/22/52)

HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.

         The following is the list of the steamers which I have travelled on during my life, totalling some 360 days at sea, far below father's record. I have never been up in an aeroplane, my family needing my pension as long as possible.

Date.          Steamer.                Voyage          Duration
                                                       Days
May 1888. Oceanic.                San Francisco to Yokohama.    18
Oct 1895. Olympia.                Kobe to Yokohama.              1
May 1899. Laos.                   Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Oct 1899. Sakura Maru.            Yokohama to Otaru.             5
Oct 1899. Tauruga Maru.           Muroran to Hakodate.          1/2
Oct 1899. Taganoura Maru.         Hakodate to Aomori.           1/2
Aug 1900. Prinz Heinrich.         Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Aug 1900. Yoshidagawa Maru.       Kobe to Unija.                 2
Aug 1900, Baken Maru.             Ujina to Moji.                 1/2
Aug 1900. Empress of India.       Nagasaki to Kobe.              1
Aug 1901. Shinagawa Maru.         Yokkaichi to Yokohama          1
Jan 1902. Hong Kong Maru.         Kobe to Yokohama.              1
May 1902. Princess Irene.         Yokohama to Shanghai.          5
May 1902. Tungchow.               Shanghai to Tientsin.          3
May 1902. Yinkow.                 Port Arthur to Chefoo.        1/2
May 1902. Sagami Maru.            Chefoo to Kobe.                4
Aug 1902. Hamburg.                Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Aug 1902, Kobe Maru.              Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Apr 1903. Kiautschou.             Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Apr 1903. Siberia.                Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Spt 1903. Genkai Maru.            Aomori to Hakodate            1/2
Spt 1903. Miike Maru.             Hakodate-Otaru-Yokohama.       5
Feb 1904, Coptic.                 Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Jun 1904. Vindobona.              Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Jun 1904. Korea.                  Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Dec 1904. China.                  Yokohama to San Francisco     18
Mar 1905. Baltic                  New York to Liverpool.         8
Mar 1905. Maria Henrietta.        Dover to Ostend.              1/8
Apr 1905. Princess of Wales.      Bologne to Folkestone.        1/8
Apr 1905. Queen.                  Dover to Calais.              1/8
Jun 1905. Brussels.               Antwerp to Harwich.           1/8
Jul 1905. Adder.                  Ardrossan to Belfast.        1/8
Jul 1905. Earl of Antrim.         Dublin to Liverpool.          1/8
Aug 1905. Brighton.               Newhaven to Dieppe.           1/8
Spt 1905. Osiris,                 Brindisi to Port Said.         2
Spt 1905. China.                  Port Said to Colombo.         14
Spt 1905. Arcadia.                Colombo to HongKong.          11
Oct 1905. Doric.                  Hong Kong to Kobe.             9
Spt 1906. Osumi Maru.             Aomori to Hakodate.           1/2
Oct 1906. Higo Marn.              Murcran to Aomori.            1/2
Dec 1906. Korea.                  Yokohama to Kobe.              1.
Dec 1906. Prinz Eitel Frederick. Kobe to Yokohama.              1.
Feb 1907. Kosai Maru.             Yokohama to Kobe,              1.
Mar 1907. Coptic.                Kobe to Yokohama.              1.
Mar 1907. Zieten,                 Yokohama to Kobe.              1.
Apr 1907. Tamba Maru,             Kobe to Yokohama.              1.
Dec 1907. Prinz Regent Luitpold. Yokohama to Kobe.              1.
Dec 1907. Yeiko Maru.             Kobe to Moji.                  1.
Dec 1907. Port Maru.              Nagasake to Shanghai.         1 1/2

                            Subject 1.     4/22/52           23.

Dec 1907. Mongolia.               Shanghai to Yokohama.          1
Feb 1908. Ernest Simons.          Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Feb 1908. Yanaguchi Maru.         Kobe to Moji.                  1
Mar 1908. Princess Alice.         Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Jul 1908. Chikuzen Maru.          Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Jan 1909. Chiyo Maru.             Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Dec 1909. Prinz Ludwig.           Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Dec 1909. Polynesian.             Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Jan 1910. Bulow.                  Yokohama to Kobe.              1.
Jul 1910. Chikuzen Yara.          Kobe to Moji.                  1
Aug 1910. Hakuai Maru.            Moji to Kobe.                  1
Aug 1910 Hitachi Maru.           Kobe to Moji.                  1
Dec 1910. Empress of Japan.       Kobe to Nagasaki.              1
Dec 1910. Hakuai Maru.            Moji to Kobe.                  1
Feb 19l1. Yamaguchi Maru.         Kobe to Nagasaki.              1
Jun 1911. Manchuria.              Nagasaki to Kobe.              1
Jul 1911. Miyazaki Maru.          Kobe to Moji.                  1
Aug 1911. Kosai Maru.             Nagasaki to Moji.              1.
Aug 1911. Taihoku Maru.           Moji to Nagasaki.              1.
Aug 1911. Sanuki Maru.            Moji to Kobe.                  1.
Aug 1911. Kosai Maru.             Kobe to Nagasaki.              2
Oct 1911. Kosai Maru.             Nagasaki to Moji.              1
Nov 1911. Shinyo Maru.            Nagasaki to Kobe.              1
Nov 1911. Hitachi Marc.           Kobe to Moji.                  1
Dec 1911. Chikugo Marc.           Nagasaki to Shanghai.          2
Jan 1912. Tenyo Maru.             Shanghai to Nagasaki.          2
Jun 1912. Keijo Maru,             Kagoshima to Maha (Okinawa)    2
Jul 1912. Satsuma Maru.           Maha to Oshima.                1
Jul 1912. Futami Maru.            Oshima to Kagoshima.           1
Jul 1912. Yamaguchi Maru.         Nagasaki to Kobe.              1
Jul 1912. Shinano Maru.           Moji to Kobe.                  1
Aug 1912. Daishin Maru.           Kobe to Moji.                  1
Aug 1912. Tategami Maru.          Moji to Nagasaki.              1
Aug 1912. Kasuga Maru.            Nagasaki to Moji.              1
Nov 1912. Kasuga Maru.            Nagasski to Kobe.              1
Jan 1913. Kasato Maru,            Kobe to Moji.                  1
Feb 1913. Shinano Maru.           Kobe to Moji.                  1
May 1913. Mopko Maru.             Kobe to Oita.                  1
May 1913. Chikuzen Maru.          Moji to Kobe.                  1
Jun 1913, Kurenai Maru.           Kobe to Takahama.              1/2
Aug 1913. Kasuga Maru.            Kobe to Moji.                  1
Aug 1913. Ohikugo Maru.           Nagasaki to Kobe,              2
Sep 1913. Yamashiro Maru.         Nagasaki to Kobe.              2
Nov 1913. Gishiu Maru.            Kobe to Beppu.                 1
Nov 1913. Kasuga Maru.            Nagasaki to Kobe.              2
Jan 1914. Shinano Marn.           Moji to Kobe,                  1
Feb 1914, Korea.                  Kobe to Manila.                8
Feb 1914. Korea.                  Manila to Hong Kong.           6
Feb 1914. Empress of Asia.        Hong Kong to Kobe.             6
Mar 1914. Nippon Maru.            Kobe to Nagasaki.              1
Mar 1914. Kasuga Maru.            Moji to Kobe.                  1
Apr 1914. Tacoma Maru.            Kobe to Nagasaki.              2
Jun 1914. Chikugo Maru,           Nagasaki to Kobe.              2
Jun 1914. Toyen Maru.             Kobe to Nagasaki.              2
Aug 1914. Kasuga Maru.            Nagasaki to Kobe.              2
Feb 1915. Hong Kong Maru.         Moji to Kobe.                  1

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Jun 1915. Korea.                  Yokohama to San Francisco.   18.
Nov 1915. Shinyo Maru.            San Francisco to Yokohama.   18
Jan 1916. Atsuta Maru.            Kobe to Moji.                 1
Feb 1916. Bingo Maru.             Moji to Kobe,                 1
Spt 1917. Yamashiro Maru.         Kobe to Shanghai.             4
Spt 1917. Sakaki Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           2
Feb 1918. Yawata Maru.            Kobe to Moji.                 1
Apr 1918. Hong Kong Maru.         Kobe to Moji.                 1
Apr 1918. America Maru.           Moji to Kobe.                 1
Oct 1918. Takeshima Maru.         Kobe to Shanghai.             3
Dec 1918. Kobe Maru.              Shanghai to Dairen.           3
Jan 1919. Harbin Maru.            Kobe to Dairen.               4
Spt 1919. Sakaki Maru.            Dairen to Shanghai.           3
Oct 1920. Sakaki Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           3
Dec 1920. Korea Maru.             Shanghai to San Francisco.   27
Mar 1921. Metapan.                Havana to Christobal.         6
Apr 1921. Sixola.                 Christobal to New York.      14
Jan 1921. Golden State.           San Francisco to Shanghai    21
Jul 1921. Sakaki Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           5
Spt 1922. Sakaki Maru.            Dairen to Shanghai.           5
Jan 1924. Sakaki Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           5
Jan 1924. Sakaki Maru.            Dairen to Shanghai.           5
Spt 1924. President Cleveland.    Kobe to San Francisco,       17
Feb 1925. President Taft.         San Francisco to Shanghai.   20
Jan 1926. Dairen Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           3
Feb 1926. Sakaki Maru.            Dairen to Shanghai.           3
Jun 1926. Korea Maru.             Shanghai to Yokohama.         6
Jul 1926. Nagasaki Maru.          Kobe to Shanghai.             2
Apr 1927. President Taft.         Shanghai to Kobe.             2
Jun 1928. Katori Maruu            Kobe to Yokohama.             1
Spt 1928. Leviathan.              Southampton to New York.      5
Nov 1925. President Cleveland.    San Francisco to Yokohama.   18
Jan 1933. President Garfield.     Kobe to Naples.              43
Mar 1933. Saythia.                Liverpool to Boston.          9
Mar 1936. Queen of Bermuda.       New York to Bermuda.          2
Apr 1936. Queen of Bermuda.       Bermuda to New York.          2
May 1936. Normandie.              New York to Le Havre.         5
Jul 1936. Queen Mary.             Southampton to New York.      5
Jan 1937. Lady Drake.             Boston to Demerara & back.   30
Nov 1938. Borinquen.              New York to San Juan.        4
Nov 1938. Catherine.              San Juan, St Thomas, St Croix 2
Dec 1938. Borinquen.              San Juan to New York.         4
Jul 1939. Monarch of Bermuda.     New York to Bermuda.          2
Jul 1939. Monarch of Bermuda.     Bermuda to New York,          2
Nov 1947. Fort Amherst.           New York to Bermuda.          3
May 1945. Lady Nelson.            Bermuda to Boston.            2
Nov 1948. Fort Townshend.         New York to Bermuda.          3
Feb 1949. Queen of Bermuda.       Bermuda to New York.          2
Oct 1949. Queen of Bermuda.       New York to Bermuda.          2
Jan 1950. Lady Rodney.            Bermuda to Boston.            2

                           Subject 1. 4         P25.   (8/12/52)

Issue:-

1/1. John Lindsley Poole. Born at noon December 22/1916, at 60 Kitano-cho

4 chome, Kobe, Japan, in a semi Japanese house we had rented from Mrs. Lightfoot, way up on the hill nestling under the Inari-no-shita shrine, near the Tor Hotel. Dr. Martin brought him into the world: his first nurse was Yamamuro-san: his first amah was a Catholic Chinese woman named Marie, who we had brought over from Shanghai, but who had to go back soon as she nearly died of diabetes. His next amah was Koizuni san who stayed with us until we went to Mukden in January 1919. In May of that year, he and Eleanor had a mild case of typhoid fever for ten days. His first education was by Miss Molly Proctor, a governess who Maya had brought out from Boston in 1921 and stayed with us for three years. From February 1925 to April 1927, he attended the Shanghai American School: from April 1927 he attended the Canadian Academy in Kobe until June 1928. In the winter of 1928 he attended the Lenox, Mass., Academy. From July 1929 he was tutored in Yokohama by William L. Cobb, a teacher in the Milton Academy who Maya had brought out for a year. After that he attended the Tokyo America School at Kami-Meguro for a year. From September 1930 to June 1951, he attended the Milton Academy, and for the year after that, again the Tokyo American School, In September 1932 John again entered the Milton Academy and graduated in 1935 with the distinction of high scholarship. He entered Harvard University as a freshman at Wigglesworth Hall, rooming with Robert Phippin and David Lilly, who had also graduated from Milton at the same time as John. He attended the University of Chicago for one year between his junior and senior years at Harvard: he graduated from Harvard in 1940, B.S. He then took a course in advertising at Columbia University, New York. On the outbreak of the second World War, desiring to join the Air Force, he took and passed the Civilian Pilot Training Program at Warwick, N.Y. Shortly after, he was inducted into the Army, but on account of his small knowledge of the Japanese language he was transferred to the Navy and sent to Boulder, Colo., Navy Language Training School to study the Japanese language for one year, then two years at Columbia University, New York. He passed with high marks in both the spoken and written language, He was then sent to Ann Arbor, Mich,, for final assignment, but was rejected for asthma, and given his discharge. He then worked in several advertising agencies in New York but realising a warmer climate would mitigate the severity of his asthma, he left in December 1940 and joined the advertising department of Pan-American Airways, Miami. He remained with them for about a year, and resigned in February 1948 to work as a free lance writer. In May 1949 his Mother bought him a house at 4197 Braganza Avenue, Coconut Grove, Miami, where he lived in 1952. He married at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Coconut Grove, on December 10/1949 Doris Katharine Lorber, born at Baltimore, Md., September 2/1923, twin daughter of Charles Adolph and Anna Hildegarde (Dengler) Lorber of Miami. Doris was educated at Baltimore and Miami schools, and attended Florida State University, Tallahassee, for two years. Charles Lorber[i] was for many years a test pilot with Pan-American Airways, and was the one who plotted the routes from the U.S.A. to South America, Africa and Australia: he was killed a few years ago when his plane hit a sunken log in landing on a lake near New Orleans
Issue:- (born at Coral Gables, Miami)
2/1. Catherine Armstrong Poole, born September 24/1950.
2. William Thayer Lindsley Poole, born January 5/1952

Handwritten insertion.

3. Elizabeth Quintard Poole, born Coconut Grove Fla., March 9/1953.
4. Charlotte Maya Lindsley Poole, born Miami, Fla., Jan 19/1955.
5. Alessandra Poole, born Miami, Fla., 1956.

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1/2. Eleanor Quintard Poole. Born at the same house as John at Kobe,

Japan, January 25/1918, Dr. Martin attending. Her first amah was O'Tei-san who stayed with us until we went to Mukden in January 1919, Her early education was the same as John, with the exception that when John was tutored by Mr. Cobb, EIeanor and Molly were tutored by Miss Lise, a Canadian teacher who Maya brought out for a year. Eleanor graduated from Milton Academy in 1936, then attended Radcliffe for two years and the University of Chicago for one year. In the war years of 1943 and 1944 she worked at the Radio Research Laboratory of Harvard University. She married, 1st, at St. James (Spanish Place) Church London, England, on December 22/1945, Ernest Edward Hilton, born at Wigan Lancashire, England, March 30/1922 son of Thomas and Marie (Burton) Hilton of Wigan. She met him while he was training at Riddle Field, Okichobee, near Palm Beach with the British Royal Air Force: he got his wings there and returned to England too late to see service before the war ended. They lived at West Byfleet, near my sister, until February 1946, when Eleanor returned to Boston: he joined her after his discharge in June. He returned to England that year and they were divorced in June 1947. She married, 2nd, at Bermuda, on March 5/1949 Thomas Gerald David Bamford, born at Middleton, Lancashire, England, April 3/1926, eldest son of David Smithers and Mary (Taylor) Bamford of Middleton, an architect and building contractor, In 1949 Gerald was on the staff of the British Government Cable & Wireless Co, Bermuda, and they lived at Barry Ann Cottage, Paget, Bermuda. After a short service with Imperial Chemicals, Ltd, England he came to Boston on August 12/1951, and joined the United Carr Fastener Co., Cambridge, Mass. Her mother had bought for Eleanor a house at 42 Spafford Road, Milton, in May 1951, but they never occupied it: she sold it in September 1951 and they lived at 1250 Canton Ave., Milton.
Issue:-(by her first husband)
1. George Quintard Hilton, born at Mass General Hospital, Boston, October 29/1946.

Issue:- (by her second husband)
2. Sheila Ann Bamford, born at Richardson House, Boston, July 31/1950.
3. Herbert Armstrong Bamford, born Richardson House, Boston, July 28/1952.,
4. Thomas Lindsley Bamford. Born at Boston, March 26/1955 (hand)

3. Molly Manchester Poole. Born at Wen-hua-shu-yen, Mukden, Manchuria,

China, July 7/1919, Dr. Mole attending. This was one of the Scotch Presbyterian Mission residences, near the small west gate of the native city. Her first nurse was Yamakita-san and her first amah Li Bai Fang. Molly's early education was the same as her sister's. In the winter of 1927-8 all our children attended the Alpine School at Villars-sur-Bex, Switzerland. Molly graduated from Milton Academy in 1937, and from Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., in 1942. She then joined the Pacific Tel & Tel Co., San Francisco: on July 1/1944 she joined the Public Welfare Department, San Francisco, as social worker, and in November 1945 was appointed Federal Representative in San Francisco, for the Government Civilian War Assistance Program for displaced persons. She resigned in April 1946 and returned to Milton. She married at the Milton Academy Chapel, on August 30/1947, Dr. George Nathaniel Lenci, born at Englewood, N.J., June 29 1918, son of George Nathaniel and Julia Washburn (See) Lenci of Rochester, N.Y. He was educated at Lance School, Summit, N.J., and at Pingree School, Elizabeth, N.J. He graduated from Hamilton College, N.J., in 1940, and

Subject 1. P27 (8/12/52)

from the College of Medicine of the New York University in 1944. In July 1945 he joined the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, served two months at the Waltham Regional Hospital, then at the Medical School, Carlisle, Pa., then at the Separation Camp, Alleghany, Ind., the in the Phillippines, Manila area hospitals: he returned to the U.S.A. in December 1945. After their marriage, he studied another eighteen months at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.: then served a year as assistant to Dr. Pilsifer, at Rochester, N.Y. In July 1949 they moved to Roseburg, Oregon, where he established himself as a medical doctor at 157 North Jackson St., and they lived in a bungalow they bought a few miles out of town. Issue:- 1. Robert Livingston Lenci, born at Rochester, N.Y., February 4/1949. 2. Susan Thayer Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., July 24/1950. 3. Laura Lindsley Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., July 18/1953. 4. Virginia Washburn Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., Nov. 29/1955.

4. David Armstrong Poole. Born at 11 Gloucester St, Boston, Mass.,

May 15/1921, Dr. Arthur N. Broughton attending. David's name was first registered at Boston as Otis Armstrong, then changed to Otis Thayer, and finally to David Armstrong. His early education was the same as his brother and sisters. He graduated from Milton Academy in 1939 and was in his senior year at Harvard when inducted into the Army Signal Corps, pfc, stationed at Camp Edwards until April 1943, then at M.I.T. Boston for Specialised Training until November of that year. He was then sent to Liverpool, France and Germany, serving mostly in the Vosges district, and into Germany as far as Baden, with the Sixth Army Group, consisting of the 7th U.S. Army and the First French Army. Shortly after V.E. day, the Army put him at the Univer- sity of Nancy for two months, then to Paris where he studied four months at the Ecole Superieur d'Electricite. He was mustered out on February 10/1946, as a T/5, after serving three years. He then joined M.I.T. Boston, and graduated February 27/1949, with a Master's degree in electrical engineering. He was given his Harvard B.S. degree in 1945. In November 1946 he sailed per "Ile de France" for Paris, on leave of absence from M.I.T, and married at the Town Hall, 8th arrondisement, on July 12/1947, in the presence of the bride's father and Lorna Lindsley, Jacqueline Blanche, Angelina Choin, born at Paris February 14/1926, only daughter of Edouard and Marie Rose (Bonneau) Choin. She was educated at the Ursuline Convent, Paris, and at the Dames de Ste Chlotilde (La Tour), Paris, then studied the piano with Professor Santiago Riera of the Paris Conservatoire. They came to Boston the same month. In February 1949 they went back to Paris for eighteen months, and returned to Boston in the summer of 1950: he joined his uncle Thayer's firm and they lived in New York until June 1951. Jacqueline had preceded him to Paris to resume study with Professor Riera, he following her in June, David flew back to Milton three days before his mother's death., returning to Paris ten days later. In May 1952 David decided he could not find a job in Paris and returned alone to New York, where he rejoined his uncle Thayer's firm, and rented an apartment at 710 Park Avenue: Jacqueline came over from Paris to rejoin him in August. Both returned to Paris Nov 1952.
Issue:
1. Francis Armstrong Poole, born at Paris, France, June 26/1953.

Subject 1-A 8/12/52 P 01

3. 1A - MAYA LINDSLEY

        Was born at 118-A Bluff, Yokohama, December 25/1884, and died at the Milton Hospital, August 15/1951, five days after a stroke, cerebral thrombosis, buried in her parents' plot at the Milton Cemetary. She was the daughter of John and Virginia Thayer (Payne) Lindsley of Boston an Yokohama.
        Her early education was by governesses in Yokohama. In August 1895, she was taken to Milton with her parents and brothers, and lived the first winter in a house on the corner of Hutchinson and Randolph Avenues. She and her brothers entered Milton Academy in September of that year, where she studied three years. In 1896 the family moved to the Bancroft house on Adams St. On October 10/1898, Maya returned to Yakohama with her parents, per "Empress of India", bringing with them for one year, Miss Elizabeth Balch, a member of an old Boston family - a teacher for many years at St. Agnes School, Albany, N.Y. After the latter returned to America, Maya continued her studies in Yokohama with American, English and German teachers, studying also the piano, violin and singing. In 1902 the family returned to Milton, after completing in Yokohama the building of 118-C Bluff and the Zemma Iron Works at Negishi. They brought four Japanese servants with them and lived at 240 Adams St. Maya, with her parents sailed on May 25/1905 per Cunard "Slavonia" for Naples, accompanied by three of their Japanese servants and spent a year and a half in Burope. They spent the summer in Italy and Switzerland, then took a delightful apartment at 1 Rue de Longchamps Paris. Maya spent the winter of 1905-6 studying the piano with Professor Swan, a pupil of Leschetizky until the spring, and then with Moskowski until August. She spent the summer in Dinard, Brittany: then after spending a month in London, returned to Milton via Quebec, per "Empress of Ireland", arriving in November 1906. She spent the summer of 1907 at North East Harbor and Bretton Woods, and three months of that winter at 191 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. The summer of 1908 Maya spent at Telluride with Halstead, at an altitude of 9000 ft, taking many glorious horseback rides in that neighborhood, sometimes as high up as 12,500 ft. The winter of 1908 was spent at 386 Beacon St., Boston. Her father died in Milton on June 4/1909. Maya and her mother then spent six months in Europe, going over per Cunard "Carmania", and visited London, Paris, the Black Forest, Germany, Oboramergau, Munich, Vienna and Venice. She spent the winter of 1910 in Milton and the sunmer of 1911 at North Hatley, Quebec. In December 1911, Maya and her mother again went to Europe, per "Lapland", spending Christmas in London, a month in Paris, thence to Berlin, Moscow, and by the Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, thence via Tsuruga to Yokohama, arriving there in March 1912, staying at first with her uncle W.T. Payne; they later moved into their own house at 118-B Bluff. This trip to Japan was made for the purpose of enabling Mrs. Lindsley to look after their Japan properties, after an absence of ten years. In the spring of that year they made a trip to Korea, spent the summer in Karuizawa, and sailed in January 1914 via Vancouver, per "Empress of Russia", for Milton where they lived at 240 Adams St. Maya spent that summer in Idaho Springs with Halstead and Lorna.
        Maya married at her home, 240 Adams St., Milton, on September 25/1915, Herbert Armstrong Poole, and shortly after left for Kobe, Japan, via San Francisco, per "Shinyo Maru". For further particulars, see the Lindsley genealogy.
Issue:-
1. John Lindsley Poole. Born at Kobe, Japan, December 22/1916.
2. Eleanor Quintard Poole.   do             January 25/1918.

                             Subject 1-A P2

3. Molly Manchester Poole. Born at Mukden, Manchuria, July 7/1919.
4. David Armstrong Poole. Born at 11 Gloucester St. Boston, May 15/1921.

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Handwritten note:
Halstead Lindsley's family
Feb 11 1959

(seems a selection of extracts - AM 1998)

Was there - he said they all enjoyed it. Good to know each other. The following will explain Joan's marriages etc:- Halstead Lindsley. Born at Yokohama Nov 29/1879, died at New York, March 22/1945. He married 1st, at Boston, on March 30/1909, Margaret Lorna Ashton Stimson, born at Boston Jan 2/1888, died July 12/1955. They were divorced in 1921. He married, 2nd, at Denver, on July 4/1923, Emily Low (Bacon) Benjamin, born at Lenox, Mass. Aug 17/1884, still alive, Emily had married, 1st, at Lenox, on Jan 2/1909, Hamilton Fish Benjamin: they were divorced in 1922 and had no children.
Children:- by his first wife Margaret Ashton Stimson) died 1955.
1. Joan Ashton Lindsley, born at Denver Oct 30/1913. She married, 1st,

at New York, on Dec 28/1932, Clarence Moore, son of the sportsman Clarence Moore whom was lost on the Titanic. Young Clarence became a drunk and is still in an institution in Montana: were divorced, and had no children. Joan married, 2nd, in New York, January 1936, Percy Owen: they were divorced in 1941. Joan married. 3rd, in Jersey City, on Christmas Eve, 1943, as his 2nd or 3rd wife, Austen Herbert Croom- Croom Johnson, an Englishman writing jingles for the N.B.C. commercials: they were divorced in 1947, no children. Joan married, 4th, in Bermuda, on May 12/1948, as his second wifa, Major Ian Stewart Thompson, born 1908. They were later divorced and had no children. Child:- (by her second husband Percy Owen)
2/1. Christopher Lindsley Owen, born in N.Y. City, Nov 15/1937.

Graduated from Milton Academy, couldn't pass Harvard entrance exams and now attending University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

2.Leonore Lindsley, Born at Boston March 13/1917, killed in May 1945 in

a jeep accident while sight seeing at Bertschagarten, Germany, buried in the American Military Cemetery, Metz, France. She never married.

Child:- by his second wife Emily Bacon Benjamin:- (Still alive 1959)
3. Virginia Lindsley. Born in N.Y. City, Dec 8/l924.

She married at Lenox, Mass., July 24/1943, Jacques Gignoux, born at Fontainbleu, Paris France, Jan 22/1922, They were divorced in 1958 (?).
Children:- (all born in N.Y. City)
1.Reginald Gignoux, born Jan 31/1945.
2.Thomas Jacques Gignoux, born Nov 19/1946.
3.Claudine Emily Gignoux, born March 17/1951.
4.Thayer Lindaley Gignoux, born June /1955.

That will give you Joan's family: I hear her son Chris is rather fond of drink (like both his parents - Joan can mop it up too). Chris is a nice appearing and well spoken polite fellow, but not heavy in brains. His father married again and was again divorced. Yes, there were a lot of divorces in the Lindsley family but you're wrong about Mabel and Abby Austin. Neither were divorced but several of their children were, but not Dorothy who has given her life to look after her mother, still alive in Dedham, Mass - Mabel I mean, and of course Dot too. Walter Austin, Mabel's husband died of D.Ts in Boston years ago, but he left her 4 million dollars, held in trust by the Bishop Trust of Honolulu, so the family can't squander the capital. Walter's father made it in sugar. Walter Austin was a life chum of Jommy Wilder, and the Castle boy who was later quite a big bug in the U.S. State Dpt. Hugh Gunn was also a pal of theirs.

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2 - OTIS AUGUSTUS POOLE.

        Was born at Beloit, Wisconsin, December 20/1848, and died at Cloyne Court, Berkeley, California, April 1/1929, aged 80 years, of a heart attack after an illness of ten days. His body was cremated and his ashes brought to Yokohama by Mr. E.W. Frazar, and buried in the grave of his wife in the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery.
        Otis was the eldest child of Augustus and Maria Bishop (Manchester) Poole of Beloit, see subject 4.
        He married at Chicago, on February 17/1876, Eleanor Isabella Armstrong, born at Leitrim, Ireland, August 14/1841, died at 89 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan, June 4/1918, of cancer, daughter of John and Eleanor Isabella (Wilson) Armstrong, see subject 6. Eleanor had married, 1st, at Arcola, Ill., on November 7/1871, Colonel John Washington Young: they were divorced in 1872 and had no children, see subject 5.
        Otis wrote the following account of his life:. I was born at Beloit: that nature's alchemy should have precipitated me into this world on the shortest day of the year, must have been for the sake of consistency, for I am short in stature. My father died when I was four years old and my recollections of him are limited to a few instances only. He took me with him one late afternoon when he went a couple of hundred yards from the house into Beloit College grounds, while he shot some wild pigeons which were flying low. Millions of these wild pigeons migrated daily from the rookeries in Michigan to feeding grounds within a radius of three hundred miles and return by sundown. It was no uncommon sight for a hundred flocks to cross the sky in successive waves more than a mile wide from flank to flank. When it was windy, they flew low, and then the shooting was too easy to be good sport except to supply the table. From countless millions that were a menace to the farmer's crops, they dwindled rapidly, and for more than thirty years, several public societies have maintained standing offers of $1000 for a single pair of those birds, without the reward ever being claimed. The early impressions of my father were from what I heard people say of him, and from a couple of daguerrotypes, and from things around the house and garden which he had planned and made. He had a creative and mechanical bent, and was looking forward to giving me the advantages and education to fit me for a civil engineer, which had been an unrealised ambition for himself. At the time of my father's death, my mother was thirty and my grandfather Otis Manchester was fifty eight. My grandfather's home and chief business were then in Utica, N.Y., but he had investments and business interests in Beloit and made frequent visits to Beloit. When my father died, grandfather took charge of the estate for mother, and three years later, cleared out his Utica business and moved to Beloit, moved into the same house with mother, and thus became my titular father as well as grandfather. Insofar as he was thrifty and wise, he was a conscientious deputy father, but he and his family brought with them the emotional sterility of New England Puritanism, and as he was 53 years older than I, there was not much that he could see from a small boy's point of view with any mutual sympathy, and I suffered much from its lack, and my mother suffered vicariously for us three children for the same reason. There was too much Manchester in the combination altogether.
      Grandfather took me to Utica in 1854-5 to the house on Genessee St. I remember picking cherries from a ladder, and shaking sweet plums from the trees in the garden, and picking up fine yellow pears that had dropped on our side of the fence from Mr. Cooper's garden, and his trying to take them away from ma, and grandfather not letting him do it. I remember gathering beech nuts way out beyond the end of Geneesee St., to eat in church and of sliding down the incline from

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John Street Bridge on Christmas morning and tripping up an old Irish woman on her way to Mass, so I must have been there more than a year. I was in Beloit again soon after, for I was there when the first new nickel one cent pieces came out in 1857. Not long after that, I had my first job earning a little money, outside the usual family chores for which I was paid small sums to encourage the sense of my own money. This was during the winter vacation, and my job was in the Bank of Beloit, counting silver coins and wrapping them up in rolls of post of office paper. Next, I was picked off the gate post by a big college student and taken to his room where I was paid ten cents an hour to read "Marcus Aurelius" to half a dozen students, cramming for examination. Our neighbor opposite, was Judge John M. Kemp, with four children about our ages, and a wife who had once been pretty but that was about all, and a large house with beautiful and extensive ground. He was a famous judge and a man of fine literary talents, but in 1859 was slowly dying of consumption. He found my mother's intellectual companionship one of his chief solaces, and many an evening I was taken over there to sit in the library with then, while mother other read aloud to him. I heard Victor Hugo's Les Miserables read and discussed without being conscious of paying any attention to it, but 20 years later, when I read it, as I supposed for the first time, I found it all coming back to me and there were no unexpected surprises. He was fond of holding up his hand to check the reading, and discussing with my mother, some thought suggested by the subject in hand. I remember on one of these occasions hearing him say:- "Well, Maria, a good many types of men have come under my scrutiny in my career as a judge, but I've never yet seen the man wearing a ring who didn't have a soft spot in his head somewhere". I was not yet twelve, but that remark, coming from a distinguished judge, made such a lasting impression on me that it was after my fiftieth year that I wore a ring on my ringer. It was the Judge's passionate desire to see Lincoln elected, and that was the basis of the will power that kept him alive. He had the best of care and tried any thing that anyone suggested. He was "lord bountiful" to me, as he paid me for gathering mullein leaves which he had been recommended to smoke, and a dollar a dozen for frog legs. Sometimes I had great luck and captured more than his daily requirement and then mother cooked them up for me. Never did Delmonico's later, ever serve frog's legs at $1.50 per portion, that were as good as those Beloit frogs cooked at home. Then, Lincoln was elected and Fort Sumpter fired upon, and the Civil war broke out in the year I was twelve, and before that was over, I had got far enough in school to feel the difference between my clothes and those of other boys. I realised that the money I could earn between school hours, was not enough to keep me in pocket money and clothes, to say nothing of something towards my board. So when I came home at the end of the winter term of 1863, and found an offer of a clerkship in the book store of Wright & Newcomb at $12.50 per month for six months, I dropped my books, and dashed out to tell Paul, my best chum, who, strange to tell, had a similar offer to go into the drug store next door to the bookstore: we both had to sleep in the stores. Of course neither of our mothers liked that feature of it - mothers are built that way: perhaps there was a certain in concealed exhilaration to a full blooded boy of fourteen at the feel of the loosening of apron strings, but the mothers knew it would have to come sometime anyway. I intended to go back to school again after I had earned some money, but that good intention has been part of the pavement of Hades for nearly sixty years, though I matriculated for, and took a long course in the University of Hard Knocks. These were exciting war times, and our

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book store was the center of distribution for the Chicago morning and evening newspapers, that reached us at 1 and 9 P.M. People were mad for news on the eve of great battles and events of the war, and the second election of Lincoln, and his assassination in 1865, and the first trans-Atlantic under sea cable message in the summer of 1866. This was the stirring period of American history with which I was in close touch in my first independent four years out of school, The prospect of going back to school grew more remote. My free hours were between 1 P.M. and 8 A.M. For hunting, fishing or any other out door sports and games, there was not time enough in the free hours to encourage them, and the social amenities of a small town after curfew, did not contain much easement for a young cub, bashful and painfully self conscious, and without monny to spend and keep up his end - so I took it out in reading. Books of all kinds were on the shelves and I had only to reach for them. I began on the most utter trash, "Beadles Dime Novels", &c, but Mr. Wright mercifully diverted me from them to Marryat's and Cooper's exciting tales, and other books of literary type: I read whole shelves of them. Five years later, I was to learn that this same Mr. Wright had asked my mother to marry him: he was a widower with four daughters. He had held out as an additional inducement, that he would give me a college education that would fit me for a civil engineer, which was my father's ambition for me. Mr. Wright was much older than my mother and needed her in his family of girls: mother was a refined, intellectual, and very pretty woman, but couldn't love him and wouldn't marry him. But it was on her conscience that by not marrying him, she had deprived me of a great advantage. I am thankful her own aversion and her mother's instinct so surely guided her to refuse him: as a step father he would have driven me to the dogs in no time. In April 1867, in my 19th year, I left Beloit for Chicago, where an uncle had found me a position in the supply department of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, at 40 South Clark St., at $40 per month. Seeing that nobody got on here but those who had influence higher up, I left this position the following year and began as a book keeper for Sherman, Hall & Lybrand, on South Water St. at $40 per month. I was boarding in Mr. Sherman Hall's house on West Washington St. at that time. That boarding place was the beginning of my existence in hall bedrooms with all my worldly possessions in one trunk, and I never knew anything more capacious until I was married on February 17/1876. With the exception of a year and a half, following the great Chicago fire of October 9/1871, I was with Mr. Hall until he hopelessly failed in 1875. My mother died at Beloit in 1873. During the time I was with Mr. Hall, I was a horse for work: my hours were long but I was a good book keeper and confidential office man, and earned and got $2500 a year. His failure was a catastrophe, a very personal catastrophe for me, for I was getting ready to be married, and did not want to put it off. Business hadn't recovered from the panic of 1873, and $2500 a year bookeeperships were not plenty, and besides, they had to be grown into by many years of service. The only thing I could find was $75 a month position as book keeper and general utility man with a small tea merchant, Mr Henry Sayres, of Sayres & Thompson: I took it and promptly got married on that and a small savings bank balance, and the sanguine hope of a subsequent advance in salary. But the old skinflint didn't loosen up or come through with an annual advance in salary, in keeping with the service he got. He had everything his way in the deal but he entirely overlooked how much better a tea man I was becoming than a book keeper: a day came in March 1879, when he refused to advance me by $150 per year, from $l200 to $1350, and

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he let my engagement runout and over run a month without settling for the coming year, and meantime, out of the blue sky, came an offer of $1800 as tea buyer for a very big concern, Reid, Murdock & Fisher, which I was free to accept, and did. Four fruitful years with this concern as a tea buyer, qualified me for another transition in the tea game, and rounded out my nineteen years of service in Chicago. Meantime, my 1876 hall bedroom and one trunk full of bachelor belongings, had expanded into a house and lot at 3731 Forest Avenue, an appalling accumulation of house-hold goods, and a wife and three children - some problem in view of the turn in my business affairs. E.A. Schoyer, the importer for whom I had been a salesman on the street for two years, suddenly wanted me to go to China for him, and on less than a month's notice, I sailed from San Francisco on May 2/1886, per "Belgic" for Shanghai, and every summer since, for forty one years, has been passed in the Orient, namely, 2 years in Shanghai and Amoy, 22 years in Yokohama, and 17 years in Shidzucka. On my return from my second year in China, I found the firm had been speculating in coffee, and they failed in 1888. The next day I had three offers to go to the Orient, and closed with the one that wanted me to go to Japan, Smith Baker & Co. Knowing my future was thenceforth to be in the Orient, I sold the Forest Avenue house where all the children had been borne, and disposed of the immovables not likely to be needed in Japan. With the rest, including my wife's square grand Steinway piano, which had survived a trip from the center of the great Chicago fire of 1871 with the loss of one leg, we all said a long goodbye to Chicago friends, and sailed from San Francisco for Yokohama on April 8/1888, par "Oceanic". This is just a bare outline of my life before going to the Orient: to fill in the intermediate spaces would make a big book and run to personalities and rake up memories, violate privacies, and reveal tragedies of wasted opportunities and errors of judgement that would cast a shadow over the myriad joys of a long life".
(end of Otis A. Poole's account).
Otis Augustus Poole was a fine man in every respect, a good husband and father, of gentle disposition, artistic, and with the highest degree of honor and rectitude. He was not self assertive, nor fond of public office, and had educated himself by reading to an extraordinary extent. He was more like a brother to his children then an unapproachable father, and took part in all their interests. He brought to Yokohama in 1889, two thoroughbred fox terriers, and for the next fifty years, had generations of them. Since Otis came to Yokohama in 1888 for Smith Baker Co., he remained with them until 1909, and when that firm was disbanded, he carried on the tea business under the name of Otis A. Poole & Co., until he retired in 1926, moving his office to Shidzucka, 75 miles south west of Yokohama, the center of the tea garden, and living in a Japanese house, for six months in the year. His widely recognized reputation as an exceptional tea expert, made him one of the very few tea buyers in China and Japan who were given "open" orders, that is, importers in the U.S.A. would authorize him to buy any teas he considered good at whatever price he set: his clients were always greatly satisfied. He would walk down a tea counter with over 100 cups of tea, taste them, grade them, and price than as close as five sen per picul (133 1/3rd lbs). The Japanese loved and trusted him, and at his death, the Government conferred on him a high honor for his share in developing the sale of Japan teas to the U.S.A. In 1892, Otis became interested in photography, and for years, took many pictures of life and scenes in Japan, which he used in lantern slides for the many lectures he gave in the U.S.A. It was he who started Burton Holmes, the Travelogue lecturer, on his career, at the request of Burton's grandmother, who was anxious to start the young rich Burton on some career.

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Since he became resident in Yokohama in 1888, his annual trips to the U.S.A. prevented him being with his family at Christmas, but his return in April made a second Christmas for his children. He was very abstemious in his habits and not fond of sports. Though unable to play himself, he was musical, and never missed the opera season in New York. He never learned to speak Japanese and knew no other language. The tea business was not a money fortune maker. He never rode a bicycle, nor drove a motor car, nor ever went up in an aeroplane. He was of a creative and inventive mind, and skilful in the use of tools. His dark room was a mine of interest to his sons, whom he taught the intricacies of of taking, developing and printing photographs: he was happiest in working around the house: he had no interest in gardening. He was an inimitable raconteur, doubtless increased by contacts with many people during his travels. He was a fine swimmer and famous for his long dives, for which he made many records. He always walked to and from his office, generally taking the dogs with him. He was fussy about his diet, but never ill. He was always resourceful: one winter in the 1890s, a day before his departure for San Francisco, an earthquake the previous night, had twisted the brick chimney of our house, a quarter way around just where it came through the roof, so that when the fire was started in the morning, sparks set fire inside the roof, to which there was no access from the inside of the house. He chopped through the wall of a small closet above the front door, and put the fire out with buckets of water which he carried up. This ruined his new suit of clothes, so he had to postpone his sailing for a week. He was never afraid of the frequent earthquakes, and used to sit undisturbed, much to the annoyance of his family who always rushed out doors, day or night. The big earthquake of 1923 proved how dangerous his plan was, for most of the houses fell, and it was those who habitually rushed outdoors who were the majority of those saved. On arrival at Yokohama in May 1888, after a few weeks at the Grand Hotel, Otis took up his residence at 89 Bluff, a bungalow of six rooms, where the family lived until his wife's death in 1915. There were neither water, gas or electricity on the bluff in those days. Our house was entirely destroyed in the great earthquake of September 1/1923.
         Otis A, Poole had the distinction of having crossed the Pacific Ocean between the Orient and the U.S.A., eighty two times also covering many of the cities in the U.S.A. between San Francisco and New York, without accident - a remarkable record of the safety of travel. Beyond a few regular steamer captains, he holds the record for the number of crossings. His many voyages add up, at 18 days per trip, to over three years and ten months at sea, quite a record for a non seafaring man. The steamers he travelled on, were as follows:-

              Westward.               Eastward.
May 2 1886. Belgic.             Dec22 1886,   City of Peking
Apr 2 1887. Belgic.             Dec 12 1887. Oceanic.
Apr 6 1888. Oceanic.           Dec 8 1888.   Belgic.
Apr 6 1889. Arabic.             Jan 7 1890.   Oceanic.
Apr15 1890. Oceanic,            Dec 19 1890. Belgic.
Apr 2 1891. Oceanic.            Dec 17 1891. Oceanic,
Mar26 1892. Oceanic.            Dec 10 1892. Oceanic,
Mar14 1893. Oceanic,            Dec 17 1893. Gaelic.
Apr 3 1894. Empress of India.   Oct 24 1894. Belgic.
Mar26 1895. China.              Oct 27 1895, Coptic,
Mar21 1896. Belgic.             Nov 7 1896, City of Peking,
Apr 1 1897. Coptic.             Nov 10 1897. Gaelic,

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Apr 2 1898. Belgic,             Nov 5 1898. City of Peking.
Mar 25 1899. China,              Oct 21 1899. Doric.
Mar 31 1900. Kong Kong Maru.     Dec 22 1900. Gaelic,
Mar 30 1901. Gaelic.             Nov 9 1901. Doric.
Mar 29 1902. City of Peking,     Oct 15 1902. Doric.
Mar 27 1903. America Maru.       Oct 31 1903. Gaelic.
Apr 9 1904. Coptic.             Oct 26 1904. Coptic,
Mar 28 1905. China.              Nov 11 1905. Doric.
Mar 31 1906. Coptic.             Nov 1 1906. Empress of China,
Apr 2 1907. Coptic.             Oct 22 1907. Persia,
Mar 31 1908. Nippon Maru.        Nov 5 1908. Mongolia.
Mar 26 1909. Siberia,            Oct 27 1909. Machuria,
Mar 22 1910. Korea.              Nov 2 1910. Siberia.
Mar 29 1911. America Maru.       Oct 24 1911. Tenyo Maru.
Mar 27 1912. Chiyo Maru.         Nov 3 1912. Mongolia,
Mar 29 1913. Siberia,            Oct 28 1913. Chiyo Maru.
Apr 4 1914. Korea.              Oct 24 1914. Siberia,
Apr 3 1915. Shinyo Maru.        Oct 25 1915. Shinyo Maru.
Apr 3 1916. Tenyo Maru.         Nov 10 1916. Empress of Russia,
Apr 15 1917. Empress of Asia.    Dec 14 1917. Ecuador.
Apr 6 1918. Ecuador.            Nov 15 1918. Ecuador.
Apr 5 1919. Columbia.           Nov 8 1919. Empress of Russia,
Apr 3 1920. Venezuela.          Nov 12 1920. Venezuela,
Apr 2 1921. Ecuador.            Dec 19 1921. Golden State.
Mar 25 1922. Golden State.       Oct 14 1922. President Jackson,
Apr 5 1923. President Lincoln. Nov 15 1923. President Pierce.
Apr 1 1924. President Cleveland. Oct 2 1924. President Cleveland.
Apr 4 1925. President Pierce.   Dec 1 1925.   President Cleveland,
Mar 30 1926. Siberia Maru.       Dec 16 1926. Siberia Maru.,

Issue:-

1. Herbert Armstrong Poole. Born at 3731 Forest Ave., Chicago, Ill.,

October 15/1877. See subject 1 for issue and further particulars.

2. Eleanor Isabella Poole,

Born at 3731 Forest Ave., Chicago, Ill., December 16/1878. She attended Cottage Grove Ave., School, Chicago until coming out to Yokohama in 1888, and there attended a school conducted by a Miss Abersole, and after that by a school kept by a Mrs. Cahusac at 43 Bluff. Her mother taught her the piano, and she had finishing lessons by Dr. Von Koeber, at Tokyo: she became a fine pianist. In March 1903, she sailed par "America Maru" with her father for a five month trip to the United States, and had a wonderful time in all the cities visited by her father on his business tour. Eleanor took part in the Amateur Dramatic plays given in Yokohama: she also performed at many concerts on one occasion playing the piano part of the Schubert Trio in B flat, Professor Junker playing the violin and Rodolphe Schmid the cello parts. In 1902 she met Nathaniel George Maitland, an Englishman, who had come out to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China: he had a fine baritone voice, sang exceptionally well, and took many solo parts in the Amateur Dramatic operas. They were married at Christ Church, Yokohama, on September 14/1904, and lived first at 84 Bluff. N.G. Maitland was born at London, England, on November 9/l875, and died at West Byfleet, Surrey, England, on February 14/1951, of cancer, fifth child and fourth son of Francis and Annie Jane (Chapman) Maitland of London.
Neither of his parents ever left England, but all his brothers came out to China, where his uncle, J.A. Maitland, amassed

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a large fortune in the import trade of English piece goods, and whose name is held in great respect by all old China hands. The eldest Maitland son never amounted to much and up to 1914 lived in England, supported by his brothers: he had been married and divorced, and had one son, Frank Maitland, who went out to Shanghai and for some time worked for N.G. Maitland. The second Maitland son Frank Maitland, lived in Hong Kong, where he was head of Linstead & Davies: he married in 1905, Alice Stepani, born in Hong Kong, of Italian descent; they had no children. The third son Edward W. Maitland, for many years manager in Japan of The China Traders Insurance Co., married in 1900 at Shanghai, Ethel Wilcoxen, born in Shanghai of English parents: her father was head of the silk department of Arnold Karberg & Co., Shanghai. They came to live is Yokohama after their marriage and after retiring, lived some years in Switzerland, and then settled West Byfleet, Surrey, England, where he died June 27/1943 of cancer. They had three daughters,
1st, Daisy, who married in Yokohama, Eddy Adams, employed by one of the American Banks which sprung up in the Orient during the first World: they have since lived in Hartford, Conn., and have two children - three more died young.
2nd, Alice, who married a Mr Daubeny of the Rising Sun Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of the Shell Oil Co., of London: they are now retired and live at West Byfleet.
3rd Jean, born in 1918 at Yokohama, who married on December 31/1938, at West Byfleet, Donald Foster: they have a son, Anthony Edward Foster, born April 1940.
The fourth child of Francis and Annie (Chapman) Maitland, was Daisy Maitland, who married in London in 1903, Tom Morrison, first violin of the London Symphony Orchestra. She died of cancer on March 31/1938 and had no children: Tom then became the manger of some hotel in the Midlands. Nathaniel George Maitland, after a short service in the Discount Bank in London, joined the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China and in 1902 came out to Yokohama for them. In 1903, he joined the International Banking Corp., of New York, a subsidiary of the National City Bank, New York, at their Yokohama branch, and was soon transferred to their Shanghai branch, where Eleanor joined him after the birth of their first child in Yokohama. They lived their until he retired in 1926 to return to live at West Byfleet, England. After serving some years with the International Banking Corp, he accomplished his long cherished desire to set himself up as a Bill and Bullion Exchange Broker in Shanghai: he bought a partnership with a Mr Edminston, who died a year later and he carried on this business with great success until he retired with a fortune. He built a fine house at No 5, Route Ghisi in the French Settlement of Shanghai, later selling it to the Standard Oil Co. after which they lived in rented houses on Weihaiwei Road and Ferry Road. In 1919 they took their sons, to England, left them in school, and returned for seven more years in Shanghai. At west Byfleet he bought the estate of "Oakhurst" and lived there ten years, then bought "Frandon" near by, naming it from the first syllables of their eldest and youngest sons' names. West Byfleet is about 20 miles south of London on the road to Southampton.
Issue:-
2/1. Francis George Maitland, born at 84 Bluff, Yokohama, September

3/1905 died at Norwich, England, April 23/1938, of spinal menengitis, after only a few days of illness, a great tragedy as he had only been married seven months before. He was educated first at Shanghai schools, then graduated from the University of Hastings, Sussex, and later from Clare College, Cambridge University, as a Medical Doctor.

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After the usual long interneship at St. Thomas Hospital, London, he was duly qualified as a doctor and surgeon, and entered practice at Norwich. He married there, on October 2/1937, Ella Joyce Master born there June 4/1910, daughter of Dr. Humphrey Claude and Violet Maude Master. Ella married, 2nd, in 1945, as his second wife, Angus Campbell Walker of Norfolk, a widower, born 1892, with two children, Ian, born 1929, and Dorothy, born 1935. In 1950 they lived at Horning on the Norfolk Broads. Walker was for many years in Government service in the Sudan, Africa.
Issue:-
3/1. Frances Rosella Maitland, born at Norwich, December 3/1938,

seven months after her father's death.

2/2. John Armstrong Maitland born at Shanghai, November 9/1906.

He first attended schools in Shanghai, and in 1919 entered the University of Hastings, Sussex, England: then graduated from Clair College of Cambridge University, with the degree of B.A. in engineering. He joined the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co., of London, a Shell subsidiary and was sent out to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was stationed also at Sao Paulo, Recife, and other branches: in 1948 he returned to their head office in London, as manager. He married at Sao Paulo, on April 22/1933, Jean Marjorie Macpherson, born at Sao Paulo, Brazil March 11/1911, daughter of John Gibb and Isabel Bowman (MacCreath) MacPherson, both of Glasgow, Scotland, who went out to Brazil for the River Plate Bank, and later entered commerce, and who lived at Nichteroy, Rio de Janeiro, Jean was educated at St. Paul's school, Sao Paulo, and at Skerry's College, Glasgow, Sootland. She was then appointed secretary to the Department of Commerce at Sao Paulo from 1930 to 1932. Jean and her children have dual nationality, both British and Portuguese: all of them speak Portuguese fluently.
Issue:
3/1. Alistaire John Maitland, born at Rio de Janeiro, August l2/1935.
3/2. Ian Maitland, Born at Sao Paulo in 1939.

2/3. Otis Edward Maitland, born in London, England, August 10/1909.

He was educated at Shanghai schools, and graduated from the University of Hastings, but did not go to college. He joined the Anglo-Grecian firm of Conte Michelos, and was sent to Egypt where he worked at their Alexandria office, and later to their branch at Khartoum, Egyptian Sudan - their business was in long staple cotton. He lived there several years and learned to speak Arabic fluently. On the outbreak of the second World War, he was drafted into the Intelligence Division of the British Army, on account of his knowledge of Arabic, and was stationed throughout the war in Egypt and Syria as aide to the Commander in Chief, General Maitland. During the war his family lived with his wife's parents in Byfleet. After being demobilized, he joined several of his fellow army officers and started farming in the south of England, where they lived in 1951. He married at West Byfleet, on October 29/1932, Joan Margaret Haslehurst, born July 17/1909, died at West Byfleet October 15/1955, of cerebral thrombosis, daughter of Guy Bartlett and Janet (Hicks) Haslehust, one of the the partners in Otis' firm, Conte Micholos, Issue:-
3/1. Otis Ragan Haslehurst Maitland, born West Byfleet, August 17/1937.
3/2. Colin Neil Maitland, born at West Byfleet, July 17/1940.
3/3. Frances Ann Maitland, born August 13/1948.

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2/4. Donald Sydney Maitland, born at Shanghai, August 28/1918.

Educated first at Shanghai schools, then at Charterhouse, England, and graduated from Cambridge University with an engineering degree, after which he joined an aeroplane factory. In 1942 he He married on November 8/1941, Rosemary Joyce Lister Parkes, born at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire June 14 /1919, daughter of Arthur Josiah and Ethel Anne (Lister) Parkes of Manor House, Oaken Wolverhampton. Arthur was born in December 1890, and Ethel Anne September 1/1888. In 1951 Donald is a partner in his father-in-law's firm and they live at High Elms, Mill Lane, Codsall, Staffordshire, England.-
Issue:-
3/1. Antony Arthur Armstrong Maitland born at Cairo, Egypt,

October 16/1945. (He transferred this History into Electronic format)

3/2. Eleanor Lindley Maitland, born in Oaken February 5/1949.

(as written, but in fact 6 February at High Elms).

3. Otis Manchester Poole. Born at 3731 Forest Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,

September 6/1880. A twin sister died at birth. His childhood years were shared with his brother Bertie and sister Eleanor in Chicago, with occasional visits to His Grandfather Armstrong's farm at Arcola. Like them, he started his schooling at the age of six at Cottage Grove School. On the family's way out to Japan in May, 1888, he came down with scarlet fever at San Francisco, where he and his mother were compelled to stay behind in quarantine at the Palace Hotel following the rest of the family a month later in the O.& O. S.S. "Gaelic" and arriving in Yokohama in June, 1888. He was educated in the Victoria Public School in Yokohama, concluding with a year's private tuition in French, Japanese, shorthand and type- writing. In 1895, at the age of 15, joined the English firm of Dodwell Carlill & Co. in Yokohama, an Import, Export and Shipping concern with Head Offices in London and HongKong and branches at Shanghai, Foochow, Kobe, Yokohama, Victoria and Tacoma. Four years later the firm became Dodwell & Co.Ltd. and additional branches were established in Ceylon, Antwerp, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and New York. Chester rose steadily in the firm and was stationed at various tines in the Hongkong, London and Kobe offices though he remained most constantly in Yokohama. On the death of the Yokohama Manager, George Syme Thomson, in December 1915, Chester was appointed his successor, and three years later became General Manager for the Company's four branches in Japan. Following the Great Earthquake of September 1st, 1923, Chester was transferred to the New York Office and made a Director of the Company, establishing his home in Summit, New Jersey. In 1945 he celebrated 50 years' service with Dodwell & Co. and in 1949 retired to a country estate, "Missing Acres", near Charlottesville, Virginia.
Chester was a great walker and mountain-climber and scaled many peaks in the Japanese Alps. He was a notable golfer and considerable artist, painting many beautiful water-colors, and was also a expert photographer. He travelled three times around the world, - in 1902, 1909 and 1922 as well as a trip from Japan to London and back In 1915. On his second world circuit, he and his companion Orville Bonnet, travelled all through Malaya, India, Egypt, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and Scotland. Their experiences were interesting and often exciting; one of their

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amusing exploits was driving golf balls off the top of the Great Pyramid Cheops in Egypt. Except for three bachelor years in Kobe from 1910 to 1913, Chester's life in Japan was spent in Yokohama, where he held many honorary posts in the community. He married at Yokohama, June 21/1916, Dorothy May Campbell, born at Yokohama, June 21/l895, daughter of William Wallace and Clara Edwina (Rice) Campbell, (called Cala). William Wallace Campbell was born in Quebec August 22/1860 of Scottish forebears who had first settled in Virginia and them moved to Canada after the War of Independence in which they had remained loyalists. He came to Japan in 1889 for the Pacific Mail S.S.Co. and represented them in Yokohama, Kobe and Hongkong for nearly forty years. He was a keen yachtsman and Commodore of the Sailing Clubs in all these ports. He died in Summit, New Jersey, September 21/1938, while on a last visit to his daughter and Chester. Dorothy's mother "Calla" Rice was of New England ancestry, her father George Edwin Rice having been born in Hallowell, Maine in 1843, educated in Roxbury (Boston) and spent his younger days in San Francisco where he married in 1868 Clara Amelia Cummings of Canaan, New Hampshire. George's father, Colonel Elisha Esty Rice, (born 1820 in Union, Maine), was the first American Consul accredited to Japan after the Treaty negotiated by Townsend Harris with the Shogun opened Japan to foreign intercourse and trade. Col. Rice was appointed to the Northernmost Treaty Port of Hakodate and served there for nearly twenty years. He was a very tall man of commanding presence, a brother of Richard Drury Rice, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine and Vice President of the Northern Pacific Railway. George E. Rice joined his father's Consular staff in Hakodate in 1868; and there twin daughters Mabel and Lillie, were born December 22/1868, followed by Calla on September 21//1871. About 1877 Colonel Elisha Rice's term of office expired and he returned to Washington, George bringing his family down to Yokohama where he became a Vice Consul and where they all lived for many years. Calla had a pure, high soprano voice and sang beautifully. Though quite small, she was bright and vigorous and and exceptionally fine tennis player, playing on the Interport Teams for fifty years! She married in Yokohama November 30/1892, and Dorothy was born there May 18/1895, followed by a brother Archibald Kenneth Campbell on October 2/1896. After living in various Far Eastern ports with their parents, Dorothy and Archie were sent home to school in 1907 to Ladies College and Elizabeth College in Guernsey, Channel Islands, Archie eventually entering the ministry and residing in Scotland. in Scotland. After five years in Ladies' College, Dorothy went on to a finishing school in Dresden, Germany: and in April, 1913, returned to Japan via the Siberian Railway to become a Yokohama debutante of just under 18.
When Chester and Dorothy were married in June, 1916, they lived at No. 66 Bluff, only a stone's throw from the Poole bungalow at No.89 where his mother was still living, his father being mostly in Shidzucka, the Tea District. In this pleasant house, with its enclosed garden, their three sons, Anthony, Richard and David were born in 1917, 1919 and 1920. (See below). In 1922 they all had a year's leave in England, spent mostly in the New Forest and Devon; and in 1923 went through the Great Earthquake and Fire of Sept.1st having some terrible experiences but escaping uninjured. Like

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everyone else, they lost all their possessions and were evacuated from the destroyed city to Kobe by ship. Over 150,000 people perished in Yokohama and Tokyo, including one-eighth of the foreign population of Yokohama, among them many lifelong friends. Dorothy's parents were with them throughout the day of peril and her Aunt Mabell, though surrounded by fire near the railway station, escaped by a miracle. Chester's mother had died in 1918 and his father in Shidzucka was beyond the disaster area, as was his sister Eleanor summering in Karuizawe. (Chester has written a graphic account of the terrible event.)
After two years in Kobe following the earthquake, Chester and his family went on four months' leave to Victoria, B.C. during which time he was asked to take over the Company's New York Office. He was also made a Director of the firm and he and his family spent the next 23 years in Summit, New Jersey, until his retirement to Virginia in 1949 at the age of 68. His and Dorothy's three sons thus grew up in their own country, and their brief histories now follow:-
2/1. Anthony Campbell Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama, March 29/1917,

died at Lima, Peru April 18/1944, and buried there. After attending Lance School, Summit, N.J., he graduated from Haverford College and joined W.R.Grace & Co. Tony was a natural artist and studied water- colors under Eliot O'Hara at Goose Rocks Beach, Maine, and anatomy under Bridgman in New York. He also played the piano quite well. He was fair and good looking but his chief characteristic was a blithe spirit that won him many friends.
    Following a couple of voyages as assistant purser in Grace's passenger ships plying from New York down the West Coast of South America Tony was stationed at their Cristobal branch where he presently took charge of their Airline service (Pan-American-Grace Airways). Thence he was transferred to La Pas, Bolivia as Manager of Panagra. From this lofty center, he flew all around Bolivia and surrounding countries inspecting and establishing Agencies. He spoke Spanish fluently.
    He married at La Pas December 19/l943, Luba Gustus, born at Khabarovsk, Siberia, March 30/1916, daughter of Sergei and Marya (Gramovska) Arlyustin. During the first World War, her father was killed in the confused fighting in Siberia between the White Russians and Bolsheviks, and her mother then married Arthur Gustus, a soldier in the American Expeditionary Forces, whose name Luba took. At the end of the war, her parents settled in San Francisco, where Luba was brought up as a American citizen. When she met Tony she was a Secretary at the America Embassy in La Pas. Immediately after their marriage, they were transferred to Guayquil, Ecuador, and a few weeks later Tony contracted typhoid fever while on an up-country trip; and though flown to Lima by the Company for treatment, died there April 18/1944, a great tragedy.
    Luba returned at once to Washington and was sent out by the State Department, at her own request, to the other side of the world, - the American Embassy at Ankara, Turkey. There, by strange fate, she met a young Englishman who might almost have been Tony's brother, - Clive Parry, born July 13/1918, who had served two years in the British Army and with the British Council in the near East, spoke five languages and was at the time

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teaching law at the Ankara University. A year later they were married, on May 20/1945, and arc now living at Cambridge, England, where he is Dean of Downing College and an L.L.D. Through the years, they have visited America frequently, the first time in 1948 when Clive was Legal Adviser to the British Delegation at United Nations on Long Island. Later, he came on other missions and lectured at leading Universities. Chester and Dorothy still regard them as part of their family. They have two children:
1. Katherine Parry, born at Cambridge, England, March 13/1946.
2. Anthony Parry, born in New York, N.Y., January 18/1949.

2/2. Richard Armstrong Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama April 29,

1919, had the same education as his brother Anthony. On graduating from Haverford College with high honors he took the State Department Foreign Service examinations at Washington and passed well. His first appointment was as Vice Consul at Montreal 1941-2, and in `43 he was transferred to Barcelona, Spain. Already speaking French fluently, he soon mastered Spanish and had some intriguing experiences in those war years. In 1944, he was finally permitted to join the U.S. Navy, was sworn in at Casablanca or Madrid, returned to U.S.A. for training at Princeton and Monterey, Cal., and in October, 1945, was shipped by transport to Japan with a contingent of the occupation forces a few weeks after Japan's surrender. There, as a Lieutenant, J.G., he served in Military Government under General Douglas MacArthur in S.C.A.P. Headquarters in Tokyo. A year later, he was released by the Navy and reverted on the spot to the Foreign Service, remaining a further 2 years in Tokyo. During this time he revisited the scenes of childhood, climbed Fujiama and enjoyed jaunts up country. While in the Navy he took part in a inspection trip to the little-known Hachijo Islands, a chain out in the Pacific.
From 1949-51 Dick was stationed in Kuala-Lumpur, Malaya, becoming Full Consul. Thence he was posted to the Embassy at Djakarta Java, visiting Thailand, Cambodia & Angkor Wat en route. After only a month, he was transferred back to Washington to the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs for a 3-year spell. Though having his own apartment in Georgetown, he spent many weekends with his parents at "Missing Acres" in Virginia, usually bringing friends. Dick, like his brothers was just on 6 ft. tall and, having gone in for wrestling in college, broad-shouldered and powerful. He enjoyed tennis, had taken up polo in Malaya, and was the cheery, out-door type. He made many friends in Washington, among them a delightful English girl whom he later married Jillian Hanbury. At the end of 1954, he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy at Bogota, Colombia, as Chief of the Political Section where he spent three active years. Returning to Washington in midsuumer 1957, on short leave, he and Jillian became engaged and were married Nov. 2/1957 in St. Paul's Church, Ivy, Virginia close by "Missing Acres".
Jillian was born in London August 11/1930, daughter of Anthony Henry Robert Culling Hanbury, Esquire, and Una Rawnsley Hanbury, of "Derbyfields", North Warnborough, Hampshire, England. The Hanbury ancestry goes back to Roger and Guy de Hanbury, who flourished in Worcestershire in the 12th century and whose line contains many distinguished persons and beautiful estates. The Rawnsleys too, have interesting forbears, including the famous Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley of Carlisle, one of the founders of the National Trust. Intriguing though they may be, it is impossible to

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incorporate these histories herein beyond mentioning that one of Jillian's Quaker ancestors, John Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex, and Tower Street, London, was from 1730 to his death in 1758, the greatest Virginia Tobacco merchant of his day and played an important part in the affairs of that Colony. Two of his ships were commandeered to bring over General Braddock's army in 1755 to oust the French from the Ohio Valley, a campaign in which Major George Washington with 700 Colonial troops, accompanied him. Their attack was overwhelmingly defeated by the French and Indian allies, on the Monongahela River.
       At the age of ten, Jillian accompanied her mother and elder sister Diana to Bermuda, where they dwelt through most of the War, coming on to Washington in 1944. Having been to English and Bermuda schools, she was sent in America to the Cambridge School and Westhill Junior College in Boston, after which she entered Washington University, graduating in 1952. She made two extended trips to Europe, in 1951 and l955, and became a American citizen in 1954. Her sister Diana was educated in Canadian schools and London University and in 1952 married James Cecil King in Washington. They had two children Christopher Hanbury King born June 26/1954, and Sheila Ann King, born February 19/1956. Diana, now divorced, lives with her children in Washington.
       (Jillian's father, Anthony Hanbury, a member of the London Stock Exchange, became a Captain in the Royal Artillery in World War II, and the wartime separation from her mother in Bermuda resulted in divorce. Both have since remarried and he is living in Ladysmith, Natal. She, Mrs. John Alan Coatsworth, lives in Washington with two charming step- daughters, Anna born August 7, 1944 in Gerrards Cross, Middlesex, England; and Josephine Charlotte, born October 25/1949, in Istanbul, Turkey.
       A few days after Dick and Jillian were married, he went back to Bogota, she following a month later, and they lived there for the next two years. Returning to Washington in 1959, Dick assumed the post of Officer in Charge of Peruvian Affairs in the Department of State, his present assignment. They bought a rambler type house in the woods at McLean, - 3947 Mackall Abenue, Langley Forest, - and have one son, -
3/1. Anthony Hanbury Poole, born February 6/1961 in Washington, and

christened June 3/1961 in the National Cathedral by Dean Sayre and Canon Arterton.

3/2. Colin Rawnsley Poole, born January 14/1964, in Washington, DC.

and christened April 18 /1964, in the National Cathedral.

2/3. David Manchester Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama, July 4/1920. He

was five years old when brought to America from Japan and spent his boyhood in Summit, New Jersey. His education was the same as his brothers Dick and Tony, and graduated from Haverford College in 1942 with a B.Sc. in Engineering. He also learned to fly during his senior year under the C.A.A. program. He then joined Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. at Hartford Conn., and had four of his inventions patented and adopted. Early in 1943, he joined the U.S.Army Air Force, got his wings and commission

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as a Lieutenant in February 1944, and was picked out to be a fighter flying and gunnery instructor and spent the rest of the war at various fields in Florida and the South, never getting overseas. When the war ended, he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and took his Masters Degree in Engineering, (M.S.M.E.) specialising in aircraft power plants. Immediately thereafter, he joined the N.E.P.A. Division of Fairchilds, (Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft, operating at the Atomic Center at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for the Army. When the Army transferred their contract to General Electric in 1951, David stayed with Fairchild, joining their "Stratos" Division in Bay Shore, Long Island and living at Marahopa Lane, Centerport, near Huntington. In 1956 he resigned to join the Nuclear Development Corp. of America, at White Plains, N.Y. as project Engineer, living at Rye on the North Shore of Long Island Sound.
David married at Woonsocket Rhode Island, on June 23/1950 Sally Cooper Jarret, born at Providence R.I. June 15/1927, daughter of Hugo Aram and Isabel (White) Jarret, of 268 Woodland Rd. Woonsocket. Hugo was the owner of a large woollen mill in Woonsocket and came of French Canadian ancestors, being descended from Andre Jarret de Beauregard who arrived in Canada in 1664 as an officer in the Regiment de Carignon Salieres, and whose Seigneurie of Beauregard lay on the St. Lawrence below Montreal, close by that of his elder half-brother Francois de Vercheres. Francois' daughter, Madeleine de Vercheres became one of Canada's beloved heroines by her courageous defence, at the age of 14, of the Seignearie's fort against the Iroquois Indians during the absence of her father who had gone with all his able-bodied men to the defence of Quebec, leaving only a half dozen aged servants with Madeleine in his own domain. Her ruses completely deceived the Iroquois until relief finally came. It is a brave story. Hugo Jarret's maternal grandfather was Aram Joseph Pothior, three times Governor of Rhode Island. Sally's mother, Isabel Rolfe White was of a New Jersey family and a lineal descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, the eldest daughter in each generation bearing the name of Rolfe. Isabel died Oct.12/1958 followed by Hugo on June 6/1959, both in Woonsocket.
Besides Sally, they had two older children:-
1. Hugo Aram Jarret, born Woonsocket January 25/1920,

Married in 1946 Alba Gadoury. Issue: Kristen White Jarret, b.1947.

2. Susanne Rolfe Jarret born in Providence, R.I. Dec.26/1923,

married in December 1943 Edwin Pratt Arnolt. born 1922.
Issue: Peter Jarret Arnolt, born 1945
June Rolfe Anrolt, " 1947
Janice Pratt Arnolt " 1950
Elizabeth White Arnolt " 1955.

David M. Poole like his two brothers, is only quarter of an inch under 6 ft. tall, and in his college years was a fine runner, twice breaking the Haverford mile record and reducing it from 4.34 to 4.26 1/2. He also plays tennis and enjoys water-color painting. Like his grandfather Campbell and Uncle "Bert" Poole, he is above all a keen yachtsman an enthusiasm shared by Sally. During their five years on Long Island, they derived great pleasure from sailing in and around Northport Bay, and brought

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their yacht "Sayonara" with them to Rye, where they sometimes go off on 3 or 4 day cruises around Long Island Sound.
David and Sally have two children:~
3/1. Jeffrey Campbell Poole, born June 11/1952, in Huntington, L.I.
3/2. Cbristopher Jarret Poole, born November 11/1954, in Huntington.

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3 - ELEANOR ISABELLA ARMSTRONG

         Was born at Holly Park, Leitrim, Ireland (2 miles from Carrick-on-Shannon), on August 14/1841 and died, aged 76 at 89 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan, on June 4/1918. She was buried in the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery on the Bluff near her home and her husband's ashes were buried in the same grave on his death in 1929. She was the third child and first daughter of John and Eleanor Isabella (Wilson) Armstrong, subject 6 - JOHN ARMSTRONG.
     She married, 1st, at Arcola, Illinois, on November 7/1871, Colonel John Washington Young[ii]. They were divorced in 1872 and had no children. She married, 2nd, at Chicago, Illinois, on February 7/1876, Otis Augustus Poole, born at Beloit, Wisconsin, December 20/1848, died at Berkeley, California, April 1/1929, son of Augustus and Maria Bishop (Manchester) Poole, see Subject 4. See Subject 2 for issue and further particulars. Of her early life in Ireland, she remembered very little, as she was not quite 12 when her father brought her to America. When she was seven years old, her mother died April 24/1848; and eighteen months later, October 22/1849 her father married her mother's younger sister, Henrietta Wilson, then 23 years old, who outlived him by 22 years and died in Chicago April 16/1914. She was an affectionate and devoted step-mother to Eleanor and her sister Henrietta, two years younger, and was as considerate of them as of her own children who ranged from twelve to 25 years younger than Eleanor. In June 1853, John Armstrong brought his entire family to America, Eleanor being then nearly twelve years old.
      The voyage was by sailing vessel, 21 days, from Dublin to New York, whence they proceeded to Chicago and made it their home. Of Eleanor's education, I (her son Herbert A. Poole) know very little, having unfortunately paid scant heed to what she told us of those early days, but her character and accomplishments show that it must have been good, and moreover her father soon prospered in Chicago and would have been able to afford her every advantage. He was always devoted to his eldest daughter and the bond between them was touchingly strong. She applied herself particularly to music and was a prize pupil of Prof. Robert Goldbeck of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, becoming a pianist of exceptional distinction. She must have inherited many of her grandfather, Captain John Armstrong's characteristics for, like him, she had an unusual talent for letter writing and but little taste for cooking, and cared very little for food, often saying that all she wanted was an egg and a cup of tea. She was fond of entertaining, had a brilliant wit and conversational powers, and a surprising interest in scientific matters. (I remember in our school-days in Yokohama, she was a disciple of our Head-Master C.H.Hinton, one of the earliest exponents of the "fourth dimension" and we boys would scurry home from school at noon, and father from his office in the settlement, only to find the dining-room table littered with cubes, figures and designs over which Hinton and Mother were poring with their heads together, the houseboy hovering.

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I obtained the following account of her early life in Chicago, before the fire of 1871, from Mrs Weaver of Canyon, City, Colorado, one of the Burlingame daughters, see under subject 6. Mrs Weaver sent me this account in 1940, when she was very old, and said it was a story she had written for a magazine competition years ago, which was, by the way, not accepted by the magazine. How much fact and how much fiction there is in the article, she could no longer remember, but told me it was based on the facts of the case: the article read as follows:- "I was a little girl of about thirteen when I first saw Eleanor Armstrong in Arcola, and I bowed at her shrine in adoring admiration. Her first visit to Arcola was in the summer, and a brief one, bringing several gay friends with her, to help endure the horrors of country life as she called it, but even with their help she only stayed two weeks. John Armstrong, her father, at that time had two houses on Huron St, his own residence and a double house adjoining, which he had rented to others. My half sister, Emma Munch, with her husband Henry Munch and their two children, lived on one side of the double house: Mr Munch was a broker and he fortunately suffered no loss in the great fire, as his safe was intact. I spent the six months from October 1870 to March 1871 with Emma, studying the piano at the Chicago Conservatory of Music under Robert Goldbeck, who had taught Eleanor for many years. At the time the great Chicago fire broke out, Mrs Armstrong and all the children except Percy and his faithful nurse Ann, were at Maple Grove, Arcola. As the advancing flames crossed the river and moved steadily north, the city waterworks having been already destroyed, Mr Armstrong was frantic with anxiety for his helpless family in the Huron St house, consisting of Mr Goodfellow, Percy and Ann. The entire contents of the house went up in flames, except Eleanor's Steinway piano, which got an expressman to take to the west side, separated by a branch of the Chicago River. In the early fall of 1871, a family picnic was held in one of the city parks, and my cousin, Chandler Robbins seems to have been the head of the party. My sister Emma always said that Chandler was the last person one would expect to present a strange man without credentials, to the ladies. My sister Emma Munch and Eleanor were of the party. During the day a men approached Chandler and how he managed it, no one of the family has ever been able to conjecture, but he did so ingratiate

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himself with Chandler that he introduced him to the ladies of the party. He represented himself as a Colonel in the Cuban Army, said he had visited all the Courts of Europe, &c. Of course he followed up the acquaintance with Miss Armstrong with such success that she invited him to accompany her to Arcola for a few days visit. On Sunday, October 8/1871, I spent the day at Maple Grove and on Monday morning, the 9th, Colonel Young, Eleanor and I took Mrs Armstrong to the Arcola station to board the Chicago train. When we arrived at the station we were appalled to hear that a telegram had been received "Chicago in ashes, send food for the suffering. It was debated whether Mrs Armstrong should go on, but she said she must go. I remember how all the bakeries of Arcola began to prepare food for the stricken city. Eleanor asked her friend Emma Munch when they were alone, "Who is the Captain or General or whatever title he has? He asked me to let him call and for the sake of a new experience I said Yes: there is something so odd about him: he makes me think of descriptions of Tallyrand, not quite so bad looking perhaps, but having a power altogether independent of his physique: is he an American? Emma replied, "I heard him refer to you as that divine creature with the form of a Juno and the face of a Venus: to tell the truth I know very little about him: Cousin Chandler introduced him so I suppose he is allright: yes, he is an American but he has been away from his native land so long as to give him a foreign air: he was in Mexico for some time and then on a filibustering expedition to Cube: he has had some thrilling experiences and he narrowly escaped with his life". A few letters were exchanged by Eleanor and Young and before the winter was over, he asked permission to make her a visit. When John Armstrong found how far matters had gone he was greatly annoyed and worried about it. "Eleanor, he wrote, we know nothing about this man: he may be a mere adventurer from all I can ascertain: I have made diligent enquiries and about the only fact I can learn is that be served in the Cuban Rebellion under Gomez: don't give him my further encouragement until you at least know him better." But all this was to no avail. She had made up her mind and no argument or entreaty could avail. The Burlingames were dismayed when they learned that their idol was to marry a man who impressed none of them favorably and of whom so little was known, and of whom nobody spoke well: they all thought of him as an adventurer whose account of his past life was not to be trusted.
      John Washington Young had served in the Civil War, as the following letter shows:-
                   Adjutant General's Office, Albany, N.Y. May 12/1873.
Captain John W. Young: Company K, 76th New York Volunteers, who was enrolled September 28/1861, was mustered into service as Major, September 30/1863, and taken prisoner May 5/1864 at the Wilderness, Virginia. He was honorably discharged March 12/1865, under provisions of Gen Orders No 108, dated War Dept, A.G.O. April 28/1863. Date of his Commission as Major, July 3/1863, for meritorious conduct.
                   (signed) John W. Rathbone, Adjutant General.
                   General Headquarters, State of New York.

Young had some property in Indiana at this time, and he was considered by many of Eleanor's people and friends as a very handsome and fascinating man, large and heavy. John Armstrong always held that he was a bad egg, but could find nothing against him when he asked for her hand, and he very unwillingly consented to their marriage. They were married at Maple Grove, Arcola, on November 7/1871, by the Rev Dr Roberts, Presbyterian Minister. Mrs John Armstrong thought the world of him, (Young). After the wedding they went by train to some place on the Mississippi and thence down the river by one of the old Mark Twain side wheelers to New Orleans.

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They stayed there some days and made a side trip to Galveston. Eleanor's health then was rather weak, her lungs showing weakness, and she did not know whether Young faked his business in these warm climes for the benefit of her health, or not. He chose that direction, partly, he said, to look after his valuable mining interests in Mexico. They had not been married two weeks before she had her first insight into his violent character. They were walking from the hotel to the Opera in New Orleans, when a couple of men ahead kept turning around and looking at her, as she was a striking looking girl. Young was very jealous and it happened on arriving at the Opera House, she ran up the steps for fun, and he followed her slowly to find her right opposite these two men: he accused her of running after them and on their return to the hotel, threatened to shoot her if she were unfaithful to him. They went to Key West and many of the islands in the Caribbean and then on to Mexico City, riding on mules, &c., to such benefit to her health and lungs that she has been strong ever since. Young was very fond of the ladies and even insisted on having questionable ladies to the house, and he used to fritter his money away on them. After their return to Arcola, some wonder was aroused, as week after week passed, the Colonel and his bride still lingered there. Then it was whispered that the silver mines were all a myth, and that John Armstrong was furnishing funds for their support. Young was a magnificent horseman and his daring feats excited much admiration, but he exercised his fascination in more direct ways, and more than one girl regarded him as a hero. Young assumed airs of authority over the farm, and he was always in the gayest of spirits, thought no labor ever soiled his delicate hands. Through the tales of one of the servants it was rumoured that he ill treated his wife. In December invitations were sent out for a big social function for New Year's Eve at Maple Grove: the Armstrong were always lavish with their hospitality and their entertainments were the theme for conversations for weeks after. This was an unusually brilliant affair: the two large parlours cleared for dancing and the musicians to come from Chicago. The large rooms rapidly filled and all seemed favorable for an evening of unalloyed pleasure. After two or three square dances, the musicians struck up a waltz. Several couples took to the floor and Eleanor asked a young lawyer, Mr Rogers, to dance with her. How superb she looked that night: as a chum of her younger half sister, Jennie Armstrong, I was there, not to take part, but to look on the festivities. As she glided down from the other end of the room, Young rose quickly, laid his hand on her arm and told her to come with him. She turned very pale and seemed about to refuse, but instead gracefully excused herself and left the room. He reappeared in a few minutes, and with an impressive gesture of his hand, silenced the musicians. He said "Friends, my wife has disobeyed my command not to dance a round dance with anyone but myself, and she suffers the consequences - I have locked her in her room." The Company stood spellbound for a moment: several of the guests left at once, among them Cora Blackwell and her fiancee, Mr Rogers. Others said "it will be less painful for her if we go on as if nothing has happened." In about half an hour she came downstairs, walked into the parlour and cordially greeted newly arrived guests. She had naturally a fine color, but now her cheeks burned crimson: she was always charming in her manner, gracious and full of wit, but that night she seemed to surpass herself. Her inimitable tact quickly dispelled all embarrassment, and by the time the party broke up, the episode of the evening was almost forgotten. The town rang with the story of the indignity, supplemented by many others which until now had been merely whispers. Mrs Armstrong, feeling she must unburden her heart to someone, told my father, Rufus Burlingame, that it was true Eleanor

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was very unhappy, but that she would not let anyone interfer, and I don't know that it would do any good: his temper was horrible when crossed. John Armstrong's only comment was "How art the mighty fallen". But he wrote his son-in-law in such terms that the latter decided a separate establishment would be more conducive to his comfort. He left Maple Grove next day and went to Chicago, soon obtaining a position in the Money Order department of the Post Office. In the spring of 1872 after he had been there about three months, he sent for Eleanor, writing that he wished her to accompany him on a trip to the Eastern States. A few days later they were in Washington, reaching the city by an early train, and after breakfast she went to her room, leaving her husband in the office reading the newspapers. He entered the room a few minutes later. "What is the matter, what has happened, she exclaimed", reading in his face the token of disaster. Eleanor, he said, I am in trouble. With all his tyranny and dominating will there were times when he was awed by something in his wife which he could not explain satisfactorily to himself. He said "The fact is, I've been driven to desperation by my hard luck and now the police are on my track, and if we don't get out of here in a hurry, they'll nab me and that will mean a residence in jail for three or four years: you're a million times too good for me, I know, but, true as I stand here, I didn't look for things to come out as they have, when I asked you to marry me: your father could have helped me but, instead, he as good as turned me out of the house: you know I stood that dirty Post Office for three months, but I couldn't stand the drudgery on such a pittance, so I did what thousands of others would have done in my place - forged money orders and did my own collecting: I thought we would make a new start in Canada but now I must send you back to Arcola and make my way alone: I saw in the papers downstairs they were on my track, so there's no time to be lost: when you go down, lock the door of the room and leave the key in the office: tell the clerk that I have gone out for an hour or two: then go to the station and take the noon train to Chicago." They were able to leave the hotel without suspicion, although there was a detective on hand to arrest the man answering to his description. Eleanor was sitting in her room in Arcola one night: it was late and all the household had retired. Suddenly she heard footsteps crunch on the gravel path below, then a pebble struck her window, which she softly raised. She saw her husband and admitted him, realizing that this unkempt man was him indeed. Always the most particular man in his appearance, he was now dirt begrimed, unshaven and his shoes almost in tatters. "You know, of course, that they caught me before I left Washington, he said, just as I was about to take the train. I thought it was all over, but before we had travelled far, it struck me that I might turn my social accomplishments to account, and I didn't spare myself: I believe that I had half convinced the man that I wasn't a bad fellow after all: I pretended being seized with violent pangs in my stomach, and made frequent visits to the toilet: when we were going through a forest somewhere in Pennsylvania, I opened the toilet window, and the next thing I found myself lying on an embankment and the train out of sight: I gave my ankle a nasty wrench but struck off into the woods: I think I would have died of starvation if I hadn't met some tramps: they took me with them nearly a hundred miles on freight trains, and the rest of the way I came on foot, with an occasional lift: if you will only hide me here till my ankle gets stronger, I will go away and never bother you again." Eleanor replied:- "I have no right to do this, this is my father's house and he would never consent to harbor such a criminal as you." You need not ask his consent: you will have to tell your step-mother who

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has always liked me, and I am sure she will do what you wish. Eleanor would make no promise but her step-mother agreed to do this. When John Armstrong came down from Chicago that weekend he was not so much in the dark as her step-mother and Eleanor supposed. Through an unguarded remark of his wife he gained a clue as to what was going on. As Young was to be there only a few days longer he decided to let things take their course and thought Eleanor wished to tell him about it, he discerned her intention and would not permit the confidence. "Eleanor, he said, looking at her significantly, you know how I feel for you in your trouble about your husband: the papers stated he had escaped: if he should come here to be concealed, I would never give my consent." She understood and was silent. In the dusk of a summer evening, when Young felt himself sufficiently recovered, he left on foot for the outskirts of Arcola, intending to board a freight train. When he got there, two men sprang at him with their revolvers levelled: he fought frantically for his liberty, but a shot through the shoulder ended the conflict and he was born off to the Arcola hotel, and taken to Chicago by the midnight train. His trial was short and he was sentenced to six years penal servitude in the penetentiary. Eleanor returned him all the presents he had given her. This gave John Armstrong his chance, and with her permission, he persuaded her to divorce him. In fact John Armstrong offered to pay a good lawyer to defend him at the trial, provided she would file divorce proceedings. This she did through the family lawyer, Colonel Van Buren, a specialist in such cases, though she went to particular pains to find out if any other pleas other than being imprisoned was necessary, as she had a feeling that it was unfair to thus take advantage of Young's misfortunes, no matter how badly he had treated her. However, Van Buren said that ipso facto, the imprisonment was grounds for an annulment, and the thing went through promptly, for all of which John Armstrong gladly paid. She went back to Arcola after the divorce and stayed two years. She was just about boss of the place. She gave Percy his first music lessons. W.J. Calhoun, a lawyer form Tuscola was often entertained at Maple Grove: he became prominent in politics and in later years was appointed Minister to the Chinese Government at Peking. Eleanor met Otis A. Poole while John Armstrong and his family were boarding at Mrs Wright's at 1801 Indiana Ave: He and his friend Paul Hayward were also boarding there. Otis Poole was at at that time with Sayres and Thompson, tea merchants, as accountant. John Armstrong had, prior to her marriage to Otis Poole, told him all the particulars of her first marriage to Young. Young, though given a six year sentence, had everything made easy for him in prison owing to his extraordinarily captivating ways. The judge in sentencing him, commuted it to the smallest possible degree, and in prison he was given easy work. The prison doctor took a fancy to him, and while on sick leave in prison, he took up the study of medicine of which he had no previous knowledge. He studied hard and when at the end of four years his liberty was restored owing to good conduct, he came out of prison and immediately took his examination for a medical doctor, and passed high. He went to see his divorced wife, extolled her to the sky, and said she was his guiding angel, even thought she had meanwhile divorced him and married another man. He went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and practised very successfully as a physician and died there in 1907. Shortly after he went to Fort Wayne, he married again but his wife soon divorced him. The third time he married the daughter of a Methodist Minister and she kept him very much under her thumb: he had two sons by her, both of whom took up the medical profession, one practising in Texas successfully. Eleanor never saw Young after the final interview, but for years after going to Japan was in terror that he

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might come out and start a scandal which she had kept buried even from her children. But he never turned up and when he died, none of her Chicago relatives told her about it. Mrs John Armstrong kept the newspaper containing the notice of his death and showed it to her on the occasion of her visit to Chicago in 1908. Eleanor Isabella was a woman of much force of character, frank, impulsive and- always able to swing things. Her great musical talent made her house the center of musical activity in Yokohama, where every musician of note who came to Japan for thirty years, invoked her aid in getting up concerts, most of whom she accompanied on the piano until her daughter took this work off her hands. Ovide Musin the violinist Merck the cellist, Minnie Hauk, De Kontski, Terschalk, Belinfante and many lesser musicians all thronged to her house. A great deal of the musical knowledge of her children is due to going to sleep so many nights to the sound of good music in the Drawing Room. In spite of gouty fingers she still played until her death, and practised hours every day. She was a great card player and played solitaire almost every evening. After Otis Poole moved to Shidzucka, and her children had left the home of thirty years at 89 Bluff, a bungalow of seven rooms, she stayed there: she tried living at Shidzucka but didn't like the Japanese house or the loneliness when Otis Poole was away five months of the year on his yearly trips to America. Her latter years were not lonely as Chester lived only a few doors away. In 1912 she had her right breast removed owing to the appearance a small cancer, but late in 1917 the disease reappeared, and in spite of radium and X ray treatments she grew rapidly worse, her right arm being painfully swollen and numb. She took to her bed in April and died at 5 A.M. on Tuesday, June 14/1918. Her daughter Eleanor had been with her two months until early June when she had to return to Shanghai to give birth to her fourth son. Eleanor had been under the influence of increasing doses of morphine for two months and passed away in her sleep. Eleanor in always generous and kindly towards many in Yokohama who were sick or needed assistance. She was 5 ft 8 inches tall and had the most lovely long white hair. She kept her children under a rather strict control, much to their benefit. She kept her son Herbert and daughter Eleanor at their practising until they became very good players. She never became very closely acquainted with the Japanese ladies, and never learned more than a few words of their language. In all her years in Yokohama she only returned to Chicago twice, once in 1898 and again in 1908. She went to Shanghai twice to visit her daughter, once to Nagasaki to stay with her son Herbert and once to Kobe, when he had typhoid fever. Beyond trips to Kyoto, Nikko, Myanoshita and other places in the country near Yokohama, she never travelled much in Japan. She took her children to Hakone Lake in 1889 and was in Karuizawa several summers. Her greatest musical friends in Yokohama were Hans Ramsegers, a German amateur violinist, and Prince & Princess Lobanow de Rostov: he was Russian Consul and she a Greek from Athens, a fine soprano and sister of Princess Trubetskoi. Eleanor usually attended the Presbyterian Church (in Chicago - handwritten addition) also the Episcopalian church on the Bluff. (in Yokohama) Handwritten: the Armstrongs were from the North of Irelands and were not Catholic.

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6 - JOHN ARMSTRONG

     Was born December 29th, 1820, at Cherry Valley, County Antrim, Ireland, and died at Chicago, Ill., on September 24/1892,of kidney disease. He was the only child of Captain John Armstrong and his second wife Ellen Kirk, see subject 12.
    He wrote a short Genealogy of his family on July 28/1890 for his son Will as follows:- "I am unable to furnish the genealogy of our family very fully or minutely. The particulars now given are partly from by own personal knowledge of the parties, from hearsay, and from other statements I remember made by relatives, and from other sources which commonly impress the young, and are retained in this memory while memory lasts. My Mother, the second wife of my father John Armstrong, was a Scotch-Irish lady named Ellen Kirk. They were married at Cherry Valley. I do not know where she was born. I was the only issue of the marriage, which occurred in the year 1818. My Mother died in the year 1820. Of my Mother's family I never learned any particulars, or I cannot remember. They all lived in some part of Scotland. My first schooling was with a Doctor Alexander, in County Antrim, for several years during the period I was living with my father, and members of his first family, except Mrs. Shaw. After my father's death on August 8/1830, I lived with my half brother Charles William Armstrong, at Crumlin, County Antrim, but was later sent to the care of my first cousin John Goodfellow in the city of Dublin, where I was sent to school. I accompanied John Goodfellow in the year 1832, when he went to live on his property, Shannon Lodge in County Leitrim. Hence I had no opportunity of knowing very much of my own family and connections.
I continued to live with John Goodfellow until I married in the year 1840. I was never put to any trade, business or occupation, because of the neglect of my half brothers, my own disinclination probably, and having an annuity of £500 per annum towards my support, under my father's will. Having lived in my youth, so much separated from my relatives at intervals, when attending schools, I was deprived of that particular knowledge of my own people, which I would have acquired by sojourning constantly with them. From the age of eleven until I was nearly twenty years old, I had lived with my first cousin, before mentioned. Hence genealogical details are necessarily limited. All the persons whose names are on record so far, are all dead except myself, and of their posterity I know nothing. The last time I had seen any of them was in December 1850. I came to America in June 1853, by sailing vessel, and my family are conversant with the course and events of my life since that time."

   It is said that John Armstrong came from Ireland to America, on account of a serious dispute with his half brothers, who were said to have jockeyed him out of considerable money, but he evidently got part of it, as he came to America with about £10,000.
   John Armstrong married first, at Dublin, (by the Rev. John Fisher), on January 20/1840, Eleanor Isabella Wilson, born in Roscommon County, Ireland, in August 1817, died in Ireland, April 24/1848, eldest daughter of Charles and Eleanor Isabella (Mullarkey) Wilson, see subject 14.
   John Armstrong married 2nd, in Ireland, on October 22/1849, Henrietta Wilson, born in Roscommon County, Ireland, January 6/1826, died in Chicago, Ill., April 16/1914, aged 88 years, youngest daughter of Charles and Eleanor Isabella (Mullarkey) Wilson, see subject 14.
   There were four children of his first marriage, two boys being the eldest, both of whom died in Ireland, and two daughters, Eleanor Isabella and Henrietta. The eldest son of his seconds marriage died in Ireland a month after his birth.
     When John Armstrong came to America he brought the two daughters

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of his first wife, his second wife, and their second child which died a month after arriving in Chicago. John Armstrong is said to have come to America through the advice of his cousin John Goodfellow and his wife Mary. John Armstrong came straight through to Chicago, and it is not known where they lived first, but probably some where on Pine Street, now named Lake Shore Drive. They next lived at 95 Huron Street, between Sedgwick and Orleans Streets, which at that time was a fine residence street with big lots and trees &c. It had a large lawn to the East, and at the back, a brick wall, with grapes, and tree in the back yard. The neighbourhood sidewalks were on different levels, with steps, which was characteristic of Chicago at the at time, when streets were to be raised to higher levels later.

Shortly after his arrival in Chicago, John Armstrong happened to meet Rufus P. Burlingame, an inventor, liked him, and they became and always were close friends. Mr. Burlingame was then in the grain business, and offered him a place with him. They both, later, joined the firm of Buckingham, Sturges & Co. who were in a similar business, as well as operating a chain of Elevators along the Illinois Central Railway line. John and Ebenezer Buckingham, and Solomon Sturges, (a relative of the Buckinghams) were the partners: Ebenezer's son Clarence afterwards joined the firm. Mr. Burlingame went to Arcola in charge of the Elevators, while John managed the Chicago office. He was associated with them for many years. He had a membership on the Chicago Board of Trade, and conducted all their operations there in the selling of their grain, a position of much responsibility and requiring exceptional ability, which he fulfilled with remarkable success. John Armstrong and his family always travelled on the Illinois Central with passes, as they were such large grain shippers.
The following account of the Burlingame family was given to me in February 1940, by the two surviving daughters of Rufus P. Burlingame, May Weaver and Neva (Daisy) Martin, living at Canyon City, Colorado, both over 85 years of age:- "My father's ancestors on the Burlingame side, came from England in the 17th century. His cousin Anson Burlingame was appointed by President Lincoln as Minister to China at Peking for the years 1861-1867, and who made the treaty between the U.S.A. and China which is still in effect today. On his mother's side, my father was descended from Rufus Putnam, a brigadier-general in the Revolutionary Army. He was the leader of the expedition which settled the Northwest Territory, including what arc now the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. The expedition landed at the Junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers: they founded the town of Marietta, where my father Rufus P. Burlingame was born. General Putnam died at a great age: the house which he built of blocks used in the fort on Campus Martins, is now owned by the State of Ohio, and furnished by the D.A.R. General Putnam's daughter, Susanna, married Christopher Burlingame, an officer in the U.S. Navy in the war of 1812. Rufus P. Burlingame's wife was a Miss Gurley, whose relative, the Reverend Ralph Gurley, visited England in the interests of African colonisation: he spoke in Exeter House and was presented to Queen Victoria. The earliest Gurley ancestor was a highly esteemed friend of King Edward III of England: the King gave him the estate of King's Craig in Scotland. A later Gurley was burned at the stake in defence of his father. In the war of 1812, Commodore Hull, (one of the Gurley family) commanded the "Constitution" and won the fight with the British Man of War "Gussiere". General William Hull was a brother of Miss Gurley, but we do not say much about him because he surrendered the fort of Detroit to the British.

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Rufus P. Burlingame was one of the pioneers of Chicago, then called Fort Deerborn. He and his cousins John and Ebeneezer Buckingham formed the firm of Buckingham and Sturgis. John Armstrong and his family then arrived from Ireland: I do not know how he met my father, but he gave him a position in their office and was able to help John Armstrong. My father had the inventive faculty which was eventually his ruin financially and led to his leaving the firm in 1870. He invented something for weighing grain, used for many years after, but not patented. After several years of fruitless inventions, the Buckinghams put my father in charge of their grain business at Rochelle, Ill., and transferred him to Arcola in 1867. I think you knew my sister Stella Treat: Sam Treat was born in New Haven, and served in the Civil War. He was an architect and was with one of the large firms in Chicago when he married my sister Stella. The Chicago fire of 1871 was the making of him as an architect. He went into business for himself and was very successful. They lived at the Lakota Hotel for 17 years and died there in 1910. I left Arcola in September 1874 for Sioux City, Iowa, and married in 1876. We saw the Armstrongs frequently during the month we spent at the Columbian Exposition in 1893: our children, 9 and 12 years old played with Jennie's and Hettie's children. Emma Munch, my half sister said my father sent John Armstrong to business school first.
John Armstrong paid many times over, this obligation in later years. At 72 years of age my father was working on a contrivance to supersede the bicycle: he invented corn shellers and many other things but never made any money out of them.
In 1869, Mrs John Armstrong, her son William, and her step daughter Eleanor Isabella, went back to Ireland for a visit of some months, and while they were away, the frame house was raised, and a basement built underneath, with kitchen, dining room, store room, laundry, and rooms for the servants. John Armstrong and the rest of his family, lived in the house while it was being raised and altered, and after the return of his wife from Ireland, they all lived in this house until it was burned in the great Chicago fire of October 9th, 1871. The fire did not reach the house until the day after it started, and with the help of men from the Buckingham Elevators, (who were very fond of John Armstrong, and who did yeoman service for him at that crisis, a great many of their effects were saved, and taken to Maple Grove at Arcola. Some of the children got lost in the confusion and were afterwards found in a vacant lot some distance away. Previously to the fire, John Armstrong had, on the suggestion of Mr. Burlingame, bought a 120 acre farm at Arcola, a short mile west of the town on the Springfield road.
Arcola is 158 miles south of Chicago. He bought it on April 2/1870, from Samuel Cheney for $55 per acre, and the deed was registered at the Douglas County Court at Tuscola, in the name of his wife Henrietta. About 1880, he bought another 80 acres from a Mr. Boyd, for $75 per acre. There was a house on this latter place, which was occupied by one of the farm help, and his family. John Armstrong's idea was to use this farm as a country place for the family. The house on the original lot was in fairly good condition, which was altered and improved for their occupancy: also an orchard. A kitchen was added and a school room built in the barn and completely fitted up: later the school room was in the basement of Maple Grove. Mrs. Armstrong was very fond of the country and wanted a place near Chicago, to which she could go from time to time. After the Chicago fire, John Armstrong decided to build extensively on the farm. He employed Sam Treat as the architect:
the latter had married Stella Burlingame, a life long friend of Mrs. O.A. Poole. Stella lived laterly in Los Angeles and died there sometime after 1928, Mr. Treat having died years before in Chicago.
Mr. Treat designed a large house, which was built about 1872. It cost $12,000 and besides the house John Armstrong built barns, horse and cow stables, cribs, mill hog barns and stock feed cooking utensils. He

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built fences, set out thousands of pines, spruce, elm, sycamore, maple and other trees, as well as a variety of fruit trees to the south of the new home: some fruit trees were on the farm when he bought it. The total cost of the finished farm was about $40,000. Grain, cattle and horses were raised on the farm, but more as a hobby than serious farming. The planting of the trees and the landscaping was taken care of by a lovable old Irishman, Frank Dailey, employed by the Buckinghams, and who must have been a gardener in the old country. He did his job well, as was evidenced by the results of later years. The building of the house and various farm buildings took carloads of materials, and most of the workmen were from Chicago. In later years the farm presented a beautiful and unusual sight in that prairie country: it caused much wonder and speculation amongst the natives. During the building at Maple Grove, John Armstrong, on account of his business being in Chicago, boarded there with a Mrs. Wright, at 18^th Street and Indiana Avenue, and lived there until the family removed to Cass St. in 1877. At Maple Grove, everything gradually was licked into shape, and the family settled in the occupation of the new house, at which time a large house warming was given. There was often company from Chicago, and parties were frequently held. On October 22nd 1874, the silver wedding of John and Henrietta Armstrong was celebrated at Maple Grove. The Douglas County Democrat, published at Arcola, carried the following article:-
"On Thursday evening, October 22nd, there assembled at Maple Grove, the residence of John Armstrong, the elite and fashion of Arcola, to assist in commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong. Mr. John Armstrong and Miss Henrietta Wilson were married in Dublin, Ireland, by the Rev. John Fisher, on the 22^nd October 1849, and in 1853 became residents of the United States. After twenty five years of, as Mrs Armstrong told us, uninterrupted happiness in the marriage relation, it was fitting to mark the anniversary with appropriate ceremonies. Right merrily and heartily did the numerous guests enter into the spirit of the occasion, and an evening of such enjoyment was spent, that all seemed loath to leave the hospitable mansion. Among the guests present, were Mrs. Chandler Robbins, of Champaign, Mr. James Slater, Mrs. J.W. Young, and Mr. Eugene Wheeler of Chicago. The friends were not unmindful of the amenities of the occasion, and many costly silver tokens of esteem were presented to Mrs. Armstrong. Among those were a satin lined Morocco case, containing Sugar Duster, Fruit Ladle and Jelly Spoon from Mr. John Armstrong. A satin lined Morocco case containing Jelly Dish and Spoon from Mr. Eugene Wheeler. A satin lined Morocco case containing Cake knife from Mrs. J.W. Young. Drinking cup from Mrs. L. Wright of Chicago. Card Received from Mr. and Mrs. H. Wells of Arcola. Spoon holder from Mrs. Slater and Miss A.MacDonald. One set consisting of salt and pepper casters, napkin ring and fruit knife from Mr. A. Pollard of Arcola. Syrup Jug from Miss M. Mahern of Arcola. Silver frosted napkin ring from an unknown donor. Conspicuous among the presents was a silver Dollar, with the congratulations and regrets of Mr. Otis A. Poole of Chicago, engraved thereon. This was so decidedly unique as to attract universal attention. The evening was lowery, threatening rain, which deterred numbers from attending. They have our sympathies, for truly they missed a great pleasure. We look forward to the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong, with an appetite whetted by the recollection of pleasures of the twenty-fifth, and hope that host, hostess and guests, all may live to celebrate their diamond or seventy-fifth anniversary."
In 1877, it was decided to again have a home in Chicago, and John Armstrong and family settled in a dwelling at 216 Cass St. N.W. corner of Chestnut Street, afterwards re-named North Wabash Avenue. At this time John Steinhouse looked after the farm at Maple Grove. In March 1879, Mrs. Armstrong wanted to go back to Maple Grove, so John

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Armstrong arranged with a Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Allen, to take over the Cass St. house, with the proviso that he and his son Will were to live with them. The Allens were the parents of Anamode Morgan, who later married William. Her father Morgan having died, her Mother married Thomas Allan: they had no children. Mrs. Armstrong lived at Arcola with her daughter Jennie and Mrs. Otis Poole at times and also her son Jack, (John Edmond) . With them also lived John Goodfellow, (his wife died before the fire), and who John Armstrong cared for all his later life: he was physically broken and was a great care. John Armstrong lived on at Cass St with the Allens until Will was married in 1880 and then he went to board with a Mrs. Trumbull at 225 Ohio St., and continued there until he went back to Arcola to live in 1883, until December 1891, when he returned to Chicago on account of being ill with Bright's Disease. He lived at 1437 Wrightwood Ave. until his death 1892. With him at this time lived Mrs. Armstrong and Percy, and sometimes Jennie. When John Armstrong died, Mrs. Armstrong and Percy lived in a flat at 676 Burling St. for about a year, and then gave it up. Mrs. Armstrong went to live with her daughter Jennie, while Percy lived with his brother Jack.
When John Armstrong was so ill in 1891, the farm at Maple Grove was sold to a Mr. Kemp for $8000, who resold it to Mr. Mel Crews of Arcola at a higher price. Crews was an uneducated man, a horse breeder and farmer, and he still owned the farm in 1939. He bought all the farms for a mile along the Springfield road to the west of Arcola, and operates them most successfully. He made a lot of money and has one of the best houses in Arcola town, where he lived. He had a manager living in the Maple Grove house, which being some 70 years old, was in bad condition, the whole basement being a mass of wreckage. All the fences had then gone and most of the trees and the cupola and verandahs. The cribs, horse and cow barns were still there, also a new chicken house:
The hog barn and mill were also gone. There always was a fine gravel pit on the south west corner of the farm and the gravel was used on the farm from the beginning and a good deal sold during John Armstrong's time. Crews has done good business in it. Crews bought young pigs and steers, fattened and shipped them to the stockyards in Chicago growing most of the feed corn for his animals. The farm gave me (H.A. Poole) an eerie feeling to visit Arcola again on Nov15/1939 some fifty two years after I had spent a summer there as a small boy: I remembered a good deal more of the place than I had imagined.
So much might be said about John Armstrong's wonderful character and disposition, which won him friends and the esteem of all who knew him. He was always generous with his money and help. He was a fine tall man, and in his later life had a full head of snow white hair and white beard. Mrs. Armstrong used to say that he had never spoken a cross word to her and they were a most devoted couple. Mrs. Armstrong had a sweet disposition and would make any sacrifice for her family: quiet and unassuming, but would fiercely resent any slight to her children. John Armstrong helped many of his relatives and Irish friends to come to America, and provided for them. He took on his shoulders all the responsibility of his relatives, notably Mr. and Mrs. Goodfellow. Mr. Goodfellow died at Maple Grove on January 18/1877 aged 85 years and is buried in the Armstrong plot at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, as is also his wife Mary Jane Goodfellow, who died March 6/1866 aged 66 years 9 months. John Armstrong brought over from Ireland and provided for Christiana Vaugh, afterwards Mrs. Slater, and her brother Haughton Vaugh who went insane and died in a sanatorium at Topeka, Kansas. Tom Little was another beneficiary of his. Also Mrs.

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Sleeth a relative of John Armstrong, and her two sons, John and William, and her daughter Emily, who he brought over from Ireland. They were at Maple Grove for a time the boys helping Will to run the farm after Will's marriage. The Sleeths got jobs in Chicago later on.

    John Armstrong bought a plot in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago in 1866 a plot 12 x 25 ft., no. 276, Section B. The interments are as follows, the first four were first buried at Arcola:-
Interment Name                      Date of death Yrs Mth

4.11.1866     Mary Armstrong           12.21.1853    1   8
4.11.1866     Chas W Armstrong         11.16.1864          6
4.11.1866     Mary Jane Goodfellow     3.6.1866     66    9
4.12.1866     Maud Armstrong           2.22.1865     1    5
8.6.1866      Eugene Chas Armstrong    8.5.1866           6 14
7.14.1868     Alice Armstrong          7.13.1868          2
10.4.1876     Mary Stewart             10.3.1876     55    2 18
1.20.1877     John Goodfellow          1.18.1877    85
11.25.1877    Child/John.P. Slater     11.24.1877
7.16.1883     Child/J.D. Sleeth        7.16.1883
6.23.1885     Child/J.P. Slater        6.18.1885
9.26.1892     John Armstrong           9.24.1892    72   8
1.8.1906      Warren Armstrong         1.6.1906     20
7.12.1906     William Rufus Armstrong 7.10.1906    51
4.16.1914     Henrietta Armstrong      4.14.1914    88

There are gravestones for all the above except Warren, but the older ones are so weather worn that the inscriptions are almost obliterated. No further interments are expected to be made in this plot. Near the Armstrong plot is the Wheeler plot, containing the graves of the following, relations by marriage of the Armstrongs.

Name                  Birth        Death

Hiram Wheeler       Aug 20/1809 Nov 22/1892 Eugene's father
Julia Wheeler       May 15/1813 Feb 2/1903 Hiram's wife
Eugene Wheeler      May 11/1844 Mar 15/1918 Hiram's son
Henrietta A Wheeler. Jun 11/1843 Jun 24/1870 Eugene's wife
Bertha Wheeler      May 28/1868 Feb 2/1875 Eugene's daughter
Eustacia Wheeler    May 4/1854 Dec 10/1936 Eugene's 2nd wife
    Both Eugene's first wife and their daughter Bertha died of
tuberculosis.

Issue: (by his first wife, Eleanor Isabella Wilson)
1/1. Son Born and died in infancy in Ireland
1/2. Son Born and died in infancy in Ireland
1/3. Eleanor Isabella Armstrong. Married 1st John Washington Young in 1868,

died 1907. They were divorced - no children. Married 2nd, Otis A. Poole (see subject 2).

1/4. Henrietta Armstrong. Born in Ireland June 11/1843, died at Chicago,

June 24/1870 of tuberculosis. She married at Chicago, on November 30/1865, Eugene Wheeler, born May 11/1844, died March 15/1918. They had one daughter Bertha, born May 28/1868, died February 3/1875. After Henrietta's death, Eugene married again and had one son.

This next small section from an earlier edition:

The children of John Armstrong, by his second wife, Henrietta Wilson, were:-
'Copied from entries in the Armstrong Family Bible, written in John Armstrong's own handwriting, and now in the possession of Henrietta Hobert McIntyre at Saginaw Michigan.)

Birth Died

1. John Henry Armstrong        Sept 23/1850 Oct 28/1850 in Ireland
2. Mary Goodfellow Armstrong   Apr 28/1852   Dec 21/1853 in Chicago
3. William Rufus Armstrong     Oct 18/1854   Jul 10/1906 in Chicago
4. Jennie Elvira Armstrong     Nov 13/1857   Aug 22/1935 in Saginaw
5. John Edmond Armstrong       Mar 18/1860   Mar 23/1912 in Beloit
6. Charles Wilson Armstrong    May 22/1862   Nov 11/1862 in Chicago
7. Maud Mary Armstrong         Sept 22/1863 Feb 22/1865 in Chicago
8. Eugene Charles Armstrong    Jan 22/1866   Aug 5/1866 in Chicago
9. Percy Wilson Armstrong      Mar 27/1867   Lives in Glencoe Ill.
10.Alice Maud Armstrong        Apr. 26/1868 Jul 21/1868 in Chicago

The following are the histories of the four surviving children of John Armstrong, as listed above:-

1/7. William Rufus Armstrong.

Born in Chicago October 18/1854, and died there July 10/1906, buried at Gracelands, Chicago. He married on January 6/1880, at Chicago, Anamode Morgan, born there October 6/1858, died there May 5/1946, aged 88 years. His early education was by a Governess, Miss A. Macdonald, whom John Armstrong engaged to each all his children while they were at Maple Grove. Later he attended the Bryant and Stratton School in Chicago. He then studied law with Colonel Robert Rae, (of the 1st Regiment of State Militia), passed his examinations and worked in Col Rae's firm, also joining the same regiment. At the time of the Spanish War, Col Rae formed a regiment for service in that war, in which Will was to be a Captain, but the war stopped before arrangements had been completed. Will was a charter member of the Company A, 5th Illinois Infantry at Arcola, its Colonel being Reilly M. Smith. After Will married in 1880, John Armstrong wanted him to look after Maple Grove. Two years later, a Dry Goods Store was opened at Arcola, for Will and Tom Little, under the name of Armstrong and Little, financed by John Armstrong. Later, Tom pulled out and returned to his former employers, J. V. Farwell and Co. of Chicago, where he had been a salesman. Tom Little afterwards went out to Caldwell, Idaho and made money in his own Dry Goods store and lived there until his death. Will and his brother Jack (John Edmond) continued the business but it did not prosper, and it was sold out, an expensive thing for John Armstrong, as he paid up all indebtedness, but at the use of much of his resources, causing the first mortgage on Maple Grove. Will then went out to Bozeman, Montana, where he bought an interest in a law and insurance firm, run by a man named Ives, which required further financing by John Armstrong. Ives turned out to be a rascal: Will left Bozeman a year later, after the railway was extended to Helena, Montana, and was a manager in a wholesale grocery store there, for three years. Will then went off on a wild goose chase to the new mining town of Coeur d'Alene, Canada, his wife not knowing where he was. He got stranded there, and money had to be sent to bring him and his family home. Then he went to La Crosse, Michigan, with an oil Company, and later to St. Paul, where Anna's brother-in-law got him a position in a wholesale Fruit Company. He then returned to Chicago and got an excellent position in the Press Division of the University of Chicago, where he worked three years. After that he went to Odebolt, Iowa, and worked for A. E. Cook, who ran a general store for the farm hands on twelve sections of surrounding farms, for two years. From this time Will commenced to go down hill from drink and his wife Anna was obliged to leave him. She came to Chicago, stored the furniture, which she later lost through a mortgage held by A.E. Cook. At the time of the Columbian Exhibition, she kept roomers for two and a half years. Then through the help of her brother-in-law, Mr. Bruce Powers, she got an excellent position with Marshall Fueld & Co. in the ladies dress department, which she filled with remarkable ability and success for eleven years, meanwhile supporting herself and her two sons until they died. On June 9/1909 Anna married Robert. W. Faulkner who died in Chicago in 1929, she had three sons, Howard E., Albert W. and Roy N. Faulkener. He left Anna comfortably off in 1936 lived in a charming apartment in the Grassmere Hotel in Chicago. Will was a Mason.
Issue:-
2/1. John Lester Armstrong. Born in Chicago Sept 18/1881. Died on November

24/1908 of T.B. at a Catholic Hospital in California, near San Francisco. He never married.

2/2. Warren Grant Armstrong. Born at Chicago Aug 2/1885. Died Jan 6/1906

there of T.B. Buried at Graceland. He never married.

1/8. Jennie Elvira Armstrong.

Was born in Chicago, November 13/1857, and died at Saginaw, Michigan, on August 22/1935 at the home of her daughter, very suddenly of heart disease. She is buried with her husband at Beloit, Wisconsin. Her girlhood was spent at Arcola, (Maple Grove) and at Chicago. She was educated first by her Governess Miss. A. Macdonald at Maple Grove and later went to Bishop Helmuth's College near London, Ontario, Canada, for two years. She married on March 24/1881, Clarence Fay Hobert, born March 7/1855, died at Saginaw, July 16/1928. For two years after their marriage, they ran the farm at Maple Grove, where their daughter Henrietta was born. Clarence Hobert came from Ottawa, Illinois, where his father was a dentist: he had five brothers, Arthur, Fred, George and Henry and three sisters, Ethel, Louise,and May all of whom died before 1939. Jennie met Clarence at Tom Little's house, as the latter's wife Minnie Holliker, also came from Ottawa Ill. Clarence had a very lovable disposition, always kind to everyone, and unassuming. After leaving Arcola, Clarence took up the profession of teaching, for which he was well fitted, a graduate of the State Normal School at Bloomington, Illinois. His first post was at a small school at Tuscola,just north of Arcola. During the summer vacations, he sold school supplies, nursery stock &c. His next post was at a school in Time in Pike County - no railroad there. Jennie accompanied him but was often at Arcola. His next post was at Neoga where he had a good school for three years: they were burned out here and lost everything. Then he got a school at Lostant for three years. Then at Hannover for two years. Then he got a post at Hampshire for five years, a large school. Then two years at Pingree, and three years at Union, all in Illinois. Then Clarence gave up the teaching profession and went into the house painting business. Their daughter Henrietta was married at Union, to Harold Edward McIntyre on November 2/1903. McIntyre was then with the Fairbanks Morse Co. at Beloit, Wisconsin but spent his vacations with the Roberts. Henrietta was a quiet studious girl. After their marriage, the McIntyres went to Beloit, and Clarence and Jennie followed, where Clarence got a position with the Fairbanks Morse Co. and had their own home. When the McIntyres went to Saginaw, Clarence and Jennie went too, and they retired on their savings. Clarence kept chickens for a hobby, with some profit too: one day he went out to the chicken house, failed to return and he was found dead of heart disease in the yard:-
Issue:-
2/1. Henrietta Wilson Hobert. Born May 30/1882.

She married at Union, Ill. on Nov 2/1903 Harold Edward McIntyre, born at Algonquin, Ill Nov 2/1883, son of Harvey Moon McIntyre, born Dec 22/1861 at Harpers Field, N.Y. died in Oregon: and Winnie May Lincoln, born Spring Valley, Ill. Mar 6/1865: married Dec 17/1880. H. E. McIntyre when married was working at the Fairbanks Morse Co. in Beloit, and was with them fourteen years working up from a laborer to the position of Systematizer. Then then joined the J.I. Case Co. of Racine, Wis. for two years as General Foreman. Then for a year with Sawyer. Massey & Co. of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, makers of agricultural machinery. Then for six months at Eau Claire, Wis. as Foundry Superintendent of the Phoenix Mnfs. Co. He then joined the General Motors Co. at Saginaw as General Foreman, Foundry expert, trouble shooter, and now is superintendent of the Core Finishing Dept. with a total service of twenty years. The General Motors factory at Saginaw, made all the castings for 7000 Chevrolet cars per day and McIntyre was a most responsible position. He was man of fine character and has always done well for his family. For many years he was active in the Boy Scouts, and was awarded the highest honour for this work - the Silver Beaver. He retired on his pension in 1945 and in 1952 they lived at 203 West Clark St., Milwaukee, Saginaw, Michigan. Issue:- 3/1. Henrietta Mary McIntyre. Born Jan 30/1905.

She married on Sept 24/1927 to Andrew Watt Forbes, of Dundee, Scotland, who came to America when a boy of nineteen and worked his way through the University of Michigan. In 1952 ha was with the General Motors Co. at Saginaw, in the personnel department. He and his wife are both graduates of the University of Michigan.
Issue:-
4/1. Andrew McIntyre Forbes. Born Nov 17/1929, died July 28/1943,

during an operation for appendicitis

4/2. Donald Hobert Forbes. Born Oct 23/1930
4/3. John Melville Forbes. Born Apr 5/1937
4/4. Joyce Evelyn Forbes, born September 20/1944.

3/2. Joyce Armstrong McIntyre. Born Aug 11/1908. Died in 1943 of

Tuberculosis. Not married. Contracted T.B. and spent some years in a sanatorium. She graduated from the State Normal School at Kalamazoo, Michigan with a teachers degree and was teaching French at a Saginaw High School when she died.

3/3. Henry Hobert McIntyre. Born Apr/23/1910. Married Sept 30/1935 to

Ruth Bruske, daughter of Frederick and Florence (McNally) Bruske. He graduated from the Central State Normal School, and worked in the General Motors Co. at Saginaw. In 1948 he was with the Dow Chemical Co. Midland Mich, makers of plastics.
Issue:-
4/1. Ruth Kay McIntyre. Born June 6/1936
4/2. Gail Ann McIntyre. Born May 30/1938
4/3. Lynn Louise McIntyre, born July 4/1949
4/4. Harold Frederick McIntyre, born March 1952.

3/4. Janet Elizabeth McIntyre. Born Nov 19/1913. Married April 28/1935

to Ray Allen Stevens, son of Lawrence and Verna (Ely) Stevens, both of good pioneer stock whose ancestors fought in the revolution. He is graduate of the Central State Normal : his wife Janet attended there two years. In 1940, they bought a farm near Fayetteville, Ohio, which they still operated in 1952. In the 2^nd World War he served 2 years in an Army Hospital at San Antonio, Texas, as an aide.
Issue:
4/1. David Ray Stevens, born November 18/1940
4/2. Daniel McIntyre Stevens, born May 4/1942.
4/3. Paul Joseph Stevens, born October 16/1944 (daughter Rose - AM).
4/4. Timothy Allen Stevens, born April 4/1948.
4/5. Jonathan Edward Stevens, born August 21/1949.

1/9. John Edmond (Jack) Armstrong

was born in Chicago March 18/1860. Died in Beloit, Wisconsin March 23/1912 of Pneumonia, aged 52 years, buried there in a lot bought by his wife which she later gave to the Hoberts, who are also buried there.
His early education was by his Governess Miss A. Macdonald at Maple Grove, Arcola, where he lived until 1877, but was not up to any work as he was never very strong. In 1877 his father John Armstrong got him a job with Edwin Hunt Sons, Hardware. In 1882 he joined Will in the Dry Goods business at Arcola, but was only mildly interested in it. When it was closed out, he followed his brother Will to Bozeman Montana, where he worked in a General Supply Store. In 1885 he returned to Arcola. he was well liked by the people he was with in Bozeman, and had excellent prospects. He was at Arcola till the following summer, and married secretly at Tuscola, Hettie Warner Rust on June 16/1886. She was born Mar 23/1862, died at Chicago, July 3/1936, daughter of Luther Collins Rust, (born at Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware on Jan 11/1818, shot himself Feb 14/1873 at Arcola, and buried there) his 2nd wife, Emily (Niles) Rust, born Apr 10/1832 in Baltimore, married in 1860: she died in Chicago Dec 26/1915 at Arcola. Luther has married, 1st, in 1846, her sister Adelaide Niles, who died in Arcola in 1857. There were eleven children of these two marriages: he was in the grain business in Arcola. When Jack and Hettie were married she was teaching school at Arcola, and for fear of losing her position as a married woman, their marriage was kept secret. After their marriage they moved to Chicago where Jack got a position with the Lincoln Ice Co. where he worked there until the Knickerbocker Ice Co bought them out, when he went with them.
Some years later, the sons of the original founder of the old Lincoln Ice Co. started in business again, and Jack went back to them as book keeper, and was with them for many years in a confidential capacity. One of the firms brothers was found to have been embezzling the firm's money, and Jack was deemed to have known it and of not reporting it to the other brothers; This caused Jack's discharge and he was unable to find another position in Chicago: he went to Beloit where he got a position with the Fairbanks Morse Co. and lived with his sister Jennie and her husband and his Mother until his death in 1912. In the meantime his wife Hettie and her daughters lived in Chicago and kept up the home: the girls were employed and she did some sewing to help out. Later, her brother gave her an annuity which enabled her to live comfortably. She made several trips to California to visit her daughter Rena: and also to York, Nebraska, to visit her sister, Nellie: the latter predeceased her by three months. In April 1935, Hettie had a stroke while in California but recovered from that and in March 1936 made another trip to York, Neb, to be at her sister's deathbed. She then went to Palm Springs where in April she again had another stroke, from which she never recovered, and died July 3/1936. Rena went out there after Hettie had been in the Hollywood Hospital for four weeks, and brought her back to Chicago where she lived seven weeks more: she died at Rena's home at 3749 KImball Avenue and is buried in Graceland Cemetery beside her mother, sister and brother. She was an active Church worker and was loved by all.
Issue:-
2/1. Rena Rust Armstrong. Born Sept 24/1887 at Decatur, Ill, run over

and killed by an automobile while crossing the street in front of her house in March 1952. She married on Aug 26/1911 to Thomas Erwin Grant, born July 15/1880 at Connersville, Indiana. After their marriage they went to Lake Worth, Florida to look at a farm offered them, but finding it under water, they returned to Chicago. In 1912, they bought a farm in Lincoln County, Wisconsin and lived there for five years; a tree fell on Grant and broke his leg. They sold the farm for twice as much as they paid for it and went to Racine, Wisconsin where he got a position with the J.I.Case Co through Harry McIntyre. However the work was hard, so he came back to Chicago and got a position with the Newspapers and through that got several trucks of his own working in the circulation department. Shortly after, he went into business himself and was quite successful until the depression in 1929. in 1931, Rena divorced him and on April 6/1931, married Emil Max Panter, born in Germany October 20/1887, coming to America as an infant. In 1940, Emil had been employed by the Golblatt Brothers for the last eleven years in the traffic department and they lived at 4118 North Sacramento Avenue in their own house which they remodelled. Rena had no children by him.
ISSUE:-(By her first husband Thomas Erwin Grant).
3/1. William Rust Grant. Born at Chicago March 20/1915: graduated

from Lake View High School in 1931 and was employed by Goldblatt Bros for five years. Then took the Civil Service Examination and passed with a high of 96 plus, and became a mail carrier from the Kedzie-Grace Station in Chicago. In the second World War he served in the Army in Germany, and was five years in a prison camp, released VE day. In 1946 he joined the Berkeley, Cal. post office. He married on Nov 11/1939, Viola Eccarius of Chicago (of Greek ancestry): in 1948 lived in Fayetteville, Cal.
Issue:
4/1. William Rust Grant, Jr, born Lafayette, July 13/1947.

2/2. Eleanor Poole Armstrong. Born Feb 1/1891 at Chicago. Married at

Los Angeles on Aug 25/1924, to Frank William Martineau, born Nov 30/1889 at Rochester, N.Y. of Hugenot descent whose parents came from Canada. Frank was with the New York Life Insurance Company for many years. In 1935 they lived at 1717 Anacopa St, Santa Barbara, Cal.
Issue:-
3/1. Jeanne Margaret Martineau. Born May 29/1925. She graduated from

Palm Springs High School, and from the University of Arizona. She married at Our Lady of Carmel Church, Santa Barbara, on November 16/1947, William Austin Curtis, a graduate of the University of Illinois. In the second World War he served in the US navy.
Issue:
4/1. John William Curtis, born December 25/1949.
4/2. Kathleen Marie Curtis, (adopted), born July 21/1953.

3/2. Julie Annette Martineau. Born Mar 11/1929. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and then served as a hostess on one of the airlines flying out of Los Angeles. She married at St Paul the Apostle Church, Westwood Cal, on January 29/1949, Edgar Frank Smith, born Little Rock, Ark, November 12/1924, son of Frank Morton and Laura Emily (Webster) Smith
Issue:
4/1. Gary Morton Smith, born Los Angeles, March 14/1954.

3/3. John Armstrong Martineau. Born Jul 29/1931 in L.A. He graduated

from the University of Southern California.

2/3. Margaret Whittaker Armstrong. Born Nov 28/1896 at Chicago.

Married on Nov. 20/1917 to Logan Walters Green, born Oct 9/1891. No child. They were divorced and had no children. She again married 2nd, Robert J. Reed of San Francisco: they were divorced and had no children. 3rd, Herbert J Dawes: no children.

1/10. Charles Wilson Armstrong Born Chicago, May 22/1862, died there

November 11/1862.

1/11. Maud Mary Armstrong Born Chicago, September 22/1863, died there

February 22/1865

1/12. Eugene Charles Armstrong Born Chicago, January 22/1866, died

there August 5/1866.

1/13. Percy Wilson Armstrong

was born March 27/1867 at 96 Huron St. Chicago, situated between Market (Now Orleans) and Sedgwick streets, which at that time was a section of fine houses where lived many of Chicago's North Side families. He died at Palatka, Florida, January 6/1953, almost 86 years old, buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Evanston, Ill. Percy has written an interesting account of his life, and also gave me most of the information in this history of John Armstrong and his descendants, which I quote:- My first memory is of the great Chicago fire in 1871: I remember being taken out of bed and seeing the glow in the distance. Mother used to go back and forth between Chicago and Maple Grove frequently: sometimes I accompanied her. About 1877 it was again decided to have a home again in Chicago and we settled in a dwelling at 216 Cass St. N.W. corner of Chestnut St. In 1875 I had a severe attack of measles supposed to have been brought back from Chicago by Father, who had attended the funeral of our dear little niece Bertha Wheeler, of my own age, who died of measles Feb 3/1875. Her mother was Nell's younger sister, who had married Eugene Wheeler: she died of T.B. June 4/1870, before the fire. My early education was by Miss A. Macdonald. She was a fine woman and always a staunch friend of the family in later years. After we came to Chicago I attended the old Ogden School at State and Chestnut Streets. Mother's unrest and desire to be back and forth between Chicago and Maple Grove led to the house being rented to the Allens, with whom Father and Will lodged. Their daughter Anamode Morgan (Allen was her step father) and Will were married in Jan 6/1880. I had gone to live with Nell (Mrs O.A. Poole) after the change in the family affairs, and attended the Douglas School on 35th St. and continued there until Mar 4/1879, when I was sent to the Morgan Park Military Academy, where I stayed till June 1883, spending vacation at Maple Grove and seeing Father in Chicago over occasional weekends. In 1881 I won the Gold Scholarship Medal and was appointed Sergeant. Mother and I spent the summer of 1883 with Will in Bozeman, Montana. Mother was called back to Chicago as Father was taken ill, and I stayed on till the Fall, when I joined Father and Mother at Maple Grove. Things had gone wrong with Father - his health made it necessary to give up business and his finances were sadly depleted. This was undoubtedly caused in great measure by the strain thrown upon him in the previous several trying years. We continued to live at Maple Grove, experiencing many setbacks in our efforts to keep our heads above water. Others had to be helped out of difficulties, which loomed up just when the horizon seemed to clear. In the fall of 1890, I planned and built a greenhouse at Maple Grove and had it completed and stocked by the following spring. We happened to have enough funds on had to take care of the outlay, which was small for what we had. This would have been successful had we been able to carry on, but Father's health was such that we had to sell Maple Grove at a big sacrifice and return to Chicago. The place was disposed of in December 1891. Mother and Father returned to Chicago while I stayed on for several weeks, getting the furniture packed up and shipped as well as selling and getting rid of unneeded articles. Meanwhile the folks had taken a flat on Wrightwood Avenue, near Lincoln, and with the arrival of the furniture we soon got settled. We had entirely too much household stuff, so that Will and Jack came in for a good deal of it. I attended the Powers Business School for several months in the Spring then joined Gage Bros and Co. a wholesale millinery concern at a small salary. Father's health did not improve and after several weeks of painful and severe illness, during which he was operated on for prostate removal, he passed away Sept 24/1892. After Father died, Mother and I gave up the flat: my salary was barely enough for my personal needs, and what remained of our resources had to be carefully managed. Although I had held things together during the eight years at Maple Grove, it was thought best for Will and Jack to manage Mother's affairs. I never knew how the money went as during that winter I lived with Christiana Vaugh Slater in Ravenswood. The next spring Mother and I took a small flat on Burling St. and kept it a year. We had plenty of company the following summer for the Centennial Exposition in 1876 of which I saw but little. When we gave up the flat I made my home with Jack and Hettie and so continued till Jennie and I were married. Mother went to stay with Jennie and Clarence. I met Jennie Tilt in the fall of 1894, and finally became engaged on the evening of August 21st. Her mother approved but my financial condition meant a long delay in going any further. I lost my job at Gage Bros in October, then following a period of much discouragement, until in December a friend, Henry Jameson and myself, made a deal with the Waltham Manufacturing Co. of Waltham, Mass to open and manage a store for the sale of their bicycles, which were then all the rage. I made strenuous efforts in this new work, made several trips to neat by towns and settled down to boosting business. The future began to look rosy so there seemed to be no reason for a longer wait, and we set April 29th for our wedding. We were married in St Peters Church by Mr. Edsall, (afterwards Bishop). John Slater was groomsman, Dora Tilt bridesmaid. We left for Milwaukee after the reception, stayed at the Pfister Hotel until the following Friday and thoroughly enjoyed our short honeymoon. We made the trip back to Chicago on the old sidewheeler "City of Chicago". We lived in a flat at 1220 Rokeby St., moving into an upper flat in a new building at No 1198, with steam heat, for which we paid $22 per month. In the fall business prospects had not come up to expectations, and finally the bicycle craze came to an end with the advent of Motors. I opened a bicycle store at 1605 North Clark St. near Belmont, but that soon petered out. I closed this business in December and soon after had a chance to travel through Missouri and Nebraska for the Indiana Bicycle Co. of Indianapolis at $75 per month for three month, but as bicycles were the last thing that dealers wanted, the factory switched to making electric automobiles, but finally stopped altogether. I returned to Chicago and got a job with Borden & Sellect Scale Co. to take charge of their bicycle department agents for several eastern makers. But there was no business and they closed the department June 1st. We had moved to 1316 Osggod St that spring. In September we moved to 1518 Belmont Ave, and lived there till April 1900, when we moved to Hermitage Ave. near Cornelia St. Unable to find a job I solicited and delivered orders for tea and coffee, using my bicycle when weather permitted, otherwise on foot. Those were days of hardship and small returns. Jennie, her Mother and the two children visited Canada in the summer of 1899. I secured a position as collector for a Publishing House at a small salary. The children went to a little private kindergarden in a near by church. In June 1902 we moved to Briar Place where Wilson was born. In November of that year, through the efforts of the family physician Dr. Gray, I got a position with J.B. Clow and Sons, at a small salary, but prospects were good. This was really the first job I had that offered hopes of a future, which the following years proved to be true. The children started in Public School in due course. We stayed at Briar Place for three years, and then moved to Roscoe St. and lived there till April 22/1908, when we came to Glencoe. With a small settlement for a street car accident, we were able to make a deal for a small lot on Grove St. Glencoe, hoping to build on it later. Then an opportunity was presented to secure our present house at 861 Bluff St. Glencoe, on very easy terms, so we sold the Grove St. lot. A new life opened up in Glencoe for all of us. Different environment gave us an entirely changed outlook for the future. It was possible to do a lot of gardening, a life long passion with Jennie and myself, and as the children grew and housekeeping cares diminished, it has produced a substantial financial return. Our house when bought, was crude and before we remodelled it in 1915, I spent many hours hard labour making it more comfortable, excavated sufficient space under the house for the installation of a heating plant and later also a laundry. I left J.B. Clow in the fall of 1917, to take a position with the Refinite Co. and had a profitable connection with them until their failure two years later. I went then with the International Filter Co. until March 1923 when I was appointed Post Master of Glencoe on May 1st, and held that position till Jan 1934, when the change in national politics caused by retirement. After leaving the Postal service, I became associated with the Miles-Murphy Oil Co. and have continued so up to the present November 1943. At our present ages, Primrose Lodge, as we have named our home, was too heavy a burden and in 1945 we sold it and moved to Florida, settling at Palatka, on Pine Lake Road, near St Augustine. End of Percy's story.
In 1947, Percy had a cataract removed from one eye and regained a large part of his vision. His mother also was blind in her later years from the same trouble, the removal of the cataract in her case was not successful in restoring her sight. Percy and Jennie celebrated their golden wedding on April 29/1946, while on a visit to their son John at Great Neck, L.I.
Percy married at Chicago, on April 29/1906, Jennie Tilt daughter of John Tilt of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who was born in Ireland Sept 7/1837: he died in Galt, Ont. Jan 22/1876 and Susannah (Kelly) Tilt, born in Ireland Sept. 16/1850, died at Orangeville, Ontario, Canada on Nov 15/1901.
Issue:-
2/1. Susannah Winifred Armstrong, Born March 11/1897 at Chicago.

Married as his 2nd wife, on Sept 2/1939, to Laurence Vail Coleman, born at New York City, Sept 19/1893, son of Thaddeus Vail Coleman, born May 1/1854, died Apr 27/1937: and Kate Bradley (Pratt) Coleman, born Feb 13/1862, still living in New York City, (in Nov 1939). Laurence was divorced from his first wife by whom he had three sons. Laurence and Susannah had no children. Laurence Vail Coleman attended both Yale and Harvard Universities, and in 1943 was Director of the American Association of Museums, with headquarters at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. He is the author of many books on Museums, and is the most noted authority on this subject in the United States. They live at 1530 Sixteenth St. Washington, D.C. Susannah was a fine pianist and composer, many of her compositions, having been published. Her musical studies were started with Hilda Brown, in Chicago, then with Victor Garwood, followed by a full course at the North-western University Music School, where she obtained the bachelor degree. Susannah then spent a year in Germany, and studied with Arthur Schnabel and after she returned to Chicago with Levine. Due to her sorority connections she was given an opportunity to go to the MacDowell Colony at Peterboro, N.H. This proved to be most stimulating and helpful in her musical composition. So much so that she welcomed the opportunities of attendance in following years. For a number of years she was connected with the music department of New Trier Township High School. In 1934, she decided to go to New York and was sufficiently successful, through her musical ability, to make her way there. She had arranged to return and continue her work there, but marriage changed her plans. Latterly vacation times have been divided between home and Peterboro. It was there she met her husband, Laurence Vail Coleman, in 1938. The "Glencoe News" of May 31/1930, carried the following article:-
      Miss Susannah Armstrong, Glencoe pianist and composer, has recently been presented with a fellowship for the MacDowell colony at Peterboro, N.H. by the Evanston MacDowell Society of Allied Arts. The fellowship was formally announced by Parke E. Simmons, president of the Evanston Society, at the annual meeting recently, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus G. Dawes in Evanston. Madame Elsie Harthan Arendt, soprano, who was the artist of the evening, included in her programme, one of Miss Armstrong's songs, "Sea Shell", Stanley Seder was at the piano. Miss Armstrong is a member of the music department of New Trier High School, where she is in charge of the harmony and creative work in music. At Peterboro this summer, she will be able to have three months of intensive work in composition. The Macdowell colony was established by Mrs. Edward MacDowell in memory of her husband, the eminent American composer, and it provides quiet and inspiration for artists in the different branches of creative art. As only a limited number of artists can be accommodated, the fellowships are bestowed with great discrimination. Miss. Armstrong has had her songs sung in recitals along the north shore, and she has always received very favourable comment on them. They show imagination and a sense of tone colour, the accompaniments often being quite independent of the melody and furnishing a colorful background. Her Mother Goose songs are particularly charming.
      When, as a girl, Susannah began to show great musical promise, her admiring uncle, Otis A. Poole, gave her a Steinway Grand Piano to encourage her aspirations, which has been a great joy to her through the years, and which she still has.
      After their marriage, Susannah and Laurence lived for many years in an apartment in Washington, DC. In 1951/2 they lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, owning their own house in Wayside Place, but returned to city life in Washington.
      Since the above was written, Laurence Coleman, after serving the American Association of Museums as its Director for 35 years, retired in 1958 and was elected Director Emeritus in appreciation of his notable accomplishments during that period. Since his retirement, Laurence and Susannah have travelled extensively abroad, in the Caribbean and Europe, dwelling chiefly in Florence, Italy.

2/2. John Tilt Armstrong. Born in Chicago May 23/1898. Married in

Evanston, Ill. on June 30/1928, to Mildred Elizabeth Bowers born March 11/1901 in Chicago, daughter of Edward Kendall Bowers, born Aug 15/1871 in Ohio, and Stella (Ent) Bowers, born Jan 19/1874 in Ohio. John went through Grammar School in Glencoe, Ill and attended New Trier High School two years and after war service, attended Northwestern University School of Commerce. He was an industrious boy and always looking for a chance to get ahead. He started caddying as soon as we let him, got up early and delivered newspapers while attending school. He got a summer job with J. V. Farwell and Co., a wholesale dry goods concern, and when school started again, he decided to remain with Farwell. In February 1917 he joined the Illinois Naval Reserve, and was automatically in the U.S. Navy with our entrance into the World War in 1917. He was first stationed on the U.S.S. "Vermont", later on the supply ship "Stephen R. Jones", which crossed the Atlantic to France. He was appointed Yeoman, while on the "Jones". He was mustered out April 6/1919, just two years to the day after entering the service . He remained, however in the US Naval Reserve, ultimately attaining the rank of full Commander. John lived at home till his marriage to Mildred Bowers, June 30/1929. He continued in the textile business after World War 1. This necessitated considerable road work which was successful, but the slump caused the Botany Worsted Mills to close down their Chicago office, and he was let out in 1931. He went to New York and at once secured the position he now has with J.P. Stevens and Co. 350 Fifth Avenue, remaining with them for 32 years and retiring in 1963 as Senior Sales Representative. During these years in New York, he and his family dwelt in Great Neck, LI, where he owned three successive homes, the last two on Vista Hill Road When America entered World War 11 after Pearl Harbour, John rejoined the Navy and as a Lieutenant Senior Grade, was stationed in 1942 at Balboa, Canal Zone, 15th Naval District, where he became Officer in charge or the Pacific End of the Panama Canal Harbour Entrance Control for the next two years. This had to do with all surface and underwater defence of the shipping lanes into that area as well as control of all friendly inbound and outbound traffic. From Balboa, he was transferred to Fisher's Island at the Eastern entrance to Long Island Sound, as Lieut. Commander, where his family joined him. On Germany's surrender, he was immediately transferred to the Presidio at San Francisco, where he was in charge of harbour entrance until the surrender of Japan in 1945. When the Post was closed in November 1945, he was mustered out as full Commander, USNR, and returned to JP Stevens Co New York, who had generously continued his pay throughout his war service. Like John, Mildred Bowers attended Glencoe Grammar School and New Trier High School and Northwestern University (B.A. '23 in Liberal Arts). She then took a post-graduate course at the University of Chicago, Wisconsin College and Hunter's College, New York. She taught English in High School and wrote pleasing and thoughtful verse. Her collection "Twist o'Smoke" was published by Yale University Press.
Issue:-
3/1. Elizabeth Giles Armstrong. Born in Evanston June 25/1929

She graduated from Syracuse University, NY, and, married at Douglaston, LI, on April 17/1954 an English chemist, John Rufford Harrison, son of Mr & Mrs John L Harrison of Nottingham, England. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from King's College, London and is now a research chemist with E.I. Dupont de Nemours Co. They were stationed first at Niagara Falls and later at Wilmington, Delaware.
Issue:
4/1. Elizabeth McCrae Harrison, born May 7/1958, Wilmington
4/2. John Bryce Harrison, born April 2/1960, Wilmington.

3/2. Joanne Armstrong. Born Jan 14/1934 at Port Washington

Attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia University, New York. Later she became a Social Worker for the Youth Employment Division of the State of New York, interviewing seniors in High Schools.

2/3. Wilson Hobert Armstrong. Born in Chicago Nov 13/1904 Died March 21^st

1931. Following a mastoid operation he became epileptic and died in a sanatorium, buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Evanston, Ill.

1/14. Alice Maud Armstrong Born at Chicago, April 26/1868, and died there in infancy July 21/1868.

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8 - SAMUEL POOLE.

         Was born at Hempstead, LI., April 29/1777, and died at Omega, L.l., April 21/1833, buried at Christ Church, Manhasset, L.I,
         He was the second son of Pierce and Elizabeth (Rushmore) Lawrence Poole, see subject 16. Samuel was a farmer and merchant, and was Inspector at Schools in Hempstead in 1819.
         He married at St George's Church Hempstead, on May 20/1804 Sarah (Sally) Cheesman, born October 6/1784. died October 9/1863, buried at Christ Church, Manhasset, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Weekes) Cheesman of Hempstead, see subject 18.

Issue:-
1. Mary Elizabeth Poole. Born April 1/1806, died December 27/1890,

buried at Manhasset, she married there on December 20/1824, James Parshall Smith, born at Smithtown, L.I. December 22/1802, died at Lakeville, L.l., April 5/1889, buried at Manhasset, son of Jonas Mills and Sara Joanna (Mapes) Smith. See subject 8-A for issue and further particulars.

2. Benjamin Tredwell Poole. Born at North Hempstead, L.I., April

10/1807, died at Beloit, Wisc. February 1/1854. He married at Lakeville on June 12/1835, Juliet Thompson, born April 3/1810. died April 30/1878, a niece of Chief Justice John Marshal. See subject 8-B for issue and further particulars.[iii]

3. Rushmore Poole. Born at Herricks, L.1.. September 7/1810 died at Buffalo,

N.Y., October 14/1885 of apoplexy. He married at Annsville, Le Roy, Oneida County, New York, on April 13/1837, Martha Maria Fitch, born February 4/1818, died at Buffalo, June 10/1903, daughter of Benjamin & Phebe (Brown) Fitch of Le Roy. See subject 8-C for, issue and further particulars.

4. Samuel Cheesman Poole. born January 8/1815, died June 22/1867,

buried at Manhasset. He married at Whitestone, N.Y., on April 8/1839, Esther Lax Powell, born September 25/1818, died March 19/1874, buried at Manhasset, sixth child of Thomas and Esther (Lax) Powell, see subject 8-E for issue and further particulars.

5. Augustus Poole. Born at Herricks, L.I., April 12/1820, died at Beloit, Wisc,

Apr 6/1853. He married on September 20/1847, Maria Bishop Manchester, born December 15/1822, died at Beloit, March 5/1873, daughter of Otis and Hannah (Ingols) Manchester (his second wife), of Utica and Beloit. See subject 4 for issue and further particulars.

6. Mary Antoinette Poole. born April 17/1826, died October 19/1875, buried in

Flushing Cemetery with her husband. She married at Christ Church, Manhasset, on August 4/1847, Jonathan Peck, born August 27/1825, died December 5/1889, son of Jonathan and Caroline (Cornell) Peck of Greenwich, Conn. See subject 8-E for issue and further particulars.

Note by Herbert A. Poole, who compiled this Genealogy:-

By marrying into the Cheesman family, Samuel Poole seems to have been the first to break away from the farming occupation of his forbears. The Cheesman family, with their Weekes and Townsend forebears, were a more highly educated group and better situated financially, amongst whom were many who had gone out to different parts of the world. Thus Samuel's sons were well educated, wrote beautiful English, and were the first of this Poole family to emigrate West.

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8A - MARY ELIZABETH POOLE.

        Born at Hempstead, L.I., April 1/1805, died December 27/1890, aged 85 years, buried at Manhasset, eldest child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole, see subject 8.
        She married at Christ Church, Manhasset, L.I., on December 20/1824, James Parshall Smith, born at Smithtown, L.I., December 22/1802, died at Lakeville, L.I., April 5/1889, buried at Manhasset, son of Jonas Mills and Sara Joanna (Mapes) Smith. He was a descendant of Richard, (died 1692) and Sarah (Folger) Smith, who settled in Southampton, L.I., in 1642, and who were known as the Bull Rider Smiths of Long Island: this name was given from the fact that Richard was given a tract of land as large as he could ride a bull around it in a certain specified time. James' middle name Parshall was given him after his great grandmother Keziah Parshall: the Parshalls came from Staffordshire, England, in 1642, and settled in Southold, L.I. James and Mary Elizabeth celebrated their sixty fifth wedding anniversary, the occasion being attended by a great number of their relatives and friends. I have a copy of the chart of the ancestors of James Parshall Smith.
        James came to live at Lakeville until he went to Allaire, N.J., near Red Bank, where he was associated with James P. Allaire, after whom this town was named, in the iron industry. Allaire is in Monmouth County, where the iron deposits had been worked since 1670, around Shrewsbury: in 1925 the output of iron had dwindled to 165,000 tons, valued at $578,000. James eventually returned to Lakeville to farm the land his uncle Ebenezer Smith had left him: Ebenezer was a carpenter and builder, and in 1947 his house was still standing in a plot of many acres now in the possession of the Milburn family, polo players.
Issue: -
1. Sarah Joanna Smith. Born at Lakeville, March 30/1826, died there

January 12/1891. She married, as his second wife, at Christ Church, Manhasset, on June 28/1854, Robert Alexander Gregory, born at either Cregan or Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland, August 19/1821, died at Brooklyn, October 1/1868, son of Mr. and Sara (Colquhoun) Gregory of Cunningham Manor, Ireland. Robert came to join his elder brother in America about 1840. Robert had married, 1st, Elizabeth Good (or Goode) and had one son by her, William Gregory. Robert was a member of the Orange Society, an association of Irish Protestants who derived their name from King William III (Prince of Orange), who defeated King James the second, at the Battle of Boyne River in 1690, and thus saved Ireland from the popish cause.
Issue:-
2/1. Julia Poole Gregory, born at 363 Sixth Ave., New York City,

April 4/1855, died at Montclair, N.J., January 5/1935. She married at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York City, on December 6/1881, James Flynn, born at Inchbridge, County Clare, Ireland, June 29/1843, died of a heart attack in a 9th Avenue Elevated Express on the morning of February 20/1903, while on the way to his office. He came to America when a boy, about 1859, and served in the Union Army as a captain in the Civil War, after which he studied law at Elmira, N.Y., and practiced at the State Bar and at the Federal Courts. He was School Commissioner from 1879 to 1883, and was one of Corporation Counsel Whalen's assistants. He was a member of the Lafayette Post, G.A.R., the Friendly Sons of St Patrick, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence. He had a law office with J.B. Tanner at 141 Broadway, and lived at 130 West 132nd St., New York City.,

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Issue:
3/1. Gregory Flynn, born at Brooklyn, October 9/1885, died at New

Rochelle, N.Y., July 8/1940, a salesman. He married at New York on September 5/1917, Olive Kelly, born at Lincoln Nebraska, in November 15/1889, daughter of Simon and Katherine (0'Neill) Kelly.
Issue :-
4/1. Gregory Flynn, born June 10/1918.

He married on May 20/1944, Virginia Grolla.

4/2. John Van Varick Flynn, born November 3/1919. f

He was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and was lost in 1944 in the Straits of Hollandia, South Pacific. He was not married.

4/3. David Mapes Flynn, born August 13/1923.

In 1947 he was a student at the University of Havana, Cuba.

3/2. Wilton Poole Flynn, born at Brooklyn, January 1/1890,

died there April 25/1891.

3/3. Kirtland Flynn, born at Brooklyn, December 31/1893.

Graduated from Columbia University in 1916: in 1947 was a chemical engineer Superintendent at the Celanese Corp., Newark, N.J. He married at Philadelphia on May 18/1916, Jane Elizabeth Miller, born at Cambden, N,Y., June 26/1893, daughter of George Briton McClellan Miller of Allentown, Pa., and Elizabeth Von Gamuenden of Philadelphia, whose parents originally came from Alsace. In 1947 they lived at 212 North Grove Ave. East Orange, N.J.
Issue: (born at East Orange, N.J.)
4/1. Kirtland Flynn, born August 27/1922. In the second World War

he served as a lieutenant in the US Marine Corps as a fighter pilot in the Pacific area. In 1947 he was an accountant with the Helicopter Air Transport Co., Camden, N.J. and was not married.[iv]

4/2. Marjorie Flynn, born March 9/1928.

2/2. Sarah Gregory, born November 16/1657,

died in New York City, October 24/1937. She was not married,

2/3. Lizzie Good Gregory, born in New York City, December 15/1856,

died at East Orange, May 6/1928. She married at Brooklyn on April 24/1889, Arthur Percy Caldwell, born at Brooklyn, September 22/1883, died at Summit, N.J,, August 15/1936, son of William, (died 1876) and Elizabeth Garth (Lowndes) (died at East Orange January 2/1922) Caldwell. Arthur had a weighing and gauging business in New York.
Issue:-
3/1. Arthur Percy Caldwell, born at Brooklyn, October 4/1892.

He graduated from the University of New York, and then from M.I.T, Boston. In 1947 he was vice president at the Chemical Bank & Trust Co,, New York City, and they lived at 130 East End Avenue. He married at Belmont, Mass., on June 15/1918, Barbara Chase, born at Haverhill Mass., May 11/1869, daughter of Henry Ward and Adelia Leach (Giddings) Chase,
Issue:
4/1. Elizabeth Garth Caldwell, born in New York City,

January 10/1925,

2/4. Robert A. Gregory, born March 25/1851,

died in California, November 17/1934. He was not married.

2/5. Antoinette Gregory, born April 12/1853,

died at Montclair, N.J,, September 1/1934. She was not married.

2/6. Virginia Gregory, (twin), born February 8/1867, died February 6/1868.
2/7. Minnie Gregory, (twin), born February 8/1867 in New York City,

died there May 16/1935, She married at Brooklyn, on April 20/1892,

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Eugene Albert Demonet, born at Spring Valley, N.Y., August 12/1866, died at Short Hills, N.Y., December 27/1950, son of Jean Baptiste (born in Alsace-Lorraine), and Anna Cecile (Vaucher) (born at Lode, Switzerland), Demonet, who came to America in 1845. Eugene was export manager of the National Paper & Tube Co., New York. In his early life he lived in Brooklyn and was president of- the Lincoln Club there He was a member of the Huguenot Society and Mistletoe Lodge 647 F.A.M. Brooklyn. He was a veteran of the 13th Regiment of New York National Guard, Brooklyn. Since 1941 he lived with his son Eugene in Short Hills, and had a large place on Cove Road, Huntington, L.I. where they spent the summers.
Issue:
3/1. Cecile Antoinette Demonet, born 1893, died in a few days.
3/2. Eugene Albert Demonet, born July 27/1896. He served in the first

World War in the Navy, then graduated from Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, with an electrical engineering degree. He then Joined the Western Union Telegraph Co. as consulting engineer and has been with them ever since. He married at Red Bank, N.Y., in September 1936, Eleanor Louise Horr, born at Newark July 12/1905, daughter of Luther William (born at Chicopee, Mass. in 1859) and Mary Eleanor (Lucas) (born at Brownsville, Pa., in 1852) Horr. Luther lived in Newark, associated with Minot, Hooper & Co., suppliers of Sweet, Orr & Co., makers of overalls. In 1951 they lived at 322 Taylor Road, Short Hills, N.Y.
Issue: (all born at Newark)
4/1. Eugene Albert Demonet, born February 5/1938.
4/2. Laurence Gregory Demonet, (twin), born March 5/1940.
4/3. David Lucas Demonet, (twin), born March 5/1940.

3/3. Gregory Faure Demonet, born December 26/1898. In the first World

War he served in the U.S. Navy Air Force as ensign, an instructor at Pensacola, Fla. In the second World War he rejoined the Navy Air Force, first in the Eastern Seas Frontier Patrol Force for submarines, then at Seattle and Alaska in similar patrol work. He was then appointed Chief of Air Forces at Guantanamo, Cuba, and finally in charge of the air base at Chincatogue, Virginia. He married in New York City, on October 12/1940, Irene Margaret Regina Sullivan of Brooklyn. They had no children and in 1947 he was in the paper business with Yohanesen, Wales & Sparre, at 250 Park Ave., New York City.

3/4. Claude Robert Demonet, born November 5/1901, died 1904.
3/5. Cecile Antoinette Demonet, born April 27/1903. She never married

and was a trained nurse: in 1950 she was superintendent of Macy's Hospital, New York City, and lived at 55 West 11th St.

1/2. Ensley Mills Smith. Born at Lakeville, L.I., August 8/1828, died there

May 7/1886, buried at Manhasset, L.I. In 1855 he went to Charleston, S.C., where he remained a few years, then went to Peru from 1859 to 1865 working in shipping offices, and at one time at the Americas, Consulates in Lima and Callao. He married on April 4/1867, Beulah May Scranton, born at Rochester, N.Y., January 15/1835, died at Attica, N.Y., January 1/1900, buried at Rochester. Beulah was the fourth daughter of Edwin and Mary Ann (Sibley) Scranton of Rochester, and widow of Isaac H. Weaver of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, whom she had married on January 17/1853, but had no children by him. Beulah was educated at the Mary B. Allen School, Rochester, and graduated from Converse Seminary, Burlington, Vt. Beulah's sister Bertha Sibley Scranton, born November 29/1848, married James Poole of Rochester: I wonder if he was any relation of our Pooles.

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(This is from "The Scranton Genealogy", by the Reverend Erastus Scranton, Burlington, Conn., 1855).

Issue:-
2/1. Emalita A. Smith, born April 12/1868, died at New York City,

September 29/1879 of diptheria, after their return from Peru.

2/2. Mary Elizabeth Smith, born July 6/1870, died at New York City,

October 13/1879 of diptheria, after their return from Peru.

2/3. Ensley Boyd Smith. He lived some years in Honolulu then came

to Oakland, Cal., where he married a Miss Jerome, daughter of James Jerome. Ensley was living there in 1905.
Issue:-
3/1. Leslie Jerome Smith.

1/3. Virginia Smith. Born January 25/1830, died in July 1830.
1/4. Rushmore Poole Smith. Born in New York City, February 3/1833, died

June 9/1907. For several years he was employed at the Treasurer's office of Long Island City. He married on October 1/1862, Emma Appelby born November 26/1843, died January 4/1927, buried in the Appelby plot in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. She was a sister of his younger brother Howard's wife. In 1904 they lived at 85 Norman St.,
Brooklyn.
Issue:-
2/1. Adelaide Rushmore Smith, born at Manhasset, L.I., February 24/1864,

died July 4/1913, buried in the Appelby plot in Greenwood Cemetery. She married on February 1/1893, as his second wife, Alexander Waldron June, born March 22/1852, died March 18/1908. He was captain of boats plying on the Hudson and East Rivers on Long Island Sound, and in New York harbor, one of his boats being the "Emma Southard". He was an ice yacht enthusiast and won many races with his famous ice yachts "Hermes" and "Scud". Captain June had married, 1st, on January 16/1881, Sarah Ackerman, born June 18/1858, died January 28/1890, by whom he had:-
3/1. Sadie June, born December 8/1883, died in ten days.
3/2. Ella Conklin June, born January 8/1884, died October 21/1942.

She married on April 23/1903, George Whitefield Mackie, born December 4/1880, died July 23/1940, tenth child of William John Mackie, (born September 26/1836, died March 31/1895), and Hannah Gibbs Whiting, (born January 2/1838, died April 28/1915), who were married April 28/1861.
Issue:-
4/1. Mildred June Mackie, born September 17/1906. She never married

and in 1947 was a high School teacher, in Staten Island where she lived at 650 Victory Boulevard.

3/3. Alexander June, born August 26/1886, died November 8/1889.
Issue:- (of Alexander Waldron and Adelaide Rushmore (Smith) June.)
3/1. Howard Rushmore June, born January 2/1894, died January 27/1895.
3/2. Emma Appelby June, born March 8/1896, died August 4/1896.
3/3. Orrin Brenner June, born March 1/1901. he married on July 17/1932,

Pearl Elizabeth Blackburn born August 31/1902 eldest daughter of John Henry Blackburn, (born February 9/l875) and Hannah Lawton Gibbs Mackie, (born April 3/1876), who were married April 30/1901. Hannah was the elder sister of George Whitefield Mackie mentioned above. In 1947 they lived at 221 Rivercliffe Drive, Devon, Conn. They had no children.

1/5. James Augustus Smith. born at Allaire, N.J., February 8/1835,

died June 4/1921, aged 86 years, buried in Flushing Cemetery, L.I. When he

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was 12 years old he came to Lakeville: at the age of 16 years be began a four year apprenticeship with the Neptune Iron Works, at the foot of 8th St., on the New York side of the East River. When 20 years old, he went to sea in a small steamship to South America, where he became an assistant engineer in the Chilean Navy. In 1862 he made a voyage to Shanghai in the barque "Benefactress", the trip taking 135 days. This ship was in the tea trade, owned by A.A. Low, the father of Seth Low, one time Mayor of Brooklyn, and later Mayor of Greater New York. The barque carried machinery for a large sized side wheel steamer, which James erected in China for service on the Yangtze River, named the "Fujiyama". In 1865 he made another voyage to China in the side wheel steamer "Chusan", as chief engineer, taking only 75 days for the voyage. Her side wheels were fitted with feathering floats, probably the first departure from the radial wheel. While in China, James had charge of machine shops, and all kinds of river craft. In 1875 he made another voyage around the world, and on his return, married on October 18/1876, his next door neighbor, Celia Jane Arthur, born at Lakeville, June 12/1845, died there July 18/1933, aged 87 years, daughter of Elbert and Jane (Lawrence) Arthur, farmers at Lakeville. In 1883 James became engineer in charge of the Baisley Pumping Station of the Brooklyn Water-works, during the administration of Seth Low and Ripley Ropes, Commissioners of Public Works. Subsequently he joined the Jamaica Pumping Station. He served 32 years on active duty at the Waterworks, and retired in 1905.
Issue:-
2/1. Arthur Augustus Smith, born at Lakeville, L.I., November 5/1877,

died March 11/1944, buried in Flushing Cemetery. He decided to make his career in the engineering profession, like his father, and served his apprenticeship with Fletcher & Harrison, Hoboken, N.J., where he made several trial trips. He was then appointed assistant engineer on the crack Atlantic liner S.S. "St Louis", one of the famous passenger ships of those days, plying between New York and Southampton, England. He then took an examination at the New York Navy Yard for a warrant machinist, passed with high marks, and though a civilian, was appointed on August 19/1903 to the battleship "Kearsage", then the flagship of the Atlantic fleet. This fleet was at that time being reviewed by President Theodore Roosevelt, Admiral Dewey and Secretary of War Moody, at Oyster Bay.. On the subsequent cruises of this ship, Arthur visited Culebra, Porto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, and Pensacola. On May 14/1904 the "Kearsage" sailed for the Azores, Lisbon, Corfu, Trieste, and back via the Straits of Gibraltar to the U.S.A. On May 30/1908, he was assigned to the U.S.S. "Buffalo", stationed at San Francisco, which sailed July 19/1908 for Cavite, P.I He was there transferred to the U.S.S. "Denver", and sailed for Shanghai, arriving August 19/1908. From there she cruised to Chefoo, Port Arthur and Nagasaki, thence back to Manila for target practice. He served in the Philippines until 1910, when he was transferred to the U.S.S. "Charleston", bound for Yokohama and home to Bremerton Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash. On October 20/1910 he was assigned to the U.S.S. "Colorado", which cruised to San Francisco, San Diego, and back to Bremerton. On April 29/1911 at Bremerton, he was given his commission in the Navy and appointed a lieutenant. On August 18/1916 he was ordered to the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn for land duty. On June 13/1922, he was assigned to the U.S.S. "Sapelo", a supply ship carrying oil to the various naval ports, on

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which he served until July 24/1926. He was then transferred to the U.S.S."Crane Ship No 1", which sailed for the Bremerton Navy Yard via the Panama Canal. The same year he was ordered to the U,S.S. "Tennessee" at San Diego and served till April 17/1927 at Bremerton. On May 17/1927, he was transferred to the U.S.S. "Ramapo", at Mare Island, Cal., until March 24/1928. He retired in 1932, after nearly thirty years service in the U.S. Navy. It is interesting to note that he was at one time, a shipmate of Lieutenant Simpson, one of Wally Warfield's husbands later the Duchess of Windsor. Arthur married at Brooklyn, on September 25/1913, Agnes Flye, born at Brooklyn, July 15/1877, died June 22/1936, a Catholic. No children.

2/2. Ethel May Smith, born at Brooklyn, January 12/1879, died

January 7/1882 of pneumonia.

2/3. Lulu Smith, born at Brooklyn, May 21/1880, died January 8/1882.
2/4. Grace Poole Smith, born at Brooklyn, January 8/1882. She never

married and in 1952 lived at 87-86, 153rd St., Jamaica 2 N.Y., with her sister Jane and brother in law Frederick Fitz Randolph. I have often visited them and she collected for me most of the information about this section of the Poole family.

2/5. Jane Lawrence Smith, born at Jamaica, L.I., September 11/1883.

She never married and in 1952 lived with her sister as above.

2/6. Lyman Munson Smith, born at Jamaica, October 9/1885.

He never married and was a farmer at Vernon, N.Y., about 18 miles from Utica, N.Y., where in 1952 he lived, retired.

2/7. Cecilia Arthur Smith, born at Jamaica, April 9/1887, died there August

30/1946, of cancer. She married on November 15/1928, Frederick Fitz Randolph, born at Brooklyn, August 20/1870, son of Thomas and Anna (McClure) Fitz Randolph, whose ancestors were early settlers of Barnstable, Mass. He was in the publishing business, first for five years with Harpers, seventeen years with D. Appleton & Co., and finally twenty eight years with the Oxford University Press, New York City, in their medical works publishing department. They went to Bermuda for their honeymoon. In 1952 he was retired and lived with his sisters in law Grace and Jane Smith, above. They had no children.

2/8. Ernest Almet Smith, born at Jamaica, May 21/1891. He graduated from

Pratt Institute in machine construction. In 1947 he was a designing engineer with the General Electric Co., Schenectady. He married on September 3/1921, Elsie Homan, born at Cape May, N.J., June 26/1898, daughter of Walter Mason (born May 20/1876) and Mary Smith (Chambers) (born May 24/1880) Homan of Cape May, a graduate of Trenton Normal School. In l952 they lived at 947 Park Ave., Schenectady, N.Y.
Issue: -
3/1. Ernest Almet Smith, born at Cape May, September 14/1922.

In 1947 he was with Pan-American Airways, stationed at Leopoldsville, Belgian Congo: transferred to Ankara, Turkey, then to Damascus in 1948. He was not married.

3/2. Elsie Arthur Smith, born at Schenectady, June 1/1924.

She graduated from Oberlin College in 1946, then taught school at Rochester N.Y. She married on August 2/1947, Robert Wood Herendeen of Canandaigua, N.Y., born September 27/1923, son of Stanlet and Irma (Wood) Herendeen. In 1947 he was studying electrical engineering at the University of Technology, Rochester, N.Y. and they lived at 354 University Avenue.

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3/3. James Homan Smith, born at Schenectady, June 17/1930.

In 1947 he was attending High School and lived with his parents.

1/6. Oscar Cheesman Smith. Born December 26/1838, killed September 19/1864,

fighting on the Confederate side at the Battle of Winchester, Fisher's Hill. He was in Company P, Third Alabama Regiment and got a bullet through his neck. When he was 19 years old he went to Alabama, and there fell in love with Emma House, a southern girl who lived at Wetumpka, Ala.: this caused him to fight on the Confederate side in the Civil War: unfortunately he was killed before they were married.

1/7. Mary Holbrook Smith. Born June 29/1840, died March 25/1841,
1/8. Howard Mapes Smith. Born August 19/1848, died February 24/1920.

He was given his middle name after his paternal grandmother, Sarah Joanna Napes, (1782-1812), a descendant of Thomas Mapes (1628-1687), and Sarah Purrier, (1630---), daughter of Captain William Purrier who came from Buckinghamshire, England in the "Hopewell" in 1635 and settled at Southold, L.I. Howard was General Passenger Agent for the Long Island Railway for 25 years and lived at 593, 7th St., Brooklyn. He married on November 19/1873, Adelaide Appelby, born November 11/1848, died August 18/1917, sister of his elder brother Rushmore Poole Smith's wife, see page 4.
Issue:.
2/1. Oscar Cheesman Smith, Born June 17/1876, died at the Bronx,

N.Y., April 7/1932. He was an insurance agent on Maiden Lane, N.Y. He married, 1st, on May 13/1898, Anna Marie Zimmerman of Elizabeth, N.Y., who died in 1902: 2nd, in New York City, on June 18/1903, Edith Danielson, daughter of Henry and Lizette (Steele) Danielson. In 1948 Edith lived at 45 May St., New Rochelle N.Y.
Issue:. (by his first wife Anna Marie Zimmerman)
3/1. Vanita Appelby Smith, born at Brooklyn, January 21/1899.

Owing to her mother's early death, she was brought up by her grand parents. For 21 years she was organist and choir director of St. Joseph's Episcopal Church, Queens Village, L.I. In 1950 she was director of the Music Department at St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N.J. She married on April 14/1923, Charles George Smith, (no relation), born at Brooklyn, September 29/1895, son of George and Minerva Smith. He was with the Bell Telephone Co., New York City for twenty years and in 1948 they lived at 92-22, 241st St., Bellerose, L.I. In 1949 he deserted her, went to one of the southern States and married again.
Issue:-
4/1. Charles George Smith, born January 21/1925, In 1943-4 he

was with the Naval Reserve, and graduated from Harvard University in 1947 under the G.I. Bill of Rights. In 1948 he served in the Army of Occupation in Heidelberg, Germany, and while there, his future wife who was serving at the United Nations in Paris. He married at the Protestant Church, Garmisch, Austria, on February 14/1948, Betty Benton, daughter of J. Thomas Benton of Alberquerque, New Mexico, who graduated from the University of New Mexico and from the Sorbonne, Paris. In 1951 he again studied at Harvard for a degree in music.

4/2. Vanita Irene Smith, born April 6/1926. She married on May

11/1945, Eugene William Denton, born at Woodhaven, L.I., July 19/1925, son of William Eugene and Anna Rachel (Petersen) Denton. In 1947 she was a student at Adelphi College, and in 1951 they lived at 20 Spoke Lane, Levittown, L.I.

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Issue:-
5/1. Bonnie Anne Denton, born December 10/1947.
5/2. William Eugene Denton, born March 6/1951.
5/3. Robert Craig Denton, born December 17/1953.

4/3. Margery Betsy Smith, born April 8/1927.

In 1951 attended college at Burlington, N.J.

4/4. Phyllis Anne Smith, born October 22/1934. She graduated

from Endicott Junior College, Berkeley, Mass., in June 1954.

Issue:- (by his second wife Edith Danielson)
3/2. Margery A. Smith, born in New York City, April 17/1913,

died there November 28/1915.

3/3. Howard Mapes Smith, born in New York City, March 3/1916, a twin.

In 1948 he was a radio engineer with the Sperry Gyroscope Co., New York City. He married at Dumont, N.J., on June 7/1941, Virginia Catherine Straube, born at Union City, N.J., March 31/1915, daughter of Edward Joseph and Cecilia (Hyland) Straube of 14 Bergman Terrace, Dumont, N.J. In 1948 they lived at 89-43, 2l8th St., Queen's Village, L.I.
Issue:-
4/1. Linda Gail Smith, born February 5/1950.

3/4. Muriel Dollard Smith, (twin), born March 3/1916.

She married, 1st, in New York City, on July 3/1935, Robert Campbell, born in New York City, December 30/1909, died there January 12/1936. He was an upholsterer with the New York Central Railway. She married, 2nd, at Harrison, N.Y., on December 31/1937 Murrill Bishop[v], born at Huntington, West Va., October 3/1909, son of Raymond and Virginia (Kincaide) Bishop. In 1948 he was in the painting and decorating business and they lived at 45 May St., New Rochelle, N.Y., with her mother.
Ray and Virgie moved to Larchmont Village area of Westchester County, NY. They were living there, per the 1930 U.S. Census record.
Issue:- (by her second husband Murrill Bishop)
4/1. Barbara Jean Bishop, born in New York City, October 10/1939.
4/2. Carol Linda Bishop, born in New York City, January 15/1950.

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8B - BENJAMIN TREDWELL POOLE.

Was born at North Hempstead, L.I., April 10/1807, and died at Beloit, Wisconsin February 1/1854. He was the second child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole, see subject 8.
In 1820 he went to Lakeville, and in 1827 to New York City, In 1837 he built a new house at Lakeville, selling it in 1844 to his brother Samuel. In 1845 he visited Beloit and Chicago: in 1845 he returned to Flushing for a few months, and then departed with his brother Augustus for Beloit. He married at Lakeville, on June 12/1835, Juliet Thompson, born April 3/1810, died April 30/1878, a school teacher from Massachusetts, and a niece of Chief Justice John Marshall,
Issue:-
1/1. Sheridan Poole. Born February 5/1837, died in New York City,

August 23/1904, buried in Green Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. He went to Beloit with his parents in 1845. When be grew up, he commenced business in Chicago, in the clothing business, and had stores there, and in New York and Brooklyn. His firm in Chicago was Collins & Poole, boys clothing. His store was burned out in the great Chicago fire of October 9/1871, started by the famous Mrs O'Leary's cow. His insurance company failed and he lost everything. As his wife could not stand the climate of Chicago, he moved to New York1 selling his Chicago branch to his partner Collins. From 1871 to 1890 be had stores in New York City and Brooklyn, and retired from active business in 1890. He married at Chicago, on September 2/1863, Josephine Carter, born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 2/1838, died January 3/1890, daughter of Samuel Peters and Mary Ann (Buell) Carter. Josephine was the organist of the church he attended in Chicago, where he met her. Samuel Peters Carter was born at East Bloomfield, N.Y., August 29/1812, died at Chicago, March 15/1880: he married at East Bloomfield on August 5/1835, Mary Ann Buell, born at Goshen, Conn., June 17/1813, died March 1883, daughter of Theron and Love Lee (Collins) Buell. Samuel Peters Carter was the son of Darius and Samuel and Martha (Buell) Carter of Hebron, Conn. Samuel was the son of Thomas and his second wife, Sarah (Gilbert) Carter, born at Woburn Mass., June 8/1855: Thomas was the son of the Reverend Thomas Carter of Hinderclay, Suffolk County, England. Theron Buell was the son of Captain Timothy Buell, born in Goshen, Conn., May 22/1787, died September 13/1833: he moved to East Bloomfield in 1799 and married there on December 5/1810, Love Lee Collins, daughter of the Reverend Aaron Collins of Troy, N.Y. Theron was a carpenter and proprietor of an hotel at East Bloomfield, N.Y.
Issue:-
2/1. Marian Carter Poole. Born July 1665, died at New York City,

December 11/1930 of cancer. She never married and was a church organist for many years and lived at the Martha Washington Hotel, New York.

2/2. Josephine Poole, born September 27/1867, died young.
2/3. Harold Sheridan Poole, born Brooklyn. August 4/1870, died there

March 2/1945, of a heart attack. After graduating at City College, New York, he joined the London, Liverpool & Globe Insurance Co. in New York. in 1904 he joined the Home Insurance Co. of New York, becoming Secretary & Treasurer in 1921: be retired In 1944. He married on September 15/1897, Poratha Powell, born July 7/1874, died April 15/1956, daughter of James and Amelia (Fowle) Powell of London. They lived at 488 Putnam St, Brooklyn, and moved in

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1921 to 999 Sterling Place, where Mrs. Poole lived in 1955.
Issue: (all born in Brooklyn).
3/1. Dorothy Poole, born November 13/1898. She married there on

October 19/1921, Eric Harman Louis Arpert, born at Brooklyn, June 6/1897, son of Herman Edward and Hulda Louise (Nelson) Arpert. He was then with the American & Foreign Insurance Association, New York, and in 1949 was secretary of that concern. They lived at 974 Sterling Place, Brooklyn N.Y.
Issue:- (all born at Brooklyn)
4/1. Dorothy Poole Arpert, born August 11/1924. She was educated

at Froebel Academy, Then graduated from Syracuse University. She married at Brooklyn, on February 5/1944, Christen Skaar, born at Brooklyn, September 23/1919, son of William and Martha (Christensen) Skaar of Glen Cove L.I., who came to the U.S.A. in 1910 from a town near Bergen, Norway. After graduating from Syracuse University Christen was inducted into the Army Signal Corps on May 20/1943, served in the Panama Canal Zone, and discharged as captain on June 29/1946. In 1951 he was an instructor at Syracuse University, where they lived 1955.
Issue: - (all born in Brooklyn)
5/1. Herbert Martin Skaar, born January 29/1947, died next day.
5/2. Eric Christen Skaar, born Decanter 26/1947.
5/3. Sheridan William Skaar, born Nov 14/1950, died same day.
5/4. Stephen Bard Skaar, born June 15/1953.

4/2. Janet Powell Arpert, born June 6/1927. She married at Brooklyn

on Sept 8/1945, Dexter Ralph Davison, born at Rutland, Vt., June 7/l9l6, son of Herbert Filton and Vesta (Dexter) Davison of Rutland. Dexter graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., and from the Julliard School of Music, New York. In 1948 he was Music director of St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.
Issue:-(all born in Brooklyn)
5/1. Dexter Ralph Davison, born September 4/1946.
5/2. John Carter Davison, barn July 24/1948.
5/3. James Eric Davison, born August 18/1953.
5/4. Jennifer Dorothy Davison, born November 1/1955.

4/3. Eric Sheridan Arpert, barn March 6/1935.

3/2. Herbert Powell Poole, born June 4/1900. In 1948 he was an

insurance broker on Maiden Lane, New York City. He married at Brooklyn on April 25/1940, Dorothy Eva Walden, born at Brooklyn, June 15/1903, daughter of Charles Frank and Eva Virginia (Ferris) Walden of New London, Conn. They had no children,

3/3. Fanny Carter Poole, born July 27/1904. She graduated from Adelphi

College and taught school ever since. She never married and in 1955 lived with her mother.

3/4. Harold Sheridan Poole, born June 4/1906. In 1935 he joined the

Hartford Fire Insurance Co., Syracuse, N.Y. He married there on October 22/1938, Helen Claire Bayley, born at Cleveland Ohio, January 24/1914, daughter of Harry Jacques and Helen Augusta (Huntley) Bayley of Syracuse: Helen graduated from the University.
Issue:- (all born at Syracuse),
4/1. Charles Bayley Poole, born October 30/1939.
4/2. Helen Frances Poole barn March 5/1942.
4/3. Harold Sheridan pools, born August 25/1943.
4/4. Barbara Jean Poole, born October 19/1947,
4/5. Herbert Richard Poole, born October 18/1950.

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2/4. Welter Frederick Poole, born in Brooklyn, February 10/1876, died

at Prattsville, N.Y., July 9/1942, of a heart attack, after helping a motorist push his car into the street. He never married and was a freight broker with Carman & Co., for coastwise, river and other steamers, and later for motor trucks along the Hudson river.

1/2. Frederick A. Poole. Born August 1/1847, lived only one year.

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8C - RUSHMORE POOLE.

Was born at Herricks, L.I., September 7/1810, and died at his home, 198 Seventeenth Street, Buffalo, N.Y., October 14/1885, of apoplexy. He was the third child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole, see subject 8.
He married at Annsville, le Roy, Oneida County, N.Y., on April 13/1837, Martha Fitch, born February 4/1818, died at Buffalo, June 10/1903, daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Brown) Fitch of Le Roy.
I quote from the Buffalo Historical Society's Register as follows: "The name of Rushmore Poole is closely associated with the social and business history of early Buffalo. At the age of fifteen years, he was sent to Buffalo to learn the crockery business in a store which New York relatives had established there, and the first of its kind,in these western wilds. In 1833 he was a partner in this firm of Weekes & Cheesman, and in 1836 bought out the New York men. In the panic of the early 40s, he failed. He then became purchasing agent of E.C. Brown & Co., crockery, later bought by Homan & Co. of Boston.
About 1865, he and his son Arthur established P. Poole & Son, of Seneca Street. His son Arthur was killed while going to a fire, and Mr Poole, then 68 years old, never recovered from the effects of this affliction and sold out to a nephew from Long Island, Edgar Cheesman Poole, and retired from business. Although by nature, one of the most gentle and retiring of men, probably due to his Quaker antecedents, his refinement and accomplishments made him prominent in the little pioneer town, and he became one of its most popular bachelors. He was one of the earliest members of the Young Men's Association, and was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department, which was composed of the best men of the town. He lived in bachelors apartments which he furnished himself, and owned a box at the old Eagle St Theatre, where many of the best operatic stars of the day appeared and where Mr &-Mrs John Drew were member of a stick company. Mr Poole was noted, for his beautiful handwriting which could not be told from Copper Plate engraving. In 1837, Mr Poole married Martha Fitch, one of the four Fitch sisters' of Le Roy, who were remarkable for their beauty and sprightliness. Mr Poole was an episcopalian and one of the founders of Trinity Church at Buffalo where he was a vestryman for seventeen years, part time acting as as treasurer and clerk of the Vestry as well. He conducted the music of Trinity Church for nineteen years, and while Mrs Poole gave her services as soprano for twelve years, be filled the position of choir master, basso and organist as required. He was a natural Musician, a pianist of more than average ability, played the organ and flute and also sang very well He also played the flute in an amateur orchestra.
Through his musical talents and those of his daughter, who became an accomplished pianist and vocalist, at an early age, he became intimately acquainted with many of the musicians who cane to Buffalo.
First and foremost was the illustrious Patti family, consisting of Adelina, then a young girl who sang in Buffalo before she made her formal debut in New York, Carlotta Patti, her sister, also a wonderful soprano, Madame Maurice Strakosch, the famous pianist. In the early 40s, Buffalo was an important place on the threshold of the Great West:, in summer it was full of business bustle, being a coaching terminal and a distributing point for the western territories, but in winter, with the Erie Canal and Lake traffic at a standstill, the little city put aside business cares and became the gayest of social centres. Its card parties, suppers, dances, musicals, and winter frolic, are not excelled even in this day of luxury, and were enjoyed with a singleness of heart which we today wot not of. No

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gathering was complete without Mr. & Mrs, Poole, and in return, their house was the scene of many hospitalities. Mr. Poole reached his 75^th birthday with a marvellous serenity of spirit and resignation to the divine will, and his beautiful life and character justified the scriptural promise, "blessed are the pure in heart" for they shall see God".
The Buffalo Commercial of June 11/1903, carried the following notice of the death of Mrs. Poole:- "Mrs, Martha Fitch Poole, widow of the late Rushmore Poole, died at the residence of her son in law Dr. Joseph T. Cook, Wednesday morning June 10th, aged 85 years. she was born in Annsville on February 4/1818, her parents moving to Le Roy a few years later. The two elder sisters having married West Point officers, several years of her girlhood were passed with them at Fort Niagara, Fort Brady, and Bedloe's Island. She came to Buffalo to reside permanently in 1835, with her aunt, Mrs. Rodman Starkweather, with whom she lived until her marriage in 1837, in the residence still standing at the corner of Washington and Mohawk Sts. She was probably the last and only survivor of Old Trinity Church. Maria Fitch was descended from a long line of distinguished ancestors. Among those who came to this country in 1620 and 1640 were Elder William Brewster of Mayflower fame, the Rev. James Fitch of Norwich, Conn., and the Reverend Henry Whitfield of Guilford, Conn. She was a noted beauty and gifted with it and conversational powers, which with a cultured mind, made her rarely attractive to all who knew her. Mrs. Poole was prominent in early Buffalo since her entry into society at the age of seventeen. Her identification with Trinity Church dates from a time when this organisation met in a building on South Division St, prior to the erection of Old Trinity at the corner of Washington and Mohawk Sts.
Mrs. Poole, whom was possessed of a fine voice and rare musical appreciation, held the position of soprano in the quartett choir for 12 years, giving her services regularly until prevented by her advanced age. She is survived by an only daughter, Mrs. Joseph T. Cook, and one grandchild, Miss Anna Maude Hoxie. Mrs. Poole was & very loveable and loving woman, earnest in good works, unwavering in her affection for her friends, charity for all, and steadfast faith in the Heavenly Father. Funeral services were held at the family residence, 636 Delaware Ave., Friday, June 12/1903: burial at Forest Lake Cemetery.
Issue :
1/1. Anne Ware Pool. Born December l8/1838, died December 29/1929,

aged 91 years. She, married, 1st, at Buffalo, on April 14/1863, Augustus Chapman Hoxsie, M.D., born at"Thorn Hill', Onondaga County, N.Y., October 14/1838, died at Buffalo, May 23/1865, son of Roland Robinson and Almira (Chapman) Hoxsie. She married, 2nd, at Buffalo, on August, 1/1888, Joseph Tottenham Cook, M.D., born at Ludlowville, N.Y., November 4/1855, died at Buffalo, July 15/1939 aged 94 years, sixth child of Reverend Philos Gunicos and Clarissa (Tottingham) Cook: Joseph changed the spelling of his middle name. They lived at 636 Delaware Ave., and had no children. He graduated from medical college and then studied obstetrics in London and Vienna.
Issue:- (by her first husband Augustus Chapman Hoxie)
2/1. Anna Maude Hoxsie, born at Buffalo, July 30/1869. Died February

27/1959. Her tragedy was that as a girl of 19, she fell in love with her future step father, 14 years her senior, but he married her mother who was 17 years his senior. Maude never married and lost much money in the 1929 crash, thus having to sell the fine Delaware Ave. house: she lived many years at 175 North St. Buffalo, and in 1954 lived at the Erie County Infirmary, Wende, Alden, N.Y. HAP obtained much genealogical information from her.

1/2. Edwin Long Poole. Born July 6/1847, died March 3/1858
1/3. Arthur Augustus Poole. Born July 16/1850, killed July 10/1876,

when he was thrown from the fire engine going to a fire: he was a member of the city amateur fire brigade.

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8D - SAMUEL CHEESMAN POOLE.

Was born January 8/1815, and died June 22/1867, buried at Manhasset, L.I. He had a general store on Horace Harding Boulevard, near lake Success, L.I. He was the fourth child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole., see subject 8.
He married at Whitestone, N.Y., April 8/1839, Esther Lax Powell, born September 25/1818, died March 19/1874, buried at Manhasset sixth child of Thomas Powell, (born August 1/1777) and Esther Lax, (born an England, October 15/1783, married May 23/1803). Esther Lax was the daughter of Thomas and Isabella Lax. (see subject 268, page 4 for her brother Thomas Lax who married Rachel Carmen)
Issue:-
1/1. Edgar Cheesman Poole. Born April 17/1840, died at Buffalo N.Y.,

July 15/1904, buried at Manhasset, L.I., as were also his wives, He was first a merchant in New York and resided in Brooklyn. About 1874 he bought out his uncle Rushmore Poole's crockery store in Buffalo, and carried it on until his death. He married, 1st, Emma A. Tredwell, born October 2/1844, died April 12/1865, fourth daughter of John Henry Tredwell, (born April 10/1803, died June 29/1870, a farmer at Hempstead) and Martha Burtis (Dodge) Tredwell, (born October I0/1815, died December 26/1885, daughter of Isaac H. and Jane (Burtis) Dodge.) This is from "The Descendants of Edward Tre(a)dwell, by William A. Robbins, New York, 1911, which gives the Treadwell ancestry. Edgar married, 2nd, on July 5/1871, Elizabeth Emeline Barker, born May 8/1846, died at Orchard Park, February 14/1906, of David Doty and Julia Ann (Barnes) Barker of Pougkeepsie, N.Y. They had no children.
Issue:. (by his first wife Emma A. Tredwell)
2/1. Child died young: Emma died soon after.
Issue:- adopted after his second marriage)
2/2. Florence Poole, adopted when she was 18 years old, born in New York

March 4/1872. She married on February 17/1897, Howard Mason Albee born at Buffalo, December 7/1870. They were living in Buffalo in 1918, where he owned the H.M.Albee Coal & Coke Co.: He was the eldest son of Samuel Howard and Jane (Dempster) Albee.
(This is from "The Albee Family Record", by Robert S. Albee, Washington, D.C. 1920._
Issue: (all born in Orchard Park)
3/1. Florence Albee, born December 6/1898.
3/2. Edgar Howard Albee, born December 22/1900, a civil engineer.
3/3. Samuel Alvin Albee, born December 18/1907.
3/4. David Dempster Albee, born November 18/1908.
3/5. Mary Elva Albee, born January 28/1911.

1/2. Samuel Eugene Poole. Born November 6/1843, died May 14/1900,

buried at Manhasset, L.I. He married Anna Florence Kissam, born 1837, died March 31/1897, buried in Grace Church, Jamaica, L.I., daughter of Philip Platt Kissam, (born May 28/1808, died June 12/1891 at Jamaica, a merchant and later a stock broker in New York), and Madeleine Louise Kissam, (born 1814, died October 26/1892, daughter of Richard S Kissam M.D., of New York) who were married November 26/1832. Phillip was the sixth child and third son of Daniel Kissam of Rocky Hill, L.I., (born August 21/1759, died April 6/1848, Justice of the Peace an 1783, and a member of the New York Assembly 1809-1820). who married on December 15/1785, Phebe Platt, (born 1768, died December 19/1855, daughter of Philip Platt). Daniel was descended from John Kissam of Flushing, L.I.

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born July 1644 of English ancestry, and Susannah Thorne of Jamaica, L.I. (This to from "The Kissam family in America", by Edward Kissam, New York, 1892). Samuel and Anna had not lived together for many years, and they had no children.

1/3. Mary Augusta Poole. Born August 22/1849, died July 15/1925, buried

at Manhasset, L.I. She married at Flushing, on August 25/1872, Robert Jacobia, born 1847, died April 17/l901, buried in the Oddfellows Cemetery. He was a baker at Little Neck, L.I., a much esteemed and highly respected man.
Issue:-
2/1. Franklin Jacobia born July 10/1874, died August 4/1874.
2/2. Samuel Wilbur Jacobia, born July l5/1876.

He married Emma Brown, born September l7/1886, died May 3/1942. In 1947 he lived at St James, L.I., just beyond Smithtown, L.I.
Issue:-
3/1. Robert Jacobia, born November 3/1903.

He married in 1921, Viola Ruth Youngs, born March 9/1903.
Issue :-
4/1. Robert Wilbur Jacobia, born August 12/1922.

He married on July 3/1942, Elizabeth Kassy, born June 3/1921.
Issue:-
5/1. Elizabeth Viola Jacobia, born December 26/1947.

3/2. Mary Jacobia, born November 9/1905. She married, 1st,

a Mr. Doerlinger, born July 17/1901: 2nd, a Mr. Mullins: 3rd, a Mr. Camp. In 1948 she lived at 105-34, 96th St., Ozone Park, N.Y.
Issue:- (by her first husband Mr. Doerlinger)
4/1. Richard Otto Doerlinger, born December 2/1924.
4/2. Arthur Joseph Doerlinger, born July 5/1927.
4/3. Leonard Roger Doerlinger, born November 27/1826.
4/4. Robert George Doerlinger, born November 22/1931.

2/3. Esther Jacobia, born December 50/1878, died November 14/1879.
2/4. Isabelle Whitney Jacobia, born March 22/1880, died March 24/1926.

She married Richard Aliger Kissam, born January 11/1872, died February 14/1919.
Issue:-
3/1. Marion Poole Kissam, born September 9/1909. She married on

June 30/1930, Alfred Voorhees Huff, of Blairstown, N.J., born November 8/1898, son of Charles Alfred Huff and grandson of Charles Wesley Huff, a Civil War veteran. During the second World war, Alfred travelled in British Guiana, Trinidad, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands, doing contracting work. In 1947 he was a real estate broker at 19 Albany Ave., Amityville, N.Y. where they lived. Issue: -
4/1. Alfred Voorhees Huff., Jr., born April 27/1931.
4/2. Harriet Jeanette Huff, born May 3/1932.
4/3. Charles Richard Huff, born November 25/1934.

3/2. Ruth Alma Kissam, born November 15/1911. she married on

June 16/1932, James Chester Stevenson, born June 17/1909, a Veterinary Doctor, who conducted a small animal hospital at 319 Union Ave., Westbury, L.I., where they lived in 1947. Ruth is active in the P.T.A., and the Girl scouts.
Issue:-
4/1. Christopher Remsen Stevenson, born March 4/1938.
4/2. Linta Belle Stevenson, born September 12/1939.

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3/3. Ethel Kissam, born March 4/1913. She married on September 15/1939,

Frank Howard Ketchman, born September 24/191. In the Second World War, he served two years in the U.S.Navy but not leave the USA In 1947 he was an auditor at the Garden City Bank, and they lived on White Rd. Mineola, L.I.
Issue:
4/1. Jeffrey Howard Ketchmam, born November 26/1942.
4/2. Russell Alan Ketchman born September 17/1946.

3/4. Daniel Redman Kissam. born January 12/1919. Before and during

the second World War he served in the U.S.Navy, in Pacific area, saw a lot of action but was not wounded. In 1947 he was with the Maritime Service in San Francisco. He married in July 1942, Mary Yanek or Yanak, of Mt Carmel, Pa., and in 1947 and in 1947 they lived at 708 West K Street, Benicia, California.
Issue:-
4/1. John Richard Kissam, born September 23/1944.

3/5. Herbert Jacobia, born August 31/1883. He married Bessie Eckart,

and in 1947 lived near Queensboro Hospital, Flushing, L.I.
Issue:-
4/1. William Jacobia.
4/2. Herbert Jacobia.
4/3. Clarence Jacobia.

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8E - MARY ANTOINETTE POOLE.

        The following is from family records, and from the Sources mentioned in subject 64.
        Mary Antoinette Poole was born April 17/1826, and died October 19/1875, buried in Flushing Cemetery1 L.I., with her husband. She was the sixth child of Samuel and Sarah (Cheesman) Poole, subject 8.
        She married at Christ Church, Manhasset, L.I., on August 10/1847, Jonathan Peck, a merchant in Long Island City in 1874, born August 27/1825, died December 5/1889, son of Jonathan (born at Greenwich Conn., January 26/1786, died at New York, September 19/1833) and Cornelia (Cornell) Peck. Jonathan was the grandson of Richard and Theodosia (Lockwood) Peck of Greenwich, a man of great sagacity and business enterprise. He was descended from William and his first wife Elizabeth (--) Peck, who cane to America in 1637 in the ship "Hector", with Governor Eaton, the Reverend John Davenport and others. The ship arrived at Boston from London on June 26 1637, the emigrants wishing to escape from the persecutions of Archbishop Laud, during the reign of King Charles I. From Boston, William, with his eldest son Jeremiah, removed to New Haven, where he was one of the founders of that colony in 1638. William's house and lot of one acre, was on ground now covered by the Connecticut Savings Bank, the Clark Building, and the Odeon Theater, fronting on Church St, towards Chapel St.
Issue:-
1/1. Eugene Cheesman Peck. Born September 17/1848, died August 19/1877.

He was not married.

1/2. Samuel Poole Peck, Born February 24/1851, killed June 11 or

16/1874, while backing his wagon up to a store door. He had his team by the head, when the pole struck him in the face, knocking him down, the horses tramping him to death.

1/3. Isabel Peck. Born at Flushing, L.I., May 1/1857, died at Scarsdale, NY.,

March 7/1933, buried in Flushing Cemetery. She married at Ravenswood, Astoria, N.Y., on April 27/1880, Isaac Edward Ditmars, an architect of Dutch descent, born at Clementsport, Nova Scotia, September 9/1850, died at Scarsdale, February 28/1934, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Ditmars - a distant relative) Ditmars. Edward and Elizabeth were United Empire Loyalists, who, after the revolution, fled to Nova Scotia to remain British subjects. Isaac and Isabel lived first at 22, Garfield Place, Brooklyn, then Ravenswood, and finally Scarsdale, N.Y.
Issue:
2/1. Harold Edward Ditmars, born at Hoboken, N.J,, January 25/1883,

died suddenly at Brooklyn, June 29/1952, buried in Flushing Cemetery with his wife. He graduated from Philips-Exeter, and from Harvard in 1906. From then until 1919 he was aipployca in architectural and engineering works in and near New York, He then joined the Northern Dock Co,, 57th St and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn as general pier superintendent: he retired in 1932, and since then has been secretary of the Holland Society of New York. He served during the first World War with the U.S. Shipping Board and was a corporal in Company F, 10th Regiment, Police Reserve. He married at Brooklyn, on April 30/1912, Gertrude Martense Vanderveer, born at Flatbush, October 26/1889, died suddenly at Brooklyn an April 14/1952, daughter of Edward Bennett and Helen Van Brunt (Prince) Vanderveer. They lived many years at 699 East 18th St., Brooklyn.
Issue:-
3/1. Edward Bennett Vanderveer Ditmars, born October 12/1913. He

Subject 8E P2 (89) 1951

served in the second World War as Boatswain on the U.S.M.S, "Benjamin Holt", of the U.S, Maritime Service. He married on April 19/1940, Hazel Elizabeth Baker, and in 1951 lived at Westport, Conn.
Issue:-
4/1. John Robert Ditmars, born at Norwalk, Conn., October 26/1941.
4/2. Edward Vanderveer Ditmars, born September 30/1945.

3/2. Marjorie Isabel Ditmars, born at Brooklyn, September 12/1922.

She was paralyzed from birth and in 1951 lived with her parents.

2/2. Marjorie Ditmars, born at Brooklyn, December 15/1889. She

married, 1st, on April 22/1913, Du Bois Beal of Hudson, N.Y., born January 29/1895, died February 1/1930, son of Charles Frederick Tiffany and Margaret (Du Bois) Beale, a lawyer in New York City: no issue. She married, 2nd, on March 16/1932, Pompeo Margherita Maresi, born at Brooklyn, August 20/1888, died August 10/1940, a lawyer of New York City: no issue. He was given his middle name after his godmother Queen Margherita of Italy. She married 3rd, at Chicago, on October 24/1944, Charles Yates Graysan, born at Luray, Virginia February 29/1884, son of William Edwin and Sarah Elizabeth (Roads) Grayson, a relative of Admiral Grayson, President Wilson's physician. Charles went to work when he was 12 years old: in 1914 he joined the Remington Typewriter Co., now Remington-Rand Corp., office equipment, with whom he remained all his business life, retired in 1946. They then bought a charming house at 111 Lowry St., Delray, Florida, where they lived in 1951: no issue. Charles Grayson had married, 1st, on August 4/1905, Catheryn Kinzer, born April 23/1885, died September 9/1917, by whom he had, 1st, Charles Yates Grayson, Jnr, born June 8/1906, who married at Toledo, Ohio, on April 2/1932, Mrs. Marguerite Ballentine: no issue. Charles Grayson, Sr., had married, 2nd, on October 12/1918, at Bronxville, N.Y., Marie Borsleman, born in Germany, June 5/1887, who came to America when 3 years old: they were divorced in 1944, by whom he had, 1st, Ruth Elizabeth Grayson, born December 23/1919, who married in September 1946, John Salva of Pittsburg, Pa,, by whom she had Linda Marie Salva, born August 26 1948.

1/4. Mary Antoinette Peck. Born 1860, died November 21 1946.

She married at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, on December 20/1883, Frank Poynton Lockitt, born October 3/1852, died at Suffern, N.Y., December 20/1921, buried in Flushing Cemetery. He was a commission merchant on the Produce Exchange, Bowling Green, N.Y. City. They later moved to Suffern, N.Y., where they lived the rest of their lives.
Issue:-
2/1. Frank Poynton Lockitt, born March 11/1888,- died July 24/1909,

buried in Flushing Cemetery. He was not married.

2/2. Kenneth Poole Lockitt, born March 2/1890, died March 13/1945.

He married at Providence, R.l., on April 11/1917, Marjorie Whritner, born at Black Lake, Quebec, Canada, August 9/1894, daughter of Harry Charles and Lily Eugene (Penhale) Whritner, who lived the last 20 years of their lives at Beatyestown, N.J. In 1951, Marjorie lived at 151 Washington Ave,, Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Issue:-
3/1.Robert Penhale Lockitt, born at Winsted, Conn,, December 7/1921,

a mechanical engineer: in 1951 was not married and lived with his mother.

3/2. Philip Poynton Lockitt, born at Nutley, N.Y., February 19/1925,

a teacher of mathematics: in 1951 not married: lived with mother.

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3/3. Patricia Lockitt, born at Nutley, N.J., August 9/1928. In 1951

she worked in a Bank: was not married and lived with her mother.

3/4. Cynthia Lockitt, born at Nutley, N.J., August 29/1931. In 1951

she was at college in Massachusetts - not married.

1/5. Chauncey Culver Peck. Born July 21/1865, died November 1/1883, in

Colorado, of tuberculosis. He was not married.

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12 – Capt JOHN ARMSTRONG

A few corrections have been added by A Maitland Nov 2012 from an original copy of the Dalrymples of Langlands (Scottish National Library). They are in italics.

    Captain John Armstrong married, 1st, on March 12th 1801, Macrae, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Major-General Stair Park Dalrymple, of Langlands (near Kilmarnock). The date of her birth is not known: she died in childbirth at Prestwick, in 1818, and was buried in Governor Macrae's private burial ground in Orangefield.
    Handwritten correction to original book in the NLS: 2 june 1814 (AM 11/2012)
    He married a second time, in December 1818, a Miss Ellen Kirk, whose people lived somewhere in Scotland: it is not known where she was buried. She died shortly after giving birth to her only son. It seems strange that Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangen did not mention this second marriage in his history of the Armstrongs. Her son John Armstrong, (subject 6) explains his lack of knowledge of his mother's people etc by the fact of his having been so early sent by his father to be taken care of by the Goodfellows (see subject 6), his cousins in Dublin.

In 1904, I (HAP) wrote blindly to a Mr. Shaw in Ayr, Scotland, who I had been assured by Uncle William Rufus Armstrong, still lived there and was a lawyer. My letter brought the following reply, from James Edward Shaw, County Buildings, Ayr, dated February, 1904:-

Dear Sir,

    My father died in May 1902, and I have received your letter of the 18th January. I have in my possession a book printed for private circulation, which contains a very interesting account of the Armstrongs of Cherry Valley. The book is a history of the Dalrymples of Langlands, and deals fully with their connections. There is a full account of the Armstrong family and particularly of Captain John Armstrong, who married Macrae Dalrymple, daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands. The account is long and the book is out of print. I shall have the information regarding the Armstrong copied for you. It contains an account of the family written in 1854 by Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan, Ireland. He claims descent from Johnny Armstrong the Scottish Border Chief. I hope the war will do you no harm (Russo-Jap). Yours truly, James C. Shaw.

The account reached me in August 1904, and reads as follows:-

    John Armstrong, who married General Dalrymple’s eldest daughter, Macrae, was the youngest son of the Rev. William Armstrong, a clergyman Killashandra in the County of Cavan, in Ireland. (See report under Subject 24). At the age of 15 or 16 he went to live with his brother William, who was about 20 years his senior, and was then a merchant in London. According to a sketch of his life, drawn up in 1853 by his nephew, Dr. Wm. Armstrong of Rathangan, near Kildare (son of Thomas Armstrong), he was a very wild boy, always getting into scrapes, and at last had some foolish quarrel about a lady with another youth. They fought a duel and fired four shots each, but fortunately neither was wounded. This appears to have given him a taste for fighting, as he soon afterwards became a midshipman in the same ship and at the same time as our late sovereign, William the Fourth. (Prince William Henry commenced his naval career as a midshipman under Capt. Digby, in the "Royal George" of 98 guns in the year 1779). Life in a cockpit did not suit him, so he left the Navy, after having served a year or two: but having acquired a knowledge of navigation, his brother William appointed him Captain and supercargo of one of his West Indiamen. In her he performed but two voyages, being quite sick from the want of excitement. His brother quarrelled with him in consequence, and he was turned penniless upon the world. At that time the War in India with Hyder and Tippoo excited great interest, and he decided on joining the British Army, and applied to the recruiting officer of the 52nd

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Regiment to enlist him, who, surprised at a well dressed gentlemanly lad taking such a step, and supposing it the effect of some fit of anger or temporary difficulty, made him a present of a guinea, and told him he would not enlist him unless he should continue of the same mind for a week. At the end of a week, he came back, was enlisted, and joined the depot at Chatham. In a few days the Sergeant told him it was his turn to cook. He answered "I can't cook, I never saw a dish cooked in my life". A soldier who was present said "I will cook for you if you will write a letter for me". Whilst he was writing it, the Commanding Officer of the detachment came behind him, read it, and was surprised, for he had an extraordinary talent for letter writing. He at once marked him for promotion, and he was made a non-commissioned officer, as soon as he was drilled and made acquainted with his duties. In a short time the detachment went to India, and he served there about 15 years. Dr. Armstrong continues "I know nothing of his campaigns, for he never boasted, except that I read the memorial he sent to the Governor of Nova Scotia, when applying for the 500 acres of land, which were granted to him in that colony in which he stated that he had been at 15 sieges and four general engagements, led four forlorn hopes, and was three times wounded". (Captain Armstrong when at Halifax with his regiment in 1808 or thereabouts, had arranged to start on a Monday morning with a party of soldiers to take possession of this piece of land, which was situated at Picton: but on the Saturday the route came, and he left America without ever having seen his property. It was afterwards given by his eldest son, Charles William Armstrong, to Major Hamilton, who was the reputed son of Hamilton Rowan, the Irish Rebel, and who married "Bonny Peggy Bowie", sister of Dr. Bowie, for many years a well known practitioner at Bath. This memorial, however, probably referred only to Mr. Armstrong's services as a commissioned officer. While he was yet in the ranks of the 52nd he was present at the siege of Seringapatem in 1792 and was doubtless with his regiment throughout the whole war with Tippoo, of which some mention has already been made and in which, according to Stewart's "sketches of the Highlanders" the East India Company captured 70 forts or fortified places and 300 pieces and 300 pieces of cannon. The 52nd also formed part of the force employed in the expedition against Ceylon fitted out by Lord Hobart, the Governor of Madras, and commanded by General James Stewart in 1795. A fort was taken back on the coast next the Continent.
The troops then embarked to sail round to the principal forts and towns at the opposite side of the island, leaving their sick and wounded behind, among whom was Mr. Armstrong. Next day he felt well enough to join his regiment, and set out with a native servant to cross the island on foot, taking a few days provision with him.
They had to march through the jungle, avoiding the natives, subjects of the inhuman King of Kandy, and at night to sleep alternately close to fires made to scare off the tigers, elephants and other wild beasts. On the third day the native servants broke down, and was never heard of after. Dr. Armstrong proceeded and had the pleasure to receive the troops that went by water on their landing, to their great astonishment. (Mr. Armstrong wrote an interesting account of this journey, but it does not appear to have been printed, and the manuscript has been lost). The next events of importance in Mr. Armstrong's life are thus recorded in the "London Gazette"- "War Office, Feb 28/1797 - 71st regiment of Foot. Sergeant Major John Armstrong to be Ensign, vice Armsby, promoted in the 75th Foot." "War Office, 5/1797 -71st Regiment. To be Lieutenant-Ensign John Armstrong, from the 52nd Foot, by purchase, vice Bowles, who retires". Dr. Armstrong's narrative continues as follows:- Soon after Dr. Armstrong's joining that Corps (the 71st), a superb dinner was given to Colonel Dalrymple

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by his brother officers, Mr. Armstrong being the only exception. Next day the Colonel sent for him and asked his reason: his answer was their acquaintances was but short, and he had no money to spare. The Colonel then told him he should never receive an indulgence from him while he held command to which he answered that he did not look for any, and hoped to perform his duty so that he should not be in any man's power. The Colonel was an enthusiast in his profession and soon observed what an excellent officer he was, but paid him no compliments until the adjutancy of the regiment became vacant, when he offered it to him. His answer was "I must decline accepting it, as if you were to speak to me as I have heard you do to the late adjutant I should act so as to forget my commission". To this the Colonel replied "If you will accept this adjutancy I promise never to use such language to you, or if I inadvertently do so, I shall take no notice of it". On this promise he became adjutant.
     (This was probably an acting appointment, for Mr. Armstrong did not become adjutant of the regiment until November 29th, 1800, less than four months before his marriage, which took place on the 12th March 1801, and after Colonel Dalrymple had been made a Brigadier-General. The following is the official announcement which appeared in the "Gazette" of March 21/1801:- "71st Foot: Lieutenant John Armstrong to be Adjutant without purchase, vice Falconer, resigned. Dated November 29th, 1800)."
   The regiment was soon afterwards ordered to Scotland, and the Colonel went to his estate, Langlands. There he found himself a stranger, even to his wife and three daughters, and partly from esteem and partly to have someone to talk to about military matters he invited Mr. Armstrong to spend a month with him. The invitation was accepted reluctantly, for I have often heard him say he had been so long out of female society, that he would rather face a Frenchman with a drawn sword than enter a drawing room where there were ladies, and as to small talk, it was a foreign language to him. The Colonel's daughters were amused by the extreme diffidence of the brave soldier, and by their kindness and good nature soon made him feel at ease, and, to their father's great surprise, a day or two before his leave expired, he proposed for the eldest. The Colonel asked him, had he any private fortune? The answer was "Not a guinea nor do I owe a guinea". That, said the Colonel is the answer I expected, and I will not give my daughter to a subaltern, who has nothing but his commission, though there is no man of whom I have a higher opinion. Mr. Armstrong then said "Sir, we paid you the compliment to ask your consent, but our minds are made up, we are both of age, and since we are not so fortunate as to obtain it, we will marry without. The Colonel on reflecting, thought it best under the circumstances to consent, and they were married.
    In about a year after, General Dalrymple purchased a Company for his son-in-law in the 64th Regiment, then stationed at St. Croix in the West Indies. (His departure in this recorded in Mrs. Armstrong's diary; "My dear Armstrong left this for St. Kitts in the West Indies, the 8th day of February, and sailed from Greenock on the 2nd March, 1803. May the God of Heaven bless and protect him, and send him safe home to our little one and M.A.). On joining the regiment, Colonel, afterwards Sir Edward Pakenham, the Commanding Officer, received him very coolly. This was owing to his having had a quarrel with Captain Armstrong's brother William, who was then an extensive planter, and one of the most influential persons on the island. But the Colonel soon perceived what an acquisition he was, and when the regiment was ordered to St. Lucia, was glad to avail himself of his advice in taking the island, as he happened to be the only man in the regiment who had ever seen a shot fired. In storming the fort, Col. Pakenham was dangerously wounded in the neck, and a great many more were killed and wounded. This caused panic, and would have ended

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in defeat, except that Captain Armstrong rallied the regiment and called on the Irishmen to revenge their Colonel. The fort was taken and the Colonel soon afterwards was ever Captain Armstrong's best friend.
    When Col. Pakenham recovered from his wounds, he was appointed to the command of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and finding the situation of Paymaster vacant, offered it to Captain Armstrong, who, as a father and husband thought it his duty to sell his Company (in February 1806 for £1,100) and accept it, and to his patron's surprise, proved himself at once an expert man of business and an excellent paymaster. He soon became the friend and advisor of every officer of the regiment who deserved it, and as the subalterns were any of them very young, and many of them of noble families, he was of great service to them and became a universal favorite.
    He accompanied the First Battalion to Copenhagen, Nova Scotia, Martinique, Spain, Portugal etc. Mrs. Armstrong notes the departure to Nova Scotia as follows: My dearest Armstrong sailed for Halifax the 17th May 1808. God Bless him, and send him soon home to his wife and dear little ones." He finally retired from the army in 1812, and became agent to Sir Edward Pakenham, and an extensive farmer on his estate, Langford Lodge, in the County of Antrim, on the borders of Lock Neagh. Capt. Armstrong resided at Cherry Valley, near the village of Crumlin). "I visited him in 1816 and found his was considered a model farm. He had introduced all new improvements and machines, both there and in his garden and offices and even in his poultry yard and kitchen. He was considered so good an agent that he was offered more agencies, but refused to accept them. He was, besides, a most active magistrate and grand juror. In fact he had energy and talent enough to get through more business than any man I ever knew, and whatever he undertook, he executed perfectly and in society he was remarkably cheerful, and enjoyed it as much as if he had nothing on his mind."
     Immediately after retiring from the army and becoming Pakenham's agent, he was obliged to devote consider able time and attention to the state of his deceased father-in-law's affairs, (General Dalrymple), which were much involved in consequence of the Tanjore speculations. A meeting of the General's creditors had been held on May 15th, 1811, the result of which was that the estate of Langlands was conveyed to Mr. Wilson, as a trustee for all parties concerned, and a deed of compromise, to which the General's sister, Miss Sarah Park, was a party, was entered into in the month of March 1813, under which the sum of £3000 was paid to Mr. Colt, as a representative of one of the principal creditors.
    An arrangement was also entered into with the East India Company, by which they agreed to advance certain sums for maintenance of Mrs. Dalrymple, and her daughters, on the security of the money due from the Rajah of Tanjore, and a bond executed by Mrs. Dalrymple and Capt. Armstrong on the 22^nd August 1812.
    On the 22nd July 1813, Langlands was formally conveyed to Capt. Armstrong, and on the following day he granted a charitable bond over the property for £2000 in favour of Captain Donald Harrow, of Leamington Priors, in Warwickshire. This £2000 is believed to have been borrowed early in the year on the understanding that security was to be given on the Langlands estate, as soon as Capt. Armstrong got a proper conveyance of it, and to have formed part of the £300 paid to Mr. Colt, pursuant to the Deed of Compromise.
     Up to about the time when this arrangement was made, Capt. Armstrong's family appears to have resided with Mrs. Dalrymple at Langlands, but on the 14th April 1813, the whole family, then consisting of Mrs. Dalrymple, her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Isabella Dalrymple, Capt. Armstrong's four children, General Dalrymple's sister, Miss Peggy Park, left Langlands, and after spending some months on their way, arrived at Cherry Valley on the 6th August 1813.

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Soon afterwards it was found not only expedient but necessary to sell the Langlands property. It had previously (in 1806) been valued at from £16,000 to £20,000, the rental being about £500 a year, but having been for some years neglected, the houses having become older and disrepair, and the value of the land much decreased, it was sold August 20th/1817 to Mr. Dunlop, for £13,500, a sum greatly under what it is worth now, as a considerable part of the new town of Kilmarnock, has since that time been built upon the property, and the site of the old dwelling house is now occupied by buildings now belonging to the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Station.
    In 1818 Mrs Dalrymple died, and on the 31st October that year a bond was granted by Capt. Armstrong and Capt. Donald Harrow to the East India Co. for the repayment of such sums as the Company should advance to the said John Armstrong for the support of the daughter, sisters, and grandchildren of Major-General Stair Park Dalrymple, pending the consideration of the claim of the said Major-General Dalrymple, or his representatives, against the Rajah of Tanjore.
    In June 1830, Capt. Armstrong went to London, and on his way back to Ireland, paid a visit to his old friend Capt. Donald Harrow at Leamington. Here he was attacked by a fit of the gout, and after an illness of three weeks, died on the 8th August 1830 in the 68th year of his age. He left a Will dated 15 May 1830 by which he appointed David Shaw, Alexander Mackay, and Edward Pakenham Armstrong the executors thereof, and which was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 5 Nov. 1832.
    The following notices of his death appeared in the newspapers of the day. "At Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, on the 8th instant in the 68th year of his age, John Armstrong Esquire, J.P. of Cherry Valley, Crumlin, County Antrim Ireland . Capt. Armstrong at an early period of his life, served on board the same vessel with his present Majesty, and afterwards in the 52nd, 71st, 64th and 7th Regiments on Infantry."
Another notice read:
"Died in Portland Street, in this place, on Sunday last, Captain John Armstrong of Cherry Valley, leaving two sons and two daughters, to lament the loss of a brave soldier, a good father, a kind and constant friend, and a sincere Christian. In his younger days Capt. Armstrong had the honour of serving on board the same ship with his present Majesty. He afterwards served in the 52nd, 71st, 64th, and 7th regiments of Infantry, both in the East and West Indies, and in Africa and in America, and his uniform display of very noble quality that could adorn the soldier and the man, gained him the love of his brother officers, and the respect and attachment of his men. Capt. Armstrong was also a magistrate of the County of Antrim for many years. In his discharge of the arduous duties of that office he acquired and preserved the esteem of all parties of every persuasion, by happily uniting the firmness and impartiality of the Magistrates with the judicious advice and conciliatory manners of the friendly mediator, thus frequently preventing that vexatious and petty liquidation by which trifling and temporary quarrels are too often magnified and perpetuated into irreconcilable feuds. The writer of this (probably Capt. Donald Harrow) had the happiness of Capt. Armstrong's acquaintance for six and thirty years: and his affliction at the loss of an esteemed friend is alleviated by the consoling reflection that, during an illness of three weeks, everything that the first medical talent could suggest, and all that the assiduous attentions of attached friends could minister was none to soothe and mitigate the suffering of a sick bed. On Saturday the deceased received the consolation of religion from the respected Vicar of Leamington, and his last hours were distinguished by an expression of cheerful resignation and a frequent and grateful acknowledgment of the

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kind enquiries and attentions of his acquaintances. The remains of Captain Armstrong were interred in the churchyard of the Parish on Wednesday.
   The funeral cavalcade, conducted by Messrs Woodhouse and Hadden (of this place), moved in the following order:
Rev R. Downes, Vicar          D’Arcy boulton esq
Mr Treadgold                  Mr Edw Wodhouse
Pall bearers
Mr George Smith         Mr John Hadden
Mr James Bird           Mr William Smith
Mr John Russell         Mr Thomas Court
Chief Mourner
Edward Armstrong esq
Re Mr Ward              capt Harrow
Mr Jas Stanley Chirchwardens Mr Rich Robbins
(inserted by AM from original 11/2012)
The following inscriptions on his monument in the churchyard at Leamington:-"In memory of Captain John Armstrong, late of Cherry Valley, in the County of Antrim, Ireland, 1830."
"In memory of William Armstrong, formerly of the Island of St. Croix, West Indies, 1830. This memorial was erected by the children of Captain John Armstrong, in commemoration of their lamented Father and Uncle, whose bodies are interred herein." "Here rest the mortal remains of Donald Harrow, formerly Paymaster of the 2nd Battalion, 71^st Regiment of Foot, who lived in the hearts of a numerous circle of friends, and died shrouded by their grief, Jan 6/1833, aged 70 years."

The Honourable H.R. Pakenham, afterwards Sir Hercules Pakenham, who had succeeded to the estate of Langford Lodge on the death of his brother, Sir Edward Pakenham, sent the following reply to Capt. Harrow's letter announcing the death of his friend:- Langford Lodge, Aug. 13th, 1830. Sir Your letter of the 10th instant has given me more pain and grief than I can attempt to express. My excellent, upright, intelligent friend, my companion in arms, my assistant in peace, was such a comfort to me and such a blessing to this district, that his loss is universally deplored by all. His family have been so astounded by the blow, that for some time they cannot look steadily around them. I trust that you may continue to them the friendship and advice their beloved father so highly prized. I know our departed friend was a sincere Christian, that he looked for salvation through our Blessed Saviour, and that in God's time we shall meet covered with the same robe of righteousness, to part no more. I remain, Sir, with the highest respect, Most truly yours,   H.R.P.

         At a numerous meeting of the tenantry of the Hon. Col. Pakenham, held in Mrs. Henderson's Dec 31/1831, Rev. W. Campbell, Chairman, the following address was agreed upon and presented to Col. Pakenham:- Sir, being anxious to erect a monument with a suitable inscription to the memory of the late Capt. Armstrong, with great impartiality and; much mildness among us, and as we believe, with strict fidelity to your interest, we beg your sanction so to do. We embrace this opportunity of expressing to you the deep sense of gratitude which we feel for the many comforts our forefathers and we, have enjoyed under your honourable and considerate landlord, who permitted him to abate the high price of our farms at which many of them were let during the French War, to a more moderate rate. We are happy in living under you, and we trust that you will be long preserved with the most lengthened life. R. Campbell, Chairman.

His reply was as follows:-
Dear Sir:-                   Langford Lodge, Dec 31/1831

In reply to the address which you have this day communicated to me , I beg to inform my esteemed tenantry that I feel the utmost gratification in hearing they are about to erect a testimonial of respect to our departed friend, Captain Armstrong. My acquaintance with him was of long standing, and under all circumstances, I ever found his conduct marked by integrity, intelligence, and good feeling. As to myself, my object has ever been to merit the esteem and confidence of those with whom I am connected by the interest of property. A considerable regard to their well being is, I am convinced on my part, the best worldly policy, and, alive to the responsibility of the station I hold, I trust I may have reason to merit the support of a self approving conscience when called upon to give an

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account of my stewardship. I sincerely hope that my tenantry may continue in that same respectable course by which they have been so much distinguished, and that our district may never be involved in the mischief and misery by which so many parts of the Kingdom have been afflicted. With the most sincere wishes for their welfare, I remain, Sir, Most truly yours
H. R. Pakenham.

The monument referred to in the foregoing address was erected at the entrance to Gartree Church from The main road.

(Addition by H.A. Poole - Today July, 25th 1905, when I visited this church I read the inscription on an ornamental gate at the entrance from the road. "Erected by the Spontaneous and Voluntary Contributions of a Grateful people, to the memory of John Armstrong, Captain of the 7th Fusiliers, the late truly respected agent of the Hon. Hercules Pakenham, who, while in that office, discharged the Duty thereof, with great impartiality and much mildness among the tenantry, and with the strictest fidelity to the landlord. Obiit August 8th, 1830.
Aetatis68. Bred to arms and conversant in Camps, it could not be expected that he would have understood or regarded with interest, the toils and difficulties of farmers. But with these, he soon rendered himself acquainted with the sanction of the Landlord, (who has on all occasions identified his interests with those of his tenantry) lowered the high rate of rent laid on their farms during the French War, to one more proportionate to the produce of the land in peaceful times."

Issue:- (by his first wife)
1/1. Glencairn Dalrymple Armstrong . Born May 12/1802,

died November 17/1868. She married on November 1/1826, David Shaw of Ayr, Scotland, born November 5/1788, died May 1902, at the remarkable age of 114 years: David Shaw was writer to the Signet in Ayr, Keeper of the Peculiar Register of Sassines for In County of Ayr, Bailiary of Kyle, Carrick and Cunningham, till the discontinuance at that office on September 30/1869, pursuant to the provisions of The Lands Register (Scotland) Act of 1868, and Clerk to the Commissioners of assessed taxes, Justices and County Prison Boards, admitted a Writer to the Signet in 1812[vi].
Issue:-
2/1. John Shaw, born September 5/1827, an attorney of the High Court

of Madras. He married Sophia Alicia Byam, second daughter of Captain John Houlton Gunthorpe, of the Madras Horse Artillery.
Issue:-
3/1. David James Shaw.
3/2. Margaret Glencairn Dalrymple Shaw.
3/3. John Byam Diston Shaw.

2/2. Charles George Shaw, born November 3/1830. He was a solicitor in

Ayr, and Clerk to the Commissioners of assessed taxes, Justice of the Peace, County Prison Board, County Police Commission, District Lunacy Board: he married Flora Campbell, daughter of William Whiteside, M.D. of Ayr. (prob the one who died 1902, not his father David).
Issue:-
3/1. David William Shaw.
3/2. Patrick John Shaw.
3/3. Charles Alexander Shaw.
3/4. Flora Glencairn Whiteside Shaw.
3/5. Elizabeth Dalrymple Shaw.
3/6. James Edward Shaw.

(This is The man who sent me the above history of John Armstrong. I, (H.A.P.) visited him on July 18/1905 at his residence, Martnaham lodge, near Ayr).

3/7. Philip Armstrong Shaw.

2/3. David Shaw. Born June 7/1832, died April 7/1834.
2/4. Elizabeth Dalrymple Shaw, born June 20/1835, died July 6/1851.

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2/5. Edward William Shaw. Born July 24/1837, a Captain in the Madras Staff

Corps. He married Jane Isabella, daughter of John Houldsworth of Cranstoun Hill.
Issue:-
3/1. Hellen Dalrymple Shaw.

2/6. Reverend Glencairn Alexander Shaw, born January 17/1840.

He was Vicar of Sharfleet in the Isle of White.

2/7. Carolina Anna Shaw, born February 6/1840.
2/8. Barbara Jane Shaw.

1/2. Charles William Armstrong. Born May 18/1805, died February 8/1858.

succeeded his father as agent to Sir Hercules Pakenham and to the house and farm of Cherry Valley, which was held upon a renewable lease for three lives. He was also agent to Sir Hercules's two sons, Lt Colonel Edward Pakenham, of the Grenadier Guards, who succeeded to the estate of Langford Lodge on the death at his father in 1850, and was killed at the Battle of Inkerman, on November 5/1854: and the Revered Arthur Pakenham who succeeded his brother. He married on September 4/1844, Louise Isabelle, daughter at Richard Boyle Bagley, by Alicia, daughter of Richard, 2nd Baron Castlemain, but he died without issue on February 7/1858. The following notice of his funeral appeared in a local paper:-
"On Tuesday last the mortal remains of this kind hearted agent and popular magistrate was conveyed from Cherry Valley to Gartree Burying Ground. Although the distance was nearly two miles, the tenants on the estate intimated to the friends of the deceased, their desire to carry the bier. This was at once acceeded to and 48 were selected for the purpose. They walked two and two behind the coffin, and in turn, eight by eight, they performed the duty allotted to them. After these came the servants belonging to Cherry Valley and Langford Lodge, then the carriages of the friends containing the friends the deceased: about 40 carriages followed in order. An immense number of friends from a distance, as well as the agriculturialists of the neighbourhood, on horse and on foot paid the last respect to the memory of the deceased.
Having arrived at Gartree, the remains were deposited in a grave adjoining the vault of the Pakenham family. The solemn service of the Church of England was read by the Reverend Mr Roe, incumbent of Gartree, and the Rev CJ Smyth of Glenavy. Rarely has there been witnessed such a feeling of sorrow as was evinced by the numerous servants present.
The body was afterwards removed to Glenavy and buried beside Mr Armstrong`s grandmother, Mrs Glencairn Dalrymple who died August 1816. Mrs Louise Isabella Armstrong, the wife of Charles William Armstrong, married again, secondly: on February 17/1863, Robin Alexander of the. Bengal Civil Service, and had children whose names are unknown.

1/3. Anna Maria Armstrong. Born March 28/1807. She married on March 21/1833,

William Dysart Smith, proprietor of a large distillery and of several Mills in County Antrim, Ireland, where they lived.

1/4. Edward Pakenham Armstrong. Born December 31/1808. Never married,

He was Vicar of Skellingthorpe, Leicester and, and succeeded on the death at his brother to the barren honour of representing Dalrymple of Langlands, the last member of the family now bearing the name of Dalrymple being Miss Margaret Dalrymple, of Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham, the third daughter of Captain Charles Dalrymple of Orangefield.
He died at Cheltenham, 16 june 1879, aged 75 (had addition to the original, 11/2012)

Issue: (by his second wife)
1/5. John Armstrong,. Born December 21/1820 at Cherry Valley, County Antrim,

Ireland, died September 24/1890 at Chicago, Illinois. He

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married on January 20/1840, 1st, Eleanor: Isabella Wilson, born August 1817, died April 28/1848 in Ireland, daughter of Charles and Eleanor Isabella (Mullarkey) Wilson. He married 2nd, Henrietta Wilson, born January 6/1826, died April 16/1914 in Chicago, the youngest sister of his first wife: they were married in Ireland. See subject 6: for issue and further particulars.

The end of the John Armstrong Genealogy.

In 1905, I, (Herbert Armstrong Poole), went on a trip around the world and while in the British Isles, went up to Ayr to visit James Edward Shaw, who had sent me the long history of the Armstrongs. The following are extracts from the letters I wrote home to Yokohama, telling of this visit:
Glasgow, July 22/1905: I took the 12.30 train for Ayr, an hour's ride. I located Mr Shaw's office but found it closed and that be lived about 6 miles out of town at a place called Martnaham Lodge. I drove out in a taxi in about 40 minutes over hill and dale to a small Loch on the further side of which was a big forest-like clump of trees, wherein his place is situated. Down a long driveway, through a wild garden to a two storied stone house on the shore, with peacocks and other birds walking around. I sent my card in to Mrs Shaw as the maid told me Mr Shaw was away in Camp on the other side of Ayr at Irvin. I did not know whether he had told his wife about my coming, but she said when I met her that her husband had told her a cousin of his might turn up. I didn't think I was a close enough relative to be called a cousin. She was pretty and very nice about 30 years old, and showed me round the place. It is not at all well kept, all unshaven and wild, but she explained they had only had it a year and were gradually fixing it up. They have just built an addition to the old house. My taxi driver told no it was a howling wilderness when they got it: they have the fishing rights on the loch too, which is entirely disregarded by the frequent poachers. She showed me many old family portraits which did not interest me much, as they were all of Shaws & Dalrymples. She said David Shaw had a great many of the old family pictures, so I am sorry I shall not be able to see him. She thought I was Scotch and was surprised to find I was an American, and more surprised to find I had been in Japan for so many years. She said Mr Shaw would be home next day, and asked me to lunch at that time, which I accepted. He has the rank of Colonel in the Volunteers. I went back to Ayr for the night and drove out again next morning in a spanking dogcart, the driver of which was very Scotch and very voluble, and told me of all the notables in the place, of which David Shaw is the principal. His place is out at Dumfries and is part of the Bute estate, he being Agent of the Marquis of Bute, living there six months of the year in the discharge of his duties. The Shaws still keep up their old established law firm, the reputation of which is the highest. James Shaw later told me that Martnaham Lodge is not his own, but part of the Marquis of Ailsa's estate, whose affairs are in his keeping. I arrived at Martnaham Lodge at 1 P.M. and met Mrs Shaw out walking with her baby in a pram, and her nurse. Mr Shaw had not yet arrived from Camp, but just as we reached the house, he drove up in his motor. Mr Shaw was surprised to learn who I was, and said he was very glad I had taken the trouble to come out and see them. He is about 32, tall and broad, light haired, yellow mustache, and very sunburned from his week's soldiering. After lunch we had a talk about cause of the dispute between our grandfather and the knowledge about the cause of the dispute between our grandfather and

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the latter's brother before he emigrated to the United States. He says that Cherry Valley is still intact, so I shall certainly go there from Belfast. I drove back to Ayr by a roundabout way, past the Burns cottage and the banks of the "Bonny Doon", past many lodges and manors of Lord and Marquis so-and-so. Belfast, July 26/1905. I came across the Irish Channel from Ardrossan by the fast ferry steamer "Adder", and this morning caught the 8.50 A.M. Motor Coach for Crumlin, about 1½ hours distant. The country was very pretty as we went along, much more wooded than in England. The houses are generally only thatched huts, nice and clean and whitewashed. At Crumlin I asked the first man I met on the street if he knew where Cherry Valley was. Oh yes, he said, its about a mile down the road and belongs to a Mr McConnell. I walked there, along lovely lanes, a jolly long mile too, but at last got to the gates. I at least knew who to expect inside, so marched boldly in: its a tremendous place with a long driveway. The house looked so pretty but smaller than I had imagined, two-storied with cement walls, finished like stone, and with white windows and green blinds. The trees on the lane are wonderfully old, with signs of having been carefully trimmed for many years. The tennis court to one side looked so well kept and inviting, and two red headed girls of about 16, were just putting up the net. I of course came in for a considerable stare, but walked up to the door and rang the bell. Soon one of the girls came over and let me in: I explained why I had come and she welcomed me with open arms and went to fetch her elder sister, also red headed, about 25. She told us her father, Mr McConnell, was in Dublin, attending a meeting of the Irish Land Commission, of which he is a member. She said she knew well about the Armstrongs, and that her grandfather had bought the place when it was sold by the executors of Captain Armstrong's Will. Miss McConnell was most kind and showed all over the place, first over the building, which had been much changed in recent years.
She pointed out the rooms which had not been changed, such as the oak panelled dining room, and the little room used by Captain Armstrong as his study. Then outside, she showed me all the old buildings now used mostly as stables, and the original old yard surrounded by a stone wall to keep the cattle out. There is a curious old tower about 20 feet high at one angle at the wall, with a bell on top which used to be rung at lunch time to call the hands in; many orchards also. The arrangement of the grounds and buildings is very like Grandfather Armstrong's farm at Arcola, Ill, and I imagine he tried to follow the Cherry Valley plan when he built it. The place has about 200 acres. There seem to be about three McConnell girls and one son now at the Edinburgh University. What Mcconnell does, I don't know, probably a man of leisure. I took a few photos of the place, but there are too many trees about, and the ground slopes down from the house, so the house will look dwarfed in the photos. The house is very low anyway the ground floor being the same level as the ground outside. They insisted on my having some coffee and cake to which I succumbed rather easily. I was sorry to miss Mr McConnel as I could probably have got much information from him. I left about 11.30 and walked on further to Langford Lodge, the Pakenham's place, about a mile further, right on the shore of Loch Neagh. As the ground slopes gradually from Cherry Valley to the Loch, you can see the Pakenham place from it. Loch Neagh is an immense body of water and Langford Lodge occupies one whole promontory - about 3000 acres. I had to walk all the way as there was no conveyance and it was a hot walk. The country here is very sparsely settled, but the fields are all cultivated and growing something or other. I came at last to

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the Lodge gate and found the Cemetery was another mile farther, way round on the other side at the estate. I also found the Pakenhams were home for the summer with a big house party, so didn't dare go in, especially as it was half a mile from the gate to the house. I found the cemetery, a lovely spot, with a nice little church built for the Pakenham's own use.
The gate is a handsome stone arched gate, and happening to look up, saw Captain Armstrong's name staring me in the face. It proved to be the gate erected by the tenentry to him, as their kind and helpful master. I copied out the inscription for our "tree", and got a good photo of the gate and church. The graveyard doesn't show: I routed out the sexton's wife who fetched the keys and let me in. It is private ground and named Gartree. Most of those buried there are Pakenhams their retainers and servants: none refereed to our family. The Pakenham's vault is under the Church and they don't have any door and steps leading down to it; but they wall it in each time and fill in the earth, so that to open it is a three day job. The most recent addition has quite a horrible history. It was the youngest Pakenham, about 28 who served in the Boer War: he was wounded and has been queer ever since. Early this year in married an English girl named Markham, and three days later, while here on honeymoon, committed suicide by drowning himself in the loch. I remember now, seeing the notice of this in the London papers when I first arrived. It took me an hour's fast walking get back to the station, and caught the 1.45 P.M. to Glenavy, the next station to Crumlin, as I had to see the graveyard where I knew several Armstrongs were buried. I found the church on the banks of a little river, and the Armstrong enclosure, with head stones of Macrae Dalrymple and her eldest son Charles Armstrong. But no stone of the second wife Ellen Kirk. I found there, too, the graves of Ann Jane Dickson and her husband John, the mother and father of Mrs Goodfellow, with whom Grandpa lived first when he was being educated. They were the school teachers in Cherry Valley. This Ann Jane Dickson was the daughter of William Haughton, Mother's direct ancestor on her maternal side. I suppose it was through them that Grandpa met the Wilsons, as Charles Wilson married the other daughter. Glenavy is even smaller than Crumlin: as I had to spend another night in Belfast I decided to return there via Antrim instead of via Lismore, as on my way out in the morning. You see, Cherry Valley is on a branch line connecting the north and south lines out of Belfast. I got to Antrim and though I might as well look it the churchyard there: I did so and found a big church and graveyard, and happened on a whole nest of Kirks. So I fetched the sexton and asked him about these graves: none bore the name of Ellen. Antrim was the home of the Kirks, and as it was barely eight miles from Cherry Valley, I thought I was on the right track. The sexton told me that the Kirks were still going strong, and that the present oldest Kirk living was the Magistrate of Antrim. I happened to run into him on coming out of the church: the sexton introduced me. He is a big grey haired and bearded man, florid and well fed. I explained what I wanted so he brightened up and began to think: he said this was taking him back to his grandfather's time, but he had never heard of any one of his family marrying one of the Cherry Valley Armstrongs. He also said that Ellen was not a family name of theirs, and that she was probably of some other Irish family of that name. However, I then remembered that Grandpa said his mother`s family lived somewhere in Scotland. The old man was interested to hear I came from Japan and asked me to stay to dinner, but I had to catch the 7 p.m. train back to Belfast. His son is in South Africa so he said he always thought a lot of anyone who cane from a foreign country. The old chap is over 60 and looks like pictures of Abraham Lincoln.

For the continuation of Bert's trip to Longford and Holly Park, see under Charles Wilson

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The following is a copy of a letter from JH Connell, written to me from Cherry Valley, Crumlin, date March 3 1906:
Your letter from Tokyo dated January 8/1906, I duly received, and my daughter received the photo of this house, also the Japanese souvenir, which is very beautiful, and for which she thanks you. I was exceedingly sorry at missing you when you were here last summer and when I got home from my official work about a week later, I wrote to you to the London address given, which at the time I thought meager, but it never reached you, as it was returned six weeks or two months later. Relative to our predecessors, my father purchased Cherry Valley from the Reverend Edward Armstrong in November 1838, who was I think the youngest son of Captain Armstrong, but I regret that I do not know anything of Captain Armstrong, or his wife Ellen Kirk. I have been making enquiries from some old people in the neighbourhood, but they can give me no reliable information about either. From some old assignments I have, I think the Armstrongs came from West Meath, but I have not a thread of evidence of where Miss Kirk came from, or who she was. If you can tell me from what county she came from, I will try to find something out about her. ??? many, for your kind invitation to Japan – nothing would please me better, but as I have a rather good appointment from the Government, and as my vacation is too short, I fear there is little chance of my being able to visit your adopted and grand country. Well may you be proud at the prowess at arms of the Japanese people: they have astonished the world and are a worthy ally of dear old England.
Should you revisit our shores in days to come, I shall be very pleased to put you up for a while, and show you around where your forefathers lived, one of whom my father constantly spoke of in the highest terms, I mean the Rev Edward Armstrong, from whom he bought the property, and whom be knew.
Believe me, Yours truly,
J.H.Connell.

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24 - REVEREND WILLIAM ARMSTRONG

        The following information was sent to me on February 18/1904, by James E. Shaw, County Buildings, Ayr, Scotland, copied from a book in his possession entitled "The History of the Dalrymples of Langlands", in which there is a full account of the Armstrongs of Cherry Valley, near Belfast, Ireland, and particularly of Captain John Armstrong who married Macrae Dalrymple, eldest daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands. This account was written in 1854 by Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan, Ireland, who was the second son of Thomas Armstrong, the fourth son of the above Reverend William Armstrong, see page 5. I have amplified this with further information given me by Douglas Leffingwell of Bar Harbor Maine, likewise a descendant of Thomas Armstrong - see page 9.
        The Reverend William Armstrong is said to have been born about 1720, and to have died in 1808. He was a clergyman at Killashandra, County Cavan, Ireland, and was said to have come from County Sligo.
     The name of his first wife was Jane Irwin, of a very respectable family: she was said to have had a large mouth and thick lips.
     He married a second time at an advanced age, but the name of this second wife is not known.

Issue:- (by his first wife Jane Irwin)
1. William Armstrong. Born at Killashandra about 1752, died about 1829

at Cheltenham or Leamington, England. The name of his wife is not known. Further details about William will be found on this page below.

2.James Armstrong. Dates of birth and death unknown.

Further details about James will be found on page 2.

3. Son. name unknown. Nothing is known about him except

that he was an attorney at Cork, Ireland,

4. Thomas Armstrong. Born at Killashandra in 1756, shot to death in 1787.

He married at St. Croix, B.W.I,, Mary Aletta Biggs, born about 1770, daughter of Dr. and -- (Heyleger) Biggs of St. Croix.
Further details about Thomas will be found on pages 2 to 14.

5.John Armstrong. Born at Killashandra in 1762, died at Leamington Priors,

Warwickshire, England, August 8/1830. He married, 1st, on March 12/1801, Macrae Dalrymple, eldest daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple, date of birth unknown, died in 1818. He married, 2nd, in 1818, Ellen Kirk, who died in 1820. See subject 12 for issue and further particulars.

6. Mary Armstrong. Born at Killashandra, date unknown, died 1808.

She married John Goodfellow, a British Army officer. Further details about Mary will be found on pages 14-15.

Dr. William Armstrong's narrative contains the following;-
"We are, I believe, all descended from a man who was hanged for stealing cattle, the famous Johnny Armstrong, the Scottish Border Chief. Raiding the northern English counties and stealing their cattle, was the favorite pastime of the Scottish Border Chiefs in those days. His history of the above six children of the Reverend William Armstrong is as follows:-

1. William Armstrong, Born at Killashandra about 1752, died about 1829 at Cheltenham or Leamington, England[2]. He was buried in the same tomb as his younger brother John: the tombstone is inscribed as follows:- "In the memory of William Armstrong, formerly of the island of St. Croix, in the British West Indies, 1830. This memorial of affection was erected by the children of Captain John Armstrong, in commemoration of their lamented father and uncle, whose bodies are interred herein", It is not known what was the name of William's wife[ix], but she is said

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to have been a sister of a bank director in London, and a sister of Lady Broughton, whose father, the Rev. Thomas Broughton County Stafford, the sixth baronet, married thirdly in 1794[3], Mary, daughter of Michael Keating, of the County of Cork, and widow of Thomas Scott Jackson Esq., one of the directors of the Bank of England. William had a place called Roundwood in Queen's County, Ireland, where he appears to have had an estate. He was spoken of as "Billie the Beau". I know very little of him after he left Ireland, except that he became a quack doctor in London. Some time later he was a West India merchant in London. He then went to St. Croix, where he bought an estate named "Pearl": "Lebanon" was also mentioned. He resided there for several years, and they said he lived like a prince. He lost the estate through the mismanagement of his son-in-law Cuvalie, the price of sugar, and a succession of dry seasons and bad crops. He owed Dr Biggs, the father of the wife of his younger brother Thomas, a very large sum, and one of the estates he had later bought, named "Lebanon", was sold to one of Thomas' sons for £15,000. of this neither principal nor interest, was ever paid, for the emancipation of the negroes ruined him. He had a hundred slaves worth £10,000, all of which he lost, and has now to pay and support sixty of them, which he could not do and support his family in the most humble manner. He then returned to London, and I have heard that he married again, a short time before his death, and left his widow five or six thousand Pounds, which he had inherited from some relative.

Issue:-
2/1. James Armstrong, died at St. Croix, leaving a wife and family.
2/2. Thomas Armstrong, no data.
2/3. Anna Maria Armstrong, who Dr. William Armstrong said he had the

pleasure of meeting at Lady Broughton's house. She went to St. Croix, and married a Mr. Cuvalie, It is believed Lady Broughton left her three or four hundred Pounds per annum. Anna's husband died at St. Croix, and I don't know what became of her or her family.

2. James Armstrong. Birth and death dates not known. He want out to St. Croix, and later emigrated from there to Demerara, British Guiana, with his wife, children and negroes. The ship and cargo represented his entire property: the ship was wrecked. the cargo lost, and he saw his wife, children, ship's crew, and negroes, die one by one of starvation. He finally landed at Demerera, but I believe died soon after.

3. Son. name unknown. Nothing of him is known except that he was an attorney at Cork,Ireland.

4. Thomas Armstrong.

Born in 1755 at Killashandra, shot to death from ambush in 1787. As a young man, he was sent out to St. Croix by his elder brother William to look after the latter's estates there, a very young man for such a position. There was living in St. Croix at that time, an Englishman by the name of Dr. Biggs, who had become rich through buying sick slaves, curing them, and selling them again. Thomas then had an estate called "Lebanon", worth £100,000. Dr. Biggs at that time, had a daughter still in her teens named Mary Aletta Biggs, with whom Thomas fell in love. Dr Biggs' wife was a Dane by the name of Heyleger. Thomas wooed and won Mary Aletta, much against the wishes of her father. Naturally he was opposed as she was so very young, not over fourteen years of age. Mary Aletta became engaged to Thomas, but her father forbade them to marry, so a woman friend came to the rescue,

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and helped her to elope with Thomas. She threw a feather mattress out of the window for Mary to alight on so she would not hurt herself. They then drove into the town to the clergyman's house. Dr. Biggs was aroused and started off on horse back in post haste, partly dressed, one shoe off and one shoe in stockings. When he got to the clergynan's house, they would not let him in, so he called out "when you get through come home again". A day or two after, when Thomas returned from town, he found his youthful wife sitting up in a tree, playing with her dolls. I believe they were married in the year 1784. Thomas and his bride then returned to Ireland, where Thomas became overseer of his brother William's estate at Roundwood, because William was busy in London, and William's younger brother John in the Army. One morning early, Thomas went out to make a tour of the estate: time passed and he failed to make an appearance: he was found dead, having been shot from ambush from the other side of the hedge by which the estate was surrounded, by one of the employees with whom he had had a dispute over the stealing of timber. He left a wife not quite eighteen years old, and three sons. I do not know where Mary Aletta died. In 1793, Mary Aletta married, 2nd, Mr. Luke Flood, an estated gentleman of Roundwood, whose name is found in "Vicar's List of Prerogative Wills", Dublin. Luke died within seven years, leaving three children. First, Fanny Flood, who married Milliard Stubbers and had nine children. Second, Edward Flood, who married, 1st, at 18 years of age, Miss Driscoll, by whom he had six children: she died after eight years, and he married another young lady by whom he had four children: his eldest son married an English lady who died leaving six children: his eldest daughter Fanny Flood married her cousin Sewall Milliard Stubbers: his next two children, Oliver and Caroline, are well married and comfortable: his two youngest children, William and Robert, spoke of going to America. Third, Luke Flood, about whom I have no information. In 1810, Mary Aletta was persuaded by a friend to venture into matrimony for a third time, and the choice of herself and her friend, was James Horan, an estated gentleman, but of very cranky and disagreeable disposition. She left him soon, after they had a child who died in infancy.
Issue:- (of Thomas and Mary Aletta (Biggs) Armstrong)
2/1. Benjamin Armstrong,

who became a subaltern in the 71st, and aide de camp to General Dalrymple: he died at 22 years of age on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope when his regiment formed a part of General Beresford's army in 1808. He was born before his father was shot.

2/2. William Armstrong,

who wrote this history of the Armstrongs. He wrote about his life as follows:- I was nursed in a cabin, according to the Irish custom at that time, and became ricketty. I could not walk at three years of age. My grandfather Biggs often told me that I inherited nothing from my grandfather or grandmother Armstrong, but the Irwin mouth. Then, in consequence of my mother's second marriage, I was sent to an old great-aunt, one of whose sons I killed accidentally when I was 11 years of age. I went to Edinburgh college at 14 years of age. Then took out my diploma as physician, surgeon and accoucheur at 12 years of age, being the youngest of fifty students. I then entered the Army as Assistant Surgeon of the 7th Royal Fusileers. at 19 years of age. I was elected president of the Royal Physical Society at Edinburgh at 17 years of age. I was surgeon and physician to the forces at 26 years of age. I went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1812, to marry

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my first wife, Miss Taylor, who was the only child of a wealthy English merchant at Halifax. Supposing I had £5000 at St. Croix, I resigned my commission in 1813, with the intention of living a quiet domestic life. I soon discovered that I had no chance of any income from St. Croix, and my father in law, in consequence of several of his ships being taken by the Americans during the war, was reduced to poverty and could not assist us, so I found myself compelled tocommence private practice in a town I had never heard of untilinformed of the resident doctor's death. In a year and a half, afterhaving such high expectations, I was living in a small lodging or two apartments, and my wife a corpse after having given birth to my twin sons. I soon got sufficient practice to maintain me respectably and all went well until my brother proposed to purchase my step mother's share of our West Indies property, and go to St. Croix to take the estate into his own hands. She being a minor, her father's executors insisted on my joining, as my brother's security, and I unfortunately consented to sign the bonds he gave for the amount agreed upon. on his arrival at St. Croix, he wished to cancel the bargain on my account, but she would not consent, and I wasplaced in the power of her husband. He threatened me with jail, to avoid which I went to America, giving up a practice of £600 p.a.annum. Disappointment there, and letters from my patients in Ireland, induced me to return to Ireland in three months, and I had to borrow the means to do so I immediately got into a practice worth nearly £500 a year, and three months after I returned, married my present dear wife (name not given), and at the and of a year, her fortune and my practice gave us an income of £760 per annum. At the end of six years I became deaf. That, and the delicate state of my wife's health, made me decide to give up practice, and coming to live in Rathangan, ten years since, my brother in law had me arrested, but my wife's property being entailed upon herself as if unmarried, he could get nothing, and it appearing, when brought before the Commissioner of the Insolvent's Court, that I had no just debt, my character was not injured. Previous to her death, my wife made a will, leavings the interest on the £4100 she had died possessed of, to me, until proceeded against by my creditors, and then to my sons, and left me a disposing power of the £4100 at my death. My wife's aunt, Mrs. Price, after her niece's death, made a will in my favor, and requested me to continue to live with her, and in gratitude, I have consented to do so. So after all my campaigns in Copenhagen, Martinique, Spain and Portugal, I am doomed to spend the evening of my life as companion to an elderly lady, and she a Quaker. She died at the ripe old age of 92 years.
Issue:- (by his first wife Miss Taylor)
3/1. William Rufus Armstrong, twin, born at Halifax, N.S., in 18l3-14

When his grand parents, Mr. & Mrs. Taylor, who were living in Halifax, heard of their daughter's death, they immediately went overto Ireland and took charge of the infants. Here for the next tenyears, they grew up in the care of their grandmother Taylor, duringwhich time their grandfather died, and their father had gone to the United States and to St. Croix. William Rufus married Kate, granddaughter of Judge Gay of New Brunswick, Canada, by whom be had three sons and a daughter named Glencairn, He had & farm of 150 acres, or rather an estate, in Wisconsin, and says he is happy and prosperous:he is a Justice of the Peace.

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3/2. Thomas John Armstrong, twin, born 1815-14 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

He was a commission merchant at St. Croix, and the American Vice Consul. He was a man of high character and did well.

2/3. Thomas Armstrong born at Carrick, West Meath, Ireland, on

February 23/1787, died at New London, Conn., August 3/1863, buried here with his wife.
Nothing is known of his early youth or education. He married on May 31 1810, Catherine Louisa Cornelius, born at Springfield, County Cork, Ireland, April 11/1792, died at New London, Conn. May 5/1852. Her father, Henry Cornelius was said to have come from Holland and was twice married, probably living at Springfield, Cork, with his first wife, the pretty Kate Connor of Cork. Henry married, 2nd, a widow named Mrs. Rogers, many years younger than himself, and they lived at Montrath, Queen's County, where Henry was agent of the Earl of Mountrath. This probably explains how Catherine met Thomas Armstrong. Catherine was the daughter of Henry Cornelius' second marriage, and she had two sisters, Margaret, who married William Penrose Robinson of Shaxarook Lawn, Douglas, County Cork, and Bessie Cornelius. Catherine also had three brothers, Henry Cornelius, Captain Charles Cornelius of the 71st Regiment, and Richard Cornelius a captain in the army. Through the interest of her father Henry Cornelius, Thomas Armstrong got a sinecure position in Dublin worth £300, and they lived there nine years. This position he resigned to go to St. Croix. During their nine years in Ireland, eight children were born, four of whom lived to grow up. In 1819, Thomas and Catherine Armstrong went out to St. Croix, leaving five daughters behind. At St. Croix he bought an estate called Lebanon Hill from Dr. Biggs: he also got an estate named Mount Welcome which he got from his uncle William. The five daughters left in Ireland were placed in the care of relatives, and were sent to a school kept by Madame Despard in Dublin, and were taught music, dancing and deportment In St. Croix, seven children had been added to the family. Then preparations were made for the five sisters to come out from Ireland in the care of Dr. William Armstrong, who wanted his family to come over also. So on September 25/1825, the regular packet ship "Silas Richards", sailed from Liverpool, having on board as passengers, the five sisters, and their twin boy cousins, all under charge of the boys' grandmother Mrs. Taylor. After a somewhat tempestuous voyage, the ship arrived at New York on October 28/1828, with dry goods to Fish, Grinnell & Co. The ship was built in New York about 1822 for Grinnell, Minturn & Co., who established the Swallow Tail Line of packets: she was of 453 tons. The girl's father Thomas Armstrong, who had become acquainted with Captain Joseph W. Alsop of Middletown, Conn. was doing business with him, and arranged that the little girls should go to St. Croix in Captain Alsop's brig "Condor", Captain Goodrich commanding. The next outward voyage was not for two months, so the little girls had a delightful visit in New York. They stayed with a friend of Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Cadwallader Golden, whom she had met in England. They visited the Museum and other places of interest. Mrs. Taylor liked to show them off when walking on Broadway and they often heard persons passing by say:-"there go the little English girls". The "Condor" sailed on December 23/1828 from New York for St. Croix. The boys must have remained in New York with their father, and I'm sure Mrs. Taylor never went to St. Croix: I don't know what became of her. The little girls were in the care of the captain and the voyage was

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progressing favorably, when one day the Captain observed a strange sail on the horizon, coming nearer and nearer. The Captain, not liking the looks or the vessel, grew very uneasy as it was in the days of piracy. The Captain made the girls go down into the cabin and locked them in, telling them to remain very quiet. The vessel turned out to be a pirate, but unfortunately for the latter, the men were in a half starved condition and weak from want of food, and told the Captain that if he would only give them food, they would not molest them. The Captain considered they had had a most fortunate escape, and told the girls they might have been taken, but that he was prepared to shoot them before letting them fall into the pirate's hands. The voyage must have taken about three weeks, so around January 20/1829, they arrived at St. Croix, to be greeted by the mother who they had not seen for ten years, and by brothers and sisters they had never seen. I doubt that there were any opportunities for education at St. Croix. Up to the present, Thomas and Catherine had had fifteen children, several of them having passed away, and ere eight years had flown by, three more were added to the household. The name of the estate they lived at was Mount Pleasant, though the name Mount Welcome comes to my mind. In December 1832 the family were in Middletown, Conn., at what is now 180 Washington St. At this time their child Anna Maria received burns from the fireplace in the dining room, which caused her death. Thomas Armstrong was in New London in June 1839, and still there in June 1940. He was offered a lot by Captain Mather for $4000: the western half was 98 ft on Washington St. and 93 ft on the Rope Walk. At this time the Robert Beattys came back to the States, and Thomas Armstrong and his family went back to St. Croix, having bought the "Lebanon" estate from Robert Beatty for $14,474.97. There was also a fountain which cost $300. The family were in St. Croix in August 1844, by which time their son Thomas had gone out west to where his brother William was living, on the border of a lake where the hunting and fishing were excellent: Thomas was devoted to both sports. Thomas had left a name in St. Croix of being the most correct young man in business, and it was a pity that his talents should have been wasted in the back woods. Thomas and Catherine were still at Lebanon in 1849: there must have been an insurrection previous to this time end many people feared there would be another. There was a very strict Governor who was determined to have the strict laws obeyed. They were still there in 1851. Catherine had been in St. Thomas, as she was not well, and it was decided to send her to the States in Captain Tikiole's vessel to New Haven, as the doctors said it was the only chance for her health. Her husband Thomas had the hardest time that summer to get along: he was anxious to sell out and the family were anxious to leave St. Croix. Lebanon Hill was an estate of 500 acres, and was appraised on November 2/1849 for $24,424. The crops were sugar rum and molasses, which for the year 1849 were:-84 hogsheads and 145 barrels of sugar, 41 puns and 3 barrels of rum, and 53 casks of molasses, and the net proceeds were $3165.17. Mount Pleasant estate was rented to Mr. S. Kelton for $298. Lebanon Hill would rent for $200. Mrs. Mary Cummings, who died in 1846, and Mrs Wittroz were interested in the Lebanon Hill property. Thomas, Catherine and their family must have come to the states in 1852, the year in which Catherine died unexpectedly. Their coming may

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have been hastened by the insurrection. They did not have a large supply of this world's goods to bring with them. Thomas Armstrong's last years were spent in New London with his daughters Frances and Elizabeth keeping house for him. Amongst some of the silver of Thomas and Catherine which has come down through the family, is a spoon, with the crest of the Armstrongs of King's County, Ireland, which was "An armed hand holding a broken ulig spear, ppr". The motto is "Vi at Armis". The spoon has the hall mark of John Pitter, Dublin, 1810.
Issue:- (of Thomas and Catherine Armstrong)

3/1. William Armstrong, born in Dublin, May 22/1811, died May 24/1812.
3/2. Mary Aletta Armstrong, born in Montrath, June 22/1812,

died June 1813,

3/3. Catherine Louise Armstrong, born at Montrath, Ireland, May 13/1813

died at Brooklyn, N.Y., December 5/1891, buried in Green Wood Cemetery there. She married on May 21/1831, Robert Beatty, who died April 18/1850. In 1840 they lived in New York City. He left her $40,000 in securities to provide for her.
Issue: -
4/1. Margaret Beatty, born about 1832, died December 25/1901.

She married, 1st, about 1851, Mr. Whittaker: 2nd, Mr, Timpson,
Issue:- (by her first husband)
5/1. Louisa Whittaker, born 1852.

4/2. Ann Catherine Beaty, born September 12/1833, died April 19/l85O.

She married on April 13/1852, Reverend Thomas Strafford Drowne, born July 9/1823, son of Henry B. and Julia (Strafford) Drowne.
Issue;-
5/1. Thomas Strafford Drowne.

4/3. Robert Beatty, died July 3/1901. He married Sarah Moore,

who died March 9/1880, daughter of John T. Moore.

4/4. Jane Almira Beatty, born December 8/1836, died April 11/1918.

She married Arthur Benson, born July 20/1836, died October 23/1911, (See Riker's History of Harlem for Benson ancestors).
Issue:-
5/1. Gertrude Benson.
5/2. Josephine Benson. She married on April 15/1896,

James Napper Jaffares.

5/3. Robert Beatty Benson, born April 6/1868, died Oct 21/1904.
5/4. Arthur Benson.
5/5. Walter Benson[x],
5/6. Emma Hutchinson Benson, born September 30/1875.

She married on April 5/1899, Russell Johnson Perrine, born October 20/1876, son of Duncan Kendig and Mary Emma (Johnson Perrine. See Genealogy of Daniel Perrin, Huguenot, by Howland Delano Perrine
Issue:-
6/1. Josephine Keziah Perrine, born April 17/1903.
6/2. Arthur Johnson Perrine, born January 19/1909.

5/7. Jane Benson, No data.

4/5. John Cumming Beatty, born at St, Croix, B.W.I,, January 8/1838,

died March 10/1922. He married on January 28/1868, Hettie Bull, born June 26/1846, died August 9/1906, only daughter of William Gedney and Maria Matilda (Chetwood) Bull,

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Issue:- (from the Barber Genealogy: N.Y. Gen & Biog Rec Vol 62),
5/1. William Gedney Beatty, born June 27/1869.

He was not married and was an architect in New York City, in 1930.

5/2. Robert Chetwood Beatty, born May 18/1872. He graduated from

Columbia University in 1894. He married, 1st, on January 30/1901, Jean Burlingame, daughter of Edward Liver-more and Ella Frances (Badger) Burlingame: they were divorced and he married, 2nd, at Portland, Conn., on November 11/1911, Dee Burke, still living in 1923.
Issue:- (by his first wife Jean Burlingame)
6/1. Ann Burlingame Beatty, born in New York City,

March 15/l9O2, living in 1927.

6/2. Hettie Burlingame Beatty, born in New Canaan, Conn.,

October 8/1906: living in 1923.

Issue:- (by his second wife Dee Burke)
6/3. James Chetwood Beatty, born at Allenhurst, N.J.

July 15/1920.

5/3. Alfred Chester Beatty, born in New York City, February

7/1875. He graduated from Columbia University in 1898, and became a mining engineer at Denver. In 1930 he lived in London and became a British subject. He married, 1st, on April 18/1900, Ninette Grace Madelin Rickard: 2nd, at London, England, on June 21/1913, Edith Dunn, widow of a Mr. Stone: no children by her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Ninette Rickard)
6/1. Ninette Beatty, born at Denver, Colo, June 1/1901.
6/2. Alfred Chester Beatty, born in New York City, October 17/1907.

4/6. Elizabeth Beatty, born at St. Croix, B.W.I, May 19/1939.

She married Richard Jones Timpson, born 1841, died December 15/1900. He was a salesman for many years with Tiffany & Co., Union Square, New York City. They had several children: one daughter married and lived for a while in South Africa, and may possibly live in Ireland now.

4/7. Frances Beatty. She, too, married a Timpson: three sisters

married three brothers. Frances and her husband lived in Ireland: was it Woxford? No children.

4/8. Catherine Beatty, born October 7/1841, died December 14/1848.
4/9. Emma Beatty, died May 24/1900. She married, 1st, a Mr.

Hutchinson, son of Samuel Hutchinson: 2nd, on April 24/1877, William Johnson Hutchinson, brother of her first husband.
Issue:-
5/1. Clara Elizabeth Hutchinson, born February 8/1865.

She married on October 22/1889, Thomas Ormiston Callander, born September 14/1862, died February 26/1919, son of James and Agnes (Hodge) Callander.
Issue:-
6/1. Ruth Callander, born December 18/1892.

She married on April 10/1917, Le Roy Martin, born March 29/1890, died February 28/1919. She married, 2nd, on November 8/1929, Julian Percy Fairchild, born August 15/1881, died June 15 1934, son of Julian D. and Florence (Bradley) Fairchild.
Issue:- (by her first husband Le Roy Martin)
7/1. Le Roy Callander Martin, born November 13/1918.

6/2. Louise Hutchinson Callander, born February 2O/1901.

She married on April 25/1928, Ramon Ormiston Williams, born July 12/1899.

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4/10. George Beatty, born February 10/1844, died March 10/1882.

He never married.

3/4. Margaret Elinor Armstrong. The Underwood Genealogy spells her

middle name Eleanora. Born at Mountrath, Ireland, July 27/l8l4, died at Syracuse, N.Y., May 31/1897, buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. Margaret cane to Middletown in 1830 to visit the Alsops there. Joseph Alsop was much attracted to her and wanted to marry her, but she fell in love with his brother Charles, and was married to him on December 30/1833, by the Rev. Smith Pyne, Rector of Christ Church, Middletown. She made one voyage to the islands to visit her sister Ellen Raupach in 1869: she returned to Middletown and lived in the house afterwards owned by Governor Weeks, now the property of the Weslyan University, 202 Washington St., until 1883 when circumstances forced her to sell the old house. She went to live in Troy, finally removing to Syracuse, living with her son Frank Alsop, where she died in 1897. She married Charles Richard Alsop, born December 25/1802 died March 5/1865, son of Joseph Wright and Lucy (Whittlesey) Alsop. Charles Alsop was president of the Middletown-Boston Railway.
Issue:- (from the Underwood Genealogy)
4/1. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born November 12/1834', died June 1922.

She never married: she was engaged to her cousin Theodore William Riley whose life was out short on March 31/1839 by tuberculosis.

4/2. Catherine Beatty Alsop, born November 7/1835, died April

27/1908. She married, on October 7/1857, Christopher Starr Leffingwell, born December 15/1827, died April 11/1902. son of Lucius Wooster and Olive Douglas (Starr) Leffingwell. Christopher was a minister at Bar Harbor, Maine, for 25 years.
Issue:-
5/1. Alsop Leffingwell, born July 23/1858.
5/2. Mary Mutter Leffingwell, born August 6/1859.
5/3. Infant, (twin), born and died May 21/1800.
5/4. Infant, (twin), born May 21/1860, died September 7/1860.
5/5. Douglas Leffingwell, born March 4/1863, died at New Haven,

Conn., November 23/1942. He lived at Bar Harbor, Maine. He was the one who gave me the information about the Beatty and Alsop families.[4]

5/5. Charles Richard Alsop Leffingwell, born May 3/1865,

died August 25/1865.

5/7. Christopher Leffingwell, born December 21/1867.
5/8. Aimee Gilbert Leffingwell, born December 25/1873.

She married on July 30/1908, Kenneth McKenzie, born July 24/1870, son of the Rev. Alexander and Ellen (Eveleth) McKenzie.

5/9. Alice Glencairn Leffingwell, born June 2/1875.

4/3. Richard Alsop, born February 11/1838, died at Valparaiso, Chile,

May 17/1860, buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, New London. He never married.

4/4. Charles Henry Alsop, (name changed to Charles Richard),

born October 22/1840, died October 22/1922. He married on May 15/1862, Elizabeth Gould Beers, who died March 25/1924, daughter of Henry Judd and Driscilla (Thorp) Beers.
Issue:.
5/1. Margaret Elinor Alsop, born March 7/1863, died December

1/1898. She married in 1878, Dr. Webster C. Langdon.

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Issue:-
6/1. Jesse Dyson Langdon, born May 11/1881. He married on

May 1/1903, Marie Violet Burbank.

6/2. Margaret Adelaide Langdon, born January 21/1887.

She married on May 6/1905, George Davis Harlan.
Issue:-
7/1. Davis Langdon Harlan, born January 11/1911.

5/2. Adelaide Beers Alsop, born April 9/1865, died February

18/1929 She married on March 4/1899, Samuel Edouard Robineau, born December 20/1856, died 1936, son of Pierre and Marcellin (Stapfer) Robineau.
Issue:-
6/1. Henry Maurice Robineau, born July 28/1900.

He married on July 21/1922, Gladys Blanch Hood: they were divorced. He married, 2nd, Fanny Bell Zike,
Issue:-
7/1. Germaine Robineau, born October 1931.

6/2. Priscilla Madeline Robineau, born March 5/1902.

She married on September 17/1925, Dana Arthur Kelley, born March 15/1902, son of Alfred Merrill and Mabelle Enid (Call) Kelley.
Issue:-
7/1. Dana Robineau Kelley, born November 14/1927.

6/3. Elizabeth Helene Robineau, born April 10/1906.

5/3. Charles Richard Alsop, born August 1/1866,

died September 3/1867.

5/4. Clara Pomeroy Alsop, born November 5/1869,

died February 19/1872.

5/5. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born March 23/1873, died March 28/1873.
5/6. Aimee Armistead Alsop, born May 31/1876,

died February 2/1934. She married on January 10/1901, William Cryer Parsons, an Englishman.
Issue:-
6/1. Margaret Elizabeth Parsons, born August 18/1904.

5/7. Priscilla Alsop, born September 20/1879, died April l2/l883.

5/8. Clara Mutter Alsop, born November 20/1882.

She married on July 15/1903, Walter Stewart Stillman.
Issue:-
6/1 Donald Edward Stillman, born April 3/1912.
6/2. Barbara Stillman, born October 25/1920.

5/9. Armistead Thorpe Alsop, born August 12/1885,

died Spt 11/l886

4/5. Aimee Elizabeth Alsop, born May 15/1843, died January 19/1932.

She married on June 16/1864, William Eaton Gilbert, born 1839 died September 29/1898, son of Uri and Frances Harriet (Granger) Gilbert.
Issue: -
5/1. William Alsop Gilbert, born March 15/1868.
5/2. Chauncey Mclean Gilbert, born April 16/1882.

He married on August 23/1910, Frances Marguerite Young, daughter of Henry A. Young.
Issue:-
6/1. Chauncey Mclean Gilbert, born May 18/1911.
6/2. Charles Richard Alsop Gilbert, born May 26/1916.

4/6. Thomas Mutter Alsop, born March 11/1845, died November 27/1848

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4/7. Henry White Alsop, born May 7/1849, died December 18/1936.

He married at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York City, on June 7/1871, Elizabeth Elliman Benbow, born June 7/1847, died January 18/1898, daughter of Charles and Jessie (Elliman) Benbow.
Issue:
5/1. Harry Theodore Alsop, born April 29/1872. He married on

September 8/1897, Agnes Lillian Fuller, born December 22/ 1877, daughter of George Franklin and Agnes McKenzie (Bell) Fuller.
Issue: -
6/1. Elizabeth Alsop, born August 8/1904.
6/2. Margaret Alsop, born November 16/l9O7. She married at

Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo, N.D., on September 14/ 1929, Clarence Oliver Wheeler, born May 16/1903, son of Henry Oliver Wheeler of Hammondsport, N.Y.
Issue:
7/1. Donald Alsop Wheeler, born August 16/1931.
7/2. Elizabeth Wheeler, born October 20/1934.

6/3. John Fuller Alsop, born June 11/1912.

5/2. Infant, born August 1/1874, died next day.
5/3. Jessie Margaret Alsop, born September 27/1875.
5/4. Clara Pomeroy Alsop, born February 24/1878 died July 20/1878
5/5. Frederick Chauncey Alsop, born August 9/1879.

He married on August 12/1907, Inez Clare Bentley.
Issue:
6/1. Gladys Content Alsop, born August 21/1908.

She married on January 29/1933, John Pope: they were divorced and she married again.

6/2. Elvie Inez Alsop, born September 20/1909.

She married on August 26/1931, Keith Alton Matheny.
Issue:
7/1. Kent Alton Matheny, born May 15/1933.
7/2. Allen De Wayne Matheny, born December 5/1934.

6/3. Chauncey De Wayne Alsop, born April 25/1912.
6/4. Ethel Berenice Alsop, born August 22/1917.
6/5. Faith Clare Alsop, born February 9/1922.

5/6. Ernest Benbow Alsop, born September 26/1882,

died June 15/1934. He married on January 18/1912, Grace Clark, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Clark.
Issue:
6/1. Lucille Alsop, born January 14/1913, died Oct 15/1921.
6/2. Clark Richard Alsop (twin), born October 23/1914,
6/3. Clinton Elliman Alsop (twin), born October 23/1914.

5/7. Charles Richard Alsop, born September 5/1883,

died June 6/1910.

5/8. Archibald Stewart Alsop, born June 21/1891.

He married on September 4/1935, Margaret Marion Reid.

4/8. Francis Oliver Alsop, born November 24/1853, died March 24/1929.

He married on November 1/1879, Sarah Ranger Bainbridge, born November 9/1855, died December 10/1936, daughter of Robert and Charlotte (Ranger) Bainbridge.
Issue;-
5/1. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born June 17/1883.
5/2. Robert Bainbridge Alsop, born March 6/1887. He married

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on January 19/1911, Susan Merle Gleason, who died October 30/1927. He married, 2nd, on March 3/1928, Lavaun Kimball.
Issue:- (by his first wife Susan Marie Gleason)
6/1. Robert Bainbridge Alsop, born December 3/1912.
6/2. Sarah Berenice Alsop, born July 10/1916.
Issue:- (by his second wife Lavaun Kimball)
6/3. Bainbridge Kimball Alsop, born August 18/1933.

3/5. Mary Aletta Armstrong, born at Mount Mellick, Ireland,

date unknown, died in December 1830 in Ireland.

3/6. Frances Armstrong, born at Montrath, Ireland, July 2/1816,

died October 14/1907, aged 91 years. Her last years were spent with her grand niece Clara Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Callander. She lived at Lebanon Hill, St. Croix in 1847, where she was the housekeeper, and a first rate one at that. She was always called Fanny, and was a victim of Hay fever and for several years would spend a month or so at Schroon Lake, near Ticonderoga, N.Y. She never married.

3/7. Elizabeth Armstrong, born at Castletown, Ireland, December 1/1817,

died January 7/1899, aged 82 years. She was at Lebanon Hill, St. Croix in 1847 with her sister Fanny. Elizabeth, was always known by the young Alsops as Bessie, Aunt West Indies, on account of the marvellous stories she told of her life there. Elizabeth wanted to come to the States, but would have to stay with her younger sister Emma who was subject to convulsions. She kept house in New London, Conn., for her father Thomas Armstrong in the last years of his life, and after his death, spent many years in Middletown, with Mrs Richard Alsop and Mrs Joseph Alsop, the former having died in 1878. She passed the last years of her life with her niece Jane Benson: she was buried in New London, Conn., with her father and mother.

3/8. John Armstrong, born at Castletown, Ireland, November 28/1818,

and died there December 1/1818.

3/9. Thomas Armstrong, born at St. Croix, B.W.I., June 14/1820,

Died there in March 1827.

3/10. Charlotte Cornelia Armstrong, born at St. Croix, September 16/1821

died in New York City, May 30/1907, aged 86 years, buried in Ceder Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn. The married at Middletown Conn., on March 18/1847, John W. Culbert. In 1844 she was at St. Thomas, B.W.I., with her younger sister Ellen who had married Otto Raupach, a Dane, making a prudent and industrious wife.
Issue:-
4/1. John Culbert, born January 12/1848.
4/2. Robert Culbert, born May 1850,
4/3. Augustine Culbert.
4/4. Mary Culbert. She married Mr. McCormack.

Issue:-
5/1. Mildred McCormack.
5/2. Lucy Bell McCormack, died January 1930,

4/5. Aimee Culbert. She married Herbert Brunswick Harding,

who died January 4/1930.
Issue: -
5/1. Ethel Harding, born 1881, died June 6/1924.

She married on June 14/1900, Charles Stewart Mott.
Issue:-
6/1. Aimee Mott. She married Patrick Butler, son of Emmet Butler.

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6/2. ---- Mott. She married Hamish Mitchell,
6/3. Charles Mott.

5/2. Matilda Harding. She married on March 22/1901, name not known.

4/6. Margaret Elinor Culbert, born June 17/1859.

She married Samuel Barton Hazzard, who died December 6/1893.
Issue : -
5/1. Margaret Elinor Hazzard, died December 24/1918.
5/2. Perle Hazzard. She married Robert M. Vanderbilt,

son of Jacob R. and Annie (Hazzard) Vanderbilt.

5/3. Samuel Barton Hazzard, Name of wife unknown.

Issue:-
6/1. Eleanor Hazzard. She married in 1936,

Dewitt Mirick Foster.

4/7. Lucy Alsop Culbert, died January 23/1923. She married Charles

Zippel, who died July 13/1906, buried at New Haven,
Issue
5/1. Lucy Zippel. She married in 1929, Pierre Grenier of Havana,

3/11. Anna Maria Armstrong, born at St. Croix, March 3/1823,

died December 23/1832.

3/12. Henry Cornelius Armstrong, born at St. Croix, March 21/1824,

died there August 5/1834,

3/13. Ellen Augustine Armstrong, born at St. Croix. July 16/1825,

died March 1897. She married in 1844, Otto Raupach, a Danish gentleman who was a planter at St. Thomas, B.W.I., and who later lost 20 of his 40 negroes, by cholera. In 1847 Raupach wanted to sell his estate in St. Thomas, and had no employment: his family were living at Bassin, St. Thomas. They were still there in 1851. The Raupachs must have visited the Beattys in Newark in 1848, for Robert Beatty thought his children who were ill, had caught measles from the Raupach children.
Issue: -
4/1. Thomas Ford Raupach, born June 1848.
4/2. Otto Armstrong Raupach, born September 1854,
4/3. Carl H Raupach.

3/14. Daughter, stillborn October 6/1826 at St. Croix.
3/15. William Armstrong, born at St. Croix, June 2/1828,

died November 20/1845. In 1842 he was at school in the States, living with the Beattys. At 16 he returned to St. Croix and became an over-seer of a plantation: his employer said he was the best he had had, and that in two years he would be able to take the position of manager of an estate. But, alas, a year later he caught fever, and died in his seventeenth year.

3/16. Emma Armstrong, born at St. Croix, November 2/1829,

died June 18/1860. She was in the States in 1844 and wanted to get back to St. Croix. She was not strong and subject to convulsions.

3/17. Louisa Armstrong, born at St. Croix, July 16/1834. No data,
3/18. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born at St. Croix, December 12 or 31/1836,

died December 1878. He married at New London, Conn., on September 1/1857, Eliza Ann Nevins. (Her middle name is given by Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan as Jane). Thomas was a fine lad and employed as head clerk by John W. Culbert in his New York office, and he paid him #100 a year beside board and lodging.
Issue:-
4/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born May 27/1858. He married in

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August 1890, Charlotte Moulton.

4/2. Catherine Louisa Armstrong, born June 22/1863: never married.
4/3. John Nevins Armstrong, born August l4/l865.

He married on July 30/1890, Elizabeth Mary Lance.
Issue:
5/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born June 20/1891.

He married on August 12/1914, May McMahon.
Issue:-
6/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born July 3/1915.

5/2. Aimee Louise Armstrong, born October 1/1893.

She married on March 31/1921, Orlin Lewis Oatman.
Issue
6/1. Amee Elizabeth Oatman, born October 4/1922.
6/2. Orlin Lewis Oatman.

5/3. Elizabeth Nevins Armstrong, born March 11/1896.
5/4. Grace Augusta Armstrong, born December 10/1898.
5/5. Lillian Cornelius Armstrong, born April 10/1901.

She married on May 23/1923, Arthur Wallace Leslie.
Issue:
6/1. Barbara Jean Leslie, born March 14/1924.
6/2. Virginia Louise Leslie, born November 20/1927.

5/6. Virginia Amelia Armstrong, born April 10/1907,

died April 12/1927.

4/4. Aimee Armstrong, born March 8/1868.

She married on June 7/1892, Charles Brinkerhoff,

4/5. Lillian Cornelius Armstrong,

She married on April 6/1891, Frank Victor Van de Myer.
Issue:
5/1. Howard Cargill Van de Myer, born December 29/1891.

he married on May 19/1910, Naomi Elizabeth Hogle.
Issue:-
6/1. Catherine Louisa Van de Myer, born August 15/1920.

1/5. John Armstrong. Born at Killashandra, County Cavan, Ireland,

in 1762, died at Portland St,, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, England, August 8/1830. He married, 1st, on March 12/1801, Macrae Dalrymple, date of birth unknown, died at Prestwick, Scotland, in 1818, eldest daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands, Scotland. She was buried in Governor Macrae's private burial ground in Orangefield, Scotland. He married, 2nd, in 1818, Miss Ellen Kirk, who died in 1820, shortly after giving birth to her only son: her parents lived in Scotland, but their names are not known, See subject 12 for issue and further particulars.

1/6. Mary Armstrong, Date of birth unknown, but about 1764, died 1808[5].

Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan wrote about her as follows:- She made an unfortunate marriage when she wed John Goodfellow, an Officer in the British Army, who deserted her and her two sons at Cork, Ireland, and left her penniless. John Goodfellow went to Nova Scotia, and soon after his arrival there, married, but he and his wife, if she could be called so, his real wife being alive, were burned to death in the conflagration which destroyed the town of Annapolis, N.S. his real wife, Mary Armstrong, was a woman of nerve and talent, and rather than accept assistance from her brothers, contrived to support her children by becoming a mid-wife at the Lying-in hospital of Dublin, where she was considered a most respectable person in her situation. The last time I saw her, was soon

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after the death of Princess Charlotte on November 6/1817, and when I next called to see her, she had left the hospital and I have never seen her since, She had one son named John Goodfellow, who married Jane Dickson, the grand daughter of William Haughton, subject 62. This John Goodfellow and his wife were those who looked after John Armstrong, subject 6, while he was being educated in Ireland, and who later came to the United States and lived their later years with John Armstrong at Chicago and Arcola, Illinois. They had no children and are both buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, in the Armstrong plot.

End of the Reverend William Armstrong Genealogy,

In November 1938, I, (Herbert Armstrong Poole) made a trip to St. Croix, to see if I could find any of our relatives living there still & sailed from New York on the Porto Rico line "Borinquen" to San Juan, Porto Rico, and thence per "Catharine", via St. Thomas to St. Croix. On arriving at Christiansted, I put up at the Pentheney Boarding House, and met there a Dr. Knott, the port doctor, sent down by the U.S. Government to look after the inhabitants. I asked him if he knew of an old sugar estate named Lebanon, which had belonged to my Armstrong ancestors about the year 1800. Certainly, he replied, it now belongs to a Mr. Douglas Francis Armstrong, Chief Marshall and Chief of Police at St. Croix, and Chief Magistrate under the Governor of the three Virgin Islands, whose headquarters are at St. Thomas. Dr. Knott said that the names of the estates never change, no matter who owns them. He took me to call on "Captain" Armstrong. who disclaims any right to this title, I found him a fine big man about 40 years of age, over 6 feet tall and weighing 200 lbs, leathery of face from the tropical sun, and a suspicion of red hair, now much thinned. A pleasant man, to whom I showed my Armstrong History. He became much interested, and motored me out to his estate called Beeston Hill, about five miles west of Christiansted. I met his wife Rachel born at Bitter Root, Montana, whom he had met at Washington, D.C. They have two children, a boy and a girl about 5 or 6 years old. He has a fine big house with spacious rooms, his own electric light plant, cisterns and water pumping installation and plumbing, for there are no waterworks at St. Croix - they have to depend on rain water - no wells or springs. He motored me to his mother's house (she was a Miss Skeoch) at her estate "The Grange", almost adjoining his. She was pleasant lady over 70 years of age, and has Douglas' two younger twin brothers living with her. She glanced through the History and remembered a lot of the names mentioned therein. She said the name Heyleger, the Danish wife of Dr. Biggs, should be spelled Heiliger, and that there were still some of this clan owning estates on the island. However, Douglas Leffingwell of Bar Harbor, Maine, tells me that he has an old account book of his ancestor Thomas Armstrong when he owned Lebanon Hill in the 1840s, in which occurs the name of W.H. Heyleger & Co. Mrs. Armstrong showed me with pride, the grave of Alexander Hamilton's mother in her garden; namely, Mrs. Fawcett (also spelled Faucette), who married a Dane named Levine, but didn't live with him long, for he treated her badly. Mrs. Fawcett was born on the island of St. Kitts, B.W.I., and after her separation, went back there to her father Dr. Fawcett, and eventually went to live with a Mr. Hamilton, whom she could not marry, as Levine had arranged the divorce so she was forbidden to marry again. She lived with Hamilton the rest of her life, and bore him an illegitimate son, the famous Alexander Hamilton. Miss Fawcett (or Levine) died at

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Mrs. Armstrong's estate, and is buried in her garden. The novelist Gertrude Atherton lived with Mrs. Armstrong when she was writing her great novel about the life of Alexander Hamilton, "The Conqueror". Douglas Armstrong then drove me to Fredericksted, some 16 miles west, the only port where large steamers can anchor, very exposed and rough except when the east trade winds are blowing. The other port, Christiansted, on the north side of the island, is approached by a narrow, twisting and shallow channel: it is used by the small steamer "Catherine" for its protection in stormy weather. At Fredericksted, we called on Douglas' aunt, Mrs. Merwin, an elderly lady who has many of the family records: Mr. Merwin was a merchant from New Hampshire, in the sugar trade. Driving back to Fredericksted, Douglas turned off the main road to the left, about half way home, to show me the Lebanon Hill estate. It is about 500 acres, stretching from the main road back to the slope of the 2000 ft high ridge along the north coast of the island: part is on the slope but most of it is level and fine arable land, suitable for cane. All the original buildings were burned in the uprising of the negroes about 1868. The ???ller and machinery remain where they fell; the 40 ft brick chimney is standing as good as new. The residence must have been of fine propor-tions, but the foundations are almost obliterated and grown up with lime, mahogany and guava trees. Some of the outhouses for slaves are still standing, one of them occupied by a negro caretaker. Douglas bought back this estate some ten years ago, is now clearing it and hopes to build later on. He grows no cane on this land himself, but leases it to a Fredericksted Sugar Central, which grows cane for its own use. The abolition of slavery made it too expensive to grow cane in competition with San Domingo, Porto Rico and Cuba. The U.S. Government is trying to find some industry to make the Virgin Islands prosperous again. The present idea is to turn the sugar into molasses, and make rum out of it at St. Thomas. Douglas is building two bungalows on his estate to rent to winter tourists, and hopes to extend this growing trade. Douglas is a director of the Virgin Islands Bank, as is also his mother's brother Robert Skeoch. Douglas told me Lebanon Hill is worth today about $30 per acre, though the original Armstrongs paid £38,000 for it. Even at that high figure, they made much money, as they were then selling sugar in London at 75 cents a pound: today sugar is quoted between 2 and 4 cents per pound! St. Croix has about 40,000 acres of good sugar lands, but the rainfall is irregular and on the whole not enough for growing cane. At present beans, tomatoes and other vegetables are being grown for the' New York market: little tobacco is grown as the land is not high enough. Douglas' mother told me that the name of her husband was Robert, as was two of his ancestors. Their family have been British Vice Consuls for three generations, during the several hundred years the Danes owned the Islands. The United States bought the islands in 1920, and Douglas became a naturalized American citizen then. The population of St Croix is mostly negro, a rather turbulent strain, difficult to control, and not docile like those in many of the other British West Indies. Douglas' father was killed in a motor accident in 1912. He was driving his car then a new thing in the islands, and on coming around a corner, frightened a horse drawing a wagon: the horse reared, and in coming down, the shaft of the wagon struck Mr Armstrong, piercing his chest, killing him instantly. I have tried to get Douglas to dig up his family records, to find where our ancestors meet, but he is not interested, and his mother and aunt too old: I wish I could go down again and ferrit it out myself. The old English Churchyard should reveal many of our ancestors: I found the stones badly disintegrated and overgrown with lush tropical vegetation. H.A.P.

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64 - PIERCE POOLE.

         The following is compiled from the undermentioned records.
Hempstead, L.I., Records.
N.Y. Historical Society's Collections, Abstracts of Wills, vols 6 to 12.
Oyster Bay, L.I., Records.
The History of Oyster Bay, by Henry M. Stotenburgh, 1900.
Queen's County Abstracts of Wills.              -
Inscriptions in the Town Cemetery of Hempstead, L.I. by Frank Haviland.
Bunker`s Long Island Genealogies.
Benjamin F. Thompson's Long Island Genealogies.
N.Y. Genealogical & Biographical Records.
First Presbyterian Church Records, New York.
The Christian Intelligencer, Marriages performed @ the Reformed Dutch Ch.
Queensborough Library Records.
Deaths from the New York Evening Post, by Gertrude A. Barber.
St. George's Church, Hempstead, L.I. Records.
The Genealogy of George Weeks. of Dorchester, Mass., by Robert D.Weeks.
The Morrisania Census of 1800, in the N.Y. Gen & Biog Records.
Abstracts of Wills of New York County, by Ray C. Sawyer, 1938.
Genealogical & Family History of Southern N.Y. by Cuyler Reynolds, 1914.
Inscriptions in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers, by Francis P. Spies, 1927.
Register Book of the Parish of Jamaica, kept by the Rev. Thomas Poyar,
         Rector of Grace Church from 1710 to 1738.
The Genealogy of Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass., by Dr. Edward Murray Poole.
American Cavalcade, a Memoir of the life and family of be Witt Clinton Poole by John Hudson Poole, Pasadena, Cal., 1959, page 15.
And from our Poole family bibles.
The Life & Times of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton, Philadelphia, 1907.

         Pierce Poole, according to our family bibles, was born about 1709, (probably as early as 1700), and died at Hempstead, L.I., in 1775, place of birth not known. The name Pierce is spelled in various documents as Pearce, Pearse, Pierssey, Percy, Pearcy, and Pars: our family bible spelled it Pearce, but Pierce seems to be the most common spelling. Our family records state he was an Englishman by birth, the father of James Poole: that he lived in Jerusalem, L.I., and that he bought the old Poole place at North Side, L.I., where he and his son James lived their whole lives.
         I can find no actual record of the names of his parents, but from the records of Brookhaven, L.I., its proximity to Hempstead, and the name William, the third son of Pierce Poole, it is probable that Pierce was the son of William Poole of Brookhaven. See what I have written under Subject 128.
          Hempstead Town Records prove that Pierce Poole lived there from 1721-2 to 1769 as follows:- Vol 3, p 164 states that "Pierssey Poole, his earmark is a happeny aforesaid each ear, and a nick in each hapenny, entered this 12th day of October 1736, by me, Micah Clark". In the will of Samuel Thurston of Jamaica, L.I., dated January 25/1721-2, Percy Pool signed as a witness. On November 5/1769, Percy and his sons James and Solomon, signed a road petition.
         Pierce Poole married, 1st, Mary - (last name not given), as per the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 19 page 11, containing a copy of the Register Book of the Parish of Jamaica, L.I., kept by the Reverend Thomas Poyar, Rector of Grace Church from 1710 to 1732, in which was recorded the baptism of his son James, son of Pierce and Mary Poole. There is no record of Mary's maiden name, nor her birth and death dates.

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However, there is mentioned in Hempstead Town Records, a Lawrence Poole who was an ensign in a military company there in 1746. As an ensign he would have been about 16 years of age, making his birth about 1730. This would suggest that Pierce Poole's first wife was a Lawrence, of the large Lawrence family in Hempstead, but I cannot trace her in the Lawrence genealogies.
Pierce Poole married, 2nd, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, LI, on July 5/1740, Sarah Pearse (spelled Pierce in the St. George's Church Records), daughter of William and Elizabeth Pearse of Hempstead, William Pearce's will appears in the New York Historical Society's collections, Abstracts of Wills, Vol 3, p 258, dated January 15/1738-9, proved May 26/1739, in which he wrote:- "I leave to my wife Elizabeth, one third of all the money made by the sale of my estate, and the other two thirds to my daughters Sarah, Rosannah (who married on November 17/1752, Thomas Birdsall) Hannah, and Phebe, (who married on March 21/1761, Albert Albertson), hut as it is likely that my wife is with child, that child is to have an equal portion". Executors, my brothers James Pearse, and my friend Joseph Hallett: the witnesses were Samuel Langdon, John Carman, and Mordecai Lester.
Issue:- (by his first wife Mary (Lawrence?):-
1. James Poole Baptized at Grace Church, Jamaica, L.I., July 14/1728, *

died May 6/1804. He lived and died at the old Poole Homestead. He married, (date not given), Hannah Rushmore, born 1724, died November 1/1809, daughter of John and Mary (Carman) Rushmore: this is confirmed in Augustus Poole's bible, and in several land transfers. There is, however, a very puzzling entry in St. George Church Records, that a James Poole married on December 4/1748, Mary Langdon, daughter of Joseph Langdon: this must be some other James Poole. whom I have not been able to locate yet. See subject 32 for issue and further particulars.

2. Solomon Poole. Dates of birth an death unknown, but he must have been born

in Hempstead about 1730-35. He died at West Farms, (now Fordham), Westchester County, N.Y., but the Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery there (his church) was destroyed and the records lost when the Southern Boulevard and the Elevated Railway were constructed. His earmark was registered at Hempstead in 1771. He married at Hempstead on September 8/1766, Letitia Jackson, dates of birth and death unknown, but she was alive in 1812 at West Farms, Morrisania, Westchester County, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Townsend) Jackson, who were married in 1738, see subject 616, page 6. His history is so long, I am putting it under Subject 64-A, which see for their issue and further particulars,

3. Lawrence Poole. No record exists of his being a son of Pierce, except

an entry in Hempstead Town Records, stating that Lawrence Poole was an ensign in a military company in Hempstead in 1746. An ensign would have been not over 16 years of age, making his birth about 1750, and as there was no other Poole in Hempstead in that year, he was probably a son of Pierce. This also suggests his mother was a Lawrence. Issue:- (by his second wife Sarah Pearse)

4 William Poole. Date of birth unknown but it was after 1741. His will in the

New York Society's Collections, Vol l2,p 40, dated March 6/1779, proved March 29/1783, gives the approximate date of death. He married, date unknown, Mary Langdon, daughter of Ezekiel and Sarah (---) Langdon of Hempstead. Ezekiel's will in Vol 6. p7, dated

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August 3/1760, proved October 25/1760, mentioned sons Richard, Archelos, and Samuel, and daughters Mary, Elizabeth and Milly, who were all minors in 1760. His history is so long that I am putting it under subject 64B, which see for his issue and further particulars.

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         I note here, for future reference, various bits of information culled from the sources mentioned, about the Pooles, which may be relations of Pierce Poole, but I cannot as yet identify them.

Mary Poole. In a will of William Johnson of Hempstead, dated January 11/1818, proved July 30/1818, he mentions his heirs, sons Gilbert and John and daughter Mary Poole and Mary's son Richard Poole. What Poole she was the wife of I haven't discovered yet. The N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 56, page 26, says a Richard Poole died March 16/1849, aged 58 which would make his birth 1791. This Richard married at Hempstead, on February 8/1815, Sarah Ackley of Rockaway, baptized at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on July 29/1795, daughter of William and Rachel Ackley of Hempstead. Richard's will, dated June 8/1849 (?), proved April 9/1649, names his wife Sarah, daughter Martha Ann, wife of William Davison, and her children Sarah Ann and Lucinda, art son Richard William Poole, and the latter's daughter Mary Poole: he also mentions Eliza and Elijah Southard, probably children of David and Ruth Southard of Hempstead: David Southard's will was dated October 29/1840, proved May 30/1844. The N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 53, page 242 mentions a Richard Pool who married at the First Presbyterian Church, Hempstead, on March 24/1810, Martha Abrahams. Who was he? In the "Portrait and Biographical Record", of Queens County, L.I., by the Chapman Publishing Co. of New York, 1896, Vol 2, page 692, a Richard W Poole of Rockville Center, Hempstead, born at Hempstead in 1856, son of Richard W. and Mary (Story) Poole, natives of Hempstead. This Richard W. Poole died in 1887 and was in the real estate business and a farmer. Who was he?

         In the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vols 7 to 30, containing the records of the First Presbyterian Church, New York, appear the following Pooles, who I think were not any relation of our Pooles. Ann Poole. She married Thomas Lincoln and had five children. Agnes Poole. Vol 9, p 70. She married on June 21/1762, Donald Forbes. William Poole. He married on August 26/1773, Evangelica Broadwell, and had a son John Vredenburgh Poole born September 27/1774 (?). Thomas Poole. He married Jane McCord and had Sarah, born September 23/1767 and Mary, born July 3/1770.

         Hempstead Town Records show a Lawrence Poole who was a member of a military company there in 1746. Who was he?

         The Christian Intelligencer gives the following Pooles, whom l cannot yet identify:-

James Poole.        Died in Brooklyn, September 8/1861, aged 87 years,

making his birth 1774.

Lydia Poole, Wife of James Poole, died at New Utrecht, N.Y., on

July 8/1856, aged 74, making her birth 1782.

James Hubbard Poole,Died at Brooklyn, April 25/1860, aged 48, making his

birth 1812. Rev. Poyer's record says he married on October 4/1840, Phebe Maria Cornwell of Kings County.

Joseph Poole. Died September 17/1859, aged 87, making his birth 1772.
Mrs Elizabeth Poole. Died January 5/1852, aged 74 years, making his birth 1778.
Rebecca A. Poole, Of West Farms, Westchester, N.Y, She married at Fordham

on January 2/1850 Percy P. Weeks. of West Farms. Deaths from the N.Y. Evening Post, by Gertrude A. Barber, 1940, records her death on May 21/1872.

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Samuel H. Poole. N.Y. Evening Post Deaths records his death on March

21/1867, aged 35, making his birth 1832.

Samuel R. Poole. Queensboro Library Records records his birth on

February 13/1832, died March 22/1867. Same man? Or son

Julia Meigs Poole. Queensboro Library Records say she was born November

13/1837, died December 24/1867, daughter of Charles Austin and Julia Augusta (Van Zandt) Meigs. She married Samuel Poole. Was she the wife of above Samuel H. Poole and mother of Samuel R. Poole?

Sarah Elizabeth Poole. Died at Brooklyn, December 20/1869, aged 23,

making her birth 1846, youngest daughter of George Pool and wife of Jacob De Hart Bergen. (From the Bergen Genealogy by T.G. Bergen, Albany, N.Y., 1876, page 319.) I don't think she was any relation of ours

In St. George's Church, Hempstead, records is the baptism on October 26/1787, of James and Elizabeth Poole, adults. who were they?

The New York Tribune of July 27/1901, says that Pierce N Poole, alderman and chief clerk in the Attorney's office at salary of $l500, was removed by attorney Philbin. Pierce acknowledged he had a liquor store and saloon at 618 Grand Avenue. and its income helped to support his fanily of eight children, because his salary as clerk at the attorney's office was not enough. Who was he?

Letitia Poole. She married at the Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, L.I.

on February 10/1811, Enoch Sopher. Who was she?

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64A - SOLOMON POOLE.

         Was the second son of Pierce and Mary (---) Poole of Hempstead, L.I.,(see subject 64.) and brother of our ancestor, James Poole, subject 32.
         Solomon Poole's birth and death dates are not known, but he was probably born between 1730 and 1735 at Hempstead, and died at Morrisania, now called Fordham) in Westchester County, New York. He was probably buried at West Farms Cemetery there, but this cemetery has been obliterated in the construction of Southern Boulevard: the grave stones have been lost, and none of the cemetery records recorded anywhere.
         Solomon was living in Hempstead in 1771, when his ear mark was registered, and he was probably still living there in 1787 when his youngest daughter Elizabeth was baptized at St. George's Church. He must have moved to Morrisania before 1790, as the First U.S.A. Census of that year, printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., stated that Solomon was a resident of Westchester Township, and that his household consisted of three males over 16 years of age, three under 16, three females (ages not given), and one negro slave. The Census of 1800 in the District of Morrisania, gave Solomon's family as consisting of himself and his wife, both over 45 years of age, with two sons, one under 10 and one under 16 years of age - no mention of any daughter. Solomon and all his family were members of the Reformed Dutch Church of Fordham, which stood just beside the present Elevated Railway Station at Fordham.
         Solomon married[xiii] at Hempstead, on September 8/1766, Letitia Jackson dates of birth and death unknown, but she was still living in 1812, the date of her sister Jemima's will, mentioning her as living in Morrisania. Letitia was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Townsend) Jackson, see subject 616, page 5 for her ancestry and brothers and sisters. There is a record of a Letitia Poole who married at the Reformed Dutch Church, Flatbush, on February 10/1811, Enoch Sopher. Could this be her second marriage?
         The following pages show that Solomon Poole's descendants stayed in New York State, many drifted back to Long Island, while the descendants of Solomon Poole's elder brother James Poole, emigrated west, and into many far countries of the world.
Issue:- (taken from his will, so may not be in proper order)
1/1. Townsend Poole. The De Vos Genealogy gives his birth as 1766-7,

but the family records of William Earle Poole (see below), gives his birth as 1769 at Hempstead, L.I., and his death at Fordham on October 27/1852, over 83 years of age. He married at Trinity Church, New York, on 1 September 26/1789, Euphemia (Effy) Devoe, born at Fordham in 1772, died there November 3/1852, seventh child of John and Maria (De Bevoise) De Voe, and grand daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Colyer) De Voe, and great grand daughter of Frederick and Hester (Tourner) De Voe[xiv]. Euphemia's father John De Voe, lived in Morrisania and raised products which he shipped by boat to New York. The "Genealogy of the De Voe Family", by Thomas F. De Voe, New York, 1885, states that the De Veaux or De Vos family were Huguenot refugees who fled from France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, first to Mannheim, Germany, thence to England. The first of the family to come to America, were Mattheus De Vos and his wife, who arrived at New York as early as 1655. The next to arrive, were Nicholas and Daniel De Vos, who came to Now York in 1674, with a son Edmund De Vos. Daniel was the progenitor of all the Devoes in this genealogy.
Issue:- (from Records of the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham)
2/1. Solomon Poole, born at Fordham, January 11/1790, died at

Tremont, (Bronx) N.Y., May 4/1858. He married at Fordham, on December 3/1823,

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his cousin, Deborah Corsa, born at Morrisania in 1798, died at Tremont, N.Y., January 30/1862, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Poole) Corsa, see page 6.
Issue:- (from the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham, records)
3/1. Townsend Poole, born at Fordham, April 7/1826, date of death

unknown. He married at Eastchester, N.Y., on November 20/1856, his cousin, Mary Ann Weeks, daughter of John and Melicent (Poole) Weeks. I haven't discovered her birth and death dates, nor the names of their children.

2/2. Townsend Jackson Poole, born at Fordham, August 22/1796,

died in the early 1830s: (this is from William Earle Poole's records). He married at Fordham, on June 24/1820, Deborah Cromwell, who died at Paterson, N.J., between 1845 and 1850. After Townsend's death, she married, 2nd, a Mr. Burgoyne.
Issue :-
3/1. Augustus Poole, born at Morrisania, August 2/1821.
3/2. Mary Poole, born at Morrisania, September 10/1825.
3/3. Oliver Cromwell Poole, born at Morrisania, March 17/1827,

died at Kingsbridge, N.Y., December 11/1903. He married at Fordham, on July 28/1853, Cecilia Angeline Wood, born at Morrisania, July 28/1834, of South Yonkers, died at Kingsbridge, September 18/1917.
Issue:-
4/1. Anna Eveline Poole. born at Kingsbridge, August 4/1854, died

at Huntington, b.I., September 18/1917. She married at Inwood-on-Hudson, on April 2/1891, Abraham C. Lefurgy of Ardsley, N.Y., probably son of Abraham C. and Francine (Austin) Lefurgy of Dobbs Ferry and Hastings-on-Hudson, who were married on November 2/1854.Issue:- (both born at Ardsley)
5/1. Ethel Poole Lefurgy, born January 24/1892, died at

Huntington, L.I., November 26/1927. She married at Kingsbridge, on April 17/1912, Walter J. Smith. Issue :-
6/1. Marjorie Evelyn Smith,

born at Patchogue, L.I., February 23/1913.

5/2. Oliver Cromwell Lefurgy, born May 25/1895,

died there February 6/1896.

4/2. Jane Eliza Poole, born at South Yonkers, March 15/1856,

Died at Thomaston, May 2/1932. She married at Inwood-on-Hudson, on November 16/1881, Albert L. Purdy.

4/3. Harold Cromwell Poole, born at South Yonkers, March 19/1858,

died there October 27/1909. He married at Inwood on August 25/1880, Minnie Oliver, who died at Kingsbridge, July 2/1906.

4/4. William Augustus Poole,

born at South Yonkers, January 4/1860, died at Kingsbridge, December 21/1887.

4/5. George Edward Poole, born at South Yonkers, December 10/1863,

died at Huntington, L.I., July 28/1936. He was a policeman in New York City. He married at Kingsbridge, on February 16/1904, Jennie Messinger Tilt, born at Piedmont, N.Y., December 31/1869, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Tilt, and widow of Mr. Lake. In 1949 Jennie lived at 21 Grandview Avenue, Huntington, L.I.
Issue:- (born at Kingsbridge, N.Y.)
5/1. William Earle Poole, born July 8/19O5.

He married at Huntington, on December 31/1929, Barbara Smilie Gray, born

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Glasgow, Scotland, May 31/1908, daughter of William Miller and Isabella (Reid) Gray of Dalry, Scotland. In 1949 William Earle Poole was a partner in Pools & Cumela, contractors and builders, Huntington, and they lived at 85 Grandview Avenue.
Issue
6/1. Dorothy Reid Poole, born at Huntington, January 21/1931.

5/2. Dorothy Poole, born November 21/1906. When she was 18

years old she was stricken with infantile Paralysis, and in 1949 lived with her mother.

4/6. Alma E. Poole, born at South Yonkers, February 12/1868, died

at Huntington, April 6/1934. She was not married.

2/3. Euphemia Poole, born 1798-9. She married at Fordham on November 1/1820,

William Weeks. I cannot find his parents' names.

2/4. John Devoe Poole, born February 13/1802. He married at Fordham, on

November 17/1824, Phebe Devoe, born 1803, died 1876, daughter of Charles and Eliza (Valentine) Devoe. Charles Devoe's will, dated May 4/1836, mentions his daughter Phebe but says it was his daughter Mary who married John Devoe Poole: I don't know which is correct.
Issue:
3/1. Charles Devoe Poole, born August 29/1825. he married, about

1848, his cousin Mary Elizabeth Hopper, born March 4/1831, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Devoe) Hopper. Elizabeth Devoe was the daughter of Charles and Eliza (Valentine) Devoe
Issue:-
4/1. John Poole, born January 31/1850.
4/2. Hannah Hopper Poole, born February 10/1852.
4/3. Charles Henry Poole, born February 25/1855.
4/4. Frederick Hitchcock Poole, born February 8/1858.
4/5. Edmund Mclean Poole, born December 26/1860.
4/6. George Robinson Poole, born October 14/1862.
4/7. William Edgar Poole, born May 18/1865.

3/2. Euphemia Poole, born September 22/1827. No further data.
3/3. Mary Elizabeth Poole, born at Highbridge, N.Y., February

23/1834. She married there, on October 15/1862, George Washington Robinson, born at Middletown, Conn., August 25/1832, son of Harvey and one of his three wives, names unknown, Robinson. he was a relative of Theron Robinson who married Amanda Poole, see page 9.
Issue:- (all born at Highbridge)
4/1. Phebe Lydia Robinson, born May 27/1864.
4/2. John Poole Robinson, born July 12/1868.
4/3. George Washington Robinson, born May 1/1874.

3/4. Smith Devoe Poole, born at Morrisania, October 20/1839.

2/5. Mary Poole, born at Morrisania, February 23/1804.
2/6. Elizabeth Poole, born at Morrisania, August 23/1807. She married

at Fordham, on November 9/1825, Jeremiah Cromwell of West Farms. The "History of Westchester, N.Y.", by the Reverend Robert Bolton, New York, 1905, says Jeremiah was descended from John and Mary Cromwell, the supposed son of Col. John Cromwell, who lived in Westchester Township in 1686: Col. John Cromwell was the son of Sir Oliver Cromwell of England, and a cousin of the renowned Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, (1599-1658). The Cromwells of Westchester were possessed of considerable property in Harrison, N.Y., their old homestead being on the south east side of Rye Pond. These Cromwells claim descent from the same parent stock as that of the Lord Protector of England.

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Issue:-
3/1. Townsend Poole Cromwell, born at Fordham, September 20/1826,

died September 14/1864 in the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Ga., buried in the National Andersonville Cemetery, Grave No. 8695. Like his illustrious ancestor Oliver Cromwell, he was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War, a private in Company C, sixth New York Artillery. Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia, 60 miles southwest of Macon, from November 1863 till the close of the Civil War, was a Confederate Military prison in an open stockade of 26 1/2 acres. The sufferings of the prisoners from congestion, insufficient food, exposure and pollution of the water supply, and disease, were terrible. Of the 49,485 prisoners, about 13,000 died. After the war, the superintendent, Henry Wirz, was tried by a court martial and hanged on November 10/1865. The prisoner's burial ground was made a National Cemetery, and contains 13,737 graves, of which 1040 are marked "unknown". Townsend Poole Cromwell married his cousin, Sarah Weeks, eldest daughter of John and Melicent (Poole) Weeks, see page 6. I have not been able to find the names of their children, if any.

3/2. Susannah Emily Cromwell, born February 26/1829.
3/3. Edmond Cromwell, born February 28/1831.
3/4. Williem Morris Cromwell, born November 28/1834.
3/5. Gilbert Guion Cromwell, (twin) born July 21/1841.
3/6. Euphemia Maria Cromwell, (twin), born July 21/1841.

1/2. Pierce Poole. born at Hempstead, L.I., before 1774, date of death

unknown. I cannot find the name of his wife, nor her birth and death dates. He moved to Monnisania with his parents some time before 1790. The Morrisania Census of 1800 records him as living there with his wife, both over 16 and under 26 years of age, with three daughters under ten years of age. The only records of him are as follows:- He and his father Solomon, witnessed the will of John Devoe, dated November 1/1804, whose wife was Maria Be Bevoise. This will mentioned daughters Effy (Euphemia) who married Pierce's elder brother Townsend Poole: Elizabeth Berrien, Anna Berrien, and Sarah Weeks Devoe. Pierce Poole signed as a witness on December 27/1803, the will of Hezekiah Ward. I am assuming the following were his daughters, whose marriages are recorded at the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham, as they do not belong to any of Pierce's brothers. He may have had sons born after the Morrisenia Census of 1800. Issue
2/1. Letitia Poole, dates of birth and death unknown, but she was under 10

years of age in 1800. She married at Fordham, on May 13/1828, Elijah Searing. I have not been able to find out anything of them.

2/2. Millicent Poole, dates of birth and death unknown, but she was

under 10 years of age in 1800. She married at Fordham, on November 12/1828 John Weeks, born 1805, died 1877, son of John and Sally (Devoe) Weeks. The "Genealogy of George Weekes of Dorchester, Mass by Robert P. Weeks, 1885, page 296, states that John and Millicent (Poole) Weeks lived at Tremont, the Bronx, N.Y., from 1828 to 1854, at East Chester from 1854 to 1865, and gives the names of their children as follows, who lived at Tremont, N.Y. until 1885: no birth or death dates given.
Issue: -
3/1. Sarah Weeks. She married her cousin Townsend Poole Cromwell,

born September 20/1826, cied at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Ga., September 14/1864, of scorbutus, son of Jeremiah

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and Elizabeth (Poole) Cromwell, see page 4 for further particulars

3/2. Frederick Weeks.
3/3. Mary Ann Weeks. She married at Fordham, on November 20/1856,

her cousin, Townsend Poole, born at Morrisania, April 7/1826, son of Solomon and Deborah (Corsa) Poole, see page 1. I have not found the names of their children, if any.

3/4. Jackson Weeks.
3/5. Elizabeth Weeks.
3/6. John M. Weeks.
3/7. George Augustus Weeks.
3/8. Jennie Weeks.

2/3. Daughter, name, birth and death dates unknown, mentioned in the

Morrisania Census of 1800 as one of Pierce Poole's three daughters.

1/3. Mary Poole. Born at Hempstead, L.I., February 10/1777, baptized at

St. George's Church, Hempstead, August 9/1783, died at Yonkers, N.Y., January 26/1859, buried in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers. (This and much of the below is from "Inscriptions in St. John's Cemetery", by Francis F. Spies, Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1927). Mary Poole was brought by her parents to Morrisania (now Westchester) some time before 1790: in 1851 she was recorded as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church at West Farms, Fordham, N.Y. She married at Fordham, (date not given), as his third wife, Andrew Corsa, born at Fordham, January 14/1762, died November 21/1852. He served as a soldier in the Revolution. Andrew was the second son of Isaac and Mary (Gibb) Corsa, and grandson of Benjamin and Jannetje (Reyers) Corsa. Andrew's father Isaac Corsa, (1735-1761), was captain of an expedition of 95 men against the French and Indians in 1755. Andrew's grandfather Benjamin (1692-1772), had his homestead on the grounds of the present Fordham University, and this house was still standing there in 1914, used as an infirmary. Benjamin Corsa's parentage is given in two different versions: one by Cuyler Reynolds in his "History of Southern New York", states that Benjamin's father was Cornelius Corsa, (1645-1692-3), who married Marritje Jacobs Van der Grift. Francis F. Spies, however, states that Benjamin's father was Jan Corszen, baptized at Recife, Brazil, August 1/1649, and that Jan's wife was Metje Gray, daughter of Theunis Gray, and that Jan was the son of Christiaen Janss Corsa and Jennetjen Christiaens of Hollend. I don't know, which is correct. The name Corsa appears in early Dutch records in a variety of forms, such as Corse, Corsa, Corsse, Corssen, and Coursen: the name appears to have been derived from Cornelius, as the Dutch often used many shortenings of names, Cornelius being shortened to Cors. In Westchester County, the family wrote it as Cursa, and the will of Benjamin is recorded under the name of Coursen. The first record of this family in America is of Cornelius Pieterse Vroom Corssen, who married Tryntje Hendricks: he died before 1657, and she married, 2nd, on August 17/1657, Frederick Lubbertse of Brooklyn, N.Y. Andrew Corsa had married, 1st, Helena Bussing, born October 28/1763, date of death unknown, daughter of Peter and Charity (Williams) Bussing. Andrew married, 2nd, Mary Bussing, born January 23/1766, sister of his first wife Helena, date of death unknown. Cuyler Reynolds "History of Southern New York", states that Andrew's first two wives, Helena and Mary Bussing, were daughters of Peter and Susannah (Myer) Bussing: I don't know which is correct. Not knowing the dates of Andrew's three marriages, I give below all his children, for I cannot tell who their mother's were: it is proved and recorded that his sixth to ninth children were by his third wife Mary Poole.

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Issue:- (by either his first or second wife)
2/1. John Corsa, born March 16/1796-8, died August 1876, buried in St

John's Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y. He married at Fordham, on September 21/l818, Dorcas ---, born May 21/1804, died July 2/1870, buried in St John's Centetery.
Issue
3/1. Helen Corsa, born January 12/1824, died August 17/1890, She married

William Ward, born November 13/1822-28, died November 1896.

2/2. Deborah Corsa, born 1798, died at Tremont, N.Y., January 30/1862.

She married at Fordham, on December 3/1823, Solomon Poole, born at Morrisania, January 11/1790, her cousin, son of Townsend and Euphemia (Devoe) Poole. See page 2 for their issue and further particulars.

2/3. Solomon Corsa, born April 9/1800, died March 21/1892, buried in

St.John's Cemetery, Yonkers. He married at Fordbam, on October 5/1825, Elizabeth Devoe, born March 1/1807, died July 12/1880 buried in St, John's Cemetery, Yonkers, daughter of John and Sarah (Weeks) Devoe, and grand daughter of John and Maria (De Bevoise) Devoe, see page 1.
Issue:- (only the first two recorded at Fordham)
3/1. Robert Weeks Poole Corsa, born at Fordham, July 31/1826.
3/2. Andrew Corsa, born at Fordham, December 17/1828.
3/3. Elizabeth Corsa,
3/4. Martha Corsa.
3/5. Edmund Corsa, born August 10/1836, died January 11/1860.

He married Hannah F-----.
Issue;-
4/1. Hannah F. Corsa, died May 22/1860, in infancy.

3/6. Matilda Corsa, born 1838, died 1870. She married Homer A. Kidd,

born 1830, died 1900, buried in Walden, N.Y.

3/7. Emma Corse, died April 4/l885, buried in St. John's Cernetery,

Yonkers. She married at Fordham in 1866, her cousin, John H. Devoe, born 1840, son of William Henry and Elizabeth (Corsa) Devoe, see page 7.

3/8. Harriet Corsa,
3/9. John Devoe Corsa, born February 7/1846, died December 11/1876.
3/10. J. Walton Corsa, born Janusry 14/1850, died December 11/1874.

2/4. Ellenor Corsa, born April 19/1803, died July 19/1819, unmarried.
2/5. Martha Corsa, born December 29/1805, died in December 1873. She married

at Fordham, on October 12/1825, Peter Bussing, born October 10/1792, died October 7/1864, son of John and Sarah (Valentine) Bussing. He was one of the first trustees of the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham. He was a dieect descendant of Arent Hermanse Bussing, who came from the province of Westphalia, Germany, on the border of the Overyssel, Holland, about the middle of the 17^th century, settled first in Flatbush, L.I., then in Harlem, N.Y., where he bought 127 acres in what is now Washington Heights. His wife was Susannah de Ia Maistre, later spelled Delemater. (This is from "The History of Harlem", by James Riker, New York, 1904).
Issue:- (all born in Morrisania)
3/1. Matilda Ann Bussing, born October 16/1827.
3/2. Martha Bussing, born April 7/1829.
3/3. John Bussing, born May 1/1831, died January 8/1877.

He married on July 8/1863, Amanda Valentine.
Issue:- (born in Morrisania)
4/1 .Martha Valentine Bussing, born April 10/1864, died unmarried.
4/2. Mary Bussing. She married on July 2/1890, Relph O. Ives,

and had one child.

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4/3. Sarah Amanda Bussing, born November 6/1871, died unmarried.
4/4. John Bussing, born July 15/1877, died unmarried.

3/4. Mary Bussing, born September 1/1833. She married at Fordham on

November 15/1853, William Johnson of Mott Haven or Carmansville.

3/5. Peter Washington Bussing, born February 22/1836, died young,
3/6. Hannah Bussing, born October 7/1838, died unmarried,
3/7. Martha Jane Bussing, born June 7/1841. She married at Fordham on

May 20/1862, James B. Sheridan of Philadelphia and had four children.

3/8. Peter Valentine Bussing, born August 20/1843, died 1902 unmarried.
3/9. Sarah Elizabeth Bussing, born February 2O/1847,

died January 31/1863, unmarried.

2/6. Letitia Corsa, born August 19/1809, died December 1/1879, buried in

St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y. Her mother was Mary Poole. She married at Fordham on December 5/1826, Christopher Walton, born March 20/1801-1810, died November 10/1864. In 1868 she moved to White Plains, N.Y.
Issue:- (all born in Morrisania)
3/1. Mary Walton, born November 1/1827.
3/2. Elizabeth Walton, born April 10/1829, died at Yonkers,

September 11/1830.

3/3. Hannah Elizabeth Walton, born July 23/1830, died October 21/1831.
3/4. Matilda A. Walton, born September 4/1832, died February 8/1885.

She married, 1st, Charles L. Nodine, buried in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers, She married, 2nd, as his second wife, on February 22/1860, Samuel Gregory, born at Danbury, Conn., February 26/1823, died June 5/1905, son of Preston and Clara (Hickok) Gregory. Sanuel was first, adjutant, then Commander of the Volunteers in 1862-1863, and later Colonel in the Miilitia: lived in Danbury.
Issue:- (by her first husband Charles L. Nodine)
4/1. Emma Nodine, born November 11/1851, died July 11/1853.
Issue:- (by her second husband Samuel Gregory)
4/2. Sarah Walton Gregory, born January 31/1862.

3/5. Sarah Maria Walton, born June 26/1837.
3/6. Isaac Poole Walton, born January 7/1840.
3/7. Samuel James Walton, born October 13/1842.
3/8. William Andrew Walton, born January 7/1846.

2/7. Hannah Corsa, born March 20/1812, died October 1/1878.

Her mother was Mary Poole. She was buried in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers. She married Elisha Hallar or Haller, born November 3/1793, died March 19/1869, a merchant in New York City.

2/8. Elizabeth Corsa, born May 13/1815, died June 1/1885.

She married, 1st, at Fordham, on July 12/1837, William Henry Devoe, born 1811, died before 1851. She married, 2nd, John Aitchison, a soldier in Company A, 17th New York Infantry in the Civil war. Both are buried in St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers.
Issue:- (by her first husband William Henry Devoe)
3/1. John H. Devoe, born 1840. He married in 1866, his cousin,

Emma Corsa, who died April 4/1885, daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Devoe) Corsa, see page 6.
Issue
4/1. Chauncey Levoe, born 1874, lived in Highbridge, N.Y.

2/9. Amelia Corsa, born March 2/1816-20, died May 20/1887, buried in

St. John's Cemetery, Yonkers. She married at Fordham on January

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28/1843, Thomas Oliver, born January 1/1809, died May 17/1881, son of Nicholas and Mary (Hobbs ) Oliver.
Issue :-

3/1. Thomas Oliver, born at Bath, England, April 2/1844,

Died 1921. He was a soldier in Company G, 37th New York Volunteers in the Civil War. He mairried in 1866, Emma L. Browne, born July 27/1846, died in September 1900.
Issue
4/1. Hattie Oliver, born October 17/1871,

died May 4/1894: single.

1/4. Jackson Poole. Dates of birth and death unknown but he was born

before 1774, as the New York census of 1790 said he was over 16 years of age. He was not mentioned in the Morrisania Census of 1800. He married at the Dutch Reformed Church, Fordham, on November 12/1808, Mary Eleanor Corsa, born January 22/1786, date of death unknown. I have not discovered the names of her parents, but there is a record of the marriage at Hempstead, L.I., on April 4/1769, of Benjemin and Jemima (Chapple) Corsa: could these be her parents?
Issue:- (from the Dutch Reformed Church Records)
2/1. Eleanor Poole, born at Morrisania, June 24/1812, died March 21/1815
2/2. Mary Poole, born at Morrisania, April 14/1815, date of death not known.

There was a Mary Poole who married at Fordham, on November 16/1830, a James Poole: could he have been a son of Pierce Poole, page 4, born after the 1800 Census? I cannot find anything about them.

2/3. Isaac Poole, born at Morrisania, July 9/1818, died at Little Neck,

L.I., April 29/1900, buried in Christ Church Cemetery, Manhasset, L.I. He married at Fordham, on February 25/l840, Sarah Ann Valentine, born at Fordham, March 17/1819, died at Little Neck, June 3/1889, daughter of Peter and Mary (Briggs) Valentine, who were married at Fordham on December 19/1812. Sarah was buried at Christ Church Cemetery, Manhasset, L.I., with two of her children.
Issue:- (given me by William Wilkins Robinson)
3/1. Amanda Poole, born at Morrisania, February 14/1840 (?),

Died at Great Neck, L.I., September 29/1928, buried in Christ church Cemetery, Manhasset. She married, 1st, at Little Neck, on May 7/1867, Theron Robinson, born at Chaplin, Conn, February 19/1835, died at New Haven, Conn., November 3/1877, son of Willian and Sophia (Robbins) Robinson, his second wife. Theron came to Little Neck to teach school, then to Lakeville, L.I., but on account of his health moved to New Haven, where he had a grocery store. Theron was a direct descendant of the Reverend John Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrims at Leyden, Holland, born at Sturton, Lincolnshire, England, in 1575, and his wife Bridget Whyte, who were married on Fehruary 15/1603-4. The Reverend John Robinson was the one who gathered together the band of Pilgrims, who came to England on the "Mayflower" in 1621: he died in England before they sailed. His son Isaac was the progenitor of the Robinson family in America. (This is from the "Genealogy of the Robinson Family in America", by the Robinson Genealogy Society of Newport, R.I.) Amanda married, 2nd, at Little Neck, Benjamin Edgar Williams, born May 19/1842, died May 24/1892, son of William and his second wife Cecilia (Dicks) Williams. Benjamin was a farmer at Lakeville, and at Plattsdale, L.I.

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Issue:- (by her first husband Theron Robinson)
4/1. Isaac Poole Robinson, horn at Little Neck, May 5/1868,

Diedthere August 17/1937, buried in Douglaston, L.I. He was an architect. He married at Little Neck, on April 30/1894, Maria Anderson Fowler, born there, June 16/1868, daughter of Benjamin 1817-1892) and Ellen Maria (Bennem) 1827-1894) Fowler. In 1949 Maria lived at 41-32 Landing Road, Little Neck, L.I., (phone Bayside 9-4983-J).
Issue:- (all born at Little Neck, L.I.)
5/1. Hope Robinson, born July 26/1896.

She married in New York City, on May 19/1937, Samuel Tilden Swenarton, born at Newtown, L.I., March 17/1885, son of Robert and Laura Jenkins (Wood) Swenarton. Samuel was in the printing business: they had no children.

5/2. Evelyn Bennem Robinson, born May 1/1899.

In 1949 she was a librarian at the New York Public Library, 135th St branch and lived with her mother. She was not married.

4/2. Charles Granville Robinson, born at Little Neck, April 14/1871. He married on March 21/1905, Nellie Pirnie Onderdonk, born November 3/1868, eldest child of Benjamin Hoogland and Mary Adelaide (Underhill) Ondordonk. They had no children and in 1949 lived at 7t Fifth St., Orange, N.J.

4/3. Willian Wilkins Robinson, born at New Havn, Conn., April 9/1875.

He was in the plumbing business and in 1949 lived at 15 Arbor Road, Great Neck, phone 2-2146. He married, lst, at East Northfield, Mass., on October 4/1905, Henrietta Newton, born there December 3/1882, died at Great Neck, September 3/1905 in childbirth, daughter of Edward H. and Mary (Carp) Newton. He married, 2nd, at Little Neck, on April 10/1910, Mary Jane Onderdonk, born at Glen Cove, L.I., October 21/1875, third child of Benjamin Hoogland and Mary Adelaide (Underhill) Onderdonk of Thomaston, Conn. They had no children.
Issue :- (by his first wife Henrietta Newton)
5/1. Jeanette Newton Robinson, born at Great Neck,

September 3/1905. She married at the Dutch Reformed Church, Manhasset, on August 4/1927, Lewis Franklin Kayel, born at Brooklyn, N.Y., April 9/1896, son of Joseph and Mary Royal, He was a salesman with Mack Trucks and later with the General Salvage Co., Hempstead, L.I. In 1949 they lived at Greendale, L.I.
Issue:-
6/1. Michael Robinson Kayel, Born in N.Y. City, Nov 18/1934.

4/4. Theron Le Roy Robinson, born in New Haven, July 5/1877,

died at Great Neck, May 6/1947, buried in Bantam, Conn. He was a building contractor. He married at Bantam on June 22/1912, Flora Glover, born at Bantam, June 3/1888, daughter of Monshel H. and Lucy (Morse) Glover. In 1949 they lived at 21 Third Street, Great Neck, L.I.
Issue:-
5/1. Louise Glover Robinson, born at Manhasset, July 3/1914.

She married at Great Neck, on September 11/1937, Carl Emden Habermann, born in New York City, March 24/1915, son of Charles and Mathilda (Kahn) Habernann. Charles was born at Hanau, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau,

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14 miles from Frankfurt, and came to New York in 1888, and died in 1949. In 1949 Carl was supervisor in the automotive engineering division of Socony-Vacuum's laboratory: in 1950 he transferred to the Research division at Paulsboro, N.J., and they lived at 48 Beachwood Road, Manhasset, L.I.
Issue:-
6/1. Richard Carl Habermann, born September 5/1940.
6/2. Joan Louise Habermann, born July 13/1944.

5/2. Lucy Amanda Robinson, born at Mineola, L.I.,

September 25/1926. She married at Great Neck on April 20/1946, John Franklin Holton, born at Macon Ga., February 22/1922, son of Benjamin Franklin and Essie (Williams) Holton. John was a marine engineer and in 1949 they lived at 21 Third St., Great Neck, LI. They had no children.

Issue:- (by her second husband Benjamin Edgar Williams)
4/5. Sarah Cecilia Williams, born at Plattsdale, L.I.,

December 8/1881. She married at Great Neck on June 8/1912, Clarence Mortimer Onderdonk, born July 11/1879, fourth child of Benjamin Hoogland and Mary Adelaide (Underhill) Onderdonk. For twenty years Clarence had been a building pricer in the Assessor's office at Hempstead and in 1940 they lived at 96 Millington Place, Mineola, L.I. The "Genealogy of the Onderdonk Family", by Andrew I. Onderdonk, New York, 1910, states that the first Onderdonk emigrant to America may have been Dr. Adrian Var Der Donck or his brother Daniel, but it has sincs been proved that the progenitor of all the Onderdonks in America was Andries (or Adrianse) Onderdonk, born 1653, died 1686 at Jamaica, L.I., and his wife Maria Van Der Vliet of Cow Neack, near Manhasset L.I.
Issue
5/1. Benjamin Edgar Onderdonk, died at birth, December 11/1915.

3/2. Jane Haskin Poole, born August 2/1843, died at Great Neck, L.I,

May 25/1891, buried in the Quaker Cemetary, Manhassat . She married at Little Neck on June 17/1874, John Willets, born March 31/1841, died March 21/1888, ninth son of Daniel (Feb 11/1799-Oct 24/1850) and Jane Willets. John Willets was a Quaker and a farmer at Manhasset. The first Willets to come to America was Richard, born at Butcorm, Somersetshire, England in 1612, died 1664-5: he married before 1650, Mary Washburne, dauqhter of William and Jane Washburne: he came to Hempstead in 1657 and was Surveyor of Highways: he removed to Jericho among the early settlers of that place. His son Thomas, born March 1650, died April 15/1714, married at Secatague, L.I., Dinah Townsend, born at Warwick, L.I. in 1651, died at Secatague, October 18/1732, daughter of Richard and Deliverance (Coles) Townsend, and had nine children, see subject 616, page 4.Issue:- (all born at Manhasset, both parents over 35 years old)
4/1. Arthur Willets born January 22/1878. Educated at Manhasset and

Little Neck schools and High School at Flushing. Being orphaned when he was 13 years old, he went to Watts Flats, Chant County, N.Y., where his uncle George Willets lived. In 1900 at 22 years of age, he bought a partnership in a General store there. He married at Watts Flats on September

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20/1900, Gertrude Grace Bagley, born at Coneawago Valley, Catt County, N.Y., August 14/1878, daughter of William Henry and Cynthia Rebecca (---) Bagley of Watts Flats. In 1906, on account of health, he sold his business and removed to Great Neck, and went into the plumbing and heating business, and sheet metal and roofing business. in 1909 he returned to Watts Flats and worked up a good business in the same line until the first World War in 1914, when prices went so high it wrecked his business. He then removed to Erie, Pa., and established business in sheet metal work for eight years. In 1922 he removed to Westfield, N.Y., and bought a grape farm, and raised grapes until prohibition killed the price of grapes. His brother John Amos Willets also had a grape farm there at the same time. Arthur then removed to a farm in Washinston County, N.Y., near Ticonderoga and farmed it until 1945, when be removed to De Land, Florida, where in 1949 they lived at 642 North Hayden Avenue,
Issue:- (all born in Watts Flats)
5/1. Arthur William Willets, born June 26/1902.

In 1949 he was with the New York Life Insurance Co., and they lived at 1162 West 10th St., Erie, Pa. He married at Erie on October 24/1924, Bernadette Leamcy or Leamy of Erie: they had no children.

5/2. Leslie V. Willets , born September 14/1934, now dead.
5/3. Richard marvin Willets, born May 3/1910. In 1953 he joined

Swift & Co., Chicago and in 1949 they lived at 600 East 83rd St., Erie, Pa. He married at Jersey City, on April 17/1936, Edith M. Davis, born there September 9/1917, daughter of William and Mollie (Collins) Davis of Hasbrook Heights, N.J.
Issue:- (1&2 born at Hasbrook Heights, 3 at Chicago)
6/1. Patricia Willets, born June 2/1938.
6/2. Richard William Willets, born October 30/1943.
6/3. Lourie Jane Willets, born March 27/1947.

5/4. Viola Jane Willets, born July 30/1912. In the second World

War she served with the WACS: her husband also was in the Army. She married at De Land, Fla., on April 25/1943, Frederick Hartleb of Erie, born October 30/1910, son of Peter F. and Frances (---) Hartleb. In 1950 Frederick was a salesman and route supervisor for the Erie Daily Times, and they lived at 605 West 8th St, Erie. They had no children.

4/2. Samuel Jackson Willets, born June 6/1880. Since his 18th year

he was in the printing business and in 1949 was with the B.T. Press, William H. Beattie proprietor at 6235-43 Linwood Ave., Detroit, Mich. He married at Jamestown, N.Y. on October 6/1907, Grace Sarah Morningstar, born at Warren, Pa., October 29/1887, died October 30/1939, daughter of Elias and Lillian (Rappole) Morningstar of Warren and Jamestown, where Grace was educated. In 1949 they lived at 6239 Linwood Ave., Detroit 8 Mich.
Issue:-
5/1. Laura Beatrice Willets, born at Jamestown, N.Y., August

24/1908. She married at Toledo, Ohio, on April 28/1934,

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Lincoln Claude Welsh, born at Haskins, Ohio, November 15/1908, son of William and Diana (Demuth) Welsh. In 1949 Lincoln was manager of the catalogue department of the Toledo Steel Products Co., and they lived at Waterville, Ohio, Box 212.
Issue: -
6/1. William Lincoln Welsh, born at Toledo, July 7/1938.

5/2. Samuel Jackson Willets, Jr., born at Jamestown, N.Y.,

March 19/1914. In 1949 he was a Remodelling contractor at Toledo, Ohio. He married at Toledo in Gotober 23/1948, Ethel (Minnick) Brown, born at Toledo daughter of Claude Levi and Christina Florence (Spuehler) Minnick, and the former wife of Mr. Brown: they lived at 962 South Street, Toledo, Ohio.
Issue:-
6/1. Steven Michael Willets, born at Toledo, Sept 25/1949,

5/3. Donald Rappole Willets, born at Toledo, O., August 7/1917.

In 1949 he was a sales;an with the Buckeye Supply Appliance Co., Toledo, sporting goods, and lived at 2446 Evans St, He was not married.

5/4. Robert Eugene Willets, born at Toledo, O., November 5/1919.

He married at Toledo, on June 12/1942, Mary Kathleen Kirkman, born at Toledo, December 26/1922, daughter of Cloid and Ruth (Patton) Kirkmian. In 1949 Robert was an auto salesman and accountant with the Bauer-Harrington Auto Sales Co., and they lived at 423 Waggoner Boulevard, Toledo, Ohio.

4/3. Laura Deborah Willets, born September 19/1882. She married,

1st, at Great Neck, on September 3/1904, Frank Warren Place, born December 3/1870, died January 20/1929, son of Warren and Sophia Place, of 281 Lawrence St., Flushing, L.I. Frank was a forwarding agent. She married, 2nd, at Manhasset, on March 6/1948, Harold Leslie Bell, son of William Henry and Minnie (Chapman) Bell. Harold was a manufacturers representative at Marlow, N.H., where they lived on Forest Road.
Issue:- (by her first husband Frank Warren Place)
5/1. Frank Roger Place, born at Flushing, August 26/1908.

He served in the second World War in the U.S. Navy, as first Cless storekeeper at Staten Island, and on Guam Island. He married on July 3/1941, Ruth Gallaher, born at Flushing, February 21/1908, daughter of Frank and Mona Gallaher. They had no children. In 1949 Frank owned the Pierce & Place Garage, at 214-19, 42nd Ave., Bayside, L.I., and they lived at Levittown, L.I.

5/2. Laura Vivian Place, born at Flushing, September 23/1912.

She married on September 15/1934, her second cousin Charles Earle Willets, born at Manhasset, November 9/1906, son of William Duryea and Ida May (Dodge) Willets, who were married on November 22/1882. In 1949 Charles was a maintenance man with the Manhasset & Lakeville Fire Dept, and they lived at 137 Hillcrest Ave, Manhasset, L.I. William Duryea's father was the eldest brother of Vivian's grandfather John Willets, who married Jane Haskins Poole. William Duryas's father was Charles H. Willets, who married Anby Duryea.

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Issue:-
6/1. Warren Place Willets, born April 15/1944.

4/4. John Amos Willetts, born March 19/1887. He spells his name with

two ts. He was a tool and die maker by trade, and for many years was a factory superintendent with the Tamar Slide Fastener Corp,, 120 East 16th St,, New York City. He married at Jamestown, N.Y., on June 12/1906, Ethel Irene Wellman, born at Watts Flats, N.Y., June 9/1888, daughter of Edmund P. and Alice (Sharp) Wellman of Watts Flats. In 1949 they lived at 218 Prospect Place, Brooklyn 17 N.Y.
Issue:-
5/1. John Vincent Willetts, born at Westfield, N.Y.,

April 17/1915. In 1949 he was not married.

5/2. Mary Elizabeth Willetts, born at Westfield, N.Y., August

5/1917 She married at Meadville, Pa., on June 20/1937, William Clair Sherwood, born at Meadville, April 26/1916, son of William and Rose (Hessinger) Sherwood. In 1949 William was a mechanic at the Newcastle Engineering Works and they lived at 1010 Beckford St., Newcastle, Pa.
Issue:- (all born at Newcastle, Pa)
6/1. John Willetts Sherwood, born May 13/1940.
6/2. Allan Murray Sherwood, born September 15/1943.

5/3. Doris Jane Willetts, born September 26/1919. She married at

the Spencer Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, on November 22/1944, Stanley Brucker Chapman, M.D., born at Ridgefield Park, N.J. son of Henry S. and Augusta (Brucker) Chapman of Bath, N.Y. In 1949 they lived at 132 West Morris St., Bath, N.Y.
Issue
6/1. Stanley Willetts Chapman, born at Brooklyn, Aug 2/1946.
6/2. John Henry Chapman, born at Bath, September 11/1947.

3/3. Mary Helen Poole, born June 6/1852, died January 8/1877, buried

in Christ Church Cemetary, Manhasset. She was not married.

3/4. Isaac Jackson Poole, born in New York City, November 21/1853,

died at his home in Searingtown, L.I., November 23/1918, buried with his wife in Christ Church Cemetery, Manhasset. He was a truck farmer. He married on July 14/1888, Abby Fowler, born March 16/1859, died February 3/1917, daughter of Benjamin and Ellen Maria (Bennem) Fowler, elder sister of her nephew Isaac Poole Robinson's wife.
Issue:- (all born in Little Neck, L.I.)
4/1. Lester Jackson Poole, born February 7/1889.

In 1949 he was a civil engineer with the Great A & P Co., at 420 Lexington Ave., New York City, and lived at 41-36 Little Neck Parkway. He married at Little Neck, on March 8/1916, Josephine Coyle, born at Brooklyn, December 25/1893, daughter of James Augustus and Josephine (Walter) Coyle.
Issue:- (all born at Little Neck)
5/1. James Jackson Poole, born November 28/1922. In 1949 he was

an accountant with S.D. Leidersdorf, New York City. He married on August 14/1948, Betty Wagstaff Young, born March 11/1923, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Wagstaff) Young.

5/2. Abby Jane Poole, born April 3/1928.

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4/2. Myron Valentine Poole, born April 14/1890.

He married at Mineola, on May 13/1916, Anna Skinner, born there June 1/1891. daughter of Henry Wickham and Phebe Ann (Van Nostrand) Skinner. In 1949 they lived at 188 Pomander Road, Mineola, L.I.
Issue:- (both born at Mineola)
5/1.Dorothy Ann Poole , born May 15/1920.

She married at Mineola on July 4/1947, John Coger Martling, born at East Norwich, L.I., February 20/1913, son of Percy and Dorothy (Hall) Martling. In 1949 John was with the Nassau Co., engineers, and their address was East Norwich, Box 35. The History of Staten Island by Charles W. Lang, New York, 1930, Vol 2, states that the first Martling in America was Barent Martling, born in Staten Island in 1676, son of Johannes Martling, a Huegenot who fled from France to the island of St Eustace, in the Leeward Islands, West Indies, and then to America. Barent married in 1702, Deliante (Deborah) Van Namen. In 1918 he served in the militia and in 1736 he was a Justice of the Peace in Staten Island.
Issue:- (born at East Norwich, L.I.)
6/1. John Coger Martling, born February 14/1948.
6/2. Robert Mott Martling, born February 28/1950.

5/2. Janet Skinner Poole, born May 13/1924.

She married at East Norwich on August 9/1948, Leonard Woodhall Martling, born at East Norwich, December 19/1919., son of Percy and Dorothy (Hall) Martling. In 1950 Leonard was with the Jericho Water District, East Norwich, L.I.
Issue:-
6/1. Leonard Woodhall Martling, born June 13/1950.

4/3. Edgar Willets Poole, born March 22/1891, a farmer.

He married at Freehold, N.J., on April 26/1919, Clara Elizabeth Pine born at Mineola January 7/1892, daughter of George W. and Sedalia (Carman) Pine. In 1951 they lived at Gordon Corner Road R.D.I., Freehold, N.J.
Issue:- (both born at Freehold)
5/1. Carolyn Carman Poole, born June 13/1921.
5/2. Harriet Abby Poole, born November 10/1925.

In 1949 she worked at the Boyce Thompson Institute, Yonkers, plant research. She married at Freehold, on December 18/1950, Arch Mathews, born at Sea Cliff, L.I., November 23/1921, son of Samuel George and Lillian Mae (Buck) Mathews of Southfield, Mass., a retired commercial artist. In 1951 Arch was a senior at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where they lived at Federal Circle, Apt H-5.

4/4. Sanfora Gowdy Poole, born August 1/1892, died at Little Neck,

July 22/1950. He was a partner in Read & Poole, Gulf Oil Filling Station, corner of Northern Boulevard and Middleneck Road, Great Neck, L.I. He married in 1918, Isabel Heather, born June 26/1896, daughter of Frederick and Isabel (Bunn) Heather. In 1950 they lived at 48-11 Browvale Drive, Little Neck, L.I.
Issue: (both born at Little Neck)
5/1. Isabel Vira Poole, born December 31/1919. She married at

Little Neck, on October 19/1946, Robert Roy Brown, born at Hagerstown, Md., July 4/1917, son of Thomas Luke and Mabel (Hashinger) Brown of Great Neck. In 1951 Robert

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was with Duffy-Mott Co., Inc. New York City, handling orders and shipments of fruit products. After their marriage they lived at 335 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, but in 1949 they moved to Millersville, Penn.
Issue:-
6/1. Susan Jane Brown, born February 13/1948.
6/2. Robert Roy Brown, born July 3/1950.

5/2. Margaret Jean Poole, born May 31/1927

4/5. Ida Maria Poole, born May 20/1898. She married at Little Neck on

October 15/1927, Frederick Heather, born there October 3/1904., son of Frederick and Isabel (Bunn) Heather. He was a builder and in 1949 they lived at 48-17 Browvale Drive, Little Neck, L.I.
5/1. Lois Heather, born at Little Neck, September 29/1929.

3/5. Ida Maria Poole, born August 31/1855, died at Pelham, N.Y., June

9/1942, aged 57 years, buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead, L.I. She married at Little Neck on April 19/1882, James Harvey L'Hommedieu, Jr., born at Great Neck February 7/1856, died in New York City, October 15/1912, son of James Harvey and Henrietta (Good) L'Hommedieu. James Senior built the Cathedral and St. Paul's School at Garden City, L.I. James junior had a business in building materials, coal, wood and hardware at Pelham, N.Y. Benjamin F. Thompson's History of Long Island, states that the first L'Hommedieu to come to America, was Benjamin L'Hommedieu, born 1656, a Huguenot refugee from the old town of La Rochelle, capital of the Dept of Charante-Inferieur, 90 miles south east of Nantes on the Paris-Bordeaux Railway. From the 14th to the 16th century, La Rochelle was one of the greatest seaports of France. Its old Episcopal Palace was occupied in turn by Sully, Prince of Conde, then Louis the 13th and Anne of Austria, and the scene of the marriage of Alphonse VI of Portugal with a princess of Savoy. Under Louis, it became the head of the Huguenot party, and the principal port between France and the Colony of Canada. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, caused some thousands of its most industrious citizens to emigrate, and this ruined its commerce. Amongst these was Benjemin L'Hommedieu, who came to Southold, L.J., in 1686, where he died in l748. He had a house and store there on the corner of Town St. and Harbor Lene, and was a merchant and a man of prominence. He married the daughter of Nathaniel and Margaret (Robert) Sylvester of Shelter Island, L.I. The Sylvesters came from the Barbadoes, and were Lords of the Manor at Shelter Island. He had two sons, 1st, Benjamin. who married Martha Bourne, parents of Ezra L'Hommedieu, born August 30/1734, died September 27/1811, graduated from Yale University in 1754. Ezra married, 1st, on December 24/1756, Charity Floyd, daughter of Nicoll Floyd of Brookhaven, L.I., who died July 31/1785: Ezra married, 2nd, on June 15/1793, Catherine Havens, daughter of Nicoll Havens of Shelter Island. Ezra was a famous lawyer, elected to the Provincial Congress of New York from 1779 to 1788, and a member of the New York Senate until his death: he had an only daughter. The first Benjamin's second son was Sylvester L'Hommedieu, one of 20 men who originated the town of Shelter Island, incorporated in 1730. Sylvester was the father of Samuel L'Hommedieu of Sag Harbor, the progenitor of all the

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L'Hommedieus of Long Island. Issue:-
4/1. Le Roy L'Hommedieu, born at Great Neck, October 22/1887.

He married in New York City, on April 21/1917, Beatrice Clementine Mott, born at Utica, N.Y., April 15/l895, died at Rahway, N.J.., December 9/1919, daughter of Joseph Clement and Clara (Vandenburg) Mott. In 1949 Roy worked at the Lenox Laundry, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and lived with his sister Sara Gould.
Issue:-
5/1. Richard Harvey L'Hommedieu, born at Rahway, N.J.,

December 6/l9l7. He married at the Bronx, N.Y., on July 27/1945, Kathleen O'Connor, born at Brooklyn, March 25/1923, daughter of Thomas and Rhetta O'Connor. In 1949 Richard was an engineer at the Lenox Laundry and they lived at 7 Lockwood St., Eastchester, N.Y.
Issue :- (born at Washington Heights, N.Y.)
6/1. Lynn L'Hommedieu, born July 28/1946

4/2. Sara L'Hommedieu, born at Great Neck, June 25/1889.

She married in New York City, on December 29/1915, Floyd Trafford Gould, born at Flushing, L.I., May 19/1888, died at Montclair, N.J., June 6/1934, son of Ora Bancroft and Maria Estelle (Trafford) Gould. Floyd was a bond salemian, Federal Reserve Bank, New York City. In 1949 Sara lived at 643 Lafayette Ave., Mt. Vernon, N.Y. (Phone 7-5608)
Issue -
5/1. Floyd Trafford Gould, born in New York City, June 16/1917.

He served in the 2nd World War in the U.S. Army Chemical Division: saw action in Europe and the South Pacific. In 1949 was Captain, Officers Reserve Corps and studying to be an executive secretary: unmarried: lived with his mother.

5/2. Glenn L'Hommedieu, born at Montclair. N.J. July 7/1919.

He served in the war with the U.S. Wavy, a fighter pilot on the aircraft Carrier "Saratoga" in the South Pacific. In 1949 was Lt. U.S. Naval Reserve, and a mechanical engineer with J.G. White Engineering Corp, New York City: unmarried and lived with his mother.

4/3. Jeanette Hall L'Hommedieu, born at Freeport, L.I., February

16/1897. She married in New York City, on October 26/1918, Herbert Vernon Taylor, born at Mt. Vernon, September 19/1894, son of Theodore and Clara (Kapp) Taylor. In 1949 Herbert was owner and president of the Lenox Laundry, Mt. Vernon, and they lived at 10 Sturgis Road, Bronxville . They had no children.

2/4. Samuel Jackson Poole, born at Fordham, N.Y., September 22/1830.

He moved to Ninevah and Deposit, hear Binghampton, N.Y., a farmer. Name of wife unknown: he had a son William Henry Poole. Miss Hope Robinson has a recollection that Samuel was rather a cousin than the son of Jackson Poole: as he was born 12 years after his elder brother, she may be correct, I cannot trace him or his son.

1/5. Elizabeth Poole, Born before 1767, date of death unknown.

She married a Mr. Archer. That she was one of Solomon Poole's daughters is proved in the wills of her aunt Jamima and uncle Townsend's wills, who called her Elizabeth Archer. I cannot trace either of them.

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64B - WILLIAM POOLE.

          Was the third son of Pierce Poole, by his second wife Sarah Pearse (spelled Pierce in St. George's Church Records, Hempstead), see subject 54.
         William Poole's birth date is unknown, but it was 1741 or after. His will, in the New York Historical Society's Collections, Abstracts of Wills, Vol 12, page 40, dated March 6/1779, proved March 29/1783, left his moveable estate to be sold and the proceeds to be divided as follows:- One fourth to wife Mary Langdon, three fourths to daughters Sarah, Lette and Elizabeth Poole, equally to be divided among them: when they reach the age of 18, Lands, tenements, &c., to be sold and the proceeds, after debts and funeral expenses are paid, to sons Thomas and Pearse, equally to be divided and paid when Peerse is 21 years of age. Wife Mary to have the interest of the money for the bringing up of the children till they are of age. I appoint my executors, my brother in law Archelos Langdon and my wife Mary. The will of William's wife Mary (Langdon) Poole, dated May 23/1793, proved June 22/1793, mentioned as her heirs, daughters Sarah Wright, Letitia Vernon, and Elizabeth, and son Pearce Poole: executors James Poole and Daniel Hewlett: witnesses Charles Wright and Samuel Langdon.
         William Poole married, date unknown, Mary Langdon, dates of birth and death unknown, daughter of Ezekiel and Sarah Langdon of Hempstead, L.I. Ezekiel's will, in Vol 6, page 7 of the New Historical Society's Abstracts of Wills, dated August 3/1760, proved October 25/1750, mentions sons Richard, Archelos and Samuel, and daughters Mary, Elizabeth and Milley, who were all minors in 1760.
Issue:
1/1. Sarah Poole. Dates of birth and death unknown. She married, on

June 24/1792, Charles Wright of Oyster Bay, (1st Presbyterian Church Records). Queen's County Abstracts of Wills, Vol 4, p 22, gives the will of Charles Wright, dated July 20/1844, proved May 28/1845, in which he mentions his wife Sarah and the following children: executors James and Jackson Vernon.
Issue:-
2/1. Hannah Wright. Charles' will also mentions her daughter Hannah.
2/2. Mott Wright
2/3. William Poole Wright.
2/4. Pierce Poole Wright.
2/5. Stephen Wright.
2/6. Phebe Wright.
2/7. Letitia Wright.

1/2. Letitia (Lette) Poole. Born 1769, died August 10/1850, aged 91 years.

She married John Vernon, who died in 1814. His will in Queen's County Abstract of Wills, dated January 20/1814, proved June 16/3.814, states that he was of Norwich in the township of Oyster Bay. Her brother Pierce's will called her Rolettashee. Henry M. Stotenburg's History of Oyster Bay, states that during the Revolutionary War, John Vernon, a young Englishman came to America and settled in Philadelphia, and when that town was in the possession of the British forces, John was pressed into the service of the British Army, and being a capable teamster, was sent to Hempstead, L.I., from whence it was his duty to convey provisions to English ships anchored at Lloyd's Neck, L.I. One dark night, Vernon deserted and found a house with a Quaker family named Jackson of Syosset, L.I. After the war, John married Letitia Poole at Brooklyn, and began farming and subsequently purchased a farm in East Norwich, L.I., where he lived until his death.

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Issue:-
2/1. William Vernon, born 1792, died February 3/1871. He married Margaret

Suydam, baptized January 4/1796, died July 8/1876, daughter of ---- and Mary (---) Suydam, and grand daughter of Cornelius and Antye (Nostrand) Suydam.
Issue:-
3/1. Percival Vernon. He married, 1st, on December 14/1845, Sarah Van

Wincklen, born March 3/l824 daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montfoort) Van Wincklen, and had two children. He married, 2nd, Phebe Smith and had one son by her.

3/2. Thomas Poole Vernon, born 1823, died March 7/1899.

He married Phebe Snediker, born 1828, died October 26/1890, daughter of John R. and Deborah (Lewis) Snediker, and had four children.

3/3. Jackson Vernon. He married Mary L. Baylis, daughter of

George and Jane (Waldron) Baylis.

3/4. Samuel Vernon. No data.
3/5. Martha Vernon. She married James Isaac Waldron,

born February 25/1833, died October 18/1902, son of James and Hannah Moore (Hendricksen) Waldron, and had four children. He was a wheel wright at East Norwich, Oyster Bay, L.I.

3/6. Letitia Vernon. She married on February 11/1852, John Van Wicklen

born May 20/1818, died at Roslyn, L.I., August 3/1853. They had no children.

3/7. Mary Ann Vernon. no data.

2/2. James Vernon, born November 15/1794, died April 16/1880.

He married Ann Hendrickson, born 1797, died April 4/1882, daughter of Carman H. Hendrickson.
Issue:-
3/1. John Vernon, born February 21/1820, died February 25/1898.

He married Sarah Hendrickson.
Issue :-
4/1. William Vernon, born April 20/1850. He married on April 20/1881

Mary L. Dowling, born November 12/1854. at the Court House when he was Sheriff, daughter of George S. and Rachel (Bedell) Dowling.
Issue :-
5/1. John Vernon, born August 20/1882, died February 21/1903.
5/2. George Dowling Vernon, born November 21/1885,

died July 19/1889.

5/3. William Vernon, born February 1888.

4/2. Marianna Vernon, born November 26/1851.

She married on May 14/1873, Richard Downing, born March 8/1858, son of George Snedeker and his second wife Rachel (Bedell) Downing, and they had four children.

4/3. Emma Vernon. She married Wilbour Johnson.

The Underhill genealogy says she married, 2nd, (possibly) William Nostrand, born 1841, son of Jacob T. and Sarah Ann (Underhill) Nostrand.

4/4. Eddie Vernon, born July 26/1857, died February 11/1862.
4/5. James Vernon, born December 1/1860, died February 11/1862.

3/2. Sarah Vernon. She married Charles Tiebout, son of Vernon J. and

Louisa (Horton) Tiebout, and went to Texas. Louisa Horton was the daughter of Webley and Susan (Valentine) Horton.

3/3. Mary Vernon, born April 30/1835, died February 20/1864.

She married, about 1859, Halstead M. Frost, born June 7/1832, died

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July 9/1924. Halstead owned the "Norwich Enterprise", which he founded in 1880, and published at East Norwich until his death. He was a prominent Quaker. After Mary's death, he married, 2nd, Mary Stearns, born June 6/1845, daughter of the Rev. Charles and Susan (Martin) Stearns, by whom he had Clara L. Frost, and Helen Halstead Frost.
Issue:- (from the Underhill genealogy)
4/1. Halstead H. Frost, born May 7/1860.

He married on April 14/1885, Mary Louise Downing, daughter of Charles and Sarah Jane (Hicks) Downing.
Issue: -
5/1. Holloway Halstead Frost, born April 11/1889. He graduated

from Annapolis Naval Academy in 1906, and in 1911 served as midshipman in the U.S. Navy.

5/2. Esther May Frost, born March 30/1892.
5/3. Charles Lawrence Frost, born April 26/1898.

4/2. Mary Frost, born August 15/1862.

She married on June 23/1904, Rev. Alvin Philip Knell, son of Philip and Alvina (Schackerman) Knell.

3/4. Charles Vernon. He settled in the Western States.
3/5. George Vernon. He settled in Illinois.
3/6. Albert Vernon, born October 17/1832, died October 21/1869.

He married a Miss Brush.

3/7. Carman Vernon, born 1823, died August 26/1858. He married Margaret

Brown, born 1820, died March 24/1895: two children.

3/8. William Vernon, born March 17/1825.
3/9. James Vernon. He died in the war of 1861.

2/3. Jackson Vernon, born October 22/1802, died September 12/1873,

He married Hannah Hendrickson, born 1801, died December 22/1839.
Issue:-
3/1. Amelia Vernon, born February 18/1830, died March 9/1830,
3/2. James Vernon, born March 26/1831, died November 2/1856: single.
3/3. Sarah Vernon, born July 5/1833, died September 3/1865: single.
3/4. Andrew Vernon, born March 29/1835, died January 2/1855: single.
3/5. Henry Vernon. He married Eliza S. Downing, only daughter of

George and Eliza (Snedeker) Downing.

2/4. Mary Vernon, born April 3/1797, died November 7/1828. She married

William Hoogland, born September 9/1793, died July 3/1857, son of Cornelius and Catrina (Luyster) Hoogland. He was a farmer and served in the war of 1812. After Mary's death, he married, 2nd, Maria Nostrand, baptized April 12/1801, died August 15/1852, daughter of Garret and Mary W. (Valentine) Nostrand.
Issue:-
3/1. John Vernon Hoogland, born July 28/1816, died May 6/1861.

He married on June 10/1840, Sarah Ann Nostrand, born July 9/1813, died August 28/1887, daughter of John and Sarah (Walters) Nostrand and had three children.

3/2. Alfred Hoogland, born January 17/1819, died April 11/1902.

He had a butcher shop with his brother in law and later bought a farm. He married on December 5/1849, Mary Van Cott, born March 29/1823, still living in 1903, daughter of George and Mary (Titus) Van Mott and had three children.

3/3. Phebe Ann Hoogland, born September 23/1821, died May 3/1873.

She married James Muttee, born 1816, died June 2/1893, son of Baruch and Fanny (Lewis) Muttee, and they had three children.

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3/4. Cornelius Hoogland, born December 20/1823. He was a blacksmith at

East Norwich, Oyster Bay, and later a butcher at Roslyn, where he died. He married in 1847, Mary Elizabeth Duryea, daughter of James Voorhis and Jane (Cashow) Duryea and had two children.

3/5.Jackson Hoogland, born November 5/1826. He married Adelina Wicks,

born January 11/1834, daughter of Charles and Sarah A. (Youngs) Wicks. They had no children but adopted a daughter.

3/6. Mary Hoogland, born November 17/1827, died September 23/1849 in

childbirth. She married in 1848, William H. Remsen, born 1828, died June 2/1893, son of Abraham and Deborah (Downing) Remsen. He married, 2nd, Henrietta Lane, born March 16/1828, died September 29/1900, daughter of William and Lydia (Van Cleef) Lane, and had four children by her.

2/5. Martha Vernon. She married on February 7/1828. Daniel Durland, born

October 6/1801, of Goshen, Orange County, N.J., son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cheshire) Durland.
Issue :-
3/1. William Vernon Durland, born 1828. He married a Smith.

Issue:-
4/1. Henrietta Durland. She married, 1st, a Schultz; 2nd, a Mccain.
4/2. Emma Durland. She married Benjamin Dubois.
4/3. Amelia Vernon Durland. She married E. Wannamaker.
4/4. Charles Winfield Durland. He married Margaret Loss.
4/5. Martha Durland,

3/2. Mary Elizabeth Durland, born May 1834.
3/3. George Mapes Durland, born September 1837.

He married, 1st, a Smith: 2nd, Fanny McCoy.

2/6. Amelia Vernon, born 1806, died 1876. She married on September 22/1829,

Samuel S. Durland, born December 17/1804, died November 30/1835, a farmer in Chester, Pa., son of Joseph and his second wife Sarah (Satterly) Durland of Goshen. He was a descendant of Jan Gerritse Dorlandt, who came from Holland to the New Netherlands in 1652. Amelia married, 2nd, James Durland, born September 14/1811, died at Chester, Pa., in 1888, brother of her first husband Samuel.
(This is from "The Dorland Family in America", by John Dorland Cremer, Washington, D.C., 1898.)
Issue:- (by her first husband Samuel S. Durland)
3/1. Joseph Durland, born March 16/1832. He married on February 25/1857,

Nancy Kingsland Board, born November 1/1835, daughter of James J. Board. Joseph was a bank president and merchant in Chester, Pa.
Issue:-
4/1. James Board Durland, born April 28/1858. He married on November

8/1884, Sarah Andrews, born March 1861, and they had four children, and lived at Chester, Pa.

4/2. Frank Durland, born March 25/1860. He married on

April 22/1891, Mary Burt Sanford, and had two children.

4/3. Amelia Vernon Durland, born July 15/1862.
4/4. Marion Durland, born October 22/1865
4/5. Nettie Eugenia Durland, born February 14/1878.

3/2. Sarah Letitia Durland, born August 23/1833.

She married on February 26/1852, Henry Wisner wood, born February 11/1826. They had four childrsn and lived in Chester, Pa.

Issue:- (by her second husband James Durland)
3/3. Jane Durland, born May 6/1837, died September 23/1867. She

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married on January 26/1859, J, Bartlett Tuthill, born November 4/1828.

3/4. Samuel S. Durland, born January 21/1840.

He married on November 6/1867, Margaret Seeley, born August 30/1839. He had a farm at Chester, Pa., and they had two children.

3/5. Maria Durland, born March 2/1842, died September 21/1846.
3/6. Martha Durland, born September 16/1844, died February 15/1896.

She married on February 25/1869, Alfred B. Roe, born August 12/1840 and had five children, They lived at Chester, Pa.

3/7. Charles Durland, born August 14/1846, died September 14/1846.
3/8. John Durland, born December 1/1847. He was a merchant at La Crosse,

Wisconsin. He married Julia Blakely, and they had two children.

1/3. Elizabeth Poole. Dates of birth and death unknown. She married,

1st, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on July 29/1797, Gilbert Baldwin, perhaps son of Stephen and Mary Baldwin of Oyster Bay, baptized July 11/1784. In the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 33, p 224, is the record of The marriage at the First Presbyterian Church, Hempstead, on August 22/1822, of Mary Poole Baldwin to Jacob Baldwin, born April 1802, died October 30/1851, probably their daughter.

1/4. Thomas Poole. Dates of birth and death unknown. In a will of William

Stokam of Hempstead, who married at Hempstead, on October 17/1784, Sarah Armstrong, dated April 19/1818, proved January 31/1820, he states that his daughter Elpheer Stokam married Thomas Poole: his other daughter Elizabeth married at St. George's Church, Hempstead, on June 15/1791, Langdon Wright. I don't know if this will refers to this Thomas Poole or not, but it seems probable. St. George`s Church records call William Stokam's wife Sarah Abrahams.

1/5. Pierce Poole. From "Inscriptions in the Town Cemetery of

Hempstead", by Frank Haviland, his birth is given as January 31/1780, and his death as March 27/1808. He was probably not married. In "Queens County Abstract of Wills", Vol 1, p 97, appears the will of Pearse (Pars) Poole of Hempstead, dated March 24/1808, proved May 30/1806, in which he states his sister was Sarah Poole, wife of Charles Wright, and mentioned his nephew William Wright. He also mentioned brother Thomas, and sister Elizabeth Baldwin: also sister Rolettashea, wife of John Vernon, and their son William Vernon. He also mentioned Elizabeth Southard, wife of James Southard: also Margaret Langdon, daughter of Samuel. His executor was Archelos Langdon.

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132 - THOMAS RUSHMORE

         The following is from Hempstead Town Records: from "Genealogies of Long Island Families", by Charles J. Werner, New York, 1919: from Long Island Genealogies, by Mary Seaman Bunker, 1898: from "The Seaman Family in America", by Mary Seaman, 1928: from "The Encyclopaedia of American Quaker Genealogy", Vol 3, by William Wade Hinshaw, Ann Arbor Mich., 1940: from "The John "Rock" Smith Family", by Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, N.Y, 1937.
         Thomas Rushmore was the son of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore of Hempstead, L.I., the progenitor of this family in America, subject 264. His birth and death dates are not known but he must have been born about 1655: he was alive in l705, and was mentioned as deceased in 1733, in a land transaction in H.T.R. Vol 3, page 157. That he was the son of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore, is confirmed in H.T.R, Vol 2, pages 267-8, reading:- I, Thomas Rushmore of Hempstead, alias Nassau in Queens County, sell to Henry Allin, my right and title of undivided land in Hempstead, belonging to me by purchase, produced from William Yates and John Horges, derived from my deceased father Thomas Rushmore, late of Hempstead, dated May 3/1705". H.T.R. Vol 8, pp 174-6, dated December 1/1695, states that Thomas Rushmore of Madnans Neck, Hempstead, sold to Samuel Denton, 3 eight acre lots: page 180, same date, states he sold to Peter Titus, 100 acres of land in Hempstead, inherited from his father Thomas Rushmore, deceased. Vol 1, p 364 states that Thomas Rushmore was awarded ten shillings damages by the Court against John Smith, Jr., for mowing his meadow without his leave or liberty. The Seamen Genealogy says that in 1669, Ensign Thomas Rushmore, who was appointed Ensign in 1665, was ordered to give up the Colors which he had received from the Governor, to Captain John Seaman.
         Werner says Thomas Rushmore married, (about 1693-1695), Sarah ---, date of birth unknown, said to have died about 1723, probably earlier. Thomas and Sarah's names were bracketed in the Hempstead Census of 1698. Some genealogies say that Thomas' wife Sarah, was the daughter of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Doughty) Hicks, who were married in 1676, see subject 266, but neither Thomas Hicks' will of 1728, nor the Hicks Genealogy by Benjamin D. Hicks, mention any daughter Sarah. It might be possible that Thomas Hicks' will of 1728 failed to mention her, if she died before he made his will. However I carry on the Hicks line   :*ow Martha Hicks, who married James Poole, subject 16, page 1.
1. Thomas Rushmore.

Dates of birth and death unknown, but he must have been born about 1693-5. He died about 1753, as on that date, H.T.R. Vol 4, p 475, states:- "Plains near Jerusalem and 28 acres of land paid out to the heirs of Thomas Rushmore, unto five ninths of the patent right of Thomas Rushmore, which 128 acres lie on the north end of above tract", He lived in Oyster Bay. H.T.R. Vol 5, p 49, of January 13/1728, states that he was a blacksmith, and that he sold for £60, lot 36 in Oyster Bay to Thomas Carman, which be bought from Joseph Clement on May 3/1725. Oyster Bay Town Records, Vol 5, p 162, states that Thomas and Anekey Rushmore sold for £220 to Samuel Prior, 50 acres of land at Little Plains near Cedar Swamp, on July 27/1730.
Same volume, page 22, says he bought from Giles and Letitia Seaman for £l00.18.0, about 20 acres of land in Oyster Bay on March 10/1742-3. He married, about 1715, Anneke Hendricksen, dates of birth and death unknown: both H,T,R. Vol 5, p 62 and Hinshaw, confirm that Anneke was his wife, a Quaker. I cannot find the names of her parents: she died probably about 1741-2. All his children were by Anneke. He

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married, 2nd, Elizabeth Seaman, born about 1680, daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Titus) Seaman, and widow of James Worden. In 1753 Thomas and Elizabeth were disowned by the Quakers for marrying out: in 1759 Elizabeth was re-instated. He had no children by her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Anneke Hendricksen)
2/1. Martha Rushmore, born September 14/1716, died young.
2/2. Jacob Rushmore, born August 5/1720, died December 28/1754.

He married in 1744 Mary Mott, born 1720, died May 5/1762, daughter of James and Jane (Burling) Mott, see subject 282, page 2.
Issue:-
3/1. James Rushmore, born April 26/1745-7, died May 9/1823.

He married on May 7/1766, Deborah Whitson, born April 26/1747, died 1796, daughter of John and Deborah (Powell) Whitson of Huntington, L.I.
Issue:-
4/1. Jacob Rushmore, born 1767, died July 21/1824.

He lived at Halfway Hollow Hills, Huntington. He married on July 31/1794, Esther Dingee, died December 23/1818, daughter of Arthur Dingee.
Issue:- (from the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record Vol 22, pp 77-80)
5/1. Mary R. Rushmore, born about 1790, died March 16/1884.

She married on November 27/1823, Alfred Burrell Crossman, born August 27/1799, died February 3/1859, son of Gilbert and Betsey (Finch) Crossnan. Mary was then disowned by the Quakers for marrying out. They had eight children.

4/2. John Rushmore, born 1770, died 1775.
4/3. Mary Rushmore, born 1772, died 1796, unmarried.
4/4. Deborah Rushmore, born November 26/1778, died November 26/1857.
4/5. Anna Rushmore, born 1782, died April 22/1837.

She married at Jericho, L.I., on February 22/1810, Elkanah Wood, born in L.I. June 1782, died April 22/1837, son of Caleb and Abigail (Powell) Wood.
Issue:- (may be part only)
5/1. James Rushmore Wood, born in New York City,

September 14/1816, died there May 4/1882. He was one of the most eminent surgeons of his day and was a director of the Bellevue Hospital, New York City. He married a daughter of James Rowe of New York City.

2/3. Sarah Rushmore, born October 1/1722, died 1765.

She married on April 27/1748, as his second wife, Daniel Cock of Glen Cove, L.I born October 5/1699, died 1771, son of John and Dorothy (Harcourt) Cock, see subject 306, page 1. The Cox Genealogy by G.W. Cocks, New York, 1912, states that Daniel had married, 1st, after 1734, Levine Kissam, born October 29/1706, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Coombes) Kissam, and widow (?) of John Carman, born 1707, died January 29/1771, son of Joseph and either Grace "Rock" Smith or Martha Ellison, whom Levine had married on August 18/1731, and to whom she had borne two children, see subject 536, page 4. See the "Genealogy of John Carman" by Henry Alanson Tredwell, Brooklyn 1946, which says that John Carman married, 2nd, on February 8/1739-40, Mary Smith, widow of Joseph Doughty, see subject 534, page 2. Therefore either the Cox or the Carman genealogy must be wrong, or else John Carman divorced Levine Kissam before 1739. The Kissam Genealogy gives only Levine's first marriage to Daniel Cock. After Sarah's death, Daniel Cock married, 3rd, Susannah Youngs, daughter of Richard and Phebe (Weekes) Youngs, see subject 304, page 5 but had no children by her.

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Issue:- (from the Cox Genealogy)
3/1. Sarah Cock, born March 6/1749,

died September 18/1798 of yellow fever. She married at Matinecock, L.I., on July 4/1765, Jacob Coles born March 3/1743, died June 3/1808, son of Daniel and Anne (Carpenter) Coles of Duck Pond, Glen Cove, L.I., see subject 618, page 2. After Sarah's death, Jacob married, 2nd, in 1800, Jean Mudge, daughter of Coles and Dorothy (Coles) Mudge of Musketa Cove, see subject 618, page 4.
Issue:-
4/1. Sarah Coles, born September 18/1766, died July 26/1790.

She married on January 6/1785, Isaac Titus, born April 26/1764, son of Thomas and Martha (Powell) Titus.

4/2. Anne Coles, born August 23/1768, died May 25/1786.

She married on May 25/1786, Divine Hewlett, born at Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., February 5/1767, died October 28/1846, son of John and Sarah (Townsend) Hewlett, see subject 308, page 8.

4/3. Daniel Cock Coles, born May 24/1771, died December 29/1824.

He married on October 12/1794, Eleanor Cashow, born November 4/1777, died December 7/1853, daughter of Jacob and Lena (Stockholm) Cashow. They had nine children.

4/4. Amelia Coles, born May 7/1773, died July 8/1799. She married

on June 27/1793, Benjamin Hicks, son of Silas and Rachel (Seaman) Hicks, and had two children, see subject 266, page 6.

4/5. Loretta Coles, born April 2/1775, died January 10/1802.

She married Richard Kelsey and bad one daughter Loretta.

4/6. Solomon Coles, born May 1/1778, died October 31/1854.

He married in 1808, Phebe Travis, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (---) Travis,

4/7. Jacob Coles, born December 15/1780, died September 5/1798.
4/8. Ethelinda or Ethelanah Coles, born July 9/1782,

died October 16/1852. She married Hewlett Townsend of Cedar Swamp, L.I.

4/9. Martha Coles, born August 5/1784, died August 17/1859.

She married William Moyles Hewlett of Beaverbrook, L.I., born December 17/1789, died January 1/1864, son of Townsend and Margaret (Jones) Hewlett end had one daughter Martha.

4/10. Phebe Coles, born May 22/1792, died September 7/1793.
4/11. Joshua Coles, born April 21/1794, died August 28/1798.

2/4. Thomas Rushmore, born January 1/1724, died a young man.
2/5. Silas Rushmore, born July 20/1727. In 1755 he freed his negro slave.

He married on February 3/1753, Phebe Titus, born October 7/1732, daughter of Edmund and Sarah (Titus) Titus.
Issue;-
3/1. Martha Rushmore, born May 17/1754.
3/2. Samuel Rushmore. Was it his will, dated September 2/1825, proved

March 25/1826, which mentioned wife Dinah and daughters Rachel and Rosettie: executor Townsend Rushmore, witness Stephen Rushmore?

3/3. Jacob Rushmore.
3/4. Jeremiah Rushmore.
3/5. Sarah Rushmore. She married Richard Weekes of Cedar Swamp

and had thirteen children.

3/6. Mary Rushmore.

2/6. Stephen Rushmore, born January 5/1731, died young.
2/7. Isaac Rushmore, born February 8/1733, died August 16/1779.

He lived in Oyster Bay. He married on April 18/1757, Sarah Titus,

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born October 27/1735, died June 19/1775-6, daughter of Edmund and Sarah (Titus) Titus. Isaac was a blacksmith with William Loines in New York City. In 1765 he acknowledged at the Quaker Meeting, enlisting, bearing arms and hiring a substitute. In 1776-7 he freed his negro slaves Sambo and Micah.
Issue:-
3/1. Phebe Rushmore, born February 18/1758, died July 26/1843.

she married on October 2/1777, Silas Downing, born October 11/1747, died April 16/1822, son of Benjamin and Phebe (Willis) Downing of Hempstead, see subject 290, page 2. Silas was a Quaker preacher.
Issue:-
4/1. Isaac Downing, born July 25/1779, died January 30/1847.

He married Theodosia Valentine, born April 27/1776, daughter of Charles and Mary (Frost) Valentine, see subject 290, page 3.

4/2. Stephen Downing, born June 1/1783, died March 3/1844.
4/3. Phebe Downing, born September 17/1789, died November 29/1824.
4/4. Sarah Downing, born April 23/1793.

3/2. Mary Rushmore, born February 11/1760, died April 28/1837.

She married at Oyster Bay on February 10/l780, as his second wife, Charles Frost, born February 18/1750, died March 9/1820, son of William and Jemima Frost. Charles had married, 1st, in 1773, Esther Cock, born April 22/1756, daughter of William and Dinah Cock, by whom he had one daughter Jemima, born February 24/1774, died July 28/1835, who married three times, 1st, Isaac Titus, 2nd, Stephen Cock, and 3rd, Edward McDermott.
Issue:-
4/1. Isaac Frost, born March 9/1783, died May 18/1810.

He married on December 23/1807, Hannah Whitson, born April 24/1784, died December 14/1858, daughter of Amos and Amy (Willets) Whitson. They had two children.

4/2. Esther Frost, born November 27/1784, died November 27/1801.
4/3. Phebe Frost, born May 7/1786, died September 14/1854.

She married on November 21/1810, Samuel R. Titus, born April 14/1787, died July 11/1852, son of Samuel and Abigail (Robbins) Titus. They had three children.

4/4. Edmund Frost, born March 4/1788, died March 28/1842.

He married Abigail Carman, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Carman.

4/5. Stephen Frost, born February 7/1791, died January 22/1829.

He married on February 11/1815, Phebe Craft, born April 30/1793, died August 30/1824, daughter of James and Hannah (Doty) Craft. They had one son, Isaac Craft Frost. The name Craft was originally Thornicraft, but the family split their names, some took the name of Thorne and some Craft.

4/6. Sarah Frost, born March 11/1793, died January 20/1864.

She married on June 21/1815, Stephen Mott, born March 19/1783, died September 23/1873, son of James and Amy (Powell) Mott. They had three children.

4/7. Charles Frost, born November 9/1795, died May 18/1882.

He married on May 22/1821, Martha Titus, born June 22/1800, died November 23/1889, daughter of Timothy and Margaret (Hoogland) Titus. They had ten children

4/8. William Frost, born January 13/1798, died Aug 18/1869: single.
4/9. Mary Frost, born November 27/1801. She married Joseph Hubbs.

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3/3. Stephen Rushmore, born May 1/1763, died November 10/1852

at Wheatly, L.I. He married at Westbury, L.I., on February 7/1787, Phebe Townsend, born November 23/1768, died 1866, aged 98 years, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Loines) Townsend, see subject 616, page 4. The Townsend Genealogy by Margaret Townsend has an account of this remarkable Quaker woman at the age of 96.
Issue:-
4/1. Isaac Rushmore, born May 19/1788, died July 3/1875.

He married on March 24/1813, Lydia Post, born 1789, died July 12/1841, daughter of Edmund and Catherine (Willets) Post.
Issue:-
5/1. Stephen Rushmore, born September 8/1814, died January 13th,

1890. He married at Westbury on September 27/1837, Matilda Powell, daughter of John W. and Sarah (Johnson) Powell.
Issue:-
6/1. Isaac Rushmore, born September 27/1841, died Jan 30/1842.
6/2. Lydia M. Rushmore, born August 14/1843, died Jan 11/1844.
6/3. Edward Rushmore, born May 8/1845.

In 1869 he was an assessor at Hempstead, L.I.

6/4. John Howard Rushmore, born February 28/1847,

died October 12/1891. He married on September 23/1869, Julia Ann Barker, daughter of David C. and Julia Barker.

6/5. Child, born August 26/1850, died in three days.
6/6. Child, born November 20/1858, died in two days.

5/2. Edmund Rushmore, born February 20/1816,

died February 3/1817.

5/3. Edmund Rushmore, born April 12/1818, died January 26/1890.
5/4. Lydia Rushmore, died 1844.

4/2. Sarah Rushmore, born at Cedar Swamp, L.I., October 9/1790,

Died October 3/1893, aged 103 years! She married at Westbury, on January 29/1812, John Doughty Hicks, born March 20/1791, died October 10/1829, son of Isaac and Sarah (Doughty) Hicks of Hempstead. See subject 266, page 4 for issue and further particulars.

4/3. Townsend Rushmore, born August 5/1792, died February 3/1870.

He married at Jericho, L.I., on January 29/1824, Amy Willis, born September 12/1797, died January 26/1881, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Pearsall) Willis, see subject 282, page 6.
Issue:-
5/1. Esther Rushmore, born May 13/1825, died August 4/1896.

She married on September 5/1844, Robert W. Titus, and had one daughter Emily.

5/2. Maria Rushmore, born April 22/1827.
5/3. Rachel Rushmore, born March 11/1830, died February 7/1861.
5/4. Isaac Rushmore, born January 20/1832. He married Phebe ---.
5/5. Phebe Rushmore, born April 13/1834.
5/6. Samuel Willis Rushmore, born November 12/1836.

He married Frances Gertrude Lowerre, born in Brooklyn, March l8/1841, died July 7/1920, daughter of Benjamin H. and Annie M. Lowerre. After Samuel's death, Frances married, 2nd, on April 15/1888, Silas Albertson Underhill, born at Glen Cove, March 28/1840, but had no children by him.
Issue:-
6/1. William Rushmore, born March 1864, died June 6/1868.
6/2. Anna Rushmore. She married a Mr. Ewer.
6/3. Samuel W Rushmore, of Plainfield, N.J.

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5/7. Henry W. Rushmore, born October 25/1838, died April 21/1902.
5/8. William Townsend Rushmore, born May 29/1841,

died March 11/1881.

4/4. Mary R. Rushmore, born July 13/1794, died May 17/1875.

She married on November 22/1815, Edmund Post, born October 5/1792, died July 2/1832, son of Edmund and Catherine (Willets) Post. They had five children.

4/5. Jane Rushmore, born August 7/1796.

She married on November 6/1817, Valentine Willets, born March 20/179?, died August 27/1895, son of William and Letitia (Valentine) Willets of Cow Neck, L.I., see subject 290, page 3.
Issue:-
5/1. Letitia Willets, born November l2/1818.

She married Charles W. Allis.

5/2. Phebe Rushmore Willets, born May 10/1824.

She married Charles Samuel Underhill, born 1827, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whelply) Underhill. In 1886 they lived at Glenham, N.Y.
Issue:-
6/1. Alice Emily Underhill, born July 4/1852,

died at Mohegan Lake, unmarried.

5/3. Mary Willets.
5/4. Sarah Willets.

4/6. Thomas Rushmore, born March 6/1799, died April 30/1878,

of Roslyn, L.I. He married Jane Valentine, born 1806, died January 11/1896, daughter of Oliver Valentine.
Issue:
5/1. Elizabeth Rushmore, born May 7/1834, died December 11/1888.

She married on December 1/1864, John Augustus Prior, born 1826, died March 4/1885, son of John and Elizabeth (Fros.) Prior. They had no children.

5/2. Stephen T. Rushmore, born at Roslyn, September 7/1840,

died May 7/1926. He married on November 13/1879-80, Adelaide Halstead, born 1849, daughter of Henry P. and Sarah F. (Prior) Halstead.
Issue:-
6/1. Thomas H. Rushmore, born October 9/1880.

He married at Jericho, 1st, on September 7/1904, Anna H. Robbins, born April 17/1877, died June 5/1928, daughter of Walter and Sarah E. (Hubbs) Robbins of Jericho. He married, 2nd, on June 30/1937, Adele Jones, daughter of William H. Jones of Westbury, L.I.
Issue:- (by his first wife Anna H. Robbins)
7/1. Lilian Rushmore, barn December 9/1905. she married on

September 10/1930, Le Roy R. Newell

7/2. Elizabeth R. Rushmore, born September 14/l909.

She married on October 15/1932, Porter O. Daniel.

7/3. Walter S. Rushmore, born January 23/1912.

He married on July 5/1940, Florence Keppler.

Issue:- (by his second wife Adele Jones)
7/4. Thomas Rushmore, born December 16/1938.

6/2. Halstead Rushmore, born November 8/1881, died 1929.

He married on June 27/1925, Emily smith, born at Rye, N.Y. daughter of Halsey M. and Sarah (Underhill) Smith of Glen Cove, L.I.

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Issue: -
7/1. Constance Rushmore, born at Roslyn, L.I.,

May 12/1925.

6/3. Leon Augustus Rushmore, born at Roslyn, August 23/1883.

He was a trustee and director of many organisations. He married at Glen Cove, L.I., on January 2/1909, Mary Willets Seaman, born at Jericho, L.I., June 4/1891, daughter of Samuel Jackson and Matilda (Willets) Seaman
Issue:
7/1. Leon Augustus Rushmore, born at Roslyn,

June 2-4/1910. He married at Germantown, Pa., on February 6/1932, Caroline A. Jackson, born September 12/1909, daughter of Arthur C. and Edith (Wilson) Jackson. In 1948 they lived on Roslyn Road, Roslyn, L.I.
Issue:-
8/1. Mary Lee Rushmore, born January 5/1934.
8/2. Carley Jackson Rushmore, born November 28/1935.
8/3. Stephen Rushmore, born March 12/1945.

7/2. Robert Seaman Rushmore, born at Roslyn,

February 15/1914. He married, 1st, on January 31/1942, Elizabeth (Van Sickelen) Dunkerton, who died September 28/1944, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (House) Dunkerton:one daughter Sarah Elizabeth Rushmore.

6/4. Edna L. Rushmore, born September 1885, died June 1/l887.
6/5. Byron Rushmore, born November 1/1887.

He married Marie Masek, daughter of John and Marie (Sowa) Masek of Hicksville, L.I.

6/6. Lillian T. Rushmore, born October 1891, died May 18/1893.

4/7. Phebe T. Rushmore, born October 6/1803. She married at Westbury,

L.I., on December 15/1831, Isaac R. Gifford, son of William and Freelove Gifford of Dartmouth, Mass. They had four children.

3/4. Jane Rushmore, born April 12/1768. She married on January 7/1790,

Lewis Valentine of Oyster Bay, born April 22/1765, died March 2/1846, son of Charles and Mary (Frost) Valentine, see subject 290, page 3. After Jane's death, Lewis married, 2nd, on April 3/1802, Jane (Titus) Post, and had four children by her.
Issue:- (from his will)
4/1. Jacob Valentine, born December 13/1790. He married Martha Titus,

daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Robbins) Titus, and had four children.

4/2. Isaac Valentine, born December 11/1792. He married Freelove

Craft, daughter of Stephen and Abby Craft: one son Joseph.

4/3. Silas Valentine, born July 10/1794, died March 11/1831: single
4/4. Stephen Valentine, born August 18/1796. He married Ann Titus,

daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Robbins) Titus: 3 children.

4/5. Townsend Valentine.
4/6. George Valentine. Had a daughter Jane.
4/7. Elizabeth Valentine.

3/5. Edmond Rushmore, born November 27/1771, died June 17/1782.

2/8. Phebe Rushmore, born February 22/1736, died young.
2/9. Benjamin Rushmore, born September 4/1738, died December 15/1820.

He married Jemima Coles, born 1741, died July 24/1819, daughter of Joseph and Temperance (Valentine) Coles: other genealogies say Jemima was the daughter of Joseph and Temperance (Albertson) Coles,

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see subject 618, page 1. I think the latter is correct, in view of Jemima's brothers being named after her grand father Derick Albertson. Benjamin lived at Cedar Swamp aid suffered British depredations during the Revolution. - On March 27/1787 he freed his negro slave named Henry Rushmore.
Issue:-
3/1. Charles Rushmore, born 1772, died October 8/1817.

He married at Jericho on June 2/1796, Elizabeth Willets, born December 25/1771, died March 18/1836, daughter of Jacob and Martha (Williams) Willets.

3/2. Coles Rushmore, born 1770, died March 25/1825.
3/3. Elizabeth Rushmore, born June 6/1774, died November 29/1798.

She married Samuel Prior.
Issue:-
4/1. Mary Prior, born August 14/1797.

She married Willets Underhill, born January 3/1796, died August 8/1870, son of Israel and Mary (Wright) Underhill, and had four children. After Mary's death, Willets married, 2nd, Sarah Hopkins and had two children.

3/4. Jemima Rushmore. No data.

2/10.Jemima Rushmore, born March 17/1741, died young.

1/2. John Rushmore. Dates of birth and death unknown, but he must have been

born about 1695-6. H.T.R. mention him as being alive in 1753. He was listed in the Hempstead Census of 1698, as were also his uncle John, and wife Mary Rushmore. He was not a Quaker. I think he was the man who married Mary Carman, probably daughter of Caleb and Margaret (--) Carman, subject 268, page 1. Werner states that the John Rushmore who married Mary Carman, was the son of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore, subject 264, but he must have mistaken him for this John Rushmore, because the John referred to by Werner would have been over 70 years old when his son Carman was born (about 1725). Werner also states that Mary Carman was the daughter of John Carman, but none of the Carman genealogies give John Carman a daughter Mary. See what I have written under subject 264 about John Rushmore. See subject 66 for this John Rushmore, his wife Mary Carman, and their issue and further particulars.

1/3. Sarah Rushmore. Werner gives her as a daughter of this Thomas Rushmore,

but the eminent historian Coombes says this Sarah was not a daughter, but rather the wife of this Thomas Rushmore, namely Sarah Hicks.

1/4. Ann Rushmore. Werner gives her as a daughter of this Thomas Rushmore

but this is wrong, according to some genealogies.

1/5. Martha Rushmore. The same remarks apply as to the above Ann.

I have been unable to straighten this out.

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266 - TH0MAS HICKS,

The following is from the following sources:-
The Hicks Genealogy, by Benjamin Doughty Hicks, 8 volumes manuscript,
the only copy extant being at the Long Island Historical Society library in Brooklyn, New York.

From "Adam and Anne Mott", by Thomas C. Cornell, Yonkers, 1890.
From Bunker's Long Island Genealogies.
From "The Van Wyck Family", New York, 1912.
From "The Jones Family of Long Island", by John Henry Jones.
From the New York Historical Society's Abstracts of Wills, vols 1 to 3.
From "The Doughty Family", by Ethan Allen Doty, in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, vol 43, page 273.
From "Thomas Stevenson of London and his descendants", by John R. Stevenson, Flemington, N.J., 1902.

       Thomas Hicks was born probably at Weymouth, Mass., in 1640, and died at Little Neck, L.I., in 1740, just over 100 years of age, son of John and his first wife Horod (Long) Hicks, see subject 532.
       Thomas Hicks was brought to Long Island about 1642, shortly after his father came. In 1666 Thomas bought from Governor Nicholls, a patent of 4000 acres of land in the vicinity of Little Neck, built a good house and lived as Lord of the Manor for many years. In 1691 he was Judge of the Court of Queens County.
      According to Savage, Bunker and Stevenson, Thomas Hicks married, 1st, after 1658, in Long Island, as her second husband, Mary (Butler) Washburn, daughter of Richard Butler of Stratford, Conn., who had married, 1st, John Washburn, who died August 30/1658. However, the Jones Genealogy says that the Mary Washburn who married Thomas Hicks, was the daughter of John and Sarah (---) Washburn, uncle of the John Washburn who married Mary Butler. The John Washburn who married Sarah ---, was a man who lived in Flushing, and whose will of February 23/1687 was made after he returned to England and died in the parish of Saint Beedolph, near London, in which he mentioned his daughters Sarah and Mary. It seems to me that the Jones genealogy is the more correct, for it is more likely that Thomas Hicks' wife Mary Washburn, came from Flushing, rather than from Stratford, Conn. The St Nicholas Society records say Thomas Hicks' wife was Mary Cornell Washburn. I don't know which is correct. They had two children, see below.
       Thomas Hicks married, 2nd, on July 6/1676-7, Mary Doughty, born about 1658, died 1713, daughter of Elias and Sarah (---) Doughty of Flushing, L.I., and grand daughter of the Reverend Francis Doughty, see subject 534, and 1068. The Cornell Genealogy says Mary Doughty was the daughter of Thomas Doughty - this must be wrong.
       Thomas Hicks' will is given in the New York Historical Society's Abstracts of wills, vol 3, p 352, and was dated May 15/1727, proved January 28/1741-2. He left to his grandson Thomas Hicks, the eldest son and heir of his son Thomas Hicks, the sum of five shillings: he left to his son Isaac, his Great History Book, called Speed's Chronicle of England: he left to his son Benjamin, his silver tankard: he left to his son Stephen, all his houses, lands and meadows in the bounds of Flushing, except his right on the great plain of Hempstead: also a bed and furniture, and the remainder of his books, two hatchetts, and his wearing apparel. He left to his six sons John, Joseph, Isaac, Benjamin William and Stephen, all his right on the great plains of Hempstead. To his daughter Phebe Simmons, £100: (this same should have read Seaman). To his daughter Charity, £250: to daughter Mary Bushlar £100: (this name should have read Rushmore). He left to his grand daughter Mary Hicks,

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daughter of his son William, his silver tumbler. All the rest of his property to his four daughters Phebe, Elizabeth, Charity and Mary, and to his grand daughter Sarah Everitt. His Indian and negro slaves and his live stock, were to remain for his son Stephen. His sons Benjamin and Stephen were to be serviceable to his daughter Charity in her affairs. His son Stephen was his executor.
      His will did not mention a wife, so she must have predeceased him, nor does it mention his sons by his first wife. His children below are taken from his will, which lumped the sons first and the daughters after: hence the order below may not be correct.
Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Washburn)
1/1. Thomas Hicks. The Stevenson Genealogy gives his birth as 1667:

he died between April and October 1712. Bunker wrongly says he married Deborah Valentine, born 1657, daughter of Richard Valentine, He married Deborah Whitehead, born 1675, whose will dated April 14/1712, proved July 24/1712, confirms that she was the wife of Thomas Hicks: she was the daughter of Daniel and Abigail, (Stevenson) Denton Whitehead. Abigail was born in 1640, and was the daughter of Edward and Anne Stevenson: she had married, 1st, about 1660, Daniel Fenton, born in Yorkshire, England, about 1628, died 1703, son of the Reverend Richard Denton, to whom she bore two children. They were divorced in 1672, and Abigail married, 2nd, in that year, Daniel Whitehead and bore him seven children, Deborah's will mentions the same children as in her husband's will. Thomas Hicks made his younger brother Jacob, his executor. Thomas left to his wife Deborah, the use of his homestead, to wit, that part which was James Clements', together with 10 acres of woodland at the north west corner of his 100 acres, and all the housing and orchards during her widowhood. Also the use of the meadow he bought of Richard Chew, with all the 100 acres he bought of John Hinchman, except the ten acres at the north east corner which he left to his son Augustine: also the meadow that was formerly James Clements after his wife`s decease. He left his son Augustine all his homestead that was James Clements', as all the meadow that was Francis Doughty's, with all the haying and orchards. He left his son Whitehead all the 10 acre lots, bought and purchased by his father in law Daniel Whitehead, deceased, situate and lying upon the south side of the Hills, to him and his heirs and assigns. And his son Thomas was to pay his brother Whitehead £25 when he was of age: and his son Augustine was to pay him £10. And his son Thomas was to pay his brother Stevenson £100 when of age. He left to his six daughters Abigail, Deborah, Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah and Martha, two thirds of moveables. His wife Deborah's will left £15 in money to Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth Field with her youngest son Stevenson to bring him up. She left the rest of her estate to her seven children. She bequeathed her daughter Martha to her loving friend Martha Thorne, and her daughter Hannah to her dear cousins Robert and Phebe Field, desiring them to bring up her dear children in the way of truth and the fear of God. She appointed her loving friends John Rodman, Robert Field, Francis Doughty, and Samuel Bowne as executors.
Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy)
2/1. Thomas Hicks, date of birth unknown, but a minor in 1712, died in 1777.

He was a Judge of Queen's County, Long Island from 1738 until his death in 1777. He married in 1755, his

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cousin Margaret Hicks, daughter of his uncle Judge Isaac Hicks, see page 10.
Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hick genealogy)
3/1. Catherine Hicks, born May 8/1726, died November 12/1804.

She never married.

3/2. Whitehead Hicks, born August 24/1728, died October 4/1780.

He was admitted to the Bar in 1750 and became a distinguished judge. He was Mayor of New York from 1766 to 1776. When he was appointed a judge to the Supreme Court of New York, he soon resigned, as he was called a traitor by the British and a Tory by the patriots of the Continental Congress. He married on October 15/1757, Charlotte Brevoort, born in New York City, May 22/1740, died February 28/1790, the only surviving of the three daughters of John Annes and Louisa Abigail (Kockerthal) Brevoort, and by this marriage became possessed of the Brevoort fortune.
Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy)
4/1. John Brevoort Hicks, (twin), born December 18/1761,

died March 23/1762.

4/2. Margaret Hicks, (twin), born December 18/1761,

died May 16/1763.

4/3. Louisa Hicks, born January 8/1763, died July 19/1766.
4/4. John Brevoort Hicks, born January 7/1765,

died February 7/1828 of apoplexy. He married on January 18/1789, Sarah Moore Titus, born July 29/1769, died January 1798, daughter of David Titus of Newtown, L.I. Four children.

4/5. Charlotte Hicks, born February 28/1770, died February 12/1775
4/6. Thomas Hicks, born January 14/1771, died July 5/1815.

He married on March 10/1794, Martha Buchanan, born October 26/1771, died September 26/1844, daughter of Thomas and Almy (Townsend) Buchanan, see subject 308, page 4.
Issue :-
5/1. Almy Townsend Hicks.
5/2. Charlotte Brevoort Nicks.
5/3. Margaret Louisa Hicks, born August 23/1807,

died February 26/1873. She married on November 20/1838, Henry Rogers Winthrop, whose grand daughter Alice Winthrop married Robert Gardner Payne, son of William Thomas and Alice (Gardner) Payne of Yokohama and New York.

4/7. Elias Hicks, born December 25/1771, died April 19/1844.

He married on May 29/1815, Mary Pemberton Lewis, born July 25/1777, died December 16/1859, daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Lawrence) Lewis of Philadelphia. Three children.

4/8. Margaret Hicks, born August 4/1773, died in childbirth, January

2/1799. She married on November 29/1797, Samuel Titus.

3/3. Amelia Hicks, born October 12/1731, died 1779.

She married in 1777, John Thorne. They had no children.

3/4. Gilbert Hicks, born September 4/1736, died 1776.

He married on May 26/1765, Mary Allen, born January 18/1746, died September 27/1826, daughter of Henry and Phebe Allen: five children.

3/5. Mary Hicks, born April 16/1737. She married on June 8/1781,

Jacob Suydam. They had no children,

3/6. Sarah Hicks, born March 22/1738, died May 13/1810. She married 1st,

on June 3/1769, her cousin Cornelius Van Wyck, who died in July 1784, son of Cornelius and Mary (Hicks) Van Wyck, by whom she had four children. She married, 2nd, James Burling,

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born January 1732, died January 28/1813: no children.

2/2. Whitehead Hicks, a minor in 1712, died January 2/1720.
2/3. Augustine Hicks. A merchant in New York in 1739. Wife Jane --.
2/4. Stevenson Hicks, died November 24/1725: not married.
2/5. Abigail Hicks, died before 1778. She was said to have married

William Van Wyck, but the Van Wyck genealogy does not confirm it.

2/6. Deborah Hicks.

She married on October 15/1697? (date must be wrong) Thomas Lawrence.

2/7. Mary Hicks.
2/8. Elizabeth Hicks. She married Robert Field, born at Newtown, L.I.

May 12/1698, died December 19/1767, son of Elnathan and Elizabeth (---) Field, a Quaker. For their nine children see the Field Genealogy.

2/9. Hannah Hicks, born 1704. She married in 1721, William Stevenson,

born 1690-1700, died 1708, son of Edward and Charity (Field) Stevenson. He was Assessor at Newtown, L.I. until 1724, then moved to Burlington, N.J., and later to Yonkers: he died in New Jersey. They had twelve children.

2/10. Martha Hicks, died September 10/1762. She was not married.

1/2. Jacob Hicks. Born 1669, died 1755. He lived at Rockaway, L.I.

He married, probably in 1690, Hannah Carpenter, born 1672, died July ---, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter, who came from Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, to Providence, R.I. and Warwick, R.I., and then in 1663 to Long Island, N.Y.
Issue:- (from Thomas C Cornell's genealogy)
2/1. Samuel Hicks. born October 1702, died May 10/1735,

He married in 1723, Martha Doughty born 1705, died July 19/1758, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Williams) Doughty, see subject 534 page 3. After Samuel's death, Martha married, 2nd, as his second wife, in 1759, Nathaniel Townsend born February 25/1698, died May 22/1754, son of James and Audrey (Almy) Townsend, see subject 308 page 4. Issue:-(from the Benjamin B. Hicks genealogy)
3/1. Samuel Hicks, born 1725, died 1759.

He married in 1748, Mary Middagh, daughter of John Middagh of Brooklyn, N.Y. They had two children.

3/2. Barnabas Hicks, born 1750.
3/3. Mary Hicks, born 1732, died at Oyster Bay, July 2/1796,

who took the name of her step father Nathaniel Townsend. She married on April 2/1757, her cousin, Dr. James Townsend, born December 17/1729, died May 24/1790, Son of Jacob and Phebe (Seaman) Townsend, see subject 308, pages 2-3, for their issue.

2/2. Stephen Hicks, born July 18/1704, died January 4/1775.

The Hicks genealogy says he married on September 8/1755, Elizabeth Moore, born October 7/1734, died 1803, daughter of James Moore, of Putnam, N.Y., and had two children.

2/3. Thomas Hicks, born May 2/1706, died March 10/1776.

He married on November 14/1727, Temperance Titus, born October 14/1707, died February 12/1738, daughter of Silas and Sarah (Haight) Titus – of Flushing, L.I., see subject 150, page 1. They had six children.

2/4. Jacob Hicks, born June 14/1708, died March 6/1769.

He married, 1st, on May 8/1732, Mary Seaman, daughter of Samuel and Phebe (Hicks) Seaman, see page 11. He married, 2nd, Ruth Carman, born 1710, daughter of Thomas and Mary (---) Carman, see subject page 4, and widow of Solomon Powell, who died in 1736 who she had married in 1730.
Issue: - see next page.

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Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Seaman)
3/1. Charles Hicks, born December 6/1736, died March 23/1772.

He married on March 26/1767, Abigail Cornell, born May 6/1748, daughter of William Cornell and had two children.

Issue:- (by his second wife Ruth Carman)
3/2. James Hicks, born June 13/1738.
3/3. Elizabeth Hicks, born October 12/1741.

She married on August 5/1761, John Jansey of New York.

3/4. Hannah Hicks, born February 18/1743.

She married on June 27/1762, David Seaman, born August 30/1739, son of David and Mary (Willets) Seaman and had five children.

3/5. Abigail Hicks, born May 28/1746, died February 14/1823.

She married on October 30/1774, Whitehead Cornell, born March 10/1747, died in December 1803, son of Thomas and Helena Whitehead) Cornell, and had nine children.

3/6. Mary Hicks, born January 3/1749, died July 10/1800: unmarried.

2/5. Sarah Hicks, born August 8/1710, died March 12/1785.

She married Jacob Haight, born April 3/1705, died November 12/1767, son of Nicholas and Patience (Titus) Haight, see subject 150. They had nine children and lived in Dutchess County, N.Y,

2/6. John Hicks, born December 25/1711, died 1789. He married, 1st, about

1738, Martha (Smith) Mott, daughter of Gershom and Mary Smith, see subject 140, page 2, and widow of Samuel Mott, born 1707, died February 15/1735, whom she had married on May 27/1728, son of Joseph and Miriam (---) Mott, see subject 282, page 3. They were Quakers. John Hicks married, 2nd, in 1765, Phebe Powell, born June 13/1716, daughter of John and Margaret (Hallock) Powell, a Quaker: they had no children.
Issue :- (by his first wife Martha (Smith) Mott)
3/1. Samuel Hicks, born March 29/1739.
3/2. Joseph Hicks, born February 26/1741.
3/3. John Hicks, born July 1/1743, died March 26/1808.

He married on January 8/1766, Amy Willis, born August 12/1747, died March 29/1832, daughter of Jacob Willis: they had five children.

3/4. Elias Hicks, born at Rockaway, L.I., March 19/1748,

died at Jericho, L.I., February 27/1829, a famous preacher. He founded the so called Hicksite or liberal branch of the Society of Friends. He married on January 2/1771, Jermina Seaman, born September 21/1750, died March 17/1829, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Willis) Seaman. They had ten children.

3/5. Stephen Hicks, baptized September 9/1750, died December 20/1816.

He married on November 9/1777, Mary Hewlett, born November 17/1758, died March 30/1831, daughter of Colonel Richard and Mary (Townsend) Hewlett, see subject 616, page 5.
Issue:-
4/1. John Hicks, born February 15/1778 (?), died March 4/1826.

He married on January 8/1803, Phebe Hicks, born February 1/1782, died November 23/1861, daughter of Silas Hicks, and had seven children.

4/2. Sarah Hicks, born September 18/1779, died October 30/1809.

She married on April 6/1802, John Cornell, born September 27/1773, died February 22/1824, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Thurston) Cornell. They had one child.

4/3. Oliver Hewlett Hicks, born June 30/1781, died September 17/1832.

He married on April 19/1801, Julia Bush, born

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July 4/1782. died March 21/1871, daughter of Stephen Bush of Greenwich, Conn. They had ten children.

4/4. Stephen Hicks, born October 7/1783, died June 25/1833.

he married on April 2/1803, Mary Birdsall, born 1787, died 1837, only daughter of Samuel Birdsall: six children.

4/5. Martha Hicks, born October 29/1785, died September 29/1874,

aged 89 years. She married at Hempstead, on July 16/1803, James Poole, born January 8/1773, died June 19/1846, son of Pierce and Elizabeth (Rushmore) Lawrence Poole, see subject 32. See subject 10 for issue and further particulars.

4/6. Richard Hicks, born August 4/1788, died June 11/1807.

He married in December 1825, Mary Hewlett, born 1804, died 1862, daughter of William Hewlett and had four children.

4/7. Abraham Hicks, born January 16/1791, died May 6/1827.

He married on December 27/1815, Rachel Seaman, born April 10/1789, died August 13/1878, daughter of Gideon and Elizabeth (Keese) Seaman. They had five children.

4/8. Phebe Hicks, born March 22/1793, died February 8/1856.

She married on October 3/1816, William H. Imlay, born January 15/1780, died September 4/1858, son of William Imlay of Hartford, Conn. They had nine children.

4/9. Mary Hicks, born May 1/1795, died January 14/1872; unmarried.
4/10. Whitehead Hicks, born September 20/1797,

died March 1/1843. He was at one time Mayor of New York, and owned a farm in the seventh ward. He married on February 2/1826, Mary Ann Merritt, born February 1/1799, died after 1877, daughter of Jesse and Mary (Cornelius) Merritt of Bethpage, L.I. After Whitehead's death, Mary Ann married, 2nd, on April 18/1867, as his third wife, Robert Seaman, born October 31/1792, died October 31/1870, son of David and Sarah (Kirby) Seaman.
Issue:-
5/1. Merritt Hicks, born March 3/1827, died September 20/1849.
5/2. Williams Hicks, born July 7/1830, died July 21/1905.

He married on October 6/1853, Letitia Seaman, born October 6/1833, daughter of Benjamin and Jemima (Seaman) Seaman. They had seven children.

5/3. Mary Hicks, born February 22/1832, living in 1878.

4/11. Samuel J. Hicks. Born June 1/1800, died June 15/1838.

He married on July 22/1822, Elizabeth Brown: seven children.

3/6. Jacob Hicks, born July 11/1753, died May 4/1800. He married,

1st, on October 2/1774, Phebe Hewlett, born 1754, died 1793, daughter of Colonel Richard and Mary (Townsend) Hewlett, see subject 616, page 6: they had two children. He married, 2nd, on November 18/1794, Phebe Mott, daughter of Patrick Mott but they had no children.

2/7. Benjamin Hicks, born January 29/1713, will dated April 20/1743,

proved June 18/1743. He married on December 2/1736, Phebe Titus, born July 29/1717, died February 2/1800, daughter of Silas and Sarah (Haight) Titus, see subject 150.
Issue : -
3/1. Silas Hicks, born April 10/1737, died before 1784.

He married on February 3/1702, Rachel Seaman, born 1742, died 1797, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Valentine) Seaman and had four children. After Silas' death, Rachel married, 2nd, on January 5/1785, Joseph Willets.

3/2. Benjamin Hicks, born March 23/1739 died April 2/1811.

He married, 1st, on April 26/1765, Elizabeth Mott, (the Hicks

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genealogy says Mary Mott), daughter of Benjamin Mott, and had Mott Hicks, born 1766, died 1842. He married 2nd, on February 3/1774, Mary Mott born 1752, died October 15/1824, daughter of John and Ruth (Powell) Mott, and had eight children.

3/3. Samuel Hicks, born August 30/1741, died November 20/1819.

He was a tailor in Westbury District: he inherited no fortune, and became a prosperous man. He married, 1st, on June 26/1765, Phebe Seaman, born June 4/1747, died September 21/1790, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Valentine) Seaman. He married, 2nd, on February 20/1794, Amy Shotwell, born 1748, died September 18/1815, daughter of Joseph Shotwell of Rayway, N.J., and widow of Charles Brooks, an Englishman who she had married on August 28/1788, by whom she had Abraham Brooks: Samuel had no children by her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Phebe Seaman)
4/1. Isaac Hicks, born April 19/1767, died January 10/1820.

He was a prominent ship owner of New York. One of his ships first carried the newly adopted flag of the U.S.A. to the Black Sea in Russia. He married on May 12/1790, Sarah Doughty, born March 27/1768, died August 3/1847, daughter of John and Abigail (Hicks) Doughty of Brooklyn.
Issue: -
5/1. John Doughty Hicks, born March 20/1791, died October

10/1829. He married on January 29/1812, Sarah R. Rushmore born September 10 or October 9/1790, died March or October 3/1893, aged 103 years, daughter of Stephen and Phebe (Townsend) Rushmore, of Westbury, L.I., see subject 132, page 5.
Issue:-
6/1. Lydia Hicks, born February 15/1813,

died September 29/1895. She married, on November 3/1830, Joseph Hicks. They had ten children.

6/2. Isaac Hicks, born March 7/1815, died March 13/1900.

He married on March 24/1836, Mary F. Willis, born January 14/1817, died February 28/1898, daughter of John and Mary (Kirby) Willis of Syosset: 4 children.

6/3. Phebe Hicks, born January 16/1817, died January 4/1821.
6/4. Samuel Hicks, born June 26/1820, died April 28/1898.

He married on September 17/1841, Rachel Willis, born July 21/1820, died May 7/1905, daughter of John and Mary (Kirby) Willis of Syosset, L.I. Two children.

6/5. Stephen Rushmore Hicks, born February 18/1823,

died January 21/1892. He married on September 17/1846, Hannah Whitson Underhill, born in New York City, December 10/1825, died in Brooklyn, January 26/1916, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Whitson) Underhill. They had six children.

6/6. Valentine Hicks, born February 5/1826. He married on

April 19/1848. Margaretta Chapman, born March 20/1832, daughter of Austin Chapman: ten children.

6/7. John Doughty Hicks., born November 13/1829,

died December 20/1907.

5/2. Robert Hicks, born March 15/1793, died May 26/1849.

He married on May 19/1814, Mary Udall Mott, born February 28/1793, died October 30/1862, daughter of Adam and Anne

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(Mott) Mott of Manhasset, L.I. Two children.

5/3. Benjamin Doughty Hicks, born February 11/1797,

Died September 17/1835. He married on April 10/1823, Elizabeth T. Hicks, born January 21/1803, daughter of Whitehead and Margaret (Titus) Hicks.
Issue:-
6/1. Marianna Hicks, born August 31/1829,

died February 14/1834. (Hinshaw gives this date as 1894).

6/2. Benjamin Doughty Hicks, born in New York City, 24/1836,

three months after his father's death, died at Westbury, L.I., September 19/1906, a Quaker. He inherited a competent fortune, and instead of engaging in mercantile pursuits, devoted his life to public affairs and charity. He was one of the organizers of the Title Guarantee & Trust Co., and the Bond Mortgage Co., and a director of both. He was president of the Rosslyn Saving's Dank, the Nassau County Bank, and the Bank of Hempstead Harbor. He was vice president of the S.P.C.A. He published the ten volumes of the Hempstead Town Records, and wrote the Hick Genealogy, 8 volumes, at the Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn. He married, 1st, on June 21/1859, Maria Louisa Herrick, born August 17/1836, died January 29/1861, daughter of Elias Hicks and Jane Maria Taylor of New York: no children. He married, 2nd, on April 28/1883, Alice Albertson, daughter of Thomas Albertson of Mineola, L.I.: no children. He adopted Frederick Hicks Cocks, a descendant of Isaac and Sarah (Doughty) Hicks.

5/4. Isaac Hicks, born April 26/1802, died November 19/1804.
5/5. Elizabeth Hicks, born June 10/1805, died January 2/1865.

She married, 1st, at Westbury, on October 30/1822, Doctor William Ferris Seaman, born February 13/1797, died January 12/1827, son of Valentine and Ann (Ferris) Seaman: they had two children. She married, 2nd, on October 19/1831, William T. Cock born November 26/1803, died January 18/1885 son of Samuel Cock of Buckram, L.I.: 2 children.

5/6. Mary Hicks, born September 20/1807, died December 12/1820.

4/2. Elizabeth Hicks, born May 19/1771, died November 13/1789.
4/3. Samuel Hicks, born October 20/1778, died October 12/1837.

He married on October 14/1801, Sarah Haydock, born June 13/1781, died October 15/1832, daughter of John Haydock of New York: Three children.

4/4. Valentine Hicks, born April 2/1782, died at Jericho, L.I.,

March 5/1850. He married at Jericho on February 23/1804, his second cousin, Abigail Hicks, born March 3/1782, died February 26/1850, a week before her husband, daughter of Elias and Jermine (Seaman) Hicks, see page 5. He was a Quaker, in business with his father and brother Isaac: after a few years with the firm, he retired with fifty thousand dollars and passed the rest of his life in leisure, saying he loved his children too well to leave them rich. The town of Hicksville, L.I., was named after him. His name appears at the head of the list of the State of Yew York representatives in the Senate and Assembly, in an act to incorporate the Long Island Railway on April 24/1834, of which he was the second president.

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Issue:-
5/1. Phebe Hicks, born December 24/1804, died in New York

City, June 23/l852. She married at Jericho, on May 25/1826, Adonijah J. Underhill, born August 16/1800, died in New York City, June 27/1854, son of Daniel or David and Mary (Jackson) Underhill. The Quakers disowned Phebe in 1830 for "marrying out". They had no children.

5/2. Mary Hicks, born August 17/1806, died August 13/1825.
5/3. Caroline Hicks, born July 11/1808, died February 22/1868.

She married on June 23/1831, Dr.William F. Seaman, born July 2l/1796, died April 19/1855, son of David and Sarah (Kirby) Seaman of Jericho. Three children.

5/4. Elizabeth B. Hicks, born August 1/1812. died Nov 29/1820.
5/5. Elias Hicks, born June 12/1815, died January 10/1853.

He married on June 8/1836, His cousin Sarah Hicks, born February 28/1818 died October 27/1884, only daughter of Robert and Mary (Udall Mott) Hicks, see page 7. They had four children.

4/5. Phebe Hicks, born May 5/1785, died August 12/1851. She married

on December 27/1815, John Clapp, born August 30/1781, died July 17/1857, son of John Clapp of Greenwich, Conn. They had six children

3/4. Sarah Hicks, born October 13/l744, died May 5/1818. She married

on September 7/1764, Derrick (or Richard) Albertson, born 1736, son of Derrick or Richard and Rebecca (De Grove) Albertson and had five children.

3/5. Phebe Hicks, born October 18/1753, died August 13/1811.

Her birth date must be wrong as her father died in 1743. She married John Carle and had three children.

2/8. Elizabeth Hicks, born 1716, died July 11/1750.

She married Richard Williams and had four children.

2/9. Joseph Hicks, born August 12/1714. Was he the Joseph whose will dated

February 28/1755, proved September 26/1756, mentioned wife Bethia, and children Bishop, Joseph, Samuel Elizabeth, Bethia and Mary?

2/10. Hannah Hicks, born 1718. She married In 1741, David Titus, born 1719,

son of Silas end Sarah (Haight) Titus, and had two children. She married, 2nd, Thomas Hallett of Newtown, L.I.

Issue :- (by his second wife Mary Doughty, in the order of his will)
1/3. John Hicks.

No data in Benjamin T. Hicks genealogy, but there is a will of John Hicks, dated Flushing November 12/1727, proved April 28/1730, in which he mentions wife Ellinor and sons Robert, Ellis, William and Thomas, and brother in law Thomas Ellison. Could this be his will? It would seem so, as John's sister Elizabeth (named Sarah by Werner), had a sister in law who married Thomas EIlison, see subject 264, page 3.

1/4. Joseph Hicks. No data in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy.
1/5. Isaac Hicks. Bunker estimates his birth as 1678, and he died in 1745,

his will dated August 3/1745, proved September 30/1745. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1723, and a member of the Assembly in 1716 and 1738. He married Elizabeth Moore, born about 1693, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Reed) Moore, of Newtown, L.I. (This is from "William Henry Moore and his Ancestry", by L. Effingham De Forest, New York, 1934).

Subject 266.

Issue:- (in the order, given in his will)
2/1. Benjamin Hicks. Was he the Benjamin who married Elizabeth Rodman,

born September 25/1719, died October 14/1750, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Scott) Rodman and had five children.

2/2. Gilbert Hicks. He married Mary Rodman born February 1/1717,

daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Lawrence) Rodman, and moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

2/3. James Hicks, born 1722, died January 14/1760.

He married on June 8/1754, Deborah Hicks, daughter of William Hicks, see below, They had two children.

2/4. Mary Hicks. She married Cornelius Van Wyck, born October 19th, 1702,

died 1769, son of Johannes and Phebe (Kortright) Van Wyck, and had six children, amongst whom was Cornelius who married his cousin Sarah Hicks, see page 3.

2/5. Thomas Hicks, will dated December 23/l765, proved February 1/1786,

He married about 1740, Charity Stevenson, daughter of John and Abigail (Perkins) Stevenson of Newtown, L,I., and Throg's Neck, Westchester County, N.Y. They later moved to Middletown, Monmouth County, N.J.
Issue:-
3/1. George Hicks.
3/2. Evan Hicks.
3/3. Abigail Hicks.
3/4. Oliver Hicks. He married on March 10/1775, Catherine Cook.

2/6. Henry Hicks.
2/7. John Hicks, born 1716, died February 21/1746.

He married on July 5/1738, Martha Mott, born 1718, died 1745. daughter of James Mott, and had six children.

2/8. Isaac Hicks.
2/9. Margaret Hicks. She married in 1725, her cousin

Thomas Hicks, born after 169l, died 1777 of Thomas and Deborah (Whitehead) Hicks, see pages 2 and 3, for issue and further particulars.

1/6. Benjamin Hicks. No data in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy.
1/7. William Hicks. Bunker estimates his birth as about 1680.

No data about him in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy. Name of wife unknown.
Issue:-
(only the two below mentioned as his children in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy - therefore may not be complete)
2/1. Deborah Hicks. She married on July 5/1738, her cousin James Hicks,

born 1722, died January 14/1760, son of Isaac Hicks, see above. They had two children.

2/2. Mary Hicks, born about 1717, died December 20/1751.

He married on October 13/1737, Samuel Rodman, born February 6/1715, died 1780, son of Joseph and his first wife Sarah (Lawrence) Rodman of New Rochelle, N.Y. and had seven children. After Mary`s death, Samuel married, 2nd, Mary Pell, daughter of Caleb Pell.

1/8. Stephen Hicks. No data in Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy.
1/9. Phebe Hicks. Bunker estimates her birth as about 1672, though her parents

were not married until 1676, and her death in 1732. Her father's will called her Phebe Simmons, a misspelling of Seaman. She married in 1695, Samuel Seaman, born 1668, died 1732, son of John and his Second wife Martha (Moore) Seaman, see subject 538, page 2.
Issue:-
(may not be complete as the Seaman genealogy says they had seven children)
2/1. Samuel Seaman, born about 1696. He married at Hempstead, L.I.,

on September 30/1729-30, lsabella Allen, and had some children.

2/2. Mary Seaman. born about 1698, died before 1737. The Benjamin D.

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Hicks genealogy says she married on May 8/1732, her cousin Jacob Hicks, born July 14/1708, died March 6/1769, son of Jacob and Hannah (Carpenter) Hicks, see Pages 4 and 5 for their issue. However the Seaman genealogy says Jacob Seaman married Mary Hicks, and that Jacob was the son of Benjamin and Martha (Titus) Seaman. I think this is an error, for Martha, see below,

2/3. Martha Seaman, Born about 1699. She married on March 25/1731,

her cousin James Seaman, who died in 1781, son of Benjamin and Martha (Titus) Seaman, and had four children.

2/4. Hicks Seaman, born at Jerusalem, L.I., in 1700.

He married at Hempstead, on October 30/1726, Elizabeth Barnes, born 1717, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Jackson) Barnes and had five children. In 1764 they went to Westchester County, N.Y., and had a farm near the Craton River.

1/10. Elizabeth Hicks, mentioned in her father's will,

but no further data and therefore probably died young.

1/11. Charity Hicks. Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy says she was not married.

The Cornell genealogy says she was born in 1674, (this is two years before her parents married), and that her will was dated March 1762, proved February 14/1767, and that she married, as his second wife, on December 20/1712, (when she was about 45 years old), Thomas Cornell, born 1675, died 1719, son of Richard and Elizabeth (---) Cornell.

1/12. Mary Hicks. Her father's will called her Mary Bushlar, a mispelling of

the name Rushmore: the will also mentioned Mary's daughter Sarah Everitt. She married Jacob Rushmore, son of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Doughty) Rushmore. See subject 264 for their issue and further particulars.

1/13. Sarah Hicks. Her father's will mentioned no daughter Sarah, nor does

Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy give her as a daughter. However, some genealogies state Sarah was a daughter, and that she married Thomas Rushmore, born about 1650, died before 1733, son of Thomas and his first wife Martha (Hicks), Rushmore, see subject 264. I cannot find any proof that Sarah was a daughter of Thomas Hicks.

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282 - ADAM MOTT

         The following is from "Adam and Anne Mott", by Thomas C. Cornell, Yonkers, 1890: from "The Descendants of Adam Mott", by Edward Doubleday Harris, 1906, which corrects many mistakes in Thomas C. Cornell's work: and from "The Jones Family of Long Island", by John Henry Jones, N.Y., 1907.
         Adam Mott was born in Essex, England, about 1620, as his will, dated March 12/1681-2, proved April 8/1690, described himself as about sixty years old, and a yeoman. The inventory of his estate was £182.9.6. He was probably the Adam Mott who came to America in 1638 in the ship "Bevis", a taylor who had relatives in Providence, R.I. with whom he tarried a while, but later went to New York, about 1646, as on April 25/1646, the Dutch government of the New Netherlands, granted him twenty five morgens (about 50 acres) of land at Newtown Creek, now Bushwick, L.I. He moved to Hempstead about 1656. On March 17/1657, Adam was chosen a townsman of Hempstead. At that time, and for long after, the neck of land in the northern part of the town between Hempstead Harbor on the east, and Cow Bay (now Manhasset Bay) on the west, was a common pasture for the cattle of the town and hence was called Cow Neck. It was enclosed by a fence about three miles long, from the head of the harbor, now Roslyn, to the head of Cow Bay, now Manhasset. Inside this fence to the Sound, was about five miles in length from north to south, and from two to three miles in width, about 8000 acres, Adam Mott's descendants have been living in Cow Neck for more than two centuries. In 1657, public notice was given that all who wished their calves kept by the keeper, should give in their number to Adam Mott before April 24/1657. The fence consisted of 526 panels or gates and was maintained by sixty contributors, whose "right of pasture" was proportioned to the panels or gates which each maintained. Adam Mott at that time had 5 oxen, 2 milch cows, 2 calves, and 20 acres of allotted meadow.
         In the absence of any bell, it was in those days, custom to call people to town meetings or to church by beating a drum, and in 1659, Adam Mott was paid by the town of Hempstead, six shillings for beating the drum for four days. On April 22/1665, Adam was commissioned Lieutenant, in the Hempstead Militia. On January 28/1670, he purchased land from Henry Disbrowe at Madnan's Neck, now Great Neck, formerly the property of Captain John Seaman, where he settled soon after, and grew tobacco with great success. On October 11/1685, the assessment list of 155 names of Hempstead residents, included those of Adam senior, £390: Adam junior, and various amounts for the latter's sons James, John and Joseph. The last record of Adam Mott was dated March 26/1685. His father Adam and his mother Anne were also living in Hempstead, but beyond that, nothing is known about them.
         Adam Mott, known as junior, married at New Amsterdam, on July 28/1647, Jane Hulet (Hewlett), daughter of Lewis Hewlett of Buckingham, England, the marriage record bearing the words "neither previously married". Dates of Jane's birth and death are not known. The Jones genealogy states that she was probably a sister of George Hewlett, who family tradition states, was the first of his name in America, and who was a Judge of the Court under Cromwell's Commonwealth, who refused allegiance to Charles II, and fled to America with his four sons. They settled at Merrick, L.I.
         Adam Mott married, 2nd, probably in 1667, Elizabeth Richbell, daughter of John and Ann (Parsons) Richbell, who first lived in Oyster Bay and later an original patentee of Mamaroneck in 1662. Edward D. Harris says that Elizabeth was the daughter of Ann Richbell's first husband, a Mr. Redman. After Adam's death, Elizabeth married, not long before

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November 5/1691, Robert Hubbs, and was living as his wife in 1698, the date of the Hempstead Census. The order given below of Adam's children may not be correct, birth records of only the first two being known: the others are estimated.
Issue:- (by his first wife Jane Hewlett)

1/1. Adam Mott. Baptized at New Amsterdam, November 14/1649.

He married in 1678, Mary Stillwell, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Stillwell. He was a Justice of the Peace in Hempstead and in 1715 lived at Rockaway: nothing is known of them after 1718.
Issue :-
2/1. Jane Mott, born 1680, died August 21/1769.

The Seaman genealogy says she married in 1695-4, Richard Seaman, born at Hempstead 1673, died at Westbury, L.I., September 6/1749, a Quaker, son of Captain John and his second wife Martha (Moore) Seaman, and had fifteen children, of whom twelve were mentioned in his will.

2/2. Mary Mott. She married on March 5/1705, Solomon Seaman,

son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Linnington) Seaman, and had two children.

2/3. Adam Mott, died 1749. He married before 1719, his half cousin Elizabeth

Mott, daughter of Richbell and Elizabeth (Thorne) Mott, and had four children. He settled in Staten Island in 1713 and was a member of The Assembly in Richmond County 1737 to 1739, but later removed to Pennsylvania.

2/4. Ann Mott, born 1688. She married Benjamin Carman, born 1688,

died before 1735, son of Caleb and Hannah (Seaman) Carman, see subject 268, page 1 for their issue and further particulars.

1/2. James Mott. Baptized October 5/1651, died 1707.

In 1679, then a prisoner in New York, he petitioned to be forgiven for selling liquor to the Indians: he was given a home lot in Hempstead that same year. In 1692 he removed to Mamaroneck and was a captain in the militia and a Justice of the Peace. He married, 1st, on September 5/1670, Mary Redman, who died in 1698, step daughter of his brother Richbell Mott. He married, 2nd, Elizabeth ----.
Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Redman)
2/1. Elizabeth Mott. Listed in the Hempstead Census of 1698.
2/2. Grace Mott. ditto.
2/3. James Mott. In 1728 be lived in Mamaroneck. He married in 1717,

Jane Burling, born May 17/1684, daughter of Edward Burling of Flushing

2/4. Phebe Mott. No data.
2/5. Martha Mott. No data.

1/3. Grace Mott. Probably born in 1653. She married in 1671, Jonathan Smith,

who died in 1724, son of John "Rock" Smith, subject 280. see subject 140 for issue and further particulars.

1/4. Elizabeth Mott. Born about 1655. She married John Oksson, so spelled,

but spelled correctly Kissam, son of John and Susannah (Thorne) Kissam, of Jamaica, L.I. The early spelling of the name was Okersam, probably a Dutch name. They settled in Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

1/5. Henry Mott. Born about 1657, died November 21/1680. His father's will

said his wife was Hannah --, and that he had three children.

1/6. John Mott. Born about 1658, last trace of him in 1727.

He lived at Rockaway in land given him by his father. He married in 1688, Sarah Seaman, daughter of Captain John and his second wife Martha (Moore) Seaman, and had six children.

1/7. Joseph Mott. Born about 1661, died 1735-6. He married Mariam ---,

perhaps a Smith and lived at Cow Neck.

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Issue:-
2/1. Mariam Mott. She married on February 8/1712-3, perhaps,

Richard Cornell, born before 1685, died 1772-78, and had six children. Bunker calls her Ann and said she married Samuel Cornell.

2/2. Jane Mott, born November 15/1682. died July 15/1729.

She married Benjamin Seaman, born 1685, died September 7/1729, son of Benjamin and Martha (Titus) Seaman and had ten children: lived in Westbury.

2/3. Joseph Mott, born 1696, died 1765. He went to Dutchess County, N.Y.

he married his half cousin Deborah Mott, daughter of Richbell and Elizabeth (Thorne) Mott, see below. They had seven children. He married, 2nd, on June 5/1759, Catherine Boerum and had 5 children.

2/4. Samuel Mott, born 1707, died February 15/1736.

He married on May 27/1728, Martha Smith who married, 2nd, John Hicks, son of Jacob and Hannah (Carpenter) Hicks, see subject 266, page 2.

2/5. Jacob Mott, born August 9/1714-5, died October 6/1805.

He married on July 16/1735, Abigail Jackson, born November 18/1720, died September 28/1781, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (--) Jackson, and had twelve children.

1/8. Gershom Mott Born about 1663, died about 1733, will proved March 30/1733.

On December 2/1703 he was Lieutenant of Militia at Newtown, L.I. See the account of his descendants in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 25, p 49. In 1685 he moved to Middleton, Monmouth County, N.J., where he was High Sheriff:in 1697 he was a member of the Provincial Assembly. He married in 1695, Catherine Bowne daughter of Captain John and Lydia Bowne: they had six children.

Issue:- (by his second wife Elizabeth Richbell)
1/9. Richbell Mott. Born probably 1668, died 1734.

He married on October 14/1696, Elizabeth Thorne of Flushing, L.I., who died March-April 1739, daughter of John and Mary Thorne. Richbell settled at Little Neck and was a man of standing and force. In 1708 he received a tract of land on the Sound on the west side of the entrance to Hempstead Harbor, the deed reading 260 acres, though it must have been considerably larger. The old Mott homestead still stood on the shore as late as 1890. On April 2/1715 he sold this plot to his brother Adam for £269. In 1713-5 Richbell was surveyor of highways and fence viewer.
Issue:-
2/1 .Edmond Mott, born about 1700, will dated August 4/1741,

proved June 13/1744: he left his wife £200, daughter Margaret £170, son Richbell half his farm, sons Edmond and John a quarter each of his farm. He married in 1726, Catherine Sands, daughter of Captain John and Sybil (Ray) Sands. They were both Quakers.
Issue :-
3/1. Margaret Mott.
3/2. Richbell Mott, born August 3/1728, died May 9/1758.

He married in 1749, Deborah Dodge, born April 15/1728, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (---) Dodge of Cow Neck, L.I.
Issue:-
4/1. Margaret Mott, born September 21/1749.

She married on March 17/1772, the Hon. Melancthon Smith, born at Jamaica, L.I., in 1744, died July 29/1798, son of Samuel Smith, who had married, 1st, Sarah Smith of New Jersey who died in 1770.
Issue :-
5/1. Richbell Mott Smith, born 1780,

died off the coast of Japan, October 23/1800.

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5/2. Melancthon Smith. He was a Colonel in the U.S. Army.

He married, 1st, Cornelia?Jones, daughter of Dr. Gardner Jones of New York: 2nd, Anna Green, daughter of Israel Green of Dutchess County, N.Y.
Issue:- (may be part only)
6/1. Rear Admiral Melancthon Smith, born 1810,

who joined the U.S. Navy on March 1/1826, retired in 1870 and lived at Oyster Bay, L.I.

5/3. Sydney Smith.
5/4. Phebe Smith. She married John Bleeker.

4/2. Phebe Mott, born August 21/1751.

3/3. Edmond Mott, born August 25/1730.
3/4. John Mott, born August 1/1732, died 1780-1.

2/2. Richbell Mott, died unmarried soon after his majority.
2/3. Elizabeth Mott. She married in 1719, her half cousin Adam Mott,

son of Adam and Mary (Stillwell) Mott and lived on Staten Island. See page 2 for their issue.

2/4. Mary Mott. She married in 1718 John Tredwell,

born 1696 died 1741 son of Thomas and Hannah (Denton) Tredwell, see subject 286, p 2. They had four children.

2/5. Richard Mott, born 1710, died of yellow fever August 15/1743.

He married on January 26/1741, Sarah Pearsall, born November 6/1714, died at Hudson, N.Y., September 1800, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Underhill) Pearsall. After Richard's death, Sarah married, 2nd, on April 3/1747, Richard Alsop and had five children by him.
Issue:-
3/1. James Mott, born August 6/1742, died 1823.

He married Mary Underhill, born 1745, died 1766.

2/6. Ann Mott, born 1700, died September 20/1796. She married Daniel Kissam,

born 1701, died 1728, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Coombes) Kissam of Great Neck. After Daniel's death, Ann married, 2nd, on October 11/1730, Jotham Townsend of Oyster Bay, who died in 1752, son of John and Johanna (---) Townsend who had married, 1st, Martha Coles, daughter of Nathaniel and Rose (Wright) Coles, by whom he had Freelove and John Townsend, see subject 616 page 3.
Issue:- (by her first husband Daniel Kissam)
3/1. Daniel Kissam, born October 13/1726, died 1782.

He married on April 20/1746, Peggy Tredwell, born 1728, daughter of Colonel Benjamin and Phebe (Platt) Tredwell and had two children.

3/2. Elizabeth Kissam,

2/7. Jemima Mott. She married Stephen Wood.
2/8. Kezia Mott. She married John Jackson, son of Col. John and Elizabeth

(Hallett) Jackson who died January 12/1775. They had ten children.

2/9. Deborah Mott. She married her half cousin Joseph Mott, born 1696,

died 1765, son of Joseph and Miriam (--) Mott of Dutchess County, NY, and they had seven children. After Deborah's death Joseph married, rue, on June 5/1759, Catherine Boerum and had three children, see p 5

1/10. Mary Ann Mott. Born about 1671.
1/11. Adam Mott. Born about 1672, died December 10/1738.

His elder brother by is father's first wife was also named Adam, who was still alive, so his father called them by the names "my older son Adam" or "my younger son Adam". He married at Westbury, L.I., on November 5/1731-2, Phebe Willets, born February 14/1699, died at Cow Neck, September 7/1782, daughter of Richard and Abigail (Powell) Willets of Jericho, L.I. He was 59 years old when he was married and his wife was 27 years

Subject 282.

younger than he was, Phebe, before her marriage, had already been a famous Quaker minister for several years. Adam built his homestead on the land he bought from his brother Richbell and had a well stocked farm of 600 acres. After Adam's death, Phebe married, 2nd, on November 28/1741, as his second wife, Tristram Dodge who died in 1760, son of Tristram and Dorcas (Dickens) Dodge. She had no children by him.
Issue:- (all their children were double first cousins)
2/1. Elizabeth Mott, born May 51/1753, died September 13/1785.

She married on March 5/1755, John Willis, a Quaker Minister, born February 8/1734, died March 4/1789, son of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis.
Issue:-
3/1. Adam Willis, born July 1757, died 1758,
3/2. Samuel Willis, born March 5/1759, died 1838. He married Rachel

Pearsall, who died May 31/1855, daughter of Thomas Pearsall.
Issue:-
4/1. Henry Willis, born May 2/1786. He married Phebe Post.
4/2. Phebe Willis, born October 14/1787. She married James Post,
4/3. John Willis, born January 2/1790. He married Mary Kirby,

daughter of Jacob and Mary Kirby and had seven children.

4/4. Amay Willis, born September 12/1797, died January 26/1881.

She married at Jericho, L.I., on January 29/1824, Townsend Rushmore, born August 5/1792, died February 3/1870, son of Stephen and Phebe (Townsend) Rushmore. See subject 132, page 5 for their issue and further particulars.

3/3. Phebe Willis, born April 5/1761, died December 29/1851.

She married Joshua Powell, born October 15/1754, died 1817, son of Joshua and Phebe (Post) Powell and had five children.

3/4. Child.

2/2. Adam Mott, born October 10/1734, died December 18/1790.

He married, 1st, on March 5/1755, (the same day as his sister Elizabeth), Sarah Willis, born July 14/1736, died of tuberculosis January 10/1783, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis, and had four children. He married, 2nd, at Westbury, on January 6/1785, Abigail Batty, born 1753, died December 12/1807, daughter of David Batty of S. Hempstead.

2/3. Stephen Mott, born February 1/1736, died November 11/1813.

He married on October 6/1762, Amy Willis, born March 27/1738, died November 10/1822, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis. They had Daniel, Phebe, Mary, Jane, Abigail, Stephen and Henry.

1/12. William Mott. Born January 20/1674, died June 30/1740. He was a Quaker of

Great Neck, L.I. He married on April 12/1705, Hannah Ferris, born March 5/1679, died June 24/1759, daughter of John and Mary Ferris of Westchester County, N.Y.
Issue :-
2/1. Elizabeth Mott, born January 1/1706, died December 25/1721: single.
2/2. William Mott, born August 6/1709, died March 25/1786.

He married on June 18/1742, Elizabeth Allen, born 1719, died November 6/1780, daughter of Henry and Mary (Udall) Allen of Great Neck, L.I. Issue:-(from the Jones Genealogy) 3/1. William Mott, born January 8/1743, died at Great Neck, March 30/1825. He was a partner in the firm of William and John Mott, merchants, 240 Water St., New York, and lived in Great Neck, L.I. He married on December 2/1789, Mary Willis, born 1761, died August 5/1842, daughter of William Willis, and had William, James and Robert, all with the middle name Willis. See the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 36, p 28 for their issue.

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3/2. Hannah Mott, born June 4/1744, died March 15/1750.
3/3. James Mott, born August 29/1745, died September 16/1782.
3/4. Elizabeth Mott, born February 5/1747, died September 7/1829.

She married David Underhill, son of Amos Underhill who died February 7/1811, and had two children,

3/5. John Mott, born February 17/1749, died March 7/1750.
3/6. Samuel Mott, born at Hempstead, December 16/1751,

died April 1/1791. He married on April 7/1784, Sarah Franklin, born July 25/1756, died December 11/1801, daughter of Henry and Mary (Seaman) Franklin and had four children.

3/7. Hannah Mott, born April 18/1753, died February 8/1805.
3/8. John Mott, born June 24/1755, died November 20/1823: no issue,
3/9. Henry Mott, born at Hempstead, May 31/1757, died at New York City,

December 17/1839. Dr. Henry Mott practiced medicine at 545 Broadway, New York City. He married on January 1/1783, Jane Way, born 1761, died April 12/1834, daughter of Samuel and Esther (Valentine) Way of Maspeth, L.I., see subject 290, page 2.
Issue:-
4/1. John Way Mott, born October 19/1783, died October 25/1827.
4/2. Valentine Mott, born at Glen Cove, L.I., August 20/1785,

died April 26/1865. He graduated from Columbia University in 1806, and completed his medical education in London and Edinburgh. From 1809 he was Surgeon at the Columbia University Hospital, New York City, and became the most famous surgeon of his day. He was highly honored in England and was said to have performed more operations than any other surgeon. He lived at No 1, Grammercy Park, New York City. His father's will stated that as his education had cost so much that he left all his money to his daughters. He married in 1817, Louisa Dunmore Munn, born 1796 of Philadelphia, who survived him and died in 1873. They had nine children, see the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 36, page 28 for their names, &c.

4/3. Esther Way Mott, born April 16/1789, died March 20/1854: single.
4/4. Eliza Mott, born August 25/1792, died April 1866, unmarried.
4/5. Maria Mott, born January 31/1796, died February 8/1877.

She married Seth M. Hobby, and had Henry Mott Hobby, born April 18/1826, died September 25/1826.

3/10. Richard Mott, born August 20/1759, died September 25/1795.
3/11. Joseph Mott, born at Hempstead, January 11/1762,

died at New York City, December 4/1801. He was a merchant at 250 Eater St, New York. He married on May 17/1799, Abigail Thorne, who died July 4/1836, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Cheesman) Thorne, see subject 36, page 2. After Joseph's death, Abigail married, 2nd, in 1814-16, a Mr. Griffin of Dutchess County, N.Y. but had no children by him. See the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 36, page 283 for their descendants.

3/12. Benjamin Mott, born at Hempstead, March 19/1765, died at New York,

October 2/1816. He was a flour merchant and lived at 131 Cherry St., New York City. He married on December 17/1798, Elizabeth Ackerly, born October 11/1779, died February 5/1838, daughter of Jacamiah Akerly of New York. They had three children, see the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 36, p283 for their descendants.

2/3. Hannah Mott, born February 22/1714. She married on March 5/1731,

Phillip Pell, son of the Hon. Thomas Pell of Pelham, N.Y. 3 children.

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Issue:-
3/1. Phillip J. Pell, born September 2/1732, died 1788.

He married Glorianna Tredwell.

3/2. Hannah Pell, born July 9/1734. She married David Stephenson.
3/3. Martha Pell, born January 17/1735. She married John Allyn.

1/13. Charles Mott. Born about 1676, died 1740. He was a farmer and miller at

Cow Neck and owned three negro slaves. He was a Quaker of Great Neck. He married before 1695, Elizabeth --- who predeceased him.
Issue:- (may not be in the proper order)
2/1. Charles Mott, born 1696, died 1748. He married before 1729,

Deborah --- and had Joseph, Samuel and Sylvanus who settled on their father's land at Kikiat, N.J.

2/2. Gershom Mott, died 1758. He settled at Kirkiat, and inherited his

father's negro slave girl Abigail. He married Ruth ---: 6 children

2/3. Jacob Mott, died 1737-8.
2/4. Amos Mott, died 1745-6 at Oyster Bay, L.I.
2/5. Benjamin Mott, died 1748 at Oyster Bay.
2/6. Adam Mott. He may have married Elizabeth Smith: four children.
2/7. Mary Ann Mott. She married, 1st, Joseph Starkin and had Joseph:

2nd, in 1730, Patrick Carrell.

2/8. Elizabeth Mott. She married a Hunter:

she inherited her father's negro slave girl Peggy.

2/9. John Mott. Was alive in 1728 and had two children.

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304 - FRANCIS WEEKES

         the following is from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies: from "The Carpenter Family in America", by David Hoogland Carpenter, Jamaica, L.I., 1900: and from "The Genealogy of Francis Weekes, of Providence, R.I., Gravesend, Hempstead and Oyster Bay", by Dr, Frank Edger Weeks, Kipton, Ohio, 1936.
         Francis Weekes was born in 1616 and died in 1687. No definite history exists of his birthplace in England, nor of the names of his parents. He must have been illiterate, as he signed every document during his life with the mark "W". Some genealogists say that four brothers, George, Thomas, Francis and Joseph, came from England to Boston in 1635, but that Joseph was drowned on landing. This theory is doubted by many as George was old enough to be the father of Francis, with many years to spare. Also George was literate and highly cultured. Thomas Weekes does not seem to be related to either: he also was literate but wrote his name Wilkes or Wickes. Francis and George belonged to a branch of the family that had been seated in North Wyke in Taunton Hundred, about 20 miles from Exeter, long before the latter part of the 14th century. Dr. Frank Edgar Week's genealogy gives a long account of this English family, with the different spellings of the name.
         It has been said that Francis Weekes came in 1635 to Salem, Mass., and removed to Dorchester, Mass., where George had settled: that is uncertain, though probable, as Roger Williams lived at that place. The first authentic statement about Francis Weekes, comes from Roger Williams, who was a native of Wales, a regularly ordained minister of the Church of England, but when he accepted the views of the Puritans, he became obnoxious to the Church authorities, so he emigrated to America and preached at Salem. The church authorities in Salem objected to his teachings, and banished him in 1635 to Pawtucket, R.I. where he settled in 1636. As this was within the bounds of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Governor Winthrop suggested he move across the river to Providence: Roger Williams therefore bought a tract of land there from the Indians with whom he was always friendly. He took with him from Salem, William Harris, then poor and destitute: also John Smith, a miller at Dorchester, and, at Smith's request, also a poor young fellow named Francis Weekes: also a lad of Richard Weterman`s: also Joshua Verin and Thomas Angell. These were the first settlers of Providence, R.l.: other settlers soon came. In 1637, an agreement to establish a town at Providence, was signed by 39 residents, amongst whom was Francis Weekes. He and nine of the others signed their names by a mark, showing the lack of education among these early settlers of New England. Francis received a home lot of 5 1/2 acres in Providence, in addition to a six acre lot at a distance: also, later on, some 85 acres. He was then just 21 years old. If Francis had remained in Providence, he might have became a prosperous citizen, but probably on account of the arbitrary and intolerant attitude of the Boston Heirarchy, who claimed religious supremacy and persecuted all heresy, he is said to have moved to Gravesend, L.I., where in 1645 he was designated as aumer of lot 12. On March 25/1650, Francis was appointed the arbitrator of a dispute between Thomas Cornell and Ye Lady Moody. During the next five years, no record is found of Francis, but it is known that the Gravesend settlers had hard times with attacks from the Indians, and quarrels between the Dutch and English governments. This may account for Francis' wife Elizabeth selling her husband's property in Gravesend in 1655, Francis moved to Hempstead, L.I., and in April 1658, his wife Elizabeth was fined 20 guilders ($8.00) for absenting herself from public worship and profaning the Lord's day by going to a meeting in the

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woods where she attended a Quaker meeting. Whether it was owing to this trouble or not, Francis sold his land in Hempstead and moved to Oyster Bay between 1658 and 1661, where he bought a home lot and 10 acres of land on South St. On June 13/1662 be bought seven meadow lots from Henry Townsend and on January 24/1668 20 acres of plains from Robert Williams. On January 29/1673 he made over to his sons Samuel, John and Joseph, 11 acres: to son James, part of his home lot: to son Daniel his home lot and dwelling and 12 acres adjoining. A street was opened through it named Weeks St, and close by is the old Weekes graveyard. Francis lived here the last thirty years of his long wandering life and many of his descendants have been content to remain there.
The Cook genealogy states that Francis married in 1640, Elizabeth Luther, born 1620, daughter of Samuel Luther of Swansea, R.I., but the eminent genealogist Torrey states that his wife's name may have been Elizabeth but that her surname is unknown.
His will, dated June 25/1687, left to his sons Samuel, Joseph, John, Thomas and James, and to daughters Elizabeth and Ann, all moveable estate to be equally divided among them by two such men as they shall agree upon to do the same. To son Daniel, all that his mother gave him before she died, that is to say, her bed, coverings, curtains and valens: also my meadow at Matinecock and four acres of land at Hempstead and meadows in Oyster Bay which I bought from Henry Townsend: also my dwelling house and land. He appointed sons Thomas and James as executors.
Issue:-

1/1. Samuel Weekes. Baptized March 31/1647, born probably in 1643,

died at Musketo Cove in 1699. He was a weaver and a farmer and had a home lot on the east side of South St., Oyster Bay. He removed to Killingworth on the Matineccok, after the settlement of his father in law's estate. In 1687 he exchanged with Robert and Mercy Odes, a purchaser's whole right on Hog Island, for lot 8, division of Musketa Cove Patent, 80 rods to the east and to the spring on the west: he then removed to Musketa Cove. He married before 1669, Elizabeth Reddocke, daughter of Henry and Mabel (Burroughs) Reddocke, see subject 622, page 1.
Issue:-
2/1. Samuel Weekes, born at Oyster Bay about 1669, will dated

December 13/1729. He married Anne Carpenter, born 1676, daughter of Joseph and Ann (Weekes) Carpenter, see page 6. See the New York Genealogical biographical Record, Vol 36, p 135 for their children which differ from the Carpenter Genealogy.
Issue;-
3/1. Amos Weekes. He married his cousin Abigail Weekes,

daughter of Joseph Weekes, see page 5.

3/2. Samuel Weekes. He married Elizabeth Carpenter.
3/3. John Weekes. He married Anne Coles, daughter of Joseph and

Temperance (Albertson) Coles, see subject 618, page 1.

3/4. Sarah Weekes. She married on June 6/1737, Jacob Birdsall,

born June 5/1722, son of Benjamin and Mercy (Forman) Birdsall, sub 600 page 3.

3/5. Phebe Weekes. She married Henry Dickensen.
3/6. Amy Weekes. She married Isaac Dean.
3/7. Deborah Weekes. She married Nicholas Sneathen.
3/8. Charity Weekes., born December 17/1713. She married in 1736,

John Carpenter, born July 1/1714, son of John and Martha (Feake) Carpenter, see page 6. They had nine children.

3/9. Freelove Weekes. She married, as his second wife, Joseph Coles,

son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Wright) Coles, see sub 618, page 2.

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who had married, 1st, Charity Valentine, born April 30/1717, daughter of David and Charity (Coles) Valentine, see subject 290, p 3. See the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 36, p 61 for iss.

2/2. Humphrey Weekes, born at Matinecock about 1676, died 1726.
2/3. George Weekes, born at Matinecock about 1678, died about 1721.

In 1707 his elder brother Samuel gave him all land at Matinecock of their father's, and in the same year George sold it to Sampson Hawkhurst, see subject 310. He married Mary ---, who after his death married, 2nd, on May 3/1726, Richard Harrison of Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, a Quaker.
Issue :-
3/1. Samuel Weekes. He married in 1736, Deborah Valentine,

daughter of Richard Valentine, see subject 290, p 5. Deborah was the sister of Samuel Valentine, whose will dated March 31/1743, proved May 14/1744, left £25 each to Deborah's children, namely:.
Issue: (from Samuel Valentine's will)
4/1. George Weekes.
4/2. Richard Weekes.
4/3. Mary Weekes.

2/4. Francis Weekes, born at Matinecock, came with his father to Cedar Swamp

in 1687. He married at Hempstead, on December 25/1744, Agnes Postley. This would make him about 65 years old when married.

2/5. Philip Weekes, born 1678, died at Matinecock 1728. In 1707 he was

allotted one quarter of the family acres. He married in 1700, Martha --.

2/6. James Weekes, born at Matinecock and came with his brother to Cedar

Swamp in 1687. He was a brick layer and a mason and is supposed to have married in 1692, Elizabeth Carpenter and had three children.

1/2. Joseph Weekes Batized March 31/1647, the same day as his elder brother

Samuel, died about 1700, He and his father had a house and home lot on the east side of South St., Oyster Bay, and likewise removed to Killingworth after the settlement of the Reddocke estate. He was known as Captain Joseph. He married, 1st, Hannah Reddocke, sister of his elder brother Samuel's wife: she died before 1698. In the same year Joseph gave to his youngest son Samuel, one quarter of his rights in Oyster Bay, in consideration of 6 shillings to be paid annually to Joseph's daughter Martha who was blind. He married 2nd, in 1698, Hannah Crooker, daughter of William and Ann (Gregory) Crooker, and the deserted wife of Moses Forman, but had no children by her, Moses Forman after deserting Hannah, married, 2nd, Anna ---, widow of Samuel Bennett of Rhode Island, but had no children by her,
Issue:- (by his first wife Hannah Reddocke)
2/1. Henry Weekes, He married Susannah Alling (or Allen),

daughter of Abraham Alling.
Issue:-
3/1. Freelove Allen. She married Richard Powell, born 1704, died 1774.
3/2. Robert Allen. He married Jerusha Lewis.

2/2. Joseph Weekes, birth estimated as about 1682, will dated August 8/1754,

proved September 10/1755, He had two wives, names unknown, the first probably Elizabeth ---.
Issue:- (from his will)
3/1. Micah Weekes. Birth estimated about 1712.
3/2. Charles Weekes, do - 1714.
3/3. Amy Weekes, do 1716. Her father's will called

her Amy Hopkins. She married Daniel Hopkins of Musketa

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Cove, whose will dated April 14/1763, proved February 15/1766 son of Ichabod and Sarah (Coles) Hopkins, subject 618, page 2, Amey died February 20/1775. The names of their children below may not be in proper order: they were taken from his will and from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 56.
Issue:-
4/1. William Hopkins. He had son Daniel and some daughters.
4/2. Thomas Hopkins, He had a son William,
4/3. Dinah Hopkins, died before 1763. She married about 1752,

William Cock, born December 11/1732, died after 1812, son of John and Sarah (Carpenter) Cock. After Dinah's death he married, 2nd, Anne Feake, born at Matinecock, L.I,, January 17/1741, died at Buckram, L.I, April 20/1796, daughter of Charles and Catherine (Tilley) Feake, and had nine children. The name Tilley is spelled also Tillear, or Tillier. William married, 3rd, Clemence Feake, who died April 25/1815, sister of his second wife Anna,
Issue:- (from the Cox, Cocks genealogy)
5/1. Stephen Cock, born August 9/1753. Married Deborah Feake,
5/2. Esther Cock, born February 22/1756. Married Charles Frost
5/3. Abraham Cock, born April 29/1758. Married Margaret -.
5/4. Isaac Cock, born February 5/1760. He married,

1st, Elizabeth Seaman: and, 2nd, Margaret Stymets.

4/4. Ann Hopkins, born January 12/1730. She married John Cromwell

born December 5/1727, died 1805, son of John and Esther (Godfrey) Cromwell of Harrison Westchester County, N.Y.

4/5. Mary Hopkins. She married a Tellear.
4/6. Martha Hopkins, born April 22/1740, died August 13/1817.

She married, as his second wife, in 1770, Benjamin Downing, born July 22/1722, died October 17/1805, son of George and Phebe (Valentine) Downing, who had married, 1st, Phebe Willis see subject 290, page 2 for their issue.

4/7. Amy Hopkins, born 1742. She married George Downing, born 1720,

son of George and Phebe (Valentine) Downing, see subject 290, page 2.

4/8. Hannah Hopkins. She married a Mr. Tripp.
4/9. Abigail Hopkins. She married Joseph Coles, son of William and

Elizabeth (Albertson) Coles, see subject 618, page 1. Their son Benjamin married Mary Albertson, daughter of Derrick and Rebecca (De Grove) Albertson, see the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 37, page 226.

4/10. Sarah Hopkins, born February 2/1719, died 1815, aged 96 yrs.

She married in 1736, Micah Mudge, born 1713, died 1795-1805, son of William and Ann (Coles) Mudge, see subject 618, p 5, and had four children.

4/11. Temperance Hopkins. She married in 1741, Derrick Thornicraft

son of Thomas and Wilmot Thornicraft: two children.

4/12. Elizabeth Hopkins, She married a Coles.

3/4. Sarah Weekes, She married a Dodge.
3/5. Abigail Weekes.3/6. Mary Weekes. She married a Ludlum.

2/3. John Weekes, born at Oyster Bay, May 16/1672, died December 18/1756.

He married Mercy Forman, born June 29/1676, daughter of Moses and Hannah (Crooker) Forman, his father's step child. They had John, George, and two other children,

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2/4. Samuel Weekes. He married Hannah Ruscoe.

Issue:-
3/1. Samuel Weekes. He married Margaret Prevost: two children.
3/2. Joseph Weekes, born 1725, died 1795. He lived in Northcastle,

Westchester County, N.Y, He married, 1st, Phebe Underhill, born 1734, daughter of Thomas and Phebe (Davenport) Underhill of Westchester County, Ha married, 2nd, Sarah Pers.
Issue:- (by his first wife Phebe Underhill)
4/1. Jesse Weekes, born 1752, died before 1784. He married on

December 16/1775, Sarah Carpenter, daughter of Joseph Carpenter. After Jesse's death, she married in 1784, Robert Dodge.

4/2. Thomas Weekes, born September 23/1754. He married at Westchester

on February 16/1774, Penelope Cock, born May 8/1756, daughter of James and Phebe (Thorn) Cock and had eleven children.

4/3. Samuel Weekes, born 1756.
4/4. Richard Weekes, born 1758. He married Susanna Carpenter born

October 15/1765, daughter of Silas and Phebe (Fowler) Carpenter.

4/5. Joseph Weekes, born 1761.
4/6. Joshua Weekes, born 1763. He married Hannah ---.
4/7. Phebe Weekes, born 1765, died April 14/1838.

She married in 1784, John Merritt, born 1762, died October 26/1833, son of Nathaniel Merritt, and had seven children,

4/8. Sarah Weekes, born 1767, died September 10/1854.

She married James Merritt, born 1762, died November 11/1856, son of Nathaniel Merritt, and had seven children.

4/9. Abel Weekes, born 1769,
4/10. Amy Weekes, born 1772,
4/11. Dorothy Weekes, born 1776. She married Zopha Jones.

3/3. John Weekes, of Westchester County, N.Y,
3/4. Jesse Weekes, of Long Island. He married, as her third husband

Charity Underhill, born 1718, daughter of Thomas and Phebe (Devenport) Underhill, who had married, 1st, in 1735, Joseph Thorne, by whom she had seven children: 2nd, John Church but had no children by him.

3/5. Child,

2/5. Amy Weekes, born 1676.
2/6. Abigail Weekes. She married her cousin Amos Weekes,

son of Samuel and Anne (Carpenter) Weekes, see page 2.

2/7. Martha Weekes. She was blind and died unmarried.

1/3. John Weekes, Born probably about 1643, baptized March 31/1647,

died before 1699. He had a homestead on the east side of South St., Oyster Bay, L,I. He, with Robert Peaks, was commissioned to build a Baptist Church at Oyster Bay. He was one of the seven purchasers of Matinecock. He was town clerk at Warwick, R.I. He married Hannah (or Anne) Townsend, born about 1666, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Coles) Montgomery Townsend, see subject 308, page 6. After John's death, Hannah married Samuel Hayden.
Issue:-
2/1. Nathaniel Weekes, died unmarried in 1725,
2/2. Phebe Weekes, died 1771, She married, as his second wife, before 1723,

Richard Youngs of Oyster Bay, born about 1674, drowned in 1729-30, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Harcourt) Youngs, see subject 308, page 2. They had two children.

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2/3. Susannah Weekes. She married Richard Townsend, born 1690,

died March 30/1750, son of George and Mary (Hawkhurst) Townsend, see subject 154, page 2, for issue and further particulars,

1/4. Thomas Weekes. Baptized July 9/1651, died 1716. The name of his first wife

is not known: he married, 2nd, in 1679, Isabella, born 1662, believed to have been the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Potter) Harcourt, see subject 306, page 2, See subject 152 for issue and further particulars.

1/5. James Weekes. Baptized November 24/1651, probably the year of his birth,

under the name of Jacobus, the Dutch spelling of James. He had a home lot in Oyster Bay, next east of his father's. He was an Ensign of a Foot Company, appointed in 1690 by Governor Leisler. In 1704 he gave to his son Ezekiel, land at Wheatly in the New Purchase, to be divided with his brother James: to son Daniel, sundry parcels of land: if he die without issue, to go to his brother Edmund, to whom on same date he granted the home lot where he lived. The name of his wife is not known.
Issue:-
2/1. Ezekiel Weekes. He married on June 27/1756, Susanna W. Dyer,
2/2. James Weekes. He married Abigail ----.
2/3. Daniel Weekes. He married Mary ---, perhaps the widow Weekes,
2/4. Edmund Weekes,
2/5. Zachariah Weekes. A possible son, who married in 1696, Katherine Myer.

1/6. Elizabeth Weekes. Baptized March 31/1647. She married about 1666,

Nicholas Simkins, supposed to be the son of Nicholas Simkins, a tailor of Boston in 1643, who was first made Captain of the Fort on Castle Island, Boston, and whose widow Isabel released in 1649, her third interest in the estate.
Issue:-
2/1. Phebe Simkins. She married Benjamin Coles, son of Daniel and Maha

Shalel Hasbaz (Gorton) Coles, see subject 618, page 1 for issue and further particulars.

2/2. Mary Simkins. She married on September 26/1678, (this date must be

wrong, taken from the Josephine C. Frost Genealogy, as her parents were not married until about 1666), Samuel Tillear, son of Jan Le and Christina (Kresson) Tillier, who came from St. Louis, Normandy, France.
Issue
3/1. Nicholas Tillear.
3/2. David Tillear.

2/3. Sarah Simkins. She married William Wilson, a cooper and a woodworker.
2/4. Daniel Simkins. He married --- Vincent, and removed to Rye and

Bedford, N.Y.

2/5. Ezekiel Simkins. He married Sarah --- and lived in Oyster Bay.

1/7. Ann Weekes. Baptized July 9/1651, died after December 10/1692.

She married before September 2/1674, Joseph Carpenter, as his second wife, who had married, 1st, on April 21/1659, Hannah Carpenter, born February 3/1640, died 1673, by whom he had six children,
Issue:- (according to Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks' genealogy)
2/1. Ann Carpenter, born about 1676. She married perhaps her first cousin

Samuel Weekes, born 1669, will dated December 13/1729, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Reddocke) Weekes. See page 2 for their issue and further particulars.

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2/2. Benjamin Carpenter, born 1680. He married in 1704, Mercy Coles,

born 1684, daughter of Robert and Mercy (Wright) Coles, see subject 618, page 4 and 5.
Issue:- (may not be complete)
3/1. Joseph Carpenter, born 1705, died 1766, He married Sarah Latting,

who died in 1790.

2/3. John Carpenter, born after 1683, a saddler. He married on June 12/1713,

Martha Feake, born August 27/1688, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Prior) Feake, Quakers, and had five children, amongst whom was John, who married Charity Weekes, see page 2, on October 20/1715, he bought for £129, from his nephew Joseph Carpenter, the old homestead of his father at Musketa Cove, (This is from the Carpenter Genealogy: Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks genealogy does not mention this son John Carpenter,)

2/4. Thomas Carpenter, born 1687, died 1766,

He married Hannah Alsop born 1691.

1/8. Daniel Weekes. Born probably at Hempstead, L.I., died in 1698,

He succeeded his father in the home place. His wife's name is mentioned as Mary Alling (or Allen), so he was both brother in law and uncle of his older brother Joseph's son Henry, see above.
Issue:-
2/1. Abraham Weekes, born 1691, will dated July 9/1749,

proved October 22/1782 (?), a weaver. He married Rachel Weekes, who predeceased him, parents' names unknown.
Issue:- (from his will)
3/1. Deborah Weekes,
3/2. Freelove Weekes,
3/3. Daniel Weekes,
3/4. Richard Weekes.
3/5. Isaac Weekes,
3/6. Solomon Weekes,
3/7. Peter Weekes.

2/2. Rose Weekes, born 1695, She married, 1st, Benoni Merritt,

2nd, Samuel Hare,

2/3. Solomon Weekes, born 1697. He married Nancy Waters,
2/4. Francis Weekes. One genealogist says he was a son,

probably born shortly after his father's death, but it seems more probable that he belonged to some other family, or died young, as he was not mentioned in his father's will: these remarks are from Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks' genealogy.

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308 - JOHN TOWNSEND.

       The following is from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies: from Benjamin F. Thompson's History of Long Island: from "The Townshend- Townsend Genealogy", by Margaret Townsend, New York, 1909, in which there is much of interest not copied here: from "American Families of Historic Lineage", by William S. Pelletreau. I am adopting Pelletreau's idea that John, Henry and Richard were the sons of Thomas Townsend, born January 8/1594-5, died at Lynn, Mass., December 22/1677, see subject 616. Also from "The Cox, Cocks, Cock Family in America", by George William Cocks, New York, 1912.
       John Townsend was born at Norwich, Norfolk County, England, and died at Oyster Bay, L.I., in 1668-9. He came with his father Thomas Townsend and his two brothers Henry and Richard, from Norwich, some years prior to 1645, to Lynn, Mass., where they were brought up. He moved to the neighborhood of New Amsterdam on Long Island, but finding the persecutions he suffered under the Puritans repeated under the Dutch Government he moved to Flushing, L.I., which was largely settled by English colonials, He there received a patent from the town of Flushing, from Governor Kieft, The Townsends were members of the Society of Friends, and were soon at variance with the Dutch authorities in New York, who demanded military service, which was against their religion. John and his brother Henry were arrested and fined for countenancing Quakers, so the three brothers left Flushing and removed to Warwick, R.I. In 1656 the three brothers returned to Jamaica, L.I., then known as Rusdorp. Here in 1657 they were accused of calling together "conventicles", and John and Henry were again arrested and held in bail in the sum of £12, and Richard in £100. The two brothers with their wives were found guilty of countenancing Quakers, and in consequence they moved in 1661 to Oyster bay, L.I.
     John Townsend married Elizabeth (Coles) Montgomery, daughter of Robert and Mary (Hawkhurst) Coles, and widow of a Mr. Montgomery. Her will was dated May 10/1671, by which she gave each daughter £30, and divided her husband's estate between her children,
Issue:-
1/1. John Townsend. Born about 1630, probably in Long Island,

died 1709 or 1715. The Townsend genealogy wrongly says he married Susanna Harcourt, born 1652, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Potter) Harcourt, see subject 306, page 1. According to the "Richard Washburn Family Genealogy", by Ida C. Haight, 1937, John Townsend married Phebe Williams, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Washburn) Williams. They settled first in Oyster Bay, and then removed to Jericho, L.I.
Issue:-
2/1. James Townsend, born about 1665, died at Jericho between 1729 and 1733.

He had a good education and was early a magistrate and a surveyor. He married in 1690, Audrey Almy, born 1669, died April 5/1769, daughter of Colonel Job and Mary (Unthank) Almy. They lived at Lusum, near Jericho, L.I.
Issue:- (may not be in proper order)
3/1. Amy Townsend. She married Richard Hubbs, son of Job Hubbs.
3/2. Deborah Townsend. She married on October 1/1731, Abraham Seaman

born November 10/1706, son of Nathaniel and Rachel (--) Seaman.
Issue:- (from the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 15, p 175)
4/1. James Seaman. He married in 1751, Sarah Smith.
4/2. Peleg Seaman. He married on June 1/1756, Ursula Ackerly.
4/3. Stephen Seaman, He married on November 3/1759, Martha McCow.
4/4. Almy Seaman.
4/5. Abraham Seaman. He married on October 28/1769, Phebe Andrews

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4/6. Phebe Seaman. She married a Swasey and lived in New York.
4/7. Daughter. She married Captain Robinson.

3/3. Jacob Townsend, born 1692, died December 30/1742.

He married Phebe Seaman, born 1699, died of smallpox, April 14/1774, daughter of Captain John Seaman.
Issue:-
4/1. Samuel Townsend, born 1717, died November 24/1790.

He married about 1740, Sarah Stoddard, who died April 10/1800, daughter of William Stoddard. He owned "Raynham" at Oyster Bay. See Benjamin F. Thompson's interesting account of his life and his ship building career.
Issue:-
5/1. Solomon Townsend, born 1746, died March 27/1811.

When 20 years old his father put him in command of a brig: when the Revolution broke out, he was in command of the ship "Glasgow", but as trade was then interrupted, he left the ship in London and went to Paris, and in the presence of Benjamin Franklin, took the oath of allegiance to the U.S. He returned to Boston, but being unable to reach his father in Long Island, on account of the British Forces, he went to Chester, Pa., to his relative Peter Townsend, (born 1729 son of Henry and Elizabeth (Titus) Townsend, see subject 616, page 2), and married there Anne Townsend, daughter of Peter and Hannah (Hawkhurst) Townsend; Anne died April 10/l823. He established a large iron works in Chester, but lived in New York City, and did a large iron business.
Issue: (according to Anne's will)
6/1. Hannah Townsend, died November 1/1854.

She married her cousin Isaiah Townsend of Albany, N.Y., son of Henry and Mary (Bennett) Townsend. He was one of the most prominent merchants and politicians in Albany. They had seven children.

6/2. Anne Townsend, died October 11/1845.

She married her cousin Effingham Lawrence, son of Joseph and Phebe (Townsend), Lawrence, see subject 616 page 2. They had eleven children.

6/3. Mary Townsend, born 1789, died April 8/1849.

She married Edward Holland Nicholl, born in New York City, in 1784, died 1848, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Woodhull) Nicholl, and had two children.

6/4. Phebe Townsend.

She married James Thorn of Albany and had eight children.

6/5. Solomon Townsend.
6/6. Samuel Townsend, died unmarried, February 6/1834.
6/7. Jacob Townsend, died unmarried, July 25/1830.
6/8. Peter S. Townsend, died March 26/1849, a physician.
6/9. Martha Townsend. She married Elbert Floyd Jones.

5/2. Samuel Townsend, a New York merchant.
5/3. Robert Townsend, died unmarried, March 14/1837.
5/4. Audrey Townsend.
5/5. Phebe Townsend, died October 12/1840.

She married Dr Ebeneezer Seeley: no children.

5/6. Sarah Townsend, died unmarried. December 19/1842.

4/2. Benjamin Townsend, born 1723, died September 18/1789.

He married Elizabeth Frost, daughter of George and Anne (Coles)

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Frost, see subject 618, page 2. Elizabeth was an heiress and they lived on her property at Buckram, L.I. In 1769 they moved to Jericho, L.I.
Issue:-
5/1. Frost Townsend, born 1749, died July l8/1770: unmarried.
5/2. James Townsend, born 1751, died at sea, February 13/1790,

he was not married.

5/3. Elizabeth Townsend. She married Henry Mitchell of New York

but had no children.

5/4. Benjamin Townsend. He married Martha Powell, daughter of

Henry and Mary (Keen) Powell and had five children.

5/5. George Townsend, died September 20/1841. He married

Elizabeth Bowne, born March 3/1772, died March 14/1841, daughter of James and Caroline (Rodman) Bowne. 3 children.

5/6. Nancy Townsend. She married Abraham Franklin.
5/7. Phebe Townsend. She married Samuel Tallman: 6 children.

4/3. James Townsend, born December 17/1729, died May 24/1790.

He was a medical doctor. He married on April 2/1757, his cousin Mary Townsend, who died at Oyster Bay, July 2/1796, stepdaughter of Nathaniel and Martha (Doughty) Hicks, see next page. Margaret Townsend's Genealogy contains beautiful love letters he wrote to Mary from his ship in the Bay of Honduras. He practiced medicine in Jericho. He had seven children, four of them, himself and a servant, died within a few days of each other, the disease being confined to his house alone in the vicinity.
Issue:-
5/1. Mary Townsend, born November 16/1759, died 1790,

within seven days of her father's death,

5/2. Patty Townsend, born December 26/1761, died January 22/1810.

She married Edmund Willis: no children.

5/3. James Townsend, born October 16/1763, died at Newark, N.J.

in 1831. He married Bathsie Ketcham, who died in 1837. They had three children,

5/4. Phebe Townsend, born September 26/1765, died in 1790,

ten days before her father. She married in 1789, John Townsend son of Thomas and Mary (Loines) Townsend, see subject 616.5

5/5. Almy Townsend, born April 18/1768, died in 1790, twelve days

before her father. She married on March 23/1788, Townsend Underhill, a New York merchant, son of Benjamin and Letitia (Townsend) Underhill, see subject 616, page 7, for their issue and further particulars. After Almy's death, he married, 2nd, on December 22/1792, Elizabeth Thompson,

5/6. Samuel Townsend, born March 20/1770, died 1790, twelve days

before his father. He was with Moses Rogers, a counting house in New York City.

5/7. Margaret Townsend, born February 6/1772,

died October 11/1818. She married on February 8/1794, William Townsend born at Oyster Bay, September 12/1769, died August 23/1834, son of James and Freelove (Wilmot) Townsend, see subject 616, page 3, and they had eleven children.

4/4. Jacob Townsend, born 1730, died December 31/l793, will dated

December 29/1783, proved May 9/1816. He married Mercy Butler.
Issue:- (from his will) see next page

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Issue:- (from his will)
5/1. Jacob Townsend, died unmarried in the West Indies,
5/2. Almy Townsend. She married in 1765, Thomas Buchanan,

born at Glasgow, Scotland, December 24/1744, died November 10/1815, son of George and Jean (Lowden) Buchanan. He came to New York in 1763, and was a dry goods importer and later president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, His house was on Wall St., on the site of the present Custom House.
Issue:-
6/1. Almy Buchanan. She married Peter Goelet,
6/2. Margaret Buchanan. She married Robert Goelet
6/3. Martha Buchanan, born October 26/1771,

died September 26/1844. She married on March 10/1794, Thomas Hicks, born January 14/1771, died July 5/1815, son of Whitehead and Charlotte (Brevoort) Hicks of New York, see subject 206, page 3 for their issue.

6/4. Elizabeth Buchanan. She married Samuel Gilford,
6/5. Frances Buchanan, She married Thomas Pearsall,
6/6. George Buchanan. died unmarried.

5/3. Hannah Townsend.

She married Joseph Green and they went to Ireland.

5/4. Martha Townsend. She married John Pased or Pasha,

and they lived on the island of Tortola, West Indies,

4/5.Amy Townsend, mentioned in her father's Will.

3/4. Nathaniel Townsend, born February 25/1698, died May 22/1754.

He married, 1st, ---- name unknown: 2nd, in 1739, Martha (Doughty) Hicks, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Jackson) Doughty, see subject 534, page 3 which says Martha was the daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Williams) Doughty, and grand daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Jackson) Doughty: this is the more correct, as she was the widow of Samuel Hicks, horn October 1702, died May 10/1735, son of Jacob and Hannah (Carpenter) Hicks, see subject 266, page 4, whom she had married in 1723. Nathaniel was an active Quaker.
Issue:- (by his first wife, name unknown)
4/1. Jacob Townsend, born May 3/1725, died in March 1745

on the island of Jamaica, British West Indies.

4/2. Stephen Townsend, born November 6/1727. He married Deborah

Smith, lived in Flushing and had one son Nathaniel.

4/3. John Townsend, born November 6/1729, died February 25/1763,

on the island of Guadeloupe, British West Indies.
Issue:- (by his second wife Martha (Doughty) Hicks)
4/4. Martha Townsend, born July 2/1741.

She married Charles Jeffrey Smith, who was engaged with Solomon Townsend in the manufacture of bar iron on the Peconic River, see page 2. They had no children.

4/5. Nathaniel Townsend, born October 5/1743.

He married at Jamaica, L.I., on July 9/1769, Martha Cornell, baptized December 27/1753, daughter of William and Miriam (Mott) Cornell. They lived in Brooklyn and had two children.

4/6. Almy Townsend, born April 19/1746, died Aug 9/1811: unmarried.
4/7. Elizabeth Townsend, born July 20/1749, died 1707.

She married a Cornell.

3/5. Thomas Townsend, born 1680. The Seaman genealogy says

he married Sarah Pearsall, born January 5/1686, daughter of

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Nathaniel and Martha (Seaman) Pearsall.

3/6. Nathaniel Townsend, died young.
3/7. Hannah Townsend, born about 1680, died January 11/1757,

She married, 1st, a Forman: 2nd, on July or January 18/1698, Samson Hawkhurst born 1671, died January 25/1733, son of Christopher and Mary (Ruddick) Hawkhurst, see subject 310, page 2, for their issue and further particulars.

2/2. Elizabeth Townsend, born about 1665, She married, 1st, in 1685, as his

third wife, Theophilus Phillips, who died in 1686. She married, 2nd, on February 9/1690, as his second wife, Thomas Powell, born in August 1641, died at Westbury, L.I,, December 28/1722, and bore him seven children.

2/3. Solomon Townsend. In 1707 he lived in Rhode Island,
2/4. Daughter. No data,

1/2. Thomas Townsend, baptized April 9/1645: one source says he was born in

1633. In 1686 he went to Rhode Island but in 1709 returned to

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Oyster Bay and was last heard of in 1712, but is supposed to have gone back to Rhode Island and died there. In 1688 he bought 6000 acres of land at Fort Neck, Massapequa, from the Indians and gave them to his daughter Freelove Jones and her husband. He married, 1st, --- name unknown: 2nd, Mary (Unthank) Almy, daughter of Christopher and Susanna Unthank, and widow of Colonel Job Almy, who died in 1684, son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Cornell) Almy.
Issue:-
(by his first wife, name unknown)
2/1. Temperance Townsend, died young.
2/2. Sylvanus Townsend, In 1740 he moved to North Salem, N.Y,,

His wife's name is unknown,
Issue:-
3/1. Benjamin Townsend. He married Mary Hill,

daughter of James and Rachel (---) Hill.

2/3. John Townsend, born April 28/1672, died November 6/1709 of smallpox.

He married, 1st, on April 1/1692, Rebecca Almy, born 1671, died February 4/1703, daughter of Colonel Job and Mary (Unthank) Almy. He married, 2nd, Rose Wright, daughter of John and Mary (Townsend) Wright, see subject 616, page 4, and widow of Nathaniel Coles, see subject 618, page 3.
Issue:- (by his first wife Rebecca Almy)
3/1. Thomas Townsend. His younger brother John left him £10.
3/2. Philena Townsend, Her younger brother John left her son

William Coxen £50,

3/3. John Townsend. His will, dated January 13/1750,

proved October 30/1760, left his money as above to his brother and sister: his executor was Jarvis Mudge: he was not married,

Issue:- (by his second wife Rose (Wright) Coles)
3/4. Penn Townsend, born November 11/1706. He married on January

15/1739, Esther Townsend, who died December 20/1756: 6 children.

3/5. Rose Townsend, She married Zebulon Dickenson: two children,

2/4. Freelove Townsend, born December 29/1674, died July 1726.

She married in 1695, Major Thomas Jones, born 1665, died December 13/1713 at Oyster Bay. He was called Pirate Jones, who came from Strabane, Ireland, via Jamaica, B.W.I, to Rhode Island in 1692, then moved to Massapequa, now Fort Neck, L.I. where he died. He was at the Battle of the Boyne, Ireland, under King James II in 1690, and went to Port Royal, Jamaica, B.W.I. in 1692. She married, 2nd, Major Timothy Bagley, a retired British officer, but had no children by him. See Benjamin F. Thompson's History of Long Island for an interesting account of her childrens' lives.
Issue:- (by her first husband Thomas Jones)
3/1. Sarah L. Jones, born 1695, died August 18/1696.
3/2. David Jones, born September 16/1699, died October 11/1775,

He was a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1758 to 1773. He married, on November 22/1722, Anne Willet, born 1704, died January 31/1751, daughter of Colonel William Willet. After Anna's death, he married, 2nd, Margaret (Willet) Tredwell, daughter of Colonel William and Alice (Colden) Willet, and widow of John Tredwell: therefore Margaret was a niece of his first wife Anna. He had no children by her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Anna Willet)
4/1. Sarah Jones, born February 12/1726, died in April 1728,
4/2. Thomas Jones, born April 20/1731, died at Hoddesdon, England,

July 25/1792. He married on December 9/1762, Anne de Lancey

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born 1746, died in England, December 1/1817, daughter or Lieutenant Governor James and Anne (Heathcote) De Lancey. They were United Empire Loyalists and fled to England after the revolution, their American property being confiscated.

4/3. Arabella Jones, born December 7/1734, died May 29/1785.

She married on November 2/1757, Richard Floyd, born 1731, died 1791, son of Richard and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Floyd, and had three children.

4/4. David Jones, born April 5/1737. died September 9/1758.
4/5. Mary Jones, born April 29/1743.
4/6. Anna Jones, born May 11/1744. She married on May 10/1756,

Dr. John Gale and had three children.

3/3. Freelove Jones, born 1700. died before 1768.

She married in 1719, Jacob Smith, probably son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Underhill) Smith, and had four children.

3/4. Thomas Jones, born 1701, drowned November 13/1741, when his horse

powered ferry between Matinecock and Connecticut, capsised on the Sound, killing his three negro men, two women and six horses.

3/5. Sarah Jones, born March 11/1703. She married on October 19/1719,

Gerardus Clowes, born April 27/1699, died October 12/1752, son of Samuel and Catherine (Doane) Clowes, and had four children.

3/6. Margaret Jones, born 1706, died before 1768.

She married, 1st, Ezekiel Smith: 2nd, John Hill, a United Empire Loyalist who fled to Canada, and by whom she had one son.

3/7. William Jones, born April 25/1708, died August 29/1779.

He married on April 22/1731, Phebe Jackson, born August 6/1715, died May 10/1800, aged 85 years, daughter of Colonel John and Elizabeth (Hallett) Jackson. They had fourteen children. His descendent John Henry Jones, 1852-1905, wrote the Jones Genealogy, from which these details have been copied.

3/8. Elizabeth Jones, born 1710. She married on May 30/1730,

Jacomiah Mitchell, son of Robert and Hannah Mitchell of North Hempstead, L.I. They had seven children.

2/5. Sarah Townsend, born June 10/1679, died 1731. She married in 1702

Abraham Underhill born June 28/1679, died November 27/1713, son of John and Mary (Prior) Underhill. He was a farmer and a Justice of the Peace at Hempstead, L.I.
Issue;-
3/1.Thomas Underhill, born about 1706. He was a mariner.

He married Freelove Ailing, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Hawkhurst) Alling of Oyster Bay, see subject 154, page 1.

3/2. Sarah Underhill. She married James Dickenson,

son of Joseph and Ross (Townsend) Dickenson, see subject 616, page 4. They moved to Westchester County, N.Y.

3/3. William Underhill. In 1717 he lived in Huntington, L.I.

2/6. Phebe Townsend, died December 26/1726.

1/3. James Townsend. Died November 9/1698 in the smallpox epidemic.

He married 1st, about 1670, Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Crabb) Wright of Oyster Bay. He married, 2nd, on October 16/1677, Jane Reddocke, born 1653, daughter of Henry and Mabel (Burrowes) Reddocke, see subject 622. He married, 3rd, Delivered Pratt.

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Issue: (by his first wife Elizabeth Wright)
2/1. James Townsend, born about 1671. He married about 1692,

Hannah Halstead, born 1675, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Harcourt) Halstead, see subject 306, page 1. This is from the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 66, page 90)

2/2. Job Townsend. He lived at Cedar Swamp, L.I.

His grandmother Alice Crabb left him all her lands on the Plain.

2/3. Alice Townsend. Her grandmother Alice Crabb, in her will of February

22/1685, left her a little iron pot and some pewter plate.

Issue:- (by his second wife Jane Reddocke)

2/4. Daniel Townsend, died 1724-5. He married Freelove Dickenson,

daughter of Captain Samuel Dickenson.
Issue:-
3/1. John Townsend, born 1712, died 1787.

He removed in 1738 to Eastchester N.Y., and married there in 1739, Anne Gedney. They had eight children.

3/2. Benjamin Townsend, of Scarsdale, N.Y., He married Elizabeth ---.

Issue:-
4/1. Freelove Townsend, born February 14/1761.

She married on September 5/1779, James Carpenter, born September 19/1754, son of Benedict and Hannah (Haviland) Carpenter: 8 children.

2/5. Ruddock Townsend. He married Abigail --- and lived at Norwich, L.I.

In 1714-5 he moved to Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey.

2/6. Joseph Townsend, died young.
Issue:- (by his third wife Delivered Pratt)
2/7. Joshua Townsend. (The Cox Genealogy says he was the son of the second

wife Jane Reddocke). His will was dated January 4/1741-2, proved November 2/1753. He married Meribah Cock, born March 21/1701-2, daughter of John Cock. After Joshua's death, Meribah married, 2nd, as his second wife, Micajah Townsend, born 1699, died November 9/1781, 82 years old, son of John and his second wife Esther (Smith) Townsend, see subject 616, page 3.
Issue:-
3/1. Noah Townsend, lost at sea in 1763. He married Margaret Wright

daughter of Zebulon and Clemence (Feake) Wright. After Noah's death, Margaret married, 2nd, Daniel Thorne, whose will dated September 24/1765, proved October 1/1765, left his wife Margaret £150, and mentioned sons Charles and Stephen Thorne. After Daniel's death, Margaret married, 3rd, John Jackson.
Issue:-
4/1. Joshua Townsend. He grew up determined to go to sea like his

father, so has guardians placed him with Captain Parley, bound for London. There he shipped on a whaler, from which he was impressed on the British Warship "H.M.S. Conquistadore" and was never heard of after. He was 21 years of age in 1760. His grandfather Noah Townsend's estate remained unsettled for twenty six years on account of the uncertainty of his death.

3/2. John Townsend, of Westchester County, N.Y.

He married Eliza Pratt Horton and had seven children.

2/8. Ruemorn Townsend, born 1698, died between November 25/1740 and

May 20/1741. He was so named by his mother from her grief at the death of her husband before Ruemorn was born. He married at Hempstead, L.I., on January 24/1729, Mary Allen, born February 11/l70l, died May 31/1769, daughter of Captain Henry and Mary (--)

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Allen of Great Neck, L.I. After Remourn's death, Mary married, 2nd, William Moyles, whose will dated June 7/1776, proved March 2/1719, left one third of his estate to his wife Mary's children by her first husband, namely the wives of William Willis and John Hewlett: he left one third to Sarah, wife of Benjamin Latting, and one third to John Forman. Mary had no children by William Moyles.
Issue:-
3/1. Mary Townsend, born December 5/1729. She married William Willis,

born 1720, son of John and Abigail (Willets) Willis, and had six children.

3/2. Sarah Townsend, born March 27/1736, died September 8/1808.

She inherited a total of £3000 from her mother Mary (Allen) Townsend Moyles, and from her cousin Noah Townsend. She married on June 30/1751, John Hewlett, born February 17/1731, died April 4/1812, son of John end Hannah (Jackson) Hewlett. They had twelve children.

3/3. Restore Townsend. No data.

2/9. Deborah Townsend. Mentioned in Remourn's will as his sister.
2/10. Patience Townsend. According to Joshua Townsend's will,

she married a Lovell.

1/4. Elizabeth Townsend, She married, 1st, Gideon Wright, son of Peter and

Alice (Grabb) Wright of Oyster Bay and they had eight children, She married, 2nd, Gershom Lockwood, eldest son of Lieutenant Gershom and Lady Ann (Millington) Lockwood. The Lady Ann was the daughter of Lord Millington, who came to America in pursuit of her lover, a British Army officer: failing to find him, she taught school and then married Gershom Lockwood.

1/5. Rose Townsend. She married John Wickes, (not to be confused with

the name Weekes), son of Samuel Wickes, the founder of the Wickes family in Rhode Island, and one of the purchasers of Shawomet, (now Warwick: he was imprisoned with Samuel Gorton for heresy. John Wickes was a representative to the Assembly of Providence Plantations.
Issue:- (may be part only)
2/1. Thomas Wickes, of Warwick, R.I. He married on February 20/1702,

Anne Coles, born about 1660-70, daughter of Daniel and Maha Shalel Hasbaz (Gorton) Coles, and had eleven children, see subject 618, page 2,

2/2. John Wickes, born August 8/1677, died December 27/1741.

He married on December 15/1698, Sarah Gorton, born at Warwick, died June 30/1753, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Carder) Gorton, and grandson of Samuel and Mary (Maplet) Gorton. John was town clerk for twenty eight years and representative to the Assembly for 33 years. They had nine children, for whose names see the Gorton Genealogy.

1/6. Anne Townsend, She was probably the Hannah Townsend, born about 1660,

who married John Weekes, born 1645, died before 1699, son of Francis and Elizabeth (---) Weekes, see subject 304, page 5 for issue and further particulars.

1/7. Sarah Townsend. No data.
1/8. George Townsend. Born at Oyster Bay, L.I., after 1661, died 1697,

the year of the "Great Sickness", a smallpox epidemic. He married on November 17/1684, Mary Hawkhurst, born 1660, daughter of Christopher and Mary (Ruddick) Hawkhurst, see subject 310, page 1. See subject 154 for issue and further particulars.

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1/9. Daniel Townsend. Died July 2/1702. He lived on the south part of his

father's estate in Oyster Bay, which he inherited, and to which he added the part inherited by his brother James. He married Susanna Forman daughter of Samuel and Miriam (Hoyt) Forman, see subject 600, page 3.
Issue:-
2/1. Robert Townsend. He married Judith Birdsall, daughter of Benjamin and

Mercy (Forman) Birdsall, his cousin. See subject 600, page 3. They had four sons, and later moved to Oblong, Duchess County, N.Y.

2/2. Daniel Townsend. No data.

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310 - CHRISTOPHER HAWKHURST

         The following is from the New York Genealogical & Biological Record, Vols 32 and 33, which gives the Hawkhurst descendants for many generations: from "The Genealogy of Francis Weekes", by Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks, Kipton, Ohio, 1938: and from "The Dodge Genealogy", by Theron Royal Woodward, 1904.
        The name is spelled in many different ways, such as Hawxhurst, Harkhurst, Hawksworthe, etc: I have adopted the spelling of many of the present family.
         Christopher Hawkhurst's birth and death dates are not known. He came to New England in 1630, with his sister Mary, wife of Robert Coles, subject 618, and landed at Salem, Mass.; he then moved to Ipswich, Mass. In 1653 he was at Warwick, L.I., and in 1653 went to Oyster Bay, L.I,, when he sold his home in Pawtucket, R.I., and bought a lot at Matinecock, L.I. He was on Long Island at the time of the settlement of the estate of his father in law Henry Ruddock in 1674. He bought some land from the Indians in 1682.
         He married in 1655, Mary Ruddick, daughter of Henry and Mabel (Burrowes) Ruddick of Rhode Island and Long Island, See subject 622.
Issue :-
1/1. William Hawkhurst. He was married, name of wife unknown.

Issue:-
2/1. Sarah Hawkhurst, She married at St. Georges Church, Hempstead,

on January 13/1726, Tristram Dodge of Oyster Bay, born 1697, died 1785, son of Tristram and Dorcas Dodge.
Issue:-
3/1. Stephen Dodge. On October 7/1783 he fled to Nova Scotia as

he was a United Empire Loyalist during the Revolution.

3/2. Daniel Dodge.
3/3. Freelove Dodge. She married Townsend Parish, son of Dr. Matthew and

Zeruiah (Townsend) Parish, see subject 616, page 3.

3/4. Anne Dodge.
3/5. Sarah Dodge.

1/2. Mary Hawkhurst. Born about 1660. She married, 1st, on November 17/1684,

George Townsend, born at Oyster Bay about 1661, died 1697 of smallpox, son of John and Elizabeth (Coles) Montgomery Townsend, see subject 308 page 8. After George's death, Mary married, 2nd, in 1697, Abraham Alling, who died in 1732, by whom she had Penelope Alling who married Peter Underhill, son of David and --- (Wright) Underhill and had six children: Freelove Alling who married Thomas Underhill, son of Abraham and Sarah (Townsend) Underhill see subject 308, page 6 about her. See subject 154 for issue and further particulars.

1/3. Jane Hawkhurst. She married Jarvis Mudge, whose will was dated February

1/1734, proved May 2/1735, son of Moses Mudge of Hempstead L.I.
Issue: -
2/1. Jarvis Mudge. He died intestate and letters of administration were

granted on May 28/1741 to Samson Crocker of Oyster Bay his cousin.

2/2. Elizabeth Mudge, She married John Dusenbury,

son of Johannes and Mary (or Susannah) Dusenbury.
3/1. Moses Dusenbury.
3/2. Jarvis Dusenbury. He married on May 29/1736, Elizabeth Denton.

2/3. Mary Mudge, born 1701. She married on January 13/1727, Waite Powell,

born September 29/1698, died 1782, son of Thomas and Mary (Willets) Powell, and had seven children.

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2/4. Jane Mudge. She never married.
2/5. Charity Mudge. She married Samuel Doty.

1/4. Sarah Hawkhurst. She married William Crooker, son of William Crooker.

Issue:-
2/1. Robert Crooker. He married Dinah Rhodes.
2/2. William Crooker. He married Anne -
2/3. Samson Crooker, died 1759. He married, 1st, Elizabeth Titus,

daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Gorman) Titus: 2nd, Margaret Losee.

2/4. Sarah Crooker.
2/5. Benjamin Crooker. He married Ann ---.
2/6. Abigail Crooker, born 1703, died November 4/1765. She married in 1728,

Daniel Underhill, born at Cedar Swamp in 1700, died May 29/1790, son of John and Elizabeth (Willets) Underhill, and they had five children. After Abigail's death, Daniel married, 2nd, Rosannah (Townsend) Cock, widow of Hezekiah Cock, see subject 154, page 1.

1/5. Samson Hawkhurst. Born 1671, died January 25/1733 at Cedar Swamp, L.I.,

to which place he had moved in 1713. He married on January 18/1698, Hannah Townsend, born 1680, died January 11/1757, daughter of John and Hannah (---) Townsend. and widow of a Mr. Forman, see subject 308, p 4, As a wedding present, her father gave Hannah 180 acres of land at Cedar Swamp.
Issue:-
2/1.Johanna Hawkhurst, born 1699, died April 14/1758. She married on

January 29/1727, Daniel Birdsall, who died between 1736 and 1744, son of Samuel and Mary (Pratt) Birdsall.
Issue:-
3/1. Sarah Birdsall, born about 1728. She married Henry Titus,

born 1722, died 1749, son of John and Sarah (Pearsall) Titus.

3/2. Mary Birdsall, born about 1730.
3/3. Hannah Birdsall, born about 1732.
3/4. Any Birdsall, born about 1734.
3/5. Daniel Birdsall, born about 1735. He married Hannah Mandeville.

2/2. Sarah Hawkhurst, born March 28/1702, died April 11/1728.
2/3. William Hawkhurst, born 1703-4, died October 26/1790.

He married on April 5/1736. Anne Pratt, daughter of Ebenezer and Mehitable (Mudge) Pratt, and had three children.

2/4. Samson Hawkhurst, died between May 14 and August 9/1790.

He married, 1st, on May 1/1733, Amy Wright, daughter of Dennis and Susannah Wright: he married, 2nd, on August 26/1739, Jerusha Smith. He had two children by his first wife and eight by his second.

2/5. Joseph Hawkhurst, will dated October 23/1797, proved February 3/1801.

His first two wives names are not known: he married, 3rd, Sarah Mott. His will mentioned wife Sarah and children Hannah, Sarah, Elizabeth Merritt, Jacob, Jesse and William.

2/6. Amy Hawkhurst.
2/7. Benjamin Hawkhurst, born 1720. He married in 1746, Hannah Pearsall,

born October 17/1721, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Underhill) Pearsall, and had six children.

2/8.Daniel Hawkhurst, born October 13/1725, died March 25/1770, of smallpox.

He married in December 1745, Sarah Seaman, daughter of Thomas and Phoebe (Titus) Seaman and had six children.

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320 - THOMAS MANCHESTER

         The following is from "The Manchester Family of Rhode Island", by Alden and Rita C. Manchester, Takoma Park, Md., in the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston Register, October 1947. It differs considerably from, and corrects many errors in the following other genealogies, from which I have added several items of interest, namely:. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Vol 2, p 108: from "New England Families", by William Richard Cutter, Vol 2, p 853, New York, 1913: from "Colonial Families", by the American Historical Society, New York, 1929: from the "Genealogy of Stephen Manchester: from "The Genealogy of the "Briggs Family", by Pearl Leona Heck: from Daniel Wilcox of Puncatest", by Herbert A. Wilcox, South Pasadena, Cal., 1943: and from the "Cooke Family & Descendants and Relatives of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower". The genealogy by Alden and Rita C. Manchester carries the descendants down much further than given below.
         Thomas Manchester was born in England about 1620, and died at Portsmouth, R.I., about 1691. Alden and Rita Manchester state that no English ancestry of Thomas Manchester has ever been satisfactorily established, and they consider the statement in "Colonial Families" that Thomas was the son of Henry de Mancestre, and grandson of Hugo de Mancestre, Lord Mancestre of Warwickshire, England, was pure guesswork and only worthy of inclusion here as an interesting speculation.
         Thomas Manchester was an early pioneer of Quinnipiac, called New Haven after 1640, in the Plantation of Connecticut: since he is found there in 1639, it would seem probable that he was of the company of Yorkshire settlers who in 1638 came to America with Ezekiel Rogers, the famous non-conformist minister, with the view of joining the Quinnipiac Plantation, although many of them eventually settled elsewhere. The New Haven colony differed very much from other colonies. Many of the colonists put up large houses. As an explanation why this style of building was so general, it may be said that the founders of New Haven were mainly gentlemen and merchants, used to living in superior houses in London and other parts of England. For a period, Thomas continued at Quinnipiac, but removed to Portsmouth, R.I, before 1642. On February 25/1642 he was appointed to serve on the next jury. From 1674 till his death, he was Town Sergeant. He became a considerable landed proprietor. Prior to 1655 he acquired land on the island of Aquidneck, and on January 25/1655, he made a deed of a tract of 12 acres there to Thomas Wood. On December 10/1657, he shared in the land division and received eight acres at Portsmouth. He also had share in Dutch Island and Quononoquet Island, and conveyed his interest in 1/300th right therein to Richard Sisson on July 6/1658. His mansion and homestead was built on his Portsmouth land. On July 9/1691, Thomas deeded to his son John, his mansion house and all lands at Portsmouth, except the piece at the lower end, which had been theretofore deeded to his son Thomas. According to the deed, half was to be John's on his brother Thomas' death, and the remaining half upon the death of his Mother, conditioned always that pay to his brothers Thomas, William and Stephen, 10 shillings each, to Job 20/-, and to his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, ten shillings each. John also received from his father his personal property, cattle, chattels, implements, bonds, sums of money, and whatever belonged to him at the time of his death.
         Thomas Manchester married, prior to 1650, Margaret Wood, who died about 1693, daughter of John Wood of Portsmouth, R.I., who bequeathed to his daughter Margaret the sum of £8.
Issue:-
1/1. Thomas Manchester. Born at Portsmouth about 1650, died there before

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May 9/1722. He married there before January 6/l677-8, Mary Browning who died November 7/1735, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Freeborn) Browning. Thomas was admitted freeman of Portsmouth on April 29/1673. He was a blacksmith.
Issue:-
2/1. George Manchester, will dated Tiverton December 27/1729, proved

August 20/1734 (this is from the N.E. Hist & Gen Society Register Vol 105, p 75). He married Elizabeth Bailey of Tiverton, daughter of Edward and Frances Bailey.
Issue:-
3/1. George Manchester, born December 10/1701. He married on

December 29/1724, Abigail Richmond, born at Tiverton, November 25/1704, daughter of Edward and Sarah Richmond.
Issue:-
4/1. Edward Manchester, born December 18/1726. He married on

January 5/1748, Margaret Lake, born December 21/1731, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail Lake of Tiverton, R.I.
Issue:-
5/1. Job Manchester, born March 23/1749.
5/2. George Manchester, born October 13/1751. He married on

August 7/1774, Elizabeth Anthony, daughter of Thomas Anthony.

5/3. William Manchester, born October 14/1754.
5/4. Sarah Manchester, born January 27/1757.

4/2. Elizabeth Manchester, born February 27/1729.
4/3. Benjamin Manchester, born August 17/1751.

He married Mary ---. Child.
Issue:-
5/1. Abigail Manchester, born March 4/1750-1. She married on

March 9/1768, Godfrey King, born February 9/1750, died 1834 son of Benjamin and Mary (Russell) King. Thirteen children.

4/4. Margaret Manchester, born 31/1/1734.

4/5. Sarah Manchester, born March 18/1736. She married on August

23/1752, Gideon Macomber, son of Matthew. Seven children.

4/6. William Manchester, born December 25/1738.

3/2. Thomas Manchester.
3/5. Margaret Manchester. She married a Brownell.
3/4. Mary Manchester.
3/5. Sarah Manchester. She married a Hicks,
3/6. Ann Manchester.
3/7. Content Manchester. She married a Crandell.

2/2. Thomas Manchester, died at Cranston, R.I., November 21/1761.

He married, 1st, about 1704, Sarah Earle: 2nd, on July 4/1742, Mercy Burlingame, a widow. He was Representative, Town Treasurer, Town Clerk, and Selectman of Tiverton. In 1720 he moved to Cranston.
Issue:- (by his first wife Sarah Earle)
3/1. Rebecca Manchester, born May 3/1705.
3/2. Sarah Manchester, born April 22/1708,
3/5. Marabee Manchester, born March 7/1710.
3/4. Job Manchester, born February 3/1713.
3/5. Elizabeth Manchester, born September 20/1715.

She married on December 28/1735, William Head, born at Little Compton, January 13/1715, died there 1784, son of Benjamin and Deborah (Briggs) Head: they had seven children.

3/6. Matthew Manchester, born February 26/1720, died September 14/1801

at Providence. He married in 1741, Freelove Gorton, born November

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1725, died January 6/1795, daughter of Israel and Freelove (Burlingame) Gorton. He was Lieutenant in the Militia 1746-7, Captain 1747-52, Justice of the Peace 1748-1760, Deputy to the General Assembly 1757-1784. He had 20 children by one wife!
Issue:-
4/1. Job Manchester, born at Cranston, R.I., July 5/1742,

died February 8/1824. He married, 1st, on November 5/1763, Hannah Potter of Scituate, R.I., born December 9/1744, died July 15/1764, daughter of John and Mary (Arnold) Potter: 2nd, Susannah Hinkenbotham, born January 26/1747, died September 11/1795. He was Justice of the Peace at Cranston 1775-78. He had one child by his first wife and seven by his second.

4/2. Mary Manchester, born December 3/1743.

She married on December 25/1763, Stephen Knight.

4/3. Sarah Manchester, born December 29/1745, died before 1754.
4/4. John Manchester, born March 29/1747, died young.
4/5. Freelove Manchester, born June 3/1748, died June 24/1772.

She married on September 24/1767, Noah Whitman, born October 1/1743, died May 27/1828, son of Ebenezer Whitman: 7 children.

4/6. Thomas Manchester, born September 30/1749,

died September 7/1834. He married, 1st, on April 6/1769, Mary Potter, born November 28/1750 died July 30/1793, daughter of Colonel John Potter of Scituate, R.I.: 2nd, on December 12/1793, Hannah Carr, born August 3/1763, died December 22/1795, daughter of Esek and Susannah (Clarke) Carr: 3rd, on June 12/1796, Phebe Hill of Warwick, born April 27/1771, died December 27/1854. Thomas was pastor of Maple Root Church, Coventry in 1786, and East Greenwich Church in 1792. He had twelve children by his first wife and two by his second.

4/7. Mercy Manchester, born May 28/1751, died December 15/1788.

She married on February 9/1769, Josiah Potter, son of Job.

4/8. John Manchester, born July 27/1752, died young.
4/9. Sarah Manchester, born March 23/1754, died young.
4/10. Gideon Manchester, born September 15/1755, a twin.
4/11. Joseph Manchester, born September 15/1755, a twin.
4/12. Phebe Manchester, born November 8/1756, died February 11/1786

of tuberculosis. She married on April 18/1779, Benjamin Remington, born September 2/1752, died 1837, son of Thomas and Abigail (Eldred) Remington. Benjamin owned the Crompton Mills: He was a member of the town council and of the legislature. After Phebe's death, Benjamin married, 2nd, her sister Lydia, and 3rd, her sister Nancy, after whose death Benjamin married, 4th, Elizabeth --.

4/13. Lydia Manchester, born July 7/1758, died March 5/1791 of T.B.

She married on November 25/1787, Benjamin Remington, as his second wife, see above.

4/14. Israel Manchester, born February 28/1760, died Dec 26/1857.

He married on January 5/1785 Nabby Knight, daughter of Nehemiah and Eleanor (Hudson) Knight.

4/15. William Manchester, born March24/l763, died September 24/1815.

He married on September 25/1785, Hepsibah Dana, who died September 17/1811, daughter of Alexander Sampson Dana: 5 children.

4/16. George Manchester, born April, 8/1764.

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4/17. Nancy Manchester, born August 16/1767, died December 8/1798

of tuberculosis. She married on June 29/1797, Benjamin Remington, as his third wife, husband of her sisters Elizabeth and Lydia, see above.

4/18. Alice Manchester, born October 30/1769, died July 29/1790.
4/19. Matthew Manchester, born February 13/1770.
4/20. Isaac Manchester, born February 7/1772. He married Lacy Nason.

3/7. Gideon Manchester, died before 1790. He married on October 19/1746,

Lydia Sheldon, born 1725, died December 21/1811, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Arnold) Sheldon: three children.

3/8. Joseph Manchester. He may have been the Captain Joseph Manchester,

who sailed from Providence, R.I., April 5/1759 for Albany, N.Y., drowned on the 14th, knocked overboard by the main boom. He had three children.

2/3. John Manchester, born 1692-3, died 1767. He married in 1713,

Mary (possibly a Brownell). He was made freeman May 4/1714, of Portsmouth.
Issue:-
3/1. Thomas Manchester, born at Portsmouth, July 2/1715,

probably died between 1786 and 1790. He married on August 19/1736, Jane Cook of Portsmouth, born December 21/1714, daughter of Peleg and Sarah (Weeden) Cook, of Portsmouth. They had four children.

3/2. Isaac Manchester, born November 6/1717, died 1782-1790.

He married on August 7/1746, Hannah Cundall of Portsmouth, born October 26/1725, died November 22/1706, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Butts) Cundall. It is claimed he was a Tory but this is doubted as he submitted a claim for losses of £709.4.0 during the Revolution. They had ten children.

2/4. Edward Manchester, born 1697-8, died January 1793, aged 95 years.

He married, 1st, at Tiverton, on April 10/1718, Mary --: 2nd, on February 4/1720, Anna Williston, born 1683, died 1778.
Issue:-
3/1. Archer (Arthur?) Manchester, of Dartmouth, Little Compton and

Westport, Mass., born January 22/1723, died between 1790 and 1798. He married, 1st, on November 10/1751, Elizabeth Gifford, daughter of John and Comfort (Hart) Gifford: 2nd, Susanna - (or Levine Briggs). They had twelve children, by his first wife.

3/2. Job Manchester, born March 6/1724.
3/3. Ruth Manchester, born July 30/1726.

She married on June 25/1747, Job Brownell, born at Little Compton, July 1717, son of Thomas and Grace Brownell. They had five children.

3/4. Zebedee Manchester, born January 18/1729.
3/5. Joseph Manchester, born January 9/1730, died before 1789.

He married in 1755, Elizabeth Gifford, daughter of John Gifford. They had five children.

3/6. Thomas Manchester, born November 28/1732, died after 1800.

He married on June 18/1756, Dorcas Gifford of Little Compton, born May 17/1736, daughter of Enos and Phyllis (Allen) Gifford. They had five children.

3/7. William Manchester, born November 28/1734, died before 1800.

He married on September 21/1755, Mary Irish, born May 17/1734, daughter of John and Thankful (Wilbur) Irish: nine children.

2/5. Nathaniel Manchester, born about 1701-2. He married on May 4/1716,

Elizabeth Norton of Edgartown, Mass., born about 1695, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Bayes) Norton. He was made freeman February 1723.

Subject 320. P5 5.

Issue:-
3/1. Timothy Manchester, born January 12/1717.
3/2. Joseph Manchester, born January 30/1718, died at Scituate, R.I.,

May 4/1785. He married, 1st, on October 24/1753, Mary Roberts of Providence, daughter of Peter Roberts: 2nd, on December 3/1750, Elizabeth Sheldon, born July 18/1734, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Arnold) Sheldon. He had three children by his first wife.

3/3. Anne Manchester, born December 4/1719.
3/4. Bayes Manchester, born November 19/1720, died February 10/1800.

He married, 1st, on March 20/1740, Mary Slocum, born at Newport, R.I., June 21/1720, daughter of Giles and Elizabeth (Wanton) Slocum: 2nd, Mehitable Eddy, born May 22/1739, died May 7/1808. He had four children.

2/6. William Manchester, no data.

1/2. William Manchester. Born at Portsmouth about 1654, died at

Tiverton, October 15/1718. He married Mary Cooke, born 1650, daughter of John and Mary (Borden) Cooke, subject 694. He was a freeman of Portsmouth on April 9/1675, and removed to Pocasset where he joined in the purchase from Governor Josiah Winslow of Pocasset, lands at Tiverton and Little Compton in March 1679-80. Of the total 30 shares into which it was divided, he took five, which at the rate of £100 for the whole, made his disbursement £16. At the time of the foundation of Tiverton on March 2/1692, he removed there. He was a very wealthy man and his estate was inventoried at £1586.O.0. He held numerous town offices, from Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts, to fence viewer.
Issue:-
2/1. John Manchester, no data.
2/2. William Manchester, born perhaps 1675-80.

He married before February 13/1716, Comfort --- of Dighton.

2/3. Mary Manchester, died 1729. She married at Tiverton, as his second

wife, Edward Gray, born January 3/1667, died June 7/1726, son of Edward and Dorothy (Lettice) Gray, subject 324. Edward Gray had married, 1st, Mary Smith, daughter of Philip and Mary Smith. See subject 162 for Edward Cray's issue by both wives.

2/4. Sarah Manchester, died after 1718. She married in 1699,

Edward Wilcox, born at Tiverton in 1675, died May 19 or 29/1718, seventh child of Daniel and Elizabeth (Cocks) Wilcox: the Briggs genealogy says Daniel Wilcox' wife was Hannah Cooke, see subject 694. Edward Wilcox lived most of his life in Tiverton. He inherited all his father's lands, south and east of the west road at Tiverton Four Corners, and at the death of his father in 1702, took his place among the proprietors of Pocasset, the meetings being held in his house. His will is printed in Vol 2 (October 1918) of "The Mayflower Descendants). They had four children.

2/5. Deborah Manchester, born about 1677. She married Samuel Sanford,

born October 5/1677, died September 3/1738, son of John and his second wife Mary (Green) Sanford. They had five children.

2/6. Elizabeth Manchester. She married on December 27/1694, Ichabod

Sheffield, born March 6/1669-70, died 1736, son of Ichabod and Mary (Parker) Sheffield. They had six children.

2/7. Margaret Manchester. She married in 1698-1700, Joseph Sherman,

born February 11/1678-9, died 1755, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Mowry) Sherman. They had five children.

2/8. Amey Manchester. She married Robert Bennett.

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2/9. Susannah Manchester, born between 1685 and 1693, died l774.

She married, 1st, John Taber, born July 18/1684, died before October 11/1728, son of Philip and Mary (Cooke) Taber, subject 334, and had eight children. She married, 2nd, on February 24/1732, Thomas Cory, who died in 1738, son of William and Mary (Earle) Cory, subject 332. See subject 166 for their children.

2/10. Rebecca Manchester. No data.
2/11. Thomas Manchester, born about 1704, died December 1988.

He married, 1st, on July 28/1920, Sarah Earl, born at Little Compton, December 18/1696, died 1727-9, daughter of William and Hepsibeth (Butts) Earl: 2nd, on August 15/1729, Elizabeth Jennings of Tiverton, born 1705, died June 20/1789. A bible record in the Pennsylvania branch of the family calls her Elizabeth Jenkins. Tiverton Vital Records calls Thomas' first wife Sarah Carle, probably wrong.
Issue:- (by his first wife Sarah Earle)
3/1. Mary Manchester, born April 9/1721.
3/2. William Manchester, born July 13/1724.
3/3. Thomas Manchester, born February 29/1727.
Issue:- by his second wife Elizabeth Jennings)
3/4. Lydia Manchester, born June 10/1730. She married on May 13/1749,

John Manchester, son of Edward and Mary Manchester, see last page.

3/5. David Manchester, born November 19/1732: freeman in Tiverton 1759.
3/6. Elizabeth Manchester, born April 15/1736. She married on February

5/1969, Walter Moon of Portsmouth, son of Hope Moon.

3/9. Hannah Manchester, born November 18/1740, died August 1/1813.

She married on August 5/1759, John Spencer, born August 15/1739,

3/8. George Manchester, born June 20/1747.
3/9. Priscilla Manchester. No data.3/10. Beersheba Manchester.

She married in 1795, Benjamin Springer, son of Thomas Springer.

1/3. John Manchester. Born at Portsmouth about 1656, died there 1708.

He may have married Mary --- who died in 1703. He was admitted freeman of Portsmouth on April 25/1672: town constable 1694-5. See subject 160 for issue and further particulars.

1/4. George Manchester, Born about 1659, died about 1705.

Admitted freeman of Portsmouth in 1680. He was a blacksmith: no other data.

1/5. Stephen Manchester. Born about 1661-2, died 1719. Freeman of Portsmouth on

November 4/1683 and of Tiverton March 2/1692. He married, 1st, on September 13/1684, Elizabeth Wodell, daughter of Gershom and Mary (Tripp) Wodell of Warwick R.I. Elizabeth died in 1719 and he married, 2nd, Damaris (or Danorest) Wodell, sister of his first wife.
Issue:- (by his first wife Elizabeth Wodell)
2/1. Gershom Manchester, born about 1689, died at Marblehead, Maine,

on March 15/1749. He married, 1st, about 1707, Anna ---: 2nd, on December 18/1731, Mary Farrow of Freetown, Mass. He resided in Tiverton and in 1738-9 moved to Marblehead, (now Windham, Maine), and settled on lots 15 and 16. Soon after his son Stephen went to Marblehead, Gershom followed with his second wife and some of his children, built himself a house and cleared 8 acres of land. He and his sons were living in the Fort in April 1746, and he was an Indian scout in Capt. George Berry's company that year Issue: - (by his first wife Anna ---)

3/1. Elizabeth Manchester, born September 28/1709. She married on April

28/1730, John Tripp of Tiverton, born November 1694, son of John and Mary (Hart) Tripp.

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3/2. Hannah Manchester, born February 4/1710-11.

She married on February 4/1732, Othneal Tripp, born July 6/1705, son of John and Mary (Bart) Tripp. They had three children,

3/3. Stephen Manchester, born at Tiverton, R.I., May 23/1717,

died June 24/1817, over 100 years old. He married, 1st, in 1738, Grace Farrow, born 1719, died 1745, daughter of John and Persis Farrow of Tiverton and Windham, Me. He married, 2nd, on December 21/1749, Seafair Mayberry, born 1730 on her passage over from Ireland, from which fact her name was given, died December 12/1753, daughter of William Mayberry. He married, 3rd, Mary Bailey, born November 4/1726 at Marblehead, Me., died May 15/1815, 88 years old, daughter of John and Rachel Bailey of Newberry and Falmouth. An interesting account of Stephen Manchester's life is given in a booklet at the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston, from which I quote as follows:- "He was born and spent his early life at Tiverton, R.I., and became much interested in a neighbor's daughter Grace Farrow: her parents objected to his attentions, but were unable to prevent them. Therefore her father John Farrow with his wife Persis and other children emigrated to Marblehead, hoping Grace would forget Stephen: they were the third settlers there. However, Stephen after two weeks, walked into the new Farrow home and married Grace that year, settling in a log house on lot 23, next to her father. Not long after, the Indian Chief Polin was bent on the destruction of the new settlement. Stephen never liked Polin who claimed the English had no right to settle there. To protect the town, the settlers built a fort on lot 33, 50 feet square, two stories high, with walls one foot thick of hewn hemlock timber, the upper story jutting out with a row of port holes: it was finished in 1744 and cost £100. Due to the declaration of war that year between the French and English, the Indians destroyed the settlers' crops and reduced the inhabitants almost to beggary: they had to live in the fort. In the final battle on May 14/1756, Stephen shot and killed Polin, and was a hero in that settlement for years after. In 1775, although 58 years old, he enlisted in the Revolutionary War, and served under Washington in many regiments. When 72 years old, he moved to East Windham and built another farm on what is now known as Manchester Hill. Issue:. (by his first wife Grace Farrow)
4/1. Thomas Manchester, born 1739, died 1779 at Ticonderoga,

He resided in Windham, Me., and in 1770 moved to Haverhill, N.H. He was a private in Capt. Samuel Young's Company in the Revolution, and was at the capture of Ticonderoga, where he died. He was a Ranger, and made the march to the St. Lawrence River with the New Hampshire Rangers: he fought at the Battle of the Cedars, 43 miles above Montreal. He had nine children.

Issue:. (by his second wife Seafair Mayberry)
4/2. Stephen Manchester, born August 9/1751, died January 5/1778.

He was not married. On January 1/1777 he enlisted in Colonel Joseph Vose's First Massachusetts Regiment, was in the Saratoga campaign and then at Valley Forge, and was at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was taken sick at Valley Forge, and carried to Reading, Pa., where he died.

4/3. Abigail Manchester, born November 9/1753. She married on

January 28/l773, Davis Thurrel of Poland, Maine.

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Issue:- (by his third wife Mary Bailey) (married April 9/1758)
4/4. Gershom Manchester, born May 10/1761, died 1853, aged 92 years.

He married on July 23/1787, Anne Bunker of Windham, who died in 1842, aged 82 years, They had thirteen children.

4/5. Anna Manchester, born July 5/1763, died young.
4/6. Anna Manchester, born February 13/1765, died February 10/1857,

aged 92 years. She married in 1785, William Field of Falmouth, Maine, born 1763, died 1836, and had twelve children.

4/7. John Manchester, born 1767, died September 1839.

He married on February 8/1795, Mary Hannaford, and had nine children. They lived at East Windham and West Gray, Maine.

3/4. Alex Manchester, (twin), born April 14/1721.
3/5. Eber, Ober or Olive Manchester, (twin), born April 14/1721.
Issue:- (by his second wife Mary Farrow)
3/6. John Manchester, born November 4/1732, died after 1790.

In 1752 he took up lot 16 at Windham, cleared 9 acres of land and built a house. In 1757 he was a garrison soldier. In 1761 he sold his land at Windham and went to Mount Desert because of the drought and wasting fires during those years west of the Kennebec river: he was still there in 1790. he served in Capt. Stevens Smith's Company at Machias and in Capt. Paul Sullivan's Company during the Revolution. He married, 1st, on June 26/1756, Comfort Bunker of North Yarmouth, Me., born 1736, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Bunker. He married, 2nd, Mary --. He had six children by his first wife.

2/2. Ruth Manchester, born May 27/1690.

She married in 1712, Nathaniel Potter, son of William and Anne (Durfee) Potter, see subject 350. They had two children.

2/3. Elizabeth Manchester. No data.
2/4. Hannah Manchester. No data.
2/5. William Manchester, born about 1700. In 1724 he was elected for jury

service: in 1727 he was elected hog constable.

2/6. George Manchester, born 1701.

1/6. Job Manchester. Died 1713. he married Hannah --- who survived him.

He was at Tiverton at the organisation of this town on March 2/1692-3 but removed to Dartmouth where he had land on December 12/1712.
Issue:-
2/1. Stephen Manchester, born April 8/1689. He married on September 6/1714,

Sarah Earle of Wareham, Mass., born at Freetown, Mass., January 18/1698, daughter of Ralph and Mary (Hicks) Earle.
Issue:-
3/1. Edward Manchester, born November 7/1718.

He married Mary -- and had two children.

3/2. Martha Manchester, born July 21/1720.

She married on April 27/1746, Joshua Lewton of Portsmouth, R.I.

3/3. John Manchester. No data.
3.4. William Manchester, born at Tiverton in 1720, died 1776.

He married on August 8/1749, Elizabeth Macamber of Dartmouth, born September 4/1705, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Crandall) Macamber. They had two children.

3/5. Elias Manchester, born about 1725, died about May 1758.

He married Hannah Seabra who died in childbirth August 15/1758, of her son Elias, Elias later moved to Dutchess County, N.Y.

1/7. Mary Manchester. No data.
1/8. Elizabeth Manchester. No data.

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324 - EDWARD GRAY.

         The following is from three Genealogies, namely, "The Cooke Family Descendants & Relatives of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower 1577- 1820", and from the "Genealogy of the Wilbour & Allied Families", by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour of Little Compton (1936)", and from Austin's Rhode Island Dictionary, Gray Genealogy", and from the "Davol-Willetts Genealogy", by Josephine C. Frost, N.Y. (1925).
          Edward Gray was born in England on April 15/1623, at Stapleford Tawney, and died at Tiverton on June 30/1681 or 4. Buried at Plymouth Burial Hill, where his gravestone, of blue slate, roughly made and rudely cut, is the oldest in the Cemetery. He and his younger brother Thomas, came to Plymouth in 1643. He was then a boy and the Gray family says that the two boys were smuggled on board and sent over by friend in England, intriguing for the possession of property which rightfully belonged to the boys. He was a Merchant and Ship Owner and resided in that part of the town bordering on Kingston. He was one of the first purchasers of Middleboro in 1662, and Deputy for Plymouth from 1676 to 1679.
          Edward married, 1st, at Plymouth on January 16/1651, Mary Winslow, born 1630, died 1663, daughter of John Winslow, son of Edward and Mary (Schilton) Winslow, who came on the Mayflower, and brother of Governor Edward Winslow. He married, 2nd, on December 12/1665, Dorothy Lettice, who died 1686. After Edward's death, Dorothy married, 2nd, Nathaniel Clarke.
Issue:- (by his first wife)

1/1. Desire Gray. Born November 6/1651. Married Nathaniel Southworth.
1/2. Mary Gray. Born September 15/1653.
1/3. Elizabeth Gray. Born February 11/1658. Married Seth Arnold.
1/4. Sarah Gray. Born August 12 or 21/1659, died February 14/1786-7.

She married at Marshfield, Mass, on May 18/1682, Samuel Little, born 1656, died January 16/1707, son of Thomas and Ann (Warren) Little. Ann Warren was an elder sister of Sarah Warren who married John Cooke, son of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, see subject 686.

1/5. John Gray. Born October 1/1661. He married Joanna Morton.
Issue:- (by his second wife)
1/6. Edward Gray. Born January 3/1667, died June 7/1726. He married Mary Smith,

daughter of Philip Smith. See subject 162 for issue and further particulars.

1/7. Susannah Gray. Born October 15/1668.

She married John Cole, whose daughter Mary Cole married Isaac Wright, son of Richard & Hester (Cooke) Wright, see subject 686.

1/8. Thomas Gray. Born 1669. Married 1st, Ann . 2nd, Phebe ---.
1/9. Samuel Gray. Born 1682, died March 23/1712.

He married on July 13/1699, Deborah Church, born 1672, daughter of Joseph & Mary (Tucker) Church. She married, 2nd, Daniel Throope.
Issue: -
2/1. Samuel Gray. Born April 16/1700, died April 22/1764.

He married in 1721, Hannah Kent, born October 3/1703, died July 1/1796, daughter of Samuel & Desire (Cushman) Kent

2/2. John Gray. Born April 14/1701, died January 14/1703.
2/3. Dorothy Gray. Born January 14/1704.
2/4. Joseph Gray. Born January 21/1706, died June 4/1706.
2/5. Lydia Gray. Born October 16/1707. Married Joseph Ladd.
2/6. Simeon Gray. born December 15/1709.
2/7. Ignatius Gray. Born September 18/1711.

1/10. Rebecca Gray. Married Ephraim Cole.
1/11. Hannah Gray.
1/12. Lydia Gray. Married Caleb Loring.
1/13. Anna Gray.

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616 - THOMAS TOWNSEND.

         The following is from the "Townsend-Townshend Genealogy" by Margaret Townsend, New York, 1909; from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies: from "The Genealogy of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower"; from the "Memorial of Samuel Hicks Seaman; from "The Underhill Genealogy", by Josephine C. Frost: from "Colonial Families", and "Colonial Revolutionary Families", by The American Historical Society of New York. The Margaret Townsend Genealogy gives much of interest not copied out below: she doubts that Henry and Richard Townsend, who I give as sons of Thomas, were his sons: she thinks they may have been either brothers of this Thomas, or independent Townsend emigrants. William S. Pelletreau's "American Families of Historic Lineages", differs from Margaret Townsend, and I have adopted Pelletreau's Genealogy as the more correct.
       The family name of Townsend is of ancient origin, dating back to Anglo-Saxon days, and derives its meaning from the place of residence of the family: Townsend was originally "at the town's end". The H in the name Townshend is an early intrusion which was later dropped. The Townsend families of England and America are of mixed Saxon and Norman origin, and of great antiquity in Norfolk County, England. Lodovic de Townshend, a Norman nobleman, married Elizabeth de Huntsville (Hauteville). The Hauteville family possessed large estates, all of which came into possession of the Townsends. A William Townsend held considerable lands in Norfolk in the reign of King John, about 1200 A.D. In 12l7-l272, there was a Thomas Townsend at West Huling, and in 1304 his son John died.
         There is a tradition that Thomas Townsend was a cousin of Governor Winthrop, came from London, and settled in Lynn, Mass., about 1635. William S. Pelletreau says he was baptized at Bracon Ash, Norfolk County, England, on January 8/1594-5, and died at Lynn, Mass,, on December 22/1677. Until his majority, he lived at Gedding, Suffolk County, England, when he went to London and married, name of wife unknown. His wife died after giving birth to three sons, and with these three sons, he embarked for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637, and was made a freeman of Lynn on March 14/1639. He became a citizen of wealth and influence, and married, 2nd, Mary Newgate (also spelled Neazati), probably a sister of John Newgate, a merchant of Boston, and a Selectman there. At this time he was a man of about 45 years of age, and his sons were men of full age. They were evidently dissatisfied with the Puritan spirit of the Colony, as his sons left him and emigrated through Rhode Island into the Connecticut Colony, which at that tine was included in the east part of Long Island. By his second marriage he had at least five children who remained loyal to him, and their descendants are found in eastern Massachusetts, whose names are not given below. Thomas was a farmer.
         Bunker gives his children as below, by his first wife, but Margaret Townsend and others, say there is much against this assumption. The time of his children coming to America cannot be fixed: it was several years before 1645 as in that year, Governor Kieft of the New Netherlands, gave them a patent for the town of Flushing, L.I., along with others.
Issue:- (by his first wife, name unknown)
1/1. John Townsend, Born at Norwich, Norfolk County, England, died at

Oyster Bay, L.I., 1668-9. He married Elizabeth (Coles) Montgomery, daughter of Robert and Mary (Hawkhurst) Coles, and widow of a Mr. Montgomery, whose will was dated May 10/1671, by which she gave each daughter £50 and divided her husband John Townsend's estate between her children. See subject 308 for issue and further particulars.

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2. Thomas Townsend. Said to have died in England. The Jones Genealogy

says he may have been the Captain Townsend who married Sarah Coles, daughter of Robert and Mary (Hawkhurst) Coles, see subject 618, page four for their issue and further particulars.

3. Henry Townsend. Born at Norwich, Norfolk County, England, died on February 6

or March 30/1695. There is an interesting account of his life in the "MacDonough-Hackstaff Ancestry". Bunker and Pelletreau give him as a son of Thomas: Margaret Townsend thinks he was a brother of Thomas. I have combined his children as given by all of them with the differences noted. He married Anne Coles, daughter of Robert and Mary (Hawkhurst) Coles, see subject 616, page 1.
Issue:-
2/1. Henry Townsend, born 1649, died 1703, He married in 1677,

Deborah Underhill, born September 29/1659-60, died January 30/1698, daughter of Captain John and Elizabeth (Feake) Underhill.
Issue:- (may not be in proper order)
3/1. Henry Townsend, born 1678, died September 4/1709. He married his niece,

Eliphal Wright, daughter of John and Mary (Townsend) Wright, see page 4. After Henry's death, Eliphal married, 2^nd on May 5/1711, Daniel Wright, but had no children by him: Eliphal married, 3rd, John Morris, nephew of Governor Morris of New Jersey; by whom she had three children.
Issue:-
4/1. Henry Townsend. Will dated Oyster Bay May 27/1757,

proved January 7/1761. He removed to Chester, Orange County, New Jersey. He married Elizabeth Titus the beautiful Quakeress, daughter of Peter and Martha (Jackson) Titus.
Issue:-
5/1. Henry Townsend, born 1725, died March 28/1803.

He married Anne Wright, born 1735, died September 17/1825, and had six children.

5/2. Nicholas Townsend, born 1727. He married Philadelphia

Doughty, born at Flushing 1738-9, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Williams) Doughty, see subject 534, page 2.
Issue:-
6/1. Elizabeth Townsend, She married James Hallock born

December 1/1761, son of Edward and Phebe (Clapp) Hallock.
Issue:-
7/1. Nicholas Hallock, He married, 1st, Elizabeth Titus

born 1785, died 1838, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Robbins) Titus.

6/2. Hannah Townsend, born August 12/1769, died July 10/1837.

She married on May 3/1792, Jacob Cock, born June 7/1766, died June 7/1832, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Robbins) Cock, and had nine children

6/3. Philadelphia Townsend, born July 30/1763,

died July 18/1830. She married William Cock born May 13/1764 son of Henry and Elizabeth (Robbins) Cock and had four children. (This is from the Cox Genealogy by George William Cocks, New York, 1912,)

5/3. Peter Townsend, born 1729, During the Revolution he made an

iron chain to stretch across the North River to keep the British Fleet off. He married Hannah

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Hawkhurst and had five children. His daughter Anne married Solomon Townsend, born 1746, died 1811, son of Samuel and Sarah (Stoddard) Townsend, see subject 308 page 2.

5/4. Phebe Townsend, born September 14/1740, died September

17/1816. She married at Flushing in 1764, Joseph Lawrence, born June 23/1741, died October 11/1813, son of Richard and Hannah (Bowne) Lawrence, and had seven children, see the Bowne Genealogy by Jacob Titus Bowne, New York, 1948. Their son Effingham Lawrence married Anne Townsend, daughter of Solomon and Anne (Townsend) Townsend, see subject 308, page 2.

5/5. Elizabeth Townsend. She married John McCoun,

had seven children and moved to Troy, New York.

5/6. Martha Townsend.

She married Denial McCoun and had six children.

5/7. Absalom Townsend, born 1737.

He married Helen De Kay, and had eleven children.

5/8. Sally Townsend. She married Charles Tibbets:

she was given as one of these children by Bunker: Margaret Townsend doesn't mention her.

4/2. Absalom Townsend, born about 1690. He married Deborah Weekes,

who died October 10/1739, daughter of Thomas and his second wife Isabella (Harcourt) Weekes, subject 152, page 1, and had four children. This may have been Deborah's second marriage as the Weekes Genealogy says she married Richard Ellison who died in 1719, by whom she had seven children.

3/2. John Townsend, died May 9/1705. He married, 1st, Johanna who died

October 6/1680: 2nd, in 1693, Esther Smith, born 1659-60, died 1749 or later. His will mentioned wife Esther and daughter Hannah, and his brother Henry's four daughters: no mention of his children by Esther.
Issue:- (by his first wife Johanna ---)
4/1. Hannah Townsend, born 1680, died January 11/1757.

She married on January 18/1698, Samson Hawkhurst, born 1671, died January 25/1733, son of Christopher and Mary (Ruddick) Hawkhurst, see subject 310 page 2. As a wedding present, her father gave her 180 acres of land at Cedar Swamp. They had seven children.

Issue:- (by his second wife Esther Smith)
4/2. Hetty Townsend. She married a Harcourt.
4/3. Sarah Townsend. She married Edmund Wright, who died 1750
4/4. Zerviah Townsend.

She married Dr. Matthew Parish and had five children.

4/5. Jotham Townsend, died at Oyster Bay in 1752.

He married, 1st, Martha Coles, who died in childbirth, daughter of Nathaniel and Rose (Wright) Coles, see subject 618, p 3. He married, 2nd, at Hempstead, on October 11/1730, Anne Kissam, born at Hempstead in 1700, died September 2O/l796, daughter of Richbell and Elizabeth (Thorne) Mott, and widow of Daniel Kissam, who died in 1728, see subject 282, p 4.
Issue:- (by his first wife Martha Coles)
5/1. Freelove Townsend, died in childbirth February 25/1744.

She married the Reverend Walter Wilmot, born 1709,

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died August 6/1744, son of Alexander and Mary (Sawden) Wilmot.
Issue:-
6/1. Freelove Townsend Wilmot, born February 25/1744

died July 21/1809. Her father's will of 1744 called her a nurse. She married on February 4/1762, James Townsend, born April 26/1742, died December 12/1798, son of William and Elizabeth (Cock) Townsend, see subject 154, page 2. They had seven children.

5/2. John Townsend, died with his mother in childbirth.

4/6. Micahjah Townsend, born 1699, died November 9/1781.

He married, 1st, on April 23/1732, Elizabeth Platt, who died May 16/1759 and had four children, one of which, Platt Townsend, born 1733, married in 1760, Elizabeth Hubbard, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Quintard) Hubbard of Stamford Conn. He married, 2nd, in December 1760, Meribah Cock, who died in 1762, daughter of John Cock, and widow of his cousin Joshua Townsend, son of James and his third wife Delivered (Pratt) Townsend, see subject 308, page 7. He married, 3rd, at Hempstead, on January 11/1764, Anne Coles, born 1708, died September 28/1803, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Wright) Coles, and widow of George Frost who died in 1760, see subject 618, page 2. He had no children by her.

4/7. Jonadah Townsend. He had a daughter Rachel who married

Solomon Wheeler.

4/8. John Townsend, born 1703, died December 22/1786.

He married Sarah Wright who died April 22/1780, daughter of Edmund Wright and had four children.

3/3. Rose Townsend. She married Capt Joseph Dickenson: 2 children.
3/4. Susanna Townsend.
3/5. Mary Townsend. She married John Wright, born 16--, son of

Nicholas and Anne Wright and had three children.

3/6. Elizabeth Townsend, died August 22/1753. She married

Joseph Ludlum, who died March 16/1696 and had four children.

3/7. Robert Townsend, born June 3/1687. He married Hannah Wright, born 1690, daughter of Job and Rachel (Townsend) Wright.

They lived at Cedar Swamp.

2/2. Susannah Townsend, born 1662. She married Aaron Forman,

who died before 1720, son of Aaron and Dorothy (---) Forman, and grandson of Robert and Johanna (---) Forman. (This is from "The Formans of New York", by Henry Chandlee Forman, Ph.D. 1945).
Issue:-
3/1. Jacob Forman, He married, 1st, at Oyster Bay, Mary Wright,

who died in 1726, daughter of John and Mary (Townsend) Wright, see above. In 1722 they removed to Northcastle, Westchester County, and built a house on the Croton Lake. He married, 2nd on July 15/1728, Elizabeth Lang, born 1693, died 1770, daughter of Nicholas and Ann (Palmes) Lang of Swansea, Mass.
Issue:- (by his first wife Mary Wright) -
4/1. Susannah Forman. She married Joseph Morgan.
4/2. Mary Forman. She married Josias Latten.

3/2. Isaac Forman, He removed to Freehold, N.J. in 1720 and was in

Capt. Samuel Dickenson's Company of Oyster Bay Militia in 1715.

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3/3. Aaron Forman. He married Sarah Lang,

daughter of Nicholas and Ann (Palmes) Lang of Swansea, Mass.

3/4. Susanna Forman. She married in March 1716, Robert Hubbs of

Hempstead, L.I.

4. Richard Townsend. Born 1645, died at Jericho, L.I., about 1677.

He lived first at Flushing, was constable in 1648, sergeant and representative to the General Court for several years. He was later Commissioner for Warwick, R.I., to the Assembly General of Providence Plantations on February 25/1652: associated at Pawtucket until 1655: Juryman to the General Court of Commons, Providence, 1656 to 1661. He married 1st, Deliverance Coles, daughter of Robert and Mary (Hawkhurst) Coles, see subject 618, page 5. He married, 2nd, Elizabeth Wickes of Warwick, R.I., daughter of John and Mary Wickes, pioneer ancestor of this family in America, who came from Staines, Middlesex, England, to Plymouth, Mass., in 1635, moved in 1638 to Aquidneck, near Portsmouth, R.I., and one of the original purchasers from the Indians in 1642: he fought in King Philip's War, and was killed in 1675.
Issue:- (by his first wife Deliverance Coles)
2/1. Dinah Townsend, born at Warwick, R.I., in 1651, died at

Secatague L.I,, October 18/1732. She married there, Thomas Willets, born March 1650, died April 15/1714, son of Richard and Mary (Washburn) Willets. They had nine children.

2/2. Leah Townsend, She married John Williams, son of Robert and Sarah

(Washburn) Williams.
Issue:-
3/1. Temperance Williams. She married David Seaman,

son of Jonathan and Jane Seaman and had four children.

3/2. Hannah Williams, died 1777. She married John Seaman, son of

Jonathan and Jane Seaman and had four children.

Issue:- (by his second wife Elizabeth Wickes)
2/3. John Townsend, died 1721.
2/4. Richard Townsend, born at Oyster Bay in 1671, died 1739.

In 1693 he moved to Hempstead and in 1717 bought a farm at Cedar Swamp. He married in 1693, Ruth Marvin, daughter of John and Hannah (Smith) Marvin. After Richard's death, Ruth married 2nd, as his second wife, John Smith of Hempstead, whose first wife was Hannah Gildersleeve, daughter of Richard and Experience (Ellison) Gildersleeve, a magistrate and a leading man in Hempstead.
Issue:- (by his first wife Ruth Marvin)
3/1. Richard Townsend, born 1706, died unmarried December 20/1796.
3/2. John Townsend, born 1708, died 1797. He lived in Westbury, L.I.

He married in 1732, Phebe Carman, born 1714, died 1756, daughter of Thomas and Mary (---) Carman, see subject 536 p 4.
Issue:-
4/1. Ruth Townsend. She married on March 23/1761, Samuel Titus,

born September 4/1734, son of Samuel and his second wife Mary (Jackson) Titus, and had Samuel and Stephen Titus.

4/2. Samuel Townsend. He married at Hempstead on February 6/1770,

Elizabeth Smith.

4/3. Thomas Townsend, born 1732, died 1779. He married on

December 7/l754, Mary Loines, born December 2/1734, daughter of William and Anne (Valentine) Loines, see subject 290 p 5.
Issue:- see next page,

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Issue:-
5/1. William Townsend, born December 20/1756. He married 1787,

Elizabeth Doughty, born at Flushing in 1750, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Williams) Doughty, see subject 534, page 3, and had three children.

5/2. Anna Townsend, born May 1/1759. She married in 1777,

Thomas Hanford: five children: they went to Nova Scotia.

5/3. Jarvis Townsend, born August 15/1761, died young.
5/4. John Townsend, born August 13/1765, died young.
5/5. Pamela Townsend, born June 28/1763, died January 24/1842.

She married at Oyster Bay, on March 5/1784, Richard Underhill, born November 7/1761, died January 16/1841, son of Jacob and Katherine (Willets) Underhill. They had twelve children.

5/6. Phebe Townsend, born November 2/1768, died November 1866.

She married February 7/1878, Stephen Rushmore, born May 1/1763, died November 10/1852, son or Isaac and Sarah (Titus) Rushmore, see subject 132, page 5 for issue and further particulars.

5/7. John Townsend. He married at Hempstead on January 20/1789,

Phebe Townsend, born September 26/1765, died 1790, daughter of James and Mary (Townsend) Townsend, see subject 308, page 3.

5/8. Obadiah Townsend. He married Phebe Lawrence, daughter of

Joseph and Phebe (Townsend) Lawrence, see page 5.

5/9. Mary Townsend. She married Joseph Wood.

4/4. Mary Townsend, born 1734, died 1819. She married on

December 6/1753, Richard Hewlett, born November 1/1729, died 1789, son of Daniel and Sarah (Jackson) Hewlett.
Issue:-
5/1. Phebe Hewlett, born 1754, died 1793. She married on

October 2/1774, Jacob Hicks, born July 11/1753, died May 4/1800, son of John Hicks and his first wife Martha (Smith) Mott, see subject 266 page 6. They had two children. After Phebe's death, Jacob married, 2nd, on November 18/1794, Phebe Mott, daughter of Patrick Mott but had no children by her.

5/2. Richard Hewlett, born 1755, died 1836. He married in 1788,

Hannah Hewlett, daughter of George Hewlett.

5/3. Thomas Hewlett, died 1780, unmarried.
5/4. Mary Hewlett, born 1758, died 1831. She married in 1777,

Stephen Hicks, baptized September 9/1750, son of John and his first wife Martha (Smith) Mott Hicks, see subject 266 page 6 for issue and further particulars.

5/6. Jane Hewlett, born 1761, died 1826.

She married on November 9/1777, Samuel Cornell, son of William and Mary (Mott) Cornell.

5/6. Oliver Hewlett, born 1762, died 1833.

He married in 1786, Sarah Titus.

5/7. Ruth Hewlett. She married in 1785, her cousin Richard

Townsend, see below, son of Richard and Mary (Titus) Townsend.

5/8. Sarah Hewlett. She married John Van Nostrand.
5/9. Hannah Hewlett. She married in 1785, George Watts.

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5/10. Charlotte Hewlett, born 1770, died 1794.

She married Thomas Leonard.

5/11. Joseph Hewlett, born 1772, died 1821.

He married Clarissa Winslow.

4/5. Richard Townsend, born August 14/1740, died 1819.

He married, 1st, on December 20/1761, Mary Titus, daughter of Richard and Mary (Peters) Titus, and had two children. He married, 2nd, on October 25/1770, Rosetta Seaman, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Jackson) Seaman and had four children.

3/3. Mary Townsend. She married on July 16/1738, Samuel Jackson, born

about 1706, will dated July 26/1776 proved November 29/1780, son of Colonel John and Elizabeth (Hallett) Jackson, a descendant of Robert and Agnes (Washbourne) Jackson, who came from Scrooby, England, and who moved in 1640 to Stamford, Conn., thence in 1644 to Hempstead, L.I. Samuel's will left his wife £500 and £40 yearly.
Issue:- (names from his will - may not be in proper order)
4/1. Richard Jackson. He settled in Duchess County, N.Y.

He married, 1st, on April 1/1767 Phebe Kissam, born 1750, daughter of Daniel and Peggy (Tredwell) Kissam, and had eight children. He married, 2nd, Elizabeth Brooks: no issue.

4/2. Townsend Jackson, date of birth unknown, will dated Oyster Bay

October 15/1830, proved November 29/1830. He married on February 18/1778, Mary (Polly) Seaman, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Jackson) Seaman. They had no children.

4/3. Thomas Jackson, born December 24/1752-4, died November 25/1842.

He married Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Obadiah and Alma (Seaman) Jackson, and had five children.

4/4. Ruth Jackson, died after 1778. Her father left her £300.
4/5. Elizabeth Jackson, died young.
4/5. Jemima Jackson, born 1739, will dated May 6/1812,

proved February 26/1825. her father left her £150. She married on October 25/1772, as his second wife, James Hewlett, born 1717, died 1805, son of Lewis and Grace (Hewlett) Hewlett. James had married, 1st, Sarah Lawrence, by whom he had two children. Jemima had no children and left her estate to her sister Letitia's children.

4/7. Letitia Jackson, date of birth unknown.

Her father left her £173. She married on September 8/1766, Solomon Poole, son of Pierce and Mary (---) Poole. See abject 64-A for issue and further particulars.

4/8. Mary Jackson. Her father left her £250. She married John Pratt.
4/9. Martha Jackson. Her father left her £173.

She married Samuel Birdsall.

3/4. Timothy Townsend, of Cedar Swamp. He married on February 19/1738,

his cousin Sarah Hewlett, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Jackson) Hewlett.
Issue:-
4/1. Richard Townsend. he married, 1st, --- name unknown:

2nd, on August 13/1775, Deborah Underhill, who died in 1776, daughter of Abraham and Dinah (Willets) Underhill.
Issue:-
5/1. Deborah Townsend, born September 18/1776.

She married Israel Horsefield and had four children.

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3/5. Sylvanus Townsend, born about 1712. The Townsend Genealogy says

he married, 1st, Susanna Jackson: 2nd, Letitia Hedger. The Underhill Genealogy says he married, 1st, Susanna Hedger on April 14/1734, and that his children were as follows:-
I don't know which is correct.
Issue:-
4/1. Letitia Townsend, born December 26/1738, died August 28/1804.

She married, 1st, on April 29/1763, Benjamin Underhill, born November 26/1736, died January 10/1788, son of Amos and Elizabeth (Seaman) Underhill. She married, 2nd, on May 13/1789, John Franklin, son of Thomas and Mary Franklin.
Issue:- (by her first husband Benjamin Underhill)
5/1. Townsend Underhill, born 1765, died February 13/1799,

a merchant in New York City. He married, 1st, on March 28/1788, Almy Townsend, born April 18/1768, died May 12/1790, daughter of James and Mary (Townsend) Townsend, see subject 308, page 3. He married, 2nd, on December 22/1792, Elizabeth Thompson.
Issue:- (by his first wife Almy Townsend)
6/1. Benjamin Underhill, born March 19/1789.
Issue:- (by his second wife, Elizabeth Thompson).
6/2. Edwin W. Underhill, born September 13/1793.

He married a Mrs Leake but had no children.

6/3. Letitia Franklin Underhill, born November 26/1793.

She married Robert R. Hunter.

6/4. Louisa Julia Underhill, born November 5/1799.

She married Thomas Van Zandt.

5/2. Elizabeth Underhill, died November 5/1832.

She married on September 22/1781, John Butler Coles, born at Oyster Bay December 31/1760, died January 2/1827, son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Butler) Coles and had six children. See the N.Y. Gen and Biog Record, Vol 58, p 353 for an interesting account of his life.

2/5. Hannah Townsend, born 1673. No data.
2/6. Deliverance Townsend, born about 1675. She married, 1st, on 1684,

Benjamin Carman, born 1662, died 1694, son of John and Hannah (---) Carman, see subject 536, page 3 for their children. After Benjamin's death, Deliverance married, 2nd, in 1694, Jonathan Lewis of Huntington, son of John Lewis of Westerly, R.I., who had married 1st, in 1683, Jemima Whitehead.

2/7. Mary Townsend. No data.

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686 - FRANCIS COOKE.

        The following is compiled from four genealogies on file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston, as follows:-
1. A Memorial to Francis Cooks, by Henry Cook, Boston, (1870).
2. Cooke Family Descendants & Relatives of Francis of the Mayflower".
3. We and our Kinfolk by Mary B. Briggs.
4. The Genealogy of Francis Weekes, by Dr Frank Edger weeks, Kipton, Ohio.
        Francis Cooke was born 1577, and baptized October 25/1578 at St Martins, Charing Cross, London. He was at St Johns, Cambridge, England, about 1592. He died April 7/1663.
        He embarked on the "Speedwell" at Delfthaven in July 1620, leaving his wife and children behind. At Southampton or Plymouth, he and others were transferred to the "Mayflower", and with his eldest son John, sailed on September 6/1620 for New England, and arrived at Plymouth on November 11/1620. The log of the voyage is given at the end of this subject. The courage and endurance of these voyagers passes our imagination. After sailing, they turned back twice for repairs, thus losing valuable time, and entering the period of winter storms. The vessel was so overcrowded with passengers and their supplies, which had to serve them until a crop could be raised, that great discomfort prevailed and the delay in their departure brought upon them the fury of winter storms which shook the ship and "her upper works were very leekie". One of the main beams in the midships, was bowed and cracked, but its buckling was overcome by the use of a great iron scrue which the passengers had brought out of Holland, by which they raised the beam into its place. The others of his family followed some two years later, coming by the "Ann", landing at Plymouth in July 1623.
        Francis Cooks belonged to the family of Cookes of the Parish of Blyth, of York and Nottingham, England, adjoining Austerfield, the residence of Bradford and Brewster, the leader of the Puritans into Holland, and ultimately to the shores of the New World. In Rev Mr Baines History of the Parish of Blyth, mention is made of two families of Cookes, Richard and Stansfield. The Parish Records attest to their ownership or occupancy of the old Convent and Manor of Blyth, as early as 1540, and also of the births, deaths and marriages which took place in their family to a much later date. At this time, or previously, these two men had been rich London merchants, as Silk Mercers. Blyth was surrounded by Monasteries and Monks of the Benedictine order. Francis, on becoming a convert to the doctrines of the Separatists, who had to leave their native land to enjoy their religion, free from persecution, departed with others for Amsterdam and Leyden, Holland, about 1601. The William Brewster mentioned above graduated at Cambridge and became Assistant Secretary to Queen Elizabeth's Secretary, Walsingham. He joined a sect, originated in 1576, who called themselves Elizabethan Separatists or Independent Congregationalists, who were under the head at one Robert Brown, a relative of Lord Burleigh and Sir William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth's Treasurer, who had married Mildred Cooke, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose other daughter Anne, married Sir Nicholas, afterwards Lord Chancellor Bacon, whose son Francis Bacon, the great philosopher, was born in 1561. Francis, like other emigrants to Holland, regretted to leave their lands, friends, etc, to go to a country where they must learn a new language and trades: the peace of life presented itself in Holland. As it was unlawful to leave England without a license, according to a statute made in the 15th year of Richard III's reign, they had resort to stealth to get away. The first boatload was betrayed and seized and all thrown into prison at Boston, England, including Brewster who was retained as a prisoner after the others were released. The next attempt to leave was by a Dutch ship

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from Hull. The men went overland to Hull to meet the ship, while the women and children went by boat, which stuck in a creek. The Dutch took one boatload of men to the ship, but when they saw armed forces coming, the ship set sail in a hurry, leaving the others to their fate. All the money and clothes belonging to the men were in the boats with the women, who were arrested, but those in charge did not know what to do with them, as no magistrate would pronounce punishment against then, whose only crime was wanting to join their husbands. What finally became of then has never boon told, hence it Is no wonder their families do not seem to be all placed, as in the case of Francis Cooke. How, at length, the exiles left, is not known, but that they reached Holland is certain. Francis must soon here made the acquaintance of his wife Esther or Hester Mahieu, the Walloon, daughter of the widow Jenne Mahieu, who came from Dinan, France, and was living near St Antholin, London.
        Francis Cooke married Hester Mahieu in 1604 in Leyden, Holland:
she died after June 8/1663, but before December 18/1675. Differences soon appeared amongst the exiles in Amsterdam over Church Doctrines, so in about a year sons moved to Leyden with William Brewster and John Robinson, and lived in peace until they went to New England. Life was hard in Leyden so to exiles learned Wool Carding, Hat and Twine making, Weaving and Serge and Baize making, besides some became carpenters, masons, goldsmiths, and bell makers, to prepare for their next move to America. The Dutch Government restricted new and unusual sects of worship, to private houses, so the Pilgrims purchased a large house and garden in the Klogsteg, for £400, in which they built 21 houses and a Chapel. Francis probably occupied one of these houses. The Pilgrims must have been desirable citizens in Leyden, as in all the twelve years they lived there, the Dutch never had suit or accusation against them, but the Walloons (the French of the city), quarrelled continuously. The reason they left Leyden was not on account of any unpleasantness, but because the growing children were attracted by their surroundings, from the strict views of their fathers', into extravagant and dangerous courses. Some became soldiers, others took upon themselves, far voyages by sea, to the danger of their souls and the dishonor of God. If Francis was barn in 1577, which is doubted by some, he must have been 31 years old when he went to Holland and married Esther Mahieu, rather old to marry for the first time, when men married at 18, 19 or 21 at the latest, and women even at 13 and 14. Francis was a widower and had children by a former wife before he married Esther. Whether these children by his first wife stayed in England or not, is not known.
        Francis Cooks first settled in Plymouth, Mass, on Lot No 3 on Leyden St. Afterwards when his family joined him, he was granted a tract of land at Jones River, Rockynook (now Kingston), which at the time of his death was known as Cooke`s Hollow. He brought over much money with him and was a prominent member of the Plymouth Colony. He was made freeman in 1633, Surveyor for laying out Highways in 1634, from 1636 to 1640, he performed important duties under the Government. From 1642 to 1648 he was occupied in Administrative affairs. In 1648 he was appointed Jurymen by the Government of the trial of the murder of a four year old child named Richard Bishop, found with its throat cut by its mother, who confessed and was hung for the crime. In 1650 he was on a Commission to lay out a highway to connect with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1662 he and his son John were allowed to settle on a tract lately purchased for a new settlement, comprising Dartmouth, New Bedford, &c but he never settled there. He died April 7/1663, aged 86 years.
        His Will, dated December 7/1659 reads as follows:-

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Hester, my dear and loving wife, shall have my moveable goods and all cattle and occupy my lands during her life, which are then to go to my son-in-law Richard Wright. His son Jacob was not mentioned in his Will because he got 100 acres of land at the time of his marriage. His son John was also not mentioned as he got all the Dartmouth land, now called Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Issue:- (by his first wife in England, name unknown)
1. Frances Cooke. Born 1595 in England. She married Mr Palmer, and she

came to America in the ship "Ann", with her infant daughter.

Issue:-
(by his second wife Esther)
2. Jane Cooke. Born in Holland in 1609, died before 1666. She came to Plymouth

with her mother in he ship "Ann" in 1623. She married in 1627-8, Experience Mitchell, who also came to Plymouth on the same ship born 1608, died at Bridgewater, Mass, in 1689.
Issue :-
2/1. Elizabeth Mitchell, born at Plymouth 1627. She married on December

6/1645, John Washburne, born November 28/1621, died November 12/1686, son of John Washburne and Margery Moore of Duxbury, Mass, who came over on the "Elizabeth & Ann" in 1635, a tailor. They had eleven children. After Elizabeth Mitchell's death, he married, 2nd, Elizabeth Packard.

2/2. Thomas Mitchell, of Scituate, Mass, a minister. He married Bethulia --.
2/3. Mary Mitchell, She married on December 24/1652, James Shaw,

son of John Shaw who came over before 1627, followed by his wife Alice and three children.

2/4. Edward Mitchell, Ensign, born at Bridgewater 1647.

He married Mary Hayward, daughter of Thomas and Susanna Hayward who came from Aylesford, England, in the ship "William & Francis", and settled in Duxbury, Mass.

2/5. Sarah Mitchell, died 1676. Married John Hayward before 1663.

3. John Cooke. Born in Holland in 1610, and died at Dartmouth, Mass.,

on November 23/1695, the last surviving passenger of the Mayflower. He came to New England with his father. As a lad he acquired an education superior to most of his contemporaries. The most active period of his life was in Plymouth. As a youth he devoted himself to study and possibly intended to fit himself for the ministy. He finally became an Anabaptist preacher. He entered into several business enterprises with his father, and in 1634 was rich enough to be taxed equally with his father. In 1643 he volunteered for the Pequot war. He was representative to the General Court 1638-1656. He moved to Dartmouth in 1653-1660, the first white settler there, where he was representative to the General Court 1670-1683, and Chief Magistrate. He was appointed to build a ferry between Dartmouth and Rhode Island. On November 29/1652 he got one share of 3200 acres from the Indian Chief Massasoit in Dartmouth. In 1672, the town gave him Ram Island, now Pope's Island, in recompense for his service. In 1675 came a crushing blow to Dartmouth. King Philip's hords devastated the town, several people being murdered. John Cooke converted his house into a garrison and either some other house of his or the garrison house was burned. His house was in the northerly part of Fairhavan, now kmown as Oxford. A 15 ton boulder with a bronze plate marks his grave at Poverty Point, Fairhaven. He married on March 28/1634, Sarah Warren, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Warren of the Mayflower. The way John came to marry Sarah was this way:- Richard Warren came in the Mayflower with John and his father Francis Cooke,

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while Richard`s wife Elizabeth Jouatt (or Jewett), came in the "Ann", with John Cooke's mother Esther. Mrs Warren had with her, five daughters, and after arriving at Plymouth had two sons Nathaniel and Joseph. John Cooke`s will was dated November 9/1694. His estate was inventoried at £299.l9.0.
Issue:-
2/1. Sarah Cooke. Born 1635, died 1715. She married on November 20/1652,

Arthur Hathaway, born 1631, died 1712 at Marshfield, Mass.
6 children,

2/2. Son. Born 1637, died within a year.
2/3. John Cooke. Born 1637, died within a year.
2/4. Elizabeth Cooke. Born 1658, died December 6/1715.

She married on November 28/1661, Daniel Wilcox, who died July 2/1702, son of Edward. They had ten children.

2/5. Hester Cooke. Born August 16/1650. died 1671. She married in 1667,

Thomas Taber, born February 1645, died Novanber 11/1730, son of Philip and Lydia (Masters) Taber, see subject 336, who married, 2nd, on June 2/1672, Mary Thompson.

2/6. Daughter. She married William Palmer, who came in the ship "Fortune"

with his father William who married Frances, daughter of Francis Cooke by his first wife.

2/7. Mercy Cooke. Born July 25/1654, died November 21/1735.

She married in 1682, Stephen West, born 1654, died 1748, son of Bartholomew and Catherine (Almy) West.

2/8. Daughter. She married William Wood.
2/9. Mary Cooke. Born January 12/1652, died 1694 at Dartmouth, Mass.

She married in 1668, Philip Taber, who died 1693, brother of her sister Hester's husband, see above.

4. Josiah Cooke. Died October 16/1673. There is some doubt as to whether he was

a son of Francis Cooke, as he was not a signatory to an agreement dividing their father's property, signed June 8/1666 by his brothers and sisters. He married on September 16/1635, Elizabeth Dean, widow of Stephen Dean, with three children and plenty of money and property, nee Elizabeth Ring, daughter of the widow Mary Ring.

5. Hester Cooke. Born at Leyden, Holland, in 1616, died 1665.

She married on November 21/1644, Richard Wright, born 1608, died 1691, who came to America in the ship "Ann", son of William Wright who came on the ship "Fortune" in 1621. Richard's Will, dated June 8/1691, left all his estate to his three children Adam, Esther and Mary, and Mary was to live in my house during her widowhood and inasmuch as my son Adam had a full double portion in lands, my will is that he deal kindly in providing for Mary.
Issue:-
2/1. Adam Wright. Born 1645, lived in that part of Plymouth called Plympton:

died 1724. He married Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Soule of Duxbury and Sarah Standish: Bemjamin's father George Soule came on the Mayflower.

2/2. Esther Wright. Born 1649, died 1717. Married Ephraim Tinkham.
2/5. Mary Wright. Married Mr Price.
2/4. John Wright. Married Mary ---.
2/5. Isaac Wright. Born August 26/1662.

Married in 1717, Mary Cole, daughter of John & Susannah (Grey) Cole. Susanna Grey was the daughter of Edward Grey and his second wife Dorothy Lattice, see subject 324.

6. Jacob Cooke. Born at Leyden, Holland, in 1618, died July 7/1676 at Plymouth.

He came to America in the ship "Ann". He married, 1st, on June 10/1646, Damaris Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins who came

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on the Mayflower, and of his second wife Elizabeth Fisher. He married, 2nd, on November 16/1669, at Plymouth, the widow Elizabeth Shurtleffe, daughter of Thomas Lettice, see subject 650. In 1637 Jacob was a Volunteer in Capt Prince's Company for the Indian War: Surveyor of Highways in 1654 and 1666: Grand Inquest 1662 and 1667. His Will, dated December 11/1675 left his wife Elizabeth, one yoke of oxen and one cow towards the bringing up of my three youngest daughters and the use of the orchard in my now dwelling house and the orchard I planted in the place I lived in at my first marriage: to my son Caleb a double portion of all my lands: to Jacob, one share of lands.
His estate was inventoried at £104.
Issue:- (by his first wife)
2/1. Elizabeth Cooke. Born at Plymouth January 16/1648,

died November 21/1692. Married in 1667 John Doty, who died May 6/1701, son of Edward Doty who came on the Mayflower and his second wife Faith Clark. John Doty married, 2nd, Sarah Rickard daughter of Charles Rickard of Plymouth. This Rickard family is the same which married into the maternal line of John Lindsely.

2/2. Caleb Cooke. Born March 29/1651. Married Jane ---. Caleb was a Captain

in King Philip's War and when Philip was surrounded by the English at Mount Hope, near Tiverton, R.I., Caleb was stationed with an Indian named Alderman on the outskirts of the swamp where King Philip was concealed. (King Philip's Indian name was too long to pronounce: he was given the name Philip by Governor John Winslow, who named him Philip in remembrance of Philip of Macedon). On the approach of the Indian Chief Philip, Caleb levelled his gun but it missed fire, so Alderman took his turn and shot Philip in the heart. Caleb got Alderman to change guns so tat he might keep the weapon that did the deed, now preserved in Pilgrim Hall at Plymouth.

2/5. Jacob Cooke. Born at Plymouth March 26/1653, died 1748.

He married, 1st, on December 29/1681, Lydia Miller who died March 1st, 1727. He married, 2nd, Phebe ---.

2/4. Mary Cooke. Born at Plymouth January l2/1657, died March 21/1715.
2/5. Martha Cooke. Born March 16/1659, died September 17/1722.

She married as his second wife in 1683, Elkanah Cushman, son of Thomas Cushman who cane on The "Fortune" in 1621. Elkanah had married, 1st, in 1677, Elizabeth Cole, who died 1681, after the birth of her first child.

2/6. Francis Cooke. Born January 5/1662. He married in 1687

Elizabeth Latham, daughter of Robert & Sasannah (Winslow) Latham.

2/7, Ruth Cooke. Born January 17/1665.
2/8. Sarah Cooke. Married in 1691 as his second wife, Robert Bartlett,

born 1663, son of Joseph & Hannah (Fallowell) Bartlett.

2/9. Rebecca Cooke. No data.

7. Elizabeth Cooke. Born at Plymouth 1626: no other data.
8. Mary Cooke. Born at Plymouth 1626, died March 21/1714.

She married on December 26/1645, John Thompson, born 1616, died June 6/1696. See subject 342 for issue and further particulars.

9. Child. Born at Plymouth and married in 1650, and had one or two children.

The following are the signers of the Mayflower Compact, at the meeting in the main cabin on November 11/1620 of all adult male passengers, except the two hired seaman Trevore and Ely, and those too ill. (This is

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copied from the "Genealogy of Francis Weekes" by Dr Frank Edgar Weeks of Kipton, (Ohio (l939), page 626.

John Carver. wife Katherine, Desire Minter, 2 man servants named Latham

and John Rowland, 1 maid servant, 2 boys named Jasper More.

William Bradford. wife who was drowned December 7th and two children.
Edward Winslow. wife Elizabeth, 2 men servants named Geoge Sowls and

Eilas Story, a little girl Ellen, sister of Richard More.

William Brewster. wife Mary, sons Love and Wrastling, a boy named

Richard More, and a brother.

Isaac Allerton. wife Mary, children Bartholomew, Remember, and Mary,

and a servant boy named John Hooke.

Myles Standish. wife Rose, who died in January: he married again.
John Alden. single.
Samuel Fuller and servant William Button, the first to die on board.
Francis Cooke. and son John. His wife and children came later.
Thomas Rogers and son Joseph: other children came later. He died soon.
John Rigdale. wife Alice. Both died in the first sickness.
John Turner and two sons, all died in the first sickness. A daughter

came later.

John Crackston. and son John, died in the first sickness. Son died five

years later.

Moses Fletcher. single, died soon.
Francis Eaton. wife Sarah who died in first sickness. Son Samuel and

a young child.

Christopher Martin. wife, and two servants named Solomon Prower and

John Langmore, who all died soon after arrival.

William Mullins. wife and two children Joseph and Priscilla, servant

Robert Carter. An died the first winter except
Priscilla who married John Alden.

William White. wife Susannah, one son Resolved, and one born on the

ship on November 27th named Peregrine, two servants
named Edward Thomson and Williem Holbeck.

Richard Warren, single. His wife and children came by a later boat.
John Howland. single.
Stephen Hopkins. wife Elizabeth, two children Giles and Constata by his

former wife, and daughter Damaris by his present wife,
and a son named Oceanus, born on the voyage September
23, 2 servants named Edward Doty and Edward Litster.

Edward Tilly. wife Ann, who died soon after arrival, and two children

who were their cousins, Henry Samson and Humility Coper.

John Tilly. wife Elizabeth who both died soon after, and a daughter

Elizabeth who married John Rowland.

Thomas Tinker. wife and a son, all of whom died in the first sickness.
Edward Fuller. wife and son Samuel, both of whom died soon after arrival.
James Chilton. wife, both died soon after and daughter Mary.

John Billington. wife Ellen, children John and Francis. He was executed

ten years later for killing a man.

John Goodman, single, died soon after in the general sickness.

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Other passenges on the Mayflower who did not sign the compact, were:-
Thomas Williams, Diggerie Preist, Edmond Margeson, Peter Browne, Richard Britterige, Richard Clarke, Richard Gardenar, Gilbert Winslow, Thomas English and John Allerton, the latter two were seamen: both died before the ship returned. Two othar seamen William Trevore and Ely, were hired to stay a year but both returned on the ship.

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The following Journal of the voyage of the Maflower is taken from Bradford's History of Plymouth.

Saturday. July 15/1620. Thomas Jones, Master, from London, England, towards Hudson's River in Virginia. At anchor in Gravesend. Finished lading. Got passengers aboard and and under way for Southampton. Dropped down the Thames to Gravesend with the tide: vessel lay here.
Wednesday. August 2/1620. Weston took offence and returned to London.
Saturday August 5/1620. Weighed anchor, as did consort, and dropped down to Southampton Water.
Saturday. August 12/1620. Made port at Dartmouth.
Wednesday. August 23/1620. weighed anchor with consort.
Saturday August 26/1620. Started back for Plymouth.
Tuesday August 29/1620. At a conference of officers of the ship and consort, and the chief of the Planters, it was decided to send the ship "Speedwell" back to London with some eighteen or twenty of her passengers, transferring a dozen or more with the their ladings to the Mayflower.
Wednesday. September 6/1620. Weighed anchor for the northern coasts of Virginia. The boundaries of Virginia of that time were much more extensive than today.
September 23/1620. A seaman died. Violent gales. Ship badly shaken, A main beam bowed and cracked. After a consultation it was decided best to continue as the ship was firm, except for the beam, but by the use of an iron screw, the beam was raised into place. Mistress Elizabeth Hopkins had a boy born, named Oceanus.
November 6/1620. William Button died, the first death among the passengers.
November 8/1620. Signs of land.
November 10/1620. Landfall, made out to be Cape Cod (probably the bluffs at Truro). After a conference, tacked about and stood for the southward. Made our course S.S.W. proposing to go to a river ten leagues south of the Cape (Hudson's River). After had sailed that course about half a day, fell among dangerous shoals and foaming breakers (off Monomoy): got out of them before night and the wind being contrary, put around again for the Bay of Cape Cod. Abandoned effort to go further south and so announced to the passengers.
November 11/1620. Comes in with light fair wind. On course for Cape Cod Harbour along the coast. Some hints of disaffection among the colonists on account of abandonment of location for settlement on territory under the protection of the patent granted in their interest by John Pierce, by the London Virginia Company. Meeting in the main cabin of all adult males passengers except the two hired seamen Trevors and Ely, and those too ill to make and sign a mutual compact to regulate their Civil Government. This done, they confirned Master Carver, who was their Governor in the ship on the voyage, as their Governor for the year. Bore up for the Cape and by short tacks made the Cape (Provincetown) coming to an anchorage a furlong within the point. 67 days from Plymouth, 81 from Dartmouth, 99 from Southampton, and 120 from London. Got out the long boat and set ashore a party to fetch wood, having none left.
November 11/1620? Still in harbor at Provincetown. Peregrine White born, the second one on the ship.

December 10/1620. Four deaths, one by drowning: very severe weather. The ship had a narrow escape from being blown up by the Chilton bay. A hard gloomy week and many of the principal man absent exploring.
December 15/1620. Weighed anchor to go to the place the exploring company had discovered. Wind against them, so had to return, but made it next day: anchored a mile or more from the shore. The end of the outward voyage from London, 150 days.

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December 20/1620. At anchor in Plymouth Harbour, many ill. A construction party went ashore and left twenty of their number to make a rendezvous, the rest coming aboard at night. They reported they had chosen by the most voices, the site first looked at by the largest brook, near where they landed on the 11th, on a large rock. It was planned that all who could go ashore in the norning to build houses.
December 21/1620. Richard Bitteridge died.
December 24/1620. Solomon Frower died. Some days so stormy, none could go ashore.
December 28/1620 Many ill from exposure.
January 1/1621. Degory Priest died.
January 8/1621 Master Martin died. Common house nearly finished.
January 14/1621. Bradford and Carver sick.
January 21/1621. Many ill. Being Sunday, kept meeting in Common House for the first time.
January 29/1621. Rose Standish died.
January 31/1621. Eight colonists have died this month on ship or on shore. The reason the Mayflower stayed so long was the necessity and danger that lay upon them, for it was well before the end of December before she could land anything. Afterwards on January 14th the house which they made for a general rendezvous by casuality fell afire, and some were fain to retire aboard for shelter. Then the sickness began to fall sore amongst them, and the weather was so bad that they could not make much sooner despatch. The Governor and Chief among them, seeing so nany of them die and fall down sick daily, thought it no wisdom to send away the ship, and the danger from Indians, till they could procure some shelter, and the Master of the ship durst not put to sea till he saw his men begin to recover and the heart of the winter over. February 24/1621. More sickness on ship and on shore that any time, and more deaths. Mullins and White died. Mrs Allerton died. February 27/1621. Sickness and deaths have steadily increased and the ship lost several petty officers and a third of the crew, many from scurvy. The Planters have lost seventeen this month, their largest mortality.
March 16/1621. An Indian appeared who spoke some English and bade welcome. Other Indians also appeared.
March 21/1621. Planting had been carried on. Fine warm day. Began to put ship in trim and bring ballast.
March 22/1621. Edward Winslow was sent to parley with Samoset, Squanto, and Massasoyt and Quadquina, and a treaty was made. The last of the colonists went ashore to remain.
March 29/1621. Master offered to take back any of the colonists who wished to return to Englnad, but none desired to go. Colonists lost thirteen by death this month.

Mr Carver died in the spring and his wife in the summer, also his man Roger and the little boy Jasper died before either of them. Desire Minter returned to England, not well, and soon died there. His servant boy Willie Latham lived here twenty years, and then went back to England, and thence to the Bahamas where he starved to death. His servant John Howland married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Tillie and had ten children. Mr Brewster lived to a very old age.

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704 - ROBERT INGALLS.

         The following is from the "Ingalls Genealogy", by Dr Charles Burleigh of Malden (1903), and also from the "Ingalls Genealogy" by Dr Walter Renton Ingalls (1933), both on file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston.
        Robert Ingalls was born at Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England, about 1621. He was a Planter at Lynn, Mass, and owned the East Lynn Farm, and also the farms and lands he inherited from his father-in-law William Harker, also 60 acres in Lynn, 3 acres on Kings Beach, (origi- nally a part of Sagamare Hill Farm), also several acres on Bloody Creek in Romney Marsh. He served as Constable in Lynn in 1663-4. In 1677 when his son Nathaniel was drafted to go with the troops to Salem, he objected on the ground that the boy was not fit as he was only 17, and offered to go in his stead. A deed signed January 1/1685-6 gave most of his property to his sons Robert, Samuel and Nathaniel, they to support the widow and pay other heirs. He died January 3/1698.
        He married in 1646, Sarah, daughter of William and Elizabeth Harker of Lynn.
Issue:-
1. John Ingalls. Born 1646, died 1721. He married on May 26/1667,

Elizabeth Barrat, and had five children. In 1692 removed to Swansea.

2. Hannah Ingalls. Born September 20/1647, died June 1684.

She married on May 2/1673, Henry Stacey of Salem, Mass.
Issue:-
2/1. Ephraim Stacey. Born April 1/1677.
2/2. Sarah Stacey. Born January 3/1678.
2/3. Ebenezer Stacey. January 4/168O.
2/4. John Stacey. 1682: died within a year.

3. Robert Ingalls. Born February 9/1649, died February 1688.

He married on January 20/1675, Rebecca Leighton. See subject 352 for issue and further particulars.

4. Samuel Ingalls. Born September 22/1650, died at Ipswich, Mass, about 1711,

where he had been made freeman in 1691. He was a Representative to the General Court, and was called Lieutenant. He married on February 2/1681, Hannah (Perkins) Brewer, widow of John Brewer and They had seven children. His estate comprised 3 acres, house & barn.

5. Sarah Ingalls. Born July 4/1654, died December 31/1688 unmarried.
6. Elizabeth Ingalls. Born March 7/1657, died November 2/1681.

She married on January 4/1681, Samuel Hart, and had one daughter Elizabeth born October 21/1681.

7. Nathaniel Ingalls. Born 1660, died 1735. He married Anne Collins,

daughter of Joseph Collins. They had ten children. His estate amounted to £1011.0.0.

8. Eleazer Ingalls. Born 1661, died 1718. He married in 1683, Mary Hendley,

daughter of Elias and Mary Hendley of Marblehead. He was a Cooper and developed into a merchant and extensive land owner. He died leaving a very large estate, inventoried at £3707.0.0, consisting of land at Marblehead, Lynn, Dracut, Gloucester and other places. His father-in-law deeded to him on September 2/1685, a part of their homestead on the sea at Hendley's Cove on Peach Point, at the mouth of Marblehead Harbor, later known as Ingalls Beach. They had nine children.

9. Ruth Ingalls. Born 1663. Unmarried.

Subject 706. (387)

706 - THOMAS LEIGHTON.

        The following is from the "Savage Genealogical Dictionary". Vol. 3, p 45.
        Thomas Leighton was of Lynn, Mass, freeman March 14/1639, Representative to the General Court 1646 to 1661. Name of wife unknown.
Issue:-
1. Thomas Leighton.   He married, 1st, on December 28/1670, Sarah Redknap,

who died February 26/1680. 2nd, in December 1680, Hannah Silsby.

2. Margaret Leightax.
3. Samuel Leighton.
4. Rebecca Leighton. She married on January 20/1675, Robert Ingalls.

See subject 352 for issue & further particulars.

5.Elizabeth Leighton.

Subject 708. (388)

708 - JOHN PARKER.

         The following is from the "Savage Genealogical Dictionary", Vol 3, P 352.
        John Parker was born at Saco in 1634, and was of Kennebec, Maine, son of John of Saco, perhaps born in England and came to Boston.
        John Parker married on August 20/1660, Mary, the daughter of Daniel Fairfield. In 1659 he bought of the Indians a large tract of land on the west side of the Kennebec River opposite to his father's island, now Phipsbury.
        In "Charlestown Genealogies", by Thomas Bellows Lyman, it gives John Parker's wife's name differently, and states John received relief from the town of Charlestown: other sources state the settlers on the Kennebec River suffered dreadful privations and losses through continued droughts, fires and Indian depredations: so it is probable he came to Charlestown in poor circumstances.
Issue : -
1. Daniel Parker. Born 1667 died October 18/1694. He married Anne Errington,

who married after his death, 2nd, John May, and 3rd, Thomas Coppin. Savage gives her father's name as Abraham, but the Charlestown Genealogies says differently, see subject 710. For issue and further particulars, see subject 354.

2. James Parker.
3. Four daughters names unknown.

Subject 710. (389)

710 - ABRAHAM ERRINGTON.

        The following is from "Charlestown Genealogies", Vol 1, p 335, by Thomas Bellows Lyman, and also from the Savage Genealogical Dictionary". Abraham Errington was of Cambridge, Mass, date of birth not known, died 1677. He was the son of Thomas Errington of Lynn, Mass, and his wife Anne --- who died December 11/1653, aged 76, who came from Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, who also had a daughter Rebecca who married John Watson.
        Abraham married Rebecca Cutter who died 1697.
Issue:-
1. Abraham Errington. Born November 11/1652, died soon.
2. Abraham Errington. Born November 1/1654, died soon.
3. Rebecca Errington. Married John Gibson on December 9/1688.
4. Hannah Errington    (Anne) Married, 1st, Daniel Parker, born 1667,

died October 18/1694. Hannah was born 1661. For their issue and further particulars, see subject 354. She married, 2nd, John May. 3rd, Thomas Coppin.

5. Sarah Errington.
6. Mary Errington. Baptized January 13/1661.
7. Abraham Errington. Baptized November 8/1663.
8. Jacob Errington. Baptized October 2/1668, died May 9/1677.

Subject 712. (390)

712 - JOHN CALL.

         The following is from "Charlestown Genealogies aft, page 167, by Thomas Bellows Wyman.
         John Call was born about 1635 and died April 19/1697. He was a Baker. Admitted to the church April 29/1662, of which he was a Deacon.
         He married on June 21/1656, Hannah Kettell, born 1637, died August 27/1708.
Issue:-
1. John Call. Born 1658, died May 4/1713.

He married on July 20/1681, Martha Lowden, born 1659, died September 4/1729. See subject 356 for issue and further particulars.

2. Thomas Call. Born 1660, died January 1/1739. He was a Baker and a

Waterman. He married, lst, on May 23/1683, Elizabeth Crosswell, born 1666, died December 23/1725, and had seven children by her. He married, 2nd, Abigail Kettell, born 1679, died September 17/1754, but they had no children.

3. Jonathan CalI. Born September 2/1663, died September 25/1682.

He was a Cordwainer. He married Elizabeth Townsend who died January 2/l717-8 at Boston. They had three children.

4. Nathaniel Call. Born January l7/l665.
5. Mehitabel Call. Baptized June 30/1668. She married John Rand.
6. Caleb Call.   Baptized August 2/1670.
7. Hannah Call.   Baptized April 29/1673. She married William Hurry in 1689.
8. Esther Call.   Baptized November 30/1675. She married Thomas Frothingham.

Subject 714. (391)

714 - RICHARD LOWDEN.

        The following is from "Charlestown Genealogies", page 632, by Thomas Bellows Wyman.
        Richard Lowden was born 1612 and died July 12/1700. He was styled Sergeant and was an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1638.
        He married Mary Cole, born 1618, died October 6/1683. His Will left to his son James, his house on two acres of land, and 21.125 acres of other land. To daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, 5 acres: to Mary, 1.5 acres; to Martha and Sarah, 3.5 acres each. The inventory of his estate was £38l.0.0.
Issue:-
1. John Lowden.    Born March 10/1641, died April 4/1678. He married on

May 29/1662, Sarah Stevenson and had five children by her: she married, 2nd, in 1679, Jams Kibbe. John left her an estate of £150.

2. Jeremie Lowden. Born August 1/1643, died December 7/1643.
3. Mary Lowden. Born December 24/1644. She married Peter Frothingham.
4. James Lowden. Born 1647, died January 6/1740. He married on October

22/1679, Mary Bunker who died October 29/1706 and had three children.

5. Samuel Lowden. Born 1649, died September 1682.
6. Hannah Lowden. Married John Orris.
7. Elizabeth Lowden. Born September 23/1656. Married Michael Willis.
8. Martha Lowden. Born February 6/1659. She married John Call, born January

1658, died May 4/1713. See subject 356 for issue and further particulars.

9. Sarah Lowden. She married in 1683, A. McQuedy.

Subject 716. (392)

716 - THOMAS BRIGDEN.

        The following is from "Charlestown Genealogies" by Thomas Bellows Lyman (1879).
         Thomas Brigden was born in England about l633, died April 25/1683. He had care of the great guns of the battery (in Boston harbour) in 1654. He left an estate inventoried at £137.0.O. He lived in Charlestown, Mass. where he died.
        He married Mildred Carthrick, born 1630, daughter of Michael and Sarah Carthrick, who came from London in 1635 on the ship "Elizabeth and Ann", with Mildred, then 5, who was admitted to the church on May 29/1660, and died July 1726, aged 96.
Issue :-
1. Thomas Brigden, Baptized with others in 1660.

He was a Mariner and married Anna -- and lived at St Paul's Parish, Shadwell[xvi], London, England.

2. Sarah Brigden. Born January 3/1655-6.
3. Zachariah Brigden. Born June 8/1658. He was a Mariner.
4. John Brigden. Baptized July 29/1661. He married Sarah Barrett on

August 15/1684, died 1670. They had three children.

5. Michael Brigden. Baptized June 2/1664, died June 12/1709.

He married Joanna Wilson. See subject 358 for issue and further particulars.

6. Nathaniel Brigden. Born October 30/1666.
7. Timothy Brigden. Born October 18/1670.
8. Elias Brigden. Born January 24/1672.

He married in 1697, Mary, daughter of Thomas & Mary (Nash) Hale.

Subject 718 (393)

718 - EDWARD WILSON.

         The following is from "Charlestown Genealogies", by Thomas Bellows Wyman, Vol 2, p 1037.
         Edward Wilson was styled Sergant. No data as to where be came from, nor date of birth: he died about 1705.
         He married on November 6/1656, 1st, Mary Hale, born 1640, died April 13/1696. 2nd, on November 5/1696, Rebecca Lord, born 1633.
Issue:- (by his first wife)
1. William Wilson. Bapt June 5/1660. He married, 1st, on May 1/1679,

Remember Ward who died January 6/1684 and had two children by her. 2nd, on August 1/1685, Mary Pearse, and had one child by her.

2. Mary Wilson. Bapt May 20/1662. She married Samuel Marion.
3. John Wilson. Bapt November 2/1664. He married, 1st, Abigail ---:

2nd, Sarah ---.

4.Joanna Wilson. Bapt April 20/1667. She married on January 11/1787-8

Michael Brigden, baptized June 2/1664, died June 12/1709. Joanna died October 19/1735. See subject 358 for issue and further particulars.

5. Katherine Wilson.Bapt November 7/1669. Married Richard Barnard.
6. Edward Wilson.   Bapt April 15/1671.
7. Samuel Wilson.   Bapt March 2/1672, died March 15/1672.
8. Elizabeth Wilson. Bapt January 27/1673, died July 24/1675.
9. Samuel Wilson. Bapt June 18/1676, died soon.
10. Elizabeth Wilson. Bapt August 28/1677. Married Nathaniel Clark.
11. Samuel Wilson.   Bapt March 6/1680, died August 8/1680.
12. Hale Wilson.     Bapt August 6/l68l, died December 15/1681.
13. Robert Wilson.   Bapt May 25/1683. No data.

Subject 724. P1. (394)

724 - ZECHARIAH SYMMES

The following is from "Charlestown Genealogies", by Thomas Bellows Wyman, Vol 2, p 927: from "The Symmes Memorial", by John Adams Vinton, 1873: and from "The American Genealogist", Vol 12, p 67, by Clarence Almon Torrey of Boston.
Zechariah was the son of the Rev. William Symmes, a truly religious man and a firm Protestant, in the reign of Bloody Queen Mary, from 1553 to 1558. William was ordained a Minister of the Gospel in 1588, at Canterbury, Kent. Zechariah was born April 5/1599, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1620. Next year he was a lecturer at St Anthony, London. Harassed by the persecution for his non conformity, he removed to Dunstable in 1625, where he lived eight years. Still annoyed by these persecutions, he decided to emigrate to America, and came to New England with his wife and seven children, and arrived at Boston on September 18/1634 by the ship "Griffin". This ship brought 200 emigrants, amongst whom were William and the famous Anne Hutchinson, and the Rev. John Lothrop. Zechariah had received Episcopal ordination in England. He was made freeman at Charlestown on May 6/1635. Not long after he became involved in the celebrated controversy with Ann Hutchinson. The town of Charlestown gave him 300 acres of land between Mystic Point and Woburn, also 300 acres in the Land of Nod, valued at £5, He continued as Pastor at Charlestown until his death on February 4/1670, aged 71. He was interred with honors by the town of Charlestown, at the town's expense. He married on August 13/1622, Sarah Baker, who died in 1676, (also given as January 28/1670.) His children born in England, wore baptized at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and the others at Charlestown, Mass. He was a wealthy man for that age and left an estate valued at £681.0.0.
Issue:-
1. Son. Born in London in 1623, died young.
2. Sarah Symmes. Born in London 1625. She married, 1st, in 1650,

the Rev. Samuel Haugh, son of Atherton Haugh, who in 1633 came from Boston, England, in the ship "Griffin", with Hooker, Stone, and Cotton, who had been Mayor there: Atherton settled in Boston, Mass. He was an adherent of Ann Hutchinson in 1637. His son Samuel was a member of the first class of Harvard, though for some reason he did not graduate. He came to Redding (now Wakefield) in 1648 and was ordained Pastor on March 26/1650. He died at his brother in law's house, Hezekiah Usher in Boston on March 30/1662, and they had three daughters and one son. She married, 2nd, on November 14/1662, the Rev. John Brock, born at Stradbrook, Suffolk, England in 1620, came to America in 1637, graduated at Harvard 1646. He preached at Rowley until 1650, and then to the fishermen at Isle of Shoals till 1662. He succeeded Samuel Haugh at Wakefield on November 13/1662, and the following day married his widow. He died June 18/1688.

3. William Symmes. Baptized at Dunstable, January 10/1626,

died September 22/1691. He married, 1st, Sarah ---, and had one daughter Sarah who married the Rev. Moses Fiske of Braintree, and died 1653. 2nd, Mary --- in 1675, and had six children by her. After his death she married, 2nd, on July 30/1695, Rev. Samuel Torrey of Weymouth, born in England in 1632, brought by his father to America in 1640, and educated at Harvard: he died April 21/1707, and Mary died in 1720. William Symmes left an estate inventoried at £792.2.2.

4. Mary Symmes. Baptized April 16/1628, died February 20/1691.

She married, as his second wife, and much younger than him, Thomas Savage of Boston. His 1st wife who he married in 1633, was Faith Hutchinson, born at Alford, Lincolnshire, August 14/1617, daughter of William and the famous Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson, who came with her father in the

Subject 724. P2 (395)

"Griffin" with the Symmes. Thomas Savage was a successful merchant and eminent citizen of Boston and Commander in Chief of the Massachusetts forces in King Philip's War. He died February 15/1681-2 and they had four children. She married, 2nd, Anthony Stoddard.

5. Elizabeth Symmes. Bapt January 1/1629. She married on November 26/1652,

Hezechiah Usher, as his second wife. He was a prominent merchant of Boston and very religious and died 1676. They had one son Zechariah who died December 26/1654.

6. Hulda Symmes. Bapt March 15/1630. She married as his second wife William

Davis, an apothecary in Boston in 1647. Their son Thomas, an inn-keeper in Boston, married Hannah, daughter of Governor John Leverett.

7. Hannah Symmes. Bapt August 22/1632, died early.
8.Rebecca Symmes. Bapt February 12/1633. Married Humphrey Booth.
9. Ruth Symmes. Bapt October 18/1635 in Charlestown.

She married on June 15/1668, Edward Willis.

10. Zechariah Symmes. Bapt January 9/1637. He married, 1st, on November

18/1669. Susanna Graves, born July 8/1643, died July 23/1681. For Their issue and further particulars, see subject 362. He married, 2nd, on November 26/1683, Mehitabel Palmer Dalton, born 1637, died at Bradford, March 22/1707-5.

11. Timothy Symmes. Bapt March 7/1640, died September 25/1641.
12. Deborah Symmes. Bapt August 28/1642. She married on December 13/1654,

as his second wife, Timothy Prout.

15.Timothy Symmes. Born 1643, died of smallpox July 4/1678.

He married, 1st, on December 10/1668, Mary Nichols, who died soon after the birth of her first child. 2nd, on May 12/1688, Captain Ephraim Savage, and had three children by him.

Subject 726. (396)

726 - THOMAS GRAVES.

        The following is from "Charlestown Genealogies", Vol 1, p 432, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, and also from the "Symmes Memorial" by John Adams Vinton: also from Sewall's History of Woburn, p 69, and "Frothinghams History of Charlestown" p 139. Also from "Notes on the Ancestry and Connections of Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves" by Eben Putnam, all on file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston.
        Thomas Graves was born June 16/1605 at Stepney, London, and died July 31/1653. He was a sea faring man and Master of the ship "Whale", "Elizabeth Bonadventure", "James", and "Trial", that plied between England and New England between 1629 and 1635 inclusive. He at length settled at Charlestown, between that place and Woburn, but becoming discontented, he returned to the seafaring life. For good conduct in capturing, though on a merchant ship, a Dutch Privateer in the English Channel, he was put in command of a ship-of-war, and was made a Rear-Admiral by Cromwell. His Will left to his daughter Rebecca £5, and to her children £3. To his son John, his house in Limehouse near Dicks Shoar, he to pay his mother £33 1/3rd, and to pay £56 2/3rds to be divided between his brothers Thomas, Nathaniel and Joseph and his sister Susanna. To Thomas, after his mother's decease, my dwelling house and orchard, Thomas to pay Rebecca, Nathaniel, Susanna and Joseph £10 each. His estate was inventoried at £225.15.0. (Also given as £1054).
        He married Katharine Gray, daughter of Thomas & Katharine (Miles) Gray. She married, 2nd, Thomas Cotymore of Charlestown. Katharine was born 1604-5 and died December 21/1681. Thomas had a grant of land from the town of 250 acres at Land-of-Nod (Wilmington) in 1643. He also owned 1/16th strip in Trades Increase, and a house at Ham England.
Issue:-
1. Rebecca Graves.   Married Samuel Adams.
2. John Graves.     Lived at Ham, England.
3. Thomas Graves.   Graduated at Harvard in 1656. He was a Tutor, Physician and

Judge. He married, 1st, on May 16/1677, Elizabeth Chickering, born 1635, died July 22/1679. 2nd, on March 15/1683, Sarah Alcock, died May 31/1697.

4. Nathaniel Graves. Bapt September 5/1639.
5. Susanna Graves. Born May 8/1643, died July 23/1681.

She married on November 18/1669, as his first wife, Zechariah Symmes, born January 9/1637. See subject 362 for issue and further particulars.

6. Joseph Graves. Born February 13/1645. Was of Sudbury, Mass.

Subject 732. (397)

732 - JOHN BENJAMIN.

         The following is from the "Genealogies or Watertown", by Henry Bond, page 26: also from "The Eddy Family in America", by Ruth Story Devereux Eddy. Boston (1930): also from "The Genealogy of Lieut Samuel Benjamin", by Mary Louise Benjamin, (1900).
         John Benjamin was born about 1598, probably in Herefordshire, where his family had a Coat-of-Arms. It is claimed that John, after graduating at Cambridge University in England, became intimate with John Winthrop, later Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and that this friendship led to John coming to America. He came in the ship "Lion", which arrived in Boston September 16/1632, with his wife and several children. He was made a freeman of Watertown on November 6/1632. He had brought from England a fine library. He was a proprietor in Cambridge Mass, and perhaps first settled there: if so, for only a short time as his goods and house to the value of £100, were burned in Watertown on April 7/1636. In 1635 he was made one of the Surveyors of the Lands. In 1637 he bought 60 acres of land and built a fine house, which was unsurpassed in elegance and comfort. He died June 14/1645 and left an estate of £297.3.2.
         He married, probably in 1619 in England, Abigail Eddy of Cranbrooke, Kent, daughter of the Rev William and Mary (Fosten) Eddye, baptized October 1601, died May 20/1687 at Charlestown, Mass. His Will mentions his eldest son John and seven other children. His widow Abigail went with her son-in-law Joshua Stubbs to Charlestown in 1654, where she died at the age of 87 years.
Issue:-
1. John Benjamin. Born in England, bapt 1620, died December 22/1706,

aged 86 years. He married Lydia Allen who died in 1709: they had eight children and remained near Boston all their lives.

2. Abigail Benjamin. Born in England about 1624. She married, 1st, about 1640,

Joshua Stubbs of Watertown and had three children, and moved to Charlestown in 1654 where Joshua died: she married, 2nd, John Woodward.

3. Samuel Benjamin. Born in England 1628, died 1669 in Hartford, Conn.

His wife was named Mary and he had a daughter Mary born May 12/1666, and a daughter Abigail.

4. Mary Benjamin. Born in England in 1630, died April or May 10/1646.
5. Joseph Benjamin. Born in Watertown September 15/1633, died at New London

in 1704. He married, 1st, at Barnstable on June 10/1661, Jemima Lambert who died before March 23/1662: he married, 2nd, at Yarmouth, Sarah Clark and had nine children by her. He had one child by Jemima Lambert.

6. Joshua Benjamin. Born about 1642, died May 6/1684 at Charlestown,

leaving a widow named Thankful.

7. Caleb Benjamin. Settled at Wethersfield, Conn, and died May 8/1684,

leaving his wife Mary or Dorothy Hale and six children.

8. Abel Benjamin. Of Charlestown. He married on November 6/1671, Amithy

(Amathea) Myrick (Merrick), who died May 10/1713, who came from Windsor, Conn. See subject 366 for issue and further particulars.

Subject 734. (398) 10/31/48

734 - JOHN MIRICK.

         The following is from Charlestown Genealogies, Vol 2, p 676, by Thomas Bellows Wyman: and from The Thayer Genealogy, by Ruth Thayer Haverscroft, Colorado Springs 1943-7.
         John Mirick was born at St. Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1614, and died at Charlestown, Mass., February 15/1678-9. He was a cooper and block maker by trade, and had his own shop on the waterfront of Charlestown, when he was an inhabitant on December 14/1641-2.
         He married, 1st, at Charlestown, in 1641, Hopestill ---, born in England in 1619. He married, 2nd, at Cambridge, Mass., on April 3/1655, Elizabeth Wyborne, born at Scituate, Mass., daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wyborne of Tenterden, Kent, England, who both came to America. His estate was inventoried at £59.
Issue:- (by his first wife Hopestill --)
1. Amathia Mirick Born 1641, died May 10/l713. She married on November,

Abel Benjamin, who died in l7l0. See subject 366 for issue and further particulars.

2. Hopestill Mirick. Born December 20/1642. She married Richard Rosmorgan.
3. Benjamin Mirick. Born April 22/1644. He was a tailor in 1678 and a mariner

in 1701. He married, 1st, Sarah Orten, who died February 14/1690 of small pox: they had four children. He married, 2nd, prior to 1694, Elizabeth Wyer, and had two children by her.

4. Hannah Mirick. She married in 1672, John Walker.

Issue:- (by his second wife Elizabeth Wyborne)
5. John Mirick. Born at Charlestown in 1655.

He married in 1682, Elizabeth Trowbridge.

6. Sarah Mirick. Born May 1/1657. She married Thomas Chapman.
7. Mercy Mirick. Born December 30/1658. She married John Mousell.
8. Abigail Mirick. Born December 17/1660.

She married Joseph Allen of Sudbury, Mass.

9. Mary Mirick. She married Mr. Davoy.
10. Joseph Mirick. He married Sarah ---.
11. James Mirick. died young.
12. Deborah Mirick. No data.

[2] AM 1996: found at Leamington Buried 13/4/1830 age 78

[3] Mar Licence 30/6/1794 to Mary Scott Jackson, She m 1^st as Mary Keating, Thomas Scott Jackson, 16/8/1770, London – AM 8/2020.

[4] Obit DOUGLAS LEFFINGWELL The_Bangor_Daily_News_1942_(10/2025)

BAR HARBOR, Dec. 11—News has been received of the death of Douglas Leffingwell at the Hotel Bristol in New Haven, Conn. Mr. Leffingwell was the son of the late Rev. and Mrs. Alsop Leffingwell, and had been a summer resident of Bar Harbor practically all of his life. He is survived by two sisters. Miss Alice and Mary Leffingwell, and a brother, Rev. Alsop Leffingwell.

[5] This does not agree with Dr William’s account: he saw her in Nov 1817 in Dublin.

[6] From: JoseMunoz2546, (via Ancestry.com).
Subject: Asa Nash - his father's Obit
Asa Nash: died Saturday 25 Jan 1890
in 1860 he and his brother W. P. Nash teamed up with Austin Brewster and entered the lumber business on Central Wharf, Name of firm was: Nash Brewster & Co. it was prominent for twenty (20) years. In 1880 he was the sole survivor and he retired from business.
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/61778313/family

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford Weekly Times, Jan 30, 1890, Thursday