Notebook - Mom's Families No. 2

Boles, Harold & David Boles. Some Earlier Americans Boles-Linton Ancestors, Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Co., 1986.

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#144 - William Linton b. ca. 1727? Prince Georges Co., (?) MD, d. 22 May 1801, md. Mary (--?--) ca. 1757?

#288 - William Linton b. 1701 Queen Anne Parish, Prince Georges Co., MD, d. before 1775 Frederick Co. (?) MD  md. Elizabeth Riddle b. ca. 1704? MD? d. 19 Aug. 1745 Frederick Co. (?) MD.  Elizabeth daughter of John & Elenor (--?--) Riddle. Named in her father's will 19 Aug. 1745.

#576 - William Linton b. ca. 1670?, d. 1731 md. Elizabeth (--?--) b. 1675?, d. 1731

Children: Rebecca, William, George, 3 unnamed, James, Samuel, John, Mary

Did William move to Frederick County or was he already living in that area prior to the creation of the county in 1748.

#1152 - John Linton b. ca. 1632?, probate 1693

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Extracts from Colclasure File held at the Clay County Genealogical Society, Louisville, Illinois

Typescript Some Odds & Ends of Historical Data from the Atlas of Illinois 1876

Aaron Hardin i& Silas Hollowel Hord came from Indiana.

In the history of Wayne & Clay Counties written by John Morris and published by Chicago Globe Publishing CO., Hisotrical Publishers. Part II, page 314 are found names of some early settlers or their descendants.

We find the name of W.L. Colclasure who was 62 years old at the time.

When they were digging for coal and ----- north of Xenia, Jacob Spiker's name is mentioned on page 295.

Jacob Colclasure was on the grand jury in 1827. Tere Crutchfield was appointed to act as County Treasurer in 1828.

Page 328: We find John Crutchfield married Ellen Colclasure in the early 1830s. She was staying with her uncle WIlliam Lewis at the time, and when this book was published in 1884 William Lewis was 74 years old.  Note to the side that Wm. Lewis died in 1844. He was mentioned a number of times. At one time he was granted a tavern license. He came to Clay County in 1818. He with several others went on Darrial Mays bond for the 20 acres for the seat of justice for the county.  He was one of the first commissioners of court for the new county in 1824. Lewis was Squire 1826-27 and officiated at many weddings..

[1. William Lincoln Lewis b. 1861, d. 1931 s/o 2-3) Jacob Warren Lewis 1832-1902 & Mildred Ellen Arnold s/o 4-5) William Harrison Lewis 1784-1844 & Susan Elizabeth Colclasure 1792-1854.  Susan (Colclasure) Lewis was Martha Ellen (Colclasure) Crutchfield's aunt.]

Jacob Colclasure was on the jury list for October term of circuit court in 1828. John Colclausre served on the jury in April 1839. Jacob Colclasure served on the May grand jury in 1845. Clay county was created by an act of the Legislature December 23, 1824.

On March 8, 1825 in the home of John McCawley on the Little Wabash River assembled the first county commissioners court for the new county of Clay. Present were John H. Lacey, William Lewis. The first paper ever put on the court record the appointing of a clerk was signed by William Lewis as one of the three commissioners.

Steven Hardin was sheriff in 1852.

Quote: The people of Clay County were by nature more or less beligerent. The majority of the men wore the Irishman's long tailed coats, which they were always politely asking, often begging someone to please tread on, looking for trouble.

In the 1820s entries of the public lands were quite rapid and in a partial list appears the name of Abraham Colclasure on Section 8 in 1838, and Jacob Colclasure in section 17.

At the first town meeting after the adoption of township organization Isaac Jacobs and J.L. Colclasure were elected as commissioners of high ways in 1862.

Samuel Slocums won a span of fine black mares with silver mounted harness, a bugg and $500 in cash from William Lewis on a presidential election bet.

An unsuccessful enterprise was started in 1856 by G.S. Wooden and John Colclasure and N.L. Martin who built a steam saw and grist mill 2 1/2 miles north of Louisville on the Little Wabash River which they operated for two years but it did  not prove a success and was sold and moved away.

William Lewis Colclasure was supervisor of Oskaloosa township at one time in the early days.

William Lewis came to Clay county from Indiana and formerly from North Carolina in 1818. He settled on the old St. Louis trail where he had an inn and served as Justice of the Peace. He later moved to Bible Grove Township near what was then called Georgetown. In 1836 he entered land in section 31 Blair township. His last wife was Susan Colclasure. She died March 5, 1854 and was the mother of 7 boys and a girl. The Lewis family is one of the best known in the county though some say that some of the Lewis' were more notorious than noted.  There were several brothers but we can say of William while living in this township, he was a respected man, smart though uneducated.  He lived a number of years near Xenia on the old Davenport place. William Lewis died November 24, 1844 and he is buried on the farm he entered as is his wife.

The town of Louisville is named for the Lewis family and a mistake in spelling was made by the man who platted it.

In 1828 two brothers Jacob and John Colclasure from Indiana came and settled in section 26 where some of their descendants still live. Their father, Abraham Colclasure came a few years later, and settled in the same neighborhood to which he proved a valuable annex. He was one of the most industrious and enterprising of the then sparsely settled county. He died about 1858.

Edmund Golden settled in the east part of the township about the same date as did the Colclasures. Sons were Wesley and Thomas.

Where the first school house in the Songer township was located and first teacher was never definitely determined, but the best information definitely determined, but the best information points to the Colclasure settlement as the location of the first school.  William L. Colclasure told his children of attending school with benches for seats in shade of trees near Oak Mound.

History of Colclasures Who Came to America - [I've left the dates off b/c they are really off, but something to look into]

Gen. 1  David Colclasure married Cynthia (--?--) came to Orange County, Indiana near French Lick from Pennsylvania.

Children:

• John md. (--?--) Beck
• Abraham  died at age 94
• Elizabeth md. (--?--) Blanchard
• Catherine md. (--?--) Kyte
• Rebecca md. (--?--) Stewart
• David Jr. md. (--?--) Foultz
• Jacob md. (--?--) Kyte
• Lewis md. (--?--) Hauger

History of Illinois Families

This is an incomplete record of the Colclasure family who moved from Orange County, Indiana to Clay County, Illinois in the early 1800s. Abraham and his wife were the oldest. They had four children: John, Jacob, Ellen and Susan. John and Jacob built their homes in Songer township along the old Louisville Trail which angled several miles to the northeast toward Louisville.  The father's home [Abraham] was  between the homes of his two sons.

Abraham Colclasure's home was about two miles from Xenia. It was later owned by Isaac Jones, and still later by one of Abraham's great grandsons, John E. Colclcasure. The home of John the older son and his wife, Rachel, was west and south about 1/4 mile from his father's farm, and it stood off the old trail on the top of a ridge. This farm was later owned by Wayne Dewhirst.

The home of the second son, Jacob and his wife, Polly, was further up the old trail. The Colclasure or Oak Mound cemetery was located on part of his farm and later the Oak Mound church was built on one corner.

Ellen married John Hardin; they lived in Washington County, Indiana; Effingham County, Illinois; and finally settled in Bible Grove Township, Clay County, Illinois.

Susan married William Lewis. They lived near Xenia and later moved to Bible Grove township.

Abraham Colclasure's second son Jacob and his wife Polly (Trinkle) Colclasure with their direct descendants including the fourth generation:

Abby md. Isaac Jacobs - James, Charles, William, John, Eliza, Emma, Jane, Katherine, Adeline, Elizabeth, Susan

Betty md. Thomas Golden - Steven, Jane, Susan, Betty, Ellen

Abraham Austin md. 1) Catherine Bryant & 2) Lucretia Auspach - Polly, Lucy, Levi, James, Andrew, Peter, Letita, Sarah

Mary Ellen md. Elias Golden - John, Steven, Bettie, Charlotte, Adeline

Betty md. Thomas Golden - Steven, Jane, Susan, Betty, Ellen

John md. (--?--) - Cynthia, Isabel, David

Caroline md. Henry Trinkle - Perry

William md. Arabelle Dean - J. Perry, Richard, John E., Sarah, Arminta, Mary Vina, Arthur, William, Ernst, Minnie, Clinton

Richard md. 1) Sara Prater & 2) Liza Sefton - Sally, Adeline, Julia, Edward, Lottie

Jacob md. America Auspach - Ida, Elmer

Rachel md. 1) Andy Dennen & 2) Jacob Spiker - Richard, John William, Joseph, Clara, Angeline, Otto

Jane md. John Spiker - Adeline, Steven, Mary, John

Baby, died in infancy.  Was a triplet with Rachel and Jane.

Steven md. Susan Auspach - Edward, Erasmus, America, Maud, Frances, Dolly

Abraham & Abigail (Dennen) Colclasure's oldest son John and his wife Rachel (Galbraith) Colclasure children:

Ellen md. John Scrutchfield - Polly, Nancy, John, Terry, Martha, Elizabeth, James, William

Abraham md. Katherine Galbraith - Elizabeth, Nancy, John, Louisa, Jacob, Emilie, William, Richard, Robert, Abraham, Anna, Ellen, Katherine, Perry, Henry

Jacob md. Exline Bryan - Caroline, Warren, Doc Green, Matilda, Rachel, Sara Jane, Exline, Dudley, Morgan

William md. 1) Harriet Spker, 2) Ellen King - Martha, Perry, Rayford, Arthur, Clara, Viola, Clyde, Floyd

John died in infancy

Joseph md. Selina Spiker - Albert, Lydia, Mary , Perry Crawford

Susan died as a young girl

Nancy md. Christopher Trinkle - Ellen, Anna, William, Rebecca, Robert

John md. Rachel Jones - Florence Adell, Jay, Clara Belle

Robert md. Adeline Tracy - Marion, James M., Wilford, Lafayette

Warren md. Sarah Spiker - Angeline, Marion, John Frank, Jefferson, Frances, Harriet Jane

Jane md. Joseph Cramer - no children

Colclasure History of Illinois

The Kolckglaser, Kolklazier, Colglaser, Colclesser Colacher, Colclasure and Colclasure family. The name was spelled in days of old also in later times as it sounded to the different individuals. Abraham Colclasure who headed the settlement in CLay County Ill. adopted the simplified spelling of Colclasure.

The following was taken from notes of Mrs. D.C. Atkinson and this as well as the entire history is to date incomplete and subject to corrections.

The earliest record is of one Johan Henrich Kolckglasser and his wife Margaretha with their three married sons and one underage and unmarried daughter who came to the United States in the early 1700's. The Children of Johann Henrich and Margaretha Kolckglasser were:

1. Christopher, his wife Maria
2. Emanuel, his wife Catherine
3. Jacob, his wife's name not given but a son of his John lived with his grandparents in both Germantown and Epherata Penn.
4. Agnes, unmarried daughter.

They came to the United States originally from Germany on Mach's Refuge Ship declared at Philadelphia, Penn. in Sept. 1729. However there were others of the same name who came over on the Good Ship Allen with James Cragie as master. It, the Good Ship Allen set sail in July 1729 and was qualified Sept. 15, 1729 at Philadelphia Court house.

Johann Henrich Kolckglasser was a member of the Brethern Church in Germany, Schwartzeman congregation where the church had 21 eventful years. They then found temporary refuge in Prussia, Switzerland and Holland. They were stranded in Holland for awhile after leaving Germany, Frankenthal. Johann was called to the ministry in 1715.  His birth mentioned as in 1696 was perhaps his spiritual birth, since he is referred to in a religious history in Penn. as being a very old man. The elderly Johann Henrich Kolckglasser who had married and buried so many in Germany continued his eldership in Germantown, Penn. until after the establishment in 1732 of a Protestant Cloister of Monastery of the 7th day Baptist in Epherata Penn. (the only one of its kind). Then he with his wife Margaretha, their daughter Agnes and grandson John moved to Epherata and in 1739 he became a resident of the Cloister and was given the name of brother Joel. His wife and daughter Agnes lived in a house outside the gate or in what was the women's section and there they entertained visiting celebrities and their families. From a religious history of Penn. quote "Agnes who was loved in the women's division of the Cloister with her mother proved an excellent hostess to Cloister guests.  Brother Joel died in 1748 and his wife Margaretha in 1758. The grandson John, who had lived with his grandparents in both Germantown and Ephratha Penn. contested his grandfathers will, which was in favor of the Cloister. The will was written in German and chiefly looms and brass kettles were listed. Brother Joel was a weaver by trade. There was also one Abraham Kolckglasser who came from Germany and was listed as being single and a member of the Mother congregation of the Brethern.  He may have been on of those who came over on the Good Ship Allen in 1729.

In the Pennsylvania Archives, vol. 22, pages 410 to 499 are listed Kolglaziers. In 1786 one Abraham paid taxes on 150 acres of land, 4 horses, 6 cattle and 10 sheep. There was one John Kolglazier's will dated Mar. 29, 1790, Westmoreland, Penn. with his wife Mary and brother Abraham appointed executors.

His children were listed as:

1. Daniel
2. Abraham
3. Jacob
4. Danbios
5. Susan
6. Mary

There were members of the family who came to Northwest territory from Penn. some via ohio through the wilderness, some down the river by boat and others came from Maryland, perhaps via Kentucky and settled in what later was made Orange county and Washington county Indiana. After it was made a state. Some may have arrived as early as 1810. Indiana a portion of the northwest territory at that time was not made a state until 1816. We know all the families were related but do not have the documentary proof of how.

In the 1790 census of Frederick county Maryland a Daniel Colclazier is listed as the father of 14 children. There were Colclazier families listed in the early days in several counties in Kentucky, Henry county, Shelby, Hardin, Montgomery,Bath and Bracken counties. In 1826 & 29 and 30 one John Colclazier was a member of the House of Representatives from Bracken County and in 1810 census one Abraham and John Colclazier are listed as heads of families. This could have been our Abraham.

Abraham's children are all listed as being born in Ky. and the daughter Ellen is listed as being born in Hardin County, Ky. With the son John and Rachel Galbraith listed as being married in Ky. in 1814. In Bath County, Ky. one Jacob Colclazier married Elizabeth Carrell June 16, 1819. Also Elizabeth Colclazier married James Smallwood in 1820, her father was a David Colclazier.

John Colclasure, the oldest was born Jan. 6, 1791 and died Jan. 19, 1853 or 8. He married Rachel Galbraith of Scotch descent about 1814 in Ky. She was born in Penn. She was a Methodist by faith and was perhaps related to Rev. R.C. Galbraith who was an early preacher of the Presbyterian faith in Clay Co. (The motto on the Galbraith coat of arms or crest means "stronger by opposition" and tradition says the motto seems never to have been forgotten by the Galbraiths). Their home may have been about a mile and a half north east of Xenia about 20 rods west of the main road on a small ridge or raise, it was not high or steep enough to be called a hill.  On page 231 in history of Shelby co., KY a Daniel Colclazier married Mary Galbraith Jan. 16, 1798 and a Sam'l Kullbrath married Polly Colclazier.

A List of Passengers Imported in the Ship Allen from Rotterdam, James Craiges, Master, Septemr 11th, 1729 . . . includes:

• John Hendrick Kalklieser
• Jacob Kalklieser
• Emanuell Kalklieser
• Christopher Kalklieser

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Conover, Mrs. W.S. & Mrs. L.F. Ison. History of the Goodnight Family in America, typescript, Mercer County Public Library, Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

Published in the Harrodsburg Herald, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Jan. 18, 1973.

The surnames Gulknecht (high German form) and Gudknecht (low German form), eventually Americanized into Goodnight, originated in Germany.  Knecht in German means servant; or, in medieval days when knighthood was on the wane, it meant a foot soldier as contrasted with the mounted knight.

In 1707 an exodus from Germany, particularly from the southern German States, began after the war of the Spanish Succession had devastated the Palatinate. By October 1709, thirteen thousand destitute German emigrants congregated in London. Many of them became settles in English colonies in America. Later, William Penn invited oppressed Germans still in the homeland to come to his new colony. Thus a tremendous immigration began, and 1775, there were 225,000 Germans in the Colonies.

The brothers, Hans Michael and George Goodnight, were two of these Palatinates, as they came to be called.  In 1752, John Michael Goodnight (his English name) came to America, landing in Pennsylvania. His brother, George, came to America two years later in 1754. The brothers, Michael and George, later moved to Virginia, then to North Carolina, and finally, in the summer of 1777 or 1778 to pioneer Kentucky. Both Michael and George Goodnight met the same misfortune in Kentucky. In 1780, at Ruddell's Station, George Goodnight was killed by Indians and his family taken into captivity. In 1781, near Harrodsburg, Michael Goodnight was killed by Indians.

This sketch contains the true story of John Michael Goodnight and his descendants which can be verified with documentation. It also encompasses many of the legends, folk lore and traditions, however, some of which are at variance with factual recorded history.

After Michael Goodnight's first wife died, he was married a second time to Mary Landers on Feb. 9, 1762, probably in Virginia.  Soon after the marriage they removed to North Carolina where Michael became a landowner. Later, Michael sold his North Carolina land and came to Kentucky in 1777 or 1778. Before the Virginia Land Commissioners, Michael Goodnight claimed a settlement of 400 acres of land in Kentucky by right "of actual settlement in February 1779." The actual settlement in 1779 indicated that he made some kind of improvement on his 400 acres - probably a cabin. The land was located at the mouth of Doctor's Fork of Chaplin, near Perryville, in the present county of Boyle. It is assumed that Michael lived first at Harlan's Station, which was close to his 400 acres.

The family version of the removal to Kentucky and the killing of Michael Goodnight by Indians is told in this manner: "After locating and building a cabin at Harlan's Station in what later became Mercer County, Michael Goodnight returned to North Carolina and then set out again to Kentucky in July 1781, with his family and household affects. They were a party of a caravan composed of other pioneer families, who were guarded by 30 armed men. No serious mishap befell the emigrant train until it arrived within half a day's journey of Harlan's Station, where camp was pitched for the night. All was secure but at midnight the fearful cry of the savage was heard, followed by gun shots, screams and confusion. Michael Goodnight was killed in the first onslaught and his son, John, was severely wounded, but he succeded in making his escape. Mrs. Goodnight was expecting another child at the time. She fled into the dark forest. Many of the emigrants were massacred, but a few escaped to the station where the alarm was given. A party was made up to search for Mrs. Goodnight and she was found two days later in the woods lying prostrate on the ground in a semi-conscious state, her face covered with a blanket. She was taken to Harlan's Station, where four months later, January 1, 1782, a son, Isaac Goodnight was born.  A curious circumstance, preserved in the family traditions, is that from his birth until the day of his death Isaac could never go to sleep without covering his face."

A family letter written in 1883 gives this account: "Michael and his son John, went back after some of their goods which they had to pack on horses for want of roads. The Indians came upon them at their camp fire, killing the father. They shot the son, the arrow entered one side and came out at the other.  Surprising in that condition he made his way to the horses, and the next day to the white settlement. "

Michael Goodnight was described by a great-grandson, having heard from his uncles, that Michael was "energetic, industrious, economical and prosperous, with the greatest contempt for the shiftless person. He was buried in the forest where he fell, within half-day's journey to Harlan's Station."

The long cherished belief in the family that Isaac was the first white male child born in Kentucky was, of course, false. Michael was not killed until 1781, and Isaac was a posthumous child, born January 1, 1782. Isaac, however, believed all his life that he had that distinction.

Another well-beloved statement in the family was that Michael Goodnight was 91 years old at the time of his death and the father of 24 children, 14 by his first wife and 10 by the second. It seems unlikely that a man in his eighties would migrate into a region of such danger. There is no reliable information to substantiate the number of children born to Michael Goodnight. Nine children born to Michael Goodnight and Mary Landers, however, can be identified. Of the 14 children alleged to have been born of the first marriage, only one, a son, Christian Goodnight of North Carolina, can be identified. Michael Goodnight's estate was not settled finally until March 26, 1788, when his widow, Mary Flanagan (she had married Flanagan prior to March 1788) acted as administrator.

Their children remained on the family homestead with their mother, near the present town of Perryville, until each of the daughters married and the sons left to make homes of their own. Mary Goodnight Flanagan (Michael's widow), John Goodnight, Henry Goodnight and Abraham Goodnight are each listed on the early tax lists of Mercer County.

The known children of Michael Goodnight were:

1. Christian Goodnight, by his first wife. On march 25, 1794, thirteen years after the death of Michael, Christian and Caterinah, his wife, of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, deeded to Jacob Goodnight his interest in 167 acres, part of Michael's survey in Mercer County on Chaplin's Fork. The deed is recorded in Mercer County.

Children by Mary Landers:

1. Margaret Goodnight, eldest child, born in North Carolina. Married Henry Pope, June 24, 1782, Lincoln County, Kentucky
2. Elizabeth Goodnight, married Patrick Doran on January 29, 1783 Lincoln County, Ky.
3. John Goodnight born May 1, 1765 in North Carolina, married Ruth Davis, December 25, 1786 Mercer County, Ky. She was the daughter of Edward and Mary Davis of Mercer County. John and Ruth Goodnight remained for the rest of their lives upon a farm which embraced a portion of Michael's original survey, between Harrodsburg and Perryville. In 1794, he bought from his brother Abraham and the guardians of George Silvertooth's orphans, 207 1/2 acres. In 1798, he bought from David Hart, 119 acres and 44 acres "adjoining former holdings" from Philip Board in 1806. John Goodnight died in 1841. His wife Ruth, died in 1850. Their old home still stands on the bank of the creek (1935).
4. Jacob Goodnight, born in North Carolina, 1767, married Elizabeth Hoover, March 15, 1792 . He lived near Stanford, Lincoln Co., Ky., where he owned land on Hanging Fork. In 1796 he and wife Elizabeth, sold their Mercer Co. lands to Charles Hart and made Lincoln Co. their permanent home. Jacob died Feb. 19, 1843. Elizabeth died 1820.
5. Henry Goodnight married Elizabeth (--?--). Henry received 147 acres of Michael's land and is taxed in Mercer Co. Ky. in the years 1794, 1795 and 1796. One source indicates that his family lived in Tennessee on Duck Fork. 
6. Abraham Goodnight, born in North Carolina in 1776, married Mary Hanna on January 23, 1794 in Lincoln Co., Ky. Owned land near Simpsonville in Shelby Co. Ky. which he bought Feb. 10, 1806 and there he remained. He was one of the Trustees of the town of Simpsonville when it was established in 1816.
7. Rachel Goodnight, born North Carolina, married Jacob Young on Dec. 11, 1792 in Mercer Co. Ky. - our grandparents.
8. Sarah Goodnight born North Carolina. Married Peter Boucher on may 26, 1795 in Mercer Co., Ky. Her brother Abraham, certified that the bride was over 21 years of age which leads one to believe that her mother, Mary Goodnight Flanagan was dead by May 26, 1795.
9. Isaac Goodnight, born posthumously January 1, 1782, at Harlan's Station, a few miles south west of Harrodsburg, Ky. He married Elizabeth McMurry in 1805, Mercer Co., Ky. and removed soon after to Allen Co. in southern Ky. He married four times and was the father of 15 children. Many of his descendants still reside near Smiths Grove, Ky. Isaac died in 1869.

This clipping from the Harrodsburg Herald, April 1902, "Grandmother Goodnight, aged 108, and the oldest woman in this section of the State, died at her home near Perryville the other day. She was never sick until the recent illness which resulted in ther death. She had 20 children, 75 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren. She had been an inveterate smoker for 85 years and took a 'whiff' at her old cob pipe, which she had used for 30 years, just a few hours prior to her demise."

This Grandmother Goodnight is thought to be John Goodnight's wife.

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Fitzgerald, Harold. Our Family Tree, Who We Are & Who We Came From, May 1990, typescript housed at the Clay County Genealogical Society in Louisville, IL.

In May of 1987 we traveled to Salt Lake City to try to gain more information on our research. We did find the following information on Derritt S. Fitzgerald; He married Susannah Furguson on July 15, 1818 as recorded in the Gibson County, Indiana records, Volume I of Vital Records. He married Polly Slaven March 20, 1826. Larry Hudgins says that Mary (Polly) was a Stover, but according to the records from Gibson County it was Slaven. Also taken freom Gibson County records was the fact that the spelling of Fitzgerald was Fitzjerald. We also read that early settles of Gibson County were Slavens.

The Fitzgerald Pedigree Chart (Ours)

• DeWitt S. Fitzgerald - born 1802 Kentucky
• Polly (--?--) Fitzgerald born 1807 Indiana

• William H. Fitzgerald born 1836 Indiana, died November 1912
• Emily (Smith) Fitzgerald born October 9, 1838 Ohio, died March 23, 1925, Illinois, married Sept. 17, 1856

• Madison Lafayette Fitzgerald born Jun 15, 1869, Illlinois, died February 2, 1930 Illinois.
• Lillian May Halberstadt born June 25, 1873 Illinois, died January 26, 1958, Illinois, married October 1, 1891, Iola, Illinois

• Earl L. Fitzgerald, born February 5, 1903 Illinois, died APril 14, 1984 Illinois
• Vida Lavina (Land) Fitzgerald born June 15, 1909 Illinois, died September 9, 1925 Illinois married October 6, 1923, Vigo County, Indiana.

• Harold E. Fitzgerald born July 5, 1924, Iola, Illinois
• Irene F. (Ganster) Fitzgerald born January 12, 1926 Chicago, Illinois married November 29, 1942.

Emily (Smith) Fitzgerald obituary

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German Pioneers Helped Build St. John's Church, np, ca. 1965

Newspaper account of St. John's Church in White County, Illinois where members of the Erkman family worshiped and are buried.

St. John's United Church of Christ congregation had its beginning in 1858, when sixteen families, living in what was then "Barth Settlement," met early in February. Their purpose, to organize a congregation and build a church.

Marx Barth, Gottlieb Lichtenberger and Conrad Ziegler were elected as trustees, and served as a committee to initiate the arrangements and organize the program for the venture.

Marx Barth donated three acres of land on which the church would be built, and it has remained the site of St. john's Church. On February 19, 1858 title to this property was transferred by Marx and Ann Elizabeth Barth to the trustee of St. John's congregation.

During the spring and summer of 1858 much activity took place on the new church site. Timber was cut, logs shaped, stumps were grubbed out. While Abe Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were canvasssing Illinois and debating the depe and important social problems and political issues of the times, the hard=working men of St. John's Church were busy hewing logs and building their new church. They not only implemented the memorable words of Lincoln, "A house divided against itself cannot stand," but also an even more memorable saying of our Lord, "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that goeth forth out of the mouth of God."

In a true pioneer spirit, transmounting whatever difficulties presented themselves, they at last beheld the fruit of their labors. On October 17, 1858 they were able to dedicate their modest log church which measured twenty by thirty feet.

Rev. John Grossow came over from Mt. Vernon, Indiana on October 17 to officiate at the first service of St. John's congregation and to dedicate the church. Consequently, that date became memorable in the life of the congregation. Sixteen families constituted the group, and its legal officers were Marx Barth, Gottlieb Lichtenber and Christian Buehler.

On that day, the congregation resolved to continue to hold services as regularly as possible. The day of dedication also witnessed the baptism of four children: Eva Dorothy Lichtenberger, George Ziegler, John Albert Menke and Marie Wagner.

No designated list of charter members has been found, but among the founding fathers, according to the earliest written church records available, the following names appear: Marx Barth, Gottlieb Lichtenberger, Conrad Ziegler, Hermann Menke, John Wagner, Carl Koch, Henry Becker, Christian Buehler, Christopher Wageneck, Joseph Geiger, Bernhard Jacob, Ludwig Bachmann, Wilhelm Schmidt, John Jung, Johann Becker, Jacob Erkmann, Andres Kallenbach and Simon Burkhardt.

Rev. Grossow continued to serve the church until 1861. From 1861-64 Rev. F.W. Schenck supplied the congregation from Stewartsville, Indiana. For a short time in 1864, Rev. Christian Schenck supplied the church. From 1865 to 1870 the congregation had no regular pastor. In 1870 Rev. Albert Schory served for a year.

With 1871 a new phase began in the history of St. John's Church. In that year the first parsonage was built (later destroyed by fire) and Rev. V. Scheliha came as the first resident pastor.

During this early period the congregation had no official denominational connection, but as time went on it recognized the advantage of being affiliated, and part of, a larger corporate group. On October 6, 1872 it passed a resolution not to call a minister who was not or would not agree to become a member of the Evangelical Synod of the West and that the congregation should petition this Synod at its next meeting to be received as a member.

By 1881 the log church was too small for the congregation's need. On June 12, 1881 it was decided to build a new church building. The cornerstone was laid on August 21, 1881, and the building dedicated on November 27, 1881.

This church was destroyed by a tornado on March 18, 1925.

In 1893 a school house was built in which instruction was offered four days a week, six months of the year.

A Youth Fellowship with 21 Members and Ladies Aid, now known as "The Women's Guild," were organized in 1902. The original group had 36 members.

On October 4, 1908, St. John's celebrated its 50th anniversary.  Three former pastors, Edward Schweizer, Christian Mohr, P.S. Weber and Pastor Paul Press from Mt. Vernon, Indiana, together with the church's pastor Karl Roth, offiicated at these Golden Anniversary services.

The second church was constructed in 1881, but on March 18, 1825, this place of worship was destroyed by the devastating tornado which hit White County. [Tri-State Tornado, March 18, 1925]  Through some freak of nature the church clock was undamaged. It stood amid the rubble of what had been the church, and is still in use today. The bell, blown from the old church through a corner of the parsonage, is also still in use. And though the tornado destroyed almost everything, it left as if pre-arranged by God, the pews in which the congregation gathered and sat to worship Him.

Though their spirits reached a low ebb, with courage, faith and determination, they again showed their devotion to the church. Arising from the rubble, they planned a third St. John's Church in 1925.  More ground was secured east of the old site and that is where the church stands today. The cornerstone was laid on August 23, 1925, while Rev. Glen Englebrecht was pastor. It was dedicated May 16, 1926. Rev. Harry Pheiffer, who served the congregation from 1916-1919 delivered the sermon.

Today, as they did one hundred and seven years ago, the members of the congregation of St. John's Church devote much time work and love to make of God's house a temple in which to find peace and happiness.

Rev. Karl F. Kirkman has been pastor the past two years.

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Green, Thomas. Historic Families of Kentucky, Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke & Co., 1889.

McDowell Family

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King, Carl & Eileen Wasson. The Samuel & Sarah Elizabeth (Baity) Colclasure Family, 1987.

Ancestors of Samuel & Sarah Elizabeth (Baity) Colclasure

Part 1. COLCLASURE. The family name first appeared in America as Kalklieser in the ship Allen's listing of passengers in 1729, all recorded in Philadelphia as List 10-A, 10-B and 10-C, explained in more detail on the following page. From this original spelling the "Colclasure" name evolved over the first seventy five to one hundred years after going through many recorded changes such as Kalckglassr, Kalckglosser, Kalckglaser, Kalkoser, Kalkoeser, Colglazier, etc. By early 1800s the name came to be commonly known as Colclasure.

Proof has not been found that John Hendrick Kalklieser (of Ephrata, PA) is our ancestor but all evidence seems to point that he was. It is interesting to note that in "Songer Saga - The Legend and Lore of Clay County, Illinois," Part I by Dean Love, 1973 we find "I find the  advent of Colclasures into the country goes back as far as Mach's Refugee Ship in 1729 and Johann Henrich Kolckglasser from Germany."

Our first known Colclasure ancestor, John Kalkloeser/Colglazier, migrated into Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (southwestern part of the state). His wife was Mary (--?--) (probably DuBois) and the spelling of the name to Colglazier seems to have occurred after their marriage. Since their son, David is recorded as having been born in Maryland, the family must have resided there before going to Pennsylvania. There is more known information about David than any of his brothers or sisters. He was a Lieutenant in the American Revolution.

"Old Settlers who claimed to know and who remembered David Colglazier have said that David and all of his family, parents and brothers and sisters moulded bullets for the soldiers of the American Revolution and remember that David's old mould was sold at auction after his death with other personal property that had belonged to him," was found in an application for membership in Children of American Revolution of Jon Wilde Colglazier, Hutchinson Co., Kansas.

On May 16, 1790 John Colglazier made and signed his will in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania naming his wife, Mary, and brother Abraham as executors. Children named Daniel, Abraham, Jacob, Susanna and Mary. Witnesses to the will were Alexander McLean, James Anderson and Peter Light.

After her husband's death Mary Colglazier moved to Kentucky with Abraham.

The brothers seemed to stick closely together after their parents deaths as they migrated to Kentucky and Indiana. David was in Clermont Co., Ohio for a while, but no evidence has been fount that his brothers were with him there.

Abraham, David and Jacob were taxed in Jefferson County, Kentucky 1797-1799 and in Henry County, Kentucky 1802-1809.

Jacob and Abraham then went to Washington Co., Indiana and settled about 1810 on Honey Creek near Fredricksburg. Shortly before Jacob's death he sold part of the land to his brothers, David and John.

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Linton, Calvin & Larry Linton. The Linton Heritage 1637-1981, no imprint, 1981.

The Maryland Line:

The story of the early Lintons in Maryland is the story of a struggle against hardships and oppression, especially economic, that lasted over a hundred years -- starting with the appearance of John and Joseph Linton about 1650 and lasting until the start of the family's migrations north and south.

There is no record that links these two adventurers - John and Joseph Linton - but their appearance in the records at about the same time in Charles County does suggest some relationship - perhaps that of brothers or cousins.

The date of entry into Maryland for Joseph Linton has not been established. The first records shown in Book A of the Charles County Court Records indicate that Joseph appeared on 12 May 1659 before the Charles County court with Robert Troop and Edmund Linsey to determine which of them had called Justice Capt. John Jenkins "Captain Grindstone," perhaps a reference to his harshness as a justice.  No action was recorded in this contempt case. The next record of Joseph, the owner of a plantation along the Potomac River, also appears in the Charles County records, soon after his death in 1660.  His will reads as follows:

In the name of God Amen. This my last will I being in good memory showeth that I Joseph Linton first commend my soul to God, my body to the earth. I give all my estate to my wife (Ursula) except my land and some cows which I give unto my child which she goeth with when the child shall come of age. If the child should die all is to return to my wife. I also desire my good friends James Lee and John Tomkinson to ake care of my wife and child. (Libra A folio 205)

It is interesting to note that Joseph signed with his mark, which is one of the most complex in these early records.

The initial conclusion upon the finding of these records was that the unborn child was possibly the William Linton, who is the first substantial link in the Maryland line which now extends into North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.  Unfortunately, this is not the case. The court records show that within a year, Ursula and two children - possibly she had been carrying twins - had died. One of the more interesting of the early court cases ensued, in which a controversy arose concerning the excessive cost of Ursula's funeral.  Mr. Francis Pope, administrator of Joseph's estate, refused to pay twelve hundred pounds of tobacco for gun powder, beer, black ribbon and a variety of other things to be used at the wake. (Ref. 2, p. 257)

Ursula's will gives James Lee's youngest son a cow and a calf, a cow to Widow Jane Tomkinson, (it appears that John Thomkinson died sometime between 1659 and 1661) and the remaining land (300 acres), goods, and chattles to Francis Pope.  Ursula's inventory includes among her personal effects "one child's blanket."

The task of establishing the identity of the progenitor of the Maryland and southern line is somewhat simplified by the above findings.  After years of research, only two other Maryland Lintons who could have been the father of William, have been uncovered.  John arrived in 1651 from London, England; and Richard arrived in 1671 - origin n ot given. It should be noted that the population in Maryland in 1680 was only 19,000 and the great majority of these people were women, children and slaves.  This increases the probability that these early Lintons were indeed the progenitors of the line that setled around Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County.

The record of John Linton's arrival is found in Early Settlers of Maryland, p. 200.

Walter Bean demandeth 400 acres of land for transporting 4 men servants into the province this present year - James Brown, James Robinson, Asbell Redd and John Linton. - 1649.

Richard Linton was one of 47 persons transported to Maryland by Captain John Lee of the County of Westmoreland, Virginia. Captain Lee received 9,350 acres for his trouble.  (Ref. Patents Libra 16, Folio 170)  Unfortunately our research has uncovered not further traces of Richard. It is very probable that he did not survive those first few years. An early account states that almost every newcomer sickened soon after arrival, and many died.

John Linton did survive. In 1694, he appeared before the Provincial Court held in the city of St. Mary, according to court records. The record is presented as follows.

Their majesties Queen mary & King William against John Linton lbs. 500, Struck off the Docket.

The records do not tell us of what transgression John Linton was accused, but evidently he convinced the court that he was innocent.

It is at this point in our story that we must either rely upon the earlier work of Mr. Goodwin herndon or simply speculate as to the parentage of William Linton of Upper Marlboro. Mr. Herndon states that he has seen source documents that give William as the son of John and Ursula Linton. Our research has failed to reveal such records. It is possible that since the time of Mr. Herndon's work, about 1940, these documents have been lost or destroyed. The fact that John, in 1694, is the only Linton on record between 1671 (Richard's arrival) and 14 January 1698, the birthdate of William and Elizabeth Linton's first child Rebecca, supports Mr. Herndon's conclusion. We also know that eighteen years after John's appearance in Provincial Court the number of free white men above the age of 16 in Prince George's County (formed from Charles County) was only 790.  In the absence of any importation records for William, we will conclude, until evidence should be presented to the contrary, that John Linton who arrived in Maryland as an indentured servant in 1649 is the founder of the American family which encompasses all of the individuals documented in the latter chapters of this book.  He is also the progenitor of a line which migrated north into Frederick County, Maryland.

Trying to piece together the story of William Linton of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, from ancient records is an intriguing and puzzling endeavor. William engaged in some kind of struggle with the oppressive government of Lord Baltimore, and lost. Or did he lose? At any rate, he appears to have been an exceedingly obstinate individual.

William was a planter, and according to one reference, a doctor.  He married, sometime before the beginning of the 18th century, a woman named Elizabeth, whose maiden name was never recorded.  Elizabeth bore him three sons - William Jr. born in 1701, George born in 1703, and Samuel born in 1715 - and two daughters - Rebecca born in 1698 and Mary born in 1719. All of their births were recorded in the church register of St. Barnabas' Church, Queen Anne Parish, located in Leeland, Maryland just a few miles north of Upper Marlboro.  The church still stands.

Other than church records, the total record of William's life that is left to us is the sum of eight court and land records extending from a Bill of Exchange to Jeffrey Gray for 5 pounds 10 shillings sterling, recorded in Deed Book F, p. 166, on 21 June 1703, to the recording of his Probate records in 1731 after he died in jail.

There is some evidence to support the conclusion that William was a doctor as well as a planter. In Order Book C, p. 130, we see Dr .William Linton winning a court decision from Francis Ballenger. A petition in behalf of William, November 1724, after he was put in jail (sometime between 1719 and 1723) was granted, giving him 180 pounds of tobacco for the internment of the body of a man "murdered in Marlboro town." We also see Elizabeth receiving from the court 300 pounds of tobacco for the care and treatment of a Jane Hynds, "a poor widow who has lately in a fitt fell into the fire greatly burning herself."  (Prince George's Circuit Court Proceedings)

Part, at least, of William's country property was named Duvall's Hunting Quarters and was purchased 13 February 1713, from Mr. Marine Duvall (Deed Book E, p. 329).  William had apparently owned land already, prior to this purchase, because the deed record reference to him as "a planter." The exact extent of his plantations is unknown.

By 1723, William Linton was in jail, for being in debt the sum of 2 pounds, 14 shillings, and 8 pence, and in jail he remained for the rest of his natural life. The exact date of his death is not recorded.  It apparently was early in 1729 after more than seven years of imprisonment. All this, in spite of the fact that William was a man of prosperity, who in addition to his plantations owned property in the city of Upper Marlboro, as we shall see. For some reason which we may never know, William Linton chose to spend the last seven years of his life in jail rather than pay a trifling debt. Possibly there was some sort of question of honor involved or perhaps there was some political harassment involved. In any case, the whole tale leaves us, his descendants, with the question was William the winner or the loser in this stand-off?  True, he remained in jail and died there. But, he never did pay the 2 pounds, 14 shillings and 8 pence, and neither was any claim ever brought against his estate for this sum after he died. On the contrary, property worth many times this amount passed in tact, untouched by claimants to his son George.

We learn from William's inventory, after his death in jail, that he owned in addition to his country property a home in town that is, in the town of Upper Marlboro.  This property in town becomes particularly interesting in light of the widow Elizabeth's undertaking after William's imprisonment and death.

William Linton's land, which his wife Elizabeth acquired after his death, was described as bordering Mr. Daniel Carroll land used for the courthouse and jail.

In March, 1724, after her husband's imprisonment, Elizabeth Linton petitioned for a license to operate an Ordinary House, which was an inn that provided food and lodging for travelers, and we know that her petition was granted and she did indeed open her ordinary, for it was in June of 1731 that the Provincial Court fined her five shillings for selling liquor in her inn, "too close to the court house."  On that very site today stands the new Upper Marlboro courthouse built in 1975. It is an edifice very modernistic, with its accompanying concrete parking ramps, all of which together succeed in covering all traces of Elizabeth's Ordinary House. But from the early 1730's until 1975, when it was demolished, the Marlboro House stood there. In its early years, according to Everett B. Wilson in American Colonial Mansions & Other Early Houses (p. 199), "George Washington stayed there frequently, and Lafayette also was a guest."  In its later years, Marlboro House was still operated as a hotel. A photograph of the building in Mr. Wilson's book shows a rather imposing, long, three-story structure with a double gallery across the front.

Between the years 1726 and 1754, the records of Prince George's County are filled with the legal transactions of George, William and Samuel Linton, the sons of William and Elizabeth. The first record of George comes in the November Court Records of 1726.

George Linton by his petition humbly sets forth to the Justices of the court here that there is a certain child of William Hutchinson's now under the care of their Worship by reason the father is run away and the mother is dead and he being Godfather to the child desires to have the bringing of it up to and in the Church and baptism but where it is now put it is likely to be brought up in the Roman Catholic Church which is contrary to the good laws of our province.

George's petition was rejected because the child had already been put in the care of Edward Priston.  This petition took a lot of courage because most of the justices were Catholics appointed by Lord Baltimore.

In 1733, both George and William Jr. are listed as taxables. Samuel first appears along with George and William in the roster of the Company of Captain Tobias Belt in 1740.  Also included is William III, son of William Jr.

Four years later we see James Linton signing a petition to divide Prince George's County in half. There is no evidence to support any conclusion as to the father of James.

The period between 1746 and 1761 is of much historical interest.  After almost a hundred years in Prince George's County, originally called Charles County, most of the Lintons are leaving.  They are beginning to migrate northwest into the beautiful mountains of Frederick County, Maryland. Each of William and Elizabeth's sons had probably become familiar with the area while serving under Captain Tobias Belt in the French and Indian War.

The first evidence that anyone is pulling up stakes is the sale of George Linton's farm animals to Osborn Sprigg in May, 1746. The sale is witnessed by George's two brothers, Samuel and William Jr. (Deed Book BB, p. 20)  George does not appear in the Frederick County records, however, until 1763, when he is 60 years old. Some time in the meanwhile he has acquired land in Frederick County, for the records show him and his son, George Jr., selling it to Thomas Pindell on 17 October 1763. This is the last we hear from our original William's second son; George Jr., however, is found to have married Elizabeth adiddle on 14 May 1791.

The first record of any Linton in Frederick County is found int he church records of All Saints Parish. Samuel Linton's name appears on a petition of freeholders (landowners) and freemen dated 1756, asking that the parish be divided after the death of the Reverend Samuel Hunter.  Three years later, on 1 September 1759, Samuel receives land from Richard Beal.  Again, four years later, in 1763 Samuel acquires a section of land called "Scaggs Delight" in exchange for a fat oxen. In June 1765, Samuel, along with a certain Edward Willson, is the administrator of the estate of a man named John whose last name is illegible. At the age of 52, Samuel appears on 17 August 1767 in a land record in which he acquires property from a John Johnson.

The census of 1790 provides an excellent accounting of the Linton family in Frederick County. We find six separate households including fourteen sons and nine daughters.  It is interesting to note that only one of the fourteen boys was over the age sixteen.  The heads of households are given as Samuel, Samuel Jr., William III, Zachariah, Benjamin and Jeremiah Linton. Among those counted but not named in the census are George Linton, possibly the son of George Sr., who is mentioned in a previously noted land transaction in 1763.  Isaac Linton is also named in the census. He marries Susanna Richards on 4 February 1793. John Linton shows up on the voting register along with Isaac and Samuel Jr. for the 1796 election. Each is registered as a Democrat-Republican for George Murdock, who is running against the Federalist John Tyler. [George Murdock was elected to the electoral college and as a Democrat-Republican he supported John Adams for president].

Samuel Linton, in 1790, is 75 years old and is head of a household which includes a wife, two older daughters, and one slave. Samuel lived to see the turn of the century. According to his will, dated 23 October 1801, he lived to be at least 86. (Will Book GM3, p. 473)  Benjamin Linton is given as his executor.

Samuel Jr. in 1790 is supporting one older son, two young sons, a wife and two daughters.  William III is a late-comer to Frederick County. We see him in Prince George's County as late as 1757 when he, along with Thomas Harwood and Thomas Lindell confess judgment to Turnor Wootton for the sum of 37 pounds of tobacco, 2 shillings and six pence currency. (Deed Book PP p. 77)

In 1790, William III is residing with one young son. This is the last record of these fourth generation American Lintons.

Zachariah, Benjamin and Jeremiah Linton we have not met before in these pages, but for the sake of completeness they and their households are being included.  In 1790 Zachariah was residing with his wife, four young sons, one daughter, and two slaves.  Zachariah Linton had married Mary Maynard twelve years earlier on 20 May 1778.  Thirty-nine years after his marriage to Mary, Zachariah remarried - this time to a Susan Ramsburg, on 12 February 1817.  Mary apparently did not survive the hardships of the land and child rearing.

Benjamin Linton in 1790 is residing with his wife Rachael, two young sons, a daughter, and one slave. Nine years later, Benjamin is seen acquiring land from Benjamin Murdock - possibly a relative of the presidential candidate George Murdock supported by Samuel, John and Isaac Linton in 1796. [George Murdock was not a presidential candidate, he was standing for election to the Electoral College]

The last of the households is headed by Jeremiah Linton. He is seen residing with his wife, a young son, and three daughters.  Twelve years later, Jeremiah is recorded selling land to Thomas Sprigg on 26 November 1802. (Deed Book WR, p. 559)

The court and land records of Frederick County are filled with various accounts of the next generation of Lintons. Even today, the descendants of these early Lintons populate northern Maryland.  The work of completing the history of this line, which stems from John Linton and his son William and which migrated north into Frederick County will be left to the next generation of genealogists.

Of the three sons of William Linton, son of the immigrant John Linton, only Samuel lived to see the American Revolution that set our nation on the path which led to greatness. George and William Jr. knew only a struggling colony that must have seemed barely capable of sustaining its own existence, much less defending itself against the strongest military power on earth.

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MacDowell, Dorothy. McDowells in America, Supplement I, Aiken, SC: Dorothy MacDowell, 1983.

[Still trying to prove John Grove Speer's statement regarding his mother's connection to the McDowell family.  This branch of the McDowell clan settled in Shelby County, near the Speers]

Alexander McDowell of Shelby Co., Ky, was born ca. 1740. He died between 18 march 1815, when he wrote his will leaving the mansion house to his wife, and March 1817 when the will was probated. He married Dorcas (--?--). She was born about 1745 and died 7 August 1833 "aged about 88."  Both were buried in the family plot near Simpsonville, Kentucky, but the stone that marks his grave has no inscription. A suggestion that Dorcas was a Wasson, made in the Lyle Genealogy, 1916 is not adequately supported.

Cemetery Inscription in Shelby County, Kentucky published by the Shelby County Historical Society states that Alexander McDowell died Feb. 20, 1817 aged about 82 years. Dorcas, wife of Alexander McDowell died May 7, 1833, aged ca. 88 years. John McDowell died Aug. 26, 1872 in 84th year. Martha McDowell wife of John McDowell, b. Feb. 26, 1796, d. Aug. 1, 1851.

"The birthplace of Alexander McDowell is unknown . . . A search of the Pennsylvania Archives revealed the names of several eprsons who were Alexander McDowells serving in the lower counties of Pennsylvania during the Revolution . . . to date no one has joined the Daughters of the American Revolution from one of these soldiers."

"The first record of Alexander McDowell that we now have is dated 29 October 1789 when he paid taxes in Jefferson Co., Ky. In 1792 Shelby County was created from Jefferson County. In 1800 we find Alexander McDowell in Shelby Co. in the published tax returns."  Alexander's will which was dated 18 March 1815, referring as it does to a 'Mansion House' implies a rather high standard of living. He named nine children. Two of his sons, Alexander and James and Alexander, then called Junior, who was, of course, the III, died shortly before the November 1833 term of the Shelby Co. court.

Children of Alexander & Dorcas McDowell:

1. Alexander b. ca. 1780-84
2. Martha b. ca. 1783 md. ca. 1803 Richard Ragsdale
3. James b. ca. 1780-90 d. Nov. 1833, md. 6 June 1823 Mary Bailer
4. John b. ca. 1788 md. 1) Cassa Collins, 2) Martha Lyle
5. Catherine
6. Elizabeth m. Martin Utterback, 12 Dec. 1822 Henry Co., KY, son of Henry & Tabitha (McDowell) Utterback from a good old family of Culpeper and Orange Counties, VA.
7. Mary md. (--?--) Hankins
8. Jane m. 14 Oct. 1787 (--?--) Wasson.  Alexander Wasson was an executor of Alexander McDowell's estate.

[I didn't photocopy any more of this source.]

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Reese, William. The Settle-Suttle Family, Carrollton, GA: Thomasson Printing Company, nd

Joseph Suttle, son of Isaac & Charity (Browne) Settle was born probably in King George County, Virginia, circa 1727; he died intestate prior to Tax List of 1782, the earliest one preserved of Rutherford County, North Carolina.

He married, probably in Prince William or in Orange County, Virginia, circa 1754 Mary (Molly) Doggett, daughter of Bushrod and Ann (Stribling) Doggett. Ann, the daughter of Joel and Mary Stribling (Stripling), was born 31 May and baptized in July 1715/16. Bushrod Doggett of Brunswick Parish and Ann Stribling were married 6 October 1736. RIchard Doggett of Lancaster County, second child of the Reverend Benjamin and Jane Doggett, in will dated 20 June 1721, mentions sons Bushrod and George; wife Elizabeth; daughter Ann, other children not named.  Witnesses were Hannah Stevens and Edw. Conway. Richard Doggett married Elizabeth Bushrod, and their second child was named Bushrod, a name that has been used down to and including the present generation. ". . . Elizabeth Doggett wid. Mary Tayloe Apphia* Doggett Julian Boyd and George Doggett of this County in the night of the Sixteenth day of November last Unlawfully Assembled and frightened & disturbed divers of his Majestys good Subjects Contrary to the Kings peace & c . . . " Elizabeth (Bushrod) Doggett married second Charles Chilton who died in 1738.  In 1680 Benjamin Doggett, minister, bought from George Flower, merchant, both of Lancaster County, Virginia, a plantaton of 350 acres. In the will of Benjamin Dogget, dated 14 March 1681, probated 12 June 1682, he mentions wife Jane, eldest son Benjamin, sons Richard and WIlliam, and daughters Jane, in England, and Ann. Executors were Thos. Martin and John Mullen. Jane Doggett, relict of Rev. Benjamin Doggett, married 2d, John Boatman, as evidenced by the following record in Lancaster County Court: "Whereas Benjamin Doggett sonne of Benj. Dogget dec'd complained to this Court that John Boatman (who m. Jane the Relict of the said dec'd) did last year put his brother Richard to work in the ground with a freeman for 1/2 share of corn and tobacco . . . "

*The evidence afforded by this court action indicates that Elizabeth (Bushrod) Doggett was a daughter of Richard and Aphhia Bushrod. Two brothers, Thomas and Richard Bushrod, settled first in Massachusetts in 1639, and later came to Virginia - Wm. & Mary Qtr., Vol. 14, 1st Series, p. 177; Richard Bushrod was granted 2000 acres in Westmoreland Co., 15 Oct. 1660 - Cavaliers & Pioneers, Nugent, pp. 404-405. See p. 442 for renewal of the grant. Richard & Thomas Bushrod purchased 300 acres in Northumberland Co., from George Durant, 10 April 1665 - C&P, Nugent, p. 442. Thomas Bushrod b. ca. 1604 md. 1) Mary (Peirsy) Hill, 2) Elizabeth. No issue by either marriage. In his will dated 12-18-1676 probated 4-24-1677, he named four of Richard Bushrod's children, Thomas, John, Aphia and Dorothy - York Co. Rec. 1676-84 p. 5. Richard Bushrod b. 1626 lived on Mock Jack Bay, Gloucester Co., Va.  In a deposition 1-24-1659/60 he stated he was 32 years old or thereabout.  He married Apphia (--?--) and died between 1667 and 1670. (In 1667 Richard Walton, citizen and merchant tailor of London, and his wife appointed as their attorneys John Baskevyle gent. clerk of York Court in Va. aforesaid, Richard Bushrod in Mock Jack Bay in Va. aforesaid Merchant and Robt. Baldry, Gent. Wm. & Mary Qtr. 1st Series, Vol. 8, pp. 202-203).  Thus Richard was living in 1667, but "In 1670 Dr. Henry Whiting brought suit in the general court in behalf of his wife Apphia, the relict of Mr. Richard Bushrod." See minutes of the Genl. Court of Va. 236, also Adventures of Purse & Person Virgina 1607-1625. The will of Richard Bushrod is not of record owing to the fact that Gloucester County records were destroyed in 1676 during Bacon's Rebellion and again by an incendiary fire about 1820. Children of Richard and Apphia Bushrod, as set forth in the will of his brother Thomas:

1. Thomas Bushrod md. Ann (--?--) They lived in Beautracty Parish, Northumberland County.

2. Col. John Bushrod of "Bushfield" in Westmoreland Co., Va, mar. Hannah Keene, who md. 2) Willoughby Allerton and 3) John Cooper of Westmoreland Co., Va. Col. John Bushrod's tombstone at Bushfield reads:

"Here lies ye Body of John Bushrod, son of Richard Bushrod, Gent., by Apphia his wife. He was born in Gloucester county, in Virginia, ye 30th of January 1663. He took to wife, Hannah, the daughter of Wm. Keene, of Northumberland county, Gent., and Elizabeth, his wife, and by her left two sons & four daughters & died the 26 of February, 1719 in the 56th year of his age"

3. Apphia

4. Dorothea

5. Elizabeth, md. Richard Doggettt, who died 8 November 1721. Children, among others Bushrod Doggett, who witnessed the will of Hannah (Keene) Bushrod Allerton Cooper.

The Reverend Benjamin Doggett was born in Ipswich, England 1636, son of William Doggett, Woolendraper. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge University, England. where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1658 and Master of Arts in 1662. He served as Curate and Schoolmaster at Stoke, Suffolk, 1662, and emigrated to the Royal Province of Virginia, prior to 1670, in which year the records show that he was the incumbent minister of Christ Church Parish (Lancaster) and St. Mary's Whitechapel Parish and continued as incumbent of both until his death in 1682.

The original Church in Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, was built in 1668-1669 on land given by Colonel John Carter. This church remained the Church of Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County until his son, "King" Robert Carter of Crotoman pulled it down and erected on the same site the present "King Carter's Church." Work on this new Church began prior to 1732, the year in which Robert Carter died.  His executors fulfilled his promise and paid the remainder of the cost of erection. This Church is on e fo the very few colonial churches of America that has never been altered. It still retains its original furniture.  St. Mary's Whitechapel Church, in which the grandparents of George Washington, Colonel Joseph & Mary Ball worshiped, also was erected about 1668-1669. It was built of brick, extending according to Church law, due east and west. About 1740 the Vestry of St. Mary's Whitechapel Parish tore down the middle section of the North Wall and the South Wall and erected transepts, thereby making it similar in design to Christ Church.

In a deed to William Morgan 22 April 1765, the wife of Bushrod Doggett is recorded as "Nanny," but in the will of Bushrod Doggett of Culpeper County, 9 April 1791, probated 21 November 1795, she is referred to as Ann. Daughters mentioned were Mollie Settle, Sarah Ann Byas, Elizabeth Tapp, Nancy Brown and Susanna Morgan, who married Charles Morgan, son of William Morgan and brother of Mary Morgan who married George Settle, brother of Joseph Suttle. He gave to grandson Thomas Bushrod Doggett ". . . the land and plantation in the County of Fauquier on which his father lived . . . " The father of this grandson was Benjamin Doggett, a soldier who died in the Revolutionary War. Provision was made in the will for Richard Doggett (Stripling), who was the son of Captain Richard Doggett, a Revolutionary officer who served in the 6th Regiment of the South Carolina line, Continental Establishment, and who was mortally wounded in the battle of Stono ferry, South Carolina. Sons George and Joel Doggett were named Executors. Witnesses to the will were James Pendleton, James Bramham and Betty Bramham. In settling the estate of Benjamin Doggett, deceased, 1778, in Fauquier County, Virginia, George Doggett was appointed guardian of Molly, Mrs. Hamilton Killen, Silver Springs, Md.; Ann W. Doggett, Princeton, WV & Mrs. Rogert L. Donaldson, Morattico, VA; See Northern Neck News, Warsaw, Richmond Co., VA, 9 July 1959, p. 1.

Thomas and Sukey Doggitt, orphans. William Morgan, William Jennings and John Edwards were appointed to  appraise the estate of Benjamin Doggett, deceased, 26 November 1778. As pointed out by Burgess in "Virginia Soldiers of 1776" Thomas Doggett of Bath County, Kentucky as . . . "heir at large of my father Benjamin Doggett," who died during the Revolutionary War, and as heir of "my uncle Richard Doggett," who was killed at the battle of Stone, South Carolina, appointed David Briggs of Richmond, Virginia, and Willis Morgan of Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, as his attornies. By Warrant Number 7255 issued 12 October 1832, the "Heirs Generally" of Richard Doggett, were allowed 4,000 acres of land. Considerable data on Captain Richard Doggett and the battle of Stono ferry may be found in the records of the Regiments of the South Carolina Line, Continental Establishment.  Absalom Hooper, in an affidavit of 23 October 1818, stated that he served under Captain Richard Doged, of the 6th Regiment of the Continental line under Colonel William Henderson.

Molly (Doggett) Suttle/Settle married, second, Isaah Blackwell. This second marriage is established by the will of Isaah Blackwell, dated 1 February 1810, and witnessed by George Suttle, Minor Coeram and William Settle, in which he refers to wife Molly Blackwell; and by the will of daughter Suanna Suttle of Rutherford County, North Carolina, dated 3 January 1816, in which she gives to ". . . my brother Bushrod Suttle all my part of the estate which I consider myself entitled to it being the ninth part . . . which was formerly willed by Bushrod Doggett formerly of Virginia to Molly Suttle, his daughter perhaps this will alluded to of Bushrod Doggett was or may be in the words of Molly Blackwell be this as it may, my claim is founded on the claim of my Mother . . . "

Joseph Suttle and his brother Isaac were named Executors under the will of their father, Isaac Settle, who died in Prince William County, Virginia in 1752. The settlement of the estate was delayed over a period of some twelve years, causing dissatisfaction among the heirs and litigation to expedite settlement. However, it seems apparent that much of the delay was due to the necessity of instituting legal proceedings to collect amounts due the estate, and to the death of Isaac, Jr., one of the Executors.  In a case filed by Joseph Suttle, Plaintiff against George Wheatley, Defendant, for a sum due the estate, the issue was tried by a jury in a Court held for Fauquier County, Virginia May 1764. During the course of this trial it was brought out that in 1756 Joseph Suttle had served as Deputy Sheriff to John Frogg, Sheriff of the County of Prince William; that Isaac Settle, Jr., was "reputed Dead."  In the meantime the following record already had been made in a Court  held for Fauquier County, Virginia, 24 May 1759:

On the Motion of Joseph Settle . . . certificate granted him for obtaining Letters of Administration of the Estate of Isaac Settle decd he having with Luke Holder his Security entered into and acknowledged Bond for the same.

"Ordered that William Morgan, John Garner, Rice Duncan and Joseph Duncan . . . appraise in Current Money the personal estate and slaves (if any) of Isaac Settle Decd and - return the Appraisment to the Court.

Joseph Suttle acted jointly with his brother Isaac as Executors under the will of their father until it was apparent that Isaac, Jr. was no longer living. Thereafter he functioned alone as Executor in the settlement of his father's estate and petitioned the Court to be appointed Administrator of the estate of his brother.

The exact date that Joseph Suttle moved to North Carolina is not known, but it was between 1766 and 1768, for on 4 May 1766, he mortgaged his home to Benjamin Settle, his first cousin, as security for the executorship of his father's estate.  Witnesses to the mortgage were Wm. Settle, Bushrod Doggett and George Settle. It may be noted that at that time Bushrod Doggett was living in Fauquier County.  In this mortgage Joseph Suttle is described as of Fauquier County and in a deed, dated 26 July 1768, he conveyed the mortgaged premises to Benjamin Settle for a consideration of thirty pounds. In this deed he is described as Joseph Suttle of the County of Orange in the Province of North Carolina, and his wife is shown as Mary Suttle.

The will of Joseph Suttle's father-in-law, Bushrod Dogget and the will of his daughter Susanna Suttle, supra, are most helpful in that they clearly establish that (1) Joseph Suttle married Molly, a daughter of Bushrod Doggett, (2) they had nine children, (3) Susanna was a daughter, (4) Bushrod Suttle was her brother and, further, that Molly Suttle's second marriage was to Blackwell. Finally, on 6 February 1824, Nancy Suttle executed a power of attorney to Bushrod Suttle to sue for moneys due "deceased husband Francis Suttle."  Joseph Suttle followed the traditional family practice of naming children. Son Joseph was named after himself, son Isaac was named after his father, and sons George and Francis were named after his brothers.  Bushrod, Susanna, Sarah and Benjamin were named after the Doggett family.

Children of Joseph & Mary/Molly (Doggett) Suttle:

1. Bushrod, b. in Prince William County, VA, ca. 1756; d. White County, TN 6 March 1826

2. Joseph b. probably in Prince William County, VA ca 1758, d. in NC

3. Isaac, b. probably in Fauquier County, VA ca. 1760; d. Rutherford County, NC after the 1810 census and probably prior to 8 May 1812.

4. Sarah, b. probably in Fauquier County, VA ca. 1762

5. Francis b. probably in Fauquier County, VA ca. 1764, d. Rutherford County, NC prior to 11 January 1824

6. George b. probably in Fauquier County, VA 25 October 1766, d. Rutherford County, NC 15 February 1816

7. Marcus / Mark b. probably in Old Orange County, NC ca. 1768, d. Rutherford County, NC August 1818

8. Benjamin b. probably in Old Orange County, NC ca. 1769 d. apparently in Rutherford County, NC

9. Susanna b. probably in Old Orange County, NC 29 March 1770, d. Rutherford County, NC prior to 6 July 1817; md. (--?--) Suttle; son, Silas L. Suttle.

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Newman, Esther. Bible Records Annotated by Esther Newman, nd

The records as copied below are in the form of a letter which was addressed to my great-grandmother Mrs. Cora Peterson, Lumberton, Ohio, Clinton Co., postmarked from Wilmington, OH, February 1895. The information was taken from the bibles of David Linton and Seth & Ann Linton. Once such account reads "Copied out of Uncle David's bible that belongs to Cousin Allen on Buck Run Clinton Co. Ohio Earl Janney [letter to Cora reads Tanney]. his son Lord Linton, his sons Sir Roger, James and John who was borned in England Cumberland County in the year 1663 and married in Friends Meeting London 1691 to Rebecca Relf of London who was born in that city on 31st of 3rd month 1672."

The other account is from Seth & Ann Linton's bible which is described as "Holy Bible, dark brown, scuffed, hinge repaired; 8 1/2 x 10 x 3 1/2; first leaves missing. New Testament printed and sold by Isaac Collins, Trenton, 1791."  Original owners, Seth & Ann Linton; present owner, Fred W. Linton, Wilmington, Ohio.  [No date as to when Fred owned it.]  Inside cover has this written: "Note the following dates is according to what is called New Stile 1795." [I've no idea where the bible is now. Note that Elizabeth is consistently spelled Elizzabeth in the letter. It is spelled with one z in the other two transcriptions.]

Copied from old records:

Earl Tanney his son, Ld Linton his sons, Sir Roger, James and John who was born in England Cumberland county in the year 1663 and married in Friends meeting London AD 1691 to Rebecca Relf of London wh owas born in that city on the 31st of the 3rd month 1672. They emigrated with Penn to America and landed in the wilderness on the western shore of the Delaware where the city of Philadelphia now stands.

Benjamin Linton [b. in Philadelphia] son of John & Rebecca (Relf) Linton was born the 10th of the 6th month 1703.

Elizzabeth White daughter of William & Sarah White was born the 9th of the 9th month 1705

Benjamin Linton & Elizzabeth White were married the 25th of the 3rd month 1727.

Children of Benjamin & Elizzabeth (White) Linton:

• John born the 26th of the 12th month 1727
• Martha born the 15th of the 11th month 1729
• Mary born the 16th of the 12th month 1731, d. 27th of the 1st month 1732

Elizzabeth (White) Linton died 26th of the 1st month 1732. She and her daughter Mary were buried 28th of the 1st month 1732.

Jane Cowgal was born the 3rd of the 7th month 1708.

Benjamin Linton md. Jane Cowgal as his second wife 30th of the 4th month 1732. [Records of the Chesterfield Friends Meeting 1682-1845 says Jane Cowgill, daughter of Ralph & Benjamin Linton, Apr. 19, 1733]

Children of Benjamin & Jane (Cowgill) Linton:

Lucia born 22nd of the 4th month 1734, d. 2nd of 3rd mo 1818 aged 83 y, 10 m, 10 d md. Jesper/Joshua/Joseph Terry

Benjamin Jr. born 21st of the 2nd month 1736, died 2nd of the 6th month 1809 aged 73 years

Joshua born 22nd of the 1st month 1738, died 25th of 3rd mo. 1807 aged upward of 69 years

Sarah born 14th of the 9th month 1739, died 30th of the 12th mo. 1747 aged eight years, three months and sixteen days

Samuel born 17th of the 12 month 1741, d. 27th of 4 mo. 1823 aged 81 yrs, 4 mo. 10 da. married Elizzabeth Harvey, see below.

Jane Jr. born 12th of the 10th month 1743, d. 3rd of 3rd mo 1824 md. Wm. Satterthwait [This is incorrect according to Beers "History of Clinton Co., Ohio, p. 548. Jane married Jesse Arnold & Elizabeth md. John Sattherthwaite]

Daniel born 16th of the 7th month 1746, died 22nd of 5 mo. 1814 age upward of 67 years.

Hezekiah born 4th of the 12 month 1748

Benjamin Linton Sr. died 25th of the 1st mo. 1773 aged above 69 yrs. [One account says he died the 28th of 10th month 1791 aged above 83 years. Quite a stretch from the letter! Could it be that whoever transcribed this record skipped to Jane Linton's death?  Her death wasn't recorded in this account.]

Jane (Cowgill) Linton died 28th of 10 mo. 1791 aged above 88 years.

Elizzabeth Harvey wife of Samuel Linton was born the 8th of the 3rd mo. 1748, died 12th of the 4th mo 1796 aged above 48 years

Samuel & Elizzabeth (Harvey) Linton married the 10th of the 5th mo. 1775.

Children of Samuel & Elizzabeth (Harvey) Linton:

• Samuel Jr. born 18th of the 5th month 1776, died 27th of 3rd mo. 1796 aged 10 years, 4 mo, 9 days [dates don't wor out according to age at death]
• Nathan born 17th day of the 1st month 1778
• David born 27th of 1st month 1781, d. 26th of 1st mo. 1815 aged 34 years lacking one day
• Jane & twin Elizzabeth born 8th of 5th mo. 1786
• James born 10th of the 3rd mo 1789, died 22nd of the 11 mo. 1815 aged 26 y, 8 mo, 12 days

[All of Benjamin & Jane (Cowgill) Linton's children were born in Bucks Co., PA. Samuel Linton's wife Elizabeth Harvey die din Bucks County, 1796. Samuel & his children then emigrated to Warren County, Ohio in 1802 and then to Clinton County, Ohio in 1803.]

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Unidentified typescript of Runyon Genealogy.  First page on letterhead of Runyan Jewelers, 131 Main Street, Chester, SC, 29706.

Runyon coat of arms - The shield is royal blue with three gold honey bees, two on top and one in center at the bottom. At the top is a mailed head with the visor closed. Around the top of the visor is woven a gold and royal blue headress, on top of which are 12 peacock feathers. The supports on the sides are gold and royal blue plumes. The ribbon on the bottom (motto) MEL REGI means "to reign."

Armorial General de France by d'Hozier, Vol. Poitou No. 794 in Bibliotheque National at Paris.

The De Rongnions came from, in or near the city of Poitiers, in the Province of Ancienne Poitou, France.

"From France multitudes of protestants, called Huguenots, sought a refuge in America for permanent homes. It is a reliable tradition that the founder of the Runyan-Runyon Rongnion family in America escaped from these cruel persecutions in his native place to the Isle of Jersey, off the coast of France and from there took ship to this country. (The Baumgardner Family, by Winnifred Beatty)

"Vincent Rongnion, patriarch and progenitor of the New Jersey Runyan-Runyon family, came to America some time before 1668, and first settled in Elizabeth Town, NJ. He may have accompanied Governor Philip Carteret, settled that place in 1665, or migrated very soon after. It is noticeable that many French Huguenots soon appeared in the Colony."

"He came before 1668 to the Isle of Jersey; and then to America; married Anne Boutcher, alleged English woman, coming from Herts, England who in reality was Anne Bouchierre, orginally French." (From: Orra Eugene Monnet, "First Settlers of Piscataway, NJ")

The Name & Family of Runyan or Runyon

The name of Runyan or Runyon is derived from the French Rognon or Roignon, the name of a commune in the department of Doubs, near Baume-les-Dames, France, and was first taken as a surname by those who resided in that  place. The meaning of the name is said to be "grumble, growl, mutter, snarl, rumble or roar," form the verb rognonner, but it is also possible that the name had its origin in the noun rognon, meaning kidney.

In ancient French and English and early American records the name appears in the various spellings of Rognon, Roignon, Rougnon, Rongnon, Rongion, Rognion, Rongnion, Ronnion, Runyome, Runyom, Runyone, Runnyon, Runnion, Runnian, Runion, Runian, Ruynon, Runyan, etc.  Of the forms mentioned, the last two are the most frequently in evidence in America today.

The family was anciently to be found both in France and in Switzerland, though it appears to have been of the less prominent classes. The Runyans of America are of Huguenot origin and many of the members of the family in Europe were followers of the French Protestant religion. Bearers of the name appear in the lists of those who fled from persecution in France to England as early as the sixteenth century. And others went to the British Isles, the Germanic countries, and to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Vincent Rognon, Rongnion or Rongion, the progenitor of most of the Runyans of America, was a French Protestant or Huguenot, a native of Poitou, and a mariner by trade. He is said to have escaped from France to the Isle of Jersey and there to have taken ship to America. He probably came over about the year 1665 and was certainly settled in Elizabeth Town, East Jersey, in 1668. In that year Vincent Rongnion, "of Portiers, in France," was married to Ann, daughter of John Boutcher, of Hartford, England. The children of this union were:

2. Vincent md. 1704 Providence Blackford  - children:

• John
• Joseph
• Peter
• Richard b. 1719 md. Jane Van Court before 1746 +
• Benjamin 
• Grace 
• Rosannah
• Providence
• Sarah

3. Darich (Derick or Dirck)

4. Joseph

5. Reune

6. Ephraim

7. Mary

8. Peter

9. Jane

10. Sarah.

11. John - probable son md. Elizabeth Dunn ca. 1692

• Hugh md. Anna Savidge before 1746 +

Richard & Jane (Van Court) Runyon children:

• Sarah 
• Anna
• Elias md. Deborah Clark 1771 +
• Elizabeth
• Jean
• Rosannah
• John md. Mary/Polly Conkin/Conkling moved to Ohio +

Hugh & Anna (Savidge) Runyon children:

• Eleanor
• William md. 1) (--?--); 2) Mary Poland before 1785 +
• Elizabeth
• Ann
• Sarah
• Hugh  md. Teodosia Freeze, no children
• Richard md. Jemima Hoagland ca. 1784
• Margaret
• Abigail
• Robert md. Catherine Sutton 1792

Elias & Deborah (Clark) Runyon children:

• Richard md. Phebe Lewis before 1797 - Sally, Deborah/Debby, Jane
• Anna
• Daniel md. 1) Hope Lewis, 2) Polly Squier - Caroline, Phebe, George, others?
• John md. Margaret Runyon (d/o Richard of Piscataway)
• Jean
• Israel md. Polly Deeds
• Elias md. Agnes Day, no children

Peter P. md. Phebe Tenyak - Trembly, Debby, Mary, John (died early), Elias, Susan, Virginia

• Jane

John & Mary (Conkin/Conkling) Runyon children:

• Stephen, never married
• Richard
• John
• Elias
• Betsey
• Debby
• Polly
• Anna
• 3 other daughters

William & 1st wife (--?--) Runyon children:

• Elizabeth
• Anna
• Robert 

William & Mary (Poland) Runyon children:

• Richard B. md. Ann Sanders

Richard B. & Ann (Sanders) Runyon children:

• Isaac L.
• Mary J.
• George H.
• John D.
• Albert T. 
• David U.
• S.E.
• Charles O. 

Richard & Mary (Hoagland) children:

• Richard/Robert died early
• Hugh md. Sarah Osborn ca. 1828 +
• Abigail
• Henry
• Richard
• Mary S.
• Susan

Robert & Catherine (Sutton) Runyon children:

• Elizabeth
• Henry md. Rebecca Havens - at least 3 sons: Hugh, James, William
• Richard md. Debbie Curtis
• Ann
• Reuben Groves md. Mary Heyers
• John md. Dorothy Heyers 1829 - William H., Gilbert H., Mary Ann, Catherine, Charles A., Eleanor J.
• Eleanor
• Samuel L. md. Lucretia Miller - at least four sons Robert, Hugh, Clark, John 

Hugh & Sarah (Osborn) Runyon children:

• Richard md. Jane Mullen - Bedford 
• Henry md. Ann Shingle 1823 - Catherine, Susan Ann, Mary J. & Sarah Elizabeth
• Emily B.
• Morris C.
• George Robbins
• Ezekiel Rogers
• Elizabeth C. 

Hugh Runyon, grandson of Robert & Catherine (Sutton) Runyon b. ca. 1740 had at least one son Joseph  who moved to Warren County ca. 1810. Children:

• Hugh (died young)
• Vincent md. Catherine Jones - Job J. (Columbus, OH), William & Keziah
• William Longstreet md. - six children: Nelson, Elizabeth Ann, four daughters names unknown
• Joseph (who moved to Pennsylvania)
• Sarah
• Thankful

The Runyans and Runyons have been described as serious-minded, studious, often quiet and retiring of modest tastes, and of considerable intellectual depth. In many cases they have shown themselves to be possessed of a humanitarian interest in their fellow men. Many have distinguished themselves in the practice of medicine.

Among those of the name who served with the Colonial forces during the American Revolution were Asa, Conrad / Coonrad, Enoch, Hugh, Job, John, three Richards, Samuel, Vincent of New Jersey; Samuel Ronyon of New York; Jonathan Runions of New York; John Runyans of New York; Henry Runyens of New York; George Runyan/Runyon of Pennsylvania; Joseph Runnion of North Carolina; Isaac and John Runion of Virginia; and John Runyan of Virginia. 

Will abstracts:

John Runyan, Esq., dec'd. of Piscataway Tp., leaving sons and daughters. The petitioner was Ephraim, Esq.  John's children were: Thomas, Frances, Reune, Enos, Mary, John, Mercy. Along the road from Quibbletown to Green Brook. Oct. 1st 1793, Vol. 2, p. 387+, Vol. 1, p. 387. (Mid. Surrogate File #18197, Orphans Court Oct. 8th 1793.)

Rune Runyan of Woodbridge Tp., dec'd. without a will. The petitioner for division was his sona nd Administrator, Vincent Runyan who was to have the house and barn located in a turn of the road from Rahway to Plainfield on Short Hills. Daughters: Elizabeth, Martha, Mary wife of George Compton, Rispaugh wife of James Compton, Margaret Trombly, Sarah, Zurviah. Commissioners: Mathias Halsted, Nathaniel Hunt, Jerah. Manning. Vol. 3, p. 976, map pgs. 992-993. July 16th, 1788. (Mid. Surrogate File #18230, Administrator Vincent Runyan).

Vincent Runyan, dec'd. his widow, Asenath, who was entitled to a 1/3 dower interest. The petitioner for division was John Runyan for an equal undivided 1/9 share, as tenant-in-common with Reuben, Amanda, Mary wife of Isaac Suydam, Elizabeth wife of Samuel Dunham, Catherine A. widow of David Marsh, dec'd. Lucy wife of John Phillips each of whom is entitled to 1/9. In addition, Theo. Runyan, dec'd. had left a minor daughter Sarah A. entitled to 1/18. Also entitled to 1/18 was Theo.'s daughter Mary Francis Furgesson.  While Harriet Rutter Voorhees, Mary Elizabeth Voorhees, Gertrude Haveland Voorhees, Susan Frances Voorhees were entitled to 1/36 each as minor daughters of Sarah Runyan, a deceased daughter of Theodore Runyan, dec'd. 

Vincent Runyon/Runyan & Some of His Descendants:

Vincent Runyon #12857 born 1645 Poitou, France married 17 Jul 1668 Ann (Boucher) Boutcher #12858, died circa 1723/25.  Vincent died Nov. 1713 Pisacataway, NJ.

Although Vincent purchased a lot in Elizabethtown, NJ in 1671, his name does not appear among the other records there and he is not identified with Elizabethtown. He bought some 44 acres of land on the Raritan River, Piscataway, NJ in 1678 and added 70 acres to it in 1687 by purchase from Hopewell Hull.

Vincent Runyon may well be the ancestor of most, if not all of the Runyon/Runyan families in the U.S. but there remain many "unplaced" or "unlinked" Runyon lines not yet traced back to Vincent. 

This is more a "collection" than a "compilation" of data on the descendants of Vincent Runyon. Harman R. Clark, Jr. is not a direct Runyon descendant. Many of his direct ancestors, however, in the Martin, Dunn, Drake, Fitz Randolph families, had siblings who married Runyons, and in the process of researching those families he has managed to collect quite a bit on Runyons. 

One of the leading genealogists of the area in the 1950s was Oliver Drake, whose files are in the Genealogical Society of NJ Special Collections at Rutgers.  These are valuable resources compiled by a person who knew what he was doing, and contain, among other things, correspondence with some of the other leading genealogists of that day, including Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, Freeman Worth Gardner, Willis Freeman and John Insley Coddington. 

John Insley Coddington's records are housed with the New England Historic & Genealogical Society in Boston, and that library would also be a point of reference.

One person who has done more in recent years on the Runyon family is Geri Halstead of Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania.  For 11 years she published a bulletin entitled "Under the Runyon Tree." Most issues are available in the Piscataway, NJ Library.

Doris Coriell Horvath is a resident of Edison, NJ and active in local historical societies. She has collected a great deal of data on local families, which she organized in Family Group Sheet format in various loose-leaf notebooks. These are also found in the Piscataway, NJ Library and some in Rutgers Special Collections.

There are some Piscataway Vital Records printed in NJ Historical Society Proceedings, 3rd Series. These are "reprints" and contain some errors, but do provide a source for some birth, death and marriage records, including Runyon.  There are also abstracts of Wills and administrations in the NJ Archives series.

Oliver B. Leonard prepared a booklet in 1890 called "Outline Sketches of the Pioneer Progenitors of the Piscataway Planters 1666-1716, containing a complete genealogy of the Stelle and Runyon Families."  In the years since O.B. Leonard's work, errors have appeared, but as a general reference to the family it contains starting points for additional research.

Melba Marie Runyan and D. James Runyon have prepared a book "The Ancestors and Descendants of Enoch M. Runyon 1645-1675." Good from Enoch down.  Heavily relies on other works for ancestors of Enoch.

The same comments may be made about the Runyon Genealogy by Robert & Amos Runyon (Brownsville, TX, 1955).

Sources to avoid:

Marie Runyon Wright has written two books "Tracking Barefoot Runyon," and "Up the Runyon/Runion/Runyan Tree" (Gateway Press, 1993.  The percentage she puts forth for Isaac Barefoot Runyon seems to be of pure fantasy.

"First Settlers of Ye Plantation of Piscataway and Woodbridge" by Orra Eugene Monnette is a 7 volume series to be avoided at all costs.  It should not even be used for "clues."

Children:

+2 i. John Runyon #12928 b. 1669

+3 ii. Vincent Runyon #12929 b. 1671

4 iii. Ann Runyon b. 1673, d. 1726 md. Nathaniel Leonard - Thomas, Nathaniel Jr. Maurice, Mary, Sarah

+5 iv. Thomas Runyan #12931 b. 1675

6 v. Mary Runyon  b. 2 Jul 1677 md. Benjamin Drake b. 1683 s/o John & Rebecca (Trotter) Drake d. 1763. Mary d. ca. 1745 - Rebecca, Zechariah, William, Edmond, Daniel, Francis, Thomas, Nathaniel/Nathan, John

+7 vi. Peter Runyon #12859 b. 1 Jul 1680

8. vii. Jane Runyon #12933 b. 19 Jan. 1683

+9 viii. Sarah Runyon #12934 b. 30 Oct. 1686

Second Generation

2. John Runyon #12928 born 1669 Piscataway, NJ md. 20 Jul 1692 Ann Elizabeth Dunn #12572 born 19 Mar 1675/66 d/o Hugh Dunn Sr. & Elizabeth Drake.  John died Nov. 1745 Rocky Hill, NJ. O.B. Leonard in Piscataway Planters does not show John as definite son of Vincent. "There was a John Runyon, contemporary with these two sons who married 1692/3 Elizabeth Dunn, and may have been another son of the original Vincent, but his family line is imperfectly preserved and cannot be given by the writer."

Children:

10. Martha Runyon #12984 b. 30 Jul 1693

+11. John Runyon #14403 b. 18 Nov. 1695

12. iii. Jonathan Runyon #14404 b. 1697, d. 1746/7

13. iv. Samuel Runyon #12985 b. 14 Feb. 1699

14. v. Nathaniel Runyon #14405 b. 1701

+15. vi. Vincent Runyon #12986 b. 4 Apr. 1702

16. vii. Benjamin Runyon #12987 b. 16 Jun 1704, d. ca. 1746/7 Somerset Co., NJ "Under the Runyon Tree" md. Mary (--?--), after Benjamin's death Mary (--?--) Runyon married 2) William Fish and 3) J. Furman.

17. viii. Anna Runyon #12988 b. 21 Jun 1706, d. young

18. ix. Ann Elizabeth Runyon #14406 b. 21 Jun 1708 md. 1734 John Hude [Hyde in most books] #31931, b. 1705 England, d. 1775 Hunterdon Co., NJ.  Ann died after 1804 Cincinnati, OH.

19. x. Francis Runyon #14407 b. 1709 md. Hannah Severence #31932

20 xi. Sarah Runyon #14408 b. ca. 1710

21. xii. Keziah Runyon #22990 b. 1713

+22. xiii. Hugh Runyon #14409 b. 29 Jun 1715.

3. Vincent Runyon #12929 b. 1671 Elizabethtown, NJ md. 2 Dec. 1691 Mary Hull #13094 b. 10 Aug. 1670 d/o Hopewell & Mary (Martin) Hull d. 2 Feb. 1757. Vincent died Mar. 1724 Middlesex Co., NJ.

Children:

23. i. Vincent Runyon b. 11 Jul 1692, Piscataway, NJ, died young

24 ii. Sarah Runyon b. 31 Oct. 1693 Piscataway, NJ, died young

25 iii. Sarah Runyon b. 14 Feb. 1695 Piscataway, NJ md. 1) Robert Webster, 2) Benjamin Van Vechten, d. 1747.  Sarah d. ca. 1745.

26 iv. Martha Runyon b. 5 Jul 1697

27. v. Mary Runyon b. 29 Aug. 1700 d. young

28. vi. Anne (Susannah) Runyon b. 26 Dec. 1702. Louise Mohler shows marriage to Capt. Thomas Wetherly.

29. vii. Rizaph Runyon b. 5 Nov. 1704

30. viii. Reuben Runyon b. 13 Feb. 1707

31. ix. Vincent Runyon III b. 1709, d. 1727/8

32. x Reune Runyon b. 27 Mar. 1711

33. xi. Reziah Runyon b. 27 May 1713

5. Thomas Runyon #12931 b. 1675 Piscataway, NJ md. ca. 1698 Martha Dunn, b. 13 Jul 1681 d/o Hugh & Elizabeth (Drake) Dunn Sr. died before 1749.  Thomas d. Apr. 1753 near Hopewell, NJ.

Children:

39. i. Catherine Runyan b. ca. 1700 NJ md. Cornelius Anderson

40. ii. Vincent Runyan b. ca. 1701 NJ md. Alise Curtis. Vincent d. ca. 1771 NJ.  Under the Runyon Tree gives a second wife Mercy Bonham Smith, widow md. ca. 1726.

• Donham
• Vincent Jr. 
• John 1723?? possibly went south. John Runyon son of Vincent b. ca. 1723 NJ. This could be the John Runyon who lived in Augusta Co., VA. In 1782 with sons and families in Monongalia Co., in 1785 John, Henry & William in Harrison Co., WV, John Jr. in Rockingham Co., VA before 1773.  1784 U.S. Census lists John Jr., his wife and 7 children in Rockingham Co.

If this is the John who is found in Brocks Gap, Rockingham Co., VA, he could be the father of Barefoot Runyon who married Margaret Rambo May 12, 1777 in Rockingham Co. with Elder John Alderson officiating. 

• Absolom
• Elizabeth
• Cornelius maybe

41. iii. Thomas Runyan Jr. b. ca. 1702, d. 1770 NJ

42. iv. Joseph Runyan b. ca. 1704 NJ - md. and had three children

43. v. Marta Runyan b. 1705/6 NJ md. Hezekiah Bonham, Jr. b. ca. 1701 s/o Hezekiah & (--?--) Bonham Sr.

44. vi. Aaron Runyan b. ca. 1709

45. vii. Ephraim Runyon b. ca. 1710/11 NJ md. Sarah Houghton. Ephraim d. 1772.

7. Peter Runyon b. 1 Jul 1680 Piscataway, NJ md. 12 Oct. 1704 Piscataway, NJ Providence Blackford b. 1683 d/o Samuel & Hannah/Ann (Smalley) Blackford d. 1759. Peter d. Oct. 1755.

The will of Peter Runyon dated 20 Sep. 1750 proved Nov. 3, 1755 is abstracted in NJ Calendar of Wills. It names wife Providence.  Childrne - Joseph, Peter (both made executors), Richard, Benjamin, Anna Layton, Grace Cooper, Rosannah Davison and Providence wife of John Bowman. Real & personal estate. Wit: James Campbell, Jeams Giles, Reune Runyon.

Neither this will, nor that of his widow, Providence (dated Jan. 18, 1759, proved July 14, 1760) includes daughter Sarah b. 12 Dec. 1725 who died young. But these wills also do not include John, Vincent, Rachel, Elizabeth or Samuel who are children attributed to Peter and Providence in some publications.

So far wa have not found John, Vincent, Rachel, Elizabeth or Samuel as children of Peter & Providence, in the extensive files of Oliver D. Drake.  This requires further study. We have included those individuals in this listing at this time.