Thursday, January 31, 2019

Ahnentafel #538 - Josiah Loomis

Josiah Loomis

Born: February 17, 1660/61 in Windsor, Connecticut
Died: October 20, 1735 in Lebanon, Connecticut

Buried: Unknown

Married: October 23, 1683 Mary Rockwell in Lebanon, Connecticut

Records:

1687 - Sept. 1 - Court case in Hartford, Connecticut

Edward Allyn plntf Contra Josiah Loomys defendant in an action of the Case for takeing up & keeping unjustly from him a Hors[e] Coalt of Two years old last spring Branded with the letter D on the neer Buttock which is the coalt the sayd Allyn Bought of Jeremy Diggins to a Surrender of the sayd Coalt with Thirty Nine shillings damage In this action the Jury find for the plntf a Surrender of the Coalt in controversy & cost of court the defendant appeales reviews to the county court march next cost allowed one pownd Twelue shillings & Six pence.

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Notebooks - Mom's Families No. 3, Part I

Baganz, Belle & Herbert Baganz. Descendants of Richard & Penelope Stout & Generations to Belle Summers Clift Baganz, Lafayette, IN: Baganz, 1972
After the Revolution 1789, David Stout, with Nathaniel Hixson and three sons of Joab Houghton and their Uncle Asa Runyon, with their families went to Mason County, Ky., and they were all useful and good citizens, in the new country. David Stout died December 27th, 1827.
The Maysville Eagle of Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1828 records the following:
Died - Thursday last at the home of Mr. Mahlon Williamson at Taylor's Mills in Mason County, Ky., Mr. David Stout, a Soldier of the Revolution in the 95th year of his age.
1. Richard and Penelope (Van Princis) Stout of N.J.
2. Johnathan Stout & Ann Bullen of N.J.
3. Johnathan Stout & Mary Lee of N.J.
4. David Stout & Sarah (Parke) Stout  sibling of
4. Sarah Stout & Moses Morgan of KY
5. Sarah Morgan & Squire Boone PA
6. Daniel Boone

Craig, Peter. Elisabeth Petersdotter Yocum, Wife of the English Soldier, John Ogle, The Ogle Genealogist, Vol. 18,  Ogle/Ogles Family Association, 1997.
In my first published venture in pre-Penn genealogy in the Delaware valley in 1983, I advanced the theory that my ancestor, the Swedish soldier Peter Jochimsson, was not only the father of Peter Peterson Yocum but "probably also had a daughter named Elizabeth Petersdotter, who later married John Ogle, one of the soldiers participating in the English conquest of the Dutch in

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Ahnentafel #537 - Mary Judd

Mary Judd

Born: 1658 Farmington, Connecticut
Baptized: 22 July 1660 Farmington, Connecticut
Died: 24 April 1735 Lebanon, Connecticut

Buried: Old Cemetery, Lebanon, Connecticut - epitaph said to be:
Here lyes ye Body of yt worthy
virtuous & pious Mother in Israel
wife to Mr. Abel Janes Mrs Mary
Janes by Name when she had
Lieved Long a Holy and Patient Life
Dyed April 24, 1735 in ye
80 year of Har age
Married: Abel Janes November 4, 1679 in Northampton, Massachusetts

Records:

1718 - Sep. 15 - Lebanon, CT - Mary is mentioned in her husband Abel Janes' will:

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Notebook - Military No. 3

Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs. Powerpoint Presentation Slide, nd

National Genealogical Society. Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives, Washington, DC: National Genealogical Society, 1976
  • Brooks, Caleb E. CT, Jane E. R1244

Rightmeyer, Don. North or South? Finding Your Kentucky Civil War Ancestor, Kentucky Ancestors, Vol. 43, No. 3, Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Historical Society, 2008
The first step in discovering if you have ancestors who served during the Civil War is to work on your own family tree back to and even earlier than the Civil War. A primary reference for Kentuckians' documented service in the Civil War are the four volumes of the Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky. Two volumes for Kentucky Union volunteers were compiled and published in 1866/67 and two additional volumes were printed in 1915/1918 for Kentucky men who served in the Confederate army. The Adjutant General's Reports include short capsule histories for individual army units and lists of the

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Ahnentafel #536 - Abel Janes

Here Lieth the Body of Mr. Abel Janes
ye Husband of Mrs. Mary Janes, who
Died December ye 18 1718 in ye
73 year of his age
Leet Heavens Blessings rest upon
ye Darling of my youthful dayes
& also one of my children young
To keep them all in wisdom's ways
Abel Janes

Born: b. ca. 1644
Baptized: 19 March 1648, New Haven, Connecticut
Died: 18 December 1718, Lebanon, Connecticut

Buried: Old Cemetery, Lebanon, Connecticut

Marriage: Mary Judd, Nov. 4, 1679 in Northampton, Massachusetts

Biographical notes: He was an early pioneer to this town [Lebanon, CT], and was highly esteemed as an intelligent father, friend and  counselor, leading a respectable family of influential children and grand-children in the paths of virtue and true religion. When he died, 18 December, 1718, he left behind him the legacy of a good name, that his children might profit by his example.  From him and his children has come down an influence for morality, for patriotism, and pure religion, which will continue to extend and bless other generations. The Janes Family: A Genealogy & Brief History of the Descendants of William Janes . . . 

Friday, January 11, 2019

In Memoriam - Norma (Butler) Bowden

Norma Jean Bowden, 71 of Mount Vernon, Illinois passed away at 12:35 am January 10, 2019 at her residence in Mount Vernon, Illinois. She was born November 23, 1947 in Arcola, Illinois to the late Minor Butler and Rachael (Hutchcraaft) Butler.  Norma married Jessie Bowden, Sr. on June 27, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois. They were blessed with 50 years of marriage.

In addition to her husband Jessie Bowden, Sr., Norma is survived by her three sons, Jessie Bowden, Jr. and wife Joann, Eric Bowden and Jason Bowden, all of Mount Vernon, Illinois; two daughters Michelle Bowden of Mount Vernon, Illinois and Jacqueline Bowden of Nashville, Tennessee; fourteen grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren; brother Charles Butler and wife Janie of Centralia, Illinois; three sisters, Thelma Holeman and husband Larry of Ohio, Orlena Tindal of Belle

Notebook - Massachusetts No. 3


Anderson, Robert.  A Closer Look at the Great Migration Study Project, New England Ancestors, Fall 2001.
The primary mission of the Great Migration Study Project has been to serve as a guide to what is known about each of the immigrants to New England between 1620 and 1643 and to replace the many older reference works we have for these families.
At a very early stages of the project, we developed a sketch format to organize our biographical and genealogical knowledge of each of the immigrants.  This format has stood up well over the years, but the material included under each heading within a sketch has undergone changes. Most importantly, the original plan was to include a list of the names of the children of each immigrant, with only birth or baptismal data attached; but David Greene (who, along with Robert Wakefield and Roger Joslyn, has been from the beginning of the project one of the readers of sketch drafts) soon insisted that more detail be given for the children, including especially their marriages, but also other information where relevant.
Other changes have been made as well.  In the section on "Offices," there has been a steady trend to present the data in a more rational form, with civil offices given first, and then military offices, and within each of those subsections, the material was further divided by the jurisdiction within which the service was performed.

Monday, January 7, 2019

Ahnentafel #532 - (--?--) Richardson, ver. 2

(--?--) Richardson

Born: between 1655 and 1685 ballpark, probably in Connecticut, possibly in Massachusetts

Died: probably in Connecticut, possibly in Massachusetts

Children - at least one:


Amos




Possibility 1 from Vinton, John. The Richardson MemorialPortland, ME: Brown Thurston & Company, 1876

Nathaniel Richardson


Born: 2 January 1650/51, Woburn, Massachusetts

Died: 4 December 1714, Woburn, Massachusetts

Buried: probably in the First Burial Ground of Woburn, Massachusetts, no stone found


Married: Mary (--?--)  ca. 1672


Thursday, January 3, 2019

Notebook - Maryland No. 2

Barnes, Robert. Marriages & Deaths from the Maryland Gazette, 1727-1839, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1973 - available on Ancestry
The Maryland Gazette was first published in Annapolis in 1727 by William Parks. Parks had previously established two newspapers in England: the Ludlow Post-Man in 1719 and the Reading Mercury in 1723. He came to Annapolis in March 1725/6 and shortly thereafter established the Maryland Gazette, which was the first paper to be published south of Pennsylvania. Publication of the Gazette was carried on intermittently until 1734.
Parks held the post of Public Printer in the Province of Maryland from 1727 until 1737. In 1730 he established a press in Williamsburg, Virginia and in 1736 became the editor of the Virginia Gazette. He was also Public Printer of Virginia until 1750, the year of his death.
The Maryland Gazette was re-established in 1745 by Jonas Green, a native of Connecticut and the son of Deacon Timothy Green. . . . 
The Gazette usually consisted of a folded sheet of four pages, with nearly half the space devoted to advertising. News from Europe and from other colonies took up the bulk of the remaining space, with part of one column given over to Annapolis news. Deaths and marriages were sometimes found in this column, but later, when they became a popular feature, they were listed separately under the headings "Marriages' and "Deaths," or as they were waggishly referred to in the early nineteenth century, "The Knot" and "The Knell."  The early issues of the paper carried comparatively few marriage and death notices other than those concerning  prominent citizens.  The inclusion of notices of notices of ordinary citizens was a gradual process.