Vermont to Indiana and Beyond, ver. 2

Linn County, Iowa

Coming across "new" old information during the filing process and found this to be an interesting description of Rev. Erastus Lathrop's family's migration from Vermont to Indiana.  A journey that Russell's family took in 1837 to Decatur County.

Elkanah Lathrop's known children:

Armon b. ca. 1775 VT, d. ca.  1852

• Vermont
• Clay Co., IL by 1840
• Effingham Co., IL by 1852

Rev. Erastus b. 1776 VT, d. 1827 Decatur Co., IN

• Canada ca. 1800
• Vermont 1812
• Dearborn Co., IN 1817
• Ohio Co., IN 1818
• Decatur Co. IN 1821

Filing - Mom's Families

Here's the list of files in the red boxes - that is for mom's families. The eight main surnames are Colclasure, Edwards, Erkman, Fitzgerald, Gurley, Probst, Speer and Wilson.   I'm still working through dad's families . . . stay tuned. Ali, Mohammad

All Branches: Colclasure Talbert

Anselment, Gregory & Samantha Hall

Armistead Family

Barr, Byron & Inez Colclasure

Barr, John & Ruby Gurley

Berry, A.D. & Leona Reagan

Berry, Evans & Daisy Speer

Blankenship, Alexander & Lucinda Colclasure

Brewer family

Brooks, Caleb & Susannah Porter & Charity (--?--)

Brooks, Richard & Delinah Coy & Elizabeth Marshall

Brooks, William

Bullard, Danny & Diane Talbert

Burton, Harvey & Dolores Colclasure

Bushrod Family

Bushrod, John, d. 1720

Bushrod, John, d. 1760

Cagle – Miscellaneous

Cagle Family

Chapman, Bernard & Mabel Davis

Chrisman, Edward & Mildred Erkman

Filing 20+ Years of Genealogy

This is what I've been doing since late December and why I haven't been blogging.  I've been sorting, doing data entry and filing about 20 years worth of files.  Over 2 cubic feet of records on all y'all and our ancestors.   Genealogist or stalker? You decide.

Genealogy database

Ahnentafel #297 & #303 - Martha Cook, ver. 2

Martha Cook

Born: ca. 1735 probably in Virginia
Died: after 1804 in either North Carolina or Kentucky

Buried: unknown

Married:  1754 Richard Beasley in Caroline Co., Virginia

Research Log - 300 Years Ago

January

9 - Deborah Lathrop born in Norwich, Connecticut, the daughter of Samuel & Deborah (Crow) Lathrop

February

22 - 28 - Joshua Hobart died in Southold, New York age 88

March

31 - John Moss died in Wallingford, Connecticut age about 60

April

25 - Ann Backus married Nathaniel Lathrop 

Ahnentafel #296 & #302- Richard Beasley, ver. 2

Richard Beasley

Born: 1736, Essex or Caroline County, Virginia
Died: 1804 Francisco, North Carolina

Buried: Beasley Family Graveyard, Francisco, North Carolina

Married: 1754 Martha Cook in Caroline Co., Virginia

Occupation: farmer

Records:

1764 - August 9 - Caroline Co., VA - Andrew Anderson vs. Richard Beasley for trespass, Richard confessed and paid 3 pounds, 19 shillings, 93 farthings.

1765 - Lower Drysdale Parish, Caroline Co., VA - Richard worked road construction

Notebook - Connecticut No. 2

Cutter, William, ed. Genealogical & Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. II, New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911.

Thomas Fitch, the English progenitor, was born in England about 1590, died in 1645. He inherited an estate near Braintree, Essex county, England.  He married, August 8, 1611, Annie Pew. After his death the widow and three sons came to New England, where two sons had already located. Children, mentioned in will: 1. Thomas, came to America in 1638, settled in Norwalk; in 1663 was one of the wealthiest citizens, from whom in three generations each bearing the name of Thomas Fitch, descended Governor Thomas Fitch, who was at the head of the colony of Connecticut from 1754 to 1760.  2. John, of Windsor; left no issue.  3. James, mentioned below. 4. Nathaniel. 5. Jeremy. 6. Samuel, of Hartford. 7. Joseph, settled in Norwalk in 1652; in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1655; of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1660; married Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel Stone, a founder of Hartford; removed to Windsor. 8. Mary. 9. Anna. 10. Sara. The will of Thomas Fitch, of Bocking, Essex county, England, is dated 11 December, 1632, proved 12 February, 1632 (O.S.).

Ahnentafel #271 - Anne Fitch

Anne Fitch

Born: April 1675 in Norwich, Connecticut
Died: October 17, 1715 in Lebanon, Connecticut

Buried: Fox Cemetery, Oakdale, Connecticut

Married: Joseph Bradford on October 5, 1698 in Norwich, Connecticut

Research Log - 400 Years Ago

1617


March

2 - Margerie Skynner of Braintree, Essex England wrote her will:

To my daughter Margerie five pounds (and other goods) and to her son John Gill a bullock.  To my son William Skynner five pounds.  

To my son John Skynner twenty pounds.  

To my daughter Rachell five pounds.  I do give and bequeath further to my daughter Rachell three pewter platters of the greater sort and three of the best cushions in the great chamber and my warming pan.  

To Sara Taylcoat a flock bed and a flock bolster, a coverlet and a pair of blankets (and other effects). To Rachell Taylcoate a little kettle of a gallon, a brass pot, a posnet (&c.).  

And I will that the pewter which I had of my son in law

Ahnentafel #270 - Joseph Bradford, ver. 3

Joseph Bradford

Born: Apr. 18, 1675 Plymouth, Massachusetts
Died: Jan. 17, 1747 New London, Connecticut

Buried: Raymond Hill Cemetery, New London, Connecticut

Married:
1) Oct. 5, 1698 Anne Fitch in Norwich, CT
2) Feb. 25, 1716 Mary (Sherwood) Fitch, daughter of Matthew & Mary (Fitch) Sherwood and widow of Daniel Fitch.  

Religion: a member of the Congregational Church

Records:

1700 - Joseph Bradford was one of the 51 original proprietors of Lebanon, CT.

The people acted on these grants of privilege, and the town [of Lebanon, CT] was formally organized in 1700.  The church was embodied November 27th of the same year, and Mr. Joseph Parsons was ordained pastor of the church and minister of the town.  A military company called a "train band" was also formed, yet I find in the public records no mention of any officers commissioned until the May session of 1702, when Lieut. John Mason is appointed Captain of the "train band" in Lebanon, Ensign Jeremiah Fitch to be their Lieutenant, and Mr. Joseph Bradford to be their Ensign, and to be commissioned accordingly.  In 1708 there was a second train-band here, I conclude in that part of the town now called Goshen.

Notebook - Tennessee No. 1

Cartwright, Betty & Lillian Gardiner.  North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee 1778-1791, Memphis, TN, 1958.

North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791 has been reproduced because of its value to genealogists and historians as source material for the earliest period of Tennessee settlement.  early records of Tennessee are scarce.  Census schedules for 1790 of the Western Territory (Tennessee) were burned, so too were the 1800 and all but one county (Rutherford) for 1810. This list of land owners and/or settlers constitutes the only substitute for a 1790 census of the part of North Carolina which became Tennessee in 1796.

To understand this book one should know the procedure used: North Carolina issued Military Warrants for land as payment to many of her Revolutionary Soldiers. (Some payments were made in scrip which was used to purchase land.)  As these warrants, numbered consecutively, were surrendered for payment, land grants were issued with a different series of numbers (also consecutive.)  The list in this book gives the Grant Book number.  The Warrant number is found on the face of the Grant itself.  Comparison with the warrant shows whether or not the Grant issued to the soldier, his heir or to someone to whom he had assigned his Warrant.

Nothing is more complicated and exasperating than the Land Records of Tennessee -- the Courts were occupied for many decades settling disputes arising from the granting of some lands more than once through error, and through conflicts in interpretation of the North Carolina and Tennessee Land Laws.

Ahnentafel #269 - Abigail Loomis

Abigail Loomis

Born: August 10, 1691, Windsor, Connecticut
Died: March 9, 1752, Brimfield, Massachusetts

Buried: Probably in Brimfield cemetery as many of her descendants are buried there.

Married: June 5, 1712 William Janes in Brimfield, Massachusetts

Records:
1721 - April 2 - Abigail admitted to the Congregational Church in Lebanon, Connecticut

Children: 
Jonathan
Abigail
Timothy
Mary
Abel
William
Elijah
Sarah
Israel

Research Log - New London County, Connecticut

There are a couple places where many of our families meet and stay for more than a generation.  New London County Connecticut is one of these places.  More specifically the towns of New London, Norwich and Lebanon.  Dates are approximate times when person lived in the named town

New London - settled 1646, named 1658 is located at the mouth of the Thames River on Long Island Sound and has an excellent harbor. 

"The Indian name of New London," says Trumbull, "was Nameaug, alias Towawog." The first was undoubtedly the prevalent name: it was used, with many variations in the spelling, to designate both the site of the town and the natives found upon it. The Indian names are all descriptive, and this is supposed to mean a fishing place, being compounded of Namas, fish, and eag, aug, eak, terminations which signify land. 

The other name, Tawaw-wog, is not often found on record: it occurs however, as an alias, in several deeds, about the date of 1654. It is probable that this also has a reference to fish; and may be derived from Tataug or Tatau-og, black-fish, for which the neighboring waters are still renowned.

Ahnentafel #268 - William Janes, ver. 2

William Janes

Born: 1692 Northampton
Died:  after July 1752, Brimfield, MA

Buried: probably in Brimfield Cemetery, many of his descendants are buried there.

Married: Abigail Loomis, June 5, 1712 in Brimfield, MA

William Janes was the prominent son and leading member of the family of Abel Janes.  He raised up a large and honored family of sons and daughters.  He was the favorite son of the family, and was at home with father and mother till some time after the death of his father, Abel (1718), and in time moved with all, or nearly all his family, from his native place, Lebanon, Conn., to land he purchased for himself and sons in Brimfield, Mass.  From records of the town of Brimfield, its settlement was commenced in 1717, and William Janes, grandson of the first William, the emigrant, was among the first, or nearly so, in purchasing and preparing for the future abode in his family.  He might have removed there with his young family as soon as a part of his five hundred acre purchase was cleared and partially improved, and convenient buildings erected for their occupancy.  The dates are not at hand to determine the point.  But his oldest son was not born till 1713, and his youngest son was born in 1734.  Their births are all recorded in Lebanon, and his mother, Mary, died in Lebanon 1736.  The distance being about forty miles from Lebanon to Brimfield, no doubt a part of the family remained till after the death of their grandmother, Mary, and perhaps all of them spent their winters there till Brimfield could be made to seem to them a real home.  His oldest, Jonathan, married Irene Bradford, granddaughter of Governor Bradford.

Notebook - Massachusetts No. 2

1790 Massachusetts Census

Hampshire County, Brimfield
Coy, Jonth - 1 m 16+, 1 m -16, 1 f
Coy, Willis - 1 m 16+, 1 m -16, 1 f

Hampshire County, Northfield
Brooks, Alpheus 4 m 16+, 2 m -16, 6 f
Coy, Stephen 2 m 16+, 3 m -16, 2 f
Coy, Lem'l. 1 m 16+, 2 f

Middlesex County, Medford
Brooks, Thos. Esqr. 3 m 16+, 3 m -16, 2 f, 2 others
Brooks, Thos. Jr. 1 m 16+, 1 m -16, 3 f
Brooks, Ruth 2 f
Brooks, Abigail 2 m 16+, 1 m -16, 5 f, 2 others
Brooks, Caleb 3 m 16+, 1 m -16, 5 f
Brooks, John Esqr. 1 m 16+, 2 m -16, 4 f, 1 other

Worcester County, Western Town
Brooks, John 1 m 16+, 4 m -16, 4 f

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Accelerated Indexing Systems. Massachusetts 1800 Census, Bountiful, MA: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1973.

Hampshire County
Benjamin Brooks family
2 males -10
2 males 10-16
1 female 16-26

Ahnentafel #267 - Abigail (--?--)

Abigail (--?--)

Born: ca. 1705
Died: September 18, 1779, Willington, CT

Married: Amos Richardson ca. 1724

Children: 
John
William
Mary
Asa
William
Benjamin
Esther
Amos
James
Amos
Susannah
Gershom

Research Log - Map of Norwich

Ahnentafel #266 - Amos Richardson

Amos Richardson

Born: ca. 1705
Died: April 16, 1777, Willington, CT

Married: Abigail (--?--) ca.

Children:
John b. 1725, d. 1748
William b. 1727, d. 1732 age 5

Mary
Asa b. 1731
William b. 1733 md. Tabitha Chamberlain 1755

• William b. 1755
• Tabitha b. 1758, d. 1760
• Tabitha b. 1761

Notebook - Virginia No. 10

Colonial Records of Virginia  

A list of parishes in Virginia 1680 - Benjamin Doggett minister of Christ's Church, White Chapple in Lancaster County

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First Census of the United States, 1790, Records of the State Enumerations: 1782 to 1785, Virginia

Amelia County - 1782
Robertson, Bridgewater - 6 white, 0 black
Robertson, George - 4 w, 3 b
Robertson, James - 6 w, 2 b
Robertson, Henry (estate) - 8 w, 16 b
Robertson, Maryann - 4 w, 8 b
Robertson, John - 8 w, 5 b
Robertson, John - 4 w, 22 b
Robertson, George - 5 w, 4 b
Robertson, James - 6 w, 31 b 

Cumberland County
Robertson, John - 4 w, 3 b
Robertson, David - 8 w, 0 b
Robertson, Jeffrey - 6 w, 8 b
Fairfax County - 1782
Robertson, John - 6 w, 0 b
Robertson, John - 7 w, 13 b
Robertson, George - 5 w, 2 b 

Frederick County - 1782
Brill, Herman - 5 w
Wolfe, Lewis - 7 w
Wolfe, Jacob - 5 w
Brill, Henry - 8 w
Brooks, Thomas - 10 w
Shepherd, Mercer - 5 w
Shepherd, Thomas - 3 w 

Hanover County - 1782
Robertson, Samuel - 10 w, 4 b
Brooks, Richeson - 6 w, 2 b 

Mecklenburg County - 1782
Robertson, John - 4 w
Robertson, John Jr. - 9 w
Robertson, William - 8 w, 8 b
Robertson, James - 4 w
Robertson, Alexander - 6 w, 1 b 

Ahnentafel #265 - Mary Tilden, ver. 2

Mary Tilden

Born: Oct. 3, 1698 in Scituate, Massachusetts
Died: after 1771

Buried: Unknown

Married: Rowland Powell January 12, 1718 in Connecticut

Records:

1728 - Aug. 4 - Mary admitted to church in Lebanon, CT