Ahnentafel #325 - Molly Nolin

Mary Nolin may have been Nowlin

Born: unknown
Died: unknown

Buried: unknown

Married: William Meeks 

Children:
Priddy
John
Susanna
Athe
Jesse
Nacy
Martin
Sarah
Littleton
Candice

Will update as I find more information. 

Notebooks - Dad's Families No. 3, Part II

Roberts, Gary. English Origins of New England Families from the New England Historical & Genealogical Register in Three Volumes, Vol. I, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1984.

Will of John Huckstep the elder of Tenterden, County of Kent, yeoman, 4 Nov. 22, James I [1624]. Proved 17 Feb. 1624/5.  Contested, but upheld 5 April 1625.  Legatees:

• kinswoman Lydia Tilden, wife of Nathaniel Tilden, £5
• Thomas, son of my brother Stephen Huckstep £5
• brother Stephen Huckstep £3
• kinswoman Susanna Witherden wife of Henry Witherden £10
• Richard Witherden son of Henry & Susanna, £20 at age 21
• son Lawrence Huckstep, residue of goods and chattels, at age 21
• executor John Huckstep

This is probably Lydia (Huckstep) Tilden's uncle, brother of her father Stephen. 

Will of John Huckstep of Tenterden, County of Kent, yeoman, 6 Nov. 6 Charles I [1630]. Codicil 15 Aug. 1631 makes provision for possible posthumous child.  Proved 2 Dec. 1631. Legatees:

• wife Alice £30, household goods, clothes, etc.
• brother Thomas Huckstep £10
• daughter Sara £40 at age 19 or marriage
• daughter Joane £40 at age 19 or marriage
• son Stephen at age 21 lease of farm
• father Stephen £16 per year
• son Thomas at age 21 land in Appledore called Barneland
• son Nathanaell
• son William
• son Joseph
• son John
• Samuel Curtis witness
• Nathanaell Tilden witness

This is probably Lydia (Huckstep) Tilden's brother. 

Ahnentafel #324 - William Meeks

William Meeks

Born: ca. 1725
Died: after ca. 1768

Buried: unknown

Married: Mary Nolin / Nowlin ca. 1745

Research Log - Residence Chart - Distaff

Residence chart for mom's families. The "first" residence in the line is the last place the person lived. 

These four charts are for the Erkman, Gurley, Colclasure and Fitzgerald lines.

The Erkman line is quite short:
Gen. 1 - (me) - Kentucky - North Carolina - Kansas - Missouri - Illinois
Gen. 2 - Illinois
Gen. 3 - Italy - Africa - Kentucky - Illinois - Indiana - Illinois
Gen. 4 - Illinois - Oregon - Illinois
Gen. 5 - 6 - Illinois - Indiana - Ohio - Germany
Gen. 5 - Illinois - Indiana - Germany
Gen. 6 - Indiana - Germany

Ahnentafel #309 - Mary O'Dell

Mary O'Dell

Born: 1702, Westchester Co., New York
Died: between 1778 and 1779, Shenandoah Co., VA

Buried: Unknown

Married: Abraham Denton, Orange Co., New York, 1725

Records:
1774 - Sep. 27 - executor's bond for her husband's estate:

At a Court held for Dunmore County on Tuesday September 27th, 1774 Mary Denton, William Reno, Elijah Odell and John North in knowledged this their bond in court, which was ordered to be Recorded.

Test: Thomas Marshall C.D.C. 

Notebook - Connecticut No. 3

Chatfield, Priscilla. "A Connecticut Case Study: Captain Benjamin Frank Noyes, Mariner of Mystic River, Connecticut," New England Ancestors, Summer, 2002.

Captain Benjamin Frank Noyes (ca. 1828-1879) of Mystic River, CT, began his mariner's career at age sixteen when he shipped out on the whaling vessel Coriolanus. He was a member of the Baptist church. His papers are housed at the G.W. Blunt White Library (Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.).  Captain Noyes parents have never been identified.  The author presents her research into his genealogy. 

Biographical Review of New London County, CT - Mr. Noyes b. Stonington, lived on farm until age 16 - shipped out on whaler Coriolanus under Captain Gustavus Appleman. 

Genealogical & Biographical Records of New London County, CT - article about Noyes' son-in-law Christopher Morgan: Benjamin F. Noyes, father of Mrs. [Edith] Morgan, died in Savannah, Ga., June 18, 1879, son of Frank and grandson of Nathan Noyes.  Is this information true?

Genealogy of Rev. James Noyes of Stonington does not include the captain, but does include his daughter Edith, calling her ancestry unknown.  The absence of his genealogy may mean he was illegitimate. No birth record was found.  Census records indicate he was born ca. 1828 in Stonington, Connecticut, the informant is not apparent and the captain may have been away at sea. 

Ahnentafel #308 - Abraham Denton, ver. 2

Abraham Denton

Born: ca. 1705, Hempstead, Nassau Co., NY
Died: Aug. 1774 Shenandoah Co., VA

Buried: probably in Toms Brook Cemetery, Toms Brook, Shenandoah Co., VA

Married: 1725 Mary O'Dell in Orange Co., NY - no record of marriage, but widely accepted 

Biography: Abraham Denton was born say 1705 in Hempstead, Long Island.  The earliest reference to him is dated 19 November 1729 when for £60 he purchased a 87-acre "messuage or track of land" in Haverstraw, New York, from "Abraham Denton Senor" (Orange County Deeds 1:212). The map of original plots in the Kakiat Patent in Orange County shows two adjacent lots belonging to "Abraham Denton," one of 120 acres and one larger, but no deed has been found for either of them, nor for the disposal of the above 87 acres when Abraham left Orange County. His last appearance on the New York record is 30 April 1734 when at the "Court of General Session of the Peace held at Orange Town . . . the King Against Abrm Denton Junr. . . . the Defendt

Research Log - Residence Chart

Mom shared this Pedigree Chart with Movement with me yesterday and I've been working to create one for my lines in Excel. 

I ended up splitting it into four charts that cover up to 8 generations which gets me back to the immigrant ancestor and they are huge! Or when resized, so small you can't read them.  Yes, I am technologically challenged!

So here is my attempt at a simpler representation of the Lathrop line.  The "first" residence in the line is the last place the person lived.  

Gen 1- (me) - Kentucky - North Carolina - Kansas - Missouri - Illinois 
Gen. 2 to Gen. 4 Illinois -> Wayne Co. - Lawrence Co. 
Gen. 5 & 6- Illinois - Indiana - Vermont 
Gen. 7 - Canada - Vermont 
Gen. 8 & 9  Connecticut 
Gen. 9 - Connecticut - Massachusetts 
Gen. 9 - Massachusetts 

Ahnentafel #307 - Mary Ellis

Mary Ellis

Some people say she was Mary Elliot. 

Born: 1703, St. Paul's Parish, Stafford Co., VA
Died: ca. 1738 Prince William Co., VA, she is not mentioned in her husband's will in written in 1742 and he was giving her things to their children.  

Married: John Overall, Oct. 8, 1722, St. Paul's Parish, Stafford Co., VA

Children:
John
Sarah
Mary 
Behethland (dau)
William

Notebook - Virginia No. 1

Clemens, William.  Virginia Wills Before 1799, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1973 - available on Ancestry.

• Brooks
• Cloyd
• Cornwell
• Overall
• Parks
• Porter
• Robertson
• Robinson
• Smith
• Williamson
• Wilson

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Currer-Briggs, Noel. Virginia Settlers & English Adventurers, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970.

Andrew Pecke will Norfolk Archdeaconry / 99, 10 April 1605, proved 15 Mar. 1607/8 by exor at Norwich.  Andrew Pecke of Hickling, Norfolk, husbandman named Edmund, eldest son; Walter, second son; Edmund son of Edmund; Margarett Reading daughter of John; Alice Cooke, daughter. Wit: Robert Cooke

John Pecke Norwich Archdeaconry/37/C nuncupative, May 1607, proved 18 Aug. 1607 by Johanne Pecke, relict.  John Pecke of St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich, Skinner.  Names Johane his wife.

Walter Peck [probably son of Andrew above], Norfolk Archdeaconry/254, 1 April 1614, proved 5 June 1614 by exors. Walter Pecke of Hickling,  Norfolk, yeoman.  Names Margaret his wife; son Robert under 21; son Walter under 21; son Thomas; brother Edmund; godson Edmund Pecke; Margaret Reading.

Ahnentafel #306 - John Overall

John Overall

Born: 1701
Died: 1743 Hamilton Parish, Prince William Co., VA.

Buried: Unknown

Married: Mary Ellis/Elliot, Oct. 8, 1722 in St. Paul's Parish, Stafford Co./King George Co., VA

Records:

1707 - to receive a heifer from his grandfather John Jones

1713 - John Jones' will probated in Westmoreland Co., Virginia

Research Log - Tipton Family

As the last two ahnentafel entries are sketchy at best I started looking into the Tiptons.  They are easier to sort out than the Hunts.  I came across Charles Heinemann's Tipton Family of Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, printed in 1934 which is available on Ancestry.

In the preface he states that "these notes represent an effort to arrange the various conflicting data on this famous family in a manner that will reconcile, as nearly as possible, the various lines, so as to aid future searches."

Edward Tipton is the man Heinemann points to as the possible emigrant ancestor in Maryland even though there are some gaps between him and the next known generation.

In England there is a Tipton Parish in an Urban District of South Staffordshire.  It is an ancient church, and its parish registers go back to an early period.

The name Tipton appears in the Domesday Book as Tibintone.  Its meaning was "the tun or town of Tib's or Tibba's people."  It has been suggested on very good authority, that the name had its origin from Seventh Century St. Tybba, patroness of hunting.

As early as 1606 there were Tiptons in Bedford County, England.

Here is the line as Heineman lays it out:

I. Edward Tipton b. 1620, d. ? An Edward Tipton immigrated to Maryland in 1668 in the ship Friendship of London.  Wife unknown.  [Annapolis Land Office Records, Libra 11, Folio 379 and W.C. 2, Folio 123 for service 1680]

Ahnentafel #305 & #313 - Elizabeth Jane Tipton

Elizabeth Jane Tipton

Born:  ca. 1695

Died: unknown

Buried: unknown

Married: John Hunt

Records:

No records found, but she appears on several family trees on Ancestry.  It may be time to rethink this and  look elsewhere for John's mother. 

Children:

John Tipton Hunt Sr. 

Notebook - Dad's Families No. 3, Part I

This notebook is so full, I've decided to present it in a couple parts.

Harris, Wanda. Backtracking Bruners, Wanda Harris, 1993.

Nola June Hood - My sister
The third child of Goldie C. Bruner and Noel J. Hood, born 12 September 1939, Nola married Donald Gene Austin, son of Donald W. Austin and Lova Lathrop on 20 November 1955 in Wayne County, Illinois.  Nola and Gene have made their home in Morton, Illinois, where Gene worked until his retirement at Caterpillar.


Their children are:
Vernon Lee Austin
Daryl Gene Austin
Kevin Wayne Austin

Vernon Lee Austin - Son of Nola June Hood
The first son of Nola June Hood and Donald G. Austin.  He works as a baker and his church is Grace Mennonite.  Vernon married Marie Skaggs, daughter of James A. Skaggs and Dorothy E. Peters on 5 December 1981 in Deer Creek, Illinois.  Their children are:

Ahnentafel #304 & #312 - John Hunt

John Hunt

Born: ca. 1693 probably Maryland, some people say Prince William Co., Virginia
Died: after 1743

Buried: Unknown

Married: Elizabeth Jane Tiption

Records:
1743, October - Prince William Co., VA - deed:

Mary Williams, late of Stafford County, Virginia was in Baltimore County by Oct. 1743 when she conveyed 200 acres in Prince William County, Hamilton Parish to John Hunt.  It was land she had inherited from her father John Toward.

This guy is in a lot of trees on Ancestry, but I'm not finding any records to support it . . . . it may be time to saw this branch from the tree and start looking around for another option.  This is the end of the road on this particular line anyway.

Children:
John Tipton Hunt Sr.

Revised 6/10/2019

Scrub Hill School District #128

School Term 1924-25, Sept. 8, 1924-Feb. 13, 1925

Teacher: Inez Koger

This report was made by Lillie Wells for Inez Perry who left the county without making the required reports.

Enrollment List - Year of School - Age

Dora Helen Jenkins - 1 - 6
Lorene Garrison - 1 - 5
Ruby Thomason - 1 - 7
Hazel Thomason - 1 - 6
Ruby Decker - 1 - 6
Raymond Lathrop - 1 - 5
Ruby Lathrop - 2 - 7
Noie Jenkins - 3 - 8
Thelma Bailey - 3 - 8
Zelma Thomason - 3 - 12
Russell Thomason - 3 - 10
Bernard Lathrop - 3 - 10
Loren Thomason - 4 - 13
Berlin Lewis - 5 - 10
Harry Hood - 7 - 12
Forrest Lathrop - 7 - 12
Zelphia Lathrop - 7 - 12
Thelma Davis - 7 - 13
Flossie Baker - 7 - 12
Geneva Jenkins - 7 - 13
Velma Garrison - 7 - 12
Eva Tyler - 7 - 13

My dad compiled this list when he was researching Scrub Hill School.  Scrub Hill was located in the field just north of where the marker is.  

Panics & Depressions in the United States

Yes, another cheery topic.  I'm clearing out stuff and I can post it here and then put the paper in the trash.

Economists make a distinction between panics, crises, and depressions.  An industrial or financial crisis reaches its peak in a PANIC, when commodity and security prices fall sharply. The panic is usually followed by a period of depressed activity and readjustment, until confidence is restored and business again reaches a normal level.  Almost invariably a crisis is preceded by a period of abnormally high activity, when prosperity is accompanied by inflated prices of commodities, of securities, and of real estate. The earlier crises or panics were mostly the result of European difficulties, and were not so severe or widespread in the U.S.  In 1793 the unexpected declaration of war between France and England was followed by troubles for American shipping, and caused a period of decline.  Again, after 1802, the peace of Amiens was followed by maritime prosperity, to be ended abruptly by the Embargo and Non-Importation troubles in 1807 and 1808. The War of 1812 brought industry in the U.S. to a low point, from which it recovered rapidly, for several years, only to suffer a slump in the years 1819-22. The first major panic and crisis came in 1837.

Politician: I'll stop your horse, sir.
Bank Director: Do it then, like a good fellow, but take care; see what I got for trying to stop him in my way.

Battles & Wars Important in World History

Agincourt 1415 - Henry V of England decisively defeated the French, proving finally the superiority of the English longbowmen over the armored knights of France.

American Revolution 1775-1783 - Successful revolt of the Thirteen English Colonies in America against British rule; Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown; independence recognized by Great Britain. 

Armada, Spanish 1588 - Flotilla of maneuverable English ships defeated great Spanish war fleet in the English Channel; deathblow to Spain's mastery of the seas.

Austerlitz 1805 - Battle of Three Emperors; Napoleon defeated the united forces of Russia and Austria under Alexander I and Francis II.

Filing - Dad's Families

Here's the list of files in the green boxes - that is for dad's families. The eight main surnames are Butler, Dove, Draper, Gentle, Hunt, Lathrop, Maulding and Robertson.   I'm finally finished with this part, hurrah!!!  I'll be getting back to the format of the blog and be posting ahnentafel entries and notebooks soon. Adgate Family

Alger Family

All Branches - Illinois - Wayne Co.

Anderson, Loran & Nova Crumbacher

Andrews Family

Aufdermauer, Richard & Stephanie Lathrop

Austin, Daryl & Gina Stephenson

Austin, Donald & Lova Lathrop

Austin, Kevin & Jacque Barnes

Austin, Thomas & Eleanor Robertson & Rhoda Louis

Austin, Vernon & Sharon Skaggs & Phyllis Perez

Baker, Bob & Irene Lathrop

Barnfield, James & Helen Butler

Barnfield, James & Julie Harrington

Beasley Family

Robertson Mystery Obituaries

I'm still filing, but I'm in the R's so there is light at the end of the tunnel.  Another large file because the Robertson family is prolific.  I've come across two obituaries that were probably kept by my grandmother Grace (Butler) Robertson. They have no newspaper title or date.  

Obituary 1:

The Rev. A.A. Robertson Dies

Retired Congregational Minister of Chicago Former St. Louisan.

The Rev. Albert A. Robertson, retired Congregational minister, and a former St. Louisan, died Wednesday of a heart attack at his home in Chicago. He was 60 years old.