earlier family history

my 2nd great-grandparents:
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Name: Heinrich Kliewer
relationship: father of Johann Kliewer
residence: Ellerwald, West Prussia
marriage: Eva Unruh 4/15/1841
Anna Funk 7/14/1859
children: (Emilie Kliewer 1/15/1852?)
Maria Kliewer 3/7/1852
Arnold Kliewer 6/6/1854
Heinrich Kliewer 1859
Johanna Kliewer 4/19/1860 (stillborn)
Franz Kliewer 5/20/1861
Emma Kliewer 12/25/1862
Johann Kliewer 5/31/1864
religion: Mennonite
comments: According to Ellerwald church records, he may
have been born in 1812 to Heinrich Kliewer, but
this is unclear.
Heinrich Kliewer is described as a "house owner"
on church records.
The Kliewer family was a Mennonite family in West
Prussia in the late 18th and early 19th century.
The family originated in Holland in the early 17th century
and was Dutch speaking until the late 18th century. (Even
today there are "Klieverik" families listed in the Dutch
telephone directory.)
"Kliewer" means "paster" in Dutch and may refer to the
bookbinding profession. [source: "Johann Kliewer Family
History and Genealogy" by Leon R. Kliewer, Buhler, KS]
Alternatively, I have seen websites which say that Kliewer
comes the Dutch name "Kluiver" (pronounced "KLYFFER"] and originally
meaning "hangman". Today "Kluiver" is not a word in modern
Dutch.
Presumably, my great-great-grandfather was part of this
Dutch Mennonite family.
The Mennonites in Prussia were treated as a basically
disliked and second class non-conformist minority by the
surrounding Lutherans, somewhat similar to the way Jews
were treated at that time.
I get the impression that my Prussian ancestry has
basically two branches - the Kliewer branch who were
primarily Frisian Mennonites living on individual farms
in the canal irrigated Vistula River delta and the Krogoll
branch who were Lutheran, perhaps originally Huguenot and
German, who lived a slightly more urban life as craftsmen
in the small town of Christburg.
According the the "Deutsches Geschlechterbuch" vol.
132, the oldest known Kliewer was a Jacob Kliewer born
in Danzig, West Prussia 8/17/1669.
[The Mennonites are members of dozens of different
Christian churches who all believe in avoiding military
service, avoiding taking oaths, the baptism of adults but
not children and in general a simple, humble way of life.
The Amish of Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania are one well known
group of Mennonites.
The Mennonites were founded by an ex-priest Menno Simons
in the Friesland province of the Netherlands during the
early 1500's. They were usually lower middle class and
some lived in urban areas such as Amsterdam. Many
Mennonites were executed for heresy in the 1500's and
beginning in the 1500's many migrated to the Vistula
River delta. (Only in 1579 was Holland independent of
Roman Catholic rule and persecution.)
In the Vistula River delta, almost all the Mennonites
were of Dutch origin and the Frisian were somewhat more
liberal than the Flemish Mennonites. They also were more
commonly farmers.]
sources: Ellerwald Mennonite Church records


Name: Anna Funk
relationship: father of Johann Kliewer
birth: 10/30/1833 Barlewitz, West Prussia
[Barlewitz was a village just north east of
the town of Stuhm, West Prussia, today Sztum,
Poland.]
residence: Ellerwald, West Prussia
marriage: Heinrich Kliewer 7/14/1859
children: Johanna Kliewer 4/19/1860 (stillborn)
Franz Kliewer 5/20/1861
Emma Kliewer 12/31/1862
Johann Kliewer 5/31/1864
religion: Mennonite
comments: According to Leon R. Kliewer, Buhler, KS Funk was
originally a Dutch name, not German.
According to "The Coming of the Russian Mennonites"
by C. Henry Smith, Funk was a Frisian family. I have
an impression that my Prussian Mennonite ancestry
was largely Frisian,

Name: Carl August Krogoll
relationship: father of Marie Krogoll
residence: Christburg, west Prussia
religion: Lutheran
birth: 12/31/1823
children: Maria Krogoll 1850
Augustine Krogoll 1852
Caroline Henriette Krogoll 1854
Carl Hermann August Krogoll 1856
Anna Maria Elisabet Krogoll 1858
Friedrich Rudolf Krogoll 1860
Gustav Edward Krogoll 1861
Gustav Otto Krogoll 1864
Maria Caroline Krogoll 1866
Anna Caroline Krogoll 1868
Maria Caroline Krogoll 5/22/1870
Gustav Rudolf Krogoll 1873
comments: According to their daughter Maria Caroline's obituary
he had the following children alive in 1920:
Mrs. Charles Klifoth (Buffalo, NY)
Louisa Krogoll (Buffalo, NY)
G. Krogoll (Seatle, Washington)
Ed Krogoll (Berlin, Germany)
sources: death certificate of Marie Kliwer Kansas Board of Health
baptismal certificate of Maria Caroline Krogoll
Evangelisches Zentralarchiv, Berlin


Name: Caroline Kasper
relationship: mother of Marie Krogoll
residence: Christburg, Germany
[now Dzierzgon, Poland approximately 62 kil.
ese of Gdansk]
The town of Christburg was established about
1254 by the Teutonic knights.
religion: Lutheran
birth: c. 1827
marriage: Carl August Krogoll between Jan. and March 1849
children: Maria Krogoll 1850
Augustine Krogoll 1852
Caroline Henriette Krogoll 1854
Carl Hermann August Krogoll 1856
Anna Maria Elisabet Krogoll 1858
Friedrich Rudolf Krogoll 1860
Gustav Edward Krogoll 1861
Gustav Otto Krogoll 1864
Maria Caroline Krogoll 1866
Anna Caroline Krogoll 1868
Maria Caroline Krogoll 5/22/1870
Gustav Rudolf Krogoll 1873
comments: According to Leon R. Kliewer, Buhler, KS Kasper was
originally a Dutch name, not German. [Possibly the
area of the Vistula River delta was populated mainly
by ethnic Dutch during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The topography of the area, marshy and drained by
numerous canals, seems to resemble Holland and one
nearby district was called "Prussian Holland".]
sources: death certificate of Marie Kliwer Kansas Board of Health
baptismal certificate of Maria Caroline Krogoll
Evangelisches Zentralarchiv, Berlin


Name: Emanuel Abrahamsson (aka "Newman")
relationship: father of Emanuel Newman
date of birth: 3/24/1836
place of birth: Oling farm, Kjerklax village,
Maxmo parish, Finland
date of death: 1/28/1924
place of death: Ashland, WI
residence: after his father's death, he moved to the
farm Skarper, where his wife was born
his older brother Johan inherited the Oling
farm
["Oling" is probably pronounced correctly
"ur-ling" and "Kjerklax" is "kear-klax"
both with stress on the first syllable]
burial: Mt. Hope Cemetery, Ashland, WI
immigration: 7/25/1891
children: Abraham Wilhelm 3/17/1861
Maja Fredrika 3/3/1862 (died infancy)
Mickel 2/27/1864
Johan 6/18/1865 (died infancy)
Johan Newman 4/6/1867
Bata Sofia 12/10/1868
Maja Fredrika 8/8/1869
Emanuel Newman 10/2/1870
Karl (Charles Newman) 12/20/1881
died Euclid, OH 1965
married: Lisa Mickelsdotter 6/19/1860 Maxmo, Finland
religion: Lutheran
comments: It should be noted that this family did not
use a family name before coming to America.
Rather, people were known by their first name,
followed by a patronymic and possibly the name
of the farm on which they resided.
Therefore, this great-great-grandfather might
have been called in Finland "Emanuel Abrahamsson
Oling Skarper". In American he became "Emanuel
Newman".
It is interesting to note how five generations of my
Finnish ancestors lived in the village of Kjerklax,
Maxmo parish, Vasa county Finland before their
immigration to America in 1890. This is a small
coastal Swedish speaking hamlet.
sources: marriage certificate of Emanuel Newman
death certificate of Emanuel Newman
(both in Ashland, WI register of deeds)
1910 Federal Census of Wisconsin
obituary of Emanuel Newman Ashland Daily Press 1/31/1924
Maxmo Parish Church Records


Name: Lisa Mickelsdotter
relationship: mother of Emanuel Newman
birth: 9/24/1837 Skarper farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo,
Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland, Ashland, Wisconsin
children: Abraham Wilhelm 3/17/1861
Maja Fredrika 3/3/1862 (died infancy)
Mickel 2/27/1864
Johan 6/18/1865 (died infancy)
Johan Newman 4/6/1867
Bata Sofia 12/10/1868
Maja Fredrika 8/8/1869
Emanuel Newman 10/2/1870
Karl (Charles Newman) 12/20/1881 died Euclid, OH 1965
married: Emanuel Abrahamsson 6/19/1860 Maxmo, Finland
immigration: 10/2/1899 by ship via Quebec, Canada
religion: Lutheran
sources: marriage certificate of Emanuel Newman
Maxmo Church records



Name: Jacob Nylund
relationship: father of Lise Nylund
residence: Finland
children: Lise Nylund 12/13/1872
at least 2 other daughters
and 3 sons, still living in 1909
married: Maria Hanson
religion: presumably Lutheran
comments: In 1909, he had a daughter, Mrs. Lundeen,
living in Birch Lake, WI, 2 sons living in
White Cloud, Michigan and a son and daughter
living in Finland, in addition to Lise
living in Ashland.
sources: marriage certificate of Emanuel Newman


Name: Maria Hanson
relationship: mother of Lise Nylund
residence: Finland
children: Lise Nylund 12/13/1872
married: Jacob Nylund
religion: presumably Lutheran
sources: marriage certificate of Emanuel Newman


Name: Stephen H. DuBois
relationship: father of Frank W. DuBois
date of birth: 7/9/1845
place of birth: New York City
date of death: 8/8/1903
place of death: 118 E. 119 St. NY NY
grave: Hawthorne Reform Church cemetery, Hawthorne, NY
residence: Manhattan (in 1890 to 1895, at 49 Greenwich Av.;
in 1900 was at 124 E. 120 St.; at least towards
end of his life he apparently lived about about
the corner of Lenox Av. and 120 St.; that
neighborhood was developed after 1894 when the
subway line proposed for the area; the neighborhood
at the turn of the century was primarily eastern
European Jews who moved up from the lower East
Side)
married: Isabel McGill , died 1872
Elizabeth
children: Frank W. DuBois 3/1868
religion: Protestant
profession: bartender
sources: Federal census of New York State 1880, 1900
Police census of New York City 1890
death notice of Isabel McGill


Name: Isabel McGill
relationship: mother of Frank W. DuBois
date of birth: 1848
place of birth: New York
date of death: about 12/3/1872
children: Frank W. DuBois 3/1868
religion: Protestant
sources: death certificate of Frank W. DuBois Wisconsin Dept. of
Health
death notice of Isabel McGill NY Herald 12/5/1872


Name: Patrick McConnell
relationship: father of Catherine Anne McConnell
date of birth: 1820
place of birth: Ireland
emigration: before 1856
residence: Ireland; Flushing, NY
married: Catherine Short
children: Michael McConnell 1856
Theressa McConnell 1860
Catherine Anne McConnell 11/1861
James McConnell 1863
John P. McConnell 1864
Margeret McConnell 1868
profession: laborer
education: illiterate
religion: Roman Catholic
immigration: before 1856 from Ireland
Two immigrants who came from Ireland to New York
between 1846 and 1851 match Patrick McConnell's
description:
Pat McConnell age 28 sex male profession laborer
sailed from Liverpool 9/13/1847 on "Sea of New York"
(with Mary McConnell age 18)
Pat McConnell age 27 sex male profession laborer
sailed from Liverpool 9/21/1847 on "New World"
[Possibly these two people are actually one
person, who was somehow mistakenly listed as a
passenger on both ships.]
I would guess that he lived on the lower East
Side of Manhattan in the 1850's, along with many
other Irish immigrants of that period.
The name "McConnell" is also a Scottish name
and I would strongly suspect that the family
at least at one point several hundred years ago
lived in Ulster.
comments: In 1870, owned real estate (probably a house in
Flushing).
His son Michael, according to a family story, often
said that he didn't want to live past age 40. And he
indeed died in an accident (a carriage caught on fire
while he was riding in it?) at age 40.
It is interesting to note that my Irish immigrant
ancestors probably spoke Irish as their first language
and English only brokenly and with a heavy accent when
they arrived in America.
sources: Federal Census of NYS 1870
death certificate of Katherine H. DuBois NYC archives
Irish Famine Immigrants passenger list index NYPL


Name: Catherine Short
relationship: mother of Catherine Anne McConnell
date of birth: 1829
place of birth: Ireland
emigration: before 1856
residence: Ireland; Flushing, NY
married: Patrick McConnell
children: Michael McConnell 1856
Theressa McConnell 1860
Catherine Anne McConnell 11/1861
James McConnell 1863
John P. McConnell 1864
Margeret McConnell 1868
profession: housewife
education: illiterate
religion: Roman Catholic
immigration: before 1856 from Ireland
One immigrant who came from Ireland to New York
between 1846 and 1851 matches Catherine Short's
description:
Cath Short age 20 sex female profession servant
sailed from Liverpool 9/2/1848 on "Java"
sources: Federal Census of NYS 1870
death certificate of Katherine H. DuBois NYC archives
Irish Famine Immigrants passenger list index NYPL


Name: John Shaw
relationship: father of Richard Shaw
date of birth: 6/10/1836
place of birth: Congleton, England
married: Maria Bushell (c. 1859?)
children: Richard Shaw 8/27/1857
John Shaw 1/25/1860
Jane Shaw 8/1/1863
Catherine Shaw 3/6/1866
Henry Shaw 7/19/1868
comments: He probably resided in a neighborhood of
Congleton called Buglawton. He lived within a row
of about 10 cottages in between the park and St.
Stephen's church. They were still standing in the
1930's but have since been demolished.
Apparently he fled England about 1860 because he
fathered an illegitimate child, Richard.
He was in Switzerland for several years before
coming to America.
sources: marriage certificate of Richard Shaw, New Jersey Dept. of
Vital Statistics
letter from Muriel Standring
Muriel Standring family Bible


Name: Maria Bushell
relationship: mother of Richard Shaw
place of birth: England
residence: Congleton, England
married: John Shaw (c. 1859?)
children: Richard Shaw 8/27/1857
John Shaw 1/25/1860
Jane Shaw 8/1/1863
Catherine Shaw 3/6/1866
Henry Shaw 7/19/1868
comments: Maria Bushell's origins remain very mysterious.
I have not yet found any document mentioning
her date and place of birth or her parent's
names. Perhaps none still exist.
In the IGI, the closest match seems to be
a Maria Bushell born to James and Maria Bushell
baptized at St. Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick county,
England 9/27/1833.
Castle Garden immigration records show a Maria Shaw, wife,age 34, arriving on 23 Sep 1868 from Great Britain. A John Shaw, laborer, age 33, arrived from Great Britain on the previous 11 May 1868. No Richard Shaw child is listed for 1868, however.
Based on the names of her children, I would guess
that her parents were Richard and Jane Bushell.
It's interesting to note that "Bushell" may be
originally an Anglo-Norman name, perhaps originally
Buissel. Possibly her family was somewhat affluent.
sources: marriage certificate of Richard Shaw, New Jersey Dept. of
Vital Statistics
oral testimony of Ruth Budzick
Muriel Standring family Bible



Name: Francis Hawke Bluxome
relationship: father of Catherine Bluxome
date of birth: 1835/1836
place of birth: New York
date of death: about 1875
place of death: Jersey City, NJ (?)
residence: NYC, Jersey City
He grew up on Grove St. in
Manhattan, but the building is
is not there today.
married: Catherine Rooney about 1865
children: Catherine Bluxome 5/21/1866
Emma Louisa Bluxome 6/24/1869
profession: custom house broker
religion: Anglican
sources: Federal Census of NJ 1870
birth certificate of children, Catherine and Emma
deeds in Hudson County, NJ for Bluxome 1865 - 1880


Name: Catherine Rooney
relationship: mother of Catherine Bluxome
date of birth: 5/24/1832
place of birth: Portland. Maine
residence: Maine, Jersey City, Boston, Hoboken, NYC
married: Francis Hawke Bluxome about 1865
children: Catherine Bluxome 5/21/1866
Emma Louisa Bluxome 6/24/1869
death: 2/10/1899
place of death: 2172 5 Ave. Manhattan
(near 134 St.)
cause of death: dysentery, exhaustion
buried: Flower Hill Cemetery, North Bergen, NJ
block T row 2 grave 43 (no tombstone)
profession: housekeeper
religion: probably Roman Catholic, later Anglican
comments: At age 18, she was servant in the home of Henry Fox, an
affluent bookkeeper in Portland, ME.
In her thirties and forties, she bought and sold a good
deal of real estate in Jersey City, NJ.
In the 1850's, she may have been married a couple of
times in Portland, ME, specifically to Patrick Crosby
9/13/1852 and Patrick Maguire 10/17/1854.
Finally she died widowed, unemployed and apparently poverty
stricken in her apartment in the middle of Harlem at the
age of 68.
sources: birth certificate of Catherine Rooney, Portland, ME
Federal Census of ME 1850
Federal Census of NJ 1870
birth certificate of children, Catherine and Emma
deeds in Hudson County for Bluxome 1865 - 1880
marriage certificate of Richard Shaw/Catherine Bluxome
Jersey City directory
Death certifcate of Catherine Bluxome, NYC Archives




my 3rd great-grandparents:
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Name: Abraham Funk
relationship: father of Anna Funk
residence: Barlewitz, West Prussia
marriage: Anna Mantler
children: Anna Funk 10/30/1833
religion: Mennonite
comments: According to Leon R. Kliewer, Buhler, KS Funk was
originally a Dutch name, not German.
sources: IGI of the LDS Church

Name: Anna Mantler
relationship: mother of Anna Funk
residence: Barlewitz, West Prussia
marriage: Abraham Funk
children: Anna Funk 10/30/1833
religion: Mennonite
comments: Mantler seemingly is a German name.
It is interesting to note that the area east of the
Vistula River was conquered and Christianized by the
Teutonic Knights in c. 1240. The previous inhabitants
were Baltic tribes called "Prussians". It would be
interesting to know if I have any ancestral connection
to them.
The town of Stuhm, near Barlewitz, was established in
1295 by the Teutonic knights.
sources: IGI of the LDS Church

Name: Friedrich Wilhelm Krogoll
relationship: father of Carl August Krogoll
residence: Christburg, Germany
[now Dzierzgon, Poland approxmately 62 kil.
ese of Gdansk]
religion: Lutheran
birth: c. 1793
marriage: Anna Regina Weiss 1/28/1816
children: Wilhelmine Krogoll 7/4/1816
Henriette Krogoll 1/15/1818
Carl August Krogoll 12/31/1823
Friedrich Wilhelm Krogoll 4/26/1826
Gottfried Krogoll 9/30/1828
profession: nail smith
comments: According to Bernhard Krogoll, who lives in Basking Ridge,
New Jersey but whose father emigrated from Prussia, the
Krogolls were originally Huguenots who fled from France to
Prussia as a result of religious persecution.
Possibly the name "Krogoll" refers to the village of
Cruguel in Bretagne, France. But that is just a guess.
An additional interesting point is that "Cruguel" sounds
more Germanic than French. In fact the Swedish word for
inn is "krog". And this section of France was overrun by
Vikings in 847. The monastery at Locmine, 11 miles away,
was sacked at that time. Could Cruguel have been the site
of a Viking camp? It would seem very possible.
It is interesting to note that the Edict of Potsdam in
1685 offered asylum in Prussia to French Huguenots
suffering persecution in France. Many came, possibly some
of my ancestors among them.
[The Huguenots were French people, usually middle class
skilled workers and merchants, who during the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries rejected what they felt was
the superstition, idolatry and corruption of the Roman
Catholic Church and tried to return to a more simple,
sincere religion. They were persecuted viciously in
France and forced to flee to many isolated parts of the
world, including America and Prussia.]
sources: Evangelisches Zentralarchiv, Berlin


Name: Anna Regina Weiss
relationship: mother of Carl August Krogoll
residence: Christburg, Germany
[now Dzierzgon, Poland approximately
62 kil. ese of Gdansk]
religion: Lutheran
birth: c. 1795
marriage: Friedrich Wilhelm Krogoll 1/28/1816
children: Wilhelmine Krogoll 7/4/1816
Henriette Krogoll 1/15/1818
Carl August Krogoll 12/31/1823
Friedrich Wilhelm Krogoll 4/26/1826
Gottfried Krogoll 9/30/1828
comments: Her father was a shoemaker.
It is interesting to note that her first child
was born 6 1/2 months after the wedding. The child
was apparently viable and baptized three days later.
sources: Evangelisches Zentralarchiv, Berlin


Name: Wilhelm Kasper
relationship: father of Caroline Kasper
religion: Lutheran
residence: Christburg, Germany
[now Dzierzgon, Poland approximately 62 kil.
ese of Gdansk, Poland]
children: Caroline Kasper c. 1827
sources: Evangelisches Zentralarchiv, Berlin


Name: Abraham Johansson
relationship: father of Emanuel Abrahamsson
birth: 5/25/1812 Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo, Finland
died: 11/5/1866 Skarper farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo, Finland
children: Johan 3/10/1835
Emanuel 3/24/1836
Brita Elisabeth 7/16/1837
Maja Fredicka 9/27/1840
Bata Sofia 6/18/1843
Abram Wilhelm (died infancy) and Samuel 12/19/1846
Anna Lovisa 1/20/1851 (died infancy)
married: Bata Emanuelsdotter 6/26/1834 Maxmo, Finland
comments: By the mid-1800s, Oling was a small hamlet of a half
dozens farms. Abraham owned one.
He and his wife were literate and educated in religion,
but seemingly not very observant.
religion: Lutheran
sources: Maxmo Parish records


Name: Bata Emanuelsdotter
relationship: mother of Emanuel Abrahamsson
born: 5/14/1811 Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo, Finland
died: 8/9/1865 Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Johan 3/10/1835
Emanuel 3/24/1836
Brita Elisabeth 7/16/1837
Maja Fredicka 9/27/1840
Bata Sofia 6/18/1843
Abram Wilhelm (died infancy) and Samuel 12/19/1846
Anna Lovisa 1/20/1851 (died infancy)
married: Abraham Johansson 6/26/1834 Maxmo, Finland
religion: Lutheran
sources: Maxmo Parish records


Name: Mickel Johansson
relationship: father of Lisa Mickelsdotter
birth: 12/26/1810 Skarper farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo,
Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Lisa 9/24/1837
Johan 1/6/1839
Maria (Maja) Cajsa 10/7/1840
married: Maria (Maja) Cajsa Andersdotter 1/3/1837
died: 5/12/1870 of cancer
religion: Lutheran
comments: he was blind in one eye
His son Johan was convicted of murdering a man
during an argument in 1869. Johan was sentenced
to 3 years at hard labor at the prison in
Tavastakus (perhaps that is Tavastehus, now called
Hameenlinna, about 60 miles north of Helsinki)
and fined.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Maria (Maja) Cajsa Andersdotter
relationship: mother of Lisa Mickelsdotter
birth: 10/1/1813 Skatar farm, Palvis, Vora, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Lisa 9/24/1837
Johan 1/6/1839
Maria (Maja) Cajsa 10/7/1840
married: Mickel Johansson 1/3/1837
died: 3/11/1886 of chest disease
religion: Lutheran
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Stephen Sherwood DuBois
relationship: father of Stephen H. DuBois
date of birth: 1816
place of birth: New York
date of death: 8/17/1899
place of death: Flushing, NY
grave: Reform church graveyard, Hawthorne, NY (plot 353)
residence: 1842 at 41 Madison St., NY NY
early 1850's, Washington Heights, NY
1860's Harlem, NY
1869 and later Flushing, NY
lived at 12 Pine St. Flushing after 1879
[today 12 Pine St. is called 132-19 34 Ave
and is a commercial building now the site of
the A & G Marble Co. manufacturer of marble
kitchen counter tops; the old residence is
long gone]
married: Mary Brown Orsor 1839 (probably in New York City)
children: Graham B. DuBois 8/30/1841
George S. DuBois 11/28/1842 (in 1914 living in Boston)
Stephen H. DuBois 7/9/1845 died 1903
Mary Susan DuBois 5/19/1851 (Mrs. Richard Hill of Flushing)
Theodore Besson DuBois 5/23/1851? died 5/23/1853
Samuel D. DuBois 7/11/1852 died 8/26/1894 buried in Hawthorne
Rachel A. DuBois 6/15/1852?
Effie DuBois 7/9/1855 (Mrs. Walter Stuart, 1914 in Brooklyn)
Amande Livingston DuBois 9/17/1858 (Mrs. Frank Chase, State
Senator in Mass.)
Ellmere DuBois 7/2/1861 died 5/6/1864
profession: wagon maker
religion: Protestant Episcopal (funeral held at St. George's
Church, Flushing, NY)
comments: In the 1860's he built a racetrack at what is today 7 Av.
and 146 St. known as the Manhattan Island Association.
According to the book "Historic Homes and Institutions
and Genealogical and Family History of New York" by
William S. Pelletreau 1907 pages 275 - 276, Stephen Sherwood
DuBois was the son of Peter John DuBois, who was the son of
John DuBois who was the son of Johannes DuBois who was the
son of Peter DuBois who was the son of the French Huguenot
immigrant Jacques DuBois. His mother was the sister of Isaac
van Wart who was involved in the capture of Major John Andre.
His parents are buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. His
siblings were Peter, Benjamin, Rachel (wife of Thomas Allaire),
Amanda (married George Decker) and Eliza (unmarried).
Unfortunately, no other records verify this and in fact Eliza
DuBois' death certificate says her mother was Catherine Smith of
Massachusetts. However on the other hand, the 1870 census says
that Stephen's mother was born in New York.
According to the autobiography of WEB DuBois, my 5th great
grandfather John DuBois, had a second cousin, Dr. James DuBois of
Poughkeepsie, New York. Dr. DuBois was a loyalist who lived for
a number of years following the Revolution in the Bahamas, were
his slave woman bore him several children. Two mulatto boys,
Alexander and John DuBois, returned to New York with their father
in 1810. I suspect that descendents of those mulattos, who wished
to conceal their Negro ancestry, destroyed the DuBois family
church records in Poughkeepsie. Therefore the marriage record of
Stephen Sherwood DuBois, his baptismal record and his parent's
marriage record have never been found.
[I have today a black distant cousin in Denver, Arthur Edward McFarlane
II, a great-grandson of W.E.B. DuBois.]
sources: Federal Census of NYS 1860, 1870
death notice of Theodore DuBois
burial records of St. George's Church, Flushing, NY
(oral report of Mr. Field at St. George's 718-359-1171)
obituary of Mary B. DuBois in Flushing Evening Journal
tombstones in Hawthorne cemetery
Mary B. DuBois Bible



Name: Mary Brown Orsor
relationship: mother of Stephen H. DuBois
date of birth: 9/2/1821
place of birth: near Tarrytown, NY
date of death: 3/14/1914
place of death: Flushing, NY
grave: Reform church graveyard, Hawthorne, NY (plot 353)
residence: until 1830's, Hawthorne, NY
1842 at 41 Madison St., NY NY
early 1850's, Washington Heights, NY
1860's Harlem, NY
1869 and later Flushing, NY
lived at 12 Pine St. Flushing after 1879
[today 12 Pine St. is called 132-19 34 Ave
and is a commercial building now the site of
the A & G Marble Co. manufacturer of marble
kitchen counter tops; the old residence is
long gone]
married: Stephen Sherwood DuBois 1839 (probably in New York City)
children: Graham B. DuBois 8/30/1841
George S. DuBois 11/28/1842 (in 1914 living in Boston)
Stephen H. DuBois 7/9/1845 died 1903
Mary Susan DuBois 5/19/1851 (Mrs. Richard Hill of Flushing)
Theodore Besson DuBois 5/23/1851? died 5/23/1853
Samuel D. DuBois 7/11/1852 died 8/26/1894 buried in Hawthorne
Rachel A. DuBois 6/15/1852?
Effie DuBois 7/9/1855 (Mrs. Walter Stuart, 1914 in Brooklyn)
Amande Livingston DuBois 9/17/1858 (Mrs. Frank Chase, State
Senator in Mass.)
Ellmere DuBois 7/2/1861 died 5/6/1864
profession: housekeeper
religion: Protestant Episcopal (funeral held at St. George's
Church, Flushing, NY)
sources: Federal Census of NYS 1860, 1870
obituary of Mary B. DuBois in Flushing Evening Journal
death notice of Theodore DuBois
tombstones in Hawthorne cemetery
Mary B. DuBois Bible

Name: James McGill
relationship: father of Isabel McGill
residence: New York
comment: James McGill and his daughter Isabel unfortunately
could not be found in the 1850 or 1860 census of New
York City. Therefore little is presently known about
this 3rd great-grandfather.
Most people in that census named "James McGill" were
Irish, however one was Scottish. And considering
Stephen H. DuBois' social background, I would think
that it is more probable that he would marry a woman
Scottish ancestry rather than Irish. If indeed Irish,
then I would be inclined to think that it is northern
Irish. In fact, a book I have seen about Scottish
genealogy list "M'Gill" as a Galloway name originating
in Ireland (Galloway is an section of Scotland about
35 miles from Belfast). I would suggest that Isabel
McGill's ancestry may have been a mixture of Scottish
and Ulster Irish.
(There is an interesting IGI record for an Isabella McGill
born to James McGill and Jean McAdam and baptised in
Lanark, Scotland on 3/14/1839. That's about 20 miles south
east of Glascow. It's just possible that these are my
ancestors, but it's very questionable.)
source: NY Herald 12/5/1872


Name: Joseph Shaw
relationship: father of John Shaw
residence: Congleton, England
married: Sarah
children: James Shaw 6/15/1828
William Shaw 9/19/1829
Ann Shaw 3/12/1832
Fanny Shaw 9/18/1834
John Shaw 6/10/1836
Margaret Shaw 1/7/1838
Samuel Shaw 8/13/1841
Maryann Shaw 9/6/1843
Sarah Shaw 8/10/1849
comments: I wonder if my grandmother Josephine Shaw was named
after him.
There is a record of a Thomas Shaw who probated a will
in Congleton in 1680.
There is a stream next to Congleton called "Dane in
Shaw". I wonder if my Shaw ancestors were named after
this stream. [My cousin Muriel Standring of Congleton
is not aware of a connection.]
Congleton was a small, rural market town for centuries
until the silk weaving mills were built there c. 1800
followed by a canal c. 1830 and the railroad c. 1840.
In 1850 the town had a population of about 10,000.
I am wondering if the Shaws may have been Methodist,
since they don't seem to be listed in the local
Anglican parish registers.
It is interesting to note that this area of England
was heavily settled by Danish invaders about 1000 years
ago. The main river running through Congleton is named
the River Dane. In addition, my great-grandfather,
Richard Shaw, was exceptionally tall, a trait my mother
apparently inherited. It is interesting to speculate
whether the Shaws may have been descended partially
from Danish Vikings. But this is just a guess.
sources: Muriel Standring family Bible


Name: Sarah
relationship: mother of John Shaw
residence: Congleton, England
married: Joseph Shaw
children: James Shaw 6/15/1828
William Shaw 9/19/1829
Ann Shaw 3/12/1832
Fanny Shaw 9/18/1834
John Shaw 6/10/1836
Margaret Shaw 1/7/1838
Samuel Shaw 8/13/1841
Maryann Shaw 9/6/1843
Sarah Shaw 8/10/1849
sources: Muriel Standring family Bible


Name: Isaac Bluxome
relationship: father of Francis Hawke Bluxome
date of birth: 1795/1796
place of birth: Liverpool, England
date of death: 10/25/1862
place of death: New York City
place of burial: St. Luke's cemetery, now a playground
next to St. Luke's Place NYC
residence: Liverpool, NYC
immigration: arrived in US about 1815, naturalized 1828
There is a Bluxome St. today in San Francisco.
sources: Federal Census of NY 1820, 1830, 1850, 1860
will of Isaac Bluxome, NYC Surrogate Court
death certificate of Isaac Bluxome, NYC Archives
naturalization paper of Isaac Bluxome, National Archives
Bluxome papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC


Name: Sarah DeCamp
relationship: mother of Francis Hawke Bluxome
date of birth: 1799/1800
place of birth: New Jersey
date of death: after 1880
place of death: Brooklyn, NY (?)
residence: New Jersey, NYC
married: Isaac Bluxome about 1818
children: Joseph Bluxome
John D. Bluxome 1828/1829
Isaac Bluxome Jr.
Caroline Bluxome 1835/1836
Francis Hawke Bluxome 1835/1836
religion: probably Presbyterian, then Anglican
comments: I suspect that her mother was Susan
Grandin.
For more information regarding the
ancestry of Sarah DeCamp, see
Appendix: Royal Ancestry below
sources: Federal Census of NY 1850, 1860, 1880
will of Isaac Bluxome, NYC Surrogate Court
pension application of John DeCamp, American
Revolution, National Archives


Name: Patrick Rooney
relationship: father of Catherine Rooney
date of birth: c. 1802
place of birth: Co. Leitrim, Ireland
date of death: 11/28/1862
place of death: Mayo St. Portland, ME
burial: Calvary Cemetery, Portland, ME (Roman Catholic)
residence: Ireland, Maine
married: Ann about 1820 in Ireland
children: Mary Rooney 10/24/1823 (Mrs. William Haggerty?)
Bridget Rooney 11/3/1825 died 1/29/1916 St. Joseph Home
Portland, ME
Ann Rooney 8/17/1827
James Rooney 5/17/1829 died 2/10/1873
Catherine Rooney 5/24/1832
John Rooney 3/17/1833 died 3/13/1873 Portland, ME
Thomas Rooney 11/18/1835 died 11/15/1836
Patrick H. Rooney 10/19/1837 died 10/24/1843
Jane Rooney 11/3/1839 died 4/23/1889 (Mrs. John Griffin)
profession: truckman (wagon driver? peddler?)
education: illiterate
religion: Roman Catholic
immigration: immigrated from Ireland to Maine 7/1827 through
Sligo (pronounced "Slygo"), Ireland
naturalized in Pennsylvania 1843 (witnessed by
William Murry and Christian Nugel)
comments: There is some indication that Patrick's father was James
Rooney died in Portland, ME 9/22/1839 born in Co. Meath,
Ireland c. 1772 and his mother may have been Mary Rooney
born in Ireland c. 1774 died in Ireland 1/7/1834.
The Rooney family originated in the parish of Balyroney
in Co. Down Ireland. Rooney was apparently an ancient
Irish clan, or sept, and the name originally meant in
Gaelic "sons of the hero".
It is interesting to note that the entire section of
Ireland from Co. Down, through Meath and Leitrim is
geographically similar - "drumlins" or low hills
separated by bogs. We may speculate that the Rooneys
started out in Balyroney before 1700 and drifted
gradually westward until finally emigrating from
Ireland entirely.
It is also interesting to consider the living
conditions in a typical Irish community in the early
19th century. Most houses had whitewashed stone walls
and thatched roofs with no windows and no chimney.
A fire was kindled in the middle of the room. Light and
air entered and smoke left through the door or holes in
the roof. These homes where built in small clusters
called "townlands", which basically resembled a
community of American Indians or African natives more
than a village in England or France. Few people wore
shoes or a hat. No one had eye glasses. Few could read
or write. The diet was primarily potatoes and milk. If
the potato crop failed, as frequently occurred beginning
before 1820, people either starved to death or fled to
America.
sources: birth certificate of Catherine Rooney, Portland, ME
Calvary Cemetery, Portland, ME (Joan 207-773-5796)
Naturalization Papers of Fulton and Bedford Co. PA
Federal Census of ME 1850


Name: Ann [Carroll?]
relationship: mother of Catherine Rooney
date of birth: 1803
place of birth: Ireland (probably Co. Leitrim)
residence: Ireland, Maine
died: 2/21/1885
place of death: 46 Warren St. Portland, ME
burial: Calvary Cemetery, Portland, ME (Roman Catholic)
married: Patrick Rooney about 1820 in Ireland
children: Mary Rooney 10/24/1823 (Mrs. William Haggerty?)
Bridget Rooney 11/3/1825 died 1/29/1916 St. Joseph Home
Portland, ME
Ann Rooney 8/17/1827
James Rooney 5/17/1829 died 2/10/1873
Catherine Rooney 5/24/1832
John Rooney 3/17/1833 died 3/13/1873 Portland, ME
Thomas Rooney 11/18/1835 died 11/15/1836
Patrick H. Rooney 10/19/1837 died 10/25/1843
Jane Rooney 11/3/1839 died 4/23/1889 (Mrs. John Griffin)
religion: Roman Catholic
education: illiterate
immigration: immigrated from Ireland to Maine 7/1827 through Sligo,
Ireland
comments: I have the impression that from 1836 until after Patrick
Rooney's death in the 1860's, the Rooney family lived at
9 Mayo St. in the home of Brian Carroll, Ann's father.
Brian died about 1848 (but not in Portland) and Patrick
Rooney then acquired the property from Brian's son John.
sources: birth certificate of Catherine Rooney, Portland, ME
death certificate of Ann Rooney
Calvary Cemetery, Portland, ME (Joan 207-773-5796)
Federal Census of ME 1850
death certificate of Bridget Rooney



my 4th great-grandparents:
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Name: Johan Tomasson
relationship: father of Abraham Johansson
birth: 5/25/1762
marriage: Brita Abrahamsdotter
children: Abraham 5/25/1812
Johan 6/13/1814
residence: Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
comments: His son Johan was on the Maxmo parish council
during the 1840's and 1850's. Both his sons
owned farms in Oling.
source: Maxmo Parish records

Name: Brita Abrahamsdotter
relationship: mother of Abraham Johansson
born: 2/16/1770 Vasa, Finland
died: 12/11/1853 Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo, Finland
marriage: Johan Tomasson
children: Abraham 5/25/1812
Johan 6/13/1814
residence: Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
comments: Her father's name was Abraham.
source: Maxmo Parish records


Name: Emanuel Emanuelsson
relationship: father of Bata Emanuelsdotter
born: 11/4/1786
died: 11/5/1834
marriage: Maria Olofsdotter
children: Bata 5/14/1811 Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo,
Finland
Johan 6/13/1814
Maja Stina 5/25/1817
Anna Brit 10/22/1818
Samuel 11/20/1827
also, seven other children who died in infancy
residence: Maxmo, Finland
comments: he was a farmer and churchwarden
source: Maxmo Parish records


Name: Maria Olofsdotter
relationship: mother of Bata Emanuelsdotter
born: 1/6/1786
died: 1/8/1830
marriage: Emanuel Emanuelsson
children: Bata 5/14/1811 Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo,
Finland
Johan 6/13/1814
Maja Stina 5/25/1817
Anna Brit 10/22/1818
Samuel 11/20/1827
also, seven other children who died in infancy
residence: Maxmo, Finland
source: Maxmo Parish Records


Name: Johan Mickelsson
relationship: father of Mickel Johansson
birth: 8/1/1788 Skarper farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo,
Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Mickel 12/26/1810
Johan 6/29/1812 (died 11/17/1812)
Johan 3/16/1817
Jacob 6/13/1818 (died 6/9/1819)
Jacob 5/14/1822
married: Elisabeth (Lisa) Samuelsdotter 11/27/1810
died: 8/1/1861 of stroke
religion: Lutheran
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Elsabeth (Lisa) Samuelsdotter
relationship: mother of Mickel Johansson
birth: 10/17/1787 Rekipeldo, Vora, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Mickel 12/26/1810
Johan 6/29/1812 (died 11/17/1812)
Johan 3/16/1817
Jacob 6/13/1818 (died 6/9/1819)
Jacob 5/14/1822
married: Johan Mickelsson 11/27/1810
died: 11/16/1859 of shortness of breath
comments: She was about to give birth to Mickel at
the time of her wedding. She was working
as a maid at Stagnas farm at that time.
religion: Lutheran
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Anders Andersson
relationship: father of Maria (Maja) Casja Andersdotter
residence: Skatar, Palvis, Vora, Finland
children: Maria (Maja) Casja 10/1/1813
married: Maria Johansdotter
religion: Lutheran
comments: His father's name was also Anders
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records

Name: Maria Johansdotter
relationship: mother of Maria (Maja) Casja Andersdotter
residence: Karfsor, Vora, Finland
children: Maria (Maja) Casja


Name: John DuBois
relationship: father of Stephen Sherwood DuBois
residence: New York, possibly Poughkeepsie, NY
born: 1787 in New York
died: 9/2/1863 buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, NY
married: Catherine (DuBois? Smith?)
children: Eliza DuBois 3/1806 died 8/29/1896
Rachel DuBois (Mrs. Thomas Allaire)
Benjamin DuBois
Amanda DuBois (Mrs. George Decker)
Peter DuBois 1815 Tarrytown, married Lucinda Wilson
Cold Spring, NY died 1869 New York City
Stephen Sherwood DuBois 1816
religion: Dutch Reform
comments: I believe this man first married the older widow
Catherine van Wart Carpenter. Then after her death,
remarried a woman named "Smith" from Massachusetts.
sources: obituary of Mary B. DuBois Flushing Evening Journal
death certificate of Stephen S. DuBois NYC Archives
"Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical
and Family History of New York" by William S. Pelletreau
1907 pages 275 - 276


Name: Catherine
relationship: mother of Stephen Sherwood DuBois
birth: 3/7/1783 in New York or Massechusets
death: 5/12/1817 buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, NY
residence: New York
children: Eliza DuBois 3/1806 died 8/29/1896
Rachel DuBois (Mrs. Thomas Allaire)
Benjamin DuBois
Amanda DuBois (Mrs. George Decker)
Peter DuBois 1815 Tarrytown, married Lucinda Wilson
Cold Spring, NY died 1869 New York City
Stephen Sherwood DuBois 1816
religion: possibly Dutch Reform
comments: I believe that this woman was actually Catherine
van Wart, the youngest sibling of Isaac van Wart.
The problem with this, however, is that the parents
of Isaac van Wart, Martinis van Wart and Rachel
Williams, married on 10/7/1752. It seems a little
hard to believe that they had a child 30 years after
their wedding. Wnless Rachel died and Catherine
was born from a later marriage. Or maybe the age on
Catherine's tombstone is a few year off. The baptismal
records for Tarrytown from about 1776 to 1791 have
been mostly lost. The last recorded child of Martinis
van Wart is Saartie baptized 4/27/1771.
According to the IGI a Catherine van Wart was
born to Martinis van Wart and Rachel Williams "about 1772"
on Phillipsburg Manor and married Stephen Carpenter.
(This information was submitted by Charles Heinze of
Piscataway, NJ and he no longer remembers his source.)
Possibly Carpenter died and she soon afterwards
married a younger man, John DuBois, bore six children,
dying when the youngest, Stephen Sherwood, was born.
sources: death certificate of Stephen S. DuBois NYC Archives
"Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical
and Family History of New York" by William S. Pelletreau
1907 pages 275 - 276


Name: John Orsor
relationship: father of Mary Brown Orsor
residence: near Tarrytown, NY
born: 8/3/1792
died: 4/9/1870
grave: Sparta cemetery, Ossining, NY
children: Mary Brown Orsor 9/2/1821
married: Susan Brown
religion: presumably Dutch Reform
profession: farmer
sources: death certificate of Mary B. DuBois NYC Archives
obituary of Mary B. DuBois in Flushing Evening Journal


Name: Susan Brown
relationship: mother of Mary Brown Orsor
birth: 2/19/1779
death: 7/6/1858
grave: Hawthorne churchyard, Hawthorne, NY (plot 353)
residence: near Tarrytown, NY
children: Mary Brown Orsor 9/2/1821
married: John Orsor
religion: Dutch Reform
sources: death certificate of Mary B. DuBois NYC Archives
obituary of Mary B. DuBois in Flushing Evening Journal
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1/1897


Name: Joseph Bluxom
relationship: father of Isaac Bluxome
residence: Liverpool, England
children: Isaac Bluxome
profession: umbrella maker
religion: presumably Anglican
comments: His wife's maiden name may have been Hawke, since that
was the middle name given to his grandson, Francis. I would
suspect that his brother-in-law or father-in-law was named
"Francis Hawke".
It would seem almost certain that "Bluxom" is a variation of
"Bloxham" a town in England a little south of Banbury. Both
"Bluxome" and and "Bloxham" are pronounced "blucksum".
In other words, most probably "Bluxome" or "Bluxom" was
originally spelled "Bloxham" before 1790 (which is a fairly
common English name) and the family orignates in the village of
Bloxham, England. "Hawke" was also a common name in that village.
Samuel Hawke[s?] was a wealthy person there about 1800 and Hawke
Lane is named after him to this day.
[Bloxham was established by the Anglo-Saxons and the name means
"home of the Blocc family".]
Interestingly, Bloxham was a very uncommon name in Liverpool in
the 18th century. The IGI only lists one Bloxham birth or
marriage in Lancastshire, the county Liverpool is in, before
1800 - the baptism of Samuel Bloxham, son of Samuel and Elizabeth,
on 3/20/1783 at St. Nicolas, Liverpool. I would suspect that
they were relatives, perhaps a brother, of Joseph Bluxom and I
would suspect that the family only came up from Oxfordshire, where
Bloxham village is, about 1780. It may be that the enclosure of
fields began at that time and they had to leave Bloxham then.
sources: Liverpool, England city directories, 1794, 1796


Name: John DeCamp
relationship: father of Sarah DeCamp
date of birth: 10/18/1760
place of birth: Hanover, New Jersey
date of death: 10/26/1844
place of death: New York City
place of burial: Methodist Cemetery, Chrystie St.
now a parking lot at the corner of 1 St. and 2 Av.
residence: New Jersey, NYC
married: Susan Grandin
Deborah Morris, daughter of John Morris
Mrs. Elizabeth Scott 11/5/1827
children: Sarah DeCamp 1799/1800
Susan DeCamp
Samuel G. J. DeCamp
Maria DeCamp
profession: soldier, judge in New Jersey, Inspector of Customs
in NYC
military: US Army, American Revolution
religion: probably Presbyterian
comments: He served in the New Jersey Militia from 5/1776 until
1778. He retreated with General Washington west across
New Jersey in the fall of 1776. He then fought in
northeastern New Jersey against the British, protecting
the local civilians. He engaged the British several
times, aiding in the capture of about 100 prisoners,
in addition to killing and wounding many enemy
soldiers, in the vicinity of Springfield, Elizabethtown
Point, Newark and Hoboken. He served under Colonels
Ford, Bott, Cook, Wines and Frelyglingsen. He then
volunteered to serve as an express rider (mounted
messenger) for General George Washington in the
Connecticut Continental Line. He was received as an
express rider by General Washington at West Point,
NY, in the summer or fall of 1778, just about a half
year after the American army arrived at The Plains
of West Point. From mid-1778 until the surrender of
Cornwallis at Yorktown, VA in 10/1781 he delivered many
messages from General Washington to the President of
the Continental Congress in Philadelphia and to senior
army officers throughout the United States. This was
the military command and control system c. 1776.
[I believe that John DeCamp was in New York City with
General Washington on 8/24/1776 with 343 New Jersey militia
under the command of Colonel Jacob Ford, Jr. I would assume
that he was involved in the fighting on Long Island 8/27/1776
however his pension record is strangely silent about this. He was
probably in Jersey City (then called Bergen Neck) in September
1776. Very possibly he heard the Declaration of Independence read
by General Washington on the evening of 7/9/1776 in New York City.
He later went under the command of Colonel Ford to Morristown while
the army was marching from New Brunswick to Trenton sometime between
12/1/1776 and 12/6/1776. He then fought in the "Forage War" in
north eastern New Jersey from 1/4/1777 to 3/24/1777. The most
major engagement was apparently in the small battle at Drake's
Farm near Metuchen, NJ on 2/1/1777. American troops attacked two
crack British brigades, killing 36 British and wounding over
100, while only 30 to 40 Americans were lost. See page 356 in
"Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer. He may have
later wintered from 1777 to 1778 with Washington's army at
Valley Forge, PA before volunteering as an express rider at
West Point, NY in mid-1778.]
The basic conflict in the American Revolution seems
to have been that in the mid-18th century the vast
majority of American colonists believed that the English
Parliament had no right whatsoever to tax them and they
were willing to kill any English soldier who tried to
collect those taxes. Parliament was essentially a foreign
body with no jurisdiction in America. They believed that
any tax would be the first step toward serfdom. In a way,
it is misleading to say that America "declared independence"
in 1776. Actually, Americans always considered themselves
to be independent of England. They only felt some sort of
purely symbolic loyality to the British crown. In 1776, they
renounced even that and declared total independence. The
English government, however, believed that Parliament did
have a right to tax Americans and they were prepared to punish
or kill anyone who refused to pay those taxes. The result
was war from 1775 until 1781 followed by the establishment
of an independent United States of America in 1783.
During the American Revolution, the American Army
consisted of any farmer who had a musket and was willing
to use it to shoot British soldiers, the army leadership
consisted almost solely of George Washington and the American
government consisted of a group of promiment citizens who
called themselves the Continental Congress, who did almost
nothing except author the Declaration of Independence and
appeal to France for help. The American people were almost
all loyal to the crown in 1770 but gradually shifted and
almost all were disloyal by 1780.
Following the war John DeCamp was a judge in the New
Jersey court system and after 1818 the Inspector of Customs
at New York City.
His will indicates his integrity, when he insists
foremost that all debts be paid from his estate and
that his funeral be conducted modestly.
Larry Bluxome of Council Bluffs, IA has seen about
1970 in Virginia a photograph of a portrait of John DeCamp
and a cane and riding crop belonging to him.
It would seem from an IGI record that actually John
Decamps great-uncle Johannes DeCamp born 5/1717 married a
Deborah Morris in 1742. This would agree with the Throckmorton
genealogy, which has Susan Grandin dying in 1827, the same
year John DeCamp married Mrs. Scott, so there could not have
been another wife in between them. All of John DeCamp's children
are therefore children of Susan Grandin.
sources: Revolutionary War pension application of John DeCamp,
National Archives
will of John DeCamp, surrogate court New York County
"Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants" by George Austin
Morrison (editor of for the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society, 1900, NYPL)



my 5th great-grandparents:
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Name: Tomas Tomasson
relationship: father of Johan Tomasson
birth: 4/15/1728 Bertby, Vora, Finland
marriage: Anna Martensdotter 1/12/1752
children: Margareta 4/7/1754
Marten 5/10/1758
Anna 7/23/1761
Johan 5/25/1762
died: 6/29/1803
residence: Oling farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo, Finland
military record: he was a "sexman"
comments: His father's name was Tomas.
He worked on the Oling farm and then was given
half of it in 1757.
According to an old family story, he once traded
a load of rye for a "moraklocka" (a grandfather clock
made in the town of Mora in Sweden; this town is in
central Dalarna). Anders Andersson, his partner in the
Oling farm, was jealous and purchased the same clock
afterwards himself.
source: Maxmo Parish records
May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Anna Martensdotter
relationship: mother of Johan Tomasson
born: 3/26/1724 Esars, Karklax, Finland
died: 1/9/1810 Maxmo, Finland
marriage: Tomas Tomasson 1/12/1752
children: Margareta 4/7/1754
Marten 5/10/1758
Anna 7/23/1761
Johan 5/25/1762
comments: her father's name was Marten
residence: Maxmo, Finland
source: Maxmo Parish records


Name: Emanuel Andersson
relationship: father of Emanuel Emanuelsson
born: 1/21/1759
place of birth: Brannland, Vasterbotten, Sweden
died: 7/21/1792
place of death: Maxmo, Finland
marriage: Beata Johansdotter
children: Johannes 5/10/1784
Emanuel 11/4/1786
Maja Christina 6/15/1789
Anna Brita 3/10/1792
residence: Maxmo, Finland
comments: It is interesting to note that my brother's original
middle name "Emanuel" was actually the name of our
5th great-grandfather in mid-eighteenth century
Finland.
The cottage he was born in (or at least one similar to
it) is today a museum.
source: Maxmo Parish records

Name: Beata Johansdotter
relationship: mother of Emanuel Emanuelsson
born: 1760 Kvevlax
died: 3/23/1833
marriage: Emanuel Andersson
children: Johannes 5/10/1784
Emanuel 11/4/1786
Maja Christina 6/15/1789
Anna Brita 3/10/1792
comments: her father's name was Johan
residence: Maxmo, Finland
source: Maxmo Parish records

Name: Olof Andersson
relationship: father of Maria Olofsdotter
born: 4/3/1757
place of birth: Vasterbotten, Sweden
children: Ann 12/17/1782
Carl 12/28/1784
Maria 1/6/1786
Elisabet 2/13/1787
Brita 3/25/1790
Katerina Beata 2/11/1808
Emanuel 5/15/1811
also, seventeen other children who died in infancy
death: 5/21/1827
place of death: Maxmo, Finland
marriage: Anna Hendricksdotter 12/10/1778
Helena Simonsdotter 6/29/1804
residence: Oling, Maxmo, Finland
comments: His father-in-law was apparently a blacksmith by
profession, called "Smeds". Olof was a farmer.
According to an old family story, Olof's wife
once needed a spinning wheel in the middle of
winter and he became so upset that he skated from
Maxmo to Sweden to purchase one for her.
source: Maxmo Parish Records
May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Anna Hendricksdotter
relationship: mother of Maria Olofsdotter
born: 6/10/1753
children: Ann 12/17/1782
Carl 12/28/1784
Maria 1/6/1786
Elisabet 2/13/1787
Brita 3/25/1790
death: 6/22/1802
marriage: Olof Andersson
residence: Smeds, Maxmo, Finland
comments: her father's name was Hendricks
source: Maxmo Parish Records
May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Mickel Johansson
relationship: father of Johan Mickelsson
birth: 9/24/1763 Skarper farm, Kjerklax village, Maxmo,
Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Lisa 7/15/1787
Johan 2/1/1788
Jakob and Maria 12/28/1796
Anna and Beata 9/19/1801
Anna Maria 12/22/1790
married: Elisabeth (Lisa) Jakobsdotter 12/28/1786
died: 9/16/1831
religion: Lutheran
comments: He was a farmer and district judge.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Elisabeth (Lisa) Jakobsdotter
relationship: mother of Johan Mickelsson
birth: 2/24/1764 Bertby farm, Vora, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Lisa 7/15/1787
Johan 2/1/1788
Jakob and Maria 12/28/1796
Anna and Beata 9/19/1801
Anna Maria 12/22/1790
married: Mickel Johansson 12/28/1786
died: 8/9/1835 Skarper farm, Maxmo, Finland
religion: Lutheran
comments: Her father was named Jakob.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Samuel Orn
relationship: father of Elisabeth (Lisa)
residence: Rekipelto, Vora, Finland
children: Elisabeth (Lisa) 10/17/1787
married: Lisa Johansdotter
religion: Lutheran
comments: He was a corporal. Orn means "eagle"
in Swedish.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Lisa Johansdotter
relationship: mother of Elisabeth (Lisa)
residence: Rekipelto, Vora, Finland
children: Elisabeth (Lisa) 10/17/1787
married: Samuel Orn
religion: Lutheran
comments: Her father's name was Johan.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Tolman Orsor
relationship: father of John Orsor
date of birth: 10/24/1768
date of death: 9/27/1862
grave: Sparta cemetery, Ossining, NY
residence: near Tarrytown, NY
married: Margaret Bishop
children: John Orsor 1792
Deborah Orsor 1793
Stephen Orsor 1796
Ruhama Orsor 1798 (Mrs. Robert Brown)
William Orsor 1801
Sally Maria Orsor 1804
Matilda Orsor 1892
religion: presumably Dutch Reform
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895

Name: Margaret Bishop
relationship: mother of John Orsor
date of birth: 2/16/1770
date of death: 11/22/1829
grave: Sparta cemetery, Ossining, NY
residence: near Tarrytown, NY
married: Tolman Orsor
children: John Orsor 1792
Deborah Orsor 1793
Stephen Orsor 1796
Ruhama Orsor 1798 (Mrs. Robert Brown)
William Orsor 1801
Sally Maria Orsor 1804
Matilda Orsor 1892
religion: presumably Dutch Reform
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895

Name: Benjamin Brown
relationship: father of Susan Brown
date of birth: 1751
place of birth: Phillips (or Fordham) Manor, NY
date of death: 2/7/1838
place of death: Westchester, NY
grave: Hawthorne Church cemetery, Hawthorne, NY (plot 129)
residence: near Tarrytown, NY
married: Christina Sherwood
children: John Brown 1775
Mary Brown (Mrs. Joseph Hammond) 1777
Abraham Brown 1779
Martin Brown 1781
Benjamin Brown
Christina Brown
George Brown
James Brown 1786
Thomas Brown 1789
Margaret Brown 1790 (Mrs. Henry D. Storms)
Susan Brown 2/19/1794 (Mrs. John Orsor)
Graham Brown 1798
Miller Brown 1798
religion: Dutch Reform
military: US Army, American Revolution
comments: He served in New York State militia from 7/1776
until 1780.
In 1/1777, he participated in the unsuccessful
American attack against the British Fort Independence
which was located in what is today the Bronx.
He was commissioned an ensign 6/6/1778.
In 1780 he was captured by British and left the military.
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
[information attributed to Thomas Kehr is generally based
on "Families of the Colonial Manor of Phillipsburgh" by
Grenville MacKenzie, typewritten manuscript available at
the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New
York, NY. MacKenzie based himself to a certain degree on
documents in the possession of the private families.]
American Revolution Pension records, National Archives
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1/1897


Name: Christina Sherwood
relationship: mother of Susan Brown
date of birth: 8/31/1756
date of death: 5/15/1834
grave: Hawthorne Church cemetery, Hawthorne, NY (plot 129)
residence: near Tarrytown, NY
married: Benjamin Brown
children: John Brown 1775
Mary Brown (Mrs. Joseph Hammond) 1777
Abraham Brown 1779
Martin Brown 1781
Benjamin Brown
Christina Brown
George Brown
James Brown 1786
Thomas Brown 1789
Margaret Brown 1790 (Mrs. Henry D. Storms)
Susan Brown 2/19/1794 (Mrs. John Orsor)
Graham Brown 1798
Miller Brown 1798
religion: Dutch Reform
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1/1897


Name: Henry DeCamp
relationship: father of John DeCamp
place of birth: Woodbridge, New Jersey (?)
place of death: Suscunna Plains, NJ
residence: New Jersey
profession: probably farmer
children: Joseph DeCamp 1759
John DeCamp 1760
Silas DeCamp
David DeCamp
Moses DeCamp
Lemuel DeCamp
Morris DeCamp
religion: probably Presbyterian
sources: "Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants" by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)


my 6th great-grandparents:
--------------------------


Name: Tomas Martensson Finnas
relationship: father of Tomas Tomasson
birth: 5/2/1699 Bertby, Vora, Finland
marriage: Margareta Johansdotter
children: Tomas 4/15/1728
died: 12/11/1775 Bertby, Vora, Finland
residence: Bertby, Vora, Finland
comments: "Finnas" is the name of a farm in
Bertby. He was drafted into the Russian
army but he escaped and returned to his family.
His sword from the army is still in the possesion
of his descendents in Finland. It's blade appears
to be about 40 inches long.
source: May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Margareta Johansdotter
relationship: mother of Tomas Tomasson
birth: 3/1698 Bertby, Vora, Finland
marriage: Tomas Martensson Finnas
children: Tomas 4/15/1728
died: 8/8/1774 Bertby, Vora, Finland
residence: Bertby, Vora, Finland
source: May-Britt Audas-Orn




Name: Anders Andersson Biur
relationship: father of Olof Andersson and Emanuel Andersson
born: 1726
place of birth: Sweden (probably Bjurklubb, Vasterbotten)
died: 11/12/1802
place of death: Maxmo, Sweden
children: Ander 1/1/1754
Olof 4/3/1757
Emanuel 1/21/1759
Maria Kristina 9/1/1769 died infancy
married: Anna Fattenborg 12/30/1748 Umea, Sweden
residence: Oling, Maxmo, Finland
profession: soldier, farmer, gunsmith and seal hunter
comments: He sometimes used the name "Biuhr".
His father's name was Anders.
He was a soldier in Sweden and served 12 years.
[During the eighteenth century, Russia and Sweden
were constantly at war over Finland, which was
finally lost to Russia in 1809.]
He may have been originally from Bjuro, Sweden.
Probably it refers to Bjuroklubb, south of
Skelleftea, Sweden. His wife was from Lovanger.
They lived in the Umea area before migrating to
Finland. He immigrated to Finland probably in 1769.
The Oling farm was first owned by Mickel Mattson
Orling and his wife Anna in 1659. Their son, Mickel
Johansson, born 1721, gave half the farm to his
worker Tomas Tomasson in 1757 and sold the rest
to Anders Andersson in 1769.
Oling perhaps means "a meadow on an island" or
something to that effect. Or it may mean "island of
Lis" (a woman's name).
Anders Andersson made guns used to hunt seals. His
own gun was of such high caliber, according to an old
family story, that each bullet weighed 1/3 pound and
the local farmers were all angry whenever he fired it.
If true, then the ball fired by his musket weighed
about five times as much as the heaviest slug used in
a 12 gauge shot gun today. He would have had to be
extremely strong to handle the recoil and the ball
would probably have been very effective against seal.
The gun was, I would presume, a blunderbuss whose
wide mouth magnified the gun's report. The ammunition
might have been several sizable balls of lead. The
seals killed would have been probably used for their
skin and meat, much as eskimos still hunt seals today.
A farm in old Finland is considerably different
than a farm in modern day Iowa, for example. Oling
was originally a tract of several hundred acres of
virgin pine forest next to a tiny inlet of the Gulf of
Bothnia called Soderfjarden. My sixth great-grand father
may have built a cabin for his family and a barn for cows
and sheep and cleared land for crops. The cleared land
would produce hay, oats and barley during the short summer
season and these products would be consumed on the farm.
The main product of the farm, however, was the forest and
Oling was probably what might be called a "forest farm".
The pine trees would be felled and converted into lumber
and firewood or processed to produce tar. The forest was
also a source of wild game. The ocean provided fish, seals
and transportation during the warmer months, although
during the winter it froze over. During a cold winter one
could theoretically walk across to Sweden. The sea thaws
out in May.
In other words, a Finnish "farm" near Vaasa is much
closer to a homestead near Anchorage, Alaska than to a
typical farm in the midwest.
The farm would be passed down in the family of the
original pioneer, although after a few generations
some children would have to leave due to lack of space.
My great-great-grandfather Emanuel left Oling for a
neighboring farm when his father died in 1866 and his
older brother took possession of the farm. He then left
Finland entirely in 1890 with at least two of his sons,
including my great-grandfather Emanuel Newman, and moved
to Ashland, Wisconsin. But even today, I may have a fourth
cousin in Oling who is still tending the ancestral farm.
It is interesting to reflect that apparently Maxmo
is a small Swedish Finn town of perhaps a few thousand
people and most of them are probably sixth or closer
cousins of mine, descended from the early owners of Oling
farm Ander Andersson Oling and Tomas Tomasson Oling
who lived there over 200 years ago. Most Maxmo
inhabitants may share a few percent of their heredity
with me.
Today many of his descendants have taken family
names like "Bertils", "Kallman, "Byman", "Lofsund",
"Sundgren", "Kux", "Klements", "Kull", "Engman" and
"Nordling".
source: Maxmo Parish Records
May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Anna Fattenborg
relationship: mother of Olof Andersson and Emanuel Andersson
born: 3/26/1727 Lovanger, Vasterbotten, Sweden
died: 2/6/1795 Oling, Maxmo, Finland
children: Ander 1/1/1754
Olof 4/3/1757
Emanuel 1/21/1759
Maria Kristina 9/1/1769 died infancy
married: Anders Andersson Biur Umea, Sweden 12/30/1748
profession: hired girl
residence: Oling, Maxmo, Finland
comments: The basic impression I get from the available
records is that Anna Fattenborg was descended from
minor government officials in the Lovanger area.
Her husband was descended from peasants who lived
on the banks of the lower Ume river, probably fishing
as well as farming. Anders met Anna during his period
of military service (the Umea area was under attack
by the Russians). In middle age they moved to the
Oling farm in Finland.
The Vasterbotten area was first settled by Swedes about
1500. Umea and Vaasa are both about as far north as
Reykjavik, Iceland and Nome, Alaska. Lovanger is just 150
miles south of the Artic Circle. In the middle of winter
there is almost no light and in the middle of summer
almost no darkness.
source: May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Johan Simonsson
relationship: father of Mickel Johansson
birth: 5/30/1734 Tottensund farm, Maxmo, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Catherina 4/17/1757
Lisa 4/18/1762
Mickel 9/24/1763
Anna 9/29/1771
Mathais 10/11/1759
Christina Maria 11/29/1766
Maria 2/24/1774
Johannes 4/30/1775
Anna Helena 1760
married: Lisa Mattsdotter 3/20/1757
died: 4/3/1816 at Skarper farm, Maxmo
religion: Lutheran
comments: He was a farmer, juryman, church officer.
Eventually, he went blind.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Lisa Mattsdotter
relationship: mother of Mickel Johansson
birth: 9/4/1733 Laihela (?)
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Catherina 4/17/1757
Lisa 4/18/1757
Mickel 9/24/1763
Anna 9/29/1771
Mathais 10/11/1759
Christina Maria 11/29/1766
Maria 2/24/1774
Johannes 4/30/1775
Anna Helena 1760
married: Johan Simonsson 3/20/1757
died: 4/10/1809 at Skarper farm, Maxmo; stroke
religion: Lutheran
comments: Her father's name was Matt. She was a maid
at Tottensund before her marriage. Her first
child was born a month after the wedding.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records

Name: Jonas Orsor
relationship: father of Tolman Orsor
date of birth: 5/20/1744
place of birth: Westchester Co., NY
date of death: 7/7/1834
place of death: Mt. Pleasant, Westchester, NY
grave: Old Dutch Church, Tarrytown, NY
residence: Ossining, NY
children: Tolman Orsor 1768
Deborah Osor 1770
William Orsor 1772
Edward Orsor 1774
Hunnewell Orsor 1776
Jonas Orsor 1778
Elizabeth Orsor 1780
Abraham Dyckman Orsor 1782
Mary Orsor 1784
Joshua Orsor 1785
Phebe Orsor 1787
Leah Orsor 1789
Rachel Orsor 1791
married: Elizabeth Pugsley
religion: presumably Dutch Reform
military: US Army, American Revolution
He served in the New York State Militia from 1776 to
1779. He was commissioned a captain 6/16/1778.
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895
American Revolution Pension records, National Archives


Name: Elizabeth Pugsley
relationship: mother of Tolman Orsor
date of birth: 2/1749
place of birth: Westchester Co., NY
date of death: 1/2/1836
place of death: Mt. Pleasant, Westchester, NY
grave: Old Dutch Church, Tarrytown, NY
residence: Ossining, NY
married: Jonas Orsor
children: Tolman Orsor 1768
Deborah Osor 1770
William Orsor 1772
Edward Orsor 1774
Hunnewell Orsor 1776
Jonas Orsor 1778
Elizabeth Orsor 1780
Abraham Dyckman Orsor 1782
Mary Orsor 1784
Joshua Orsor 1785
Phebe Orsor 1787
Leah Orsor 1789
Rachel Orsor 1791
religion: Dutch Reform
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895


Name: Thomas Bishop
relationship: father of Margaret Bishop
date of birth: 5/11/1728
place of birth: Eastchester, Westchester Co., NY
date of death: 1/20/1797
grave: Sparta cemetery, Ossining, NY
residence: Phillips Manor, Scarborough Manor,
Westchester, NY
married: Margaret Roots
Jane
children: John Bishop 1751
Joseph Bishop
Rebecca Bishop (Mrs. Tye)
Amy Bishop 10/8/1762 (Mrs. Isaac Van Wart)
Elizabeth Bishop (Mrs. Ichabod Hunt)
Margaret Bishop 1770
Jemima Bishop
Ann Bishop
Deborah Bishop
religion: presumably Dutch Reform
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Jane (last name unknown)
relationship: mother of Margaret Bishop
date of birth: 3/20/1738
date of death: 10/11/1806
grave: Sparta cemetery, Ossining, NY
residence: Scarborough Manor, Westchester, NY
married: Thomas Bishop
children: Margaret Bishop
religion: presumably Dutch Reform
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Abraham Brown
relationship: father of Benjamin Brown
date of birth: 7/8/1713
place of birth: Fordham Manor, NY
date of death: 3/8/1789
place of death: Phillips Manor, NY
grave: Old Dutch Church cemetery, Tarrytown, NY
residence: Westchester, NY (lived on Bedford Rd.
in Mt. Pleasant)
children: Catherine Brown (Mrs. Jacobus Van Wert)
John Brown
Abraham Brown 1748
Benjamin Brown 1750
Isaac Brown 1758
Isabel (Mrs. Joshua Fowler)
marriage: first wife unknown
second wife Anna Vermilye
religion: Dutch Reform
comments: Was deacon of Dutch Church in Tarrytown, NY.
He may have served as a scout in the Revolutionary
War.
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1/1897



Name: Gershom Sherwood
relationship: father of Christina Sherwood
date of birth: 12/23/1734
date of death: 2/27/1807
place of death: Phillips Manor, NY
grave: Sparta Cemetery, Ossining, NY
residence: Phillips Manor, NY (today Long Hill
Rd. Briarcliff Manor, NY)
married: Magrietje Orser
children: Christina Sherwood 1757
Moses Sherwood 1762
Jemima Sherwood (Mrs. Thomas Jacocks)
Aaron Sherwood 1767
George W. Sherwood 1778
religion: presumably Dutch Reform
military: lieutenant and captain, NYS militia,
American Revolution
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Magrietje Orser
relationship: mother of Christina Sherwood
date of birth: 5/30/1738
date of death: 12/3/1826
grave: Sparta Cemetery, Ossining, NY
residence: Westchester, NY
married: Gershom Sherwood
children: Christina Sherwood 1757
Moses Sherwood 1762
Jemima Sherwood (Mrs. Thomas Jacocks)
Aaron Sherwood 1767
George W. Sherwood 1778
religion: presumably Dutch Reform
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Lambert DeCamp
relationship: father of Henry DeCamp
date of birth: 5/1711
place of birth: Staten Island, NY
date of death: about 9/1790
place of death: Essex County, NJ
married: Mary
residence: Elizabeth Boro, Essex Co., New Jersey
profession: probably farmer
children: Henry DeCamp
Lambert DeCamp Jr.
James DeCamp
David DeCamp
Joseph DeCamp
Moses DeCamp 9/25/1735
Elizabeth DeCamp
Leah DeCamp
religion: probably Presbyterian
sources: "Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants" by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)


my 7th great-grandparents:
--------------------------


Name: Marten Thomasson Finnas
relationship: father of Tomas Martensson Finnas
marriage: Anna Martensdotter
children: Tomas 5/2/1699
residence: Bertby, Vora, Finland (?)
source: May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Anna Martensdotter
relationship: mother of Tomas Martensson Finnas
marriage: Marten Thomasson Finnas
children: Tomas 5/2/1699
residence: Bertby, Vora, Finland (?)
source: May-Britt Audas-Orn



Name: Anders Eriksson
relationship: father of Anders Andersson Biur
born: 1678 Sorfors, Umea, Sweden
children: Lars 1706
Erik
Margareta 1711
Ann Charlotta
Hedvig 1718
Carin 1723
Jacob 1725
Anders 1726
married: Karin Larsdotter
died: 4/13/1741 Baggbole, Umea, Sweden
residence: Baggbole, Umea, Sweden
occupation: peasant, churchwarden
sources: letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Karin Larsdotter
relationship: mother of Anders Andersson Biur
children: Lars 1706
Erik
Margareta 1711
Ann Charlotta
Hedvig 1718
Carin 1723
Jacob 1725
Anders 1726
married: Anders Eriksson
died: 1733
residence: Baggbole, Umea, Sweden
sources: letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare



Name: Anders Fattenborg
relationship: father of Anna Fattenborg
born: 1684
children: Olof Fattenborg 5/17/1709 in Kraekaanger,
Lovanger, Sweden
Hakan Fattenborg 1711 (died infancy)
Anders Fattenborg 1712 (died infancy)
Nils Fattenborg 8/2/1713
Elisabet Fattenborg 11/1/1716
Barbro Fattenborg 1/26/1718
Hans Fattenborg 12/21/1720
Anders Fattenborg 3/19/1723
Zacharis Fattenborg 1724
Anna Fattenborg 3/26/1727
Catherina Fattenborg 2/3/1732
married: Anna Hakonsdotter 2/3/1707 in Lovanger,
Vasterbotten, Sweden.
died: 1/17/1763
residence: Lovanger, Vasterbotten, Sweden
profession: parish scribe and assistant county police officer
comments: Today, Lovanger is a small town in northern Sweden
with a population of about 2,600. Many descendents
of Anders Fattenborg still live there; many are
named Olofsson and Agren, including an Olofsson who
lives at the Kraegaaner farm (today called Lovsele).
sources: IGI Swedish records
Internet posting sent to me by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Anna Hakonsdotter
relationship: mother of Anna Fattenborg
born: 1684
children: Olof Fattenborg 5/17/1709 in Kraekaanger,
Lovanger, Sweden
Hakan Fattenborg 1711 (died infancy)
Anders Fattenborg 1712 (died infancy)
Nils Fattenborg 1713
Elisabet Fattenborg 11/1/1716
Barbro Fattenborg 1/26/1718
Hans Fattenborg 1720
Anders Fattenborg 1723
Zacharis Fattenborg 1724
Anna Fattenborg 3/26/1727
Catherina Fattenborg 2/3/1732
married: Anders Fattenborg 2/3/1707 in Lovanger,
Vasterbotten, Sweden.
died: 6/2/1746
residence: Lovanger, Vasterbotten, Sweden
comments: She was called "Nording".
sources: IGI Swedish records
Internet posting sent to me by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Simon Eriksson
relationship: father of Johan Simonsson
birth: 8/28/1703 Maxmo, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Johan 5/30/1734
Simon 10/18/1737
Anna 8/14/1735
Jacob 4/1/1743
Abraham 6/30/1746
married: Cathunna Eriksdotter
died: 6/13/1799 at Smeds farm, Maxmo
religion: Lutheran
comments: He was a farmer. His father's name
was Erik.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records


Name: Cathunna (Carin) Eriksdotter
relationship: mother of Johan Simonsson
birth: 5/1704 Maxmo, Finland
residence: Maxmo, Finland
children: Johan 5/30/1734
Simon 10/18/1737
Anna 8/14/1735
Jacob 4/1/1743
Abraham 6/30/1746
married: Simon Eriksson
died: 11/1/1793 at Smeds farm, Maxmo
religion: Lutheran
comments: Her father's name was Erik.
sources: letter from Joyce Bacher Merrill, WI
based on Finnish parish records

Name: Willem Orser
relationship: father of Jonas Orsor
date of birth: c. 1715
place of birth: Tarrytown, NY
date of death: after 1769
residence: Westchester, NY
married: Barbara Gerritsen 6/24/1740, Tarrytown, NY
children: Evert Orser 1742
Jonas Orsor 1744
Christina Orser 1747
Leah Orser 1750
Elizabeth Orser 1752
Maryken Orser 1755
Elizabeth Orser 1757
religion: Dutch Reform
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895


Name: Barbara Gerritsen
relationship: mother of Jonas Orsor
date of birth: c. 1717
place of birth: Tarrytown, NY
residence: Westchester, NY
married: Willem Orser 6/24/1740, Tarrytown, NY
children: Evert Orser 1742
Jonas Orsor 1744
Christina Orser 1747
Leah Orser 1750
Elizabeth Orser 1752
Maryken Orser 1755
Elizabeth Orser 1757
religion: Dutch Reform
comments: It should be noted that in Dutch, "g" is almost always
pronounced as a German "ch" as in "Bach". "Gerrit" is
pronounced "Cherrit".
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895



Name: William Pugsley
relationship: father of Elizabeth Pugsley
date of birth: 9/24/1724
place of birth: Pelham or Westchester, NY
date of death: 9/26/1786
grave: unmarked, Old Dutch Church cemetery, Tarrytown, NY
residence: Pelham Manor, Phillips Manor, NY
married: Deborah Stevenson 1/13/1744 died 9/9/1770
Elzabeth Barnes 12/12/1770
children: William Pugsley 1758
Elizabeth Pugsley 2/4/1749
Sarah Pugsley (Mrs. Wolfert Ecker) 11/24/1752
Hannah Pugsley
Tolman Pugsley
religion: Dutch Reform
comments: He was the Assessor of Phillips Manor, NY 1756 -
1759 and later rented the manor house. He was known
as "captain".
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson
Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH

Name: Deborah Stevenson
relationship: mother of Elizabeth Pugsley
date of birth: 8/21/1727
date of death: 9/9/1770
grave: Old Dutch Church cemetery, Tarrytown, NY
[This grave and the above graves of William Pugsley,
Elizabeth Pugsley and Jonas Orsor are all located side
by side about 200' north of the Old Dutch Church up the
main path through the cemetery heading north, on your
right hand side. They are a few feet off the road.]
residence: Pelham Manor, Phillips Manor, NY
married: William Pugsley 1/13/1744, Pelham's Manor, NY
children: Elizabeth Pugsley 2/4/1749
Sarah Pugsley (Mrs. Wolfert Ecker) 11/24/1752
William Pugsley 1758
Hannah Pugsley
Tolman Pugsley
religion: Dutch Reform
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: John Bishop
relationship: father of Thomas Bishop
place of birth: Westchester, NY
date of death: 1762
residence: Westchester, NY
married: Susannah
children: Sarah Bishop (Mrs. Lyon)
Thomas Bishop 1728
Rebecca Bishop 1729 (Mrs. Samuel Drake)
Joshua Bishop
John Bishop 1736
Susannah Bishop (Mrs. Jacob Ryder)
Jemima Bishop (Mrs. Jeremiah Stivers)
Ann Bishop (Mrs. Griffen Wildey)
residence: Eastchester, Phillips Manor
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Susannah (last name unknown)
relationship: mother of Thomas Bishop
date of death: 1763
residence: Westchester, NY
married: John Bishop
children: Sarah Bishop (Mrs. Lyon)
Thomas Bishop 1728
Rebecca Bishop 1729 (Mrs. Samuel Drake)
Joshua Bishop
John Bishop 1736
Susannah Bishop (Mrs. Jacob Ryder)
Jemima Bishop (Mrs. Jeremiah Stivers)
Ann Bishop (Mrs. Griffen Wildey)
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: John Brown
relationship: father of Abraham Brown
date of birth: c. 1675
place of birth: Fordham Manor, NY
date of death: 1733
residence: Westchester, NY
marriage: Catherine
children: Gerret Brown
John Brown
Abraham Brown 1713
Jacobus Brown
Isaac Brown
Aphia Brown (Mrs. Woolsey)
Mary Brown (Mrs. Nodine)
Hannah Brown (Mrs. Evert Bussing)
Elizabeth Brown (Mrs. Corsa)
sources: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1/1897


Name: Moses Sherwood
relationship: father of Gershom Sherwood
place of birth: Rye, NY
date of birth: c 1702
residence: Phillips Manor, NY since before 1739
children: Job Sherwood 1724
Solomon Sherwood
Gershom Sherwood 1734
Joshua Sherwood c. 1736
Isaac Sherwood c. 1739
David Sherwood c. 1742
Martha Sherwood (Mrs. George Henderson)
Moses Sherwood 1748
Mary Sherwood 1751 (Mrs. William Arnold)
comments: He was town assessor and constable and
kept an inn.
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Evert Aertse
relationship: father of Magrietje Orser and Willem Orser
place of birth: NY
date of birth: c 1690
date of death: after 1755
married: Wyntje DeVoe
children: Willem Orser 1715
Abraham Orser 1717
Jan Orser 1723
Christina Orser 1725 (Mrs. Benjamin Bruyn)
Elbert Oser 1728
Nicklaus Orser 1730
Marritje Orser 1732 (Mrs. Johannes Clemens)
Rachel Orser 1736 (Mrs. Harmen Davis)
Magrietje Orser 1739
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895



Name: Wyntje DeVoe
relationship: mother of Magrietje Orser and Willem Orser
place of birth: NY
date of birth: c 1696
date of death: after 1755
married: Evert Aertse
children: Willem Orser 1715
Abraham Orser 1717
Jan Orser 1723
Christina Orser 1725 (Mrs. Benjamin Bruyn)
Elbert Oser 1728
Nicklaus Orser 1730
Marritje Orser 1732 (Mrs. Johannes Clemens)
Rachel Orser 1736 (Mrs. Harmen Davis)
Magrietje Orser 1739
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895



Name: Henry DeCamp
relationship: father of Lambert DeCamp
date of birth: about 1682
place of birth: New Utrecht, Kings County, NY
date of death: about 8/1771
place of death: Middlesex County, NJ
married: Maria de Lamars 3/30/1704 at New York City
residence: New Utrecht, Staten Island, Woodbridge, NJ
profession: probably farmer
children: Laurens DeCamp 2/1705 (died infancy)
Laurens DeCamp 5/1709
Lambert DeCamp 5/1711
Aeltie DeCamp 1715
Hendrick DeCamp 1715
Johanes DeCamp 5/1717
David DeCamp 7/1719
Gideon DeCamp 5/1721
Christoffel DeCamp 2/1725
Benjamin DeCamp 1/1728
Christina DeCamp
religion: Dutch Reform Church
sources: will of Hendrick DeCamp, New Jersey State Archives
Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)


Name: Maria de Lamars
relationship: mother of Lambert DeCamp
place of birth: the Bowery, New York City, NY
married: Henry DeCamp 3/30/1704 at New York City
residence: New York City, Staten Island, Woodbridge, NJ
children: Laurens DeCamp 2/1705 (died infancy)
Laurens DeCamp 5/1709
Lambert DeCamp 5/1711
Aeltie DeCamp 1715
Hendrick DeCamp 1715
Johanes DeCamp 5/1717
David DeCamp 7/1719
Gideon DeCamp 5/1721
Christoffel DeCamp 2/1725
Benjamin DeCamp 1/1728
Christina DeCamp
religion: Dutch Reform Church
comment: "de Lamars" is a very unique name and I wonder if it
is a misspelling of the more common French "Delamarre".
"de Lamars" is never found in the records of the Dutch
Church of New York, except for Maria's marriage and the
baptism of her first child (I believe there it is spelled
"de Lamar"). "Delamarre" is never found at all.
There was, however, a Marie Anne Delmarre who was
baptized at L'ange-gardien, Montmorency I, Quebec [I
believe that this refers a village on the St. Lawrence
River 9 miles north of the city of Quebec] on 9/6/1685,
child of Pierre Delamarre and Marie Paulet. Could that
be her? And a Pierre Delamarre was born on 1/10/1660 in
Quebec to Louis dit Gasion Delamarre and Jeanne Garnier.
Could that be her father?
sources: will of Hendrick DeCamp, New Jersey State Archives
Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)
Broderbund New York Marriages CD-ROM 401



my 8th great-grandparents:
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Name: Thomas Simonsson Finnas
relationship: father of Marten Thomasson Finnas
born: 1639 Bertby, Vora, Finland
marriage: Brita Ersdotter Finnas
children: Marten
death: 1/18/1693
residence: Bertby, Vora, Finland (?)
source: May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Brita Ersdotter Finnas
relationship: mother of Marten Thomasson Finnas
born: 1643
marriage: Thomas Simonsson Finnas
children: Marten
death: 1695
residence: Bertby, Vora, Finland (?)
source: May-Britt Audas-Orn


Name: Erik Jakobsson
relationship: father of Anders Eriksson
children: Anders Eriksson 1678 Sorfors, Umea, Sweden
residence: Sorfors, Umea, Sweden
occupation: peasant
comments: His father's name was "Jakob".
His father-in-law's name was "Lars".
sources: letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Lars Hindersson
relationship: father of Karin Larsdotter
marriage: Margareta Olofsdotter
children: Karin
residence: Baggbole, Umea, Sweden
occupation: peasant, lay assessor
died: 1701
comments: His father's name was "Hinder".
sources: letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Margareta Olofsdotter
relationship: mother of Karin Larsdotter
marriage: Lars
children: Karin
residence: Baggbole, Umea, Sweden
died: 1709
comments: Her father's name was "Olof".
sources: letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Olof Fattenborg
relationship: father of Anders Fattenborg
born: 1652
children: Cherstin Fattenborg 1/28/1682
Anders Fattenborg 1684
Anna Fattenborg 1686
Barbro Fattenborg 1692
married: Barbro Olofsdotter
died: 1/17/1740
occupation: parish scribe
residence: Sweden
comments: Perhaps he originated the "Fattenborg" name.
Fattenborg seems to mean "he seized a castle"
in Swedish.
It would seem that I am descended from some
of the earliest Swedish inhabitants of Norrland -
the northern region of Sweden which was first
settled about 1500.
sources: Internet posting sent to me by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Barbro Olofsdotter
relationship: mother of Anders Fattenborg
born: 1655
children: Cherstin Fattenborg 1682
Anders Fattenborg 1684
Anna Fattenborg 1686
Barbro Fattenborg 1692
married: Olof Fattenborg
comments: her father's name was Olof
died: 12/26/1729
residence: Sweden
sources: Internet posting sent to me by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Hakon Olofsson
relationship: father of Anna Hakonsdotter
born: 1638
children: Karin 1679
Anna 1684
Olof 1685
Nils 1690
Christopher 1693
married: Cecilia in Nordbottyn
died: 1/10/1714
residence: Sweden
comments: His father's name was Olof and his father's
father's name was Anders.
sources: Internet posting sent to me by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Cecilia
relationship: mother of Anna Hakonsdotter
children: Karin 1679
Anna 1684
Olof 1685
Nils 1690
Christopher 1693
married: Hakon in Nordbottyn
died: 7/7/1701
residence: Sweden
sources: Internet posting sent to me by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Jonas Gerritsen
relationship: father of Barbara Gerritsen
married: Cornelia DeGroot
children: Barbara Gerritsen c. 1717
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Cornelia DeGroot
relationship: mother of Barbara Gerritsen
married: Jonas Gerritsen
children: Barbara Gerritsen c. 1717
comments: In the IGI, there is a birth of
of Cornelia de Groot female on 10/13/1700 in
Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey to Pieter de Groot
and Belitj Adriaens van Shaick. I would assume
that this is my ancestor.
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: John Pugsley
relationship: father of William Pugsley
date of birth: c. 1695
date of death: 12/1768
place of death: Pelham, NY
marriage: first wife
Mary Hunt 3/26/1759
children: James Pugsley
Sarah Pugsley (Mrs. John Oakley)
Phebe Pugsley (Mrs. Bartholomew Hadden)
William Pugsley
Samuel Pugsley
Stephen Pugsley
Gilbert Pugsley
Israel Pugsley
John Pugsley
David Pugsley
comments: There was located in New Rochelle, NY at the
northeast corner of Beechmont Dr. and North Ave.
a Pugsley family burial ground. The last burial
there was before 1880.
The DAR survey of New Rochelle cemeteries mentions it.
I wonder if this ancestor was buried there.
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: William Stevenson
relationship: father of Deborah Stevenson
date of birth: c. 1695
place of birth: Newtown, LI, NY
[Newtown, Long Island, New York refers to the
present day neighborhood of Elmhurst, Queens Co.
NY. at about the intersection of Queens Blvd and
Grand Av. The name was changed about 1896.]
date of death: c. 1753
marriage: Hannah Hicks 1721
residence: Newtown, NY, Yonkers, NY, Burlington, NJ
children: Robert Stevenson
Edward Stevenson
John Stevenson
Thomas Stevenson
William Stevenson
Augustine Stevenson
Cornelius Stevenson
Mary Stevenson
Deborah Stevenson
Charity Stevenson
Susannah Stevenson
Phoebe Stevenson (Mrs. Israel Honeywell)
Sarah Stevenson (Mrs. John Stillwell)
comments: He owned a great deal of land in New Jersey
and was at one point the Assessor of Newtown, NY
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Hannah Hicks
relationship: mother of Deborah Stevenson
date of birth: 1704
place of birth: Flushing, NY
marriage: William Stevenson 1721
children: Robert Stevenson
Edward Stevenson
John Stevenson
Thomas Stevenson
William Stevenson
Augustine Stevenson
Cornelius Stevenson
Mary Stevenson
Deborah Stevenson
Charity Stevenson
Susannah Stevenson
Phoebe Stevenson (Mrs. Israel Honeywell)
Sarah Stevenson (Mrs. John Stillwell)
religion: Quaker
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Thomas Bishop
relationship: father of John Bishop
date of birth: c. 1665
place of birth: probably Southampton, LI, NY
marriage: Ruhanna Gerritson, Westchester, NY
children: Thomas Bishop
Martha Bishop
Joshua Bishop
John Bishop
Gershom Bishop
residence: Westchester, NY
comments: The ancestry of Thomas Bishop is a bit unclear,
however based on The Genealogical Dictionary of New
England by James Savage and the IGI, the following
seems most probable to me:
His father was John Bishop born in Salem, Mass.
about 1645. He relocated to Southampton, New York
and fathered Thomas.
The parents of John Bishop were Thomas and
Dulzebella Bishop. Thomas Bishop was born in
England about 1609 and emigrated to Salem, Mass.
about 1635. He was an indentured servant and was
freed on 5/18/1642. He married Duzabella about
1639. Duzabella was born in England about 1613.
She married Richard King in Salem in 1628. She was
widowed in 1635. She and Richard Bishop had three
sons, Thomas, John and Nathaniel and a daughter who
married John Dorland. Duzabella died on 8/24/1658
and Richard married Mary the widow of William Gott
on 7/1660. Richard died on 12/30/1674.
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Ruhanna Gerritsen
relationship: mother of John Bishop
marriage: Thomas Bishop, Westchester, NY
children: Thomas Bishop
Martha Bishop
Joshua Bishop
John Bishop
Gershom Bishop
residence: Westchester, NY
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Jan De Bruyn
relationship: father of John Brown
place of birth: Breisach, Lorraine, France
[I would assume that this is town of Breisach
am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany 12 miles
west of Freiberg]
residence: France, Manhattan, Fordham Manor, NY
marriage: Marytie Hendricks 1/24/1663
children: John Brown
Evert Brown
Hendick Brown
comments: Perhaps "de Bruyn" means from the village of
Brun, Germany, which is 205 miles north of
Breisach and 37 miles east of Cologne.]
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1/1897


Name: Marytje Hendricks
relationship: mother of John Brown
place of birth: Amsterdam, Holland
residence: Holland, Manhattan, Fordham Manor, NY
marriage: Jan De Bruyn 1/24/1663
children: John Brown
Evert Brown
Hendick Brown
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1/1897


Name: Jonathan Sherwood
relationship: father of Moses Sherwood
date of birth: 1676
place of birth: Rye, NY
residence: Rye, NY
children: Moses Sherwood
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Evert Aertsen
relationship: father of Evert Aertse
date of birth: 1645
place of birth: Manhattan, NY
marriage: Marritje Hercks 2/2/1673
children: Aert Aertsen 1674
Aert Aertsen 1675
William Aertsen 1676
Hercules Aertsen 1678
Wyntje Aertsen 1680
Elbert Aertsen 1684
Johannes Aertsen 1686
Maryken Aertsen 1688
Evert Aertsen 1690
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895


Name: Marritje Hercks
relationship: mother of Evert Aertse
date of birth: 1647
place of birth: Manhattan, NY
marriage: Evert Aertsen 2/2/1673
children: Aert Aertsen 1674
Aert Aertsen 1675
William Aertsen 1676
Hercules Aertsen 1678
Wyntje Aertsen 1680
Elbert Aertsen 1684
Johannes Aertsen 1686
Maryken Aertsen 1688
Evert Aertsen 1690
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895

Name: Abraham DeVoe
relationship: father of Wyntje DeVoe
birth: 6/11/1668
place of birth: Mannheim, Germany
religion: Huguenot
resided: Harlem, NY (c. 1674), Phillips Manor, NY
marriage: Wyntje Jurckse
children: Wyntje DeVoe
comments: Quite a few details about the life and times
of the DeVoe family can be found in the book
"Harlem (City of New York) It's Origin and
Early Annals" by James Riker Genealogical
Publishing Co. Baltimore MD
The original village of Harlem, NY c. 1670
extended more or less from the present day
1 Ave to 3 Ave and from 117 St to 124 St.
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Wyntje Jurckse
relationship: mother of Wyntje DeVoe
marriage: Abraham DeVoe
children: Wyntje DeVoe
comments: Her name is pronounced "Vinetyeh" I believe.
sources: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Laurence DeCamp
relationship: father of Henry DeCamp
date of birth: about 1645
place of birth: northeastern France
date of death: about 1720
place of death: Staten Island, NY (?)
married: Altje de Mandeville about 1676
residence: France, New Utrecht, Staten Island
profession: probably farmer, pastor of church
children: Joannes DeCamp 5/1677
Johanis DeCamp 1/1679
Styntje DeCamp 1/1681
Henry DeCamp 1682
Agidius DeCamp 5/1683
Weraichie DeCamp 1685
Altje DeCamp 1690
Martha DeCamp 1707
Christina DeCamp 5/1711
Arent DeCamp 5/1715
religion: Dutch Reform Church
sources: "Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants" by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)


Name: Altje de Mandeville
relationship: mother of Henry DeCamp
place of birth: Garderen, Holland
date of death: after 1720
place of death: Staten Island, NY (?)
married: Laurence De Camp about 1676
residence: Holland, NYC, New Utrecht, Staten Island
children: Joannes DeCamp 5/1677
Johanis DeCamp 1/1679
Styntje DeCamp 1/1681
Henry DeCamp 1682
Agidius DeCamp 5/1683
Weraichie DeCamp 1685
Altje DeCamp 1690
Martha DeCamp 1707
Christina DeCamp 5/1711
Arent DeCamp 5/1715
religion: Dutch Reform Church
comments: Her name is pronounced "Altyeh" I believe.
sources: "Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants" by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)


my 9th great-grandparents:
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Name: Anders Olofsson
relationship: father of Olof Fattenborg
children: Olof Fattenborg 1652
Christopher 1655
Anna 1659
married: Brita
residence: Sweden
comments: His father's name was Olof.
sources: Internet posting sent to me by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
letter from Tom Juslin, president Sodra
Vasterbottens Slaktforskare


Name: Aert Willemszen
relationship: father of Evert Aertsen
place of birth: Barneveld, Gelderland, Holland c. 1615
died: 1659
place of death: Manhattan, NY
marriage: Wyntje Elberts
children: Willem Aertsen 1640
Annetje Aertsen 1642
Wyntje Aertsen 1643
Elbert Aertsen 1643
Evert Aertsen 1645
immigration: before 1640 to Manhattan
profession: brewer, tavern keeper
comments: The original hand written baptismal record of
Willem Aertsen son of Aert Willemszen 8/12/1640
is on file in a safe at the Collegiate Reformed
Church of New York in Manhattan. This is the 22nd
baptism on record in New Amsterdam. This is the
earliest record of my family in New York.
It is interesting to note that Manhattan in the
early 1640s was basically a little village. The
entire "city" consisted of perhaps a few dozen
houses and some gardens surrounding the fort, which
was located where the U.S. Customs House is now.
The city probably resembled a frontier trading outpost
in the Wild West more than anything else, with plenty
of saloons, drunken fights and Indians trading beaver
skins coming and going. There was no church building
until St. Nicolas was build in the fort in 1644 and
there was no pier until 1650 (ships had to drop anchor
in the harbor and passengers came ashore in row boats
or canoes). The city was almost wiped out by Indians
in 1643. In 1647 New Amsterdam had 17 taverns. The
most successful businesses were the taverns.
The address of Aert Willemszen's home is today
called 42 Broadway New York, NY. His burial place
was possibly in the Dutch cemetary just across
the street from his home. Today, office buildings
stand there. His body may have been reinterred in
mass vault in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 7/1895

Name: Wyntje Elberts
relationship: mother of Evert Aertsen
place of birth: Nieukercken, Zeeland, Holland
[I don't know if this refers to the present village
of Nieuwerkerk a few miles east of Zierikzee or
Nieuwerkerke a few miles north of Zierikzee in Zeeland.]
immigration: before 1657
died: after 1662
place of death: Manhattan, NY
children: Willem Aertsen 1640
Annetje Aertsen 1642
Wyntje Aertsen 1643
Elbert Aertsen 1643
Evert Aertsen 1645
immigration: before 1640 to Manhattan
sources: Aert Willemszen and His Descendants by Robert B. Miller
New York Genealogical

Name: Pieter DeGroot
relationship: father of Cornelia DeGroot
born: 1653 New York City
married: Belitje Adraines van Schaick
New York City, 12/10/1681
children: Cornelia DeGroot 10/13/1700
sources: IGI


Name: Belitje Adraines van Schaick
relationship: mother of Cornelia DeGroot
born: 1663 New York City
married: Pieter DeGroot
New York City, 12/10/1681
children: Cornelia DeGroot 10/13/1700
sources: IGI


Name: Matthew Pugsley
relationship: father of John Pugsley
place of birth: England
marriage: Mary Hunt 11/22/1683, Westchester, NY
children: Rachel Pugsley (Mrs. Henry Titus)
Rebecca Pugsley 1686
James Pugsley
Sarah Pugsley
John Pugsley
Hannah Pugsley (Mrs. Jacob Hunt)
resided: West Farms, NY, Queens, NY
date of death: after 1730
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Mary Hunt
relationship: mother of John Pugsley
place of birth: Connecticut or New York
marriage: Matthew Pugsley 11/22/1683
Westchester, NY
children: Rachel Pugsley (Mrs. Henry Titus)
Rebecca Pugsley 1686
James Pugsley
Sarah Pugsley
John Pugsley
Hannah Pugsley (Mrs. Jacob Hunt)
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Edward Stevenson
relationship: father of William Stevenson
born: c. 1650 Manhattan or Long Island, NY
married: Charity Field c. 1683
children: John Stevenson
Elnathan Stevenson
William Stevenson
Charity Stevenson
Susannah Stevenson
died: 1700 Flushing, NY
religion: Quaker
residence: Newtown, NY
comments: He owned a large area of land in Newtown
along with a mill. He served as town clerk
of Newtown.
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7/1959



Name: Charity Field
relationship: mother of William Stevenson
born: c. 1653
place of birth: Newtown, NY
married: Edward Stevenson c. 1683
children: John Stevenson
Elnathan Stevenson
William Stevenson
Charity Stevenson
Susannah Stevenson
died: 1724, Newtown, LI, NY
religion: Quaker
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7/1959

Name: Thomas Hicks
relationship: father of Hannah Hicks
date of birth: 1667
marriage: Deborah Whitehead
date of death: 1712
religion: Quaker
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson

Name: Deborah Whitehead
relationship: mother of Hannah Hicks
marriage: Thomas Hicks
date of death: 1712
religion: Quaker
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Derrick Gerritsen
relationship: father of Ruhanna Gerritsen
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH

Name: Stephen Sherwood
relationship: father of Jonathan Sherwood
birth: c. 1642 Fairfield, CT
residence: moved to Rye, NY before 1668
marriage: Rebecca Turney
Hannah Jackson 1686
Mary Adams before 1697
children: Stephen Sherwood c. 1664
Joseph Sherwood c. 1666
Daniel Sherwood c. 1668
Mary Sherwood c. 1670 (Mrs. Daniel Burr)
Nathaniel Sherwood 1672
Jabez Sherwood c. 1674
Jonathan Sherwood c. 1676
Ruth Sherwood c. 1687 (Mrs. Merritt)
Samuel Sherwood c. 1689
Andrew Sherwood c. 1692
John Sherwood c. 1694
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969

Name: Rebecca Turney
relationship: mother of Jonathan Sherwood
birth: 2/16/1639 Concord, MA
marriage: Stephen Sherwood
children: Stephen Sherwood c. 1664
Joseph Sherwood c. 1666
Daniel Sherwood c. 1668
Mary Sherwood c. 1670 (Mrs. Daniel Burr)
Nathaniel Sherwood 1672
Jabez Sherwood c. 1674
Jonathan Sherwood c. 1676
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Nicolas DeVoe
relationship: father of Abraham DeVoe
birth: Festubert, near Bethune, France
residence: Mannheim, Germany 1667
Harlem, New York c. 1674
Phillips Manor, New York
marriage: Marie Sy (or "See") 7/10/1667 Mannheim, German
Margaret Jans (Sans?) 1706
children: Abraham DeVoe 1668
John DeVoe 1669
Hester DeVoe 1671
Susannah DeVoe 1673
Marytie DeVoe 1675
Susanna DeVoe 1680
Esther DeVoe 1711
religion: Huguenot
source: New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal
1/1997
Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Marie Sy (or "See")
relationship: mother of Abraham DeVoe
residence: Mannheim, Germany 1667
Harlem, New York c. 1674
Phillips Manor, New York
marriage: Nicolas DeVoe 7/10/1667 Mannheim, German
children: Abraham DeVoe 1668
John DeVoe 1669
Hester DeVoe 1671
Susannah DeVoe 1673
Marytie DeVoe 1675
Susanna DeVoe 1680
religion: Huguenot
source: New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal
1/1997
Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Jean DeCamp
relationship: father of Laurence DeCamp
residence: northeastern France
children: Laurence DeCamp c. 1645
religion: probably Huguenot
comments: One of the victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day
massacre Paris, France 8/24/1572 was a "Jean DeCamp
saddler from Rouen". Possibly he was a grandfather
or great-grandfather of this Jean DeCamp.
I would also wonder if possibly "de Camp" means "from
Kamp" a village slightly south east of Nijmegen. However
in that case, I assume that the Dutch "van Kamp" would
be used, not the French "DeCamp".
source: "Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants" by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)


Name: Yellis Jansen de Mandeville
relationship: father of Altje de Mandeville
date of birth: about 1630
place of birth: Garderen, Holland
date of death: 1701
place of burial: probably at the very top of present
day Hudson St., where it enters into 14 St.
place of death: Manhattan, NY
married: Elsie Hendricks
residence: Holland, Long Island, Manhattan
children: Hendrick de Mandeville
Gerretje de Mandeville
Altje de Mandeville
Jan de Mandeville
Tyntje de Mandeville
David de Mandeville
religion: Dutch Reform Church
immigration: With wife and four children, he sailed to
America in the "de Trouw" 2/12/1659, arriving in
New Amsterdam. [It is interesting to note that
according to the passenger list, this ship contained
97 passengers, very similar to the Mayflower's 102
39 years earlier. I would imagine that de Trouw was
similar to the Mayflower II on display now in
Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Mayflower was 90 feet
long and 26 feet wide.]
comments: He may have been name after his great-grandfather
Aegidius (Gillis) van de Rade.
From 1670 until 1700 Yellis Jansen de Mandeville
owned an estate on Manhattan Island extending from
approximately the present day 10 Av. to 7 Av. and
from 12 St. to 21 St. His home was located
approximately at the present day north eastern
corner of the intersection of Little W. 12 St.
and Washington St., which at that time was on
the bank of the Hudson River. At that time there was
a trail from that area of Manhattan to New York City
but the main transportation may have been by small
boat. Seemingly, Mandeville was the first, or one
of the first, European inhabitants of present day
mid-town Manhattan.

This ancestor is credited with naming Greenwich Village:

The name Greenwich sounds purely English, and most people assume as much, but they assume incorrectly. In the 1670s, when Yellis Mandeville moved here and bought property, he took with him the name of a Dutch village near where he had lived on Long Island, which has long since disappeared but which was then known as Greenwijck, or Pine District. The first record of the name change to Greenwich Village occurs in Mandeville’s will, in 1696, so it seems likely that he was responsible for the new name and thus that “Greenwich” was an Anglicization of a Dutch name.

Before Mandeville's farm, an Indian tobacco
plantation called Sappohanikan, farmed presumably
by Algonkuian Indians of the Manhattan tribe, was
located on the site. It may also have been a crossing
point used by Indians crossing the Hudson between
Manhattan and New Jersey. Since no fresh water stream
or spring was found in area, probably no permanent
Indian village was located there. No remnant of the
Manhattan tribe exists today, although some may have
later migrated to the Monsey, NY area and eventually
further west across America.
It is interesting that this little corner of
Manhattan seems to have remained somewhat obscure and
undeveloped, never having been given any special label
although I guess it might be called the south half of
Chelsea. Even now there is an eerie quiet at the site
of the old Mandeville farm. It was a center for meat
processing, I believe, during the 19th century.
In 1696, Yellis Jansen de Mandeville also owned a farm
on Wapau Island, Hemstead, Queens NY (I don't know where
exactly that is; maybe present day Long Beach in Nassau
County?) which he left in his will to his son Hendrick.
He also owned meadow on the west bank of the Hudson
opposite his Manhattan farm. That would be the site of
Hoboken, New Jersey.
sources: "Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants" by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)
will of Yellis Jansen Mandeville, NYC Surrogate Court
deed of Yellis Jansen Mandeville to David Mandeville, 1711,
NYC land records
Manhattan farm maps, NYPL
New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal 10/1907
(NYPL)
The ships passenger list of the "de Trouw" 2/12/1659,
should be located in the New York State Archives,
Albany New York Colonial Manuscripts vol. 14 page 83-123
(microfilm copy available at NYPL).
It was translated in Passenger List to New Netherlands
by Arnold J.F. van Laer, Holland Society Yearbook 1902
p. 8.


Name: Elsie Hendricks
relationship: mother of Altje de Mandeville
date of birth: about 1630
place of birth: Garderen, Holland
date of death: after 1701
place of burial: probably at the very top of present
day Hudson St., where it enters into 14 St.
place of death: Manhattan, NY
married: Elsie Hendricx
residence: Holland, Long Island, Manhattan
children: Hendrick de Mandeville
Gerretje de Mandeville
Altje de Mandeville
Jan de Mandeville
Tyntje de Mandeville
David de Mandeville
religion: Dutch Reform Church
immigration: With husband and four children, she sailed to
America in the "de Trouw" 2/12/1659, arriving in
New Amsterdam.
comments: Her father's name was "Hendric".
sources: "Laurent DeCamp and His Descendants" by George Austin
Morrison (NYPL)
will of Yellis Jansen Mandeville, NYC Surrogate Court
deed of Yellis Jansen Mandeville to David Mandeville, 1711,
NYC land records
Manhattan farm maps, NYPL
New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal 10/1907
(NYPL)
The ships passenger list of the "de Trouw" 2/12/1659,
should be located in the New York State Archives,
Albany New York Colonial Manuscripts vol. 14 page 83-123
(microfilm copy available at NYPL).
It was translated in Passenger List to New Netherlands
by Arnold J.F. van Laer, Holland Society Yearbook 1902
p. 8.



my 10th great-grandparents:
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Name: Willem
relationship: father of Aert Willemszen
born: Barneveld, Holland
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Elbert
relationship: father of Wyntje Elberts
born: Nierkercken, Zeeland, Holland c. 1615
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Jacob DeGroot
relationship: father of Pieter DeGroot
birth: 1626 Leiden, Holland
married: Gretje Jans
New York City, 10/6/1652
children: Pieter DeGroot 1653
comments: His father's name was Pieter.
The name "de Groot" is common in Holland
and means "the big" or "tall" (similar to
"Gross" in German).
sources: IGI


Name: Gretje Jans
relationship: mother of Pieter DeGroot
married: Jacob DeGroot
New York City, 10/6/1652
children: Pieter DeGroot 1653
sources: IGI


Name: Adrians van Schaick
relationship: father of Belitje Adraines van Schaick
married: Rebecca Idens
Brooklyn, NY 2/22/1662
children: Belitje Adraines van Schaick 10/1/1663
comments: I would guess that "van Schaick" means "from
the village of Schaijk" which is 11 miles
southwest of Nijmegen, Netherlands.
According to a book by Melwood W. Van Scoyoc,
"Descendents of Cornelis Aertsen Van Schaick" his
father was Cornelis Aertsen van Schaick who is also
an ancestor of Theodore Roosevelt (and, I believe
Franklin D. Roosevelt as well) and the second
husband of Aert Willemszen's widow Wyntje Elberts.
He was from Woerden, Netherlands and immigrated to
New Netherlands. This would seemingly make me a cousin
of Theodore Roosevelt perhaps twice over (see below
regarding Nicolas DeVoe) and of FDR once.
sources: IGI


Name: Rebecca Idens
relationship: mother of Belitje Adraines van Schaick
married: Adrians van Schaick
Brooklyn, NY 2/22/1662
children: Belitje Adraines van Schaick 10/1/1663
comments: The IGI contains a birth record for Rebecca
Idens born c. 1642 in Noodwijk, Netherlands
to Iden and Teuntje Theunis.
sources: IGI


Name: Thomas Hunt
relationship: father of Mary Hunt
born: New Haven, CT 1642
resided: West Farms, Queens, NY, after 1683 in Westchester, NY
marriage: Elizabeth Jessup
children: John Hunt c. 1664
Mary Hunt c. 1666
Josiah Hunt c. 1668
Thomas Hunt 1670
Joseph Hunt
Robert Hunt
Cicely Hunt (Mrs. John Leggett)
Susannah Hunt
Abigail Hunt
died: after 1705
comments: He was called "captain".
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt by
W. L. G. Hunt 1862


Name: Elizabeth Jessup
relationship: mother of Mary Hunt
birth: 1665
death: 1724
married: Thomas Hunt
children: John Hunt c. 1664
Mary Hunt c. 1666
Josiah Hunt c. 1668
Thomas Hunt 1670
Joseph Hunt
Robert Hunt
Cicely Hunt (Mrs. John Leggett)
Susannah Hunt
Abigail Hunt
comments: She was related to Lord Gardiner's family
in England.
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt by
W. L. G. Hunt 1862



Name: Thomas Stevenson
relationship: father of Edward Stevenson
birth: London, England, 1615
marriage: Mary Bullock 8/15/1645
children: John Stevenson
Thomas Stevenson
Edward Stevenson
Sarah Stevenson (Mrs. Patrick Hires)
died: 1662 Manhattan, NY
immigration: came to Virginia c. 1643
residence: London, England, Southold, LI, NY, Brooklyn,
Newtown, LI, NY
military: He fought against Indians in Manhattan, 1643.
He participated in the destruction of an Indian
village near the present day location of Bedford,
NY in 1643 under the command of Captain Underhill.
Almost all 800 inhabitants were killed.
comments: He seems to have been an aggressive person and
was involved in several lawsuits. He owned a
farm next to Newtown, LI, NY called "Steven's Point"
were he lived after 1654.
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Mary Bullock
relationship: mother of Edward Stevenson
marriage: William Bernard 6/1/1642 died 1643
Thomas Stevenson 8/15/1645
children: Mary Bernard 1643
Elizabeth Bernard 1643
John Stevenson
Thomas Stevenson
Edward Stevenson
Sarah Stevenson (Mrs. Patrick Hires)
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Robert Field
relationship: father of Charity Field
birth: before 1632
place of birth: Yorkshire, England
death: before 5/13/1701
emigration: before 1638
residence: Newport, RI and Flushing, NY
marriage: Susannah
children: Robert Field
Elnathan Field
Ambrose Field
Benjamin Field
Charity Field
Anne Field (Mrs. Thomas Stevenson)
Mary Field (Mrs. William Willet)
Sarah Field (Mrs. Jonathan Whitehead)
Susannah Field (Mrs. Isaac Marriott)
Elizabeth Field (?)
Jemima Field (?)
religion: Quaker
comments: He was a signatory of the Flushing Remonstrance written
in Flushing in 12/27/1657 demanded religious tolerance
for Quakers from the Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant.
This was done at some personal risk and is considered
to be the beginning of religious freedom in America.
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7/1959

Name: Susannah (Stevenson?)
relationship: mother of Charity Field
marriage: Robert Field
death: 5/25/1702
religion: Quaker
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7/1959

Name: Thomas Hicks
relationship: father of Thomas Hicks
birth: 1640 Queens Co., NY (?)
died: 1740, Hempstead, LI, NY
marriage: Mary Butler
Mary Doughty 1677
religion: Quaker
comments: He was commission judge in Queens Co. NY in 1691.
source: A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969
Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson

Name: Mary Butler
relationship: mother of Thomas Hicks
birth: Stratford, CT
marriage: John Washburn 6/7/1655
Thomas Hicks, Hempstead, LI, NY
source: A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969

Name: Daniel Whitehead
relationship: father of Deborah Whitehead
marriage: Abigail Stevenson
residence: Newtown, LI, NY
children: Jonathan Whitehead
Thomas Whitehead
Deborah Whitehead (Mrs. Thomas Hicks)
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969


Name: Abigail Stevenson
relationship: mother of Deborah Whitehead
date of birth: c. 1640
death: 10/1715 Jamaica, NY
marriage: Daniel Whitehead
children: Jonathan Whitehead
Thomas Whitehead
Deborah Whitehead (Mrs. Thomas Hicks)
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969


Name: Thomas Sherwood
relationship: father of Stephen Sherwood
birth: c. 1586 Sherwood Forest, England
death: c. 1655 Connecticut
immigration: sailed 4/21/1634 to Boston, MA arrived on "Francis"
from Ipswitch, England; landed 6/1634
residence: 1635 Wethersfield, CT,
1641 Stamford
later to Stratford or Fairfield, CT
His farm at Wethersfield was located where Interstate
Highway 91 passes over Meadow Rd. today.
I would guess that the family name "Sherwood" comes
from Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England.
profession: carpenter
marriage: Alice Seabrook first wife in England
Mary (Fitch?) second wife in America
children: Hannah Sherwood 1620
Rose Sherwood 1623
Thomas Sherwood 1624
Rebbecca Sherwood 1625
Jane Sherwood
Margaret Sherwood
Sarah Sherwood
Stephen Sherwood
Matthew Sherwood
Mary Sherwood
Ruth Sherwood
Abigail Sherwood
Isaac Sherwood
religion: presumably Puritan
comments: miller and state legislator
The IGI shows a marriage of Thomas Sherwood
to Alice Seabrook about 1623 at Summerset,
England.
His will was probated 7/21/1655 Fairfield, CT.
(I believe that this will would be found at the State
Library, Hartford, CT.)
Apparently he left Wethersfield for Stamford due
to a disagreement in the Wethersfield church which
erupted in the summer of 1640. A number of Wethersfield
settlers left and founded the new community of Stamford.
This is my earliest documented ancestor in America.
It would be my assumption that he, along with many of
my other colonial American ancestors of English descent,
came to America as part of the migration of 20,000
Puritans who emigrated from England to the Massachusetts
Bay between 1630 and 1642. They were extreme Protestants,
originally members of the Church of England, who wished
to "purify" the church of all Roman Catholic influence.
As I understand it, the Puritan migration in the
1630's was the first major migration of Europeans to
North America and can really be seen as the foundation for
the future United States. Before 1630, there were no more
than a few scattered European villages, with a population
totally about 5,000, in the entire area which today is
the United States. Significantly, there were no Indian
wars before 1630 since the few scattered settlers were
still hardly noticed by the natives.
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
History of Ancient Wethersfield
Connecticut Genealogy
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969



Name: Mary (Fitch?)
relationship: mother of Stephen Sherwood
marriage: Thomas Sherwood
children: Stephen Sherwood
Matthew Sherwood
Mary Sherwood
Ruth Sherwood
Abigail Sherwood
Isaac Sherwood
comment: I suspect that she was a daughter of Abraham
Finch Sr. a neighbor of her husband Thomas Sherwood
and one of the first settlers in Wethersfield.
However, on the other hand, there is no record of
such a Finch daughter.
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969



Name: Benjamin Turney
relationship: father of Rebecca Turney
birth: before 1600
marriage: Mary Odell 7/12/1630
children: Mary Turney (Mrs. Nathaniel Seeley) 1631
Robert Turney 1633
Judith Turney 1635 (Mrs. John Wheeler)
Ann Turney 1637 (Mrs. Thomas Sherwood)
Rebecca Turney 2/16/1639 (Mrs. Stephen Sherwood)
Sarah Turney 12/11/1641 (Mrs. Matthew Sherwood)
Ruth Turney 1/28/1643 (Mrs. Richard Bouton)
Benjamin Turney 1645
death: 1648
immigration: 1636
residence: came to Concord, MA c 1636
came to Fairfield CT before 1644
comments: He came to America as an indentured servant and
was freed 6/1641
source: The American Genealogist vol. 13 1/1937 p. 125
[or perhaps it is the previous issue of this
magazine]


Name: Mary Odell
relationship: mother of Rebecca Turney
birth: 11/1605
marriage: Benjamin Turney 7/12/1630
children: Mary Turney (Mrs. Nathaniel Seeley) 1631
Robert Turney 1633
Judith Turney 1635 (Mrs. John Wheeler)
Ann Turney 1637 (Mrs. Thomas Sherwood)
Rebecca Turney 2/16/1639 (Mrs. Stephen Sherwood)
Sarah Turney 12/11/1641 (Mrs. Matthew Sherwood)
Ruth Turney 1/28/1643 (Mrs. Richard Bouton)
Benjamin Turney 1645
source: The American Genealogist vol. 13 1/1937 p. 125



Name: Nicolas DeVoe
relationship: father of Nicolas DeVoe
birth: c. 1620 Festubert, near Bethune, France
[this village is about 4 miles northeast of
Bethune and 15.5 miles southwest of Lille]
residence: Mannheim, Germany 1667
marriage: Susanne Francois
Susanne Planq 5/25/1677
children: Nicolas DeVoe
Fredrick DeVoe
Susanne DeVoe (Mrs. Paul Ibau)
Jacques DeVoe
religion: Huguenot
comments: He may have been murdered by French Catholics
c. 1685.
The name Devoe (or "de Veaux") means "associated
with calves"; I assume meaning a cowherd or cattle
dealer. Or possibly it refers to the village of
"Vaux" (pronounced "vo") which is 4.25 miles south
west of Metz and 180 miles south east of Festubert.
Possibly, Theodore Roosevelt was a descendent
of Jacques DeVoe, making him about my 8th cousin
3 times removed. (The theory seemingly is that
Roosevelt's ancestor on his mother's side, Andre
DeVeaux, who immigrated to South Carolina c. 1700
was perhaps a son of Jacques DeVoe, my 11th great-
uncle. I think that this is speculative, however.)
source: New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal
1/1997
Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Jan Michaelsz de Mandeville
relationship: father of Yellis Jansz de Mandeville
birth: c. 1601 Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
died: 1657 Garderen, Gelderland, Netherlands
children: Yellis Jansz de Mandeville
at least 6 other children
religion: Dutch Reform
comments: He entered Leiden University 3/3/1623.
In 1624, received permission to teach Hebrew
at the Atheneum, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Netherlands.
In 1628 was the candidate minister in Kootwijk and
soon after became the minister in Garderen. He died
there in 1657.
According to the Broderbund World Family Tree CD-ROM
vol. 15, his wife was Trijten Willems. This may be
based on Crownover - van Cohonover family newsletters
published in the 1930's.
source: New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal 7/1938.


my 11th great-grandparents:
---------------------------

Name: Thomas Hunt
relationship: father of Thomas Hunt
place of birth: Keyston, Huntingshire, England
[I assume that this refers to village of
Keyston about 11.5 miles west of Huntingdon,
now in Cambridgeshire, England.]
immigration: 1637 to Boston as an indentured servant
marriage: about 1640 to Cicely Clarke (or Parsley)
children: Thomas Hunt c. 1642
Josiah Hunt c. 1643
John Hunt c. 1650
Joseph Hunt c. 1652
Abigail Hunt (Mrs. John Pinckney)
residence: Stamford, CT, Rye, NY, Newtown, NY
date of death: 1694
religion: Anglican
comments: He may have been descended from Thomas Hunt
sheriff of Shropshire, England in 1656.
Further back, he may have descended from
Richard Hunt of Shrewsbury, England.
He came to America as an indentured servant
but later purchased "Grove Farm" in Westchester
and founded St. Peter's Church.
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt by
W. L. G. Hunt 1862


Name: Cicely Clarke (or Parsley)
relationship: mother of Thomas Hunt
marriage: about 1640 to Thomas Hunt
children: Thomas Hunt c. 1642
Josiah Hunt c. 1643
John Hunt c. 1650
Joseph Hunt c. 1652
Abigail Hunt (Mrs. John Pinckney)
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Edward Jessup
relationship: father of Elizabeth Jessup
date of death: 1666
place of death: Westchester, NY
marriage: Elizabeth
children: Elizabeth Jessup
Hannah Jessup
Edward Jessup c. 1663
comments: He was an original lot owner in Fairfield
and a Magistrate in Newtown, NY and Westchester
Co. He was a pioneer in Newtown, NY.
There is a book "Edward Jessup of West Farms"
which is perhaps about him.
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Elizabeth (last name unknown)
relationship: mother of Elizabeth Jessup
marriage: Edward Jessup
Robert Beacham
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH

Name: Robert Field
relationship: father of Robert Field
birth: 1605 Yorkshire, England
death: c. 1672 Flushing, NY
marriage: Charity
children: Robert Field
Anthony Field
Benjamin Field (?)
Hannah Field (Mrs. John Brown 1656)
Elizabeth Field (Mrs. John Underhill)
comments: On 10/10/1645 he with others was granted a patent
t ng Remonstrance written
in Flushing in 12/27/1657 demanded religious tolerance
for Quakers from the Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant.
This was done at some personal risk and is considered
to be the beginning of religious freedom in America.
His grandson, Benjamin son of Anthony, married the
daughter of John Bowne in 1696. Interestingly John Bowne
was one of the leading Quakers in New York and was
imprisoned by the Dutch, but later released after winning
a promise of religious freedom from the Dutch government.
His house still stands in Flushing on Bowne St. and is
probably the oldest building in New York City.
According to an article by Osgood Field in the book
"English Origins of New England Families" vol. 1 pages
824 to 830, the Fields came from Bradford, West Yorkshire,
England to America about 1630. In medieval times the
family was named de la Feld and came from France at the
time of the Norman Conquest. I am not sure how accurate
this article is.
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7/1959
Quakers in the American Colonies by Rufus Jones p. 227


Name: Charity (last name unknown)
relationship: mother of Robert Field
marriage: Robert Field
death: Flushing, NY c. 1672
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7/1959

Name: John Hicks
relationship: father of Thomas Hicks
born: 1609, England
marriage: Herodias Long, 3/14/1636 St. Faiths Underchapel of
St. Paul, London, England
residence: London, England, Weymouth, MA 1635, Newport, RI 1638
Flushing, NY 1645, Hempstead, NY 1664
comments: On 10/10/1645 he with others was granted a patent
to Flushing, NY from the Dutch Governor Kieft.
He was one of the first pioneer settlers of what
is today Queens Co. NY.
He was elected to New York State Assembly c. 1664
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson

Name: Herodias Long
relationship: mother of Thomas Hicks
birth: c. 1624 in England
marriage: John Hicks 3/14/1636 St. Faiths Underchapel of
St. Paul, London, England, divorced 1644
George Gardiner 1644 divorced 1665
John Porter 1665
children: Thomas Hicks
Benoni Gardiner 1644
Henry Gardiner 1646
George Gardiner 1649
William Gardiner 1652
Nicholas Gardiner 1654
Dorcas Gardiner 1656
Rebecca Gardiner 1658
death: after 1665 in NY
religion: Quaker
comments: was whipped as a Quaker in Boston, MA 1658
source: The American Genealogist ("Parentage of George
Gardiner")

Name: Richard Butler
relationship: father of Mary Butler
residence: Stratford, CT 1650 to 1685
children: Mary Butler (Mrs. Thomas Hicks)
Phebe Butler (Mrs. Benjamin Peaks)
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH

Name: Daniel Whitehead
relationship: father of Daniel Whitehead
born: c. 1603
died: 11/16/1668 in Manhattan, NY
marriage: (first name unknown) Armitage
comments: according the IGI his wife's name
may have been Sarah and they married
at Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England
in 1646 [I assume this refers to the
village of Thornton just west of the
city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.]
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: (first name unknown) Armitage
relationship: mother of Daniel Whitehead
marriage: Daniel Whitehead
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH

Name: Edward Stevenson
relationship: father of Abigail Stevenson
death: before 1662 in Newtown, LI, NY
marriage: Ann
children: Jonathan Stevenson
Elizabeth Stevenson (Mrs. John Everitt)
Abigail Stevenson 1640
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Ann (last name unknown)
relationship: mother of Abigail Stevenson
death: after 1670
marriage: Edward Stevenson
children: Jonathan Stevenson
Elizabeth Stevenson (Mrs. John Everitt)
Abigail Stevenson 1640
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Thomas Sherwood
relationship: father of Thomas Sherwood
birth: 9/11/1548 Moblesthorpes, Lincolnshire, England
death: 2/17/1632 Moblesthorpes, Lincolnshire, England
children: Thomas Sherwood
source: IGI Pedigree Resource File


Name: Thomas Turney
relationship: father of Benjamin Turney
birth: about 1560, Hollingdon, Soulbury, England
died: 1623 - 1625 Hollingdon, Soulbury, England
marriage: Judith
children: Robert Turney c. 1594
Benjamin Turney c. 1600
Judith (?) Turney
Edward Turney c. 1600
Agnes Turney

John Odell
relationship: father of Mary Odell
birth: 1577 - 1578 Salford, Bedfordshire, England
marriage: Joan Bingley 12/5/1603
Susanna Nichols 6/24/1645
children: Robert Odell 1604
Gertrude Odell 1604 (Mrs. John Chad)
Mary Odell 1605
John Odell 1607
Thomas Odell 1608
Richard Odell 1610
Edward Odell 1611
Isabel Odell 1613
Joan Odell 1616
source: The American Genealogist ("Turney - Odell")

Name: Joan Bingley
relationship: mother of Mary Odell
marriage: John Odell 12/5/1603
died: 1640
children: Robert Odell 1604
Gertrude Odell 1604 (Mrs. John Chad)
Mary Odell 1605
John Odell 1607
Thomas Odell 1608
Richard Odell 1610
Edward Odell 1611
Isabel Odell 1613
Joan Odell 1616
source: The American Genealogist ("Turney - Odell")


Name: Michael Jansz de Mandeville
relationship: father of Jan Michaelsz de Mandeville
died: 1635 Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
religion: Dutch Reform
marriage: Maria van de Rade
children: Jan Michaelsz de Mandeville
10 other children
comments: He was a medical doctor.
He was principal of the Latin School at Nijmegen
for 1601 until 1607.
He was appointed to the Nijmegen city council and
and appointed scheppen in 1618.
He died while heroically caring for plague victims in
Nijmegen.
According to the Broderbund World Family Tree CD-ROM
vol. 15, he was born in Leuvarden, Friesland and his
father was Johannes de Mandeville. This may be based
on Crownover - van Cohonover family newsletters
published in the 1930's.
I would assume that the "de Mandeville" name comes
from the village of Mandeville which is half way
between Elbeuf and Le Neubourg and 17 miles southwest
of Rouen.
The family coat of arms consisted of a shield with
a winged rampant stag.
It should be noted that "Mandeville" is an ancient
family name in Normandy. Some of William the Conqueror's
knights bore this name.
source: New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal 7/1938.


Name: Maria van de Rade
relationship: mother of Jan Michaelsz de Mandeville
religion: Dutch Reform
children: Jan Michaelsz de Mandeville
10 other children
marriage: Jan Michaelsz de Mandeville
source: New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal 7/1938.


my 12th great-grandparents:
---------------------------

Name: John Jessup
relationship: father of Edward Jessup
died: near Hartford before 2/1637
immigration: before 1637 to MA
married: Joanna
children: John Jessup
Edward Jessup
daughter (Mrs. John Burroughs)
comments: was an early settler of Wethersfield
His farm was located about 100 feet north of
the intersection of River Rd. and Main St in
Wethersfield, CT.
The Jessup family seems to have originated in
Yorkshire, England and the name may come from
"Guissepe". One theory is that the name originated
with a Jewish physician who immigrated illegally
to Yorkshire in the 1400's. This is seemingly
speculation however based simply on the fact that
the name "Jessup" does not seem to be of Anglo-Saxon
or French origin
According to the IGI a John Jessop married a
Joan Else in Mickleover, Derby county, England
1625. However a Jessup family history gives her
name as "Kerrich" or "Kerrick".
religion: presumably Puritan
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969
The Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary of Frank Pierson
Jessup and Marie Barr Jessup 1970 in NYPL APV (Jessup)
78-1275


Name: Joanna
relationship: mother of Edward Jessup
died: after 1657
immigration: before 1637 to MA
married: John Jessup
John Whitmore c. 1639
children: John Jessup
Edward Jessup
daughter (Mrs. John Burroughs)
comments: was an early settler of Wethersfield
Her farm was located about 100 feet north of
the intersection of River Rd. and Main St in
Wethersfield, CT. After her husband's death
she married her next door neighbor, John Whitmore.
She moved to Stamford, CT 1641 and then moved
seemingly to Newtown, LI 1657.
religion: presumably Puritan
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settler of
New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore
1969


Name: Robert Hicks
relationship: father of John Hicks
marriage: Elizabeth Morgan 1600 London, England
Margaret
children: John Hicks 1609
residence: London, England, Plymouth, MA
comments: According to "Thomas Stevenson" by John R. Stevenson
he was the Robert Hicks, a fellmonger(remover of hair
from hides before tanning) from Southwark (a
neighborhood in London on the south shore of the Thames),
who came to Plymouth on the "Fortune" on 11/10/1621.
If true, that would make him my earliest documented
ancestor in America.
However, this seems to be refuted by the will of
that Robert Hicks, 3/24/1647, who names Samuel Hicks,
born I believe 1611, as his "eldest son" and fails to
mention John at all.
According to that, the identity of John Hicks' parents
remains basically a mystery. Or did Robert perhaps disown
John for some reason? If possible, the original will of
Robert Hicks, 1647, in the county probate court for
Plymouth, MA should be examined. The abstract which I
have seen may be inaccurate.
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Elizabeth Morgan
relationship: mother of John Hicks
residence: London, England
marriage: Robert Hicks 1600 London, England
children: John Hicks 1609
source: Thomas Stevenson and His Descendants by John R. Stevenson


Name: Thomas Armitage
relationship: father of (first name unknown) Armitage
source: Thomas Kehr, Concord, NH


Name: Barnard Turney
relationship: father of Thomas Turney
born: c. 1531 Hollingdon, Soulbury, England
died: 1612, Hollingdon, Soulbury, England
marriage: Elizabeth Sheppard
Elizabeth Meade
children: Thomas Turney c. 1560
Innocent Turney
Barnard Turney
John Turney
Joan or Alice Turney (Mrs. Edmund Stevens)
Joan or Alice Turney (Mrs. Lawrence Buckner)
source: The American Genealogist vol. 13 1/1937 p. 125


Name: Elizabeth Sheppard
relationship: mother of Thomas Turney
marriage: Barnard Turney
children: Thomas Turney c. 1560
Innocent Turney
Barnard Turney
John Turney
Joan or Alice Turney (Mrs. Edmund Stevens)
source: The American Genealogist vol. 13 1/1937 p. 125


Name: Richard Odell
relationship: father of John Odell
marriage: Elizabeth Perst 9/15/1565 Salford, Bedfordshire, England
Anne Rogers 1580
children: Alice Odell 1566 (Mrs. Thomas Finson)
Henry Odell 1568
Elizabeth Odell 1569 (Mrs. Thomas Flyede)
John Odell 1574
John Odell c. 1577
Richard Odell 1581
Thomas Odell 1583
William Odell c. 1585
Ann Odell 1587
Dorothy Odell 1589
Susan Odell c. 1592
Margaret Odell 1595
Mary Odell 1598
died: 3/1611 Salford, Bedfordshire, England
comments: Although earlier genealogical records for
this family do not exist, however an inventory
of the Salford church made in 1553 is signed by
a John Odell and Thomas Odell, who I would
suspect were the father and grandfather (or
uncle?) of Richard Odell. The family tomb is
next to the 13th century church in Salford.
The will of Richard's second wife, 1621,
is interesting in that it lists her possessions
as being a one room house in Hulcot where she
resided, a chest of linens, a bed and about 50
pounds sterling cash.
The name "Odell" may have originally been
"Wodell" or "Woadhill" meaning "place where the
woad plant grows". Woad was commonly used for
blue dye in ancient times. It would be
interesting to further research that spelling
of the family name in the Salford area.
There is a village called "Odell" about
11 miles north of Salford, however this village
seemingly has no connection to our Odell family.
source: The American Genealogist ("Turney - Odell")


Name: Elizabeth Perst (Pierce?)
relationship: mother of John Odell
died: 11/1580
marriage: Richard Odell 9/15/1565 Salford, Bedfordshire, England
children: Alice Odell 1566 (Mrs. Thomas Finson)
Henry Odell 1568
Elizabeth Odell 1569 (Mrs. Thomas Flyede)
John Odell 1574
John Odell c. 1577
source: The American Genealogist ("Turney - Odell")


Name: Aegidius (Gillis) van de Rade
relationship: father of Maria van de Rade
religion: Dutch Reform
children: Maria van de Rade
marriage: Sara
source: New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal 7/1938.


Name: Sara
relationship: mother of Maria van de Rade
religion: Dutch Reform
children: Maria van de Rade
marriage: Aegidius van de Rade
source: New York Genealogical and Biographical Journal 7/1938.


my 13th great-grandparents:
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Name: John Turney
relationship: father of Barnard Turney
birth: c. 1500 Hollingdon, England
death: before 1540
marriage: Alice (Sheppard?)
children: Barnard Turney c. 1531
John Turney
Alice Turney
source: The American Genealogist vol. 13 1/1937 p. 125

my 14th great-grandparents:
---------------------------

Name: Richard Turney
relationship: father of John Turney
birth: c. 1475 Hollingdon, England
death: c. 1524
children: John Turney c. 1500
source: The American Genealogist vol. 13 1/1937 p. 125



my 15th great-grandparents:
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Name: James Turney
relationship: father of Richard Turney
birth: c. 1445 Hollingdon, England
death: 2/14/1519
marriage: Amy
Elizabeth
children: John Turney
William Turney
Barnard Turney
Thomas Turney
Richard Turney c. 1475
nine other children
residence: Hollington and Slapton, England
religion: Roman Catholic
comments: He was an officer in the government of Henry VIII.
He was apparently very religious. He was fairly
wealthy and owned property in several parishes
in the area around Slapton, in Buckinghamshire and
Bedfordshire. He was called a "yeoman" which
apparently meant a wealthy peasant, but not a member
of the gentry.
The manor and residence of James Turney was called
Slapton Bury; it was located on a slope below a mill
pond in Slapton and separated from the pond by an earth
dike; the dike was there in the 1930's but the manor
house was destroyed before 1840.
The name of Slapton derives from the old english slæp
+ tun, and means 'farm by a slippery place' or 'muddy farm'.
Even today Slapton is still a small, picturesque
rural village in England. The village includes a small
church about 800 years old and in the floor of this
church there is a large brass plate with a effigy of
James Turney, his two wives and his fourteen children.
This marks James Turney's grave.
The family originated in eastern mid-
Buckinghamshire as "de Tournay" in the 1200's. They
were knights and landowners. Presumably, the family
originated with a knight from the town of Tournai,
Belgium who invaded England with the army of William
the Conqueror in 1066. The Turney coat of arms
consisted of three black bulls in walking position
on a silver background with a chevron in between.
Some of early Anglo-Norman families of England
were called "Tournai" or "Tornay", including possibly
a knight who accompanied William the Conqueror.
The town of Tournai, Belgium today has a population
about 67,700. It is a very ancient town, dating back
almost 2,000 years. During the Middle Ages it was
noted for tapestry and copperware. It still contains
a number of medieval buildings, although nothing is
older than 1100.
Turney's will was proved before the Commissary of the
Archdeacon of Buckingham 2/26/1519.

The will of James Turney includes the following:

[Bear in mind that a pound contains 20 shillings
or 240 pennies; 6 shillings 8 pennies would be
1/3 of a pound; a mark was 13 shillings 4 pennies
equaling 2/3 pound. To get some ideal of the value
of money, a yeoman at this time could live well
from about 5 pounds per year. I would estimate
that 1 pound in 1500 might have been worth the
equivanlent of $10,000 today.]

- to (?) Lincoln 8 pennies
- to the high alter of Slapton 6 shilling 8 pennies
- to every candle in the Slapton church 8 pennies
- to make 2 torches in church in Slapton 8 shillings
- to make 2 torches in the chapel at Billingdon 6
shillings 8 pennies
- to the Slapton church 6 shillings 8 pennies
- to the Crawley church 6 shilling 8 pennies
- to a priest to pray for his soul, 8 marks sterling
per year for seven years
- to twelve churches listed in a bill, 6 shillings
8 pennies to each one
- to the friars of Dunstable to pray for me 6
shillings and 8 pennies
- to the upkeep of the Chapel of Woborn Abbatis
6 shillings 8 pennies
- to the upkeep of (?) church 6 shillings 8 pennies
- to the Fraternity of Corpus Christi in Leyton
Bussard for attending to my burial 20 shillings
- to the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist in
Dunstable 6 shillings 8 pennies
- to the nunnery in Berking 40 shillings to pray for
me
[all the religious donations, including burial
expenses, seem to amount to about 50 pounds
sterling; apparently considered to be quite
generous, but bear in mind that this will was
written on the deathbed]

- to son John property in Crawley [Husborne
Crawley in Bedforshire] on condition that he
donate 40 pennies per year to the local church
- to son William property in Sulbury in Buckingham-
shire on condition that he donate 40 pennies per
year to the local church
- to son Barnard 15 pounds sterling
- to son Thomas 20 pounds sterling and property in
Leyghton Bussard inhabited by Henry Dyer
- to son Richard property in Hollenden
Buckinghamshire
- to wife Elizabeth property in Leghton
Bussard behind Leichester
- to sister Ellen ("Mrs. Elyn"?) in London 40
shillings
- to use my property to finish building the Slapton
bridge

It is interesting to note that James Turney
lived during the period of civil war in England
known as the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485). He was
born during the reign of Henry VI who was imprisoned
in 1461 and died ten years later in the Tower of
London. Henry VI was from the House of Lancaster ("the
red rose"). Next, Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III
of the House of York ("the white rose") reigned for a
total of 24 years, battling against the House of
Lancaster. Finally, Henry VII of the House of Tudor
reigned from 1485 until 1509. He was descended from
the House of Lancaster and married into the House of
York, uniting the two families in his son Henry VIII
who reigned from 1509 until 1547. Henry VIII was 18
when he became king.
Basically, all this conflict amounted to various
cousins, all with various hazy claims and backed by
groups of noble supporters, attempting to seize control
of the English throne. It would be interesting to know
what part if any my ancestors played in this.
England c. 1500 had a population of about 3,000,000
and a political system and standard of living about
equivalent modern Columbia, I believe. Today the England
of 500 years ago would be regarded as a typical banana
republic.
source: The American Genealogist vol. 13 1/1937 p. 125
The General Armory by Sir Bernard Burke


Appendix: Royal Ancestry

My claim to royal ancestry is based on three things:

1 - My own research, using birth records, marriage records, wills and Federal
census records proves that my third great-grandmother was Sarah DeCamp,
the wife of Isaac Bluxome and daughter of John DeCamp.

2 - Throckmorton family history, being the records of the Throckmortons in
the United States of America with cognate branches, emigrant ancestors
located at Salem, Massachusetts, 1630, and in Gloucester county,
Virginia, 1660 / by Frances Grimes Sitherwood. Imprint Bloomington IL :
Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Co., 1929.

This book, although written by an amateur, seems to be very carefully and
thoroughly researched. On page 69 it refers to the maternal ancestry of my
3rd great-grandmother Sarah DeCamp.

Her mother was Susan Grandin, descended from the Huguenot Daniel
Grandin from the Isle of Jersey. Her grandmother was Susan Johnston, daughter
of Samuel Johnston, a Scottish judge in colonial New Jersey whose father came
from the area of Lockerbie Scotland. He built a fortress like house in 1730 in
Sidney, NJ. (This no longer seems to be standing, although a huge old stone
house called "Lansdown", north east of Pittstown on SR2, a registered National
Historic Place, may have been built by Johnston's son in law Charles Stewart in
the colonial era. It is in private ownership.) For centuries the Johnstons were
a well know family of thieves and bandits in the Lockerbie area, a lawless
border region between England and Scotland. Their motto was "Light Thieves All"
meaning basically "put your hands up". They may have emigrated to New Jersey
once robbery became less lucrative.

Sarah DeCamps grandfather, Samuel Grandin, was a New Jersey lawyer and a
Loyalist who was burned in effigy by patriots and died in 1776. Her great
uncle fought in a Loyalist brigade against the Revolution.

Her 3rd great-grandfather, and therefore my 8th great-grandfather, was a
Puritan, John Throckmorton, who came from England to Salem, MS in 1631. He
was my earliest emigrant ancestor and one of the founders of Providence,
Rhode Island. Throg's Neck is actually named after him since he was the first
settler there in 1643. Today the Throg's Neck Bridge carries I-295 between
Queens and the Bronx. He was buried in the Taylor burial ground on Penelope
Lane Middletown, NJ. His son Job's gravestone, my 7th great grandfather, is
still there, dated 1709, making it the oldest known marked grave of one my
ancestors in the United States. ( Miriam Kiernan 732-308-3772
mkiernan@shore.co.monmouth.nj.us recently worked on cleaning up the cemetery.)


3 - Plantagenet ancestry of seventeenth-century colonists : the descent from
the later Plantagenet kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, and Edward III,
of emigrants from England and Wales to the North American colonies before
1701 / David Faris. Imprint Boston, Mass. : New England Historic
Genealogical Society, 1999.

This book, published by a leading a genealogical society, on page 355, traces
the royal ancestry of John Throckmorton, specifically his descent from King
Edward I of England. This demonstrates my direct descent from medieval knights,
nobles, saints, kings, crusaders, Vikings and emperors and makes it possible to
trace my ancestry directly to Cerdic King of Wessex born about 439 CE in
Saxony, Northern Germany.

I am the 22nd great-grandson of Edward I, the 28th great-grandson of William the
Conqueror, the 33rd great grandson of Alfred the Great King of England, the 36th
great grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin King of Scotland, the 37th great-grandson
of Charlemagne, the 39th great-grandson of Charles Martel and the 42nd great-grandson
 of Pippin I born c. 564. My 23rd great-grandfather was Fernando III King of Castile
and Leon (born 1201). My 24th great-grandfather was William Marshal, c 1146 - 1219, one
of the most famous and successful knights of the Middle Ages, who also fought in Palestine
during the late 1180's. Pembroke Castle in Wales, one of the most famous
surviving castles in Europe, was owned by and partially built by him. My 26th
great-grandfather was Foulques V "le Jeune" Count of Anjou (Count Fulk) who was
king of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1143. My 26th great-grandfather was Dermot King
of Leinster, Ireland (died 1171) and my 31nd great-grandfather (according to
some genealogies, at any rate) was Brian Boru King of Ireland (died 1013
fighting the Vikings). My 33rd great-grandfather was Rollo (Hrolf) Rognvaldsson,
a Viking chieftain from Norway who converted to Christianity and become the
first count of Normandy in 911. My 41st great-grandmother St. Begga of Landen
(died 698) is a Catholic saint, as is her mother St. Ida of Nivelles and her
father-in-law and my 42nd great-grandfather St. Arnulf of Metz. They were among
the early northern European nobles to accept Christianity. My 48th great-
grandfather and earliest documented ancestor was Cerdic King of Wessex born
about 439 CE in Saxony, Northern Germany. He was the ancestor of Alfred the
Great and although pagan and illiterate, his descent was preserved orally
before being committed to writing a few centuries later. The Anglo-Saxon
invaders of Britain came from approximately the area of modern Hamburg. They
invaded England between 400 and 500 CE.

Pippin I was apparently a newly Christianized semi-barbaric tribal chieftain,
who was the leader of the Franks in an area which is today eastern France and
western Germany. He came from a powerful family who owned what it today Belgium.
The Franks were a group of Germanic tribes who were racially and linguistically
most closely related to the present day Dutch.

No records go back earlier than c. 500 CE since before this time my ancestors
were all illiterate, pagan barbarians.

As far as I know, no Western person today has a family history which
can be plausibly traced back continuously further than I have succeeded in
tracing mine, although I have heard that members of the Kong family in China are
able to trace their ancestry to Confucius, who lived about 2500 years ago.