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(I) Turstin, "the Fleming," otherwise known as Turstin de Wigmore, probably also as Turstin, son of Rolf, and Turstin "the White," was a follower of Wil- liam the Conqueror. He was mentioned in Domesday book as an extensive land holder in llerefordshire and the Marches of Wales. He married Agnes, daughter of Alured de Meleberge, a Norman baron of Ewias Castle, in the Marches of Wales.
( II) Eustace, son of Turstin, was a bene- factor of the monastery of St. Peter, in Gloucester. He or one of his immediate de- scendants took the surname of De Whitney from Whitney of the Wye, in the Marches of Wales, where his principal castle was located. The estate comprised over two thousand acres and remained in the family until 1893, when it was sold, there being no member of the family to hold it. The castle has entirely disappeared. but it is believed to be in ruins under the Wye. which has in the course of years changed its path. The castle was probably built on an art- ificial mound, surrounded by a moat fed by the river, which gradually undermined the castle, which was at last disintegrated.
(III) Sir Robert Whitney, a direct de- scendant of Eustace, was living in 1242 and was mentioned in the "Testa de Nevill." Three or four intervening generations cannot be stated with certainty.
- (IV) Sir Eustace de Whitney, son of Sir Robert, gave deed to the monastery of St. Peter in 1280, referring to and confirming the deed of his ancestors above mentioned. He was Lord of Pencombe, Little Cowarn and Whitney in 1281 ; was granted free warren by Edward I in 1284; summoned to wars beyond the seas in 1297; tenant of part of the manor of Huntington in 1299; in Scotch war of 1301. He was possibly grandson instead of son of Sir Robert.
(V) Sir Eustace de Whitney, son of Sir Eustace, was knighted by Edward I in 1306,
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and was a member of parliament for Hereford- shire in 1313 and 1352.
(VI) Sir Robert de Whitney, son of Sir Eustace, was one of two hundred gentlemen who went to Milan in the retinue of the Duke of Clarence on the occasion of the latter's mar- riage in 1368. He was a member of parlia- ment for Herefordshire in 1377-79-80, and sheriff in 1377.
(VII) Sir Robert Whitney, son of Sir Rob- ert, was sent abroad to negotiate treaty with the Count of Flanders in 1388; member of par- liament for Herefordshire in 1391. He was sent to France to deliver the castle and town of Cherbourg to the King of Navarre in 1393; was knight marshal in the court of Richard II ; sent on King's business to Ireland in 1394. Hc was killed, together with his brother and most of his relatives. at the battle of Pilleth, 1402.
(VIII) Sir Robert Whitney, son of Sir Robert, was granted the castle of Clifford and lordships of Clifford and Glasbury by Henry IV in 1404, on account of service of his father. He was sheriff of Ilerefordshire in 1413-28- 33-37 ; member of parliament, 1416-22. He fought in the French war under Henry V, and was captain of the castle and town of Vire in I420. He was named as one of the five knights in Herefordshire in 1433, and died March 12. 1441.
(1X) Sir Eustace de Whitney, son of Sir Robert, was born in 1411. He was head of a commission sent to Wales by Henry VI in 1455, and was a member of parliament for Herefordshire in 1468. He married Jenctt Russell; (second ) Jane Clifford.
(X) Robert Whitney, son of Sir Eustace (9), was probably a knight, and was an active participant in the War of the Roses, and was attainted as a Yorkist in 1459. He was prob- ably at the battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461. He was the subject of a poem by Lewis Glyn Cothi, on the occasion of his marriage to Alice. great-granddaughter of Sir David Gam. He married (first) Alice, daughter of Thomas Vaughan ; (second) Constance Touchett, who was the mother of his sons. She was de- scended from William the Conqueror through the second wife of Edward I, King of Eng- land.
(XI) James Whitney, son of Robert, was appointed receiver of Newport, part of the estate of the Duke of Buckingham, confiscated by Henry VHI in 1522. He married Blanche, daughter and an heir of Simon Milbourne.
(XII) Robert Whitney, son of James Whit- ney, was of Icomb, and in charge of other con- fiscated estates. He was sheriff of Glouces- tershire, 1527-28-29-30. He was nominated Knight of the Bath by Henry VIII at the coro- nation of Anne Boleyn in 1531 ; was granted part of income of monastery of Brewern in 1535; furnished forty men to put down rebel- lion in 1536; was named to attend upon the king's person. He died in 1541, and his will was proved June 11, 1541. He married Mar- garet Wye.
(XIII) Sir Robert Whitney, son of Robert, was knighted the day after Queen Mary's coro- nation in October, 1553. He was summoned before the privy council in 1555-59. He was member of parliament for Herefordshire in 1559, and died August 5, 1567. He maried Sybil Baskerville, a descendant of William the Conqueror through the first wife of Edward I.
(XIV) Robert Whitney, son of Sir Robert, was mentioned in the will of his father, and also in an inquisition taken after the latter's death. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Morgan Guillims, Duglim.
(XV) Thomas Whitney, son of Robert, was of Westminster, Gentleman. He was buried at St. Margaret's, April 14, 1637. He married Mary, daughter of John Bray, of Westminster ; she was buried at St. Margaret's, September 25. 1629. Children: 1. John, the American immigrant, settled at Watertown, Massachu- setts. 2. Nicholas. 3. William. 4. Richard. 5. Margaret. 6. Anne.
(The Baskerville Line).
( I) William I, Duke of Normandy, com- monly called William the Conqueror, married Matilda, daughter of Baldwin, Earl of Flan- ders, and granddaughter of Robert, King of France.
(II) Henry I, born 1069, died 1135, son of William the Conqueror, was King of England, I 100-1135 ; married Matilda, daughter of Mal- colm III, King of Scotland, granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, the last of the West Saxon Kings.
(III) Geoffrey Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou. was son of Henry I. He married Matilda -. (IV) Henry Il, son of Geoffrey, was born 1133, died 1189. He was King of England, 1154-89; married Eleanor, daughter and heir of William, Duke of Aquitaine, and divorced wife of Louis VII, King of France.
(V) John, son of Henry HI, was born in
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1167, died 1215; King of England 1169-1216. He married Isabella, daughter of Aymer, Count of Angouleme.
(VI) Henry III, son of John, was born 1207, died 1272; King of England 1216-72; married Eleanor, daughter of the Count of Provence.
(VII) Edward I, son of Henry III, was born in 1239, died 1307; King of England 1272-1307 ; married (first) Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile; (second) Margaret, daughter of Philip III, King of France.
(VIII) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward I and Eleanor, married Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, Lord High Con- stable. He was killed at the battle of Borough- bridge, March 16, 1321.
(IX) Agnes, daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth, married Robert de Ferrers, (sec- ond) Baron Ferrers of Chartley. He was son of John, first Baron, and grandson of Robert. eighth Earl of Derby. He was summoned to parliament February 25, 1342, and was at the battle of Crecy, 1346. He died in 1347.
(X) John de Ferrers, son of Robert, was third Baron of Chartley. He was in the wars of Gascony in 1350, and died April 2, 1367. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rolf, first Earl of Stafford, who had a principal command in the van at Crecy.
(XI) Robert de Ferrers, son of John, was fourth Baron of Chartley. He died March 13, 1413. He married Margaret, daughter of Edward, Lord de Despenser.
(XII) Edmund de Ferrers, son of Robert, was fifth Baron of Chartley, and a participant in most of the great victories of Henry V. He died in 1436. He married Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Thomas, Lord Roche.
(XIII) William de Ferrers, son of Ed- mund, was sixth Baron of Chartley, died 1450. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hamon Belknap, Knight.
(XIV) Anne, only child of William, mar- ried Sir Walter Devereaux, Knight. He was Baron Ferrer in the right of his wife, and was killed at Bosworth Field, August 22, 1485.
(XV) Katherine, daughter of Walter, mar- ried Sir James Baskerville, of Eardisley, Knight. He was several times sheriff of Here- fordshire; Knight Banneret on the battlefield of Stoke, 1487, and Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Henry VII.
(XVI) Sir Walter Baskerville, son of Sir
James, was of Eardisley, Knight. He was sheriff of Herefordshire, and Knight of the Bath in 1501. He married Anne, daughter of Morgan ap Jenkyn ap Philip, of Pencoyd.
(XVII) Sir James Baskerville, son of Sir Walter, was of Eardisley, Knight. He married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John Breyn- ton and Sybil, daughter and co-heir of Simon Milbourne.
(XVIII) Sybil, daughter of Sir James Bas- kerville, married Sir Robert Whitney. (XIII) mentioned above.
(The American Line).
(I) John Whitney was born in England in 1589, son of Thomas and grandson of Robert Whitney. He received for his day a good edit- cation in the Westminster school, now St. Peter's College. He was apprenticed at the age of fourteen by his father to William Pring, of the Old Bailey, London, a freeman of the Merchant Tailors' Company, then the most famous and prosperous of all the great trade guilds, numbering in its membership distin- guished men of all professions, many of the nobility, and the Prince of Wales. At the age of .twenty-one John Whitney became a full- fledged member and his apprenticeship expired. He made his home in Isleworth-on-Thames. eight miles from Westminster, and there three of his children were born. There, too, his father apprenticed to him his younger brother, Robert, who also served his seven years. Soon afterward John Whitney left Isleworth and doubtless returned to London and lived in Bow Lane, near Bow Church, where his son Thomas was born. In September, 1631, he placed his eldest son, John Jr., in the Merchant Tailors' School, where according to the register he re- mained as long as the family was in England. Early in April, 1635, John Whitney registered with his wife Eleanor and sons John, Richard. Nathaniel. Thomas and Jonathan, as passen- gers in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann." Roger Cooper, master, landing a few weeks later in New England. He settled in Watertown in June, and bought the sixteen-acre homestall of John Strickland, at what is now Belmont and East Common streets. This homestead descended to his son Joshua Whitney, of Gro- ton, who sold it October 29, 1697, to Nathan Fiske. Whitney was admitted a freeman March 3. 1635-36, and was appointed constable June 1, 1641 ; was selectman 1638-1655, in- clusive, and town clerk in 1655. He was one
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of the foremost citizens for many years, and was grantee of eight lots in Watertown. He died June 1, 1673. His first wife, Eleanor --. born 1599, died in Watertown, May 11, 1659. He married ( second), in Watertown, Septem- ber 29, 1659, Judith Clement, who died before her husband. His will was dated April 3. 1673. Children: 1. Mary, baptized in Eng- land, May 23, 1619; died young. 2. John, September 14, 1621 ; prominent citizen of Wa- tertown. 3. Richard, baptized in Isleworth, January 6, 1623-24; married Martha Coldam. 4. Nathaniel, baptized 1627. 5. Thomas, born in England, 1629; married Mary Kettell. 6. Jonathan, born in England, 1634; married Lydia Jones. 7. Joshua, mentioned below. 8. Caleb, born in Watertown, July 12, 1640; died 1640. 9. Benjamin, born in Watertown, June 6. 1643.
(II) Joshua, sixth son of John and Eleanor Whitney, was born July 5, 1635, in Water- town, the first of the family born in America. He was one of the original proprietors and set- tlers of Groton, where he was a deacon of the church and resided until the town was burned by the Indians. Returning to Watertown, he died there August 7, 1719, and was buried at Groton. He was elected selectman of the lat- ter town in 1681-1683-1684-1687-1702; in 1680 was a member of the committee on building a meeting house : in 1684 was constable ; in 1693 was overseer of highways; in 1701 chairman of committee to arrange for heating the meet- ing house. April 22, 1715, he resigned as dea- con of the church on account of his age. He married, September 30, 1672, Abigail, probably a daughter of Thomas and Mary Tarball, of Watertown. Children : Joshua, Sarah, Mary, William, Comfort, David, Martha, Elizabeth, Abigail, Alice, Hannah and Elinor.
(III) William, second son of Joshua and Abigail (Tarball) Whitney, was born Feb- ruary 28, 1678, in Groton, where he resided until his marriage. On April 4, 1710, he bought land in Killingly, Connecticut, and about 1720 settled in what is now Plainfield, Connecticut, where he made his will in 1751. In 1754 he deeded land, and soon afterward lied. He married ( first ) in Chelmsford, Mas- sachusetts, March, 1700, Lydia Perham, born February 19, 1673, died in Groton August 24. 1716; (second) in Newton, April 25, 1717. Margaret Mirick, born after 1692, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Trowbridge ) Mirick.
Children of first wife : William, Lydia, Joshua ; of the second wife: John, Elizabeth, Caleb.
(IV) William (2), eldest child of William ( 1) and Lydia ( Perham) Whitney, was born May 5, 1701, in Groton, and was very young when the family removed to Connecticut. About 1753 he removed to Canaan, Connecti- cut, where he was a cooper and farmer. He was supervisor of Killingly in 1728. He mar- ried July 16, 1723, in Killingly, Mary Whitte- more ; children : William, Thomas and Abigail.
(V) Thomas, second son of William (2) and Mary (Whittemore ) Whitney, was born February 28, 1727, in Killingly, and settled in Cannan, where he received a deed of land from his father November 5, 1750. In 1761 he was a resident of Claverack, Columbia county, New York, at which time he ceeded back the land in Canaan to his father. He was a farmer in Noblestown and Illsdale, Columbia county, where he died June 26, 1766. He was active in the strife between Massachusetts and New York over the jurisdiction of Livingston Manor, and was shot in what were known as the anti-rent riots, causing his death. He mar- ried Elizabeth Boardman, a native of Shef- field, Massachusetts, who died before 1793, in Chenango, New York, where she re- sided with her son Joshua. Children: Joshua, John, William and Elizabeth.
(VI) Joshua (2), eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Boardman) Whitney, was born No- vember 27, 1748, probably in Noblestown, and resided in Chenango until 1785, when he set- tled at what is now Binghamton, where he was a merchant. While returning from Phila- delphia with a stock of merchandise he died of yellow fever at Wind Gap, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 26, 1793. In 1787, with his brother William, he located on the west side of Che- nango river at what was known as "Whitney Flat." He was known by the title of captain, probably gained in militia service. He married Hannah Green, born September 14, 1748, died August 17, 1723. Children : Joshua, Sarah, Thomas, John, Hannah, Lucy, Olive, Ebenezer and William.
(\'ll) Joshua (3), eldest child of Joshua (2) and Hannah (Green) Whitney, was born .August 24, 1773. at Noblestown, and was a boy when he removed with his father to the present site of Binghamton, where he was destined to become a distinguished and very useful citizen, and where he died April 13. 1845. He was
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early accustomed to assist his father in busi- ness operations, and when only twenty years old was sent by the latter to Philadelphia with a herd of cattle. Having disposed of the stock he purchased merchandise for the store at Binghamton, and with much difficulty trans- ported it to that town. It was first carried in wagons to a point on the Susquehanna river. whence it could be taken up stream in barges. Employing several assistants the barges were propelled to Owego, New York. The barges being propelled by poles in the midst of float- ing ice, as winter was upon the land, young Whitney with his assistants were often forced to stand in the water in order to propel and control their unwieldy craft. In 1798 he was appointed postmaster, and in 1800 becanie agent for William Bingham, proprietor of the land where Binghamton now stands. A set- tlement had been started about two miles above the present city, and General Whitney ( who acquired his title in militia service ) laid out the present city of Binghamton, and made preparations for the construction of a bridge over the Chenango river. He purchased old buildings in Chenango and removed them to his town site, and through his energy and business ability succeeded in making that the important point, where rapidly sprang up a thriving village. On July 4. 1800, he received a deed from Bingham of two hundred and fif- teen acres, and built his house on the north side of Court street, about opposite the present Water street, which then extended to Court. General Whitney attracted the attention of Bingham while in Philadelphia, and the lat- ter was so impressed with his business capacity that he appointed him as agent for handling lands.
General Whitney married ( first ) Rhoda Jewell, who died January 21, 1823; (second ) Julia Crooker. Children: Pemelia, married Ifon. Thomas G. Waterman, and resided in Binghamton ; Virgil, lived to the age of ninety- three years, in Binghamton ; Vincent, was a prominent citizen of Binghamton, serving as brigadier-general of militia and representative in the state assembly: George, a citizen of Chenango; Washington, resided in Bingham- Ion, as did also Franklin and Joshua, the lat- ter a farmer ; Rhoda, died in infancy ; William, Mary Amelia and Charles, lived and died in Binghamton; Robert, died in infancy. All were children of the first wife.
(VII) Olive, fourth daughter of Joshua
(2) and Hannah (Green) Whitney, became the wife of Christopher Eldridge. of Bingham- ton (see Eldredge VI).
The Taft families of America are TAFT descended from Robert and Mat- thew Taft, who came from Ireland and settled in Mendon Massachusetts. The name in Ireland was spelled Taaffe, and is not found in Scotland. In England only the de- scendants of the Irish family are found with this name. Sir William Taaffe was a knight of Protestant faith. He was a grantee at the time of the Scotch emigration to Ulster Prov- ince, Ireland, by order of King James, and in 1610 he had a grant of one thousand acres of land in the parish of Castle Rahen, County Cavan. Sir Thomas Ashe held one thousand five hundred acres of land here, and in 1619 also had the grant of Taft's, as well as one thousand five hundred acres in the neighboring parish of Tullaghgarvy. It may be that Sir William Taaffe remained in Louth, and that his sons lived on his grant, where there was "an old castle new mended and all the land was inhabited by the Irish." County Louth is in the province of Leinster, on the northern coast of Ireland, and was made a county in 1210.
Robert Taft, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1640 in Ireland, and came to America, where he had a lot of land in Braintree. Mas- sachusetts. in 1678. He bought his first land in Mendon about 1679, and sold the land in Braintree, November 18, 1679, to Caleb Ho- bart. Hle bought much land around Mendon Pond. and evidently was prominent and well- to-do from the beginning, as he became one of the largest property owners in the neighbor- hood. In 1680 he was one of the first board of selectmen of the organized town of Men- don, and also was on the committee to build the minister's house. He was a housewright by trade, and evidently a strong Puritan. He was among the purchasers of the land on which the town of Sutton was formed. Hc and his sons built the first bridge across the river Mendon and his sons built the second bridge. He married Sarah . Children : Thomas, born 1671; Robert. 1674: Daniel. Josepl:, .680; Benjamin, 1684.
( I) Matthew Taft. immigrant ancestor, came from Scotland with his wife, Anna ( Quintain) Taft, in 1728. and was the first settler of the town of Upton, Massachusetts.
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He bought the land of Harvard College, which owned at that time over thirteen thousand and ninety-four acres in that vicinity. He was one of the proprietors and most prominent citizens of the town. He served as moderator, 1741, town treasurer in 1748-49, and select- man in 1739-56. He married (second) Janet Craig, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, in 1749. The intention of marriage was declared Oc- tober 21, 1749. Children, born in Upton, by first wife: James, mentioned below ; John, April 7, 1736; Anna, twin, April 27, 1739; Matthew Jr., twin, of Anna ; Robert, captain of Upton company in the revolution. Probably other children.
(II) James, son of Matthew Taft, was born in 1733. He removed from Worcester county to Shelburne, Massachusetts. He had four sons : 1. Matthew, born March 13, 1762; had three sons and five daughters. 2. Aaron, June 30, 1765; had two sons. 3. James Jr., was at Fort Ann, New York, in 1790, and had a son Aaron, born in 1792. 4. Eben, mentioned below.
(III) Eben, son of James Taft, was born in June, 1771. He settled in South Shafts- bury, Vermont, and had eleven children, among them Matthew, John and probably Ebenezer, Aaron, Elijah, born 1797, at Shafts. bury, died January 4, 1881, and Stephen H., mentioned below.
(IV ) Stephen H., son or nephew of Ebel Taft, was born at Shaftsbury, Vermont, about 1800. When he was twenty-one years old he removed to Oswego county, New York, and took up a tract of land which he prepared for a homestead. He afterward returned to Mas- sachusetts to be married and with his wife made his home permanently in Oswego county. He was an enterprising and successful farmer. He married Elmina Legg. Children, born at Constantia. Oswego county, New York: George, Hiram, Leonard, Leander, mentioned below.
(V) Leander, son of Stephen H. Taft, was born in Constantia, Oswego county, New York, in 1837, died there at the age of seventy-one years. He was a farmer and shipbuilder. He designed and built many of the first boats that plied on the Erie canal. In religion he was a Methodist and in politics a Republican. He mar- ried, in 1859, Dorcas Stratton, born in Vermont, 1838. Children : Mina Lucia, born in August, 1861, married Frank L. Marsden, a merchant
of Long I-land, New York ; Charles Wesley. mentioned below.
(VI) Charles Wesley, son of Leander Taft, was born in Constantia, New York, May 4. 1866. He received his early education in the district schools of his native town and at the College of Pharmacy of New York. During the summer seasons from 1879 to 1883 he worked on the lakes and the St. Lawrence river. He engaged in business as a druggist in Oneida in 1879 and since then during a greater part of the time he has continued in that line of business. He was the owner of a drug store at Williamstown, Oswego county. New York, for fifteen years. In politics he is a Republican. He has taken a leading part in public affairs in the county and in 1908 was elected sheriff of Oswego county for a term of three years ; in 1909 he was elected chairman of the county Republican committee, term ex- piring in 1912. He is a member of Amboy Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons: of Os- wego Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Os- wego Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Redfield Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Oswego County Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, and the Maccabees.
He married, June 6, 1906, Mabel, born Feb- ruary 20. 1871, daughter of Burton H. and Frances ( Woodruff ) Wells. Her father is a veteran locomotive engineer on the Ohio & Western railroad, and is still in active service at the age of seventy-two years.
The Lamoree or Lamoreaux LAMOREE families are descended from a French Huguenot pioneer who came early to Albany county, New York. James Lamoreaux, who was born in 1738, set- tled in Rensselaerwyck, New York, and the honse hie erected there was at last accounts still standing. His son James was born in Rensselaerwyck in 1774, died in 1824. He married Harriet Faulkner, a descendant of Conradt Ten Eyck, who came from Holland in 1650. Peter Lamoree, of the Albany county family, was born in 1812 at New Baltimore, New York, died April 6, 1892. He was a ship carpenter by trade. In 1827 he came to Os- wego, New York, and afterward joined John Lee in the firm of Lee & Lamoree, proprietors of the shipyard . formerly owned by George Goble. This firm built many vessels, and after the firm was dissolved Mr. Lamoree continued
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in business alone and was one of the leading ship builders of Oswego. He was the builder of the first tug built at Oswego. He was a member of the first fire company and of the old Oswego Guards, prominent in public af- fairs, a useful and influential citizen.
(I) James Lamoree, grandfather of John J. Lamoree, was born in 1775, in Hackensack, New Jersey, died in 1847 in Oswego, New York. He was a ship carpenter by trade. which line of work he followed for many years. He married (first) Amy Thorne, of Quaker descent, died in 1828. Children : Uriah, John, mentioned below; Caroline, James. Peter. He married (second ) Mary Allen Cas- ter. Children : Andrew, Jane Ann, Cornelia.
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