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He married, September 27, 1893, at New Windsor, Illinois, Juanita, daughter of Hugh and Mary ( Watson) Breckinridge ( see Breck- inridge III). Children of Mr. and Mrs. Bates: Juanita, born December 25. 1894: Abraham, February 24, 1899.
(The Breckinridge Line)
(I) William Breckinridge, immigrant an- cestor, was born in Scotland in 1749, died in Pennsylvania in 1827. He married Jane An- derson, born in Scotland in 1749, died in Penn- sylvania in 1834. Among their children was William, mentioned below.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) Breckinridge, was born in 1784, died in Mer- cer county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1865. He married Jane Wallace, who died in Mer- cer county, March 8, 1851.
(III) Rev. Hugh Breckinridge, son of Will- iam (2) Breckinridge, was born May 5, 1826, in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, died August 28, 1887, in Mercer county, Illinois. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and in Ohio. Early in life he became a patternmaker and designer of machinery in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He removed to Illinois, and after engaging in business for a time as a carpenter and builder bought a farm in Mercer county, Illinois. He was a lifelong student and largely by private study fitted him- self for the ministry and was ordained as pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist church at Hopewell, Illinois. He was a gifted musician and singer, an able, forceful versatile man. In politics he was a Republican and he at- tended the first Republican National conven- tion. lle married Mary Watson. Children : Juanita, wife of Frederick E. Bates (see Bates VIII) : Clara L., married Asa E. Fritz ; Will- iam Watson: Sarah E., died in infancy; Ed- ward E .; Mary A. Mrs. Juanita ( Breckin- ridge) Bates is also a descendant of John Mc- Millan, P. D., who was very active in the Presbyterian church in western Pennsylvania. and one of the founders of Washington-Jeffer- son College, Pennsylvania.
BATES (VII) Jacob Bates, son of Sel- leck Bates (q. v.), was born in Danby, February 16, 1815, and died at Ithaca, New York, January 8, 1887. Hle was educated in the public schools, and dur- ing his youth followed farming for an occupa- tion in the town of Danby. In his early man- hood he was well known as a butcher, cattle drover and dealer. He bought cattle through- out this section of the state and drove them to New York City markets. He built up a well deserved reputation for honesty and fair dealing in business and was highly respected in the community. He prospered in business and in-
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vested wisely in real estate, owning large tracts of land in this section at the time of his death. He continued in business until two years before his death. In religion he was a Unitarian. In politics he was a Democrat. He built the Bates Block, Ithaca. He married (first) Laura Puffen, born January 17, 1814, died December 13, 1845. He married (sec- ond) Sophie Brown. He married (third) Frances A. Carpenter, born July 27, 1827, now living (1912) and enjoying good health at the age of eighty-four years (see Carpenter XVI). Child by first wife: Rufus, mentioned below. Children by second wife: Wilbur J., men- tioned below : Laura Sophia, born March 20, 1852, married De Borden Wilmot, of Ithaca.
(VIII) Rufus, son of Jacob Bates, was born in Danby, October 13, 1836, died March II, 1880. He attended the public schools of Ith- aca, Alfred University and Syracuse Business College. He became associated with his father in the cattle and meat business, and in real estate. He was in partnership with his father in the building of the Bates Block, and devoted most of his time to real estate in his last years. He was well known, highly re- spected and was sincerely mourned in the com- munity when his career was cut short in the prime of life. He was popular in every walk of life. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was keenly interested in public affairs, a citizen of public spirit. He was president of the village of Ithaca for one term. He was a trustee of the Ithaca Savings Bank, and a meni- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his family attended the Unitarian church. He married, in Addison, Steuben county, New York, April 2, 1863, Flora M., born March 10, 1839, daughter of Anson and Abigail (Smith) Doolittle ( see Doolittle VI). Children : Frank Cornell, born November 6, 1864, died April 11, 1869; Annie M., born October 4, 1876.
(VIII) Wilbur J., brother of Rufus Bates and son of Jacob Bates, was born September 18, 1850, in Danby. New York. He attended the district schools of his native town, Ithaca Academy and Cornell University. At the end of the freshman year he left college to engage in mercantile business. For a number of years he was in the retail shoe business, for the past twenty years conducted a successful dairy business, and also engaged in real es- tate transactions from time to time. He owns several farms. among which are the Bates
homestead of one hundred and eighty-eight acres on the Danby road, Ithaca. In politics he is an Independent. Hle is a member of Hobaco Lodge, No. 716, Free and Accepted Masons of Ithaca.
He married, October 21, 1885, Catherine J., born June 10, 1863, daughter of John and An- nie (Royall) Ryan, of Candor, New York (see Royall). John Ryan was a native of Art Fry. North Sea, Ireland. He came to this country with relatives at the age of seven years. His home was at first at Motts Cor- ners, but in 1856 he moved to Candor, New York, where he became a prominent lumber (lealer, and a leading citizen. For several terms he was supervisor of the town of Can- dor. He was active in politics and a local leader of the Democratic party until the ad- ministration of President Benjamin Harrison, when he became a Republican, and he con- tinted in the Republican party the remainder of his life. Mr. Ryan died in Candor, July 8, 1909. Children of John and Annie Ryan : Catherine J., born June 10, 1863, married Wil- bur J. Bates, mentioned above: Nannie R., born June 13, 1866, married W. E. Brown, of Ithaca ; Fanny, born 1867, married J. W. Alex- ander, of Bay Shore, Long Island. Children of Wilbur J. and Catherine J. (Ryan ) Bates : Horace Ryan, born June 2, 1888, died young ; Laura Ryan, born July 21, 1894, educated in public schools of Ithaca, now ( 1912) in Wall- court school, at Aurora, New York.
(The Carpenter Line).
(XII) Captain John Carpenter, son of John Carpenter (q. v.), was born in Connecticut about 1658. He lived at Jamaica. Long Is- land. On November 22, 1703, he took the oath as captain of troops at Jamaica. His will was dated June 10, 1732, proved July 30, 1732. Nehemiah and Increase were executors of the will, May 1, 1738, and he mentioned his wife. luis sons Nehemiah, John and Solomon, of Goshen, and daughters Mary, Hannah, Sus- anna and Phebe. He married Mary Children, born at Jamaica: Nehemiah, about 1685 : John, about 1685 ; Solomon, about 1686: Joseph, about 1687; Increase, mentioned be- low; Mary; Hannah; Susanna ; Phebe.
(XIII) Increase, son of Captain John Car- penter, was born about 1688, died about 1776. In 1709 he bought land at Jamaica. He was executor of his father's will, May 1, 1738. He married Bergin. Children, born at
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Jamaica: William, mentioned below ; ln- crease, April. 1743; Jacob, 1745; John, 1747 ; David, Luke, Elizabeth.
(XIV ) William, son of Increase Carpenter, was born at Jamaica, Long Island, about 1740. Ile was a harnessmaker. He served in the revolution. lle moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, and spent his later years with his daugh- ter, dying at her home. Child. John W., men- tioned below.
(AT ) John W., son of William Carpenter, was born at Pleasant Valley, Jamaica, Long Island, July 9, 1769, died February 7. 1834. He succeeded to his father's farm at Pough- keepsie and lived the life of a country gentle- man, engaging in no active business. He mar- ried Mary Thorne, born September 20, 1771. Children : William, mentioned below ; Hel- ache (?). April 13, 1796; Anne. February 10. 1798; Daniel. December 9. 1804: Eliza, July 3, 1807 : Maria, August 4, 1810: George W., December 27. 1811, died December 22. 1835.
(XVI) William (2), son of John W. Car- penter, was born at Poughkeepsie. New York, March 4. 1792, died March 26, 1885, at Ithaca, New York. He received his education in the district schools, and learned the carpenter's trade in the employ of his uncle, Joseph Thorne. Subsequently he settled in the town of Dryden, Tompkins county, New York, where he engaged in business as a carpenter and builder. He was always a dealer in real estate and owned an excellent farm. lle was a member of the Society of Friends, and was highly respected in the community for his sterling traits of character. He married ( first ) Alice, daughter of John I. Ward, of Pough- keepsie. He married (second) Sarah B., daughter of Tilton Aldrich, of Poughkeepsie. Children by first wife: John and Thorne. Children by second wife : Sarah, Captain Charles T., Frances A., married Jacob Bates ( see Bates VII).
( The Doolittle Line ).
(1) Abraham Doolittle, immigrant ances- tor, was born in 1619 or early in 1620, in England. He seems to have been related closely to the Worcestershire family. but his home in England has not been found. He spells his name "Dowlittell," and he was the progenitor of most of the Doolittles in Am- erica. When he was abont twenty-one years of age he came with his wife, shortly after their marriage, in company with the Puritans.
and he was in Boston as early as 1640, but before 1642 they moved to New Haven, Con- necticut, where many settlers were going from Boston. His name was mentioned in a divi- sion of land in 1643, as having one and a half acres in the first division and one and three- quarter acres in each of the other two divi- sions. In 1044 he took the oath of fidelity and was made the chief executive officer of the colony before he was scarcely twenty-five years of age. He was very prominent in all public affairs, being chosen seven times as deputy from New Haven to the general as- sembly at Hartford. For many years lie served as selectman.
On October 15, 1662. the following is found on the records of a court of magistrates hield at New Ilaven : "Abraham Dowlitle ppounded to have five pounds for keeping the Indian Taphanse abont seventeene weekes time for all his charges and troubles about him. The court thought it moderate and granted it." After 1667 he moved to a tract of land twelve miles north of New Haven, and although the colonists held a title to that section it is re- corded that they paid the Indians for the tract. Abraham Doolittle is said to have been the first white man to explore the forests beyond the Quinnipiac river, and in 1669 he was one of three chosen by the planters of New Haven to manage the affairs of a new settlement, which was incorporated as a town, May 12, 1670, and named Wallingford. though the committee managed it until 1672. Here also Abraham Doolittle was prominent in town af- fairs and he held many offices of trust. He was representative from Wallingford to the general court at Hartford for several terms, and during the twenty years after the incor- poration until his death he held almost every position of responsibility in the town. In 1671 he was chosen treasurer. In October, 1671, he received a grant of land and two and a half acres on Wharton's brook, a grant containing a water privilege upon which in 1674 the first mill in town was built. On May 27, 1672, hie was one of five chosen as a committee for ap- probation of planters to be admitted. In 1672 he was on a committee from Wallingford which with the New Haven committee ad- justed the boundary between the towns, on the west side of the river. In December. 1673. he was appointed surveyor of highways, and he was selectman in 1674-75. On February 15. 1775, he was on a committee of thirteen
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to attend the founding of the first church, Congregational, in the village and later was chosen to superintend the construction of the building, which was delayed about two years because of the Indian war. In 1673 he was made sergeant of the "first traine band," and in 1675, during King Philip's war, he was a member of the vigilance committee. His dwelling was fortified at this time against an expected attack from the Indians led by King Philip himself. He and Elezier Peck were in charge of the town's stock of ammunition. In 1677 he was chosen to oversee the work on the mill dam. In April, 1679, he was dep- uty to the general court and again served as selectman, and was on a committee to lay out a highway for the town. In 1681, when he was over sixty years of age, he was again deputy, and was on. a committee which bought from the Indians a large tract of land including the present loca- tion of Meriden. In March, 1684, he was foreman of a jury of inquest for the first drowning case in Wallingford, and in 1685 was deputy and townsman, as well as in 1687- 88. Several grants of land were given him at various times, the last one being in 1689.
He died August 11, 1690, aged seventy years. His gravestone is still standing, the oldest one in Wallingford. At his death he held about two hundred acres in and around Wallingford. In his will he mentioned his wife Abigail. seven sons and three daughters, Sarah Abernathy, Elizabeth Brockett and Abi- gail Doolittle, and in May, 1700, the mother and seven sons made an agreement about the division of the lands. She died November 5. 1710, aged sixty-nine years. She was granted twenty-five acres on the side of the blue hills, and in 1694 received ten acres more which her husband had bought from John Beach.
Hon. Abraham Doolittle married (first) Joane Allen (Alling on the early records) , daughter of James Allen, a well-to-do citizen of Kempston, county Bedford, England. James Allen died in Kempston in 1657 and his will mentioned his daughter, "wife of Abra- ham Dowlittle now living in New England." He married (second), July 2, 1663, Abigail Moss, born April 10, 1642, daughter of John Moss, of New Haven, later of Wallingford: John Moss died in 1707, aged one hundred and three. Children by first wife, born in New Haven : Sarah; Abraham. born Febru- ary 12, 1649 ; Elizabeth, April 12, 1652; Mary,
February 22, 1653, died young ; John, June 14, 1655; Abigail, baptized May 22, 1659, died young. Children by second wife: Samuel, July 7, 1665 ; Joseph, February 12, 1667, Born in Wallingford: Abigail, February 20, 1009; Ebenezer, July 6, 1672; Mary, March 4, 1074; Daniel, December 29, 1675; Theophilus, men- tioned below.
(II) Theophilus, son of Hon. Abraham Doolittle, was born at Wallingford, Connecti- cut, July 28, 1678. He was twelve years of age when his father died, and when he became of age he received his share of his father's land. After his marriage he settled as a farmer. He married (first) January 5, 1698. Rev. Samuel Street officiating, Thankful, daughter of David and Sarah (Rockwell) Hall, of Wallingford. She was born there December 29, 1679, died June 2, 1715. He married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Jere- miah Howe, of Wallingford. He died March 26, 1740, aged sixty-one. Children by first wife, born in Wallingford: Thankful, May 18, 1700; Sarah, June 1, 1703: Henry, 1704, died 1733 ; David, probably : Solomon, August 17, 1713. By second wife: Benjamin, men- tioned below.
(II1) Benjamin, son of Theophilus Doolit- tle, was born September 28, 1723, at Walling- ford, died at Mt. Carmel, Connecticut, March 5, 1790, His "ear mark" is recorded at New Haven, December 26, 1754. He married, No- vember 10, 1748, Esther, daughter of Nathan- iel and Esther ( Blakeslee) Tuttle. Children : Titus, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, born Au- gust 1, 1752 ; Esther, May 20, 1754 ; Benjamin, probably; Eunice, October 4, 1758: Sarah, July 20, 1761 ; Abigail, October 10. 1763 : Samuel, probably.
(IV) Titus, son of Benjamin Doolittle, was born June 8, 1749. died probably in the winter of 1837 ; his wife died some years before he did. He married Nabbie Mallory, and they lived probably at Mount Carmel Center. Con- necticut. All his descendants except son Titus left Connecticut. Children : Abbie, married (first ) Benjamin Franklin. (second)
Church ; Benjamin, mentioned below ; Poliv, twin, married (first) . -- Cooper, ( second) Jonathan Rumsey, lived in Trumansburg, New York: Sally, twin, married Jonathan Rumsey, and he married (second) her sister Polly ; Lola, married James Charles; Patty, married Thomas Lewis; Betsey, married Thomas Plaice ; Electa, married Roberts ; Titus.
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(V) Benjamin (2), son of Titus Doolittle. was born in Connecticut, probably at Mount Carmel, died in 1854, aged seventy-three. He settled near the Catskill mountains in New York and later moved to Tompkins county, New York, when his son Luther was still young. He was a ship carpenter. He married Ann Winchell, and they had eight sons and three daughters; four sons and two daughters were living in 1891. Children: Luther; Je- hiel; Esther, married John Drake, and died aged twenty-one : Harmon ; Anson, mentioned below; Calvin; Ann, married Hiram Whitney : Benjamin J .; Alvah; Lavira, married Albert Saxton ; Isaiah.
(VI) Anson, son of Benjamin (2) Doolit- tle, was born in Catskill, New York, April 6. 1812, died August 24, 1895, in Ithaca, New York. In early life he settled with his parents in Enfield, Tompkins county, New York. He worked with his brother clearing a tract of land there, and later he moved to Addison, New York, where for a number of years he was engaged in the hotel business. In 1864 he returned to Ithaca and retired because of ill health, spending the remainder of his life there. In religion he was a Methodist, and in politics a Republican. He married Abigail Smith, born June 10, 1812, in Cayuga county, New York, died January 8, 1910, at Ithaca, daughter of Jeremiah and Martha (Bates) Smith. Child, Flora M., married Rufus Bates (see Bates VIII).
(The Royall Line).
All the Royal and Royall families of colonial ancestry were descended from William Royall. the immigrant, who was sent over by the Massachusetts Bay Company from England on account of his trade, cooper and cleaver of timber. He settled at Salem in 1629 and had a grant of land that is still known as Ryall's Neck, formerly Ryall's Side. The name was pronounced in the old-fashioned way and spelled accordingly in many cases. There is evidence that he was at Casco Bay, Maine, as early as 1635-36; he had a grant of land at Sagadahoc in 1639 and in 1643 bought a tract at Saco. At that time he had already built a house on the south side of what was after- wards called Royall's river in North Yar- mouth, Maine. The hostility of the Indians in 1675 drove him away from his farm and he came to Dorchester, Massachusetts. In March. 1673, he and his wife Phebe deeded a portion
of the North Yarmouth lands to their son William, provided he maintain his parents dur- ing the remainder of their lives. In 1636 he was assistant under Gorges and again in 1648 under Cleaves, and he was clerk of the writs in 1667. He married Phebe, daughter of Mar- garet Green, a widow, who afterward married Samuel Cole, of Boston. He died at Dorches- ter, June 15, 1676, and Phebe died July 16, 1678. Children : I. William, born about 1640; came to Dorchester in King Philip's war: died at Dorchester, November 7, 1724; had by wife Mary nine children. 2. John, married Elizabeth Dod, but left no sons. 3. Samuel, lived in Boston: married Sarah and had three daughters in Boston. 4. Isaac, a carpenter ; married Ruth Tolman and Waitstill -: he died in January, 1729: children : Ruth, Mary, Samuel, William, Isaac, Jerusha, Zebiah, Robert and Joseph. 6. Jo- seph. born about 1645; sailmaker at Charles- town; died in Boston, January, 1728; children by wife Mary: Joseph, Mary, John. William. Sarah, Sarah, Phebe, John.
In the third generation Isaac. son of Will- iam Jr., lived in Boston and died at Medford. June 7, 1739. Samuel, son of William Jr., re- moved to Maine and lived at North Yar- mouth: Samuel, son of Isaac, was born in Dorchester. July 21, 1677, removed to Bristol. Rhode Island. Isaac, son of Isaac. was born in Dorchester, May 10, 1682, lived at Milton, and had a son William, born May 10, 1709. Robert, son of Isaac. was born at Dorchester. January 12, 1687-88, lived at Dorchester, and had a son Joseph, born May 13. 1721. Joseph, son of Joseph, was born in Charlestown. Sep- tember 5. 1673, died 1701-02, leaving no chil- dren. William, son of Joseph, left no known issue. John, son of Joseph, was born at Charlestown, May 31. 1692, left no known children. Isaac, son of Isaac and grandson of William Jr., born about 1711, was the famous Loyalist. brigadier-general in 1761 and filled important offices before the revolution. re- moved to Halifax on account of his loyalty to the Crown, and in 1776 located in Kensington, county Middlesex. England, lived in the fam- ous Royall House of Medford until he left the country, a house bought of the Usher heirs by his father and improved and embellished so much that it had a wide-spread reputation as a luxurious mansion, left no sons. Samuel, son of William Jr., had Eliah in Boston in 1725. and Elijah had a family at North Yar-
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mouth ; Jacob, born 1727, also lived at North Yarmouth and had twelve children; Samuel Winthrop, of North Yarmouth, had seven chil- dren and William, who was living in 1778. William, son of Isaac, grandson of Isaac and great-grandson of the immigrant, William, was born in Dorchester, May 10. 1709 or 1710; married, in Boston, June 15, 1738, Elizabeth Wyer, of Boston. He lived at Stoughton but we find record of no children born to him and his wife Elizabeth.
In the foregoing paragraph we have men- tioned all the descendants having male issue to perpetuate the name. In 1885 Edward D. Harris, who wrote the book entitled "The New England Royalls," said: "But it is said that the name in Maine has ceased to exist and the writer knows not of a single living indi- vidual bearing the surname who has descended from the stock that in the beginning of the last century was so vigorous and promised to be so prolific." But the publication of the first federal census, taken in 1790, shows that various branches of the family lost to the genealogists were living and have doubtless perpetuated the name. There was one family in Connecticut, Jonathan Royall, of Southing- ton, having one son under sixteen and two fe- males. Nicholas Royal, of Montgomery coun- ty, Pennsylvania, had three sons under six- teen and four females. There was a Prince Royal, of Medway, Massachusetts. In North Yarmouth, Maine, we find Winthrop Royal or Ryal, Eli Ryall, of New Gloucester, and Daniel Ryalls, of Portland. All New Eng- land and New York revealed no other adult Royalls mentioned in the census except Will- iamı, of Stoughton, who was childless.
William or Wilhelminus Royall, a son of one of these reported in the census in all prob- ability, settled in New York. His son Tim- othy lived at Newton Center, now part of El- mira, New York, and married Christina Crans, a German or Dutch woman, and had children : Morris, Ruladus, Mary, Addie. Judging from the spelling of the name of the New York pioneer, he was closely associated with Dutch neighbors. Possibly his father married a Dutch wife. Annie, daughter of Morris Roy- all, married John Ryan (see Bates VIII).
This surname is found in KELLOGG England early in the six- teenth century and there are differences of opinion as to its origin. Some
think it comes from two Gaelic words mean- ing lake and cemetery, making it a place name. The earliest record of the family is in Deb- den, county Essex, England, when in Janu- ary, 1525. Nicholas Kellogg was taxed. Will- iam Kellogg was also on the tax list. There were many ways of spelling the name, among them being Kelhogge, Kellogue, Cologe, Cel- lodge, Kellock, Killhog, Collidge, Cellgo, Kel- log, and many others. There were many fam- ilies of the name in county Essex, Great Leigh and Braintree being the seat of different branches probably of the same family.
Nicholas Kellogg was born about 1488. He married Florence, daughter of William Hall. He was buried in Debden, May 17, 1558, and she was buried there, November 8, 1571. Chil- dren : William, married Alice -, and was buried in Saffron Walden, February 2, 1578: Thomas, lived in Debden, probably the ancestor of the American immigrant men- tioned below.
(I) Phillippe Kellogg, probably son of Thomas Kellogg, lived, September 15, 1583, in Bocking, county Essex, England, a parish adjoining Braintree. On this date his son Thomas was baptized there. Two years later he was found in Great Leigh, where his daughter Annis was buried in 1611. He may have had two wives. Children: Thomas, baptized September 15, 1583; Annis, buried May 25, 1611; Robert, baptized in Great Leigh, November 14, 1585: buried in Brain- tree, January 18, 1666; Mary, baptized Feb- ruary 16, 1588 ; Prudence, baptized March 29, 1592, buried March 24, 1629: Martin, men- tioned below; Nathaniel, married Elizabeth, died in New England without issue; Jane, married - Allison ; Rachel, married Sam- utel Cove.
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