Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume IV, Part 11

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 660

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in its upbuilding and has descendants still liv- ing there.

(VI) Timothy, son of Jonathan and Mary (Akin) Millard, was born in Pawling. New York. He married Charlotte Roswell. who died in Ulster county, New York. The Ros- well family were of Vandy IIall, Ireland. They had issue.

(VII) John Akin, son of Timothy and Charlotte (Roswell) Millard, was born in Del- hi, New York, October 10, 1810. died in Troy, New York, January 1, 1869. He was educa- ted for the law, and soon after his first mar- riage settled in Troy where he rose rapidly in his profession and became one of the leaders of the Rensselaer county bar. He was an ac- tive, public-spirited citizen, but would never accept public office, preferring to serve the in- terests of his fellows in other ways. He was of fine physique, standing six feet in height and weighing two hundred and fifty pounds. He married, in Albany, February 6, 1840. Frances Mary, born in Rockingham, Vermont, October 19, 1816, died in Troy, New York, June 14, 1853, daughter of Roswell and Mar- tha (Lovell) Bellows, granddaughter of Colo- nel John and Rebecca (Hubbard) Bellows, of Walpole, great-granddaughter of Benjamin Bellows, founder of Walpole, New Hamp- shire, who died July 10, 1777, aged sixty-five years, and his first wife, Abigail (Stearns) Bellows, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, June 2 or 3, 1708, died November 9. 1757. Colonel Benjamin Bellows was the only son of Benjamin and Dorcas (Cutter ) ( Millard) Bellows, of Concord, Massachusetts, and grandson of John and May Wood, the pro- genitors of the Bellows family of Walpole, New Hampshire, the "Boy Emigrant," who came from England to America in the "Hope- well." April 6, 1635, aged twelve years. Chil- dren of John A. and Frances M. (Bellows) Millard : 1. Mary Lovell, horn February 7, 1841. married Tyrus C. Dickinson ; children : Mary Hasting, Herbert Millard, Willis Clayton. 2. John Akin, born in Troy, January 13. 1843 ; served during the civil war in the Eighth Regiment, New York Artillery ; was comman- der and third lieutenant : served with the Army of the Potomac ; practiced dentistry in Dinard, France; married (first), Sarah Wentworth Brown: ( second) Mary Crocker Sears. 3. Anthony Gould, sce forward. 4. Edward W'alter, see forward. 5. Herbert Bellows, born in Troy, May 18, 1849: was of Lansing- burg, New York, and Newtown, Mas achu- setts ; married Grace Greenwood, daughter of Peter and Naomi Palmer, of Troy : children : Maud Lovell, Bertha Grace, Herbert Palmer. (VIII ) Anthony Gould, second son of John

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A. and Frances Mary (Bellows) Millard, was born in Troy, February 10, 1845, died April 19, 1902. He was educated in common schools of Troy, attended a preparatory school (Brookside Institute), Sand Lake, New York and graduated from Professor Charlier's School, New York City. He engaged with John Warr in the grocery business; in 1880 he entered the employ of Rathbone, Sand & Company of Albany, and continued with them twenty-one years. He married, November 6, 1872, Adelaide Elizabeth Greene. Children : I. Elizabeth Virginia, born January 5, 1876. 2. Chauncey Stuart, born June 8, 1879; grad- uate of Troy Academy ; superintendent of rail- road signal department of the Federal Signal Company ; residence, Troy ; married Pearl Holt, of Oneida, New York, daughter of John and Margaret (Boylan) Holt, July 22, 1908. 3. Leonie Adelaide, born May 4, 1884.

(VIII) Edward Walter, son of John A. and Frances Mary (Bellows) Millard, was born in Troy, New York, June 1, 1847. He re- ceived a good preparatory and academic edu- cation in the public schools and at Troy Acad- emy. After leaving school he began the study of law with his father. Early in the civil war, despite his youth, he enlisted in Company B. Twenty-first Regiment, New York Cavalry. This regiment fought hard with the Army of the Potomac and was under the command of the gallant Sheridan. Mr. Millard was en- gaged in all the battles of his regiment, includ- ing Fredericksburg,

Winchester and all through Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley cam- paign. At Winchester he was shot in the leg and still carries a bullet. He served nearly three years, and was mustered out with his regiment at the close of the war. After his return to Troy, as one of the firm of Fox- hall, Jones & Millard, he engaged in the manu- facture of kitchen utensils, continuing for two and a half years. He spent the following year in Bennington, Vermont, regaining his health (badly shattered by his army life). Returning to Troy he resumed his former business. In 1870 he engaged in business in Troy as Fu- neral director, in which he still continues (1910), He is an attendant at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with the Republican party. After the war he enlisted in Battery B, Troy City Artillery, and served three years as lieutenant.

Ile married, February 9, 1870, at Troy, Am- elia M. Young, born in Troy, August 13, 1847, died in that city, January 16, 1909, daughter of Dr. Orange R. Young, born in 1816, at Williamstown, Massachusetts, died in Troy, March 17, 1892. He practiced dentistry in Troy until his death. Ile married Maria M.

Bardwell, born and died in Troy. Children of Edward Walter and Amelia M. (Young) Millard, all born in Troy: I. Frances Mary, born March 8, 1871, died 1873. 2. Rufus Gould, born November 30, 1874; educated in the Troy public schools; is engaged in the undertaking business ; married, Mary E. Ber- ger. 3. Edward Walter, Jr., born June 21, 1877, died December 17, 1909 ; he was an elec- trician : a thirty-second degree Mason of the Scottish Rite, an Elk and a member of the Masonic Club.

(The Folger Line).

Closely allied with the Coffin family of Nan- tucket Island was the Folger. When the first English settlement was effected on the island, July 16, 1661, the first great need of the colonists was for an interpreter through whom they might speak with the Indians who peopled the island. So they sent to the island of Martha's Vineyard, and offered to give a half of one share of their estate to Peter Fol- ger if he would come over to Nantucket and live with them. John Folger came from Eng- land in 1656 and as a surveyor laid out the town of Norwich, Suffolk county, Massachu- setts. He afterward settled on Nantucket. He married Meribah Gibbs and had issue.

(II) Peter, son of John Folger, was an Englishman. He was a teacher to the Indians of the Vineyard. He knew how to measure and survey lands and laid out the original lots on Nantucket. He took up his residence on Nantucket, and in 1673 was clerk of writs and recorder of the court. There was a great deal of dissension and bad feeling in 1675-76 over the election, which seemed to be a tri- umph for the younger men over the older. Peter Folger in his letter of complaint to Gov- ernor Andros at New York speaks contemptn- ously of "our new young chief magistrates," whereupon he was put under arrest. Ile was ordered to produce the "Court Booke," but al- though he came to the court, answered not to the summons as required. Another was chosen clerk of the court and an indictment found against Peter for contempt of court. He was placed under £20 bail and not finding an im- mediate bondsman was locked up in a place which he describes as "A place where never any Englishman was put and where the neigh- bors hogs had layed but the night before and in a bitter cold frost and deep snow." but friends brought him bedding and food. His name appears as a witness on the Indian deed of Nantucket, "Recorded for Mr. Tristram Coffin and Mr. Thomas Macy ye 29th day of June, 1671, aforesaid" (Deeds 111954, secre- tary office). Also on the Indian deed of

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Wonockmamack and other early official papers of the island. Peter Folger was a Baptist and helped to Christianize the Indians. When the Rev. Thomas Marpen went back to Eng- land he left his church in charge of Peter Folger. He married Mary Morrell and had issue.

(III) Elezer, son of Peter Folger, married Sarah, daughter of Richard Gardner. She died 1729, leaving issue.

(IV) Peter (2), son of Elezer and Sarah (Gardner) Folger, born 1674, married Judith, daughter of Stephen Coffin, and granddaugh- ter of Tristram Coffin. She survived him and married a second and a third husband (see Coffin III).

(V) Daniel, second child of Peter (2) and Judith (Coffin) Folger, was born November 13, 1700. He married Abigail Folger, born April 8, 1703, at Nantucket, died there No- vember 21, 1787. Daniel Folger was lost at sea, October 30, 1744, while going to Martha's Vineyard.

(VI) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) and Abigail (Folger) Folger, was born March 25, 1736. He married, 1757, Judith Worth. They removed to Dutchess county, New York, where Daniel Folger was engaged in farming. They were members of the Society of Friends.

(VII) Clarinda, second child of Daniel (2) and Judith (Worth) Folger, was born at Northampton, Dutchess county, New York, August 20, 1762, died May 22, 1804 (or 44), at Peru. Clinton county, New York. She married, October 23, 1783, Nicholas Barker, died in Peru, September 9, 1849.

(VIII) Phoebe, daughter of Nicholas and Clarinda (Folger) Barker, was born in New York, March 1, 1789. She married at Danby, Vermont, William (2) Greene, born at Gro- ton, Massachusetts, December 22, 1801, died at North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 2, 1862. William Greene was a son of William Greene, born in Rhode Island, was of Groton, Massachusetts, then removed to Randolph, Vermont, afterward to Danby, Ver- mont, where he died. He was a stone cutter by trade. He married Betsey Hudson, of Mas- sachusetts, and had issue.

(IX) Chauncey O., son of William (2) and Phoebe (Barker) Greene, was horn in Weeds- port. New York, April 2, 1825. He was of Watervliet, New York, and for a time was in business in Canada. He soon returned and located in Troy, New York. He was of the firm of Sheldon & Greene, stove manu- facturers ; he retired from that firm in 1873, to engage in the insurance business, which he continued until he died, February 15, 1910. He was a Republican in politics and repre-

sented the third ward in Troy common deun- cil. He married in Danby, Vermont, Novem- ber 6, 1847, Elizabeth Eggleston, bon in Danby, May 28, 1828. Now (1910) resident of Troy.

Elizabeth (Eggleston) Grecne, wife of Chauncey O. Greene, was a daughter of An- drus Eggleston, born in Stonington, Connec- ticut, November 5, 1785, died at Danby, Ver- mont, April 18, 1860. He was a school teach- er and for many years postmaster of Danby. He married, September 5, 1811, at Dorset, Vermont, Nancy Curtis, born at Dorset, No- vember 28. 1787, died January 28, 1860, daughter of Joseph and Delia ( Mead) Curtis, of Manchester, Vermont. Timothy Mead, father of Delia (Mead) Curtis, prior to 1800 was the owner of about all of the present site of Manchester Centre, Vermont. The original proprietors in 1780 gave him a grant of five hundred acres in consideration of his building and maintaining a grist mill in the town. Joseph and Delia ( Mead) Curtis are buried in the old Curtis burying ground at East Dorset. Their gravestones read : "Joseph Curtis died December 17, 1833, aged 75 years," "Delia, wife of Joseph Curtis, died March I, 1848, aged 81 years, 9 months." Andrus Eg- gleston was son of Benedict Eggleston, who during the revolution enlisted in the Second Connecticut Regiment when he was so young and undersized that he put on false heels to bring him up to height and perhaps did some- thing similar to bring his age up to the re- quirements. He was in receipt of a revolu- tionary pension for forty years. Born at Ilop- kinton, Rhode Island, June 18, 1764, died at Dorset, Vermont, December 16, 1859, aged ninety-five years. He married, 1785, Con- tent Brown, born in Stonington, Connecticut, February 21, 1767, died 1808.

(X) Adalaide Elizabeth, daughter of Chauncey O. and Elizabeth (Eggleston) Greene, was born in Brockville, Ontario, ( 'an- ada. Her parents returned to the United States and located in Troy, New York, when she was an infant of three months. She was educated in Troy and was graduated from the Emma Willard School (Troy Female Seminary), class of 1868. She married, No- vember 6, 1872, Anthony Gould Millard ( see Millard VIII). ChikIren : Elizabeth Virginia, Chauncey Stuart and Leonie Adalaide Millard.

(The Coffin Line).

The most ancient seat of the name of Coffin in England is now called Portledge in the county of Devon. The earliest inention of the name in any "Visitation of Devon" is in 1620. The family has been allied by intermarriages

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with many of the honorable families of Eng- land and even with royalty. Probably the most eminent of the name in England was Sir William Coffin, Knight in the reign of King Henry VIII. Tristram Coffyn, the American ancestor, was of the landed gentry, son of Peter, and grandson of Nicholas. According to his father's will he was to be provided for "According to his degree and calling." Therefore he must have had a calling or pro- fession, although he never in America made any pretentions.

(I) Tristram ("Tristem") Coffyn, as he al- ways signed his name, the founder of the family line in America, was born at Buxton, a small parish and village near Plymouth, in Devonshire, England, in the year 1605. He married Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens, Esq., of Buxton, and in 1642 emigra- ted to America with his wife, five small chil- dren, his widowed mother and two unmar- ried sisters. He lived alternately in Salis- bury, Haverhill and Newbury, Massachusetts, until 1659, when he went to Nantucket Island and arranged for the purchase of the island by a company which he organized in Salis- bury. The island was then under the juris- diction of New York. He returned to Nan- tucket with his family in 1660, where he lived until his death, October 2, 1681, at his new residence on the hill at Northam, near Ca- paum pond. Tristram Coffyn was thirty-seven years of age upon his removal to America and fifty-five when he settled in Nantucket. Joan, his mother, died in Boston, May, 1661, aged seventy-seven years, "a woman of extra- ordinary character." Of his two sisters who came to America with him, Eunice married William Butler, Mary married Alexander Adams. Three of his children, Peter, Tris- tram (2), and Elizabeth, were married at the time of the removal to Nantucket.

Tristram Coffyn was the leading spirit among the early islanders, and the large fam- ily interest gave him power to control in a great measure the enterprises of the island. During the first years he was the richest pro- prietor except his son Peter, who possessed a large estate. He was very generous, public- spirited, and did not seek his own advantage in an unreasonable degree. He assisted in de- veloping the resources of the island, was friendly with the Indians and had great influ- ence over them. The first general court for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard was com- prised of Tristram Coffyn, first chief magis- trate of Nantucket; Thomas Mayhew, first chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard, and two associates from each island. At their first session a law prohibiting the sale of in-

toxicants to the Indians was passed. This is probably the first prohibitory law on record. His commission as chief magistrate of the isl- and bears date of June 29, 1671, and is signed by Governor Lovelace of New York. While he was reputed to be quite wealthy in goods and lands, owning together with his son one- fourth of the island of Nantucket and all of Tuckernuck island, he did not die rich. He made no will, but disposed of much of his land while he lived, by deeds, the consideration being, "regard and natural affection." Most of the remainder of his estate he deeded to his two youngest sons, John and Stephen, they to take possession after the death of Tristram and his wife. To each of his grandchildren he gave ten acres upon the island of Tuck- ernuck or to such of them "as would plant it." He was a man of strict integrity and generous kindly nature. He was buried in Nantucket, probably upon his own estate. His wife survived him and was tenderly cared for by her large family of children and grand- children.

Children of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffyn: 1. Hon. Peter, born in England ; lieutenant in King Philip's war; deputy to general court of Plymouth three sessions ; re- moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, where from 1692 to 1714 he was at different times associate justice and chief justice of the su- preme court of New Hampshire, and member of the governor's council ; he married Abigail, daughter of Edward and Katherine Starbuck, of Dover, New Hampshire, and had ten chil- dren. 2. Tristram, born in England ; was dea- con for twenty years of the First Church of Newbury, and filled many positions of trust ; he was a merchant tailor; he married Mrs. Judith (Greenleaf) Somberly, daughter of Edward and Sarah Greenleaf, and had ten children. 3. Elizabeth, born in England; mar- ried Captain Stephen Greenleaf and had ten children. 4. James, born in England; was judge of the probate court and filled several of the important offices of Nantucket; this branch furnished the families that remained loyal to Great Britain; General John Coffin and Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, two sons of General John, afterward held admiral's com- missions in the Royal navy ; one of America's most illustrious women, Lucretia Mott, was a descendant of James Coffin ; he married Mary Severance, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who bore him fourteen children, all except two grew to maturity and married ; Deborah Cof- fin, the sixth child and third daughter, born on Nantucket, married, October 10, 1695, George, son of William Bunker. 5. John, born in England, died in infancy. 6. De-

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borah, the first Coffin born in America, died at Haverhill, Massachusetts (the town of her birth) in infancy. 7. Mary, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, February 20, 1645, married, at age of seventeen, Nathaniel Star- buck : their daughter Mary was the first white child born upon Nantucket Island ; Mrs. Mary (Coffin) Starbuck was a most extraordinary woman, participating in the public gatherings and town meetings, where her words were listened to with marked respect; she antici- pated the Woman's Rights and Suffragette movement by more than two centuries; she was consulted upon all matters of public im- portance because her judgment was superior, and as the Rev. John Richardson says: "The Islanders esteemed her as a judge among them. for little of moment was done without her:" in town meetings she took an active part in debates. usually commencing her re- marks with : "My husband thinks" or "My husband and I, having considered the subject. think :" she was possessed of sound judgment, clear understanding. an eloquent, easy and natural mode of expression : in 1701, at the age of fifty-six, she became interested in the religious faith of the Society of Friends or Quakers, and took the spiritual concern of the whole island under her care ; she held meet- ings at her own house, wrote the quarterly epistles and preached in a most eloquent and impressive manner and withal was as noted for her good housekeeping as for her ability as a preacher : says the same Rev. John Rich- ardson: "The order of her house was such in all the parts thereof, as I had not seen the like before:" she was the mother of ten chil- dren. 8. Lieutenant John. born in Haverhill; removed to Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, after his father's death : he married Deborah, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Austin ; he had eleven children, among them Enoch, who was judge of Dukes county, and had ten children, all of whom lived to be over seventy years of age, six above eighty years and two of them to ninety years. 9. Stephen, see forward.

(II) Stephen, youngest child of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffyn, was horn in Newbury, Massachusetts, March 10, 1652, died November 14, 1734. He remained upon his father's estate and was helpful to his parents in their old age. He married Mary, daugh- ter of George and Jane (Godfrey) Bunker. They had ten children.

(III) Judith, fifth child and second daugh- ter of Stephen and Mary ( Bunker) Coffin, died December 2, 1760. She married (first) Peter Folger (see Folger IV) ; married (sec- vond) Nathaniel Barnard; married (third) 'Stephen Wilcox.

Gillett 15 the wmmume irom GILLETT Guillot, the French diminutive for William. The family may have come with William the Conqueror int> England from Gillette, a town in Piedmont. France. Gillette, the son of Giles. ( Arthur's "Dictionary of Family and Christian Names." 1857, p. 140.) Another authority says Gillet (in pronunciation Jillet ). The name is sup- posed to be derived from Gilleste, a town on the borders of France and Piedmont. When the "g" is hard, the name is probably a deriva- tion of Gillaume, William. (Sower's "Patro- nymica Brittanica," 1860, p. 128.) According to Guppy, in his "Homes of Family Names, 1890," the name Gillett is now found chiefly in Oxfordshire, with a small representation in Kent and Somersetshire. In Lincolnshire it is found changed to Gilliart and Gillyett. In the thirteenth century the name took the forms in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon- shire of Gillot, Gillote and Gilot. Gillett. French. Gillot, French Huguenot. ("British Family Names," Barber, 1894. p. 131.)

"Burke's General Armory." 1878, p. 400, noted the following grants of arms, omitting the date except in one instance: Gillet, alias Chandler (Ipswich, county Suffolk). Arms : Ermine on a bend engrailed sable, three lucies heads erased or, collared with a bar genel gu. Crest : A lucy's head erased and erect, gu. Gillet, or Gillot ( Broadfield, county Norfolk). Arms, same as above, lucies, heads or. Crest : A lucy's head erased and erect or, collared as in arms. Gillett (Halvergate, county Nor- folk). Arms: Same. Crest: A lucy's head erased and erect or, collared gu. Motto: "Spes mea in Deo." Gillett (Visitation of Nottinghamshire, 1614). Arms: Erm on a bend sable, three lucies; heads erased or. Crest : A lion ramp., holding in the dexter paw a battle axe ppr. The first of these grants is probably explained by "A Roll of Arms, 1673," contributed by Arthur Schomberg to "The Genealogist." new series, 24: 261. On this roll appears "Gillett, Phillip, alias Chand- ler, of Woodbridge, gent." Arms: Ermine. on a bend engrailed three lucies' heads erased, collared with a bar gemel.

Sir John Gyllot. K. B., is mentioned ( 1001) in "Musgrave's Obituarym," published as vol- ume 46. Harleian Society Publications (p. 109). John Gyllot, Knight of the Bath, 14 Nov. 1501. mentioned in "The Knights of England," by William A. Shaw, I ; 147.

The will of Sir John Gilliot, "knight and alderman of the citie of York," made Decem- ber 28, 1509, proved March 4. 1509-10 (printed in Surtees Society Publications, 79: 12) mentions three sons, Lawrence, William

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and Peter; and two daughters, Maude and Margaret ; both daughters and Peter are under tutors. He had two wives, Katherine and "Dame Mawde," who survived him. The sec- ond wife, Maude, was a daughter of Sir Henry Vavasor, of York (Harleian Society Publications. 16: 330).

Péter Gilliott, citizen and merchant of the city of York, made his will in July, 1525, men- tioning his wife Alicia and daughter Matilda ; his brother's children, Robert and Mande, and other people not so nearly connected. (As the foregoing is published as a footnote to Sir John's will, it is to be supposed they were father and son. The inference is that Peter had no son. The male lines then have been continued, if at all, by Lawrence or William, one of whom was the father of Robert, alive in 1525.)

Mande Gilliott, daughter and heir of Sir John Gilliott, Knight, mayor of the city of York, married John Langholme. (Langholme pedigree from Visitation of Lincolnshire, pub- lished in the "Genealogist," old series, 4: 187.)

Sir Thomas Gilliott, of York, Knight, 1460, who married Martha, daughter of Sir Henry Vavasor, of Haselwood, high sheriff of York- shire (10 Ed. IV), may have been an ances- tor of Sir John, previously mentioned. Sir Henry Vavasor died 1460. (Betham's Bar- onetage, I: 356. This work is not, however, responsible for the suggestion of kinship be- tween Sir Thomas and Sir John.)

Catherine, daughter and heiress of Peter Gilliot, of Broughton, married Roger, sec- ond son of Sir Richard Tempest. Living temp. Hen. VII. (Betham's Baronetage, 2: 346.) In Visitation of Yorkshire, 1584-85, p. 293, it is stated that Roger Tempest, of Broughton, married a daughter of Sir Piers Gilliot, whose wife was the daughter and heiress of - Thorpe.

Robert Gillett, of Thorp Arch, had a daugh- ter Isabel who married Matthew Usher, of Featherstone; their son Robert Usher was seventeen years old in 1585. (Yorkshire Visitations, 1584-85 and 1612, p. 350.)

Administration on the estate of Richard Gil- lott, of Treston, was granted December 17, 1656, to his widow Mary ( Yorkshire Archæo- logical Asso. Rec., ser. 1: 166).

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Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume IV, Part 11

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 660

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 660