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LYKER
Wanted parentage and further an- cestry of Nancy Lyker 1713-1845 who married March 19, 1815 Jacob Stowits 1791-1846. They were of Root, New York. Russell C. Flower. Henryville, Penna.
MEAD
Ephraim Mead, with wife Jane ed 1820 in Ulysses, Tompkins Co.,
Y. Y. Was a short time in Covert, neca Co., N. Y., but back in . mpkins Co. in 1830, town of En-
fad (formerly part of Ulysses) and as thirty to forty, with large fam- y. Is he the Ephraim living 1840 1 Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio ? Want data on his parents and child- "en. Desire contaet living descend- ants. Correspondence invited with "nyone interested in the name of lead. Alm compiling Mead genealo- " for publication.
Michael Mead born 1781. Salt manufacturer. Captain in war of 1812. Lived Liverpool and Saline, N. Y. Died 1849. Married in Onon-
hel and several daughters among Y. Joseph married Cornelia Gurnal
whom were Maroa, .Lucy and Dor- cas. Would like to hear from any descendant of these children.
A. Calvin T. Murray was a. miner in Cokeville, Wyoming about 1870. He married Mary T. Berray, where ? Was he a son of the above named Rev. Allen Murray ?
W. B. Murray,
116 Maizefield Ave.,
Bloomington, Ill.
CONWAY
Margaret Conway married in 1831 Jerome Loomis born Aug. 24, 1799 at Geneva, N. Y. where his father had settled in 1788. Jerome was the son of Jerome Loomis born Leban- on, Conn. Aug. 20,- 1757 who mar- ried Elizabeth Tippets of N. Y. City. Their daughter Cordelia born In Geneva, N. Y. and living there in 1907 being then in her 83rd year, writing of relatives of her family said: "Our relatives in the South we have none, only in Texas, Senator Conway, but they are both dead, Senator Conway and wife, but we hear often from their daughter and son." .
Question: Who were the parents of Margaret Conway ?
PALMER, POLLOCK
Margaret Conway and her hus- band, Jerome Loomis moved to Lan- sing, Mich. probably about 1840. Je- rome died there June 7, 1842. Her death date is not given in the Loom- is genealogy.
Their son Anson P. Loomis born Sept. 15, 1831 married in Lansing,
born 1775, Charleston, N. Y., died 1829 South Auburn, Pa.
Asking for names of parents of James and Margaret, brothers and sisters with all available data. Will pay for information.
S. Bee B. Lyamn,
423 Kimball street,
Mesa, Arizona
DIETRICK
One of my forebears was one of the Palatine emigration of 1710, John Peter Dietrick born 1675. Wife unknown.
2. Jacob Dietrick born 1702 mar-
ried Catherine Lefer (Scheffer.) 3. David (DeWald) Detrick born 1754 married 1781 Mary Markred Dygert born 1762.
4. Catherine Dedrck born 1783 married Lemuel Sowles, had child- ren.
5. John D. Sowles born 1807 died 1841 in Cleveland, Ohlo (my grand father), married Electa Fuller 1828 born 1814, died 1853.
Isaac Sowles lived In Jordan, N. Y. David Sowles lived in Wisc.
Wanted information regarding the Sowles family. The parents of Lemuel Sowles who married Cather- ine Dedrick and where they lived and where they are burled. The father is said to be aiso Lemuel Sowles. Any information gladly re- ceived.
Mrs. L. H. Pinkham,
W. 1103 Montgomery,
Spokane 12, Wash.
A PALATINE FAMILY
The Petries in America
INTRODUCTION
These notes of and records of the Johan Jost Petrie family and descendants in America have been compiled by Mrs. Frederick Staehla, Munnsville, N. Y. with the assistance of Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petrle, Johnstown, N. Y., Mrs. Edwin Freer, Port Ewen, N. Y. and many others whose names will appear later. Our re- cords are far from being com- plete. If any reader of this pa- per Is connected with the Petries in any way, we request that he, or she, write to Mrs. Staelila. Any additional Information will be welcomed. If errors are de- tected, as the series proceeds, correction will also be welcomed.
(Continued from last week) Mrs. Arnold Petrie mentions four sons while Johan Jost in his will made in 1759 mentions five, so I maintain there must have been five. If any reader considers that I am wrong, please send in your theories and explanation for same.
Following are coples of some of the legal documents in the scrap book at Munson Memorial Building, Utica:
Recelved of Marks Petrie this 27 of October 1746 the sum of 5 shilling which he says is in full of account. £0-5-0.
Witness my nand. Wm. Peters.
This is to certify I have received of Mr. Johan Joost Petry in the year or our Lord 1755 the sum of 6 pounds for . 30 skipples of wheat
which he had of me for his Majes- ty's.
Johans Jacob Weber. German Flats, Sept. 25, 1769. I promise to pay or cause to be paid unto George Nicolaus Weber or his ordre the twenty-first of De- cember next the Sume of Eight Pounds One Shilling and Ten Pence in New York Currency with Law- full Interest for value Received this witnesseth my Hand the Day and Year above. Witnesses"Wm. Petry, Jacob Kessler, Jost Petry, Son of Marx Petry.
July. 12, 1783. Received of John and Jacob J. Klock the sum of £19 1s. being on part of that sum which is Do to me for that land I sold to Henery Klock.
As witness my hand.
Johannes M. Petrie. Witness George Demuth.
Received July 17, 1787 of John M. Petrie 27 shillings New York Currency in full of ali Debts, Dues and Demands from the beginning of the World to this date. Jacob B .-
(Surname Illegible).
Sir
If this gentleman likes that cow which I looked on of yours. If you will please to let him have her will settle with you as agreed. Compll- ance will very much oblige your humble servant.
Samuel Willson. Mr. John M. Petri,
Herkimer 11 Apr. 1798.
Received Little Falis Feb. 26, 1798 ten shilling of John M. Petri in full of all accounts due Dapts and De- mands.
Received by me
Henry A. Vrooman, March 6, 1830
Received of Richard M. Petrie and , h Jost M. Petrie Nine dollars .Ninety cents In full up to this date. p
Alanson Inghams. ' U
Calendar of Council Minutes 00 The following Petries were granted license to purchase land: t John Jost Petri, Oct. 7, 1736. John Jost (Johan Joost- Petri t Jan. 177, 1723.
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John Joseph Petri Feb. 9, 1739: Johannis Coenrat Oct. 28, 1737. J. J. Petri, warrant granted for
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t supplying Oswego troops Oct. 8, y 1750 and July 14, 1752; Sept. 5, 1755, Dec. 6, 1755. .
More land grants April 26, 1755 to Christian Petri, Joost, Jr. and Mar- cus Petri, no mention made of where these lands were, nor how many acres.
This lease or deed is copied from
a photostat copy made by N. Y .! State Library from Cutter's Gene- alogical and Family History of Northern New York, voi. 3, p. 1174.
This indenture, made the twenty- third day of June in the sixth year of the Reign of our sovereign Lord George the 3rd by the' Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ire- land Kin Defender of the faith, etc. . . . Annoy Domini one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six between Johan Jost Petry of Burnetsfield in the County of Albany and Province of New York yeoman of the first part and Johan Jost Petry, Junr. and John Derterich Petry ef the same place yeomans of the second part, Witnesseth, that the said Jo -. han Jost Petry for and in considera- tion of the sum of five shilling cur- rent money of :- York to him in hand paid by the said Johan Jost Petry, Junr. and Johan Dieterich Petry the Receipt whereof he doth
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Recent Genealogical Publications Acquired by Library of Congress
(The author's name is first fol- lowed by the title of the publica- tion.)
. Rudolph, Frances Lee (Wiison) 1889-Descendants of Jacob and Ra- chel Rudolph. Robert Reuben Ru- dolph, John and Elizabeth Chism, Thomas F. Woos, Isaac Hust and Alexander Black, Sr. Compiled by Mrs. C. F. Rudolph, Washington, D. C., 1945-1946. Typewritten.
Thomason, Robert Stewart 1871.
1 A brief history of the family Thom- asn in England and United States by Robert Stewart Thomason, with some account of his branch. Rev. ed. New York City, 1945. One of 50 copies, printed and the type distrib- uted.
Lord Kenneth, 1874. Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Lord, an original proprietor and founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636, compiled by Kenneth Lord. New York 1946.
:. Wegman, Charles S. 1884 -. His- tory of the Wagman families or The Genealogy of the Wegmans. The generations of Jacob Wegman, the first Wegman in America, 1715 to 1946, chronology of the Wegman reunions in Berks county, Pa." By Charles S. Wegman, Reading, l'a., printed by Wm. O. Flatt Co., Inc., 1946. illustrated.
Voge, Adolf Law. 1875. The kins- men of John Law (1635-1708) of Acton, Mass., by Adolph Law Voge, Washington, D. C., 1942. Typewrit- ten. Bibliographical foot notes.
· Pratt, Allce Olivia, 1878. The story of Grenell written in 1945 by Alice Olivia Pratt, assisted by Edith Pratt Mann; drawings by Margaret Ogden McElfresh, Watertown, N. Y., Hun- gerford-Holbrook company, 1946.
Howes, Jennie Josephine (Wight) 1862. Ancestors and descendants of Joseph Couch and Deborah Adams by Jennle J. Wight Howes. Free- port, Me., The Dingley press, Inc .. 1946? Biographical references in- cluded in foreword.
Paine, Gustavus Swift. Mayflower ancestries; Walwer, Cobb, Palne. Swift and Higgins by Gustavus Swift Paine. Southbury, Conn. . and New York, 1946. Typewritten.
Roberts, . Daniel Arthur, 1884. Partial genealogy of John and Es- ither. Agard. Chicago 1946. Introduc- tion signed Daniel A. Roberts.
Sanders, Walter Ray, 1910. The Williamson famlly, Litchfield, Ili., 1945. Signed Waiter R. Sanders.
Dicken, Emma 1873. Our Burnley ancestors and allied families com- piled by Emma Dicken. New York, BIRTH, DEATH AND
N. Y., The Hobson book press 1946. Paine, Gustavus Swift. Daniel Cole and Ruth Chester; notes on some of their descendants, prepared by Gustavus Swift Paine. New York ind Southbury, Conn., 1946. Type- vritten.
Seversmith, Herbert Furman, 1904. Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, being he ancestry and kindred of Herbert, Furman Seversmith. By Herbert Turman Seversmith, Los Angeles,
Some Families of Central and Eastern New York and Vermont
(Continued from last week)
ers there. Next they went to what Johannes Sickner (John Signer or |was known as the Flats, in the Haul- Signor) bapt. Oct. 23, 1737 Rhine-'son River Valley. The family records beck, Dutchess Co., N. Y. died 1823 were in the . Signor Bible which in Peru, N. Y., married March 12. 1752 Hannah Schaffer or Shaver, Great Aunt Lucia (Signor) Clark
had but since she passed away ho one knows anything about it. It con- tained the first, second, third, fourth generations and their offspring.
There were grandchildren listed and some great grandchildren but not all
of them. My sister Mary copied some of the records years ago when she went to visit Great Aunt Han- nah at Vandalia, "about 1910. Then " when Great Uncle George passed away I wrote to my Uncle Fred in California and asked for the copy_he had received from Cousin Lucy, my second cousin, daughter to George Signor. This was sent to me, I cop- ied and returned it to him, and now I am sending you a copy. The fore- fathers were associated with the Dutch East Indies Company. The Old Bible Record was brown ink and very faded."
SCAFFFER, SHAVER,
SHAFER FAMILY
Ref: Palatinate embarkation list. Hartford Times Sept. 22, 1945. Cal- endar of Wills of N. Y. page 360 also N. Y. Hist: Soc. Collections 1899 Vol. 8, page 73.
Justus Heinrich Schafer born 1674 in Germany married 1st Margretha Seibel) Backus, widow of Sebastian from Roth near Bingen, Germany. Children of first wife: Johan Valen- tine born about 1700, Anna born about 1701 and Elizabeth bapt. April 12, 1710. Children by second wife: John Adam and Henry, Jr. born about 1716, a daughter who married William Feller. Undoubtedly other children not recorded or records lost.
John 'Adam born March 15, bapt. April 3, 1715, dient 1772. Will dated Jan. 14, 1772 and proved Oct. 14, 1772 in which he mentions sons Ja- cob, Adam, and I'hilip, wife Gerty, names of other children not men- tioned. Mentions brother-in-law Wil- halmus Feiler and my son (in-law) Johannes Sickner. He married by 1736 Gertrude Felier, daughter of Phillip and Catherine (Rowe). It is possible that he is the Adam Shaver who enlisted 17755, Capt. McGinness' Co., N. Y. Provincial Troops, French and Indian · War. ...
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Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley
MARRIAGE RECORDS (Continued from last week)
ERWIN
· 1887, 1914, 1918. Register, 5 vois. Arr .chron. Indexed alph. by child- ren. Includes marriages 1887-1908 and deaths 1887-1914, 1918. Custo- dian J. N. Shumway, registrar of vi- tal statistics, Painted Post, N. Y.
FREMONT
marriages 1887-1903 and · deaths,. 1889-1903, 1914, Custodian Dell Van. Geider, town clerk, Prattsburg, N. Y
PULTENEY
1847. Register, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths 1847-1907. Custodian Mrs. Josephine Earley, town clerk, Pulteney, N. Y. RATHBONE
1890. Register, 3 vols. Arr .- chron .. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1890-1907 and deathis 1887. Custodian John R. Cole, town olerk, Rathbone, N. Y.
THURSTON
1887. Register, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph, by children. Includes marriages 1887-1907 and deathy,
1887. Custodlan Mrs. Bertha Turner,
1880. Register, 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1889-1907 and deaths, | town clerk. Cameron Mills. N. Y.
daughter of Adam and Geertruyd (Felter) Shaver. Johannes served as a private in the 6th regiment Dutch- ess County, N. Y. Militia during the Revolution. About 1785 he removed to Danby, Vermont and Williams in his History of Vermont says: "From Nine Partners, N. Y. came Henry (this is an error and should read John) Signar at a very early day was a pioneer settier on "Dutch Hili." He was of Dutch descent from which the name of that io- cality was derived. Other settlers followed until he settlement on "Dutch Hill" became quite exten- sive. At one time it numbered no less than eighteen ' families. That once prosperous settlement has long since been discontinued and but few traces can now be seen. He was a bright, noble hearted man and ac- quired considerable property." After 1816 he removed to Peru, Clinton Co. where he died in 1823.
John and Hannah had six child- ren: 1. Henerich (Henry) bapt. Nov. 4, 1763 married Elizabeth Green. (It is from this branch that Deil Don- ovan Is a descendant). 2. Gertraud (Charity) bapt. June 28, 1767 mar- ried Henry Herrick, Jr., died Juiy 21, 1839, she and her husband are buried in the Maple Grove cemetery and monuments are erected to their memory. 3. Elizabeth (Betsy) bapt. Oct. 15, 1769 married Dec. 1, 1787 Rev. Jared Lobdell (Ref. Lobdeil Gen.) and died Nov. 8, 1858, they had seven children. - 4. Maria bapt. July 4, 1773 no mention of her after her baptism so it is assumed that she died before the family removed to Danby, Vt. in 1785. 5. Catharina (Katy) bapt. April 12, 1779 married Benjamin Phillips. 6. John, Jr. born July 1, 1784 married Sally Williams and died in 1840.
Re: Signor Family, Dell Donovan writes the following. "My great Un- cle George Signor was deeply inter- ested in his forefathers. It was he who first learned about Jon Sick- nerin and Apolinia Baum, He said thta the Signors first settled at Al- bany, N. Y. and were property own-
+Mann; drawings by Margaret uggen McElfresh, Watertown, N. Y., Hun- gerford-Holbrook company, 1946.
Howes, Jennie Josephine (Wight) 1862. Ancestors and descendants of Joseph Couch and Deborah Adams by Jennie J. Wight Howes. Free- port, Me., The Dingley press, Inc .. 1946 ? Biographical references in- cluded in foreword.
Paine, Gustavus Swift. Mayflower ancestries; Walwer, Cobb, Painc. Swift and Higgins by Gustavus Swift Paine. Southbury, Conn. . and New York, 1946. Typewritten.
Roberts, . Daniel Arthur, 1884. Partlal genealogy of John and Es- "ther Agard. Chicago 1946. Introduc- tion signed Daniel A. Roberts.
Dicken, Emma 1873. Our Burnley ancestors and allled families com- piled by Emma Dicken. New York, BIRTH, DEATH AND N. Y., The Hobson book press 1946. MARRIAGE RECORDS
Sanders, Walter Ray, 1910. The Williamson family, Litchfield, Ill., 1945. Signed Walter R. Sanders.
Paine, Gustavus Swift. Daniel Cole and Ruth Chester; notes on some of their descendants, prepared by Gustavus Swift Paine. New York ind Southbury, Conn., 1946. Type- vritten. .
Seversmith, Herbert Furman, 1904. Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, being he ancestry and kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith. By Herbert
Furman Seversmith,
Los Angeles,
.944. Twenty-five mimeographed
copies of which this Is number 9.
ereby acknowledge Have granted argained and sold and by these resents do grant bargain and sell into the sid Johan Jost Petry, Junr. .nd Johan diterich Petry three hun- Ired and twenty-six acres of land wo hundred and twenty-six acres hereof Lying and being in all that ertain tract of land formerly ranted by his late Majesty King Jeorge the second by his certain etters patent bearing date the wenty-eight day of Marcg in the rear of our Lord one thousand sev- en hundred and twenty-three unto Johan Jost Petry and Conrath Rick- erd situate lying and being in the county of Albany on the north side of the Mohawks River ad also the other one hundred acres lying in the aforesaid county at the north side of the Mohawks River In Glens Pur- chase near the Little falls.
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ag the family, and SELF-AD- DRESSED ENVELOPE. The Direc- tory is now selling, price $5. Harry A. Odell, The Genealogical Directory P. O. Box 899, Church street Annex 2-20-6
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her baptism so it is assumed that she died before the family removed to Danby, Vt. in 1785. 5. Catharina (Katy) bapt. April 12, 1779 married Benjamin Phillips. 6. John, Jr. born July 1, 1784 married Sally Willlams and dled in 1840.
Re: Signor Family, Deil Donovan writes the following. "My great Un- cle George Signor was deeply inter- ested in his forefathers. It was he who first learned about Jon Sick- nerin and Apolinia Baum. He sald
thta the Signors first settled at Al- and Indian . War. bany, N. Y. and were property own-
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marriages 1887-1903 and - deaths,. 1889-1903, 1914, Custodian Dell Van. Gelder, town clerk, Prattsburg, N. Y.
PULTENEY
1847. Register, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph, by children. Includes marriages and deaths 1847-1907. Custodian Mrs. Josephine Earley, town clerk, Pulteney, N. Y. RATHBONE
1890. Register, 3 vols. Arr .. chron .. Indexed alph, by children. Includes: marriages 1890-1907 and deathis 1887. Custodian John R. Cole, town olcrk, Rathbone, N. Y.
THURSTON
1887. Register, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1887-1907 and deathis, 1887. Custodian Mrs. Bertha Turner, town clerk, Cameron Mills, N. Y. TROUPSBURG
1847. Register, 6 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1847-1907 and deaths, 1847. Custodian H. B. Holt, town clerk, Troupsburg, N. Y.
TUSCARORA
1887. Register, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1887-1907 and deaths 1887. Custodian Mrs. Ava Greenfield, town clerk, Addison, N. Y.
URBANA
1887. Register, 2 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children, Includes. marriages 1887-1907 and deathis 1887. Custodian Horace Sirrine, reg- istrar of vital statistics, Hammonds- port, N. Y. WAYLAND
1884. Register, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marrlages 1884-1907 and deaths 1884. Custodian Mrs. Mary F. Deit-
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Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley
(Continued from last week) ERWIN
· 1887, 1914, 1918. Register, 5 vols. Arr .chron. Indexed alph. by child- ren. Includes marriages 1887-1908 and deaths 1887-1914, 1918. Custo- dian J. N. Shumway, registrar of vi- tal statistics, Painted Post, N. Y. FREMONT
1880. Register, 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1889-1907 and deaths, 1889. Custodian Mrs. Anna G. Pryor, registrar of vital statistics, Fremont, N. Y.
GREENWOOD
1847. Register, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Occasional gaps in entries for the earlier years. Custodian, Orville Matthews, town clerk, Greenwood, N. Y.
HARTSVILLE
1847. Record, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Daniel H. Todd, town clerk, RD 1, Hornell, N. Y.
HORNBY
1887. Register, 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1887-1907 and deaths 1887. Custodian Mrs. Cora Randall, registrar of vital statistics, Beaver Dam, N. Y.
HORNELLSVILLE
1847-64, 1885. Register, 7 vols.
ren. Includes marriages 1847-64, 1885-1907 and deaths 1847,64, 1885. Custodian R. D. Hosley, registrar of vital statistics, Arkport, N. Y.
HOWARD
1882. Register, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1882-1907 and deaths 1882. Custodian Earl House, town clerk, Howard, N. Y.
JASPER
1847-48, 1887. Register, 6 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by child- ren. Includes marriages and deaths, 1847-48, 1887-1900. Custodian, Frec W. Wood, town clerk, Jasper N. Y LINDLEY
1887. Register, 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1887-1903 and deaths, 1887-1903, 1916-30. Custodlan Henry Riffle, town clerk, Lindley, N. Y. PRATTSBURG .
1889. Register, 4 vols. Arr. chron Indexed alph. by children. Includes
April 3, 1715, diert 1772. Will dated Jan. 14, 1772 and proved Oct. 14, 1772 in which he mentions sons Ja- cob, Adam, and I'hilip, wife Gerty, names of other children not men- tioned. Mentions brother-in-law Wil- halmus Feller and my son (in-law). Johannes Sickner. He married by 1736 Gertrude Feller, daughter of Phillip and Catherine (Rowe). It is possible that he is the Adam Shaver who enlisted 17755, Capt. McGinness' Co., N. Y. Provincial Troops, French
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Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by child- zel, town clerk, Wayland, N. Y. .
MOHAWK VALLEY
GENEALOGY AND HISTORY
St. Johnsville Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville. N. Y.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1947
Questions and Answers
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DUBOIS, DUTCHER
Data wanted on the ancestors of Gideon DuBois, born Jan. 15, 1755. Married Elizabeth Dutcher, born
March 10, 1759. They had eight children. Peter, the youngest, my grandfather, was born May 5, 180) in Dutchess county, N. Y.
Mrs. Frank J. Warner,
Box 96, Lawrence, Mich.
GUINAL
My great grandmother, Cornelia Guinal of Charleston, Montgomery Co., N. Y. died 28 April 1829 at South Auburn, Pa. She married Jo- seph Robinson (Robison, Robenson, Robbison, etc.) who was born about 1768 at Charleston, Montomery Co., N. Y. He died 1839 at Palermo, N. Y.
Cornelia's father .... Guinal (var- iously spelled, sometimes with "d") was killed in the Revolutionary war. Family tradition says he was from Tryon county but his daugh- ter (as above stated) was born in Charleston, Montgomery Co. He mar- ried Matilda Collier.
Am anxious to find any and all information pertaining to Guinal his name, parents, brothers and sis- ters with their data. Or a sugges- tlon of addresses where I can write. Would like to have a copy of her pension application. Willing to pay for all trouble.
Evelyn L. Baylis,
423 Kimball street, Mesa, Alizona
(Editor's Note-Montgomery Co. was formerly a part of Tryon coun- ty.)
SHEPARD, ROWELL
John Shepard was born at Law- renceville, N. Y. and died there. His wife's name was Sophy.
Thelr son William Douglas Shep- ard was born at Lawrenceville, N. Y. and died there in 1869. He was married at Lawrenceville to Lorinda Rowell who was born and died at Lawrenceville.
Does anyone know of this Shep- ard family-when William Douglas Shepard was born or any data on his father, John Shepard.
Does anyone have the ancestry of Lorinda Rowell, her dates or her parents' names.
Can anyone tell me if there are in existence any early Lawrenceville, N. Y. records. The records in the town clerk's office are much too late to embrace this family.
The son of William Douglas Shep- ard was James Munroe Shepard who was born June 28, 1848, marrled Feb. 11, 1870 to Mary Emily Bar- nard, born Feb. 19, 1853. They were both born in Lawrencivelle.
Mrs. Luther P. Vaill,
1813 Irving Avenue South, Minneapolis 5, Minn.
RUSSELL
" Can anyone give me the parentage of the following:
Louisa Russell 1809-1865 married John H. Lapham.
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