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records). She born after her father returned as prisoner. Twin of Jacob Jr. He died Feb. 1, 1848. She lived ' to age of 43 years, 13 days. He liv- ed .to age of 71 years, 7' months, 8 days. (Herk. 1-286). They lived in Warrentown.
446X. Delia (Lalia) Petrie, dau. of Col. Jacob Petri and Maria was a twin of Katie (who married John Hoyer). She was born Feb. 15, 1784. They had a double wedding on Sept: 18, 1803. (G. F. 1-37).
She married John Nicholas Oster- hout (Osteroda). Spon. Jno. Wieth and Deiia (G. F. 81). Said to have lived , in Sullivan county.
447X. Katie (Catharine) Petrie, was a twin of Dalia. Both born Feb. 15, 1784. They had a double wed- ding on Sept. 18, 1803. She married John Hoyer, son of Frederick Hoyer and Catharina. Sponsors Johann Michaei and Catharine (G. F. 81). His name sometimes written Johan- nes Hawyer.
448X. Jacob Petrie, Jr., son of Col. Jacob Petri and Maria. Born Feb. 3, 1779. Married 1. Catherine, born April 27, 1781, married Sept. 18,
1803. Sponsors Jacob Small and Ma- ria (G. F. 38).
449X. Polly Maria Petrle, daur. of Jacob Petri and Maria. Born April 27, 1788, bapt. May 4. Sponsors Mel- choir Vois and Margreth (G. F. 129). Married Abraham Jacobsen ( Abra- hamus, son of Jo'is Jacobi Jacobsin) and Mariae, dau. of Jacobl Petry) of Warrentown, married Sept. 18, 1803. Witnesses Henerico Bolzen and Georglo Petry. (Herk. 1-146). Mark- er in Columbia cemetery, erected by Harriet Jacobson.
449A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Petrie, . Graemg and had a family. No re- cords of them. Sponsors at birth, Johann Eiseman and Elisabeth. (Ref. Cr. Columbia Vol. 2.)
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MOHAWK VALLEY GENEALOGY AND HISTORY
St. Johnsvill Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville, N. Y.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947
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TOMKINS, TOMPKINS
sadly gazed at the scene before them. . To the south was the cabin of Powers staring with its vacant
Would like data or addresses of those by the name of Tomkins or Tompkins or any descendants of windows at the death stricken place, girls whose families bear other sur- names. and a clump of weeds waved wildly and showed the shallow grave of We are preparing copy for second volume of the Tomkins-Tompkins genealogy, 720 pages published in 1942. We have some ten thousand new names for volume II. Any and all information will be greatly ap- preciated. Brantz. And the night wind sighed and moaned about rocks and trees. The gruesome Tory emblem on the stake was like some hideous heathen God as it stood half hidden in the Robert A. Tompkins shadow of the lone, deserted cabin looking down on the ruined and deso- 1495 West Adams Blvd., late settlement. And the wind shift- Lost Angeles 7, Calif. ed the skull so it gazed towards Little Lakes, from whence the mur- WHITING, CRANE ANE derous band had come and hence they went. Then with a creak the evening breeze rising from the Waon- thia Lakes of Young's Settlement
I would like any information re- garding parentage of Ransford E. Whiting born June 4, 1806 at Colum- bia, Hillsdale Co., N. Y .; died Sept. 8, 1862 at London, To., Monroe Co., Michigan. He married Alma Crane born Oct. 10, 1811 at Penn Yan, N. Y., died May 1, 1891 at Monroe Co., Michigan, dau, of Horatio (6) (Dan- his family for the white fort within iel 5, Daniel 4, Ebenezer 3, John 2, Henry 1) and Catherine (Chissom) Crane. Other children of Horatio and Catherine Crane were George, Chas., William and Wemple.
Mrs. Ernest C. Harris,
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(Continued from last week)
Paul Grimm and his family came from their secretive nook and stood of the wind through the thicket made within the shadow of the forest and
seemed a lurking savage about to leap forth. Occasionally the chant- like dirge accompanying notes which proclaim an Indian war dance would drift on the night wind to their startled ears, followed by the fiendish . yells of success as Brant's Mohawk braves celebrated the event of their murderous mission at An- drustown. Even shadows cast by trees seemed terrifying amid the dim moonlight in the grim silence of the night. The weird-ilke whispers of the wind among the forest tops caused a dismal anticipation and apprehension which even the cheer- ing words of Paul Grimm could not dispel. When the faint light of morn shone from the east on the weary three, the white fort was reached. Among the captives was Grimm's ! 'daughter, Margaret. Her husband, George Passage, had been among the first slain; and Grimm's young grandson, Richard Pel, was also a prisoner in the hands of the sav- ages, and now they were miles away tramping on their lonely jourey to the Indian reservation in Canada.
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The Petries in America
These notes and records of :ne Johan Jost Petrie family and de- scenaants in America were compil- ed by the late Mrs. Frederick Staeh- la, of Munnsville, N. Y. Her notes have been checked, so far as we have been able to do so, and we will try to complete her work.
Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petrie, Johnstown, N. Y.
(Continued from last week)
Proof that Johannis Joseph Petrie was a son of Jacob Petrie:
Reformed Church of Columbia: When the birth of Daniel, son of John J. Petrie and wife Gertrude was recorded, the following item appears under the record:
"John J. or Han Yost Petrie (443),
swung the old skull back into place. And the Tory's sign seemed to jeer as it gazed and smiled on the work of its worshippers. Paul Grimm pick- ed up his grandson, Paul, and the great German Bible and started with
the valley. But the frightened child need his care, the big book seemed ponderous weight, and the two worn women needed his attention. Lany Stahl, wife of Paul Grimm, bore in her arms the infant, Mary Katherine. By her side walked Mrs. Jacob Grimm with some ungainly looking bundles collected from the few articles strewn about her burned home. Paul Grimm was forced to leave his precious heirloom on stump in the depth of the woods. As they hurriedly went on their way through the thick primeval forest to their place of refuge miles below in the rocky valley. Often in the dis- tance the shine of luminous decayed vegetation composing the mystic jack-o'-lanterns ' would appear and startle all and seem to be an Indian camp fire ncar at hand. Every sigh
them tremble, and every shadow
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son of Col. Jacob Petrie and brother of Conrad, Jacob, Frederick, Daniel and others.
Gertrude Shaffer, daughter of
Gertrude Shaffer, daughters of Dorothy Crim whose first husband, Frederick Bell, was killed at the An- drustown Massacre July 18, 1778."
77. Another name has turned up, which has been placed in this fam- ily. It is Margretha Petri, born July 1761, bapt. 28 July. Sponsors Mar- gretha, Christian Ittige and Ehle Hausfrau. (It may or may not be- long here.)
81X. Catharina Petri, daughter of Dietterich (Johann Dieterich) (Rich- ard) Petri and Catharine Klock, daughter of Johannes Klock and granddaughter of Hendrick Klock born Dec. 21, 1761, bapt. June 16, 1762. Sponsors, Catharina, Jacob Foltz' daughter and Johannes, son of Hannes Klock (Stone Arabia I-30.)
82. Johann Jost (Johannes Diet.) Petri. (Called Joost D. in N. Y. Gen. Soc. V. 59.) Born Feb. 14, 1763, bapt. Feb. 26. Sponsors Johann Jost M. Petry, oldest son of Marcus Petri. (Stone Arabia I-38. Germ. Flats I-1). Died August 14, 1822 at Herkimer, N. Y., aged 59 years, 5 months.
Married Anna Ad: Eva, Bellinger, daughter of Lieut. Adam Bellinger and Maria Elisabeth Petri on July 17, 1787.
(See Klock genealogy for this fam- ily.)
Children :
450. Catherina Petri, born March 6, 1788, bapt. March 14, Grandpar- ent« were cousins. Sponsors Johannes Diet: Petri and Gertraut. (G. F. I- 28).
451. Elisabeth Petri, born Sept. |30, 1789, bapt. Nov. 1. Sponsors Wil- helm Veeder and Elisabeth. (G. F. I-41).
- 452. David Petri, born Aug. 15, 1792, bapt. Aug. 15, 1792, bapt. Aug. 26. Sponsors Maria Ad: Bellinger and Johann Adam Bellinger. Had a store with Joram, his brother.
453. Sara Petri, born June 24, 1795, bapt. June 15. Sponsors Johann Ad- am Bellinger and Lena. She was sometimes called Lany (F. L. Bel- linger.)
454. Isaac Petri born Oct. 6, 1797. Married Sally Kelly or Keller on Oct. 3, 1821. She was a daughter of Henrich J. Keller and Christine Miller .. (DAR No. 102535.) He died in 1880 (Beer's Hist. of Herk. Co. Co., p. 268).
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The Germans of Salisbury and the Hessian Village-their Home
By S. C. Kimm
(Continued from last week)
Our Ancestors Hear of a Free Land From our ancestral village of Sant .he Prince of Hesse sent several soldiers to the King of England to fight the colonies in America. A few left the Red Coats and joined the
patriot army. Some were killed, one of which was Lieut. Kimm trying to rally his men on that fatal Christ- mas when so many Hessians lost their lives in the Battle of Tren- ton. A few returned to their homes in the village of Sant to teli our great grandparents of the wonder- ful land across the sea where there were no classes in society-no princ- es, no overlords, no down-trodden peasants. Every man a freeman whose children could rise as high as their natural talents would per- mit, even to the high offices of the land.
Great excitement spread through- out the village and our grandsires began to plot and to plan how they might get out of the German pro- vince of Hesse and sail to that won-
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derful land across the sea. The re- volutions in America and France were followed by an uprising in cen- tral Germany which for a time seem- ed a success but was later suppress- ed. During the middle of the 19th century ship loads of emigrants man- aged in some way or another to get out of that land of oppression to sail to a land of equal opportunity. One of my boyhood friends to escape the compulsory training in arms in a German army was John Sassman whose family. I will describe later in this article.
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MOHAWK VALLEY GENEALOGY AND HISTORY
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947
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TRUMBULL
1. Martha Trumbull, born 1774, married Philemon Dickinson about 1790. Parents ?
2. Mary Trumbull married Amos Harmon and had four children. The first two were named Amos and Shadrach. Can some one supply the other two names? She died Feb. 20, 1824 in Conesus, N. Y.
3. Marian Trumbull of Riga mar- ried Nov. 24, 1796 Spencer Smith as his second wife. Who were her parents ?
4. Was Nelson Trumbull who was 48 years old in the census of 1850 and whose wife was Laura the same Nelson Trumbull whose wife Char- lotte Clark died Dec. 8, 1843, aged 19 years, 8 months, 5 days ?
5. A will left by Byron Trumbull of Sullivan, Madison county, son of Nelson shows that the father had been married twice. Names of Nel- son Trumbull's two wives.
6. Data of Anna Trumbull who died 1850 in town of Kirkland, Onei- da county, leaving a wili giving the most of her estate to poor free ne- groes in the U. S., and Canada, Will witnessed by Curtis S. Parmalee and Eunice Parmalee.
7. Parentage of Reuben Trum- bull who lived in Berlin, Rensselaer Co. 1806.
8. Sophia Trumbull who taught the first school at Blood's Depot.
9. Sybil Trumbull who married in town of Sweden, N. Y. Anselm Com- stock and died in Van Buren county, Mich., 1858. Desire parentage.
10. Isaac P. Trumbull, town of Newfield, Tompkins Co., N. Y. whose wife was Sarah J. 1829-1898. 11. Identify the following who were members of the Bollenkill, now Greenwich chunch 1829-1835.
Simon Trumbull, Martha Trumbull, Lydia Trumbull, James and Polly Trumbull, Jonathan Trumbull.
12. Helen M. Trumbull married Jan. 4, 1863 Norman Waugh at, East Worcester, Otsego Co.
13. Walter Trumbull married June 2, 1866 to Susan Davis, Cherry Val- lev.
14. Charles M. Trumbull (1820- 1903) buried at Trumbull's Corners, Tompkins Co. .
15. Luther Trumbull, Jr. and Lucy Trumbull of Tompkins Co. in 1823 were signers of a deed to Alvah Ford. Was Lucy the wife of Luther, Jr .? If so what was her maiden nama?
The Petries in America
These notes and records of she Johan Jost Petrie family and de- scendants in America were compil- ed by the late Mrs. Frederick Staeh- la, of Munnsville, N. Y. Her notes have been checked, so far as we have been able to do so, and we will try to complete her work,
Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petrie,
Johnstown, N. Y.
(Continued from last week)
.455. Moses Petri, born Jan. 28, 1800.
456X. Joram Petri, born Aug. 6, 1803 (1810). Had a store with David Petri. Married Frances Ford, daugh- ter of Philip Ford of Troy. He was married June 13, 1838. He died in 1869 and his wife in 1862. Had a foundry 1838-1856. Had a son, Chas. Petrie of Little Falls, N. Y.
457. Mary Petri born Aug. 25, 1805.
1811.
erick Jac: Petri and Catharin Seg- ner. Parents given as Dieterich and Anna. Supposed to belong here.
(Most of these children were listed, by Mrs. Freer and also, by Bllinger.)
83X Johannes (or John D. in Ben- ton's History,) or Johannes J. Diet. Petri, born Feb. 17, 1765; bapt. May 27. Sponsors Johannes Gloack and Catharina Foltz, both unmarried (Stone Arabia I-55; German Flats 118). Died I-124). Married Anna De- muh. He died Dec. 31, 1833. She died May 4, 1879. Several children. (This line will be completed later). (Line of Mrs. Edward Davern, Paul W. Prindle, and others).
461. George Petrie { called General George) born Dec. 13, 1788, bapt. Jan. 11, 1789. Died young. Sponsors George Demoeth and Lena Diet: Petri (Germ. Flats I-137). Parents given as Johannes Diet: Petri and Gertraud. (Minaure).
462. Johann Dieterich Petri. Born Oct. 8, 1790, bapt. Nov. 2. Sponsors Phillip Herder and Catharina De- muth. (German Flas I-148). Parents given as Johannes D: and Gertraud. (Called Richard). No issue.
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458. Philip Petri born March 8 (Continued from lat_ week) 459. Jacob Petri, born Sept. 5, The story of this massacre is too well known to give further repetition. 1791, bapt. Oct. 30. ponsors Fred- There were many who wandered for days in the woods and fields before they reached the forts. Tradition. gives some fifteen or more among
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6. Data of Anna Trumbuli who died 1850 in town of Kirkland, Onei- da county, leaving a wili giving the most of her estate to poor free ne- groes in the U. S. and Canada. Will witnessed by Curtis S. Parmalee and Eunice Parmalee.
9. Sybil Trumbull who married in town of Sweden, N. Y. Anselm Com- stock and died in Van Buren county, Mich., 1858. Desire parentage.
10. Isaac P. Trumbuli, town of Newfield, Tompkins Co., N. Y. whose wife was Sarah J. 1829-1898. 11. Identify the following who were members of the Bollenkiil, now Greenwich church 1829-1835.
Simon Trumbull, Martha Trumbuii, Lydia Trumbull, James and Poliy Trumbuli, Jonathan Trumbull.
12. Helen M. Trumbull married Jan. 4, 1863 Norman Waugh at, East Worcester, Otsego Co.
13. Walter Trumbull married June 2, 1866 to Susan Davis, Cherry Vai- ley.
14. Charles M. Trumbull (1820- 1903) buried at Trumbull's Corners, Tompkins Co. .
15. Luther Trumbull, Jr. and Lucy Trumbuli of Tompkins Co. in 1823 were signers of a deed to Alvah Ford. Was Lucy the wife of Luther, Jr .? If so what was her maiden name?
Joel Trumbull and wife Rhoda in Fenner 1816. Rhoda's maiden name. GRIFFITH, GRIFFETH,
GRIFFIN
Samuel Griffith in Cazenovia 1807.
Nathaniel Griffith in Albany Co. 1790 census.
Jeremiah Griffith in Albany Co. 1790.
Also in list of Rev. War pensioners in 1840 living in Chautauqua Co.
Anne Griffith married Rev. Jacob Cropsey.
Elizabeth Griffith married Oliver Trumbull 1788.
John Griffith left a will, 1825, Steuben, Oneida county, N. Y. Men- tlons daughters Elizabeth Anna, the wife of John . Jones, also Eleanore wife of James, and his wife Jane.
According to Pearson's First Set- tlers of Albany there were a John and Jannet Griffin who had child James bapt. Jan. 14, 1759.
Is there any connectlon to John Griffin who died in town of Steuben ? Could there be any connection be- tween the daughters Elizabeth and Anna and those mentioned earlier ?. I have evidence that Anna Griffith who married Jacob Cropsey was sis- ter of Elizabeth who married Ollver Trumbull.
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Did Ana (Griffith) Cropsey be- come a widow and marry again ? Minnie M. Tiedgen, 65 Farrand Park, Highland Park 3, Mich.
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1869 and his wife in 1862. Had a. foundry 1838-1856. Had a son, Chas. Petrie of Littie Falis, N. Y.
457. Mary Petri born Aug. 25, 1805.
458. Philip Petri born March 8 1811.
7. Parentage of Reuben Trum- buil who lived in Berlin, Rensselaer Co. 1806. 459. Jacob Petrl, born Sept. 5, 1791, bapt. Oct. 30. ponsors Fred- erick Jac: Petri and Catharin Seg- 8. Sophia Trumbuil who taught |ner. Parents given as Dieterich and Anna. Supposed to belong here. the first school at Biood's Depot.
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(Continued from lat_ week) The story of this massacre is too well known to give further repetition. There were many who wandered for days in the woods and fields before they reached the forts. Tradition. gives some fifteen or more among
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the slain. Frederick Lepper and his wife were with their neighbors at Fort Herkimer when it chanced one Jay Mrs. Lepper went out to pick fruit 'from a narby tree and a sav- age lurking nigh grabbed her by her braided hair and with her young babe she was taken to Canada.
Days and months flew by, but oft the settlers' memory gates would open wide and a current of sad thoughts carry them back to the dia- bolic scenes of that blood reeking settlement on the hill, where beneath the long grass many a butchered ma- tron, man, maid and babe lay. The wild flowers bloomed and spread a pall of petals over the rough mounds. The tall green sward waved over their tombs, and the black snake would often glide through the nodding grass and then vanish under the stump monuments. The scream of the hawk and the howl of the wolf frequetly echoed through the desert- ed, fire swept hamlet, but the silent inhabitants heard it not. A year lat- Er; as severa] Andrustown pioneers were in the woods near . the ruined settlement, Paul Grimm chanced to find the German Bible he had left on a stump in the woods when he fled on that fatal night to the valley. Autumn leaves had protected the sa- cred volume from the element and he carried it back to the fort. Thc snows of five winters had melted when three of the former families, the Osterhout, Hoyer and Frank, re- turned and built their cabins, only to flee again. Then the great war drew to a close and a few of the prisoners that survived their ten years' captivity were brought back. Among the few were Mrs. Lepper, Margaret Grimm Passage, and Rich- ard Pell. Frederick Lepper had now recovered his wife with his strangely dressed semi-civilized little boy; and he sold his lands on the hills of An- drustown and departed for Amster- dam.
The Germans of Salisbury and the Hessian Village-their Home
By S. C. Kimm
(Continued from last week) Grandpa Gets Out of Germany
Sant in Germany. This article is not to prove that our Hessian forebears were smarter than thousands of im- migrants who come from other parts of Germany. My desire is to explain the conspicuous part the settlers from Sant had in the building of Salisbury and Herkimer county and this in no way detracts from the splendid work and cooperation of the Homrighauses, Remmels, Shaads and Helterlines, nor of those Germans who many years later change the little Adirondack village of Brocketts Bridge into a beautiful "City of Felt."
When the mercenary soldiers came back to the little village of Sant with their stories of a free land, our great grandparents were children who lis- tened as their parents talked and planned how to get away from the social and economic burdens that oppressed them. The Klipples, Gras- sels, Ecklers, Kimms, Hitemans, Hu- ferts, Wagoners, Rings, Rices and others were neighbors, all destined to have in the future a more or less prominent part in the development of Salisbury and other parts of Her- Our Grandparents Found New Homes in Curtis kimer county. Their descendants will never know of the difficulties which our ancestors had to overcome to Tet permission to leave their ances- tral village. They did finally get away and survived the ship journey of weeks across the stormy Atlantic to land at last at Hoboken. I do not know what induced them to trek im- mediately to Herkimer county. It is sufficient to say that the peasant life in Germany fitted them well to work for the farmers and to carve homes for themselves out of the primeval forests of Salisbury. The children of the German and Irish immigrant måde the best hired help in those early days, but free schools a cow and some chickens and mend-
Because' the people of Sant for many generations had been familiar with the woods of Germany it was . but natural that they should choose for their new homes the unbroken wilderness of northern Salisbury. Here one-half mile north of Curtis school house my grandfather, Con- rad King purchased 25 acres of for- est land on which was a log house. Here he lived but a short time and here I was born. Grandpa died before he could clear his land, when George Klipple, the shoe cobbler, took pos- session. He lived in a small frame buiding, cleared a little land, kept ed footwear for the lumberjacks and their families.
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The Petries in America
These notes and records of the Johan Jost Petrie family and de- scendants in America were compil- ed by the late Mrs. Frederick Staeh- la, of Munnsville, N. Y. Her notes have been checked, so far as we have been able to do so, and we will try to complete her work.
Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petrie, Johnstown, N. Y.
(Continued from last week)
463. George Petri born Sept. 8, 1793, bapt. Sept. 26. Sponsors, Geo. Demoeh and Catharina. Parents giv- en as Johannes D: and Gertraud. (Germ. Flats I-173).
464. John Petri born 1801-2. Mar- ried and had 4 sons.
465. David Petri married Sept. 30, 1824.
466. Aaron Petri born April 25, 1810, bapt. Sponsors Petro Sherer and Maria his wife. bapt. 24 June. 467. Catharine (Katrina) Petri. Married Harer.
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