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PADDOCK
Mr. Stanley P. Paddock East Greenwich, New York Dear Mr. Paddock:
In looking over some old copies of the Genealogy & History Section of the St. Johnsville Enterprise & News, I noted with interest your query concerning your Paddock an- cestors appearing in the issue of 4 September 1947.
I would suggest that you communi- cate with Mr. Innes Getty, whose which of the various soldiers of these address' is 124 Locust Hill Avenue, same name in War of 1812 was he? Yonkers, New York. Mr. Getty and I would like his military record ? I compared notes on our Paddock Who was his wife? ancestry several years ago and. at Lucile L. Hutson that time I reached the conclusion 917 Vine Street that he knew more about the Pad- Sandusky, Ohio
.dock family history than anyone else then living - also that he was a WELLS, GILBERT, TWIST mighty helpful and courteous gentie- man. Very truly yours, JOHN SOULE, Lt. Col., C. E., (GHQ-FEC APO 500 in Ithaca, N. Y. She married about / > % Postmaster, San Francisco) 1810 Mr. Gilbert (Probably George) ! (Mrs. Gershow W.)
KILMER
Captain George W. Kilmer farm- er, Post Office, Towanda, Pa., was born in the town of Asylum, the 1835 to Kane Co., Ill. and in 1850 county (Bradford) February 2, 1842, planned and laid out a "Temperance ond is a son of Joshua and Margaret Town" which did not pan out. (Dings) Kilmer, natives of Schoharie, N. Y., born of Dutch extraction, and
In 1820 Sally (Wells) Gilbert, then a widow was living in Fenner, Madi- who came to this county in 1840, lo- son Co., N. Y. with her three child-
cating in Asylum (This isn't too far from Sullivan Co.,) .. . (His education etc. is omitted). Was in Civil War and a prisoner in Libby prison. Capt. Kilmer, was married Oct. 11, 1865 to Helen A. Noble, who was born March 12, 1840 (Dau of Levi and Diana (Olough) Noble, natives of Broome Co., N. Y.
Their 'children were J. > Noble, b. N. Y. I found the following, - Wil- April 22, 1868 married Tilie DeLong. Ham Delos Well born 1845, married :.: J. Marion b. March 18, 1880,. ..
If there is any other way. I can Rev. Torrey. They had three children be of service, write me. Perhaps if Mary, Sarah and Torrey. Sarah mar- you desired I could search the Brad- ried Robert N. Groff son of Isaac ford Co. Records in Towanda, later and Delia (Clark) Groff. The father this year.
They have deeds and wills from 1812, marriage records from about 1886 (It might be 1890) I am not certain. And a few miscellaneouus records that are of interest , to the genealogist.
Very Sincerely Ralph H. Weller
BEEBE
I would like some + information about the father of Azariah Beebe who came from Ontario County, N. Y. to Ohio in 1808 or 1810 and settled at Black River. Now Lorain. moving
R. W. Rice
616 N. Aurora St.
Ithaca, N. Y.
HARRISON, RHODES
1 .- Robert Harrison came to America from Bath, Eng- land, and enlisted in the Revolution- ary War as a private from Johnston R. I .: In 1780 he married Elizabeth Rihodes:" (Her ancestry wanted). Their son Joseph Rhodes Harrison (1781-1860) . married Ruth. According
( ?Edmund) and daughters Elizabeth, Ruth, and Charity. Wanted further data on these children.
g. Brayton 7 Baker (Stephen 6-5-4 Abraham 3 Daniel 2 Francis '1) was prob. born about 1810. He mar- ried Betsy Phillips, whose ancestry is desired. What children did Bray- ton and Betsy have? They lived at Harmony, N. Y.
Bertha W. Clark
10 Jamaicaway Boston 30, Mass.
HOLLAND
In your issue of April 8, 1948 is given the Holland origin of the sur- name Arnold. ( ?)
I would be glad to have you print the Welch origin of the Stukeley 4, Nathan 5, Arnold line of Fairfield, N. Y. Herkimer Co. It is proven by New England Historical and Genea- logical Register Vol. XXXIII; and Vol. LXVIII pp. 373, 374; and Vol. 48 p. 352; and by J. . Austins Genea- logical Dictionary of Rhode Island and by my well authenticated article on Starkeley Arnald and Soure of His Descendents, published by the New York Genealogical and Biogra -;. phical Record.'
Nathan 5 Arnold settled in Fair-
Etta M. Arnold Clark
244 Main Street
HAGEDORN, HALL, JOHNSON, (
Data wanted on ancestry of per- sons of these families listed in Burk- hart series in Enterprise and News. Want all .data on Burkhar(d)t fam- illes under any spelling of the name.
ren, in that year she married Alpheus' 'SILAS DORR Twist, of Fenner, by whom she had six children; one named Delos Mary . Ann (Gilbert) Wescott, her daughter, named a son Delos. Delos is not .a
1. Silas Dorr, perhaps of Maine - served in the Revolution. He had eight (8) children, the youngest was "Twist". name and it may be a clue: Amos Leonard Dorr, b. 9-9-1824 at to the parentage of Sally Wells.
Franklin Plantation Maine. Want data on Silas Dorr. He married Sarah Smith of Whittenton (Taunton) Mass. Want Smith, data also.
2. George Appelton Bryant mar- ried Lucinda How Ames. Their dau- ghter Mary Thomas .Brynta was born .2-28-1830 at Hartford, Maine and married 4-26-1846 to Amos Leo- nard Dorr. Want Bryant and Ames data.
HOLBROOK
3. Want data about a Mary Hol- | brook who died in 1736. She was (1759-1844) [ the wife of Lt. John Puffer who was b. 10-10-1665 in Braintree, Mass. They were married 1695.
SHEPARD, FENNO
4.' Want data on a John Shepard who married in 1721 Rebecca Fenno who was born in 1700 the day - of
Roster of 1812, is this man ? I would ! like his military recvord. Was Joshua Phillips in the War of 1812? If so, what was his military record ? BENNET 1
Joseph Bennett Sr. was a soldier of War of 1812, in N. Y. State. He lived near Onondago, N. Y. He had a son Ezra who married Sara Wil- cox. To Ezra and Sara were born Lydia Pethenia, Nov. 6, 1935, in or near Syracuse, N. Y. What was the ancestry of, Joseph Bennett Sr. and
Wanted the parentage of Sally Wells born March 15, 1790, by obi-i tuary and in New York State, by field Township in 1785. I have the, census record. She died March 5, 1878 original deeds of purchase.
by whom she had three children, George, Person Truman, and Mary Owego, Tioga Co., New York Ann born March 9, 1816, married! March 29, 1835, Gardner Wescott.
Person . Truman Gilbert moved in BURKHART
In the records of Christine Atwell, deceased, of Cozenovia, Madison Co.,
, 1873, Sarah Torrey only daughter of BRYANT
of Isaac Groff was a Deacon in Fen- ner Baptist Church.
er, Post Office, Towanda, Pa., wag . Person . Truman Gilbert moved in born in the town of Asylum, the 1835 to Kane Co., Ill. and in 1850 county (Bradford) February 2, 1842, planned and laid out a "Temperance ond is a son of Joshua and Margaret Town" which did not pan out. (Dings) Kilmer, natives of Schoharie, In 1820 Sally (Wells) Gilbert, then son Co., N. Y. with her three child- ren, in that year she married Alpheus N. Y., born of Dutch extraction, and a widow was living in Fenner, Madi- who came to this county in 1840, lo- , çating in Asylum (This isn't too far SILAS DORR from Sullivan Co.,) .. . (His education Twist, of Fenner, by whom she had etc. is omitted). Was in Civil War six children, one named Delos Mary 1. Silas Dorr, perhaps of Maine eight (8) children, the youngest was "Twist", name and it may be a clue: Amos Leonard Dorr, b. 9-9-1824 at and a prisoner in Libby prison. Capt. Ann (Gilbert) Wescott, her daughter, served in the Revolution. He had Kilmer, was married Oct. 11, 1865 to named a son Delos. Delos is not .a Helen A. Noble, who was born March 12, 1840 (Dau of Levi and Diana to the parentage of Sally Wells. (Cough) Noble, natives of Broome Oo., N. Y.
In the records of Christine Atwell, deceased, of Cozenovia, Madison Co.,
.. 1873, Sarah Torrey only daughter of
Their 'children were J. , Noble, b. N. Y. I found the following, - Wil- April 22. 1868 married Tilie DeLong. "am Delos Well born 1845, married
J. Marion .b. March 18,- 1880, . ..
If there is any other way I can Rev. Torrey. They had three children be of service, write me. Perhaps if Mary, Sarah and Torrey. Sarah mar- you desired I could search the Brad- fond Co. Records in Towanda, later this year.
They have deeds and wills from 1812, marriage records from about 1886 (It might be 1890) I am not 616 N. Aurora St. certain. And a few miscellaneous Ithaca, N. Y. records that are of interest to the genealogist.
Very Sincerely Ralph H. Weller
BEEBE
I. would like some information about the father of Azariah Beebe who came from Ontario County, N. Y. to Ohio in 1808 or 1810 and settled at Black River, Now Lorain, moving from there to Vermilion in Erle County about 1813. 'From there he moved to' Huron County and finally to Sandusky. Azaria Beebe was born Jan. 28, 1783, supposedly in Ontario County, N. Y. In 1806 he married Mary Ryon of New London, Conn. Azariah died in Sandusky Co., Ohio, Dec. 12, 1834.
The children of Azariah and Mary Ryon Beebe were: Diadama, Almira, William, Harriet ., James, Aaron, Enock, and Ethan A.
Azariah Beebe's father is said to have been Odonijah Bee who is said to have come to Ontario County, N. Y. from one of the New England States, about the close of the Revo- lutionary War. Adonijah is said to have 'had three children, Richard, Diadama, and Azariah.
There is a Revolutionary soldier buried in Lorain County, Ohio, named David Beebe who was Quartermaster Sgt. Conn. Tr. born 1747, died 1840. This David BGeebe,, Azariah's broth- er, all lived in the same locality near Lorain, Ohio. How do they connect ? I would like to know whose son, Alonijah was - was he a Rev. sold- jer ? - A full list of his children.
CLEVELAND
John Cleveland b. Oct. 4, 1779, son of Josiah Cleveland and Ruth John- son of Connecticut, died in Huron, Drie County, Ohio, Apr. 16, 1861, aged 81. He was married at Bristol, N. Y. between 1805 and 1808 to Silvia Phillips b. Vt. June 8, 1783, died Huron, Ohio Feb. 14, 1868, a | Ruth K. Marshall.
dau. of Joshua Phillips and Silvia Picksley. Lived at Moscow and Bris- tol N. Y. Their children: Silvia Phillips, Ruth Johnson, John Porter, Cynthia Melvina, Josiah Walton, Sarah Ann, and Elhanon Winchester.
f. Josiah 3 Baker (William Francis 1) was born 1704 and remov- ed from Yarmouth, Mass., to Duchess John Cleveland was in the War of Co., N. Y. He married first Exper- 1812 in N. Y. State Militia? Which ience and second in 1729 Charity of the three oJhn Clevelands on the
Eddy, by whom he had son Edmund
HAGEDORN, HALL, JOHNSON, BURKHART
> 'Data wanted on ancestry of per- sons of these families listed in Burk- hart series in Enterprise and News. Want all data on Burkhar(d)t fam- ilies under any spelling of the name.
Franklin Plantation Maine. Want data on Silas Dorr. He married Sarah Smith of . Whittenton (Taunton) Mass. Want Smith data also.
BRYANT
2. George Appelton Bryant mar- ried Lucinda How Ames. Their dau- ghter Mary Thomas .Brynta was born 2-28-1830 at Hartford, Maine and married 4-26-1846 to Amos Leo- nard Dorr. Want Bryant and Ames data.
HOLBROOK
3. Want data about & Mary Hol- brook who died in 1736. She was [ the wife of Lt. John Puffer who was b. 10-10-1665 in" Braintree, Mass. They were married 1695.
SHEPARD, FENNO
4. , Want data on a John Shepard who married in 1721 Rebecca Fenno who was born in 1700 the dau. of Benjamin and Mary (Belcher) Fenno.
FRENCH, WHITMAN
5. Want data on a French fam- ily, Stephen died at Weymouth, Mass. in 1679. His wife was named Mary. They had a son Stephen who m. Han- nah Whitman.
6. Data on family of Samuel Dun- bar whose dau. Melatiah b. 1741 married Capt. Jesse Howard who was b. 7-20-1740. Bridgewater, Mass. area.
FULLER, PIDGE, WHITE, FULLER
7. Data on Noah Fuller who mar- ries in 1711-12 Rachel Pidge. Also data on the Jemima White who mar- ries the grandson Stephen Fuller, about 1761 probably at Attleboro, Mass.
All above lines are New England and proably Massachusetts or Maine.
ZWINCK
All data wanted on persons of Zwinck families anywhere. Carl H. Zwinck
904 Packard Ann Arbor, Michigan
SHIELDON
Id Andrew Baker, who went from Ancestry wanted of Heziah Hall Berkshire Co., Mass., to Norwich, N. Y., and whose son, Dr. Andrew Bak-| Sheldon, died Granby, Oswego Co., er of Norwich, born 1805, married N. Y. about 1850. m. Elizabeth first Armenia Graves, and second Young.
HOPKINS
Wanted data of birth and death of Catherine Hopkins who married Reu- ben Hopkins Sr. of Scituate, R. I. Nov. 25, 1742.
AVERY, ALLEN
.Wanted ancestry and list of Child-
ried Robert N. Groff son of Isaac and Delia (Clark) Groff. The father of Isaac Groff was a Deacon in Fen- ner Baptist Church.
R. W. Rice
HARRISON, RHODES
1 .- Robert Harrison (1759-1844) came to America from Bath, Eng- land, and enlisted in the Revolution4 ary War as a private from Johnston R. I. In 1780 he married Elizabeth "Rhodes. (Her "ancestry "wanted). Their son Joseph Rhodes Harrison (1781-1860) married Ruth. According to the S. A. R. handbook she was Ruth Baker. According to the D. A. R. Lineage Book 143, p. 245 he mar- ried Ruth Harrison in 1812. Was this a slip of the pen in writing Harrison for Baker, or did Joseph 'marry two wives named Ruth ? If she was Ruth Baker, it seems to me likely that she was the Ruth Baker born in Gloces- ter R. I., as early as 1786, to Aibra-
ham 5 and Ruth (Sherman) Baker DUNBAR, HOWARD
(Stephen 4 Abraham 3 Daniel 2 Francis 1) I should like all possible' data on Joseph Rhodes Harrison and his wife or wives. Robert (1) Harri- son removed to New York State, dying at Urbana. Did Joseph and Ruth also go to New York? What children did Robert (1) and Joseph (2) have ?
2 .- I should also like to get the ancestry of these several Bakers, of various lines:
a. Stephen Baker of Dartmouth Mass., and later of N. Y. State, who married Elizabeth Cornell, born June 6, 1772.
b. Joseph Bake of Barrington, R. I. who on March 30, 1719, mar- ried Margaret Chaffee of Rehoboth, Mass.
c. William Baker, born R. I. 1773; died at Ararat, Wayne Co., Pa., 1859, who married Penelope Roberts and whose son Caleb was born at Ham- den, N. Y., in 1796.
e. Irving Baker of Horicon, War- ren Co., N. Y., who married Many Streeter, born 1828.
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ren of James Allen of Broton who married Alithea " Avery (b 1709) Dec." 17, 1729.
AVERY, RANSFORD
Martha Avery b. 1707, 'dau. of Elizabeth Ransford and Samuel peans was one of the great events Avery. What was the name of Eli- zabeth's mother, wife of Jonathan Ransford.
Wanted to contact a Mrs. Williams or relatives of Providence, R. I. who thiad' the names of children of Reuben Hopkins and Phebe Weaver of Scit- uate, R. I. m. 1779.
Alta Holden
110 Rochester St.
Fulton, N. Y.
Tokyo, Japan
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INDEX Book 1 - DOCKSTADER
DOCKSTADERS, single or mar- ried unknown.
Bk Pg In
Born
1-10-28 Albram
1790
1 -2-51
Frederick 1755*
1- 8-28
Frederick
1756
1-12-29 Frederick
1774*
1-13-14 Frederick
1779*
1- 9-17 George Adam 1742
1-12-11 George Alam
1762*
1777*
1-18-17
Henry
1-18-38
Henry
1- 9-24
Hermanus
1- 9-28
Jacob H.
1- 1-33 Johannes (Sr.)
1- 1-33
John (Jr.)
1- 4-34
Johannes
1760*
1-10-40
John
1812
1817*
1772*
1735-39
1765*
1785*
1-14-29
Nicholas (John)
1- 2-14
Peter
1723* /
1-13-19
Peter
1782*
1809*
1814
1- 6-23
Annetje
1754 ,
1- 2-48 . Anna Catharine
1752*
1- 8-24
Catharine
1754
1- 6-29
Catharine
1756-59
1-18-14
Catrina
1774*
1-14-23 Catharina
1782*
1-2-39
Elizabeth
1746
L- 8-32
Elizabeth
1758
1- 8-38
Gertrude
1763*
- 9-51 Magdaiina
1761*
- 7-23
Maria
1759*
-13-34
Margaretha
1790*
- 2-26 Sarah
1730-40
-12-14 Margaretha 1764*
Dates marired * are authentic. Others are given to indicate the aprox. generation.
The Numbers show the location of the name by Book, Page, and Line.
A copy of this work is on file in to rebuild from, where they left off. the Montgomery County Archives, Old Court House, Fonda, N. Y. This is the only copy that has been made as yet.
Names of Males married to Dock- stader women.
1- 7-15 Christman, Johannes m.
Ann Catharine Dockstader b. 1746.
- 1- 7-221 Countryman, John pos. m. Barbara Dockstader b. 1759.
1- 8-22 Cunningham, Andreas m Barbara Elizabeth Dock- b. 1752. 1- 8-15 Harter, Michael m, Mary Dockgtader b. 1748.
1-19-12 Lathers, John m. Dirke (Doncas) Dockstader b. 1807 *.
1- 7-12 Leper, Jacob m. Anna Sa- bina Dockstader b. 1743.
Iriquois Indians In Mohawk Valley
·By W. C. KIMM
The discovery of America by Euno-
of world history. For untold ages nearly one half of the land mass of the world's surface was unknown to the great nations that lived flourish- ed and died through many centuries on the other half of the world. Egypt, Assyria, Tyre, Carthage, Greece and Rome left their records on the scroil of Time, to be succeeded by the mid- dle ages before man began to emerge from mental darkness and supersti- tion to discover that the earth is round. Extending their geographical horizon sent them farther and farth- er afield until half way around the world they found a vast continent covered with immense forests and with a soil that needed only the skiil of the husbandman to produce an abundant living for the human race. Here in this newly found world lived a different race of beings who have come to be known as the American Indians.
Their Origin
Whence came this great race that occupied nearly all the American continent. We found many theories and conjectures proof of any of which is entirely iacking. One says they belong to the "Lost Tribe of Israel," another says they came from Asia across Behring Strait and work- ed their way southward over the American continent. Still others that they came from islands of the East-( early part of the glacial period. Over ern ocean or perhaps from Africa.
sixty implements, three human skulls and other human bones were found securely imbedded in the Trenton gravel. Discoveries by Prof. Winchell prove that this continent from the Pacific to the Mississippi was occu- pied by human beings' during the glacial period. In 1866 a human skull was found in the gold baring gravels of the Pielocene age. This discovery has called forth many heated argu- ments by scientific men. What makes. the discovery so interesting is the fact that the fossil remains of two apes most nearly like men in their physical structure were found in the upper Miocene. By the agitation one would think that these learned men are afraid that Darwins "Missing Link" may yet be found.
(To Be Continued)
the Scripture, while for a hundred year, after the Pilgrims landed in New England, the Bible was a for- bidden book in their churches.
ousted from their homes, for this Grant which the pool souls consider- ed their own, was never consum- mated, but had been presented to Sie After the Battle of Oriskany was over, the people of the valley tried William a's a gift from the Crown, for special "services by the former .. The half has never been told. The Palatines were ousted again. This Some' one out of every home, was killed or injured. They had been liv- ing over their experiences back in Germany. Slowly they got their fields under cultivation again. They tried to recreate thehome, but there were th eempy chairs. Many had sided with the Crown. Others were with grant as mentioned before, extended back from the Mohawk for twenty- five or thirty miles. It was of the best along the Mohawk. This the Bar- onet had designated in his Will, as being given to his Indian children. It did not matter, who was to be des- the Colonies. Neighbors looked at | troyed or disturbed. Robber Barons each other askance. Was he friend existed in this Country, as well as im Europe, they had left Sir William thirsted for power. or Tory ? Some had openly declared themselves. Many had taken a few treasures or what they could gather together and had fled o Canada.' Spies were everywhere, and watching every more made. Families were divided against themselves.
The letter to the surveyor general" quoted by Mr. Nellis in his article ORE. "Col. Jacob Klock, Patriot," printed? in Enterprise and News on Feb. 15. 1928, shows why Sir William Johnson
Nowhere have there been discovered any remains that showed much use of arts and science .. Their traditions and myths go back to their creation and yet it is to be strongly ques- tioned whether there is much similar- ity between them and those of East- ern Continent, enough even to prove a common origin.
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