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By Paul B. Mattice (Continued from Last Week)
The first mill at Schenectady was built by one Sweer Teunis Van Vel- sen in 1664. This mill was carried away by a flood in 1673. The Vedder, Schcamerhorn, Wemp and Vroman families had grist mills in operation before 1700 on tributary streams of
the Mohawk river.
Robert Livingston, the Patroon, built a grist mill on Jansen's Kill near present day Hudson in Columbia county in 1699. This mill was in op- eration in 1712 and ground the grain for flour for the Palatines at East Camp. There probably were one o two other mills in Columbia county before the Revolution.
There was a grist mill in operation at Coeymans' in 1712. The miller was Barnet Pietense Coeyman who pur- chased the site in 1665 and built a grist mill soon afterwards. Barnet was always in attendance at all the public auctions in that locality, and purchased nunmerous articles. At one auction he purchased an "upper Petty coat" whether for his wife or not the record, of purchases does not say.
Dirck Teunis Van Vechten built a mill at Jefferson Heights near pre- sent day Catskill on the banks of the Vosenkill in 1684. The mill stones are now in possession of William Van Dyke of Catskill. Garrett Van Ber- gen and Sylvester Salisbury had mitls near Leeds west of Catskill by the year 1733.
William Fox "listmaster" .built a grist mill on Fox's Creek near pre- sent day Schoharie Village about 1720. This was the first grist mill west of Schenectady. Fox in 1723 removed to the Mohawk Valley in the London Covenant, and built the first grist mill on the Caroga Creek at present day Palatine Church.
The mill on a small stream east of Fort Herkimer was built by "Jacob Weber" before 1730. This was the in the Mohawk Valley. Whether Weber" 'was the milt-wright or the owner seems to be unknown.
The Groot or Groat mill on Lewis Kill at Crainesville, near Amsterdam, was built in 1730. The Groots were prominent Schenectady people. Lit. Petrus Groot is supposed to be the person upon whom the legendary tale of Rip Van Winkle is founded. This was the first grist mill west of Sche- nectady on the north side of the Mo- hawk River and served patrons as far west as Little Falls for several years
The grist mill at Fort Dayton (Herkimer) was built about 1733 by "Jacob Weber". Weber may have been the carpenter of the London census of 1709, then 26 years of age, turned into a milliwright. This mill was burned by the French and Al- gonquin Indians under Bellantre in 1757. The mill was re-built by Wil-' liam Petry and another mill was built by one Christman on or near West Canada Creek long before the Revolution.
William Johnson built a mill at Fort Johnson in 1744. Johnson had trouble in constructing a dam as the property on the east side of Kayad- erosseros Creek was owned by Joseph Clement, a tavern keeper, who object- ed to the dam being built across the stream. This was the first of the. four mills built by Johnson.
The grist mill at present day Frankfort on Moyer Creek was burn- ed by Beltantre in 1757. The date of construction and owner are unknown.
The grist mill on Steele Creek at present day Ilion was destroyed by the French and Indians in 1757. Date of construction and owner unknown.
Col. Hendrick Staring built a grist mill on Staring's Creek in Schuyler that was destroyed by the French. and Indians in 1757, re-built and burned again in the Revolution. Date of construction unknown, probably about 1740.
Tuenis Eokerson built a mill at. Weiserdorf (Middleburgh) on the- Schoharie River about 1740. This mill. was burned by Sir John Johnson in first grist mill west of Schenectady | 1780 re-built and later destroyed by
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THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1948
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HUSK, WITTY -
Data of Anthony Husk who died aged 94 years and wife --- Witty ( ?) of Boonton, N. J. Their children were:
Edward mar: Carrie -----; Margaret mar. ---- Peer; Lizzie mar. Frank Presby: Henry Witty (1841-1890) mar. Olive Draa. (Dray, Drake.)
MAST (MOSS)
Data of Jacob Mast from N. Car., who died Oct. 4, 1809 Montgomery Co., Ohio, leaving wife Nancy. Want names of children and Nancy's maid- en name.
MARTIN, WARD, CAMPBELL, . SMITH, BOOTH
(a) Data of John Martin, b. 1828, Butler Co., Ohio son of John Mar- be greatly apreciated.
garet (Ward), removed to Indiana & lived in Cass and Carroll Counties. He mar. 1850 Mary Campbell 'and had son Lamertine (who m. Mary Smith and had son Bruce.)
(b) Data of James P. Martin, b. Amg. 2, 1837, Carroll Co., Ind., mar. Jan. 6, 1876 Zerusha A. Booth, res. Logansport, Ind. Children: Bessie, Stella, Fred, Helen, Richard.
Would like to contact members or descendants of these families.
LILLIBRIDGE, EVENS, (EVANS)
Data of David Lillibridge, b. mar. 19, 1816; d. Jan. 1, 1878; m. Mar. 2, 1737 Sally Evans, b. Dec. 15,, 1815. Was Sally a dau. of Robert Evans d. Feb. 26, 1845 ae 76 yrs. & wife Sub- mit -- , d. Ag. 23, 1854 ea 71 yrs. All buried old cemetery Greene, Trumbull Co., Ohio. -
Miss Josephine B. Brown 333 Harmon Ave., N. W. Warren, Ohio
ARCENEAUX
All data desired on Arceneaux or Arseneault or variations of that
spelling. I am compiling a genealogy of the branch which was in the Pro- vince of Quebec a century before the Acadian dispersion of 1755. Offer in return help with French-Canadian families or Detroit research.
Mrs. Campbell McCormack
477 Coplin
Detroit 15, Michigan
Answer to Miss Marie Lyle Lyle Heights ' Paso Roblas, Cal.
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Stephen (2) Holmes (Francis Hol- mes and Ann) m. Martha,
Their children were: Martha, ""d. 1721, m. 16866 Elisha Holly; John, d. 1703, m. 17016 Mercy Bell; Stephen, m. '1704 Margaret Gibbs (John); Re-
and other families whose records may be among the Quaker Church re- cords, but whose markers have: long ago disappeared.
Mrs. Elsie Byron Dennis Sherburne, N. Y.
STEVENS - BROOKS
Samuel Brooks Stevens b in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, Canada 1791. His parents were Samuel Stev- ens, M. D. and Anna Brooks. The 1795, and Samuel b. m. Hannah West
. After searching Innumerable In- family moved to Genesee Co., N. Y. dices*, and all published Viatl' Re-
about 1818. Other children of Samuel once removed from, Brookfield, for
and Anna Brooks Stevens, James, Jacob, Sophia m John Weden, Lucy - - - Pierce, and Nancy m - - Bristol,
Any further information concern- ing the people in these queries would
WEST - ROBERTS
I have a partial answer to one of my previous questions and wonder if it can help in getting additional in- formation. Hannah West b. Frank- lin Co., N. Y. 14 March 1799, m about 1818 Samuel Brooks Stevens. Her parents were .- - - West & Hannah Roberts.
Box 516 Parma, Idaho
INDEX OF FAMILY NAMES IN FEETEER GENEALOGY
book by John B. Koetteritz printed in 1901 at Little Falls, N. Y. from most libraries, it has been suggested that this index of family names found in he "Genealogy of the De- scendants of Lucas Vetter" section of the "William Feeter History and Genealogy" be published here. Copies of the book are owned by some of these descendants, including Carl H. Zwvinak of 904 Packard, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Abbott, Acher, Ackert, Adams, Al- den, Allison, Alexander, Archer, Ar- nold, Armstrong, Ault, Ayres, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Barcley, Barnes, Barragar, Beach, Bellinger, Bellows, Beltzer, Benedict, Benjamin, Bennett,
Best, Bigford, Binnion, Billing's, Bliss, Block, Bleakslee, Bostwick, Bouck, Bowen, Boyce, Boyd, Brad- ford, Brennan, Briggs, Bristol, Broat, Brockett, Brown, Browning, Bur- gess, Burnside, . Burt, Cameron, Car- man, Campbell, Casler, Cassel, Cent ter, Childs, Chough, Christman, Cole, Churchill, Civill, Collison, Consignee, Corey, Cowan, Craig, Crittenden, Crandall, Cross, Crowbar, Cummings, Custer, Davis, Degree, Devendorg, Dimmick, Drake,: Easterbrooks, Ey- gebrodt, Eysaman, Fader, Failing, Farnham.Far Fender_ Fehler. Feet-
living throughout the Mohawk Val- ley, N. Y.
TIIAT MISSING SURNAME
The following successful solution of that problem which eventually plagues all Genealogists, may 'en- courage those of faint heart .. For twelve years the following problem perplexed the undersigned:
Rachel --- and Othniel Gilbert (born Brookfield, Mass. 1728) had the following children: Gershom, b. 1749; Pelatiah, b. 1750; Levi, b. : 1751; Zilpha, b. 1755; Bathsheba, b. 1757; Dameras, 1760. No marriage or death record has been found of Rachel and Othniel. The Chapin book and Tem- ple's History of North Brookfield give" the Gilbert line" complete. Of What Family was Rachel ?
cords of Towns contiguous to, and References to Othniel Gilbert or Rachel Gilbert, the problem was laid aside as hopeless. Following tracks of migration into Vermont and New. York State furnished no clues among later Gilberts.
An inspiration, with many odds against it, lead to a search for every woman by the name of Rachel who had ever lived In Brookfield, who might have married Othniel. Of thirty-two Rachels born in Brook- field during the eighteenth century, but were unaccounted for after seek- ing to follow upu their marriage and Gertrude A. Johnson death dates. These were Rachel Ab- bott, born 1727, and Rachel Bartlett also born in 1827. Searching out the names of the families of these two was indecisive. Rachel Bartlett had sisters Rebecca, Barsheba and Mary; Rachel Abbott had sisters Abigail Bathsheba, Dorothy, Hannah, Martha and Sarrah; brothers Aaron and Note: Due to the absence of the | Obed. At this period Bibical names were no clue, nor could the repetition' of Bathsheba be significant. Going back one generation Moses . Abbott and Bathsheba Gilburt, being parents of Rachel,, seemed unsuitable · since That would make Rachel a second cousin of Othniel. Benjamin and Rachel - Bartlett were elusive, and ther the matter rested.
It took the attention of an inde- fatigable, worker, George E. Frost of Springfield, Mass., to go over all' the group - covered before. . plus Gilbert settlements as far afield as Ipswich, Mass., to discover hidden in Lemuel A. Abbott's Desc. of George' Abbott of Rowley, Mass., the entry in the family of Moses4 Abbott (George3, George2, George1):, -
79 Rachel Abbott, one of ten of his children, was b. at Brookfield, Mass., Oct. 6, 1727, and m. at Brook- field Othniel Gilbert of Brookfield. Proving once more that cousins did marry.
The credit of jthe original contact goes to .Harry A. Odell's "The Amer- ican, Genealogy Guild, Directory", * List of Indices searched. f.,1
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LILLIBRIDGE. EVENS, (EVANS)
Data of David Lillibridge, b. mar. 19, 1816: d. Jan. 1, 1878; m. Mar. 2, 1737 Sally Evans, b. Dec. 15,, 1815. Was Sally a dau. of Robert Evans d. Feb. 26, 1845 ae 76 yrs. & wife Sub- mit -- , d. Ag. 23, 1854 ea 71 yrs. All buried old cemetery Greene, Trumbull Clo., Ohio. 1
Miss Josephine B. Brown 333 Harmon Ave., N. W. Warren, Ohio
ARCENEAUX
All daba desired on Arceneaux or Arseneault or variations of that spelling. I am compiling a genealogy of the branch which was in the Pro-
vince of Quebec a century before the nold, Armstrong, Ault, Ayres, Bailey,
Acadian dispersion of 1755. Offer in return help with French-Canadian families or Detroit research.
Mrs. Campbell McCormack
477 Coplin
Detroit 15, Michigan
Answer to Miss Marie Lyle Lyle Heights ' 1 Paso Roblas, Cal.
Stephen (2) Holmes (Francis Hol- mes and Ann) m. Martha.
Their children were: Martha, "d. 1721, m. 16866 Elisha Holly; John, d. 1703, m. 17012 Mercy Bell; Stephen, m: 1704 Margaret, Gibbs (John) ; Re- becca d, 1749, m. 1700 Jonathan Jag. ger ;; Abigail m: 1702 , John Hoyt; Mary, m. 1704 John Slawson; Sam- uel d. 1734 (? m. 1725 Ann Aery) ; Sarah m. 170 6-7 John Waterbury .. Reference: Jacobus "Old Fairfield." (Mrs.) Lucia N. Fancher
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GETMAN
I would like the ancestry of Eva Getman. She married Frederick Oren- dorff born March 14, 1748.
JUNG, (YOUNG)
Who were the parents of Margar- etta Jung (Young) who' married Hendrick Eckler born 1718? She was the mother of Captain Henry Eckler, probably born in 1740 and died in 1820.
SHAW
I would like to know the names of parents of a Shaw family who lived in or near Chatham as late as 1850. Happy Shaw and Smith Shaw never married. One of the Shaws married a, Parsons (had a'dau. Harriet) and one married a Lobdell whose son, Hi- ram, the unmarried Shaws raised. I am especially interested in the moth- er's maiden name which I believe was Smith, a Palatine .Smith.
Would appreciate a list of sources for Qua'er records for Massachu- setts, Rhode Island, and New York State. I recently visited the Quaker cemetery near Brookfield, Chenango Co., N. Y. and found less than six- teen tomb stones still standing and readable. There were many early Brookfield settlers buried there in- cluding Hoxie family, Jackson, Brand, Kineon, Crumb, Lamphair, Burdick
Box 516 Parma, Idaho
INDEX OF FAMILY NAMES IN FEETEER GENEALOGY
Note: Due to the absence of the book by John B. Koetteritz printed : in 1901 at Little Falls, N. Y. from most libraries, it has been suggested that this index of family names found in he "Genealogy of the De- scendants of Lucas Vetter" section of the "William Feeter History and Genealogy" be published here. Copies of the book are owned by some of these descendants, including Carl H. Z:vinok of 904 Packard, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Abbott, Acher, Ackert, Adams, Al- den, Allison, Alexander, Archer, Ar-
Baker, Baldwin, Barcley, Barnes, Barragar, Beach, Bellinger, Bellows, Beltzer, Benedict, Benjamin, Bennett, Best, Bigford, Binnion, Billings, Bliss, Block, Bleakslee, Bostwick, Bouck, Bowen, Boyce, Boyd, Brad- ford, Brennan, Briggs, Bristol, Broat, Brockett, Brown, Browning, Bur- gess, Burnside, Burt, Cameron, Car- man, Campbell, Casler, Cassel, Cent ter, Childs, Chough, Christman, Cole, Churchill, Civill, Collison, Consignee, Corey, Cowan, Craig, Crittenden, Crandall, Cross, Crowbar, Cummings, Custer,. Davis, Degree, Devendorg, Dimmick, Drake, Easterbrooks, Ey -. gebrodt, Eysaman, "Fader,' Failing,
Farnham, Fay, Feader, Feder, " Feet- er, Fenner, Fisher, Foley, Ford, For- ster, Freeman, Freice, French, Ful- lington, Gallinger, 'Gamble, Genac, Gibson, Goodell, Gould, Graves, Greene, Green, Hall, Hames, Hare, Harkness, Harper, Harris, Harter, Hartle, Hasbrook, Hawkins, Heath, Hendricks, Herkimer, Hewitt, Hoo- ley, Himes, Hoover, Hopson, How- and, Howe, Hughes, Hungerford, Hutchcroft, Ingersoll, Ingham, Ingra- ham, Ives, James, Jobson, Johnson, Jones, Judge, Kanoff, Keck, Keller, lications.
Keys, Keyser, Kilts, Knight, Lasher, Laughlin, Lavis, Lewis, Lindley, Locke, Lorton, Loucks, McChesney, McCormick, McDonald, McFadden, McGuire, McIntosh, McKinster, Mc- Millan, McMullagan, McNeill, Mar- celis, Marcy, Marks, Marsh, Melvin, Merkley, Millar, Moody, Munroe, Murphy, Myers, Nellis, Nelson, Nis- ley, Norris Orlosha, Page, Palmer, Peck, Petrie, Pickert, Pierce, Pill- more, Pitts, Post, Pptman, Potter,
Quinn, Rankins, Ransom, ' Reckard; Reed, Rice, Roberts, Robinson, Roof, Root, Rosecrantz, Rust, Rutherford, Sands, Sanford, Scanlon, Schoonhov- en, Schultz, Scott, Service, Sharpe, Shaver, Shelhamer, Sherman, Shoe-, maker, Sidders, Small, Smith, Snell. Somers, Stanford, Stanton, Starin, Staring, Steele, Stevens, Stewart, Strader,' Storrs, Strough, Suiter, Sumner, Talbot, Talmadge, Thomp- son, Timmerman, Toussault, Truax, Turill, Van Slyke, Von Alton, Vetter, Wacker, Wakefield, Wakeman, Wal- ker, Wallace, Walrath, Warren, Wa- ters, Wetherwax, Webb, Welsh, Wil- der, Windecker, Wing, Wright, Wood, Young,
Feeter, Feder, Feader, Fader and Vetter are all varied spellings of the one name. Lucas Vetter settled near Montgomery, Fulton and Herkimer Johnstown, N. Y. in 1754 and from Counties-One Year, 2.50 there the family spread across the All others $3 except Canada, $4 country with many early branches
names of the families of these, two was indecisive. Rachel Bartlett had | sisters Rebecca, Barsheba and Mary; Rachel Abbott had sisters Abigail Bathsheba, Dorothy, Hannah, Martha and Sarrah; brothers Aaron ' and Obed. At this period Bibical names were no clue, nor could the repetition of Bathsheba be significant. " Going back one generation Moses . Abbott and Bathsheba Gilburt, being parents of Rachel,, seemed unsuitable since That would make Rachel a second; cousin of Othniel. Benjamin and Rachel - Bartlett were elusive, and ther the matter rested.
It took the attention of an inde- fatigable, worker, George E. Frost of Springfield, Mass., to go over all the, group covered before. plus Gilbert settlements as far afield as Ipswich, Mass., to discover hidden in Lemuel. A. Abbott's Desc. of George' Abbott of Rowley, Mass., the entry in the family of Moses4 Abbott (George3, George2, George1) :,
79 Rachel Abbott, one of ten of his children, was b. at Brookfield; Mass., Oct. 6, 1727, and m. at Brook+ field Othniel Gilbert of Brookfield Proving once more that cousins' did marry.
The credit of jthe original contact goes to Harry A. Odell's "The Amer- ican. Genealogy > Guild,, Directory", * List of Indices searched.
Institute of American" Genealogy, Chicago:
New York Genealogical and Bio- graphical Society, N. Y. C ...
New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.
Shrader's Index of Boston Tran- script Genealogical Page, Boston.
Boston Public ., Library /Index of Genealogies.
Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
American Genealogical Foundation. All Massachusetts Vital Records in Published form.
All Mayflower Descendants Pub-
All New England Registers All Genealogies of N. Y. State Lib- rary, Albany (open shelves).
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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.
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Correotion
Due to an oversight of the publish- ers the 17th installment was run pre- viously. The 16th Installment follows: "180X Johann Jost Dygert, birth date "unknown." His Godfather was General Herkimer. He was a Lieut- in the Army. He was in the service under his father. He died Feb. 3, 1813. He married on April 2, 1777, Maria (Marillus) Elizabeth Moyer, daughter of Johannes Moyer. She afterwards married (2) John Tockey (Dockey) on April 12, 1823. He died developed their natural aptitude for September 27, 1832.
Father and Son in Same Regiment
John' Jost Dygert, the elder son of. Warner and Magdalena Herki- mer Rygert, held a lieutenant's com- mission, while his father was Cap- tain, but on account of his father's age Johan Jost acted as the com- manding officer in the cutting of trees to block Wood Creek, before the battle of Oriskany. Johann Jost was in command of General Herki- mer's front guard and in the battle of Oriskany, his company was jam- med so tight in the jaws of St. Le- ger's nut cracker, where the pres- sure. was the greatest. How those Dygert's did fight. Read Harold Frederick's description of this fight in his book, "In the Valley."
Following is Pension Claim of Maria, for Revolutionary War Ser- vices of her first husband.
Lieut. Jost Dygert State of New York, Herkimer Co. On the seventh day of October in the Term of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven of thecourt of Common Pless of said county held at hte Court House at Herkimer village in aforesaid county before the Hon. Adijah Osburn, John B. Dygert and Richand Terrenden Esquires judges of said couurt ap- peared personally in open court Mar- illus Tockey (formerly Maria Eliza- beth : Moyer, wife of Lieut Johann Jost Dygert, who being first duly sworn -according to law, doeseth on her oath make the following declara- tion in order to obtain a pension under the act of Congress passed July 1836, and the act supplemental amendatory Thereof.
That she is seventy-four years of age on the fifth day of May 1837 and is the widow of Jost Dygert de- ceased and now resides in the town of
Little Falls in said county, and that | office could be secured and publici opinion was the only reward for
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