Mohawk Valley genealogy and history : [a compilation of clippings, 1948], Part 38

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WEED, HOYT, IRISH

Ancestry and brothers and sisters with dates, locations and marriages, asked of Gilbert Weed, born 1740, Westchester Co., N. Y., died 1823, Cayuga Co., N. Y., married 1704 Ab- igail Hoyt 1745-1823.

Full list of their children also

! PORTER, HOUSTON

Ancestry and children asked of

David Porter who married before 1761 Margaret Houston. She was daughter of George Houston who died Red Lion Hd., New Castle Co., Del. Feb. 1761. Was David related to Capt. Alexander Portez of the same county ?

Marie Lyle,

Lyle Heights,

Paso Robles, Cal.

BOOTHI

Ancestry and dates wanted of Rev. Frederick Booth, born 1812 or 1813 at Lancaster, Pa. and died June 1869 In Virginia, also of his wife, Mary Ann Swayne, born August 1818 in Virginia. Their parents were John and Catherine Booth and Thomas Swayne with 'wife Elizabeth Peer.

Ancestry of Anne Reed born ? March 16, 1823, died in Woodatock, Va. August 1860.

Ancestry of Michael Wolfe born? Dec. 9, 1801, died ? 1882 In Northum- berland county, Pa.

Williard, Willard, Willier any forni of spelling accepted as name has been varlously spelled. I am collect- ing data on the John Peter Williard ancestry and descendants also of his wife Magdalena. Please give me any- thing you have on the families. John Peter Williard was born in Europe 1745 and died in'Dauphin county, Pa 1821. His wife Magdalena born 1745 died 1822. They were the parents of a large family of eight. or more children.

Mrs. Roy Miller,

Berrysburg, Pa.

super nugust the cultivation of the soil. He pre pared for college in the study of the Rev. Mr. Willard, pastor of the Con- gregational church in East Stafford Conn and a son of one of the early presidents of Harvard College.

He entered Dartmouth College in 178 and received his B. A. in 1791 and for some time studied medicine. In the autumn of 1791 he started the study of theology with the Rev. Ephraim Judson of Sheffied, Mass., an uncle of the Rev. Adoniran Jud- son, D. D. the well known mission- ary of Burmah.

He remained some time with Mr. Judson and in June, 1792 was exam ined by the Berkshire Association respecting his knowledge of theology and theology and was granted a lf- cense to preach.

-His first sermon was preached in Nobletown, now Hillsdale, N. Y. on Sunday, July 8, 1792.

On November 11, 1792 he was marbled at Woodbury, Conn. by the Rev. Noah Bennedict, pastor of the Congregational church, to Miss Ruth Pond, the eldest 'child of Edward Pond of Woorbury, Conn. Her moth- er was the only sister of Ephraim and Adoniram Judson (Sen)) Rev. Samuel Fuller, Jr. followed the wave of migration, from New England to Greene county in New York where he preached March 26, andy 1793 in a school house., at Durham, N. Y. Two weeks later he moved along to Rensselaerville, N. Y. where) he tarried at Mr. Stephen, Collender's who lived in what was then called "The West Street" on east side of Fox Creek.

During this spring he was taken vented sick with ague and fever which pre- his preaching. During his sickness he stayed at the home of Dr. John Frisbie, at that time one of only two framed houses in the village. His health being somewhat restored he returned in August to his father's home in Connecticut weher he preached several times in Waterbury, Conn.

In October 1793 he returned to Rensselaerville, N. Y. and was given a call by the society for the work of gospel ministry. Himself ordain- ed Jan. 23, 1794, he in turn in 1803 preached at the ordination of his pu- pil the Rev. Henry B. Stimson who married Mr. Fuller's wife's sister, Rebecca Pond, who labored so long and so successfully as the first min-} ister of the Presbyterian church of Ashland, then Windham in Greene Co., N. Y. Mr. Stimson was the di- rect ancestor of Secretary of State Stimson of Washington.

Up to this time Mr. Fuller had been a Congregationalist and had been the center and inspiration for founding of several church organiza- tions (later Presbyterian) in Albany and Greene counties, N. Y.

Rev. Samuel Fuller, Jz. was con- nected with the Northern Associat- ed Presbytery. for some . 16 years and itraveled as a rider preacher thru out much of New York state.

Personally I have examined h the church records and have found his name as connected with | church y or- ganizations from Albany through what was known as the Genessee Country beyond the Finger Lakes area as well as the Susquehanna Valley and Chenango Valley disthict. He made four of these missionary

wanted with dates, locations marriages. Known are 1. Alexander, born N. Y. died 1849, married Eliz- If you desire more information Ifabeth Irish; 2. Sarah 1771.1852 mar- : ried 1786 Ichabod Clark 1766-1844; 3. Alanson 1780-1869, married Polly Platt. Missing dates and locations for these wanted. '

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ENTERPRISE AND NEWS

trips some of which, took several months and covered over. 900 miles. Fort some reason not clearly un- derstood by the writer he decided in 1810 to enter the Protestant Epis- copal communion and was ordained a deacon in Trinity church in New /York City Oct. 10, 1810.

One year later he was advanced to the priesthood In the same place by the Right Rev. John Henry Ho- of Floyd Tanner, one time vice pres- bart ,assistant bishop of Trinity church, He then returned to Rense- laepville where he organized Feb. 20; 1811 an Episcopal church. He planned a church bullding which was completed by Ephraim B. Russ, the contractor.

In Feb., 1813 his wife, the former Ruth Pond died in an eidemle of malignant fever that raged that win- ter.

His second wife who survived him was Flora Backus, eldest daughter of Electus Backus the brave' colonel of the U. S. in the war of 1812.

Rev. Samuel Fuller, Jr., our mis- sionary had one son "and an only" daughter. This 'son took the name of his father and was none other than the Rev. Dr. Samuel Fuller (3rd) the well known Episcopal clergyman of Christ Church at Andover, Mass. From the pen of the latter came a pamphlet, a memorial to his father, entitled "Early Days of the CChurch in the Heldenburghs." (Can anyone advise where I can find a copy of this pamphlet ?)

Besides his son and namesake of Britain: The' Picts from the north, Andover, Mass. the Rev. Samuel Ful- ler, Jr. had an only daughter who I belleve married Ezra Lester. Can anyone give me more information on the ancestors of this Fuller line as well as the descendants ?

Charles Elijah Abrams,

Box 7, GPO Syracuse, N. Y.

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)

(289A) XPRB 439C John (Ad.) Bellinger, son of Lieut. Adam Bellin- ger and Maria Elisabeth Petri. He was born April 9, 1779. Married in 1799 to Anna Eva Zimmerman of Little Falls, N. Y. who was born ¡1777. Sponsors Johannes and Doro- thea Petrie. (Ros. Records). Died 1841. Children: 7 (Record of S. S. W. Carr of Aberdeen, S. D.) .

1170 XPRB 1641 Anna Bellinger, born' Feb. 28, 1800, died Jan. 14, 1862 aged 61-10-14. (Manheim cemetery record). Married March 31, 1819 to Tchn Henry Brodt. He died Oct. 30, 1866, aged 71 years, 8 months. He served in the War of 1812. (DAR 179661). Children: 2. .

(Note: This is the line of Mrs. Le- na Brodt; S. W. W. Carr; Mrs. Ed- ward Goodell).

1171 XPRB 1642. Richard Bellinger born 1802, died Feb. 1832, aged 29 years, 10 months. Married Nancy

SETTLERS OF CURTIS CORNERS Town of Salisbury By Dr. S. C. Kimm

The passing of a few months ago ident. of the great General Motors Corporation recalls to mind those sturdy settlers of northern Salisbury of the early eighteen hundreds.

In every first settlement from Plymouth to the Pacific ocean there was always found one family that quickly became leaders in the colony. Such a family of leaders were the Shedds who settled in northern Salis- bury when it was a dense wilderness. They were not only leaders in those early days but their descendants tol day occupy important positions in all walks. of life throughout most of these nited States. In order to un- derstand the ancestry of the Shedds and also of nearly all who later came to America from England it will be necessary to go back in history near- ly 2000 years. It will be recalled that Rome had extended her conquests north across Europe to the British Isles. She built cities and introduced the arts of civilization long known to the Romans. But when the van- dals attacked the eternal city the Ro- man soldiers were withdrawn from

now Scotland, broke down the walls and fortifications which had been erected by the Romans and overran nearly all of Briton and destroyed | much of the civilization left by the Romans.

. The Anglo Saxons

In their despair the Britons called upon the Germans for help in fight- ing the savage Picts from the north, which resulted in an overwhelming migration from the east. From the dark forest of Germany came . the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Some of the Britons were absorbed by the Germans and other Britons were driven westward into what is now called Wales. The Angles settled in eastern Briton in such numbers that the island came to be called Angle- land from which came the name "England." The' Saxons occupied the southern portion of the Island. The territory of the west Saxons became Wessex. East Saxons Esses and the south Saxons Sussex, which names continue to this day. These German tribes were an independent, freedom loving people and they established to the ' social and political usages which they and their forefathers had been accustomed way back before re- corded history. They established their homes and elected'their rulers as we in the United States do today. They founded the modern democracy and established our English language. In short they became the great Anglo Saxon race of free enterprise-a free- dom loving people.

Ancestral Home of the Shedds Near the border line of the coun- tles of Suffolk and Essex is the vil- lage of Edwardstone, the first re- corded home of , Ithe Shedds. From here came Gov. Winthrop 1630 to Mass. Bay Colony, and from the Anglo Saxon 'stock of these two counties came a large part of the Puritans who founded New England. The most of the early . Shedds were land holders which made them Loodare in 'their respective communi-

Soldier. in the Revolution

Daniel. 4 had a son Jonas 5 born'im Groton 1750.He moved with his par- ents to New Hampshire from which state he enlisted in the Revolution, serving in Col. Nichols' regiment, Gen. Stark's brigade in the northern continental army. After the end of the war he returned to Massachu- setts and later moved to Herkimer county where he lived a' short time whn he moved to Williamstown, Os- wego county where he died. He rais- ed a family of 8 children. Because of his service in the Revolution all of the Herkimer county and Salisbury" Shedds are eligible to join the SAL .. and DAR, patriotic societies.

(To be continued)

The Meaning Of Hollandish

By J. H. DeRUIJTER

Amersfoort Postrek. 177037

At first I make the remark that "D'itrh" means born in the Nether -- lands (Holland), out of Hollandiske. parents. I: has nothing to do with the Dutch word Duits, which means German.

Except a very few all Dutch family-names (their number being about 80,000) can be classified under 4 groups:

I. Patronymics.

II Geographical Names, house- names and names, derived from sign- boards and fasade stones.

III. Names of professions. IV. Names, derived from physical and spiritual qualities.

Wie emphatically point out that one cannot always find the correct mean-' ing of a word without knowing its- connection with other words in ar sentence. So there are many family- names of which a correct meaning" cannot be given as we do not kmdemx- how they arose.

I. Patronymics: are the oldest group of our. surnames. Out of & !. burgomasters of the town of Middle -. burg in the providence of Zealand, from 1365 till 1449, there were 27 with a patronymic, 15 with a: geo- graphical name and 6 with other" names.

Out of the 12 town clerks 9 had" a patronymic and 3 a geographical. name.

The many-fold use of patronymics can easily be understood. It is ch- vious that a son, especially when he belongs to an important family ;. wants to show his relation to hiz; father in his surname. And in a lun -- ited community of people who alt know each other, nothing is easier than to Indicate a child with the; name of its father.'

Surnames with a Greek or Latin" ending and names, translated into - Latin ,form a group of their own. Es -... pecially in 'the provinces of Fries- land many intellectuals in the first : centuries after the Reformation, highly valued giving their names a learned aspect by giving a Latim ending. Many clengymen did so am !! among scholars it had been a customa since the late middle-agees to bringr their surname into line with the language in which they wrote their: | books.

In America

These notes and records of the Johan Jost Petrie famlly 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)

1170 XPRB 1641 Anna Bellinger, born Feb. 28, 1800, died Jan. 14, 1862 aged 61-10-14. (Manheim cemetery record). Married March 31, 1819 to 1 Tonn Henry Brodt. He died Oct. 30, 1866, aged 71 years, 8 months. He served in the War of 1812. (DAR 179661). Children: 2.

F(Note: This is the line of Mrs. Le- na Brodt; S. W. W. Carr; Mrs. Ed -. ward Goodell). ,

1171 XPRB 1642 .. Richard Bellinger born 1802, died Feb. 1832, aged 29 years, 10 months. Married Nancy Keller. (DAR 37954. Children 1:

(Note: This is the line of descent of Richard B. Curley of Little Falls, N. Y., Mrs. Ricer and Mrs. Goodell.) 1172 PRB 1643. Mary Bellinger. Married Isaac Churchill, Note. Is the same Isaac Churchill who was sec- ond .husband of. Mary Vedder born in, influences. Imbued with a strong

1817, daughter of Anna Rosina Tini- merman ?

++1173 PRB 1664. Sally Bellinger. Married Levenus Pickerd.

1174 PRB 1645. Levi Bellinger, born 1814 (census fig.) . Married 1, Sally Keller, 2 Lany Keyser, born 1820. (Note: Record of Brs. Judson Brldenbecker, Herkimer, N. Y.)

1175 PRB 1646 Dorothy Bellinger. Married George Loucks.

1176 PRB 1647. Amanda Bellinger married James Smith. (Records, Mrs. Theo. Z. Eiszner, Berwyn, Ill.)

(290)X Nicolaus (Nicholas) Kess- ler born Nov. 3, 1763, bapt. 7. Spon- sors Johann Nicholoas Kessler and Maria Catharina Petri. (L. F. Bellin- ger); died 1827 (G. F. 4.)

Married 1 Gertraut Bellinger (135) on Sept. 4, 1782. She was born July 27, 1764, died April 5, 1821 aged 57- 8-18. (Spinner record).

Children :. 12. (These have pre- viously been recorded under:)

730 Delia Casler married Jacob 1. Harder or Harter.

·731 Peter Bellinger Casler mar- ried Elizabeth Catharine Eysaman. 732. Anna Eva Casler.

73 Magdalena Casler married (1) Jacob Vrooman, 2 Heath.

734 Catharine Casler marricd Hen- ry T. Cronkheit.

735 Mary Casler married Henry Heath.

Richard N. Casler married Jane Young.

737 Uicholas Casler, Jr. married Polly Staring.

738 Robert Casler marricd Tina Zoller.

(To be continued)

Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Some of the Britons were absorbed by the Germans and other Britons were driven westward into what is now called Wales. The Angles settled in eastern Briton in such numbers that the island came to be called Angle- land from which came the name "England." The' Saxons occupied the southern portion of the island. The territory of the west Saxons became Wessex. East Saxons Esses and the south Saxons Sussex, which names continue to this day. These German tribes were an independent, freedom loving people and they established

to the social and political usages which they and their forefathers had been accustomed way back ibeforc re- corded history. They established their homes and elected'their rulers as we in the United States do today. They founded the modern democracy and established our English language. In short they became the great, Anglo Saxon race of free enterprise-a free- dom loving people.

Ancestral Home of the Shedds Near the border line of the coun- ties of Suffolk and Essex is the vil- lage of Edwardstone, the first re- corded home of, the Shedds. From here came Gov. Winthrop 1630 to Mass. . Bay Colony, and from the Anglo Saxon stock of these two counties came , a large part of the Puritans who founded New England. The most of the early . Shedds were land holders which made them leaders In their respective communi- tles. We find in the records of about the year 1508 one Thomas Shedd was the owner of 45 hundred acres of land. A grandson of this Thomas was Daniel Shedd, a county boy of rural training, under strong Puritan

belief in religious freedom he was willing to face the perils of the deep and the hardships of pioneer life to help found a nation in the New World.

Progenitor of a Great Crowd This Daniel became the progenitor of more than four thousand Shedds in America. It has been said of tlie Puritans of New England that God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness.

It was about 1645 that the name of Daniel Shedd was listed among the early settlers of Braintree, Mass. Here he cleared a farm and he had neighbors whose descendants became famous in this country. One of these was the ancestors of President Ad- ams. About 1659 Daniel moved to another settlement named Billcrica. He acquired several acres of land and was one of the, leading citizens of his town. Here too, they lived in dread of the Indians and of King Phillip's war. A son-in-law and a grandson were killed by the Indians. Daniel had 11 children.

Samuel the Second

We will follow the children in their direct line of descent down to the Salisbury Shedds. Samuel 2, son of Daniel 1 married ' Elizabeth Bowers and they had 10 children. He died in Groton, Mass. where he had accum ulated considerable property. Samr els' son Danlel 3 was a successful farmer in Groton and had 4 children We find that his son Daniel 1 is th next in line of descent which we p- pursuing. This Daniel moved to Ner Hampshire where he raised a famil: of 8 children.

connection with other Words in a sentence. So there are many family- names of which a correct meaning cannot be given as we do not know- how they arose.

I. Patronymics: are the oldest group of our surnames. Out of &I. burgomasters of the town of Middle -. burg in the providence of Zealand,. from 1365 till 1449, there were 27 with a patronymic, 15 with a. geu- graphical name and 6 with other" names.

Out of the 12 town clerks 9 had a. patronymic and 3 a geographical name.

The many-fold use of patronymics can easily be understood. It is ob- vious that a son, especially when he belongs to an important family,. wants to show his relation to. Iiz: father in his surname. And in a lin -. ited community of people who all know each other, nothing is easier than to indicate a child with the name of its father.'

Surnames with a Greek or Latin". ending and names, translated into" Latin ,form a group of their own. Es -... pecially in the provinces of Fries- " land many intellectuals in the first. : centuries after the Reformation,". highly valued giving their names e learned aspect by giving a Latim ending. Many clergymen did so arw !. among scholars it had been a custona since the late middle-agees to bring. their surname into' line with the language in which they wrote their: books.

So Antonlus de' Waels called hitme- self Walleus, Hugo de Groot, Grotiusz Others translated their names inti) Latin. Jan de Backer, I. e. John, ami Baker, called himself: Johannes Pis -- torius. Jelle Smit, I. e. Jelle Smithi, ;. called himself Gellius Faber, Jam Snyder, i. 'e. John the Tailor,, called himself Joannes Sartorium ..

. But usually it was done easier by giving the Dutch surname a Greek or Latin ending, and leaving them for- the rest as they were. The Greats ending "ides" occurs In the names" Hermanides, Hajonides, ' Hilarides,. Simonides, etc. There are far more Latin endings. The ending lus, ants and us occur in the names: Borges- ius, Heinsius, Jansonius, Heiningius, Bogardus, Lindenhovius, etc.

The ending I and IS to indicate & patronymic is found in Adriani, Petre .. Nicolal, etc. Michaelis, Simonis, Tac -- nls, etc.

II Geographical names, house- names derived from signboards, and. facade-stones. It is obvious that a person who settled down somewhere- was indicated in the new place with the name of his place of origin.

The most used are names of places or regions (counties) predicated by- the preposition "VAN" which means from, for instance: van Valkenburg .... van Bunschoten, wan Dantzig, van: Deventer, etc. (Between the prefix and the sur-name there is always. & space, van Amersfoort, not vanamer- sfoort.)

€ Some of those names lost their pre- positions and only the name of the place was left: Vollenhoven, Hooge- veen, Hoogland, Steenbergen, etc.

There are not so many surnames: in which out of the names of place, region( county) a generic name was made, for instance, Hes (Hessian), Deen (Dane) Hollander (Dutchmen) .. de Frankryker (French).

(To be continued)

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ST. JOHNSVILLE, (N. Y.) E

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th, 1948

MOHAWK VALLEY

GENEALOGY AND

HISTORY

St. Johnsville Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville, N. Y.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th 1948

Questions and Answers

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WERT

Many thanks to the Enterprise and News and its subscribers for the ef- forts shown in trying to help me on my Wert line, and particularly my thanks go to Mrs. Roy Miller of Berrysburg, Pa. for her item In Sep- tember 2nd issue. The Werts she mentioned are probably relatives of my Michael Went. I spent many hours at the Kansas City, Mo. li- brary searching through the Penn- sylvania Archives but found mention of only one Michael. Series 3, Vol. 2, P589, quote In part: .

""Land office, Jan. 13,' 1775. Mich- ael Royer enters a caveat against the return of a survey of a hundred acres of land made to Michael Wirt and his brother Adam Wirt, on the head waters of Berry's run in Green- wood township, Cumberland county -- (and so on)," Other Werts were found mentioned in records of Bed- ford; Berks; Bucks; Lancaster; York and Northampton counties and In Philadelphia. Also in Series 3, Vol. 2, P578 John Adam Wirt entered a caveat against the acceptance of survey of land. in Upper Pextang township, Lancaster county, on Aug. 22, 1774. In the DAR Lineage . Book, Vol. 95; p203 I believe), it shows wife of John Adam Wirt (b. 1724) to be Elizabeth Snoke.

The following was taken by a rel- ative from the National Archives at Washington, D. C., census of 1810 of Dauphin County, Pa. (Harrisburg); head of family, Michael Wert, with following: 1 son 1 to 10 years, 1 dau. 1 to 10 years, 1 đau. 1 to 16 years. He and wife, 26 to 45 years. He was not shown in 1820 census which caus- es me to believe Col. Saunders in his book "Early Settlers of Ala." was right. He shows, or states, Michael Went died before his son, Michael Wert, Jr., was yet a year old, and further stated that he died without leaving a- will, ~~ so all his- property went into hands of an administrator who squandered it all away. The Mc- Cond family Bible shows Mich- ael Wert, Jr. as born in Harrisburg, Pa. May 10, 1815, therefore Michael. Wert, Sr. must have died at Harris- burg early In 1816, or latter part of 1815, 'yet so far, no record can be found of him except that found in the National Archives mentioned above, Saunders states in his Item that "Michael (meaning Michael, Jr.) was the son of an old Revolutionary soldier who was born, reared 'and died in Pennsylvania. His mather was a native of. Virginia. If this is true then the Michael mentioned in census of 1810 could not be my Mich- ael for he would hardly have been old enough to have been in the Rev. ·War.

I had formed the aninion that

( Afterward married a prominent la- dy, who after his death married a Jlawyer of Cleveland, O. Great Grand- father Michael Wert was murdered on a highway while Michael was quite an infant." It Is possible that Wert was spelled Vert in Germany

W. .

It is also my opinion that the Werts or Verts were originally Van Werts or Van Verts. It was through this suggestion in my April 1st arti- known there as 'a blacksmith

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Mohawk Valley genealogy and history : [a compilation of clippings, 1948], Part 38

Author: Publication date: 1942 Publisher: [1942-1949] Number of Pages: 222

Author:
Publication date: 1942
Publisher: [1942-1949]
Number of Pages: 222