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the first to preach from the pulpit against . the faise teachings into which the church at that time had fallen. He was at that time oreach- ing in Bohemia which is now a part of Czechlovakia adjoining Germanv.
Thomas 4. Simon 3. Lt. Andrem 2. Cant. Andrew L. from Eng.) Where The English king who was wed to. a Bohemian princess was not in good standing with the pope on account of brother Newcomb Mond was born Aid he live? Whom did he marry? Want data his children. Israel's this marriage, she not being in fav-|1775, died 1861. Want name of his
wife and data his children .. Israel's Aauchter Deborah 1770-1965 married Tgaac Mesd 1749-1839. ** las this
Taman a son of Michael and Freelove (Parker) eMad? Wigh morresnon- dence anyone Interested the name Mead.
Eva Mead Firestone,
what he had said and was condemned Upton, Wyoming
(Above records are records of baptism of some children found in Schoharie Church records).
111X. Christian Schell, Jr., son of Johan Christian Schell, Sr. and Ma- ria Elisabeth Petri (youngest dau. of Johan Jost Petri and Cordella Demuth.)
He was born Oct. 8, 1758. He ap-, plied for a pension. He served from 1775 to 1780. In an affidavit he says he saw Capt. Butler shot when in the summer of 1781 the militla were , called out under Col. Willett and
tines of which Christian House was drove the Indians and Tories under one, and in our hearts we connect them to the great House family of America.
Ross and. Butler across the West Canada Creek. Jost Hess (son of Augustinus, Sr.) In an affidavit to help Christian Schell in getting the pension, says he and Shell are cou- sins. Jost Hess was the second son of Augustinus Hess and his 2nd wife- Nancy (Anna) Schell : Benson Hess (Rec. from Mrs. Louise Hess.) Mar- ried 'April 6, 1793 Elisabeth P. Seg- ner (Seckner). He died in Michigan, Known children:
600. Henry Scheil born June' 18,
1794.
601. Andrew Schell.
· 602. Benjamin Schell.
603. Mary Schell.
604. Paul Schell.
605. Elizabeth Schell.
606. Lena Schell.
607. Anna Scheli.
There .mav. be others. This is ' all the material we have on this branch of the family.
112. Maria Elisabeth Schell, dau. of Maria Elisabeth Petri and Johan Christian Schell. Sr. Born Sept. 22, 1760. Sponsors Maria Elizabeth, sin- gle daughter of Marx Petry and Diet- erich, single son of Johann .Petry. She married Peter Martz and moved to Markham, Ontario. She died April 12., 1859 at Ingersol. Ontario.
113. Augustinus Schell, called De- nid. bv Rev. Denissen, born April 17. 1763. Sponsors Augustinus Hess and wife Anna. He was not married. He winS' mortally wounded in July, 1782 during the second attack on the
Mens and Tories. He died the. 9th Hair after being shot, therefore left flegrendants.
114"L. Froderlong
Dec. 16, 1764. (Denison says 1762) .:
and Marin Potru. He was shot in the
-frrl 1st Chlice Manson, 2nd Rhoda Crouch, and 3rd Elizabeth Sanders; Alvah married Polly Townsend; ] thigh .July. 1782, /in the engagement .. when his father and his brother And gustinus were fatally wounded. His come" genived three days after being
Frederick monitored but was Jame ever after. He died in Markham, O -- taxin. He married and her a child ren:
610. Christian Schell, married By. ker.
011, Henry Schell.
612. John Schell.
017. Taan Schell,
011. Jonathan Scheli.
615. .... Shall Manutan Tilke
616. .. ... Schell Married Toby Pa- king
617. .... Anhall. Mamina nowon 115. Anna, Maria Schall Platerhtn.
of Maria, Ficabeth Petri a-A John. Christian, Shell, hom Tinh +2 170 Strangers Anna Maria and Thann. Heerine. Nothing more kno.m.
Israel Mead 1731-1806 resided Nine Partners, died and buried in Kings- bury, Washington county, N. Y. Second wife was Hannah, daughter of Daniel Harris of Goshom, Conn. First wife's name unknown., She was. mother of six following: Isaiah born 1757, "soldier Am. Rev. Pension re- cord RR 7075, had son James W .; Israel, Jr .; John; Keziah 1761-1788: Marv; Stenhen 1758-1808, married Patience Farr. (I' have data this couple). Wish data parents of Isracl, his first wife's name and whom the children married, also names of their children.
he lived over 20 years. Then went to | Schell family blockhouse, by. the In-
Manchester twp., Dearborn Co., Ter- " Mrs. Ward Browning, History of Indiana. Married 1786 Flia .aleth Bentley 1767-1849. Their child; ren were: Barbara married Jesse Vanghan: Eli B. married Hannah Aflor: Mercey married Wm. Ar- In a book entitled "The Church of wall; Rangel 1796-1216; Allen mar-
Izrael Mad born 1789, son of Ne- hemiah 6 Mend (Nehemiah 5. Jona- than 4, John 3. John 2. William) and Sarah 6 Newcomb (Cvrenins 5.
or with the church at that time and also on account of the revolt in Eng- land against the pope by John Wy- clif. On account of his preaching against certain practices of the church as then known John Hus was accused of. heresy and was piaced under arrest. He refused to retract
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13. .. : J .hell, daughter of Maria sabe". "etri and Johan Christian :"!1. .. n Nov. 7, 1768. Catharina rie and Dieterich Petrie. Married ·T · Plan': Eva was once scalped and n " for dead by the Indians, but re- overed.
117X. Johann Henrich (Henry) Schell, son of Maria Elisabeth Petri and Johan Christian Schell, Sr. Twin brother of Marcus (Mark). Born Gent. 22, 1770. Sponsors Johann Hen- ! `h Widderstein and wife Magdale- a. This Henry Schell with his twin ;rother Marcus was taken captive during the first attack on the Chris- "ian Schell block house at Schell's Bush, near Herkimer, N. Y. This first attack occurred August 31, 1780, according to a letter written by Col. Peter Bellinger to Col. Van Schaick and Governor Cinton, dated Fort Dayton Sept. 1, 1780.
He married April 13, 1794 Maria daughter of Gerlach Majer (Moyer, Myers), after his return from captiv- ity.
Henry moved in 1798 to the Nellis settlement at "Forty Miles Creek" In the township of Grimsby, Ontario, between Hamilton and Niagara. One or two years later he moved to Mark ham, Ontario, 24 miles north of To- ronto. Here all of his children were born, except Henry and Elizabeth, the two oldest. There were eight children. 4
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The Eckler Family
By W. N. P. Dalley
Margaret Eckler, sixth' child
of
John E. and Magdalena Van Horne, born Genesee county, N. Y. Feb. 24, 1821, married Calvin J. Bigelow Jan. ,8, 1840. Issue, Caroline born Avon, N. Y. Oct. 18, 1840, married a Mackey. Issue, George born June 7, 1860, died 1879. Mattie born Ar- lington, Mich. April 27, 1864, Julia Bigelow born Avon Jan. 1, 1843 and married Chester Bridges Oct. 1, 1860. Issue, Minnie born Arlington, Mich. Sept. 6, 1863. Inexb Lawrence, Mich., Wm. Bigelow born Hartland N. Y. May 15, 1846, married Lydia Carr. Issue, Byron born Arlington Aug. 14, 1867, Willis born Arlington Aug. 31, 1873, Frank born Jan. 22, 1876 and Millie born July 18, 1878.
Julia Ann Eckler (daughter John E. and Magdalena Van Horne) born Avon, N. Y. Feb. 15, 1823, died Ar- lington March 17, 1867, . married Benj. Ewings.
Sophronia Eckler born Avon Jan. 2, 1825, marrled Andrew Whiteman- way Feb. 17, 1867. Issue, Dora born' Arlington July 3, 1875 and Lloyd born Jan. 15, 1875.
Lucinda Eckler born Avon, N. Y. Jan. 27, 1827, married Geo. Meekin Oct. 5, 1845. Issue, James Albert born Oct. 11, 1846, died 1857. John Andrew born Dec. 15, 1848 married May 15, 1870. Emma J. Horton, had Geo. Wm. born April 15, 1871 and Halsle born May 15, 1873.
Malinda Eckler born Avon Jan. 30, 1829, died at Lyons, Mich. April 16, 1865, married John Voorhees Sept. 15, 1851. Issue: Lewis born Ly- ons, Mich. Jan. 25, 1853. Wallace born Dec. 15, 1855 and Frank born Oct. 13, 1857.
Maria Eckler born Avon Feb. 5, 1831, married James Wallace Aug. 1851.
John E. Eckler, Jr. born A.von
The Deserted Village of Mexico
By S. C. Klmm
Vast Forests
Thus a great tract of wild . land was thrown on the market extend- ing north for many miles. Tradition says that John Faville and Cornelius Lamberson · yentured into the present limits of Salisbury before the close of 'the Revolutionary war, but not until some years after the Treaty of Peace of 1783 began the influx of settlers, mostly from Connecticut.
Early Settlers.
Major Hallett settled in western Salisbury In 1787. In 1922 Jabez Ayres settled near Burrells Corners and Stephen Todd at Diamond Hill. Atwater Cook settled at Ives Hol- low in 1795, and the Ives family moved to near Salisbury Corners the same year. The year 1795 also saw Aaron Hackiey building a tavern at Burrells Corners and Silas Thomp- son carving the Thompson home- stead from the wilderness which is still owned by his great great grand- children. Two years previously Al- varius Hopson had settled in the southern part of the town. He is the
31, 1867, married Wm. B. Heller at Omaha, Neb. July 7, 1892. Issue: Wiison B. born Ang. 1, 1893 at Oma- ha, lives in Los Angeles. Benton Mc- Alvin, born July 20, 1899 at Omaha, lived in Los Angeles (1920-1936). Moved to Detroit. Has daughter by first wife. Adela born Sept. 24, 1924, lives in Los Angeles.
Malinda De Haven (daughter Joel and Christiana) born Novi, Mich. Oct. 24, 1847, married James Wash- burn Feb. 8, 1863. Issue: John born Feb. 4, 1865, Jennie 1866, Florence Feb. 5; 1864, Wm. Sept. ,26, 1870, Millicent and Levi
Levi De Haven born July 7, 1861, Bangor, Mich. married Leslie Scott (1879), a Scotch Canadian who was born 1840. She died Nov. 20, 1945, both buried Bangor, Mich. Issue: Leslie, Jr., 2nd Lt. World War II, born Aug. 3, 1893, Forest born 1894, Arthur born 1897, Frances born 1900. She married John Cole, one son and Kathleen Scott born 1902, married a Mr. Newton.
References-Green Co., N. Y. His- tory, Herkimer Co. History, Denton's Upper Mohawk Valely' (1856), Com- memorative Biog. Read's Los Ange- les Lib .. , Hardin's Herkimer Co:, N. . In Revolution, Book of. Names by MacWethy (1933), Family papers and letters on the Eckler famiy.
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great great grandfather of Super intendent of schools, E. S. Hopson
Mexloo Settlers .
Thus we see by 1810 the southern part of Salisbury was well dotted by the homesteads of settlers, most- ly from New England. The Cools, the Ives and Baldwins secured large tracts of forest lands in order to get spruce logs for their mills. About this time' hundreds of immigrants began to arrive from Ireland. They were glad to seek service among the earller and. already established set- tiers and in the forests. As I have already stated the available lands of southern Salisbury had all been taken up so that the Irish and later settlers from New England were obliged to chop their way into the more northern sections. For ; reasons that I cannot explain the Irish fol- lowed up the east side of Spruce Creek and made a setlement which they called Mexico, 'while some Connecticut Yankees and about 10 German families settled in the Curtis Corners neighborhood. By 1840 to 1850 these Irish settlers had cleared hundreds of acres of land and wer raising large and healthy families ~
I have every reason to think that the O'Haras, McEvoys, Murrays and , Murphys were the first settlers and so 70 years ago when I was a very little lad the Irish settlement of Mex- ico with the Jones clearing was the most northern settlement in Salis- bury. A'contented and prosperous community. They attended the little old Catholic church at Salisbury Corners and buried their dead in her cemetery. Their children attended the district school near the old Peck clearing. One by one the first gen- eration dropped the canthook, the axe and their rude agricultural im- plements and were gathered to their fathers. The stony soil, early and late frosts and forest insects finally induced the second and third gen- erations to seek homes in the more genial soils and climate of Man- heim and Fairfield or homes in the more thickly populated villages and cities, and because of their industry and sturdy manhood they became an integral part of every community where they lived.
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married Chester Bridges Oot. 1, 1860. Issue, Minnie born Arlington. Mich. Sept. 6, 1863. Inexb Lawrence, Mich., Wm. Bigelow born Hartland N. Y. May 15, 1846, married Lydia Carr. Issue, Byron born Arlington Aug. 14, 1867, Willis born Arlington Aug. 31, 1873, Frank born Jan. 22, 1876 and Millie born July 18, 1878.
Julia Ann Eekler (daughter John E. and Magdalena Van Horne) born Avon, N. Y. Feb. 15, 1823, died Ar lington March 17, 1867, . married Benj. Ewings.
Sophronia Eckler born Avon Jan. 2, 1825, married Andrew Whiteman- Way Feb. 17, 1867. Issue, Dora born Arlington July 3, 1875 and Lloyd born .Jan. 15, 1875. 1
Lucinda Eckler born Avon, N. Y. Jan. 27, 1827, married Geo. Meekin Oct. 5, 1845. Issue, James . Albert born Oct. 11, 1846, died 1857. John Andrew born Dec. 15, 1848 married May 15, 1870. Emma J. Horton, had Geo. Wm. born April 15, 1871 and Halste born May 15, 1873.
· Malinda Eckler born Avon Jan. 30, 1829, died at Lyons, Mich. April 16, 1865, married John Voorhees Sept. 15, 1851. Issue: Lewis born Ly- ons, Mich. Jan. 25, 1853. Wallace born Dec. 15, 1855 and Frank born Oct. 13, 1857.
Maria Eekler born Avon Feb. 5, 1831, married James Wallace Aug. 1851.
John E. Eckler, Jr. born Avon April 11, 1833 died May 9, 1833. Almena Eckler born Avon May 2, 1835-July 12, 1836.
Susan Eckler born Avon April 4, 1837, died Aug. 7, 1838,
B. Dighton Eckler born Avon Jan. 25, 1840, died after 1816 in N. Dak. Civil War .. Married Betsy Gilbert Sept. 4, 1861 who died in No. Dak. (1916). Issue: Alfred born Arlington. Mich. Aug. 16, 1862. Lived in Santa Cruze, Calif. in 1914. Had son and daughter, Cora D. Eckler born Ar- Tineton June 4, 1866 and Thomas E, Dekler born July 24, 1847, died 1873.
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Noah D-kler born Avon Oct. 9, 1342, married Ella Durk Dec. 22. 1375. He was, a Fredonia, N. Y. ministr Yerine George, also a min- ister and Charles born Nov. 25. 1876, and Thomas.
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References-Green Co., N. Y. His- tory, Herkimer Co. History, Denton's Upper Mohawk Valely' (1856), Com- memorative Biog. Read's Los Ange- ies Lib .. , Hardin's Herkimer Co!, N. Y. In Revolution, Book of Names by MacWethy (1933), Family papers and letters on the Eckler famiy.
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heim and Fairfield or homes in the more thickly populated villages and eities, and because of their industry and sturdy manhood they became an integral part of every community
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PLYMET, SMITH, WEBSTER
Benoni Plymet, Revolutionary sol- dier of Dutchess Co., N. Y. was of Mohawk Town, Montgomery Co., N. Y. 1790 and waa of the town of (North) Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y. by ca. 1792. Among his children was a son Isaac and a daughter Pol- ly. Isaac Plymet, born about 1790 died before 1813, married ca. 1810 Betsey Smith. Polly Plymet born ca. 1784 married ca. 1804 Elijah H. Smith. The young widow Betsey (Smith) Plymet went with her broth- er, Elijah H. Smith and family to Ohio where she married (2) 1814 David Emerson.
Elijah H. Smith and Betsey Smith .were children of .... and Betsey. (Elizabeth) (Webater) Smith.
Information desired, ancestry of this 'Elijah and Betsey Smith and the same for each of their parents to- gether with dates and places of born, married, died with proof. Mra. Veva P. Hamilton, 1.48 Clinton avenue, Albany, N. Y.
PALMATIER, PALMETER, PALMITEER
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PALMATIER
Want data on Peter M. who mar- ried Aligail. Census of 1825 of Scho- harie Co., N. Y. gives Peter M. and wife under '45 with 2 sons.
Kimball and the later Henry, C. Mer- cer and of Sherwood Holbrook of the American Meroury Magazine and some others.
This all goes to show that if Noah Porter, president of Yale University, Daniel Webster and the political propagandist Rev. Alexander Young had done a little research before writing and speaking, American lit- erature and history would not be saddled with an utterly false myth that the English and Dutch pioneers built log houses immediately after landing on our coast. Whereas it was nearly a hundred years before these pioneers knew how to construct a log cabin and when they learned the how, it came from the Swedes, Germans (Palatines) and the Finns. Amother paragraph of the reviewl- er, George R. Stewart of the New York Times was rather interesting:
"The first big business of our lumbermen was the exportation of the trunks of New England (New York too) white pines to be used as masts. The curtail- ment of this supply because of the Revolutionary War half crippled the British Navy, Lack of white pine even made York town possible by preventing the arrival of the British fleet, masta played the role in the Revolutionary War that oil was to play n the World Wars."
Want names of parents, brothers and aisters, all data possible of Peter Palmiteer born before 1809 in New York State. Peter married Nellie Ann Van Benschoten in 1834. Nellie Ann was born at Knox, Albany Co., Well does the writer remember visiting, more than fifty years ago, the rallroad yard at Middleburgh, N. Y. and aeeing a shipment of "old fashioned yellow" pine about to be made to Cramp Ship Building Yard at Philadelphia and even that won- derful collection of straight and tall masts culled from the Schoharie Hills must have been inferior to the pre-Revolutionary product of the for- ests of Central New York. N. Y. and baptized Feb. 9, 1812.in the Reformed church of Helderberg in Guilderland Center, N. Y. She was the daughter of Abner and Ger- trude Van Benschoten. Peter Pal- miteer wife and 4 children removed to Wisconsin about 1855 and locat- ed In Springvale, Columbia Co. Later they removed to Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., Wis. Eldest daughter supposed- ly remained in New York state when the family came west. Other Of course our Palatine ancestors in the Hudson, Schoharie and Mo -: hawk valleys built their houses of Palmiteer families locating in Co- lumbia county about 1855 were John and wife Elizabeth of New York and logs laid horizontally and chinked Francis and wife Catherine. of Co- \' bleskill, Schoharie Co., N. Y. What is the connection of these families ?
Census of 1860 gives Peter as re- siding Springvale, Columbia Co., Francis in Centralia, Wood o., John, Cortland, Columbia Co. and a Mad- the present day. Don Quixote never son as Randolhp, Columbia Co. All invented a greater myth than some were born in New York atate.
with clay because they came from a country that was well forested. Many of them had lived in log houses before they came to Amer- ica. The Rhineland has been noted for ita fine forests even down to
of the early American writers and speakers of , the Rev. , Alexander Young variety, author of the "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" pamphlets of the presidential campaign of 1840.
It is true that the historical writ- and of today have more data avail- | A. Mitchell.
Does New York State have any rostera of Rev. Soldiers buried in New York state and if, so, how much do they cost and where may one be purchased?
FROMAN
Has anyone ever found where the Froman family of early W. Pa. Mo- nongahela river area migrated from? Capt. Paul ; Froman called "the man of mills" because he had at least two on the Monogahela R. had possibly a brother, Solomon Fro- man, Sr. who appears on the rarely known "Pittsburgh Payroll" of 1775 of which Paul Froman was the cap- tain. Colomon Froman who was ap- pointed Constable in Youghioheny" Co., Va. about 1775-6 (ref. Minutes of the Court of Youghioheny Co., Va. 1776-80 by Boyd Crumrine) and | he must have died or have been killed on the frontier for the same: book has-a court item where his widow Mary Frohman (nee Mary!" Munn, daughter of John and Mar- garet (who ?) Munn) 'was was grant- ed admin. of his estate and allow- ance for the infant orphan, aged 18 months in 1778. The widowed Mary Munn Froman md. (2) Wm. Byers of Washington county, Pa. in 1782, and with the young Solomon Fro- man, Jr. went down the river after 1790 to Maysville, stopped there; where young Solomon md. Sarah Boone, (dau. of Jacob and Mary DeHart) Boone) then Mary and. Wm. and their other children of 2nd mgge, migrated further west into Scioto County, O., where Mary's eldest brother Capt. James Munn Revolutionary soldier, had already settled near Portsmouth, Ohio. The whole story of this family is so in- teresting but it would be good to find the real origin of those Fro- mans. Were they New Jerseyites ? or of the Palatine groups or Virgin- ians or who ?
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