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The New Bell
The new bell which was cast of the bell foundry at Troy, N. Y. is one of the best toned bells I know. It was presented to the church by Daniel - D. " . Northrup as . his - part towand, the church improvement. MT. Northrup was for many years the leading merchant in Salisbury Cen- ter and his general store stood on the present site of the Universalist parish house. The bell was raised and put in its frame by Aaron Fos- ter, Lorren Kelley, Orrin Tanner and their helpers. This old bell has called the people of this, community to their place of worship for nearly 70 years and it is a fine tribute to its donor Mr. Northrup who not on- ly took a substantial interest in churches but was always found in the lead of every movement for the betterment of his village and of thel town. For those times, the sums of money pledged was large but they were all paid and the church was re-dedicated with not a single debt agianst it. Rev. G. W. Howland was the pastor and the re-dedication cer- emonies were conducted by Bishop Peck.
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)
Installment No. 42
(710)X B14. Daniel BellInger, Lt., born 1796, died about 1877. He was the son of Catherine Bellinger (131. B.2.) and 2nd husband, John P. Bel- linger. He moved from German Flats to Danube in 1809. (Note: The sword and plpe lighting steel of General Herkimer was in this branch of the. family; now, with the Bible, they are in the General Herkimer Home.) .He was in the War of 1812. (Pensión S. |C. 9289): After the war he was en- sign, Lieut, and captain vice Reed. Married Margaret Lottridge, daugh- ter of George Lottridge. Children 4. 1500B86. Chauncey Christopher
Bellinger born Jan. 14, 1818. Mar- Tried Maria Elwood. (No other in- formation on this line.,
1501XB87. John P. Bellinger born Oct. 1, 1819 in Danube. Married Nan- cy Benedict.
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Pouton, William, Queensbury, ; and his granddaughter Julia. Wit- nesses: Benjn. Miller, Daniel Silk- man and - Holmes. iWill dated May 14, 1784, prov. Jan. 30, 1795.
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NTERPRISE AND NEWS
1502XB88. George Robert Bellinger ble Curtis of whom nothing further born April 3, 1824 in Danube. Mar-
is known. Wanted her parentage with fried 1 Betsy Walrath born 1828 ali possible data.
(1850 census). She was a sister of Christina, wife of Christopher Bel- linger. She had one daughter who died' In youth. Married 2 Catharine Wairath, sister of his first wife. She had one child. ";J
1503XB89. James William Bellin- ger, born' Sept. 2, 1826 in Danube. He married Elisabeth Casler. No issue.
(720)XB23. Peter P. Bellinger, Jr. was a son of Johann Peter Bellinger and Christina (Ten Broeck), widow of Nicholas Beil. He was born Jan. 15, 1785. (Ros. recond). Sponsors Stoffel .Bellinger and Deiia Petry (Ros. record.) He died Dec. 10, 1858, age 71-8-10. (Tombstone record In Edwardville.) Married Catharine Eighmey (sometimes spelled Amee and Amey). She was born July 19, 1781, died Jan., 1876. (Tombstone record in Edwardville, N. Y.) They moved to the Black river valley. He was at Oriskany. Children 3:
331510XB120. Jacob Herkimer Bel- linger born Oct. 22, 1816 in Minden. (Spinner record), died Aug. 14, 1888 aged 71-10-23. Married 1 Nancy Ce- cilia Coughnet (746B45) daughter of Jacob J. Coughnet (2nd husband of marie Rosenkrantz (194). Children 3: 'Married 2 Helen J. Smith, born March 18, 1826, married Sept. 8, 1844, died April 27, 1870, aged 44-1-9. Children 12.
Married 3 Kate Nellis No. 9, 1870. No issue.
1511XB121. Martha Ann Bellin- ger born Sept. 18, 1818 In Danube. (Spinner record). Married Peter Bellinger born Nov. 24, 1815, son of Adam Bellinger. Children 6.
1512XB122. Catharine Christina Bellinger born June, 1814, died Feb. 1883. (Tombstone record in Peter- boro). She was named after her mother and her grandmother. She married Brig. General Thomas F. Petrie (1242B99.) He was born June 1, '1809 In Herkimer. died March 15, 1892 in Peterboro. Children 3.
(722) B25. Anna (Nancy) P. Bel- linger, daughter of Johann Peter Bellinger and Christina (Ten Broeck) widow of Nicholas Bell. She was born in 1792 (Heath's Pamphlet), died 1830. Married Robert MoChes- ney in 1808. He was born in 1782, died in 1839. Children 14.
1520XB123. Pamelia McChesney, born . Jan. .. , 1810, died June 26, 1870.Married William Budlong, 'Jr. in 1829.
1521B124. Caroline McChesney, born in 1811. Married Walter Wager. Had one son Walter, Jr. and he had no children.
1522B125. Hiram McChesney, born 1812, dled in Infancy.
1523XB126. Dinah McChesney, born 1814. Married William I. Skinner. He was a saw mill owner in 1867. (Beers' History, p. 267). Children 6. 1524Z128. Christina McChesney, born 1815. Never married.
1525XB128. Christina McChesney, born 1817. Married Edward Arnold. Children.
1526XB129. Catharine McChesney, born April 17, 1819, died Dec. 4, 1897. Married Edward Mall May 23, 1843.
1527XB130. Hiram McChesney 2nd, born 1820. Named for (1522) deceas- ed, Married Mary - Vosburg, , born 1823 (1860 census, famlly 1158 in
From 1785 to 1807 Joseph's name appears in the public records of Buckland, Mass. in connection with certain land transactions. He is said to have been a blacgsmith. In 1789 he and his wife 'were admitted to membership in the Baptist church of Buckland. In 1790 he was enum- erated at Buckland with a family of four females. In 1806 he was listed as a voter there.
According to tradition, this family settled at Cherry Valley, New York about 1806. At hls time his wife's name seems to have been recorded as Martha Curtis. Family records show daughters with both names, Mehitable and Martha., Thelr child- ren, one son and five daughters were: Loranzo Dow, Hannah, Armenia,
Mehltable, Emily and Martha; onder unknown as no birth dates have been found.
Lorenzo Dow 5 Flower, born and died (when and where ?) married
Oct. 30, 1826 (where ?) Cornelia Becker, daughter of Albert and Ma- ria (Vander Walker) Becker, born Feb. 20, 1807 (where?). They had 11 children: Maria married William Tap- ping; Maggie married Walter Dodge; Martha marrled Chester Bass; Julia married James Roberts, son of John R .; Emma married David J. Hough- ton; Isaac, born June 23, 1833 at Vienna, N. Y .; Sallna drowned; Catherine died of fever ;Mary Fran- cis married F. L. Fairbanks of Utica. N. Y .; Joseph A. married Mary
Russell and Harriet married Henry Becker (her cousin). 1
Hannah (5) Flower married at Buckland, Mass. March 19, 1807, the Rev. Ebenezer R. Wade, son of Amos and Mary (Richmond) Wade of Mid- dleborough and Buckiand, Mass. In 1810 he settled at Sempronius, Cay- uga county, N. Y. and continued there until his death on Aug 16, 1864. They are sald to have had ten children, nine of whom reached adult life. The names of two are known; ¡ the others' names with all possible data are wanted. A son, the Rev. Ed- win R. Wade was born July 27, 1822 at Sempronius; he married In 1842, Elizabeth Forbush, daughter of the Rev. Lyman and Amanda (Flower) Ellis Forbush of Sempronlus. Twen- ty-two months later, she died and he married second on Dec. 5, 1845, Abigall Mosher. The other known child of Ebenezer and Hannah Flow- er Wade was a daughter, Mehitable who married .... Ammerman and lived at Owasco, Cayuga county.',
Armenla 15 Flower married Clovis Phelps and at one time they lived at Kelloggsvilie, Cayuga county.
Mehltable 5 Flower married Wheeler.
Emily 5 Flower marrled John- son. They had a daughter Ellzabeth who married Joh nRiley. This mar- riage was at. the home of Clovis Phelps of Kellogsville and performed by the Rev. Edwin R. Wade, cousin of the bride.
Martha 5 Flower died 1864 at Ca- ton, Steuben county, N. Y. In 1842 she married Hiram Ellis 1804-1874, son of John and Abilena (Phillips) Ellis of Niles, Cayua county, N. Y. They had two children, both ;born Niles: Hannah 1834 and Elisha 1837, . : Isaac 6 Flower, son of ' Lorenzo mtiodrnJt9Abos.,a narTDM Hr.i hi
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Old Time Living
When I was born in 1863 our na- tion had only just put off her swad- dling bond at the age of 57 and when she reached her maturity at the reunion of all the states in 1870 I was seven years old. We were large- ly an agricultural people and; we raised most of our living on the farm. The staples were corn meal bread or johnny cake, potatoes, beans and pork. Some farmers raised spring wheat which made a dark, heavy wheat bread. Once a year a beef might be slaughtered to make corned , beef for the remainder of the year. The gardens supplied the smaller
vegetables and we gathered wild
plants for relishes and medicine. The farm wife was largely respon- sible for hens' and the eggs and but- ter purchased the groceries. By a kind of barter we exchange dthe pro- ducts of the farm for the things we needed, We managed some how to get money to pay taxes, to make payments on the mortgage and pay the hired help. Each farm was an , entity of itself, "independent of all others. Each' year the woodshed was filled with wood, the smoke house with ham and bacon and the cellar with apples and vegetables. The housewife made the year's soap each spring from refuse fats and wood ashes. During the summer she pre- served wild berries and plums and much of the sweetening was procur- ed from the maple trees each spring. During my lifetime I have seen this simpie independent life almost completely changed., Today the far- mer is dependent on others as much as is the city dwelier. His fuel comcs from the mines and oil wells of an- other state; hls corn, graln and flour from the western miils and his meat from packing houses. Until the snow plow opens the roads he is shut off from needed supplies, nor can he send his milk to market or his child- ren by bus to the central school. Such is the change In farm life since 1863.
Tallow Candle and Torch
Another change that has taken place is in the manner of securing light to dispel the darkness. We have ail seen pictures of the boy Lincoln . reading by the light of the fireplace. In addition to the light of the fire-" piace there was the torch of fat pine and gum spruce, but these were used mostly on our nightiy fishing trips. We could get a dim light from a bit of cloth in a small dish of lard. The well-to-do farmer would butcher a beef and his wife would try out the tallow and run it into candle molds. Our lanterns were tin pall affair punched full of holes in which we put a short candle, Ker- osene oll did not come into general use for .lighting much before the Civil War, I recall how afrald the people were to use it lest the lamp would explode. We ,children were , never allowed to carry : a lighted lamp down cellar or up' stalrs. We, always took a candle. The first kero- sene was crude stuff. It"emitted soot
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married Brig. General Thomas F. Petrie (1242B99.) He was born June 1, 1809 in Herkimer, died March 15, 1892 in Peterboro. Children 3.
(722)B25. Anna (Nancy) P. Bel- linger, daughter of Johann Peter Bellinger and Christina (Ten Broeck) widow of Nicholas Bell. She was
born in 1792 (Heath's Pamphlet), died 1830. Married Robert McChes- ney in 1808. He was born in '1782, died in 1839. Children 14.
1520XB123. Pamelia McChesney, born : Jan. .. , 1810, died June 26, 1870.Married William Budlong, Jr. in 1829.
1521B124. Caroline McChesney, born in 1811. Married Walter Wager. Had one son Walter, Jr. and he had no children.
1522B125. Hiram McChesney, born 1812, died in infancy.
.1523XB126. Dinah McChesney, born 1814. Married William I. Skinner. He was a saw mill owner in 1867. (Beers' History, p. 267). Children 6. : 1524Z128." Christina McChesney, born 1815. Never married.
Emily 5 Flower married . ... John- son. They had a daughter Elizabeth who married Joh nRiley. This mar- riage was at. the home of Clovis Phelps of Kellogsville and performed :/ 1525XB128. Christina McChesney, by the Rev. Edwin R. Wade, cousin born 1817. Married Edward Arnold. of the bride. Children:
Martha 5 Flower died 1864 at Ca- 1526XB129. Catharine McChesney, born April 17, 1819, died Dec. 4, 1897. Married Edward Mall May 23, 1843. ton, Steuben county, N. Y. In 1842 she married Hiram Ellis 1804-1874, son of John and Abilena (Phillips) Ellis of / Niles, Cayua county, N. Y. 1527XB130 .. Hiram McChesney 2nd, born 1820. Named fon (1522) deceas- ed. Married Mary " Vosburg, born 1823 (1860. census, family, 1158; in Little Falls, N. Y.) Children .3.,, They had two children, both born Niles: Hannah 1834 and Elisha 1837. Isaac 6 Flower, son of Lorenzo mtiodrnJt9Abos.,a narTDM, Hri hi Dow and Cornelia (Becker) Flower 1528XB131. Elizabeth McChesney 1822, died 1885. , Married Stephen Head Farnam Sept. 3, 1844. He was of Phoenicia, Otsego . County, N. Y. was born June 23, 1833, at Vienna, Oneida county, died about 1894, at born May 22, 1822, died 1897. Child- Brooklyn, N. Y. He married June 7, ren .3. · ·
' 1529XB132. Mary Margaret Mc- Chesney born 1823. Married Jacob LeBart. Children 2.
1529AXB133. Madillah McChesney, born 1824 died Feb. 4, 1877. . Married Eben LeBart June 6, 1848. He was born March 22, 1825 in Trenton. Came to Little Falls, N. Y. in 1846; Iwas horse shoeing till 1856; then with the New York Central R. R. Children 2.
1529BB134. Lydia Ann McChesney, born 1826. Married John Thomas, contractor on the Armory. Married Ilion, N. Y. No issue.
1529CB135. Lucinda Tryphosia Mc- Chesney. Married John Stewart. Moved to Engelwood, Ill. No other information.
1529DB136. Jane McChesney born 1830 .. Unmarried.
Robert McChesney married 2nd Betsy Swift .. Children 2 sons. (To be continued)
THE FLOWER FAMILY of Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York By Russell S. Flower
Henryville, Penna.
Where this account is lacking in complete dates locations and Identi- fications, they are unknown to the contributor. Additions to and correc- tions of this material are earnestly desired.
Joseph 4 Flower, son of Joseph 3, Joseph 2, Lamrock 1 and Han- nah (Pierce) Flower of Wethers- field, Conn. was born there June 14, 1763; died (when and where ?); mar- ried Nov. 19, 1783 (where) Mehita-
there until his death on Aug 16, 1864. They are said to have had ten children, nine of whom reached adult life. The names of two are known; the others' names with all possible data are wanted. A son, the Rev. Ed- win R. Wade was born July 27, 1822 at Sempronius; he married in 1842, Elizabeth Forbush, daughter of the Rev. Lyman and Amanda (Flower) Ellis Forbush of Sempronius. Twen- ty-two months later, she died and he married second on Dec. 5, 1845, Abigail Mosher. The other Known child of Ebenezer and Hannah Flow- er Wade was a daughter, Mehitable who married Ammerman and lived at Owasco, Cayuga county. .. "Armenia15 Flower, married Clovis Phelps and at one time they lived at Kelloggsville, Cayuga county.
Mehitable 5 Flower married
Wheeler.
1860 at Bridgewater, Oneida .county, Catharine Millington, daughert of Marinus and Elizabeth (Strails) [Mil- lington, born March 9, 1834, Vienna, N. Y. died Aug. "10, 1903, Brooklyn, N. Y. Their chillren were Lorenzo, Minnie and Mary Flower.
Life at Eighty-four S. C. KIMM
I Grew Up with My Town
When I was a lad in the country there were several people in our neighborhood who had passed the half century mark and I thought they were very old. Looking at them I wondered how it seemed to be old, and now that I have passed the space of time allotted to man by more than a decade I am still wondering how it seems to be old. When I first saw the light of day an internecine war was raging between the north and the south. Thirty of our ablest young men .left the neighborhood to heip preserve the union. The terrible battle of Gettysburg was being fought and I was one day old when Pickett made what perhaps was the most heroic' charge in all the annals of warfare, and I was two days old when Pemberton surrendered Vicks- burg.
Age Is a State of Feellng
There is a saying that one Is as old as he feels. If age were measured by the opportunities life offered-by the number of friends who have helped or by the experiences that have happened then I would today be as old as the Jewish patriarch, Methuselah. But if life is measured by the zest of living, by family ties, by friendly intercourse with asso- ciates and the good wishes of neigh- bors. then I am still a young man.
completely changed., Today the far- mer is dependent on others as much as is the city dweller. His fuel comcs from the mines and oil wells of an- other state; his corn, grain and fiour from the western mills and his meat from packing houses. Until the snow plow opens the roads he is shut off from needed supplies, nor can he send his milk to market or his child- ren by bus to the central school. Such is the change in farm life since 1863.
Tallow Candle and Torch
Another change that has taken place is in the manner of securing light to dispel the darkness. We have all seen pictures of the boy Lincoln . reading by the light of the fireplace. In addition to the light of the fire- place there was the torch of fat " pine and gum spruce, but these were used mostly on our nightly fishing trips. We could get a dim light from a bit of cloth in a small dish of lard. The well-to-do farmer would butcher a beef and his wife would try out the tallow and run it into candle molds. Our lanterns were a tin pail affair punched full of holes in which we put a short candle, Ker- osene oil did not come into general use for lighting much >before the Civil War. I recall how afraid the people were to use it lest the lamp would 'explode."We i children were never allowed to carry a lighted lamp down cellar or up stairs. We. always took a candle. The first kero- sene was crude stuff. It emitted soot and gave only a dim light. The lamp chimney would blacken in 'a single evening but it was an improvement/ over the candle. We had no match- es such as we have today. We Kept on hand a supply of very dry splin- ters or the women would twist up paper tapers with which we would. transfer a blaze from the kitchen fire to the wick of the candle or' lamp. But suppose the kitchen fire went out as it often did in summer. How then would we light it again. Every family was supposed to keep on hand pieces of flint and steel, and some kind of tinder, the most common being a kind of rotted wood called "punk." By rapidly striking the steel against the flint a serles of sparks ignited the tinder which started the fire in the shavings and dry kindiings. If the boy were care- less and let the tinder get damp or if he neglected to get a large supply for winter he would be. sent to a neighbor to borrow coals and cin- ders. These would be buried in ashes to keep them alive while the boy was running back home.
About 25 years before I was born some one discovered that a mixture of sulphur and phosphorus applied to the end of a dry splint would give fire by fricion. The fumes from these matches if inhaled caused one to choke and cough. Not until Gates be- gan to manufacture them an a large scale at Frankfort, N. Y. did match- est come into general use on the farms of northern Herkimer county. Thus I have lived to go through all the stages of home lighting: fire- place, taliow dip, candle, kerosene foil, electric bulb, arc light and fluor- escence. Is this the end of the story on lighting ? Is it possible to discov- er some other method to make our
homes more light and cheerful ?
(To be continued).
ST. JOHNSVILLE, (N. Y.)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1948
MOHAWK VALLEY
GENEALOGY AND
HISTORY
St. Johnsville Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville, N. Y.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1948
Questions and Answers
A department devoted to the pursuit of knowledge. No charge to regular subscribers. Any reader, whether subscriber or not, is in invited to submit answers. Gives dates, places and sources.
SNELL
In the December 16th issue Marie Lyle of Lyle Heights, Paso Robles, California asks for a full list of children of Jacob Snell who was kill- ed at Oriskany. .
In Edward S. Smith's "The Snell Family," reprinted from the Enter- prise and News, 1934 I quote:,
Page 29 "X72 vi Jacob born 1734 married Gertrude Mathess, Oct. 9, 1760."
The will of Samuel Reese was probated. Montgomery county, 1809; wife was Annetie Dockstader. The will of Leonard Helmer on file same county, probated 1791. Would ap- preciate any clues as to the paren-
1534XB142. Sandy Casler born Oct. 11, 1813, died 1902. Married 1. Child- ren 3. Married 2 Sarah Hammond, born 1835, died 1909. Children 2. 1535B143. Arna Casler born March 1, 1816, died Oct. 9,1867. She and Gertrude (1532B140), her sister, mar- tage' of Magdalene Helmer, also the ried brothers,
date of her death. She lived to be 107 and was living in April, 1806 at Warren, N. Y .
GOULART
Would like information, on the Dutch or Dutch-French family Goulart and their migrations from Holland. Did some of them remove to the Azores in the early 1700s? There is the record in the Reformed Dutch church of the city of New York of Margrietie, dau. of Willem Goulart, bapt. April 2, 1646. Have found no further record of that fam- ily. Did they go to the Azores be- cause of the English-Dutch hostili- ties ?
Mrs. Albert Santos,
3558 Gray street, Oakland 1, Calif.
GERMAN ANCESTORS
Would like to correspond with those working on any of these fam- ilies griginating in Wurttemberg, es- pecially in the Stuttgart-Musberg- Wilhelmsdorf area: Klein, Ulmer, Staebler, Renz, Stollsteimer, Weber, Murrthum; Zwenk, Gross, Burkhart; Volz, Runderlich, Schaup. Will ex-
change data if possible.
:
ZWENK, ZWINCK
Would like to correspond with any- one · descended from this German family.
ECHTERDINGEN, WILHELMSDORF
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1551B150. Catharine Heath born July 4, 1812 (Spin. rec.)
1 1552XB151. Hezekiah Heath born
Would . like to . correspond with :Sept. 17, 1814. A. baker at Little anyone familiar with or relatives in ! Falls, N. Y. in 1837. Married. Child: 1 son. these towns near Musberg and Stutt- gart .:
Carl H. Zwinck,
904 Packard,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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April 7, 1805. She was born April 2, 1785; died March 24, 1864. Children 11
1532XB140. Gertrude Casler born Jan. 11, 1810, died Sept. 1895. Mar- ried Henry H. Bellinger Nov. 22, 1832. (Spin. record). Children 3. 1533B141. Hiram Casler born Dec. 19, 1811, died Aug. 27, 1874. Unmar- ried.
Married Peter S. Bellinger Nov. 25, 1841. No issue., He married 2 Delia Christman, widow of James Casler. No issue. He died May 31, 1900 at age of 80.
1536B144. Asa Casler born March of 3, 1818, died Dec. 30, 1879. This name is sometimes spelled "Esau" by Dominie Spinner.
1537B145. Cordelia Sophia Casler; born Feb. 19, 1820 (Spin. rec.) Mar- ried William Eysaman.
' 1538B146. Elizabeth Catharine Cas- ler born May 21, 1822, died Nov. 3, 1883. Unmarried.
1539B147. Peter B. Casler, Jr. born June 20, 1824, died Aug. 12, 1860. Unmarried.
. 1539AXB148. Philo Stephen Cas- ler, born June 15, 1828, died Oct. 9, 1874. Married Margaret Mary Young born 1829, died 1903. Principal of Little Falls high school at one time. Children 2.
(733)XB29. Magdalena Casler born Oct. 26, 1789. Married 1 Jacob Vroo- man of Stone Arabia on Jan. 24,
1807. Children 1. |
1550XB149. Nicholas Vrooman, born July 31, 1809 in Johnstown, N. Y .; died ' 1887. Married Christina" Wright Dec. 31, 1829. She was born Dec. 31, 1809 in Minden, died Apra 22, 1877. (Record in Wright Bible, Richfield Spa., gives date birth Feb. 17). Children 4 (Vrooman).
\'Married 2 Joseph Heath of Con- necticut. Children 4.
Catherine born July 1, 1763. Sarah born April 7, 1765. Jacob may have married Maria. Jost married first Elisabeth; mar- ried 2nd Lena, child Miranda: 1815. Elisabeth may have married Jacob Fry, Stone Arabia (1742-1819), Ann.
Peter married Lena.'
These children were paid eighteen dollars" each back pension by the
1530B138. Nicholas P. Casler born April 18, 1806, died June 13, 1881. Married Delia Herkimer Bellinger (765XB65), dau. of Christopher P. Bellinger (B9.) He became General. She was born Dec. 11, 1807; died 1; Samuel bapt. Oct. `14, 1754 and Feb. 24, 1878. They were married Anna Barbara bapt. Oct. 28, 1759. |March 10, 1829. Children 8. (Note: They also had Adam, born about 1756, possibly Jacob and other daus. These are recorded under 765B65.) 1531B139. Amna Eva Casler born Oct. 27, 1807, died March 19, 1887. Unmarried. Was Magdalene Helmer a dau. of Philip Helmer who took the oath in 1715 at Albany ? In records of the Mohawk Valley there are Philip, Jr., Frederick, John, Adam, George and Leonard Helmer who appear to be brothers. Was she a sister ? A Cath- erine Helmer was the wife of Cap- tain Peter Brown who was killed at Oriskany.
Page 32 "72 Jaacob Snell (2) borlı Schoharie, 1734. The Stone Arabia Dutch Reformed church records in recording his marriage to Gertrude Mathees, Oct. 7, 1760, mentions him as son of Johan Jost Schnell. With his father and brothers he settled in the hill country of the Snell-Tim- merman patent and was one of the brothers who donated land for church and school, provision. He was killed at the battle of Oriskany, August 6, 1777. Records of State of New York. show settlement for eight children, 4 boys and 4 girls, orphans of Ja- cob Snell, a private in Col. Klock's 2nd regiment of Tryon county mi- titia slain in the field August 6, 1777 as per Col. Klock's certificate for seven years half pay. Jacob's widow Gertrude (Mathees) Snell remarried; her second husband being John Dock- ey, a soldier of the hired Hessian troops forming part of the British army under Gen. Burgoyne." (Note that p. 29 gives the marriage as Oct. 9 while page 32 gives it Oct. 7.)
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