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Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petrie, Johnstown, N. Y.
(Continued from last week)
Installment 45
(750) XB47. Delia Bellinger, born Nov. 17, 1793, died 1869. Daughter of Johannis (John) Bellinger (137B8)
Michael Weaver of Deerfield on Oct. 17, 1813. He was born Jan. 15, 1787, died 1877. He was a son of George Michael Weaver, Sr. who was a fifer In Revolutionary War (Pens. No. 11237). Children 9. '
1610B197. Anna Weaver. Married David Gray. No issue. (Spin. Rec.) 1611XB198. Hamilton Weaver born May' 9, 1816. Married. Children 2.
1612XB199. George Thomas Weav- er born March 5, 1818 (Church Re- cord, says Thomas George.) He died 1890. Married Abigail (Appolonia) Edic. in 1843. She was born in 1820, died in 1907. Children 5.
1613B200. Mary Emilia (Amelia ) Weaver born Oct. 9, 1819. Unmar- ried.
1614B201. Delia Weaver born May
1615B202. Lydy Ann (Lydia) Weaver 'born March 26, 1823, died 1908.
1616XB203. James Weaver born Oct. 4, 1826 (Spinner Record). Mar- ried Smith. Children 4.
1617B204. Catharine Weaver born May 18, 1829.
1618B205. Abram Bellinger Weav- er born Dec. 18, 1830.
(751)XB.48. Elizabeth Bellinger, daughter of Johannis (John) Bellin- ger (137B8) and Nancy Staring.
Married John Coleman of Cole- man's Mills. Note: Coleman's Mill3 Jav west or southwest of Whites- born. N. Y. Children 3.
1620gB206. Elon Coleman. Mar- ried Sarah Wetherell. Children 5. 1621XB207. Sidney 'B. Coleman, born Nov. 16, 1842 at Coleman's Mills, died Jan. 14, 1912. Married 1 Mary Mosher Aug., 1866 at Steven's
renzo Hays, at Little Falls, N. Y. (Hays pleaded guilty of manslaugh- ter and was sentenced to one year in the county jail and fined $250 .- Old newspaper item). Married Elda Cronkhite of Little Falls, N. Y.
Child 1, deceased.
1633B215. Margaret. C. Bellinger, born 1832, died July 7, 1847, aged 15. 1634XB216. Esrom Pettibone Bel- linger born 1835 (1850 census.) died May 16, 1920 ,aged 84 (cemetery re- cord). Married Anna Nichols. He was chief of police in Green Island, N. Y. Children 3.
born in Coleman's Mills, lived in Franklin Springs, Westmoreland and Clinton, N. Y. Child 1.
He married 2 Elizabeth (Weaver) Hubbard. Child. Her daughter by her first marriage was born in 1839. (1855 census).
(759)XB56. Adam Bellinger, born 1811 died 1884. Son of Johannis (John) Bellinger (137B8) and Nan- cy Staring. Married Olive Barnard, Dec. 1, 1831 (paid $2.00) She was born in 1815, died 1884. (The child- ren's dates, from 1850 and 1855 cen-
and Nancy Staring. Married George suses of Whitestown). Children 3.
1640XB218. Celinda Bellinger born 1832, died 1898. Married George Midlam. Children 3.
1641XB219. Abram Bellinger born 1834. Married 1 Julia Pratt. Child- ren 2 by first marriage. Married 2. Helen Sawyer.
1642XB220. James Christopher Bellinger born 1836, died 1919. Mar- ried Ammida Paige who was born 1839, died 1909. Children 6.
(759AXB57. Lydia Bellinger born Jan. 3, 1813, daughter of Johannis (John) Bellinger (137B8) and Nan- cy Staring. Married Amasa Weaver, born Dec. 28, 1830 (paid $2.00) (Whitestown Church Rec.) He was born Nov. 5, 1808 ,son of Nicholas G. Weaver and Gertrude (William) Dygent (Rev. War pension W 18234). Children 3.
1645B221. Nicholas Weaver. Lost trace of him in the Rocky Moun- tains.
1646B222. Catharine Weaver. Died in youth.
1647B223. Gertrude Weaver. Mov- ed to Allegan, Mich. No issue. (769B) XB58. William Bellinger, born Jan. 28, 1816. Son of Johannis ( John) Bellinger (137B8) and Nancy Staring. Married Fanny Apanton, who was born Feb. 25, 1820 in Eng- land. (Whitestown census 1850 and 1855). Farmers. Children 3.
1650B224. John Preston Bellinger born 1839. Married Melissa Knapp. No issue.
1651B225. Frances C. Bellinger, born 1844. Married to Leke Duck- row. Married April 28. 1865. (Paid $5.00, Whitestown Church).
1652B226. Delia M. Bellinger born 1847. Married Hirsm W. Frazer, April 25, 1872. (Paid $10.00. No is- ¡ sne,
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6 Weed (Reuben 5, 4, Danlel 3, 2, Jo- nas 1), son of Reuben 5 Weed and Mary 5 Scofield? If so, he was born Stamford, Conn. between 1765 and 1785. His birthdate also wanted.
2. Abigall Weed mar. Nathaniel Ingerson June 2, 1796.
James Weed mar. Sally Miller Feb. 23, 1797.
4. Joseph Weed mar. Martha Bell. July 9, 1797. Was he Joseph 5 Weed (Isaac 4, Benjamin 3, Jonas 2, 1) son of Isaac 4 Weed and Hannah Smith ? If so he was born Stamford, Conn. Nov. 9, 1775 and was bro. of Jared 5 Weed who mar. Mary 6 Weed, dau. of Reuben 5 Weed and Mary Scofield in 1 above.
5. Hulda Weed mar. Russell Smith Sept. 11, 1800.
6. Mercy Weed mar. John St.
John Nov. 8, 1801.
7. Nancy Weed mar. John . Sax. March 14, 1805.
8 .. Jacob Weed mar. Phebe Yates Nov. 8. 1807. Was this Jacob a son of the Jacob who had sons Enos, Eli and Lewis bapt. there June 6. 1793 ? Is the earlier Jacob the one whose will was probated in Sarato- ga county in 1817 ?
9. John Weed married Betty Wood March 10, 1808.
10. Alfred Weed mar. Lima Hewitt August 7, 1811.
11. Alsop Weed bapt. Dec. 3, 1797, son of Jared Weed and Alsa . : Who was she? This is alsop 6 Weed (Jared 5. Isaac 4, Beniamin 3, Jo- nas 2, 1) born Stamford. Conn. May 27, 1786, died Troy, N. Y. March 14. 1864, mar. 1st Milton, N. Y., 1806 or 7 Clarissa Swan, mar. 2nd Mil- ton, 1814 or 15 Lucy Swan, sister of Clarissa.
WEED, SACKET, MANN
Identity wanted of the John Weed who had a son, John Sacket, baot. Congregation church, Greenfield, N. Y., Julv 24, 1796 and a dau. Sarah, bapt. there Sept. 30, 1798.
The 1800 census shows two John Weeds in Saratoga county: 1. John Weed of Greenfield ard 2. John Weed of the town of Saratoga.
1. John Weed of Greenfield is giv- en with 1 m. 26-45, 1m. 10-16, 1 m. 1-10. 1 f. 26-45, 1 f. 1-10. Is he the same as the John Weed of Freehold Town, Albany Co., N. Y. in the 1790 census with 1 m. over 16, 1 m. un- der 16 and 2 f .?
2. John Weed of the town of Sar- atoga is given with 1 m. 45 or over. 2 m. 16-26 ,1 m. 1-10, 1 f. 45 or ov- er, 2 f. 16-26, 1 f. 1-10. This family fits the children born 1772-79 in N. H. which I have for John Weed and Hannah Mann, namely; John born ca. 1772, Alexander born 1773, Han- nah born ca. 1774, Candace born 1779. Who were the son and dau. born In the 1790s? Children born in the 1780s also wanted. Did they die young ?
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1631XB213. John William Bellin ger born Nov. 19, 1826, died April 30, 1892, aged 65. Born in Whites- Barons, or for 52 Issues, any vear town (Spin. record) Married Delia before August. 1989. of old BOS- Maria Eysaman (1685B241). She was born Oct. 16, 1824 in German Flats He was a moulder. Both buried in TON TRANSCRIPT; or Virkus' COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY any Issue, Vol. VII preferred; or any other interesting Panajoharie, N. Y. Children 4. collection of ilke value. Harry 'A Odell. A. G. G., P. O. Box 890 Church Street Annex 8, New York City.
1610B197. Anna Weaver. Marrled
David Gray. No issue. (Spin. Rec.) 1611XB198. Hamilton Weaver born May' 9, 1816. Married. Children 2.
1612XB199. George Thomas Weav- er born March 5, 1818 (Church Re- cord, says Thomas George.) He died 1890. Married Abigall (Appolonia) Edic. in 1843. She was born In 1820, died in 1907. Children 5.
1613B200. Mary Emilia (Amelia) Weaver born Oct. 9, 1819. Unmar- ried.
1614B201. Della Weaver born May 13, 1821. Unmarried.
1615B202. Lydy Ann (Lydia) Weaver born March 26, 1823, died 1908.
1616XB203. James Weaver born Oct. 4, 1826 (Spinner Record). Mar- ried Smith. Children 4.
1617B204. CatharIne Weaver born May 18, 1829.
1618B205. Abram Bellinger Weav- er born Dec. 18, 1830.
(751)XB.48. Elizabeth Bellinger, daughter of Johannis (John) Bellin- ger (137B8) and Nancy Staring. Married John Coleman of Cole- man's Mills. Note: Coleman's Milla Jav west or southwest of Whites- born. N. Y. Children 3.
1620gB206. Elon Coleman. Mar- ried Sarah Wetherell. Children 5. 1621XB207. Sidney 'B. Coleman, born Nov. 16, 1842 at Coleman's Mills, died Jan. 14, 1912. Married 1 Mary Mosher Aug., 1866 at Steven's Point, Wisconsin. She was born Jan. 6, 1849, died Feb. 12, 1897 at So- dus Center, N. Y. Children 2.
Married 2 Francis Harriet Adams March. 1898. Children 3.
1622B208. Catharine Coleman, de- ceased.
753XB50. Mary Bellinger, daugh- ter of Johannis (John) Bellinger (137B8) and Nancy Staring. She was born Dec. 22. 1797, died Jan. 1, 1870. Married William Robinson Billing- ham of Clinton, .N. Y. on July 1, 1834. He was born Aug. 8, 1792, died Dec. 5, 1880. Children 3.
1625XB209. Richard J. Billingham born March 4, 1833, died Feb. 16. 1917. Married Jane Lovell in 1855. Children 4.
1626XB210. Ann Elisabeth Billing- ham born Dec. 18, 1837, dled 1926 on her 89th birthday.
Married Roselle Nichols Feb. 16. 1859. She lived for 50 years In Clin- ton. Children 2.
1627XB211. William C. Billingham born Sept. 13, 1840, died March 22, 1921. Married Sussanah Thomas June 1, 1868.
(754) XB51. John Bellinger born May, 1799 died Nov. 28, 1863, aged 64-6. He was a son of Johannis (John) Bellinger (137B8) and Nancy Staring. He married Margaret Bel. ilinger (942B80), his first cousin once removed. She was born Aug. 18. 1803, died March' 27, 1848,' aged 45 Children 6.
1630B212. Lucinda Maria Bellin- ger, born 1824, died Aug. 25, 1902 aged 78 (tombstone record) (1850 census gives 1827). Died 1855. Un married.
Helen Sawyer.
1642XB220. James Christopher Bellinger born 1836, died 1919. Mar- rled Armida Palge who was born 1839. died 1909. Children 6.
(759AXB57. Lydia Bellinger born Jan. 3, 1813, daughter of Johannis (John) Bellinger (137B8) and Nan- icy Staring. Marrled Amasa Weaver, born Dec. 28, 1830 (pald $2.00) (Whitestown Church Rec.) He was born Nov. 5, 1808 ,son of Nicholas G. Weaver and Gertrude {William) Dygent (Rev. War pension W 18234). Children 3.
1645B221. Nicholas Weaver. Lost trace of him in the Rocky Moun- tains.
1646B222. CatharIne Weaver. Died in youth.
1647B223. Gertrude Weaver. Moy- ed to Allegan, Mich. No issue.
(769B) XB58. William Bellinger, born Jan. 28, 1816. Son of Johannis (John) Bellinger (137B8) and Nancy Staring. Married Fanny Apanton, who was born Feb. 25, 1820 in Eng- land. (Whitestown census 1850 and 1855). Farmers. Children 3.
1650B224. John Preston Bellinger born 1839. Married Melissa Knapp. No issue.
1651B225. Frances C. Bellinger, born 1844. Married to Like Duck- row. Married April 28. 1865. (Paid $5.00. Whitestown Church).
1652B226. Delia M. Bellinger born 1847. Married Hiram W. Frazer, April 25, 1872. (Paid $10.00. No is- sue.
(759C)XB59. Christopher Bellin- ger born Jan. 1, 1818 in Utica (Spin- ner Rec.) Son of Johannis (John) Bellinger (137B8) and Nancy Star -. ing. Married Catherine Weaver May 16, 1842. She was born Dec. 11, 1818. Thev lived in Deerfield. Children 3.
1665XB227. Abram Bellinger born 11844 (census of 1855) married Anna Harris in Little Falls, N. Y. They lived in Westmoreland and both died there. Children 3,2
1666XB228. "George W. Bellinger, born March 17, 1851, died Dec .14, 1916. Married Addie Sweeting born Feb. 15, 1853, died, about 1916.»They lived at Clark's 'Mills, died in West- moreland. Children 2.
1667B229. James Bellinger died in Utica. Married Nellie Beckwith ; in Utica. Had son Charles, deceased. None of them living In 1930 .- ( L. F. Bellinger).
(To be continued)
Life at Eighty-four
S. C. KIMM
(Continued from last week)
The Dutchman's Prep School
Dolge came to Brockets Bridge in 1874 and almost immediately began an agitation for better schools. He presented the village with a large sum of money and helped build the unlon Free School bullding for the grades. Up to this time the village had only a little old two teacher school house. Dolge argued there was no sense in sending so many of the village young people at great expense to Fairfield Seminary, Why not have a college preparatory school free to all residents of the village This idea created a whale of a flight. The old Yankees said "if the Dutch- man want their youngens edicated
1632XE214. Norman Richard Bel- "Inger born .Dec. 3, 1828 (Spin. Rec.) He was killed Aug. 4, 1874 by Lo- let them send them to Fairfield."
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ENTERPRISE AND NEWS
Whereupon Dolge out of his own pocket established the first free high school in northern Herkimer county 1890 in which were taught music, the arts and sciences, mathematics and languages to college entrance.
My first schooling was in one of the so-called pauper schools in the edge of the wilderness of northern Salisbury. I started school one year after the passage of the free school act of 1867 so my people did not have to pay tuition, the old rate bill having been abolished, but like all the other settlers paid their share of school taxes. The school house was new and one of the best, if not the best country school house in
who could cipher beyond the Rule of Three (simple proportion) could get ja license to teach. At first each town elected men to examine candidates to teach and give licenses. They were in general without education them- selves. Later a, county superinten- dent was elected whose teachers' cer- tificate was good anywhere in the county. If a teacher were long in the way and had a "pull" Albany would give him a life certificate without examination. The town and county examinations were more or less a farce as licenses were often given to secure votes. In 1856 a new law went into effect which did away with town licenses and county school commissioners were elected. The only qualifications needsd for this new office was the ability to get votes. Each established the standard in his county for qualifying certificates to teach which standard would be little more than is needed today to enter ! cense to teach by attending a sis high school,
In 1887 Sate Commissioner Dra- per got a bill through the legislature making a uniform examination of teachens throughout the state which the governor promptly vetoed. This was clearly politics. Led by Dr. Dra-
per the school commissioners adopt- ed a uniform system of examining candidates to teach: The questions were prepared in Albany and there were three grades of licenses: 1st., 2nd and 3rd. To get the third grade the candidate must pass arithmetic composition, geography, grammar,. spelling, penmanship, physiology andi reading. Passing mark 60 per cent. The questions were very simple About what is given a pupil today ta enter senior high school. This license. was good for six months and prob- ably was the only license held by- half of the rural teachers. Compare this amount of scholarship with that required of a candidate to each coun- ry school today-four years of high school and three years of special training in a Normal Teachers' Cola lege. Even as late as 1914 an 18 year old child, if a graduate of & high school could get a two year hi-
weeks' summer session at a Normal school.
Such were the qualifications re- quired of the teacher in the little; "Red School House" previous to the; year 1900.
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town. It was lighted with 8 windows, two on each side of the four sides. The seats were made of boards large enough for four pupils in each. The boys and girls occupied opposite sides of the room facing each other. In the center was the large square stove that burned, generally, green wood. There was a teacher's table and an old man of New York state hung on the wall back of the boys. In all the years' I attended the school that map was never used. There was a little rough board black board, a part of the side wall painted with common black paint. Since the black board was seldom used the one coat of paint lasted many years. Girl teach- ers in the summer and men teachers in the winter. Most of the teachers could not pass the examination now required to enter high school. Not a teacher in all the town had ever had any training in methods of teaching. It was my good gortune to trans- fer to the school district now em- braced in the Pine Crest section. In the winter terms we had for teach- ens young men from Fairfield Semi- nary, Judd Ward, Sam Newberry, Hi Hall and Eugene Wiseman. In that old red school house I was ex- posed to a smattering of Robinson's "" higher algebra, Davies' algebra, Ot- to's German grammar and book- keeping. Memory was extended to the expense of reasoning. The big boys of the school, Art and Hi Fynn, Ed Fairchild, Will Corey, Jake Bliss and LaGrange Spencer had entered Fairfield Seminary and so the fall of 1881 saw me enrolled in that institu- tion. The furnishings of the room were a table, two chairs, a stand, bedstead and mattress. There was a small iron box stove that burned wood. There were also two old bed quilts. To get to this college prep school i walked 7 miles each Satur- day and Sunday and carried most of my week's provisions on my back. There is no use denying the fact that my grit was taxed to the utter- most. None of those old seminary teachers had any training for teach- ing and some did not even have ap- titude for imparting instruction. Had it not been for that old standby of
. that famous old school Prof. Jimmy, I doubt whether I would have stuck it through to ovod-ation. Strange as it may seem I found no better teach- ing in college than I did in the old seminary, with this difference, the professors were educated men with more or less handles attached their names. The only contact
to we had with those gentlemen was in the class room where they tested a fellow to see what he had dug out of the subiect all by his lonesome. Even in mathematics it was only nrow of
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posed to a smattering of Robinson's higher algebra, Davies' algebra, Ot- to's German grammar and book- keeping. Memory was extended to the expense of reasoning. The big boys of the school, Art and Hi Funn, Ed Fairchild, Will Corey, Jake Bliss and LaGrange Spencer had entered Fairfield Seminary and so the fall of 1881 saw me enrolled in that institu- tion. The furnishings of the room were a table, two chairs, a stand, bedstead and mattress. There was a small iron box stove that burned wood. There were also two old bed quilts. To get to this college prep school I walked 7 miles each Satur- day and Sunday and carried most of my week's provisions on my back. There is no use denying the fact that my grit was taxed to the utter- most .. None of those old seminary teachers had any training for teach- ing and some did not even have ap- titude for imparting instruction. Had it not been for that old standby of that famous old school Prof. Jimmy, I doubt whether I would have stuck it through to oraduation. Strange as it may seem I found no better teach- ing in college than I did in the old seminary, with this difference, the professors were educated men with more or less handles attached to their names. The only contact we had with those gentlemen was in the class room where they tested a fellow to see what he had dug out of the subject all by his lonesome. Even in mathematics it was only orgy of memory work and I doubt whether a single member of the class was able to do field surveying or con- struction at the end of the course. Contrast in Schools 1860-1948
Let us briefly contrast the past with the present and discuss some of the changes. To qualify for teach- ing in rural schools today the appli- cant for a license must have at least three years of training in a normal school after graduating from high school. When I was a boy any one -
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MOHAWK VALLEY GENEALOGY AND
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NEEDHAM, DANIELS
I wish to correspond with any one who has any knowledge of the two families that are my maternal forebears. Namely the Needham and Daniels families.
James M. Needham was born 1809 in New York state. He is said to have had five or six brothers. A sis- ter Jane Pickard lived with his fam- ily in Michigan.
He married, probably in Savanah, Wayne Co., N. Y., Elizabeth Daniels, where ? Four children were born, namely:
Martin Van Buren 1832.
Rosaltha A. 1834.
Lydia Maaria 1837. Eliza J. born 1843.
The family moved to Michigan and settled in Lapeer county where three other children were born, name- ly:
James Everand 1841. Mary Elizabeth 1839. Harriet L. born 1845. Frances J. born 1847. In 1844 he was probate judge of Lapeer county. He died in 1859. His widow died Sept. 3, 1872.
The records ' in the county clerk's office in Lyons, Wayne county show Daniel Needham and wife Mary; Wm. A. and wife Susan; James M. and wife Elizabeth.
The military record of Wayne Co., N. Y. has the name of Francis Need- ham of Savannah, a Rev. soldier who died 1843 at the age of 76 and was buried on Hiram Abrams' farm which probably was the land Hiram Abrams bought from Wm. A. and Susan in 1845.
What relation was there between these people ?
Elizabeth Daniels who married James M. Needham probably 1830-1 was born in N. Y. state in 1809.
I have no clue to her parentage although there are many Daniels en- tries in the records in county clerk's office at Lyons.
She had a cousin Everand who lived in Elmira, N. Y. whose. fath- er was William H. Daniels and whose mother was Mary Vermillia. (It has various spellings.)
Wm. H. was 55 at the taking of the 1860 census; his wife 51. His known children were: W. Henry Dan- iels who died 1889, buried Elmira; Everand born Jan. 10, 1832, died July 22, 1910, buried | in Detroit, Mich .; Augustus whose age was given as 18 in the same census. Augustus Daniels in 1862 gave his age as 24 when he volunteered for war service.
Walter, Henry and William seem to be family names.
The name Everand has been used several times in the Daniels-Need- ham family. It is the only place I
of Ballston Spa 1780 is urgently wanted. Can anyone tell me how I can finld old Ballston and Stillwater, N. Y. records previous to 1800. Have census but want marriage and death records. Is there anyone who will look up old cemetery records of these places ?
If you have any records of above spellings of Chichester please ex- change data with me.
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BALL, FOX ..
I would like information on Joel Ball and his brother, name unknown, the world. I have seen this nation ex- and their mother Lydia who married | tend its claims around the world un-
(2nd) Elkanah Fox. In 1837 they til it can be said the sun never
were living in Torringford, Conn. and in 1857 they were living in Great Bend, Susquehanna Co., Pa.
I would like to correspond with any one interested in the following families: Gibbs, Henke and Nickoley. Mrs. Verna S. Paterson,
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Life at Eighty-four
S. C. KIMM
(Continued from last week)
The New Order
Today a large proportion of the rural district schools have been merged into the rural central high school where the pupil is instructed from kindergarten through all the grades and senior high school to college entrance. The country pupil is carried to school in a warm con- veyance free of charge. The high school boy no longer tramps over the hills to the old seminary, paying noom rent, tuition and board. He rides in a palatial car each morning and night- a great contrast to -the day 65 years og when his grand- father carried his week's grub and supplies on his back and wallowed through the drifts of old Barto to the old style seminary after work- ing ali summer as a hired boy to pay tuition and room rent. What a con- trast! At least we have found the "Royal Road to Geometry," where the pupils have only to open their mental mouths while specialized
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