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She is a cotton weaver in 1881. | Waring, Elizabeth (I6238)
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She is an oil painter in 1920. | Oudotte, Theresia Marie (I6165)
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She told her father she could get any man he named to marry her. He named Thomas Sparrow. She married him. | Tremewan, Sophia (I12)
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Shown in Duluth and in Marquette with her parents in 1900. | Sparrow, Jessie (I27)
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Shows up in the 1930 census as Harry G. Mitchell.
His mother and father-in-law, Mary E. and Clement Archer, are living with him as are his wife and his two children. | Mitchell, Henry Grant (I6786)
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Solomon Leonard was first recorded in Duxbury in 1637 and in May 1638 was "promised lands on Duxburrow side (in part of those due to him for his good service.)" This was probably the usual recompense to a servant. Since the normal service was seven years, it is reasonable to assume that Solomon arrived in America about 1631. | Leonard, Solomon (I775)
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Some information on Hood family found in World Family Tree, Volume 12, Tree 1865. | Hood, Phoebe Elizabeth (I6201)
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Some researchers trace Wolcott and collateral lines back to British and European royalty. One such line is displayed here. | Wolcott, Luke (I7083)
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Stephen HOPKINS - He most likely was the Stephen Hopkins who sailed on the Seaventure to Virginia in 1609, but was shipwrecked in Bermuda, where he was almost hanged for mutiny. He spent two years in Jamestown, where he learned much of later use to the Plymouth colonists.
Hopkins arrived at Plymouth on the 1620 Mayflower accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, and his sons Giles and Oceanus, and daughters Constance and Damaris, Oceanus having been born at sea on the Mayflower, plus two servants, Edward Doty and Edward Leister. Damaris died during the early years, and Hopkins and his wife later had a second daughter Damaris.
xxx He dated his will 6 June 1644, inventory 17 July 1644, and mentioned his deceased wife; sons Giles and Caleb; daughter Constance, wife of Nicholas Snow; daughters Deborah, Damaris, Ruth and Elizabeth; and grandson Stephen, son of his son Giles. Ralph D. Phillips,
Elizabeth, may have been Elizabeth Fisher, whom a Stephen Hopkins married at London 19 February 1617/18. If so, she would have been a second wife, for the births of some of his children would predate this marriage.
By his first wife he had Constance, who married Nicholas Snow, and Giles, who married Catherine Wheldon. By Elizabeth Fisher he had the Damaris, who died young; Oceanus, who died young; Caleb, who died at Barbados as an adult without issue; Deborah, who married Andrew Ring; the second Damaris, who married Jacob Cooke, son of Francis; Ruth, who died without issue; and Elizabeth, who
died without issue. | Hopkins, Stephen (I2139)
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Supposed to have been murdered while on the road from Ticonderoga to home. | Blair, John (I126)
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Supposedly a "feeble-minded" boy. The marriage may not be correct. | Blair, William (I149)
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The “father†of the bamboo casting rod. | Leonard, Hiram L. (I7353)
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The Day Book
Excerpts from "Col. John Blair's Day Book" which is in the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
An Account of My Passage from Gravesend to Quebec
A portion of the daybook traces the writer's journey from Gravesend, England to Quebec in the year 1776. The writer was an officer in the British Army and had 20 soliders in his command.
The writer left Gravesend on April 30, 1776. The last entry in the log is June 25, 1776 ... almost two months after leaving England. According to the writer, the average speed during the crossing was between two and six knots per hour. However, sometimes they were forced back by the winds. Such was the case on Wednesday, May 29th when he wrote, " ... Since this bad weather we have been put back 70 miles to the east." He also told of fog so thick "we can't see the length of the ship."
Here is the entry from Sunday the 26th. "We had very bad weather last night. It has been so all day today. The wind northwest. The sea runs over the vessel. There have been some terrible squalls attended with heavy showers of rain. We are all in bad spirits as we can't amuse ourselves at cards or reading as the hatches are all shut down and we are quite in darkness."
Tuesday the 28th. "These 24 hours past have been worse than all the rest. We can't get to our victuals as the sea runs into the kitchen. We are all well but very low spirited. There is a brig in sight. Wind as yesterday. The sky is quite cloudy."
Sunday May 19th. "After passing a very bad night and finding myself in a dangerous situation attended with a delirium my good friend Mr. Watson prevailed on me to take a dose of St. James's powder which I consented to do with a great deal of reluctance. It operated from 7 o'clock this morning until 9 o'clock. Then I fell into a prespiration until (illegible) o'clock being no way relieved. Mr. Watson prepared me a blister of mustard which he clapped to the soles of my feet. It brought me into my senses in a short time and rose very well. They tell me that it is a fine day. They gave chase to an American schooner until 1 o'clock and then bore away. There is a ship in sight which they take to be Boush (the name of the captain of another ship which they had previously met). Wind ENE"
In the log the writer describes "islands of ice which were monsterous," tells of seeing the sea "covered for miles and miles with all kinds of birds," and of encountering "an American scow not far from us ... we placed every sailor to his gun and my 20 soliders on deck and got them to load ... and when she perceived that we were well manned and armed she sailed off." The writer also remarked about "some very fine birds called penguins. They are prettier than peacocks."
John Blair, Justice of the Peace
There are several statements by John Blair, Justice of the Peace in the Day Book. One of these is set forth below. This is handwriting that is quite different then the handwriting in the account of the ocean crossing.
"Albany County
"The voluntary examination of Elles Sherman Single woman of the township of Cambridge in the county aforesaid taken on oath before me John Blair one of the justices of the peace for the said county the twenty and second day of October 1779 who said that she is now pregnant with child which child is likely to be born a bastard and chargeable to the District of Cambridge and John Shearman of the said township labour is the father of said child."
Dealing with Indians
There are several pages which appear to be a draft of a letter as portions are scratched out.The handwriting is similar to the handwriting in the account of the ocean voyage.
"I had a meeting with the chiefs yesterday the purport of their Counsel was that they were informed that the general has sent provisions to all the Villagers for the warriors familys during the Campaign there are four from this Village who go down on purpose to know whether it be true or not, they hope they may be treated as well as any other of the Villages, they say that they would go to war with a light heart in case that their families would be supported in their absence as they say it is very distressing to them to have their families in Campaign, that in case the general thinks proper to support their families during the Campaign they should be very glad to have the provisions here before they left the Village to hinder their families from following them" | Blair, Colonel John (I137)
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The family appears in The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index, Volume 7, Records Number 93979 to 93985 | Grettenberger, Johan George (I5534)
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The following article appeared in The West Briton and Cornish Advertiser issue of 25 July 1887. It was transcribed by Rita Bone-Kopf and posted on the Cornish-L Mailing List on 3 August 2005.
Sad Bathing Disaster At Newquay – Three Young Men Drowned – Newquay
was thrown into a state of painful excitement on Thursday afternoon by
the occurrence of a sad disaster, by which three young men lost their
lives whilst bathing from the rocks off the Outer Headland, one of the
most dangerous spots on that part of the coast. The names of the young
men were Frederick Pedlar, Herbert Magor, and Charles Tremewan, all of
Withiel. They came to Newquay with a picnic party of the Wesleyan School
and Band of Hope, numbering about 300. The deceased were teachers in the
school, and, after partaking of dinner, took their sweethearts for a
walk on the Fistral Beach. The young men proposed that they should go
for a bathe, leaving the young ladies to search for shells on the beach.
After a time the ladies thought that the young men must have finished
their bath, and proceeded to the Outer Headland. They then saw one of
the deceased holding up his arms and crying for help, but before
assistance could arrive he had disappeared. Mr. Robinson, one of the
party, procured a plank and went to the rock near, where he saw one of
the bodies. He, however, had to be taken off in a boat, as the tide rose
so quickly that he could not get on shore. A person had in the mean time
called the attention of a fisherman named W. Carter to the occurrence.
He at once proceeded to the spot with his boat, and with the aid of a
grapnel the body of Frederick Pedler was recovered. The bodies of the
other two young men were not discovered until Friday morning, when they
were picked up within a short distance of the scene of the accident. The
ages of the deceased young men averaged about 22 years. | Tremewan, Charles Edwin (I4996)
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The following information is from www.sprague-database.org.
“Lebbeus Tubbs served in the military between 1755 and 1778 in Connecticut. From April 14 to October 16th, 1755 he served as a private in the campaign for the reduction of Crown Point, in the 2nd Company of the First Connecticut Regiment. In 1759, he served as a private in the 12th Company of the Fourth Connecticut Regiment. In 1777, he was commisioned Ensign of the First Alarm List Company in the 24th Regiment. He was promoted to Lieutenant in October 1777. He served at Wildes-Barre, PA until October 1, 1778.
• He had a residence between 1760-1762 in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• He had a residence between 1762-1773 in CT, USA.
• He had a residence in 1773 in Wyoming, Luzerne Co., PA, USA
From Cynthia Ann Georgen, correspondent.
The Lebbeus Tubbs family was at the Fort at Wyoming during the Wyoming massacre, but escaped unhurt. 1.
• He had a residence in 1786 in Chemung Co., NY, USA.†| Tubbs, Lebbeus (I5213)
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The following is from ...
History of Tompkins, Schuyler, Chemung, Tioga 1879
Chapter 46
Chapter XLVI - City & Town of Elmira, Chemung County, New York - Societies, Schools, Businesses, etc.
In connection with the foregoing sketch of the Elmira post-office we present a portrait of Daniel F. Pickering, the present postmaster, who was born June 6, 1816, at Middle Smithfield, Monroe Co. (then Pike Co.), Pa. The ancestors, on his father’s side, were early emigrants from England to the then colony of Pennsylvania, and, like its founder, were Friends or Quakers. His maternal ancestors were from Holland, also settling in the colony of Pennsylvania. The maternal grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution, leaving the army with a major’s commission.
Mr. Pickering removed with his parents from his birthplace to Chemung, this county, arriving at the now village of Chemung on the 2d day of December, 1828. He received only the limited opportunities for an education afforded by a country school, consisting of the plainer branches of an English education. Launched upon the world the graduate of a log school-house at the age of sixteen, he continued, in various capacities, a resident of Chemung County, - a farm hand, carpenter and joiner, raftsman, lumberman, farmer, merchant, and liveryman.
On attaining his majority he was elected as constable and collector of the then town of Chemung, embracing the present town of Baldwin and a part of the town of Erin. Subsequently he held the office of school commissioner for two terms of the town, then its supervisor.
Mr. Pickering was elected to the office of sheriff of Chemung County in the fall of 1852, and removed to Elmira, assuming the duties of the office Jan. 1, 1853. He was appointed postmaster at Elmira, by President Lincoln, July, 1861, and re-appointed, by President Johnson, July, 1865, serving until April 1, 1867. He was removed for political reasons.
In March, 1872, he was appointed superintendent of the Chemung and Crooked Lake Canals, serving until March, 1873.
Mr. Pickering was appointed to his present position as postmaster at Elmira by President Hayes, April, 1877. | Pickering, Daniel F. (I361)
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The Hubbs descendancy was posted on the internet by Jack A. Forsbach. You can reach his site by clicking here. | Hubbs, Thomas (I5935)
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The Leyden poll tax of 15 Oct 1622 includes Rogier Chandelaer, Isabel Chandelaer his wife, and children Samuel and Sara. Roger and his family probably came to Plymouth in 1629 or 1630 when, according to Bradford, the Leyden contingent arrived. He was taxed in Plymouth 25 March 1633, and listed as a freeman the same year. These are the earliest records of him in this country. He was enumerated among those able to bear arms in Duxbury in 1643 and sold land there in 1644. He was listed among freemen of Duxbury in a tally presumed taken in 1658. In October 1655 the Plymouth
Court granted 150 acres of land to three (unnamed) duaghters of Roger Chandler deceased. | Chandler, Roger (I769)
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The line of descent from Andrew Gray and Sarah Harkness comes from information posted on Ancestry.com by Bonnie Schrack. | Gray, Andrew (I5573)
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The marriage is recorded in the Devon Record Office in Exeter. William Sparrow is listed as a labourer. Dinah is listed as a spinster. Both made marks. The witnesses were Samuel Doney and James Cole. | Family F18
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The Public Letters of George Clinton
The following are letters found inThe Public Papers of George Clinton. Clinton was Governor of New York during the American Revolution.
No. 2873
The Field Officers of Van Woert's Regiment
Submit a Grievance
Cambridge, May 6th 1780
To his Excellency George Clinton Esqr. Gov'r &c. &c.
Sir, It is with the deepest Concern that we find ourselves urged by necessity to Represent to your Excellency upon what a Scene of past misfortunes has made our present Grievance.
Prior to which Grievance we would beg Leave with the most profound respect to Submit to your Excellency's Consideration the following Introductive reasons: Since the time of our return home, after being drove off by the Enemy, we have been under Standing Orders to repair upon the Shortest notice to the frontiers; these Orders we have Punctually Obeyed, Chearfully exerting ourselves upon every appearance of danger; not even upon Such occasions regarding the most pressing calls of necessity to continue at home to provide for our families.
We have likewise borne our proportion in Publick Drafts for Campaine Service, in Detachments, and in Taxation with the other parts of the State. All which assistance we readily afforded, tho distressing in our broken Circumstances. So that the Product of these years past has been nothing less than an unabated Struggle betwixt the Enemy, and Domestick necessity.
In the month of April past we received Orders to List and Equip every thirty-fifth man for the Ensuing Campaine to be posted as frontier Guards, than which nothing could be more to our minds. It was, therefore, Cordially Complied with, and Speedily Executed, hoping by this means to relieve ourselves from the Insupportable burden of Detachments.
But now, Contrary to our Expectation, and what we consider as a Grievance, we are ordered to raise one Eighth part of our Militia, and to provide them with Arms, Ammunition, and Provision; to take post upon the frontiers, and to be continued by Relieving. Now, tho we think it most Necessary that the Frontiers be well guarded, as Some of the Inhabitants are already moving, and we must Soon if not defended, to the now Interior parts of the State will upon a few removes more become the frontier, yet in our present Situation, we are able neither to Raise nor Equip them.
As to Arms they might be provided, but for Amunition it is out of our Power to procure; for tho an Article of the Act for Regulating the Militia Points out how Amunition is to be obtained, yet we are altogether unable to Purchase it.
As to Provision, it is Absolutely out of our Power to to Victual ourselves upon the frontiers, and leave Sufficient to Support our families at home. This Sir is our Grievance for the Consideration and redress of which we most humbly Implore your Excellency.
That your Excellency may long Enjoy the peacable Government of this State, is for what we shall ever pray.
Lewis Van Woert Colonel; John Blair Lt. Colonel; Jam's Ashton Major
No. 3003
Certificates of Good Behavior for
Captain John Mckillop
Cambridge District, March 6th 1780
The Depositions of Leut. Andrew Thomson, James McKillips, and Thomas Stark, relative to a conversation that happen'd about ye beginning of November last between Capt. John McKillips & John Dunlop.
Lieut. Thomson deposeth that he cannot remember to have heard Capt. John McKillips calling John Blair (of the Sixteenth Regiment Albany County Militia) or Major James Ashton, Rogues at the affores'd Conversation.
James McK. Deposeth that heath not heard Capt. John McKillips call Coll. John Blair or Major Ashton afors'd Rogues or any other thing worse than their own names at s'd Conversation.
Thom's Stark Deposeth that at said Conversation he hath not heard, as he remembers, the words rogue or rogues mentioned at all, and said Deponent farth say not.
Duly Sworn before me the Day & year above written.
Edw. Rigg
White Creek June the 21 1780
I Dow hearby Sartify that Capt. John McCallips is a Trow frand [true friend] to the Countrey and to my knowledg has in Defens of Con [country] aver axerted him salf, sins he wos a nofaser [an officer] in the millishay as [ms. obscure] we know; to houm Et may Consarn:
Alex'r Webster, Colo.
Joseph McCraken, Mgr.
George Gillmore, Capt.
William Brown, Capt.
Gershom Woodworth, Left.
Edward Long, Capt.
Andrew Thomson, Liet.
Hugh Thomson, Ensign
John McClung, Lt.
Cambredg 1780 June the 22: to whome it may consern: that Johen Meckcelp has Ben a capten in my Regement from the Beginning of our contest and so on and it has allwase Ben my apenyoun from hes Behavear thet he is a good wege [Whig] and frend of our contere, and am of the same appenyoun still.
Leavis Vanwoert, Colonel
Peter Yates, Coll.
No. 3647
John Younglove's Letter Covering
Proceedings in Vermont
Cambridge, 18 April 1781
Honired Sir, I take the Liberty to enclose you a paper which accidentally fell into my hand yesterday but without the design of some of our people who now take the lead here about matters relitive to s'd paper. Mr. Ira Allen & others has bean taken much pains threw the different destricts around us; the People or many of them are in grate disorder; they have had many meetings on the subject of joining the people of the Grants. A Convention of Committees from different destricts meats here today on the subject. A trustee from hear has just returned home from over the mountain. I have bean at but one of the meetings & then advised the people to be cairful of their conduct. I am told that Mr. Whitesid & Col. Blair are much in favor of the plan & as near as I can find about one hundred more of the others also. You will pleas, sir, not to let this came abroad, for if our people should find that I am buisy agains the plan, it would be high treason & cost me some troble as they are very zealos. A line of direction by the bearer, James Colter, wold much oblige, sire, your very humble servant.
John Younglove
To Robert Yates, Esqr.
No. 3780
John Younglove's Complaint
Regarding Conditions in Vermont
- Governor Clinton Replies
Cambridge, 20th June 1781
May it Pleas Your Excellency, I received your Excelencys Letter on the eavening of the very day the Pretended Convention met. I had just been warning them of their danger & after receiving your Excelencys Letter, Repeated it again. Informing them of the Letter & even went so far as to warn them to disperce & make no father atemts, telling them they Might yet expect Mercy; they still percisted. I also went to the Committee from Vermont had one hour's conference. Desired them to desist & make no more Disturbance, As we had troble anuff; matters still went on; the first convention fel (?) at was the final Abolishment of their alegiance to the State of New York. Then on Articles of Union with Vermont; then sat up advertisements for a day of meating of the people. The gratest part that met voted in favor of the articles; then proceeded to the Election of Members of Assembley to set at Vermont. Mr. Whitesid & one Coldwell Were chosen & have taken their seats. As your Excelency Directed me to make returns of their proceedings as soon as I cold get coppeys of their papers, I proceeded to Poughkipsey & found your Excellency was gone to the Highlands (to my grate sorrow); however, I left My papers with the Atturney General to be forwarded to your Excelency. I have (as well as others) strove to keep the people to their aleagiance but many have swarved. We are now as near as I can gess about half & half almost at swordspoints. Col. Blair promised the Vermonters he would pruve true to them & as yet has bean so; he has not regarded the General orders he has received from time to time this spring; once he called his Captains together & ordered them to Class the Men, in order to Rais the 20th, at the same time told them it was not worth while to Regard the orders, for we were going to join Vermont; however, some of the People Raised the men & he would nither receive or forward them; these things and many more I am Ready to prove. At two different times I have in person called on Major Ashton to act in his office and take the Command as Blair would not. He always said he was willing but he had no people. I told him I was well asured there was two thirds would obey him, Yet he wold never make the attempt. So that we are now in the Greatest confution. those that still adheairs to their alegiance, has resolved never to submit until It is the order of Congress. Their is also grate devision in Vermont so that unless some speady relief is granted, we in all probability shall have mornful times. The Barer, Fenner Palmer, one of the Justices of the District of Hosack, is now wateing to give your Excelency a much more perticular account than what I can do in writing. If you Excelency would favor me with some direction for our future conduct It might be of Enfinate service here. I have the honor to be Your Exelencys humble serv't.
John Younglove
To his Exelency George Clinckton Esq.
N.B. We have In company with this Petitioned the Legislature for Relief.
Governor Clinton's Reply
Sir, I rec'd your Letter of the 20th ulto. previous to which I had the Papers you formerly transmitted me with such others as I had Rec'd respect'g the conduct of the People of the Grants and other misguided subjects of the State in your vicinity, before the Legislature. Their present Session however is so near it experation that having their attention engaged with matters of the greatest public importance I am in Doubt whether they will no do anything conclusive and effectual in this business. If they do I will apprize you of it immediately after rising. If they do not I can only advise you to persevere & encourage a firm and steady alegiance to this State, avoiding altercation whcih might interrupt an exertion agt the Common Enemy, patiently waiting for a Period which I firmly hope is not far distant when we shall be in a situation to extend just authority & Jurisdiction of our State over all its subjects.
Pokeepsie 29 June 1781
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They applied for their license on October 24, 1904.
They were married by H. B. Collins, M.E. Minister.
The witnesses were Joseph Hosking and Etta Moyle.
In the Michigan Record of Marriages, it looks like his occupation is "Mgr. Cigar Mfg." That doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense.
Both sets of parents are listed in the Record. | Family F117
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They were married in Ishpeming. The got their marriage license on October 21, 1904. They were married by Frank P. Cowles, Clergyman. The witnesses were Thomas Moyle and Anna Tremewan. She showed her place of residence as Iron Mountain, Michigan. He showed Ishpeming as his place of residence. He lists Richard Sparrow and Anna Pike as his parents. She lists William Henry Tremewan and Lilly Tremewan. | Family F15
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This line traces back to Francis Eaton, a Mayflower passenger. | Eaton, Thankful (I6337)
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This may not be the child of Timothy and Matilda. | Middaugh, Rachel (I7339)
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This reflection was written on March 25, 1995 by Thomas Henry Sparrow's son, Thomas Richard Sparrow.
This is my father's birthday. Had he lived he would have been 87. He was born on March 25, 1908 at Ishpeming, Michigan. His father was Thomas William Sparrow, the chief mechanic for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company. His mother was Sophia Tremewan Sparrow. He had an older sister, Marjorie, who was born in 1905.
He graduated from Iron Mountain High School in 1926. His mother wanted him to go to the university so he went to the University of Michigan, graduating from there with a Bachelor's Degree in education in 1930. He told me that he had really wanted to study law but that he couldn't afford that. Using the GI Bill, he earned a Master's Degree in counseling from U of M in 1952.
He was a teacher, counselor, and elementary school principal with the Wyandotte Public Schools in Wyandotte, Michigan. He taught secondary school mathematics (algebra, geometry, general math). Prior to WW II he taught at Labadie Junior High School.
Wyandotte is located on the Detroit River - an international border between the US and Canada. He talked about arriving in Wyandotte and at Labadie during the height of prohibition. The Mafia operated in Wyandotte and gang members would run booze across the river in speedboats. The houses on Antoine Street (Machine Gun Boulevard) were all connected with underground passageways. Someone trying to escape the police could disappear in those tunnels. Dad talked about the kids in his junior high math classes who would be so tired from "rum running" the night before that they would fall asleep in class. There was a "gang war" killing in front of the school one day! The victim was machine-gunned.
The J.B. Ford Elementary School was in that section of town. The principal there was a woman named Marge McCoy. Whenever she had problems with one of the Italian children she would call the neighborhood "Godfather." And, sounding much like Marlon Brando in The Godfather, he would say, "Don't worry 'bout it Miss McCoy. We take care of it for you. Italian boys need to go to school. Dey need to behave." The Godfather would talk to the boy's parents and that would be the end of the problem.
Dad served in the United States Air Force during World War II (1942-1945). He didn't see any overseas service and spent most of time teaching aircraft identification to flying personnel.
I remember going with my dad when he bought his Air Force uniforms. Actually, I believe he was in the Army Air Corps as it didn't become the Air Force until later. I think we went to the J.L. Hudson Company, but it may have been someplace else. The tinted photograph (above) of Dad in his dress uniform was my mother's favorite picture of him.
When dad returned from the service I went with him when he talked with Fred Frostic, the Wyandotte Superintendent of Schools, about returning to teaching. I was particularly impressed with Frostic's office which was paneled in walnut and had big large-leafed plants growing in pots in most of the corners of the room. Frostic told dad that he wanted him to teach math at the high school.
He was also a high school counselor. Sometime in the 1950's - it was while I was stationed in Germany with the Army so it must have been 1956 or 1957 - he was appointed principal of the Labadie Elementary School. It became an elementary school after the Wilson and Lincoln Junior High Schools were built.
He lived in various places in Wyandotte: the Etinger Apartments on Oak Street (a rented apartment); 87 Mulberry (a rented apartment); 3435 Twenty-first Street (a rented house); 2482 Twenty-second Street (a rented house); 603 Highland Street (a rented house); and, 349 Sixth Street (a house he owned).
Most of what I remember about my father are later memories - things I remember from my adult years. I don't remember much about him and my childhood at all. I wonder why? Hilde has said that my mom said I was "hyper" as a kid. If I was, maybe I had some sort of disorder that got in the way of my remembering events. I have almost no recollection of my childhood.
I know dad wasn't a very demonstrative person. I don't ever recall him being angry with me to the point where he raised his voice or hit me. I don't recall him hugging me or kissing me. I don't remember much interaction with him at all. His own father died when dad was 12 years old. Perhaps he never learned how to be a father. And perhaps we create our children in our own image.
I don't remember him being "close" with my mother either. I would see them "kiss," but it never was spontaneously. It was usually during fairly formal times such as photography sessions, and then it was done "kiddingly."
Here are some "flashes" of memory from childhood. I can see my dad ... sitting at the dinning room table after supper correcting a pile of math papers at least a foot high ... working in the garage or with his tools, a cigarette between his lips and the ash growing longer and longer until it curls under its own weight and finally falls to the ground ... making some of his home movies, carefully winding the drive spring on his Kodak 8mm movie camera ... playing solitaire bridge or solitaire poker using a chair as a card table ... dealing hand after hand ... playing bridge with the "guys" and poker with the "poker gang" ... and drinking. In his later years he was an alcoholic. He put away a fifth of whiskey almost every day.
One summer vacation we were at a cottage in Michigan's Upper Pennisula - I think we were on "Big" or "Little" Manistique Lake. The cottage was owned by a man named Doney. I remember that because there was a teacher at the high school named Doney. I don't think there was any electricity because I remember kerosene lanterns. One night dad was outside. Suddenly, he let out a scream and came running back into the cottage saying he had seen a bear. It scared me half to death. He laughed and laughed. It was one of the few times I ever heard him make a practical joke.
He was my geometry teacher in high school. He never called me "Tom." He always called me "Sparrow." I was out of my seat one day and he said, "OK, Sparrow. Your move!" I barely passed. He "gave" me a C.
He was also my counselor for a while. But he thought it wouldn't be a good idea for him to counsel me so he "traded" me to another counselor - "Doc" Lyon - who was his own son's counselor. While he was my counselor he made me take typing because, "You have to learn at least one skill in high school." Although I hated it at the time, I'm forever grateful for him insisting that I learn to type.
I remember how he "puffed himself up" when someone was taking his picture. In many of the photographs I have of dad, he has pulled in his stomach and stuck out his chest.
He was one hell of a bridge player - probably the best I have ever known. He was particulary good at "end play" and he could squeeze the daylights out of a hand. I played with him occasionally when his group needed a fourth. In his later years he suffered from a palsey of some kind and his hands shook. He didn't like people to see that his hands were shaking and he almost stopped playing bridge because of it. Finally, one of his foursome - Marc Betwee - said to him, "Tom. You can't stop playing bridge just because your hands shake. You can hold the cards with your feet if you want to. You must keep playing." He did.
He had fantastic card sense and - when a hand was done - he could repeat it play by play - telling you what everybody had played on each trick. He used that same card sense when he played poker.
And he liked to play poker - penny ante poker and if you lost two or three dollars you could play "poverty" and you were covered on every bet until you won a hand. Art and Elsie Benjiman, Gen and Bill Dawson, and Red and Adeline Hallowell would get together almost every week to play cards. They named the games after the places in which they learned them or after the person who taught them the game. So, we played "Tomah," or "Kleinschmidt Red Dog," or "Chicago," or "Little Joe." I liked to watch the games and every once in a while they let me play.
I remember one night when Marc and Vicki Betwee were playing. Vicki didn't know poker so I was helping her. The game was straight five card draw and she was dealt a royal flush in hearts. I've never seen it since - and I've played a lot of poker.
There was a two-car garage behind our house on Sixth Street. Attached to the garage was an equally big room that dad always called "the shop." He tiled the floor, and paneled the walls, built some cupboards and closets, and that was where they played poker during the warmer months of the year. I suspect he did it because Grandpa and Grandma Blair lived with us and he wanted to be a little nosier than he could be if they played in the dining room. The work he did on "the shop" was quite good.
Dad fancied himself as a fisherman. On those summer vacations he had lots of fishing gear and we would fish for the "big one" in Hubbard Lake - a large lake in lower Michigan near Alpena. One summer, we were fishing and he hooked a really big bass. As he was reeling it in, the reel fell off his pole. He then began drawing the line in by hand. I netted the fish - almost tipping the boat over in the process - and he had a nice trophy fish.
I think it was that same summer that someone - it may have been my mother - caught an even bigger bass fishing off the dock at Uplegger's Resort with a cane pole.
These are funny memories. It is strange thinking about them now.
He liked to play golf. He had a very compact swing, but when he hit the ball it went pretty good. We played together ocassionally, but not often. I always beat him.
There is a funny story about my nephew - his oldest grandchild - John Wareing. John, who was about two, called his pacifier a "do-do." Mom and dad were caring for John and they were going someplace in the car and John threw his pacifier out of the car window. John needed a pacifier, so dad stopped at the next drug store they came to, went in, and asked the clerk if she had a "do-do." He never did tell me what the clerk said.
We were both members of the Wyandotte Kiwanis Club. The club went on a field trip to the Detroit Salt Mines. Dad and I went. The mines are 1200 feet below the city of Detroit. There is only one elevator. Down in the mines - which are in the salt deposits - are huge rooms, "roads," and lots of machinery - trucks, digging machines, crushers, etc. (Incidentally, the machines all had to be disassembled, taken down the elevator, and then reassembled.) The temperature in the mines is a "constant" 68 degrees - or something like that. Anyway, we had been in the mine for about an hour and a half and had just made the turn to head back - which meant another hour and a half - and dad said, "This is interesting, but I didn't want to know this much about salt mines."
We were both elementary principals in Wyandotte for several years before he retired. He was principal at the Labadie Elementary School. I was at the Washington. Both of our secretaries were named Cole. Mine was Margaret Cole. His was Olive Cole. They were married to brothers.
His first teaching contract in Wyandotte had a salary of something like $1,200. The first year I was a principal I made more than he ever made - up until that year. I never thought that was quite right.
After he retired he built Tom and Rick desks. He built Jenny a model of our Vernon Road house in Trenton. He liked to build things and was proud of his handiwork. I know Rick still has his desk. I wonder if Tom has his and if Jenny has her house?
Dad died on October 4, 1976. He died a horrible death. He had cancer of the pancreas and it was not diagnosed correctly. It "ate him alive." He had been a robust, healthy man - weighing over 200 pounds. When he died he weighed less than 80 pounds. He just wasted away.
He was cremated. I spread his ashes around the property at 349 Sixth. Ashes aren't really ashes, you know. They are fragments of bone and they tinkle like little wind chimes when you throw them. | Sparrow, Thomas Henry (I8)
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Thomas Bradbury has two notable lines of royal descent. One from Alfred the Great and the other from Charlemagne. His coat-of-arms is enrolled as 139.
The Bradbury family of early New England (Thomas Bradbury and Mary Perkins) has been traced through the Bradbury line all the way back to Charlemagne, King of the Franks, born in the year 742. For detailed information, see the book, The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury and his wife Mary Perkins, by John Brooks Threlfall.
Thomas Bradbury was from Wicken Bonhunt, Essex, England, baptised in 1610/11, the son of Wymond Bradbury and Elizabeth Whitgift. He married Mary Perkins about 1636 and lived in Salisbury, Massachusetts.He was made a freeman in 1640. He was constable, schoolmaster, town clerk, Captain of the military, and a deputy to the general court for seven years. His graceful handwriting appears in many documents in the archives of Essex county, Massachusetts.
His wife, Mary Perkins was accused of witchcraft in 1692 and in spite of testimonies to her excellent character, she was convicted at
the age of 77, but she was not executed.
Thomas died in March 1694/95, and Mary died on Dec 20, 1700. Their daughter Jane Bradbury born in 1645 married Henry True, son of Henry True and Israil Pike. | Bradbury, Thomas (I631)
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Thomas first had the land of his father at Dartmouth, but relinquished it to his father in 1669. His father, on the same day, conveyed it Jacob. There is no futher mention of Thomas. | Mitchell, Thomas (I735)
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Thomas was a Sailor. His son William's baptismal certificate says, "1799 March 26th William son of Thos Sparrow sailor and Ann his wife."
His marriage record says, "1798 December 04 Thomas Sparrow a Marine in the Plymouth division, and Ann Crossman witnesses Joseph Bownsalt, William Roberts."
Much of what I know about Thomas came from an English researcher, Jean Chase. I found Jean on the internet in 1998. | Sparrow, Thomas (I932)
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Timothy Pickering, a soldier, administrator, politician, patriot, and a man of high personal integrity and strength of character, was born at Salem, Massachusetts on July 17, 1745. The Pickering family had been prominent in Salem since its settlement in the 1630s.
Timothy was the eighth of nine children of Timothy and Mary (Wingate) Pickering. He attended Harvard College, where he graduated in 1763, afterwards returning to Salem to serve as a clerk in the office of the register of deeds for Essex County. He was admitted the bar in 1768. He was an early supporter of the colonial independence movement, and served on various committees to agitate for independence from Britain. In 1766, he was elected a lieutenant in the Essex County Militia. During this time, he served as Selectman, town clerk in his home town of Salem, and as a representative in the General Court, the lower house of the state legislature.
In October, 1774, he was elected register of deeds for Salem, and in the following February, became colonel of the 1st Regiment of the Essex County militia. The year 1775 saw his participation in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and the publication of his classic manual of militia training, "An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia", adopted in 1776 by Massachusetts as its official manual for militias, and widely used during in the Revolution by the Continental army as a resource.
Timothy Pickering provided military service to his country throughout the war. After a brief assignment to coastal defense duty, he led a Massachusetts contingent to join Washington's army and participated in the campaign of 1776-7 in New York and New Jersey, spending the winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. On May 7, 1777, he accepted General Washington's offer of the position as adjutant-general of the Continental Army, serving until January, 1778. In November, 1777, he was elected to serve as a member of the newly-organized Board of War. He also served the army as its Quartermaster General from May, 1780, serving until after the end of the war.
On April 8, 1776, Timothy had married Rebecca White, who was born in Bristol, England. Together they had ten children. After the war ended, Timothy Pickering moved his growing family first to Philadelphia, then to the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania, where he bought large tracts of land for development. There, the government of Pennsylvania commissioned him to organize newly-created Luzerne County, which he represented in the state convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1787, and later in the state's own Constitutional convention of 1789-90.
In the fall of 1790, he applied to President Washington for the office of Postmaster General, but was instead sent on an urgent mission to the Seneca Indians, where his sympathic nature and diplomatic ability to negotiate with them on friendly and fair terms ensured similar assignments on many other occasions. In 1794, for example, he successfully negotiated the Canandaigua Treaty with the Seneca tribe which is still in effect to this day. On August 12, 1791, President Washington did appoint Timothy Pickering as the nation's third Postmaster General, and on January 2, 1795, he became the nation's second Secretary of War. Both positions were demanding, since both the Post Office and War Department were in their infancy. Yet, he helped to tame administrative problems in the both departments and helped to build and equip several frigates in a small but substantial navy. He also suggested the establishment of permanent military academies, a suggestion that was taken in later years.
President Washington appointed Timothy Pickering Secretary of State in August of 1795, after his predecessor had been caught in secret dealings with the French. By 1798, France and America seemed on the verge of war, and were in fact already in a "quasi-war" on the seas of the Atlantic. Timothy Pickering was instrumental in shoring up America's defenses and denouncing French influence in American politics, but also condemned Britain's aggressive behavior on the seas. He was a clear supporter of Britain over France, however, and after the end of the "quasi-war", he began to have serious political dissagreements with President Adams, Washington's successor, who preffered to appease the French and keep them as allies. These continued disagreements eventually caused Timothy Pickering's dismissal from the cabinet in May of 1800.
That summer, he resumed farming in Pennsylvania, with plans to develop and subdivide his property in the upper Susquehanna for sale as farms. Yet his friends in Massachusetts were anxious for him to return to his home state to help them lead the state's Federalist party, so they invested in his land so he could complete his project and return with his family to Massachusetts, which he did.
Back in Salem, he narrowly lost a bitterly-fought election for the U.S. House of Representatives in the fall of 1802, but was soon appointed to the U.S. Senate by the Federalist-controlled state legislature. His rhetorical talents were quickly put to use in the Senate, where he argued against appropriating a bond measure to pay for Louisiana Purchase, which he felt, correctly, would eventually greatly weaken the influence and voting power of New England. Late in 1803, Timothy Pickering began meeting with collegues to discuss the feasibility of a "New England Confederacy"- the separation of the New England States and New York from the rest of the Union. The
opposition of Federalist Party leader Alexander Hamilton to the plan prevented any serious discussion of this, however, and the idea was dropped.
Another major issue upon which Timothy Pickering had a strong opinion was the Embargo imposed against Britain in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson and the Congress. He considered the move extremely pro-French, since it seemed to support Napoleon's "Continental System", an embargo he imposed against the British to stop their trade with the European continent, which was almost completely under French control. Pickering and the Federalist party saw President Jefferson's French sympathies as very dangerous to the sovereignty
of the United States, since Napoleon had proven himself to be a conqueror and a despot, rather than the friend to liberty Jefferson and his party saw him to be.
Furthermore, most New England merchants relied on trade with Britain, so they, too, strongly opposed the embargo, and Timothy Pickering spoke eloquently on behalf of these
consitutents. The embargo eventually had a devastating effect on the economy, and the crisis did much to temporarily raise the fortunes of the Federalist Party, which was nearing
extinction in other parts of the nation.
During this time, the secession of the New England states was seriously discussed once again, this time widely and by the public at large. However, Timothy Pickering and other
leading Federalists sought the repeal of the Embargo or even its nullification by the New England States but not such a drastic measure as secession, though it was never ruled out
and was certainly contemplated on occasion by Timothy Pickering and his associates as an option of last resort.
After much pressure and economic suffering, the Embargo was repealed in 1809, but Jefferson's party led the nation to war with Britain in 1812, a war against which Timothy Pickering helped lead the opposition in New England, and for which America was unprepared against it's stronger British opponent. The war solved few of the problems facing the two countries, and caused much bloodshed on both sides. (The United States capitol and White House in Washington were burned to the ground by British troops.) Towards the end of the war, frustrated New England legislatures sent delegates to a convention in Hartford, Connecticut to find ways to address the conduct of the war and ways to regain their sovereignty. Though he did not attend, Timothy Pickering had a great influence on the procedings, and the wording of its final report- urging
Constitutional changes and government reforms- came chiefly from the ideas he had suggested to some of the Convention's leading delegates.
After serving briefly on the Executive Council of Massachusetts, he served in the United States House of Representatives from March, 1813 to
March, 1817. After retiring from the House, he moved from Wenham back to Salem, Massachusetts. There, he spent the remaining years of his
life, writing valuable tracts on agriculture, and, it is said, winning a ploughing contest in his seventy-fifth year! He died in Salem on January 29,
1829, at the age of 83.
Among the children of Timothy and Rebecca Pickering were John (1777-1846); Timothy, Jr., who was a Harvard graduate and a midshipman
(d.1807); and Octavius, the author of "The Life of Timothy Pickering", published posthumously,1867-73. Timothy Pickering's grandson,
Charles Pickering (1805-1878), the son of Timothy, Jr., was a noted Zoologist and Botanist. Timothy Pickering's great-grandson, William
Henry Pickering (1858-1938), was an astronomer credited with discovering Phoebe, the planet Saturn's ninth moon, in1898, taking the earliest
accurate pictures of Mars, and predicting the existence and location of the planet Pluto in 1919, eleven years before its actual discovery.
Salem, Massachusetts Mayor Stanley J. Usovicz, Jr. proclaimed the seventeenth day of July, 2000 "Timothy Pickering Day" to honor "his exceptional and extraordinary career", and
to "recognize his remarkable accomplishments, both civilian and military". | Pickering, Timothy (I3442)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Family F4582
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Veteran of the Revolution, served in the Dutchess County, NY Militia and fought in the Battles of Long Island and White Plains. In 1777 he had been a member of the regiment commanded by his father-in-law, John Blair. He 1796 he was a Colonel in the New York State Militia. Member of the White Creek Rural Lodge, F. and A. M. | King, Solomon (I156)
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Was a distinguished man. He held various offices of trust and honor; was on the commissions of the peace for Worcestershire in 1404 and 1405; vice-comes, described as of Washborne, in Overbury; knight of the shire in 1404; escheator. His tomb is the oldest of the four which were formerly in the chancel of the Wichenford church, and is described by Thomas Habingdon, to whom much of the knowledge of the Washborn family is due, written before 1633, the date of Habingdon's death: "In the north of the Chauncell is an auncient Tombe of Alabaster on the ground, A man armed all savinge his heade, vnder which lyethe hys helmet with a wreathe, and theareon a flame of fyre within a band, mantled and doubled, at hys feete a Ly. On his ryght hand his wyfe with a littell dog at her feete. Between them Washborn armes impalinge a cheueon." | Washburn, John (I2541)
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WASHBURN-- The surname Washburn is identical with Washbourne and Washborn, and the family derived its name from two small villages of Washborn or Washbourne, Little Washbourne or
Knight's Washbourne, in Overbury, in the southern part of Worcestershire, England, and Great Washbourne, in the same neighborhood, county Glocester. The word itself is from two Saxon
words--wash, meaning the swift-moving current of a stream, and burn or bourne, a brook or small stream. The authentic history of the family begins before the adoption of surnames. Washbourne's
Book of Family Crests states that the founder of the family was of Norman ancestry, was knighted on the field of battle at the time of William the Conqueror, 1066, being endowed by him with lands
and the manor of Little and Great Washbourne, counties of Glocester and Worcester. That statement is not authenticated, but practically all of the knights and nobles of the time in which the known
pedigree of the family begins, had a similar origin. As early as the reign of Henry II. we know that William, son of Sampson, was Lord of Little Washbourne. The armorial bearings of the family
indicate descent from the houses of Zouche and Corbett. The ancient coat-of-arms: Argent on a fess between six martlets gules three quatrefoils slipped bendways of the first. Later the family at
Worcester modified this slightly: Argent on a fess between six martlets gules three cinquefoils of the field. Crest: A coil of flax surmounted with a wreath argent and gules thereon flames of fire
proper.
Is the first known authentic ancestor of this family. He is mentioned in an Inquisition of 1259, concerning William de Stutevil, and in the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1280 he is described as of Little
Comberton and of Washbourne, as well as of Stanford. Stanford was on the other side of Worcestershire from Washbourne, about twenty-five miles in direct line. He was living in 1299. | DeWashborne, Roger (I2546)
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Widely known as "the father of the modern bamboo fishing rod." Rods in made in the 1800s and early 1900s still sell today for thousands of dollars. | Leonard, Hiram L. (I7353)
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William Bradford recorded his list of passengers that came over in the Mayflower: "Francis Cooke and his son John, but his wife
and other children came afterwards". Later in 1651, he writes "Francis Cooke is still living, a very old man, and hath seen his
children's children have children. After his wife came over with other of his children; he hath three still living by her, all married and
have five children, so their increase is eight. And his son John which came over with him is married, and hath four children living."
Francis and Hester (Mahieu) Cooke had lived in Leyden as early as 1603, about five years before the Pilgrims fled there from
England. In 1606, they left Leyden to live at Norwich, England where they joined a French Walloon church; however, they did not
stay long in England--probably because of religious persecution--and by 1607 were back in Leyden as members of the French
Walloon church there.
Francis Cooke came on the Mayflower with his eldest son John in 1620 and as such was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. His wife, Hester, soon followed on the Anne in 1623.
She brought with her three additional children: Jacob, Jane, and Hester. Another child, Mary, was born in 1626.
Freemen
Francis Cooke was also listed on the original list of freemen for Plymouth and was found on this list again in 1633, 1637 and 1658. As a freemen he had several duties which were thrust upon
him. He served twice on the Grand Inquest, once in 1638 and a second time in 1640. Cooke also served on numerous juries from the years 1638-48. His most notable case was that of Allis
Bishop. She admitted to murdering her four year old daughter by slashing her throat and windpipe with a knife. His major service to the community, however, seemed to come in the highway
realm. In 1937 he was appointed to the committee to lay out highways. He followed this appointment with the job of surveyor of the highways for Plymouth in 1641, 1642 and again in 1645. He
even served on a committee to find the best route for a new road.
Occupation
There is no record or what kind of work Cooke was engaged in. He did have and apprentice, John Harmon, for seven years starting in 1636. Francis Cooke was also on the 1643 Plymouth list of
those who were able to bear arms.
Estate
Francis Cooke was not as active in court as his jury duty. He won a judgment against John Browne, the elder, for abusing his cattle. Along with twelve others, he was given 4 black heifers and two
shee goats in the 1627 cattle division. Cooke appears to have been granted many different parcels of land in and around Plymouth. Some of this land he gave to his sons Jacob and John, which
they sold portions of. Francis even sold some land to William Bradford. His neighbors included Isaak Allerton, Edward Winslow, and Thomas Prence as well as his 2 sons John and Jacob.
The End
The will of Francis Cooke, dated 7 October 1659, leaves all his possessions to his wife Hester with Hester and his son John as joint executors of the will. John Aldin and John Howland were
witnesses to the will. Francis Cooke passed away on 7 April 1663 at the age of approximately 80. An inventory was taken of his possessions by Ephraim Tinkham and William Crow on 1 May
1663. His total net worth at that time was 86 pounds, 11 shillings, and 1 pence | Cooke, Francis (I925)
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William Penn became a Quaker and King Charles II granted Penn a land grant in America in 1681 which later became Pennsylvania. Penn's colonization of this area began in 1682 and he encouraged
religious freedom there for the Quakers and other religious groups. The Daweses came to Pennsylvania about 1702 and settled near Philadelphia in what later became Montgomery County. Francis
Dawes married Margaret Griffith on 27 November 1704 in Pennsylvania. Margaret was born in Wales and may be the daughter of Thomas Griffith. Francis and Margaret had four known children:
Mary, Adrian, Catherine, and Hannah. Francis died in 1749. | Dawes, Francis (I1113)
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Works in a piston factory in 1920.
Living with his mother-in-law. | Brayton, Hugh (I6112)
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