Various Names In Massachusetts

Sussex County, Massachusetts:

Backus Image 26

"Co's" Index

Davis Index Image 148

Richmond Index Image 455

"B's" In Tompkins County Index

New York Probate Records, 1629-1971  Tompkins Letters of administration...ntary 1846-1874 vol 39-40:

B's

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James W. Backus

Michigan Probate Records, 1797-1973  St. Clair Probate calendar 1828-1871 vol 1-2:

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James W. Backus probate

Mary

Backus's In The Cattaraugus County, New York, General Index

New York Probate Records...Cattaraugus General index..:

Frederick and Caroline Backus in the Index

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William Backus's (Backhouse) In Yorkshire

 In the Sheffield parish registers, long available in print (*Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1917), were found the baptisms of five of William Backhouse's children and the burial of his wife and two of their children. *This one

31 August 1628 Sara dau. Of William Backhouse bapt.

6 May 1632 Maria dau. Of William Backhouse bapt.

30 November 1634 William fil. William Backhouse bapt.

The names of the children of William Backhouse of Sheffield correspond, as do their baptismal dates, with what is known of the family of William Backus of Connecticut.

Backus's In Surrogate Index

New York Probate Records...Livingston Surrogate record index...:


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Willm. Backhouse, Cutler

     LIST OF CUTLERS, 1624-30. (Source)

                        Compiled from list of Marks granted 1624 to 1630.       

             

Where no date is given, 1624 or 1625 must be assumed; sh. means shearsmiths (which included sickle-smiths); sc. scissorsmiths; all others are cutlers, a term specially applied to knlfe makers,
from whom razormakers were not distinguished.


Backhouse, or Bakehouse Robte,      Carlton Will., 1626.          Dore Robte. the younger.
    of Whittenton.                  Carr ffrs.                               Dore Tho., of Brlghtslde.
Backhouse Willm.              Carr George.                         Drabble Nicholas.

John Backus Of Hancock, Massachusetts

Revolutionary War Pension Application:

 Declaration of John Backus: When I first entered the service I resided in Hancock in the Bay state.

Hancock, Berkshire, Massachusets (LOC)

Says the militia were called for to go to Ticonderoga…

Plan Of Carillon Or Ticonderoga (LOC)

. ...the orderly sergeants name was Bacon and heard he was afterwards killed at the battle of Bennington. Col. [Benjamin] Simons of Williams Town commanded the regt. He was an old man, understood he has been taken prisoner in the French war… The regt marched to Albany and was there at Christmas and New Years day and then went from there to Ticonderoga has been then but a short time when he was placed in a redout a short distance from the main fort as an artillerist together with others of the same regiment.

See a reference to Colonel Simons below:

Source

George Backus's Last Will and Testament

 George Backus's Last Will and Testament:

Charles D. Backus

New York Probate Records..Monroe General index...vol 1:

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Ernest Backus, Brother Of Estate

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Backus, Ernest

Hoys, Germany

1896

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate# 21772

Brother of ESTATE of BACKUS, Frederick H. A.

Philena Richardson

 New York Probate Records...Livingston Decrees, Orders...:

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Thomas Bingham, Backus's Stepson

The Hartford Courant had a nice article about Thomas Bingham.

Through the ages, this is what families have worried about: Economic opportunity. Education. Happiness. Each other.  Is the family of today really so different?  The Courant looks at seven Connecticut families, from colonial times to today:

Colonial Connecticut:

At the top of the Windham slope sat the Bingham family's saltbox. At the bottom snaked a brook, a source of pleasure and worry for Thomas and Mary Rudd Bingham. 

See more of the Bingham genealogy here.

Rufus Backus Estate

New York Probate Records...Washington Letters of administration 1813-1823...:

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27 May 1813

To Sally Backus

Whereas Rufus Backus Late of Granville in the County of Washington...

Doctor Walker To Supply Provisions

The Preston and Virginia Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts:

Source

Pope/Backus Marriage

Randolph County, Illinois, Deeds, Deeds v. L-M 1804-1815:

FHC Film 007903130 (online)

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Indiana Territory

Randolph County

By virtue of a License....I have this day joined in wedlock Nathaniel Pope Esquire and wife Lucretia Backus at Kaskaskia this 18th Day of December one thousand eight hundred and Eight.

William Arundel

Justice of the Peace

William Backus, Cutler

William Backus Of Sheffield, Yorkshire, And Norwich, Connecticut, By Everett F. Bingham NEHGS article, Volume CXLII  [C?], July 1988, pages 253-254:

...1659 William Backus married 2^nd at Saybrook, Ct., widow, Anna (Fenton) Bingham, whose 1^st husband, Thomas Bingham, had died in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, in February 1648... .

[William Backus] To his son William he left “all the tooles belonging to the trade of a smith and cutler....” ...examined the records of the Cutlers Company in Sheffield...and discovered that William Backhouse [sic] was listed as an apprentice to William Nutt of Grimesthorpe, near Sheffield.. This placed him as a member of that company at the same time as Thomas Bingham, husband of Anna... .

The most conclusive evidence, however, is provided by a signature. When William signed by mark in the Sheffield Cutlers Company in 1631, he made his mark with two precise letters, a W directly over a B, and he used this same mark in signing his will in 1661.

Woodbridges' In The 1845 City of Detroit Directory

Source

Hon. William Woodbridge, U S Senator  Springwells

Note: Senator Woodbridge's mother was a Backus by birth; he was my 5th cousin 5x removed

Charles Backus In Plattsburgh

Source

Tompkins Decrees - Luther Berry

New York, Probate Records, Tompkins Decrees, Minutes, Orders 1853-1869...:

Volume 31-F
Index (Image 329)

Berry, Luther 174

26 August 1865