Doctor Joseph Clarke's Wife

From local history at the Oshawa Library, Doctors Of Ontario County (1934).

Sarah Cameron Clarke in Oshawa, the sister of the Hon. John Hilliard Cameron. (Elizabeth with a question mark is handwritten in the margin)

Heirs Of James Vance Acklin

Notes taken from  Franklin County, Tennessee: Wills, 1808-1876 & Deeds, 1801-1840, by Thomas E. Partlow:


James Vance Acklin Will
18 Feb 1831
Heirs wife Mildred Acklen, adopted son James Acklen who was 4 years old on 3 August last
Rec 20 Sept 1844

Dr. Donald Robert Cameron

From local history at the Oshawa Library, Doctors Of Ontario County (1934).

Heirs Of Joseph Acklin

Notes taken from  Franklin County, Tennessee: Wills, 1808-1876 & Deeds, 1801-1840, by Thomas E. Partlow:


Joseph Acklen Will
25 May (March?) 1841
Heirs: wife Sarah
Son Joseph Acklen; daughters Kizia, Elizabeth and Mildred

From a different source (AGLL Microfilm V-202-20): 

Const & Appt. Thos Wilson & James Sharp of Winchester, TN, executors  25 Mar 1841

Joseph was the son of Christopher and Christian (Black) Acklin.

This Joseph Acklin?

Alabama Records (Madison)

Vol 138, Page 436
Original bill filed 6 Apr 1821
John Turner on November 12, 1818, purchased land of Joseph Acklen whose wife Sally has never relinquished her dower, though often promising; they have now removed to the State of Tennessee...A deed of trust was executed by John Turner and wife, Elizabeth.  Answer of Joseph Acklen on 28 July, 1821, was made in Madison Co., Alabama.

This Joseph Acklin?

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Possible Descendants of Henry Bull

Genealogical List Of The Bull Family Of The County Of Prince Edward, Ont.:

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Related to Edward Richmond's 2nd wife's [Amy's] father, Henry Bull?  According to the publication above, "Josiah Bull...assumed to have been decended from Henry Bull, sometime Governor of Rhode Island...".

A reference to the J B R book p 79 (The Richmond Family, 1594-1896, and Pre-American Ancestors, 1040-1594), regarding Richmond descendant Abigail, was found in the Bull lineage book:

See more about Abigail Richmond Cunningham here.

Personal Legal Travails Of Edward Richmond

An interesting analysis regarding Edward Richmond from The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire, by Mary Sarah Bilder (Note: This is one of the few sources I've used that is not a free book.):

"Men without such strong family connections acquired their legal skills through observation and participation."  "The personal legal travails of Edward Richmond provided him entry into the legal world."

• 1650's Edward Richmond planned to marry Abigail Davis
• Abigail Davis's family pressured her into marrying Richard Ussell
• June 1656 Richmond's attorneys were unsuccessful in suing Ussell for trespass
• Edward Richmond initially lost the suit, but gained legal knowledge
• Richmond's attorneys proposed a more successful argument against Ussell and Abigail Davis's step-father, John Cowdall.  Richmond received monetary damages, but Abigail remained married.
• After the General Assembly was petitioned, the Abigail Davis/Richard Ussell marriage was declared unlawful
• A 40 shilling monetary damage was levied against both Edward Richmond and Abigail Davis for living together and conceiving a child
• In June 1658, Edward and Abigail were married

Edward Richmond was serving as a "general solicitor and general attorney" in the 1660's

Register Of Palm Family Friends

Richard, Hazel and Eldon Palm

"Register of Friends" [from Hazel Palm's registry book]:

Mr. and Mrs. M. Cresswell, 3414 Gratiot, Flint, Mich

Mabel A. Burnham, 12635 Pinehurst

Mr. and Mrs. N. Tucker, 16525 Stahelin

Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Monahan, 11351 Cheyenne Ave, Det

Mr and Mrs. Ivan Ivanoff, 13129 Washburn, Detroit 38

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Nesbitt, 15515 Freeland

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Guest, 4419 Middleton, Orchard Lake

Ed and Barbara Mirer, 1314 Winteracre, Royal Oak

Tompkins County's Local History Resource

Local history information is available at the Tompkins County, New York, Public Library.  See a partial list of digital books of local interest available.

The Millar Family In Ilkley

My great-grandmother's cousin, George Millar, was born (11 February 1861) in Ilkley, England, per his Spanish-American War record.  (The family moved to the United States by 1870). The records below were found via Ancestry.com.

West Yorkshire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910 Birth, Marriage, & Death

May 5 

George Son of Andrew & Jane Miller 

Ilkley Wells House Lodge --Gardener

John Snowden, Vicar

England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Birth, Marriage, & Death

Peter Millar (Moir-Miller on the record), George's brother, was also born in Ilkley (28 June 1863).  His father, Andrew, was still the gardener at Wells House Lodge.

Andrew Millar was a gardener at Ilkley's Wells House Lodge; Charles Darwin was a visitor there in 1859.  Was Andrew Millar there during Mr. Darwin's visit?  I don't know.  

Andrew Millar and Jane Moir/More were married on November 19, 1860, in Inverarity and Methy, Angus, Scotland.  Was Jane an employee at Wells House Lodge before her marriage and is that where she met Andrew?  Probably not, but it's a possibility.

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"The ornamental grounds were laid out under the direction of Mr. [Joshua] Major, the celebrated landscape gardener." [Source]

Scamps And Aventurers

Source - Not Necessarily A Depiction Of Scamps And Adventurers!

From the book, Stagecoach And Tavern Days :

A very interesting thread...awakens deep compassion for Washington and his fellow-generals when we think how many...scamps and adventurers must have swarmed into the Federal army, to the disorder of the regiments and to their discredit and to the harassment alike of patriot officers and patriot soldiers.

There were frequent aggressions at the hands of rogues in the Middle states, and they became known by the name of Skinners. Cooper’s novel, The Spy, gives an account of these sneaking bands of sham patriots.

More About The Wolcotts

See the Wolcott family's influence in music.

An online search of Billo descendant Hilda Wolcott produced a hit inBillboard Magazine published December 13, 1948.  Billboard Magazine?  But there it was. 

PInckney Dispatch, September 22, 1926, published this:

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolcott and daughter of Mississippi spent Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Wolcott's brother, M. J. Hosiel and family.

Catheryne Hoisel Wolcott's entry at FindAGrave.

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"Wolcott's Fun Factory under the generic banner of "Old Plantation" minstrelsy.  Fred Wolcott is positioned next to the "box office" hand on hip.  His wife Catheryn Hoisel Wolcott is standing behind the box office.  (courtesy Hilda Wolcott Hutchings)  Thanks to Mississippi Cultural Crossroads"

1874 Lapeer County Atlas

Atlas of Lapeer County, Michigan

Possible Origins Of The Term Scotland

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From Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland: With an Accurate Travelling Map ..., by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) 1841:

Scotland is the northern and smaller division of the Island of Great Britain. The origin of the term is involved in much obscurity. That part of the country which lies beyond the Firths of Forth and Clyde received from the Romans the appellation of Caledonia and its inhabitants were denominated Caledonians. They were afterwards known by the name of Picts, and from them the country was for some centuries called Pictland. The term Scotland began to come into use for the first time in the eleventh century, and this name is supposed to have been derived from a colony of Scots who had previously left Ireland and planted themselves in Argyleshire and the West Highlands. Source

A map of Edinburgh from the same source.

John Knox's House

A drawing of John Knox's house in Edinburgh, Scotland, from an 1841 publication:

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Over the door is an inscription at present totally eclipsed by the numerous signboards of the inhabitants but which if visible would run thus:

LUFE. GOD. ABOVE. AL. AND. YOUR. NICHBOUR. AS. YOUR. SELF 

See where the house is located on a modern day map.

Sketch Of An Old-Fashioned Wedding Party

The description of an old-fashioned wedding can be found in the History of Washington County... .  Below is an excerpt from "...a sketch of an old-fashioned wedding party...".

"In the morning of the wedding day the groom and his attendants assembled at the house of his father for the purpose of reaching the mansion of his bride by noon, which was the usual time for celebrating the nuptials, which for certain must take place before dinner."

"The gentlemen dressed in..moccasins, leather breeches...(and) linsey hunting shirts... .

"The march, in double file, was often interrupted by the narrowness and obstructions of our horse-paths, as they were called, for we had no roads, and these difficulties were often increased, sometimes by the good and sometimes by the ill-will of neighbors, by felling trees and tying grape-vines across the way. Sometimes an ambuscade was formed by the wayside, and an unexpected discharge of several guns took place, so as to cover the wedding party with smoke."

"The feasting and dancing often lasted for several days."

More Crowded Than Andersonville

Castle Morgan was a Civil War Prisoner Of War camp situated at the confluence of the Alabama and Cahaba rivers in the town of Cahaba.  

Now a ghost town, Cahaba was the capital of Alabama in an earlier incarnation.  

The capital had already been moved when "the old brick cotton shed of Colonel Samuel M. Hill was transformed into a prison for captured Federals...," 

The "actual size of [the] brick shed [was] 193 feet long, 116 feet wide."  "[The] Number of prisoners through winter of 1864-65 was 3000, five times more crowded than Andersonville."

The sketch of Castle Morgan POW prison was drawn from memory 

by the author of Cahaba [Dr. Jesse Hawes, 9th IL Cav.]

"The writer [Jesse Hawes] first saw Castle Morgan July 26, 1864... ."

Ancestry Of Deliverance Palmer? Not So Fast.

From The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families: ...... (Volume I),  Palmer ancestry of Deliverance Palmer (wife of Edward Cleveland) (Page 48) :

Palmer ancestry of Deliverance Palmer: --...PALMER: {Sussex, Eng.  Ralph Palmer possessed estates in Sussex, Eng, 1307}.  ....Hon. Walter (1) b. Eng. ab. 1585 of Charlestown, Mass., 1629...settled at Stonington, Conn....m. 2d ab. 1632 Rebecca Short....Capt. Benjamin (2) Palmer b. Charlestown, May 30, 1642, d. Stonington, Apr.10, 1716.

Palmer heraldry is included, but not transcribed.

This source indicated that because Benjamin Palmer, son of Walter and Rebecca (Short) Palmer, deeded his lands to his two nephews, he probably did not have children.  That does not bode well for identifying Capt. Benjamin (2) Palmer as Deliverance Palmer's father.

Deliverance (Palmer) Cleveland's entry at FindAGrave cites as her parents Captain Benjamin Palmer and Bethia Mowry.  Other sources indicate that Deliverance was the daughter of George Palmer and Bethia Mowry.  This message indicates problems with the second set of probable parents and poses the possibility that Deliverance's parents were Benjamin Palmer and Elizabeth Green.

So, even though I've identified Deliverance Palmer as my 8th great-grandmother, a positive identification of her parents still eludes me.

Book Links With Backus Mentioned

Stumbled onto Geneanet.org and a list with Backus book links:

Didn't sign up to see what else was available.