Sieur Charles de Langlade

Augustin Grignon's recollections included the following regarding his grandfather, Sieur Charles de Langlade:

Also Braddock Fort Cumberland Information

Captain Cameron, Image 279

Archibald McMillan and family fonds, H-1099 (Image 279)

Montreal 12 Nov 18_ _

"Captain Cameron's affairs in London have turned out better than he or his friends expected altho his agents in London became bankrupts...".

"...send you a hogshead sider which is now manufacturing at the Priest's farm near the Mountain."  "I have not heard from Grenada from Mrs. Cameron since her departure...".

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections

John Maitland

 Kent County, Ontario, Probate:

Image 226

Anglesey, Gosport, Hampshire, England

Died: 23 January 1865

Peter (Pierre) Gamelin, Captain On Half Pay

Full record available at WO 42. H - L - The National Archives (British)

Will of Peter or Pierre Gamelin, Captain on Half Pay in His Majesty's Regiment of...
Reference: PROB 11/1315/178
Description: Will of Peter or Pierre Gamelin, Captain on Half Pay in His Majesty's Regiment of Canadian Provincials of Montreal Province of Lower Canada , North America
Date: 23 November 1798
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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.

During The Storm Of Revolution

See more about Lieutenant-General John Maunsell (1724-1795) here

"Twelve years passed, during which the storm of the Revolution was gathering, which burst at Lexington and Concord. As a soldier, Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell felt himself bound to the service of the king, although his affections were strongly fixed on the home which he had adopted. He sailed for England in May, 1775, in company with the Hon. John Watts, Colonel Roger Morris, Isaac Wilkins, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Chandler, and other royalists, with introductions from Liutenant-Governor Colden warmly commending him to the prime minister and Lord Dartmouth. He had returned from a visit there only two years before. He left Mrs. Maunsell in their home in Greenwich, and returned for her the next year, having received an appointment in Ireland which relieved him from serving against his friends in America, to which he was greatly averse. He was given a post at Kinsale, where they remained till peace enabled them to retrace their way across the Atlantic to their home."

"Life in such a post could not have been an eventful one. He was promoted to a colonelcy on half-pay August 29, 1777. Mrs. Maunsell gives some glimpses of their life and of manners and customs among the gentry of the south of Ireland."

"Her [Mrs. Maunsell's] acquaintance with court and camp had not affected her stern integrity; in reproving one whom she thought extravagant and who had incurred a debt, she writes: "I think were I thus situated I would endeavour by every effort to extricate myself, and rather fare on dry bread, and be attired in the meanest apparel than accessory to lessen the substance of others." Husband and wife were of one mind in this high sense of honesty, for it is handed down that having been relieved of his post, which had required large transactions in supplies for the army, his superior greeted him with the jocose remark, as to a comrade who could not be ignorant of the secrets of official perquisites, "Well, General Maunsell, I suppose you have not neglected your opportunities to feather your nest," but was met with the indignant reply, "Sir, I would as soon defraud you as I would my king.'He left with "clean hands and a pure heart.'" [Source]

Mary (Ball) Washington's Family And Arms

Source

Mary Ball Washington's entry at Wikipedia here.

Washington's Farewell To His Mother

Source
14 April 1789

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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)

Mary (Snow) Paine

Mary (Snow) Paine:

Children included:

v. Elisha Paine m. Rebecca Doane

Smugglers

Source

Smuggling as a way around British restrictions.

Lady Joan Gilbert In Somerset Medieval Wills

Somerset medieval wills:

Governor White's Indian Village Drawing

Indian Village

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.

Ancient Clevelands

Source

Source

"...Thorkil de Cliveland...".

Scotland, England And Clark

New York, Probate Records...Steuben Final settlements 1854-1868 vol 2:

Scotland, England, and a Clark [Image 32]

Probate File Of William Andrew, late of Bath, Steuben, New York

29 June 1868

...Margaret Clark, wife of Thomas W. Clark residing at Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Individuals living in Scotland, England and Australia as well

London, England

 Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999  Allegany Wills 1851-1863 vol B:

Image 84, 83, 82, 81..78...
London, England

Calendars of Lincoln wills

Calendars of Lincoln wills

Captain Cameron's Affairs In London

Archibald McMillan and family fonds : H-1099:

Image 255

Captain Cameron's affairs in London..

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections

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.