Clevelands In Norwich Book

Old houses of the antient [sic] town of Norwich, 1660-1800:

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Children of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland of Woburn, Mass.

Their child, Isaac, was a resident of Norwich, Connecticut.

Various Names In Massachusetts

Sussex County, Massachusetts:

Backus Image 26

"Co's" Index

Davis Index Image 148

Richmond Index Image 455

Joseph Richmond Late Of Adams

 Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Probate records,...Vol. 24-25 1820-1822:

Zelotes Richmond, Administrator (Son of this Joseph Richmond?)

Cross-posted at Richmonds and Connected Lineages

Popes Of Massachusetts

 Kent County, Ontario, Probate:

Image 216

May 1866

Anna Francis Pope of New Bedford, Massachusetts, wife of

William G. E. Pope

(Property in Canada)

John Fowler, Loyalist Claim

 

Audit Office : AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists - Series I : C-12903:

John Fowler

Joseph Bigelow at Fort Edward

Lower Canada, declarations of aliens : H-1154

Image 34

30 June 1794

Joseph Bigelow was born at Westburgh, Massachusetts

and resided at Fort Edward previous to my

coming to the Province of Lower Canada

Ephraim Leonard

HeritageQuest

Service: Conti / Mass
Leonard, Ephraim
Number: S32992
Enlisted: Roxbury, Massachusetts
Certificate #3194

Letter to Lois Badger of Rochester, New York mentioned ...two sons of my wife: Giles Wilcox, age 15 in 1820; Thurston Wilcox, age 14.  Name of wife not included.

Died: 4 December 1834
Only soldier of that name found in the records.
8 months in Captain Moses Soule's company, Colonel John Fellows' Massachusetts regiment, and was in the Battle of Bunker Hill...continued to serve in Captain Noah Allen's company, Colonel Wigglesworth's Massachusetts regiment...was at the battles of Stillwater, Saratoga and Monmouth

27 April 1818 soldier lived in Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, age 62

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]

Powell Family

Elizabeth Powell daughter of Miles Powell, married Seth Wheeler, as his second wife, according to this blog.

Source: Henry Genealogy

David Powell's estate in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, index: 445, 446, 447, 449, 517, 518

Next Volume: 335, 336, 337 (last entry named his heirs, including sister Elizabeth)

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

John F. S. Smith

Source (of bio information)

"...I am the third son of respectable parents and was on the 21st of November AD 1821, in the city of Savannah, Georgia, introduced to this troublous world..."

California Great Registers

Name John Francisco Stone Smith

Event Type Voter Registration

Event Date 15 Jun 1866

Event Place 3d Township, Contra Costa, California, United States

Age 45

Birth Year (Estimated) 1821

Birthplace Georgia

Census 1880

Township 3, Contra Costa, California, United States

John F S Smith Self M 59 Georgia, United States

Adeline Smith Other F 50 Tennessee, United States

William Q Smith Other M 29 California, United States

James B Smith Other M 26 California, United States

Elliott H Smith Other M 24 California, United States

Thomas D Smith Other M 22 California, United States

Mary E Smith Other F 20 California, United States

Carrie M Smith Other F 16 California, United States

Adeline Smith Other F 15 California, United States

Virginia Smith Other F 14 California, United States

Amanda Smith Other F 13 California, United States

Nellie Smith Other F 9 California, United States

"My father was Captain James Smith of the United States navy, a native of Richmond, Virginia, of the old cavalier stock of Smiths and Mumfords of that old dominion. My mother was Mary Boylston, a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, and of the old Puritan stock of Morgans. James Boylston, my grandfather, was a Captain in the English army and married my grandmother when the old revolutionary war was only a little unpleasantness to be settled in a few days...".

"My grandfather finally parted from his bride, fondly hoping that the unhappy war would soon cease and he would be permitted to return and claim her with the consent of all. But his young bride soon became a widow, and soon after a mother of an orphan girl. Her husband became a martyr to duty, and, after giving birth to her child, she followed him to where no ruthless wars could separate them, leaving her little girl in the care of her brother, the late General David B. Morgan, of Louisiana history, he to become her guardian and protector, the old lady having never forgiven her daughter for her secret marriage with the hated Englishman. The dying mother insisted upon depriving her of any care for or interest in her child and insisted on the brother's promise to guard and protect her little babe."

On relating the incident to the family at the close of the war, he begged to be allowed to adopt little Mary, as he was childless, in gratitude to the dead father. The family declined the honorable request. As time rolled on and peace and social intercourse had been established, my mother, then a girl of fifteen, with her uncle, visited the family of the Lord Chief Justice of Canada. While there she was struck with the resemblance of one of the portraits to that of her father in her locket ,and while comparing the two, the old Admiral Holloway [Hallowell?] of the British Navy came hobbling by and inquired why she compared them, and asked her who the locket represented. She replied, "My father." "Who was your father?" "James Boylston, sir." "Why that is James Boylston on the wall, my nephew, and looking at the locket and then at her said excitedly, "That is he and you are surely his daughter." "Explain to me child; I did not know of his marriage in America." She referred him to her Uncle David, who soon explained the matter of the private marriage with his sister and the unhappy circumstances following.

Church Records In Massachusetts

Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns ...:

Mary (Snow) Paine

Mary (Snow) Paine:

Children included:

v. Elisha Paine m. Rebecca Doane

Joseph Howard Taken Prisoner

 

Joseph Howard

Christina Barbary Hall

Lower Canada, declarations of aliens : H-1154:

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Christina Barbary Hall

Miles Powell's Correspondence

A letter from the collection, American Archives: Consisting of a Collection of Authentick Records, State ...:

Lanesborough, April 3, 1776

Sir: Permit us to crave your attention and, if worthy, your advice and assistance, in our present disturbed circumstances in this town, which, briefly as possible, we mean herein to relate;...we pray and hope you will attend to as a friend to justice, regularity, and our Continental cause. We have...to adept all probable measures to assist and support the just cause of America....".

William Davis From The Cowdalls

 Davis families of early Roxbury and Boston, by Samuel Forbes ... Rockwell, Samuel Forbes, 1878-

Lot F42 granted to William Davis the locksmith in 1638 was bought by his son, William the gunsmith, from the Cowdalls, and he in turn sold it 27 (4) 1646 to William Blantaine, as recorded in Book of Possessions, page 35 (95) as follows: CO 27 (4) 1646... .

In the records of the Selectmen, p. 52 (41), 30 d. 1 mo. 1640 there is this note: Also William Davis, gunsmyth, hath granted him a great Lott of 20 Acrs at the Mount, upon the usual Covenant for such Lotts. We have made no attempt to trace this land. It is to be noted that William the locksmith had a house lot granted him in 1638. He died in 1643-4 leaving a son, William the gunsmith. Which of the two was granted the above twenty acres we are unable to say with certainty as locksmith and gunsmith both may have been titles of the elder William. 

With reference to the court proceedings whereby William, the son whom we call the gunsmith, obtained title to his father's property, we may note one or two peculiarities in the court papers. In the deed dated July 1645, but not recorded until 1658, three pieces of land are specified. All three were sold by the Cowdells to William Davis the gunsmith in one deed. (Source)

Marriage Of Edmund Leonard And Mary Jones

The First Book of Raynham [Massachusetts] Records:

NEHGS Register, Volume 51

Edmund Leonard at Wikitree.

A Chaplain's Duty

Source

Some lady friends--chief among whom was Mrs. John M Forbes of Milton--knit several hundred cavalry mittens, especially adapted for holding the bridle rein, and I distributed them through the regiment, and they saved the men from many a bite of frost and filled a want that the government did not supply.

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

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"The story of the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, of Massachusetts, while he was a guest of the family of General Nathanael Greene, at their residence near Savannah, Georgia, has long been one of the historic traditions familiar even to school children."

Plantation At Cumberland Island, Georgia (Nathanael Greene's Widow Lived On Cumberland Island)