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JACKSON-DEAN BIBLE RECORDS

The following records of the Jacksons and the Deans have been copied from a Bible in the possession of Elmer Gilbert, of East Fairfield, Vermont. Mr. Gilbert is the son of Lyman Edward and Eliza A. (Dean) Gilbert.

CHILDREN OF JARED AND POLLY JACKSON Rufus W. Jackson, born at Chesterfield, N. H., Jan. 19th, 1793.
Lydia Jackson, born at Chesterfield, N. H., Nov. 3d, 1794.
Paul E. Jackson, born at Chesterfield, N. H., July 5th, 1796.
Polly Jackson, born at Swanton, Vt., July 23rd, 1803.
Eleazer J. Jackson, born at Swanton, Vt., April 6th, 1807.
Fanny P. Jackson, born at Swanton, Vt., Aug. 29th, 1809.
Married in Swanton Dec. 25th, 1823 Robert Dean and Polly Jackson. CHILDREN OF ROBERT AND POLLY DEAN, MARRIED In Bakersfield [Vt.] Nov. 19th, 1848 J. N. Pomeroy and Mary L. Dean.
In Worcester, Mass., Aug. 25th, 1864, Paul J. Dean and Lydia H. Taft.
In Bakersfield Jan. 1st, 1867 Lyman E. Gilbert and Eliza A. Dean. BIRTHS Robert Dean, born at Barnard, Vt., Jan. 20th, 1796.
Polly [Jackson) Dean, born at Swanton, Vt., July 23rd, 1803.
Paul J. Dean, born at Bakersfield, Vt., Dec. 8th, 1826.
Mary L. Dean, born at Bakersfield, Vt., Feb. 24th, 1828.
Harriet E. Dean, born at Bakersfield, Vt., Mar. 27th, 1831.
Eliza A. Dean, born at Bakersfield, Vt., June 23rd, 1842. DEATHS Polly Jackson, wife of Jared Jackson, died in Swanton, Nov. 25th, 1826, aged 50.
Jared Jackson, died in Swanton, May 29th, 1833, in the 67th year of his age.
Rufus W. Jackson died at Highgate [Vt.] Nov. 14th, 1819.
Eleazer P. Jackson died April 24th, 1809 (at Arlington [in pencil]).
Fanny P. Jackson died in Bakersfield March 14th, 1840.
Paul E. Jackson died in Swanton Nov. 14th, 1867, aged 71.
Lydia Shattuck died in St. Albans [Vt.] July 18th, 1869, aged 74.
Robert Dean died at Fairfield [Vt.] March 22nd, 1864, aged 68.
Harriet Dean died March 28th, 1851, aged 20.

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A NOTE ON THE SWARTS LINEAGE

Contributed by Mrs. D. 0. Cleghorn, of Chadron, Nebraska

GEORGE¹ SWARTS, and Sarah, his wife, came to Abingdon, Massachusetts, from Germany in 1725. Their son:
SAMUEL² SWARTS was born at South Abingdon, Massachusetts, 14 April 1738. He married, 15 December 1760, Hannah Davis, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Davis, who was born in Maryland 15 July 1742. Samuel and Elizabeth Davis were born in Wales and came to Havre de Grace, Maryland, in 1722.

ABRAHAM DAVIS³ SWARTS, the son of Samuel and Hannah (Davis) Swarts, was born in Harford County, Maryland, 21 April 1783. He married Ann Bond Carroll, daughter of Benjamin Carroll, who was born in Harford County 7 September 1793. Benjamin Carroll was born in Ireland. Abraham Davis Swarts and his wife and two small children removed to Hiland County, Ohio, about 1819-20. They had issue:

i.	Spicer,⁴ b. 10 June 1816, in Harford County, Md.; d. young.
ii.	Oregon P., b. 20 Feb. 1819, in Harford County, Md.; mar. Adaline Quimby.
iii.	Samuel Davis, b. 23 Dec. 1820, in Hiland County, Ohio; mar. Hannah Eliza Chesney.
iv.	Amelia Mary Swarts, b. 5 June 1822, in Jefferson County, Ill.; mar. (1) Cager Creal; mar. (2) William
		McMillan.
v.	Hannah Jane, b. 5 June 1825; mar. John E. Chesney.
vi.	Benjamin Carroll, b. 1 Aug. 1827; mar. a widow.
vii.	Ellen Eliza, b. 2 Nov. 1829, in Knox County, Ia.; d. unm.
viii.	Martha Ann, b. 7 Nov. 1831; d. young.
ix.	Sarah Elizabeth, b. 12 July 1836; mar. T. R. Wilson.

GENEALOGICAL RECORD

JONES-DUFFIELD BIBLE RECORDS

Copied by Miss Eleanor Duffield, of Lincoln, Nebraska, from a Bible in the possession of Mrs. Mary Duffield
	Turner, of Chicago, Illinois

BIRTHS

Joshua Jones, son of John Jones & Rebeckah his wife, was born the 21st day of January Anno Domini 1701/2.
Rebeckah Jones, daughter of Joshua Jones (above named) and Hannah his wife, was born the 8th day of
	October, in the year 1767, about four o'clock in the morning.
Hannah Jones, daughter of the said Joshua Jones and Hannah was born the 9th day of October in the year 1760
	about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
John Jones, son of the said Joshua Jones & Hannah, was born the 12th day of May, in the year 1762 about 3
	o'clock in the afternoon.
James Jones, son of the said Joshua Jones & Hannah was born the 20th day of March in. the year 1764 about 3
	o'clock in the afternoon and departed this life the ------- day of October 1770.
Shadrach Jones, son of the said Joshua Jones and Hannah, was born the 14th day of October, in the year 1766,
	about 6 o'clock in the evening.
Margaret Jones, daughter of the said Joshua Jones and Hannah, was born the 23rd day of August in the year
	1768.
Jacob Duffield was born July 23rd, 1744, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Mary Addis, wife of Jacob Duffield, was born September 13th, 1756, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Eleanor Thomas, daughter of John and Lucretia Thomas, was born December 3rd, 1759, near Philadelphia.
Joshua Jones, son of Joshua & Hannah Jones, was born October 9th, 1760, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Amos Duffield, son of Jacob & Mary Duffield, was born December 8th, 1785, near Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Joshua and Eleanor Jones, was born March 31st, 1788, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Charles Duffield, son of Amos and Elizabeth Duffield, was born September 10th, 1808, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Joshua Jones Duffield, son of Amos and Elizabeth Duffield, was born December 17th, 1811, near Philadelphia,
	Pa.
Eleanor Ann & Mary Jane, twin daughters of Amos and Elizabeth Duffield, were born December 19th, 1813,
	near Philadelphia, Pa.
Edward Duffield, son of Amas and Elizabeth Duffield, was born February 3rd, 1817, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Amos Duffield, son of Amos & Elizabeth Duffield, was born April 14th, 1823, near Philadelphia (posthumous).
James Edwin Tyler was born in the State of New York March 11th, 1811.
Margaret Dickey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 22nd, 1814.
George Lawson Wrenn was born in Virginia January 7th, 1808.
Eliza Poinier was born at Newark, New Jersey, April 17th, 1814.
Catherine Duffield, daughter of Chas. & Margaret Duffield, was born at Cincinnati August 11th, 1835, 3 a. m.
George Lawson Wrenn, son of Geo. L. & Mary J. Wrenn, was born at Middletown, Ohio, August 9th, 1836.
Julia Jones Duffield, daughter of Joshua J. and Eliza Duffield, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 12th, 1838.
Edward Duffield, son of Chas. & Margaret Duffield, was born at Cincinnati, 0., April 7th, 1838, 8 a. In.
Margaret Duffield, daughter of Chas. & Margaret Duffield, was born at Cincinnati, 0., May 26th, 1840, 2 a. m.

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Charles Duffield Wrenn, son of Geo. L. & Mary J. Wrenn, was born at Middletown, 0., March 12th, 1839.
John Henry Wrenn, son of Geo. L. & Mary J. Wrenn, was born at Middleton, O., September 11th, 1841.
Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Saml. & Sally P. Cloon, was born in Gloucester, Mass., September 13th, 1822.
Charles Duffield, Jr., son of Charles and Sarah E. Duffield, was born at Clinton farm, Hamilton Co., 0., May
	2nd, 1843.
Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Charles & Sarah E. Duffield, was born at Clinton farm, Hamilton Co., 0., June
	13th, 1845.
Eleanor Tyler, daughter of Chas. & Sarah E. Duffield, was born at Clinton farm, Hamilton Co., 0., June 18th,
	1847.
Mary Wrenn, daughter of Chas. & Sarah E. Duffield, was born at Clinton farm, Hamilton Co., Mar. 25th,
	1849.
Louise, daughter of Chas. & Sarah E. Duffield, was born in Louisville, Ky., December 2nd, 1851
Alice, daughter of Chas. & Sarah E. Duffield, was born in Louisville, Ky., February 12th, 1855.
Amos Howard, son of Chas. & Sarah E. Duffield, was born in Louisville, Ky., January 31st, 1857.

MARRIAGES

Jacob Duffield and Mary Addis were married about 1776.
Joshua Jones and Eleanor Thomas were married December 28th, 1786.
Amos Duffield and Elizabeth Jones were married December 3rd, 1807.
James E. Tyler and Eleanor Ann Duffield were married May 15th, 1832.
Charles Duffield and Margaret Dickey were married September 18th, 1832.
George L. Wrenn and Mary Jane Duffield were married September 4th, 1833.
Joshua Jones Duffield and Eliza Poinier were married May 19th, 1836.
Charles Duffield and Sarah Elizabeth Cloon were married March 24th, 1842.
Amos Duffield and Elizabeth Dillar Castleman were married July 31st, 1856.
Saml. Cloon and Sally P. Smith were married in Marblehead, Mass., October 19th, 1821.
William Penn Nixon and Sarah Elizabeth Duffield were married in Cihcago (sic), June 17th, 1869.
Harry Cole Parker and Louise Duffield were married in Chicago, August 17th, 1872.
Laurine H. Turner and Mary Wrenn Duffield were married in Chicago, October 14th, 1873.
Charles Duffield and Kittie Carlin were married October 1st, 1879.
Richard L. Halsey and Stella Duffield were married in Chicago, November 29th, 1883, by P. S. Henson.

DEATHS

Rebeckah Jones, mother of Joshua Jones, departed this life the 3rd day of November in the year 1743
about midnight.
Hannah, wife of the said Joshua Jones, departed this life the 2nd day of October in the year 1770.
Hannah Taylor, daughter of Joshua & Hannah Jones, departed this life the 14th day of April, 1802.
Shadrach Jones, son of the aforesaid Joshua & Hannah, departed this life the 4th day of January, 1804.
Joshua Jones, son of the aforesaid Joshua & Hannah, departed this life the 5th day of October, 1823.

GENEALOGICAL RECORD

Rebeckah Krewson, daughter of the aforesaid Joshua & Hannah, departed this life -- day of -----, 18--.
Joshua Jones, son of Joshua & Hannah Jones, died October 5th, 1823.
Eleanor, wife of Joshua Jones, died April 14th, 1813.
Jacob Duffield died January 22nd, 1815.
Mary, wife of Jacob Duffield, died November 24th, 1796.
Amos, son of Jacob & Mary Duffield, died September 21st, 1822.
Edward, son of Amos & Elizabeth Duffield, died July 22nd, 1834.
Elizabeth Duffield, born March 31st, 1788, died in Chicago July 26th, 1866, and was buried at Spring
    Grove, Cincinnati.
Doctor Saml. Jones, son of Joshua & Eleanor Jones, died March 22nd, 1832.
Joshua Jones, son of Amos & Elizabeth Duffield, died February 13th, 1839.
Edward, son of Charles & Margaret Duffield, died May 4th, 1839.
Margaret, wife of Charles Duffield, died Sunday, 9:20 p. m., December 20th, 1840.
Margaret, daughter of Charles & Margaret Duffield, died Friday morning, June 11th, 1841.
Catharine, daughter of Charles & Margaret Duffield, died Friday morning, September 24th, 1841.
Julia Jones, daughter of Joshua J. & Eliza Duffield, died
Amos, son of Amos and Elizabeth Duffield, died at Nebraska City, Nebr., July 7th, 1870, about 9:30
     P. M.*
Elizabeth Castleman, wife of Amos Duffield, died at Lincoln, Nebr., Mar. 29, 1880, buried at Nebraska
     City.* *    *    *    *

Members of the Society or contributors to the RECORD are urged to be on the lookout for old Bible records. Such records are frequently destroyed, and are then lost forever. It takes but a few minutes to copy such records, and once they are in print it is practically impossible to destroy them, and hence they are handed on for posterity. Few Bibles contain as voluminous records as those printed above, but any record is worth publishing regardless of its brevity. So the Editor expresses the hope that the readers of the RECORD will send him such records as they have.
Grave yard inscriptions are also valuable. Whenever you are on a genealogical quest and you have occasion or time to copy the inscriptions in a graveyard, it is to be hoped that you will send a copy of them to the Editor for publication. Many a genealogical puzzle has been solved by a tombstone record, and many more would be solved if we could have more cemetery records published. Moreover, tombstones have a way of falling down and becoming buried. Others are broken and the pieces scattered. Copy inscriptions while they are still extant.

* Miss Eleanor Duffield, who supplied these Bible records, was the daughter of Amos and Elizabeth Dillar (Castleman) Duffield. It should also be recorded that the late W. W. W. Jones, sometime superintendent of schools, Lincoln, Nebraska, was a descendant of Joshua Jones.

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NOTES ON SOME SWISS IMMIGRANTS

By Samuel Gale and Nellie Marie (Riley) Raber, of Warren, Ohio

RABER

1. DORIS¹ RABER, and his wife, of Switzerland, had issue, who settled in the United States:

	i.	John,² who served in the Civil War, and d. at Dayton, Ohio.
	ii.	Mary, who mar. ------- Least, and d. at Van Wert, Ohio.
2.	iii.	Samuel, b. at Niederbip, Switzerland, 6 May 1827.

2. SAMUEL² RABER, son of Doris Raber, was born at Niederbip, Switzerland, 6 May 1827; he died at Columbia City, Indiana, 21 September 1904.

He came to America in 1844 on the ship Harriet, and settled in Whitley County, Indiana.

He married, in Auglaise County, Ohio, 10 February 1853, Elizabeth Rostorfer (an immigrant from Switzerland in 1844), daughter of Doris and Elizabeth Rostorfer, born 4 April 1834, died in Whitley County, Indiana, 17 November 1901.

They had issue (all but the first born in Whitley Co., Ind.)

3.	i.	John Henry^,3 b. in Auglaise Co., Ohio, 7 Jan. 1854.
	ii.	Harriet, b. 11 Mar. 1856; mar. Jacob Kaufman.
	iii.	Anna Elizabeth, b. 22 Sept. 1858; mar. Daniel MorroIf.
	iv.	Samuel D., b. 16 Feb. 1860; mar. Keziah Smith.
	v.	Mary Martha, b. 7 Oct. 1863; unm. in 1927.
	vi.	Jacob, b. 17 Mar. 1865; d. at Laud, Ind., 25 May 1906; mar. Alfretta Ihrig.
	vii.	Sarah Jane, b. 16 Aug. 1867; mar. Walter P. Hanly.
	viii.	R. Francis, b. 26 Feb. 1870; mar. Lucetta Chamberlain.
	ix.	Harvey Elmer, b. 6 May 1873; d. at Fort Wayne, Ind., 14 Nov. 1922.

3. JOHN HENRY³ RABER, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Rostorfer) Raber, was born in Auglaise County, Ohio, 7 January 1854; he died at South Whitley, Indiana, 22 February 1920.

He married, at Columbia City, Indiana, 28 February 1875, Albina Sabrina Quick, the eldest child of Lewis and Sabrina (Priest) Quick, born in Whitley County, Indiana, 13 November 1855, died at Columbia City, Indiana, 20 May 1908.

They had issue (all born in Whitley Co., Ind.) :

i.	Myrtle Lois,⁴ b. 11 Dec. 1875; mar. 6 Oct. 1904 Franklin 0. Feagler.
ii.	Ada Sabrina, b. 30 Dec. 1878; mar. 12 Aug. 1902 Lewis Leroy Chapman.
iii.	Samuel Gale, b. 2 Aug. 1892; mar. at Cassopolis, Mich., 30 May 1913, Nellie Marie Riley, dau. of
		Charles Wesley and Mary Eliza (Hyre) Riley, b. in Whitley Co., Ind., 13 June 1891. They were living in 1928 in Warren, Ohio.

GENEALOGICAL RECORD

GNAEGI, GNAGA, GNAGY, CANAGA

1. CHRISTIAN¹ CANAGA (original spelling Gnaegi) emigrated to America from the province of Berne, Switzerland, between 1750 and 1770. After the Revolutionary War he settled in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. In 1807 he removed to Harrison County, Ohio, where he died in 1812.

He had issue:

2.	i.	Christian,² b. 1 Sept. 1772.
	ii.	Barbara, mar. ------- Swartz, by whom she had issue (surname Swartz): 1. Susan, mar. John Strayer, of
			Maumee City, 0. 2. Gertrude, the 2nd wife of John Birchfield. 3. Maria. 4. Catherine, mar. Jonas Fleury, of Harrison Co., 0. 5. Barbara.
3.	iii.	Jacob, b. 23 Feb. 1780.
	iv.	Joseph [spelt his name Gnagy].

2. REVEREND CHRISTIAN² GNAGY (Christian¹), was born 1 September 1772; he died in Wood County, Ohio, 4 August 1841.

He married in Pennsylvania Catherine Forney, daughter of Abraham and Sunanna Forney (who are buried in Harrison County, Ohio), born 9 September 1774, died 15 September 1828, in Tuscawaras County, Ohio.

They had issue:

	i.	Catherine, b. 8 June 1797; d. in Whitley Co., Ind., in 1862; mar. in 1820 Christian Metsker, b. in Pa.,
			25 Mar. 1795; removed to Whitley Co., Ind., in 1850. They had issue (surname Metsker): Mariah, Sarah, Anna, Leah, Sophronia, Christian, Nathaniel, Louis Festus.
	ii.	John [Kanage], b. 8 Sept. 1798; d. in Tuscawaras Co., 0., 11 Mar. 1880.
	iii.	Susana, b. 6 July 1803; d. in Tuscawaras Co., 0., 18 Mar. 1845.
	iv.	Peter [Kanage], b. 7 Nov. 1804; d. in Tuscawaras Co., 0., 15 Aug. 1823.
	v.	Fanny, mar. ------- Salsbury.
	vi.	Abraham.
	vii.	Michael.
	viii.	Joseph.
	ix.	Sarah, mar. ----- Walters.
4.	x.	Christian [Gnaga], b. 23 Mar. 1808.

3. JACOB² CANAGA (Christian¹) was born 23 February 1780; he removed from Pennsylvania to Harrison County, Ohio, about 1806.

He married in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about 1804, Susanna Livingstone.

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They had issue:

	i.	Anne,³ b. in 1805; mar. the Rev. Daniel Strayer in 1823; they removed to Wood City, 0., where she d.
			in 1889.
	ii.	Catherine, b. 23 May 1807; mar. Michael Firebaugh.
	iii.	Levi, b. 24 Aug. 1809; mar. Rachel Berger.
	iv.	Joseph, b. 21 Feb. 1811; mar. Nancy Mowrey.
	v.	Jacob, b. 15 Jan. 1813; mar. Sarah Fisher.
	vi.	Salome, b. 10 Aug. 1814.
5.	vii.	Elias Green, b. 23 Apr. 1816.
	viii.	Lydia, b. 1 Aug. 1819; mar. Napoleon B. Fisher.
	ix.	Manassas, b. 16 May 1821
	x.	Susanna, b. 5 June 1823.
	xi.	Mary, b. in 1825.
	xii.	John, b. 10 Feb. 1830.

4. CHRISTIAN³ GNAGA (Christian ² Christian ¹), the youngest son of the Rev. Christian and Catherine (Forney) Gnagy, was born 23 March 1808; he died in Whitley County, Indiana, 17 March 1850. In 1849 he removed from Tuscawaras County, Indiana, to Whitley County.

He married, in Tuscawaras County, Indiana, Eliza Ann Stout, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Crites) Stout, who died in Whitley County, Indiana, in 1893.

They had issue:

i.	Cyrus⁴ [Gnagy], b. in Tuscawaras Co., 0.; removed farther west. Had issue: Caroline,⁵ Howard,
		Norman.
ii.	Elmira, b. 11 Oct. 1842; mar. in 1867 Wesley Tulley.
iii.	Catherine, mar. Benjamin Patterson, by whom she had issue (surname Patterson): Warren, Cassius,
		Minne, Eva.
iv.	Eliza Jane, b. in Tuscawaras Co., 0., 23 Sept. 1844; in Whitley Co., Ind., 25 Mar. 1920; mar. in 1860
		Joseph Hyre, son of Westley and Susannah (Van Scoyk) Hyre, b. 14 June 1838, d. 8 Mar. 1904, by whom she had issue (surname Hyre): 1. Virgil. 2. David Roman. 3. Mary Eliza, mar. Charles W. Riley. 4. Emma Jane. 5. Eliza Ann.

5. ELIAS GREEN³ CANAGA (Jacob ² Christian¹), the son of Jacob and Susanna (Livingstone) Canaga, was born 23 April 1816; he died in 1888.

He married Jane McClintock.

They had issue:

	i.		Silas,⁴ b. in 1844.
	ii.		Orland, b. in 1846.
	iii.		Milton, b. in 1848.
	iv.		Alfred, b. in 1850.
	v.		Elizabeth Ellen, b. in 1852.
	vi.		Melissa Ann, b. in 1854.
	vii.		Josephine, b. in 1855.
	viii.		Emma Jane, b. in 1857.
	ix.		Heber, b. in 1860.
	x.		Thomas, b. in 1863
	xi.		Barton, b. in 1865.
	xii.		Ira, b. in 1867.
	xiii.		[A child] b. in 1870.