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GENEALOGICAL RECORD

 

 



VOL. 10, NO. 3
JULY, 1932

PUBLISHED QUARTERLY

THE NEBRASKA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

 


THE NEBRASKA AND MIDWEST GENEALOGICAL
RECORD

 

Published by

THE NEBRASKA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Edited by RAYMOND D. DALE

Nebraska Historical Library, Lincoln, Nebraska

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION

 

MRS. C. H. JENKINS, '32
    MRS. H. B. MARSHALL, '33

MRS. C. A. REYNOLDS, '33
    GILBERT H. DOANE, '34

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Editor's Corner

page 43

Culver Bible Records

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Some Descendants of George Sexton, of Westfield,

   Massachusetts

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Nebraska Marriage Records - Richardson County

49

Conant Family Bible

52

Pollard Family Bible

53

Purdy Bible Record

54

Smock Family Bible

54

Kentucky Marriages - Madison County

55


Officers of the Nebraska Genealogical Society, 1932

President

Mrs. C. A. Reynolds

First Vice Presldent

Mrs. W. J. Byer

Second Vice President

Mrs. W. S. Whitten

Recording Secretary

Mrs. F. B. Daniels

Treasurer

Mrs. N. H. Barnes

Auditor

Miss Rose Carson

Librarian

Mrs. C. S. Paine


The RECORD is published quarterly by the Nebraska Genealogical Society, in January, April. July, October. Subscription, including membership in the Society, $2, 00 per year. Address orders to Mrs. Newell H. Barnes, Treasurer, 1848 Prospect St,, Lincoln, Nebraska. For advertising rates address the Editor.


THE NEBRASKA AND MIDWEST
GENEALOGICAL RECORD


VOL. X   LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY, 1932   NO. 3

THE EDITOR'S CORNER

  Professional and amateur genealogists alike will welcome the volumes, First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, New Jersey, by Orra Eugene Monnette. These early settlements contributed not only to the founding of later New Jersey towns, but the descendants of Piscataway and Woodbridge families migrated in large numbers to New York and Pennsylvania, to the Old Northwest, to Kentucky, and South as far as Georgia. The first three parts of this work bring together the original historical sources which have heretofore been widely scattered. Part One deals with the original patentees and earliest settlers and the localities from which they came, especially the Piscataqua Valley between Maine and New Hampshire, Newbury, Massachusetts, Jamaica and Newtown, Long Island, and Staten Island, New York. Part Two takes up the other localities from which the settlers came, New York City, various Long Island towns, Rhode Island, and Plymouth. Sixty pages of Part Two are given over to early vital records. Part Three deals with the other early towns in Middlesex County, New Jersey, contains the early gravestone records and states controversal problems touching many of these early families. Genealogists working on New Jersey lines should have access to these books.

* * *
  The Index to Genealogical Periodicals by Donald Lines Jacobus which has recently appeared should perhaps be classified as monotypic. This work lists under a name index and under a place index the important genealogical material found in fifty-one genealogical and historical magazines, northern, southern and western. While Munsell's Index to American Genealogies provided a finding list to family histories in books and magazines prior to 1900, and there are a few other genealogical indices of limited character, this is the only volume which covers so thoroughly the field of periodicals. In arrangement and clearness this work sets a new standard and will be indespensible for ready reference.
* * *
  Mayflower descendants and those who suspect that they have Mayflower ancestry will be interested to know that the

 


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two volume Mayflower Index, published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, is off the press. This index lists the names of all persons of Mayflower ancestry from 1620 to the present time whose ancestral lines had been approved by the Society prior to February 10, 1931, nearly 40,000 names in all. A separate index lists the names of the husbands or wives of Mayflower descendants. Future volumes will contain additional lines. This is another important work for ready reference.
* * *
  The action of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Nebraska at the conference at North Platte last April is most gratifying to the Nebraska Genealogical Society. It was decided to make the family, county and local records deposited with the genealogical research committee in Nebraska, available for publication in the Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Magazine. The printing of these records begins in the current number over the name of Mrs. R. E. Knight, Alliance, Nebraska, State Chairman of the National Committee, Genealogical Research.

 

CULVER BIBLE RECORDS
Contributed by the General Richardson Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Pontiac, Michigan

  This Bible, now in possession of Mrs. Sarah C. Shattuck, Pontiac, Michigan, is dated 1812. The record was copied, December 26,1928, by Mrs. Edward V. Howlett for the General Richardson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

James Culver was born 7 mo 7th - 1755
Adrietta Culver formerly Du Bois born 1 mo 23rd 1761
Mary Daughter of the above named born 9 mo 5th 1783
Sarah Second Daughter born - 9 mo 15th - 1785
Samuel first Son - - - born - 8 mo 19th - 1787
Peter and John - - - - born - 8 mo 6th - 1790
Cornelius D - - - - -  born - 10 mo 10th - 1792
Catharine  - - - - - - born - 9 mo 4th - 1797
Jane Ann  - - - - - - born - 7 mo 4th - 1804
James Culver Died - - - -  - - - - 12 mo 5th 1812
Adrietta Culver Died - - - -  - - - - 8 mo - 1824*
Mary Marshall formerly Culver Died - - - -  180[torn]
Jane Ann Culver - - - - Died 1 mo 14th 1829
MARRIAGES
John D. Garmo son of Peter and Mary D .Garmo and Sarah D. Garmo Daughter of James and Adrietta Culver
   was married on the 9th day of 1st month 1806.

   * "P[oughkeepsie] J[ournal], Wed., Aug. 25, 1824. At Hyde Park on the 12th inst. Adrietta Culver, widow of James Culver, in the 64th year of her age." Harriet W. Reynolds, Marriages and Deaths in Dutchess County, N.Y., p. 33.


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Edwin Fuller son of Abel and Sarah Fuller and Harriet Fuller Daughter of John and Sarah De Garmo
   were married March 17th 1836.
W. M. Shattuck son of Alfred and Sarah Shattuck and K. S. Shattuck Daughter of Edwin and Harriet Fuller
   married Feb 4th 1864.
L.L. Shattuck son of W. M. Shattuck and K. S. Shattuck and Lulu T. Shattuck daughter of John and Phebe
             Hall were married December 3, 1896.
Alfred H. Shattuck son of W. M. Shattuck and K. S. Shattuck and Eleanor Shattuck were married July 1, 1907
Arthur L. Travis son of Harvey and Emily Travis and Stella Shattuck Travis daughter of W. M. Shattuck
   and K. S. Shattuck were married Aug. 26, 1913.

 

BIRTHS

(Note: the following text is single spaced in the original)

John DGarmo, son of Peter and Mary D. Garmo was born the 6th of 4th month, 1783.

Sarah DGarmo, Daughter of James and Adrietta Culver was born the 15th of 9th month 1785

Harriet DGarmo Daughter of John and Sarah D. Garmo was born 17th of 8th Month 1807

Henry E. DGarmo Son of John and Sarah D Garmo was born the 29th of 8th Month 1809

Maryann DGarmo Daughter of John and Sarah DGarmo was born the 21st of 2nd Month 1814 -

Catherine DGarmo Daughter of John and Sarah DGarmo was born the 31st of 12th Month 1816

Edwin Fuller son of Abel and Sarah Fuller was born Nov. 25th 1808.

W. M. Shattuck Son of Alfred and Sarah Shattuck was born April 24th 1834.

K. S. Shattuck Daughter of Edwin and Harriet Fuller was born Sept. 20th 1843.

Edwin F. Shattuck Son of Mort. and Kate Shattuck was born April 18th 1865.

Lucius L. Shattuck Son of Mort. and Kate Shattuck was born Aug. 27th 1866.

Alice B. Shattuck Daughter of Mort. and Kate Shattuck was born Dec. 14th 1868

Alfred Shattuck Son of Mort. and Kate Shattuck was born Aug. 22nd 1872.

Ida M. Shattuck Daughter of Mort. and Kate Shattuck was born Nov. 16th 1878

Stella Shattuck Daughter of Mort. and Kate Shattuck was born July 31st 1881

Harriet S. Shattuck Daughter of Mort and Kate Shattuck was born June 5th 1883.

DEATHS

Maryann DGarmo Daughter of John and Sarah DGarmo died the 16th of 8th Month 1815.

Edwin Fuller Son of Abel and Sarah Fuller Died March 12th 1882.

Harriet Fuller Daughter of John and Sarah DGarmo died Nov. 9, 1886.

Infant son of L. L. Shattuck and Lulu T. Shattuck died April [blotted] 1898.

Edwin Fuller Shattuck oldest son of William and Sarah C. Shattuck died August second 1909, at Moscow, Idaho.

William Mortimer Shattuck son of Alfred and Sarah Shattuck died Feb. 16, 1914, at Pontiac, Michigan


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SOME DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE SEXTON
OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS

Compiled by Raymond E. Dale, A.B. (a)
[Continued from Vol. X, page 34.]

 

  11. NOBLE5 SAXTON (James4-3-2 George1) was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, September 17, 1763. While living at Spencertown, New York, he enlisted, March 1, 1778, and served nine months as a private in Captain Joshua Whitney's company in Colonel Alden's Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted again, March 15, 1780, and served nine months as a private in Captain J. Woodward's company of Rangers in the New York troops. (b) Noble Saxton married Rebecca Berry and in 1790 they were living at Monkton, Vermont. About 1793 they removed to Malone, Franklin County, New York, where he died February 14, 1829. (b) A Noble Saxton served in the War of 1812 from Malone. The list of his children is incomplete; there were ten children, seven of whom left families.

  Children of Noble and Rebecca (Berry) Saxton:
   Ebenezer, eldest, b. 1785. Alanson, b. Apr. 10, 1789. (c)

   Perses, b. July 25, 1790. (c)
   Sally, b. June 25, 1792. (c)
   Rebecca, b. about 1806. (b) Lucinda, b. about 1808. (b)

   Orilla, b. about 1810. (b)

  12. HENRY5 SAXTON (James4-3-2 George1) was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, October 26, 1767. In 1780 he was living at Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York, and in the census of 1790 he was recorded from the same place. By 1795 he had removed to Butternuts, Otsego County, New York, where he died August 27, 1839. He was buried on his own farm on "West Hill." He married, about 1789, Mary Alcott [or Olcott], who survived him. She died at Guilford, New York, August 28, 1846, where she was buried.

  Children of Henrys and Mary (Alcott) Saxton:
     i. William Henry, b. Mar. 1, 1790.
    ii. Isaac, b. Sept. 1, 1791.
   iii. Jacob, b. Mar. 26, 1793. [or Mar. 20, 1793 (d)]
iv. Temperance, b. Feb. 3, 1795; d. 1848, Gilbertsville, N. Y.;
     m. Reuben Janes (son of Shadrack Janes), who died about 1867.
        Children (surname Janes). 1. Lucy, b. Jan. 9, 1829;

   (a) This genealogy is based on the notes of Harold N. Saxton, Albany, New York, and James Saxton, Blissfield, Michigan. We regret to state that Mr. Harold N. Saxton's name was erroneously given (p. 3) as Howard N. Saxton in the January, 1932, and the April, 1932 (pp. 30-31) numbers. Subscribers will please make corrections. Additional notes were supplied by Miss Lula J. Saxton, Albany, New York: Mrs. Charles S. Van Vechten, Catskill, New York: Caroline L. Hart, Grand Ledge, Michigan; Miss Edith J. Saxton Lockport, New York: Mrs. C. A. Reynolds, Lincoln, Nebraska.
   (b) Pension claim, S. 43123, Noble Saxton. Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
   (c) Vital records, Office of Secretary of State, Montpelier, Vt.
   (d) Family Bible of Jacob Saxton.


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      living unmarried in Otsego Co., N. Y., 1899. 2. George, b. 1829 [?]; lived at Binghamton,
      N. Y. 3. Katherine, b. 1831; m. Jerome Bundy; lived at Bainbridge, N. Y. 4. Charles, went
      to California at 19 years of age. 5. Andrew, lived at Binghamton, N. Y. 6. Laura, m.
      Joseph Gott; lived at La Grange, O.
  v. Mary [or Polly], b. Mar. 20, 1797; d. Oct. 21, 1864, Guilford, N. Y. m. about 1824
      Jeremiah White (b. June 14, 1794, d. Mar. 17, 1856) of Guilford, N. Y., son of
      Theopolis and Mary (Wilcox) White. Children (surname White): 1. John Spencer,
      b. Aug. 24, 1825; m. Harriet Rice. (e) 2. Catherine , b. June 7, 1828, m. Wm. C.
      Reid. 3. Peleg, b. Sept. 16, 1830; unmarried. 4. Mary Ann, b. Oct. 25, 1831; m. Wm.
      Sheldon. 5. Henry Latham, b. Feb. 1, 1839; m. Victoria Sheldon, sister to Wm.
      Sheldon above.  6. Josephine, b. Nov. 16, 1843.
 vi. Elisha, b. July 13, 1800.
 vii. Abram, b. July 14, 1802.
viii. Russell, b. Aug. 7, 1805.
  ix. Noble, b. June 6, 1809; d. Oct. 8, 1812.

  13. JOHN5 SAXTON (Jasper4 James3-2 George1) was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, March 11, 1760 (f) He served in the Revolution from Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in four different enlistments, first as a drummer and afterwards as a private. In 1781 he served three months on the privateer Hunter commanded by Captain King Sage. John Saxton married, November 28, 1782, at Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Lucy Shead (or Shed), born November 30, 1758. They lived first at Sheffield, Massachusetts, but in 1784 or 1785 they removed to Milton, Saratoga County, (then Ballstown, Albany County,) New York, where they lived about ten years. They returned to Sheffield in 1794 or 1795. John Saxton died at Sheffield, February 23, 1839, and his widow Lucy died November 25, 1844. The eldest child and the two youngest were born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, the others at Milton, New York.

  Children of John5 and Lucy (Shead) Saxton:
   i. Jane, b. Aug. 28, 1783; m. Dec. 3, 1806, Elisha Kellogg.
  ii. Rhoda, b. Jan. 11, 1786; m. Mar. 29, 1810, Arch ---- Dawn.
 iii. Chester, b. Aug. 11, 1788; d. Nov. 15, 1812.
 iv. Lucy, b. June 27, 1791; d. Oct. 24, 1791.
  v. Phebe, b. Apr. 4, 1793; m. Ozias Miller.
 vi. Asher, b. Feb. 22, 1796; m. June 27, 1822, Roxana Wells; d. at Sheffield, 1883.
vii. John, b. Apr. 16, 1800; m. Aug. 4, 1835.

  14. ASHER5 SAXTON (Jasper4 James3-2 George1) was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, April 3, 1762. He enlisted to serve in the American Revolution when fourteen years of

   (e) For descendants, see Record Vol. IX, pp. 10, 13. (William Gibbs of Guilford, N. Y., and His Descendants.)
   (f) Most of the information regarding John Saxton was obtained from his pension claim papers, W. 13869. Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.


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age. (g) In 1779 he was described as seventeen years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, of light complexion. (h) Asher Saxton married ----- Bacon, a daughter of Captain William Bacon. About 1785 he removed to Ballstown, Saratoga County, New York, and six years later to Cooperstown, Otsego County. (g) About 1796 he settled at Bloomfield, Ontario County, where he was agent for the sale of a tract of land which his father-in-law owned. For many years the town meetings were held at his home. Asher Saxton was the first overseer of the poor at Bloomfield, and he was also commissioner of highways. (i) In 1798 he was appointed captain in the militia of Ontario County, in 1806 major, and in 1808 lieutenant-colonel in command of a regiment. (i) About 1813 he removed to Le Roy, Genesee County and two years later to Cambria, Niagara County, where he was a supervisor of the county in 1818. In 1821 he was living at Lockport, and about 1835 he went to Raisinville, Monroe County, Michigan, so that he might live with "his children, his son and son-in-law" (g) Doubtless Salmon Owen with whom he was living in 1840 was the son-in-law mentioned. Asher Saxton died near Monroe, Michigan, March 6, 1848. (g) All attempts to secure a list of his children have been unsuccessful.
    

15. PHILANDER5 SAXTON (Jasper4 James3-2 George1) was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, October 16, 1772. (k) He was an early settler at Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, and lived near his brother Asher. (i) In 1802 he was appointed lieutenant in the Ontario County militia and in 1806 captain. (l) Philander Saxton removed to Niagara County and during the latter part of his life lived at Cambria, where he died December 9, 1847. He was buried in the Averill cemetery not far from Lockport, New York. He married, first, Cynthia Cole, born October 24, 1774. She died April 24, 1829, and he married, secondly, Ellen Rose, born August 24, 1800, the widow of a Mr. Dudley and also of Henry Sheldon. Ellen (Rose) Saxton died August 19, 1858, at Lockport, New York, and was buried in Budd's cemetery at Cambria.

 
  Children of Philander and Cynthia (Cole) Saxton:
     i. Elijah R., b. Dec. 13, 1799; d. Sept. 3, 1828; m. Betsey Rowe.
    ii. Robert B., b. Aug. 22, 1800 [?]; d. May 22, 1816.
iii. Frederick R., b. Aug. 15, 1802; d. Jan. 1, 1856; unmarried.
   iv. Anna M., b. Nov. 19, 1804; d. June 11, 1832; m. David Gould.

   (g) Pension claim, S. 29439, Asher Saxton. Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
   (h) Massachusetts Revolutionary War Rolls, Vol. XIII, p. 1022.
   (i) History of Ontario County, N. Y., under records of East Bloomfield.
   (j) Council of Appointment, Vol. I, pp. 456, 798, 822; Vol. II, pp. 966, 1239.
   (k) Nearly all of the information regarding Philander Saxton was furnished by his granddaughter, Miss Edith J. Saxton, Lockport, New York.
   (l) Council of Appointment, Vol. I, pp. 593, 822: Vol. II, p. 1038.


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       v. Lydia, b. July 28, 1806; m. Oramel Campbell.
      vi. Henry K., b. Feb. 3, 1808.
     vii. James C., b. Oct. 28, 1809, m. Roxany Moon.
 viii. Diadama, b. Jan. 9, 1811; d. Mar. 5, 1847; m. Carpenter Wheaten.
      ix. Pina P., b. June 19, 1820; d. May 2, 1903; m. Albert H. Brown.
 
  Children of Philander and Ellen (Rose) Saxton:
       x. Mary Lovina, b. May 12, 1836; d. Aug. 19, 1914; m. NOV. 18, 1858, Truman Cook;
        daughter (surname Cook); Nellie, m. ------ McGarvey
      xi. Diantha, b. July 14, 1837, d. Feb. 20, 1926.
     xii. Charles T., b. Dec. 14, 1838.
 xiii. Edwin, b. Apr. 30, 1842.

  16. HORACE5 SAXTON (Frederick4 James3 -2 George1) was born July 17, 1779. He married Caby Smith and lived at Shelburne, Vermont. In 1830 he was president of the local temperance society (m) and in 1835 he was elected as representative to the Vermont legislature. (n) He died at Shelburne, June 9, 1848, aged 69 years. The list of his children is incomplete.

   Child of Horace and Caby (Smith) Saxton:
   Horace, b. Mar. 22, 1805.

   (m) Hemenway, Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. I, p. 870.
   (n) Ibid, p. 877.

 

NEBRASKA MARRIAGE RECORDS
RICHARDSON COUNTY
Abstract by Miss Nellie Schock, Falls City, Nebraska.
[Continued from Vol. X, p. 10.]
(Note: the following text is single spaced in the original)

  June 1, 1861, A. J. Cox and Annie Lyon, by Wm. W. Morgan, J. P.

  Apr. 10, 1860 (sic), James H. McCord and Joanna E. McElroy at Mary McElroy's by S. G. Collins, minister.

  Jan. 12, 1862, Morgan Van Deventer and Sarah Jane Brown, both of Richardson County, by George Van Deventer, acting J. P.

  Mar. 25, 1862, Isaac Ogen and Levina Robidoux, at house of I. W. Lyon, in presence of I. W. Lyon and Mary Lyon, by Chas. Walther, J. P.

  Apr. 30, 1862, John Kloepfel and Anna Buchman, both of Richardson County, at house of John Buchman, by Chas. Walther, J. P.: Witss., John Helfenbine and Thos. Harpster.

  Feb. 11, 1861 (sic), Robert Worley and Miss J. C. Cornell, by Wingate King, at home of John Cornell.

  June 10, 1864, I. N. Beckwith and Miss L. E. Tinker both of Richardson County, by M. W. Bremen, J.P.

  July 31, 1864, Levi Hitchcock and Elisabeth Goolsby, by Robert Johnson.

  Sept. 4, 1864, Francis M. Spear and Amanda Copeland; and B. F. Perkins and Mary Copeland, by Robert Johnson.

  Sept. 11, 1864, Wm. M. Keifer and Sarah W. Thompson, by R. C Johnston.

  Jan. 1, 1865, John L. Scott and Margaret Davis, by M. W. Bremen, J. P.

  Jan. 26, 1865, S. W. Campbell and Emily Barnaby, by J. P. King, J. P.

  Feb. 3, 1865, George Coffman and Deliah Borden, by R. C. Johnston.



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