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(VI) Bentley, son of Stephen (2) and Rebecca
(Lewis) Roe, was born January 17, 1785, in
Ulster County, New York, and was killed by
the bursting of a cannon at a celebration in
September, 1812. He lived quietly with his
wife on their farm at Milton, New York. He
married Elizabeth Romer. Among his children
was Stephen Romer, mentioned below.
(VII) Stephen Romer, son of Bentley and
Elizabeth (Romer) roe, was born in Esopus,
New York, August 15, 1808, died in New York,
December 22, 1885. He was for many years
captain of the Hudson River steamboats, "De
Witt Clinton," "Iron Witch," "Daniel Drew,"
and others, and was the first man to
organize and adopt stateroom on boats. He
was a friend of men like Thurlow Weed and
William A. Seward, on whose staff he served
when William A. Seward was governor of New
York. In 1854, being threatened with
blindness from cataracts, he gave up the
position of captain and leased the hotel at
West Point. There he lived until 1864, when
he retired to spend his summers at Highland
Falls and his winters in New York City.
Captain roe was a most delightful and
lovable man, upright and just, and was
admired and respected by all who knew him.
He married, in Athens, New York, October 25,
1845, Josephine A (Foster) Tolley, widow of
Frederick Tolley; she was born October 21,
1821, died November 4, 1894.
(VIII) General Charles Francis Roe, son of
Stephen Romer and Josephine A.
(Foster-Tolley) Roe, was born May 1, 1848,
in New York City. He graduated at West
Point in 1868 and served in the Second
United States Cavalry for twenty years. he
was in command of Troop F, Second Cavalry in
1876, when the command went tot he rescue of
eh remnant of the United States Cavalry,
part of which had been massacred under
General George A. Custer. He served in
Montana, Dakota, and Washington until 1888.
When he resigned and came to new York to
live, he organized Troop A, later Squadron
A, and was made major-general, National
Guard, New York. In 1898 he was made
brigadier-general of volunteers of the
United States Army. He served as a
major-general until 1912, when he was
retired for age. General Roe is a member of
the societies of Colonial Wars, Sons of the
Revolution by right of inheritance, Society
of Indian Wars, Military Order of Foreign
Wars, by personal services rendered the
United States, and Grand Army of the
Republic by reason of the service as cadet
of the United States Military Academy during
the War of the Rebellion. He married, July
29, 1874, Katherine Bissell, daughter of
John Banta and Elizabeth Caroline (Bissell)
Bogert, who were married at New Rochelle,
New York, June 12, 1851. Children: 1.
Stephen Bogert, born 1875, died April 26,
1896. 2. Charles, died at birth. 3.
Josephine Bissell, married, in 1902,
Prescott Slade, children: Charles Francis
Roe and Katherine.
HANFORD. The
Hanford family is of ancient English
origin. Wollas Hall, the seat of the
family since 1536, stand on the north side
of
Bredon Hill about one-third of its ascent
from the Vale of Eversham, and the whole
estate, with part of Bredon Hill upon which
it is situated,
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is called Wooler's
Hill, a name given to it about the time of
the Conquest from the great number of wolves
that infested the country at that time. Sir
John Hanford, Knight, purchased it from the
great Lord Burleigh in the early part of the
reign of queen Elizabeth, and since then it
has descended in the family in an unbroken
line to the present time. The porch
has the family motto: Memorare novissima cut
in the stone just over the entrance door,
with the date 1611, but the greater part
of
the building is much older. The mansion is
built of excellent hard stone, and is
described at some length in Breton's
"Beauties of England and Wales," published
in London in 1811. The arms of the family
are described as borne by Charles Edward
Hanford, Esquire, of Wollas Hall, county
Worcester, son of Charles Hanford, Esquire,
of Redmarley, O'Abitat, county Worcester, by
Esther, daughter of John Lockley, Esquire,
of Derby, and great-grandson of Walter
Hanford, Esquire, of Wollas Hall, and
Frances, his wife, daughter of Sir Henry
Compton, of Hartbury Court, county
Gloucester, Kent and the arms are described
as follows: On a field, stable, a star of
eight rays, argent. Crest: Ona chapen,
gules, a turned-up arm, a morion of the
first. Motto: Memorare novissima.
(I) Eglin
(Hatherly) Hanford, widow, came from
Sudbury, England, in the ship "Planter,"
sailing April 10, 1635, stating her age as
forty-six in the passenger list, accompanied
by two daughters, Margaret, aged sixteen,
and Elizabeth, aged fourteen. She was a
sister of Rev. timothy Hatherly, who also
came to America. She married (second)
Friday, December 15, 1637, Richard Scillis,
or Sealis, of Scituate, Massachusetts. Her
daughter Margaret married Isaac, son of Rev.
John Robinson, the Pilgrim Father;
Elizabeth married Edward Foster, of
Scituate. Thomas, the son, is referred to
below.
(II) Rev.
Thomas Hanford, son of Eglin (Hatherly)
Hanford, was born in England, July 22, 1621,
died in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1693. He
remained in England to study for the
ministry, but in 1642 he also came to
America, and completed his education under
the tutorship of the Rev. Charles Chauncy,
afterward a [president of Harvard College.
He was admitted a freeman in 1650. In 1652,
soon after the town was settled, he removed
to Norwalk and gathered a congregation there
and preached in that parish until 1693. He
was the first minister in Norwalk, and one
of the prominent Puritan divines of the
first generation in New England. He married
(first) in 1652, Hannah, third daughter of
Thomas and Jane Newberry, of Windsor.
Thomas Newberry died in 1635-36, and his
widow married Rev. John Warham, the first
minister of Windsor, and she died while on a
visit to her daughter in Norwalk, April 23,
1655. Mester Newberry, sister to Mrs.
Hanford, was the grandmother of the famous
Rev. Jonathan Edward's. Rev. Thomas Hanford
married (second) October 22, 1661, Mary,
daughter of Hon. Richard Miles, of New
Haven, and widow of Jonathan Ince, of that
town. Her mother, before she married Judge
Miles, was a rich English widow with several
children, and her half-sisters and brothers
inherited a large estate in England. Mary
Miles married (first) December 12, 1654,
Jonathan Ince, one of the original
proprietors of Hartford, by whom she had one
son, Jonathan Ince(II). She died about
1722, and is probably buried under an oblong
stone, from which the inscription has been
obliterated by time in the East Norwalk
cemetery. Her mother's headstone is still
legible at Wallingford where she died in
1683, aged ninety-five years. Children of
Rev. Thomas Hanford (all by second marriage,
and all born in Norwalk): 1. Theophilus,
born July 2, 1662. 2. Mary, November 30,
1663. 3. Hannah, June 28, 1665. 4.
Elizabeth, June 9, 1666. 5. Thomas, July
18, 1668. 6. Eleazer, referred to below.
7. Elnathan, October 11, 1672. 8. Samuel,
April 15, 1674. 9.. Eunice, May, 1675.
10. Sarah, May, 1677.
(III)
Eleazer, son of Rev. Thomas and Mary
(Miles-Ince) Hanford, was born in Norwalk,
Connecticut, September 15, 1670. He married
Hannah Frisbey. Among his children was
Phineas, referred to below.
(IV) Phineas,
son of Eleazer and Hannah (Frisbey) Hanford,
was born in 1713, died in 1787. He married
Hannah, daughter of Moses and Abigail
(Brinsmaid) Comstock. Her grandfather was
Christopher Comstock, who died December 28,
1702, and who married Richard Platt, of
Milford; her father, Moses Comstock, was
born in 1684, died February 18, 1766, and
married, February 23, 1709, Abigail,
daughter of Daniel Brinsmaid, of Hartford,
born in 1691, died November 16.
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1766. among the
children of Phineas and Hannah (Comstock)
Hanford was Stephen, referred to below.
(V) Stephen,
son of Phineas and Hannah (Comstock)
Hanford, was born in 1747, died in 1838. He
married, in 1771, Phoebe, born September 3,
1753, daughter of Elijah and Phoebe (Smith)
Fitch. Her father was the son of James and
Mary (Haynes) Fitch, and her mother was born
December 30, 1734, and was a daughter of
robert and Judith (Fountain) smith, the
latter a daughter of James Fountain, of
Greenwich. Her parents were married October
25, 1752, and their children were: 1.
Phoebe, married Stephen Hanford, referred to
above. 2. Hannah, born September 20,
1755. 3. Stephen, October 25, 1757. 4.
Molly, March 14, 1759. 5. Elizabeth, March
25, 1762. 6. William, April 23, 1764. 7.
Lyda, July 23, 1766. 8. Buckingham, August
23, 1768. 9. Lydia, August 2, 1771. 10.
Elijah, September 3, 1773. Children of
Stephen and Phoebe (Fitch) Hanford: 1.
Hannah, born May 26, 1772. 2. Abijah,
August 27, 1774. 3. Enoch, January 10,
1777. 4. Fitch, April 2, 1779. 5. Polly,
June 20, 1781. 6. Sally, May 12, 1784.
7. David, referred to below. 8. Phoebe,
December 17, 1788. 9. Zalmon, May 26,
1791. 10. Eliza, September 21, 1796.
(VI) Dr.
David Hanford, son of Stephen and Phoebe
(Fitch) Hanford, was born July 16, 1786,
died in Middletown, New York, October 13,
1844. He was graduated from Yale College in
New Haven, Connecticut, and became a
physician, and in 1810 settled in
Middletown, where he practiced his
profession until his death. He married,
June 11, 1812, Margaret, born January 30,
1792, died November 18, 1879, daughter of
Daniel and Mary (Tuthill) Bailey,. She was
a grand-daughter of Daniel Bailey, born
August 6, 1726, died October 1, 1801, and
her father, Daniel Bailey was born September
5, 1757, died May 16, 1841. He served in
the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War with the rank of captain;
married, December 5, 1782, Mary Tuthill,
born February 4, 1764, died may 8, 1820,
and his children were: 1. John H., born
October 25, 1783, died February 5, 1810.
2. Daniel, April 7, 1786, died January 3,
1811. 3. Oliver, December 18, 1788, died
December 20, 1867. 4. Margaret, married Dr.
David Hanford, referred to above. 5.
Nathaniel, November 20, 1795, died March 11,
1862. 6. Ferdinand, September 9, 1798, died
September 9, 1834. Children of Dr. David
and Margaret (Bailey) Hanford: 1.
Caroline, born 1814. 2. John Bailey,
referred to below.
(VII) John
Bailey, son of Dr. David and Margaret
(Bailey) Hanford, was born in Middletown,
New York, August 11, 1821, died there
February 13, 1892. He received his early
education in the schools of his native town,
and at the age of twenty-one years entered
mercantile life and established the first
drygoods store in Middletown, which he
conducted for two years in partnership with
Herman Young, at the end of which time the
firm was dissolved, and he formed a
partnership with W. B. Shaw, under the firm
name of Shaw & Hanford, in which he
continued until 1861, when he disposed of
his interest in the business and engaged in
the development of real estate until his
death. He owned a tract of forty-five acres
of land, on which a part of Middletown is
now built, and for him was named the present
"Hanford Street". He was a prominent and
progressive citizen, and served for two
terms as a member of the board of trustees
of Middletown. He was a Presbyterian in
religion. He married, (first) October 13,
1846, Ellen W., daughter of Rev. Thomas
Robinson, and (second) March 7, 1860, Anna
Decker, born October 29, 1832, died August
6, 1898, daughter of Rev. James and Vashti
(Decker) Beveridge. Her father was born in
the town of Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, and
emigrated to America; her mother was a
daughter of Johannes Decker, who was born
April 16, 1741, died August 27, 1829, and
whose father, Johannes Decker, emigrated in
1710 from Holland and settled at New Paltz,
Ulster County, New York, and who, with his
entire family excepting Johannes, was
drowned while crossing the Hudson River on
the ice, January 23, 1742. Johannes Decker
married, October 30, 1768, Anna Hasbrouck,
born December 29, 1747, died January 30,
1818. Children of Rev. James and Vashti
(Decker) Beveridge: 1. Frank. 2. Anna
Decker, married John Bailey Hanford,
referred to above. 3. John. 4. James.
5. Katherine. Children of John Bailey
Hanford (two by first marriage): 1. David,
deceased. 2. John, deceased. 3. Frank
Beveridge, referred to below. 4. Charles
Hunter, referred to below. 5. Ellen Grace,
born October 23, 1867, now living in
Middletown, New York, married, August 8,
1898, George Hanford.
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(VIII) Frank
Beveridge, son of John Bailey, and Anna
Decker ( Beveridge) Hanford, was born in
Middletown, New York, January 4, 1862, and
is now living in Brooklyn, New York City.
He received his early education in the
public schools in Middletown and also in
Flushing, Long Island, and later graduated
from Eastman's business college in
Poughkeepsie, new York, and then became a
clerk in the First Middletown National Bank,
remaining in that position until 1884, when
he spent a short time on a ranch in the
west, after which he returned to Middletown,
and later removed to Jersey City, New
Jersey, where he conducted a livery and
boarding stable for ten years, and then
removed to Brooklyn, where he is now living.
He married, September 7, 1892, May
Constance, born October 30, 1867, daughter
of Rienzi Alexander and Elizabeth Harriet
(Kirk) Secor. Her father was born May 17,
1835, and was a son of Zeno and Mary
(Little) Secor, and a grandson of Francis
Secor, who was associated with Robert Fulton
in ship building, and who was a member of
the French Huguenot family of Secor which
settled at New Rochelle, New York. Her
mother was born October 31, 1841, died July
23, 1898, and was a daughter of Joseph Kirk,
born 1787, died October 25, 1850. He was a
soldier in H. B. M. Fifty-third Regiment and
received a silver medal for bravery in the
battle of Java; he married in Colombo,
Ceylon, march 28, 1819, Isabel, daughter of
John and Jean (Nichol) Lyon, the latter a
granddaughter of Lady flora MacDonald,
"MacDonald of the Isles." Child of Frank
Beveridge and May Constance (Secor)
Hanford: Elizabeth Anna, born February
13, 1903.
(VIII)
Charles Hunter, son of John Bailey and anna
Decker (Beveridge) Hanford, was born in
Middletown, New York, March 15, 1864, and is
now living in Newburg, New York. He
received his early education in the public
schools of Middletown, and also in flushing,
Long Island, and then entered the first
National Bank of Middletown as a clerk and
was steadily promoted until he became
assistant cashier of that institution, in
which position he remained until 1893, when
he resigned and purchased an interest in the
firm of Staples, Post & Company in Newburg,
New York, and a little over one year later
purchased also the interest of Mr. Post in
the business, and the firm became Staples &
Hanford, and continued as such until 1902,
when the business was incorporated and he
was elected first vice-president of the
company, and continued as such until 1909
when he was elected the president of the
company, and which office he still holds. He
is one of the directors of the Highlands
National Bank of Newburg. He is one of the
trustees of the First Presbyterian church in
Newburg. He is a republican in politics.
He married, June 15, 1897, Frances Louise,
daughter of Hon. Edward P. Babcock, of
Canandaigua, new York. Her grandfather was
Stanton Babcock, who was one of the pioneer
settlers of Prattsburg, Steuben County, New
York, and her father was judge of Ontario
County, and served also at one time as a
member of the assembly of the state of New
York. Child of Charles Hunter and Frances
Louise (Babcock) Hanford: 1. John Babcock,
born October 10, 1903.
TURNURE. The
surname of Turnure was originally Tourneur
and is of Picard or French origin. Some
etymologists hold that the name was
originally Tournoire, meaning "black tower,"
a connection by which perhaps some ell known
landmark endowed the ancestral family with
its name. Another possible origin is the
term "tourneour", Norman French for one who
took part in a tournament. In a mediaeval
controversy respecting the right of bearing
arms, Azure a bend or, it is testified that
Monsire le Scrope was in his time le plus
fort tourneour de tout notre pays,
translated, "the bravest tourneyer of all
our country." One witness testified,
moreover, that he always wore the blue with
the golden bend, as did his kinsman,
Goeffrey le Scrope, when he tourneyed at the
various tournaments. The Tourneurs or
turnures of New York, were one of some
thirty French families, who made their home
in Harlem in the seventeenth century. Of
Picard descent were the Tourneurs or
turnures, Cressons, Demarests, Casiers, and
Disosways, members of all of which except
the last served as magistrates. The Turnure
family has always played an influential part
in the history of state and nation. Some
of its members have been men of the highest
repute in public, professional and
commercial life.
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(I) Deacon
Daniel Tourneur or de Tourneur, immigrant
ancestor of most of those in America bearing
the name or its variations was born in
Amiens in Picardy, France, about 1625, died
at Harlem, New York, in 1673. Being charged
with the death of Tillie Maire, whom he had
killed in self-defense during a brawl
occasioned by the religious quarrels of the
period, he left France, going through
Belgium to Holland. He finally halted at
Leyden, and settling down pursued for a time
the business of draper, eventually
marrying. Almost two years later Tourneur
sailed with his wife and infant son for New
Netherland in America, probably in the ship
with Dr. Samuel Drisius, of Leyden, which
left Holland April 4, 1652. Jean le Roy, a
kinsman of Tourneur, appears to have
accompanied him with his wife, Louise de
Lancaster. On coming here he first lived at
Flatbush, where a daughter was born, who
died in infancy. Here Tourneur, with some
military prestige it would seem, was made
corporal of a company formed April 7, 1654,
for protection against marauders. Soon
after he was granted a lot in New Amsterdam,
with a view to putting up a house, but a
year or more passing before the timber was
ready he renewed his request, April 11,
1657, for leave to build. He afterwards
built a house on the Prince's Graft, where
he bought a lot, May 31, 1660, and on August
16 of the same year was appointed a
magistrate for Harlem. He probably
continued in business at New Amsterdam, as
on October 15 ensuing he was made one of the
"sworn butchers". The next winter he put up
a barn on his village plot at Harlem, where
he had already built a house, and whither he
soon removed, serving in the magistracy at
various period and serving also for several
years as deputy sheriff. He was repeatedly
chosen deacon, besides which he was a
delegate tot he general assembly of 1664,
and also one of the Nicholls patentees. He
left a goodly estate. He married, September
5, 1650, at Leyden, Holland, Jacqueline
Parisis, of a Walloon refugee family from
Hesdin in Artois, and a sister to the Rev.
Eustacius Parisis, then of Amsterdam. The
widow survived her husband twenty-seven
years, and died in 1700. Her personals, as
per inventory taken august 22 of that year,
were divided November 16 ensuing, each child
(Daniels' heirs in his stead) getting in
cash 167 gl. With a fifth part of the
goods. Children: 1. Daniel, born in
Holland, died 1690. 2. Jacques, of whom
further. 3. Thomas, born in Harlem, died
1710; married April 5, 1692. 4. Madeleine,
born in Harlem; married John Dyckman. 5. Esther,
born in Harlem; married Frederick de Vaux.
(II) Deacon
Jacques Tourneur, son of Deacon Daniel and
Jacqueline (Parisis) Tourneur, was born at
Harlem about 1655, died about 1720. He
served as deacon and also as constable and
overseer of the town, succeeding in 1691 to
that part of his father's lands on Van
Keulen's Hook known as lots 17 and 19, but
in quantity three lots, and since the
bussing or Storm farm. He bought August 7,
1691, from Peter van Obliensis, for six
hundred gl., the old Jacques Cresson
residence, which became his home. On may
27, 1698, he sold his lot No. 17 of the
draft of 1691 to Johannes Myer. His farm
and lots in the several divisions, in all
sixty acres, were sold to peter Bussing in
1726 after his death. He married (first) in
Harlem, June 17, 1683, Aefie, daughter of
Michael Kortright; (second) May 29, 1714,
Eugeltie Thomas, widow of Gregorius Storm,
of Philips Manor. Children: 1. Anna, born
1686. 2. Adriana, 1689; married Jacob
Garritsen, of Flatbush. 3. Maria, born
1691. 4. Michael, of which further. 5.
Jacobus, 1695, died at Haverstraw, married,
May 26, 1720, Jacomima Oblenis. 6.
Abraham, born 1698. 7. Isaac, born 1701,
living at Fordham, in 1733.
(III)
Michael, son of Jacques and Aefie
(Kortright) Tourneur, was born in 1693, died
at Haverstraw in 1775, aged about eight-two
years. In 1743 he bought the old residence
of his family and twelve acres of land,
being lot 2, third division, and nine acres
of lot 14, second division. He got from
Bussing in 1750 the remaining six acres of
the last-named lot; but selling out with ten
years, he removed to Haverstraw. He
married, February 12, 1717, Maria, daughter
of Hendrick Oblenis. Children: 1.
Jacobus, of whom further. 2. Hendrick,
succeeded to the homestead part of the
paternal farm, and married Margaret
Blauvelt. 3. Jannche, married John
Tourneur. 4. Aefie, married Derick de
Clerck. 5. Sarah, married Edward Salyer.
6. Mary, married William Dyckman. 7.
Jemima, married William Chappell, of New
York.
(IV)
Jacobus, son of Michael and Maria
(Oblenis) Tourneur, was born at Harlem
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about 1720, died about
1780. He owned some lots at Harlem and
built a house on one of them. He aided his
father in negotiations fir the purchase of
the old residence of the family, and did
much to cultivate the acres surrounding it.
He took a share in the public life of the
village and filled one or two offices. He
was about fifty-six years old when the
Revolutionary War broke our, but he did his
share in the events that occurred around New
York. He married Dinah, daughter of
Laurence Low, of Harlem. Children: 1.
Michael. 2. Lawrence, of whom further. 3.
Jacobus. 4. John. 5. Hendrick. 6.
Jane. 7. Mary. 8. Maria. 9. Sarah.
(V) Lawrence
Turnure, son of Jacobus and Dinah (Low)
Tourneur, was born about 1746, died at
Harlem. He resided in Harlem where he owned
land, though he also spent several years
near his grandfather, who left Harlem and
moved to Haverstraw. He married and had a
son, Lawrence (2), of whom further.
(VI)
Lawrence (20, son of Lawrence (1) Turnure,
was born about 1789 at Harlem. He resided
in Harlem and New York City, where he was
well known as a successful business man. He
married and had children: 1. Lawrence (3),
of whom further. 2. David M., a New York
banker and merchant; married Mary E.,
daughter of Hon. Harvey Baldwin; children:
Arthur B., married Elizabeth Harrison, and
mary S.
(VII)
Lawrence (3), son of Lawrence (2) Turnure,
was born in New York about 1820, died in the
same city. after leaving school Mr. Turnure
engaged in mercantile and financial affairs
showing great initiative and energy. He was
for several years connected with banking
companies, occupying responsible positions.
For a long time he was associated with Moses
Taylor, a well known merchant and banker of
New York, and much of Mr. Taylor's success,
in the various undertakings in which he
engaged, was due to the great ability of his
partner. Subsequently Mr. Turnure founded
the great banking firm of Lawrence Turnure &
Company, of which he was many years the
head. Mr. Turnure was a member of the
Tuxedo, Manhattan and Democratic clubs, the
Downtown Association, the American
Geographical Society, and many of the
leading artistic and benevolent
organizations of the city.
He married, in 1856, at New York City, Jane,
daughter of Heman Judd Redfield, a master in
chancery and collector of customs at New
York. Mrs. Turnure was descended from
William Hyde, of Norwich, Connecticut, one
of the first settlers of that place.
Elizabeth Hyde, granddaughter of William
Hyde, married, in 1682, Lieutenant Richard
Lord, of Saybrook, grandson of Thomas Lord,
who came to Newtown, Massachusetts, in 1635,
and to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636, being
among the first settlers of Saybrook. In
the next generation Phebe Lord, born about
1680, in Lyme, Connecticut, married Joseph
Sill, son of Captain Joseph Sill, born in
England about 1636, came to Cambridge with
his father, John Sill, previous to 1638, and
in 1676 removed to Lyme, Connecticut.
Jabez, son of Captain Joseph sill, moved
from Lyme, Connecticut, to Wilkesbarre,
Pennsylvania, and died there in 1790. His
wife was Elizabeth Noyes, daughter of Moses
Noyes and Mary (Ely) Noyes of Lyme, and
granddaughter of Rev. Moses Noyes. Mary,
daughter of Jabez and Elizabeth (Noyes)
Sill, married James Gould, of Wilkesbarre,
Pennsylvania. The mother of Mrs. Turnure,
Abigail Noyes Gould, was born at Lyme in
1795, and married, in 1817, Heman Judd
Redfield, born in 1788 in Suffield,
Connecticut, son of Peleg and Mary (Judd)
Redfield, and in the seventh generation from
William Redfield, who settled in New
London. Children: . 1. Lawrence (4),
entered the banking business with his
father, is a member of the Union Rockaway
Hunt and Country clubs; married romaine
Stone. 2. Jennie, married Major John C.
Mallery, U. S. A. 3. Redfield. 4. George
Evans, of whom further. 5. Mary,
deceased. 6. Percy R., deceased, graduated
from Harvard in 1894.
(VIII) George Evans, son of Lawrence (3) and
Jane Redfield) Turnure, was born in 1861.
He went to Harvard after going through the
ordinary courses in New York City, and
graduated in 1889. He has been most of his
business life in the banking line, having
entered wit his father, though he has other
considerable interests. he belongs to a
number of societies, and to the Calumet,
Racquet and other clubs.
He married, in 1891, Elizabeth Gardner
Lanier, daughter of Charles Lanier.
Children: 1. Elizabeth, born 1892. 2.
Mary, 1894. 3. George. 4. Irene. 5.
Lawrence.
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CAMMANN. Descendants of henry Melchoir Muhlenburg,
the Pennsylvania minister, are numerous, and
among them are members of the Cammann
family. Genealogical and heraldic works in
Germany state that the von Muhlenbergs were
recognized before the thirty Years' War,
1618-48, as among the baronial families of
the empire, and that they derive their
origin from Ziracka, a prince of the Wendish
and Sorbic tribes, who about the year 950 A.
D. was converted to Christianity, and had
his residence near the present Muhlenberg,
on the right bank of the Elbe River, in the
Merseburg district of Prussian Saxony. In
the neighborhood of this town, Muhlenberg
the electoral prince, John Fride, after an
unfortunate battle fell, April 24, 1547,
into the hands of the Emperor Charles V.
Mills (muhlen in German) erected in that
locality gave name tot he town and
subsequently to the family residing there,
which increased and in course of time
acquired large possessions in Saxony,
Austrian Silesia and other parts. In the
escutcheon of the family were two wheels,
and the members of the family signed
themselves "of the Muhlenberg". Various
members of the family made themselves
eminent in war and peace, and in the
beginning of the sixteenth century the
family was still counted among the prominent
and wealthy. During the wars of the
sixteenth century and especially the Thirty
Years' War some of its branches died out,
and others were reduced in circumstances. After
the middle of the seventeenth century the
name is no longer found on rolls of
nobles of the empire, and the family never
made any attempt to have their title
acknowledged and entered by the imperial
court of heraldry in Vienna.
(I) Rev.
Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, immigrant
ancestor of the family of that name, as well
as of the branch of the Cammann family here
dealt with, was born at Eimbeck, in the
kingdom of Hanover, Germany, September 6,
1711, died at Trappe, Pennsylvania, October
7, 1787, aged seventy-six years. His father
died while he was quite young, and at an
early period he had to rely on his own
exertions as a teacher for support. He
entered the University of Gottingen March
19, 1735, and made rapid progress in his
studies. In 1737 he was received into the
theological seminary, and after graduating
thence entered the University of Halle for
the purpose of fitting himself more worthily
for the ministry. About 1740 the early
Lutheran settlers of Pennsylvania having
become tired of those who officiated among
them as clergymen, and whom they described
as impostors, wrote tot he professors of
the University of Halle for a regularly
ordained and commissioned minister to take
charge of the feeble flocks. For this
purpose Mr. Muhlenberg was selected.
Accordingly in the spring of 1742 he left
Halle for London. From there he embarked,
and after a perilous voyage landed,
September 22, at Charleston, South Carolina,
whence he journeyed to Philadelphia,
arriving November 25. Three days later he
preached his first sermon at the swamp in
New Hanover township. He found but three
organized Lutheran congregations; one at
Philadelphia, one at Trappe and one at New
Hanover. The last congregation had a log
church and one hundred and twenty members.
At Trappe there were about twenty members,
who worshipped in a barn. Churches were
soon built and during serves were divided
between the three congregations and, as may
be supposed, were very arduous, requiring
him to travel in regular journeys many miles
through the wilderness on horseback. In
1745 he received the assistance of several
other brethren, who arrived as pastors and
teachers from Germany. After his marriage
in 1745 he settled immediately at Trappe,
where he continued to reside till October,
1761, when he moved to Philadelphia to take
charge of the church there. In 1776 he
returned again to Trappe to take charge of
the congregation, and there continued to
reside for the remainder of his life. He
was buried in the Trappe graveyard, where
also repose the remains of several members
of his family. He has been styled by
several writers the father of the Lutheran
Church in America, and also the first
regularly ordained minister send here.
However, long before he was born, the Swedes
had built Lutheran churches and had
regularly ordained ministers, not only in
Pennsylvania, but in several of the
adjoining states. Mr. Muhlenberg knew
Latin, German, Dutch and English well
besides having a knowledge of several other
languages. He married, April 30, 1745, anna
Maria, daughter of Colonel Conrad Weiser,
the celebrated Indian interpreter.
Children:
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1. Peter, born at
Trappe, October 1, 1746, died October 1,
1807, was a major-general in the
Revolutionary Army. 2. Eve Elizabeth, born
January 29, 1748, died 1808; married,
September 23, 1760, Rev. Christopher
Emmanuel Schulze. 3. Frederick Augustus,
born at Trappe, June 2, 1750, died 1802, was
a speaker of congress. 4. Margaretta
Henrietta, of whom further. 5. Henry, born
November 17. 1753, died May 23, 1815, was a
distinguished botanist. 6. John
Andrew, born July 19, 1755.
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