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King Edward
The confessor gave to Westminster Abbey a
third of the forest growing in his wood at
Kyngsbury, lying in the Hundred of Goare,
about six miles northwest of London. The
name is also found in Domesday Book in the
form "Chingesberie," as a manor in the
Hundred of Helstine, Middlesex, held by
Ernulf de Hesdings.
The first
individual of the name that is known to us
is Gilbert de Kingsbury, who was the
incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Kingsbury,
Warwickshire, about 1300. He probably
derived his surname from the place. In 1368
we find a William de Kingsbury mentioned in
the will of Gervase de Wullesford, Rector of
Barnak, of Northamptonshire, and there are a
number of ecclesiastics of the name, such as
David Kynnesbury, Vicar of Chestnut, Herts,
appointed, April 12, 1480, died in 1503.
That there were so many of the name
occupying positions calling for education
and refinement proves that the family must
have been of some consequence, and
especially as several of them were
Benedictines, who were called "the
gentlemanly monks," then the most learned in
all Europe and recruited from the higher
classes of society.
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In the
fourteenth century record appears of a
family of Kingsburys in Little Cornard,
county of Suffolk, who appear to have been
substantial landholders, and from whom the
original Kingsbury emigrants to this country
are undoubtedly descended. James Kingsbury,
of Boxford, county of Suffolk, married Anne
ffrancis, and died in 1622, leaving eight
children: 1. James. 2. Henry. 3.
John. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Sarah. 6.
Joseph. 7. Thomas. 8. Alyce. Of these,
three, Henry, John and Joseph, came to New
England, and a fourth, Thomas, agreed to
come, but apparently did not do so
)Winthrop's New England I, 369, 375; II
340). The first to arrive was Henry, who
came on the "Talbot" in Governor Winthrop's
fleet in 1630. Governor Winthrop wrote to
his wife "From aboard the Arabella, riding
at the Cowes, march 28, 1630," just before
the departure from England, "Henry Kingsbury
hath a child or two in the Talbot sick with
the measles, but like to do well." Henry
Kingsbury married Margaret, widow of Thomas
Alabaster, a relative of Governor Winthrop.
He settled in Boston, but apparently
returned later to England. Henry Kingsbury
of Ipswich and Haverhill, from whom the
following genealogy is traced, appears to
have been either the son of Henry, the first
emigrant, by an earlier marriage, or the son
of Thomas, who remained in England, probably
the latter. The records are not wholly clear
or conclusive on this point. The family
record in America thus begins with Henry
Kingsbury of Ipswich.
(I) Henry
Kingsbury was at Ipswich in 1638, according
to Felt's History, and the "Hammatt Papers"
state he was a commoner in Ipswich in 1641.
He was a subscriber to the Major Denison
fund, December 19, 1648, in the sum of two
shillings. On February 8, 1648, according
to records, he sold his farm in Ipswich,
consisting of 32 acres, for 25 English
pounds, to Thomas Safford; but this does not
signify that he then left that place, for
during the same year he bought "house and
land on High ST. in Ipswich", from Daniel
Ladd or Haverhill, which he sold August 9,
1660, to Robert Lord, obtaining two oxen in
hand, five pounds to be paid Robert Paine,
and forty shillings to Edmund Bridges. That
same year he also sold six acres to Reinold
Foster. He was one of the residents of
Ipswich who on May 17, 1658, signed a
petition stating that they had taken the
oath of fidelity, but were not freemen, yet
they claimed the right to vote in town
affairs. In 1661-62-63, he was overseer
"for Pentucket side," for fences and
highways in Rowley. His farm was on the
Merrimack, in that part of Rowley afterwards
Bradford. On March 3, 1667-68, "it was
voted and granted that Henry Kingsbury shall
have ten acres of land which is to be laid
out unto him, adjoining to Mr. Ward's farm,
to the west of Hawke's meadow path, not
prejudicing any other man." In 1669 he gave
a deposition in court, stating that he was
fifty-four years old, hence it is determined
that he was born in 1615, and he died in
Haverhill, October 1, 1687. The inventory
was taken October 10, 1687, and amounted to
40 pounds, 19 shillings, 6 pence.
Henry
Kingsbury's wife was named Susanna, and she
died in Haverhill, February 21, 1678-79.
Children: 1. John, died in Haverhill,
January 23, 1670-71; married, 1666,
Elizabeth, born in Ipswich, 1654; died
December 20, 1677, daughter of Matthias
Button, of Ipswich, and Haverhill;
children: John, born in Rowley, July 28,
1667; Elizabeth, born in Haverhill, August
14, 1669. 2. Ephraim, killed by the
Indians, May 2, 1676, and believed to have
been the first person slain by the savages
in King Philip's War. 3. James, married,
at Haverhill, January 6, 1673, Sarah, born
in 1650, daughter of Matthias Button,
sister-in-law, children: Susannah, born
April 18, 1675; Sarah, born August 13, 1677;
Mary, born august 18, 1679; Ephraim, born
April 13, 1681; Abigail, born February 26,
1686; Samuel, born July 18, 1690. 4.
Samuel, born in 1649; died in Haverhill,
September 26, 1698' married, November 5,
1679, Huldah, born in Haverhill, November
18, 1661, daughter of George and Joanna
(Davis) Corliss; children Huldah, born
August 16, 1680; Thomas, born October 29,
1681. 5. Thomas, died in Plainfield,
Connecticut, June 11, 1720; married June 29,
1691, Deborah, born June 6, 1655, daughter
of George and Joanna (David) Corliss, widow
of Thomas Eastman; children: Thomas, born
January 30, 1692; Mehitable, born June 9,
1696; both killed by the Indians, March 15,
1697. 6. Joseph, see forward. 7.
Susanna, married, January 29, 1661-62,
Joseph Pike, born in 1638, killed by Indians
in Amesbury, September 4, 1694, son
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of Captain John and
mary Pike; they had eight children.
(II)
Lieutenant Joseph Kingsbury, and Susannah
Kingsbury, was born in 1656, died April 9,
1741. He resided in Haverhill, where he
took the oath of allegiance, November 28,
1677. As Sergeant Joseph Kingsbury, he was
chosen constable for the west part of
Haverhill, March 2, 1702-03; tithingman,
March 4, 1700-01; selectman, March, 1697-99,
1700-01-05-06; viewer of fences from the
Mill brook westward to the Westbridge River
and northward. He was a surveyor, capable
of performing such duties, for on September
17, 1685, he testified that he and William
Neff were desired by Thomas Woodbery and
Josiah Beason to measure "a certayne parcell
of upland and meadow" in Ipswich, and
further, "ye measure or work above named wee
did according to O'r best skill and
judgment." On May 12, 1702, the town by
vote made choice of "Sergt. Joseph Kingsbury
to appear at the next inferior court, to be
holden at Salem on the last Tuesday of June
next, on the behalf of the Town of
Haverhill, to answer the said Town's
presentment for not being provided with a
school-master according to law." He was
employed by Captain Simon Wainwright, a
merchant in Haverhill, when the captain was
killed by the Indians and his house burned,
in 1708. Later in the same year he moved
his family to Norwich, Connecticut, leaving
his Haverhill home June 14, 1708. He
settled in that portion which was then known
as West Farms, now Franklin, and erected a
dwelling on Middle or Center Hill, property
which remained in the Kingsbury name until
1870, when bought by John G. Cooley, of New
York for his son, who had married a daughter
of Colonel Thomas H. C. Kingsbury. He was
chairman of the meeting at which the
ecclesiastical society of West Farms was
organized, in 1716, and one of the right
pillars of the church. He and his son
Joseph were among the right men who drew up
the covenant of the church in 1718. He and
his wife were admitted to the church by
letter, January 4, 1718, and he was one of
the first to deacons of the church, chosen
October 8, 1718. He was appointed ensign of
the trainband in the West Society in
Norwich, in 1719, and lieutenant in October,
1727.
Lieutenant
Joseph Kingsbury married, April 2, 1679,
Love, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth
(Hutchins) Ayer, of Haverhill, who was born
April 15, 1663, died April 24, 1735.
Children: 1. Joseph, see forward. 2.
Nathaniel, born August 23, 1684; died in
Andover, September 18, 1763; married, 1709,
Hannah Denison; they had fourteen children.
3. Elizabeth, born May 10, 1686, died May
24 1686. 4. Mary, born October 10, 1687;
died December 6, 1714; married, in Lebanon,
December 14, 1712, Stephen Bingham; no
issue. 5. Elizabeth, born October 16,
1693; died August 21, 1751; married, in
Lebanon, August 19, 1717, Samuel Ashley, of
Windham (later of Hampton); they had seven
children. 6. Susanna, born September 24,
1695; married, December 28, 1713, Jonathan
Ladd, of Norwich West Farms; they had ten
children.
(III)
Captain Joseph (2) Kingsbury, son of
Lieutenant Joseph (1), and Love (Ayer)
Kingsbury, was born in Haverhill, June 22,
1682, died December 1, 1757. He came to
Norwich West Farms with his father in June,
1708, being then twenty-six years of age,
and was admitted to the church of that place
by letter, January 4, 1718. He was
appointed deacon, February 20, 1735, and was
one of the right pillars of the church. In
1721 he was appointed ensign of the
trainband; lieutenant in 1729; captain in
1748; selectman of Norwich in 1723; and a
deputy to the general assembly
1731-34-38-39-42. He was one of a committee
appointed by the general assembly in May,
1739, "to repair to the society on the east
side of the great river in Hartford, and to
affix a place for the building a new
meetinghouse on." He owned at least two
slaves, Cuff and Phillis, whom he bequested
to his wife, Ruth, and she gave them their
freedom in December, 1773. The two
ex-slaves removed to Tolland, and after
about twenty years they were reduced to
want, and the town of Tolland brought a suit
again Ebenezer Kingsbury, his mother's
executor, to make him support them, under
the statute requiring all masters, or
owners, who set slaves at liberty to provide
for their support if they should come to
want. [See Kingsbury vs. Tolland, 2 Root
(Conn.) 355.]
Captain
Joseph Kingsbury married, February 5,
1705-06, Ruth, daughter of John and Ruth
(Ayer) Denison, of Ipswich, Massachusetts,
who was born June 7, 1686, died May 6,
1779. She was buried in the old Franklin
burial-
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ground, where her
tombstone still stands, with that of her
husband and his parents. Children: 1.
Ephraim, born January 4, 1706-07, died
November 17, 1772; married, July 3, 1728,
Martha Smith; children Asa, Absalom, Martha,
Obadiah, Irene, Ephraim, Talitha, Anna and
Joshua. 2. Hannah, born March 6 1708-09,
died March 16, 1770; married, October 11,
1727, Captain Jacob Hyde; children: Jacob,
Ephraim, Joseph, Mary, Hannah, Jonathan,
Ruth, Silence, Rebecca and Phebe. 3. Love,
born February 23, 1710-11, died December 29,
1778; married, November 3, 1732, Josiah
Backus; children: Irene, Rachel, Ozias,
Lebbeus, Ebenezer, Absalom, Anne and
Simeon. 4. Ruth, born February 24,
1712-13, died at West Farms, November 13,
1769; married January 28, 1734-35, Joshua
Edgerton, of West Farms; children: Ruth,
Joshua, Sims, Samuel, Deliverance, Margaret,
Eleazer, Anne, Andrew, Alpheus, Uriah and
Joseph Kingsbury. 5. Joseph, born
February 27, 1714-15, died at Pomfret,
Connecticut, October 27, 1788; married at
West Farms, March 28, 1738, Deliverance
Squire; children: Ebenezer, Chloe, Sanford,
Ruth, Abigail, Joseph, Jerusha, Eunice,
Deliverance, Irena, and Anna. 6. Ebenezer.
See forward. 7. Eleazer, born February 7,
1718-19, died at Tolland October 6, 1785;
married, July 29, 1742, Freelove Rust;
children: Freelove, Anna, Sarah, Eleazer,
Zebulon, and Samuel Rust. 8. Eunice, born
in 1720, died December 7, 1751; married,
February 17, 1740-41, Jabez Backus;
children: Jabez, Joshua, Eunice, Ruth and
Charles. 9. Grace, born October 4, 1722,
died unmarried. 10. Daniel, born December
14, 1724, died September 17, 1760; married,
January 19, 1747, Abigail Barstow;
children: Abigail, Daniel, Mary, Lucretia
and Joseph. 11. Talitha, born October 7,
1726. 12. Irene, born march 13, 1729, died
unmarried. 13. Nathaniel, born February 7,
1730, died December 15, 1784; married
September 4, 1755, Sarah Hill, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts; children: Jacob, Sarah,
Nathaniel, John, Joseph, Charles, Tabitha
Hill, Bethiah Hill, and William Howe.
(IV) Captain
Ebenezer Kingsbury, son of Captain Joseph
(2) and Ruth (Denison) Kingsbury, was born
in the West Farms, February 11, 1716-17,
died in Coventry, Connecticut, September 6,
1800. He was admitted to the church in
Bolton, November 24, 1739, and became a
deacon. He was a highly valued citizen,
representing his district in the general
assembly, 1754-55, 1758-59, 1764, 1766-67,
1769, 1771-60; was lieutenant in the Fifth
Regiment of the Colony, May, 1753; captain
October, 1756. He was chosen a member of
the committee of correspondence in Coventry,
September 15, 1774. The story is told that
during a critical period of the Revolution
he returned from the session of the general
assembly one Saturday to work for the
soldiers. His daughter Priscilla moulded
bullets from the lead clock-weights, and his
son Joseph made and baked biscuits,--both on
the Sabbath. Sand-bags were substituted for
lead in the family clock, and on Monday he
returned to his post of duty, his
saddle-bags balanced on one side with food
for the soldiers, and on the other with
bullets to be used again their enemies.
Captain
Ebenezer Kingsbury married, November 28,
1743, Priscilla, born in Hampton, March 22,
1720, died in Coventry, Connecticut, January
31, 1805, daughter of his uncle, Nathaniel
Kingsbury, and Hannah (Denison) Kingsbury.
Children: 1. Ebenezer, born August 28,
1744, died September 4, 1744. 2. Mary,
born March 31, 1746, died November 20,
1761. 3. Ebenezer, born January 27, 1749,
died in infancy. 4. Priscilla, born
December 26, 1751, died January 5, 1751-52.
5. Joseph, see forward. 6. Priscilla,
born January 21, 1756, died March 19, 1841.
7. Martha Edgerton, born July 16, 1758,
died, unmarried, April, 1823. 8. Ebenezer,
born August 30, 1762, died in Hartford,
Pennsylvania, March 22, 1842. 9. Mary, born
November 26, 1754, died young.
(V) Lieutenant Joseph (3) Kingsbury,
son of Captain Ebenezer and Priscilla
(Kingsbury) Kingsbury, was born April
17, 1753, died April 13, 1828. Soon
after the commencement of the Revolutionary
War, according to the family records,
he enlisted in a company of which Joseph
Talcott was captain, himself a lieutenant,
and Squire Ephraim Kingsbury was commissary.
The company was stationed for a time at
Groton, Connecticut; from there they were
ordered to the states of New York and
New Jersey, and were often employed as
scouts. He is said to have been
a man of quick discernment, and prompt
in action. Lieutenant Joseph (3)
Kingsbury married, February 21,
1780, Lois, daughter of Jonathan and Lois
(Richardson) Porter, who
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was born in Coventry,
Connecticut, April 14, 1759, died May
20, 1814. Children: 1.
Lois, born January 14, 1781, died November
3, 1805. 2. Oliver, born June
24, 1782, died in Worcester, Massachusetts,
November 12, 1809. 3. Eunice
Backus, born November 14, 1784, died January
6, 1833. 4. Ward, born January
10, 1787, died February 6,. 1844.
5. Persis, born December 10, 1789,
died October 31, 1854. 6.
Electra, born June 9, 1791, died December
6, 1848. 7. Mary, born October
3, 1793, died July 23, 1838. 8.
Roxana, born August 5, 1796, died in Somerville,
New Jersey, November 10, 1892. 9.
Ruth, born April 4, 1798, died October
27, 1831. 10. Addison, born
July 5, 1800, died in Marietta, Ohio,
January 25, 1892. 11. Emeline,
born March 12, 1803, married September
18, 1826, Alvin Kingsbury.
(VI) Oliver
Kingsbury, son of Lieutenant Joseph (3) and
Lois (Porter) Kingsbury, was born in
Coventry, Connecticut, June 24, 1782, died
in Worcester, Massachusetts, November 12,
1809. He moved to and settled in Worcester,
where he was a schoolmaster, and highly
esteemed. He died there of hemorrhage of
the lungs. His widow married Shubael
Brewster, of Coventry, who died January 17,
1892, aged ninety-two years. Administration
was grated on the estate of Oliver
Kingsbury, "late of Worcester, Dec'd, in the
county of Worcester, and State of
Massachusetts, to Cynthia Kingsbury, of s'd
Coventry, s'd Oliver having at the time of
his death goods, chattels, and estate in
this District,. March 5, 1811. The Court
appoints Ephraim Kingsbury, Esq'r, Titus
Baker, and Noah Porter, to set out and
distribute to Cynthia Kingsbury, widow and
relict of s'd Oliver, her dower." Same
date" "Cynthia Kingsbury appointed guardian
to Maria Kingsbury and Oliver R. Kingsbury,
minors, of Coventry." "Shubael Brewster, of
Coventry, appointed guardian to the persons
and estate of Maria and Oliver R. Kingsbury,
late Cynthia Kingsbury, June 28, 1823."
Oliver
Kingsbury married, June 28, 1803, Cynthia,
born November 22, 1782, died March 21, 1856,
daughter of Moses and Hannah (Denslow) wing,
of Windsor. Children: 1. Maria, born in
Worcester, May 12, 1806, died in Albia, New
York, (a suburb of Troy), July 23, 1848;
married Alonzo Streeter, M. D., of Troy;
children: Cynthia Maria, Helen Cornelia,
Caroline, Julia Augusta, and John Mason
Good. 2. Oliver Richmond, see forward.
(VII) Oliver Richmond Kingsbury,
son of Oliver and Cynthia (Wing) Kingsbury,
was born in Worcester, Massachusetts,
March 15, 1809, died in New York City,
December 11, 1889. He was brought
up in Coventry, Connecticut, in the family
of his grandfather, and at the age of
thirteen, in march or April, 1822, removed
to New York City, and lived there
the remainder of his life. He entered
the service of the American Tract Society,
where his uncle, Harlan Page, was engaged,
from his first coming to New York, until
the end of his days; he became assistant
treasurer in 1834, and was treasurer of
the society for many years before his
retirement in 1887. He was connected
with the Presbyterian Church for many
year, successively ruling elder in the
Sixth Street, Fourteenth Street, and Central
Presbyterian churches, and he was several
times commissioner to the general assembly.
The following notice appeared in The
American Messenger, relating
to the action taken by the American Tract
Society at the annual meeting in May,
1887, with regard to Mr. Kingsbury.
In
accordance with the direction of the
Executive Committee, at a special meeting
held May 9th, the following
resolution is offered. As Mr. O. R.
Kingsbury has stated that on account of
increasing age he would decline a
re-election as treasurer, it was:
RESOLVED. That the society, now assembled
in annual meeting, cannot consent to part
with Mr. Kingsbury as Treasurer, without
placing on record its estimate of his long
and faithful service. A youth of 17, he
entered the service of the society in 1827,
ina subordinate capacity. In 1834 he was
elected Assistant Secretary; in 1835, was
added the duty of Assistant Treasurer. He
performed the duties of treasurership from
that time until the present, having received
the title of treasurer in 1870. He hs been
annually elected in this capacity for 53
years with no dissenting voice. During
this period there passed through the
treasury about $17,000,000,000, and so far
as known not one dollar was ever lost in
connection with his department. during
these 60 years he has been out of the office
from illness but once for any length of
time, and only for three month then. Nor
has he taken during these threescore years,
on an average, one week's vacation per
annum. Not a little of the untarnished
reputation of the Secretary is due to his
calm judgment, clear view of financial
questions, incorruptible integrity, and high
Christian character. Taking into view the
multiplicity of interests involved, the
amount of money handled in unnumbered small
sums, the total absence of loss of fail-
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ure
in payment of notes, and the length of
unbroken service, it will be difficult
to find parallels in the religious or
financial institutions of the country.
In connection
with this resolution, Rev. Dr. William
Ormiston said that this was a most marvelous
record. He wished for Mr. Kingsbury many
years yet of useful life. The resolution
was adopted unanimously by a rising vote,
and he was elected treasurer emeritus. He
was distinguished by a practical bent of
mind; was a man of sound sense; possessed a
retiring disposition, and noted as a man of
orderly ways and quite tastes. His office
was to him as sacred as his church, and
there the responsible duties of his earnest
life were faithfully performed.
Oliver
Richmond Kingsbury married, September 26,
1838, Susan, born November 17, 1809, died
June 17, 1849, daughter of Alexander and
Jane (Burras) Patterson, of New York City.
Children: 1. Oliver Addison, born in New
York City, August 20, 1830; a Presbyterian
clergyman and graduate of Yale in 1860;
married, May 11, 1865, Sarah Cecilia
Stevenson; children: George Herbert, born
in Middle Haddam, Connecticut, May 7, 1866,
died in Joliet, Illinois, August 21, 1867;
Mabel, born in Wappinger's Falls, New York,
September 3, 1870, married, November 15,
1899, in New Hartford, New York, David
Fentress; Arthur Richmond, born in
Hawthorne, New Jersey, April 18, 1874, died
in New Mexico, 1911; Susie Antoinette, born
in Corona, New York, January 22, 1878,
married September 3, 1902, A. Hutchins
Frith, of Bermuda. 2. Howard, see
forward. 3. Angelica Patterson, born in
New York City, August 14, 1844; died August
30, 1846. 4. Helen Louise, born in New
York City, June 25, 1846. 5. George
Pomeroy, born in New York City, June 8,
1849, died in New York City, July 7, 1905.
(VIII) Rev.
Howard Kingsbury, son of Oliver Richmond and
Susan (Patterson) Kingsbury, was born in New
York City, February 3, 1842, died in
Amherst, Massachusetts, September 28, 1878.
He was graduated from Yale University in
1863, and continued his studies at the
University of Berlin and the Union
theological Seminary, from which he was
graduated in 1866, and became a clergyman of
the Presbyterian Church. He supplied the
pulpit of the church in Rome, New York, in
1869-70, and was pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in Newark, Ohio, 1870-77; of the
congregational Church, Amherst,
Massachusetts, in 1877. In tribute to his
character at the latter place, it was said:
"During his brief pastorate in Amherst he
won the love of his people as few ministers
have done before or since, and his death
caused mourning in the parish and in the
town as well."
Rev. Howard
Kingsbury married, in Yonkers, New York,
June 24, 1869, Sophie Howard Thayer, born
June 15, 1845, died in New York City,
November 2, 1873, daughter of Stephen Howard
and Harriet (Holden) Thayer. Issue: Howard
Thayer Kingsbury, see forward.
(IX) Howard
Thayer Kingsbury, son of Rev. Howard and
Sophie Howard (Thayer) Kingsbury, was born
in Rome, New York, April 1, 1870. He
received his preparatory education at
Everson & Halsey's Collegiate School, in New
York City, and was graduated from Yale
University with the degree of B. S., in
1891; was editor of the Yale Lit, and
was awarded the De Forest medal. He was
graduated from the New York Law School, LL.
B., in 1893, taking the first prize in
municipal law and the prize fellowship; was
admitted to the New York state bar in 1893;
and tot he United States supreme court bar
in 1904. He was associated with the law
firm of Lee & Lee from 1892 to 1900, and
from then to the present time (1913) with
Coudert Brothers, of which firm he is a
member. He was president of the village of
Barker's Point, Long Island, 1911-12, and
upon its consolidation with the village of
Sands Point, and Mott's Point, in 1912,
became one of the trustees of the
consolidated village of Sand's Point. He
translated Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac"
from the French, which was published by
Lamson, Wolfe & Company, of Boston, in 1898,
and was used by Richard Manfield in his
production of the play. He is an occasional
contributor to The American Journal of
International Law, as well as other
legal periodicals. He is a member of
various clubs and organizations, including
the Century, University, Down Town and Yale
clubs, of New York; Phi Beta Kappa; Zeta
Psi, Elihu Club, of Yale; Graduates' Club,
of New Haven; Sands Point Golf Club;
Manhasset Bay Yacht Club; Bar Association,
of New York City; American society of
International Law; Sons of the Revolution;
Society of Colonial Wars;
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and the Veteran Corps
of Artillery of New York, constituting the
Society of the War of 1812. His town
residence is at No. 24 East sixty-first
street, and his country residence,
"Rivombra" Sands Point, Port Washington,
Long Island.
Howard Thayer
Kingsbury, married, in South Church, New
York City, April 22, 1902, Alice Cary
Bussing, who was the daughter of Abraham
bussing, born June 4, 1828, died November 4,
1905, and his wife, Emma Frost, daughter of
Samuel Frost and Mary Johnson, who were
married November 9, 1859. Children: 1.
Howard Thayer Jr., born in New York City,
September 11, 1904; Ruth Oliver, born in New
York City, October 30. 1906.
ROE
John Roe, the founder of the family
in this country, was born in Ireland in
1628, died at Brookhaven, Long Island,
New York, between August 22, 1712, and
July 27, 1714, the dates respectively
of the writing and the proving of his
will. He emigrated to America in
1641, and located first in Massachusetts,
removing from there to Setauket
(now Port Jefferson), Long Island, and
finally settling in Brookhaven, Suffolk
County, Long Island. He married
Hannah Purrer. Children: 1.
John. 2. Nathaniel.
3. David, referred to below.
4. Elizabeth, married a Mr. Mapes.
5. Hannah, died unmarried.
6. Deborah, married a Mr. Clark.
7. Mary, married a Mr. Corwin.
(II) David,
son of John and Hannah (Purrer) Roe, lived
in Flushing, Long Island, where he died
after December 26, 1702, the date of the
writing of his will. His wife's name is
unknown. Children: 1. Nathaniel, referred
to below. 2. John. 3. Elizabeth, married
a Mr. Totten.
(III)
Nathaniel, son of David Roe, was born on
Long Island in 1670, died 1752. He married
Hannah Reeve, born 1678, died august 16,
1759. Children: 1. Nathaniel, referred to
below. 2. John, married Joanna Miller. 3.
Elizabeth. 4. Hannah. 5. Deborah.
(IV)
Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1), and
Hannah (Reeve) Roe, was born on Long Island,
1700, died in Florida, Orange County New
York, in 1789. He married Elizabeth
Phillips, born 1702, died 1788. Children:
1. Phillips. 2. Nathaniel, referred to
below. 3. William. 4. James, married,
October 19, 1770, Elizabeth Elting. 5.
Hannah. 6. Elizabeth. 7. Sarah. 8.
Deborah.
(V)
Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) and
Elizabeth (Phillips) Roe, was born in Orange
County, New York, May 2, 1734, died there in
October, 1814. He married Susanna Roe, born
July 2, 1734, died October, 1814, a cousin,
and daughter of David Roe. Children: 1.
Elizabeth. 2. Abigail. 3. Nathaniel,
referred to below. 4. William. 5.
Julianna.
(VI)
Nathaniel (4), son of Nathaniel (3) and
Susanna (Roe) Roe, was born in Orange
County, New York, August 11, 1761, died
there May 23, 1833. He married, April 4,
1782, Mary Satterlee, born March 29, 1763,
died October 18, 1840. Children: 1.
Elizabeth, married Thaddeus Seeley. 2.
Abigail, married Garrett Curry. 3. Lewis
H., married Sally King. 4. Julianna,
married John Green. 5. Thomas W., married
------- Prime. 6. Alvira. 7. Nathaniel
S. 8. William, married Matilda Booth. 9.
Genest. 10. Hesse, referred to below.
(VII) Jesse,
son of Nathaniel (4) and mary (Satterlee)
Roe, was born in Orange County, New York,
July 2, 1806, died there September 21,
1876. He lived on the old homestead of over
three hundred acres which has been in the
possession of the family for over one
hundred and seventy-five years. he was a
Republican in politics, and an elder in the
Presbyterian Church. He married Dolly C.
Booth, born June, 1812, died October, 1886.
Children: 1. George W., born November 12,
1832, died June 27, 1850. 2. Thomas H.,
born may 8, 1835, died December 12, 1894,
married Mary E. Coudrey. 3. Harriet M.,
born April 3, 1837, died in 1911, married,
December 14, 1865, Charles R. Bull. 4.
Alfred B., referred to below. 5. Virgil
B., born November 129, 1843, died July 9,
1863. 6. Mary C., born October 22, 1845,
married J. E. Mills. 7. Matilda, born
October 27, 1849, died May 1, 1867.
(VIII) Alfred B., son of Jesse and
dolly C. (Booth) Roe, was born on the
family homestead in Orange County, New
York, August 12, 1840, and died January
7, 1905, in New Mexico, where he had gone
on account of impaired health. He
received his early education in the public
schools of his native county and in Bloomfield,
New jersey, and then assisted his father
in the cultivation of the homestead until
his marriage, when he was placed in charge
of one of the outlying
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farms, and on the death
of his father returned to the homestead,
which he made his home until his death. He
was a Republican in politics, and was an
elder in the Presbyterian church and also
one of the trustees of the church in
Chester. He married, February 25, 1869,
Martha Durland, born September 16, 1844,
died February 15, 1896. Children: 1.
Matilda, born December 9, 1869, died
September 23, 1901, married, in 1894, H. B.
Masten. 2. Jesse, born March 28, 1872, now
living in Buffalo, N. Y. 3. Amelia D., born
April 7, 1876, died December 7, 1899. 4.
Alfred, referred to below. 5. Marian, died
in infancy.
(IX) Alfred,
son of Alfred B. and Martha (Durland) roe,
was born on the family homestead in Orange
County, near Chester, New York, June 19,
1880, and is now living there. He received
his early education at Chester Academy, and
then attended Lafayette College at Easton,
Pennsylvania. He then became assistant to
his father in the management of the
homestead, which he inherited at the death
of the latter, and which he still
cultivates. He is a justice of the peace
for Orange county, and is a member of the
board of education of Chester. He is a
member of the Grange, and is a member of the
Lafayette College Chapter of the Dela Kappa
epsilon fraternity. He is a Republican in
politics, and a Presbyterian in religion,
and has served as one of the trustees of the
church in Chester. He married, April 3,
1902, Frances A., born August 17, 1881,
daughter of Benjamin F. and Mary (King)
Decker, of Campbell Hall, New York.
Children: 1. Alfred Russell, born January
30, 1905. 2. Frances Jesse, born October
23, 1909.
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