A HAXTON GENEALOGY
By Bertha w.c1ark 10 Ja:mB.icaway, Boston,Mass. October, 1956
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Introduction The Origin of the Name Haxton About the year 1200 A.D. Ranulf, son of Walter de Lenorp,beca.me falconer to William the Lion, King of Sootlando That is, be was keeper of the king's hunting hawks. For his services, he was given a large estate in the Mearns (Kinoardineshire), and this estate was called,ap• propriately enough, Hawkerstown or Halkerston. For some years Ranulf's desoendants used Falconer as their family name. His grandson, for exam ple, styled himself "Robert Falconer of Halkertown." Gradually the name Falooner gave way to the name of the estate; and the family na.me became Halkerston. This name-form went through a myriad changes with the years and at last emerged in the forms most in use today: Haxton and Hack ston [l]. Before many years most of the Halkerstons had removed from Kinoar dinesnire to Fifeshire, and it is with the latter county that the fam ily has been most closely identified• One of their main seats in Fife has been Rathillet, which is a ham.let in the parish of Kilmany in the district of Cupar. You will find Cupar on any good map of Scotland. It is well inland, and lies directly north of Edinburgh, which is sepa rated from Fifeshire by the Firth of Forth. Some branches of the Haxton family have been armigerous; that is, entitled to a coat of arms. The armorial bearings of suoh Halkerstons are described as being "Or three hawks' heads erased gules." Their motto is, "In ardua nitor"--I press on against hardships.
A Hackston Hero Presbyterianism has always been very strong in Scotland; and when the Established Church tried to take away the rights of the Presbyter• ians,the latter were strong enough to for•e the State Church to sign a Covenant guaranteeing them their liberties. Then when the Established Church later refused to abide by the terms of this Covenant, the Pres byteriane who fought rather than have their Covenant dishonored were called Covenanters.David Hackston of Rathillet was a Covenanter, one of the bravest of them all in the days that were darkest and the battles that were bloodiest. He fought in the battles of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge in 1679. The Covenanters, greatly outn~mbered and suffering from lack of ammunition, were terribly beaten. Hundreds of the~ were killed; other hundreds shipped to the Barbados to be sold as slaves. A reward of ten thousand marks was offered for the capture of David Hackston,who saved his life only by going into hiding in West Scotland, where the Covenanters were still strong. Once when he and a few of his companions went into an inn foo refreshment, the inn-keeper, not knowing who they 1 William Anderson: The Scottish Nation 2:187 (1882) 11 were, asked excitedly: 0 Did you see the posse of soldiers who left here just nowt They're out a.tter that renegade Hackston." "Oh," said David nonchalantly, "we're in the same chase ourselYes. Here's hoping we get himl" and he proceeded to regale his listeners with breath-taking sto• ries ot "the chase• [l]. But the end was near, and a terrible one it was.David's final bat tle was at Aird's Moss on 22 July 1680. or the Covenanters there were now onl7 23 horse and 40 foot soldiers. Hackston and Cameron led ott and succeeded in plunging through the enemy's line; but Cameron and 28 of their men tell dead; and Hackston was wounded in the head and ta.ken prisonero They carried him first to Lanark and then to Edinburgh and made a great show or his execution. First they cut off one of his arms. He showed not the slightest emotion. Then they cut off the other. Then they raised his mutilated body to the top of a scaffold and let it tall full weight to the ground. fhen the executioner ripped open his body and car~ed out his still throbbing heart and held it high that all the on• lookers might gloat oTer it. Then they cut his body into tour parts and sent one each to Leith, Glasgow, Bruntisland, and Cupar to be exhib ited, while the head was kept to be displayed in Edinburgh. [2]. Loving followers have since erected a tombstone to his memory in Cupar4> Even to this very year, whoever owns the Hackston manse at Rath• illet has to pay a yearly fine of "ninety pounds Scots" for what David Hackston did in 1$80, and though that sum in today's currency 1s not what it was in olden times, it still is a heavy burden on Rathillet 1 s owner. [3) • Because 1679, the year when the Covenanters were being hounded about and their estates con.riscated, was just the year when our James Haxton came to America, we have wondered if he may not have been of the Covenanter group, perhaps even close of kin to David of Rathillet. whose father is known to have been named James [4]. The private rec ords of the Halkerston family were pillaged and burnt by the Duke or Rothes in Covenanting Days [4); and so one cannot get data on the fam ily. Mr. David Carswell, whose parents and grandparents owned Rathillet mansion for many years and who has known much of the lia.ckston family, writes me that David never married. So if there is close relationship, it must be only through a collateral line; but all of us who bear the name of Haxton or who have Haxton blood coursing through our Teins can feel a thrill of pride that we can claim, even it only distantly, kin ship with one who has so honored the name.
l J.H.Burton:Hist.ofScotland 3 Rev.Andrew L.Ireland of Kilmany Po219 Parish, Cupar 2 James Gibson:Tombstones or 4 Miss Isabel M.Allen of the Scots the Covenanters, pp.54 rr. Ancestry Research Society iii
Some of the abbreTiations used in this manuscript
Arch.= Archaeological Bapt.= Baptist Biog.= Biographical Cem. = Cemetery Ch. = Church CiT. = Civil Co. = County Col.= Colonial; or Collection Com.= Commemorative d.y. = died young Epis.= Episcopal Gen.= Genealogy; or Genealogical Hist.= History; or Historical Ibid.= Ibidem (in the same place) Mag.= Magazine Mile= Military Ms. = Manuscript Narr.= Narragansett N.K. = North Kingstown N.S. = Nova Scotia Prob.= Probate; or probably Prov.= Providence Rec.= Records Reg.= Register Soc.= Society Sup.= Superior Vol.= Volume V.R. = Vital Records Wash.= Washington iv
Our Numbering System This is primarily a genealogy of the descendants of James Haxton who came to America in 1679. Numbers, duplicated in red• have been assigned to each of his descendants who became head of a family with children. While much of the manuscript ~I~ being typed, we thought that the Haxtons of Coshocton County,Ohio,Ap,obably a branch ot this old New England group and assigned them numbers accordingly. We are now convinced that in so thinking we were wrong, and that Robert of Chartiers, Cross Creek, and Coshocton County was founder of an entirely distinct Haxton line. We are therefore listing below in separate tables the numbers that apply to the line of James and those that apply to the line of Robert 6
The Line of James 1 James 1 (Mary ?Westcott) PPol-4 2 James 2[James 1) {Hannah) pp.S-6 3 William 2[Jamea l] (Elizabeth) ~P•7-9 4 Benjamin 2[James l] (Anne Smith} pp.9-12
56 Thomas------3 [William 2 Ja..mes l] {Mary Weaver) p.13 7 Nathaniel )[William a James 1) (Ruth Sabin) pp.14-15 8 Benjamin 3[Willirun. 2 James l] (Phebe Wood;Violette Wickes) pp.15•16 9 John )[William 2 James l] (----) p.17 10 Andrew 3[Benj.2 Jas.l](Abigail Woodin;Elizabeth Watrous-Sherman)ppol8-2: 11 Jeremiah 3[Benj.2 Jas.l] (Amey Sweet; Rhoda Akin) pp.21-22a 12 James Levi[Benj.2 Jas.1] (Molby Bennett) pp.23-25 13 Benjamin J[Benj.2 Jas.lJ (Mary) pp.25-27 14 William 4[Nathaniel 3 Wm.2 Jas.l] (Molly Allen) pp.27-28 15 William 4[Benj.3 Wm.2 Jns.l] (Candis} Po29 l.5½Thomas 4[Benj.3 Wm.2 Jas.l](Susa..-rma Ade.ms;Rest Bennett) Po30 16 ------17 Jeremiah 4[And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Elizabeth King) pp.34-35 18 Benjamin 4[And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Sally Benjamin;Sarah Morton;Martha Weeks) pp.36-38 19 Timothy 4[And.3 nenjo2 Jas.l] (Abigail Osborne) pp.J9-39a 20 Andrew 4[And.3 Benjo2 Jas.l] (Abbie Palmer) p.39a 21 Abe 4[And.3 Benj.2 Jas.1] {Susanna Smith) pp.40-41 22 Willi8.Ill 4[Jer.J Benj.2 Jas.l](Ruth Tibbitts) pp.42-43 23 ------24 Benjamin 4[Jer.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Almira Van der burgh;Sarah Wooley)44-45 25 James Bennet 4[Jas.Levi 3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (----) p.46 26 John 4[Benj.J & 2 Jas.l] (----) p.47 27 Eli 4[Benj. 3 & 2 Jas.l] (Hannah) pp.48-49 28 Dyer 4[Benj.J & 2 Jas.l](Charlotte Weed-Brown;Sarah Hoyt)pp.50-51 29 Benjamin 4(& 3 & 2 Jas.l)(Sarah Lovejoy;Beda ?Norton-Kinney)pp.52-54 30 Jeremiah 4(?Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l](Abigail Holley) pp.55-56 31 Je..mes ?5[Wm.4 Nath'l 3 Wm.2 Jas.l](Sarah} p.57 32 ------33 ------34 ------V
The Line of James, conto 35 King Andrew 5(Jer.4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Mary Donihue)p.61 36 Washington 5[BenJ.4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Sophia M.Taylor)p.62 37 Andrew Be5[Benj.4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Mary Britton;Myra Raymond)63~64 37tSamuel ???5(And.4 &3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Elizabeth Beach) p.65 (This Samuel probably belongs to the other line. See p.100) 38 James M.5[Abe 4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Caroline Morehouse-Sage) p.66 39 Elnathan 5[Wm.4 Jer.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Maria DeLong) p.67 40 William w.S[Benj.4 Jer.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Maria DeLong) p.68 41 Molby ?S(Jas.Bennet 4 Jas.Levi 3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Lucy Geer} pp.69-70 42 James Harrison 5[?Jas.benn.et 4 Jas.Levi 3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Catherine Harper) pp.71-72 43 Russell $(John 4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l] (Pluney) p.73 44 Seth S[fehn 4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l] {Hannah) P•74 45 nosea 5(John 4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l] (Aminda Pepper) p.75 46 John 5 [& 4 Benj. 3 & 2 Jas.l](Elizabeth Daugherty; Sally)pp.76-77 46½Marcenus ?$[Benj. 4 & 3 & 2 Jas.l] {Eliza Palmer) pp.78-79 47 Chauncey 5[Benj.4 & 3 & 2 Jas.l] {Pruda ?Patrick;Eliza) pp.80-82 48 Andrew H.5[Benj.4 & 3 & 2 Jas.l](Orvilla Kinney) pp.83-86 49 Samuel 5[?Jer.4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l]{Eliza G.) p.87 50 William 6[?Jas.5 Wm.4 Nath'l 3 Wm.2 Jas.l](Lucy Wade Brown)p.88 51 ------5352 Jeremiah------6[King A.5 Jer.4 And.) Benj.2 Jas.l](Mary Darrow) Po91 54 Andrew King 6[King A.5 J-er.4 And.) Benj.2 Jas.l]{!l.artha Darrow)92-93 55 Palmer 6[King Ao5 Jer.4 Ando) Benj.2 Jas.l] (Mary} p.94 56 William E.6[King A.5 Jer.4 Ando3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (~th} p.95 57 Jam.es 6[King A.5 Jero4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Laura) p.96 58 Horace w.6[~1ng A.5 Jer.4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Fannie E.Weeks) p.96 59 Milton 6[Wash.5 B~nj.4 Ant.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Annie Arnoux) p.97 60 Benjamin 6[And.B.5 Benj.4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Susan C.Naylor)p.98 61 John Raymond 6[And.B.5 Benj.4 And.) Benj.2 Jaa.l](Lucy Austin)p.99 62 Andrew ???6[Samuel 5 And.4 & 3 Benj.2 Jas.l](----}p.65;but see p.100 63 Samuel, his brother. See pages 65 and 100. 64 Burton s.6[Jas.M.5 Abe 4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Carrie R.Barnes) p.101 65 William E.6[Elnathan 5 Wmo4 Jer.).Benj.2 Jas.l](Sarah E.) p.102 66 Benjamin 6[Wm.W.5 Benj.4 Jer.3 Benj~2 Jas.l](Dorothea Storm) p.103 67 James W.6[Molty 5 ?Jas.0 ennet 4 Jas.Levi J Benj.2 Jas.l](Margaret)l04 68 William Bennet 6[Ja.s.H.5 Jas.B.4 .Jas.L.3 Banj.2 Jas.l](---) p.105 69 Levi H.6[Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 ~nj.2 J'as.l] (Sare.h) p.106 70 Oliver ~erry 6[Jas.H.5 :as.B.4 Jas.L.3 °enj.2 Jas.l]{Emily Tracy) 107 71 Sanford M.6[Jas.h.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Grizell Gordon} 108 72 Mortimer 6 [Russell 5 John 4 Benj. 3 & 2 Jas.1)(----) p.109 73 Clarendon 6[Russell 5 John 4 Benj. 3 & 2 Jas.l](Ada McElheney)p.109 74 Nicholas P.6[Hosea S John 4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l](Jane) p.110 75 Pearl 6[John S & 4 rlenj.3 & 2 Jas.l](Maria Sands) p.110 76 Sumner 6[John 5 & 4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l](Minerva s.Benson) p.110 77 Giles M.6[Marcenus 5 ?Benj.4 & 3 & 2 Jas.l](Lodema. Vosburgh;Wealthy A.Vosburgh] p.111 78 Daniel B.6[Marcenus 5 ?Benjamin 4 & 3 & 2 Jas.l](Lora E.Rawson)p.111 79 George W.6[Samuel S Jer.4 ?Benj.3 & 2 Jas.lJ(----) p.112 80 John H.6[Samuel S Jer.4 ?Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l](Sarah E. p.112 8281 ~-UwwiUU~_.., ______84------83 ------vi The Line of James, cont. 85 Richard Baxter 7[And.K.6 King A.5 ier.4 And.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Helen E.Carswell) p.115 86 -..------87 ------88 ------89 William Levi 7[Wm.Bennet 6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Lizzie Nodurft) p.118 90 Charles Man.ford 7[0liver P.6 Jas.H.,5 Jas.B.4 Jas.Lo3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Mary Viola Garrett) Poll9 91 Rodolph 7[0liver P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 JasoL.3 Benj.2 Jas.1] (Etna Bennett) p.120 92 Oliver Perry 7[0liver P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Jocie Wicks) p.120 93 Edward ?[Clarendon 6 Russell 5 John 4 Benj,3 & 2 Jas.l](Maggie Murphey) P• 121 94 Ellis Cadwallader 7 [Nich.P.6 Hosea 5 Jobn 4 Benjo3 & 2 Jas.l] (Pearl R.) p.121 95 Albertus 7[Sumner 6 Jobn 5 & 4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l](Lula A.Crosser pol21 96 ...... & ...... 9897 ------____ .., ____ _ 99 ------100 ------101 Frederick Earl 8[Wm.Lo7 Wm.B06 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Ilene Thomas) p.124 102 Harry Glen 8[Chas.M.7 O.P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benjo2 Jas.1] (Vena Stewart) p. 124 103 Bernard Gale 8[Chas.M.7 O.P.6 Jas.HoS Jas.B.4 JasoL.3 Benj.2 Jas.1] (Barbara Anderson) p.124 104 Milan Garrett 8(Chas.M.7.o.P.6 Jas.H.S Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jasol] (Alice Kenton) p.124 105 Evan Doyle 8 [Chas.M.7 O.P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benjo2 Jas.l] (Alice Smith) p.12h 106 Ross Warner 8[Chas.Mo7 O.P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jasol] (Catherine Mason) p.125 107 George Henry 8(Rodolph 7 O.P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] {-----) p.125 108 Charles Rodolph 8[Rodolph 7 O.P.6 Jas.HoS Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Evelyn May Hetherington) p.125 109 Clarence J.8[Edward 7 Clarendon 6 Russell 5 John 4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l] (Lida Brouwere) p. 125 110 Raymond Sherman 8(Ellis c.7 Nich.P.6 Hosea 5 John 4 Benj.3 & 2 Jas.l] (Thelma; Flossie Opal} p.126 111 112 Leo 9[Harry G.8 Chas.M.7 O.P.6 Jas.H.S Jas.B.4 Jas-Lo3 Benj.2 Jas.l] {Zola Prilliman) p.126 113 Charles 9[Harry G.8 Chas.M.7 O.P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 JasoL.3 Benj.2 Jas.l (Eva May Mosteller) p.126 114 James Berne.rd 9[Bernard G.8 Chas.M.7 O.P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jas.11 (Frances Hawk-Early) p.126 115 Richard Anderson 9 [Bernard G.8 Chas.M.7 O.P.6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 Benj.2 Jas.l](Fay Sentry) p.126 116 Donald Paul 9[Berna.rd G.8 Che.seH.7 O.P.6 Je.s.Iio5 Jc.s.3.4 JasoLo3 3enjo2 Jas.l) {Joyce Allen) p.127 vii
The Line of James. concluded 117 Manford Ray 9[Milan Garrett 8 Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 Jas.Harrison 5 Jas.Bennet 4 Jas.Levi 3 Benj.2 Jas.l] (Ellen Hanger) p.127 118 Philip Lee 9(Ross Warner 8 Chas.Manf'ord 7 Oliver Perry 6 Jas.H.5 Jas.B.4 Jas.L.3 BenJ.2 Jas.l] (Elmerta Stauffer) p.127
The Line or Robert 16 Robert l (Nancy) PP• 31•33 32 John 2[Robert l] (M.) p.58 33 Richard 2 [Robert I] (Sabina Grim) p.59 34 Robert M.2[Robert l] (Ann Rebecca Lewis) p.60 51 Alec.3[Richard2 Robert 1) (Mary L.Harstine) p.89 52 John 3[Alec c.2 Robert l] (Julia Ann Griffith) p.90 6) Samuel ???3 [John 2 Robert l] P• 100 (but see page 65)(Mary Patterson) 81 Emory 4[Ale&.3 Richard 2 Robert 1] (----) p.113 82 Richard Grant 4[Alex 3 Richard 2 Robert 1] (Ada Grace Olover p.113 83 William Sherman 4[John 3 Richard 2 Robert l]{Mary Bolling) p.113 84 Charles Franklin 4[Jolm 3 Richard 2 Robert l](Altha Heaton; Chris• tine Catherine Gantz) p.114 86 Orren Melvin 4[And.rew 3 John 2 Robert l] (Clementine Miller) p.116 87 John T.4[Samuel 3 John 2 Robert l] (Catherine Kinsley) p.116 88 Calvin Ro4[Samuel 3 John 2 Robert l] (Emma E.Bickel) pp.116+117 96 Riehard Kenneth 5[Richard Grant 4 John 3 Richard 2 Robert 1] (Hazel Ellise Blum) p.121 97 LlCyd A.5(William Sherman 4 John 3 Richard 2 Robert l](----)p.122 98 John Howard $[Charles Franklin 4 John 3 Richard 2 Robert l} (Thelma Sharp) p.123 99 Jesse w.S[Calvin R.4 Samuel 3 Jolm 2 Robert l](Minnie; Myrle Grace; Leoma Pearl; Mabel) p.117 100 Ira R.5[Calvin R.4 Samuel 3 John 2 Robert l] (Se.rah J.) p.117 lll Richard Kenneth,Jr.6[Richard Kenneth 5 Richard Grant 4 John 3 Richard 2 Robert l] (Josephine Chamberlain Ayers) p.126 llla John Laird 6[Jahn Howard 5 Charles Franklin 4 John 3 Richard 2 Robert l] (Dorothy Peters) p.123 lllb Jerry Daniel 6[John Howard 5 Charles Franklin 4 John 3 Richard 2 Robert l] (Dana) p.123 lllc Theodore Lee 6(John Howard 5 Charles Franklin 4 John 3 Richard 2 Robert 1] (Edna Mae) p.123
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The First Generation
The first reference to the arrival of our Haxtons in America is to be found in the old town files of Charlestown1 Mass~chusetta, and is thus quoted by Wyman: "James Haxtone Scotch boy in ketch Mary and Elizabeth from Scotland 1679." [ll James Haxton remained in the Charlestown-Boston area until as late as 1689. When William Lamb (who lived in Boston where St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral now stands) made his will on 25 January 1684, [2] it was "Signed Sealed and delivered and read and de clared in t~e presents of us John Leech (his mark) James Haxt oun Joan Crocum (her mark)" On the same day Lamb acded a codicil to the will with the same tr1ree witnesses; but by some stranie error (perhaps the copyist's) Haxton's name was here entered as Thomas Haxtoun." When the will was proved five years later, on 6 February 1689~ the three who swore that they saw the will signed were John Leech,Joan Cro cum, and James Ha.xtoun .. It is not knovm where Haxton spent the next twenty-three years of his life. From later records w:e know that he had become a tailor, that he had married a wife named Mary, that three sons and at least five daughters had been born to them, and that he was. already of Kingstown, Rhode Island, when he bought a home stead there in 1712. The fact that William Lamb's wife "Ifiary was daughter of Lieut.Joshua Hewes of Eof'ton, and that Hewes had been active in Rhode Island affairs and had lived in Kingstown from 1663 to 1668, [3] may have been what led Haxton to go there; but this is only conjecture. The badly mutilated records of North Yingstown show that on the 30th of---- 1712 James Haxton of Kingstown for £6 12s bought 44 acres of land there. [4] Those who sold to him were a group of twelve persons, several of whom had come to Kine;stown from Ports mout~, R.I. Their names were: William Spencer Joseph Austin William Havens William Hall Benjamin Baker Charles Berry Joseph Havens Alexander Huling John North John Hall Thomas F...avens Dinah Wilkie This farm boufiht by .Haxton was part of' a tract of 1824 acres near "Devil's Foot acquired by the above group in 1709., [5] and was bounded on the north by Vfiiovr Dinah 'i/ilkie's hor.iestead (owned a little later by her brother, Robert Westcott); on the east by the country road; on the south by Alexander Ruling's land; and on the west by William Spencer'so 1 l/yman: G-enealosies& Estates 3 Eben Putnam:Hewes Gen. (1913) of Charlestown(l879) po483 4 N.K. Deeds 4:34 2 Suffolk Co.Prob.ll:117-118 5 Land Records in R. I •.Archives 2
On 17 July 1716 Jarnes Haxton of Kingstown Tailor and his wife Mary for £4 sold to John Dore late of Boston one-half acre "to be measured off my land where I now dwell." [l] Jarr.es signed by his mark, a capital J; Mary by hers, a large ~rinted capital w. Yet back in Boston in 1684 James had written his own name1 A year later John Dore sold his half-acre to James Baker for £5. We have gueHssetd (adnd bitt is on.1y, ai hguess) thatt this Baker may have married ,/ a ax on aug_ er; o 1 wn c more 1a er. ~ The family name of Mary, wife of James Haxton., is not defi- · J? nitely known. It is quite possible that she was Mary, daughter of I Robert(2) and Katherine Westcott, who were already residents of Kingstown in 1671. [2] Robert Westcott was killed in Kin~ Philip' War in 1676. Of his daughter Mary xcept that she was born u y 1 1672.[3} No marriaee or death r cord for her has been found. Her age would be suitable for that of James Haxton's wife, whose chil dren, judging from their marriage dates (their births were not re 1 corded) were born in the 1690's 8 nd early 1700 s. This Mary West cott's sister, Dinah {Westuott) Wilkie, was one of the group from whom the Haxtons bought their homestead; and they bought the plot that exactly bordered Dinah's plot, which was soon to be taken over by Dinah's brother, R0bert Westcott, Jr., who of course was also Mary Westcott (?Haxton 1 s) brother. It seems to us very sig nificant, too, that when r~ary Haxtcn sisned by her mark., that mark was a capital Wo
James and Tliary Haxton named their first son James after the father; but we find no daughter named for the mother in a family of many daughters. One cannot help wondering if there may not have been an older daughter named Mary, already married a.."'l.d in receipt of her portion, and so not named in her father's will.James Baker, son of Rev.Thomas Baker of North Kincstown, who j_n 1717 bought the half-acre of Haxton land (land bounded on three sides by Haxtons) had a wife named Mary,4]She was his second wife; his first wife, who died in 1709., having been Penelope Westcott, first cousin to Dinah, Mary, gnd Robert mentioned above.[3] James :Saker later pur ... chased all the land that James Haxton, Jr., inherited from his father; (5] and in later years James Baker ~d James Haxton acted as witness each for the other. [6] The evidence of family rela tionship seems rather strons.
We do not know the exact date of death of the first James Haxton, but we know it approximately fron1 the ds.te on which a. guardian was a.ppointea for the children who were minors, that date being 8 April 1717. (7] James's will, [8] badly mutilated and with the date missing, mentions wife Mary$ to w~om he leaves all his estate real and personal for so long as she remains his widow; three sons, James, William, and Benjamin, each of whom is to have a third of the homestead upon the death or re-marriage of their mother; and daughters Elizabeth, Marearet, Tamson, Hannah, and Martha, each of whom is to receive ----(torn) pounds and shillings on reachinp; the age of eif~hteen or upon her :marriage da;r,whichever
1 N.K. Deeds 4:32 5 :i:J.::_;_. Deeds 4:117 2 Narr.Hist.Res. 2:113(1693/4) 6 Do 4:127 and 5A:107 3 Whitman:Westcott Gen.(1932) 7 &.~.P~ob.Rec. 5:159 4 N.~.Deeds 7A:66 8 De vols.1-5, p.175 3 first occu.cs. By this we judge the will to have been written be fore 6 March 1715., on which date the daughter Elizabeth was mar ried. The widow Mary either died or remarried before 18 June 1719, for a deed shows that by that date James., Jr., was in possession of his share of the homestead.[l] James Haxton's will in the oldest of the probate record books of North Kingstown is followed by several pages of inventory,list ing the articles in ea.ch room of the house separately, and those in the "oald house" and in the "shaed rooml and including such items as: 3 guns; one old soard; one bell mettle skillett; twelve trenchers; chests with locks and keas; warming panns; a bras skim mer; mony scales; pewter plates and platters and "great pewter dishes;" porringers; warping bars; 8 silver s~oons; and a Satting handkerchief. There was 65 galls of Rum at 3/ pr Gallon; and "35 of tobacco at 6." Livestock is listed by age; as, 29 yearling cattles; 21 two yea.re old cattles, etc.17 sheep and 8 lambs;--giving us a gliffipse into a mannar of life very different from that of today.
The page in North F.,ingstown records [2] that describes the appointment of a guardian for James Haxton's minor children is one of the most seriously mutilated ones. The date is entirely miss ing; but since the item next before the one with which we are concerned., and the item next after it are both dated 8 Apr. 17.:17, we may safely conjecture, I think, that our item was of the same date. What remains of it reads as follows: "then and their chuse ----sley of sd Town to be their g------ and to their use to Receive of thei------ ---ton all ye Estate that was Given ye Sd------ liam Haxton by theire Eond Father Ja------ ------foresd Deceased: .A.nd ye Justices &:. Town ------both C1:rnse and appoint ye So. Samuel King------dian to Benj:n 5axton., youngest son to --mes Haxton Deed. Mr. Samuel Kir-.sley be------d Accept t~ereof." 1,•rom this we see that Samuel Kinc:;sley had been chosen as thei1~ guardian by some of the children---d8ubtless the youn.;er da~~hters---and had been by the Court appointed guardian of the youngest son., Benjamin. We see, too~ that although James Haxton in his will had named his "True and Loveing wife Mary Haxton" as "whole and sole Executrix," it was the son William who was now actinc as administrator of' the estate--William., the second son., not James, the eldest one. Either ~ary had already died or remar ried; or she had declined to serve and William ~ad been appointed in her stead. Samuel Kingsley was probably a close friend of the family. When he wrote his own will (the dates mutilated., but perhaps ato"..l.t 1745), James Haxton 1 s dau;;;hter IJ2.r!_~~~-one of his witnesses. 1 N.K. Deeds 4:116 2 1.Y. Probate Records 5:159 4
Children o:f Janies (rn:.r.:.bered 1) and Mary (?Westcott) Haxton: 1 Perhaps tJ:.:.e .Mary wr.o ma:eried Jartes., son of Rev.·:rhomas and Sarah Baker, Thomas being an Elder of the Six-Principle Baptist Church of North Kingstown[l]. James had married first Penelope Westcott., daughter of Amos and Deborah (Stafford). She died in 1709[2}.Mary was alive a.s la.ta as 15 Apr.1732; and James as late as 26 Oct.1733, on which dates they signed deeds[3 and 4], after which we lose all trace of them. 2 2 James; married Hannah. 3 3 William; married Elizabeth. 4 4 Benjamin; married Anne Smith. 5 Elizabeth on 6 Mar.1715 married Comfort Baker[5].Their daugh. ter Mary was born 3 Feb.1716 and four other children later (dates mutilated), after which the family disaepears. 6 Margaret w.as baptized assn a.i::lult 26 June 1726{6J. On 18 Oct. 1730 she married Stephen Sherman [7], and died at North Kingstown 17 Nov .17 48 [ 8]. Stephen. S~lE;rman was aon of Eber and Mary (Wilcox). He had married first Sarah Freeman., and after Margaret's death married, third, Giffe Sweet [9]. 7 Tam.son on 9 Jan. ---married ----Havens [5]. We have been able to find nothing more about her or her Havens husbHLd. 8 Hannah on 11 Apr.1734 married as his second wife Edward Carr of JamestoW12 [10], born 19 Sept.1689, son of Edward and Hannah (Stanton) Carr, and grandson of Governor Caleb Carr of Newport. He had married first on 13 July 1721 Naomi (Bar ton) Slocum6 daughter of Benjamin and Susanna (Gorton) Bar ton, and widow of Ebenezer Slocum [11]. Naomi died 23 June 1726. Hannah, the second wife, named her first child Naomi to honor the first wife's memory. Edward Carr died 20 Nov. 17 48 [ lJ J, anc:.. Hannah returned to 1ier cl1ildhood home, NQrth Kincstown., where her mutilated will., written 1 Dec.178- and proved 12 Jan.1789, is on file. [12] Hannah's son Oliver had a daughter., Naomi Carr, who married William Congdon and had a daughter, Naomi Congdon, who married William Baker and had a daushter Harriet who married Rev.Albert Clark and had a daughter Bertha, v1ho is the compiler of this Haxton manu- s e;ript; i,lld proud., indeed, that --8 ven t:i:-~ough in a very dis tant way--she is related to brave David Hackstone of Rathillet. 9 Iv.iartha on 25 June 1744 married ----Jess (9]. From other town records we know that he was Joseph Jess, who bought land in North Kingstown on 15 A~r• and 27 Oct.1746 [13]. About 1760 or 1761 (date mutilated) Joseph and Martr..a sold their fifty acres in North Kingstown to Joseph Taylor for £4000 [14] and removed to Felrr.outh, Nova Scotia [15], ,Lenee t'.ce family in the next generation spread to Cornwallis, now Wolfville,[16] in the very heart of the Evane;eline country.
1 Narr.Hist.Reg. 1:203 9 11 .D.Sherman MSL,,:-;. Y.Put.Libr. 2 Whitman: Westcott Genealozy 10 Jamestown vital records 3 N.K.Deeds 7A:11 66 11 A.b.Carr:The Carr Book(l947) 4 Do 7.a:224 12 E.K.Prot.Rec.12:89 5 N.KinLstown vital records 13 N.K.Deeds lOA: 21 & 97 6 Updike:Narr.:i:pisc.C}~. p.487 14 Do llA:150 7 Do p.502 15 Eaton:R.I.Settlers in Nova Sc. 8 Do pc604 16 l:i:aton:Kins's Co.,::;.s • ., p.713 5
The Sec~nd Gen~ration
2 Jame ■ 2 Haxton, son of James and Mary, is called eldest aon in the father'• will. When the homestead farm was divided into three equal stripa, his was the middle section, with his brother Benjamin to the north of hia, and his brother William. to the south. Jame• was a wool comber,or worsted comber, and in one deed ia described aa be ing, like hia father, a "taylor." By 6 July 1725 he had married a wife n8.ll8d Hannah, who signed deeds by her mark. Jame• wrote his own name. Until about 1739 their home was in North Kingstown, R.I.
James was the first of t.r1e brothers to sell his patrimony. On 18 June 1719, with as yet no wife signature added beneath hi ■ own, tor £55 he sold the fourteen acres inherited from hia father'• es tate to James Baker, ~robably his brother-in-law.[l]. A few months later, on 4 l«'eb.1719/20, for £60 ne bought seventy-seven acres of land or John and Sarah Moss[2). On 6 July 1725 he and wife Hannah tor £20 aold---(torn) acres of t:Lis land to Samuel lforthup[3]. On tne same day he bought of said Northup for £50 one hundred acrea(4]. A later deed, its date mutilated, shows that he and Hannah sold -- acres of thia for £20 to Immanuel Case of South Kingstown[5]. During his last ten or twelve years in North Kingstown James was much involved in litigation. Newport Superior Court recorda[6] show that in March 1727 James rluton was sued tor debt by Joseph Borden, who recovered £1-5-6 and costs. The same records[7] show that in September 1728 James Haxtoun was sued by Samuel Boone--both being or_North Kingstown--for non-payment of a debt of £9-8. The plaintiff recovered £4-19-6 and costs of suit. The County Court rec ords at Kingston,R.I.(not to be con.fused with Kingstown) show that on 9 Oct.1733 James Haxton of North Kingstown, wool comber, was sued for trespass by Robert Brownell. tlaxton won. The case was ap pealed, and Haxton won again. However, at the JUDe Court, 1737, he was sued again for debt, this time by his brother Benjamin, and this time he lost. The brothers are described aa both being of Borth Kingstown, James a wool comber, Benjamin a mariner. Next, in February 1739 James Haxton "now or late of North Kingstown" waa sued by Esther Powell for £10, grounds not stated. She was granted £5-2-6. It was evidently at Just about tnis time that James and his familJ removed to Connecticut; for in the town records of Canterbury, Conn.,atand these two items: Benjamin Haxton, son of James and Hannah, born 15 June 1741 Martha Haxton, daughter of James and Hannah, born 7 Aug.1743 0:f tn.e further life of James and Hannah nothing is known with certainty; and very little has been found about the lives of his children, of whom it would seem that several settled a few miles south of Ganterbury, either in Norwich itself or in its immediate environs--in the towns of Preston and Lisbon and Bozrah and Griswold. 1 N.K.Deeds 4:116 5 N.K.Deeds 5B:155 2 Ibid. 5A:107 6 1it~. Court Records Book B:141 3 IJid. 5A:307 7 Ibid. Book B:2~1 4 Ibid. 5A:306 6
We found nowhere any record of the death of James or of Hannah, and have no way of knowing where they spent their later years. Nor have we ever seen a list of their children, none of whose births were recorded except for the two born in Canterbury in 1741 and 1743.Since James and Hannah were already married in 1725--as is known from a deed they signed-- there were probably several children born before 1741.We are assuming that all the Haxtons of whom we have found traces in the Norwich area, and of suitable age, belong to James and Hannah. These include: 1 Benjamin, born in Canterbury lS June 1741[1]. We know nothing of what ma.y have become of him. We cannot help noting the fact that, in spite of the suit brought against James by his brother Benja min in 1737, in 1741 James named a son for that same brotherl 2 Martha, born in Canterbury 7 Aug.1743. She was named for a sis• ter of James. The Newent Congregational Church records (at Lis• bon,Conn.) show that on 21 June 1763 Rev.Peter Powers baptized Martha H.ackstone, adult,she being "sick at Dr.Perkins's" [2]. 3 rlannah; named, of course, for her mother; perhaps also for her father's sister. She was born about 1738, as we know from her gravestone. She married at Lebanon 30 Ma.r.1758 [3] Ens.James Woodworth, born 11 Oct.1733, son of Benjamin and Mary (Weeks) Woodworth of Lebancn [4]. The marriage was thus recorded at Lis bon:"James Woodworth and Hannah Hackstone both of Norwich married 30 Mar.17$8 by RevoPeter Powers"[S].Hannah died on 1 May 1765 aged 27,"the amiable and beloved consort of Ens.James Woodworth." James Woodworth died 15 Aug.1812, ha.ving married as second wife Mehitable(Hyde)Phelps, widow of Eliphalet Phelps and daughter of Bezaleel and Mehitable(Porter)Hyde,who died 24 Feb.1820 aged 98(6]. 4 Mary. Nathaniel Satterlee of Preston {near Lisbon) married as his second wife Mary Haxtun. Na.ths.niel was born 4 Mar.l 746, son of Lieut.Benedict and Elizabeth {Crary) Satterlee. His first wife was named Deborah. This Mary Haxtun of Lisbon vicinity was probably of the James tla.xton family group, and named of course for James's mother.[7]o S Jacob. In the State Library at Hartford, Connecticut, are the private records kept by Nehemiah Waterman of Bozrah, which is a town in the Norwich area. On page 36 of Book 1 Mr. Waterman made this entry: Jacob Hackstone died February 1766. This is the only instance in which we have seen the name of any Jacob Haxton. Being in the vicinity of Norwich, we think it most like ly that he also belongs to the family of James, 1 Canterbury vital records 5 Lisbon church records 1:109 2 Lisbon church records 1:996 Walworth:Hyde genealogy (1864) 3 Lebanon vital records 7 The Chesebrough genealogy,p.45 4 Woodworth gen.(190l)pp.10-ll 7
3 William 2 Haxton, second son of James and Mary (?Westcott), by his father's will was given the southernmost section of the homestead farm in North Kingstown. No guardian was appoi.nted for him when his father died in 1717, which shows us that he was then of age, and so 3 born before the turn of the centu.ry--perhaps about 1695. William was the quiet one of the three brothers. James and Benja• min were rovers; but William seems always to have remained in the Kingstown-Warwick vicinity of his home colony. We have noticed, too, that when someone had to tE found to take the mother's place in ad.min• istering her husbar:.d 1 s estate., it WHS net ti-·_e eldest sen., but Williem w~c Kes chc~e~ for the tFEk. Like his trctLer J1,me:::, William was a wool comber. By 1723 he had married a wife named Elizabeth, being then still of North Kinestown. By 1725 they removed a. few ri:iles to the north into Warwick town.ship. rcr two or three generations their children and children's children for the most part remained in this general locality, some of them settling in Coventry, a little to the west (set off frorn Warwick in 1741) and some of them ha~ing marriage connections with families of East Greenwich, which lies between Warwick and North Kingstown.
The Warwick f-faxtons ca.me gradually to use most frequently the name spellings ~ackston, Hackstone, and Hacston, differing in this respect from the descendants of James and Benjamin; though the greatest variety in the name form is found in all the groups. Since we have brou6ht the matter up, it may be well to give here and now a list of the various spellings of the name we have found among American Haxtons as we have searched old town records, census lists and miscellaneous sources. We have thirty-seven such variants. Across the ocean in the mother-land, Scotland, the number is still greater. In old Scottish records we have found fifty-five variations of the name. In the list below W6 6 ive only the forms found in America: Axton Haxon I-lac kens on :Iaxson aackcson Haxston Hackinson Haxstone rlackison Haxstun aackson Haxten Hac!rnteen Ifaxter Hackstein Haxtine Hackston Haxton :Iackstonc Haxtone Eackton Haxtoun He_cson Haxtrorn :{acs tan Haxtum Hacston Haxtun Hacstone Haxturn Hactan Hexton Hacten Haxton Hakzson Huxton Haltkurson
But, to return to William Haxton of tne second generation: we have found the following items about him in colonial records: 8
l 'lov. 1723 Willi&lll Haxton ot Borth Kingatovn yeoman and hie wife Elizabeth tor £20 sold to SU1Uel Phillipa •Juat tour acrea of land," boUJ1de4 on the north by Jaaea Haxton, on the ea■ t by W1111Ul Haxton, on the aouth by Saauel Phillipa,and on the ve ■ t by George Thoma.all].
1724 (aonth and day autilated) Williaa Haxton of •ortb. lingatovn wool comber and wife Elizabeth tor £103 ■ old to Sam.uel Rhode ■ the remaining 10 1/4 aorea of the land inherited from hi• tather{2}.
11 June 1725 William Haxton of lorth Kingstown wool comber tor £65 bought or W1ll1aa Sweet •rourteen or fifteen acrea• ot land in Warwick, Haxton not to take poaaeaa1on until jhe 25th or Dece11lber of that year[J]. Thi• land,their new homestead; was bounded--to uae the phrasing of the deed lortheast bJ the road to the fulling mill Eaatsoutherly by land belonging to Capt.John Wat erman Southwesterly by the Cove Westnortherly by land laid out to the right of Stu.kely Westcott Mar. 1727 At the same tiae that Joseph Borden sued JUl8a Haxton or Horth lingatovn tor debt he alao ■ ued Williaa Rax• ton of Warwick tor a debt of £5. Borden won, and re covered £1-5-6 and costs--the saae aua that b.e won from Jamea[4]. 28 May 1731 William Haxton of Warwick tor £50 sold to William T1b• bitts of Warwick "one lot or small divi ■ ion ot land in Warwick, the same I bought of William Sweet. where I now dwell,and was laid out on the right ot Will Katon and is nUlllber 42 on the 11ap"(5]. 1744 --and this is very puzzling--Rhode Island Archive•• in the State House 1n Providence, ba.ve this itemtJaMs and William. Hacston were in the First Colllpany Militia of Warwick." Who waa this JamesT Was it William's broth er, known to have been in CanterbUJ7,Conn.,1n 1743T Vas it a possible son of William--aon and father ■ ening together--in which case we should expect the rather'• name to stand first! Was it perhaps two sons of William, in which case we should surely expect the addition or the suffix "Jr." Ve leave it to the reader! 1766 W1111Ul ##i Haxatun or Warwick joined a group ot hia fellow-townsmen in signing a petition for a town corn Bl.111[61, 1 North Kingstown Deeds SA:191 4 lewport Sup.Court Records B:l.41 2 Ibid. SA:243 5 Warwick Deeds 4 :234 3 Warwick Deeds 3:277 6 Rhode IslHnd Archives Ve have foUILd no record of the death of Willia.a. It oocura to ua that he may have died betore 1744, leaving an eldeat son Jallea, named tor his tather, and a son W1ll18ll, nanted for hiiueltJ 1.n which case there would have been no reason tor William. to affix •Jr.• to his naJ1.e or for his name to precede that or his brother. We haTe found no other evidence that there were such sons; but reel it aoat likel7 that Willi8lll and Elizabeth bad children ot whoa we have f011114 no trace. !'here ia definite proof tor only twos In their marriage records, Benjamin Haxton is called William's son, and Eliz~beth ia called William's daughter. 'l'he others included in the liat below have been placed there beca~e they lived in the Warwick-Covent17• East Greenwich area, and because their ages, judging by their :mar• riage datea, are au.itable to be those of William's children. The list of children of williaa and Elizabeth as we have them, by proof or bJ 1nterenoe, 1• aa followai 6 l Thomaa; in 1752 ne married Kary Weaver at East Greenwich. He vaa~babltn.Williaa'• son. 1 2 1IatelJ 1752 he :married Ruth Sabin, and they lived in Warwick. He vaa lrobablz William's son. 8 3 Benjudn; ma.rrie ?!rat in 1756 Phebe Wood and second Violette Wickes. He vaa cer~inlz William.'• aon. 4 Elizabeth. She marred at Kast Greenwich 28 Feb.17S4 Jonathan Matteaon[l}.Jonathan was born in 1730, son ot Joseph and Mar tha(Greene)Jlatteson of East Greenwich and Borth Kingstown. He may have had an earlier wite, Phebe Oreene[2]. Elizabeth was oertainlz daughter of William. 9 5 Jofui. L resided in Warwick, and in the Rhode Island census ot 1774 bad children both over and under 16 years of age. He was probably William's son.
4 4 Benjamin 2 Haxton, youngest son of James and Mary( ?Westcott), · was a minor when his father died 1n 1717,and so was born after 1700 --perhaps about 1705. The guardian appointed for him was Samuel Kingsley, whoa those of BenJudn'a siatera who were minora had al• readJ cboaen •• their guardian [3]. Benjamin bad b7 hi• father•• will that third of the homestead land th.at lay farthest north,with his brother ~aaea to the aouth of him and Robert Weatcott,probably hie :mother'• brother,to the north. In time, as we shall see, he bought up moat of the land that had fallen to his brothers. By earl7 1732 he had married Anne Sm.1th, daughter ot William and Patience (Harria)Sm.ith. William Smith'• land bounded Benjamin Haxton'• on the west. On 10 Feb.1732 William and Patience Smith deeded to their daughter Anne, wife of Benjamin Haxton,"all the grantor's rights of land !P ~arwick"Ialt '?he following yea.rA on the first Wednesday 1n l East Gre&nwich vital records 3 N.K.Probate Records 51159 2 Y.L&tteson genealogy,manuscript 4 Bates Collection at fl.I.Histori at ii.• I .His tori cal Society cal Society 53:152 10
May, 1733, Benjamin, together with five others, all or North Kings town, was admitted freeman ot the Colony[l]. In Horth Kingstown records, the family name ia usually spelled Haxton or Haxaon. On 15 Apr.1732 Benjamin tor £--(torn) bought or James and Mary Baker(probably his sister) the 14 acres the Bakers had bought ot Benjamin's brother James. Thia strip ¥as bounded on the north by Benjamin•• land,on the east by the highway, on the south by Samuel Phillipa and Samuel Rhodes, and on the west by Benjamin's tather-in lav, William S:m1th[2]. On -- --- 1733 Benjamin tor £1.34 mortgaged a pa.rt ot·his ta.rm to Nathaniel Morton, redeeming the :mortgage 1n 1735[31• A later badly :mutilated deed, the date wanting, ahova that Benjamin either sold or mortgafed his place, consisting now ot 29 3/4 acres, to George Thomas 41; and on the 24th ot --- 1744 by a deed, :most of which is missing, he bought land or Samuel and Abigail Phillipa (5]--quite probably land of the original Haxton estate that was aold to Phillipa in 1723 by Benjamin's brother William. At least a part of Benjud.n'a land remained.in the tudly until 1803, when his grandson Jeremiah sold it tor $350.00 to Daniel E.Updike[6). Benjudn was described aa •1U.riner• when in June 1737 he sued hla brother Jamea for non-pa,-ent of a debt, a suit in which Benja min vaa the winner[?]. By August 1745 he was living at Bewport,R.I., and described hillselt aa "boatman" in a petition bear1r, that date. In it Benjamin Hacstone boatman "now living in Newport, humbly begs redreaa and asks to be freed from making certain paJmenta tor which he ia being sued bJ'Benjudn Tho•• ot Borth KingstOWJle The petition waa'not granted (8]. He waa still in Newport the following ye&J", serving as ship's carpenter on the Sloop Charming Betty, 70 tons 10 guns 60 aen, Thomas Fry Captain. In the list or the boat's crew dat ed May 1746 his name is written Ben.Jaain Baxter( 9] • Now, the Sloop Charming Betty was a privateer ot renovn'and in the 1740'• was taking a very active part in Colonial history. It vaa owned by Col.Godfrey Malbone, flew the British flag, and was chiefly engaged against the French, who were England 1 s chiet rivals in those days, and oftenest in the waters around Ber:m:uda(lO]. Howard Chapin in his •Bermuda Privateers 1739-1748"(1923) mentions the activities or the Charming Betty under Captain Frye in the neiahborhood of Ber:m:uda; and we know that Benjamin Haxton was a member of the ship's crew in Just that period. He may even have lived temporarily on the island. We think there is a definite connection between his being there and a tradition or record·that has come down in the family of Mr. Freder• ick Haxton ot Norfolk,Virginia who writes us that they can trace their line back to a James Levi Hackstone, born in 1744, "an English Sea Captain Pirate who lived on Bermuda Island for a while and later moved to New York." Many important-families of Newport, including the Carra and Paines,with whom the Haxtona became connected bJ marriage, were called privateers then,but would be called pirates toda7 it they dit now what they did then1 l Col.Records ot R.I. 4:481 6 Ibid. 16B:231 2 N.K.Deeds 7A:65 7 Co.Court Rec.,Kingston,R.I. 3 Ibid. 7B:55 8 Rhode Island Archives 4 Ibid. 7B:209 9 Civ.& Mil.List of R.I.p.695 5 Ibid. 9B:197 10 R.I.History 9:90(July 1950) 11
Whether Benjamin's taaily removed to Newport when he did or remained in North Kingstown we have no way of knowing definitely; but one incident makes the latter seem the more likely. On 9 July 1749 Eleanor Haxston or North Kingstown married at Westerly, R.I. 1 S8.J11Uel Brown or Westerl7. Now, William's family had been gone trom North Kingstown since 1725; and James•• tamilJ had been in Connec• tiout since 1739; so it would seem that the onlJ Haxton ram.111 to which Eleanor "of North Kingstown" could logically belong would be that ot Benjamin. Privateering is a hazardous occupation--destructive ot both lite and goods. On 24 Dec.1745 Col.Godfrey Malbone sent out two large privateer ships to cruise the Spanish main. Both vessels were loat and two hundred Newport families were lett without their heads [1). In 1747 the Clinton of Bew York and the Charming Betty ot Rhode Island fought two French frigates tor three houra 1 killing and wounding many Frenchaen; but 1n the end theuelves were carried oft to Cape Francois by the French ships [2]. Whether it was because of events like these, or whether the com ing on ot middle age ma.de him desire to settle down to a quieter lite, tor one reason or another Benjaain Haxton decided to quit the sea and somewhere about this time he removed hia f8ldl7 to Greene Count7, New York. It was a momentous step, and for him a tragic one. The only account we have been able to find of it is a paragraph in The Commemorative Biographical Record ot Dutchess County,N.Y •• (1897). [31• In sketching the life of a great grandson ot Benjamin and Anne, the compiler sa1s:"William W.Haxtun•s great grand:f'ather waa a resident or Greene County,New'York. and was killed b;y·Indians while repairing the root ot his aill. The rest of the family, exoept·one son, then removed to Beekman and were aaong its earl7 settlers. They located in the easte:t-n part of the town, where they at first leased land or the Beekmans, but later purchased property. The great grandmother was buried there." That, we suppose, was Anne (Smith) Haxton; and this is all we know of the closing days other and her husband, Benjamin. There are three histories of Dutchess County, and allot them mention the Haxtuns as among the early settlers or Beekman. The old• est ot these histories came out in 1877. It says the Haxtuna and Sweets came from Long Island[4l• The next history was published five years later, in 1882. It corrects the earlier volume, saying: The families or Pleas 1 0akley, Dennis, Hall, Cary, and 8ornwall came trom Long Island; the Uhls from Gel"'Jl8lly; and other earl1 tam.1.liea were the Haxtuns, Sweets, Gardners, Bakers, and Brilla [5). The au thor has evidently learned that the Haxtuns didn't come from Long Island, though he can't tell their old_hoae. The history that came out in 1912 states that there were treeholdera at Beekman as earl7 as 1740 and names the early settlers, including the Haxtuna[6].Prom thia, we judge Benjamin Haxtun mu.st have been killed very soon atter reaching New York. The part ot Beekman where the Haxtuns settled was called Gardiner'• Hollow[4] 1 1 Bayles:Newport County 1:285 4 Philip li.Smith:Du.tchess c.,p~l33 2 Chapin:Bermuda Privateers 5 James H.Smith:Dutchess Co.,p.545 1739-1748 (1923) 6 Hist.& Gen.Record ot Dutcheaa CQ 3 Biog.Record,cited above,p.846 & Putnam Co(A.V.Haight & Co.)p.23 12
For three of Benjamin's children we have proof.that the7 were his; for three others, circumstantial evidence only. ThlJre were probablJ others, entirely lost to the records. Our list is: 10 1 ,Andrew; the son who did not go to Beekman with the others. He married (1) Abigail Wooden and (2) Elizabeth (Watroue) Sherman.ProbablJ an older son,ao he married in 1756 or 1757. 2 Eleanor; also one ot the older one ■, a• she married 9 Jul7 1749 at Westerly,R.I.,Samuel Brown or Westerly[l]. On page eleven we have given our reasons for thinking her Benjamin's daughter. 11 3 Jeremiah. From hie gravestone at Beekman we learn that he died 14 Jan.1830 aged 85-ll-26;and so muat have been born 18 Jan.1744. He married (1) Amey Sweet (2) Rhoda Akin. 12 4 James Levi, born 1744 and ao probably a twin to Jeremiah. He 11arried----Bennett[2].0n page 10 we have given our rea sons for thinking him Benja:ad.n'a son. 13 5 Benjamin, one ot those early in Beek:llan as a child. Ria name first appears as a tax-payer in 1767[3]. Hia wife was Mar7. 6 ???Nathaniel. No proof that he was Benjamin's son,and per• hapa little of probability.'l'he circumatances are these: Cen• sus records show that in Warwick,R.I., where Benjamin'• brother William. lived, there were at the 88.llle time two Na thaniel Hackstones,both born·betore 1732L one called Nathan iel,Sr.,and one Natlianiel,Jr. One was, or courae, William's son, and we judge him to have been Nathaniel,sr. Nathaniel, Jr.,could not be son of Nathaniel,Sr., for W1111tllll, born probably about 1695 and :married probably not long before 1723, could not possibly have a grandchild born before 1732; end it is not at all likely that William named two aona Na• thaniel. A Haxton born before 1732 was surel7 ot the third generation and--ir legitimately born--son or one of the three brothers. If not or W1lliaa, then or either Benjamin or James. Now it is known that Benjamin and Anne owned land in Warwick; for on 10 Feb.1732 William and Patience Smith deeded to their daughter Anne, wife or Benjamin Haxton,"all the grantor's rights or land in Warw1ck"[4]. If Benjamin and Anne had a grown son when, in the middle or late forties they migrated to New York, then it would seem rather natural that he should be allowed to settle on the Warwick land, es pecially as the North Kingstown land seems to have gone to the son Andrew. Nathaniel,Jr.,died early and the records on him are meager. In 1774 he had a family of 2 males over 16 (himself & l son,probably) 1 fem.a.le over 16 (the wife) "Revolutionary Defenses ,,-in Rhode Island" by Edward Field (1896) on page 91 shows that when the war broke out Thomas Warner called 16 men to arms,&J11ong them Nathaniel Hackston. Nathaniel seems not to have returned.In the 1782 census it was Sarah who wae head of the fe.mily,with two sons now.The nem.e or neither son is known, 1 Westerly vital records 3 Smith:Hist.of Du.ttcheaa Co.(1882) 2 Frederick E.Haxton•s records 4 Bates Col.53:152,at R.I.Hist.Soc. 13
'!'he Third Generation
6 Thomas 3[W1ll1am 2 James l} Hackstone, son or William and Elizabeth--or ver1 probably such-- died very early; so that prac• tically all that is known or hi• is that on 22 Oct.1752 he married at Eaat Greenwich MarJ Weaver "daughter-1n•lav (that is, step• daughter) ot Benjamin Bennett,(l]. Mary waa probably daughter ot Joseph and Elizabeth (Wood) Weaver. After Thoma.a Hackstone•a early death, the widow Mary on 13 Dec.1758 married her cousin,Cleaent Weaver ot East Greenvich;born 22 Apr.1735, son of John and Mary {Weaver) Weaver. Clement Weaver and his wife Mary and the latter's daughter Elizabeth Hackstone were the sole legatees ot Joseph Weaver, mentioned above [2). Mary(Weaver)(Hackstone)Weaver was a live aa late as 8 Apr.1761, and probablJ as late as 1774. After her death Clement Weaver married second, on 13 Mar.1789, Cynthia Spencer, daughter of Thomas Spencer. Cleaent died in 1791 or 1792 [2]. We in fer from the above data that Thomas Hackstone had onl1 the one child, Elizabeth. The one child, then to enter tor Thomas and Mary (Weaver) Hackstone was: 1 Elizabeth. In "Marriages by Elder John Gorton," a.iniater in Warwick and Eaat Greenwich, is this record:William Vaugbn, son ot George• J1&rried Elizabeth Hackstone, da~ter of Thomas deceased.I both or and at East Greenwich 17 Dec.1769."[3]. William Vaughn was son ot George and Elizabeth (Bassett) Vaughn ot East Greenwieh[l]. Williaa probablJ did not live long, tor before 1776 Elizabeth had married Pardon Baker of Warwick. '!'he evidence other :marriage is only circumstantial: In an index volUJlle to Warwick deeds, after "Elizabwth wife of Pardon Baker" ia written, "See Elizabeth Vaughn." The document referred to cannot be found; but we feel sure the Elizabeth Vaughn referred to wae William.'s widow, born Rackatone. Pardon Baker was son or Silaa [41 and Temperance (Burlingame) Baker (51 ot Warwick. He died about 1818, administration on his estate being granted on 4 December ot that l~ar [6]. Elizabeth lived on tor manJ years. At the tiae ot the lts40 census she was living with a granddaughter in Warwick, her age being then between 80 and 89. This shows that she waa born between 1751 and 1760--which agrees perfectly with the period within which Thomas Hackstone•a daughter mu.st have been born.
1 East Greenwich vital records 4 Warwick Probate Records 3:66 2 The Weaver gen.,pp.78 & 117 5 Providence vital records 3 Arnold:7:391 6 Warwick Probate Records 7:186 7 lfathaniel 3 [William 2 James 1). We are assuming that he waa son ot William and Elizabeth because census lists show that he was born bet'ore 1732 and becauae his ho• was in Warwick• On 9 Feb. 1752 ba married at Warwick Ruth Sabin [1] 1 who was probably daugh ter or the Widow MarJ "Seabon,• who bought land in Pawtuxet (a part ot Warwick) in 1747 (2] and who tor £500 sold land there in 1752[31• Nathaniel vaa on tn.e Warwick tax list in 1760, hia tax amounting to nine ah1lling1 (4). On 2 Apr.1761 lfathaniel Hackstone, husbanmum, bought ot Joseph and Mary Strait of Warwick tor £700 a aan•1on house and tive acres ot·land {5]. On 28 Apr.1763 he was admitted treell8Jl ot the Colony [4]. Ria naae is on the list of Warwick •n who voted 1n 1768[4]. On 26 Jan.1804 lathaniel Hackatoae ot Warwick, yemun, with wife Ruth consenting, deeded to their son Williaa, laborer, one-halt of the dwelling-house where I now live, being the •••terl7 halt where said son now lives and one-fourth acre ot land, it being bounded b7 Hathaniel 1s land and land ot Thomas Lippitt [6]. lathaniel and his son William muat have died at about the same time, as will be seen from the itellS below: Bathaniel'a inventor7 was taken 12 Oct.1805, personal etteeta being valued at $34.11 [7]. Those to whoa his estate owed 1110ney were: Thomas Warner Anthony Holden Mary Hackstone,widow Peter Turner John Waterman,sr. of William John Waterman,Jr. Stephen Card Lockwood Cole John Cole Thomas Stattord,Jr. Benedict .A.mold Nathan Westcott James Budlong Dr.C.A.Carpenter And on 26 July 1806 John Waterman,Jr., administrator on the es tate of Nathaniel Hackstone late of Warwick deceased sold to Widow Molly Ha.ckstone, highest bidder at auction, a dwelling and two acres of land, bounded North: highway from Thomas Lockwood to the fulling mill East: land of Nathaniel Haokstone deceased South: Little Pond West: land of Thomas Lippitt and land ot the heirs of William Hackstone late ot Warwick deceased [8]. Besides the son William--the only child ot Nathaniel and Ruth whom we know definitely to have been theirs--and Lydia Ann who was probably their daughter and who had left home before the 1774 census, we know from the several census enU11erations that there were several other children, both male and female, none ot whose names have come down to us. These census lists show that Nathaniel bad In 1774 1 male and 1 female over 16 1 male and l female under 16 1 Warwick vital records 5 Warwick Deeds 9:279 2 Boston Transcript of 30 Mar. 6 Ibid. 14:326 192l(Q8748, C.T.E.) 7 Warwick Probate Records vol.5, 3 Warwick Deeds 7:648 pages 345 and 386 4 R.I.State Archives 8 Ibid. 15:172 In 1782 1 male and 1 female over 50 1 male 22-50 1 female 16•22 1 male and 1 female under 16 In 1790 1 male over 16 2 females
The only children we can give for Nathaniel and Ruth (Sabin) Hack• atone, then, will be: 14 1 W1111ua, born perhaps about 1756, but had probably lett home before the 1774 census. Our reasons for so thinking will be given later. He married Molly Allen. 2 Lydia .A.rm, probably daughter ot Hathaniel and Ruth. All that we have on her we got from an item sent to the genealogical sheet of the Boston Transcript of 30 Mar.1921 by C.T.E.(item Q 8748-6): On or about 10 Dec.1772 she married Stephen Card, who later was in Captain Garzia's Compan1 and Col.Elliott•• Regiment. Stephen died 29 Mar.1829 aged 82, and so was born about 1747. Lydia Ann died 16 Jan.1837.
8 Benjamin 3(Will1am 2 James l] is positively known to have been son ot Williaa and Elizabeth, because he is called son ot William in his marriage record: Benjaain Hackatone of Warwick, son of Wil• 11am, Jiaarried Phebe Wood of East Greenwich, daughter ot Priscilla• 11 Bov.1756 (1). In 1760 Benjamin Hackstone of Warwick waa taxed in the Colony rate, his tax being 10 shillings [2]. At some tillle before 1776 his wife Phebe bad died and he bad married Violette Wickes or Coventry and had removed to that town, aa is shown by the following deed [3]: Benjamin Hackstone and his wife Violette (he signing tor himaelt, she by her :mark) of Coventry tor £51 aell to Matthew Price and Samuel Price of Warwick two parcels of land in Warwick, in the part called Coweaet, one of which was given torr, wire Violette by her grand.tether Benoni Price late of Warwick de ceased, and the other given to-her by her father and mother, Joseph and'.Bridget Wickes ot Coventry. The witnesaes were Increase Greene, Jr. and Samuel Wallo At a town meeting held in Coventry on 7 Maro 1776 Benjamin Hackstun was one of a long list or townsmen who voted for delegates to the Continental Congresa[2]. On 29 Feb.1792 Joseph and Bridget Wickes'and Benjamin and Violette Hackstone, all of Cov• entry, tor £16 12s. sold five acres or land 1n Warwick to Matthew Price or Warwick [4].Benjamin lived to be over eight~,and in hia later years had to be placed under guardianship.When Benjamin Greene, his first guardian, resigned,George Andrews was on 2 Sept.1811 ap- J20inted in his ate.a. [51. ______l East Greenwich vital records 4 Warwick Deeds 13:82 2 a.I.State Archives 5 Coventry Probate Records 2:42 3 Warwick Deeds 11:98 16
Ille Coventry Raxtons, like the Warwick ones of which they are a branch, used ohietly the name spelling Hackstone; but it may be tnat in Coventry in time the form degenerated 4n ~ime to Hickaton. At Elm.wood Library in Providence, under the heading •coventry Tomb stones," is this 1tea: "On the Nathan Rice tarm. 1n the brush pas ture, no protection, lot overrun with wild brush,a dozen or so graves with field stones: that or Rices; some Hickstona; a rev Aus tina." The various census records show that Benja.m.1.n of Coventryha.d both sons and daughters. We can place only two of these, and neither with certain, that is, documentary proof. 'l'he census liata are: In 1774 l male and 2 females over 16 2 males and 1 female under 16 In 1782 l ma.le of 50 or over 1 female ot 22-49 1 male and l female under 16 In 1790 1 male over 16 1 male under 16 2 females In 1800 l male and 1 female of 45 or over 1 female of 10-16 In 1810 l ma.le and 1 female of 45 or over l female of 26-44 1 female under 10 Three of the children of Benjamin Hackstone of Coventry were probably: 1 possibly William; married CAndace a Elizabeth, who married at W-arw1cx 14 Dec.1777 Matthew Price[l]. The close relationship between this Hackstone group and the Price family, shown on the preceding page, makes this place ment of Elizabeth seem a likely one. She would be the female in the 1774 census besides Benjamin1 a wife who was over 16 in that year. jThomas. He lived in Warwick, but went to Coventry for both his wives, and fits well into the census lists of Benjamin of Coventry, and so probably belongs here. He would be the son under 16 in 1774 and also in 1782, and so born not ear lier than 17661 lie married (l)Susanna Adams (2) Rest Bennett. 1 Warwick vital records 17
9 John, probably 3[Willia~ 2 Ja~es l]. The a:es of his children ~s given in ve.rious census lists snow us tt1at John must have been of the tnird generation of Haxtons, and tn.e fact the.~:lived in viarwick, E.L,, melrns us sure t~--iat he W8S a son of Wi1lis.m 2 and :2;1izabeth. We found nowh8re any mentio!l. of >iis wife's narrie. In Ws.rwick records he is c.lways either John Hackstone or John Hackston. When he nad dealings in North Kingstown, his name is entered in the records there as John Haxton.
Ir. 1766 John !·lackston was one of the townsmen of i·:arwictc w:C10 si:ried a p::'.'8test a 6 a:.rit the closir..i; of tDe fishway [l].
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2 rralcs over 16 2 fe~cles ove~ 16 l male u:n:::.r:r 16 L; females ar..der 16
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10 Andrew 3 [Benjaain 2 James 1] • The evidence by which Andrew ia known to have been son of Benjamin is found in a Horth lingstown deed [l], by which Andrew's son Jeremiah in October 1803 tor f350.00 sold to Daniel &.Updike of Borth Kingstown the land that Benjamin bad inherited from the pioneer James. We judge that this property bad lain unclaimed for many years and that Jereruah felt obliged to prove, not only that he was heir to his grand.father Benjudn, but even that Benjs.min was heir to the first James. The deed vaa ter1bly mutilated in the disastrous North Kingstown fire, but it can be seen from it that James Haxton is mentioned definitely aa great grandfather. The deed will be given in full--in so far as preserved-- when Jeremiah is discussed. Andrew must have been one of the oldest of Benjalllin's soni-quite probably the oldest one, since he married a.::iout 1756/7. We know that when Benjamin was killed by Indians in Greene County,New York, all the family except one son removed to Beekman [2]. Andrew was doubtless the one who did not go with the others. In 1756 or 1757 he married Abigail Wooden [3]. We find nothing more about hia until the year 1774. In that year he and thirty-one other men pw•chased a tract of land in the extreme southwestern corner of Massachusetts, becoming thus the first proprietors of Mount Washington in Berkshire County. Mount Wash ington was incorporated as a town in 1779 und Andrew's name was en tered among tne land owners then as "Andrew Roxton," [5]. The spelling used among most of the Haxtons of this branch of the family has usual ly been Haxtun. Almost immediately after the Mount Washington purchase Andrew bought land also in Sheffield, the township bordering Mount Washington on the east (4] and when in January 1775 he and Peter Wooden served on a coroner's Jury, in the report of the findings Andrew is called "of s~effield"[3J. On l July 1782 he was acting as tax c~llector [6]. At some time before 23 Apr.1789 Abigail b.ad died and Andrew had married Elizabeth (Waterous) Sherman, and on the date mentioned he and Elizabeth sold their interest in her father's estate [4]. Eliz• abeth was born at Killingworth,Conn., 24 Apr.1742, the daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Baldwin) Watrous [7]. She had married first at Salisbury,Conn., 31 Mar.1763 Jolm Lee Sherman [8]. Andrew is aaid in the Randall manuscript to have had eleven children, ten by his first marriage, one by his second. We think there may have been one other child, and will give below our reasons ror so thinking. Andrew probably died in 1801; for on l Sept.1801 Abe Haxstun-- his only son by Elizabeth--was appointed administrator of his estate[9]. The witnesses were Joseph Tucker and Nathaniel Bishop and the inventory had been taken by John Dibble, Daniel Lord, and Frederick Cline. On 3 Nov.1801 Abe asked that tae estate be divided among the heirs. Granted and it was ruled that the widow Elizabeth should have one-third part, l North Kingstown Deeds 16B:23l 5 Berkshire Gazette(l885)p.227 2 See page ll,th6s manuscript 6 Berkshire Co.Deeds 14:199 3 Conn.Quarterly Kag.2:400 7 Killingworth vital records 4 The Haxton Ms.by Frank E.Ran 8 Salisbury vital records dall., N.Y .GenJA Biog.Society 9 Berksnire Co.Probate Records #2114 19 which third amounted to fl5o.oo, and that the remainder should be divided among tne chilaren or ts,.e deceased, one eighth pa.rt to each, the eight children being Jeremiah Haxstun Benjamin Hex.stun bdy, the wife of George King Timothy Haxstun Patience, wife of James Galaway Andrew .tiaxstun Abigail Haxstun Abe Haxstun Besides these eight who shared 1n the division of the estate were some who had died. Por the most part the names above seem to stand in the order of age, but --unless we are mistaken-- one or two do not. Before giv4n,a table arranged chronologically aa best we can do it, we will give the census figures of Andrew's family as these play a part in making such a table.In 1790 Andrew Haxtun or Mt.Washington had: l male over 16 tnimselt) 2 males under 16(31nce he had five sons, and we know Benjamin to nave been born 1763 and Jere~ miah 1764 and Abe 1781, these two MWJt have been Abe und either Timothy or A.ndrew--prob e.bly the latter,being named a.fter 1'1mothy in the settlement. been l female(this MUst have/the wife, since we know she was still alive when Andrew died. Therefore we know that all the daughters were old enough to have left home.
In 1800 J.ndr•ew of Mt.Washington nadJ
l :male and 1 female of 45 or over (himself and wife, of course) l male between 16 and 25 (Abe, who was then 19) At the time Andrew llaxtun•s family were growing up, the Shaker movement under Mother Ann Lee was at its height and had a live center just where the liaxtuns lived. Mother Ann held many of her meetings in the home of Benjamin Osborne. Several ot his sons and their wives became converts and removed across the line into the great Shaker communities in Columbia County, New York, adopting the celibate life and community of goods. One or these Osbornes married one of Andrew Haxton•s daughters. Mr. Randall in his Haxton manuscript,referred to on the previous page, thinks it was the daughter Anna• who did indeed Join the Shakers. but the Shaker records 1n Pittsfield Public Library show that she was still Anna liackstone when she died. We think it was probably tne daughter Abigail, also knolln to have joined ther3hakers; but this needs further investigation. The older daughter Martha also joined the group. We know that Andrew Haxtun roarried Abigail Wooden in 1756 or in 17;;7. 1"or a few of his children we he.ve the exact date of their birth; for a few, the approximate date; for the rest we are suggesting 20 a probable, or at leaat possible, date, 1nd1oating by the word •say• that the figure 1a only tentative. Our 11st, then, tor the children or Andrew Haxtun is By his first wife, Abigail Wooden: 1 Andrew, say 1760. We know that there were two sona named Andrew, and that the first one died aged twelve. We have never aeen his birth year given. 2 Joseph, say 1762. We have never seen a son Joseph in a liat ot Andrew's children. Our reason tor thinking he may have had such a son, an older one, is this: When Andrew' a aother and brothers removed to Beelman a.i"ter his tather•a death, Andrew did not Join the•• We auppose he remained on his tather1a land, though of thia we have no proof.If he still retained the land after he settled at Mount Washington, 1n 1774, it would be natural that he would pasa it on to a son when one became old enough. How, in 1787, at Coxaacld, in Greene County there was a Joseph Haxton on the tax liat dated lune 12 ot that year. His tax was one pound. Thia is the only instance where we have seen such a ~oseph referred to and he probably therefore died ao011.. It would be a mat ter or very great intereat if it could be ascertained that he was A.ndrew 1 a son; tor then we should know juat where the spot waa in Greene County on which Benjaain{2) settled and where he aet his untimely death--at Coxaack:1 on the Hudson--always pronounced there Cook-aock-i, as if the mouth were very full of hot pudding. 17 3 Jeremiah. He was born 30 Mar.1764, as is known trom his gravestone. He married Elizabeth King. 18 4 Benja.m.1.n. We had supposed Benjamin was born in 1763, since his death record states that he died on 1 Dec.1836 aged 73. But since Jeremiah is naaed tirst in the division of the estate, we judge that the two were twins. Ir Benjamin was born, like Jeremiah, 30 Mar.1764, he was aged 72 years and 8 months; that is, well on in his 73rd year, and could eaa1ly be called 73. He married (1) Sally Benja.na1n (2) Sarah Mortoa and (3) Martha Weeks. 5 Martha. She joined the Shakers. The Shaker record.a at Pitts field show that Martha Hackstone died 2 Apr.1793 aged 28; by which we know that she was born about 1765. 6 Ed.1th. She was born 8 Feb.1769, and on 2 Feb.1789 married George King, born 25 July 1762, son ot John and Elizabeth {Fenner) King, and brother ot Elizabeth King above. They re moved to North Norwich, Chenango County, New York, settling in the eastern part ot the town, which became known as King's Settlement. George had been a Revolutionary soldier. He added an H. to his name, writing hiaselt as George H.King. Edith died 1 Dec.1824 a~ed 55, and George married second Anna Rosa. He died 24 Bov.1848. All these data on the IC1ngs are from the Randall :manuscript in Bew York City, already cited. Mrs.William Thomaa,Norw1ch town historian and genealogist, besides sending us many cemetery records on Haxtona who aet• tled there, has copied for us an old newspaper article that throws 111\l.Ch light on Edith Haxton•s husband. We quote scat• tered sentences: "The old Methodist church at Kings Settle- 21
•nt. now ua. ed aa a storage barn by a descendant of the builder• waa built by George H.King some years before 1835 on his own land, using lumber rrom his own sawmill. George Kingts father, Capt.John King, had organized the first Methodist church in New England,hold• ing services at his Mount Washington,Mass., hoDle• Later he led in the building ot the first church, also in Mount Washington, pre scribing that it should be uror the us~ ot all denominations except the Shakers." - ka..: f1 :;q . V(J~ 1 Timothy, say ~married Abigail Osborne 8 Patience, say 1773. In the settlement she is called wife ot Jaaes Galloway. In the Randall manuscript her husband is Wil• liam Galloway. Her husband and she bad removed to Cambridge, Washington County, Bew York, by 1803 [l]. ~~ 9 Andrew, say 1775--not yet 16 in 1790. He married Abbie Palmer. 10 Anna 1777. We know her birth year from her death record. The Shaker records in Pitts.field Public Library state that Anna Hackstone died 19 Oct.1827 aged 59, and that she had resided "on Hill." Although alive, she# did not share in the divi sion other father•• estate. 11 Abigail, say 1779. She was not 7et married when she shar~.1.n the above division in 1801. We think (as shown o~ page 20) that it was probably she who married &avid Osborne and re" moved with him to Columbia County, Bew York; but this has not been determined with certainty. By his second wite, Elizabeth {Waterou.s-Sherman) Haxtun, Andrew had: ~~/12 Abe, 1781. He llarried Susanna Smith.
11 Jeremiah 3 [Benjamin 2 James l], son or Benjamin and Anne(Sm.ith) Haxton, must have been born 18 Jan.1744, since he died 14 Jan.1830 aged 85 years 11 months and 26 days [2] • He must have been a small child when his rather died at the hands or Indians. He married first Amey Sweet, born between 1745 and 1750, daughter ot Elnathan and Abiah (Jenkins) [l]. Amey died early, and he :married second Rhoda Akin ot Pawling, also in Dutchess County, he being described as or Gardner Hollow in Beekman [3]. The Akins or Dutchess County were Quakers. Rhoda was born about 1750 [2]. In July 1775, when the colonists were asked to sign the "Asao• elation Pledge"--that is, the pledge to support the Revolution- every town had a large number who signed the pledge and a small number who re.fused to sign it. Jeremiah was one ot those at Beekllan who reruaed to sign (4] 1However 1 he JIIU.8t have rendered Revolutionary l The Randall manuscript at 3 Commemorative Biog. Record ot N.Y.Gen.& Biog.Society Dutchess County(l897) pp.846-7 2 Beekman Cemetery Records 4 Blake: Hist.of Putnam{and Du.tch ess)Co. (18'9) p.117. 22
servioe later, tor the records of the Daughters ot the American Revolution in the State Library at Albany show that he had Land Bounty rights ror such service; and this is shown, too, on page 246 ot "Hew York in the Revolution.• Dutchess County Council of Appointment Military Records tor 1784-1821 show that Jeremiah al• so gave service in the militia, in 1786 being Ensign in the coapa• ny of which Taber Bentler was Captain and Benjamin Alsbro Lieuten ant; viz., Company 3 [l]. The D.A.R. records show this to have been in the Fifth Regiment. In 1790 Jeremiah Haxtun bought Lots 29 and 30 of Josiah Akin, the land being in Pawling; and 160 acres in Beekman of ---Living ston [2]. On 10 July 1796 he loaned Jacob Bruice ot Fishkill £200 f?$200) being given a mortgage on 288 acres of land on the north side ot the Fishkill, adjoining land ot Garret Storm and William Haxtun [3]. In 1807 Jeremiah and Rhoda sold land (41• Jeremiah Haxtun wrote his will 3 Dec.1818, and it waa proved 24 Apr.1830 [5]. In it he mentions wife Rhoda son William. son Benjamin daughter Louisa Cooper, wife of John Cooper daughter Emeline Vanderburgh, wife of George W. Vanderburgh five grandchildren, children of daughter Margaret deceased, vite ot George w.van der burgh; viz., Rhoda, Helen, Jam.ea, Emilia, and Haxtun grandson Elnathan Haxtun granddaughter Amy H~tun Jeremiah died 14 Jan.1830 aged 85-11•26; and the widow Rhoda died 15 Jan.1841 aged 91 (6). From Jeremiah's will we know that he had sons 'William and Benjamin and daughters Louisa, Margaret, and Emeline. 'We know that he had also a daughter Rhoda [7]. A study of the census records in which he is listed shows·that he had other children whose identity we can only conjecture.These listings are: In 1790 3 mover 16[himself,son William ae 21,ana----?] 1 m under 16 [son Benjamin ae 13] 6 f [wife Rhoda,daus. Louisa,Margaret,Emeline, & -- & --?] In 1800 l m &: 1 f over 44 [hiuelf and wife Rhoda] 1 m of 16-25 [Benjamin, now 23] 2 f of 16-25 [ Louisa ae 22 & Margaret ae 17] 1 t of 10-15 [perhaps Emeline] 1 funder 10 [perhaps Rh~ga] In 1810 l m &: 1 rover 44 [himself and wife] 1 m of 10-15 [ a grandson??] 1 f of 10•15 [perhaps Rhoda] In 1820 1 • & 1 rover 44 [himself and wife] 1 m of 19-25 [the question mark above] 1 f of 16-2 robabl Rhoda ounc o ppo ntment P• 2 Dutchess Co.Deeds 11:144 & 314 Beekman Cemetery Records 3 Fishkill Mortgage Book 7:53 Com.Biog.Record of Dutchess Co. 4 Dutchess Co.Deeds 20:445 (1897) pp.846-7 22 a
In listing Jeremiah's children, we have had in several cases nothing to guide us as to the chronological order. We have arranged thus: By his first wife, Aw~y Sweet 22 1 William 28 Feb.1769; married Ruth Tibbita By hia second wire, PJ~oda Akin 23 2 possibl7 the JePem.iah Haxton lateP Qf Oaktield,».Y. We will d4scYss later om- reason for plaoing hePewHe married Abigai! Holl,=. 24 3 Benjamin 1777;married {l)Almira Vanderburgh (2)Sarah Wooley 4 Louisa 1778; married on S Jan.1806 John Cooper of Paulus Hook, N.J., son of Dr.Jeremiah and Sarah (Green) Cooper [l].They re sided at Beekma.n,where John was town supervisor in 1827 [2). He died 21 Apr.1844 "in his 32nd year"--an evident misreading of his age; and Louisa died 12 Dec.1850 aged 72[3]. 5 probably Amy. She married Benjamin Sherman,born 1779 at Q;Uaker Hill, near Beekman, son of Benjamin and Deborah(Delano) Sherman, who came to Quaker Hill from Dartmouth,Mass. [4]o Hon.Benjamin Sherman was a member of New York Assembly in 1822. Their son Haxtun Sherman, probably an only child, died 29 Novol807 aged 13 months and 20 de.ys [ 3]. 6 Margaret,1783; married, probably ~bout 1805, George Washington Vanderburgh, born about 1782, son of Col.James and Helena (Clark) Vanderburgh. Col.James was a friend of George Washing ton, who in his diary mentions visiting Colonel Vanderburgh in his home at Poughquag, which is in Beekman township. Margaret died in February 1815 and George married her sister Emeline. He died 20 Mar.1828 1n his 47th year [3]. I see that Margaret's death date as given in Beekman Cemetery records contradicts the one above which I found elsewhere. She died 23 Jan.1815 aged 32[3]. 7 Emeline. We are assuming that Emeline, Emily, Emilia, and Amelia are one and the same daughter. It may be there were two girls--one Emeline or Emily, the other Amelia or Eltilia. If so, we have noth• ing to give on the latter. Emeline became the second wife of George Washington Vanderburgh above. They must have been mar ried between 23 Jan. 1815, the date of his first wife's death1 and 3 Dec.1818, the date of her father's will, in which she is men tioned as George's wife. Someone has penciled into the Randall manuscript in New York City that Margaret left no children, and that Emeline had five. Probably just the reverse is true. We know from Jeremiah Haxton 1s will that Margaret left five children. It is interesting to notice the names of these five children: Rhoda and Helen for her mother and his mother; James for his father; Emilia for her sister; and Haxtun for her maiden name. 8 Rhodao We are not sure that there was such a child.She is not mentioned in her father's will. The only place we have seen her listed as daughter of Jeremiah is in the Commemorative Biograph ical Record of Dutchess County, pages 846-7. Also the later cen sus lists seem to indicate one more younger daughter than we have. She seems to have remained at home the longest ot the daughters-, 1 Howell:Southampton,LoI.,p.225 3· Beekman Cemetery Records 2 Smith:Hist.or Dutchess County/ 4 F.D.Sharm.an manuscript, N.Y.I,. Pub- (1882) lie Library
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12 James Levi 3[Benjamin 2 James 1), son of Benjamin and Anne(Smith) Haxton,was born in 1744[1] and so was probably a twin to his brother Jeremiah. We should never have found his name had it not been preserved in the branch of the family to which Mr.Frederick E.Haxton of Norfolk, Virginia, belongs, and by him sent to us. The line, as MroHaxton sent it, is: James Levi Haxton 1744, English Sea-Captain-Pirate ----- Bennet,his wife, Missionary on Captured Ship James Bennet Haxton 1772, New York State William Levi Haxton 1801, Ohio State William Bennet Haxton 1824, Attica, Ind. William. Levi Haxton 1866, Attica,Ind. himself and brothers and sisters, all born in Rice County)Kansas And if Mrs.Gale Haxton of Gotebo, Oklahoma, and Mrs. William F.Price of Earlham,Iowa, had not sent us a minutely detailed account of their Hax ton line, we should not have been able to discover that the Kansas group and the Iowa one were for several generations identical. It was a comment made by Mr. Haxton of Norfolk that led to the identification. He wrote: My father (William Levi Haxton, born 1866) was first cousin to John Haxton of Arlington, South Dakota. Now, Mrs. Price had sent me the line of this John Haxton of Arlington. It isfin part): James Harrison Haxton his son,Sanford M.Haxton Sanford's son, John of Arlington And Mrs. Gale Haxton had carried the line back one generation, stating that James Harrison Haxton was son of Molby Haxton. Now, one will see at a glance that there are irreconcilable dif• ferences between these recordso But one basic fact stood out; namely, that William Levi, born 1866, and John of Arlington were first cousins; that is, their fathers were brothers; that is, William Bennet was brother to Sanford M; and then I discovered that in the list of;!,,__t-:fMires•-\iarrison Haxton sent by Mrs. Gale Haxton, the oldest son was named "Bennett" and the youngest son Sanford. Bennett was, of course Willie.m Bennett. By making a few adjustments, the differences that at first seemed wholly irreconcilable, seemed after all not so serious. In all genealog ical work, I think, the records kept by different groups in widely sep arated areas are found to have sharp differences. In this case, I think that Mrs. Gale Haxton's list has omitted one generation--that of James Bennett Haxton, born 1772; and that Mr.Haxton's list has repeated (per haps inadvertently) the William Levi name, and that the William. Levi born 1801 should be instead James Harrison; and I think that where Mr. Haxton's list has the ?lllllle of James Levi's wife's family name, but not her given name, Mrs. Gale Haxton's list has the given name, without the family name; that is, I think James Haxton married Molby Bennett. My reason for so thinking is as follows: 1 Mr.Frederick E.Haxton's family records At Newport, Rhode Island, there has been preserved the will of a Widow Ann Bennett, dated 23 Dec.1754. Ann bequeaths to several married daughters and their children and to one who is evidently still unmarried whom she calls "daughter Molby." This is a most unusual name, and we think that the fact that later Haxtons used it as a given name (howbeit as a masculine one) indicates that this is where the name came into the family, and that the Bennett who married James Levi Haxton was Molby Ben nett. This is all the more likely since Newport was the "home base" of James Levi's father Benjamin after he left North Kingstown and before he removed to New York. From Mr. Frederick Haxton's family records we know that James Levi's wife w~s a missionary; and we may be sure that, in those days and in Rhode island that meant a Quakeress; for Rhode Island was a stronghold of Quakerism and the women were preachers as frequently as the men and traveled by sea from one Colony to another on their missions. Several Colonial governors of Rhode Island were Quakers, including our Caleb Carr. And we know that other Haxtons married Quakers; in fact, James Levi's brother Jeremiah--probably his twin brother-- married one. So until some one proves us wrong we shall regard James Levi Haxton's wife as Molby Ben nett, daughter of the Widow Ann. We think Molby was a woman highly re spected by her descendants, for both her first name and her last one were so often given to their children. As we have this Haxton line now it is: James (1) and Mary (?Westcott) Benjamin (2) and Anne Smith James Levi (3) and Melby Bennett James Bennet (4} and---- James Harrison and Catherine Harper Here the line divides William Bennet became ancestor of the Kansas line his brother Oliver Perry became ancestor of one of the Iowa lines Mr. F'rederick naxton 's records show that James Levi settled in New York. The only James of that period we have been able to find in State the ¢~t~~1 of New York is the one who is listed in the 1790 census as living then at Brookhaven on Long Island. His name is spelled there "James Huxton." We think he was James Levi. Brookhaven, being a port town, would be a logical place for a sailor man to make his home tempo• rarily. In 1790 he had a family consisting of one male over sixteen, four females, and one other free white person, not of his family, liv~ ing with him. That is, besides himself and wife, he had three daughters at home. His son James Bennet, then eighteen years of age, had evidently already set out to fend for himself--possibly to join with the hosts of men and women from the eastern sea-board who just then were beginning the great migration into Ohio, where we know his son was born. Of the names of James Levi's daughters we have found no trace. He himself 4id not remain on Long Island, for he is in no later censuso Prob ably he,too, moved on into Ohio; but we have never been able to find in what part of that state he settled.
1 Newport Mercury of 10 Feb.1912(1tem 6965, "A.H." 25
James Bennet and the .tJil!lla unnamed daughters are the only children we have found for James Levi and Molby(Bennett) Haxton. We are therefore numbering this son as 25 James Bennet. We have not found the name of his wife. Since he named a son Sheldon, that may have been his wife's family name.
~a 13 Benjamin J[Benjamin 2 Jam.es l] appears first in Dutchess County records when in 1767 he is listed as a tax-payer of Fishkill, which is f ,',ome ten miles south of Beekman. He is also on the tax list there in 1772,l)When he removed to the counties northward we do not know. He seems entirely to have missed the 1790 census, by which time he must have had a sizable family, some of his children already married. At some time after 1777 he and his son /ohn (probably his oldest son) served in the Revolution, enlisting in the Albany County Militia, 17th Regiment, the record of their service being found in "New York in the Revolution" on page 238. Their name spellings as entered here are Benjamin Haxatone John Haxstun Through this service they gained Land Bounty Rights, and it may easily be that the large noldings we find in their possession in Columbia County a little later came to them in this way. Those who won such rights were required to furnish each his own horse, weapon, and uniform; and they became entitled--if privates-- to 500 acres each. By the time of the census of 1800 Benjamin and several of his sons were settled at Chatham in Columbia County, New York, close to the Mas sachusetts boundary line, and not far from the city of Pittsfield. At that time his family included
one male & one female of 45 or over one male of 26-44 two males & two fem.s.les of 16-25 one male & one female of 10-15 His son John and his son Eli were heads of families of their own, with well-grown children. At some time before 24 April 1805 the son Dyer had taken over his father's farm, for on that date Dyer Haxstun of Chatham for $6250.00 sold to Benjamin Haxstun 300 acres of land formerly belonging to said Benjamin, beginning at the corner of the cider mill house, running northerly as the fence now stands on the lands of Eber Haxstun and John Haxstun, thence northerly on the lands of Eli and John Haxstun (2]. On 19 May 1817 Benjamin Haxston and Mary his wife for $4000.00 sold to John Tweedy "all that certain farm on which I now live, lying part in Chatham and part in Canaan •••.• be inning at the north side of the cider house ad oinin Eli Haxtonstt • l Smith:Hist.of Dutchess Co.(1882) 3 Columbia Co.Deeds 5:461 2 Columbia Co.Deeds 2:52 26
Benjamin left no will; and we have never seen any attempt to tabulate his children. The only reference to his wife found by us is in the deed last cited on page 25, showing that her name was Mary. At the time of the 1810 census they had in their home, besides the parents, only one male of 26-44 (possibly the son Eber, since we find no evidence that he married) and one female of 10-15, who would seem to be a daughter born after the 1800 census. In attempting to make a list of the children of Benjamin and Mary we have assumed that all the Haxtons found in Chatham and in Canaan and of suitable age belong to this family group. By so assuming we have been able to account for approximately the number of children known from the census lists to have been theirs. Our list of these probable children is:
~ 1 John; married and removed to Bradford County,Pennsylvania 21 2 Eli; married a wife named Hannah and removed to Austerlitz, which is just south of Chatham and Canaan. 28 3 Dyer,born 1766; removed to Stamford,Conn.; married (l)Char• lotte(Weed)Brown and (2) Sarah Hoyt 4 Saraho There is mu.ch less probability that she was a child of Benjamin than for any of the others. All we know of her is what is given in American Ancestry 2:119; viz., that she married Jabez Spencer, born before 1755, who migrated from Dutchess County to West Hillsdale in Columbia County about 1811 and died in 1845. Her name is spelled Sarah Hackstone. If her age was at all comparable to that of her husband, then she was daughter of either Jeremiah or Benjamin, and the line of migration favors Benjamin. We do not know when or where she died. 29 5 Benjamin, born 1772; married Sarah Lovejoy and removed to Che nango County, N.Y. 6 Eber; we have found no evidence that he married 30 7 Jeremiah; was later of Oakfield• Genesee County, N.Y.; married Abigail Holley. When we typed page 22 a, we listed him as a possible son of Benjamin's brother Jeremiah; but see reason for thinking it more prob&ble that he was Benjamin's son. We will discuss the matter fully later. 8 Louis&. She has been badly confused with her cousin of the same name. When in 1806 Jeremiah's daughter Louisa married John Cooper, the Poughkeepsie Journal in noting the event called her "daughter of Mr.Benjamin Haxton of Beekman''[l]. We know this was erroneous because Jeremiah in his will men• tions his~daughter Louisa Cooper, wife of John Cooper."[2]. Benjamin's daughter Louisa did not marry and later went to Stamford, where her brother Dyer lived. It would seem that the brother and sister died within a few weeks of each other. Ad ministration was gran~d there on the estate of Louisa CoHax ton on 4 Sept.1820. Dyer named his only child after this sister: Louisa Charlotte. The child died in infancy. 9 Betseyo Again our evidence is not strong. Dr. Isaac Kidder, who was born about 1785 at Spencertown,in Austerlitz township. Co lumbia County, son of Ephraim and Sarah(Spencer)Kidder, married Betsey Haxton at Benton, Yates County, N1 Y11probably on 7 Sept, l Marriages and Deaths in Dutchess 2 Dutchess County Wills H :287-8 County.1778-1825, p.52 J.804(entered wr,m3ly, hut f:nus corrected in th12. orieina.1 Wfl.yne, County records). Dr ,,.1:(idder pr&.cticeo medic:1-n~ rt :,5_bf:.•rty, Steuben County, and at .Pekin, Niagara (.;ounty, bott1 in New York State ll}. One notices that Isnac R!ld l'•etisey w~re me.rried in Western New York; that is• both ne.d mierated t11i ti1er pr~vio•.;;s to t;h.eir marriage• There wa.s much mi• gre.tion at just that til!lo from tne d'udson Rlver Valle:r to Western New York. and it may be tna.t Betsey and her brother Jerend.ah went together as part of it, and also Dr. Kidder, from the same parts of Columbia County.
14 William 4l:Nathanial 3 William 2), son of Natna.n1el and Ruth(Sabin) tlo.cks tone, was probably bor-n about 1756. lie nad left home by tile time of tne 1774 Rn.ode Island census, since the son who was home with their fatner Nathaniel in 1774 was still witn liim in 1782, at which time ~al• lia.m had been married for a yaar and is listed as head of a household of his own. Like bis ~arents, he lived at Warwick. On 25 Nov.1780 William iia.ckstone of Warwick was pub11sl'lod to marry and on 7 Jan.1781 did marry Molly Allen of Rehoboth, bom 10 Aug.1756, daughter of Stepnen and Amie(~h~aton)Allen l2]. We na.ve no way of lmowing whether it was this William or his cous in William cf Warwick and ~cituate (our number 15½) who served in the Revolutionary W&r. As that Willia~ was not yet sixteen in 1774, tne odds favor t~~is one--sligntly. The rbcords state that William Hack• stone we.a a private in Col.Robert Blliott's Re13:iment in 1776(3]. The pay due him for .i.lis service was £.1.'3 15s Lid l 4] • On 26 Jan.1So4 Ne.tne.niel ;:iackstone and hls wife Ruth deeded to their son William "one-na.lf tne dwelling-house where I now live -- the westflrly half where said son now lives" and one-fourth acre of land,it being bounded by Nathaniel's land and by that of Thomas Lip• pitt [51. l Clcvelan::i:EiBt.of Yates Co. 3 11 Spirit of '76" p.90 {1873) p.237 4 Arnold V.R.of R.I. 12:175 2 Rehoboth V.ii. 5 Warwick Deeds 14:326 28
William's father Nathaniel had died by 1806, and his estate was being administered by John Waterman,Jr., who sold a part of it at &uction on 26 July of that year. The highest bidder end buyer was Widow Molly Hackstone, who for one hundred dollars got two acres and seven rods, the land being bounded by land of the heirs of William Hackstone [1]. From this we learn that the son William must have died at about the same time as his father Nathaniel• He must have died be• tween 26 Jan.1804, the date of his deed from his rather, and 26 July 1806, on which date his wife is called "Widow." In the census lists of 1790 and 1800 William is head of the fam ily. In 1810 Molly's name takes his place. These lists are: 1790 l male and 1 female over 16 2 me.lea under 16 1800 1 male and 1 female of 26-44 l male of 16-25 2 males under 10 1810 - 1 fem.a.le over 44 1 male of 16-25 ·1 male of 10-15 William. and Molly evidently had three sons. We do not know the names of any of them definitely. We will name below three Hackstone youths who would seem to fit here better than anywhere else, although one of those named does not fit perfectly into any Warwick family listed by census enumerators. 1 John. In the "Register of Protections granted to American Seamen in the District of Providence" is this entry: "John Haxton ae 20, light complexion, born 'Warwick, certifi cate dated Jan.14,1802."
"Haxton" seems a. very unusual spelling .for a boy born in Warwick to be using; but so the record stands. If this John was son of William and Molly, he.would be under 16 in 1790 and between 16 and 25 in 1800. But hetequally as likely have been son of John 3--the one described on page l]~ who went to Harpersfield and married Sally Turner. In fact, that John did use the spelling Haxton, tool 31 2 James,born 1788?; married Sareh. Possibly belongs here. 3 ?William; there was a William Hackstone who became member of Maple Root Church of Coventry on 25 May 1817 [3]. He might be the son above under lfitx~ ten in 1800 and between ten and fifteen in 1810. But there are other families into which he can 11 11 also be fitted, After his name is d --perhaps he died soon, unm1 1 Warwick Deeds 15:172 3 Arnold:V.R. of RoI. 10:257 2 Seamen's Protection 2:39 29
15 William ?4[Benjamin 3 Willialll 2] is another of the several War wick Hackstones for whom there exists no definite proof of his paren• tage. We can only say that study of census lists, deeds, and miscella• neous records would seem to make him fit better into the family of Benjamin of Coventry than elsewhere. Benjamin had at the time of the census of 1774 two sons at home, both under sixteen; that is, born after 1758. We saw (page 16) that one of these was still at home in 1782 and judged that one to be Thomas. The one who had left home before that year was probably William. He was probably married before that year, for in 1790 he had a wife and four children.
When he first appears in the records by name he was living at Scituate, R.I.: On 12 June 1786 William Hackstone of Scituate, yeoman, sold to Barnet Wood nine acres of land in Scituate, signing by his mark, and having as witnesses John Guild and John Colvin [l]. At the time of the 1790 census he was still of Scituate end had in his family 1 male over 16 2 males under 16 3 females By 1793 William was of Warwick: William Hackstone of Warwick, labour er, and wife Candis on 13 Mar.1793 sold to John Wilbur of Scituate ten acres of land in Scituate, "being land that I bought of Pardon Angell." The sale price was £15. The witnesses were Elihu Fish and Stephen Foster. Jr. [21. This is all we have found about William in Rhode Island. Where he was at the time of the 1800 census we do not lmow. At the time of that of 1810 he was probably living at Edinburg. Saratoga County, New York; as was probably a married son of his, Joseph by name. They both used the most unusual spelling Hakzson. William Hakzson had at that time 1 male & 1 female over 44 3 males of 16-25 2 females of 10-15 Joseph Hakzson had 1 male & 1 female of 16-25 1 female under 10
Joseph end one of the sons still at home would be the two suns of the 1790 census; and there were evidently two sons born after that cen sus, whose names we do not know. Nor are we able to carry Joseph's line any farther and so cannot give him a number.
On page 27 we called attention to the fact that one of the William Hackstones was a soldier of the Revolution. We had no way of knowing whether it was William, son of Nathaniel 3, or William, probably son of Benjamin 31 whom we are here discussing, For details see page 27 1 1 Scituate Deeds 8:135 2 Scituate Deeds 8:229 1~ Tl10:mas 4[Benjam.1n 3 William 2], son of Benjamin of Warwick and Coventry(probably, though not surely); lived in Warwick, but went to Coventry for both his wives. We take it he was Benjamin's son who was under sixteen both in 1774 and in 1782, and so born not earlier than ttti 1766. On 24 Sept.1792 he married at Warwick Susanna Adams of Coventry [l], and on 8 Dec.1805 he married, also at Warwick, Rest Bennett,who was daughter of Ezekiel Bennett of Coventry [l].
On 3 May 1803 Thomas Hackstone of Warwick for $50.00 sold to Andrew Arnold of Warwick one-fourth of an acre of land in Apponaug with dwelling-house"and is the same house and land that I now live upon"[2]. Thomas signed by his mark. The witnesses were Charles Bray ton and Alexander Henry.
On 13 Dec.1821 Tnomas Hackstone labourer and wife Waste (sic) for ~50.00 leased to Henry Remington for ninety-nine years a house and lot in the village of Fulling Mill on the road to Coventry and bounded in part by George Arnold, the Cove, Henry Remington, the lessee, and the road [3]. Both Thomas and Waste signed by their marks. The witnesses were William Baker and Peleg Congdon. In 1810 Thoma.s's census listing was 1 m & l f of 26-44 3 f under 10 Warwick town records give the births of these daughters:
Anna 27 F'eb.1807 Mary 27 Feb.1807 Susanna 8 Sept.1809 We do not find Thoma.s's name in the 1820 census, though he and Rest were both alive, as shown by the second deed above, nor do they appear in any of the later census lists. T.tmre were evidently no sons to carry forward the name.
1 Warwick V .R. 3 Warwick Deeds 18:211 2 Warwick Deeds 14:270 31
16 Robert[probably first of his line in America]e When we first typed pages 31 to 33 and gave an accour.. t of Robert's life, we thought it very probable that he was descended from our pioneer James, either through Benjamin 2 & 3 of New York or through William 2 Jol4~ 3 of R..hode Island. We no longer think so, and are retyping these pages. Althougn we still have no definite proof, we think it most likely that Robert ca.me from the Old Country and was himself the founder of a distinct Haxton line. It will be too great a task to reorganize our manuscript with a new numbering; and so, with this explanation, we leave Robert's group irnbedded among the descendants of the earlier one, and we will tell here what we know of Robert's life. He first appears in American records in 1800 and as Robert Axton. He was then living in Chartiers township, Wasilington County, Pennsyl vania. Chartiers-~if you wish to locate it on your map--is in the tovm s~1ip in which Canonsburg is situated. It is only a few miles south of Pittsburgh. The census of 1800 shows Robert with a family of 1 male and 1 female 26-44 1 male and 2 femal0s under 10
Before the taking of the next census Jobertts family had removed a few miles westward and were living at Cross Creek in the same county~ In·this listing Robert's name is spelled Haxton, and he had {in 1810) 1 male over 44 1 female under 44 1 male and 2 females 10-15 1 male and 2 females under 10
Robert was still living in Pennsylvania as late as 1814; for tr1e census of 1870 snows that his son Hobert, then 56 years old, was born in that state. Tne family had removed to Coshoct~n County, Ohio, before March of 1819, for the marriages of two of his daughters were recorded there in that month. ':'he township where he settled was Mill Creek,. Most unfortunately for us, the early records of Mill Creek have been lost, and so the myriad details that would be of the greatest interest to us are denied us. The census of 1820 shows that Robert 11 :Iackison" of Mill Creek had in his family then 1 male and l female over 44 1 male and l female 10-15 1 Male under 10 For a good many years after removing to Ohio the family name we.s spelled Hackison or Hackeson; Hackinson or tlackenson, probably accord ... ing tc the whimsy of the county recorder. In later years in the same county it is always Haxton. ~rom the census figures above, we see that Robert was bor~ between 1756 and 1766 and tnat his wife was somewhat younger and was evidently alive in 1820. Mr. Jesse W.Haxton, e descendent, tells us her name was Nancyo The census lists seem to shew that they had at least eight chil dren, and thou6h we -iave never found a list of their names, we have found eight younger rlaxtons in that locality who seem to fit (with very slight discrepancies as to age) tn.e census lista. 32
In the first few yea.rs that the Haxtons were in Ohio their rela• tionships seem to have been chiefly with members of a Scotch-Irish group: t~e McGowans, the Renfrews, and the Johnsons; and with settlers who were recent arrivals from New Jersey--whether also Scotch-Irish we do not know. Robert's daughter Mary married Alexander McGowan,Jr.; his daughter Eleanor married Joseph C.Higbee, who came from New Jersey; James ftenfrew witnessed Robert Baxton's will and became guardian to his son James; and John Johnson was the one to whom James was apprenticed to learn a trade. Now, we know that Robert Haxton was in Western Pennsylva• nia as early as 1800; the Rentrews did not leave Ireland until about 1810 111; and the Johnstons not until 1816 [2]; so Robert did not come with either of those families. It is possible that he did come with the McGow~ ans; for Alexander McGowa.n,Sr., was in Trenton, New Jersey, as early as 1790 and was ordained a Baptist minister near there before 1795(1] 0 He and his family were en route to Coshocton County, Ohio, when he was killed by the overturning of a wagon when about a hundred miles from their destination.This was on June 8, 1815 [l]. His family continued on their way and settled in Mill Creek township. Now, that was probably at about the time that Robert Haxton removed from Western Pennsylvania to the same Ohio township; and it is possible that the two families had planned together the removal thither. Possible, too, that they were al ready connected by marriage, though of this we have no proof. Rev.Alex ander McGowan had a daughter Nancy who married James Renfrew, Jr. We won der if the Rev.Alexander may not also have had a sister Nancy--the Nancy who married Robert Haxton. Of course this is just the conjecture of a possibility! Still, we do notice that Robert Haxton's son Robert, who in his childhood had no middle initial, when he came to maturity took the middle letter M. Robert 11 Hackeson" wrote his will on 10 Aug.1824, and it was proved on 5 Nov. of the same year. There is no mention of wife, from which we infer that Nancy had died between 1820 and 182~. None of the older children are named as beneficiaries, perhaps because each had had his or her portion; 9erhaps because the father felt that all should go for the care of the ones who were minors and motherless. Robert named his son in-law Alexander McGowan as executor and char6es him to feed and clothe sons James and Robert and daughter Eliza Belle, described as not yet eighteen years old. He also leaves one dollar to "my late son-in-law" Joseph C.Higbee, by which we know that the daughter Eleanor was already deceased. The witnesses to the will were Samuel Burns, James Renfrew, and Hiram Wright [3]. Our data on the children of Robert and Nancy have been pieced to gether from "Coshocton County Marriages," a manuscript in the State Li brary at Columbus; from family and local cemetery records and vital records at the County Court House; from the census lists quoted above; and from a few miscellaneous sources. Our list of their children is: 32 l.John; married M---- 2 .Mary, born 1797; married 18 l"Iar .1819 Alexander McGowan, son of Rev.Alexander and :Margaret McGowan. [5']. r':8ry died !~ May 1825 aged 27[1]. Her husband was later Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas[l]. 1 James Po~enfrew:Renfrew Jen. 3 Coshocton County Prob. B:31 2 Hunt:Hist.of Coshocton Co.p. 4.Mr.Jesse W~Haxton's records 2L;.2 • 33
3 Eleanor,prob.born c.1799; married on 18 Mar.1819 (evidently in a double ceremony with her sister Mary) Joseph C.Higbee,son of Jo seph and Elizabeth(Lawrence) of Trenton,N.J.Higbee was a large land owner and an imnortant man, but somewhat eccentric. For ex ample, when he came to what was then a wilderness, he brought six dozen ruffled shirts with him[l].His father-in-law,Robert Haxton, had to sue him on Apr. - 1823 for non-payment of a promissory note duel~ Nov.1822 [2]. Robert's token gift in his will shows that he harbored no ill-feeling over the matter. Eleanor died before her father wrote his will. Joseph died about 1873 [1]. 4 Nancy, born 1804, married either John Basim[3] or --1.f~~lf~•t!Jl. She died in 1833 aged 29[4]. 33 5 Richard,born 13 June 1805t5]; married Sabina Grim [3]. 6 Eliza Belle; :·:ot yet "'ib:... +:---.--·:-. "11.~:1 her father wrote his will. 7 James.,born 1912. On 7 July 1826 "James He.ckinson.,(son of the late Robert Hackinson) aged fourteen years., by and with the consent of Je.mes Ren:rew,of the County of Coshocton, and State of Ohio.,Guard~ ian of the said James Hackinson, hath of his own free and Voluntary Will •••• bound himself Apprentice unto John Johnson of the county and state aforesaid, to learn the ~rt, trade, mystery, or occupa tion of a saddler-" for term of seven years. [6]. 29 May 1834 James ::ackinson bought of Isaac and Elizabeth Ifoans Lot No.178 for ~65.00 [7]. 18 Ha~~ 1835 James bouc:1t of the same Isaac and Elizabeth !vieans the southern :1alf of Lot No.179 for #35.00 [8]. 3 Sept.1836 Jsmes :{ackinson married Mary Curtis [3]. 9 Oct. 183 7 James and wife f(ary sold to James Jennings from Lot 179 for $75.00 [9]. 16 Sept. lBL:l;. l1obert Backinson (James' s younger broth.er) bought of William and Mary Palmer for ~30,00 all the interest of her f~rmer husband, James Hackinson, dec'd, in Lot 178 [ 10 J. 17 Oct. 18L~6 2obert M.Haxton for t67 .oo bought of Isaial1 Harris, administrator of t:1e estate of James Hackinson., Lot 178, subject to the dower of Nary Pal:rner,widow of James Hackinson[ll]. Ta:ts is all we ;_1ave found on the short life of James 1-J:ackinson. We have not seen mention of any ~l1ildren. 8 Robert., born 1814. The year of his birth and the fact that he was born in Pennsylvania ere known from the data given by Robert to the census taker in 1870. He usu.ally signed his name "R.M.Hackin son.11 He merried Ann R.Lewis 1 called also Rebecca Lewis [J]. 1 Hill:Hist. cf Coshocton Co. 5 Mrs.Bertha Pottenger's "Rambling P• 532 Bememberin6 s" 2 Coshocton County Court of 6 Coshocton Co.Deeds 4:525 Common Pleas 2:28 7 Ibid. 7:493 3 Coshocton CooMarriages (man 8 Ibid. 12:133 uscript at State Library,Co 9 Ibid. 12:134 lumbus) 10 Ibid. 20:271 4 Mr.Jesse W.Eaxton's records 11 Ibid. 20:613 34
17 Jeremiah 4[Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Andrew and Abigail {Wood6n) Haxton• was born 30 Mar.1764 [l]. He was a boy of ten when his father bought property in and helped to follll.d MoW1t Washington, which ia in the extreme southwestern corner of Massachusetts, touching the bound• ary lines of both New York and Connecticut. Jeremiah married, probably about 1787, Elizabeth Kingt who was born 9 Sept.1764, daughter of Capto John and Elizabeth (FennerJ King [2]. At the time of the census of 1800 Jeremiah and Eliz&beth were living at Kinderhook, in Columbia County, New York. Their family at that time consisted of 1 m & 1 f 26-44[He and she were both 36] 2 f 10-15:Elizabeth ae 12 and Anne ae 10] 1 m & 2 funder lO[Perlina 7,King Andrew 3, Abigail,an infant] In 1803, being then of Hampshire County, Mass., Jeremiah made a jour ney to Rhode Island to lay claim to property that had belonged to his grand• father, Benjamin Haxton, and before him to his great grandfatherti James Hax ton, and to sell this property to Daniel E.Updike. The transaction is re corded in one of the very badly mutilated deeds of North Kingstown.[3]. The property had lain unclaimed for nearly two generations--doubtless owing to Benjamin's sudden death at the hands of Indians-- and we judge that Jere miah had not only to provel that he was heir to Benjamin, but also that Benjamin had been rightful owner of the property. As mu.ch as remains of the document we give below: "I Jeremiah Haxton of Hampshire County in the State ot Massachusetts yeoman and heir at law to Benjamin----- of North Kingstown deceased who was devisee in the last will and testament of his------Haxton de• ceased, send greeting: Know ye that I------for the sum of $350 paid by Daniel E.Updike of North Kingstown yeoman wh------ ------d great grandfather James Haxton deceased formerly of North Kingstown in his will and testament dated the 9th day of July AoDo -----• To oldest son --mes one-third part of my land with my dwelling house and so much of the bredth of my said land-----will contain---to be and remain----• Item I give and bequeath \lllto my son William one-third ----- except for half an acre which sold------. Item I give \lllto my son Benjamin one-third part of my land----- and my will is that Katt each of------be of equal breadth below at the Rhode except f---the half acre before m------taken out of my son William's sharewhich is to lye the most southerly------uel Phillips land and my son James his share shall be wider than Benjamins------the house below and the narrow est at the upper end. ------day of October 1803 Jeremiah Haxton The word great was inserted in the 14th line before signing." The document above was signed at Sau.th Kingstown Court, Jeremiah's two witnesses being ------Bourne and ------Marchant[)]. By the time of the census of 1810 Jeremiah was again of Mount Wash- ington in Berkshire County. His census listing at the time was ______1 Mt.Washington Cemetery Records 3 North Kingstown Deeds 16B:231 2 Miss Jessie Van Rensselaer's Collection 35
In 1810 1 male & 1 fem.a.le of over 44 (himself and wife) 2 females of 16-25 (Of the three oldest daughters one was evidently already married; the others, not ao.) 1 male and 1 female of 10-15 (King Andrew and Abigail) 1 female under 10 (Ruhannah) Jeremiah Haxton died at Mount Washington 12 July 1812 aged 47. His grave is in Center Cemetery there [l].
On 9 Apr.1813 Jeremiah's son-in-law,Horace Warner of Salisbury, Conn •• was appointed guardian to K.Andrew ~~t,1# Haxton of Mount Wash ington; and on the same day Elizabeth Haxton was appointed guardian ot Abigail and Ruhana Haxton[2]. On that date, too, the widow, Elizabeth. was granted two hundred dollars out of the estate.
On 3 May 1~13 Elizabeth Haxstun of Mount Washington was appoint.a. administrator of Jeremiah's estate, her sur-&ty being Elijah King ot Egremont (3]. The heirs are named as being Anna, wife of John Fuller Paulina, wife of Horace Warner King A. Haxtun Abigail, wife of Lemuel Palm.er Rheuhana Haxtun the heirs of Jeremiah's deceased daughter Elizabeth, late wife of Roswell Baker; viz., Jeremiah H.Baker Julia Ann Baker The sum each son or daughter received was £10 9s 6d. Jeremiah's widow Elizabeth lived on for ma.n1 years, dying at Cambridge, Washington County, New York, 29 Aug.1859 aged 95 [4]. The children of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (King) Haxton were: U 1 Elizabeth, 30 Dec.1788; married Roswell Baker. Se was probably the Roswell Baker ~om at Ashfield, Mass., 14 Nov.1781, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Sadler) Baker[5]. 2 Anna, 23 Mar.1790; married John Fuller. 3 Paulina, 20 Mar.1793; married Horace Warner of Salisbury, Conn., which is just over the boundary line and only a few miles south of Mount Washington. Paulina died 12 May 1846. Horace was born in 1783 and died in 1846 (6]. 4 Eliza, 6 Dec.1794; died 18 Aug.1796 [4). 35 5 King Andrew 9 Dec.~ 1797; 1"1.B.rried Mary Donahue 6 Abigail, 15 May 1800;marrL:d '.:.,emuel Palmer of Ca.rnbridge,N .Y. She died his widow 27 July 1884, having removed to the home of her daughter in Iowa about six years before her death[7]. 7 Ruhannah1 8 Mar.1805; died 8 Je.n.1841[4]. 1 Mt.Washington Cemetery Rec. 5 Ashfield V.R.
2 Berkshire Co.Prob.Rec.# 2936 6 The Randall Manuscript, N.Y.C 0 3 Ibid.# 2934 7 The Post, Washington Co.,N.Y.,is- 4 Miss Jessie Van Rensselaer's sue of 29 Aug.1884 Collection 36
18 Benjamin 4[Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1), son of Andrew and Abigail (Wooden) Haxton, was born in 1763 or 1764. Our reason for thinking he may have been twin to Jeremiah has been given on page 20. On 8 Jan.1789 he married Sally Benjamin, born 1770, daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Dibble) Benjamin of Mount Washington (1). The marriage was performed by Rev.Stephen Gano [2] while he was pastor of the East Hillsdale Bap tist Church [3], Hillsdale being just across the border in New York State, Sally died at Sheffield, Mass., on 3 Mar. 1791 aged 21 [4]. This would seem to indicate that Benjamin had settled in Sheffield {very near to Mount Washington) upon marriage. By 1793 Benjamin had removed to Hudson in Columbia County, New York, and in that year organized there what became known as Haxtun•s Artillery, which was under his command [5]. He married second Sarah Morton, born 1 Sept,1777, daughter of Reuben and Mary (Worth) Morton[5], On 27 Apr.1796 Benjamin Haxton of the City of Hudson for £400 sold three-fourths ot an acre of land in Hillsdale to Daniel Duncan,Jr,, of Hillsdale [6]. On 13 June 1796 Benjamin Haxtun, merchant, of Hudson sold to William Hollenbeck a building and land partly in Egremont, Mass., and partly in Great Barrington (5). In "Council of Appointment," on page 462 we read that Colwnbia County had a company of artillery and that in the brigade of militia commanded by Capt.M.D.Carshore the First Lieu tenant was Benjamin Ha.xstun. The 1799 tax book of Hudson gives a list of those taxed for £100 or more. Benjamin was assessed for £130 and his father-in-law, Reuben Morton, for £115.[5]. On 21 June 1800 Benjamin Hax st,m of the City of Hudson, Merchant, for $1500.00 sold to William Pitts of Nantucket, Mariner, Lot #20 in Hudson, Benjamin's wife signing as Sally Haxatun [7]. The 1800 census for Benjamin's family is bafflir.g and beyond our power to interpret. He had
1 male & 1 female 26-44 2 males & 1 female 16-25 1 male 10-15 1 male under 10 one other free white & 3 slaves Benjamin himself was 36 or 37, and fits into the first line; his wife Sarah was 23 and fits into the second line. They had a child born in 1797 who is right for the last line; but who all the others were, we cannot even guess.
By 1802 Benjamin had moved across the river and settled in Cats kill in Greene County. In that year he was listed as one of the con• tributors to St.Luke's Episcopal Church of Catskill [8]o On 21 Deco 1803 he sold to Solomon Wooden the property he had inherited from his father Andrew [5]. From then on he W!'l9 ~ :1eavy speculator in land. The County Court House at Catskill shows some eighty-nine land deals he was a party to between 1805 and 18361 the year of his death. Some of 1 MacKenzie:Colonial Families 5 The Randall Manuscript,N.Y.C, of the U.S. 1:20 6 Columbia Co.Deeds A:306 2 ~:V.R, of R.I. 7:491 7 Ibid. B:61 3 Hist. of Hillsdale, p.133 8 Greene Co,Hist.(1884) p.133 4 Sheffield Cemetery Records 37
them involved large suma of money--up to twelve thousand dollars [1]. The land was mostly in the various towns of Greene County,--in Cats kill, Athens [2], Windham [3], and Lexington [4]. The Haxtuns' home address changed several times during this perioa. He was living at Athens between 1818 and 1822. Once--quite probably more than once-- he was for a time of New York City; but for the most part his home was in Catskill. It was probably in his house that Martin Van Buren, later President of the United States, was married; for in Vedder's History of Greene County is this item: "In 1807 the future President of the United States, Martin Van Buren, was married by the Rev.Peter Laba@h of the Dutch Church to Hanna Goes or Hoes in the Haxtun house in West Catskill. This house is said to be still(that is, in 1927) standing." [5]. Benja min may have been for a time of Ulster County, which lies just south of Greene County; but it is even more likely that this was Benjamin of Dutchess County--there ware so many Benjaminsl On 7 Nov. 1809 Benjamin and Sally Haxstun sold property in Catskill for $8000; and in October ~812 Benjamin Haxtun of New York City bought property in Catskill tor $8200. This may have been a mortgage. [6]. The Court of Appeals in Al bany shows that in 1826 Benjamin Haxtun, then of New York City, ap pealed a case against Michael and Betsey Rickart, over a land deal they had had in 1820. In or about 1829 Benjamin Haxtun was one of the as" signees of Greene County Bank. On 12 July 1831 Benjamin Haxtun of Cats kill had a case before the Court of Appeals against Equations ~eligh c,_, wife Jane; Orrin Day; John Volkenburgh, Jr.; and the President, Direc tors, and Company of Catskill Banko It would seem that Benjamin Haxtun always did things in a big way. Benjamin's wife Sarah, or Sally, Morton died 17 Aug.1823 in her 47th year, and was buried in the Rural Cemetery at Athens[8]. Benje.min married third, probably about 1827, Martha Weeks, whose signature to deeds was by her mark. Benjamin died at Catskill 1 Dec.1836 aged 73[9]. Martha died 5 Sept.1854 aged 66[9]. Benjamin's will[lO] was written 15 Feb.1833 and proved 26 Dec.1836. Those mentioned are wife Martha my three de.ughters, e.11 under eighteen Julia Catherine Phebe Ann Caroline grandchildren,children of dau.Mery Eliza,dec'd Andrew B.Fre.ser Eliza Fraser Mary Ann Fraser son Washington M.Haxtun, ~1000 son Andrew B.Haxtun (to be executor Witnesses were John Ada.ms and Lewis Benton
1 Greene Co.Deeds ~:81 6 Greene Co.Deeds C:363 & D:311 2 Ibid. H:355, et al. 7 Ibid. 0:168 3 Ibid. I:285 8 Randall ~anuscriptL N.Y.C. ~- Ibid. W:497 9 Catskill Cemetery ~ecords 5 Greene COHist.(1927)p.l:49 10 Greene Co.Probate Rec. D:38 We have given Benjamin's census record of 1800. We have never found the record of 1810. The later records are as follows: In 1820 Benjamin, then of Athens, had
1 male over ~ 1 female 26-44 2 males 19-25 1 male 16-18 1 female 10-15 In 1830 Benjamin, then of Catskill, had 1 male 60-69 1 female 40-49 1 female 15-19 1 female under 5 In 1840 Widow Martha, being still of Catskill, had 1 female 50-59 1 female 5- 9
Our list of Benjamin's children is: By the second wife, Sarah Morton 1 Caleb, born 21 Aug.1797; died 27 Dec.1813 aged 16-4-6. He was drowned while crossing the river with his grandfather Morton [l]. 36 2 Washington Morton,born 180J;married Sophia Maria Taylor[2]. 37 3 Andrew B, born 5 Aug.1805; married (l)Mary Britton and (2) Mira Ann Raymond [l]. 4 Mary Eliza, born 1808; married William Fraser. Both she and her husband died in August 1832, she aged 24, he aged 32 [3]. By the third wife, Martha Weeks: 5 Julia Catherine, born 1828; died 1 Apr.1839 aged 11-5-22 [4]. 6 Phebe Ann, born 183o;m.arried Henry Goslee Johnson(l819-1870). She died in 1876 [5]. 7 Caroline, born 1832; died 2 Aug.1837, aged 5-4-22 [4].
1 Randall Manuscript, N.Y.C. 4 Catskill Cemetery Records 2 Stiles:Wethersfield,Ct.p.702 5 Greene County Epitaphs 3 Athens Cemetery Records 39
19 Timothy Li[Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Andrew and Abigail (Wooden) :-:Ia.xton, me.rried Abigail Osborne and at the time of the census of 1800 was living in Livingsyon, Columbia Cou.nty,New York. His family consisted of 1 male and 1 female 26-44 1 male and 1 female 16-25 l 6 1 male and 2 fem.ales under 10
That is, some of his children were qt~i te grown up--so grown up that we see Timothy must have been older th'.:m we estimated on page 21 in giving his fathe:....,ts family. In fact, he must have been one of the very oldest of Andrew 1 s children. In 1803 Timothy was of Galle.tin, vrhich is very near Livingston [ l] • Gallatin and Livingston are just south of Hudson. That is, Timothy's home was toward the southern part of Colill11bia County, whereas his cousin Benjamin of Chatham was in the eY.treme northeastern part of i.t, 2nd his br·ot:~er Benja"!'J.in W8.S a.cross the river in Catskill,Greene County,. Sy 1806 Timot~1.y, like the cousin Benje.min, had re:,noved to Chenango County, Timothy settlinb in Greene township, Benjamin it Sherburne fur ther north. On 12 J~lJ 1806 Timothy bought of Edward Edwards for t200 fif,ty acres of land there; and on 10 Febol808 for t453.80 he bought of Willian W.Morris 113 acres one rood and eight 9erches more. It is evi~ant from the cens~s list above that Timothy had two sons and three daughters. The two sons were :_:irobably the Timot:1.y of Greene ~ho at the time of the 1820 census had a very large young family and a Je:;:,emin.:1 o:' wi1om we know not:1.ing except wh'.lt is given in a deed [ 2] ex ecutec1- 1Yy :::1is son Lafc.yette on 2~ . .Je.n.1357 by w~1ic:1 he sold to William Baker(.ne l-1imselt being then o::.'"' Elmi:."e.,C:1emung County,New York) "All L1.at certain .._0icce or ?<:.rce 1 of le_nd. Si t~r.. ted in tl1e town of Greene, i~ t!-1.e Cou...Yl.t:r of C:1enan60, and State of Neu York, known and called the 11 Iiaxton Lot II c.cr.tainin6 about fourteen acres, more or less being the same land of which Jeremiah :ilaxton(f2.t~1er of said party of first pe.rt owned one quarter at the tirre of decease, and of which said party of the first part now owns one twelfth 1_1art (subject to the dower right of his mother therein) Said fourteen acres are bounded on the north and ea.st ':Jy land noH owned by said Baker and conveyed to h:!."11 by David. Will cox and wife by deed dated Dec.28.,1855. 11
From this d.acd we infer that Tir1.othy,Sr., on dying left four h.eirs {So it wot:.ld seem t:1at one of 11.is three daughters had died); rmd that his son Jpremiah on dyin; had left three heirs(since one of them got one-third of o~e-:ourt~ of th2 original Haxton lot; that is one-twelfth). Cf this Jeremiah i:-re know n0 mcf'.s; '.::Xcept that his widow was alive in 18,S?. Among the many chi l_rlren of TiY>J.othy, Jr., or the three children of Jeremiah was probably a son ~amed Jonathan, of whom we know only tnat he and his wife Hester had d,Q.ughter named Sisily A. who was born at Greene on 3 June 1847, and who seems to be t.c... e Anodyn C .Haxton w:t:io died there on 28 Aug_.1849 r,;;ed two.[J).,
1 The Randall ~':s .New -York '.::i tv 3 Qreene vitnl records 1 1, V .__,,-:, "1,-.An"n•·o.J.J,.,..,, ct- b V,..,o • Dee,.:is, J. _.__.0 --, .c,s.• :; _,I ' 40
21 Abe 4[Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1], son of Andrew and his second wife, Elizabeth (Watrous-Sherm.an} Haxton, was born in 1781, since he was seventy-three years old when he died in 1854 [l]. He lived at San disfield, Mass., which is about ten miles east of Sheffield. We know his wife's family name, Smith, from the Randall manuscript; and her given name, Susanna,from her gravestone. There is a contradiction in the records of both Abe's age and Susanna's• Sandisfield Cemetery records have that Abe died 14 Jan.1854 aged 73; that is, born 1781. Massachu• setts records in the State House in Boston have that he died 12 Jan.1853 aged 79; that is, born 1774. We know that the former is the correct ver sion, for at the time of the 1850 census Abe was 69; that is, born 1781. Besides which, he was the son of the second wife, and we know that the first wife had two sons born after 1774. In the case of Susanna, also, State House records have her died 22 Jan.1853 aged 71; cemetery records give the figures as 22 July 1854 aged 71. Here again the census of 1850, when she was 67, shows the cemetery records the correct ones. Evidently the other records were furnished from someone's memory a long time af ter. From the State House files, however, we learn that Abe was a coop er by occupation. The various census lists for his family are: In 1-820 1 male & 1 female 26-44 1 male 19-25 1 male &: 3 females under 10 In 1830 2 males & 2 females '/.% 41-49 2 females 15-19 1 male & 1 female 10-14 In 1840 1 male & 1 female UtfU1 51-59 1 male 20-29 In 1850 Abe 69 Susan 67 James M. 30 The children's birth's were not recorded, nor have we ever seen any attempt to assemble their names. In the Sandisfield area we have found the following Haxtons who, from their ages or other circumstances would seem to belong to Abe's family:
1 Jeremiah. Sandisfield town 1·.:.:..:.::.:1. ,,J ~1.ave: Jeremiah Haxtun,son of Abe, died 8 Dec.1828. We judge he died young and unm.e.rried. 2 Adeline. Adeline Haxton married on 25 Mar.1828 John Loomis, born 9 Jan.1801 in Genesee County, New York, son of Augustus and Liberty (Gillett) Loomis, and brought by his parents to Bra~ord County, Pennsylvania. The parents were originally from Harwinton, Connecticut, which is 22 miles west of Hartford [2]. 1 Sandisfield Cemetery Records 2 Loomis Genealogy, p.354 41
Those were stage-coach days; and it chances that Sandisfield lay on the main stage route from Hartford to Albany. Already a group of Haxtons, cousins of Adeline, had gone from Chatham, near Albany, to settle in Bradford County; so the track was a beaten one [l). The history of Bradford County by Bradsby (1891),page 978, in dis• cussing the Loomis family states that John Loomis's wife, Adeline Hax ton, was born near Boston, Me.ss. Now, so far as we have ever discovered, there was no Haxton family living in or near Boston in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. There is, however, a village named New Boston in the township of Sandisfield, and in the very part of that township where Abe Haxton 1 s family lived. We feel l{Uite sure the Pemnsylvania historian, never having heard of the little village of New Boston, mis read it as "near Boston." John and Adeline {Haxton} Loomis settled in the town of Alba in Bradford County and spent the remainder of their lives there. John died 19 Oct.1867. Adeline died l4 Feb.1869 [2). 3 Angeline. The Pittsfield Sun of 16 Apr. 1834 carries the notice of the marriage of Asahel Rockwell of Colebrook,Conn., and Miss Angeline Haxturn of Sandisfield at Colebrook[3]. 4 Lovina. Sandisfield town records have: Lovina Haxton, wife of · George Sykes, died 29 Apr.1837 aged 22. Therefore born in 1815. In the cemetery records of South Sandisfield is one which, though different fro~ the above in a number of particulars, is enough like it to make us think it refers to the same Lavina. Some one has read what is probably a nearly illegible gravestone and gives this reading: Lovina Haxton died 30 Aug.1857 aged 23 A happy saint may take the blessed be faith
In life and dwath find rest 0 The lines of "poetry" are so meaningless that one feels sure it was impossible to read them in entirety or correctly. Probably the dates were as dim and illegible. It would be easy on an old stone to read 1857 for 1837; Aug. for Apr.; and the day of the month 29 for 30; the age 22 for 23. We think there was only one Lovina. 38 5 James M.,born 1820 and definitely known to have been Abe's son [4]. He married Caroline Morehouse[4].
1 Berkshire Hist.& Scientific 3 Seen at Pittsfield Public Library Society Collection(l894)p.75 4 Massachusetts Vital Records in the 2 Loomis Genea.logy, p.354 State House, Boston 22 William 4 [Jeremiah 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Jeremiah, probably by his first wife, Amey Sweet, was born 28 Feb.1769 [l]. We have seen him once called son of the second wife (2], but the fact that he named a son Elnathan for Amey Sweet's father, makes us agree with those who make him Arney's son. He married Ruth Tibbits, as is shown by Fishkill records. In my attempt to learn Ruth's parentage, I sent a query to the genealogical section of the Hartford Times and re ceived from Miss Emma S.Underhill of Flushing,Long Island, the following interesting reply: "Several years ago, when I was in need of Tibbits data, a friend went to the Surrogate's Court in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to search for the will of John Tibbits who lived in Beekman, N.Y.,during the Revolutionary period. She found he had four sons, Benjamin, Joseph, John, and Henry- and one daughter Ruth (wife of Wm-----whose surname was almost illegible, but seemed to be 'Hacothus,' a name unfamiliar to my friend who had spent her life in Dutchess Co.) Of course Haxton and Hacothus if written dis• tinctly are very unlike, but Miss Taber wrote she was not at all certain about the letters in this word. The fact that the husband's name was Wil• liam and the wife's Ruth gives added evidence that this is the family you are looking for. I believe, too, it was the only Tibbits family in New York at that early period." Miss Underhill then proceeded to give me Ruth's full lineage. Her parents were John and Elizabeth (Spencer) Tib• bits.and came from East Greenwich, R.I., to Beekman. 15 Apr. 1795 William Haxtun bought a tract of land on the boundary be tween Fishkill and Beekman, one of the witnesses being Benjamin Haxtun, probably his brother[3] 10 Jul. 1796 William Hux.ton of Beekman for $1000.00 mortgaged 288 acres of land to his father,Jeremiah Hux.ton [4]. 1804 William and Ruth executed a deed [5]. 15 Aug. 1827 William Haxtun of Beekman for ~3200 bought of John Tibbits and his wife Sarah 200 acres in Austerlitz [6]. 12 Feb. 1828 William bought of the same John Tibbits for $3000 7 acres in Austerlitz, ½acre in the village of Spencertown, and 65 acres in Spencertown [7]. 14 Apr. 1828 William. and wife Ruth of Beekman for $2200 sold to Milton Niles 60 acres in Spencertown, to include the Saw Mill and the Pond [8]. 15 Apr. 1828 They sold to William Davenport for $196 7½ acres in Aus terlitz on the south side of Hillsdale Turnpike and a bout one-half mile east of the meeting-house in Spencer town [9]. 16 Apr. 1831 William Haxten (sic) of Beekman for $1400 sold to John Tibbits½ acre in Spencertown on the east side of the Hillsdale and Chatham turnpike, and also ---(indistinct} acres on the west side [10]. 22 Apr. 1835 William. Haxstun of Beekman for $4000 sold to Joshua Brown ell 225 acres in Austerlitz.He signed as Haxtun [11] 1 E.Fishkill Cemetery Revords 7 Columbia Co.Deeds L:413 2 Com.Biog.of Dutchess Bo. 846 8 Ibid. M:116 3 Fishkill Deeds 14:336 9 Ibid. Q:361 4 E.E.Brownell's Collection 10 Ibid. Q:247 5 Clifford M.Buck's Collection 11 Ibid. U:466 6 Columbia Co.Deeds L:139 43
William's wife Ruth died 7 Dec.1831 aged 61-7•12, and therefore she must have been born 25 Apr.1770. William died 4 Sept.1847 aged 78-6-6. Both are buried in the Dutch Churchyard, Hopewell, in East Fishkill. · William's will was written 24 June 1822; proved 20 May 1848. An abstract of it has been sent us by Mr. Clifford M.Buck. In it William describes himself as of Beekman and bequeaths to wife Ruth, son Elna than, and daughter Amy, not yet eighteen. So long a time elapsed be tween the writing and the proving of the will that both wife and daugh ter had died before the estate was administered, leaving Elnathan as only heir. The census lists that follow show that William and Ruth probably had children who died young. They also seem to have had some older per sons living with them. The lists we have are: In 1800 1 male & l female 26-44 1 male 16-25 1 male & 1 female 10-15 1 male under 10 In 1810 1 male~ l fem.ale 26-44 l male & 1 female 16-25 1 male 10-15 1 female under 10 also one free white person not included above their stock listed as 5 horses 36 cattle 40 sheep In 1820 l male & 2 females over 44 1 female 26-44 2 males 19-25 1 female 10-15 In 1830 1 mfr.le & 1 female 60-69 1 male & 1 female 40-49 1 male & 1 fem.ale 20-29 1 f'emale 15-19 In 1840 1 male 70-79 1 female 30-39 The two children of William and Ruth (Tibbits) Haxtun whose names we lmow:
39 1 Elnathan, born 1797; married Maria DeLong [l] 2 Amey, born 3 May 1806; died 6 Dec.1830 aged 24-7-3 [2]
1 Marriage notice in the 2 Ee.st Fishkill Cemetery Records "Dutchess Observer 11 44
24 Benjamin 4[Jeremiah 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Jeremiah and Rho da (Akin) Haxton, was born in Beekman 1 Jan.1777 [l]. He lived in the part of Beekman called Gardner's Hollow and was a man of importance, being sent to the General Assembly for two terms [2]. He married first Almira Vanderburgh, born 20 Dec.1785,[3], daughter of ColoJames and Helena (Clark) Vanderburgh [4], and sister of Gen.George W.Van der burgh who married two of Benjamin's sisters. "Council of Appointment" shows that Benjamin had the following military record: In 1800 Benjamin Hackston was made paymaster for Dutchess County in place of G.L.Van der burgh, promoted [S]. In 1803 Benjamin Haxton was appointed adjutant in place of James De Long, promoted; and John F.Losee was made paymaster in place of Benjamin Haxton, promoted [6]. In 1805 "His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief having thought proper to order the raising of a troop of horse within the bounds of Gen.[Samuel Augustus) Barker's brigade in the County of Dutch ess, Stephen Force is appointed Captain, Benjamin Haxtun First Lieutenant, Jolm Wilkinson Second Lieutenant, and Ricketson Collins Cornet thereof"[7]o In 1809 Second Squadron, Second Division: Benjamin Haxtun Captain in place of S.Force, moved; John Wilkinson First Lieutenant in place of Benjamin Haxtun, promoted; ---[8]. In 1812 In the Second Regiment,Cavalry, Benjamin Haxtun was Major of the Second Squadron. [9]. Benjamin's wife Almira died 29 July 1827 aged 41-7-9, and is bur ied in the Vanderburgh ground in Beekman [3]. Benjamin married second on 26 Mar.1828 Sarah Wooley of Pleasant Valley [10]. She was born 13 Oct. 1795, Easton, N.Y., daughter of William I. and Hester (Pell) Wooley, tles ter Pell's mother having been a Vanderburgh [l]o Mr. Clifford M.Buck has sent us notes on three deeds signed by Benjamin, which otherwise we should have missed entirely: One signed by Benjamin and his first wife Almira in 1810 [11]. One signed by him and his second wife Sarah in 1831 [12]. One evidently much later (We do not have the date) signed by sev eral parties, including Benjamin and his nephew Elnathan, in a transaction between them and John and Mary Rogers [13] 1 1 11 01d Dirck's Book"by R.W.Storm 7 Council of Appointments, p.759 {1949 lithograph) 8 Ibid. P• 1051 2 Commemorative Biog.Record of 9 Ibid. P• 1324 Dutchess Co.(1897} pp.846-7. 10 Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Church 3 Beekman Cemetery Records Records 4 1877 Hist.of Dutchess Co.p.499 11 Dutchess Co.Deeds 22:68 5 Council of Appointments,p.488 12 Ibid. 47:262 6 Ibid. P• 672 13 Ibid. 77: 44 & 170 45
Benjamin Haxtun died 21 Oct.1857 aged eighty. His wife Sarah died 26 Oct.1871 aged seventy-six [1]. At tae time of the 1760 census Sarah was living in the home of her son, William w., her age been then given as 63. At tlle time of the 1870 census her age is given rightly as 75. Perhaps tne earlier record nas been a mis-reading. It is impossible to interpret the census listings of Benjall'lin'a family. He had only two children. Evidently a number of people not his children were living in his housenold regularly. The records are: In 1810 1 male&: 1 female 26-44 1 female 16-2.5 In l-820 1 male & 2 females 26-44 1 male 1i-2s 1 ma.le 1 -18 l male under 10 In 1830 1 male so-59 1 female 40-49 1 female 30-39 2 males 20-29 1 male 15-19 1 male under 10 In 1840 1 male 60-69 1 female 40-49 1 female lS-19 1 male 10-14 1 female 5- 9 In 1850 3enjamin 72 Sarah S4 William W.21
Benjamin's two children, both by his second wife, Sarah(Sally) (Wooley, or Woolley) riaxtun, were: 40 1 William. W., born 19 Mar .1829 ( 1]; married Maria De Long. (William W. married one Maria DeLong; his uncle £lnathan married another Maria DeLong. It is very difficult to avoid confusion.) 2 Almira. She was born between 1831 and 1835; died young [2].
1 Storm: ld Dirck's Book 2 Commemorative Biog. Record of Dutchess County(l897) 2:846-7 46
25 Jam.es Bennet 4 [James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of James and Molby (Bennett) Haxton, was born in 1772 t Mr. F.E.• Ra.xton's data] On pages 23-25 we have explained how, in order to harmonize differences in traditions that have come down in two branches of the Haxton family that evidently were for several generations one and the same line, we have had to make adjustments, borrowing a part of each tradition, but not taking all of either. It is in that way that we have arrived at the grouping on this page.
"} ' ·• · A very baffling census record also enters into the picture. In Beekman, Dutchess County-w. New York (where another great group of de• scende.nts of Benjamin 2 and Anne (Smith) Haxton flourished) there ap• peared at the time of the census of' 1800 a "Be.rent" Haxton with a fam• ily consisting of 1 male & 1 female 26-44 3 males 10-15 4 males under 10 In all our many years of searching for Haxtons in old records, this is the only time we have ever seen the name "Barent Haxton 0 " Barent was not yet at Beekman in 1790, although he he at that time had a family of three sons; for the 1790 census has no such head of a household. And he did not remain there long after 1800, for he appears in no later cen• sus. He was there merely in transit. Who was this Haxton with this odd name? Beekman had in its early days many Dutch people; and among the Dutch Barent is a not very uncommon given name--tbe equivalent of our name Bernard, my Dutch friends tell me. Now, my conjecture is this: that .James Bennet Haxton~like nis father and his grandfather before him, a mariner for several years, prob ably making his home in southern Rhode Island or alternately there and on the coast of Long Island; that shortly before 1800, when western mi gration was everywhere in the air, he joined the moving throngs; that for a few months or a very few years he stopped among his cousins in Beelonan; that he probably went by the name of Bennet; that his good Dutch neighbors, including the census-takei thought Bennet sounded like Be.rent and wrote him down so. It seems certpn that there was no Barent Haxton before or after bis Beekman days. · Now, we know that Barent had four sons born between 1790 and 18000 And we think we know that Barent's mother was named Molby. So when we find, as we do, a Molby Haxton born in 1797, we think the chances are that he was one of Barent's sonso We are tnerefore including him with the other sons of James Bennet Haxton, whose names have been preserved in the line of Mrs. Gale Haxton, a precious heirloom. Of Ba.rent's many other sons, according to tne census figures, we have found no trace. We have mentioned the fact that the Sheldons are an old, old Rhode Island family, and that --since she named a son Sheldon, James Bennet's wife may have been a Sheldon; bu-rthis of course is only a conjecture. James Bennet's children that we have, or think we have, were: 41 1 Molby,born in R.I. 14 Oct.1797; married Lucy Geer 42 2 James Harrison, probably born 1801; married Catherine Harper 3 Sheldon, probably born between 1801 and 1810; married----. All we know of him is his name,from Mrs. Gale Haxton, and from the census of 1830,wben he was living at Warwick,R.I.,probably a young married man with an older man(perhaps a parent) living with them, and also a girl too old to be a daughter--perhaps a sister. The census list is 1 male 68--h9 1 mBle ~ 1 female 2 29 l female l~-19 47 26 · John 4 [Benjamin 3 & 2 James l], son of Benjamin and Mary Haxton, was probably the oldest son of his parents and born about 1760 or not many years later. He seems to have been the John Haxstun who, like his father, rendered Revolutionary War service at some time after 1777, gaining thereby Land Bounty Rights. Details have been given on page 25, and will not be repeated here. 26 We judge that John must have married as early as 1780, for in 1800 he had a family that included 1 male & 1 female 26-44 2 females 16-26 4 males under 10 The name of the wife is not known. There may or may not be sig nificance in the fact that they named a son Russell. John lived at first, like his father, at Chatham in Columbia County, New York, some twenty miles south-east of Albany. In 1805 his land there was described as tou&l'l.ing that of his father and that of his brothers Eli and Eber [l]. By the time of the 1810 census John's family had disappeared from Qhatham, nor have we found him in any census for that year. In 1812 there appeared a John Haxton in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, who settled in the township of Canton [2]. The County history confuses him with his son John, but it is not difficult to clear this little confusion. In the census of 1820 John,Sr., has a family that agrees so perfectly with that of John of Chatham, that we are sure the two men are identical. At this time he had a family of
1 male & 1 female over 44 1 female 26-44 1 male & 2 females 16-26 His sons Seth, Russell, and John were heading families of their own in the same township. His son Hosea was still at home, as was one of the older daughters. Two girls had been born since 1800. Descendants of John tell 11s they knew their Pennsylvania ancestors came there from the Hudson Valley [3]. The names of the daughters are unknown to us. The sons were:
1 Columbia Co.Deeds B2:52 3 Mr.Clarence J.Haxton of Ithaca,N.Y. 2 Heverly:Hist.of Bradford Co. 4 the 1850 census (1926) p.401 48
27 Eli 4 [Benjamin 3 & 2 James 1], son of Benjamin and Mary Haxton, was born between 1766 and 1770 if his age was accurately given in all the census lists. Perhaps (especially since this family of Haxtons is }mown to have run to twins) he was twin to his brother Dyer, known to have been born in 1766• Even so, he must have married at an extremely early age to have had two children of sixteen or over by 1800. One of his brothers seems to have made an equally early marriage; while anoth er, Dyer, went to the opposite extreme. At the time of the 1800 census and that of 1810 he was still of Chatham, his father's town. His census lists were In 1800 1 male & 1 female 26-44 1 female over 44 1 male & 1 female 16-25 2 females 10-15 In 1810 1 ma.le & 2 females 26-44 1 male 16-25 1 female under 10 At the time of the 1820 census Eli was not in Columbia County. But there does appear, and with a family right to be his, an Elisha Haxton at Homer in Cortland County, about fifty miles west of the town in Chenango County where Eli's brother had settled. No Elisha is found in those parts at any other time, and we think Eli had made a brief at tempt to follow his brother's example. In one record in Columbia County we found his neme written Elij or with something attached to the Eli, as if the latter were recognized as an abbreviation of something else. Be• fore going to Cortland County Eli had begun living at Austerlitz and it was to Austerlitz that he returned after the short adventure westward. We give below his census records for 1820 at Homer, for 1830 at Auster litz, and his wife's recordi ium:mirtxthere in 1840, after his death. In 1820 1 male & 1 female over 44 1 male 19-25 1 female 16-25 In 1830 1 male & 1 female 60-69 l fern.ale 70-79 1 male 10-14 In 1840 2 females 70-79 1 female 40-49 l male 15-19 In his business dealings, which seem to have been on a rather large scale, Eli seems not to have been successful. Land records show that he owned tracts of land in Chatham, Canaan, and Kllri: Austerlitz, all close together,[l], and we judge that he had also river interests; for on 20 Mar. 1819 Eli rtaxtun of' Austerlitz complained that Elisha Packard, Joseph Good win1Jr., and Elks.na.h F.Fellows had not paid him the sum of $1352.62,a debt 1 Columbia County Deeds B2:52 and V:461 49 due him in connection with their joint ownership of the Brig Thomas. The case was dismissed with costs because of lack of written evidence [l). In 1825 over 200 acres of Eli's land was sold at forced sales to meet an indebtedness or $4000 he had incurred: 200 acres of land in Chatham to Jo3eph D.Monell[2] ½ acre in Chatham to the same Monell [3] 10 acres in Canaan to Eliphalet Gregory [4] All sold by the sheriff, Samuel E.Hudson Abstracts of the above deeds wene sent us by the County Clerk at Hudson, N.Y. In sending the abstract below, the Clerk explained that the second word beginning with His illegible --"might be Henry or Huvey"-- John H----, Adm of Molly Haxtun late of the town of Austerlitz, sells to Alexander F.Starks: Equal undivided fourth part or premises in the town of Austerlitz containing sixty acres and is now in the actual occupation of Hannah Haxton the widow of Eli Haxton dec'd• Sold at public sale. re cites Surrogate's order to sell. Dated Mar.27,1839. Recorded July 10,18390 Consideration $400.00. Recorded in Deed Book CC at page 177. We learn much with certainty from the abstract just give\\,and can inf•~ much more. We learn that Eli had died before 27 Mar.1839. We learn that his wife was named Hannah. We infer that Eli left four children; that one of them was named Molly; and that she too had died before 27 Mar.1839, probably unmarried. The census lists also confirm the four children, or,
rather, there seem to have been two sons ~d three daugh=ters 0 Perhaps one daughter had died early.
We have not found the names of the sons. Two of the daughters were probably l Molly, above 2 Clara, born 1789[5]; she was one of the daughters between 10 and 15 in 1800 who had married and left home before the 1810 census. The death record states that she was born at Chatham. She married Walter Adsit, born 1785, son of Martin and -----(Haight) Adsit of Chatham. [6]. Walter died 6 Aug.1847 aged 62; and "Clarry" his wife died 10 May 1858 aged 69.Both are buried in Austerlitz Cemetery. Walter's birth and death years are given somewhat differently in American Ancestry; but we are accepting the town records as prob ably the more accurate. har them is buried Anson P.Adsit,proba bly a son, who died 28 June 1840 aged 33 1 1 Files of Court of Appeals at 4 Columbia Co.Deeds E:347 Albany 5 Austerlitz Cemetery Records 2 Columbia Co.Deeds H:119 6 American Ancestry 2:2 3 Ibid. H:123 50
28 Dyer 4[Benjamin 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Benjamin end Mary Haxton, was born in 1766, as is lmown from his death record. He seeID.f!F to have remained a long time unmarried and in his father's home in Chatham,Co~umpia County, New York [l]. He had evidently purchased his father's large farm.; for on 24 Apr.1805 in preparation for his ap proaching marriage and removal to Counecticut, he sold for $6250.00 to Benjamin Haxstun, his father, three hundred acres of land that had formerly belonged to Benje.min and that is described as bounded by land of his brothers Eber, John, and Eli [2]. ~8 On 29 Sept.1805 Dyer Haxton "of the state of New York" married at Stamford, Conn., Charlotte Brown of Stamford [3]. He was then thirty nine years old. Of course it may be he had been :married before and that we simply did not find any record of the earlier wife• Charlotte Brown was a widow. She had married on 14 May 1789 Enos Brown, born 28 Oct.1765, son of Joseph and l:tebecca (Skilding) Brown [4]. Upon marriage Dyer settl.ed in Stamford. In 1807 Dyar Haxton was one of the inhabitants of the town who signed a petition tor a highway [5]. On 16 Feb.1810 Dyer Haxton of Stamford for $600.00 bought six acres of land of Matthias st.John, Jr.,end his wife Sarah [6].
On 15 Sept .1810 Dyer's wi.fe Charlotte died [4) • In her will, written 16 April and proved 21 September of that year she me.de be quests to her husband, to her child unborn--if any--and to her brothers Asahel, Amos, Jonathan, and Abiathar Weed, and to her sisters Mary Hays, wife of Josiah; Prudence Hoyt, wife of Nezer; and Hannah Hoyt, wife of Epenetus [71• The child referred to was born 27 May 1810; was named Louisa Charlotte; and died eight days after the mother did [4].
On 17 Feb.1811 Dyer married second Sarah Hoyt[)]. She was born 27 Jan.1774, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Weed) Hoyt [8). Sara.h,wife of Dyer Haxton, was admitted to membership in the First Congregational Church of Stamford on 31 Oct.1813 [3). Dyer Haxton died "in 1820 aged 54"[3]. His will was written on 9 May 1811 and proved 23 Oct.1820[7]. He left all to his wife Sarah. Probate records for Stam.ford show that on 4 Sept.1820--eight weeks before such administration was granted on Dyer's estate-- ad ministration was granted upon the estate of Louisa C.Haxton late or Stamf'ord. Since Dyer's child of that name died in 1810, and since he could not have had another of the name old enough to have an estate administered, we understand this Louisa c. to have been a sister of Dy er who had remained unmarried end made her home in Stamford. The ad• 1 The 1800 census 5 Stamford Deeds Book 1 2 Columbia County Deeds B2:S2 6 Ibid. Q:402 3 Records of the First Congre- 7 Stam.ford Probate Records gational Church1 Ste.mford 8 DoW.Hoyt: Hoyt Genealogy(l871) 4 Stamford Town Records p.396 51 ministrator appointed for her estate was Jonathan weed,Jr. A deed bearing date 23 Mar.1841 shows that land in Stamford was sold, the boundaries given being North: by land of the estate of Cary H.Leeds dec'd and John R. Leeds East: by land of Joseph Hoyt, the Widow Haxton, and Horace Lock• wood South: by "Shun Pike" West: by the highway [l] Th.is is the last reference we have found to Dyer's widow, until the notice of her death, which occurred 1 Apr.1857 when she was eighty three years old. This is the date given on her gravestone. The church record gives it as 2 Apr.1857. Dyer's gravestone stands without any dates at all.
l The Gorham manuscript genealogy at N.E.H.G.H. 14:71 .52
29 Benjamin 4 [Benjamin 3 & 2 James 1], son of Benjamin and Mary Haxton, was born about 1772, as we know from the cemetery records of Sherburne, Chenango County, New York [1]. His people were of Chatham in Columbia County, and in 1792 he was of near-by Canaan, as we know from a deed of Berkshire County, across the Massachusetts boundary line: On 1 Oct.1792 Benjamin Haxton, Jr., of Canaan, Columbia County, New York, for £120 bought of Oliver Root and his wife Anna two acres of land in Lenox, Berkshire County, the witnesses being Se.mu.el Quincy and Sarah Root [2]. At some time soon after this Benjamin married Sarah Lovejoy. We should never have found her name had it not been preserved in the death record of her son Andrew at Norwich, also in Chenango County [3). Sarah was probably the Sarah mentioned as daughter in the will of Capt. Daniel Lovejoy (1738-1795) of Canaan, whose wife was Prudence Cady, daughter of Ebenezer and Prudence (Palmer) [4]. They probably set up housekeeping in Benjamin's home town of Chatham, for it was there that their son Chauncey was born in mid-summer 1794[5]; but in 1795 they were of Lenox, Masso, for on 18 Apr.1795 Benjamin Haxton, Jr., of Lenox for £105 sold two acres of land in Lenox to Ashbill Hill of Lenoxo Ben jamin's wife "Sally" added her signature to his [6]. Since Chauncey Haxton's obituary [S] states that he was brought to Sherburne when he was eight years old, his people must have removed from Columbia to Chenango County about 1802. There is little in the records about their further lives. From the obituary of their son Andrew we know that there were thirteen childreno[S]. A Sarah Haxton was admitted to membership in the Congregational Church of Sherburne in 1817. This may probably have been Benjamin's wife (It was the year she died), but there may have been a daughter Sarah, of whom we know nothing else. We got this item from the Congregational Church records. Sarah, wife of Benjamin Haxton, died at Sherburne 20 Aug.1817. Benjamin had a second wife named Beda. This is an unusual name; and since Andrew Haxton, son of Benjamin and Sarah {Lovejoy} married Orilla Kinney, daughter of Benjamin and Beda Kinney, we have conjec tured that Benjamin Haxton 1 s second wife may have been his son's moth~ wr-in-law, Beda Kinney. Benj8l'lin and Beda Kinney lived in New Berlin in Chenango County and Beda had been widowed since 9 Oct.1814 when her husband fell at Fort Erie in the War of 1812 [7] 0 Benjamin Haxton died at Sherburne 19 Feb.1835 aged 63. Beda his second wife died there 12 Fah.1843 aged 67. Benjamin and both his wives are buried in Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery [l].
1 Data collected by Mrs.Edwin P. 4 Lovejoy genealo*y(l930) p.101 Smith, Sherburne Genealogist 5 "Sherburne News obituary, from 2 Berkshire Co.Deeds 33:19 Mrs. E.P.Smith's Collection 3 Data collected by Mrs.William 6 Berkshire Co.Deeds 35:155 T~omas, Norwich Historian and 7 Kinney genealogy,p.107 53
Benjamin and Sarah (Lovejoy) Haxton are known to have had thirteen children, for when their son Andrew died his obituary stated that he left a sister, Mrs. A.R.Bryant of Sh.erburne,"the last surviving member of a family of thirteen children"[l). We have found the names of eight Haxtons, some of whom surely, others probably--living where they did and being of the age they were--were among these children. For five we can render no accounting whatsoever. Andrew was certainly their son, for in his death record he is def initely called son of Benjamin and Sarah (Lovejoy) Haxton [2)o Andrew, Chauncey, Lydia, and 11 ?-K..rs.Robinson of Sherburne" are called brothers and sisters in different obituaries. Mrs. Robinson of Sherburne was Lovenia, wife of Stillman Robinson. It is said that Amanda, wife of Lysander Robinson, was Lovenia's sister, and so another daughter of Benjamin and Sarah(Lovejoy) Haxton •• Because Marcenus and Chauncey~ end William Haxton all found their way into Livingston County in Western New York, we have thought Marcenus and William probably were brothers of Chauncey. If so, they were a.11 among the oldest of Benjamin's children. Our list, then of eight of the children of Benjamin and Sarah (Lovejoy) Haxton, proven and probable, is: 46a ?l Marcenus; married Eliza Palmer 47 2 Chauncey; married (1) Pruda---- (2) Eliza---- He was born 1794 ?3 William, born between 1795 & 1800; married-----. At the time of ~he census of 1820 he wes at Chemung., Tioga County, N.Yo, head of a family with only himself in the family; in the age group of 19-25. By the time of the 1830 census he was married and living in Livingston County, New York. His family consisted of 1 male 30-40 1 female 20-30 1 male under 5 ?4 E.N. Haxton,born 1805. Mrs. E.P.Smith of Sherburne found this item for us in Sherburne vital records: On 25 Jan.1849 married by Rev.J.W.Fox of Sherburne E.N.Haxton of Sherburne age 44 to Stephen Ambler of Truxton,N.Yo, age 52. This may be a daughter of Benjamin--her birth year is good; or she may have been a daughter-in-law remarrying. In the now defunct Boston Transcript of 13 June 1928(item Q 7319 of the genealogical sheet) is an i tem atating that Millie Norton, whose people came to Chenango County, New York, from Wolcott, Connecticut, married a Huxton. If Millie is a form of, say, Emilia, then E.N. might be very logical initials for her to use in remarrying. 48 5 Andrew H., born in 1807; married Orilla Kinney 6 Lydia, born 1810.She married Almon R.Bryant, born at North Nor wich, Chenango County, l~- Aug.1808, son of Ambrose and Charlotte (West) Bryant [l). Almon died at Sherburne 1 July 1893; Lydia died 6 Feb.1886. They are buried in Christ Church Cemetery,four and a half miles north of Sherburne [3).
1 Data sent us by MrsoMinnie B. 3 Data sent us by Mrs.Edwin P.Smith~ Walling, Earlville, N.Y. Sherburne, :r;:. Y. 2 Data. sent us by Mrs.William Thomas, Norwich,NoY. 54
7 A~anda; married Lisander Robinson.[l]. The 1850 census shows that Lisander was born about 1810 and his wife Amanda about 1812. He died 30 Augol889 aged 77; and Amanda died 14 Aug.1880 aged 67. Both are buried in the Quarter Burying Ground in Sher burne[l]. 8 Lovenia; married Stillman Robinson, born in 1805, son of Wil liam and Mehitable (Kinne) Robinson. She was born in 1813. Stillman's father was one of the very early settlers near the Kinne farm in New Berlin, ChenE.:ngo County[2].It would seem that he was latef of West Greece in Monroe County, New York, near to Rochester [3]. Lovenia died in 1876 and Stillman in 1887. Their gravestones are in Sherburne West Hill Cemetery[l & 4].
Since typing the above partially conjectural list of children, we have received from Mrs. Dora Wright of Washington, D.C., a transcript of the 1810 census record of Benjamin's family. It gives us Sarah (Lovejoy) Hax ton' s birth year, between 1765 and 1784. We know it was 1774, since she i::: s ~? whe~ she died in 1817. It confirms rather well the children's ages. The census record reads: 1 m 26-45 (Benjamin was 38) 1 f 26-45 (Sarah was 36). 2 m 16-26 (say, Marcenus born 1792 & c:1auncey, born 1794) 1 m 10-16 (say, William born 1795-1300) 1 f 10-16 (possibly the Sarah baptized in 1817} l m under 10 (Ar.drew, 0orn 1807}
2 f under 10 (perhaps -d ~::. born about 1805 & Lydia born 1810)
In a number ot the American Monthly Magazine or 1912 we found many years ago the following item, which would seem to indicate (Beda being so very unusual a n81118) that the Beda who married tirst Benjamin Kinney and second Benjamin Haxton was a sister ot Miles Norton: "Miles Norton (1783-1853) of Wolcott, Conn., removed with his sisters and brothers to Chenango County, New York. The brothers and sisters married Skinners, Bullocks, Alcotts, and one of them named Bede married a Haxton or an Alcox."
1 Data from Mrs.William Tnomas 3 The Kinne genealogy (1947)p.106 of Norwich 4 Data of Mrs. Edwin P.Smith ot 2 Smith:Hist.of Chenango Co. Sherburne (1880) p.387 55
30 Jeremiah 4·[?Benjam.in 3 & 2 James l], may not belong where we are putting him. It is our best conjecture as to his placement. For very long--as will be seen from page 22 a---we thought him probably son of Jeremiah of Beekman {our number 11); now we are placing him in the Fishkill-Chatham groupo In favor of our former theory is the tact that Jeremiah of Beekman had a male of over sixteen in his tam• ily in 1790 who had left before the next census-taking and has never been accounted tor; also Jeremiah would be a natural name for the old• est son in this family. Opposed to this theory is the fact that Jere miah left a careful will and in no way mentions such a son; also the tendency of the Beekman group of young folks to "stay put" and not to migrate. In favor of the theory that Jeremiah 4 was of the Chatham Haxtons is the fact that most of them wandered--into Connecticut, Penn sylvania, Chenango, Cortland, lfivingston Counties of New York--; the fact that Benjamin of Chatham left no will and that his fe.Ddly has not ever, in so far as we have discovered, been assembled into a tabulated form, and the fact that young Jeremiah's age suits very well that of the brothers and sisters of this family. It seems hardly likely, too, that Betsey Haxton, who seems rather definitely to be of the Columbia County family, would have wandered off to Western New York unless other kin folk were going, too. At any rate, wherever he belongs, sometime soon after the turn of the century Jeremiah Haxton appeared at Oakfield, New York, which the Cleveland genealogy describes as being in the western part of Batavia township at that time. His wife was Abigail Holley [l]. One notices that among other early settlers in Batavia were Brinckerhoffs, who also came there from Fishkill [2]. In those days most of Oakfield was an Indian reservation. No land could be sold there until after 1832[3]0 So there could be no deeds in Jeremiah's name. Between 1805 and 1810 Jeremiah and Abigail had two and probably three children. Then he disappears completely from the records. We are sure he is the Haxton referred to in the following paragraphs. Indeed, at that early time there was no other Haxton in the vicinity of Batavia who could be so referred toi "At the close of the war of 1812 two soldiers returning to their homes stopped at the home of Thomas Beckwith sick. They took them in and did all that could be done for them. Both died with cholera. There being no public cemetery, they were buried with their son, who had passed on. These graves are on the state road about five miles west of Batavia in the southwest corner of the field belonging to Mrs.John Gould joining the land of Mrs. Boshart. We of the present time do not know the names or history of these men." The paragraph above, typewritten, is in the Grosvenor Library in Buffaloo There it was found by Mr.LaVerne C.Cooley, who was able to add more. In his "Tombstone; Inscriptions from the Abandoned Cemeteries and Farm Burials of Genesee County(l952) he writes: 1 Cleveland genealogy (1899) 3 Genesee County Directory pp.528 and 1129 2 Gaz.& Biog.Rec.,Genesee Co.,p.257 56
"Someone found at least the last names of these men somewhere, as a wooden sign was erected there, which the compiler can remember read• ing: 1Two soldiers of the war of 1812. Haxton and Pierce.' The sign is now gone and for some time only the flags placed in the markers on Dec oration Day has marked the spot."
So Jeremiah was one of the brave ones who fought and died for their country. And, since the war closed in 1815, that was approximately the date of his death.
The children of Jeremiah and Abigail (Holly-Hawley) Haxton were: 49 1 Samuel, born in 1805; married Eliza Go----- 2 possibly Ann, born 1807. OUr reason for thinking that an Ann may belong here is, that in the State Library in Albany, in the file for Oakfield Cemetery Records, and grouped together with the records of Samuel and Eliza G., is the following: William Mills 1806-1873 Ann his wife 1807•1885 Of course, Ann may have been a sister of Eliza G.--or a wholly unrelated individual. One cannot tello
3 Sally Ann, born 18 Augol810. She married 5 Feb.1829 William Ce McCrillis, born in Madison Coimty, New York, 3 Oct.1806. son of William and Eunice (Cleveland) McCrillis [1]. The McCrillis line of fd.igration is given in the Genesee County Gazetteer [2]: William was born in Colrain,"Conn." (Is there a Colrain, Conn? Should this not be Colerain,Mass.?) and married a Connecticut girl; was in Madison County, New York when his son William c. was born, and in Elba, six miles north of Batavia, when his youngest daughter was born; and settled on lot 10, section 5 in Oakfield in 1810. In a scrap-book of newspaper clippings entitled "soldier Dead" and snelved with books on Batavia, we found this item: "Dea.William McCrelles, in graveyard at Newkirk on Bank st. Road: Rev.War." Willirun, Jr., or William C.McCrillis, husband of Sally Ann Haxton, was supervisor of Oakfield for nine years (3). He was in his sev enty-ninth year when he died [41• He must therefore have died a bout 1884. Sarah was still alive in 1890. The Genesee Gazetteer of that year has this entry: "Sarah McCrillus, widow of William c., 61 acres." William c. and Sally, or Sarah, Ann had nine children born between 1830 and 1851. [5].
1 Cleveland genealogy {1899) 3 Ibid. page 567 PP• $28 & 1129 4 Ibid. page 587 2 Gazetteer and Biographical 5 The McCrillis genealogy by Her Record,Genesee Co.po578 bert O.M.McCrillis 51
31 James ?5[William 4 Nathaniel 3 William 2 James 1],1s placed here not because we are certain he belongs here, but because he seems to fit here better than anywhere else. If we did not have his own defi nite statement that he was born in Warwick, we should feel very strong ly that he was a son of Benjamin of Coventry, but Benjamin was of Cov" entry before 1776, and Jam.es was not born till 1778. So we think he was probably son of William and Molly (Allen) Hackston. The fact that he named a son William perhaps strengthens that probability a little. tt i ' James started out as a mariner--perhaps always was one. The first mention we find of him is in the Register of Protections granted to American Seamen in the District of Providence, Book 3, page 79 and reads: "James Hackstone ae 18 height five feet ten and three-fourths inches, dark complexion; has a scar over his right eye, and one under his chin; born Warwick; date of certificate 13 Aug.1806." James had a wife named Sarah. They were probably married about 1810, for their family in 1820 included
1 ma.le & 1 female 26-44 2 males & 1 female under 10 22 Dec. 1815 James Hackstone of Warwick mortgeged to Charles Allen of Coventry,a.I.,for $91.34 his house and lot in Warwick, there being five acres of land, bounded as follows: North: by the highway East: by John Warner South: by Little Pond West: by Thomas Lippitt [1] Part payment was ma.de on the mortgage in 1816, and it was fully redeemed in 1821, at which time Charles Allen was of Woodstock, Conn. 7 July 1821 James Hackstone and wife Sarah of W&rwick (she signing by her mark)for $115 mortgaged the same property to Jolm R.Waterman [2]. 15 May 1827 James and Sarah for $150 sold the same property to Charles Lockwood, it being described as the house and lot where I now dwell o'Wi tnesses :Jeremiah Webb and Thomas Lockwood[3]. In the census of 1830 James of Warwick had 1 male & 1 female 40-49 2 males 10-14 1 female under 5 James had evidently died before 1840, for Sarah, then of Smithfield,had 1 female 50-59 1 male 20-29 1 female 15-19 We know the name of only one of the children:
50 1 William1born 10 Feb.1820pnarried Lucy Wade Brown 1 Warwick Deeds 17:19 3 Ibid. 19:268 2 Ibid 18:94 4 Glocester,R.I., Death Records (contributed by Dr.c.w.Barlow) S8
32 Jon.n [ probably 2 Robert 1), son of Robert and Nancy Haxton., is known to us onl:' through mention of 11im by Mr. Jewse W.Haxton of Co shocton, Oh!o, who is a great grandson of John and who has found the cravestones of several of Jon.n's children. On the ;ravestones John's wife is simply M. 11 c11ilc. of John and Man Nr. riayton thinks M. proba bly stands for Marye John and M. Haxton had eighteen children, thirteen sons and five daughters. One of the sons, Jesse W.iia.xton's grandfather, was SaMuel. We hope to have the names of others of the children before we close tnis manuscript. At present we nave only: 62 1 Andrew, born eithe:' 1835 [l] or 1837 [2]; married----- 63 2 Sa~~el, born eithe~ 1837[1]; or 1843[3];married Mary Patterson [2]
1 M:',Orrer- L.Raxton's records 3 ~he 1870 census for Mill Creek 2 Mr.Jesse \Llfa.xton's r-eco:>ds 59 His father was probably Robert 1. 33 Richard 5[Hober~ 4 ?Benjanti.n 3 ~ 2 Jarnes l], This Haxton line has been charmingly written up by Mrs.Bertha M.(Haxton) Pottenger in a man uscript entitled "Rambling Rememberings," excerpts of which have been sent us by Mr.Pottenger, by Mrs. Louis D.Haxton or Honolulu, and by Mrs. Louise (Haxton) Gray of Greenville, Mississippi. From this manuscript we know the exact date of Richard's birth, 13 June 1805. From the manuscript of early Coshocton Marriages in the State Library at ColUl'llbus,Ohio, we have the exact date of his marriage: It was on 16 Feb.1830 that "Richard Hackiaon married Zebina Grimo" During the early years of life in Ohio the family name was usually spelled Hackison or Hackinson, Hackeson or Hack enson, but sometimes (as always later) Haxton. We will quote a paragraph from Mrs.Pottenger's manuscript: "Richard Haxton was of Scotch-Irish descent, coming from Pennsylvania to Ohio with his family in early childhood. I knew very little of them.The only one I ever remember seeing [Mrs.Pottenger was born in 1871] was & nephew, Andrew Haxton and family who cs.me to see Uncle DickJyon way back to their home in Nebraska after a visit back to Ohio. The boy's name was Andy, too; and when Lloyd and Ellry some time ago sent us clippings from the Daily San Francisco Fair Journal telling of an Andy Haxton showing his fine draf't horses, I thought it might be he. Grandfather (Richard) was very patient and a great help with the older children. He was a great stoM ry teller; but his wife even more so. She was of a good old German family- tho' not German-speaking--always busy, always in the same straight-backed, cane-bottomed low chair, and always the same shawl folded over the back of it, her clay pipe within reach." Quoting further from "Rambling RemberingsJ" "Richard and Sabrina Hax ton left Coshocton County, Ohio, and went to Indiana by way of Zanesville, Ohio, in the fall of 1840. They settled in the southern part of Owen Coun ty, four and a half miles north of Old Point Commerce, their nearest town and trading center 1.Ultil the establishment of Worthington, ten years later. I well rememf>er seeing the deed signed by Andrew Jackson to the forty a.cres of Government land bought by Grandfather and later transferred to our father John, to which he from time to time added another forty or sixty till the big stock farm of nearly five hundred acres as we knew it was ac complished, with the big old-fashioned house~built in 1856, and the many barns and outhouses surrounding.'Haxton Hill' it was called; and items from that neighborhood in local p&pers are still headed 'Haxton.' At first it was a comfortable one-room log house with loft. A lean-to kitchen was added. Fireplace for heat and cooking. The boys slept in the loft, reached by an outside stairway. Sabina was a Grim6 daughter of George, who drove out from Ohio some winters to stay with them.• Others have mentioned the fact that these Grims were thought to be a-kin to the famous author of "Grimm's Fairy Tales." Richard Haxton died 17 Aug.1888. Sabina died 19 Marwl885. Their chil• dren were: 51 l Alex c.,born 1 Decel830;:married Mary L.Harstine 52 2 John, born 8 July 1833; :ms.rried Julia Ann Griffith 3 Rebecca, born 1835; married Alford McClarren 60 His father was ,robably Jobert 1. 34 Robert M.5{Robert ~ ?Benjamin 3 & 2 ~am.es 1] is known to have been son of Robert because so called in his father's will. He was a minor when the will was written in 1824 and was left by his f•ther to the guardianship of Alexander MacGowan, who had married Robert M1 s sister Mary. We know that Robert M. was born about 1814 and where be• cause at the time of the census of 1870 he stated that he was then 56 years old and born in Pennsylvania. Coshocton County Marriage Records show that on 16 Mar.1841 R.M.Hackinson married "Ann R.Lewis(or Rebecca Louis)." They removed from Mill Creek to Coshocton and Robert bees.me a man of local importance. His wife was also born in Pennsylvania. She was 50 ye~rs old in 1870, and so born about 1820. We have picked up the folM lowing items about Robert Mo: 16 Sept.1844 Robert Hackinson for $30.00 bought of William and Mary Pal• mer, all of Coshocton Cowity, all the interest of her for mer husband James Hackinson,dec'd, in Lot #178. Mary signed by her mark; William Palmer wrote his own name. [l). 17 Oct. 1846 Robert M.Haxton for $67.00 bought of Isaiah Harris, ad.min• istrator of the estate of James Hackinson. Lot 178,subject to the dower of Mary Palmer, widow of James Hackinson [2]. 11 Feb. 1851 R.M.Hackinson joined with many of his fellow townsmen in signing a petition, asking that certain fines that had been collected by the Court be turned over for use in improving educational facilities. [3] 1856 R.M.Hankenson is mentioned as druggist [4). 1857/SR.M.Hackinson is County Recorder (5). 24 Apr. 1861 A list of this date shows that R.Hackinson was a private in the first company that left Coshocton for Columbus [6]. He was later Third Sargeant in Company F, the 51st Ohio[7). 1870 He was Hotel Proprietor [8].
We have not found the dates of death of e•ither Robert M. or of his wife, who in 1870 was called Anna R.Hackinhon. At that time they had two daughters living at home with them. What other children they may have had we do not know. These two were: 1 Eliza V., described as telephone operator end born in Ohio in 1847. On 2 Ja.n.1877 "Niss L.V.Hackinson., daughter of Robert," married Dr.W.C.Frew, son of John Frew of Washington Count1, Pennsylvania [9]. Dr.Frew was born in Coshocton 31 Octol844 and was a graduate of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,Class of 1866[9]0 2 Emeline, born in Ohio in 1850[8].
l Coshocton Co.Deeds 20:271 6 Ibid.page 323 2 Ibid. 20:613 7 Ibid.page 339 3 Hill:His-..""f Coshocton c.p.440 8 The 1870 Census 4 Ibid. page 433 9 Hill,op.cit.,page 686 5 Ibid. page 304 61
35 King Andrew 5[Jeremiah 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 J~mes l], son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (King) Haxton, was born 9 Dec.1797 [l]. He waa fourteen years old when his father died at Mount Washington, which is in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. As guardian King Andrew was ~iven the husband of his sister Perlina, Horace Warner of Salisbury, Connec• ticut, which is just across the state line from Mount Washington [2]. He married Mary Donihue, who was born 6 Jan.1801[3].They early removed across the New York State line and settled in Cambridge, Washington County, founding there a family of local importance that spread,together with the King family, through a radius of some two hundred miles [3]oThe section where they lived was known as King Valley [1].0f Scotch descent[4)c King Rn.drew was referred to sometimes as farmer, sometimes as car• penter [4]. He operated a fruit nursery[l]o In the Cambridge Directory of 1871 he is listed as having 70 acres. In religion he was a Metho dist; in politics, a Democrat [4]. Since his age at death is given as eighty-three(4], he must have died about 1880. He was the father of eleven children, all but one of whom had left King Valley by 1895, the sole remaining branch being that of his daughter Martha, wife of Wil• 11am Austin [l]. When King Andrew's sister, Mrs.Abigail Palmer, died in 1884, she was referred to as sister of "the late KoA.Haxton."[5]. The children of King Andrew and Mary (Donihue) Haxton were: 1 Howard w. Although we have fou.~d his name in lists of King Andrew's children, we have never found an item of any sort about him. It is possible that he is identical with Horace w., below. 53 2 Jeremiah; married Mary Darrow 54 3 Andrew King,born 10 Dec.1823; married Martha Darrow 4 Caroline; married------Pratt [4) 55 5 Palmer; married Mary. He was born in 1830(6] 56 6 William, born 1834; married Ruth 57 7 James, born 1828, and should have been listed before Palmer. His wife was named Laura. [6]. 8 Horace w.; married Fannie E.Weeks 9 Nelson [4) 10 Anna Mary; married ---Narramore[4] 11 Martha J., born 1845; married William A.Austin (1843-1918),son of James Howard and Ruth (Snell) Austin. Martha died in 1885, and William married second Helen F.Twiss (1850-1939) [7]. We notice that in the census of 1870 King Andrew and his wife Mary both shaved a little off their ages. The-census record reads: King Haxton, ae 69 farmer, born N.Y ~7700.00 and $1200.00. Mary ae 67, born N.Y. •
1 Data sent us by Mr.Frank Mc 4 Sylvester:Hist.of Saratoga Co.,N.Y. Clellan,Mechanicville,N.Y. (1893) P~• 557-558 2 The Haxton manuscript by 5 Wash.co. Post" of 29 Aug. 1884 Frank E.Randall,N.Y.c. 6 The 1870 Census 3 Records kept by Miss Jessie 7 Moore:Austin Genealogy(1951)p.538 Van Rensselaer 62
36 Washington Morton ~[Benjamin 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1], son of Benjamin by hia second wife, Sarah Morton, was born in 1803 [l]. He is known to be son of Benjamin of Catskill because named in his father's will, being bequeathed one thousand dollars by that instrument [2].Stiles' aistory of Wethersfield,Connecticut calls him a descebdaht of both Francis Cooke of the Mayflower and Governor 1Morton of the Forefathers• Ship [3]. On 25 July 1824 he married Sophia Maria Taylor, who was born 13 Apr.1800~ daughter of David and Millicent (Lewis) Taylor of Waterbury, Conn.[4].The notice of the marriage that appeared in the Poughkeepsie Journal of 28 Ju• ly 1824 reads as follows: Washington Haxton, Esq., married on Sunday last Miss Sopijia M.L.Taylor, both of the city of New York, married by Rev.Dr. Reed [5]. Washington M. was a lawyer. He was the solicitor who acted for his father when the latter on 12 July 1831 brought suit against Equations Freligh and his wife Jane; Orrin Day; John Volkenburgh,Jr.J and the Pres• ident, Directors, and Company of Catskill Bank (6). Washington Haxton died 25 Feb.1850 [l]. The Federal census for 1860 shows that Sophia "N•" Haxton was then living in the home of H.G. and Phebe A. Johnson of Catskill, her age be ing given as sixty. Phebe A.Johnson was Washington's half-sister[7]. Sophia died on 12 Oct.1882 ]8],and since she died at Waterbury, Conn., we judge she may have spent her last years in her childhood home town. Phebe Johnson had predeceased her by several years.
Washington Morton and Sophia Maria (Taylor) Haxton had only one child: 59 Milton, born 5 Oct.1825; married Annie Arnoux [9]
1 Penciled into the Randall Manu- 5 "Marriages & Deaths in Dutchess script by someone else Co.1778-1825,n p.52 2 Greene Co.Prob.Records D:38 6 Court of Appeals Files,Albany 3 Stiles:Wethersfield,p.702 7 See page 28 of this manuscript 4 gravestone inscription and 8 gravestone inscription,Waterbury Stiles, op. cit. 9 The Rendall Ms., N.Y.City 6j
37 Andrew B. 5 [Benjamin 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1], son of Benjamin of Catskill and his second wife, Sarah Morton, was born on 5 Aug.1805 [l]. He was a Marine Insurance Broker [2] and lived in New York City, his office being on Wall Street and his home at 45 Grove Street [3]. He was married twice: first, to Mary Ann Britton [4], by whom there were two sons; and second, at Kent, Connecticut, on 13 Nov. 1834 to Mira Ann Raymond. [5]. This second marriage was noticed in the "Litchfield County Post and Enquirer" of 27 November, and in the "New England Review" of 1 December. Kent church records add that the mar• r1age was performed by Rev.William W.Andrews[6]. Mira Ann Raymond was born 14 0ct.1817, daughter of John M. and Florilla (Mills) Raymond of Kent [7]. By the second marriage there were four children. Andrew B. and his children used regularly the Haxtun form of name spelling. He was the son who was named as executor of his father's will (1833-18360[8]. The administration had not been fully completed at the time of his own death, since the legacy to two of the heirs,now deceased, had not yet been distributed among the other heirs [9]. Andrew B. did not, like his father, engage greatly in real estate, so far as we have found. There is one deed by which on 17 Mar.1837 he and wife Mira Ao of New York Vity for $700 sold to Eli Brandew of Hun• ter, Greene County, New York, certain property [10]. In 1848 he had~ storage place at Water Street North Dock in Brooklyn (11],showing that he probably was engaged in merchandising as well as in insurance. Up to the time shortly before his death, Andrew B. Haxtun was a very successful business man, end had a collection of paintings of great value. Then he suffered reverses, due to stock market fluctua tions. He died on 27 0ct.1848 [1]. In 1850 the widow, Mira A., was still living at 45 Grove Street. On 6 Feb.1854 she married at Kent,Connecticut the Hon.David Everett Wheeler, "both of New York City"[l2]He was born 4 Sept.1804, son of John Brooks and Hannah {Hills) Wheeler, and had married first at Weath ersfield, Vermont, on 14 Feb.1833 Elizabeth Jarvis, born Haverhillt Mass.,22 Feb.1811,daughter of William end Mary Pepperell (Sparhawk) Jarvis [13]. He held degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, and had been Senator in New York in 1845[13]. Myra Ann (Ray mond-Haxtun) Wheeler died 10 Mar.1886[7].
1 The Randall manuscript,N.Y.C. 7 Raymond genealogy(l886)p.62 2 Family data sent by Mr.Kenneth 8 Greene Co.Probate Records D:38 G.Haxtun 9 Greene Co.Deeds 45:225 & 69:319 3 N.Y.C.Directories, 1840 ff. 10 Ibid. X:255 4 Adams genealogy(l898)p.361 11 Brooklyn Directory,1848 5 Kent town records 12 N.Y.C. vital records 6 Hartford V.R.Room 2:156 13 Wheeler genealogy{l914}p.173 The Ohildren of Andrew B. Haxtun were
By his first wife, Mary Britton: 60 1 Benjamin; married Susan c.Naylor 2 William, born 15 July 1826; married 9 June 1853 Adeline Reed Adams[l], born in New York City 16 May 1833 [2], daughter ot Herma Cuyler Adams and his wife Adeline (Reed) [J]. Their home was at first in New York City, but later on Staten Island. On 16 Jan.1850 Williaa and his brother Benjamin, both of New York City, sold to Mary Ann Fraser of Troy {their first cousin) land in Athens,Greene County, New York, left them by the will of their grandf'ather, Ben jamin Haxtun of Catskill [4]. On 14 Jan.1852 William and Benjandn and the latter's wife Susan, all of New York City, sold to Henry Johnson, their uncle, of Catskill all their rights as heirs of Jehial Haxtun(9robably a mis-copy for Julia a.Haxtun) and as heirs of Caroline .daxtun, both deceased (5]. The old directories show us William's occupations and interests. At first he was a dealer in oils, and then in lard. Then and often he is described simply a• merchant. For a time he was "Secretary,155 Broadway," and at other times "Vice-president at 21 Cortlandt." In his will, probated 22 May 1876, Herman C.Adams of Cox sackie, Greene County, mentioned his daughter Addie R., wife of William ifaxton. Tr1e Jones-Hathaway- genealogy states that Adeline Reed (Ada.ms) nHaxtine" had a sister and a niece living at Deer wood, Michigan. William liaxtun. died 21 Mar. 1896 [ 3]. Some time after hia death, Adeline moved back to New York City. She died 16 Nov.1906[2 There were no children.
By his second wife, Myra Ann rtaymond: ) John Raymond, born 19 Sept.1836; died 19 Sept.1837 [6). 4 Myra Raymond, born 25 July 1838[6],or 25 July 1839 [7]; married 10 May 1855 John Gorham Vose, born in Boston 18 Mar.1829, aon ot Reuben and Sarah Fenno (Hunting) Vose[7]. He waa a graduate of New York University, a lawyer, and the builder of the original station for the D.L.and w. railway at South Orange, New Jersey. Two of their children were born in N·ew York City, four in Orange [ ~ M.r. Vose had much to do with the development of the Oranges, and he had a street there named Haxtun Street in honor of his wife[8]. Myra died at Brighton, England, 15 July 1872; Mr.Vose died in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 17 Mar.1874[7]. 5 Flora Louise, born 1 Sept.1842; died 31 Oct.1858 [6]. 61 6 John Raymond, born 12 Nov.1845; married Lucy Au~tin [6].
1 New York City vital records 6 Raplond manuscript at N.E.H.G.s. 2 Jones-Hathaway genealogy (1890} :p.321 {1934 mimeo) 7 Vose genealogy(l932) p.163 3 Ad8.l118 genealogy(l898)p.J61 8 Wiittemore:Founders and Builders or 4 Greene Co.Deeds 46:173 the Oranges (1896) p.365 5 Ibid. 45:225 65
37½ Samuel. His is a wholly unproven line. On pa.ze 39a we raised t:ne question of wheti.1.er this Samuel could be a connecting link between the family of Andrew L~[Andrew 3 03njamin 2 James l] H2xton of New York State and t:ne family of ~'lr. Orren i-iaxton of Strongsvill,3, O:nio. The some what vague tradition th~t nas come down in the Strongsville group differs ~rom that of their cousins in Coshocton, wnose line as traced by them will be give~ o~ page 100. It would seem that the two traditions lead back to wuolly different immisrant ancestors. By givins the details of both, perhaps someone some day will be able to trace t__.rough the correct line, wnich of course must be tern sarr1e for both groups, since both go back to t.:~e same 3reat srandfather.,
Jv!r. O.L.Haxton trms expresses t .. e vagueness of their tra.dition: 11 .My branch of the rlaxton family goes back to tne two brothers Samuel and Andrew w:-dch a.re shown on the enclosed chart as coming from either Penn- syl vania. or New York State, undoubtedly ff¢¢ Pennsylvania being the place but it is uncertain w~1.ether it w::i.s there or llew York State." In another letter he says two brothers w.:iose fati:ier I s name is supposed to have been Andrew cs_me from Pe-lUla• t::1e one named Andrew being his grand fatner,. rrhis Andrew, the grandf atner of :•~r .o .L.Haxton, was born ei tnwr 133S or 1837, t--:.e different far1i1:- records varying by two years,.
Now, we nave seen on pa,se 39a til8 t ti1.ere was an Andrew 11-a.xton of New York State who w2s in the Sast as late as 1801 and W!lO disappee_rs thereafter from Eastern records o Re and nis 1r:ife Abbie Palmer may very easily have joined in the misration to Western Pennsylvania that was so popular i~ his day. l{e and Abbie would not be of an age to have sons bo~n in 18JS and 1839, but tney may have had 6 ra_ndchildren born at such times.
A li~n of tble !Mie-e,}, could, so f9.r as a::-e 5oes, be the SpJnuel riaxton wi:10 appears in Sosnocton County t:.sinz tne name spelling Haxton, whereas &11 of Robert rlackeson's sons seem at that time to have been using some 11 3ack" form oft A name:!Rckeson,Dackison,dackenson, 3ackinson. Of course t-11.e family to w.nich Andre':J of' New York ~tete b8lon3ed used tne Haxton form regularly. T~e manuscript collection of Gosnocton County marriages at trie State Librc>_ry in Colwnbus shows tnat on 7 Feb.1833 Samuel Haxton married Elizabetn 3eac~. If t 1:is S8'1lt:el f'-1'.ld Elizabeth had a son Sa!"luel ,_,mo me_rried Mary Patterscr. rno a son Andrew w 1 0 was gr13-ndfptner of Hr. O.L.Haxton, tnPn we can seA t~at tne Cosnocton 3roup connects with the old, old Haxton ~roup that traces back into New Yark State, then into :1assachusetts, and then into Rhode Island to the origina1 :::.._"'10q.
We think this is not very probable; just ba:r'"'ly possible. We nope some ;ood Haxton genealclis~ r:~e day will be able to solve this and so many other Haxton mysteries.
See pa~s 100 fer a continuation of the lines fr0M Andrew and his hrother '38.Yl'lt;.Sl down to t'.-:.e 9resent. 66
38 James M.5[Abe 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James l] is definitely called son of Abe and Susanna Haxton in the Sandisfield records at the State House in Boston, and from his age as given in his death record there we lrnow that he was born on 22 Mar.1820. From the same records in Boston we know that his wife was daughter of Walter Morehouse and that she was born 4 Sept.1819. From one of the later Berkshire County Gazetteers we learn that she was a widow when James Haxton married her; that she was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, and that she had married first Ebenezer Sage of Colebrook, Conn. James and Caroline lived, like his parents, at Sandisfield. In the 1874 Berkshire County Directory he is listed as a farmer. He died at Sandisfield 28 July 1878 aged SB-4-6. By his will, which is #13,o54 in Berkshire County Probate Records at Pittsfield, he left two hundred dollars to his son Burton s., all the rest to wire Car~ oline. Sandisfield Cemetery Records show thet James M. and his two sons are buried in New Boston Cemetery, New Boston being a village in Sanais field township. The Berkshire County Gazetteer by Hamilton Child for 1885 shows on page 388 that Mrs.Caroline M.Haxton was living in Montville, a villa~e in Sandisfield, and that she was owner of a house and lot.On page 33b of the same handbook is given a sketch of her life:"Caroline M.Morehouse, born Fairfield, Conn., 1819, married Ebenezer Sage of Colebrook and had one son, George w., who died in 1878. After her husband~s death she mar~ ried James M.Haxton of Sandisfield and reared two sons, James J. and Burton s.(both now dead). She has one grandson, Arthur B., son of Burton s." Caroline (Morehouse-Sage) Haxton died at Sandisfield 15 Oct.1904 aged 85-1-11, having outlived husband and sons by many yearso The several census lists for this family are: In 1850 (when they were living with his father) James M. 30, b.Mass. Caroline 30, b.Conn. James I. 3, b.Mass. In 1855 James M. 35, cooper, born Mass. Caroline M. 36 1 born Conn. James J. 8, born Mass. Burton s. 3, born Mass. In 1865 James M. 45, farmer Caroline M. 46 Burton s. 12 In 1870 James M. 50, farmer Caroline M. 51 Burton s. 17 The two children, then, were: 1 James J., born 1847; died 17 Feb.1865 ae 17 64 2 Burton s., born 1852 or 1853; married Carrie R.Barnes 67
39 Elna than 5 [William 4 Jere-fUah"'J .:a~~jaidtl .,2' Ji.mag 1], son of William and Ruth (Tibbitts) Haxton is lmown from the 1850 census to have been born in 1797, since he gave his age then as fifty-three. Like his parents and grandparents, he lived in Beekman, Dutchess County,N.Ye In 1818, when Monfort, Paymaster of the Fourth Regiment of Cavalry in Dutchess County, was promoted, Elnathan Haxton was made Pa-ymas ter in his stead [1]. In 1823 he married. The notice that appeared in "Dutchess Observer" of May 7 reads:"Mr.Elnathan Haxton married 24 April 1823 Miss Ma ria DeLong, daughter of James, Esq.,all of Beelananff[2]. We know from the 1850 census that Maria was born in 1801. Her mother wa: Sarah (Lozee ):.l!tii;tl~[ 3]. In 1827 Elnathan was made town clerk for Beekman and continued in that office through 1834.[4]. In 1835 he became town supervisor, continued such through 1839, and was again appointed to the office in 1854 and 1855[4]. In 1839 he was named as executor of the will of George Green of Beekman[~ At various times Elnathan and Maria engaged in land transactions. either by themselves or in company with others, as shown by deed: excerpts of which have been sent us by Mr.Clifford M.Buck [6]. Elnathan died on 30 June 1862[7]. In his will, written 24 June and proved 18 August of that year, he mentions his daughter Sarah E. Aiken of Pawling and his son William E.Haxtun of Beekman "and his chil drenn[7), But for that phrase, we should not lmow that William E. had any children, Evidently Elnathan's wife had predeceased him, as she is not mentioned in the will. Elnathan must have had many living in his home who were not his chil• dren. The lists are baffling. In 1830 In 1840 1 m & 1 f 30-39 1 m 60-69 1 m & 2 f 20-29 1 m 40-49 1 m 15-19 1 f 30-39 1 f 5- 9 lm& l f20-29 lm& 1 fl5-19 In 1850 1 f 10-14 Elnathan Haxton 53 l m 5- 9 Mariah 49 William E. 18 The children of Elnathan and Maria (DeLong) Haxton were: 1 Sarah E.,born 1824; married in 1843 Isaac Akin of Pawling, born 1821. Sarah died in September 1879(8). 65 2 William E. 1 born 1832; married Sarah 1 ncouncil of Appointment for - 5 Dutchess Co.Prob,Rec.,Box 3610 N.Y."vol.3 p.1964 6 Dutchess Cq.Deeds 36:356; 77:44 & 170 2 "Marriages & Deaths in Dutchess7 Dutchess cu.Prob.Rec,,Box 5272 County" 8 Smith: Hist. of Dutchess County ( 1882) 3 Beelananville Bapt.Ch, Gem.Rec. p. xvi 4 Smith: Hist. of Dutchess Co. (1882) page not noted 68
40 William W.5[Benjamin 4 Jeremiah 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Benjamin and his second wife, Sarah Woolley, was born 19 Mar.1829(1]. He lived in the part of Beekman that is lmown as Poughquag [2]. He was first cousin once removed to William E.Haxton, son of Elnathan, who also lived in Beekman. He married a Maria DeLong, and his uncle Elnathan also married a Maria DeLong; so there is plenty of room for confusion. William w. married his Maria DeLong on 14 Oct.1858[2]. She was born on 8 May 1835 [l]e William w. was Town Supervisor in 1866 and 1867 [3]. The 1882 histo ry of Dutchess County says of him: "Willi8.ll'l W.Haxton, farmer, 480 acres, has been supervisor and treasurer, and for twelve years president of the Agricultural Society •••• His father Benjamin was son of Jeremiah, whose family occupied the homestead 120 years. William and Maria have two children: Benjamin and William"[2]. The 1860 census shows that William's real estate was valued at $16,000.00, his personal estate at $898.oo. The census lists of 1860, 1865, and 1870 show that his mother spent her last years in his home. An item in the 1870 census is very puzzling. From the arrangement of names it is evident that William and Henry, each nine years old, were not twins; nor is Henry named as son of William w. in the town history, 'though William,Jr.,is so named. We have not been able to place this Henry, William Woolley Haxton died on 19 Mar.1904 (his birthday); his widew Maria died on 8 Feb.1913 (l]o The census records for their family are: In 1860 William w.,rarmer 31 b.N.Y. In 1870 Maria 24 William W.Haxtun 41 son Benjamin l Maria Haxtun 35 Sarah, born N.Y. 63 Sarah Haxtun 75"at home" Benjamin Haxtun 11 In 1865 William Haxtun 9 William. W• 36 Dorcas Baker 47 servant Maria 31 Henry Haxtun 9 son Benjamin 6 Amos Woodin 56 farm la son William 4 borer mother Sarah 71 The children, then, of William w. and Maria (DeLong) Haxtun were: 66 1 Benjamin, born 1859; married Dorothea Storm 2 William, born 1861. All we know of him is that he was still alive,at the time of the e-ensus of 1870 and still alive when Smiths history of Dutch~ss County was published in 1882 a 1 1 R.W.Storm:Old Dirck 1 s Book 3 Smith:Hist. of Dutchess County(1882) (1949) p.392 table of town officers, Po 545 2 Smith: History of Dutchess Co.
(1882) p 0 iii of the appendix 69
41 Molby 5[??Jam.es Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 Jmnes l]; a pos sible, but not proven line. We have explained on page L!-6 why 1 t seems likely that Molby Haxton was son of James Bennet Haxton, and also the likelihood that James Bennet went by the name of Bennet and in the brief time he was at the highli Dutch town of Beekman got written down by the census~taker as "Barent. Barent had four sons born between 1790 and 1800. His mother's name was Molby. So it ssems very probable to us that the Molby Haxton born in 1797 was his son. What is known of this Molby Haxton is: t~t he was born 14 Oct.1797 [l); that he was born in Rhode Island [2];tha.t he married Lucy Geer,born 5 Oct.1801 (l], daughter of Capt.Samuel and Lucy {Tracy) Geer [3]; that he was a mason[2]; and that they settled in the town of Griswold, which is in New London County, Connecticut. The Geers were of Connecticut.
In Griswold town hall, which is at Jewett City, are several deeda in Molby's name, all concerned with a house and lot in Griswold which Melby bought of Daniel Wight of Troy, New York on 11 May 1832 and prob ably already carrying a mortgage. The several deeds all have to do with the financing and re-financing of the mortgage (4]. Molby's first name is written sometimes as Molby, sometimes as Malby or Maltby, and on his gravestone he has the middle letter G. His last name is written usually Haxton, but sometimes Hackston--once both ways in the same deed. That is, it seemed immaterial. In their later years Molby and Lucy removed a few miles to the northwest, to Scotland in Windham County, Connecticut. where two of their daughters lived. Molby died there 18 Oct.1887; Lucy, 7 Nov.1879 (l] A curious error was made ali to Molby's birthplace when his daughter Emily died. Her death record reads:Birth date:17 Jan.1834 Birth place: Griswold,Conn. Father's ne.me: Molby Haxton His birth place: Granby, Conn. Granby, as we know from Mrs. Jensen's fine records, was the birth place of Emily's husband, Alden Goddard; not that of her father, whom we know from the 1850 census to have been born in Rhode Island. The two census records we have for Molby's family are: In 1840 1 male & 1 female 30-39 (lie was really 43; she just 39] 2 females 10-14 [Harriet,ae 11; but what other daughter?] 2 females 5... 9 [Mary,ae 8; Emily, ae 6) 1 me.le under 5 ( .19:mes W., ae 4] In 1850 Melby Haxton, ae 48, mason, born R.I. Lucy ae 48, born Conn. James W. ae 14 1 born Conn. 1 Bible Record, sent us by 3 Walter Geer:Geer genealogy (1923) Mrs. Carl Jensen 4 Griswold Deeds 3:138; 5:689; 6:452; 2 the 1850 census and 7:212 70
The children of Molby and Lucy (Geer} Haxton, in so far as we have been able to learn their names, were: 1 Harriet E., born 1829; married J.Fuller Chapman of Scotland, Conn.,born 1822 and died 1897. Harriet died in 1896 [l]. 2 Mary M., born 2 Mar.1832; married in 1851 Alden Fuller of Scotland, Conn.,son of Robert Colwell and Patience (Battey) [2] Fuller. Alden was a soldier in the Civil War. He died 17 June 1898 [2). Mary M. died 30 Dec.1909[1]. 3 Emily Ao, born 17 Jan.1834[3]. She married at Jewett City, Conn., 6 May 1860 Alden D.Goddard, he being of Simsbury, Conn., she of Griswold. Their marriage was noticed in three papers still extant: the New Haven Palladium of May 17; the Columbian Register of May 19; and the Hartford Times of May 19, all 1860. Alden Do was born at Granby,Conn.,11 July 1837, the son of Curtiss and Clarissa (Tuller) Goddard[3]. He died at West Simsbury 30 June 1919; Emily died there 5 Jan.1916 [3]. 67 4 James w., born in 1836; probably married Margaret---- 5 Hiram, born 20 Dec.1838; died 5 Mar.1840 Aged 14 mo.16 ~a." His gravesgone at Griswold is marked:"Hira.m s.Ha.xton» son of M. & Lei\"
1 gravestone inscription 3 Family Records, sent us by 2 Battey genealogy {l932)p.89 Mrs. Ce_rl Jensen of Hartford,Conn. 71
42 James He.rrison 5[James Bennet 4 Jam3s Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James 1] was probably born about 1801. He married Catherine tlarper. From census data we know that she was born in Pennsylvania. about 1807. From the rec ords of Mrs. William Price we know the exact date of birth, since she died on 3 Feb.1886 aged 79•3-11, which makes the date of her birth the 22nd of October 1806, We know from census records that the son Levi{born 1826) was born in Ohio; and so it was after that date that they removed to Indiana. Mrs. Price 1 s records shm-r that they 11 ved near La.Fayette for a time. The perma.nent home became Richland township in Fountain County. This.is only a few miles from La.Fayette, Newtown {where Levi got his mail) being only some twenty miles southwest of Laf'ayette; so the loca tion may not have changed. By 1850 Catherine seems to have been the household manager. The property is listed in her name and the census makes her head of the household. She must have been a fine manager, for the property she ac cumulated so attests. In her later years she removed with some of her children to Iowa. She lies buried in Wcrthington Cemetery, five miles south of Earlham, Madison County, in that state. James Harrison Haxton lived to a great age. Jvf..rs. Gale .riaxton writes: "The only foot-note on the old family tree,which I helped my father-in-law make, was that James Harrison Haxton wanted to live to be a hundred and did live to be 99-9-90 James Harrison, Mrs. Price thinks, was buried near Swedonia, in Illinois. The family records of the children of James Harrison and Catherine as sent by Mrs. Gale Haxton are more complete than the census records,from which they differ only in very miner points. We give both. It will be aeen that the census lists differ with each other in the same way, espe cially in the middle initials of some of the children. This is our com mon experience with all such lists. We give below the list sent by Mrs. Haxton and the two census lists we found: The children of James Harrison Haxton{Mrs.Gale Haxton's list): l Bennett 2 Levi 3 Orn (Should this be Ora?) 4 Oliver Perry, born 1834; married Emily Tracy 5 James Turner 6 Thomas Jefferson 7 John L., 8 Sanford 9 Candis; married----Lindskot 10 Ann; married ------Sawyer The 1850 census list of the same family: Catherine Haxton, 43, born_Pennsylvania, real estate $2000.00
1 Levi 24, born Ohio 2 Oliver P. 16, born Indiana 3 James H. 14, " 4 Elizabeth 12 " {I omit: she is Elizabeth A. ) c'. II ,/ Thomas r. 10 6 John No 7 " 7 San.t'nrd N. 4 ft Sarah Westfall 22, born Ohio 72
The 1860 census for the saPJ.e family, Richland township,Fountain Co., Indiana: Catherine Hackston 53, farm overseer, born Pennsylvania real estate $4800.00,pers.est.f885.00 l: James J. 19 [an evident error for Thomas J.] 2 John N. 17 3,Santdrd 14 4 Lawny M. 6
Making a composite of all these lists, and adding items, too, fro~ the tables sent us by Mr. Frederick E.Haxton and by Mrs. William Price, we get the children of James Harrison and Catherine (Harper} Haxton to be: 68 1 Bennett (or William Bennet), born 1824; married---- 69 2 Levi 1826; married Sarah ----(He is Levi H. in later records) 3 Ora 70 4 Oliver Perry 1834; married Emily Tracy 5 Jam.es Turner 1836 6 Elizabeth A. 1838 7 Thomas Jefferson 1840 8 John L. (or John N.} 1843 71 9 Sanford M. (or Sanf'ord N.) 1846; married Grizell Gordon 10 Candis; married-----Lindskot 11 Ann; married---- Sawyer 12 Lawny M. 1854
The .History of I0Iadison County,Iowa (187')) shows on page 591 that To J .~-Iaxton ( See Thomas J ~ffB:'son =ra.xton, born 1840., above) was t"h.en re siding at Macksburg, Grand River Township, Madison County, a farmer. In Mrs.Price's family records ~e goes by the name of Jeff. 73
43 Russell 5[John 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James 1), son of John of Chatham, N.~., and Bradford County, Penna, was bcrn in 1795, as we know from census lists • .:le came from Columbia County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania with his parents about 1812[1]. By 1820 he was head of a house~old in Canton township. In 1850 he--like his brother Seth-- was head of a household in Granville township, which quite probably means that they lived in tne part of Canton that was made a part of Granville later. We give the two census listings: i.:kxw.fflll:itx ...... ua.Ml'-A-ILMLIL&.,"--'"'-'.....,_.,._,..__ __,,.A. tllk«%Xlml~xxnu.xD1XUk.bl:.gxrinm:~:bt_,._....,..._.....,,.....,....~-...._...__...... xwrst7x~a~.xxm.1U In 1820, in Canton township 1 male 16-25 l female 26-45 2 feMales 1.mder 10 In 18,20, in Granville township Russell >-faxton, ae 55, born N. Y., $800.00 Pltmey 53 II Mortimer 21, born Penna, carpenter Clarenden 15 tt Margaret 13 tt Larens 11 f1 [Snould be Lauren[(2]] ] Heorge H. 10 11 Sylva Shafer 18 {probably a helper)
The children, then, of Russell and Pluney rtaxton, in so far as we know tneir names, were: 72 1 Mortimer, born c.1829; married----(2) 73 2 Clarendon, born c. 1835; married Ada McElneney [2] 3 Margaret, born Co 1837 4 Lauren, born about 1839; did net marry (2]. Mrs. C.J.Haxton comments: "Uncle Lauren Haxton. Our only son is named for himo Grandfather Russel tlaxton was the first settler in Bradford County, Penna. He came there from the Hudson River area." 5 George H., born about 1840. Mrs. C.J.Haxton places a question mark after his name.
1 Heverly:Hist. of Bradford Co. 2 Mrs. c.J.Haxton of Ithaca, N.Y. (1926) p.401 from family data 74
44 Seth 5[John 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 Je.mea l], son of John Haxton of Chatham, N.Y., and Canton township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was born in 1795, as we know from the 1850 census record, and so was twin to Russell. In 1820 Seth, like his brother Russell, was living in Canton township. In 1850, like Russell again, he was living in Granville town ship. However, since Canton township originally included a part of what later became Granville, probably this change of names does not show any change of residence. Seth's wife was named hannah. Sne was born in Maine about 17960 All that we know of this family group has been taken from the two census lists below: In 1820 Seth Haxton of Canton had only 1 male & 1 female 16-25 In 1850 Seth Haxton of Granville's family comprises: Seth 55, farmer, born N.Y.State, property valuation ~700.00 Hannah 54, born Maine Henry G.10, born Pennsylvania 75
45 Hosea 5[John 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James 11, son of John Haxton of Chatham, Columbia Count1, New York, and Canton, Bradford County, Penn• sylvania, was born in 1800. Heverly' s "Pioneer and Patriot :F'amiliea ot Bradford County" shows on page 276 that Hosea Haxton and Miranda Pepper were married on 2 Nov.1834, both being of Canton; and on page 152 s~ova that Marinda Pepper was daughter ot William and Amy (Bagley) Pepper. In the 1850 census she was neither Miranda nor Marinda, but Aminda. By that yea:r rlosea, ttk•x•tsxt•t••z the census shows, had removed to LeRoy town ship. In 1840 he was, like his father and three brothers., of Canton. The 1850 census gives us the names of eight of the children of Hosea and Aminda. Mr. Raymond s.Haxton of Kansas City gives us the names of two more and tne duplicate of one named in the census. The census lists are: In 1840, Hosea Haxton of Canton 1 male 40-50 1 female 20-30 1 male 5-10 3 females under 5 In 1850, of LeRoy township, he had Hosea 50,farmer,b. N.Y.State, val.$25C Aminda 38, b. Penna Robert 16 Celinda 14 Deborah 12 Rhoda 10 William 8 Nicholas P. 1 Ezra s. 5 Taylor 1 Mr. Haxton of Kansas City writes us that he descends from Nicholas P. Haxton, born 1843 or 1844, a Civil War veteran from Bradt"ord County, Pennsylvania, and that Nicholas P. had brothers Harman and Joe. With out question this Nicholas P. is identical with the one listed above; and so we learn the names of two more of Hosea's children, doubtleaa born after 1850. The full list of the children, then, of liosea and Aminda (Pepper) Haxton, as we have them is: 1 Robert 1834 2 Celinda 1836 3 Deborah 1838 4 Rhoda 1840 5 William 1842 74 6 Nicholas P. 1843 7 Ezra s. 184.5 8 Taylor 1849 9 Harman 10 Joe 76
46 'John 5[John 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James 1) was probably oorn about 1800, twin to Hoses.. We know that this is slightly contradicted by the 1850 census record. If the latter date is correct, then John married at the early age of eighteen, and the census record of his father in 1800 is rather upset. Possibly, since his second wife was somewhat younger than he, he minimized his own age a little in 1850. On 14 Mar.1820 John married Elizabeth Daugherty, daughter of James M.Daug~1erty and his second wife. Janies had come to Towanda in Bradf'ord County from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, but was born in Ireland [1]. Before 1850 John had a second wife named Sally. When first married he settled in Springfield township, Bradford 6ounty, and is listed in the 1820 census there as Johns.Haxton. At the time of the 1850 census he was of LeRoy township. We have the names of John's children from two sources: the census records and the history of Bradford County by Heverly (1926) page 401. Although there are marked differences between the two lists, they are enough alike to make it certain that they are both dealing with the same family. We will give the census tables, the table given by Heverly, and our own attempt to harmonize tne two. The 1820 census John s.~axton of Sprin6field township had: 1 male~ 1 female 16-25 The 1850 census John Haxton of LeRoy township, farmer,born N.Y., $400.00
John Haxton 48 Sa.lly 39, born Pennsylvania,as were all the children Sabina 17 Samuel 15 Mary A. 13 Nancy 11 Electa. 9 Harriet 5 John 2 Heverly 1 s list Harriet; married---- Allen James Hiram Eliza Ann; married Frank Gorham Pearl; married Maria Sands Sumner Sa.bran; married Luke Gorham Mary Ann; married---- DuBois Nancy; married---- Winters Elsie; married -----.Jones Alice; married---- Atherton John It is known that before 1850 the older children had left home. Pearl, a son, was head of a household of his own then; and an Electa Haxton, aged 23 and born in Pennsylvania, was living in the home of Barnard and Olive Newall of Springfield township. She was probably a daughter of John and Elizabeth. Probably Heverly 1 s Sabran is the Sabina of the census, and Samuel probably should be Sumner. The Electa of the census was perhaps a slip for Elsie or Alice• since the real Electa seems older and not at home. 77
We find that Sumner's birth year is given elaewhere as 1831 [l]; so his name is not a confusion with that of Samuel, as we conjectured on the previous page. He was doubtless one of the sons who had left home before the census of 1850. John, father of this large family, and his wife Sally spent their last years in Illinois, according to Heverly. This doubtless means that some of their children had removed to that state. Which ones, we do not know. Putting together the children we know from census lists, from .cleverly' s list, and miscellaneous s0urces, s.nd conjecturing ages for those not definitely mown, we offer the following table as probably approximately correct for the children of John Haxton of Bradford County. We have no way of knowing which ones were Sally's children. The first five named had left home before the 1850 census, and so M, consider them as among the elaest.
1 James 75 2 Pearl 1824; married Maria Sands 3 Electa 1827 4 Hiram 76 5 Sumner 1831;married Minerva s.senson 6 Sabina 1833;married Luke Gorham 7 Samuel 1835 8 Mary A.1831;married Du.Bois 9 Nancy 1839;marr1ed Winters 10 Elsie ?184l;married Jones 11 Alice married Atherton 12 Harriet 1845; married---- Allen 13 John 1848 14 Eliza Ann; married Frank Gorham
1 ~.H.Benson:Benson Family 2 Heverly:Pioneer and Patriot Fami Recc~ds(l920) p.68 lies,p.265 46t Marcenus 5[??Benjamin 4 & 3 & 2]. Putting Marcenus here as son of Benjamin and Sarah(Lovejoy)Haxton is purely tentative and this must not be taken as a proven line. Marcenus, indeed, ms.y have been son of Tim othy of Greene, Chenango County; but because he and Chauncey and Wil liam Haxton all found their way into Livingston County in Western New York, it has seemed to us quite likely that the three were brothers, and Chauncey is a proven son of Benjamin and Sarah. By placing Marcenus somewhere, we are able to assemble under his name all that is Jmown of him; and this can be bodily removed to some other parentage if later re search shows this necessary. Some of the statements in the printed accounts of Marcenus• life are obviously false. For example, one account says he was born overseas in Wales; another account says he was born in New York State. Both ac counts cannot be true. This illustre.tes how in multitudinous cases fam ily traditions handed down from generation to generation gradually ac cumulate and hand on errors until often it is impossible to distinguish between fact and fiction. In this case, we may be sure Marcenus was born in New York State. Marcenus' wife's name was Eliza Palmer [l]. They were probably mar ried about 1817; and so we judge Marcenus was born in the 1790 1 s, one of the oldest of Benjamin's thirteen children. (Chauncey was born in 1794; William, between 1795 and 1800; so the three were very likely the oldest three of the children.) Marcenus was a soldier in the War of 1812 [2]. So he was born well before 1800. ae was very early in Livingston Countyo Doty•s history of that cot.nty on page 922 says:"Several tributaries of the Genesee River flow through York township from west to east. In 1807 Ezekiel and Joseph Morley built a sawmill on the most northerly of these tributaries ••• A short distance above the Morley mill, at an early day, Marsenus Haxton operated for several years a carding machine which he abz.r..c.c,r..ed t:J open the Caledonia. House, built by James Shaw in 1831." Smith's history of Livingston County (1881} on page 4.55 says: "The erec tion of the Caledonia House [in the village of Caledonia] was begun in 1831 by James Sl1.aw. The first proprietor was Marcenus Haxton, who kept it for a year or two, and afterw~rd went to Ohio, where he died." But before going to Ohio, Marcenus for some years was in Rochester, which is in Monroe County, New York, some twenty miles northeast of Cal edonia. Here he had a factory, and he is described as being a clothier [2]. We lmow that Marcenus' son Daniel, who was born in 1837, was born in Rochester [l]. Marcenus died in Ohio aged sixty. After his death his widow Eliza returned to New York; but it was in Michigan that she died in 1863[1]. We have not found Eliza's ancestry given anywhere. If Narcenus found her in Columbia County, where he was a child, it is quite possible that she was the Eliza Palmer named in the 1813 will of her father Joshua of Canaan, who, and his wife Amy, are buried in New Concord Cemetery near Chatham, the town from which these liaxtons came. Marcenus and Eliza (Palmer) Haxton had the following children: [l] '1:--- 1 Eliza; married ----Brisbee of Ovid,Mich. 77 2 Giles M.;married (l)Lodema. Vosburgh(2)Wealthy A.Vosburgh.He b.1820 3 Sarah; married------of Buffalo 4 Julia; ma.rried------Walsh and died in Michigan 78 5 Daniel B.,born 22 Jan.1837;married Lora E.Rawson
1 Portrait & Biog.Album, Fayette 2 Goodspeed & Blanchard:Counties of Co.,Iowa(l89l)p.322 Porter & Lake,Ind. p.372 79
Because the line ot ancestry we have giTen Marcenua ia purel7 tentative, and because all we know ot him haa been round 1n short par• agrapha in two county histories, both mentioned on page 78, we think we should give those paragraps in tull and will do so here. It will be seen that there are statem6nta in one that contradict those 1n the other. Surel7 an7 further search b7 those interested in thia partioular line muat take both accounts into consideration. We note tbat the same man said in one paragraph to have been born in Wales is said in the other to have been born in New York State. I think we may aa.fel7 diacount the Wale• tr8dition as garbled familJ accounts, such aa we have found in many instances in groups other than Haxton. From the Porter County,Indiana, history we have: G.M.Ha.xton,born Livingston County, New York, June 25, 1820, son of Me.raena and Eliza (Parm.er), both natives of New York. Marsena waa a clothier and was in the war of 1812. When a child his parents removed to Monroe Count7,N.Y. [Thia, of course reters to Giles M.•s parents, Marsena and Eliza]. When twenty 1ee.rs old he began working in his parents' factor1, and two years later went to Lorain Count1, Ohio, and was there twenty-five years, except for four years in Medina County. In 1867 he settled in Porter County. Farm of 320 acres. Married Lodema Vosburgh ot Monroe County, N.Y. May 1,1842. She died in 1852, leaving two children:Mrs.E liza M.Waitey, Lorain Co.,Ohio, and Masena, deo'd• He :married second Nov.25,1852 Wealthy A.Vosburgh: four children: Lodema, Mrs. Caroline M. Small, Florence, George E. He is a member of the Methodist ChurohJ an Independent in politics.
From the Fayette County,Iowa, history we have: Daniel B. Haxton resided here almost thirty-five years. Farm or 120 acres on aeotion 10, Putnam township. Born Rochester, New York, Jan.22,1837. Ot Welsh de scent--his grandfather a native of Wales, died 1n New York CitJ• His son Masena,born in Wales, married Eliza Pal.Jller of Wal••• His father was in the War of 1812, died in Ohio aged 60. The wife returned to New York, but died in Michigan in 1863. Children[evidentl7 Me.reenus• children]: Mrs.Eliza Brisbee of Ovid, Mich. Giles M.,Wheeling,Ind.[prob.nq mis-copy for Wheeler,Ind.] Mrs.Sarah------of Buffalo Mrs. Julia Walsh; died in Michigan Daniel B.; settled two miles south of Taylorville, Fayette County,Iowa. Married at Taylorville Lora E.Rawaon The children of Daniel B. and Lora E.(Rawson) Haxton were: Franke. married Catherine Alsop of DubuqueJ rea.Putnam twp. William E. married Minnie Detrick. Putnam twp/ Adeline married Francis M.Riche Daniel A., a Methodist Episcopalian To one phrase above we have not given sufficient attention, tor it bear1 on Maroenus' parentage. Daniel M's grandfather died in N.Y.City. If this was his grand.1'ather Haxton, the evidence is against our theor1 that Marcenua was son of Benjamin of Shervurne, for he seems to have died in Sherburne. If Marcenua was Timothy's son, --we have no record of Timoth7's death place or date. He lived in Greene,Chenango Co.,I.Y. Or, there is a bare chance that Marcenas was a younger brother, not a aon, of Benjamin of SherburneJ in which case we have never found where Benjamin and Mary of Chatham died; perhaps in N.Y.City. One notes also thA VA~iP~~ 1" ~h~ ono114~~ "~ M"-~"-''ftt -"-~ 80
47 Chaunoey-5fBenj&min 4 & 3 & 2 James l]; son of Benjamin and Sa rah (Lovejoy) Haxton, was born in June 1794, according to his age as given in his ooituary. From the same source we learn that he was eight years old when he was brought from Chatham, Columbia County,New York, where he was born, to Sherburne, Chenango County, New York. It is from this item that we are able to know the year of the Haxton migr~tion in~ to Chenango County--1802 or 1803. Before 1820 Chauncey had married a wife named Pruda, born in Sep tember 1898 and they had one child, George P. Pruda died 12 Augol820, and George P. died ten days later, on August 22nd. Pruda was 21 years and 11 months old; George P., 6 months. His gravestone is marked, son of c. and P. Haxton, (l]. From census lists we know that at some time before 1830 Chauncey had married a wife named Eliza, born in England, a lace-maker. Her age is given differently in each of the four census records in which she appears. In 1840 she was between JO and 40; that is, born between 1800 and 1810.In 1850 she was 33; that is born in 1817. In 1860 she w~s 48; that is, born in 1812. In 1870 she was 56; that is, born in 1814. She had three children. Her death record shows t~Rt she died in 1874, Feb. 13, aged 63; that is, was born in 1811. [2]. The Haxtons were of Sherburne in 1820 and they were there again at the time of the 1840 census; but between these two dates the.j were living for a time at Chatham, Chauncey's childhood home; for on 29 Mar. 1834 Chauncey Haxton of Chatham and Russell D.Wilbur (wife ~y) sold jointly for $400.00 three-fourths of an acre of land in Chatham[3] 0 The buyer was Thomas Hoag of Nassau. It was evidently a mortgage sale, and the mortgage was later foreclosed [4]. In 1840, as we have noted, Chauncey was again of Sherburne; but by 1848 he was of Enfield, Connecticut. In a list dated 7 Nov.1848 twenty-four Enfield men were admitted as state electors, and the sixth name on the list is that of Chauncey Haxton [5]. In 1850 a long list of Enfield people had their taxes abated. Perhaps ther~o hundred such cases, and Chauncey Haxton was amcng them, and also in a similar list of 1848 [6]. In the 1850 census for E~ield Chauncey is entered as boarding-house keeper. The names of fifteen boarders are entered as making up his family--some of them men with their wives. At some time before 1860 Chauncey and Eliza were of Fowlerville in York township, Livingston County, New York, where he kept a grocery store. We judge he must have gone there almost immediately after the 1850 entries in Enfield records; for when he died at Sherburne in Feb ruary, 18~, his obituary stated .tb.at for twenty-four years he had been living in Fowlerville. He died in Sherburne. In the 1860 census for Fowlerville and in the Livingston County Directory for 1868 he is listed as "grocer;~in the 1870 census, as "retired grocer."
Eliza died at Fowlerville 13 ~eb.1874 aged 63 and is buried there. 1 Records of Christ Church{Epis 3 Columbia Co.Deeds T:561 copal),Sherburne;sent by Mrs. 4 Ibid. W 1: 187 Edwin P.Smith S Enfield printed Records 1:652 2 Cemetery Rec. at N.EoH.G.S 0 6 Ibid. 1: 668 & 671 81 in Mount Pleasant Cemetery [l]. Chauncey must have come almost imme diately after to his sister's in Sherburne, for he died there just a year later. His obituary in a Sherburne paper reads: "Chauncey Haxton died Sherburne Feb.16,1875, age 80 years 8 months. He died at the home of A.R.Bryant; was a former resident of Sherburne. He was born at Chat ham, Columbia County in 1794 and was eight years old when his family moved to Sherburne. For 24 years he has lived at Fowlerville,Livingston Co.He is survived by sisters, Mrs. A.R.Bryant and Mrs.Robinson of Sher burne and a brother, Andrew Haxton, of Norwich." The census records we have for Chauncey He.xton are: For 1820, Sr~erburne (This record needs checking. Two copyists copied differently) 1 male & 1 female of 26-45 1 male under 10 For 1840, Sherburne 1 male L~0-50 1 female 30-40 1 male 10-15 2 males 5-10 For 1850, .Snfield, Conn. Chauncey, 53, born NoY.;boarding-house Eliza 33, born Eng. (then follow tne names and data of 15 boarders) For 1860, ¥owlerville, N.Y. Chauncey, 66, horn N.Y., grocer Eliza 48, born Eng., lace-maker For 1870, Fowlerville Chauncey, 75, grocer retired Eliza 56
We do not know definitely the names of any of Chauncey's four cnildren, except the son of the first wife who died in infancy. If the others lived, they certainly did not go to Connecticut when their par ents did in the late 18L:.0 's. They were probably left in the homes of others. Altnough the age is absolutely exact--it is nearly so-- probably Davie, or Davis, who was aged 19 and born in New York State and living in Sherburne in the nome of Walter Blanchard at the time of the 1850 census, was one of the sons. Of the others we have lost all traceo The children of Chauncey,then, w~ive as 1 George P.; died 22 Aug.1820, aged 6 months 2 Davie, or Davis, born about 1831 1 Fowlerville Cemetery Records 2 Sent us by Mrs. Minnie :B.Walling at N.E.H.G.s. of Earlville,lJ.Y.,who hetd it from Mrs. E.P.Smith of Sherburne 82
We have inadvertently omitted two deeds for lands purchased by Chauncey Haxton, in on~ case in his early Sherburne days, in the other in his later days and in Fowlerville--of importance as showing that he was already settled in Livingston County by 1852. Chenango County Deeds, Book CC page 412, show that on 7 May 1822 Chauncey Haxton of Sherburne for ~950.00 bought of Orrin Howe (wife Jane) land in Shero~rne. The Howes were of Norwich.
A Livingston County deed dated 3 Aug.1852 shows that on that date Chauncey Haxton of York township, Livingston County, New Y0rk for t625.oo bought of Alexander Forbes (wife Emily W.) also of York township 1 a tract of land there bounded as follows: Beginning at the north east corner of Lot owned by Frederick R.Stickney and running thence south along the east line of said Sticlmey 1 s lot eight rods to lands owned by heirs of the late Giles Syman thence east along the line of, said Symans land five rods and two and a half feet to lot owned by Mahittabel Haskell thence north along the west line of said Mahettable Haskells lot eight rods to the highway running west from the village of Fowlersville thence west along the said highway five rods and twc and a half feet to the place of begin ning. There were two witnesses: George S.Fisher for Alexander Forbes; and James s.Fowler--doubtless for Chauncey Haxton, though it is not so stated0
A possible clue to the tamilJ name of Chaunce7 Haxton's first wite, Pruda, has been sent us by Mrs. Edwin P.Smith of Sherburne 1 who tells us that the graves next to those of Chauncey and Pruda are those of the Patrick family1 and that she found evidence that Pruda was a given name used by the Patricks. Although we have not been able to find a Pruda Patrick who married a Haxton, the clue seems to us well worth following further by any who are interested. 83
48 Andrew H. 5[Benjamin 4 &: 3 & 2 James l] is known to have been son of Benjamin and Sarah (Lovejoy) Haxton because so described in his death record[l]. He was born in Sherburne in March of 1806 [l). He married Orvilla Kinney, born at New Berlin, Chenango County,N.Y., 9 Mar.1807 [2], daughter of Benjamin and Beda Kinney [3]. For several years Andrew and Orvilla lived in New Berlin and a number of their children were born there. Later their home was in Norwich in the same county. Andrew was a great dealer in real estate, as is seen from the deeds mentioned below:
2 F'eb. 1833 Andrew Haxton of New Berlin for $550.00 bought of Elijah R. Kinney (wife Anne) "all of their equal and un divided share of Benjamin Kinney farm. This Benjamin Kinney (Orvilla's father) had bought of James Talmadge, a farm of 250 acres. One hundred acres on the south side had be.en sold and was now in possession of Stephen Kinney 1st, leaving of the Benjamin Kinney Farm 120 a ... cres, their equal share being one-third of 120 acres and the half of one other third at the decease of Beda Haxton(Orvilla's mother who had later married Andrew's -father as his second wife.) [4]. 27 Dec. 1834 Andrew Haxton of New Berlin bought of BenjeJ11in Haxton (wife Beda) --father and mother of Andrew and Orvilla respectively-- for $400.00 "land lmown as the Benjamin Kinney Farm, containing 250 acres" [.5]. 7 Oct. 1838 Andrew Haxton of New Berlin bought of Whitman Willcox (wife Lucinda) for $4050.00, the Willcoxes being of Norwich [6]. 24 Oct. 1838 Andrew Haxton of New Berlin bought of Sylvester P. Scoville(wife Elizabeth) for $250.00, the Scovilles being of Sherburne [7]. 23 Me.r. 1841 Andrew qaxton and wife Aurilla sold land in Smyrna, Chenango County, to William Parker of Columbus for $200.00 [8]. 6 May 1846 Andrew Haxton bought of James Thompson and Monmouth Pur dy, executors of the estate of Caleb Thompson, for $125. In this deed, for the first time, Andrew is called of Norwich, which was to be his permanent home.[9). 4 Feb. 1848 Andrew Haxton of Norwich bought of Polly M.Waters and George S.S.Waters of New Berlin for $2167.61 [10]. 1 Mt.Hope Cemetery Records sent s Ibid. WW:301 us by Mrs.Wm.Thomas of Norwich 6 Ibid. .57:422 2 Rec.of Christ Bpis.Ch.,Sher- 7 Ibid. ,58:,51 burne,sent by Mrs.E.P.Smith 8 Ibid. 61:,567 3 The. Kinne g~n.(1947) Pol07 9 Ibid. 72:463 4 Chenango Co.Deeds SS:354 10 Ibid. 77:123 84
1 Sept. 1849 Andrew Haxton bought of Henry Young of North Norwich (wife Lydia) for $70.00 one acre and eight rods and a piece of one-fourth acre and sixteen rods near the school [l]. 1 Jan. 1849 (Should stand before the la.st one) Andrew Haxton of North Norwich bought of Joshua Pratt (wife Anne) for il25.00 land in Norwich [2]. 29 Oct. 1849 Andrew Haxton of North Norwich bought of George Sission {wife Clarissa) for $600.00 land in North Norwich [3]. 1850 Andrew naxton, North Norwich, real estate valued at ;;;,8200.00 [4]. 2 Jan. 1850 Andrew tlaxton of North horwich bought of Ransell} Eccles ton (wife Nancy R.) for ~250.00 land in Norwich [5]. 1 Mar. 1861 Andrew Haxton, now of Norwich, bought of Isaac Newton (wife Jain D.), for $3000.00 a house and lot of two and three-fourths acres [6]. And on the same day Andrew and Orilla Haxton of North Norwich, jointly with Isaac D. Newton for $400.00 sold to James B.Marquis land in Norwich, including the same land Andrew had bought of Ransom Eccleston[?]. 1863 A map of Chenango County dated 1863 shows A.H.Haxton as owning land in both North Norwich and Sherburne [8]. 1 Apr. 1867 Andrew and Orrilla Haxton of Norwich sold to Vaspasnan Randall for ~{4000. 00 120 acres of land in Sherburne [ 9].
11 Sept. 1869 Andrew and Orilla Haxton sold to Ransom Eccleston for $600.00 [10]. 31 Mar. 1870 Andrew Haxton bought of Patrick McNulty of Baldwinsville
for $4000.00 land in the village of Norwich [11] 0 On the same day Andrew and Orrilla rlaxton sold to the New York and Oswego Midland R.R.Company for $7000.00 land in Norwich [12]. 21 Jan. 1871 Andrew and Orrilla Haxton for five dollars quitclaimed their interest in certain lands in North Norwich to Leonard W.T1tus 1 Trustee of the school district[l3]Q 1 Chenango Co.Deeds 81:89 8-I.tem sent us by Mrs. Minnie B.Wal 2 Ibid. 79:392 ling of Earlville, N.Y. 3 Ibid. 81:183 9 8henango Co.Deeds 128:457 ~- 1850 census 10 Ibid. 136:224 5 Chenango Co.Deeds 108:258 11 Ibid. 137:156 6 Ibid. 111:159 12 Ibid. 138:324 7 Ibid. 113:148 13 Ibid. 140:311 85
The tax assessment roll for Norwich in 1880 shows that Andrew Haxton, Rexford St., was listed: 1-4 acres (prob. on Rexford St.) Value of Real hstate 1500; Value of Per sonal rroperty 4900; Value of Village Property 6400; Ag gregate 6400; Dog Tax 50; Whole tax ~152.19 [l]. 17 Dec. 1883 Andrew Haxton of Norwich sold to Melissa Haxton of Nor wich (his daughter) for one dollar, love and affection, property in Norwich on Rexford Street, reserving use dur ing lifetime, the party of the second part to have pos session after my death [2]. The records of Christ Episcopal Church in Sherburne [3] show that Andrew's wife Orilla was baptized on 8 Apr.1860, on the same day that her daughter Melissa was baptized. It is fro~ these records, too, that we have the exact birth dates of the two women, as given on other pages.
}~ount Hope Semetery records, sent us by both Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Thomas, show that "Andrew Haxton, son of Benjamin and Sarah Lovejoy Haxton, died Norwich. Interred Dec.25,1883 a.e 77 yr 9 mo. Section B. Lot 138; born Sherburne." And "Orvilla. Haxton., Resident Norwich, died May 15,1882 ae 74"-- 0rvilla.'s name had many spellings in town records and census lists. We have the following census lists: North Norwich, 1850 [4] Andrew Haxton 43, b. N • y •' farmer Orvilla 42, II Alberto B. 21 " Mary 18 It Malissa 16 II Adelia 14 11 Norwich, 1855 (3] Andrew 48 B. Chenango County Orville. 47 " Alberto B. 26 tt Malissa 21 " Adelia 18 tt
Andrew 53 Orilla 52 Melissa 26 First Election [5] District,Norwich Andrew 63 retired farmer $17,000 &$10,000 Orrilla 62 keeps house Melissa J4 no occupation 1 Sent by Mrs.WmoThomas 4 Sent by both Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. 2 Chenango Co.Deeds 168:392 Smith 3 Sent by Mrs. Edwin P.Sm.ith 5 Transcription of Mrs. Dora Wright 86
The cemetery records quoted above gave us the date of Andrew Haxton's interment. The Clerk of Surrogate's Court, Norwich, gives us the date of his death as 23 Dec.1883; and states that on 8 Mar.1884 Ge~rge H.Baldwin was appointed to ad.minister his estate. The children of Andrew and Orvilla (Kinney) Haxton were: 1 Alberto B.,born 1829; died 3 Nov.1855 aged 26. He died at sea on passage between Havana and Wilmington [lJ. 2 Mary J., born 1832; married in 1853 James B.Marguis(see below for outline of his life)[2]. She died 28 June 1B55 aged 24 [3J. On 30 Sept.1902 her body was removed to another ground. 3 Melissa, born 1834; the Christ Church records give the exact. date as 30 Aug.1834, the place New Berlin [2]. She did not mar ry. As we have seen on page 85, in 1883 her father deeded to her his homestead o~ Rexford Street, Norwich, she to enter into pos session upon his death. On 21 Mar.1884 Melissa B.Haxton sold to her sister Adelle. A.Marquis for (~_5200a00 [4]: 50 acres in North Norwich 21 acres in Norwich 78 acres 50 acres 2 acres 1 acre 8 rds, North Norwich 1-4 acre 15 rds. near school,N.Norwich In 1885 she was living in Throop, Cayuga Co.,N.Y., and on 16 Apr. of that year sold again to her sister Adelia Marquis of Norwich 24 acres 4 rds of land i~/ [5]. In 1896 Melissa was of Scipio in Cayuga County and on 2 Nov. of that year sold to Mary G.Marquis for one dollar "and other valuable consideration 11 property on Rex.ford Street in the village of Norwich (6]. Melissa died in 1898. She was interred on 13 Sept.1898 [1]. 4 Adelia, born 19 Aug.1836 at New Berlin, according to Christ Church records sent by Mrs. Edwin Smith. She and her mother were bap tized tn tne same year--1860; but the mother and Melissa were bap tized on April 8, and Adelia on August 12(2]. tler name at first was Delia Ann. She married on 1 July 1856 James B.Marquis, whose first wife had been Adelia 1 s sister[2]. James B.Marquia, accord ing to one account, was born at Pleasant Valley, Madison County, Ohio, 7 Oct.1822, son of James B. and Barbary Marquis[2J, but his obituary gives his birth year as 1817[2]. He was of French Hugue not extraction; studied medicine;~ut became interested in daguer reotyping and followed that profession for many years, making in teresting discoveries in the art. When failing health led him to drop that work he engaged in hardware business for fifteen years before retiring in 18870 He= 49 Samuel S [Jeremiah 4 ?Benjamin 3 & 2 James 1), son of Jeremiah and Abigail (Holly-Hawley) Haxton, was born about 1805, as we know from the Oakfield Cemetery Records in the Manuscript Room of the State Library in Albanyo He was probably about ten years old when his father died on his way home after fighting in the War of 1812, for that war closed in 1815, or, more strictly speaking, in late 1814. Samuel seems to have been the only son. Like his father, he lived in Oakfield. Samuel married, probably about 1844--very late-- a wife named Eliza G. According to the cemetery records already quoted, she was born about 1825. On 1 Oct.1846 Samuel was deeded land by William McCrillis, his brother-in-law [l). In 1869/70 Samuel Haxton was described as farmer with 100 acres of land, his lot being number 20 on what had been the Indian Reserva~ tion (2]. Most of the town of Oakfield had been an Indian Reservation and was not opened up to white purchasers until after 1832. The 11lc Crillises ha.d lot 10, section S [2]. Samuel was Justice of the Pe8ce from 1842 to 1890--and doubtless later. The gazetteer from which we took this item was published in 1890 [3]. (Yf..l, Oakfield ce~ery records at Albany show Samuel as born about 1805 and died 1873--an evident mis-reading, probably for 1893; and Eliza G. as born about 1825 and died 1891. Grouped together with their names is the record: William Mills 1806-1884; Ann his wife 1807-1885. The ar rangement would suggest relationship. The names and the dates are so much like those of William McCrillis and his wife Sally Ann{Haxton) as given on page 56 of this manuscript, and yet so different,as to be very tantalizing. The census records we have for this family are: I!1 18,20 Samuel Haxton, 45, born in N.Y. Eliza 25, II Mary E. 5 " In 1860 Samuel Haxton, 52., farmer, born N.Y., ;,;,5000.00 and ~';il000.00 Eliza 35 Elizabeth 15 (evidently the Mary E. above) George 8 Eliza J. 3 Tne children of Samuel and Eliza G.Haxton were: 1 Mary E. or Elizabeth;---eorn about 1845 79 2 George W. born about 1852 3 Eliza J. born about 18,57; married Judson Field [4) 80 4 Joh.Tl, born e_fter 1860; married Sarah Eo [4] S Cora born after 1760 [4] 1 Data sent by Genesee Co.Clerk 3 Gazetteer & Biog. Rec.of Genesee Co. 2 Genesee County Directory (1890} p.567 4 Data sent us by Mrs. Joseph Jesmant 88 SO William 6[?James S William 4 Nathaniel 3 William 2 James l], son of James ~nd Sarah, and proba.bly grandson of William and Molly (Allen) Hackston, was born at Warwick, Rhode Island, 10 Feb 0 1820 [l]. He used the form Hacston in spelling his nameo He was Boss Weaver by occupation[l] William married Lucy Wade Brown, born 1 Jan.1818, daughter of Sayles and Freelove (Keech) Brown [2]. In infancy she was simply Lucy, but later took the middle name Wade, doubtless because her mother's maiden name had been We.de. Freelove Kt9ech was daughter of Nicholas and Lucy {'Wade) Keecho William was born in Warwick and died in Chepachet in the town of Glocester, RoI.; but he and Lucy had evidently lived in other towns as he plied his trade; for the son James E. was born in Rehoboth,Mass.(Just across the Rhode Island border), and the daughter Clara Sophia was born in Sterling, Connecticut, and died aged not quite three at Webster, Masso None of these towns is far from the Rhode Island border. WilliB.lTl's gravestone is in Acote Cemetery in Chepachet, but with no inscription other than his name--no dates. Dr. C.W.Barlow found his death record in Glocester town hall: "William. Ha.cston died Oct.13,1866 aged 46-8-3, married, boss weaver, born Warwick, R.I., son of James and Sarah Hacston: consumption." Lucy had an unhappy endingo For two years after her husband's death she lived with her son James E. in Providence (3]. In 1869 her name is still listed as of his family, but followed by the words "at Hospital.n Her death twenty years later is thus recorded:"Lucy W.Hacston died at Butler Hospital 22 Msr.1888 of pneumonia and insanity, aged 70-2-22[4]~ We have found two children of William and Lucy Wade(Brown) Hacston. There probably may have been others. These were: 1 James E.--sometimes in Providence records is James Edwin, some times J0.I11es Edward. He was born at Rehoboth 20 Sept.1843 [5]. He lived in Providence and was a carpenter. His marriage record reads: Ja.mes Edwin Hacston of Providence ae 43 woodworker,born Rehoboth, son of William and Lucy W.Racston, married (a first marriage) 15 Dec.1885 Laura Annie Smith of Providence ae 24 (~ first marriage) born Burke, N.Y., daughter of Hugh and Mary E.SI'rl.t They were married by Rev. T.Edwin Brown, Baptist pastor. The rec ords of the First Baptist Church of Providence show that on 27 Ma) 1894 James E.Hacston and Laura S.Hacston were received into the church by baptism. These records add that he died 10 Sept.1905 in his 63rd year and they write "Richardson" after her name. City directories show that from 1891 to 1898 they lived at 274 North Main Street and that in 1897 nine men were boarding with them. Hif death record reads:James Edward Hacston died 10 Sept.1905 aged 62-11-20; carpenter; married; born at Rehoboth; buried at Gloces ter,R.I.; son of William and Lucy w. Three months after his deatl Laura married at BostonChester G.Richardson ae 28,she ae 35(6]. 2 Clara Sophia, born Sterling,Conn.died Webster,Mass., ae 2 yr.10 m, dau hter of William and Luc Hacston· died Au 0 18 8 6. 1 Glocester death records Providence vital records 2 Brown Memorial(l888) Po70 S from his age at death 3 Prov.directories,1867,1868 6 Mass.State V.R.,State House,Boston 89 51 Alex C~ (Richard':l Robert l ??Benja:min 3 & 2 Jame& l], son of Richard and Sabina (Grim) Haxton, was born on 1 Dec.1830 [1]. His name has been sent us in some lists as Alec; in some as Alexa.ndef. Like his father, he was of Owen County, Indiana, but had as his post office Worthington in Greene County [2]. On 24 July 1858 he married Mary L.Harstine[l]. He died in August 1908, and his widow died three weeks later (l]. The children of Alex C. and Mary L.{Harstine) Haxton were: 81 .l ,¥!1tQry; all we know of him:that in Mrs. Pottenger I s Haxton manu script, dated 1939, he is said to have died several years ago leaving one son. 2 Laura; married Albert Daller [l] 3 Harvey,probably born about 1866; married 27 Apr.1890 Bertha Co Schmidt,(born 25 Dec.1865, died 23 Mar.19~.4). There were no children [l]. 4 Birdie; died in infancy [l] 5 Plato; died in infancy (1] 6 Katherine. As Mrs. Katharine d.Koch of Oak Park, Illinois, replied courteously to a Haxton questionnaire sent her in the autumn of 1954. She described herself as "The last leaf on the Alexander Haxton family treeo" Her cibusin, once removed, spoke of her as a Christian Science Practitioner [ 3J. 1 The Pottenger manuscript, 3 Mr. Lloyd ~.Haxton of Sacramento loaned us by Mrso Louise H.Gray 2 Data sent by MrsvChas.FoHaxton of Terre. Haute. 90 52 John 3,[ Richard$ Robert i ~Beftjami:z:;i J &: 2 James l¼, son of Richard and Sabina (Grim) Haxton, was born on 8 July 1833[1]. It was he who came into possession of his father's farm in the southern part of Owen County, Indiana, not many miles from Worthington [1]. .)~ •)~ On 21 Dec.18S4 John married Julia Ann Griffith, born 29 July 1838, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Hubbell) Griffith[l]. In 1856 John built "a. big, rambling 7-room frrune house with porch; and later added to it closets and other conveniences. The new house had a cook-stove (a great novelty then) and two fireplaces"[l]. John Haxton died on 24 Mar.1903; and Julia Ann on 7 Sept.1929 [l]. The children of John and Julia Ann {Griffith) Haxton were: 1 Rebecca Jane, born 8 Feb.1856; died 4 May 1857 [l]. 2 Philena Alice, born 30 Aug.1857; married in December 1874 James Newson. He died in June 1915 and she died 20 Jan.1923 [1]. 3 Marietta, born 8 Aug.1859; married 1 Dec.1878 Charles Mcindoo. He died in March 1931, and she on 5 May 1944 [l] 4 Samantha E., born 10 Dec.1861; married 1 Marol887 William F.Cas• sady. She died 25 May 1926, and he 23 Mar.1932[1]. 82 5 Richard Grant[2], born 6 Aug.1864; married Ada Grace Glover[l]. 83 6 William Sherman [3],born 26 Octo,1866; married Mary Bolling [l]. 84 7 Charles Franklin [4], born 12 Jan.1869; married (1) Altha Heaton [l] and (2) Christina Catherine Gantz [4]o 8 Bertha M., born 13 June 1871; married 26 Dec.1906 Charles Alexander Pottenger, born 25 Apr~l870o Mrs. Pottenger died 21 0ct.1939~She is the compiler of the delightful Haxton genealogy, "Rambling Re ... memberings," from which we have quoted so frequentlyo Mr. Pottenger has sent us a summary of all the data in the manuscript; and a copy of the whole compilation has been loaned us by Mrs. Louise Hax'50n Gray of Greenville,Mississippi. We should have been helpless in tracing this whole line without these great aids 0 1 Mrs. Bertha Pottenger 1 s manuscript 4 Data sent by Mrs.Charles F.Haxton Haxton genealogy of Terre. Haute 2 Data sent by Mr.Ralph G.Haxton of 5 Date sent us by Mr. Charles A. Greenville, Miss. Pottenger of Sewickley,Penna. 3 Data sent by Mrs. Louis D.Haxton of Honolulu, Hawaii 91 S3 Jeremiah 6 [King Andrew S Jeremiah 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1), ~on of King Andrew e..nd Mary (Donihue) Haxton, was born a.bout 1821, as we know from his 1870 census record. From that record, too, we know that he was a surveyor and that his property at that time was valued at seven thousand dollars. Jeremiah married Mary Darrow, born about 1827, daughter of Hiram and Elmira (Wilson} Darrow of Fort Edward, N.Y., and Cambridge, N.Y. Jeremiah's next younger brother, Andrew K., married Mary's next youngwr sister, Martha [l]. Jeremiah's home was in Cambridge, Washington County, New York, until at least as late as 1870, but he later removed to Moreau, which is in Saratoga County, though only a mile from Fort Edwardi which is in Washington County. Jeremiah died intestate on 9 Jan.1900. His wife had evidently pre deceased him, for when his estate was settled those mentioned as his survivors were only his son.,H.Frank Haxstun, and a granddaughter, Mary E.Shaler. This son was appointed to administer the estate (2).The administration was granted on 14 .l:<'eb.1900 (2]. 1rh1s family group used the name form Haxstun. The only census ::::'1c;~0:..~d we have of Jeremiah is that for Cambridge in 1870: Jeremiah Haxstun L~9, surveyor, born N.Y., ~f7000.00 Mary 43, born N.Y. Franklin 13 The only child we have found for Jeremiah and Mary{Darrow)Haxstun is: 1 H.Frank, or Franklin, born about 1857. lie lived at Fort Edward. He married first Frances Weatherwax and second "a lady of Fort Edward"[l]. The ~ary E.Shaler mentioned as granddaughter of Jeremiah above may have been his daughter and married to a man named Shaler; or Jeremiah may have had a daughter who married a man of that name. H. Frank died at Glen Falls, Warren County, New York, about 1937 (l]. a.Frank rlaxstun and his first wife, Frances Weatherwax, had one child that died in infancy. His second wife, whom he married late in life, had already died at the time Mr. Frank McClellan of Mechanicville, New York, wrote us an account of the Haxtons of his acquaintanceship. That was in August,1945w 1 Sylvester:Hist. of Saratoga 2 Data sent us by Saratoga County Cle: County,N.Y.(1893)pp.557-8 92 54 Andrew King 6[King Andrew 5 Jeremiah 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James], son of King Andrew and Mary (Donihue) Haxton, was born at C8.1'1bridge. Washington County, New York~ 10 Dec.1823 [l). Re married Martha Darrow,. born about 1830, daughter of Hiram and Elmira (Wilson) Darrow of Cambridg~ and Fort Edward, both in Washington County. She was sister to the wife of Andrew King's brother Jeremiah [l]. Andrew King Haxstun (as he spelled the name) was a man of impor tance in his community, and in many fields: industrial, educational, religious, and patriotic. He lived at Fort Edward, and was one of the village trustees. In 1860 he was connnissioned Quartermaster of the 93rd New York Infantry; but his health gave way under the strain of work and he returned to private life [l]. For a time he was in the flouring business at Fort Edward [l). In 1867-8 he was at Clyde, Wayne County, New York, as Director of the Clyde Paper Company (2]. By 1871 he was a member of the firm of Haxstun, Oatman, and Company of Fort Edward [3], stoneware manufacturers;and, also of Fort Edward, with the firm of Haxstun & Griffin, wheel manufac turers [1). Then again he was manufacturing stoneware under the name of Haxstun and Company [l]G In church affiliation he was a Methodist. For twenty-five years he was a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of his towno In 1860 he was Steward of Fort Edward Instituteo In politics he was a Democrat (lJ. In 1884 he purchased a farm of thirty acres in Moreau, just across the border of Saratoga County. This after his death became the home of his son Richard [l]. Andrew King Haxstun died intestate on 13 Febol890 and on the fol" lowing March 22nd administration was grented to his widow, Martha D. Haxstun. The heirs were, besides the widow, his daughter, Amelie Velie and his son Richard Baxter Haxstun (4]. His obituary in a Washington County paper dated 19 Feb.1890 [5] reads: ~Andrew K.Haxstun died last Thursday aged 65. For a number of years he conducted the lower pottery under the firm name of A.K.Hax stun & Co. He was a paper-maker by trade, and for a time was superin tendent of the extensive plant of George West at Ballston. Some three years ago he purchased the farm and fertilizer business of Joseph Tate & Son and removed to Moreau. He was long identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church: a trustee of it. He enlisted in 1861 in the 93rd Regiment as Quarter-master." Andrew King Haxstun's widow Martha died on 7 Feb.1893 aged 63 [l]. Her will, dated 12 July 189a and proved 16 r'eb.1893, mentions son R.Bax ter Haxstun and daughter Amelie Velie, and names A.Dalton Wait or Fort Edward as executor [6]. 1 Sylvester:Saratoga Co.,pp.557-8 4Saratoga Co.Prob.Rec. 33:456 2 Wayne Co.Directory 1867-8 5 In Manuscript Room, State Library 3 Washington Co.Directory 1871 6 Sent us by Saratoga Co. Clerk 93 The children of Andrew King and Martha (Darrow) Haxstun were: 85 1 Richard Baxter1 born 18 Sept.1848; married Helen Carswello[l]. 2 Martha [2], later Amelia Martha [3]. She married on 24 Aug.1881 as bis second wife, and entered as Martha Amelia Haxstun or Fort Edward, John rlenry Viele, born 20 Mar.1844, son of John Carpen ter Viele and his wife Eliza (Baker) Viele of Fort Miller, New York. John Henry Viele had married first in 1875 Lydia Amanda Wait, daughter of Sidney and Lydia (Clute) Wait, who died 16 Mar. 1878 aged 33-10-21 [4]o Amelia Martha died 28 June 1900 at Fort Miller [4]. Both John Henry Viele and his father before him were elders in the Dutch Reformed Church of Fort Miller [4]. Fort Miller is a few miles south of Fort Edward, and also in Washington County. The "Viele Records" from which we have just quoted gives also the birth and death dates of both Martha Amelia's parents. The exact date of the mother's birth we have seen given nowhere else. There are, however some contradictions to our other data. Here given are: Andrew King Haxstun, born 10 Dec .1824; died 13 .t''ebol870. (Sylvester gives his birth year as 1823; and the death date is evidently a mis reading for 1890, as we lmow from the probate records.) Martha (Darrow) Haxstun, born 15 May 1830; died 7 Feb.1893 at Cambridge. We are glad, indeed, to get her more exact data. 1 Bascom:Fort Edward Book 3 Family records sent to us by Miss (1903) p.246 Lina W.Haxstun of Troy, N.Y. 2 Sylvester: Hist.of Saratoga 4 K.K.Viele: 11 Viele Records" (1913) County(l893)pp.557-8 p.236 94 55 Palmer 6[King Andrew 5 Jeremiah 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 J8.Illes 1), son of King Andrew and Mary (Donihue) Haxton, was born in 1830, as we know from the 1870 census. Except for the ini'ormation given in that census record, we know practically nothing about him. He then had feal estate valued at i10,ooo.oo and personal property valued at $2,000.00 and was living at Cambridge in Washington County, New York, where his parents lived before him. His younger brother William with wife and little daughter were living in his family, the two older ones as farm helpers. A letter written to us in 1945 by Mr. Frank McClellan of Mechanicville, New York, long-time neighbor of Haxtons, says~·of King Andrew's descendants: "They were quite a prominent family in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in that section[Ca:mbridge], along with the King family. The last of the Haxtons left the "King Val ley" about the year 1895, with the exception of the Austin branch, whose mother was a llaxton ••••••••• The children of Palmer are if living now residents of Saratoga County, New York.~ Except for the son George named in the census list below, this is all we know of Palmer's "Children, His wife was named Mary and was born about 1839. 1870 census list, Cambridge, N.Y. Palmer Haxton 40, born N.Y., $10,000.00. $2,000.00 Mary 31 " George 3 " William 36 II farm laborer Ruth 26 II domestic servant Harriet 5 " 95 56 William 6[King Andrew S Jeremiah 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of King Andrew and Mary {Donihue) Haxton, was born about 1834, as we know from the 1870 censuso At that time he and his young wife were living with his brother Palmer in Cambridge as helpers. Later he and his wife removed to South Cambridge. Her name was Ruth, and in the one record we have found of them in their South Cambridge days he had taken a middle initial E. We have quoteci on page 94 the census record of 1870 where his age is given then as 36, Ruth's as 26, and daughte~ Harriet's as S. The only other item we nave found about this family group was seen in the Scrap-book of Obituaries in the Manuscript Room at the State Li brary in Albany. It reads: Hattie M.McNeil, wife of rrevoW.J.McNeil and only daughter of Wil• liam E. and Ruth Haxton of South Cambridge, N.Y., was born 11 June 1865 and died 14 Nov.1892. She had gone to her parents, expecting her moth er to accompany her to Readsboro, Vtj,whither han husband had preceded her to his new pastorate. Here Mrs. McNeil died, lce,ving an infant son a few days old." The only child, then, we have found of William E.and Ruth Haxton is: 1 Harriet, or Hattie, born 11 June 1865; merried Rev"W.J.McNeil; and died 14 Novol892o 96 57 James 6[King Andrew 5 Jeremia...~ 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1), son of King Andrew and ~ary (Donihue) Haxton, was born about 1828, as we learn from his 1870 census record. He should have been placed before his brothers Pal!'ler a.nd William, since they both were younger than he; but we did not discover this in time. James lived at Cambridge in Washington County, New York. His wife's name was Laura, and she was 8orn about 1835. We have nothing on the family except what is given in the 1870 census: James Haxton of Cambridge, 42, born N.Y. Laura 35, born N.Y. Allie F.18 11 John lJ II The children, tnen of James a.nd Laure. 1-!axton were 1 Allie F., born 1852 2 John, born 1857 S8 Horace W.6[King Andrew 5 Jeremiah 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1), son of King Andrew and Mary (Donihue) Haxton,- does not have a middle letter in the family account in the history of Saratoga County, but does so have in the Weeks genee_logy. Ee married Fannie E.Weeks,daugh ter of John L. and Abby s.(White) Weeks of Schagticoke, Rennselaer Co., New York (l]. They lived in Lansingburg, which is also in Rensselaer County, and Horace's name is in the directories of that town from 1879 through 1892. He was a carpenter. Horace used the spelling He.xton. One notices that one of his brother's grandchildren who also lived in Lansingburg used the form Haxstun. Troy, N.Y. has the land records for Rensselaer County. These show that in 1882 the heirs of Jo~ L. Wickes, including Fannie E. Haxton, sold his estate in Schagticoke. Horace W.Haxton should not have been given a number, as we have found no children to ca_rry his name forward. For a long time it seemed to us that the Haxtons of Kent County,Michigan, were such (and they may yet prove to be so), but to date we have not been able to prove this. 1 R.D.Weeks: Weeks genealogy (1885), P• 265 97 59 Milton 6[Washington Morton 5 Benjamin 4 Andrew 3 Benj.2 James 1], son of Washington Morton Haxtun and his wife Sophia Maria (Taylor) Hax tun, was born in New York City S Oct.1825 [l]. He was a man of impor tance, a Commander in the United States Navy, and a full account of his life is given in Stiles' Webhersfield, Connecticut [2]. It is too long to repeat here, but easily available in the history room of all good libraries. On 1 July 1850 Milton Haxtun, passed midshipman U.S.Navy Norfolk, Ve., sold to Henry G.Johnson of Catskill,N.Y.(his uncle) for $200.00 all his rights as heir of Jehiel Haxtun,deceased (sic; probably a misread• ing of Julia C.) and of Caroline Haxtun, deceased, late of Cat~kill [2]. Milton's wife was Annie Arnoux, genealogical editor of the New York Mail and Express, and author of the famous "Signers of the Mayflower Compact,"which is a reprint from the columns of the Mail and Express. Fro~ 1859 to 1865 their address was a New York City one.Thereafter he was of Brooklyn, the city directories entering him as of u.s.N., or Commander, or Shipmaster. He was retired from the U.S;Navy in July 1896 with the rank of Captain [3J. One notes that in Boston,Mass., directo ries from 1879 to 1881 Gapt.~.ilton Haxtun of the U.S.Navy Yard in Charlesto~"D. had a house "ntar the bridge. n Captain riaxtun died in Brooklyn on 26 May 1898 [l). His widow, Annie (Arnoux) Haxtun, was still living at the Haxt'.lll home in Brooklyn as late as 1905. This was at .56 St.Felix Street. She had been editor of tne genealogical sheet of the Mail and Express from September 1891 to August 190.5. Possibly 1905 was the year of her death, the date of which we nave not been able to find. The children of Capt. Milton and Annie (Arnoux) Haxton were: 1 Adelaide; in 1912 her home was at 103 Joralemon St.,Brooklyn [4]. 2 Milton Leroy. He was with his parents in New York City as late as 1888, and of the United States Navy then. After that we lose all trace of him. [l]. 3 Sutherland Reid. He was a lawyer in New York City, with residence in Brooklyn. In city directories he was entered at first (1889- 1901) as notary; and thereafter as lawyer and Secretary. 4 Sophia Kennett l Stiles:Wethersfield(l903)p.702 3 The Randall manuscript, N.Y.C. 2 Greene County Deeds 44:373 4 Brooklyn Directory 98 60 Benjamin 6[Andrew B.S Benjamin l+- Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1] ,son or Andrew B. and Mary (Britton) Haxtun, was born in March 1826 (1]. He married Susan C.Naylor, born in 1828, daugnter of Peter and Margaret V. Naylor [l). They lived in New York C1.ty. 16 Jan.1850 William Haxton and Benjamin tlaxton, both of New York City[brothers, of course], sold to Mary Ann F'raser of Troy [their tirsi cousin] land in Athens, Greene County left tnem by the will or their grandfather, Benjamin Haxtun of Catskill (2]. 14 Jan.18S2 William 3axtun and Benjamin Haxtun with wife Susan ot New York City sold to tlenry Johnson of Catskill [their uncle] all their rights as l1eirs of J,i3hial Haxtun[probably a clerical misreading tor Julia C.riaxtun] and of Caroline Haxtun, both deceased [3]. New York City directories give us a good idea of Benjamin's busi ness interests. In 1851 and 1852 he lived in Jersey City and had a gro cery business in New York. From then on his home was in New York City. In 1854 and for several years after he is described as either merchant or ship merchant and for a part of the time as "Treasurer, 63 Centre st." From 1891 through 1902 he was interested in real estate. After 1871 his residence was at 21 Madison Avenue. He and his brother William organized the Washington Lite Insurance Company. Benjamin Haxtun died 14 Jan.1903(1]. dis wife, Susan c., had died either 24 Mar.1895 [l] or 24 Mar.1898 (2]. I/tt,lt~tltiittrl~~-1/~,1#e 1,rr--,1~tt-11,111~~1~r,t,1'1,rl~ttt1t~. The wills of both Benjamin and Susan, tnough filed in New York City, had copies filed also in New London, where a daughter lived. Benjamin's will, written 6 Apr.1899 and proved 22 Jan.1903, mentions daughter Mary Britton Hopson, wife of John Hopson, and daughter Myra Ray mond Harper, wife of Henry Sleeper Harper. [3] Susan C.Haxtun's will was written 28 July 1866. We neglected to get the date of proving, but her death date is given here as 24 Mar.1898 and she is called wife of Benjamin Haxtun and mother of Myra Raymond Harper of 21 Madison Avenue, New York City, end of Mary Britton Hopson of New London [2]. The children, then of Benjamin and Susan C.(Na.ylor) Haxtun were: 1 Myra Raymond. On 28 Feb.1889 (41 she married Henry Sleeper Har per, born N.Y.C. 11 Mar.1864, son of Joseph w. and Abigail Payson (Sleeper) Hbrper. He was a graduate of Columbia university. Myra died in 1923 and in 1924 Henry married Anne Waterman tlopson. He died 1 Mar.1944 [5]. 2 Mary Britton. On 2 Oct.1879 she married John Hopson, born 29 Aug. 1854, son of John and Rebecca J.(Spooner) tlopson [6]. They liTed in New London. 1 The Randall manuscript, N.Y.C. 4 New York City vital records 2 Greene County Deeds 46:173 5 Harper genealogy(l948) pp.9-11 3 Ibid. 45:225 6 Swift genealogy(l900)p.130 99 61 John Raymond 6[Andrew B.~ Benjamin 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1], son of Andrew B .. e.nd Myre. Ann (Raymond) Haxtt.r'.., 1:2s b:Jrn 12 Nov.1845[1] • On 13 Jan .. 1868 John R.Haxtun joined with his mother, now Myra A• Wneeler, and his sister, Myra R.Vose, all of New York City, in selling to Phebe Ann Johnson of Catskill (his father's sister) all their rights as heirs of Julia c. and Caroline Haxtun, both deceased (2], who were two other of his father's sisters, both dying very young .. On 6 Feb.1878 John Raymond Haxtun married Lucy Austin [3). They ma.de their home in Kent, Connecticut, where he died on 18 Mar.1889 aged 44. Hi death is recorded in N6w York City vital records; also on his gravestone in Kent. On the second of May 1889 Mrs. Lucy A. Haxtun of Kent and Edward Austin were appointed guardians of the children of John R.Haxtun, late of Kent [4]. Elsewhere Edward Austin is described as Edward H.Austin of New Milford, Litchf'ield County, Conn. The children placed under guard i~nship are named as Arthur R., ~arold A., Edith Lo, Constance, and Kenneth G. [4]. Distribution of the estate was made on 15 Mar.1890, val uation ~9045.00. The last mention of Mrs. Lucy we found was in connection with a sale of a. parcel of land on 25 May 18950 [5]. The children of John Raymond and Lucy (Austin) Haxtun were: 1 Arthur Raymond [3]; d3ceased before 1953 [7] 2 Harold Austin [3]; decee.sed bef0re 1953 [ 7] 3 Edith Lucile [5]; deceased before 1953 [7] 4 Constance [4]; married William Kissam [6] 5 Kenneth Goadby; in 1953 of Rochester, N.Y., in the offices of tne Social Security Administration[?]. 1 gravestone inscription 5 M.i~cellaneous probate records 2 Greene County Deeds 69:319 6 ltem sent us by Mr.Clifford P.Monahon 3 The Raymond manuscript(1890) Rhode Island Hist. Society,Providence by Samuel Raymond;at N.E.H.G.S97 Data sent us by Mr. Kenneth G.Haxtun, 4 Kent Probate rlec. #287 of Rochester, N.Y. 100 62 Andrew [ ;,rcbably 3 J2:-u: 2 Robert 1]. ~. lJ that we have on Andrew and l1is broth<"r Sfuni.;.el 'oelow :ia::; bF:en. se~1t us by }~r .. Cr:f!sn L.I:-:axton of Strongsvillo,Ohio, 2nd by Hr.Jesse w.:12.xton of Coshocton, Ohio., grandsons of Andrew ar..J 3c_muel resp0ctivoly. Mr. Orren did not know t:::1e parentage 0~ the brothers, but lmew L:eir '.:'.ncestry went back to Pennsylvania.. r:r. Jesse aazton ceve us tneir parentage. Andrew was born in 1835 [l] or 1837 [2]. We do not know the name of his wife., rn1e Cosl1octon Cc'J.Ilty Court of CoPL'TIO:n Plee.s she1Ws [16:16!·] +".}:at vn 18 Sept.1372 A.R.lfa.ckinson had a case against Peter La.'ttiBl'1;-iutt tled in 1873. Andrew, or A.;.~. I-hckinson died in 1883[2]. liis .;!1ildren were: 86 1 Orren Melvin; born 1870; married Clementine ~iller [l]. 2 Melvina; born 1874; married Bigham Fink. She died in 1954(1]¢ 63 Samuel [j,Jrobe.bly 3 Jo:rr. 2 Robert l]. I:e was born in 1839 according to family tradition [l]; but et the time of the 1870 census his age was entered as 27, making his birth year 1843. He married Mary Patterson and livP-d. in Eill C:::eek towns:ai;, Coshocton County ~3]. The 1870 census gives ~--iis family as consistin6 of S9.mi.;.el Haxton ae 27, farP1er, ~300.00 :fory 30 Jch:.'1 I'. 5 (a mis-writing for Jolm T.) c~1.ildren of S9.m1el 2.:rd Nar:r {Patterson) :faxton were: 87 1 Jo~m T. horn 27 Feb.1865; married Catherine Ifinsley (3]. 88 2 Ce.l vin R. born 16 r'tar o 1871; married Emma E .Bickel [ 3 & 4] 3 daue;hter born :: Feb. J 880 [ 3]; st1e was named Ida and married Alex Fortune [2]. Coshocton County vital records show that Eary Patterson, wife of Samuel 2axton, was born 13 Mer.1839 and died at Keene 2S ~1ly 1919 aced eighty~ 1 Mr. Orren L.Haxton 3 Vital Records at Cos:'locton County 2 Mr. Jesse W.Haxton Court House 4 Coshocton Directories 101 64 Burton s.6[James M.5 Abe 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1], son of Ja:mes M. and Caroline (Morehouse-Sage) Haxton, was born at Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 30 Sept.1852[1]. The 1870 census shows him still at home with his parents, aged 17. The census taker evidently came before his birthday. By 1875 Burton was of Boston, and on 29 Nov.1876 Burton s.Haxton of Boston, aged 24, bookkeeper, born Sandisfield, son of James M. and Caroline M., married Carrie R.Barnes, aged 22, born Sheffield, daughter of Joseph c. and Catherine; both residents of Boston and for both a first m.arria,ae [l]. Boston directories for 1875 and 1876 show Burton S.Haxton as Assistant Bookkeeper at 183 Devonshire Street; and the directories for 1877 through 1880 show him es Bookkeeper at the same address. After that he probably became a street-car conductor for a short time, for in his death record his occupation is given as Bookkeeper and Street car Conductor. Burton died on 4 Aug.1883, aged 30-10-4. In his death record he is called of Sandisfield (1). His grave is in the New Boston Cemetery in Sandisfield, where his father and brother are also buried.[2]. So it would seem he died in his native village. Burton and Carrie had one child, Arthur B. Haxton [3]. On 8 Jan.1885 Carrie R.Haxton of Stoughton[Mass.], aged 30, daughter of Joseph c. and Catherine (Sexton) Barnes, married John E. Capen, aged 36, son of John and Betsey (Brett) Capen; his first mar riage [4]. John Edwin Capen was born 20 Nov.1848 and died 8 Feb.1912[5]. Carrie (Barnes-Haxton) Capen died 12 May 1922 [5]. The one child of Burton s. and Carrie R. (Barnes) Haxton was: 1 Arthur B. We judge this was orcbably the Arthur B.Haxton whom Boston directories show to have been a press-feeder there in 1899 and 1900 and in somewhat similar work in the same city until 1906; and the same one who was a printer in San Diego, California in 1909; after which we lose all track of him• 1 Mass. vital records in the State 3 Berkshire County Gazetteer House, Boston (1885) p.336 2 Boston Transcript of 18 July 1932 4 Stoughton vital records Gen.sheet,item N 2489 by EYS 5 Hayden:Capen genealogy (1929) pages 101 and 162 102 65 William E. 6[Elnathan 5 William 4 Jeremiah 3 Benjamin 2 James l]. son of Elnathan and Maria (DeLon~) Haxton., was born about 1832 as we know from the census lists of 1850 and 1860. In 1850 he was aged 18 and still living in his father's family. In 1860 he had a wife named Sarah E., he aged 28, she 22. No children were listed, nor have we ever found any called theirs. Yet his father's will, written 24 June 1862 bequeaths to "son William E.Haxtun and his children." Of course children may have been born after the census-taking in 1860 and in 1861 or 1862; or the father may have referred to possible children. We gave William a number., hoping to the last to discover such. We don't even know where William and his wife disappeared to; they simply drop out of the records. In 1846, when he was only fourteen years old, William discovered what --after it was opened up in 1869 by Albert Tower--became known as the Beekman Iron Mine [l]. William E.Haxtun was certainly well-to-do. In 1860, when he was only twenty-eight years old, his real estate was valued at ~12,000.00, and his personal estate at (3080.00. In 1869 he was town supervisor for Beekman [2]. An illustration of William's house is given in Smith's History of Dutchess County (1882) opposite page 547. The accompanying paragraph says the house was sold in 1867 or 1868 to MroA.Tower. Albert Tower was the owner in 1882. A note in the 1950 Year Book of Dutchess County Historical Society says the Haxton-Tower house is now the home of Mr.Chester A.Baker and of Mrs.Lavina Blaker(probably a slip of the pen for Baker), the latter being the writer of the note. Their address was Hopewell Jco,N.Y. She wished, in writing this note, to discover who the Haxtons were. 1 Hasbrouck: Dutchess County 2 Smith:Dutchess County{l882)p.545 (1909) 103 66 Benjamin 6 [William W.S Benjamin 4 Jeremiah 3 Benjamin 2 James 1), son of William W. and Maria (DeLong) Haxtun, was born about 1859, as is shown by the Federal census of 1860 and the State census of 1865. He married on 24 Feb.1892 Dorothea Storm, born 26 May 1860, daughter of Thomas and Susan Maria (Arthur) Storm [1]. Benjamin had taken a middle letter D (probably for his mother's maiden name DeLong), for his marriage notice read: "Dorothea Storm, daughter of Thomas I. and Maria (Arthur) 11 Storm, married Benjamin D.Haxtun, e.11 of Fishkill. [ 2]. Dorothea's grandfather, John Arthur, and President Arthur 1 s father William were first cousins(l]. Benjamin and Dorothea lived in Stormville, in Dutchess County [3]. The children of Benjamin D. and Dorothea (Storm) Haxtun were: 1 Maria Arthur; died aged seventeen [l]. 2 Adrianna Storm. She married Frank Deloyd Mather and resided in Stormville [1]. 3 Benjamin; died in his twentieth year [l]. 1 R.W.Storm:Old Dirck's Book a Commemorative Biog. Record of (1949) Dutchess County (189?)pp.8~6-7 2 Commemorative rliographical Record of Dutchess County p.295 104 67 James W.6[Holby 5 ??James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Molby and Lucy (Geer) Haxton of Griswold, Connecticut, was born about 1836, since he was fourteen yegrs old at the time of the census of 1850. We know nothing of his place of residence later; but a Margaret~ Haxton, "widow of James WaHaxton," appears in the New York City direc tory of 1913, living at 4147 Park Avenue, at which address a William Haxton, electrician, had been living since 1906. It is entirely possible (although of course in no way proven) that Molby's son James w. died about 1913 and that this Margaret was his widow and after his death went to live with a son in New York City. She may have died soon, since we find her name in only the one directory. We will therefore give tentatively as son of James w. and Margaret 1 William; he appears in New York City directories as an electri cian from 1906 through 1920. In 1925, at the same address as that given above the name appears as William P.Haxton; and in 1933 this William P.,electrical engineer, was with wife Bertha z. living at 1479 Macombs Road, New York Cityo Whether William P. was identical witn William or a son of the latter we do not know. 105 68 William Bennet 6[James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James 1), or Bennett, as he is called in another branch of the family [1], was born in 1824 [2), and probably in Ohio, since his next younger brother Levi was born in that state before the family removed to Indiana [3]. William Ben net Haxton settled in Attica, Fountain County, Indiana, ten miles from Newtown, where his brother Levi settled. In the 1870's William Bennett left Williamsport (in Warren County, l½ miles from Attica)by covered wagon and removed to Springdale, Arkansas [2], which is in the northwestern corner of Arkansas in Washington County and ten miles north of Fayetteville. He had a large family. The three children whose names we have were: 1 Tom. He was oorn at Attica, Fountain County, Indians, and taken by his parents to Springdale, Arkansas. By 1880 he had removed to Rice County, Kansas, where he owned land. 89 2 William Levi, born in 1865 or 1866; married Lizzie Nodurft 3 Edward, born about 1867. It was he who gathered and preserved the traditions as to the family line; passed these on to his nephew Clint, who gave them to his brother Frederick E., who has sent them on to us--a contribution whose value cannot be estimated. 1 Sent us by Mrs.Gale Haxton 3 Census of 1850,1860,& 1870 2 Sent us by Mr .F'rederick E.Haxton 106 69 Levi H.6[James iiarrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of James Harrison and Catherine (Harper) Haxton, was born in Ohio in 1826, as we know from his several census listings. He was brought in childhood to Indiana and as late as 1850, when he was 24 years old, was still in his parents' home in Richland township, Foun tain County, in that state. Soon after this he married a wife named Sarah. Practically everything we know about him comes from the census ta.bleso These show us that his post office address was Newtown {in Richland township); that his wife was Indiana-born; that they had five children; and that in 1860 his real estate was valued at ~1000 0 00 and his personal property at ~600000;'i and ten years later, the real estate aroounted to ~6000.00, tne personal property to $1150.00. For some odd reason his family was entered twice in the 1860 census, once under his name, and once under Sarah's. We give the lists below: In 1860 • L.H.Haxton ae 34,boOhio, real est.$1000; pers.est.$600 wife Sarah ae 31,b.Indiana Marge.ret C. 5 John L. 3 George W. l Also in 1860 Sarah nackston ae 30, born Indiana Margaret c. 5 John L. 3 George W. 1 In 1870 Levi H. Haxton,ae 44, b.Ohio, P.O.Newtown, in Richland twp. real estate ~6000.00, personal $1150.00 wife Sarah ae 41, born Indiana Margaret c. 15 John L. 13 George Wo 11 Charles E. 9 Albert 7 The children, then,of Levi H. and Sa.rah Haxton were: 1 Margaret c.,born 1855 2 John L.,born 1857 3 George w.,born 1859 4 Charles Eo,born 1861 S Albert, born 1863 107 70 Oliver Perry 6[James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James 1], son of James Harrison and Catherine (Harper) Haxton, was born on 22 Sept.1833 at Newtovm, Fountain County, Indiana[l]. He married Emily Tracy, who was born 27 Dec.1835 [l]. She was born near LaFayette, which is in Tippecanoe County and about twenty miles north east of Newtown. They lived for a time in Mercer County,Illinois[l). Oliver and Emily removed to Iowa in 1875, settling at Earlham., in Madison County, where he held various offices of trust [2]. Oliver died on 11 June 1900,killed in an accident at an elevator. Emily died at Earlhem 9 Jan.1909[1]. The children of Oliver Perry naxton and his wife, Emily Tracy, were: 90 1 Charles Manford, born 2 Sept.1856; married Mary Viola Garrett (3]o 91 2 Rodolph, born 10 Feb.1859; married Etna Bennett [4] •. 3 Ora Candace, born 10 ~·eb.1861 in Mercer County,Illinois; married 24 Dec.1879 Chalmers O.Clements, born 7 Nov.1859 and died JO Jan. 1944. Ora Candace died 12 Nov.1951 [l]. 4 Julia, born in 1866; married her first cousin, Squire Bowerman. She died in 1938 (1). 92 5 Oliver Perry; married Jocie Wicks [l]. 1 Sent us by Mrs. William F.Price 3 Sent us by Mrs. Gale tlaxton of Earlham, Iowa of Gotebo, Oklahoma. 2 History of Madison Co.,Iowa, 4 Sent us by Mrs. Minnie B.Hall (1879)p.638 of Earlham, Iowa 108 71 Sanford M. 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benja min 2 Ja.mes l], son of James Harrison and Catherine (Harper) Haxton, was be,rr, :::.'oout 1846, according to the census of 1850, in which he wa.s wrongly entered as Se.nf ord N• Sanford lived at Orient, Adair County, Iowa, which is just west of Madison County. He was a veteran of the Civil War. His wife's name was Grizell Gordono All this, and the names of his children below have been sent us by Mrs. ·w1 lliam F. Price of Earlham. The children of Sanford M. and Grizell (Gordon) Haxton were: 1 Jane; married---- Henry and lived at Orient. 2 Charles; died in infancy. 3 James; died in infancy. 4 William; died in infancy. 5 John; lived in Arlington, South Dakota. 109 72 Mortimer 6[Russell 5 John 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James l], son of Russell and Pluney Haxton, was born in 1829, p0cording to the census of 1850, and was a carpenter. We do not know the name of his wife. He had a daughter 1 Myrtle; she married and nad a daughter named Ethel Clinton Jo henis [1]. 73 Clarendon 6[Russell 5 John~- Benjamin 3 & 2 James l], was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 1835. He married Ada McElheney [l]. They had one son: 93 1 Edward; married Maggie Murphey [l] 1 Data sent by Mrs. R.J.Haxton of Ithaca, N.Y. 110 74 Nicholas P.6[Hosea 5 John~ Benjamin 3 & 2 James l]l son of Hosea and Aminda Haxton, was born in 1843, as we know from the 1850 census of LeRoy township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. He enlist ed in the Union Army from Bradford County in the )rd Division, 9th Army Corps, on 5 Sept.1864, and was discharged 1 June 1865. He had five sons, of whom we have the name of only one. [2]. Nicholas P's widow Jane was living in Kansas City, Missouri from 1897 through 1907. [3]. The one son of Nicholas P. and Jane that we have was 94 1 Ellis Cadwallader; married----- :, 7'!r; Pearl 6[ John 5 & 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James 1], son of John of LeRoy township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was born in 1824. He married Maria Sands [4]. They were still of LeRoy township at the time of the 1850 census, but later removed to Rockford, Michigan [5]. The 185a census list is: Pearl daxton ae 26,farmer b.Penna, ~600.00 Maria 24 Betsy 3 James l 76 Sumner 6[John 5 & 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 Jam.es l], son of John of LeRoy township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was born in 1831 [6]. He found his way to Iowa and married there Minerva S.Benson, born in Ohio 14 Dec. 1831, daughter of John and Almeda (Green) Benson, who had removed to Iowa in 1836. Sumner and Mine~va resided in Union County in that state. Sumner died in 1903; Minerva in 1817(6]. Their children were: 1 Delavan, born 1858; die-d 1881 or 1882(6). 95 2 Albertus, born 1861; married Lula A.Crosser [6] 3 Anne Mabel, born 1863; married in 1890 William Long [6]. 4 Julian; died young [6]. 1 1850 census 4 Heverly:Hist.of Bradford Coo 2 De.ta from Mr.Raymond S.Haxton (1926) p.401 of Kansas City .5 Item from Hrs.c.J.Haxton of Ithaca,N.Y. 3 Kansas City Directories 6 :;::·.HoBenson:Benson Family Records (1920) P• 68 111 77 Giles M.6[Marcenus 5?':?Benjamin 4 & 3 &2 James 1), son of Marcenus and Eliza (palmer) Haxton, was born in Livingston County., 1'1ew York, on 25 June 1820, as we know from Goodspeed and Blanchard's "Counties of Por ter and Lake, Indiana" p.3720 All the following data are from the same sattrce book. rle was the second of seven children. When a child he was taken by his parents to Monroe County, New York [from other sources, we know tne home was in Rochester], and when Giles was twenty years old he began working in the factory of his father, who was a clothier. Two years later he --and probably his parents also--went to Lorain County,Ohio, where he lived for twenty-five years, except for four years in Medina County, also in Ohio. In 1867 he removed to Indiana, settling in Porter County. There he had a farm of 320 acres.Methodist Church member; Independent in politics. He was married twice; first to Lodema Vosburgf'of Monroe County, N.Y • ., on 1 May 18420 She died in 1852, leaving two children; and second on 25 Nov.1852 to Wealthy A.Vosburgh, who had four children. Giles M.'s children were: By his first wife, Lodema Vosburgh 1 Eliza M.; married -----Waitey of Lorain County, Ohio. 2 Masena; died--probaoly early. By his second wife, Wealthy A.Vosburgh i Lodema 4 Caroline M.; married-----Small 5 Florence 6 George E. 78 Daniel B.6[Marcenus S ???Benjamin 4 & 3 Sc 2 James l]; son of Maree nus and Eliza (Palmer) Haxton, was born at Rochester., New York 22 Jan. 1837. This and all our knowledge of him are taken from Lake City Publish ing Company's "Portrait and Biographical Album, Fayette County, Iowa" (1891). He was taken to Ohio with his parents when a child. When he was not yet twenty years old he struck out for himself and found a home in FAyette County, Iowa, settling two miles south of Taylorville, and ac quiring a farm of 120 acres. In Taylorville he married Lora E.Rawson. Their children were: 1 Frank c.;married Catherine Alsop of Dubuque. Resided Putnam town- ship. 2 William E.; married :Minnie Detrick; resided Putnam township 3 Adeline; married Francis M.Riche 4 Daniel A.; a Methodist Episcopalian 112 79 George W,6 [Samuel 5 Jeremiah 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James l], son of Samuel and Eliza GeHaxton, appears first in records when in the 1860 census for Oakfield he is listed as eight years old and therefore born about 1852. Like his father and grandfather, he resided in Oakfield. His great interest was in the evaporation of fruits and vegetables. The business which he established is still carried on under the name of George W.Haxton & Son, Inc., with tne Blue Boy trade mark. The 1888 directory for :J-enesee County lists George W.Haxton, Oak field, 63 acres of land, occupation: Insurance A~ent and Evaporator. The 1890 :J-:mesee :-azetteer shows him in tne partnership of Haxton and rtalsey a~d described as General Insurance A6ent and Evaporator of Fruit. Mr. Haxton died in 1924, leaving three children[l]: 1 G. Sherwin. He is President of the firm of George W.Haxton ~ Son, Inc. that deals in frozen fr~its and vegetables. He lived in Oak field until 1930, and still conducts much of his business from thereo His home is now in Rochester. [1). 2 Samuel F.; He died in 1937 [l]. Mrs. Samuel F.Haxton was living in ~hilade,phia in 1~51 [2]. 3 Plorence (}ertrude; married Harvey Girvin of West Lafayette, In diana [1]. 80 John s.6 [Samuel 5 Jeremiah 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James l], son of Samuel and Lliza G.~axton, inherited thirty-seven acres of his fath• er's land in Oakfield, and we.s living in that town as late as 1888[3]. In 1890 he was in Batavia [4], and then for many years, until his death in 1945 or 19~.6 of Buffalo, where he was connected with the New York Central Railroad, for several years as conductor [5]. His wife was Sarah E., and their children, order of age not kno~m to us, were: 1 Rays., or Roys. 2 Floyd A. 3 La.Verne B.; married Mar6uerite 4 Ethel 5 Edna R. 1 Items set us by Mr. G.Sherwin 3 Genesee County Directory naxton of Rochester 4 Genesee Gazetteer (1890) 2 Philadelphia Directory 5 Buffalo Directories 113 81 Emory 4[Alex c.3 Richard 2 Robert l],was son of Alex c. and Mary L.(Ha.rstine) Haxton. In her "Rambling Rememberings"(l939) Mrs. Potten ger states that "Emory died several yea.rs ago leaving one son." Mrs. Katharine Koch of Oak Park,Illinois, in sending us helpful Haxton notes wrote that Estel Haxton of Bellingham,Washington, was a grandson of Alex c. We do not know if there is a connection between these two items.Our questionnaire sent to WP.shington brought no reply. 82 !Richard Grant4 John 3 Richard 2 Robert l], son of John and Julia Ann(Gritfith) Haxton, removed from Indiana to ~.ississippi about 1904, "following the timber." For many years he engaged in lumbering on a large scale. Later, settling in Greenville,Miss., he gave all his time to his two other life-long interests: farming and live stock. He died on 3 Mar.1935. His widow, Ada Grace (Glover) Haxton, still lives in Greenville among her children, who are: 1 Ralph Glover, graduate of United States Naval Academy at Annap olis, and an officer serving in both World Wars. He has shared in all his father's interests and has written a delightful and most informa tive book (not yet published, but read by us with avidity) onMississ• 1ppi 1s logging days and on life in that State as he has known ito His wife is Neloise (Morehead) Haxton, daughter of Benjamin Hughes and Emma Eugenia (Allen) Morehead. She is a Daughter of the American Rev olution through both her Morehead and her Allen ancestors, Capt.Turner Morehead and Capt.Job Allen. 96 2 Richard Kenneth; married Hazel Ellise Blum 3 Althea Louise (Haxton) Gray has had as her great life interest landscape gardening, a profession for which she was trained in Harvard Landscape School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her charming letter-head reads: Gray Gardens Louise H.Gray Trees-Shrubs-Perennials Landscape Service Garden Novelties Garden Plans No one has done more than Mrs. Gray to promote our naxton searcho It was she who sent us the complete Pottenger manuscript; and twice she sent us money--so I11U.ch that we had to return a part of it. Our con science wouldn't let us do otherwise. We hadn't meant to let anyone give us money.Indulging in ancestors is our favorite luxury. 83 William Sherman 4[John 3 Richard 2 Robert 1], aon ot John and Julia Ann(Griffith) Haxton, married Mary Bolling of the old Virginia family of that name, and on her mother's side a Spear. They removed from Indiana to Kennewick, Washington; and then, during World War I removed again, this time to Hawaii, and Honolulu became their perma nent hoae. Mrs. Haxton died in November 1926; Mr.Haxton. on 12 July 1949. Their children are: 97 1 Lloyd A. of Sacramento, California 2 Helen, died in infancy 3 Louis D. of •onolulu 4 Roberts. or Honolulu 114 84 Charles Franklin~[ John~ Richard 45.. Robert '- Ben'J'itfifi4i==3--«-e~,J,sJttas 'T]. son of John and Julia Ann (Griffith) Haxton, was born 12 Jan.1869.[ll. He married first in 1892 Altha. :-lea.ton, who died two yea.rs later, on 25 Dec. 1894 [2], leaving no children [l]. He married second on 11 Sept. 1901 Christina. Catherine Gantz, wno hes given us much of the information be low. Charles naxton left the Indiana fa.rm and removed to Terra Haute, where at one time he owned the telephone company (3]. Mr. Haxton died 22 May 1941 [1]. The family home was at Black Ha.wk, Indiana. [l]. The children of Charles Franklin and Christina Catherine(Gantz) Haxton, as given us by Mrs. Haxton herself are: 1 Elizabeth Audrey 98 2 John Howard; married Thelma Sharp 3 Catherine Lenore 4 Myram S Bertha Marcelle.; married ----McGlone. She died aged twenty in an a1.:,to accident. In a letter from Mrs. ::;}:--_ristine Haxton received after the above paragraphs were typed we are given more complete data on her children and grandc~ildren: 1 Elizabeth Audrey married Ernest Greiner. They have two children: Philip Charles and Leah Rose. 98 2 John Howard married Thelma Sharp. . . • ..,,1 Catherine Lenore married Raymond Tryon. Tney nave two children • Richard and Phyllis 4 Myra.m married Frank Long. T~ey have, one son, ~Donald. .,,c'. Marcella ms.rried Frank I.Mculone. S'le clied at,ed twenty and with- out issue. 1 Data from Mrs. Christina Haxton 3 Item sent by Mr. Lloyd A.Haxton of of Terra Haute Sacramento 2 The Pottenger manuscript 115 85 Ric11ard Baxter 7[.\ndrew King 6 King Andrew 5 Jeremiah 4 Andrew 3 Benjamin 2 James 1], son of Andrew King Haxton and his wife Martha Darrow, was bo~n at Cambridge, Washington County, New York, 18 Sept. 1848 [l]. In the earlier part of his life he was of Fort Edward and was educated at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. He was at one time Collector there [2]. The work he took up at first was that of bookkeeper. As such he began working for the Haxstun Oatman Company about 1874, and was five years later with Haxstun and Company, and in 1884 he succeeded to the business of which his father ha.d been a founding partner. The plant me.nufactured ~eat's foot oil and fertilizero Richard also specialized in po~ltry food and tallow[l]. Upon his father's death in 1890 Richard ca.me into possession of the 30-acre farm in Moreau, just across the border in Saratoga County, and that town became his home. He was trustee for his school district thereo Like his father, he was a Democrat in politics and a Methodist in his church affiliation [2]. Richard Baxter Haxstun married at Fort Miller, New York, 30 July 1879 Helen E,Ce.rswell, born at Fort Edward 3 Mar.1855., daughter of Wil liam J. and Mary I.{Payn) Carswell [2]. I failed to find the date of Richard's death. His widow, Helen E. Haxstun., died intestate on 8 Jan.1935.,and her daughter Lina Wo was grant ed letters of administration [3], the heirs named being Amelia H.O'Connor, daughter Lina W.Haxstun, daughter Helen H.LaMarche, daughter A.K.Haxstun, son Richard C.Haxstun, son The children of Richard Baxter He.xstun and his wife Helen E.Cars• well were: 1 Martha A.,or Amelia,; married----- 0 1 Connor 2 Lina w.; for some time a teacher in Lansingburg; later of Troy; has sent us excellent data on her line. 3 Andrew K. · 4 Helen M.; married -----LaMarche 5 Richard c.; in 1951 or 1952 was of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., his residence described as being on Moreau Road [4]. 1 Sylvester:Saratoga County 3 Probate Records, sent us by the (1893) pp.557-558 Saratoga County Clerk 2 Bascom:Fort Edward Book 4 Saratoga Springs directory (1903) Po246 116 86 Orren Melvin L,_ [Andrew 3 John 2 Robert l], according to the data sent us by Mr.Jesse W.Haxton. He was born in 1870 and died in 1920. He marrieJ Clementine i'1iller, who was born in 1864 and died in 1944, accord ing to family data of Mr. Orren L.Haxton. The children of Orren Melvin and Clementine (Miller) Haxton wero: 1 Virgil Budd; lived at Millersbw1g, Hardy township, Holmes County. Ohio, where he died in 1944. He was married [l]. 2 Walter Scott; died in 1948 [l). 3 Orren Lemont; resides ir.. Stron6 sville, Ohio, and :iss been most helpful in sending ~s Haxton data. 87 John T.4[Samuel 3 John 2 Robert l] [2], son of Samuel and Mary (Pe..tterson) Ifaxton, was born 27 Feb.1865[3). His wife was Catharine (Katie) Kinsley, w~o was also called Mary c. at t~e births of various of their children. John T. died in Keene township, Coshocton County, on 22 May 1922; and Katherine died in Warsaw township on 13 Nov.1954[3]. Their children, all born at Mill Creek, were: 1 3elle flay 2 Clemmie Ida 3 CarriE- Ellen ~- ~:el va S Walter Dewey; died in infancy 6 Mary E.; died 10 July 1920 7 Carl Vo 8 rlalph Wayne [2] 88 Calvin R.4 [Sam~el 3 John 2 aobert l]., according to data sent by IVT..r. Jesse W.tlaxton. He wa.s son o.:' Sa.muel and He.ry (Patterson) Haxton a.nd was born 16 Mar.1871. He married Emma E.Bickel, as we know frori. the vital records in the county court house, as also the names of their children. They lived in Mill Creek and also in Coshocton, in which latter place Calvin was letter-carrier [4]. Calvin died on 7 June 1949[3]. His will [S], dated 28 Feb.1947 nan1ed son Jesse W. and daughter Georgia Stewart as executors and left all to wife Emma E. She died "on or about 7 June 19~-9 11 [5]. When the estate was distributed the heirs were: Jesse W.Haxton Lanna Marie Salrin Adelpha B.Worthington Otto C. Haxton Lavada Boal 3eorgia Steward Ira R.Ha.xton Isa M.Wea.ver l }~. Orren L. Haxton 4 Coshocton Directories 2 Mr.Jesse W.Haxton Coshocton Co.Pr0b.P.ec. 22:30 3 Coshocton Co. vital records 117 We have been 1Jr0Mised complete data on the children and grand cnildrFm of Calvir ?..., and Erruna Bo (:Sickel) rl:axton, and are saving space below for such if it arrives before this manuscr~nt 1s closed. At pres ent we can c:ive only the very incomplete data found in the town records and directories., Their children were: 99 l J'c"l"" Tr • married r,) Minnie----,who died at Warsaw JO Apr.1916 (2) Myrle Grace,who died in Tuscarawa township 30 J:1ly 1929 {3) Leorn8_ Pearl, who died in Coshocton 10 Jan. 1935 ( ), ) Ivfabel ]. 2 Lanna Marie; married -----Salrin 3 Adelpha B., or Delphe ':.; married -----Worthington L1 Otto Sance 1 S Lavada (written also ::.a rads P.); married Roal 6 8eorz2.a o.; married -----Stew~,rd 100 7 Ira 2.; married 3ara J.-- B Is .. h.; ;,:a.rried ----Weaver 118 89 William Levi ?[William Bennet 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi~ Benjamin 2 James 1). son of William Bennet Haxton, w~ born in 1865 or 1866. As a child he took the covered-wagon journeYE_o Springdale, Arkansas, with his parents. When he was fifteen years old, he was in Rice County, Kansas, working on the farm of his older broth er, Tom; and he later acquired his own farm there. He married Lizzie Nodurft, born in 1872, whose people had also come to Rice County from Williamsport, Indiana, although the families had not been acquainted in Indiana. William Levi was first cousin to John Haxton of Arlington, South Dakota, son of Sanford M.; and cousin, too, to Chet Haxton, druggist, of Britt, Hancock County, Iowa. All that we have given on this family group and all that follows below we have from Mr. Frederick E.Haxton of Norfolk, Virginia, without whose contribution a whole main strand of Haxton genealogy would have remained unknown to us. The children of William Levi Haxton and his wife Lizzie Nodurft were: 1 Clinton Edward. He lives at Chase, Rice County, Kansas. It was he who got from his father's only living brother the early names in this Haxton line and the remembrances of pirate days and connections with Bermuda. These he passed on to his brother Frederick, who passed them on to us, to add a touch of glamor to our Haxton history. 2 Nettie Viola (Haxton) Sharpeo She also lives at Chase. 3 Nora Leota (Haxton) Vandegrafto Sne lives in Kansas City Missouri. 4 William Guy. He lives at Long Beach, Ce.lifornia. 1 5 Bessie Jane {Haxton) McGuire. She lives at Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas. 6 Harley Thom.as. He also lives at Hutchinson. 7 Mildred Dean (Haxton) Brua. She lives at Lyons, Rice County, Kansas. 101 8 Frederick Earl; married Ilene Thomas.They live Norfolk,Va. 9 Wallace Ray. He lives at Lyons, Kansas. 10 Grace Elizabeth (Haxton)Britton, wife of Robert Britton of New York Life Insurance, Emporia, Kansas. 11 Max Dwaine. He lives at Claflin, Barton County, Kansas. 12 Clair Douglas. He lives at Hutchinson. 119 90 Charles Manford 7 [ 011 ver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 Je.:rnes Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Oliver Perry He.xton and his wife Emily Tracy, was born 2 Sept.1856 in Mercer County, Illinois. He Married Mary Viola Garrett, who was born 2 Oct.1864. They lived at Gotebo, Uklahoma, where he died 21 Aug.19380 All that we have on this page has come to us from the rich records gathered by Mrs. Gale Haxton of Gotebo. The children of Charles Manford Haxton and his wife Mary Viola Garrett are: 1 2arvey; died aged about two. 2 Ida Florence Compton, wife of A.B.Compton. i Emily Blanche (Haxton) Feitz 102 4 Harry Glen; married Vena Stewart 5 Charles Marion; died in 1923 103 6 Bernard Gale; married Barbara Anderson, who has beBn one of the chief contributors to our Haxton collection. 104 7 Milan Garrett; married Alice Kenton 8 Guy Cleo; died in 1923 9 Greta Haxton; married first ---Bigham and second -----Fetterling 105 10 Evan Doyle; married Alice Smith 11 ::1ary Fern (Haxton) Lyde 106 12 Ross Warner; married Catherine Mason 120 91 Rodolp:1 7 (Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Nennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 Ja..mes l]; son of Oliver Perry Haxton and his wife Emily Tracy, was born on 10 Peb.1859. All that we have on this family group has been sent us by his daughter, Mrs. Minnie B.Hall in two carefully coMpiled letterso He married Etna Bennett, who was born 19 Apr.1867, daughter of Jos~ua and Nancy (McCarty) Bennett. They lived south of Earlham, Madison County, Iowa, until the fall of 1894, when they moved to Missouri, but in the fall of 1899 returned to Iowa and built a house and barn on their farm southeast of Earlham. Thia they sold in 1909 and removed to Gotebo, Oklahoma, where Rodolph died on 14 Dec.1930. He was brought to Earlham for burial. Mrs. Hall gives us a delightful picture of her father: a good, honest man; quite active--a farmer who wasn't afraid to work; everyone was his friend. ttHe wasn't a very large man. Once he and I weighed the same--117 poundsott When Mrs. tiall wrote me in 1955 her mother had been 111, but was then iM~roving in health. The children of Rodolph and •tna (Bennett) Haxton were: 1 Alta May. She married first Dr.Joseph Wiley Harrison, son of Daniel B.:-:Iarrison and his wife Sarah Holland.., of England; and second Paul Larken, wr... o came to this country as a young man. 2 Minnie B. She married first Stallbert Beeson, son of Benjamin Franklin Beeson and his wife Mary Dillen. They were divorcedo She married second Walter Henry Hall, son of William. Hall, from England, and his wife Elizabeth Lee. William Henry Hall died on 25 Apr.19520 Mrs. Hall is the contributor of all our data on this line. I omitted Mrs. Hall's full name: Minnie Bell. 3 Gertrude Etna. She married Amous Winfred (Fred) Compton of Panora., Guthrie County, Iowa. He was born in Adair Co\;....Tlty., Iowa, son of Stephen G. and Laura (Ballard) Compton. He died on 8 Feb. 1941. 4 Allie Grace. She married first Raymond Knox, son of Joe and Susan (Taylor) Knox. Divorced. She married second Roy Clark. 107 5 George Henry; married and living at Yale, Oklahoma. 108 6 Charles Rodolph; married and living at Elk Grove,California. His wife's name ls Evelyn May Hetherington. 92 Oliver Perry ?[Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 Jam.es Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James 1]. son of Oliver Perry Haxton and his wife Emily Tracy, He rn.erried Joeie Wicks. Their children are: 1 Wallace 2 Lois 3 Oliver 4 Robert; resides at Dexter, Iowa. 121 9) Edward 7[Clarendon 6 Russell S John 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 Jame ■ l], aon or Clarendon and Ada (Mc~lheney) Haxton, had hla home in Ithaca, New York. tt1a name is usually written~. ae 111&rried Maggie Murphe7. They had one son, from whose wife we have the data on this taailJ group. Their son is: 109 Clarendon; married Lida l3rouwere. 94 Ellis Cadwallader 7[N1cholaa P.6 ttoaea 5 John 4 denJandn 3 & 2 Janaea l], son ot Nicholas P. and Jane tlaxton, liyed in lCanaaa City, Missouri. Hia wife waa Pearl R. They had 110 R&Jlllond Silerman, who lives in Kanaaa City and ha• aent ua these data. l-ie MarriP.l I, 1) 1'h""lP18. anrl r2) Flossie 0pe-1. 9S Albertua 7[Sumner 6 John 5 & 4 Benjuain 3 & 2 James 1], aon of Sumi.er and Minerva s.(Benaon) Haxton of Union Count7, Iowa, waa born in 1861. He married Lula A.Croa ■ er, daughter of Robert Cro ■■ er. These data and the name• below of their children are taken troa Fred H. Ben• son'• "Benson Family Reoorda"{l920) ·page 68. The children werec Ruaaell Vernon Fern Rue , ; ➔ J ,_ I 96 Richard Kenneth f[R1ch.ard Grant [ Jobn.;1 Richard ff Robert ,Jj. ??Ben jamin 3 le 2 J1UY1 l], aon of ttichard Grant Haxton and hia wife Ada Grace Glover, live ■ st Greenville, M1aa1 ■ a1pp1. Data aent ua by hi• brother. Hia ~1.fe · -ls HHze 1 El lise ( ElUJ11) Haxton, daughter of SBmuel and Ruth (stein) Blum. Their son is: lll Richard Kenneth, Jr., ot Greenville, M1aaia ■ 1pp1, whose wife is Josephine Chamberlain (Ayers) Haxton. 122 97 Lloyd A.I:>'"& [William Sherman 't John,1» Richard$_ Robert l ??~ jamin 3 &- 2 .Jarnes J ], son of William Sherman Haxton and his wife Mary Bolling, lives in Sacramento, Californiao His letter in answer to the questionnaire we sent out is brim full of human intereste He recounts two incidents that were of especial interest to us.We quote., so that others may enjoy them, too: "During the 1939 Treasure Island Fair in San Francisco, we met an Ale:1:. -:fo.:-:ton '.ii:..O ::_.3 z. Lr E.E-GE,!· of fine horsos, s omcwhore in the middle West. He had his Clydesdale Lorses on display and drove them to an An hauser Busch Brewing Company wagon, elthough he owned the horses him self" ••• }Ie told us his mother was still living in Scotland. Incident ally, there has always been quite a family resemblance, and we were ~uite amused as we walked 11.p to him without any introducticn, he said 'Which one of the Haxtons are you?" In another paragraph Mr. Raxton says: "Y.y own family left the mid dle West., Green and Owen County, Indo 1 and settled in the State of Washington and we spread from there and for several years, after I was grown, I we.s with a corporation that moved us about throughout the Western States. And while we were in Salt Lake City, we noticed tha~ a very magnificent and exclusive residential section was entered throug:~ ~uge stone pillars on which a bronze plaque read 'Haxton Court.iinquiry disclosed that one of the Haxtons joined the Mormon movement and came to Salt Lake City in the early days, probably with Brigham Young. We did not investigate furthero" We made a\mild attempt to follow up this clue, but have not suc ceeded in finding which cf our Haxtons it was who joined the Church of Latter Day Saints. Mr. Lloyd A.Haxton's children are: 1 Charles, born in Tacoma, Washington 2 Billie Nadine, also born in Tacoma Another aentence or two from Mr. Lloyd Haxton'• letter, from which we have already quoted so much.may have significance. He says:"I knew that the Haxton family came from Scotland. However, my great grandf'ather, Richard Haxton, came from the East coast and settled in Indiana." At first we took this as confirmation or the theory we held so long; namely, that Richard was descended from the old New England Haxton line. If, however, our later theory is true; namely, that Richard's rather Robert was the one who crossed the sea, then it may quite probably be that Robert tarried for a while in New Jersey (that is, on the East Coast) with the McGowans and Higbees with whom he was later so closely associated. 123 f ii :~ ,_ 98 John Howard $- [ Charles Franklin 1- John ..K..Richard -g- Robert~??~ jaro1 n ,-J & 2 l~me~.....J,..J, son of Charles Franklin He.xton and his wife Christina Catherine (Gantz) Haxton, mar~ied Thelma Sharp and lives in Vigo County, Indiana. Their cnildren are: 1 John Laird of Indianapolis, Indiana 2 Merle, died early 3 Jerry Daniel of Indianapolis, Indiana 4 Theodore Lee of Miami, Florida A letter from Mrs. Christine Haxton received after the paragraph above was typed gives us ti1e names ot her sons' children: 1 John Laird and his wife Dorothy (Peters) Haxton have: 1 John David 2 Diane 3 Laird Allen 4 Rickey Leo 2 Msrle, died early 3 Jerry Daniel and his wife Dana have: 1 Terry Lee 2 Gregg Daniel 4 Theodore Lee and his wife ~dna Mae have: 1 'roni Marie 2 Michael Lee 3 Jerry Scott 99 Jesse W.5'[Calvin ~1..4 Samuel 3 Joll...-.-:i 2 .J.obert l] 100 Ira ~~.5[Calvin R.4 Samuel 3 John 2 .:fobert 1) 124 101 Frederick Earl 8 [William Levi 7 William 3ennet 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of William Levi iaxton and his wife Lizzie Nodurft, lives in Norfolk, Virginia, and is the contributor so many times ~entioned in this manuscript as sending us data on a line that without his records could never have been com~ ~leted. Mr. tlaxton's wife is Ilene Thomas, who was a nurse in a Roch• ester, Minnesota, hospital where he was a patient. Their children are: 1 Tom 2 Patricia 102 Harry Glen 8 [Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Charles Manford Haxton and his wife Mary Viola Garrett, married Vena Stewart. Their children are: 112 1 Leo; married Zola Prilliman 2 Mary Viola; died in 1941 3 Alice Marie (Haxton) Webber 4 Charles~; married Eva May Mosteller 5 Anna Fern (Haxton) Jeis 103 Bernard Gale 8 Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Charles Manford Haxton and his wife Mary Viola Garrett, married Barbara Anderson, the "Mrs. Gale" whose interest in genealogy and collection of family data have filled in so ma.ny blanks for us and on so many pages. Mro Haxton died on 25 Aug.1951. Their children are: 11~- ;r James Bernard; married F'rances (Hawk} Early 115 2 Richard Anderson; married Fay Santry 116 3 Donald Paul; TTIBrried Joyce Allen 104 Milan Garrett 8[Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi .3 Benjamin 2 Ja.mes 1), son of Charles Manford Haxton and nis wife Mary Viola Garrett, Married Alice Kentono Their children a_re: ~ lle..."Y\. 117 1 Manford Ray; Married~rlangir 2 Harold Kenton 105 Evan Doyle 8 [Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Charles Man ford Haxton and his wife Mary Viola Garrett, married Alice Smith. They have two adopted children: 1 Sandra 2 Mary Ruth 125 106 Ross Warner 8 [Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi .3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Charles Man ford Haxton and his wife !'Lary Viola Garrett, married Catherine :Mason. Their children are: 118 l Philip Lee; married Elmerta Stauffer 2 Dennis Data sent by Mrs. Gale Haxton Mr.LeRoy w.Haxton of Arlington,Mass., tells me that when his son William was in the Air Force in Korea he met a young man named Dennis D.Haxton from Oklahoma, whose brother was stationed in Texas. 107 George Hen~y 8[Rodolph 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James .Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Rodolph and Etna (Bennett) Haxton, lives at Yale, Payne County, Oklahoma. His children are: 1 Lucille Anderson 2 Louise Wallace 3 Rodolph Data sent Dy Mrs. Minnie B.Hall. 108 Charles Rodolph 8 [Rodolph 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet~ James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Rodolph and Etna (Bennett) Haxton, lives at Elk Grove, Sacramento County, Califor~ nia. He married Evelyn May Hetherington, daughter of Alonzo Allen Hetherington and his wife Buna Floy 3aker. Their children are: 1 Juanita; married Thomas Edward Emerson, son of William Isaac Emerson and his wife Lura Elmore. 2 Earlene; married George Anthony Costa, son of F'rank V.Costa and his wife Rinda Dutre.• Data sent by Mr. Charles Rodolph Haxton. 109 Clarendon 8 [Edward 7 Clarendon 6 Russell 5 John 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James l], son of EdwB.rd and Maggie {Murphey) Haxton, married Lida Brouwere and resides at lthaca, New York. Mr. Clarendon Haxton also is called Clarence J.Haxton. Mrs. Clarence J.has sent us many items about the Bradford County, Pennsylvania, Haxton group from which her husband's line springs. These Ithaca Haxtons knew that their Pennsyl vania ancestors came there from the Hudson Valley, thus corroborating the conclusion we had arrived at independently and without full proof until we had such from them. The children of Clarendon and Lida{Brou• were} Haxton are: 1 Lauren; married Winnie Myers 2 Neva J.; married'. Jack De-.ris 126 110 Haymond Sherman 8[Ellis Cadwallader 7 Nicholas P .. 6 Hosea 5 John 4 Benjamin 3 & 2 James lJ, son of Ellis Cadwallader Haxton, Lives in Kan sas City, Kansas. He has sent us ~11 we nave on the descendants of Nicnolas P. rtaxton. His cnildren are: See also p.121 1 Raymond Sherman, Jr. 2 Delores Marie Uiexton) Chrysler, wif'3 of Raymond Chrysler. i, !i . '1 :J 111 Richard Kenneth,Jro~Richard Kenneth ,8.... Richard Grant>?-. John ~Rich- ard"'~ Kobert' ¾... ??~en\}am±n 3 ~ 2 J:8.:m~s l], son of Richard Kenneth Haxton Sr.l, of Greenville, Mississippi, has three sons: 1 Richard Kenneth 111 2 rtichardson Ayres 3 Ellis Brooks Data sent by Mr. Ralph Glover Haxton of Greenville. The wife of Richard Kenneth,Jr.(No.111) is Josenhine Cha~berlain(Ayers)Haxton,daughter of Ri..cha_rds 0.11 ,e,nd Laura ( D..!? vis) Ayers. 11~ Leo~ LHarry Glen~ Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Har- rison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Harry Glen and Vena (Stewart) Haxton,married Zola Prillim.anoTheir children a.re: 1 Jlen Dan 2 Marion Lee; died a8ed two years 3 :iwlary Lorene 4 Lola Ann $ Eva Elain b Perry Neil Data sent by Mrs. Gale Haxton 113 Charles 9 [~arry Glen 8 Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet~. James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Harry Glen and Vena (Stewart) Haxton, married Eva May Mosteller. Their children are: 1 Glenda Beth 2 Marilyn Rose 3 Ruth Bennett Data sent by Mrs. Gale rlaxton 114 James Bernard 9 [Bernard Uale 8 Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Bernard Gale and Berbara ( Anderson) Haxton, married Prrmces ( Hawk) Early. By her first husband Frances has a daughter Linda. Carol. The children of James Bernard and Frances are: 1 Janice Lea 2 Bess ~lizabeth 115 Richard Andersqn 9 [Bernard Gale 8 Cnarles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 .James Bennet L; James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Bernard Gale and Barbara (Anderson) Haxton, merried I'ey Sr?ntry. They have: 1 Diane Barbara Gale Data of the last two gro~ps sent by Mrs. Gale Haxton 127 116 Donald Paul 9 [Bernard Gale 8 Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James qarrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 3enjam.in 2 James l].son of Berna.rd Gale and Barbara (Anderson) Haxton, married Joyce Allen 0 They have: 1 Hobert Allen 117 Manford Ray 9[1lilan Garrett 8 Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 3enjamin 2 James l],son of MilaD '.::arrett Haxton and his wife Alice Kent;)n, married Ellen Sanger. They have 1 Charles 118 Philip Lee 9 [floss Warner 8 Charles Manford 7 Oliver Perry 6 James Harrison 5 James Bennet 4 James Levi 3 Benjamin 2 James l], son of Ross Warner Haxton and his wife Catherine tMason}, married Elmerta Stauffer. They have: 1 Candace Clarice The last three groups sent to us by Mrs. Gale Haxton. Alexander M. 128 There a.re several groups of Haxtons who probe.bly descend from the James who 0ame in 1679, but by what line we have been unable to discov er. One such is the Brooklyn-New York City- New Haven group. It is en tirely possible that they come down through one of the many sons of James Bennet Haxton (See page 46); but from which one? The name spel ling and the location would suggest this. We have thought James Bennet probably a mariner with a Brookhaven,Long Island, background. Brookhaven is a very large township stretching all the way across Long Island from north to south~ its northern shore almost directly across from New Haven; and of course New York City and Brooklyn are at the western end of the same Long Island Sound. We will have to number the first of the Saxtons of this group 1. He was Alexander, often entered in the old records as Alexander M. Practical• ly all we have of this group is from city directories. i Alexander was of Brooklyn in 1873, a gas inspector. He removed to New York City in 1875, and was also listed there as inspector. His wife was named Hannah. He died in either 1887 or 1888. The last mention we found of "Hannah,widow of Alexander M." was in the directory of 1889/90. LivinG at the same address with Alexander and Hannah either in Brooklyn or in New York City or in both, and probably their sons were 2 "Alexander,Jr." born in 1853;married Caroline E.Nosworthy 3 Charles, often entered as Charles E. L~ William H. 2 Alexander, son of Alexander M. and Hannah, is '!,e-,_0wn frorr. :-.. :..::; ,;"7'.7_-.- 0 - stone to have been born in 1853. When he appears first in Brooklyn rec ords he is living at his father's address and is described as being a brass-finisher. He seems to have remained in Brooklyn until about the time of his father's death in New York City, and then to have removed to New Haven, Conn. Like his father, he sometimes used the middle let ter M. In 1889 in New Haven he was listed as fishing-reel maker, but was soon and for very many years associated with the New Haven Clock Compa ny, though residing variously in Waterbury, Waterville, New Haven, and North Haven, which latter village is six miles northeast of New Haven. It was in North Haven that he died. His gravestone shows that he wa,s born in 1853 and died in 1927. That of Caroline E.Nosworthy Haxton,\whom we infer to have been his wife) shows that she was born in 1855 and died in 1928. Living at various times at the same address as Alexander, and prob ably his soni were 5 Joseph A.,born 1877; married Clara 6 Wallace G.,born 1885; married Edith c. 3 We have not much on Charles E., son of the first Alexander M. and Hannah. He lived at tne same address as his parents both in Brooklyn and New York City and was described as either printer or pressman. For a time(l894-6) he and his probable brother William H. shared the same address, but he later seems to have had a home of his own. We have not discovered the names of wife or children. We do note that a Wal lace K.Haxton shared his address in 1886-1888 and was like him a Printer. Alexander M., cont. 129 4 William H.Haxton, son of the first Alexander and his wife Hannah, lived in his fahher's home, while the latter was of Brooklyn and removed et the same time to New York City, but to a. different address there, )i which may indicate that he married at about t~at time. We have not found evidence of wife or children otherwise, and have on the previous page shown that for a short time (1894-6) he and his probable brother Charles had the same street address. William H. was 8. meter-maker; but was entered occasionally as me chanic s.nd as foreman. The last entry of his name in New York City was in the 1911 year book. S Joseph A • ., son of AleKander, Jr., and Caroline E.Nosworthy Haxton, was born in 1877. rle lived in New haven except for a brief time when both he and his father were first in Waterbury and then in Waterville, both in Connecticut. His work was similar to his father's• His wife was named Clara. Josepn A. died on 9 Nov.1931. His widow Clara is listed in the directories through 1939. 6 Wallace G.Haxton., son of Alexander s.nd Caroline Eo (Nosworthy), was born in 1885. He spent his whole life in New Haven. From 1910 when he first appears in the city directory as clerk until 1917 he lived at his father's home. In the latter year, when his father removed to North Haven, he was listed as a boarder, but in 1918 had a home of his own and a wife named Edith c. From then on until his deatii he was interested in automo biles and was auto mechanic, machinist, tester, and then salesman with motor companies. He died on 7 May 1942 aged 57. At that time Edith c. was a.live. Alexander T. of Los Angeles Another Haxton group we have not succeeded in tracing through is the Los Angeles one headed by Alexander T. Haxton who died about 1936, leaving a widow Isabelle. ~..r. Haxton was Engineer for Seaboard Petroleum Corporation. Others with the sa!l'le address and so probably of the same family group are: Alexanders. Claude s. Davids. George -n. Andrew Haxton of East Rockaway, N.Y. Mr. Haxton writes us,"Most of my immediate family have lived in this. country, but seemed to like Scotland better so holl'le they went. I am the only one on this side the ocean, although my mother and sister visit me from time to till'leo To my memory our family originated in Perthshire, Scotland, then landed in Fife Shire. I understand that my great great Grandfather changed our name from Hackstone to Haxton." 130 Andrew Haxton of Boston Andrew Haxton, the first in America of this branch of the Haxton family~ came, his d~ughter writes me, from Kinross, Scotland, "much to the horror and disgust of his family, who thought of America as a land of Indians and refugee criminals. He came for adventure, with no intenw tion of settling." However he remained; settled in Boston; and for many years conducted a dry goods store in Jama.lea Plain, which is a part of Boston. Andrew Haxton, his death certificate states, was son of Thomas and Jeanette (Chalmers) Haxton. He used c. as his middle initial in many transactions. His wife was Catherine {Katie) McLeod, daughter of Donald and Annie (McKinnon) McLeod of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Mrs. Haxton died on 5 Nov.1906; Mr. Haxton on 19 July 1926, according to Boston records. Their children are: 1 Frank Norman; married Leonette. (Martin) Bowden. See below. 2 Annie Sophia; married James H.Maxwell, son of Alfred J. and Rebecca N.(Milliken) Maxwell. 3 Jennie Norman. She has been teacher in Longfellow Kindergarten, Ros lindale; and in Theodore Parker School, West Roxbury, both in Greater Boston; and more recently has been Supervisor of the New York Kinder garten Association, New York City. Sne is author of several child study books: "Step by Step"(l936),in collaboration with Edith Wilcox, a fascinating report of psychological practices in nursery schools for children ranging in age fro~ twenty months to two and a half years, "When the Two-year Old Comes to Church" (1950); and 11 The Two year Old at Homet•--a quarterly magazine. 4 Catherine 1 Frank Norman Haxton was of Providence when he married Leonette. (Martin} Bowden, daughter of Henry P. e.nd Abby F. Martin. Their chil dren: 1 Frank Norman, Jr.; ~arried Ann Marie Loughery, dau~hter of George F. and Martha K. (Rush) Loughery. 2 Evelyn Doris; married Charles Elmer Bates. Different ones of our rlaxton correspondents have commented on the physical features of their family groups. Here is what Miss Haxton, the teacher e_bove, wrote: "I met a high school teacher from Media, Pennsyl vania, who looked very much like some of us, short and stocky. We could find no common bond, however, e&cepting in the names Sophia, Andrew, Robert, which were in both our fe.milies." However, it is certain that all branches of Haxtons a.re not alike; for here is what Mr. Orren Haxton of Strongsville,Ohio(See page 116)has to say on the same subject: 11 The given names of Andrew, James, John and Mar~r have been used in my fs_mily line, and the physical make-up has been very consistent in all those of my branch of daxtons that I have known: six feet or more tall, feir, and with light hair." Elmer C. Haxton of New Havet 131 Almost without doubt this family group connects closely with that headed by Alexander Mo Haxton of New Haven, but through which de scendant we do not know. Elmer c. appears in New Haven directories from 1916 to 1937. He was in the United States Navy in 1919. He lived for two years or so in Bridgeport, Connecticut, but returned to New Haven, where he died about 1937. His wife was Helen L., who continues to eopear in city directories for some years. In tae same home with her, and very possibly sons of the family appear t.i:le names: Leonard c. Tl1e odore G. Edward E., 3-eorge Haxton of New York City, N.Y., and Camden, N.J. From 1871 through 1881 George Haxton, machinist, appears in New York City directories. Then fc!" e. very long time we find no mention of him. T~ere is no proof that the George Haxton, machinist, who appears in the Camden, New Jersey, directory of 1920 is the same man; but the letter George died by 1921 leaving a widow Margaret and grm,m children and so the identity seems llkelyc The other Haxtons living with her and prob,,hl/ ~~ .. :. 1 ..:.::.."' ... _ -:-f tl:.f faI'lily were: George, a Machinist Elizabeth, mantle-maker William, riveter James Batchelor Haxton of Cleveland Ja.rios Batchelor Haxton came to America about 1912 and settled in Clevelend. A sister, }!'J's. George '.J-old, still lives in Kirriemuir, For farshire, Scotland. Mr. Haxton died in 19~_e, lea.vine; two sons, both born in Am5rica: 1 Edward R., who was in Europe during World War II and w!.1.o visited the old home town in Scotland then. It is he who has furnished us with the data on the fPmily. He lives in Massillon, Ohio. 2 Donald; married an Enblish 6irl and has a son named James Bruce. A brot.:ier of James Batchelor Haxton, John ?'rB.zier Haxton, came to the States soon after World War I and settled also in Cleveland. He is now chief engineer on a Great Lakes ore boat. James Haxton of Toronto I~. James s.Haxton of the Premier Trust Company of Toronto came to America in 1911. He has a brother in 3rooklyn who came in 1912 and is a Marine Superintendent .. His grandfe.ther went from Kirkcaldy in Fife Shire to Dundee in Forfar Shire. He was a Jute Mill Manager, e.s were al ... so Mr 0 Haxton's fe.ther and uncle. Mr • ..-..axton writes:"Our end of the fam ily is likely to peter out because while I have two sons they have two daughters each." He adds:"In our own particular family we like to think of my father's mother as a Gordon e!1c_ my mother 1 s people as Neishes, a sept of the ½cGre~or Clan.which !r tu~~ 1s Q ap~~ nr +~n °---~~,,- " 132 James Haxton, Pattern-maker, of Chicago James Haxton, for half a century prominent industrialist of Chicago, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1849. His father, Ca9tain Haxton, and two brothers; were all sea-faring men on sailing ships out for whale and seal. His brother D~vid shipped out of California as cook on a sailing vessel and was never heard of afterwards. His nephew,James Haxton Telford, was a minister in Burma, but died a few years ago in Pennsylve.nia. James Haxton's wife was Jessie Selcraig, born also in Bdinburgh and relatea to the famous A~exander Selcraig~not Selkirk) who was the teal ~obinson Crusoe. -- James and Jessie (Selcraig) rtaxton came to America in 1884 and set tled in Chicago. For a few years he was listed in directories as fore man and as carpenter; but by 1891 he was James Haxton, Pattern-maker; and by 190.5 was President of the firm of James riaxton ~-: Sons, the sons holding offices as Vice-president, Secretary, and Treasurer. The firm has been one of good reputation and financial standing, one that took Government contracts in World War I. Je.m.es Haxton died in 1936. Eis wife Jessie had died in 1893. Their children I s names ~ind much of the data on this page have been given us by their grandson, Mr. LeRoy W.Haxton of Arlington, who tells me he in turn got much of it from his aunt, Mrs. Hugh Kirk of Chicago. The list of children is: 1 Agnes 2 James,Jr. married twice. His first wife wBs Lavina Eitler. They lived in Park Ridge, Illinois, where he died in 1946. His children are: 1 Daniel, who lives in Park Ridge 2 Paul, who lives in Chicago H 11 (!) 3 James, who lives at Mc enry, Illinois C) 4 3uth, who married Henry Stair of Wheaton,Illinois s::: cr1 3 William married twice. dis first wife and mother of his children/ was '"d 'd !famie Emmons. Both fl.re remembered and spoken of with very deep affec Q) .µ tion by their ehildtten. The second wife, Hedwig s., was born in Swit "M (l) ~ rl zerland and still lives in Chicago. Mr. H~xton d!ed in 1946. His chil ~ ,---1 (.j) (.1) dren are: S..o 1 LeRoy W., who lives in Arlington,1'18.ss., and is the only person who beers the name of Haxton that the compiler has ever seen, though she has had letters from scores of you. No one hes cooperated more heartily in helping us to get the data we were out in 9earch of 0 I was he who told us of the Haxtcr. 11 Blue Boy" products from Oakfield N.Y., so that we could taste of Haxtons as well as write of them. Mr.Haxton ma.rri6d Eerni~o L.Crane,daughter of Harold L.and Leafie Babcock Crane. She was b:Jrn in Me.ine and found by him in Californi Their children are: a. Le:1oy D.,who married Betty Parker and lives in Lexingtono b. Willirun R.,who was with the Air Force in Korea.He married Carmella LaMendola and has two children:William and Debor c. Robert D.,who was wit;h the Air Force in Europe d. Jean Bernice ~--2 -...... James T.,who is just now removin6 from Lomberd,Ill.,to Merrill,Wis 3 Marion, dec6~sed, aged 19 ~ Dorothy,who m&rried Earl Rich~rdson,eon of Arthur and Annie(Soule) 4 Harry, now deceased, of Chicago had a son gnd two daughters: l George, who lives at ~auconda,Illinois 2 Jessie, an orchestro leader 3 Myrtle, also Bn orchestra leader; mBrri,=,;d. 5 Isabel, who married Hugh Kirkt lives in C~icago, and has helped us to much of the information on t.h:..s page. 133 Descendants of John of Kinghorn, Pife Shire,Scotland The grandchildren of John of Kinghorn scattered widely through Western Canada and different states of the Union. Data on the group has been sent us by one of thFJm, Mr.Andrew Haxton of Chica.go. John of Kinghorn lived all his life in the county of Fife and is buried at Bowhill-Fife. His son, also named John,removed to the county of Kinross and there married Anne Page, mother of nine children, seven of whom came to America. The children are: 1 John, who died at Wilkes-Barr,, Pennsylvania in 1932 2 Tom Page, who died in Vancouver, B.C., in 1933 3 Margaret, who resides at Rosyth, Fifeshire 4 another daughter, who resides at Kingla.ssie,Fifeshire S George, who died in Alberta in 1940 6 Ann (Haxton) Wallace, who resides at Lyons,Michigan 7 Jessie (Haxton) Morris, who resides at Zealandia,Saskatchewan 8 Andrew, who migrated to Western Canada. in 1908 and then to the United States in 1933. He has lived for twelve years in St.Louis, and now lives in Cnicago; and it is to him that we are indebted for these data. 9 David P., who res~des in Columbus, Ohio John Clark Haxton of Windsor,Ontario John Jlrrk Haxton left Scotland and settled in Windsor,Ontario,i~ 1912. His father, William Raxton, and his grandfather had left the vil lage of Alyth in Perthshire and settled in Glasgow; so it was from the west coast of Scotland that th.is group came to our shores. John Clark Haxton is now deceased. His younger brother A.lee. is the Rev.Alec Hax ton of Toronto, who has 0iven us these data on the familyo This group, I failed to note, uses the name form of Hackson. John Clark Hackson 1 s older son Williem lives in Detroit; his younger son John died a year ago. Leon A.and Loren 3:.Uaxton of 13uffa.lo Leon A. and Loren tl. Haxton, carpenters and contractors, operated in Buffalo, New York, about 1926 under the name of Haxton Brothers,Con tractors0 To what other group of Haxtons they were akin we do not know. Leon A.'s wife is listed as Nora L.; and at the same address with them have been 1 Lester J 0 ; at other times listed as student at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute a.t Troy, N.Y.; and, with wife Gracye, as residing in Buffalo and Rochester. 2 Irene T. 3 Vivian M. Loren H.'s wife is given as Lola D., and wit~ them are listed 1 Dorothy 2 Jean 134 Thomas Haxton of Carbon, Indiana Thomas Haxton of Carbon, first of nis line in America, wa.s,accord ... ing to the old family Bible still treasured out in Indiana, born on 10 Jan.1862 at a place in Scotland the first letter of which is difficult to read in the old script. It was Firelone or Tirelone or perhaps Bire lone. It was in the parish of Auchterderran in County Fife that he mar ried Elizabeth M~rdie. They came to America in 1879. Three of their chil dren were born in Scotland, the others in Indiana, wnere the home was in Carbon in Clay County, twenty miles from Terre Haute. Mr. Haxton died on 11 Jan.1953, one day after his ninety-first birthda.ye The names and data of his children and grandchildren have been sent us by his daughter-in law, Mrs. George Haxton, to whom we are all indebted.She is of Terre ~aut, The children of Thomas and Elizabeth (.Murdie) HaYton: 1 a son who died in infancy 2 Alec (Alexander) of Hillsboro,Illinois; married Susie, daughter of Michael and Susan Green. Their five children are: 1 Alec. he and his wife Vivian nave three sons and a daughter: James LeRoy ~Uc.ne_rd Ramona 2 Cecilia 3 Virginia 4 Thomas 5 Rosemary; married Vincent Meyers 3 Elizabetn; married Burl Spurr of Carbon l~ John; married Thelma; re sides in Terre rtaute. Their chilciren: 1 Dorothy 2 Laurella 3 John S George; married ~lla, daughter of John and Sarah Pilant. Their child: 1 Mary Jane 6 Tnomas of Terre rlaute; married Effie, daugl-:.ter of Thomas Rnd Sylvia Buck. Their children are: l Norme. Jean 2 8-obert :see 7 David of Carbon; mA.rri8d 1'-:ayme, daughter of William and Sophronia Thomas 8 Maggie; married Thomas Dalton. She and her only child died in child~ birth. William Ha.xton's widow and sons or New York City In the New York City directory of 1855 is listedl a Christiana Haxtun, widow of William, dressmakeroThe next year with ':.1.er a.t the same address were William £axton, stone-cutter, and Theodore Hackstone, gas fitter. Probably sons• The widow Christiana and the :probr.ble son Theo ... do:::-o cppear no more in the year books; but Hilliam is there for many JEars.Up to 1880 he is entered as William Tiaxton,stone-cutter.From 1881 on the entry at the same address is William M.:fa.xton,stone-cutteroEi ther Willial'll had taken a middle initial, or a son had taken his place., From 1891 to 1900 Frances daxton,widow of William M. was of the same address, and also t~ere wes a Margaret 2.~axton, nurse• possibly a d&ughter~ 13.5 Thomas :Iackson of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. At the time oi' t~1e 1790 census there was i!l Cumberland County in soutl.. srn Pennsylvania a Thomas :Jackson wit.i.1 a fa.P1.ily of 1 male over 16 3 males under 16 2 f e:ri_ales This would seem to bo the family of a man who has been married, say, fifteen years; that is, of a man bo~n 1750 to 1755. For a long time we leaned toward the theory t:1at this Tl1.omas was probably of the Warwick, Rhode Island, group of dackstons~ T~s naMe-spelling rat~er suggests that, and Thomas' probable a6 e woul~ fit him well into the family of Jol:m Hack ston of Warwick, son of William (2). We have noted that all of this John's sons disa~peared from Warwick, and have.11~ver found where they went to.,_ Jo:1n had a brotner T':1.omas who died i:«;1750 1 s, and it would be rather natural for him to name a son born at about that time after this brother. Also in favor of this theory is the fact that many Warwick boys of that period became mariners--at least :or a few adventuresome years. War wick lies on a co7e of Narragansett Bay, which leads to the open sea, Long Island Sound, and New York; and I doubt not that most Warwick sail ors at one ti~e or another visited that city. From New York to Philadel phia there were already regular routes, both by land and by sea, and a weekly post between Philadelphia and Carlisle in Cumb~;-la.nd County [l]. It was near #§.slisle t:O.at Thomas rlackson lived. We do~ow exactly wheeeg only the.t it~In one of the four towns of Hopewell 1 Newton, Tyborn, or Westpensborog these four being lumped together in the census of 1790. So it would not be altogether strange if A Warwick, R.I., young man found his way to the Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania. Anyone interested in this line should at least bear this possibility in mind. However, another theory as to Tnomas H~ckson's origin has gradually become to us a More pl&usible one; thou6 h it, too, is without definite proof as yet. There was a very large Scotch-Irish migration into Cumberland Coun ty that took place about 1724-1728 [2], and no doubt many others from Ireland joined them lat9r. Ir. the long lists of such settlers, we have never succeeded in finding the .:-Iaxton name(nor i-iackson), and this led us to discount the possibility of Thom.as Hackson's belonging to this group. Of late, however, it haa seemed to us rather the likeliest place to put him. It is quite possible that his name has been confused with the name Hickson ( just as we saw it was so confused in Warwick,R.I.J The names are not dissimilar and there were 1111;,,.n.J 1iicksons in Pennsylvania, spelled in various ways. W.H.Hunter gives a list of noted Indian figilters of Scotchw Irish descent wno were of CUJ'llberland Valley and includes a Thomas Hixon [3].Quite :possibly our Thomas Eackson. Also a "Mr. Haxon" fought a duel at Carlisle in 1809--perhaps one of t:O.e sons of Thomas. The account of th 1 Wing:Hist. of Cumberland Co.(1879) 3 O~io State Arch. and Hist.Soc. page 57 Quarterly 6:101 (1898) 2 Ibid., p.16 136 affair reads: "Died at Carlisle 29 Dec. a dtiel between Mr.Haxon of the dra6oons and Ensign Shaw of the 5th iiegiment. Mr.Haxon was mortally wounded at the second fire"[l]. Of course }Tr. liaxon may have been from some distant place and .!llerely stationec_ at Carlisle; but the opposite may also be true. In the closing years of the eighteenth century came the great Scotch Irish Migration from Cumberland Valley across the mountains of Western Pennsylvania out of which Pittsburg was born. That city got her first mayor in 1803 (2]; sne had been incorporated since 1794 (J]. In the re gion all around Pittsourgh in Allsghany County and to the south in Wash ington County settlements sprang up at just that timea ~ow, in one of these townships, Strabane, at the time of the census of 1810, there was a Christina Hackson, over 44 years in a6e, and with one child under 10 with ner, a male. The spelling is exactly like that used by Thomas Hack son of Cumberland County in 1790. We have no evidence that she was his widow, but the age would be right. Strabane is the township that lies east of Chartiers, and Chartiers is the township where Robert "Axton" first appears in 1800. And so it is just possible that Robert, later of Cos.hoc ton County, Ohio, and T::-ome.s of :-Jumberland County, Pennsylvania., were kinsmen, perhaps brothers. This is only conjecture. In reading the 1810 census statistics for Strabane, we noticed several "Hixson" entries, The conf~sion between the names Hackson and the various forms of Hickson h8.s been especially baffling in our ~iaxton quest. John Haxton of ;{arpersfie ld, N. Y. There was a Joh.YI. llaxton of Harpersfield, Delaware 8ounty, New York, whom we have never been able to place. We .have no dates for him; but he married Sally Turner, who was born in 1781. She was daugh ter of John and Nary (Wrig:1t) Turner. John seems to have died soon., nnd Sally married second Jonat~an Sheldon and died in 1817, when she was only 36 yee.rs old. I have t:iis inf c:-,rn.a tion fror1 ~~rs. Olive Turner 1v1acArthur of Marlboro Colle.;e, I•Iarlboro, Vermont. If John was of ap ... proxime.tely the same ac.:;e as :-iis Hife, he would be right in age to be a son of John ~-iackston of Warwick, r:..I., all wnose sons seem to have left tneir nome state early. Tne name spelline:;, to be sure, does not favor this tneory. 1 The 1''ederalist of 18 Jan.1810 3 Boucher:tlist. of Pittsburgh 1:292 2 Donehoo:~ist.of tue Cumber- land Valley, p.30 137 C~arles L~wrence ~axton c:1arles Lawrence:. :Iaxt::m was born at Foi::.1 ::'ax, Virginht, 26 July 1871, At tllat ti:!'l.e births were not recorded in '/irginia--not until 1912, I am informed by Fairfax County Clerk., D.nd so t:ne parents' names are not kn.om and are greatly desired. c:.1.arles Lawrence Hex+:on marri0d. a daughter of Francis D. and Mary (7lernin6 ) Gibbs. Their s'..ll'vivin6 c:iildren a:::e: l Elizabeth; marri1:;d D.:!:,.Mc,~ston o:' Spokane., Wasl1.. 2 Loraine; married Edwarc. LeT'leur. Mrs" LeT'lAu.r is on the staff of th.e State Library Co111.n1ission, Bismarck, North Dakota. 3 Robert James; o:' St.Paul, Minnesota -'+ Charles Gibbs Jolm '>IcL.:Iaxton of Provid.ence, Rhode Island John McL. lfaxton and his ,-:ife, Ellen ( 0 1 Donne 11 ce!'le to America. about 1914 and settled in Providence. Our auestionn~~re1 sent to the f&~ily brought no reply, and so we nave only the incomplete data found in directories and newspaper items. Their children are: 1 John M.of Edgewood, TI.Io; married Veronica Costello, daughter of John and Bridget (Burns) Costello. 2 James ~.(?N) of Providence; married Eleanor Tregaskis, daughter of James and Katherine (Dickie) Trezaskis. 3 ThoMa.s Crumbly of Providence; me_rried Eli zabet:i F .!VlcJuinnoss. See be lou,. 4 William of Providence. 5 Cathe~ine J. of Providence 6 Leo J. of ProvideP-ce; married. .Ms_deline M.---- 7 Stewart P. of Providence; in the lJQS.Army ir. World War II. 9 Francis Claude 0f Providence; married Dorothy Agnes Herrick 9 Egbert of Providence 10 Edward~. of Cranston, jewelry manufacturer; married Ursula--- Thomas Cru.Yl'.lbly, above, r1arried Elizabeth Florence McGuinness, daughter of St8phen J. and .2lizabeth (Scully) McGuinness. Their chil dren: 1 Florence Therese; married ~enry ~cGreen 2 ThoMas Cr..rmbly, sracuate of Providence College, resides Aiken, s.c. The following is an excerpt from a newspaper account of his wedding: "The pa;,al blessing was bestowed on the marriaGe of Miss Mary Ann Doherty, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Leo Do}1erty of Newton Center and Scituate, and First Lie1.:.tenant T:1-0M2-s G.Haxton, J~., U.S.A., son of ~r. and Mrs. ThoMas C.3axton of Providence and Narragansett, R.I." (1) 3 Jc~l:l JosE:-ph }q: Hobert James 5 :--lonald Edward 1 Brought to our attention by Mr.LeRoy W.Haxton of Arlington,Mass. 13 8 Bibliography: Authorities Cited in this Manuscript I.Works ot a Historical Nature Batavia,N.Y. "Soldier Dead" (Scrap-book) Bermuda Privateers,1739-1748, by H.K.Chapin (1923~ Bradford County, Pa.,History or, by Clement F.HeTerly (1926) Bradford County, Pa.,History ot, by H.C.Bradsby (1891) Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society Collections (1894) Connecticut Quarterly, vol.2 (1896) Coshocton County,o.,Historical Collections ot, by Wm.E.Hunt {1876) Coshocton County,o.,History ot, by N.N.Hill (1881) CoTenanters, Tombstones of the, by James Gibson Cumberland County,Pa.,History ot, by Wing (1879) Cumberland Valley,History of the, by George P.Donehoo (1930) Dutchess County,N.Y.,Council of Appointment Military Records (1901) Dutchess County,N.Y.,Historical and Genealogical Record ot,by A.V.Haight {1912) Dutchess County,N.Y.,History of, by Frank Hasbrouck (1909) Dutchess County,N.Yo,History of, by James H.Smith (1882) Dutchess County,N.Y.,History or, by Philip H.Smith (1877) Fort Edward Book, by Robert O.Bascom (1903) Greene County,N.Y.,History of, published by Beers (1884) Greene County,N.Y.,History of, by J.VanVechten Vedder (1927) Hillsdale,N.Y.,History of, by John Francis Collin (1883) Kings County,N.s., by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (1910) Livingston County,N.Y.,History of, by Lockwood R.Dot1 (1905) Livingston County,N.Y.,History of, by James H.Smith {1881) Madison County,Ohio, History ot,by Union Historical Company (1879) Narragansett Episcopal Church, by Wilkins Updike (1907) Narragansett Historical Register, vols.I & 2 (1882-4) Newport County,R.I.,History or, by Richard M.Ba1les (1888) New York in the Revolution, by James A.Roberts (1898) Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly 6 (1898) Oranges, Founders and Builders ot the, by Henry Whittemore (1896) Pittsburgh and Her People, by John Newton Boucher (1908) Putnam County,N.Y.,History of, by William J.Blalce (1849) Rhode Island Archives, in the State House, Providence Rhode Island,Civil and Military Listof, by Joseph J.Smith Rhode Island,Colonial Records or, vo1.4(printed 1859) Rhode Island History, vol.9 (1950) Rhode Island,Revolutionary Defenses in, by Edward Field (1896) Rhode Island Settlers in Nova Scotia,by A.W.H.Eaton (1915) Saratoga County,N.Y.,History of, by N.B.Sylvester (1878) Scotland,History or, by J.H.Burton Scottish Nation, The, by William Anderson (1882} Southampton,L.I.,by George Rogers Howell (1866) Spirit ot '76, by Benjamin Cowell (1850) Yates ,County,N.Y., History or, by Sta.ftord C.Cleveland (1873) 139 Bibliography, cont. II Biographical Collections American Ancestry,vol.2, by Thomas P.Hughes (1887) American Monthly Magazine (1912) Bates,Mrs.Louise P.:Collection at Rhode Island Historical Society Library, Providence Bradford County Pioneer and Patriot Families,by Clement F.Heverly(l91 Charlestown,Mass.,The Genealogies and Estates of,by T.B.Wyman (1879) Colonial Families ot the United States,by MacKenzie & Rhoades (1920) Daughters of the American Revolution,Lineage Books Dutchess County,N.Y.,Commemorative Biographical Record of (1897) Fayette County,Iowa,Portrait and Biographical Album ot {1891) Porter and Lake Counties,Ind.,by Goodspeed and Blanchard (1882) Wetherstield,Gonn.,History ot, by Henry R.Stiles (1903) III Genealogies of the following Families: Adams, by A.N.Adams (1898) Austin, by Edith Austin Moore (1951) Battey, by H.V.Battey (1932) Benson, by F.H.Benson (1920) Brown, by Abbie I.B.Bulkley (1888) Capen, by C.A.Hayden (1929) Carr, by A.A.Carr (1947) Chesebrough, by Anna Chesebrough WileJ (1903) Cleveland, by E.J. and H.G.Cleveland (1899) Geer, by Walter Geer (1923) Gorham, by Henry s.Gorha.m (1936) Harper, by Alexander DuBih (1948) Haxton, by Frank E.Randall Haxton, by Mrs. Bertha M. Pottenger (1939) Hewes, by E.Putnam (1913) Hoyt, by D.W.Hoyt (1871) Hyde, by R.H.Walworth (1864) Jones-Hathaway-Richards-Gooding, by Melvin E.Jones (1954) Kinne, by Mrs.Florance Loveless Keeney Robertson (1954) Loomis, by Elias Loomis (1909) , Lovejoy, by C.E.Lovejoy (1930) Matteson, by Porter Matteson (1948-50) McCrillis, by Herbert O.McCrillis Raymond, by Samuel Raymond (1886) Raymond; by 38.lllUel Raymond (1890) Ren:frew; by James P.Rentrew (1925) Sherman, by F~aruc Dempster Sherman Storm; by R.W.Storm (1949) Swift, by George H.Swift (1900) Viele, by K.K.Viele (1913) Vose, by Ellen F.Vose (1932) Weaver, by Lucius Egbert Weaver (1928) Weeks, by R.D.Weeks (1885) Westcott, by Roscoe L.Whit:man (1932) Wheeler, by Albert G.Wheeler (1914) Woodworth, by E.B.Woodworth (1901) Bibliography, cont. IV Census Records 1774 and 1782 for Rhode Island,at New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, in manuscript 1790 tor all states organized so early, printed and in all libraries 1800 through 1870, in the National ArchiTes in Washington V Gazetteers Berkshire County,Mass.,1885 Gazetteer by Hamilton Child Dutchess County,N.Y., 1950 Year Book of Historical Society Genesee County,N.Ya,1890 Gazetteer and Biographical Record VI Directories of Berkshire Co.,Mass. Genesee Co.,N.Y. Providence,R.I. Boston,Mass. Kansas City,Mo. Saratoga Springs,N.Y. Brooklyn,N.Y. New York City,N.Y. Washington Co.,N.Y. Buffalo,N~Y. Philadelphia,Pa. Wayne County,N.Y. Coshocton,Ohio VII Church Records of Kent,Conn. Pleasant Valley,N.Y. Sherburne,N.Y. Lisbon,Conn. Providence,R.I. Stamford,Conn. VIII Cemetery Records of Athens,N.Y. . East Fishkill,N~Y. N.Y.State at Albany Austerlitz,N.Y. F'owlervi lle, N. Y~ Oakfield,N.Yo . Beekman,N.Y. Genesee Co.,N.t. Sandisfield,Mass. Beekmanville,N.Y. Greene Co.,N.Y. Sheffield,Mass. Catskill,N.Y. Mt.Washington,Ma.ss. Sherburne,N.Y. IX Land Records of Berkalrlre Go.,Mass. Dutchess Co.,N.Y. North Kingstown,RI. Chenango co;;~.Y; Genesee Co.,N.Y. Scituate;R.1.· Columbia Co.,N.t. Greene c6. ,R.Y~ Stamford,Conn. Coshocton Co.,o. Griswold, Conn. Warwick,R.I. X Probate Records of Berkshire Co.,Mass. Greene Co. ,N .Y. Stadottl~§•:mum~i~~t Coshocton Co.,o. Kent,Conn. Suffolk Co.,Mass. Coventry,R.I. North Kingstown,R.I. 'Warwick,R.I. Dutchess Co.,N.Y. Bibliography, cont. XI Other Court Records Albany,N.Y., Court of Appeals Files Coshocton County,Ohio, Court of Common Pleas Records Newport, R.I., S~perior Court Records Washington County,R.I.,Superior Court Records (at Kingston) XII Vital Records: Births,Marriages,Deaths• recorded at Ashfield,Ma.ss. Massachusetts (in State House Canterbury,Conn. in Boston) Connecticut State (in North Kingstown,R.I. State Libre.ry,Hartford)New York City,N.Y. Coshocton Co.,o. Providence,R.I. Dutchess Co.,N.Y. Rehoboth,Mass. East Greenwich,R.I. Rhode Island (in Arnold, vols. Enfield,Conn. 7, 10, and 12) Glocester,R.I. Salisbury,Conn. Greene, N.Y. Sherburne,N.Y. Jamestown,R.I. Sta.mford,Conn. Kent,Conn. Stoughton,Mass. Killingworth,Conn. Warwick, R.I. Lebanon, Conn. Westerly, R.I. XIII "Register of Protections granted to American Seam.en in the Dis trict or Providence," at Rhode Island Historical Society. XIV Newspaper Items Boston Transcript {genealogical sheet} of 30 Mar.1921 and 18 Jul.1932 Columbian Register of 19 May 1860 Dutchess Observer of 7 May 1823 Federalist,The, or 18 Jan.1810 Hartford Times of 19 May 1860 Litchfield Post and Enquirer or 27 Nov.1834 New England Review of 1 Dec.1834 New Haven Palladium of 17 May i860 Newport Mercury (genealogical sheet} of 10 Feb.1912 Pittsfield Sun of 16 Apr.1834 Post,The, of Washington County,N.Y., of 9 Feb.1884 Poughkeepsie Journal of 28 Jul.1824 Sherburne News, date deleted Bibliography, concluded ~ Private Records Among the many who have contributed data from family records or from private research have been Aitken,Mra.Margaret; of Dum.ferline, Scotland Allan, Mias Isabel M.;of Scots Ancestry Research Society,Edinburgh Arnot, Mr.Alexander; of Ayrles,Ashdown,Fawley,near Southam.pton,Engo Barlow, Dr.Claude w.; ot Clark University, Worcester,Mass. Brownell, Mr.E.E.; of Philadelphia, Penna. Buck, Mr.Clifford M.; of Salt Point, N.Yo Carswell,Mr.David; of Gorebridge,Midlothian,Scotland Gray, Mrs.Louise Haxton; of Greenville,Misso Hackson,Rev.Alec.;of Toronto, Ontario Hall,Mrs.Minnie B.; ot Earlham,Iowa Haxstun, Miss Lina w.; of Troy, N.Y. Haxton, Mr.Andrew; of Chicago,Illo Haxton, Mr.Andrew; of East Rockaway,N.Y. Haxton, Mrs.Charles F.; of Terre uaute,Ind. Haxton, Mr.Charles Rodolph; of Elk Grove,Calif. Haxton, Mr.and Mrs. C.J.; of Ithaca, N.Y. Haxton, Mr.Edward; of Massilon, o. Haxton, Mrs. Eva; of Honolulu,Hawaii Haxton; Mr.Frederick E.; of Norfolk, Va. Haxton, Mrs.Gale, of Gotebo,Okla. Haxton, Mrs.George; of Terre Haute, Indo Haxton, Mr.James of Kingston,Ontario Haxton, Mrs.James; or Oak Ridge, Illo Haxton, Mr.James s.; of Toronto, Ont. Haxton, .Mrs.Janet; of Edinburgh, Scotland Haxton, Miss Jennie N.; of New York City Haxton, Mr. Jesse w.; of Coshocton, Ohio Haxton, Mr.LeRoy w.; of Arlington, Maas. Haxton, Mr.Lloyd Ao; of Sacramento, Calif. Haxton, Mr.Orren L.; of Strongsville, o. Haxton, Mr.Ralph G.; of Greenville,Miss. Haxton, Mr.Raymond s.; of Kansas City, Kans. Haxton, Mr. Sherwin; of Oakfield and Rochester, N.Y. Haxtun, Mr.Kenneth G.; of Kent, Conn. Ireland,Rev.Andrew L.; or Cupar, Fifeshire Jensen, Mrs. Carl; of Hartford, Conn. Jesmant,Mrs.Joaeph; of Oakfield, N.Y. Koch, Mrs.Katherine; or Oak Park, Ill. LaFleur, Mrs.Edward; or Bismarck, N.D. MacArthur, Mrs.Olive T.;or Marlboro College,Marlboro,Vt. Marston, Mrs. David E.; or Spokane,Wash. McClellan, Mr.Frank; of Mechanicville,N.Y. Monahon, Mr.Clifford P.; of Rhode Island Historical Society,Providence Phillipa, Mrs. Albert; of Norwich, N.Y. Pottenger, Mr.Charles A.; of Sewickley, Penna. Price, Mrs.William F.; of Earlham, Iowa Smith, Mrs.Edwin P.; or Sherburne,N.Y. Thomas, Mrs.William; of Norwieh,N.Y. Underhill, Miss Emma s.; of Flushing, Long Island, N.Y. Van Rensselaer, Miss Jessie; of Mechanicville,N.Y. Walling, Mrs.Minnie B.; of Earlville,N.Y. ------.,_.,_ . .. J...-- 1"'\ r, 143 Index Adams Axton,Robert 31. Adeline Reed 64. Ayers Herman Cuyler 64. Josephine Chamberlain 121.126. John 37• Laura 126. Susanna 16.30. Richardson 126. Adsit Babcock,Leafie G. 132. Anson P. 49. Bagley, Amy 75. Clara 49. Baker Martin 49. Benjamin 1. Walter 49. Buna Floy 125 Akin Chester A. 102. Isaac 67. Comfort 4. Josiah 22. Dorcas 68. Rhoda 12.21.22a.44. Eliza 93. Sa.rah E. 67 • Elizabeth 4.13.35. Alcott,--- 54• Harriet 4. Alcox,Bede 54. James 2.4.5.100 Allen Jeremiah H. 35. Amie 27. Joseph 35. Charles 57• Julia Ann 35. Emma Eugenia 113. Lavina 102. Harriet.76.77• Mary 2.4.10. Job 113. Naomi 4. Joyce 124.127. Pardon·13. Molly 15.27.57.880 Penelope 2.4. Stephen 27. Roswell 35. Alsbro,Benjamin 22. Sarah 4• Alsop,Catherine 79.lllo Silas 13. Ambler Temperance 13. E.N. 53• Thomas 2.4. Stephen 53• William 4 30.39. Anderson,Barbara 119.124.126.127. ----- 11. Andrews Baldwin George 15. Abigail 18. viilliam W. 63. George H. 86. Angell,Pardon 29. Ballard,Laura 120. Arnold Barker,Samuel Augustus 44. Andrew 30. Barnes Benedict 14. Carrie R. 66.101. George 30. Catherine 101. Arnoux,Annie 62.97. Joseph c. 101. Arthur Barton John 103. Benjamin 4. Susan Maria 103. Naomi 4. William 103• Susanna 4. Atherton,Alice 76.77• Basim Austin John 33. Edward :a. 99. Nancy 33. James Howard 61. Bassett,Elizabeth 13. Joseph 1. Bates Lucy 64.99. Charles Elmer 130. Martha 61. Evelyn Doris 130 • .Ruth 61. Battey,Patience 70. William 61. Beach,Elizabeth 39a.65. ---- 16.94. Beckwith,Thomas 55. Beekman,--- 11. Brouwere,Lida 121.125. Beeson Brown Benjamin Franklin 120. Charlotte 26.50. Mary 120. Eleanor 11.12. Minnie B. 120. Enos 50. Stallbert 120. Freelove 88. Benjamin Joseph 50. Abigail 36. Lucy Wade 57.88. Nathan 36. Rebecca 50. Sally 20.36. Robert 17. Samuel 11.12. Bennett Sayles 88. Ann 24• T.Edwin 88. Benjamin 13. Brownell Etna 107.120.125. Joshua 42. Ezekiel 30. Robert 5. Joshua 120. Brua,Mildred Dean 118. Molby 23•25.46. Bruice,Jacob 22. Nancy 120. Bryant Rest 16.30. Almon R.53. -----12. Ambrose 53. Benson A.R.,Mrs. 53.81. Almeda 110. Charlotte 53. Jobn 110. Buck Minerva s.77.110.121. Effie 134. Bentley,Taber 22. Sylvia 134. Benton,Lewis 37. Thomas 134. Rerry,Charles 1. Budlong,James 14. Bickel,Emma E.100.116.117. Bullock,--- 54. Bigham,Greta 119. Burlingame,Tempera.nce 13. Bishop,Nathaniel 18. Burns Blaker,Lovina 102. Bridget 137. Blum Samuel 32. Hazel Ellise 113.121. Cady Ruth 121. Ebenezer 52. S amue 1 121. Prudence 52. Eoal,Lavada,or Larada 116.117. Cameron, --- 11. Bolling,Mary 90.113.122. Campbell Boone,Se.mu.el 5• Elizabeth 39a. Borden,Joseph 5.80 Lovina 39a. Boshart,Mrs. 55. Rufus 39a. Bourne,--- 34• ---- 131. Bowden,Leonetta 130 Capen Bowerman Betsey 101. Julie. 107• Carrie R. 101. Squire 107. John 101. Brandew,Eli 63. John Edwin 101. Brayton,Charles 30. Card Brett,Betsey 101. Lydia Ann 1,5 • Brill,--- 11. Stephen 14.15. Brinckerhoff, --- 55. Ce.rpenter, C.A. 14. Brisbee,Eliza 78.79. Ce.rr Britton Caleb 4.24. Grace Elizabeth 118. Edward 4. Mary 63. Hannah 4. Mary Ann 38.64.98. Naomi 4. Robert 118. Oliver 4. ---- ln_ Carshore, M.D. )6. Cornwall---- 11. Carswell Costa Helen 93. Earlene 125. Helen E. 115. Frank V • 125. Mary I. 115. G·eorge Anthony 125. -William 115. Rinde. 125. Cary,--•- 11. Costello Ce.se Bridget 137. t Ann 17. John 137. Immanuel 5.17. Veronica 137. Joseph 17. Crane Cassady Bernice A. 132. Samantha E. 90. Harold L. 132. William F. 90. Lea.fie G. 132. Chalmers,Jeannette 130. Crary, Elizabeth 6. Chapman Crocum, Joan 1. Harriet E. 70. Crosser J.Fuller 70. Lula A.110.121. Chrysler Robert 121. Dolores Marie 126. Curtis,Mary 33• Raymond 126. Daller Clark Albert 89. Albert 4• Laura 89. Allie Grace 120. Dalton Bertha 4• Maggie 134. Harriet 4• Thomas 134. Helena 22a. 44. Darrow Roy 120. Elmira 91.92. Clements Hiram 91.92. Chalmers 6.107. Martha 61.91.92.93.115. Ora Candace 107. Mary 61.91. Cleveland,Eunice 56. Daugherty Cline,Frederick 18. Elizabeth 47.76. Clute,Lydia 93• James M. 76. Cole Davenport,William 42. John 14. Davis Lockwood 14. · Jack 125 • Collins,Ricketson 44• Laura 126. Colvin Neva J. 125. Amous Winfred 120. Day, Orrin 37.620 Fred 120. Delano,Deborah 22a. Gertrude Etna 120. DeLong John 29. James 44.67. Laura 120. Maria 43.45.67.68.102.103. Stephen G. 120. Sarah 67. Compton Dennis---• 11. A.B. 119. Detr1ck,Minnie 79.111. Ii.a l!'lorence 119. Dibble Congdon Abiga11·36. Naomi 4• John·1s. Peleg 30. Dickie,Katherine 137. William 4• Dillon,Mary 120. Cooke,Francis 62. Doherty Cooper John Leo 137. John 22.22a.26. Mary Ann 137. Jeremiah 22a. Donihue,Mary 35.61.91.92.94•96. Louisa 22. Dore.,John 2. Sarah 22a. DuBois,Mary Ann 76.77. Frye,Thomas 10. Duncan,Daniel 36. Fuller Dutra,Rinda 125. · Alden 70. Eerly,Frances 124.126. Anna 35. Eaton,Will 8. John 35. Eccleston Mary M.70. Nancy R. 84. Patience 70. Ransome 84. Robert Colwell 70. Edwards,Edward 39. G-alaway(Galloway) Eitler,~ovina 132. James 19.21. Elliott Patience 19. Col. 1,$. Gano,Stephen 36. Robert 27. C-anz,Christine Oatherine 90.114. Elmore,Lu.ra 125. Gardner---- 11. Emerson C.arrett,Mary Viola 107.119.12.5. Juanita. 125. Garzia, Capt. 15. Lura 125. Geer Thomas Edward 125. Lucy 46.69.70.104. William Isaac 125. Samuel 69. Emmons,Mamie 132. Geis.,Anna Fern 124. Falconer,Robert i. Gibbs Feitz,Emily Blanche 119. Francis D. 137. Fellows,Elkanah F.48. Mary 137• Fenner,Elizabeth 20.34. Gillett,Liberty 40. Fetterling,Greta 119. Girvin Field,Judson 87. Florence Gertrude 112. Fink Harvey 112. Bigham 100. Glover,Ada Grace 90.113.121. Melvina. 100. Goddard Fi sh, Elihu 29 o Alden D. 69.70. Fisher,George s.82. Clarlaaa 70. Fleming,Mary 137. Curtiss 70. Forbes Emily 69. Alexander 82. Emily A.70. Emily Wo 82. C-oes,Hannah 370 Foree,Stephen 44• Gold,Mrs.George 1310 Fortune · Goodwin,Joseph 48. Alex 100. Gordon Ide. 100. Grizell 72.108. Foster,Stephen 29. ---- 131. Fowler Gorham .Ann 17. Eliza Ann 76.77 • Benjamin 17 • Frank 76.77• .James s. 82. Luke 76.77• Fox,J.w. 53. Sa.bran 76.77.(= Sabina) Fraser Gorton Andrew B~37• John 13. Eliza 37• Susanna 4. 1-1"..ary Ann 37 .38.64.• 980 Gould,Mrs.John 5.5. William 38. Gray Freeman,Sarah 4. Althea t",ouise 113.( = Louise H.) Freligh Green(e) Equations 37.62. Almeda 110. Jane 37.62. Benjamin 15 • Frew George 670 John 60. Increase 15 • L.y.(~?liza v.) 60. Martha 9. Greene,cont. Haxton,Haxtun,iiaxstun,Hackston, etc 0 Michael 134. Abbie 2lo39a.65o Phebe 9. Abe 18.19.21.40.41.66• Sarah 22a. Abigail 12.18ol9.21.22a.26.34-36. Susan(Suaie) 134. 39.39a.55.56.61.87.'f7. Gregory,Eliphalet 49. Abram 39a. - Gfeiner Ada 73.10901210 Elizabeth Audrey 114. Ada Grace 90.113.121. Ernest 114. Addie Re 64• Griffin---- 92. Adelaide 970 Griffith Adelia 85.86. Elizabeth 90. Adelia A.86. Julia Ann 59.90.113.114. Adeline 40.41.79.111. William 90. Adeline Reed 64. Grim Adelpha B• 116.1170 George 59. Adrianna Storm 103. Sabina(Zebina} 33.59.89.90. Agnes 132. Guild,John 290 A.H. 84 0 E:all Albert 106. Elizabeth 1200 Alberto B. 85.86. John 1. Albertus 110.121. Minnie B. 120. Alec 89.133.134. Walter tlenry 120. Alex 122. William 1.120. Alex c. 59.89.1130 ---- 11. Alexander 89.128.134. Halsey---- 112. Alexander M. 128.129.131. Hangar,Ellen 124.127. Alexanders. 129. Harper · Alexander T. 129. Abigail Payson 98. Alice 76.77.119.124.127. Catherine 24.46.71.72.106-108. Alice Marie 124. Henry Sleeper 98. Allie 96. Joseph W.98. · Allie Grace 120. Myra Raymond 98. Almira 22a.44.45. Harris Alta May 120. Isaiah 33.60. Altha 90.114. Patience 9o Althea ~uise 113. Earrison Amanda 53.54. Alta May 1200 Amelia 22a.115. Daniel B.120. Amelia H. 115• Joseph 120. Amelia Martha 93. Sarah 120. Amelie 92. Harstine,Mary L.59.89.1130 Am(e}y 12.21.22.22a.42.43. Haskell,Mehitable 82• Amind.a 47.75.110. Havens Andrew 12.18-21.34.36.39.39a.40. Joseph 1. 52-54.58.59.65.81.83-86.100.116. Thomas 1. 129.130.133. William 1. Andrew B. 37.38.63.64.98.99. ---- 4. Andrew o. 130. Hawk Andrew H. 53.83. Frances 124.126. Andrew K. 91.92.115. Linda Carol 126. Andrew King 61.92.93.115. Haxon,Mr. 136. Andy 59. Angeline 41. Haxton,cont~ Cecilia 134• Ann 56.71.72.133. Celinda 75. Ann Marie 130. Charles 108.114.122.124.126-129. Ann R.33.60. Charles E.106.128. Anna 19.21.30.34.35. Charles Franklin 90.114.123. Anna Fern 124. Charles Gibbs 137. Anna Mary 61. Charles Lawrence 137. Anna R. 60. Charles Manford 107.119.124.125. Anne 4.9.11.12.21.23.24.46.133. Charles Marion 119. Anne Mabel 1100 Charles Rodolph 12001250 Annie 62.97. Charlotte 26.50. Annie Sophia 130. Chauncey 52.53.78.80-820 Anodyn C. 39• Chet 118. A.R. 100.115. Christiana 134. Arthur B. 66.101. Christina 136. Arthur R. 99. Christine Catherine 90.114.123. Barbara 119.124.126.127. Clair Douglas 118. Barent 46.69. Clara 49.128.129. Bede, Beda Clara Sophia 88. 52.54.83. Clarence J. 125. Belle May 116. Clarendon 73.109.121.1250 Benjamin 2-7.9-12.15.18-26.29-31.Claude s. 129. 34.36-39ao42.44-48.50.52-55.57. Clementine 100ell6e 62-64068.78-80.83.85.98.103. Clemmie Ida 1160 Benjamin Do 103. · Clinton (Clint) 105. Bennet(t) 23.46.69.71.72.105. Clinton Edward 118. Bernard Gale 119.124.126.127. Constance 99.lOOo Bernice A. 132. Cora 87. Bertha c. 89. Dana 123. Bertha M. 90. Daniel 78.132. oertha. Marcella 114. Daniel A. 79.111. Bertha z. 1040 Daniel B. 78.79.111. Bess Elizabeth 126. David i.ii. 4. 132.134. Bessie Jane 118. David P. 133. Bets(e)y 26.55.110. Davids. 129. Betty 132. · Davie 81. Billie Nadine 122. Davis 81. Birdie 89. Deborah 75.132. Burton s. 66.101. Delavan 110.Delia Ann 86. Caleb 38. Delpha Bo 117• Calvin R. 100.116.117. Dennis 125. Candace (Candis) 16.29.71.72. Dennis D. 11.5 Candace Clarice 127. Diane 123. Carl v. 116. Diane Barbara 126. Carmella 132. Dolores Marie 126. Caroline 37.38.41.61.64.97.99.101 Caroline E. 12801290 Donald 1310 Caroline M. 66.111. Donald Paul 124.127. Carrie Ellen 116. Dorothea 68.103. Carrie R. 66.101. Dorothy 123.132-134. Catherine 24.46.71.72.79.100. Dorothy Agnes 137. 106-108.111.116.119.125.127. Dyer 25.26.48.50.51. 130. Earlene 125. Catherine J. 137• Eber 25.26.47.50. Catherine Lenore 114. Edith 20. Haxton, cont. Fannie Eo 61.96. Edith c. 1280129. Fay 124.126. Edith Lucile 99• Fern Rue 121. Edna Mae 123. Flora Louise 640 Edna R. 112. Florence 79.111. Edward 105.109.121.125. Florence Gertrude 112. Edward Eo 131. Florence Therese 137. Edward H. 137. Flossie 121. Edward R. 131• Floyd A. 112. Edy 19. Frances 91.124-.126.134. Erfie 134. Francis Claude 137. Egbert 137. Frank c. 79.111. Eleanor 11.12.33.137. Frank Norman 130. Electa 76.77. Franklin 91. Eli 25.26.47.50. ~rederick 10.24. Elij 48• . Frederick E. 23.105. Elisha 48• · · ·· Frederick Earl 118.124. Eliza 35.53.78;80.81.87.111. Gale,Mrs. 21. Elisa Ann 76.77• George 87.94.131-134. Eliza Belle 22.33. George K. 79.111. Eliza Go 56.87.112. George Ho 73. Eliza J. 87. George Henry 120.135. Eliza M. 111. George N. 129. Eliza v. 60. George P. 80. Elizabeth 2-4.7.9.12-18.20. George w. 87.106.112. 21.34D35.39a.40.47.61.65. Georgia 1160 76.87.131.134.137. Georgia o. 117. Elizabeth Ao 71.72. Gertrude Etna 120. Elizabeth Audrey 114. Giles Mo 78.79.111. Elizabeth Fo 1370 Glen Dan 126. Ella 134• Glenda Beth 126. Ellen 124el27o1J7o G.M. 79. Ellis Brooks 126. Grace Elizabeth 118. Ellis Cadwallader 110.121.126.Gracye 133. Elmer c. 131. Gregg Daniel 123. Elmerta 1250127. Greta 119. Elnathan 22.43-45.67.68.102. Grizell 72.108. Etsie 76.77. G.Sherwin 112. Emeline 22.22a.60. Guy Cleo 119. Emilia 22a.53• Hannah 2.4-6.26.47.49.74.128.129. Emily 22a.69.71.72.107.119.120aarley Thomas 118. Emily A. 70. Ilarman 75• Emily Blanohe 1190 Harold Austin 99. Emma E. 100.116.117. Sarold Kenton 124.. Emory 89.113. Harriet 69.72.77.94.95. E.N. 53.54. Sarr1et E. 10. Estel 113. Rarry 132. Ethel 112. Harry Glen 119.124.126. Etna 107.120.125. Harvey 89.119. Eva Elain 126. Rattle 95. Eva May 124.126. Sattie M. 95. Evan Doyle 119.124. Hazel Ellise 113.121. Evelyn Doris 1300 Hedwig s. 132. Evelyn May 120.125. gelen 93.113. Ezra s. 75• Helen E.115. 150 Haxton,cont. Jerry Daniel 123. Helen H.115. Jerry Scott 123. Helen L.131 Jesse w.31.58.116.117.123. iielen M.115. Jessie 132.133. Henry 68. Jocie 107.120. Henry G. 74. ~oe 75. Hester 39. John 9.17.23.25.26.28.31.32.47.50. .a.Frank 91. 58.59.73-77.87.90.96.108.110.113 • Hiram 70.76.77. 114.118.130.133.136. Hiram s. 70. John Clark 133. aorace W. 61. John David 123. rrosea 47.75.76.110. John F. 100• Howard 96. John Frazier 131. Howard w. 61.96. John H• 112. Ida 100. John .doward 114.123. Ida Florence 119. John Joseph 137• Ilene 118.124. John L. 71.72.106. Ira R. 116.117.123. John Laird 123. Irene T. 133. John M. 137• Is.a M. 116.117. John McL. 137. Isabel 132. John N. 71.72. Isabelle 129. Jolm R. 99. Jacob 6. John Raymond 64.99. James 11.1-11.18.24.28.31-34. Johns. 76. 46.57.60.61.66.76.77.88~96. John To 100.1160 108.110.128.130-132.134. Jonathan 39. James Batchelor 131. Joseph 20.29.· James Bennet 23-25.46.69.128. Joseph A. 128.129. James Bernard 124.126. Josephine Chamberlain 121.126. James Bruce 131. Joyce 124.127 • James E. 88. Julia 78.107. James Edward 88. Julia Ann 59.90.113.114. James Edwin 88. Julia c. 64.97-99. James H. 71. Julia Catherine 37.38. James Harrison 23.24.46.71. Julian 110. 106-108. Juanita 125 • James J. 66.72. K.A. 610 James Levi 10.12.23-25. K.Andrew 35. James M.40.41.66.101.137. Katharine lio 89. James N. 137• Katie 116.130. James s. 131. Kenneth Goadby 99. James T. 132. King A. 35. James Turner 71.72. King Andrew 34.35.61.91.92.94-960 James w. 69.70.104. Lafayette 390 Jane 108.110.121. Laird Allen 1230 Janice Lea 126. Lanna Marie 116.117. Jean 133. Larada P. 117. J~an Bernice 132. Laura 61.89.96. Jeanette 130• Laura Annie 88. Jett 72. Laura s. 88. Jehiel 64.97.98. . Laurella 134. Jennie Norman 130. Lauren 73.125. Jeremiah 10.12.18~24.26.27. Lavada 116.117. 34-36.39.39a.40.42.44.55. LaVerne E. 1120 56.61.87.91.92. Lawny M. 72. 151 Haxton, cont. Maria 43.45.67.68.76.77.102.103.110. Leo 124.126. Maria Arthur 103. Leo J. 137. Marietta 90. Leoma Pearl 117. Marilyn Rose 126. Leon A. 133. Marinda 75• Leonard c. 131. Marion 132. Leonetta 130. Marion Lee 126. LeRoy 134• Martha 2-6.19e20o37o38e61.91•93ell5• LeRoy D. 132• Martha A. 115• LeRoy w. 132.125. Martha D. 92. ~star J. 133. Martha J. 61. Levi 71.72.105. Mary 1-7.9.12-14.24-26.30.32o33e35.J8.47. Levi H. 72.106. 48o50e52.58.61.64.65o69.85o90•92e94•96• L.H. 106. 98.l00.ll3.ll6el22.130e Lida 121.125. Mary A. 76.770 Lina w. 115. Mary Ann 63.76. Lizzie 105.118.124. Mary Britton 98. LlOyd 59. . Mary c.116. Lloyd Ae 113el22. Mary Ee 87.116. Lodema 78.79.111. Mary Eliza 37.38. Lois 120. Mary Fern 119. Lola Ann 126. Mary J. 86. Lola D~ 133. Mary Jane 134. Lora E. 78.79.111. Mery Lo 59.89.113. Loraine 137. Mary Lorene 126. Loren H. 133~ Mary Me 70. Louis D. 113. Mary Ruth 124. Louisa 22.22a.26. Mary Viola 107.119.124-.125. Louisa c. 50. - Max Dwaine 118. Eouisa Charlotte 26.50. Mayme 134. Louise Wallace 125. Melissa 85.86. Lovenia 53. Melissa B. 86. Lovina 41.132. _ Melva 116. Lucille Ande~son 125. Melvina 100. Lucy 46.64.6f.70.88.99.104iMerle 123. Lucy Ao 99. Michael Lee 123. Lucy Wade 57.88. Milan Garrett 119.124.127. Lula A. 110.121. Mildred Dean 1180 L.V. 60. Millie 53• i.ydia 53.54. Milton 62.97. Lydia Ann 14.15. Milton Leroy 97. M. 32.58. Minerva s. 77.110.121. Mabel R. 1170 Minnie 790111.1170 Madeline M. 137• Minnie Bell 120. Maggie 109.121.125.134. Miranda 75. Mamie 132. Molby (Malby,Maltby) 23.25.46.69.700104• Manford Ray 124.127. Molby Ge 69. Marcella 114. Molly 14.15.27.28.49.57.88. Marcenus (Masena) 53.54.7 8.79. 111. Mortimer 73.109. Margaret 2.4.22a.10.73.104Myra (Mira) Ann 38.63.64.99. 131.133. Myra Raymond 64.98. Margaret c. 106. !-iyram 114. 1•i.argaret E. 134-• Myrle Grace 117 • Marguerite 112. Myrtle 109.132. 152 Haxton, cont. · Richard Baxter 92.93.115. Nancy 31-33.58.76.770 · Richard Grant 90.113.121. Nathaniel 9.12.14.15.27.28. Richard Kenneth 113.121.126. Neloise 113. Richardson Ayers 126. Nelson 61. Rickey Leo 123. Nettie Viola 118. R.M. 33e60• Neva J. 125. · Robert 31 .. 33.58.65.75.120.122.130.136. Nicholas P.75.110.121.126. Robert Allen 127. Nora L. 133. Ro'bert D. 132. Nora Leota 118. Robert James 137. Norma Jean 134. Robert Lee 134. Oliver 46.120. · Robert M. 32.60. Oliver Perry 24.71.72.107. Roberts. 113. 119.120. Rodolph 107.120.125• Ora 71.72. Ronald Edward 137. Ora Candace 107. Rosemary 134. Orilla(Orvilla,Aurilla) Ross Warner 119.124.127. 52.83-86. Roy S. 112. Orren 65.130. Ruhannah 35. Orren L. 100. Russell 47.73.74.109. Orren Lemont 116. Russell Vernon 121. Orren Melvin 100.116. Ruth 9.14.15.22a.27.42.43.61.94.132. Otto c.116. Ruth ~ennett 126. Otto Cancel 117. Sabina(Zebina) 33.59.76.77.89.90. Palmer 61.94.96. Sabran 76. Patience 19.21. Sally 20.28.36.37.45.47.52.76.77. Patricia 124. Sally Ann 56.87• Paul 132. Samantha E. 90. Paulina(Perlina) 34.35.61. Samuel 39a.56e58.65.76.77e87.100e Pearl 76.77.110. 112.116. Pearl R. 121. Samuel F. 112. Perry Neil 126. Sandra 124. Phebe 9.15. Sanford 23.71.72. Phebe Ann 37.38. Sanford M.23.72.108.118. Philena Alice 90. Sanford N.71.72.108. Philip Lee 125.1270 Sarah 12.20.22a.26o28.36-38.44.45. Plato 89. · 52-54.57.62.63.67.68.72.78~80. Pluney 47.73.109. a3.a5.se.106. Pruda 53.80.82. Sarah Ee 67.87.102.112. Ralph Glover 113. Sara J.117. Ralph Wayne 116. Seth 47.73.74. Itamona 134. Sheldon 25.46. Rays. 112. Sisily A. 39. Raymond Sherman 121.126. Sophia 130. R.Baxter 920 Sophia Kennett 97. Rebecca 33.59.60. Sophia Maria 38.62.97. Rebecca Jane 90. Sophia M.L. 62• Rest (Waste) 16.30. Sophia N. 62. R.G. 1130 Stewart P. 137. Rhoda 12.21.22.22a.44.75. Sumner 76o77ol10e12lo Richard 33.59.89.90.92.122. Susan 40.64~98. 134. Susan c. 98. Richard Anderson 124.126. Susanna 16.21.30.40.660 Richard c. 115. Susie 134. 153 Haxton, cont. Hays Sutherland Reid 97. Josiah 50. Tam.son 2.4. Mary 50. Taylor 75. Hazard,Hiram c. 39a. Terry Lee 123. Heaton, Altha 90.114. Thelma 114.121.123.134. Henry Theodore 134. Alexander 30. Theodore G. 131. John 49. Theodore Lee 123. ---- 108. Thomas 1.9.13.16.29.30.130.134.136. Thomas Crumbly 137. Herrick, Dorothy Agnes 137. Thomas r. 71. Hetherington Thomas Jefferson 11.72. Alonzo Allen 125. Timothy 19.21.39.39a.78.79. Buna Floy 125. T.J. 72. Evelyn May 120.125. Tom 105.118.124. Hewes Tom Page 133• Joshua 1. Toni Marie 123. Mary 1. Ursula 137. Hickson (Hixson, etc.) Vena 119.124.126. Thomas 135. Veronica 137. ---- 16.136. Violette 9.15. Higbee Virgil Budd 116. Eleanor 33. Virginia 134. Elizabeth 33 Vivian 134• Joseph c. 33. Vivian M. 133. ~ 122. Wallace 1200 Hill(s) Wallace G~ 128~129. Ashbill 52. Wallace K. 128. Hannah 63. Wallace Ray 118. Hoag, Thomas 80. Walter Dewey 116. Hoes, Hannah 37. ~alter Scott 116. Holden,Anthony 14. Washington Me 37• Holland,Sarah 120. Washington Morton 38.62.97. Hollenbeck,William 36. Wealthy A. 78.79.111. Holley(Hawley),Abigail 26.55056.870 William 2•5•7•17e22e22a.27•29• Hopson 31.34.42.43.53.54.57.61.64. Anne Waterman 98. 67.68.75.78.88.94-96.98.104. John 98. 108.131•135.137• Mary Britton 98. William Bennet 23.24.72.105.118. Rebecca J. 98. William E. 67.68.79.95.102.111. Howe William Guy 118. Jane 82. William H.·128.129.· . Orrin 82. William Levi 23.105.118.124. Hoyt William M~ 134• Epenetus 50. William P~ 104. Hannah 50. William Re 132. Joseph 50.51. William Sherman 90.113.122. Nezer 50. William the Lion 1. Prudence 50. William We 11.45.68.103. Sarah 26.50.51. William Woolley 68• Hubbell, Elizabeth 90. Winnie 125. r.udson; Samuel E. 49, Zola 124.126. Huling, Alexander l. 154 Hunting,Sarah Fermo 64. Kirk Huvey,John 49. Hugh 132. Hyde Isabel 132. Bezaleel 6. :Kissam Mehitable 6. Constance 99. Jackson,Andrew 59. William 990 Jarvis Knox Elizabeth 63. Allie Grace 120. Mary Pepperell 63. Joe 120. William 63. . Raymond 120. Jenkins,Abis.h 21. Susan 120. Jennings,James 33. Koch, Katharine H. 89.113. Jess La.bagh, Peter 37. Joseph 4• LeFleur Martha 4• Edward 137., Johannis, Ethel Clinton 109. Loraine 137. Johnson LaMarche,Helea M. 115. Henry ;\64.97.98. Lamb I-!enry G. 970 Maryl. Henry_ Goslee 38. William lo H.G. 62. La.Mendola,Carmella 132. John 32.33. Larken Phebe A. 62• Alta May 120. Phebe Ann 38.99. - Paul 120. Jones, Elsie 76.77• Latham,Peter 100. Keech La.wrence,Elizabeth 330 Freelove 88. Lee Lucy 88. Ann 19. Nicholas 88. Elizabeth 120. Kenton,Aliee 119.124.127. Leech,John 1. Kidder Leeds Betsey 26J 270 Cary H. 51. Ephraim 26. John R. 51. Isaac 26.27. Lenorp,de Sarah 26. Ranult 1. Y..ing Walter 1. Anna 20. Lewis {Louis) &y (Edith) 19.20. Ann Ro 33.60. Elijah 35• John 39a. Elizabeth 20.a4.35.61. Millicent 62. George 19.20.21. Rebecca 33.60. C·eorge H. 20.21. Lindskot,---- 71.72. John 20.21.34. L1ppitt,Tholll8.s 14.27.57. ---- 94. L1~1!1lgsto-iy-•~~~~~ 22. Kingsle7,Samuel 3.9. Long Kinne(y) Anne Mabel 110. Anne 83. Frank 114. Beda 52.54.83. Myram 114. Benjamin 52.54.83. William 110. Elijah R. 83. LClmis Mehitable 54• Adeline 40.41. Orilla 52.83.86. Augustus 40. Stephen 83. John 40.41. Kinsley Liberty 40. Catherine 100.116. Lord, Daniel 18. Katie 116. Losee, John F. 44. Mary c. 116. Loughery McGowan -Ann Marie 1ao Alexander 32.60. George F". 130. Margaret 32. Martha K. 130. ltf..ary 32.60. Lovejoy ---- 122. Daniel 52. McGreen Prudence 52. Flo~ence Therese 137. Sarah 26.52.53.78.80.83.85. Henry 137. Lozee,Sarah 67. McGregor---- 131. Lyde,Mary Fern 119. McGuinness Malbone,God.t'rey 10.11. Elizabeth 137. ~.archant ---- 34• Elizabeth Florence 137. Marquis Stephen J. 137. Adelia 86• McGuire, Bessie Jane 118. Barbary 86. Mcindoo James B. 84.86. Charles 90. James Bonn 86. }>(..arietta 90. Mary G. 860 McKinnon Mary J. 86. Annie 130. Marston McNeil D.E. 137• Hattie M. 95. Elizabeth 137• w.J. 95. Martin McNulty,Patrick 84. Abby F• 130. Means Henry P. 130. Elizabeth 33. L-eonetta 130. Isaac 33. Mason,Catherine 119.125.127. Meyers (Myers) Mather Rosemary 134. Adrianna Storm 103. Vincent 134. Frank Deloyd 103. Winnie 125. Matter, Betty 132. Miller,Clementine 100.116. :Matteson Milllken,Rebecca N. 130. Elizabeth 9. Mills Jonathan 9. Ann 56.87. Joseph 9. Florilla 63. Martha 9. William 56.87 • Phebe 9. Monell,J'oseph D~ 49. Maxwell Monf'ort ---- 67. Alfred J. 130. Morehead Annie Sophia 130. Benjamin Hughes 113. James H. 130. - Emma. Eugenia 113. Rebecca N. 130.· Neloise 113. McCarty,Nancy 120. Turner 113. McClarren - Morehouse Alford 59. Caroline 41.66.101. Rebecca 59. Walter 66. McCrillis Morley Eunice 56. Ezekiel 78. Sally Ann 87 • Joseph 78. William 56.87 • Morris WilliEun c. 56. Jessie 133. McElheney,Ada 73.109.121. William M. 39 • McGlone Bertha Marcella 114. Frank r. 1140 156 Morton Palmer,cont. Governor 62. Eliza 53.78.79.1110 Mary 36• Joshua 78. Nathaniel 10. Lemuel 35. Reuben 36.38. Mary 33.60.· Sally 37• Prudence 52. Sarah 20.36-38.62.63. William 33.60. Moss Parker John 5. Betty 132. Sarah 5• William 83. Mosteller,Eva May 124.126. Patrick,Pruda 82. Murdie,Elizabeth 134. Patterson,Matl 58.65.100.116. Murphey,Ma.ggie 109.121.125. Pell,Hester 44. Narramore---- 61. Pepper Naylor Aminde. 75• 47• Margaret v. 98. Amy 75. Peter 98. Marinda 75. Susan c. 64.98. !'-1.iranda 75 • Neish---· 131. William 47 • 75• Newall Perkins, Dr. 6. Barnard 76. Peters,Dorothy 123. Olive 76. Phelps Newson Eliphalet 6. James 90. Mehitable 6• Philena Alice 90. Phillips Newton Abigail 10. Isaac D. 84. Samuel 8.10.34. Jain D. 84• Pierce---- 56. Niles,Milton 42. Pilant Nodurrt,Lizzie 118.124. Ella 134• North, John 1. John 134. Northup,Samuel 5• Sarah 134. Norton Pitts,William 36. Bede 54• Pleas --- 11. Miles 54• Porter,Mehitable 6. Millie .53o Powell,Esther 5. Nosworthy,Caroline E.128.129. Powers, Peter 6. Oakley---• 11. Pratt O'Connor Anne 84. Amelia H. 115. Joshua 84. Martha A. 115. ---- 61. c•Donnell,Ellen 137. Price Opal,Flossie 121. Benoni 1.5. Osborne Matthew 15.16. Abigail 21.39. Samuel 15. Benjamin 19. William F.,Mrs. 23. David 21. Prilliman,Zola 124.126. Packard,Elisha 48. Purdy,Monmouth 83. Pe.ge,Anne 133. Quincy,Samuel 52. Paine (Payn) Randall,Vaspasnan 84. Mary I. 115 • Rawson,Lora E. 78.79.111. ----- 10. Raymond Palmer Florilla 63. Abbie 21.J9a.65. John M. 63. Abigail 35.61. Myra Ann 38.63.64.99. Amy 78. 157 Reed Satterlee Adeline 64. Benedict 60 Rev.Dr. 62. Deborah 6. Remington,Henry JO. Elizabeth 6. Renfrew,James 32.33. 1".a.ry 6 • Rhodes, Samuel 8.10. Nathaniel 60 Rice, Nathan 16. Sawyer---- 71.72. Richardson Schmidt, Bertha C. 89. Annie 132. Scoville Arthur 132. Elizabeth 83. Chester G. 88. Sylvester P.83. Dorothy 132. Scully,Elizabeth 1370 Earl 132; Selcraig Laura 88.· Alexander 132. Riche Jessie 132. Adeline 79a Sexton, Catherine 101. Francis M. 79. Shafer, S)lva 73. Rickart Shaler, Mary E. 9le Betsey 37 • · Sharp(e) Michael 37• Nettie Viola 118. Robinson Thelma 114.123. Amanda 53.54. Shaw Lavenia. 53• Enso 136. Lysander 53.54. James 78. Mehitable 54• Sheldon Mrs. 53.81. Jonathan 136. Nancy 33• · - ---- 25.46. Stillman 53.54. Sherman William 54• Amy 22a. Rockwell B'enjamin 22a. Angeline 41. Deborah 22a. Asahel 41. Eber 4. Rogers Elizabeth 12.18.40. John 44• Gitfe 4• Mary 44• Haxtun 22a. Root · John Lee 18. Anna 52. ~..argaret 4. Oliver 52. Mary 4• Sarah 52. Sarah 4. Ross,.Anna 20. Stephen 4• Rush,Martha K. 130. Sisson Sabin Clarissa 84. Mary 14• . George 84• Ruth 9.14.15.27 •. Skilding, Rebecca 50• Sadler,Elizabeth 35• Skinner---- 54. Sage · Sleeper,Abigail Payson 98. Caroline 66~101. Slocum Ebenezer 660 Ebenezer 4. George w. 66. Naomi 4• Saint John Small, Caroline Mo 79. Matthias 50. Smith Sarah $0. Alice 119.124. Salrin,Lanna Marie 116.117. Anne 4.9.11.12.21.23.24.46. Sands, Maria 76.77.110. Hugh 88. santry, Fay 124.126. Laura Annie 88. 158 Smith, cont. Sym.an,Giles 82. Mary E. 88. Talmadge,James 830 Patience 9.12. Tate, Joseph 92. Susanna 21.40. Taylor William 9.10.12. David 62. Snell, Ruth 61. Joseph 4. Sparhawk,Ma.Py Pepperell 63. Millicent 62. Soule, Annie 132. Sophia Maria 38.62.97. Spear---- 113. Susan 120. Spencer Telford,James Haxton 132. Cynthia 13e Thomas Elizabeth 42. Benjamin lOo Jabez 26. George 8.10. Sa.rah 26• Ilene 118.124. Thomas 13. Mayme 134. William l. Sophronia 134. Spooner, Rebecca J. 98. William 134. Spurr Thompson Burl 134• Caleb 83. Elizabeth 134• James 83. Staf"ford Tibbitts Deborah 4. Benjamin 42:. Thome.a 14. Elizabeth 42• Stair lienry 42. Henry 132. John 420 Ruth 132e Joseph 42. Stanton,Hannah 4• Ruth 22ao 42. 43.67. Starks,Alexander F. 49. Sa.rah 42e Sta"Ui'ter, Elmerta 125.127. William 8. Stein, Ruth 1210 Titus ,Leonard W. · 84. Stewart(Steward) Tower,Albert 102. Georgia 116. Tracy Georgia. o. 117. Emily 71.72.107.119.120. Vena 119.124-.126. Lucy 69. Stickney,Frederick R. 82. Tregaskis Storm · Eleanor 137. Dorothea 68.103. James 137 • Garret 22. Katherine le7. Susah Maria. 103. Tryon Thomas 103. Catherine Lenore 114. Thomas I. 103. Raymond 114. strai*ft' Tucker,Joseph 18. Joseph 14. Tuller,Clarissa 70. Mary 14. Turner Sweet John 136. Abiah 21. Mary 136. A:mey 12021.42. Peter 14. Elnathan 21.42. Sally 28.136. Giffe 4• Tweedy,Jobn 25. William 8. Twiss,aelen F. 61. ---- 11. Uhl---- 11. Sykes Updike,Daniel E.10.18,34. George 41. VanBuren,Martin 37. Lovina 41. Va.ndegraft,Nora Leota 118. 159 Van der burgh Watrous{Waterous) Almira 22a.44. Abigail 18. Emeline 22.22a. Elizabeth 12.18.21.40. Emilia 22.22a. Joseph 18. George w.22.22a.44. Weatherwax,?rances 91. G.L. 44• Weaver Haxtun 22.22a.J,t,~liii• Clement 13. Helen 22a. Cynthia 13. Helena 22.22a. Elizabeth 13. James 22.22a. Isa M. 116.117. Margaret 22. 22a. John 13. Rhoda 22.22a. JosepU, 13. Vaughn Mary 9.13. Elizabeth 13. Webb, Jeremiah 57. George 13. Webber,Alice Marie 124. William 13• Weed Viele (Velie) Abiathar .50,. Amelia 92. Amos 50. Eliza 93• Asahel .50. John Carpenter 93. Charlotte 26.50. John Henry 93. Hannah 50. Lydia .Amanda 93. Jonathan 50.51. Martha Amelia 93. Mary 50. Volkenburgh,John 37.62. Prudence 50. Vosburgh · Sarah 50. Lodema 78.79.111. Wseks Wealthy Ao78.79.lll. Abby s. 96. Vose Fannie E. 61.96. John Gorham 64. John L. 96. Myra R. 99. Uartha 20.37.38. Myra Raymond 64. Mary 60 Reuben 64. West Sarah Fenno 64. Charlotte 53. Wade,Lucy 88. George 92. Wait Westcott A.Dalton 92. Amos 4o Lydia Amanda 93. Deborah 4. Sidney 93• Dinah 2. Waitey,hliza M. 79. Katherine 2. Wall,Samuel 1.5 •. !'-1ary 2.407.9.24. Wallace, Ann 133. Nathan 14. Walsh,Julia 78.79. Penelope 2.4. Warner Robert 1.2.9. Horace 35.61. Stukely 8. John 57. Westfall,Sarah 71. Pat:i.lina 3.5. Wheaton,Amie 27. Perlina 61. Wheeler Thomas 12.14. David Everett 63. Washington, George 22a. Elizabeth 63. Waterman · Hannah 63. John e.14.28. J~hn Brooks 63. John R. 57• !'-iyra A. 63.99. Nehemiah 6. mt1 Waters Whlte,Abby S. 96. George s.s. 83,. Polly M. 83. 160 Wick(e}s Wooden(Woodin) Bridget 15. Abigail 12.18.34.36.39o39a. Jocie 107.120. Amos 68. John L. 96. Peter 18. Joseph 15. Solomon 36. Violette 9 .15. Woodworth Wight,Daniel 69• Benjamin 6. Wilbur Hannah 6. John 29. James 6. Mary 80. Mary 6. Russell D. Bo. Mehitable 6. Wilcox (Willcox) Wooley (Woolley) David 39. Hester 44. Edith 130• Sally 4.5•. Lucinda 83. Sarah 22a.44.45.68. Mary 4. William I. 44• Whitman 83. Worth,Mary 36. Wilkie,Dinah 1.2. Worthington,Adelpha B. 116.117. w1iSr.tn~on,lehn 44• Wright Wilson,El!Jlira 91.92. Hiram 32. Winters,Nancy 76.77. Mary 136. Wood Young ·Barnet 29. Brigham 122. Elizabeth 13. Henry 84. Phebe 9.15. Lydia 84. Priscilla 15. 161 Place Index States and Counties Countries, Islands, Capes (only where such listing may facilitate search) Adair Co.,Iowa 120. Madison Co.,Iowa 108. Alberta,Canada 133. Madison Co.,N.Y. 56. Barbados, West Indies i. Maine 74.132. Bermuda, West Indies 10. Mearns,SQotland 1. Bradford Co.,Pa.26.40.41.~7.73.109. Medina Co.,o. 79.111. 125. Mercer Co.,Ill. 107.119. Burm.a 1321 Michigan 78. California 132. Missouri 120. Canada 133. Monroe Co.,N.Y. 79. Cape Breton Is.,N.s. 130. Muskingum Co.,o. 32. Cape Francois, West Indies 11. Nantucket,Mass. 36. Chenango Co.,N.Y. 26.48.53.5~. Nebraska J. 590 Columbia Co.,N.Y. 19.21.25.78. New Jersey 31.32.122. Coshocton Co.,o. 31-33.59.60.65. New York State 10.17o24•31.39a. 100.136. 65.79. Cumberland Co.,Pa. 135.136. Northumberland Co.,Pao U. 76. England 80.120. Ohio 17.23.24.39a.71.105.106. Fife Shire, Scotland 129. Owen Co.,Indo 89.90.122. Genesee Co.,N.Y. 40. Pennsylvania 39a.65.71.72.100.132. Greene Co.,Inde 122. Perthshire,Seotland 129. Jreene Co.,N.Y. 11.37. Porter Co.,Ind, 79.111. Sampshire Co.,Mass. 34. illlode Island 31.46.69. Illinois 77. Rice Coo,Kans. 23.105.118, Indiana 122. Saratoga CO.,N.Y. 94. Iowa 24.35. Scotland 1.129. Ireland 76.135. Staten Is.,N.Y. 64, Kansas 24. Switzerland 132. Kent Co.,Mich. 96. Texaa 125 • Kincardineshire,Scotland 1. Ulster Co.,N.Y, 37. Korea 125 .132. Union Co.,Iowa 110.121. Lanark, Scotland 11. Vigo Co.,Ind. 1230 Livingston Co.,N.Y. 53.78.79.111. Washington State 122, Long Island,N.Y. 11.46. Lorain Co.,o. 79.111. 162 Place Index Ci ties, Towns, and Villages. Aiken,s.c. 137. Catskill,Greene Co.,N.Y.36-39.62-64. Aird 1 s Mosa,Scotland 11. 97-99. Alba,Brad.ford Co.,Pa., 41. Charlestown,Mass. 1.97. Albany,N.Y. 22.41.47.56.87. Chs.rtiers,Wa.sh.Co.,Pa.,.. 31.136• Alyth,Scotland 133. Chase,Rice Co.,Kans. 118. Ann Arbor,Mioh. 60. Chatham,Columbla Co.,N.Y.25.39.41. Apponaug,R.I. 30. 42.47-50.52.55.73.75.78-810 Arlington,Mass. 132. Chemung,Tioga Co.,N.Y. 53. Arlington,S.D. 23.108.118. Chenango Forks,Sroome Co.,N.Y. 39a. Ashfleld,Mass. 35. Chepachet,R.I. 88. Ath~ns.;q~eane Co. ,N.Y. 37.58.64.98. Bowhill,Scotland 133. Atlantic City,N.J. 64. Chicago,Illo 132.133. Attlca,Fountain Co.,Ind. 23.105. Coshocton,Coshocton Co.,o. 60.116. Auchterderran, Scotland 134• 117. Austerlitz,Columbia Co.,N.Y. 26.42. Claf'lin,Barton Co.,Kans. 118. 48e49• Cleveland,Oo 131. Baldwinsville,Onondaga Co.,N.Y. 84. Clyde,Wayne Co.,N.Y. 92. Ballston,Saratoga Co.,N.Y. 92. Colebrook,Conn. 41.66. 3atav1a,Genesee Co.,N.Y. 55.112. Colrain(?) 56. Beekman,Dutchess Co.,N.Yo 11.12. Columbus,o. 32.59.60.133. 18.21.22.25.26.42-44.46.550 Columbus,Chenango Co.,N.Y. 83. 67-69.102. Cornwallls,Nova Scotia 4. Bellingham,Wash. 113. Coventry,R.r.7.9.15.16.28-30.57. Benton,Yates Co.,N.Y. 26. Coweset,R.I. 15. Binghamton,Broome Co.,N.Y. 39a. Coxsack1,Greene co.,N.Y. 20.64. Bismarck,N.D. 137. Cranston,R.I. 137. Black Hawk, Vigo Co.,Ind. 114. Cross Creek,Wash.Co.,Pa. 31. Boston,Mass.1.2.41.64.66.88.97° Cupar,Scotland 1.11. 101.130. Dartmouth,Mass. 22a. Bothwell Bridge,Scotland 1. Deerwood,Mich. 64. Bozrah,Conn. S.6. Detroit,Mlch. 133. Bridgeport,Conn. 131. Devil's Foot,R.I. l. Brighton,Eng. 64. Dexter,Dallas Co.,Iowa 120. Britt,Hancock Co.,Iowa 118. Drumclog,Scotland 1. Brookhaven,L.I.,N.Y. 24.128. Dubuque,Iowa 79. Brooklyn, N.Y. 63.97.128.129.131. Du..~dee,Scotland 131. Buffalo,N.Y. 55.78.79.112.133. Earlham,Madlson Co.,Iowa 23.71. Burke,Franltlin Co.,N.Y. 88. 107.108.120. Caledonia,Livingston Co.,N.Y. 78. East Fishkill,Dutchess Co.,N.Y. 43• Cambridge,Washington Co.,N.Y. 21.35 East Greenwich,R.I.7.9.13.15.42. 61.91-96.115. East Hlllsdale,Columhia Co.,N.Y. 36• Cemden,N.J. 131• Easton,Wash.Co.,N.Y. 44. Canaan,Columbia Co.,N.Y.25.26.48. East Rockaway,L.I.,N.Y. 129. 49.52.78. . Edgewood,R.I. 137• Canonsburg,Wash.Co.,Pa. 31. Edinburg,Saratoga co.,N.Y. 29. Canterbury,Conn. 5.6.8. Edinburgh,Scotland 1.11.132. Canton,Bradtord Co.,Pa. 47.73.75. Egremont,Berkshire Co.,Mass. 35.36. Carbon,Clay Co.,Ind. 133. Elba,Genesee Co.,N.Y. 56. Carlisle,Cumberle.nd Co.,Pa. 135.136 Elk Grove,Sacram.ento Co.,Calif. 1200 125. 163 P~ace Index1cont. Elm1ra,Chemung Co.,N.Y. 39. Jewett City,Conn.69.70. Emporia,Kans. 118. Ka_nsas City,Kans. 126. En.rield,Conn. 80.81. Kansas City,Mo. 1181• 121. Fairfax,Va. 137. Keene,Coshocton Co.,o. 100.116. Fairfield,Conn. 66. Kennewink,Benton Co.,Wash. 113. Falmouth,Nova Scotia 4• Kent,Conn. 63.99. Fayetteville,Vash.Co.,A~V. 105. Killingworth,Conn. 18. Fishkill,Dutchess Co.,N.Y. 22.25. Kilmany, Fifeshire,Sootland 1. 42.55.103. Kinderhook,Colum.bia co.,N.Y. 34. Flushing,L.I.,N.Y. 42. Kinghorn,Fifeshire,Scotland 133. Fort Edward,Wash.Co.,N.Y.91-93.115. Kinglassie,Fifeshire,Scotland 133. Fort Erie,Ont.,Canada 52. King's Settlement,Chenango Co., Fort Miller,Wash.Co.,N.Y. 93.115. N.Y. 20. Fowlerville,Livingston Co.,N.Y. Kingston,R.I. 5. 80-82. Kingstown,R.I. 1.2.5.7. Fulling Mill,R.I. 30• King Valley,Wash.Co.,N.Y.61094. Gallatin,Columbia Co.,N.Y. 39° Kinross,Scotland 130.133. Gard(i}ner•s Hollow,Dutchess Co., Kirkcaldy,Fifeshire,Scotland 1310 N.Y. 11.21.44. Kirriemuir,Fortarshire,Scotland 131a Glasgow,Sootla.nd 11.133. La.fayette,Tippecanoe Co.,Ind.71.107~ Glen Falls,Warren Co.,N.Y. 91. Lansingburg,Rensselaer Co.,N.Y. 96. Glocester,R.I. 88. 115. Gotebo,Okla. 23.119.120. Lebanon,Conn. 6. Granby,Conn. 69.700 Leith,Midlothian Co.,Scotland ii. Granville,Bradf'ord Co.,Pa.73.74• Lenox,Berkshire co.,Mass. 52. Great Barrington,Mass. 36• LeRoy,Bradford Co.,Pa.75.76.110. Great Bend,Susquehanna Co.,Pao39a. Lexington;Mass. 132. Greene,Chena.ngo Co.,N.Y.39.39a. Lexington,Greene Co.,N.Yo 37• 78.79• Liberty,Steuben Co.,N.Yo 270 Greenville,Miss.59oll3.121.126. Lisbon,Conno 5.6. Griswold,Conn.5.69.70.104. Livingston,Columbia co.,N.Y. 39. Harpersfield,Delaware Co.,N.Y.28. Lombard,Illo 132. 136. Long Beaoh,Calif. 118• Hartford,Conn. 40.41. Los Angeles,Calif. 129. Harwinton,Conn. 40. Lyona,Rice Co.,Kans. 118. Havana,Cuba 86. Lyons,Mich. 133. Haverhill,Mass. 63. Macksburg,Madison Co.,Iowa 72. Hazardville (?) 39a. Massilon,Stark Co.,c. 131. Haxton Hill,Ind. 59. McHenry,Illo 132. Hillsboro,Ill. 134• Media,Delaware Co.,Pa. 130. Hillsdale,Columbia Co.,N.Y.36.42 • Merrill,Wis. 132. Homer,Cortland Co.,N.Y. 48. . Miami,Fla. 123. Honolulu,Hawaii 59.113. Mill Creek,Coshoeton co.,0.31-33. Hopewell,Cumberland Co.,Pa. 135• 58.60.100.116. Hopewell,Dutchess Co.,N.Y. 43. Millersburg,Holmes Co.,o. 116. Hopewell Jct.,Dutchess Co.,N.Y• 102-Montville,Berkshire Co.,Mass. 66. Hudson,Columbia Co.,N.Y.36.39.4 9. Moreau,Saratoga Co.,N.Y. 91.92.1150 Runter,Greene Co.,N.Y. 63. Mt.Washi~ton,Berkshire Co.,Mass. Hutchinson,Reno Co.,Ka.ns. 11B. 18-21.34-36.61. Indianapolis,Indo 123. Narraga.nsett,R.I. 137. Ithaoa,Tompkins Co.,N.Y.121.l25. Nassau,Rensselaer co.,N.Y. 80. Jama.1c~ Plain,Mass. 130. New Berlin,Chenango Co.,N.Y. 52.54. Ja.mestown,R.I. 4• 83.86. Jersey City,N.J. 98. New Boston,Berkshire Co.,Mass. 41. 66.101. 164 New Haven,Conn.128.129.131 Rosyth, Fife Shire,Scotland 133. Newkirk,Genesee Co.,N.Y. 56. Rothes, Elgin Shire,Scotland ii. New London,Conn. 98. Sacramento,Calif. 113.122. N6W Milford, Conn. 99. Saint Louis,Mo. 133. Uewport,R.I. 4.10.11.24. Saint Paul,Minn. 137. Newton,Cumberland Co.,Pa.135. Salisbury,Conn. 18.35.61. tfowton Center ,Mass. 137. Salt Lake City ,Utah 122. Newtown,Fountain Co.,Ind.71. San Diego,Calif. 101. 105-107. Sandisfield,Berkshire Co.,Mass. 40. New York City,N.Y. 37e62-64~79• 41.66.101. 97.99.104.128-131.134.135. SanFrancisco,Calif. 122. Norfolk,Va.23.97.118.124. Saratoga Springs,Saratoga Co.,N.Y.11 North ~aven,Conn. 128.129. Schagticoke,rtensselaer Co.,N.¥. 960 · North Kingstown,R.I. 1-5+ 7.8.10-12•Scip1o,Cayuga Co • .,N .Y. 86';--..t½,0 >1.~, 1 1 17.18.24.34. Scituate;Mass. 137. North Norwich,Chenango Co.,N.Y. 20•Scituate,R.I. 27.29. S2.53o84-86. Scotland,Windham Co.,Conn. 69.70. Norwich,Chenango Co.,N.Y. 81-86. Sheffield,Berkshire Co.,Mass. 18.36 0 Ncrwich,Conn. 5.6. 40.101. Oakfield,Genesee Co.,N.7. 26.55. Sherburne,Chenango Co.,N.Y.39.52-54. $6.87.112.132.. . 79-85. Oak Park,Ille 89.113• Simsbury,Conn. 70. Old Point Commeroe,Ind. 590 Smithfield,R.I. 57. Orange,N.J. 64. Smyrna,Chenango Coo,N.Y. 83. Orient,Adair Co.,Iowa 108. South Cambridge,Wash.Co.,N.Y. 95. Ovid,Clinton Co.,Mich. 78.790 South Kingstown,R.I. 5.34. Panora,C-uthrie Co.,Iowa 120. South Orange,N.J. 64. Park Ridge,Ille 132. South Sandisfield,Masse 4le Peulus Hook,N.J. 22ao Spencertown,Columbia co.,N.Y.26.420 Pawling,Dutchess Co.,N.Y.21.22.67. Spokane,Wash. 137. Pawtuxet,R.I. 14. Springfield,Brad.ford Co • .,Pa. 76. Pekin,Niagara Co.,N.Y. 27. Springdale,Wash.Co.,Ark.105.118.$1~ Philadelphia,Pa. 112.13.S• Stamtord,Conn• 26.50.51. Pittsburgh,Pa. 31.136. Sterling,Conn. 88. Pittsfield,Mass.20.21.25.66. 1.,~tormville,Dutchess Co.,N.Y. 103. Pleasant Valley.,Dutchess Co.,N.Y.'+'+Stoughton,Mass. 101. Pleasant Valley,Madison Co.,o. 86. Strabane,Wash.Co.,Pa. 136. Portsmouth,R.I. 1. . ,. Strongsville,o. 65.100.116.130. Poughkeepsie ,Dutchess Co• ,N .Y • ~2. Swedonia.,Ille 71. Poughquag,Dutchess Co.,N.Y.22a.68. Tacoma,Wash. 122. Preston,Conn. 5.6. Taylorville,Fayette Co.,Iowa 79.lllo Providence,R.I.16.28.88.130.137. Terre Haute,Ind. 134. Quaker Hill,Dutchess Co.,N.Y. 22a. Throop,Cayuga Co.,N.Y. 86. Rathillet,Fife Shire,Scotland 1.ii1foronto,Ont.Ca.nada 131.133. 4• Towanda,Bradford Co.,Pa.76. Readsboro,Vt. 95. Trenton,N.J. 32. Rehoboth,Mass. 27.88. Troy,N.Y.64.69.96.98.115.133. Richland,Fountain Co.,Ind.71.72.106Truxton,Cortland Co.,N.Y. 53. Rochester,Minn. 124. Tuscarawa,Coshocton Co.,o. 117. Rochester,N.Ye54•78.79a99.lll.112.Tyborn,Cumberland Co.,Pa. 135. 133. Vancouver,B.C.,Canada 133. Rockford,Mich. 110. Warse.w,Coshocton Co.,o. 116.117. P.oslindale,Mass. 130. Warwick,R.I.7-9.12-17o27-30o46. 57. 88.135.136. 165 Place Index,ooncluded Waterbury,Conn.62.128.129 Wilkes-Barre,Pa. 133. Waterville,Conn. 128,129. Williamsport,Warren Co.,Ind.105.118 • •Wauconda,Ill. 132. Wilmington (prob.N.C.) 86. Weathersfield,Vt. 63. Windham,Greene Co.,N.Y. 37. Webster,Mass. 88. Windsor,Broome Co.,N.Y. 39a. West Catakill,Greene Co.,N.Y.37• Windsor,Ont.,Canada 133. Westerly,R.I. 11.12. Wolcott,Conn. 53.54. West Greece,Monroe Co.,N.Y. 54. Wolfville,Nova Scotia 4. West Hillsdale,Columbia Co.,N.Y.26.Woodstock,Conn. 57. West Lat'ayette,Ind. 112. Worthington,Greene Co.,Ind.58.89.90. Westpensboro,Cumberland Co.,Pa.135.Yale,Okla. 120.125. West Roxbury,Mass, 130. York,Livingston Co.,N.Y. 78.82. West Simsbu.ry,Conn. 70. Zanesville,Muskingu.m Co.,o. 59. Wheaton,Illa 13g. Zealandia,Saskatchewan,Canada 133• Wheeler,Porter o.,Indo 790 Husband-Wife Index Abe Susanna Smith 40 Bernard G. Barb~ra Anderson 124 Abram Elizabeth Campbell 39a Burton S. Carrie R.Barnes 101 Albertus Lula A.Crosser 121 Calvin R. Emma E.Bickel 116 Alec Susie Green 134 Charles Eva May Mosteller 126 Alec Vivian 134 Charles F. Altha Heaton & Alec c. Mary L.Harstine 89 Christine c.Gantz 114 AlexaMo Hannah 128 Charles L. ----- Gibbs 137 Alex.M.,JtiCaroline E.Nosworthy 128 Charles Me Mary Viola Garrett 119 AlexoTo Isabelle 129 Charles R. Evelyn M.Hetheringtonl25 Andrew Abbie Palmer 39a Chauncey Pruda(?Petrick) & Andrew Abigail Woodin & Eliza 80 Elizabeth Watrous 18 Clarence J • Lida 0 rouwere 125 Andrew B. Mary Britton & Clarendon Ad.a McElhaney 109 Myra A.Raymond 63 Daniel B. Lore. E.Rawson 111 Andrew c. Catherine McLeod 130 David Mayme Thomas 134 Andrew H. Orilla Kinney 83 Donald P. Joyce Allen 127 Andrew K. Martha Darrow 92 Dyer Charlotte Weed-Brown Andrew R. 100 & Sarah Hoyt 50 Benjamin Almira Vanderburgh Edward Maggie Murphey 121 & Sarah Woolley 44 Edward H. Ursula 137 Benjamin Anne Smith 9 Eli Hannah 49 Benjamin Dorothea Storm 103 Ellis c. Pearl R. 121 Benjamin Mary 25 Elmer c. Helen Le 131 Benjamin Phebe Wood & Elnathan Maria DeLong 67 Violette Wickes 15 Emory 113 Benjamin Sally Benjamin;Sarah Evan Doyle Alice Smith 124 Morton;Martha Weeks 36 Francis·c. Dorothy A.Herrick 137 Benjamin Sarah Lovejoy & Beda Frank Ce Catherine Alsop 111 (?Norton-Kinney) 52 Prank No Leonette. M.Bowden 130 Benjamin Susan c.Naylor 98 i·rederick E.Ilene Thomas 124 George Ella Pilant 134 166 Husband-Wife Index, cont. George :t-fargaret 131 Leo Zola Prilliman 126 George H. 125 Leo J • Madeline M. 137 George w. ---- 112 Leon A. Nora L. 133 Giles M• Lodema Vosburgh & LeRoy D. Betty Parker 132 Wealthy A.Vosburgh 111 LeRoy W. Bernice A.Crane 132 Harry Glen Vena Stewart 124 Lester·J• Gracye 133 Harvey Bertha c.schnddt 89 Levi Ho Sarah 106 Horace W. Fannie E.Weeks 96 Lloyd A. 122 Hosea Aminda Pepper 75 Loren H. Lola Do 133 Ira R. Sarah Ja 117 Manford Ray Ellen Hanger 127 James Hannah 5 Mareenus Eliza Palmer 78 James Jessie Selcraig 132 Milan G. Alice Kenton 124 James Laura 96 Milton Annie Arnoux 97 James Lovina Eitler 132 Molby Luey Geer 69 James Mary Curtis 33 Mortimer 109 James Mary ? Westcott 2 Nathaniel Ruth Sabin 14 James Sarah 57 Nathaniel Sarah 12 James Benn. 46 Nicholas Po Jane 110 James Bern. Frances Hawk-Early 126 Oliver P. Emily Tracy 107 James E. Laura Annie Smith 88 Oliver P. Jocie Wickes 120 James Har_. Catherine Harper 71 Orren Mo Clementine Miller 116 James Levi ~olby Bennett 23 Palmer Mary 94 James M. Catherine Morehouse 66 Pearl Maria Sands 110 James M. ?N.Eleanor Tregaskis 137 Philip Lee Elmerta Schaut'ter 118 James T. Betty Matter 132 Ralph G. Ueloise Morehead 113 James w. Margaret 104 Raymond s. Thelma;Flossie Opal 126 Jeremiah Abigail Holley 55 Richard Sabina Grim .59 Jeremiah Amey Sweet & Richard A. Fay Santry 126 Rhoda Akin 21 Richard B. Helen E.Carswell 11.5 Jeremiah Elizabeth King 34 Richard G. Ada Grace Glover 113 Jeremiah Mary Darrow 91 Richard K. Hazel Ellise Blum 121 Jerry D. Dana 123 Rich'd K.Jr.Josephine C.Ayers 126 Jesse w. Minnie•Myrle Grace; Robert Nancy 31 Leoma Pearl;Mabel R.117 Robert M. Ann Rebecca Lewis 60 John Anne Page 133 Rodolph Etna Bennett 120 John Elizabeth Daugherty Ross w. Catherine ¥~son 125 & Sally 76 Russell Plumey 73 John Julia Ann Griffith 90 Samuel Eliza G. 87 John M. 58 Sa.iuuel Elizabeth Beach 65 John Sally Turner 136 Samuel Mary Patterson 100 John Thelma 134 Sanford M. Grizell Gordon 108 John ---- 17 Seth Hannah 74 John ---- 47 Sumner Minerva s.Benson 110 John H. Sarah E. 112 Theodore L. Edna Mae 123 John Howard Thelma Sharp 123 Thomas ?Christina 136 John Laird Dorothy Peters 123 Thomas Ettie Buck 134 John Mo Veronica Costello 137 Thomas Elizabeth Murdie 134 John McL. Ellen O'Donnell 137 Thomas Mary Weaver 13 John Raym. Lucy Aus tin 99 Thomas Susanna Adams & Jolm. T. Catherine Kinsley 116 Rest Bennett 30 Joseph A. Clara 129 Thomas c. Eliz.F.McGuinness 137 King A. Mary ~onihue 61 Thomas C.Jr.Mary Ann Doherty 137 Lauren Winnie Myers 125 Timothy Abigail Osborne 39 LaVerne E. Marguerite 112 Wallace G. Edith c. 129 Husband-Wife Index, concluded Washington Sophia M.Taylor 62 Willia.m E. Minnie Detrick 111 William. Adeline Reed Adams 64 William E. Ruth 95 William Candis 29 William E. Sarah E. 102 Willi8.Ill Christiana 134 William LeviLizzie Nodurft 118 \'iilliam Elizabeth 7 William. M. Frances 134 William Lucy Wade Brown 88 William P. Bertha z. 104 \i!illiam Mamie Ennnons;riedwig 132 William R. Carmella La.Mendola 132 William Molly Allen 27 William S. Mary Bolling 113 William Ruth Tibbitts 42 William W. Maria DeLong 68 William Ba 105