The Story of the Halsteads of the

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By 0 WILLIAM LEON HALSTEAD

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Inscribed to W. P.H.

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An Edition of One Hundred Copies Privately Published by William L. Halstead 41 7 East Washington Street Ann Arbor,

ii CONTENTS Page AUTHOR'S FOREWORD • 111

Part One

!--DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS 1 II--HALSTEADS IN THE VOCATIONS 12 III--JAMES HALSTEAD, THE PIRATE 18 IV--THE HALSTEAD HEfililTS OF MINNETONKA •• 22 V--ANDREW BOWNE 1 S SILVER BUTTONS 24 VI--EARLY HALSTEADS AS ADVERTISERS • 26 VII--HALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS • 29 VIII--THE SURNAME 1HALSTEAD 1 • 42 IX--THE ENGLISH HALSTEADS • 44 X--PRE-COLONIAL AJ.lERICA 50 XI--THE NEW ENGLAND HALSTEADS. 52 XII--THE NEW AND HALSTEADS. 56 XIII--THE VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS 67

Part Two

1--JOHN AND REUBEN HOLSTE.AD • 77 2--THE GREAT WESTERN MOVEMENT 81 3--JOHN AND RUTH HOLSTEAD • 84 4--REUBEN AND ELIZABETH HOLSTEAD 89 5--GENEALOGY OF ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN AND REUBEN H0L5TEAD • • 97 INDEX • • • 115

I 1 l u s t r a t 1 o n s Murat Halstead ••• l Murat Halstead As a Youth •• 4 Doctor William Stewart Halsted •• 6 Colonel Benton Halstead •••••• 9 The Reverend William Riley Halstead, D. D. 11 Captain William Kidd ••••• 20 The Route of Captain Kidd's Expedition 20 Rear-Admiral Alexander Seaman Halstead 29 Colonel Frank Halstead. • • 30 Colonel Laurence Halstead •••• 30 Colonel Benton Halstead As a Soldier •••• 38 Design of the Coat of Arms Granted to Laurence Hallsted ••••••• • •••• • 46 Design of a Crest Granted to Vice-Admiral Lawrence William Halsted • • • • • • • • • • • 46 New Amsterdam, Now the City of New York, in 1650 • 56 The Bland Map of "New Brittaine" in 1651 ••• 68 Revolutionary War Map of Eastern North Carolina, Showing the Plantation Owners ••• 78 Artist's Sketch of the John Holstead Farm ••• 83 Artist's Sketch of John Holstead as a Pioneer Hunter 86 Graveyard on the John Halstead Farm 87 Colonel Griffin Halstead •••••••• 88 William Wilson Halstead and Rhoda Coyner Halstead. 93 Reuben Halstead, Jr. • • 94 Sarah Halstead Roberts. • 104 John A. L. Halstead •• • 107

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AUTHOR'S FOREWORD

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Pride of ancestry has always been both fully and honorably. There have been very praised and ridiculed. The two points of few harmful or worthless persons among them. view have been thus expressed: The Halstead tradition will be found to be a creditable one, in which all those who are By asc~ to an association with our ances­ interested in, or attach significance to, an­ tors; by contemplating their example and study­ cestry will be able to take warrantable pride. ing their characters; by partaking or their senti­ The Halsteads of ancient England and those ments and imbibing their spirit; by accompanying who followed them in medieval and modern them in their toil; by sympathizing in their suf­ times, appear to have been excellent people ferings and rejoicing in their successes and in the inherent qualities that make for good their triumphs, we mingle our existence with citizenship and fair repute among their fel­ theirs and seem to belong to their age. We be­ lowmen. Their sons who came to the early come their contemporaries, live the lives which American colonies, and, in turn, their prog­ they lived, endure what they endured and partake eny here, were made of such virile stuff that in the rewards which they enjoyed ••• Tbere may be, the stock progressively preserved its own and there often is, a regard for posterity which hereditary integrity, while battling with the only disguises an habitual avarice or bides the many diverse conditions it encountered in the working of a low and groveling vanity. But there New World, and after admixture by marriage is also a moral and philosophical respect £or our with many other stocks, both to its advantage ancestors which elevates the character and im­ and disadvantage eugenically. Likewise, the proves the heart. Next to t.be sense o.C rel.igion present generations seem to be the equals, at and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear least, in manhood and womanhood of their his­ a stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened toric ancestors. The positions of the family mind than a consciousness or alliance with ex­ in English society, that of its members gen­ cellence which is departed; and a consciousness, erally in the American colonies and in the too, that, in its acts and conduct, and even in present era are surprisingly alike. In Eng­ its sentiments, it m~ be actually operating on land the most typical individuals were yoe­ the happiness of those who come after it. men, merchants, churchmen, naval officers and DANIEL WEBSTER artisans. In the colonies, with only one One that is proud of his birth is like a turnip known exception, they were freeman planters, -nothi.Dg good of him but that which is under­ merchants, physicians and clergymen. Today ground. they are largely lawyers, doctors, teachers, S.AYUEL BUTLER military officers, journalists, ministers, -o-o- farm owners and craftsmen--the most substan­ This accoimt of the family that is identi­ tial classes of our people. fied by the surname of 1 Halstead 1 reveals, so It is an interesting question as to what it is believed, that it is, and has been for extent, if at all, physical and mental char­ the seven himdred years over which its history acteristics, good and bad, such as have been can be traced, an intelligent, enlightened, traced in other families, persist· consistent- ambitious, energetic and worthy body of peo­ ly in any considerable Il'l;lI!lber of the Halsteads ple. The individuals belonging to it are from generation to generation and from branch generally conser~ative in caste of mind to branch. Some maintain that many of them, and stable in moral character. As a rule, even those of widely separated lineage, look they are robust of body, often large in sta­ and act something alike. Do the pictures in ture and healthy and long-lived. While no this book of the individuals of different exalted figures have arisen from them to groups and generations exhibit unmistakable arouse boastful conceit, a goodly number of breed resemblances? Does the temperamentally the Halstead men and women are justly cele­ aggressive, six-foot male with square shoul­ brated for achievement. In all the walks of ders, blue-gray eyes, white skin and brown life in which they have been placed, most of hair, that is so common among the descendants the Halsteads have lived successfully, use- of John and Reuben Halstead, occur re~ularly ii.i FOREWOBD iv in other branches? A woman of the family steads and with Halstead descendants of other writes the author that the handwriting of his names everywhere. signature is strikingly similar to that of The oddities of expression, and the poor the signatures of many other Halstead men she spelling and punctuation in the quoted writ­ has seenl Is there a pure-bred type of the ings of the early Halsteads,-and in the docu­ Halstead "homo sapiens", male and female, and, ments to which they were parties, are not if so, what are they? Until someone charts indicative of any less degree of literacy on and analyses a sufficient number of specimens their part in such matters than of the people to determine the matter, who can tell? of their own class and of the times generally. Everything of an important and interesting These irregularities abound in all the writ­ nature learned about the Halsteads in the ings of their time. At the end of the course of this study of them has been incor­ Eighteenth Century, only about half the adult porated in the manuscript without conscious people could sign their own names. Grammar bias or emphasis. Luckily, the horse-thief and orthography were not standardized or a few generations back, which, according to stressed in education then as they are today. the old yarn, a genealogical explorer must It is usually impossible to avoid errors always be prepared to find, did not appear in and omissions in a family history, especial­ this case. No Halstead was ever hung, al­ ly in its first publication, such.as this one though one who was a blood-thirsty pirate, as is. No other general account 0f the Halsteads will be seen, narrowly escaped that fate. If has ever been prepared or published. Such a a Halstead was ever convicted of a felonious record has to be perfected by the additional crime, no record of it was found. The only researches which it inspires. Full care as deliberate omission of facts has been in the to accuracy has been exercised, involving case of several Halstead soldiers in the much painstaking labor. Nevertheless, errors early wars, who were marked as deserters in doubtless will be detected, but it is confi­ the military records. Not only was desertion dently expected that they will meet with in­ common then, being one 0£ the most di££icult dulgence, in the light of the obvious di££i­ conditions the authorities had to deal with, culties of the task. It was not possible to but that record was often made when the cause bring every part of it up-to-date in rela­ of nn 1nniviclrncil's t.r:>mprYr:i-ry :ih~PnCP f-rom t.hP. tion t.o t.hr:> timr:> o~ publication. ranks was not known, and then was not always corrected when found to be wrong. A few other -o-o- things of small significance have been omitted, none of which involved criminality, dishonor A c k n o w 1 e d g m e n t s or disgrace, the inclusion of which would have served no good purpose, and would not The greater part of the chapter entitled have altered the panoramic picture of the nHalsteads As Soldiers and Sailors" was pre­ family. pared by Norman Eugene Mcindoo, Ph.D., of All the relevant genealogical, biographi­ Washington, D.C. Doctor Mcindoo is the cal, and historical books and per·iodicals in Senior Etomologist of the Department of Agri­ the Library of Congress, and the Library of culture of the United States Government, and the Daughters of the American Revolution at is the author of forty-nine scientific publi­ Washington, D.C.; the Newberry Library at cations. His mother was Sarah Catherine v Chicago; the Library of the University of Halstead, a descendant of Thomas Hallstead Michigan at Ann Arbor; the Filson Club Library (1727-1806) of New York State, an~ his father at Louisville, Kentucky, and ten other state was Jacob Mcindoo, of Lyons, Greene County, and city libraries have been searched for ma­ Indiana. Supplementing the original work of terial for the manuscript. The people who the author, he re-examined the publications have given special assistance have explored relevant to the chapter subje.ct, and was the same kind of sources in New York State, granted the rare privilege of fully examining New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia and North and abstracting, over a period of many days, Carolina. Thus, it is believed that nearly the official military records in the Govern­ all the published records in this country ment archives at Washington. It is thought from which information on the Halsteads might to be the only compilation of its kind ever be found have been examined, hundreds of made for a single family. which produced nothing. Recorded documents Much of the contents of the chapter en­ 11 have been copied and abstracted at many titled "The New England Halsteads and most points. Numerous cemeteries have been visited of the one entitled "The New York and New · for gravestone inscriptions. An extensive Jersey Halsteads" were furnished by Arthur correspondence has been conducted with Hal- Soper Wardwell, of , New York, through FOREWORD V an exchange of information on the Halsteads Other individuals who have been especially between him and the author. He has given helpful are Colonel Laurence Halstead, William much assistance also in the chapters entitled Halstead, Doctor Albert Shaw, Mrs. ttHalsteads As Soldiers and Sailors" and "The Henry Ridley Robinson, Miss Sibyl Roberts, Virginia and North Carolina Halsteads. 11 Mr. Mrs. Raymond D. Aberle, Miss Grace Halstead, Wardwell is a genealogist of long experience, and William F. Forster. Many others, too who is now collecting material on all branch­ many to permit of individual mention, have ·es of the family, much wider in scope in that supplied information on their families. particular than is this book. He is a native William Perdue Halstead, the author's son, of Rome, New York; is a graduate of Cornell critically read the manuscript. Indebtedness University, and is now employed as an engi­ is gratefully acknowledged to all these indi­ neer with the New York Telephone Company. viduals, and to many accommodating library A considerable part of the basic material assistants. in "The Virginia and North Carolina Hal­ steads" was assembled originally by John Dilworth Halstead, of Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia. Ann Arbor, Michigan December 1, 1934

PART ONE

Chapter I

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M u r a t H a 1 s t e a d read by multitudes of people. In connection with the political conventions it was The most widely famous, and, written of him: thus, the longest remembered American newspaper editor of He had been prominent in this the latter part of the Nine­ gathering (the Republican nation­ teenth Century, except only al convention of 1896) since Horace Greeley, was Murat 1856, and his personality Halstead. Even today, a was so distinguished that, quarter of a century aft- without any thought of er his death, how often making himself prominent, is not every Halstead bis face and figure were asked if he is related undoubtedly the best to himt known and most familiar Murat Halstead's of any among the lead­ f'rune is due to h:l.s able ers t.hat t.he Republican and aggressive editor­ hosts were able to rec- ship of the Cincinnati ognize. 11 Commercial 11 , later the 11 Commercial Murat Halstead1s Gazette", which he career was in a period ...... ;:,.. made the most influ- ',' when newspaper reading had become nearly lllli­ ~~t~:! ~~;:::~: west / /:< :8>; ,, /~. .; /_ / 1/- , versal for the first Mountains. Also, he / :;:,,/ time, even by the mass­ wrote a series of books - f/1/ es, and when newspaper on the great events of P editors had acquired his period, such as ' greater popular influ- the Spanish American ence than they had War; and on the cele­ wielded before or have brities of his times, done since. For half a such as Admiral Dewey and century or more during President McKinley, which and after the Civil War, were sold in large numbers public opinion, ~nd so the in every city and hamlet of politicians, and through the country. His name, as them the governments, were distinctive and readily remem­ Murat Halstead deeply swayed when not entire­ bered as a slogan, was strong­ ly controlled by newspaper edi­ ly emphasized in these books. torials. The coterie of great He was a heavy contributor to editors began with the elder Ben­ the popular magazines. In addition, net of the New York 11 Herald11 , Ray- for forty years, to a greater extent than mond and Jones of the New York "Times", any other outstanding editor, he took the and were followed by Greeley of the New York role of a reportP,r, in which he excelled, of "Tribune", Godkin, Dana, White, Halstead, the national political conventions. His ar­ McClure, Bowles, Grady, Watterson and Medill. ticles on them, and on other political sub­ In turn, they were succeeded by the outstand­ jects during the campaigns, which were often ing publishers of our day such as Pulitzer, syndicated, were widely published, and were Hearst, Ochs and Curtis with their DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS 2 institutional newspapers. Halstead was a The first high point in Halstead 1 s color­ journalistic star of the first magnitude, and ful career was his report for the "Commerci­ shown brilliantly. He is the most cele­ al" of the execution of John Brown at Charles­ brated member of the Halstead family of all ton, then in Virginia, on December 2, 1859. time. These vividly descriptive articles have been An exceedingly handsome man, for which much quoted since. He was in the press gal­ he was much noticed and admired, Murat Hal­ lery of Congress in the stirring events that stead was also bland, jovial and generous, immediately followed. although always dignified, which gave him The only newspaperman who attended them much personal charm. He made friends readily, all, he reported the memorable and exciting but contrariwise, made many bitter enemies political conventions of 1860. The Democrats with his vitriolic pen. After his experi­ met at Charleston, South Carolina; and there ences in the Franco-Prussian War, he was of­ were adjourned meetings of the factions at ten called the 'Field llarshal', which was Baltimore and Richmond, one nominating Doug­ thrice apt because of his soldierly bearing, las, another Breckinridge and a third Bell. his excellent knowledge of military science The Republican convention was held at Chicago, and his Christian name 'Murat', after Joa.cb:1m where Lincoln was unexpectedly named over Murat, 14arshal of the Empire and King of Seward, and was one of the decisive steps Naples, Napoleon's most brilliant cavalry leading to the Civil War. With added word leader. Albert Shaw, editor of "Review of portraits of Douglas, Seward and Jefferson Reviews", wrote of him in his prime: Davis as they appeared on the floor of the , written with bold li­ He is tal.l 8.lld massively formed, with a cense and laden with gratuitous ridicule of large head, snow-white hair and beard, and a them, material which he obtained at Washing­ highly rudd¥ complexion, the floridity of which ton, these newspaper articles were re­ seems to denote full blood and the highest per­ printed and circulated in book form under the fection of health and physical vigor... Mr. title of "The Conventions 0£ 1860." Halstead at sixty-six shows no mark of advanc­ When the Franco-Prussian War was precipi­ ing years, except that the abundant white hair­ tated in 1870, Halstead was in Paris. Fail­ white prematurely from many years of all-night ing in a hurried attempt to attach himself work--begins to grow thin. to the French command as a correspondent, he joined one of the German armies of invasion The volume of his writings was huge. without waiting for official permission to Shortly before his death he said that he be­ do so that was later given him. Unable to lieved that he had written for publication a obtain a private conveyance, he walked long million words a year for forty years. This distances with the troops, and had several was roughlY two and a half ~ewspaper columns narrow escapes from injury. Chancellor Bis­ for every day of the calendar or a total of marck, who was following the arDJ¥", to whom four thousand newspaper pages. He was a Halstead was pointed out, accosted him and prodigious, rapid and tireless worker until expressed pleasure that an American corre­ the very end of his active life. His style spondent was there to give the Germans in the of writing varied according to the subject United States an accurate account of the war, treated. Ordinarily it was natural and but failed to assist him in obtaining a horse flowing, rather than studied and formal, he so much wanted. Halstead walked long dis­ with flashes of wit, colloquial phrases, tances with the German troops and went over homely allusions and familiar quotations, the bloody battlefield of Gravelotte. He which made it easy, pleasing and interesting and another American correspondent sent dis­ to read. When he took the pains to do so, he patches written on the field from a nearby gave his work classical literary qualities. telegraph station, which was the first time With vigorous independence, sometimes reports of a battle were so made in Europe. opposing the party's course and scourging Later he wrote a series of articles on its leaders, he espoused Republican princi­ these experiences. pals and policies and supported its tickets. Halstead had been critical of Presiden~ He fought the caucus system of political Grant and his administration, and was strong­ manipulation, the corruption of the day, and ly opposed to his renomination by the Re­ those responsible for it, with a savagely publican Party in 1872. With Carl Schurz, caustic pen, both because of intensely pa­ Whitelaw Retd, Samuel Bowles, Horace White triotic convictions and as a conceit of the and Henry Watterson, still other leading prevalent personal journalism. In conse­ newspaper editors, and a group of dissatis­ quence, he offended a great maey politicians fied politicians and reformers, he was one and their followers. of the sponsors of the insurgent Liberal DISTINGUISHED RALSTEADS 3 Republican Party, that held its convention at Immediately Halstead was proposed for United Cincinnati early in May of that year. Horace States Senator. Upon his return from Greeley was nominated for the Presidency, al­ Europe, where he went to regain his hea~th, though Halstead much preferred Charles '3. largely attended reception was given him Francis Adams, and was terribly beaten by on August 4, 1889, by the Republican clubs Grant, the shock of which, and the illness of Hamilton County, where his candidacy was and death of his wife, resulted in Greeley's in the background, but his nomination did not death within a month after the election. The eventuate as the next Legislature was Demo­ Democrats had endorsed the Liberal Republican cratic. He was talked of for the office for ticket. Cincinnati was the only large city a number of years. that Greely carried, and Hamilton County, After his connection with the "Commercial Ohio, gave him a majority of four thousand, Gazette" was severed, the circumstances of which was evidence of Halstead 1 s influence which are given later, he became the Editor there. of the Brooklyn,New York, "Standard Union" Halstead was a member of a party, which at a salary of $20,000 a year, and served included Bayard Taylor, that was the guest with distinction until 1899, but not with the of the Millenial Celebration in 1874 of the same prestige as at Cincinnati. establishment of the Republic of Iceland, In this period and afterwards, he wrote and wrote articles on the event and extensively for the magazines and produced the trip. In 1884 he conducted without pay most of his books. For two years he wrote a campaign daily at New York for the Republi­ the "Review of Events" department of the can National Committee, wrote extensively "Cosmopolitan", the leading informative for the platform and ticket, and sent edi­ periodical of the day, which was in many re­ t.orial correspondence to his Cincinnati pa­ spects the best writing work of his life. per. There was also a series of charming sketches President Harrison nominated him as on his youth and early newspaper experiences Minister to Germany in March 0£ 1689. The entitled nPaddy's Run Papersn, and another Committee on Foreign Relations of the United of travel articles entitled 11U:id-Winter States Senate reported the nomination favor­ Journeyings of a Journalist. 11 To a large ably, .but it was rejected in the Senate. extent, his books were prepared by scissors Senator Sherman, of Ohio, immediately moved and paste-pot, with interlarded chapters and to reconsider, but it was rejected again the sections, for rush sale while the events and next day. The Senate was in executive ses­ public characters they dealt with were fresh sion and the debate was not recorded. The in the public mind, and are now all out of New York "Tribune" said: print. In preparation for part of them he made trips to both Cuba and the Philippine In the minds of the Senators who voted Islands. They were: against the confirmation of llr, Halstead, his unfitness for the position to which he had been nominated by the President, was demonstrated by •The Story ot Cuba", which was called the •Uncle his attacks upon the Senate in general, and es­ Tom• s Cabin" of the Spanish American War. pecially upon those of its members who voted in "The Story of the Philippines•, an account of the 1886 against the proposition to investigate the Philippine Insurrection. election of Mr. Peyne {Dem., Ohio) to his seat •our War With Spain. 11 in the Senate. Among those reported to have "The Life of Admiral Dewey." spoken against Mr. Halstead• s confirmation were "Our llew Possessions." Senators Teller (Col.), Ingalls {Kan.) and Plumb "The Boer and British War," (Kan.). "The Life of AgUinaldo, and His Captor.• "The Martinique Disaster.• Private letters by Halstead rashly criti­ 11The Galveston Flood." cizing and ridiculing Lincoln, of whom he "The Life of William McKinley.• was not originally an admirer or supporter, "Pictorial History of the Louisiana Purchase, and were made effective use of against him in the World1 s Fair at St. Louis.• the debate. He had been ill tor eighteen "The War Between Russia and .• days prior to his nomination, and was unable to participate in the contest. The "Commer­ The son of Griffin, known as "Colonel cial Gazette" said that his defeat was due Griff", and Amy Willets Halstead, U:urat was entirely to his criticism of the election of born on a farm near Paddy's Run, now Sbandon, Senator Payne, and that he had been right in Butler County, Ohio, on September 2, 1829. all that he had written about the matter. Through John Holstead, his grandfather, a DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS 4 native of North Carolina, who emigrated to wilderness, suggested by the still-recited Ohio in 1804, and prior ancestors, he was a recollections of old men and women who re­ descendant of Henry Halstead, who came to membered the Indian wars and the f'irst corn Virginia from England in 1651. With the fields on the .lli3mis.n Hamilton "Telegraph" as the primer, he was After some work for the "Atlas" and the taught to read when still a baby by his "Enquirer", he became a staff contributor mother, who was a superior pioneer woman. and Assistant Editor of the "Columbian and When he entered school at four years of age, Great West", a literary journal. In March he was ready for of 1853, he went to the 11 Commercial", a suc­ the multiplica­ cessful daily newspaper conducted by Martin tion-tables and D. Potter, as a reporter. The next year, grammar. He at­ when Potter was ill and away, the handling tended both the of the paper f'ell largely upon him, and he village school so impressed the publisher that, in 1854, in­ and a private cident to the death of a stockholder, to­ academy at New gether with Henry Reed and John H. Strauss, . When he was given a financial partnership, pur­ eighteen years chasing a one-sixteenth interest for $5,000, old he entered which his share of the prof'its paid for in Farmer's College four years. Later he bought two more six­ at College Hill, teenths, and soon was the News Editor. Ohio, a few miles Upon the death of Potter in 1866, having Murat Hel.stsed in yoUDg lll811bood from his home, been Editor-in-Chief for several years, he taught school and formed a company for the purpose, and became worked on the farm for short periods, and was the controlling owner of the 11 Commercial. 11 graduated in 1851. and There was great financial success for a num­ Bishop John M. Walden of the Methodist Epis­ b~r of years. Halstead became moderately copal Church were among his schoolmates. His wealthy, lived correspondingly, traveled ex­ father wanted him to be a lawyer, but he had tensively, sent some of his children to no taste for it after trying Blackstone. Europe for finishing educations and had four Writing was his bent from childhood. In his sons at at the same time. college days he sent sketches and news corre­ A merger of the "Commercial" and Richard spondence to the HE..milton "Intelligencer" and Smith's "Gazette", an important competitor, the Rossville "Democrat", and the Cincinnati was effected in 1883. But with too many papers. A historical novelette, entitled 11 A newspapers in the field, the "Commercial Ga­ Legend of the Wilderness~was published in zette" did not withstand the aggressive and the Cincinnati "Gazette" in March of 1851, more sensational competition of the others, before he left college. especially that of the "Enquirer", with In October of 1851 he went to Cincinnati. which it waged an expensive competitive war. Having heard that some of the most successful There was a memorable personal fued between men of that city had gone there "without a Halstead and John R. McLean, the owner of the cent", just for luck he spent the last sixty 11 Enquirer11 , which came near resulting in a cents in his purse entertaining friends in duel. Halstead finally lost the financial the village, after laying aside omnibus fare, control of his paper in the early nineties, and, thus, reached Cincinnati literally pen­ but sent it editorial correspondence from niless--but, with no intention whatever of Brooklyn until 1894. A strong factor in the enduring any needless hardships in further­ 11 Commercial Gazette 1 s 11 adversity was its an­ ance of the idea, arranged for a remittance tagonism to the South after the Civil War from home to reach him the next day. There that alienated the paper's Southern patronage was an inadvertant delay in this, and one and hurt Cincinnati's Southern trade. Hints large apple given him by a chance acquaint­ of some of the other causes of' the paper's ance had to serve tor one evening meal. Know­ troubles are found in Halstead's reminiscences: ing also that famous authors had sometimes had to live in garrets, he roomed in one for The rapid growth of news telegraphing put a time, of which there was no real necessity, aside for tb.e time ·being tb.e bear stories and as his people were well-to-do and he had original poems, but they are turning up again some money of his own. At first he was a in ancient beauty as modern novelties, like free-lance writer, contributing to the peri­ old fashions in goWlls and bonnets. One of ~ odicals of Cincinnati what he described as, errors in newspaper management, I think, was "stories of frontier life, adventures in the in dismissing tb.e bear story, about which DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS 5

hangs an eternal charm; and another mistake, of "Review of Reviews", April 1896 and August 1908. greater importance, was holding baseball as a "Lippincott1 s",. June 1882. news source in contempt; but the most costly "History of Butler County, Ohio", 1882. of my experiences has been in over-rating edi­ "Cosmopolitan", February and November 1892. torial instruction of the public, and allowing 11 Paddy 1 s Run Papers11 , by l\lurat Halstead. myself the unscrupulous habit of telling too Kenney 1 s "Illustrated Cincinnati", 1879. much truth. New York "Tribune" files. Cincinnati newspaper files. Halstead returned to Cincinnati in 1899. He then became the head of a school of jour­ -0-0-0- nalism for three years, that gave its in­ struction in newspaper technique by mail, D o c t o r W i 1 1 i a m S t e w a r t which was not long successful, and wrote H a 1 s t e d the last of his books. Weakened in health, and then severely ill for a year, he died The benefaction of painless dentistry was at 643 West Fourth Street, where had been given mankind by Doctor William Stewart the family home since 1871, in the afternoon Halsted, Professor of Surgery and Surgeon-In­ of July 2, 1908, of cerebral hemorrhage, at Chief at Johns Hopkins University and Hospi­ the age of seventy-nine years. In the pre­ tal at Baltimore, Maryland,for thirty-three ceding month of March, he and his wife had years. With the discovery of the suscepti­ celebrated their golden wedding Rnniversary. bility of separate parts of the body to ana­ His marriage to Mal"J Victoria Ba!lks of Gin­ thesia, he produced cocaine compounds and cinnati had taken place on March 2, 1857. methods of using them for the purpose, which Twelve children were born to them, a record he adapted to dental surgery. A gold medal of whom, and Murat Halstead 1 s genealogy ap­ was presented to him for the achievement by pears in Chapter 5, Part Two. The "Cinci:a­ the National Dental Association. nati Enquirer", long a bitter competitor and In his researches with cocaine deriva­ antagonist, said editorially on July 3: tives Doctor Halsted experimented upon him­ self, ignorant of the dangers of the new The.sudden stroke which brought peaceful end drug. Then, incident to prolonged, agonizing to Mr. Murat Halstead yesterday, marked the pass­ neuritis from an infected finger, he became ing of a national figure for the last half a habituated to cocaine. In great alarm, fi­ century. Here where he made his home f~r so nally, he gave up practice and, with the man;y years, and where lay the scene of his assistance of a close friend Doctor W. H. greatest activity, a host of friends and admir- Welch, overcame his dependence on it after a . ers will learn with sincere regret that the two-year struggle. Ever afterwards he feared Reaper has summoned the veteran journalist to and abhored cocaine, and used other chemi­ his reward. Mr. Halstead was one of the coterie cals instead in his work whenever he could. of great editors which included such men as Twenty-nine distinct advancements in sur­ Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana, and Alexander gical science are accredited to his research­ McClure. His pen was powerful during Civil War es. In addition to new technical methods in times and in the long and troublous years that operations for hernia, cancer of the breast, followed he wielded far reaching influence on the thyroid and parathyroid glands, on through his utterance. In the past fifty the large arteries, on the intestines and on years few have done more to mold and direct the gall bladder and ducts, which we~e adopt­ public opinion upon the great affairs of the ed generally, Doctor Halsted originated and nation. Of impressive personality, of genial developed a system of extreme caution and manner that made friend of foe, aggressive and care and perfect cleanliness at every step yet eager to atone for error, he marshal],ed in of an operation, aptly called shockless sur­ an active career a following that was devotion gery. He saw that manhandled tissues were itself, and commanded at all times the profound often needlessly injured and should be gently respect of those with whom he came in contact. treated. There was painstaking control of Truly, a mighty oak has fallen& Cincinnati has blood hemorrhage. The full resistance of the lost her most honored citizen. tissues and nervous system was preserved, and all the cuperative powers of the body were -0-0-0- enlisted in the patient's behalf. There was then rapid and perfect healing of the wounds. Collection of Murat Halstead papers preserved by Jean Nearly all his patients recovered, suffered Halstead Davidson, his daughter, now in the posses­ -less than others in convalescence, and there sion of Mrs. Jesse Clark, Jr. of Cincinnati, Ohio. were no accidents due to hurried work. DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS 6

Silver foil for bactericidal protection ity, vulgarity and sham. Aristocratically of wounds; gutta percha and rubber sheets genteel, he was extremely polite to all whom for dressing; fine silk threads inserted he met casually and remembered to notice, and with cambric needles as a substitute for cat­ companionable and likable only to a few gut; tiny clamps and five-pointed mosquito friends to whom he revealed his innate good­ forceps for blood stilling; silver bands for heartedness. Patients, students and faculty closing arteries instead of tying them and associates bored him. the use of rubber gloves in the operating He had a passion for fine raiment. In his room were wardrobe all his in­ were doz­ novations. ens of In youth suits of he was a clothes fine mimic, made by the was quite best London successful tailors, in humor­ silk hats ous parts and quanti­ in amateur ties of plays, expensive danced neckties well, never and hosiery. drank, and The shoes attended were made ·prize in lots in fights. In Paris from his senior pieces of year at leather he Yale, he selected was captain there per­ of the sonally, football When they team which were deliv­ defeated ered, he Eton, of studied them England, closely, in a mem­ and, if he orable thought game on there had December 6, been substi­ 1873. tution of Not ver., materials, tall, but such pairs with a were irrita­ strong bly: laid body, he aside and was nearly never worn. bald in Shirts were late life, chosen in and wore a the same short mus­ way and tache and Doctor William Stewart Halsted sent to a little Paris regu­ tuft of a beard on his lower lip. The ears larly to be laundered. projected almost comically and he was short For occasional dinners at his sumptuous sighted. His bearing was dignified, almost home, he studiously ordered every article of military, and he walked slowly and firmly. the menu, and then arranged the silver and Doctor Halsted was offish, critical of china and flowers with extreme precision. A men, sharp in speech at times, quick and wrinkle in the tablecloth much annoyed him,and clever in repartee, and hateful of familiar- the covering was then re-ironed on the table. DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS

Nevertheless, he was simple and unpreten­ Hospital, and Surgeon-In-Chief of its out-pa­ tious. He never sought attention and tient department. He went to Johns Hopkins shunned publicity and public appearances. in 1889. Over-modest, he could rarely be induced to European clinics attracted him frequent­ discuss himself or his achievements, and then ly, and he held memberships, some of them depreciated them. He wore beautiful clothes honorary, in leading foreign surgical socie­ only because he liked them and was used to ties, as well as those in this country. Noted them--never for show--and was fastidious European surgeons attended his clinic at otherwise because it was his nature to be so. Baltimore. This trait was reflected strikingly in his Caroline Hampton, head-nurse at Johns surgery. Hopkins Hospital, a daughter of General Frank To private practice and its financial re­ Hampton, of a distinguished Southern family, wards, he was utterly indifferent, prefer­ became Doctor Halsted 1 s wife on June 4, 1890. ring to concentrate on fruitful study of They had an estate which they visited fre­ surgical problems. The Johns Hopkins clinic, quently at Cashiers, North Carolina, named of which he was the head, was slighted and High Hampton, compounded from High Halsted, poorly managed, and ignored entirely by him the ancient home of some of the earliest for weeks at a time when he was absorbed in Halsteads of England, and Mrs. Halsted's research or experimental operations, in family name. spite of which it produced fine teachers and In 1919 Doctor Halsted was operated on surgeons. The constant study of words, for gallstones and recovered, but three years their exact meaning, and their best usage later there was another operation which re­ made him a skillful writer, and his many sulted fatally on September 7, 1922, when he technical papers were scholarly and superior was seventy years old. Mrs. Halsted died a in diction. H,e published "The Operative month later of pneumonia. There were no Story of Goitre" (1919). The "Surgical Pa­ children. The residue of Doctor Halsted 1 s pers of' Wi11ia.m Stewart Halsted" (1924) in estate, after a series or bequests to rela­ two volumes was published as a memorial to tives, amounting to $100,000, went, by the him by his associates at Johns Hopkins Hos­ terms of his will, to Johns Hopkins Univer­ pital. sity to be devoted to medical research. Doctor Halsted was born in , September 23, 1852. William Mills Halsted, -o-o-o- Jr., a member of the weal thy dry goods firm of Halsted, Haines & Company of New York, 11Wi11iam Stewart Halsted 11 ; Mccallum, 1950. founder of the Union Theological Seminary and "Science"; October 27, 1922. prominent otherwise in benevolent work, and Mary Louis Haines Halsted, were his parents. -0-0-0- The ancestry was the New Jersey branch of the family, through William Mills, Sr., 0 1 1 v e r S p e n c e r Robel't, Caleb, Jr., Caleb, Sr., Timothy, Jr., H a 1 s t e d Timothy, Sr. and Jonas Halstead, the first in America of the largest branch of the For seven years, commencing in 1845, Halstead family in the Ulitt:d States who came to Oliver Spencer Halsted was the first of the· Hempstead, Long Island, about 1650. Chancellors of New Jersey, carrying with it After preparatory courses in private the office of Ex-Officio President 9f the schools and at Andover, he was graduated from Court of Errors and Appeals under the new Yale in 1874. Of this he wrote: "Devoted constitution of 1844, and a member of the myself entirely to athletics in college", convention which adopted it. He had been which was not literally true, as he did very in the state Legislature from 1823 to 1825; well in his studies. A Doctor of Medicine was Surrogate of Essex County in 1828; was was obtained at the College of Physicians in the Legislature again from 1834 to 1836; and Surgeons, of New York City, in 1877, was Recorder of Newark in 1836 and was Mayor which was followed by post-graduate work at of Newark in 1840. Vienna, Leipsic, and Wurtzburg. In the fol­ Besides legal compilations, he published, lowing year, he became Attending Physician "The Theology of the Bible, Itself the Teach­ to the Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island, er and Its Own Interpreter (1862); "Five Ver­ New York City, serving there until 1883; was sions of the Old Testament and Four of the Demonstrator of Anatomy at Columbia Uni­ New Compared With the Originals" (1866); and versity, Surgeon-in-Chief to the Immigrant's "The Book Called Job, From the Hebrew, With Hospital, Assistant Surgeon at the Roosevelt Footnotes" (1875). DISTINGUISH.ED HALSTEADS 8

A. B. at Princeton in 1810 and A. K. in certificates of election, but, after an 1813, he studied at the Litchfield Law acrimonious contest in the House in which School and began practice at Newark in 1814, the "Great Seal War" in the New Jersey elec­ where he lived all his life, except from tion was investigated, five Democrats were 1820 to 1823 when he was at Huntsville, Ala­ seated in 1837. He was again elected to Con­ bama. gress in 1840 and served from March 4, 1841 The parents, to whom he was born at to :March 3, 1843. Elizabeth, New Jersey, September 23, 1792, Colonel Halstead was born at Elizabeth, were Caleb and Nancy Spencer Halsted. On New Jersey, June 4, 1794, the son of Caleb November 1i 1814~ he married :Mary Clark Hat­ and Nancy Spencer Halsted A. B. at Prince- field. He died at Lyons, France, August 29, ton in 1812, he then studied law and was ad­ 1877. There were fourteen children, among mitted to the bar in 1816; began practice at them Captain Frank William and George Trenton; was appointed State Supreme Court Blight Halsted, an account of whose strange Reporter November 23, 1821, and served until lives and fates is given in Chapter IV, Part 1832. He was appointed United States Dis­ One; and General Oliver Spencer Halsted, Jr.-, trict Attorney by President Taylor and served a lawyer of Newark, New Jersey, and Washing­ from 1849 until 1853. The 16th Regiment of ton, who was very prominent in politics in New Jersey Volunteers, but the 1st. Regiment the Civil War period and was shot and killed of Cavalry, called Halstead 1 s Cavalry, in in a quarrel. the Civil War was raised by him, and he was its first Colonel, serving until February 18, -0-0-0- 1862. (See Chapter VII, Part One.) The regi­ ment reached Washington on September 1, 1861, G e n e r a 1 N a t h a n i e 1 and served with distinction in Virginia N o r r i s H a 1 s t e d throughout the war. Seven volumes of law reports, and an index to the decision~ of Princeton University is indebted to Gener­ the Supreme Court of New Jersey for the al Nathaniel Norris Halsted for a gift of years of 1843 and 1844 were issued under his $55,000 with which to establish its astro­ editorship. He died on March 4, 1878. mmical observatory named in his honor, the corner stone of which was laid June 26, 1866. -0-0-0- He contributed heavily in money and time to the New Jersey Agricultural Society and the Shureman H a 1 s t e a d New Jersey Historical Society. Entering the dry goods house of his uncle, After acquiring a substantial fortune as Caleb O. Halsted, who adopted and reared him, a dry goods merchant, and as the founder and he was a full partner in the firm at twenty­ President of the Broadway Insurance Company, nine years of age and retired in 1855 with a of New York City, Shureman Halstead, who was fortune. Removing to Newark, New JerseY, he born in 1805 and died in 1868, devoted much was President of the New Jersey Rubber Com­ of his time to religious and benevolent serv­ pany. Governor Olden, early in the Civil ice as President of the American Bible So­ War, appointed him on his staff with the ciety; as President of the Westchester Coun­ rank of -Colonel and later placed ty, New York, Bible Society, and as Manager him in charge of the recruiting camps at of the Parent Missionary Society of the Trenton with the rank of Brigadier General. Methodist Episcopal Church. Born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1816, he was killed in leaving a train at the Market -0-0-0- Street station of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Newark in 1884. D o c t o r G e o r g e B r u c e H a 1 s t e d -o-o- A mathematician of international reputa­ C o 1 o n e 1 W i l 1 i a m tion, Doctor George Bruce Halsted trans­ H a 1 s t e a d lated a number of foreign language mathemati­ cal works into English, and was the author of The only Halstead ever a member of the "Metrical Geometry", "Elements of Geometry", Congress of the United States was Colonel "Bibliography of Hyper-Space and Non-Euclidi­ William Halstead of Trenton, New Jersey, who an Geometry", "Projective Geometry 11 , "On the was elected to the House of Representatives Foundation and Technic of Arithmetic", and in 1836. He was one of five Whigs given many papers on mathematical subjects for DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS 9

scientific periodicals. A. B. at Princeton of it completed July 21, 1865, and used in in 1875, A. M. in 1878, and Ph.D. at Johns his law office for five years, by Colonel Hopkins in 1879, he studied afterwards at Benton Halstead, Cincinnati lawyer, soldier the Columbia School of Mines, at the Uni­ and inventor. He was a younger brother of versity of Berlin, and at the Sarbonne, Murat Halstead. A copy of his typewriter was France; became, in succession, Instructor in made of brass for the St. Louis "Globe-Demo­ Post-Graduate Mathematics at Princeton; crat", where it was preserved as a curiosity Professor of Mathematics at the University long after it was displaced. The construc­ of Texas, 1884 to 1903; a member of the tion was on the type-lever and key principle, faculties of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, and Kenyon's College in Ohio and closed his teaching career at the Colorado State Teacher's College in 1914. After re­ tirement as a teacher, he did electrical en­ gineering work and conducted a supply house at Greeley, Colorado, until 1921, when his health failed. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of England. Oliver Spencer Halsted, Jr., and Phebe Meeker Halsted, were his parents. He was born at Newark, New Jersey, November :C:3, 1853, and died in New York City, March 16, 1922. He was married at Austin, Texas, to Margaret Swearingen and there were three children, Harbeck Halsted and Arthur Halsted, sketches of v;hom appear belov., and Halcyon Halsted.

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A scientist in the field of agriculture, Doctor David 3ryan Halsted was an instructor at Harvard, a teacher in the Chicago High School, the J;.;ctitor of 11 The American Agricul­ turist11 and Professor of Botany at Iowa Agricultural College and at Rutger's College at New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was some­ Colonel Benton Halstead time President of the Botanical Society of America, and of the Society For the Promotion with an inked ribbon, the same as the type­ of Agricultural Science. His books were, writer of today, but with a moving table for 11 The Vegetable Garden" (1882), 11 Farm Conveni­ holding the paper to be written upon. Al­ ences" (1883),"The Fungus Foes of the Farmer" though covered by tv:o patents, the principles (1897), and "Fungus Foes of Vegetable Fruits" were appropriated and improved upon broth­ (1904). He contributed largely to botanical ers, who obtained better patents, and Colonel and agricultural journals. He was gradu­ Halstead realized neither fame nor fortune ated from the Michigan Agricultural College from his important invention. in 1871, and took Sc. D. at Harvard in 1878. After a youth spent on the farm of his The son of David and Mary Meecham Halsted, father, Griffin Halstead, in Butler County, he was born at Venice, Cayuga County, New Ohio, v,here he was born March 11, 1834, and York, in 185£, and died at New Brunswick, attendance at, and graduation from, Farmer's New Jersey, August 28, 1918. College at College Hill, Ohio, he studied law and went immediately into the Civil War. -0-0-0- (See Chapter VII, Part One.) After the war, he practiced law in Cincinnati for a long pe­ C o 1 o n e 1 B e n t o n riod. Late in life he was an attorney in H a 1 s t e a d the Pension Department at Washington. On December 16, 1874, he married Rowena Smith, The first typewriter was devised at At­ and there were three children, the only liv­ lanta, Georgia, in 1864, and a vmrking model ing one being Colonel Laurence Halstead of DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS 10

the United States Arm:,. Death occurred at You have served the Government with distinc­ Washington on February 26, 1919, and he was tion at a !:>UCCession of important posts, where buried with military honors at the Arlington your splendid integrity and other admirable qual­ National Cemetery. His genealogy appears in ities always won for you the respect and friend­ Chapter 5, Part Two. ship of those about you. Your courage and high ideals have ever been an inspiration to your -0-0-0- colleagues, and your kindliness and generous in­ terest in others will not be forgotten by your Albert H a 1 s t e a d many friends in the department and in our diplo­ matic and consular offices throughout the world. From 1928 to 1932, when he reached the age of retirement, Albert Halstead was Con­ Albert Halstead is the son of Murat Hal­ sul General of the United States at London, stead; was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, Septem­ England, the premier post of the Consular ber 19, 1867; married Aline Wilcox on Decem­ Service. During the World War he was first ber B, 1896, and has three children, among assigned to Vienna, where he had the re­ whom is Margaret Halstead, an international­ sponsibility of caring for the many British ly known concert and opera singer. He re­ subjects interned in Austria. When the sides at New York City. His genealogy ap­ United States declared war on Austria, he pears in Chapter 5, Part Two. left Vienna and came to Washington where, for nearly a year, he helped to formulate -0-0-0- the regulations which were incorporated in the Immigration Act. Then he was sent to T h e R e v e r e n d W i 1 l i a m Stockholm, where he was effective in keeping Riley Ha 1st ea d D. D. spies and other undesirables from embarking for the United States. After the armistice He is the last of the tall timber of the . he went to Vienna again, doing much to great preachers that once r1lled the horizon aleviate distress in Austria and in keeping o.f' Indiana. He was a King Saul among his the government from collapsing. He was then brethern, being head and shoulders above the at ~ontreal for eight years, where his rigid average. He was bullt to be a preacher-long enforcement of the immigration quotas made and lithe of body, (erect; clear, florid, skin; him the crux of many strong attempts to blue-gray eyes; white hair from early manhood­ break them down, which included three suits Author), and a mouth for rapid deliver;r and elo­ against him in the courts, in all of which quence. of soul. He rose early above the level his rulings were sustained. o.f' mediocrity. The spirit of his generation A. B. at Princeton in 1889, Albert found incarnation in him. He became an orator Halstead studied law at the Cincinnati Law whose eloquence at times swept his audiences School from 1889 to 1891; was a newspaper off their feet. With eloquence, he had large correspondent at Washington from 1891 to intellectuality. He was a wide reader, a pro­ 1896, and concurrently Colonel and Aide-de­ found thinker and a versatile man of unusual camp to Governor William McKinley, Jr., of ability. Wherever he went as a pastor, he Ohio; was Editor of the Springfield, Massa­ raised the register of preaching to a higher chusetts, "Union" from 1896 to 1899; was level. He had a great heart, a sympathetic again a Washington correspondent from 1900 soul and a brotherly spirit. Too much cannot to 1906; and was Consul General at Birming­ be said of him. He may be regarded as the last ham, England, from 1906 to 1915, succeeding of the great souls who heiped lay the founda­ his brother Marshall Halstead in the posi­ tions and who assisted in cultivating the growth tion. His work for the Government at Vienna, and expansion of Methodism in the Hoosier state. Washington, Stockholm, Montreal and London followed. Such was the tribute of a fellow clergy­ In connection with his retirement as Con­ man to the Reverend Doctor William Riley sul General at London, a luncheon was given Halstead when he died. For thirty-five years in his honor on September 14, 1932, by the he was a Methodist Episcopal minister of the British Luncheon Club, and on October 28 he Indiana Conference, and afterwards an author and his wife were publicly welcomed home by and lecturer. Possessed of great physical Acting 1layor McKee of New York City. Secre­ and nervous energy, he craved hard work al­ tary of State Henry L. Stimson thus testi­ ways for both mind and hand; was strongly in­ fied to the worth of his services for the dividualistic; had a penchant for the rural Govermnent: environment in which he was reared, and stood DISTINGUISHED HALSTEADS 11

father as a nucleus, he accumulated more and more of it, and acquired a substantial estate in farms, which he operated until late in life. He was one of the few Methodist clergymen able to forego an old-age honorari­ um. He and his wife, Ella Briggs Halstead, gave $40,000, in 1900, to the endowment fund of De ·Pauw University of Greencastle, In­ diana. B. S. at Asbury College, now DePauw Uni­ versity, in 1871, and M.A. in 1874, Doctor Halstead was ordained as a clergyman in 1872; was pastor at Worthington, Indiana, 1874-1876; pastor at Mitchell 1876 to 1880; President of DePauw College, of New Albany, 1880 to 1881; pastor at Indianapolis 1882 to 1884; pastor at Greencastle 1884 to 1887; presiding elder of the Indianapolis district 1887 to 1890; pastor at Bloomington 1890 to 1894; presiding elder of the Evansville dis­ trict 1895 to 1898; pastor at Lincoln, Ne­ braska, 1898 to 1899; pastor at Frankfort 1899 to 1901; Corresponding Secretary of the Methodist Deaconess Home and Hospital, In­ dianapolis, 1901 to 1903, when he retired and lived thereafter at Terre Haute, In­ diana. He was a member of £our Ketho41st General Conferences and a trustee of De Pauw University, which honored him with Doctor of Divinity in 1886. Born at Riley, Vigo County, Ind. Karch 19, 1848, Doctor Halstead died December 19, 1931. He married Candace Kennedy November 6, 1873; second Martha Taylor April 27, 1875, and third Mrs. Ella Briggs Pegg on Karch 8, 1906. Of his four children, all by the sec­ ond marriage, two survived him, one of whom is the author of this history. His genealogy The Reverend William Riley liaJ.stead, D.D. appears in Chapter V, Part Two. for the older Methodistic standards uf con­ -0-0-0- duct and mode of life. "Future Religious Policy of America" Rear Admiral Alexander Seaman Halstead, (1875), 11 Civil and Religious Forces" (1880), Retired; Colonel Frank Halstead, Retired, and "Life on a Backwoods Farm" (1885), 11 Chri~t Colonel Laurence Halstead are distinguished in the Industries" (1890), 11 A Cosmic View of officers in the United States Navy and Army, Religion" (1913), 11 The Tragedy of Labor" sketches of whom appear at the beginning of (1916), 11 Some Social Aspects of Religion" Chapter VII, Part One. (1919), and "Christ in the Universe" (1929), were his books. All of them, especially the -0-0-0- later ones, exhibited scholarship in both classical and modern theology, Biblical his­ BiographicaJ. encyclopedias. tory and interpretation, secular philosophy, "Who 1 s Who." sociology and science; they were liberal ~n Princeton Unlversiq, records. point of view on doctrinal questions, and Miscellaneous sources. were written in an erudite style. With an inheritance of land from his --0-0-0-- 12

Chapter II

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DOCTOR THOMAS HENRY HALSTED is a laryn­ American addition to the organization, Margaret gologist and otologist of Syracuse, New Halstead, who previously had been heard in New York; has been a Professor of Medicine in York only in recital. There was no questioning Syracuse University and attached to the the success of the performance or of Miss Hal­ Syracuse and R~chester, New York, hospitals; stead, whose rich voice encompassed the role of has been President of the New York State 1 Veous I with fluency and ease. Mias Halstead' s Medical Association, and of the American first appearance as a member of the Metropolitan Laryngologist Society. He was a Major in was, in fact, a distinct triumph. Her low notes the Medical Corps of the United States Army were round and deep and even in the upper range at Paris, France, during the World War. The her voice had a full rounded quality. It car­ son of James Addison and Jane Hacking Hal­ ried easily to the last rows of the house. sted, he was born at Listowel, Ontario, Canada, July a, 1865; was educated at Toron­ Miss Halstead received the Lilli Lehmann to University, and obtained an M. D. at the Medal for artistic achievement at Salzburg, Toronto Medical School in 1887; attended the Austria, in August of 1933 and sang with College of Physicians and Surgeons, of To­ the Metropolitan Opera Company again in the ronto, and studied in New York City, Vienna, 1933-34 season. Heidelberg, Berlin, Budapest and London. In -o-o- 1869, he was married to Lola B. Bridgeford, of New York City, who died in 1895, and MOLLIE HALSTEAD, of Cincinnati, Ohio, the again in 1897, to Charlotte C. Palmer, of daughter of Griffin Halstead, the genealogy Syracuse, New York. appearing in Chapter 5, Part Two, is a premiere danseuse who has appeared regularly -o-o- in zoo opera and ballet productions such as 11Baby in der Bar11 in New York City, 11 Alice MARGARET HALSTEAD, who is the daughter of in Wonderland" in Cincinnati, and similar Albert Halstead, Ex-Consul General to London, ones elsewhere. She studied under great is a concert and opera singer of internation­ dancing masters such as Theodore Kosloff, al reputation. She studied·under Marcella Alexander Oumansky, Marian Morgan, Adolph Sembrich and other leading voice teachers; Bolm and Ivan Tarasoff. She was soloist with made her London debut in a song recital at Kosloff 1s Imperial Russian ballet, the Aoelian Hall, January 24, 1924; made her Oumansky productions and at Madison Square American debut at the Guild Theatre, New Garden, and chief soloist with Tarasoff. Lil­ York City, January 26, 1930; made her con­ lian Taylor Plagstedt wrote of one of her cert debut in Germany, with the Berlin Phil­ Cincinnati performances: harmonic Orchestra September 19, 1930; and made her operatic debut at the Cologne Opera Alice (in "Alice in Wonderland") evolves House as "Juliette" in the "Tales of Hoff­ with that charming dancer, Mollie Halstead, man" in November, 1931. She has appeared about whom all the action centers-a finished frequently in recitals in London, Berlin, artist. Miss Halstead1 s interpretation was ex­ Vienna, Montreal and Ottawa, and has been tremely clever. She was showered with floral soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orches­ tributes at the close of the performance. tra, and the Vienna and Salzburg symphony orchestras. 11 Venus 11 in 11 Tannhauerser 11 was Nina Pugh Smith of Cincinnati wrote of her first role with the Metropolitan Opera another of Mollie Halstead's appearances: Company, of New York, on November 26, 1932, of whose performance a leading critic said: The charming girl in her two dances employed the gracef'lll style of former formal ballets. The season's first presentation of Tann­ She dances with a fine technic with intention hauerser, at the Metropolitan, was a distinct to charm, with complete eschewing of acrobatics event, as it marked the debut of a yo1.1t.hful. and athletics--dancing in fact. HALSTEADS IN THE VOCATIONS 13

ABDREW JACOB HALSTEAD was the Ed.1 tor and DOCTOR H.ABBECK HALSTED is attending owner of the Brainerd, Kinnesota, nTribune• gynecologist and obstretrician to Sloane's trom 1884 until his death in 1929. Re was Hospital for Women, the Vanderbilt Clinic the Mayor of Brainerd four times, twice as and Nursery, and the Child's Hospital of New the nominee of all the political parties, and York City, and is-also in private practice wa~ successively Second Vice-President, First at 30 East 71st Street. nAn Analysis of Vice-President, and in 1907, President of Fifty-Six Cases of Breach Presentationn, the Minnesota State Editorial Association. npre-Natal Care and the Baby's Birthn, He was in the newspaper publishing business flPyelitis and Pregnancyn, and "Five Cases of in Wheeling, West Virginia, for a number of Ectopic Pregnancy" are the titles of books years. His parents were Uriah Wilson Hal­ of which he is the author. He was an As­ stead (1817-1863), who was killed in battle in sistant Surgeon in the Medical Corps of the the Civil War, and Mary Jane Grubb Halstead, United States Navy in the World War. (See to whom he was born at Bridgeport, Ohio, Aug­ Chapter VII, Part One.) Born at Austin, ust 23, 1850. His d·eath occurred January 30, Texas, February 16, 18901 his parents were 1919. Further genealogical information on Doctor George Bruce and Margaret Swearingen his line appears in Chapter XII, Part One. Halsted. His education was at Kenyon's Col­ lege 1905 to 1907, Western Reserve College -o-o- of Medicine 1907 to 1908, Case School of Ap­ plied Science 1908 to 1909, and the College DOCTOR JOSEPH SINGER HALSTEAD, of Breck­ of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni­ inridge, Missouri, with a span of life of versity 1909 to 1911. one hundred and seven years, the longest one known for aey Halstead, the oldest Free­ -o-o- mason in the World, and the oldest physician in the United States, it was believed, died ARTHUR HALSTED, an electrical and aeronau­ September 13, 1920. He had been a physician tical engineer, Alternate Chief of the Sec­ for eighty-three years and there were tion of Standards of the United States eighty-three living descendants. Born at Bureau of Standards, at Washington, has done Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Alexander B. important work in developing safety codes Halstead (1789-1884) a son of Jonas6 Hal­ and standards for the Government, and for stead of New York State, and a soldier in the electrical and aeronautical industries. the War of 1812 with Great Britain, and He is the author of nsail Planeing", and many Margaret Singer Halstead, Doctor Halstead articles in the technical press. In 1917, was educated at Transylvania University, he was a pilot in the Air Service, with the and first practiced at Lexington, where he rank of First Lieutenant, and was at the was the physician to the Henry Clay front. (See Chapter VII, Part One.) He was family. 14a.rgaret Logan Wicklyffe, of Lex­ educated at Kenyon College, and the Case ington, became his wife. She was born in School of Applied Science, and was intercol­ 1830 and died in 1925, ninety-five years legiate prizeman in calculus, and the re­ old. They removed to Missouri in 1841. cipient of the Phi Beta Kappa key. Doctor A partial genealogy of the Alexander George Bruce and .Margaret Swearingen Hal­ Halstead line appears in Chapter XII, Part sted were his parents, to whom he was born One. April 30, 1887. He married Florence Pierce, of Washington, October 8, 1917. -o-o- -o-o- JESS HALSTED, Secretary of the Chicago ABEL STEVENS HALSTED is General Solicitor Stock Exchange, is the son of John D. of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, and Rachel Anderson Halsted, of Sheboygan, with offices in the Pacific Electric Build­ Wisconsin. He was graduated from Swathmore ing, Los Angeles, California, and resides in College in 1918 and from the Harvard Law Pasadena; ·was born in New York, August 20, School in 1921; married Gladys Rocke, and 1870, the son of Samuel llartin, and Ida Rus­ is a member of the Chicago law firm of Chap­ sell Stevens Halsted; married Eleanor Hall man & Cutler. Halsted, of Pasadena, Kay 27, 1897; and was admitted to the California bar in 1893. -o-o- -o-o- HALSTEADS IN THE VOCATIONS 14

DOCTOR ALBERT EDWARD HALSTEAD, of Chicago, was President of the National Association of Illinois, after taking an M. D. at the Fox Hunters. At his estate "Brenswood" at Northwestern University Medical School in Bardstown, he entertained often and lavishly. 1900, and following service in Chicago hos­ Born at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1853,he died pitals, was Professor of Anatomy at North­ in 1924. His widow is Sue A. Muir Halstead, western University from 1898 to 1901, and who lives at "Brenswood." There are seven Professor of Surgery at the School of Medi­ living children. A partial genealogy of his cine of the University of Illinois from 1912 line appears in Chapter XII, Part One. until his death, with a private practice in surgery also in Chicago. He was in Medical -o-o- Corp. of the United States Army in the World War, first with the rank of Major and WILLIA1l MILLS HALSTEAD and Robert T. then that of Lieutenant Colonel, serving at Haines founded about 1810 the wholesale mer­ Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia. Many papers chandising firm of Halstead, Haines & Company on surgical subjects came from his pen and of New York City, which became one of the he was a member of leading surgical socie­ largest concerns of its kind in the East. ties. Born in Ontario, Canada, April 21, Members of the families of the founders and 1868, the son of William Smith and Sarah then, in turn, their descendants became Gibborn Halstead, who removed to Wisconsin partners. The business was very successful in 1876, he was married to Mary Cochems of for many years, making some of the members of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. His death occurred the firm wealthy, but it declined and on at Chicago, December 6, 1926. August 31, 1885, was compelled to make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, -o-o- and was subsequently liquidated.

WILLIAM FINN HALLSTEAD, starting as a wa­ -o-o- ter boy in construction work, was promoted through many positions, such as brakeman, NEW YORK CITY HAL6TEADS. Among those 1n conductor, yard dispatcher and superinten­ the professions there are J. Sterling Hal­ dent of divisions to Vice-President and stead, 1 Wall Street; Kenneth B. Halstead, General Manager and then President of the 71 Broadway, and Charles F. Halstead, 72 Lackawanna and Montrose Railroad Company in Wall Street, who are lawyers: Doctor Haly­ 1883, with headquarters at Scranton, Pennsyl­ con Halstead, 150 William Street; Doctor vania. He was corn at East Benton, Luzerne Harbeck Halsted, 30 E. 71st Street, and Doc­ County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1836 and tor N. E. Halsted, 50 West 67th Street, who died February 23, 1908. His wife was Mary are physicians: Neil D. Halsted, 38 E. Elizabeth Harding, of New Milford, Susquehan­ 61st Street, who is a dentist: James E. na County, Pennsylvania. There was one son Halsted, 82 Wall Street, who is a statisti­ George Madison Hallstead, born in Scranton, cian. In the businesses are E. Bayard Hal­ May 4, 1859, who married Stella Coleman, and sted, a member of the firm of Halsted & Har­ died May 23, 1910. They had two children, rison, 1 Wall Street, stock brokers; Hal­ Mary Hallstead Dolph, who was a graduate stead-Haven, Inc., 5 Beekman Street, polish­ nurse in occupational therapy and who was in ing oils; Ashton B. Halsted, 62 John Street the service of the United States Army at the and 500 5th Avenue, insurance; H.K. Halsted, time of her death, October 18, 1918; and Wil­ 27 Park Place, stationer; Herman G. Halsted, liam Finn Hallstead II, born December 28, 247 Park Avenue, newspaper advertising repre­ 1892, now of Dalton, Pennsylvania, who mar­ sentative; E.T. Halsted, 201 East 56th ried Winifred Mott. He served two years in Street, upholsterer, and the Halstead Special­ the World War, one year in France, with the ity Company, 1819 Broadway. rank of First Lieutenant. -0-0-0- -o-o- CHICAGO HALSTEADS. Some of those in the ; occupations there are E.G. Halstead, 75 E. NAT WICKLYFFE HALSTEAD, a son of Doctor '· Wacker Street, physician; H. P. Halstead, Joseph Singer Halstead, was a celebrated ' 175 West Jackson Boulevard, fire insurance; criminal lawyer of Bardstown, Kentucky, who the Joseph Halstead Iron Works, West 31st was County Attorney for twenty-four consecu­ Street and Spalding Avenue; Joseph S. Halsted, tive years; was a nationally known fox hunt­ 120 South La Salle Street, insurance, and the er, for which sport he kept a kennel of pedi­ Halsted Plating Works, 4910 South Bel'llitage gree.dogs, and a stable of fine horses; and Street. -0-0-0- .BALSTEADS IN THE VOCATIONS 15

F r a g m e n t s tary-Treasurer. The company went into the hands of a receiver on December 12, 1931. HALSTED STBEET, Chicago, Illinois, said to be the longest straight street in the -o-o- world, was originally named Dyer Avenue for Doctor Charles Volney Dyer, President of the HALSTEAD, HARVEY COUNTY, KANSAS was named Chicago Board of Trade in 1848, and Mayor of for Kurat Halstead. The circumstances are the city in 1856. It was renamed Halsted not definitely known. It is believed that Street by Mayor w. B. Ogden in 1837, in he was there in 1876 when the settlement of honor of Caleb o. and William Halsted, the place was just beginning with a party brothers from the East who, through 11r. Og­ of railroad men and editors who were making den,. made large real estate investments in a trip to Texas in a private car and for some Chicago. The street passed through some of reason was so honored. their property and they ceded valuable -o-,o- rights to the city. WILLIAM. LEOH HALSTEAD, a young business -o-o- man of South 11111s, Camden County, North Car­ olina, and William Leon Halstead, the author LOCY HALSTEAD (1803-1874) is believed to of this history of the Halsteads, have iden­ • have been the inventor of the railroad turn­ tical full names, a rare coincidence when the table, and, for a number of years, built individuals are not closely related. William them on Goose Island, in the Illinois River, was given both of them in honor of their and at Ashland Avenue and 22nd Street, _fathers and Leon by their respective mothers Chicago. He was a descendant of James 0 because they fancied the name. Mr. Haistead, Halstead (1756-1815), of Albany county, New of South 1lills, is the son of Hon. William York; was born in Covington, Kentucky; mar­ Ira Ha1stead, a member 0£ the North Caro1~na ried Helmina St. John; and died at Bing­ state Legislature for Camden County, and an hamton, New York. A genealogy of his line attorney, with law offices at South Mills appears in Chapter XII, Part One. and Elizabeth City.

-o-o- -o-o- HALSTEAD WO.MEN, to the number of forty­ .BALLSTEAD is the name of a post-borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, forty­ nine, have been made members of the Society six miles north of Scranton. There is a of the Daughters of the American Revolution village named Halstead in Norman County, during its existence, upon establishing Minnesota, thirty-five miles north of More­ lineage from Halstead men who were soldiers head. in the Revolutionary War. The James Hal­ -o-o- stead, Sr., Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at Robinson, Illinois, .11.RS. E. BAYARD (llRS. FRANCES ADAMS CLARK) was so named for James Halstead, Sr. (1752- HALSTED of 618 Fifth Avenue, New York City 1815), a native of Albany County, New York. presented a design for a poster entitled "Columbia Calls", accompanied by a poem, to -o-o- the United States Government in 1~17. As a stimulant to war patriotism, the War Depart­ JOSEPH R. HALSTEAD was killed in an auto­ ment distributed 500,000 copies of the post­ mobile accident in the outskirts of Phoenix, er. Mr. Halsted is a member of the banking Arizona, on September 23, 1932.- A rear tire and brokerage firm of Halstead&. Harrison, blew out, throwing the car off the road into of l Wall Street and 535 Fifth Avenue, New an irrigation ditch. He and two young women, York City. one of them his secretary, were fatally in­ -o-o- jured. He was the Vice-President of the J. D. Halstead Lumber Company, 4600 Pico A. K. HALSTED, sometime Recording Secre­ Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, which tary o! the New York State Poultry Society, operated twenty lumber yards in California produced "The American Standard of Excellence and Arizona, one of them at Phoenix. J. D. and Scale of Points in Exhibition Poultry", Halstead, who was the President of the con­ and Diseases and Ailments of Poultry, and a cern, is the son of Doctor Joseph Singer Chapter on Artificial Incubation" in 1871. Halstead. A. E. Halstead, a son, was Secre- -o-o- RALSTEADS IN THE VOCATIONS 16

I.a:lNOBA B. HALSTED, of St. Louis, Missouri, the horse show. The horse was painted green. was the author of novels entitled 11Bethesa11 Surrounding it were other horses, all green, (1884), and "A Victorious Life" (1910), and some sitting down, others standing on their of essays in the 11 Independent 11 and other heads, and others turning somersaults. The magazines. She was the sister of Mrs. Noble, other picture represented a coat of arms con­ wife of General John W. Noble, of Washing­ sisting of a green horse's head, a green ton, D. C. gate, and two green grooms. The pictures were painted by DeWitt C. Falls. -o-o- -o-o- CAROLINE SPENCER HALSTED was the author of books entitled 1'Your Unseen Guide" (1921) THE HALSTEAD-KIRKPAThICK REUNION ASSOCIA­ and 11The Book of Revelations" (1922). TION, composed of descendants of Reuben Hal­ stead (1775-1853), of Tippecanoe and Vigo -o-o- counties, Indiana,and James Wesley Kirkpat­ rick (1829-1898) held its first meeting and H. HALSTED, a physician of Rochester, was organized at Lafayette, Indiana, August New York, produced in 1853 "Exposition of 24, 1929. The Reverend Doctor William Riley Motorpathy, A New Method of Curing Diseases Halstead of Terre Haute, Indiana, was made by Statuminating Vitalizing Motion. 11 President, John Coyner Halstead, of Brook­ ston, Indiana, Vice-President, and Bodley Kirkpatrick Dicks, of Lafayette, Secretary. A picnic meeting was held at Turkey Run State OLIVER HALSTEAD wrote "A True Account of Park in August of 1930, and one at Terre Curing Dyspepsia", published in New York in Haute Park in 1932. The 1933 and 1934 meet­ 1878. ings were not held. Edwin Riley Halstead, -o-o- of Terre Haute, was elected President 1n 1932. About fifty people usually attend RICHARD HALSTEAD, of Norfolk, Virginia, the meetings. signing himself 11 Quilp11 , published a volume -o-o- of verse in 1846, and William H. Halstead, presumably his son, a newspaper writer of FRANK HALSTEAD, of Jersey City, New Jer­ Norfolk under the pen-name of 11 Quilp, Jr. 11 , sey, is the author of 11Working Drawings of published 11 Little Pieces, Verse and Prose" Cabinet Making Tools" (1913); 11Manual Train­ in 1868. ing in the Grades" (1913); 11 The Orders of -o-o- Architecture" (1927); "Architectural Details" (1927); and 11 Architect 1 s and Builder's Refer­ JESSE NEWTON HALSTED produced, in 1886, ence Book" (1927) • 11:Modern Ornament and Design. 11 -o-o-

-o-o- v DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALLSTEAD (1723- 1806), a body of whom live in Central Indi­ FREEMAN HALSTEAD, a Canadian newspaper ana, have held a family re-union, for a num­ correspondent, was arrested by the Spanish ber of years, at either Sanford or Linton, authorities in 1898 during the Spanish­ Indiana. The 1934 meeting, a basket. picnic, American War, and sentenced to prison for was at the city park in Linton, on Septem­ nine years for taking photographs of the ber 3. There were thirty-nine in attendance fortifications of San Juan de Porto Rico. from Indiana and nearby states. St. John Halstead, of Terre Haute, Indiana, is Presi­ -o-o- dent, and Mrs. S. L. Pope is Secretary­ Treasurer. A partial genealogy of the RICHARD H. HALSTED, of New York City, Thomas Hallstead line appears in Chapter XII, entered a horse 11Walter11 , in the green­ Part One. hunter class at the New York Horse Show in -o-o- 1897. The animal was so fractious that he was ruled out of the contest. On November LILLIE BAKEh HALSTEAD pUblished a book 22, a committee of brokers presented him of poems in 1903 entitled 11 0vertones. 11 on the floor of the stock exchange with "two beautiful works of art. 11 One of the pictures -o-o- represented the exclusion of 11Walter 11 from RALSTEADS IN THE VOCATIONS 17

BEHRY HALSTEAD has been the director for in the gold rush. Returning to his home he some years of a dance orchestra which has platted a town site in 1853 and built a had engagements at the St. Francis Hotel, flour mill. From this nucleus the present San Francisco and the Yosemite Lodge, Calif­ town of fifteen hundred population developed. ornia, at the Brown Hotel, Louisville, Ken­ tucky, and elsewhere. -o-o-

-o-o- DANIEL BERRIAN 8 HALSTEAD (1821-1900), son 7 8 of Charles and a grandson of Gershom , was MELVIN A. HALSTEAD of Dayton, Ohio, the President for a term of years of the founded the town of Lowell, named for National Exchange Bank of New York City. Lowell, Massachusetts, in Lake County, In­ diana. He settled on a farm there in 1845, -0-0-0- established a sawmill at the present site of Lowell in 1848 and built a home there Biographical encyclopedias. also, which is still standing and occupied. "Who•s Who. 11 In 1850 he went to California and made money II~ miscellaneous sources.

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Chapter III

JAMES H A L S T E A D, THE PIRATE

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Captain Kidd had James Halstead as one of prize enroute. Half the crew for the 275 his .lawless and doughty crew, when he sailed ton ship with 30 guns was obtained in Eng­ the East Indies in the "Adventure Galley", land, and the other half was recruited in capturing and plundering merchant ships. Kidd New York, making 154 men in all. Sailing in was caught and hung. Halstead was captured September, via the West Indies, the Azores and escaped, was captured again and escaped and the Cape of Good Hope, the "Adventure a second time. His fate is a mystery. Galley" reached 1ladagascar, on the east That he was a very fierce pirate, or coast of Africa, at the end of 1697. Mada­ thought to be, is shown by the fact that it gascar was then the main rendezvous of the required three men to take him from one jail pirates, whom Kidd knew through trading with to another. At the Court of Sessions, held them both in America and England. at ShrewsLury, New Jersey, on September 12, If there were pirates at 1ladagascar, Kidd 1699, an order was made: made no effort to attack them upon his ar­ rival. Cruising about in the Red Sea and Whereas ••• that they have here apprehended beyond, where he lost fifty of his men by James Halsteaq., one of the persons named in said the plague; and stopping, searching--and warrant and proclamat:I,on (for apprehending sever­ trading with a few small vessels, he finally al persons accused of piracy), desiring our as­ captured, bloodlessly, the richly laden sistance to convey the said James Heisteed to nonedah Merchant~ a French vessel of five­ Burlington, from whence he, having been their hundred tons. On the way back to Madagascar prisoner, escaped; with her, he burned the half-sinking nAdven­ These are therefore to warrant and author- ture Galley. 11 At Madagascar he encountered ize said Jacob Ong and Randolph SimmoJ:!.S to carry Captain Culliford, a notorious pirate, but the said James Halstead back again to Burlington, instead of taking him, which he later claimed and that the High Sheriff of this county do aid his mutinous crew prevented him from doing, and assist them with such force as they think he fraternalized with him. Ninety odd of his tit, to carry the said James Halstead to Burling­ men, leaving him but thirteen, finally de­ ton. serted to Culliford. The order of the Court is that the Sheriff Picking up a few more sailors to. man her, press a man to assist Randolph Simmons and Jacob he sailed the 11 0nedah Merchant11 for New York. Ong to carry James Halstead back to Burlington At the West Indies he learned, to his aston­ and deliver him to the Sheriff' of Burlington.i ishment, that the British Admiralty, on De­ cember 8, 1698, due to rumors that he had William Kidd-- born, a well-to-do turned pirate, and his long absence without and respected ship owner and trader, who had reports as were required by his commission, distinguished himself in the Colonial dis­ had exempted him and Henry Avery, another turbances, and against the French in the pirate, from a proclamation of pardon to all West Indies, a resident of America much of other pirates who would surrender to three his life, where he married--was commissioned special commissioners in New Jersey or the a privateer by William III, to hunt down commander of the British fleet in America. pirates in the Eastern seas, and to capture Fearing, then, to take his prize to New York, French merchantmen as prizes of war. A he sold part of the plunder and marooned the group of English noblemen, one American cap­ ship with the rest of it in an isolated river italist, and Kidd himself financed the enter­ of San Domingo Island in the West Indies in prise to the amount of six thousand pounds, the keeping of an Englishman named Bolton. the crew, officers and backers to share in Ki.dd bought a small sloop, the 11 St. the pirate spoils, and in the hulls and Antoine", carrying only about thirty men, cargoes of the French ships, with an honor­ and sailed up the Atlantic Coast. He stopped arium to King William. at the mouth of the Delaware River, at Oyster Kidd sailed from Plymouth for New York Bay, on Long Island, where he picked up his City in Kay of 1696, taking a small French wife and daughter from New York City, and JAllES HALSTEAD THE PIRATE 19 then sailed to Gardiner's Island, off the far of the hunt. Presumably as the result of end of Long Island, where he buried a large these reports, on October 16, 1669, Francis part of the plunder belonging to himself and Nicholson,. Governor of Virginia issued a his backers, after the division had been proclamation which discloses that a band of made at Madagascar with the crew. Through the pirates, including James Halstead for a New York attorney Emmott, he negotiated the second time, had escaped from the goal with Lord Bellomont, at Boston, Governor of in New Jersey: New England, which at that time embraced New York, for the appearance there of himself Whereas, Edward Buckmaster, a notorious and men. Bellomont had helped to organize pyrate, one of Kid's crew, a short weJ.1-sett the project in England before he came to fellow with LanJc brown hair and aged about America. The Governor's attitude was seem­ forty years, hath latezy made his escape out ingly friendly, and he urged him to come in. of goal in the City of Hew York and is ned Kidd, and those of his men who had not al­ from justice; ready disembarked for New York, sailed to And whereas, Gulliam, another notorious Boston. Instead of being friendly, as Kidd pyrate of Kidd's Crew suspected to be circum­ expected, Bellomont was hostile, hauled him cit1ed has made his escape from Rhoad Island; before the Council for examination, and in And whereas James Bow, Nicholas Churchill, about a week arrested him and all of his men Dsni.el Dooley and John Eldridge have latel.7 he could find, and put them in goal, includ­ made their Escapes from his Majesv•s province ing Kidd's wife and daughter. of , being committed upon Suspicion At near the same time that Kidd left 1lada­ of Pyracy; As also James Holstead and Robert gascar, Captain Culliford and about sixty Hickman have made their Escapes fro• his of his crew, part of whom were Kidd's men Majesty 1 s Province of West Jersey and all are originally, including James Halstead, learn­ much suspected of a design of coad.Dg to this ing of the King's amnesty to pirates, re­ his Majesty•s ColOJ:11' and Dominion of Virginia turned to America in the New York ship "Nas­ and of attempting to take such Ships and Ves­ nau", Captain Kelly, who had bought up a sels as they can meet with, I, Francis Nichol­ large quantity of the pirate plunder at Mada­ son Esq., his Majesty•s Lieutenant and Governor gascar at bargain prices. The "Nassau11 General of Virginia, collllll8Zld all Masters of reached Cape May on May- 29th, about the same Ships and Vessels and all his Majesty's good. time that Kidd sailed past that point, and and loving subjects not to harbour, Entertain, her passengers began to disembark and scat­ conceal or correspond with~ of the above per­ ter. sons.• Two British officials got word of the 11 Nassau 1 s 11 arrival. One was Colonel Quary, This is followed by a command to all civil Judge of the Admiralty, at Philadelphia, who and military officers to arrest the pirates, went out at once and seized two of the pi­ and an offer of twenty pounds reward for the rates, John Alston and William Merrick, took apprehension of each of them. 4 two thousand pieces of eight from them, and It was only the British officials who put them in goal at Burlington, New Jersey. were active in the prosecution of the pi­ Shortly afterwards he caught two more and rates. Governors Bellomont and Basse, in lodged them in goal at Philadelphia. 2 The their reports to England, complained that other was Deputy Governor Basse, of New Jer­ the Colonial people, including the jailors, sey, who took a sloop and captured four oth­ favored them. Colonel Quary wrote: ers, among them James Halstead probably, who were put in the Burlington goal. That James ••• the people of the government have enter­ Halstead was one of the four, seems to be tained the pyrates, conveying them from place clearly shown by his arrest in Shrewsbury. to place, furnished them with provisions, liq­ In their chests he found, "seventy-eight hun­ uors & given them intelligence and sheltered dred Rix dollars and Venetians, about thirty them from justice; & now the greatest part of pounds of melted silver, a parcell of Arabian them are conveyed away in boats to Rhoad Is­ and Christian gold, some necklaces of amber land. and coral and pieces of India silk." 3 The six other Pyrates that are in the Gov­ Colonel Quary at once notified all the ernment of West Jersey are at Liberty for the provincial governors, including the Governor Quakers there will not su.!fer the Governor to 5 of Virginia, of the presence of the fugitive sent them to goal. · pirates, who scampered up and down the coast when they found that they would be arrested, Thus, the escape of the pirates was ade and kept the governors advised of the progress easy and. their flight forwarded, rather than JA1'ES HALSTEAD THE PIRATE 20 hindered, by the colonials. Piracy was rife There is no known means of determining all over the western world as an aftermath whether James Halstead *as from England, of privateering by the English, Spanish, from New York, or from the West Indies. Dutch and French, in their constant wars, and There were Halsteads in all of these places smuggling on a large scale, a companion rack­ at the time. It is believed, however, that et, had been incited by England's Navigation he was not an American, as the history of Acts which required that all shipments to and all the colonial members of the same genera­ from the colonies be in English bottoms. Pi­ tion has been explored and there is no James rates and smugglers were regarded as adven­ Halstead to correspond to him. Lawrence turers rather than criminals. Hallsted, a merchant of London, with a manor in Berkshire, to whom a Coat of Arms was granted in 1628, had a son James, who may have been the pirate, and who may have been a brother of Captain Mathias Halstead who made an expedition to America as re~ounted in Chapter IX, Part One. After being held in Boston for eight months, Kidd was sent to England, with a number of others of different crews, ac­ cused of piracy, including nine of his men who had surrendered to Governor Basse under the Crown's proclamation of amnesty. Kidd was tried for both murder and piracy. He had killed one of his men with an iron­ bound bucket in a fit of rage, which he admitted and said he regretted, but claimed that he did it to prevent an imminent mutiny. He was found guilty on this charge. In a very unfair trial, he was convicted also of Captain Kidd, from an old wood cut piracy, protesting to the end that the ships he seized were fair prizes of war, which It was not until May of 1700, seven their papers, which were withheld from him, months later, that Governor Andrew Hamilton, would show. Some historians concur in this. of New Jersey, who had succeeded Basse, re­ He was without money, witnesses for himself, ported that he had taken into custody James or counsel, except at the preliminary ses­ How, Nicholas Churchill, Robert Hickman and sion of the trial when he was arraigned, and John Eldridge, four of the eight named in not one of the men who were his financial the Virginia proclamation.e How and Church­ partners in the enterprise ever came near ill were tried with Kidd in England. James him. There was a strong under-current of Halstead was one of the four never caught, feeling in Parliament that they were as apparently, for no further record of them guilty as was he. Six of his men were con­ has been found in any of the historical rec­ victed and denied the benefit of the King's ords of the matter. Captain Kidd's "Adventure Galley11 was first manned in England, where the crew was carefully selected from substantial men of family, from which Scots and colonials were excluded, because they were thought to be complacent about piracy. On the way out of Plymouth the Admiralty took half of the men off and pressed them into the service of the British Navy, leaving Kidd but seventy men. At New York, however, there was little sim­ ilar discrimination, the other eighty-four being recruited from the "floater" class. Kidd stopped in the West Indies, on his way out, and it is possible that he took on a few men there. All enlisted in a legally author­ ized privateering adventure with no thought then of piracy. Itinerar,y of the "Adventure Galley" JAKES HALSTEAD THE PIRATE 2 amnesty because they had surrendered to Gov­ Atlantic Coast. The heirs of John Jacob ernor Basse instead of to one of the officials Astor were sued in late times by a man named specified in the King's proclamation of am­ Olmstead, who alleged that Astor had obtained nesty. Three proved that they were only in­ a large part of Kidd's treasure illicitly by dentured servants of the officers of the buying land in Main~ where it had been hid­ "Adventure Galley." All were sentenced to den and the trick gave him his first riches. hang. Five were reprieved at the last mo­ The matter was settled out of court. ment. Kidd, and one of the men, were exe­ "Captain Kidd's Farewell to the Seas, or cuted at Execution Dock, on the Thames, May The Pirate's Lament", a ballad composed by 23, 1701. When the trap for Kidd was sprung Admiral Benbow, at the time of the execution, the rope broke, which was cited as the pro­ has been recited and sung as a sea poem by test of Fate against Injustice. He was com­ sailors all over the world ever since. 7 pelled to mount the scaffold again and fell -0-0-0- a second time while, to the praying chaplain, he confessed to have been a wicked man but lno1d Monmouth"--Salter. denied he was ever a pirate. 2fiew Jersey Archives-1st. Ser. Vol. II. All of Kidd's treasure was quickly found &fiew Jersey Archives--lst. Ser. Vol. II. and confiscated. A stone monument marks the 4Executive Journals, Council of Virginia--Vol. II. spot on Gardner's Island where part of the Stiew Jersey Archives-1st. Ser. Vol. II. booty was temporarily buried. Bolton sold 6.New Jersey Archives-1st. Ser. Vol. II. 11 the "Onedah and her cargo, and Bellomont 7nNewgate Calender"-Putnam; "Privateering and got the proceeds for the Colony, perhaps se­ Piracy in the Colonial Period"--Jameaon; "Pirate cretly reimbursing the English noblemen. Tales From the Law"--Harris; "The Real Captain Kidd's private estate, a substantial one, Kidd"-Dalton;"Buccaneers and Marooners of America" also was confiscated. Nevertheless, legends -Howard Pyle; "Buccaneers and Pirates or Our of the great wealth he was supposed to have Coast"--Stockton. buried have lived to this day and many searches have been made for it all along the -0-0-0-- 22

Chapter IV

T H E HALSTEAD HERMITS 0 F LAKE MINNETONKA

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Captain Frank William Halsted and his laid out by hi~ deceased brother for a meal. elder brother, Major George Blight Halsted, Major Halsted added to the library and the were the lonely occupants for nearly fifty curios, and the stream of visitors continued. years, one succeeding the other, of a pic­ About 1:00 o'clock in the night of Septem­ 11 11 turesque dwelling called the "Hermitage." It ber 51 1901, the Hermitage burned, and was situated on Halsted's Bay, so named for Major Halsted was destroyed in the flames. Captain Halsted, at the head of Lake Minne­ This was not known until the next afternoon. tonka, ten miles west of Minneapolis, a popu­ Neighbors who noticed the fire mistook it lar summer home-site for Minnesota people. for the burning of a boat-house on the lake­ Both Captain and 1lajor Halsted met tragic shore. The Major had gone to the village of deaths. Excelsior in the afternoon, seemingly in At the age of twenty-three years in 1855, good health and spirits, and had returned to Frank William Halsted left a fine home, a his home in his rowboat as usual. It was cultured and well-to-do family, and bright supposed that a kerosene lamp at his bed­ prospects in cultivated society in New Jersey, side, by which he was known to read at for what reason is not now known, to build a night, had been overturned, perhaps when he cabin in a wilderness, and lived there alone had fallen asleep. His will contained this for twenty odd years. Returning after serv­ unique section: ice in the United States Navy in the Civil War, Captain Halsted replaced the cabin with It is my wish and desire and I hereby or­ a substantial house, in which he accumulated der, desire, and direct my executors herein­ books and historical relics, including a after named_, that when I am dead I shall be chair from the Mississippi home of Jefferson buried in the simple box, as was my brother, Davis, given him by Miss Winnie Davis. Al­ which I have made for this occasion years though called a hermit, he did not have the ago. It will be found behind the front door traditional traits of one, for he was genial entrance to the "Hermitage", requiring no and sociable. Sightseers, whom he welcomed, hammer or nail to prepare it for its intended visited his unique home, ~nd wrote their use, viz., to carry me into the grave to be names on the walls, both inside and outside, laid beside my brother, Frank, under the until they were finally entirely covered maple. Let the large army flag be placed on with signatures and addresses. it from the 11Hermitage11 to the grave and if Captain Halsted was drowned in the Lake the ladies of .Mary Halsted Circle of the Minnetonka in 1876, probably as a suicide, G.A.R. are present, or absent, let the flag although there was some evidence of foul-play be given to the circle as a momento of mother by robbers. He had constructed a boat, which and sons. he had named 11 Mary 11 in honor of his mother, that was a failure as a water-craft, and his The ashes of Major Halsted were placed in disappointment is thought to have prompted a simple black box, instead of the coffin he self-destruction. In compliance with his had made for his body, and were buried un­ wishes the body was placed in a coffin, der the maple tree beside his brother, and which he had made and left ready, and was the spot was marked with a second large buried in the front yard of the 11 Hermitage11 boulder. The ladies of Mary Halsted Circle under a large maple tree with a boulder as of the G.A.R. were present at the funeral, a grave-stone. and received the flag. Major Halsted came to the "Hermitage" at Some years afterwards the maple tree was the time o~ his brother's death, was at­ blo?m down in a cyclone. The 11 Hermitage 11 tracted to the place, and decided to remain property was purchased by C. A. Loring, of and live there alone also. It is a legend Minneapolis, President of the Pillsbury Flour that he left the furnishings in some parts of Mills Company, a friend of Major Halsted, who the house exactly as he had found them, even erected a modern dwelling on the site. to the dining-table dishes, which had been Captain Halsted was born in Newark, THE HALSTEAD HEfililTS 23

New Jersey, January 31, 1832, and Major Hal­ given· in Chapter VII, Part One, where the sted at Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 17,1820. service record of Major Halsted will be Their father was Oliver Spencer Halsted, a found to be especially noteworthy. famous New Jersey jurist, a sketch of whom · An extraordinary ·succession of calamities appears in Chapter 1, Part One, and their befell the family of which these men were mother was Mary Clark Hatfield Halsted, a members. Three other members died by vio­ descendant of Abraham Clark, one of the five lence. Oliver Spencer Halsted, Jr., a signers from New Jersey of the Declaration brother, was shot; Caleb, another brother, of Independence. Major Halsted was gradu­ was killed by being thrown from a horse in a ated from Princeton in 1839, was admitted to fox hunt; and Pet, a sister, was murdered by the bar in 1842, studied and practiced law a man named Botts for the sake of a worthless with his father at Newark, and was made woman. Still another brother died of apes­ Chancery Reporter in 1845, serving until tilential disease in a foreign country. 1862, when he entered the Civil War_. He pub­ lished 11 Reports of Cases Determined in the -o-o- Court of Chancery in the State of New Jersey 11 (1849) and 11 Digest of the Laws of Evidence11 The Minneapolis 11 Timea11 ,Sept. 7, 1901: The (1856). After the war he practiced law in Minneapolis "Tribune•; Sept. 8, 1901: The New Newark until he went to ,dinnesota. York 11Tribune11, July 15, 1876. The army and navy records of these men are -.-0-0-0- 24

Chapter V

ANDREW BOWNEtS SILVER BUTTONS

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The customer was not always right, nor to a Text for my Relief, viz; was there censorship of advertising in 1764, Psal. :XXVII-1, 2: "Fret not yourself because when Benjamin5 Halsted was a silversmith of of evil Doers, neither be thou envious against New York City, later of Elizabeth-town, New the ~orkers of Iniquity; for they shall soon Jersey. He made a set of silver coat but­ be out done like the Gras and wither as the tons, the fashion of the day, for Andrew Green Herbs. 11 Bowne, with which Bowne was dissatisfied, Prov. XXLX-1: 11He ths.t being often re­ who wrote Halsted three abusive letters proved, hardeneth his Neck, shall suddenly be about them, which, after one reply, Benjamin destroyed." ignored, until Bowne had one of them printed These Texts give me Leave to hope you will in the newspaper. This aroused Benjamin to not have the Opportunity to impose upon me any counter action, and he then published all more. I shall leave you to contemplate this the letters, and an account of the whole short letter awhile. trouble, in the New York "Mercury" of August Andrew Bowne. 27, 1764. The first letter from Bowne to P. S. Had the Buttons been made as an hon­ Benjamin Halsted was on September 9, 1763: est Man ought to have made them for the Money you had for them they would have lasted more AD you promised to mend f!JIJ3' of the Buttons years than they are now to iast hours. I had of you for nothing if they broke, I ac­ cordingly have sent one as broke as I was try­ Bowne, on May 21, 1764, more than a year ing my Cloathes on before they were finished. later, again wrote Benjamin Halsted: I perceive some Difficulty and Charge is likely to attend, having a Button I send to New York Thou Child of Perdition, without any Sting once a week, more or less, as Occasion shall of Allegory, if you do not immediately make me require, and a Tailor to take off and put on ~atisfaction for the Imposition you have put same. You was pleased to s~· you was sorry I on me in the Buttons, I will promulgate you should think hard of you when I offered you a for a Villian • .Vere you a man of Honor, you Dollar to take them off my hands, which you would have sent it long before now •.I look refused. Had you said you was sorry for im­ upon your Demerit to be such that a Gibbet posing on me and was willing to make me satis­ would be too favourable a Punishment for. I faction, it would seemingly have faced your think it vain to multiply ,iords on this Mat­ proceedings with more Humanity and iliristian­ ter, hoping you will make a more prudent Use ity than they now appear in, for the Buttons' of this Premonition than you did my letter breaking has discovered a farther Villiany in dated September 9, 1763. the Work, viz., the eye stuck in without Andrew Bo,me. clinching. Had I lost my ten Pieces of bight ,1hom you think you have cheated, .but by a :Free Boot, a Pickeroon, or a Pirate, I beware in the end it be not yourself. could better digest than now. Had I my money P. S. I find it signifies nothing to and you the Buttons I would not give Ten Cop­ send any more Buttons for you to mend for pers for them, much less than ten Pieces of me, so long as I cannot have them returned. Eight; neither would I have had the Indisposi­ But when you send me the Ten Pieces of Eight, tion for Twenty Pieces of Eight. I will send you all the damn Buttons to mend Such Villiany is not easily expiated, and for yourself. as I wear a Noble Mind, willing to retaliate every Benefit, so am implacable to an Imposi­ Benjamin Halsted then, on Aug. 27, 1764, tion. The Man that recommended you to me has wrote Andrew Bo,·me as follows: taken his Departure from Time and is gone to make up his Account and as a gentle Premoni­ Thou Son of Ignitionl Promulgator of tion may be proper please to prepare yourself Nonsense& Premonitor of the Gallowsl Tr. for the like great Change &c. My patience be­ passionate, most furiously mad, I hail the ing much worn it seems as if I was now directed Sanity in thy Pericraniuml Mayest thou ANDREW BOWNE 1 S SILVER BUTTONS 25

escape the Castigation of Bedlam Flagellatorl dice, I shall endeavor to remove them by lay­ I have essayed thy letter to the Furnace of ing all my Transactions with Bowne open to the my Cogitations, but find it contains a Metal Public, whereby it may easily be perceived the of abominable Alloy; it was so impregnated Means by which his Brain was so violently with Asperity, and of so corrosive a Nature heated as to overcome his Reason. that when it became so irresistably pungent Andrew Bowne, of Shrewsbury, called on me that the total of the human Oesonomy was in­ last summer telling me Joseph Holmes of this capable, either by Transpiration, Perspiration city had recommended me to him as an honest or Inspiration to sound and fathom the Pro­ Silversmith. He then bespoke a Set of Silver fundity of thy verbose, inflamatory and most Buttons for a Suit of Cloathes. They were deplorable Diction. Farewelll Wipe thy Dirty made exactly to his directions and when he Mouth and endeavor to mend the Scurrility of came to fetch them he seemed perfectly pleased thy Uncouth Manners, by Lotion Mundification, with them. Three Weeks afterwards he called and Ceration; thereby to obtain a delectable on me and desired that I would take them back. Transmutation from Depravation and Ribfication I represented to him how unsaleable Things to Beatitude and Pacification, made after another's Whim were; and that be­ And so I come to a Termination, subscribing fore I found a Person of his Taste Years might myself, None of thy humble Servants, elapse. He then offered me a Dollar, which I Benjamin Ha.lated. refusing, he grew passionate and went away in great anger. Preceding the letters in Halsted 1 s news­ On his return home he wrote me an annoying paper article was his apology to the public letter which I despised and returned no answer and his explanation of the trouble: to. Last May he wrote me another in which he has been very lavish of names that no man can Tbe Subscriber finds himself obliged, with well brook. I returned him an answer with a Infinite reluctance, to address the Public on View to pass the Affair into Ridicule, but it Account of a scurrilous Advertisement in Mr. had a contrary Effect and the advertisement in Holt's Paper, signed by one Andrew Bowne. The Question as produced by it. Character and Reputation of a Man in Trade, be­ Private Affairs, of a trivial and insignifi­ ing of the most tender and delicate Nature, any cant Nature a:re unworthy the Attention of the Attempt to Stigmatize it, not founded on Facts, Public. But bhen Malicious Defamation is al­ or supported by Evidence, will never, I flatter lowed to blast Character in the public News myself, influence the impartial Part of Man­ Paper, a Justification in the same public mBll­ kind, before the Truth has been scrutinized in ner becomes necessary; This Apology, I hope, a legal ii4anner. will plead uq Excuse. But some Time must elapse before this can Benjamin Halsted be done; and as the Audaciousness of the ad­ vertisement may make Impressions to My Preju- -0-0-0-

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Chapter VI

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Notices in the newspapers ~f the early Josiah Halstead evidently did not succeed days contained odd expressions and irregu­ in selling the tavern property, but continued lar spelling, capitalization and punctua­ to operate it for another five years when tion, which are quaint to those who read . there appeared in the paper a second notice: them now. A series of such notices by the New Jersey Halsteads have been preserved, To Be Sold, at public VENDUE which disclose some of their affairs, and Apr. 5, 1770, which reflect customs and conditions of their on the 16th dey of April, or leased for a term times much different from those of today. of years the noted and well accustomed Tavern These advertisements were probably all writ­ Kept for many years by the subscriber, pleasant­ ten by those who signed them, perhaps with ly situated, in the center of Shrewsbury town, the help of the editor of the newspaper. They East New Jersey, very near the English Church, convey their messages equally as well as Friends and Presbyterian meeting houses, two modern ones and contain some remarkably good miles from a public landing, where there is a word pictures. great commerce carried on from thence to New Josiah 5 Halstead (Tim."), was a cele­ York. The house is very commodious, two brated inn-keeper at Shrewsbury, just across stories high, and 4 fire places; a good dry the Hudson &iver from New York, to whose cellar, large kitchen, and a pantry or milk place the blades of the city and country­ room; with many other out-houses and sheds, and side repaired for entertainment and refresh­ stable room enough for 4U horses, a good stone ment. But, as is told between the lines of well, a large garden, newed paled, including three public notices, he did not prosper al­ near half an acre of very rich land; a good ways, but met with misfortune, and at last bearing orchard that affords 50 to 100 bar­ with tragedy:. rels of cyder per year as the season proves, all in good repair. Also ten acres of ex­ To Be Sold, ceedingly good meado.v, well improved and Feb. 21, 1765. 1118IlUred in the best manner, near adjoining A Complete Small Farm, lying in the Cen.ter of thereto. An indisputable title will be given the Town of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, coDta1ning for the whole and the conditions made known at 56 acres of very good Land and Meadow, with a the day of sale by, good Dwelling-House, Gardens, and Orchard of Ex­ Josiah Halstead. cellent Fruit, Stables and other Out-houses, all in good repair, and in complete Order for a Nor did this produce the desired result. Tavern, it being the place where the most noted Things must have gone from bad to worse, then, one in Shrewsbury hath been kept for many years, for Josiah Halstead finally landed in His and in a proper Place for a Store, TradeS111an, or Majesty's goal for debt, and made.an assign­ any other Public Business. Albo a Tract of Wood­ ment for the benefit of his creditors: land, containing 100 acres, lying a small Dis­ tance from the above; to be sold together or Meeting of Creditors. separate. Likewise another Lot, lying a few Mar. 24, 1773. chains distant from the first mentioned House, Whereas, Josiah Halstead, of the town of containing 9 a,cres of very good Land and Meadow, Shrewsbury, and county of Monmouth, was dis­ with a good House, Gard.en, Orchard &c, all in charged from his confinement by an insolvent good Repair. All, or any Part of the above, act, and his estate assigned to Joseph Leonard m~ be entered upon by the First of next April. and John Longstreet jun for the use of his The Title indisputable. For further particulars creditors; this is therefore to desire all his enquire of Subscriber, on the first mentioned creditors to meet at the house of the said Premises, who will agree on very reasonable Halstead, in Shrewsbury, the 10th dey of April Terms. next to give orders to the said assignees to Josiah Halstead. dispose of said estate for the benefit EARLY HALSTEADS AS ADVERTISERS 27

of said creditors. warned carrying him off to their Peril. Joseph Leonard. 4 . 3 John Longstreet. John Halstead (Tim. ), had trouble with Assignees. his livestock:

Previous to this, Josiah Halstead was Reward. able to own indentured servants, but, as was Oct. 4, 1770. commonly the case, they put him to a lot or Strayed or Stolen, from the subscriber in trouble and expense: Elizabeth-Town, last night, a brown horse, about 14 hands and a half high, has a star in Reward. his forehead, is well and strong made, has a Feb. 25, 1756. brand on one thigh but scarce:cy visible, about Run away on the 14th instant from Josiah 9 or 10 years old, both trots and paces but Halstead of Shrewsbury, in the county of Mon­ neither well. Likewise a strawberry roan mouth, and , a German horse 5 years old last grass, about 14 hands servant-lllan, named Johan Jeremiah Myah, about high, has a star in his forehead something five feet four inches high, well set, a little like a half moon, natural to a trot. Whoever pitted with the small-pox, speaks very broken takes up the said horses and returns them to English, pretends to know something of' the the subscriber, or gives notice where they are, blacksmith's trade, and is about 21 years of shall receive a reward of Twenty Shillings, if age; Had on, when he went away, a felt hat, an taken in the province, or Forty Shillings if old curled wig, or a white cap, a garlix or taken out of the province and all reasonable flannel shirt, a napt half worn bearskin coat, charges paid; if stolen and the thief be with metal buttons, and a long bro,,n vest, with stopped with them so as to be brought to jus­ cuffs on the sleeves and had with him a new tice, double the above reward will be paid. striped holland vest, a pair of black plush John Halstead. breeches, a pair of buckskin ditto, and a new 5 4 pair of white demity ditto, a pair of grey When Benjamin (1734-1817; John ) Matthias5 4 worsted stockings, and a pair of coarse yarn dit­ Halsted (1736-1820; John ) opened a jewelry to, and a pair of ol.d shoes with buckles on them. store in Elizabeth-town, New Jersey, they an­ It is thought that he had plenty of cash. Who­ nounced it in this manner: ever secures the said servant, so that his master may have him again, shall have Forty Shillings re­ Benjamin and Matthias Halsted ward, if taken·up in the county of Monmouth and GOLD AND SILVEliSMITHS, if out of said county Three Pounds reward and Sept. 17, 1766. reasonable charges paid by me. TAKE this method to acquaint the public that Josiah Halstead. they have now set up their business in Eliza­ beth-town (nearly opposite to Mr. Joseph Jeff1 s Five Pounds Reward. merchant) where they propose to carry it on in New Jersey. Apr. 15, 1763. all its branches, as the said Benjamin Halsted Run away on the 12th Instant, from Josiah has followed the business some time in Hew York Halstead, of Shrewsbury, in New Jersey, a to the satisfaction of his employers, he hopes Servant Man, named Edward r.day, an English born, his former customers there and in the country can neither read nor write, is about 5 Feet, 4 will not forget him, as he will now obey all or­ Inches high, aged about 24 and Some Marks of ders for work for them and other gentlemen and the Small Pox in his :race, and a Particular ladies of the city or country, at the shortest Roll in his Gait. Had on when he went away a notice and most reasonable prices, with the new grey Frize Coat, with Glass-Top Buttons greatest care and exactness to their entire and Red Faces under them, a black Silk Jacket satisfaction; as we propose to make work of all and Black Velvet Breeches; He has qualities (prices according:cy) we hope our em­ both a white and check shirt with him; And has ployers will not expect the best work for the taken or stole a Saddle and a sorrel Mare about meanest prices. Any orders for work being left 13 Hands and a half high, pretty low in Flesh. at Mr. Thomas Star Treadwell•s, at Burling1 s­ Any Person Apprehending the said Servant, and Slip, New York, will come sa.f'e to hand; or any securing him in any of His Majesty• s Goals, and gentlamen or ladies wanting work done, that are gives Notice, so that he mey be had again, desirous to see one of us to deliver their or­ shall have the above Reward and all reasonable ders to, i.f they will please leave word at the charges paid b,r the SUbscriber. above Mr. Treadwell's, one or the other will Josiah Halstead. wait on them at very short notice. All Masters of Vessels and Others are fore- EARLY HALSTEADS AS ADVERTISERS 28

In the New York~a.zette11 of Nov. 27, :1775, two fireplaces below the upper part, partitioned appeared a notice of sale which gives a clear off in rooms; there is a good stone cellar under picture of an early Halstead home: the whole and a piazza in the front of the house, with a kitchen adjoining, not quite finished. To Be Sold, A good stone well of excellent water. For fur­ The house and lot of ground where Timothy ther particulars enquire o:f Abraham Russell, in 2 (Timotbi3, T1motby ) Halstead formerly lived, New York, who will give a good title. situated in the township of Shrewsbury, in the province of East New JersfJY, Monmouth county, -0-0-0- containing four acres of good land; with an ap­ ple orchard of' very fine fruit trees, together New Jersey Archives--N. J. State Pub. with a number of peach, plumb and cherry trees. The house is 30 feet by 28, one story and a ---0-0-0- half h~h, two rooms and an entr.Y below, with 29

Chapter VII

HALSTEADS AS S O L D I E R S AND SAILORS

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Norman Eugene Mcindoo, Ph.D., Co-Author Island, Subig Bay, and the assault on Manila; 1912-1913 was in the operations of the U.S. ALEXANDER SEAM.AN 2 HALSTEAD (1861- ; forces in Nicaragua; 1918-1919 was Command­ David1 ) (See footnote) was awarded the Dewey ant of the Dist. of Brest, France; and then Medal for distinguished service in the was made Commander of the U. s. Naval forces Spani3h-American War; was given the Navy in France. Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal by He graduated at the United States Naval Congress and made a Commander of the Legion Academy in 1883; July l, 1885, apptd. Asst. of Honor by the Government of France for Engineer; Sept. 11,1895, Passed Asst. En­ distinguished services in the World War, gineer; Mar. 3, 1899, transferred to the and also received campaign badges for serv­ Line; Jan. 1, 1904, Lieut. Commander; July 1, ices in the Spanish-American War, the 1908, Commander; July 1, 1911, Capt.; July 1, Nicaragua Intervention, and the World War. 1918, temporary Rear Admiral; July 1, 1919, He was attached to the "Raleigh", under Ad­ Rear Admiral. His peace time assignments miral Dewey, in the Battle of Manila Bay, included service, 1904-1906, on the May 1, 1898, and participated in the capture "Chicago"; 1906-1909, Inspector of Ordnance, of Corregidor Island, Manila Bay; of Grand San Francisco, Calif.; 1909-1910, Commander or the "Vicksburg"; 1910-1911, Commander of the 11 Pensacola"; 1912-1913, Commander of the "California", flagship of the Pacific fleet; 1915, Supervisor of New York Harbor; 1915- 1916, Commander of the "Utah"; 1916-1917, Naval War College, Newport, R. I.; 1919, Com­ mandant of the Navy Yard, , N. H.; 1920, Commandant of the 12th Naval Dist., San Francisco, Calif.; 1923, President of the Board of Inspection and Survey, Washington, D. C.; Nov. 12, 1923, retired. Rear Admiral Halstead was born at Phila­ delphia, Pa., Dec. 17, 1861, the son of David and Janet Gunn Halstead. His father, when a child, came to the United States from Lancashire, England, and, consequently, Ad-_ miral Halstead is not of the early immigrant stock. He married, in 1885, Helen Hay Bernadon, who died in 1907. There were no children. He resides at 1000 California St., San Francisco, Calif. (See Chapter I, Part One.) -o-o- FRANK HALSTEAD (1878- ; s. of Murat) was awarded the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star: ••• as Colonel of the 521st Infantry, 161st Brigade, 81st Division, 1n the advance from Verdun, 1n front of the Fort Voe sector, into the Woerve Valley, on the town ot Rear Admiral Alexander s. Halstead Agrinsncourt, he was ordered to relieve the

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522nd. Ini'antey, ill distress, by a passage of the the lliami Military Institute of Twin Valley lilles, UDder a German artiller,--illfantey-air­ College at Germantown, o., he was apptd. 2d. plane attack, and as he was engaged ill directing Lieut., 4th Inf., July 9, 1898; May 4, 1899, the advance illto position of two battalions of 1st Lieut., 24th Inf.; Nov. 5, 1904, Capt. of the 55th Division, Field , attached to 23d Inf.; 1908 was transferred to 22d Inf.; his illmediate collllll8l1d, he discovered one compfiJV May 15, 1917, Kaj. of 1st Inf.; Aug. 21, which was lost, having been driven from the 1917, temporary Lieut. Col. National Army; lines, and personal:cy conducted them back into June 17, 1918 to Feb. 15, 1920, temporary their proper position in the front; then reor­ Lieut. Col. of National Army; July 1, 1920, ganized the battalions, on the night of Hov. 9- Lieut. Col. Regular Army; July 17, 1920, 10, so as to participate in the general advance temporary Col. National Army; Oct. 5, 1920, on the morning of Nov. 11th. Col. commanding 11th Inf.; Oct. 12, 1926, retired for disability in line of duty. (See Chapter 5, Part Two for his genealogy.) -o-o- LAURENCE HALSTEAD (1875- ; s. of Ben- ton) on Nov. 25, 1922, was awarded the Dis­ tinguished Service Medal: ••• for exceptionally meritorious and dis-. tinguished services. As officer in charge of the quartermaster schools and assistant of­ ficer in charge of the Administration Division, office of the Quartermaster General, from April to August 1917, he rendered valuable service

Colonel Frank Halstead

Campaign badges have been given to him for services in the Spanish-American War, the Occupation of Cuba, the Philippine In­ surrection, and on the Mexican Border, and in the World War; and honorary decorations of the Silver St~r and the Victory Medal for distinguished services in command of the 521st Inf., 81st Div. at the front in France. After obtaining a general education, in­ cluding courses in a German Gymnasium in Berlin, Gel'Dl8D1', and military training at Colonel Laurence Halstead HALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 31

in the organization and operation of these tombstone in the Baptist Church Cemetery at schools. As Chief of Staff, 84th Division, from Lyons Far.ms, near the above farm, was in­ August 1917 to November H,18, by his marked ef­ scribed: ficiency, loyal devotion to duty, end high mil­ itary attaiwnents he played an important part For love of country was caressed in the successful. organization, training and By Washington and all his guests. operations of that division. Later, as Assist­ ant Chief of 5ta£f, G-5, 1st Army, from Novem­ At another time some British soldiers ber, 1918, to April, 1919, he performed IIIB.ey threatened to burn Caleb Halsted's house un­ tasks of great responsibility in a highly less the supplies in it were given to them. meritorious manner. To :tlajor Hetfield, a Tory neighbor, who ac­ companied the pillagers, Kiss Ann said: He received campaign badges for services 1111.ajor Hetfield, if they burn my father's in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine house, I'll get a brand and set fire to Insurrection, the Punitive Expedition into yours.n Mexico, and the World War. -0-0-0- Col. Halstead entered the U. S. 1Ulitary Academy from Ohio, June 15, 1895; Feb. 15, 1899, apptd. 2d Lieut.; Oct. 19, 1900, 1st Explanation Lieut.; 1902-1904 served in Porto Rico, then in the Philippine Islands; 1904-1905 in This compilation, believed to be the first charge of the Alcatraz Island Military Prison published record of its kind for one family, in Calif.; 1905-1907 in recruiting service at was made from three sources of information: Huntington, w. Va., and similar assignments First, particularly in regard to the Pre­ for the next ten years; :tlay 15, 1917, apptd. Revolutionary and Revolutionary Periods, and Capt. of Inf.; Apr. 6, 1917, Maj. of Inf.; in some cases to other periods, the data was 1916, in the Punitive Expedition into Mex­ found as fragmentary records, while search­ ico; Aug. 3, 1918, Col. of Inf.; 1921-1925 ing for genealogical and historical material on the General Staff; 1926-1928, commander on the Halsteads. These records were often of 27th Inf., Hawaiian Islands; 1929-1930, no more-than casual references, but they were Chief of Staff of 7th Army Corps Area, Omaha, considered creditable, although they could Nebr.; since Apr. l, 1931, executive in the not always be verified, for the original rec­ Office of the-Chief of Inf., Washington, D. C. ords were missing, or difficult to be found: (See Chapter 5, Part Two for his genealogy.) Second, it was taken from official, and semi­ -o-o- official publications of state and federal 5 ANN& HALSTED (1761-1824; Caleb ) was a military personnel, none of which was com­ Revolutionary heroine. Her father is thought plete: Third, much of it was obtained from to have come into possession of a farm, be­ the official war and navy records, which are lieved to have been bought in 1721 by his filed as original letters, and on cards in grandfather, Timothy Halstead.3 This prop­ the Departments of War and Navy, and Veter­ erty, known as "Halstead's Point Farm", was ans' Administration Bureau, all in Washington, on Staten Island Sound, where Elizabeth, D. C.; and in the State Libraries at Albany, N. J., now is situated. It was easy prey N. Y., and Richmond, Va. for forays by the British troops. Marauding A catalog of all the Halsteads who were parties from the foreign fleet, in the near­ found to have been in the Pre-Revolutionary by waters, made frequent excursions to the Militias and all those who participated in New Jersey shore. During one of these raids the American wars was prepared, but since some Ann Halsted, who married Joseph Camp, a of the information was inaccurate and incom­ Revolutionary soldier, saw such a party land­ plete, part of it was eliminated or condensed. ing on this farm. As the men of the family The records of all the officers and enlisted were away, she quickly put on her father's men in the earlier wars are given, but owing clothes, seized a musket, rushed outside, to the huge mass of them, the records of only rested the gun on the rail fence, fired at the commissioned officers in the Civil War the enemy, and, thus, gave an alarm to the and later wars are here included. It is re­ town. There are several versions of this gretable that the other records of the many exploit, but all treat her as a heroine. non-commissioned officers, and private sol­ Shortly afterwards when General Washington diers and sailors, cannot be given. It is was attending a dil\'ner in Elizabeth-town, fully realized that the information given is now Elizabeth, he toasted Ann Halsted as, not entirely complete, but it is reasonably "the bravest lady in New Jersey.n On her accurate. HALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS A.ND SAILORS 32

Abbreviations Used to 1781; his name is in D. A. R. lineage books. Apptd., appointed. Detach., detachlllent. The following, believed to refer to him, ap­ Art., artillery. disc., discharged. peared in N• J. 11J ournal11 , June 22, 1779: Asst., assistant. enl., enlisted. On Friday night la1c

Thus is the British army reduced to mere marauding from the first two sources agrees fairly well, parties; our own army or fortresses they durst not but that from source usually disagrees attack; but if the town is left with women and with the other two, chiefly because it is more children in it their valor is certainly displayed complete and shows that the soldiers changed there. from one military unit to another. In addition The New York "Gazette" of Mar.27, 1780, stated tm.t: to the copies of muster and pay rolls in the Last Saturday morning Mr. Matthias Halsted of War Department, numerous manuscripts and books Elizabethtown was brought to this cl ty and lodged in the form of original documents and copies of in the Sugar House. He was taken out of his own original documents were also consulted. The house the evening before by a party of refugees names in "New York in the Revolution a.s Colony from Staten Island. He was justice of the peace and State" are grouped alphabetically by coun­ under the Congress. ties and regiments as follows: ROBERT u HALSTED (1746-1825; Caleb5 ) apptd. from N. J. Surg. of the N. J. Mil.; was taken Albany County Militia Ulster County Militia prisoner at Fort Lee, N. J., Nov. 18, 1776, and EZEKIEL HOLSTED, 14th Reg. GERSHOM HALSTFAD, 2d Reg. imprisoned in the Old Sugar House in N. Y. City, JAMES HALSTEAD, 12th Reg. JACOB HALSTED, 4th Reg. and finally released under a flag of truce; his THOMAS HALSTED, 14th Reg. JOHN HALSTED, 4th Reg. name is in D. A. R. lineage books and S. A. R. THOMAS HOLSTED, 14th Reg. JOSEPH HOLSTED, 5d Reg. files. TIMOTHY HALSTEAD, 14th Reg. JOSIAH HALSTEAD, l5d Reg. JOSIAH HOLSTFD, l5d Reg. 2. Enlisted Men from New York State Dutchess County Militia According to "New York in the Revolution as BENJAMIN HALSTEAD, 2d Reg. Westchester County Militia Colony and State" (1898), the state militia of JOHN HALSTEAD, 2d Reg. ELIAH HALSTFJl, 4th Reg. ~ New York was in existence long before the JOSIAH HALSTED, 2d Reg. MICAH HALLSTED, 4th Reg. Revolutionary War and units of it were called ✓ THOMAS HALSTEAD, 2d Reg. MICHAEL HALSTED, 4th Reg. out only when needed. The muster and pay THOMAS HALSTED, Reg. of IIICHAL HALSTED, 5d Reg. rolls on file are so incomplete that it is im­ Minute Men. STEPHEN HOLSTED, 5d Reg. possible to tell, in most cases, when enlist­ WILL HALSTED, Reg. of ments were made or when and where the individual Minute Men. Levies, Line and Levies, men served. They seem to have belonged to dif­ WILLIAM HALSTEAD, 2d Reg. and Artillery Regi­ ferent companies and regiments from time to ment time. This resulted in the multiplication of Orange County Militia EZEKIEL HOLSTED, the names of the same individuals on the rolls. BENJAMIN HALSTED, l5d Reg. Willett•s Levies. The repetition of the Christian names and the DAVID HALLSTED, 2d Reg. JAMES HALSTED, various spellings of Halstead add to the diffi­ EDWARD HOLSTEAD, 2d Reg. Line and Levies. culty. It is impossible to clarify the con­ EllIDND HOLSTED, 2d Reg. JAMES HALSTF.D, fusion, or to trace all the men individually. HENRY HALLSTED, 2d Reg. Line and Levies. The regiments recorded were in the Continental .JACOB HALLSTED, 2d Reg. JOSEPH HALSTEAD, Col. Service at sometime between 1775 and the sur­ JOHN HALLSTED, 2d Reg. Ebenezer Steven's Art. Reg. render of Cornwallis in 1781. The militia could JOHN HALLSTED, Jr., 2d Reg. JOSEPH HOLSTEAD, Col. be called out for service outside the state for JOHN HALLSTED, 2d Reg. Ebenezer Steven's Art. Reg. three months at ·a time. The levies were com­ JONAH HALLSTED, 2d Reg. RICHARD HAIJ,STED, Col. posed of men drafted from the state militia, and JOSEPH HALLSTED, 3d. Reg. Pawling' s Levies. from the people, for the Continental Army. Each THOMAS HALLSTED, 2d Reg. SAMUEL HALLSTED, Col. soldier had to provide himself with a blanket, TIMOTHY HALLSTED, 2d Reg. Pawling1 s Levies. a powder-horn, a flint, and sometimes \'l'ith a v THOMAS HOLSTEAD, Col. tomahawk. A private' s pay was $6.66 per month, Pawling' s Levies. which he rarely received when due. As late as In regard to the following records the spell­ 1784, most of the men had not been paid for the ing of the family name is taken, whenever pos­ period between 1776 and 1782, but later they wer sible, from the last signature found. All of paid. The part of New York State inhabited by the soldiers given were privates, except two white people was divided into eleven counties, sergeants and they are marked 11 Sergt." 5 which lay east of the land of the Six Indian BENJAMIN 6 HALSTEAD (1753?-18ln&; Benjamin ) Nations. The Halsteads from five of these served in Dutchess Co. Mil., Land Bounty counties served in the militias and in the Con­ unit, 2d Re~., Col. Brinckerhoff. tinental Troops. BENJAMIN HALSTED (1754?-1810&; Thomas 5 ?) The original records used in compiling "New served in Orange Co. Mil., 2d Reg., Col. Hay. York in the Revolution as Colony and State" were In 1780 he still lived at Kakiat (variously discovered from 1895 to 1898. In 1896, the War spelled Kakaat, Kakiate Cakiate, Cakeat~ Department at Washington borrowed and copied all Cecakate,-Nakaac,RakaacJ Orange Co., N. Y., now the New York records then known; therefore, the Ramapo Rockland Co. 4 list of Halsteads in the Adjutant General's Of­ DANIEL5 HALSTEAD (1725-1776&; Timothy ) in fice is now similar to, but not quite as com­ 1776 served in an Art. Co., commanded by Alexan­ plete as, the list in this book. According to der Hamilton. (New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Register, these records, forty-seven New York Halsteads V. 47, p. 472. This name escaped the compiler of Rev. Rolls of N. Y.) may have participated in the Revolutionary War, 4 but since their records are so confused, they DAVID 5 HALSTED (1735-1784&; Jacob ) served cannot be separated to represent forty-seven in­ in Orange Co. Mil., Land Bounty unit, 2d Reg., dividuals. Thus, the information for this com­ Col. Hay; also in Col. Weissen£el1 s Levies. In piiation was obtained from four sources--the 1784 he seems to have lived at Kakiat. 6 foregoing book, the records in the War Depart­ EDMOND 6 HOLSTED(may be the same as Edward ment, the Veterans' Administration Bureau, and first below) served in Orange Co. Mil., 2d Reg., the New York St~te Library. The records in the Col. Hay. In 1784 he seems to have lived at Kakiat. old Pension Bureau, now a part of the Veterans' 6 5 Bureau, were fiied mostly as affidavits for the EDWARD H;,J,.STEAD (1750-1837; Thomas ) enl. in purpose of obtaining pensions. The information Kay, 1776, in Aiken's Co., Orange Co. Mil., HALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 34 2d Reg., Col. Hay, Clinton's Brig.; served in Orange Co. Mil., Land Bounty Rights unit, again from 1778 to 1781 under same officers, in 2d Reg.; signed articles of association at all over three years• service; b. at Kakiat, Haverstraw Precinct, Orange Co., May 1775; and Orange Co., where he enl.; after the war he served in 1776 on a committee at home of Ben­ lived at Paltz, in Ontario and Ccyahoga Cos., jamin Halsted in Kakiat to inspect officers N. Y., and then in Lake Co., o., where he d. at chosen for Capt. Sherwood's Co. '/iilloughby; was pensioned. JOSEPH 6 HALSTEAD (1755-1790&; Josephs) b. on ELIAHs HALSTED (probably same as Michaels be­ Long Island; enl. Aug. 9, 1776, at the age of low) served in Westchester Co. Mil., Land Bounty 21; served under Capts. Burns, Ulster Co. Mil., unit, 4th Reg., Col. Crane. 3d or Col. Pawling's Reg., James Clinton's EZEKIEL 5 HOLSTED (probably same as Lieut. Brig.; enl. as Searg. Aug. 14, 1777, for the Ezekiel (1747-1800&) ) served in Col. Willett's duration of the war and his last muster roll Levies. was dated May 26, 1783. He served in the 9th GEHSHOM 6 HALSTEAD (1750-1822; Thomass) enl. Co. under Capts. Bliss and Machin in Battn. of from New Windsor, Orange Co., in Capt. Nicoll 1 s the 2d Art. Cont. Troops, commanded by Col. Co., 2d or Col. McClaughry's Reg. of Ulster Co. Lamb. 6 5 Mil. He enl. Oct. 15, 1778, and served irregu­ JOSEPH HALSTEAD (1759-1845; Timothy ) enl. larly until Oct. 30, 1780. In addition to serv­ May 10, 1777, and was disc. May 10, 1780; served ing as a soldier, he did considerable hauling in Capt. Monson 1 s Co., Col. Chandler's 8th for the army. Battn. Conn., in Capt. Monson 1 s Co., Col. Rus­ HENRY 6 HALLSTED (1756-1800&; Henrys) served sel's 8th Battn. Conn., and in Capt. Hodge's Co., under Capt. Gardner, Orange Co. Mil., 2d Reg., Lieut. Col. Sherman's 8th Conn.; after the war Cols. HaY. and Cooper. he lived at Trenton, Oneida Co., N. Y.; he was 6 5 JACOB HALSTEAD (1757-1837; Thomas ) enl. the great-great-grandfather of Arthur S. Ward­ July 19, 1775, in Capt. Johnston's Co., Ulster well. He was pensioned; his name is in the Co. Mil., Land Bounty unit, 4th Reg.; b. at D. A. R. lineage books and the S. A. R. files. Kakiat, Orange Co., where he still lived on JOSEPHs HALLST~D (1736-1797; Richard4 ) Sept. 7, 1784; after the war lived at Paltz, served in Orange Co. Mil., Land Bounty Rights N. Y., and removed to Trumbull Co., o., where unit, 3d Reg. he d. His widow was pensioned. This Jacob was JOSEPH rL,LSTED (probably same as first a third cousin of Jacob6 next below, and above) served in 1782 under Capt. Westfall in hitherto their records have been confused. Col. Weissenfel 1 s Levies. 6 5 6 JACOB HALLSTED (1754-1811; Jacob ) b. at JOSIAH HALSTEAD (1755-1835; Benjamins) Kakiat, Orange Co., N. Y., where he eni. 1n served probably 1n 1776 and 1777 1n Ulster Co. 1775 in Capt. Ackerson•s Co., Orange Co. Mil., Mil., 3d or Col. Pawling's Reg.; served in 1778 2d or Col. Cooper's Reg.; in 1776 in John under Capt. Brinckerhoff in Ulster Co. Mil., Blauvelt1 s Co., Col. Drake's Reg. (according to 3d or Col. Cantine1 s Reg.; and served as Corp. deposition of his father, Aug. 7, 1776); 1n in 1779 and 1780 in Dutchess Co. Vil., 2d or 1778 in Capt. Ackerson's Co., Col. Hay 1 s Reg. Col. Brinckerhoff's Reg. (D. A. R. Lineage Book, V. 48, p. 383, in error KIC.HaEL 5 (KICAH or MICHAL) HALSTED (1742- 4 gives this service to Jacobs 1730-1786, s. of 1801; Ezekiel ) served in 1779 under Capt. 4 Jacob ). Truesdell, Westchester Co. 16.il., 4th or Col. 4 JAllESs HALSTEAD (1726-1786; Timothy ) of Crane's Reg.; also in 1780-81 in 3d and 4th Half Moon, Albany Co., enl. in 1776 in 4th or Regs.~ Cols. Van Cortlandt, Drake, and Crane. 5 4 Capt. Lossee1 s Co., Albany Co. Mil., 12th Reg. RI~HARD HALLSTED (1728-1804&; Richard ) JAMES 6 HALSTED, JR. (1756-1815; Jamess) enl. served in Col. Albert Pawling1 s Levies, and Mar. 23, 1776, in Capt. Van Vechten 1 s Co., Col. signed articles of association at Goshen Pre­ Wynkoop's Battn. (D. A. R. Lineage Book in er­ cinct Orange Co., May 24, 1775. ror says 12th Reg., Albany Co. Mil.) SiliEL6 HALSTEAD (1762-1844; Isaiahs) served JAMES HOLSTED served' in the Line and Levies, in 1779 to 1781 in Capt. Westfall's Co., Col. although this record may be confused with the Albert Pawling's Levies and Mil. {The same one of the above. Samuel is given under enlisted men in Pa.) JOHN 6 HALSTEaD (1760?-1790&:, probably s. of STEPHEN HOLSTED served in Westchester Co. 5 Benjamin ) served in Dutchess Co. Mil., Land Mil., 3d Reg. 5 4 Bounty Rights unit,. 2d Reg. TH011AS HALSTED (1735?-1806; Samue1 ) served 6 4 /JOHN HALLSTED {1755-1827; Thomass; James ) in 1777 at Camp Fort Edward under Col. Knicker­ served in Orange Co. Mil., Land Bounty Rights backer, Albany Co. Mil., 14th Reg., and served unit, 2d Reg.; also in 1779 and 1780 in Capt. as Sergt. in 1780 in Capt. Wiltze1 s Co., Albany Gardner's Co., belonging to a detachment of the Co. Mil., 14th or Col. Yates' Reg. His tomb­ N. Y. Levies, commanded by Lieut Col. Cooper; stone is in N. Y. State. in 1781 and 1782 in Col. Weissenfel's Levies. THOMAS 6 HOLSTED (1761-1789; Richards) served He was b. at Kakiat, Orange Co., where he lived in 1779 in Capt. Faulkner's Co., Col. Albert during the Rev. War, and after the war he lived Pawling1 s Levies. This Thomas was a son of at New Paltz, and near Albany, N. Y.; from the Richard 5 of Luzerne Co., Pa., and was dead in latter place he removed to Pickaway Co., o., 1789. where he died. He was the brother of Edward THOMAS 6 HALSTED (1757-1833&; Josephs) of (1750-1837), Jacob (1757-1837) and Isaac (1763- Fishkill, Dutchess Co., served irregularly from 1863), and the great-great-grandfather of N. E. 1776 to 1782 under Capts.Brinckerhoff, Van Mcindoo. Wyck, and Koons, Cols. Swartwout and Humphrey; JOB1~ 6 HALSTED (1756-1827; Jacobs) served in after the war he lived at Saratoga, N. Y.; was Ulster Co. Mil., Land Bounty Rights unit, 4th b. on Long Island; enl. July 29, 1776, at the Reg. age of 19; first served in Capt. Brinckerhoff's JOHN 6 HALLSTED, JR. (1758?-1790&; Thomas 5 Co., Dutchess Co. Kil.; Aug. 20, 1776, volun­ 4 Jacob ) served in Orange Co. Mil., Land Bounty teered and served in Capt. Van Wyck 1 s Co., Rights unit, 2d Reg. Dutchess Co. Mil., Col. Swartwout's Reg. of 5 4 JONAB HALLSTED (1726-1798; Jonah ) served Minute Ken. He was pensioned. BALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 35 V THOKAS 5 HALLSTED (1723-1806; James") probably and held a captive for two weeks; later enl. in served in Orange Co. »11., Land Bounty Rights Orange Co., N. Y., in Capt. Westfall1 s Co., Col. unit, 2d Reg. He was b. either at Rye or Pawling 1 s Reg.; after the war lived in Luzerne Oyster Bay, N. Y. but during the Rev. War lived Co., Pa. His application for pension was re­ at Kak1at, and after the war at Haverstraw and jected; his name is in the S. A. B. files. New Paltz N. Y. He was the father of Jolm Hallsted {1755-1827) and the great-great-great­ 4. Enlisted Men from New Jersey 6 grandfather of N. E. Mcindoo. JOHN HALSTEAD (1754-1841; Caleb 5 ) enl. at THO.IIAS 5 HALSTED (1727-1776&:; Jacob") probably Elizabeth-town Oct. 17, 1776, and served more served in 1776 on a committee of four at the than two years under Capts. Thomas,·Smith, and home of Benjamin Halsted, in Kakiat, to inspect Britton, Cols. Spencer, Jaques, and Gen. Sul­ the officers chosen for Capt. Sherwood's Co. livan; after the war lived in Essex Co., N. J., He was b. at Tappan, Orange Co., N. Y., but dur­ until 1796, when he removed to Morris Co., N. J., ing the Rev. War. probably lived at Kakiat, and in 1818 to Hamilton Co., ·o.; he was pen­ which included a large area. He was the father sioned. of Gershom (1750-1822) and Benjamin (1754?- JOSIAHs HALSTED (1715-1776&; Timothy4 ) enl. 1810&). This Thomas and the one above were in 3d Reg. of Monmouth Co., Cont. Line; also in second cousins, but since both probably lived 1st Reg. of Mil. at Kakiat, Orange Co., during the Rev. War, it is impossible at present to tell whether the 5. Enlisted Men from Virginia above war records belong to only one of them or The two sets of books, "Virginia State to both. Library Report. Revolutionary Soldiers" and 5 4 TIMOTHY HALSTED (1746-1834; Jacob ) of 11 The Colonial and State Records of North Car­ Orange Co. enl. in April, 1776, in Capt. Horton's olina", are supposed to contain the names of Co., Col. Richmond's Reg.; disc. in Karch, 1777; practically all the Pre-Revolutionary and Rev­ re-enl. in Oct. 1777, as ranger in Capt. John­ olutionary soldiers who served in Virginia and son's Co.; re-enl. in April, 1778, in Capt. North Carolina. The unpublished records in the Slor1 s Co.; enl. at Kak1at, Orange Co., his State Library of North Carolina were not exam­ home where he still lived on Aug. 17, 1784; ined, but those in the State Library of Vir­ after the war lived at Lysander, Onandago, N. Y. ginia, the War Department, and D. A. R. Library (The War Dept. records show he was on pay roll in Washington were examined. In spite of the of Capt. Ackerson, Col. Hay's Reg.) His appli­ fact that a large number of Halsteads lived in cation for a pension was rejected. Virginia and North Carolina before and during TIKOTHY 0 HALSTED (1764-1837; Timothys) of the Revolution, the names of only seven of them Albany co. eni. at Harw1nton, Conn., Apr. 3, can be found listed as soldiers. In regard to 1781, in Capt. Hodge's Co., 5th Conn. Reg., these seven, their records are fragmentary and Col. Sherman; re-enl. Kay 17, 1782, in 7th Co., confusing. The lineage given is not certain. 2d Conn. Reg., Col. Swift; re-enl. in 6th Co. The records of the two Pre-Revolutionary sol­ of same unit; disc. in July, 1783; after the diers are given heretofore and those of' the five war lived at Vienna, Oneida Co., N. Y., and Revolutionary soldiers are given below: later removed to Cuyahago Co., o.; he was pen­ JAKES HOLSTEAD or HALSTEAD enlisted Mar. 8, sioned. 1777, in Capt. William Vause's Co. of 12th Va. WILL 6 HALSTEAD (1759-1794?; Josephs) b. on Reg. of Fort, commanded by Col. James Wood; enl. Long Island; enl. Aug. 2, 1776?, at age of 19 for duration of war, but served only to Aug. 11, in Capt. Schenck•s Co., Dutchess Co. Mil., Col. 1777; once he was reported absent, sick in Swartwoutts Reg. of Minute Men. (War Dept. rec- Philadelphia, inoculated. ord only.) _ WILLIAM HALSTEAD (may be the same as the 6. Enlisted Men from North Carolina 4 first above) served in 1779 and 1780 in Dutchess JOLLYs HOLSTEAD (1755?-1777&; John ) en­ Co. Kil., 2d or Col. Brinckerhoff•s Reg. listed as Pvt. May 28, 1777, for three years in Maj. John Baptista Ashe 1 s Co., 1st N. C. Battn., 3. Enlisted Ken from Pennsylvania Col. Thomas Clark. JOHN° HALLSTED (1757-1824; Richards) of JOLLYs HALSTEAD (1759-1784&; perhaps Lemue1 4 ) Luzerne Co. enl. Sept. 17, 1776, in 1st Conn. enlisted as Pvt. May 28, 1777, for three years Reg.; then in Capt. Robert Durkee's Independent in Capt. Jarvis' Co.,. 10th N. C. Reg. Co.; later in Capt. Spaulding1 s Co., Col. John LEIIUELs HALSTEAD {1752?-1778?; perhaps Durkee's Reg. The War Dept. records state: 4th Lemuel"), Corp., enlisted May 5, 1777, for three Conn. Reg. 1st Indpt. Co., 1st Conn. Reg. Light years in Capt. Jarvis' Co., 10th N. C. Reg. Un­ Co., 1st Conn. Reg. 4th and 6th Cos., Capts. der "Occurrences" he is marked Pvt. June 1778 Ransom, Durkee, and Spaulding, Cols. Durkee, and dead Jan. 12 1779. 4 ) Grosvenor, and Butler; disc. June 7 1 1783, and SAMUELS HOLSTiAD (1744?-1783&, perhaps John given a "Badge of llerit for six years of .faith­ enlisted as Pvt. May 5, 1777, for three years in ful service", which was signed by "Gen. G. · Major Baptista Ashe's Co., 1st N. C. Battn., Washington"; after the war lived at Livonia, Col. Thomas Clark. Ontario Co., N. Y-1 he was pensioned. RICHARD 0 HALLST~D (1759-1820&:; Richards) enl. 7. Incidental Records at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 17, 1776, in Capt. 11 Last Friday, five prisoners, among whom was Durkee's Co., then in Capt. Spauldingts Co., one captain, who had made their escape from Col. Durkee's Reg.; disc. in Nov., 1781 with Reading, Pa., w~re taken at Halstead•s Point, "Honour" after five years• service; after the near Elizabethtown, on their way to Staten war lived at Riga, Genesee Co. (now Monroe Co.) Island. 11 --The New Jersey "Journal" of Oct. 25, B. Y.; be was pensioned. 1780. SAMUEL 0 HALSTEAD (1762-1844; Isaiahs) enl. "Last Thursday night a corporal's guard at in Kil. at Wyoming, Luzerne Co., Pa., June 1, Halstead 1 s Point was surprised by the enemy. 1778, in Capt. Blanchard's Co.; was taken They bayonetted one man, carried off four and prisoner by Indians at time of Wyoming Massacre one made his escape~--The New York "Packet" of Dec. 28, 1780. HALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 36

6 ELIZABETH HALSTEAD (widow of' Daniel ) and DANIELe HALSTED (1779-1842; Thomas 5 ) served PHEBE HALSTEAD (widow of' Pearson 5 ) were-listed from Sept. 8 to 16, 1814, as Pvt., in Davis' among the poor of' N. Y. City in 1776. Just be­ Co., Carr's Reg., N. Y. Mil.; from Sept. 16 to fore the evacuation of' N. Y. by the Americans 19, 1814, as Lieut. in that year the poor began to leave for the DAVID WADE HALSTED 7 (1786-1842; a N, J. John t1) surrounding country in such numbers that on of Battle Hill, Morris Co., N. J., served from Feb. 28, the Provisional Congress voted f'ive Sept. 1 to Dec. 2, 1814, as 1st Lieut. of Car­ hundred pounds for the purchase 9f bread f'or ter's Co. of Rifflemen, 3d or Freilinghuysen1 s them and later appointed commissioners to remove Reg., N. J. Mil.; after the war lived at Pater­ them f'rom the city. These poor were landed and son N. J.; his widow was pensioned. 7 provided for at Tarrytown, Georges, Newton, WILLI.AM MILLS HALSTED (1788-1863; Robert6 ) Tappan, Haverstraw, and other places. This con­ served from Sept. 15 to Dec. 15, 1812, as 2d tinued for several years. Lieut. of Bessonett1 s Co., 9th N. Y. Art. Reg. PHEBE HALSTEAD (widow of Pearson5 ) of New York City was one f'rom whom lead window weights 2. Enlisted Men from New York State were taken in 1776. Lead was one of' the most JOHN HALLSTEAD served from June 22 to Sept. diff'icult of war supplies to obtain. The Pro­ ~4, 1812, in Bloodgood1 s Co., Swartwout's De­ visional Congress ordered it seized wherever cach. of Art. of N. Y. f'ound and it was paid f'or af'ter the war. ANDREW LYON 7 HALSTEAD (1784-1866; Ezekiel6 ) -0-0-0- served from Sept. 15 to Dec. 15, 1812, as matross in Gedney's Co., 11th Art. Reg., N. Y. III. THE PENNSYLVANIA WHISKEY INSURRECTION, HENRY HALSTEAD served from Sept. 5 to Dec. 8, 1794, and PRECEDING 1814, in Snyder's Co., Roger's Reg., N. Y. Mil. HENRY HALSTEAD served rrom Dec. 2, 1814, to 1. Officers Mar. 3, 1815, in Hick's Co. of Vol. Inf., 6 RICHARD HALSTED, JR. (1759-1820&; Richard 5), Steven's Battn. of N. Y. Vols. and Mil. apptd. Ensign in 2d Battn. of Luzerne Co., Pa., JACOB HALSTEAD served from Sept. 8 to 131 troops. He was also in the Rev. War. 1813, as Sergt. in Hain 1 s Co., Hobby's Reg., N. Y. Mil. 7 2. Enlisted Men JACOB HALSTEAD (1791-1872; Jacob0 ) served BENJAMIN HALSTED enlisted April and May, from Dec. 21, 1812, to Apr. 30, 1813, as 3d 1794, in Capt. Andrew Burkhard's Co. of 4th Corp. in Gedney 1 s Co. of Battn. of Vols., 3d Battn. of Philadel~hia Co. Mil. 7 Reg. U. s. Vols.; lived and d. at Newburgh, JACOB HALSTED (1776-1802; Wi111a.m 6 ) en1. N. Y.j was pensioned. 7 6 from N. J. as Surg. mate, Oct. 11, 1794, in JO.i:; HALSTEAD (1792- ; Job ) served from Capt. Peter Keenan's Co. of N. J. detached Mil.; Dec. 20, 1813, to Jan. 25, 1814, in Ransom's disc. Dec~ 24 1794. Co. of Ca!~, N. Y. Vols. 5 6 JOSEPH HALSTED {perhaps John ) enl. from JOEL' .t:iALSTEAD (1795-1863; Josiah ) served N. J. Sept. 10, 1794, in Capt. Isaiah Wool's from Sept. 14 to Dec. 10, 1814, in Elting 1 s Co.~ 2d R~g. of Inf.; disc. Dec. 24, 1794. Co., 3d or Van Rensselaer's Reg., N. Y. Mil.; ~AlWEL HALSTED (1774-1805; William 6 ) of b. in N. Y.; lived and d. at Mentz, Cayuga C., Essex Co., N. J. ~- enl. Sept. 9, 1794, in Capt. N. Y.; his widow we.s pensioned. Thomas Ward 1 s Troop of Light Dragoons, 1st Reg. JOHN HALSTEAD served from Sept. 15 to Dec. of N. J. Cav.; disc. Dec. 25, 1794. 15, 1812; from Sept. 2 to Oct. 1, 1814, in -o-o- Bloodgood1 s Co.L 2d Art. Reg., N. Y. JOHN HALSTEAD served from Sept. 2 to Oct. IV. THE WAR OF 1812 26, 1814, in Whittemore1 s Co., 2d or Van Hook's Reg., N. Y. Mil. According to the records in the War Depart­ JOHN 7 HALSTEAD, JR. (1796-1815; Jolm6 ) ment, 70 Halsteads enrolled for service in the served from Sept. 2 to 15, 1814, in Hinkley's War of 1812, but the names of' 7 of them will not Co., 37th or Noble's Reg., N. Y. Mil. be given here because they were not mustered in JOHN D. 7 HALSTEAD (1792-1857&) served from and, consequently, had no service. Instead of Sept. 2 to Dec. 31 1814, as matross in Muir's saying "mustered in" and "mustered out" oncer­ Co.~ 1st Battn. of Art. (Later 9th Reg.), N. Y. tain dates, an abbreviated form--served from a JOSEPH HALSTEAD served from Sept. 2 to Dec. certain date to another date--will be used. Most 1, 1814, in Whittemore 1 s Co., 2d or Van Hook's of the service periods were short and the dates Reg., N. Y. Mil. when mustered out do not necessarily correspond LEWise HALSTEAD (1777?-1830; Micah5 ) served to the last dates on the pay rolls, because f'rom Sept. 2 to Dec. 3, 1814, in Scribner's Co., Uncle Sam continued to pay these soldiers until Forbe1 s Battn. of Art., N. Y. they arrived at home, allowing 20 miles per day PIERSON 6 HALSTEAD (1771-1866; Pearson5 ) for travel. Therefore, most of the Halsteads served from Sept. 2 to Dec. 3, 1814, as matross were given one or more days extra pay, depend­ in Chapman's Co.L 3d Art. Reg., N. Y. 0 5 ing upon whether their places of discharge were ROSWELL HALSIEAD (1778-1841&; Joseph ) 20 or more miles from their homes. The end of served from Sept. 8 to 16, 1814, as Corp. in the service period is here considered to be the Davis' Co. Carr's Reg., N. Y. Mil. last date on the pay roll. THOllAS fiALSTEAD served from July 13 to Aug. In regard to the 63 Halsteads who served, 14, 1812, as matross in Rees' Co., 7th Art. there were 4 commisGioned officers, 6 non-com­ Reg.IN. Y. missioned officers, and 53 privates. They are W LLIA14 HALSTEAD served from Sept. 2 to Dec. as i'ollows: 3, 1814, in Van Brwit 1 s Co., Forbe1 s Battn., N. y • 6 5 1. Officers BEHJAMIN HALSTED (1773-1840?; Isaiah ) served PLATT' ROGERS Hii.LSTEAD (1794-1849; John6 ), from Sept. 8 to Dec. 12, 1812, in Spalding's Co., apptd. from N. Y. Apr. 30, 1813, 3d Lieut. of Hopkin•s Reg., N. Y. Kil. 29th Inf.; Feb. 20, 1814, 2d Lieut.; disc. BENJAMIN S. HALSTED served from Jan. 2 to June 15, 1915. 10, 1814, in Carpenter's Co., Swartwout1 s Reg., N. Y. Kil. HALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 37

7 6 CORNELIUS HALSTED (1777-1830&; Ezekiel ) Reg.f N. Y.6 :u:n. served from Oct. 27 to Nov. 20, 1814, 1n Cobb's . W .LLiili BOLSTED (1789-1855&; Ezekie15 ) Co., 147th or Wood's Reg., N. Y. Mil.; he lived served fr-0m July 14, 1812, to Feb. 3, 1813, in at Maneri~s N. Y. Wood's Co., 14th or Stone's Reg., N. Y. 1111. 6 ELISHA HALSTED (1796-1853&:; Ezekiel ) served from Sept. 2 to Dec. 3, 1814, as matross in 3. Enlisted Ken from New Jersey 7 6 Blakewell's C~~J 2d Art. Reg., N. Y. ROBERT WADE HALSTED (1793?-1859; John ) 6 HENRY N." wu.STED (1795-1884; Timothy ) served from Sept. 1 to Dec. 2, 1814, in Carter's served from Aug. 22 to Nov. 9, 1814, in Weaver's Co., 3d or Freilinghuysen's Reg., N. J. Mil.; Co., Cleveland's Reg., N. Y • .U:il.; after the enl. at Hanover, Morris Co., N. J., and after war lived in Oswego and Oneida Cos •• N. Y. 1855 lived in Franklin Co., Ind., where he d.; 7 ISAAC HALSTED (1796-1822; Isaac6 ) served hts widow was pensioned. from Oct. 7 to Dec. 6, 1814, in Ecker's Co., Warner's Reg. of Detach.of Cav., N. Y. 4. Enlisted Men from Virginia JAKES HALSTED served from June 29 to July 10, JAllES HALSTEAD served from Aug. 21 to Oct. 1812, as Corp. in Streeter's Co., Davis' Reg., 24, 1814, in N1mmo 1 s Co., 9th or Sharp1 s Reg., N. Y • .U:il. Va. Mil. JOEL HALSTED served from Sept. 8 to Nov. 22, HENRY HALSTED served from .U:ar. 301 1812, to 1814, in Gordon's Co., Roger's Reg., N. Y• .U:11.; .U:ay 15 1814 in 5th Reg., u. s. Inf. he lived in Saratoga Co., N. Y. FRIIDRICK HOLSTEAD served from Feb. 24 to JOEL HALSTED served from Sept. 7 to 27, 1814, Aug. 14, 1813, in Lee's, Burge 1 s, and Holladay's in 19th or Getman's Reg., N. Y• .U:11. Cos., 3d or Boykin's Reg., Va. Mil. 7 15 JOHN HALSTED (1795-1885; Jacob ) served HENRY HOLSTBAD served from Sept. 4 to Oct. from Aug. 18 to Dec. 2, 1814, in Martin's Co., 22, 1814, in Holt's Troop of Cav., Va. Kil. N. Y. Mil.; lived at New Paltz, Ulster Co., and HENRY HOLSTEAD served from Feb. 11 to Aug. after the war in Crawford Co., Pa., and in 11, 1813, in Portlock's Co., 95th or Lee's Reg., Ashtabula Co.Lo.,. where he d.; was pensioned. Va. Mil. JOHN" HALSTED {1790-1879; BenJamin15 ?) served HENRY HOLSTEAD served from June 23 to Aug. ll, from Aug. 18 to Dec. 3, 1814, in Thorne•s Co., 1813, in Butt's Co., 95th or Lee's Reg., Va. Mil. 1st or Belknap's Reg., N. Y• .U:il.; enl. at Fish­ JAMES HOLSTEAD served from June 23 to Aug. kill, Dutchess Co., and after the war lived at 11, 1813, in Butt's Co., 95th or Lee's Reg., Va. Kent, Putnam Co., N. Y.; was pensioned. Mil. 7 6 JOHN HALSTED, JR. (1790-1854; John ) served JOHN A. HOLSTEAD served from Aug. 21 to Oct. 1 from Aug. 27 to Nov. 251 1812, in Butterworth•s 24, 1614, in Ke1s1ck s co., 9th or Sharp•s Reg., Co.j Consol. Art. and Inf. Reg., N. Y. Va. 1111. 7 6 OSEPH HALSTED (1798-1870; Joseph ) served JOHN A,HOLSTEAD served from Feb. ll to Aug. from Oct. 7 to 20, 1814, in Sheldon's Co., 72d 11, 1813, in Portlock•s·co., 95th or Lee's Reg., or Hick's Reg. N. Y. Kil. Va. Kil. JOSHUA HALSfED served from Sept. 8 to Dec. SAMUEL HOLSTEAD served from Sept. 4 to Nov. 3, 10, 1814, in Dubois•s Co., 61st or Carver's Reg., 1814 in Holt's Troop of Cav., Va.Kil. N. Y. Mil. WiLLIAK HOLSTEAD served from June 23 to Aug. 6 5 KICHAEL HALSTED (1781-1830&; Joseph ) served 11, 1813, in Butt's Co., 95th or Lee's Reg., from Sept. 5 to 9, 1814, in Downingts Co., Va. Kil. Yale1 s Bat~n., N. Y. Mil. 6 STEPHEN HALSTED (1794-1870; I saac ) served 5. Enlisted Ken from North Carolina from Sept. 7 to Oct. 7, 1814, in Ecker's Co., IVERY HALSTEAD served from June 17 to Aug. Warner's Reg. of Detach. of Cav., N. Y.; 11 ved 21, 1813, in 1st or Flower's Reg., R. C. Kil. at Newburgh and Brooklyn, N. Y.; his widow was WILLIA.JI. HALSTEAD served from June 17 to Aug. pensioned. 21, 1813, as drummer in Sh1pp's Co. of Inf., UNDERHILL HALSTED (1794-1884; Ezekiel15 ) 1st or Flower's Reg., H. C. Mil. served from Sept. 2 to Dec. 3, 1814, as matross in Blakewell's Co., 2d Art. Reg., N. after 6. Enlisted Men from Kentucky Y.; 6 the war lived in N. Y. City and Rye, N. Y.; was ALEXANDER B.7 HALSTEAD (1789-1884; Jonas ). given land. served from Aug. 27 to Nov. 5, 1813, as Corp. 6 WILLIAIA HALSTED (1795-1834; Joseph5 ) served in Todd's Co., 1st or Trotter's Reg. of Mounted from Sept. 8 to 19, 1814, as musician in Davis' Ky. Vols.; enl. at Lexington, Ky., and served Co.L Carr's Reg., N. Y • .U:il. around Detroit and in Canada in Harrison's Army . WILLIAM HALSTED served from Oct. 7 to Dec. against the British and Indians; b. at Haver­ 6, 1814, in Ecker1 s Co., Warner's Reg. of De­ straw, Orange Co., N. Y.; lived in Ky. and in Johnson Co., Ind., over 50 years; d. at Edin­ tach. of Cav. 1 N. Y• . EZEKIELe HuLSTEAD (1783-1830&; Ezekiel5 ) burgh, Johnson Co.; was pensioned. served from July 6, 1812, to Jan. 5, 1813, as -o-o- matross in .U:ulholland's Co., Fleming's Detach. of N. Y. Vols. and Mil. V. THE INDIAN WARS 7 HENRY N. HOLSTED (1795-1884; T1motby6 ) served from Aug. 22 to Nov. a, 1814, in weaver's 1. Officers Co.L Cleveland's Reg., N. Y. 1111. c. N. HALSTEAD served from June 21 to Aug. J0BN 7 HOLSTED (1793-1881; John 6 ) of Orange 17, 1832, as Capt. of F. S. Co., 3d Brig., Ill. Co., N. Y., served from Aug. 18 to Dec. 3 1 1814, Mounted Vol~~~ in the Black Hawk War. as Sergt. in Christie's Co., 1st or Belknapts WILLIAK .l:l.1!.lllRY ROOKE a..LSTED 8 (1810- ?; Reg., R. l• Kil.; he lived in .U:1nis1nk. Caleb Stockton") served from Feb. 16 to Kar. . SAMUEL HOLSTED (1775-1830&; s. of Ezekiel5 ) 23, 1836, as 1st Lieut. of Bryan's Co., Ga. served from Oct. 28 to Nov. 20, 1814, in Davis' Vols., in the Florida War. See nservice in the Co.L 147th or Woodts Reg., N. Y. Kil. Navyn following. wILLIAJI lf.)LSTED served from Sept. 14 to Rov. 12, 1813, in Allen•s Co., 2d or Dutton•s HALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 38 2. Enlisted llen ored soldiers, who called themselves Halsteads. 7 6 DANIEL NEIL HALSTED (1812-1874; Jonathan ) They were privates in the U.S. Army and had served from 1837 to 1838 as Sergt. in Pate's come from Virginia and North Carolina, and were Ala. Vols., in the Cherokee Disturbance. ex-slaves or run-away slaves of the Halsteads E. O. HALSTED served from Jan. 8 to 31, of that section. 1838, in-Beebe's Co., 1st Reg., Mich. Mil., in the War or 1838. 1. Officers JOml HALSTED served from June 6 to 21, 1832, BENTON HALSTEAD (1834-1919; s. of Griffin) in Anderson's Co. of Cav., 11th Reg., 3d Brig., enl. Oct. 11, 1861, in Butler Co., o., in Hick­ Mich. 1111. in the Black Hawk War. cox's Co. D, 69th O. Vol. Inf.; apptd. Nov. 13, EDWARD B. HOLSTEAD served from Oct. 31, 1837, 1861, Sergt.-MaJ. 69th o. Vol. Inf.; disc. to May 10, 1838, in Wright's Co., La. Vols., in Sept. 3, 1862, to accept appointment as 1st the Cherokee Disturbance. Lieut. in Kilbreth1 s Co. F, 79th O. Vol. Inf.; WILLIAMS. HOLSTEAD served from May 1 to Apr. 21, 1863, Capt.; disc. May 29, 1865, at Sept. 2, 1836, in Evan's Co., Hoxey's Battn., request of Gov. of o., who apptd. him June 8, Ga. Vols., in the Creek War. 1865, Col. of 197th O. Vol. Inf.; disc. July 31, -o-o- 1865; was in battle of Resaca, where he was wounded, Lookout Mt., Peach Tree Creek, and VI. THE MEXICAN WAR, 1846-1848 the Siege or Atlanta, and was on Gen. Sherman's Staff in the memorable "March to the Sea.n (See l. Officers Chapter I, Part One for biographical sketch and MIRA B. HALSTED mustered in Dec. 3, 1846; Chapter V, Part Two for his genealogy.) apptd. from N. Y. Jan. 18, 1847, Asst. Surg., 1st or Brunettts N. Y. Vols.; Oct. 20, 1847, Surg.; served in hospital at Ft. Hamilton, N. Y., the General Hospital, and in the hospital at Jalapa, Mexico, while being attached to 3d Art. Reg. in Mexico; musterP.d out Aug. 1, 1848. 2. Enlisted Men 7 6 EDSON AGA.N HALSTEAD (1827-1867; William ) served from July 24, 1846, to Sept. 24, 1847, in Morin's Co. C, Separate Battn., Mo. Mounted Inf. EDWIN HALSTEAD served as member of Co. A or U. S. Engineers. GRIFFIN HALSTEAD (1804-1884; John) served from June 26, 1846, to Jan. 22, 1847, under Capts. George and Van Derveer of co. I, 1st o. Inf.; was absent on furlough most of the time owing to inflammatory rheumatism. Previous service; Capt. of o. 1111. in 1822; Col. of o. 1111. in 1826. (See Chapter 3, Part II for a biographical sketch, and Chapter 5, Part II for his genealogy.) JAMES S. HALSTEAD served from Kay 31, 1847, to July 20, 1848, as Sergt. ·10 Wallace's Co. A, 4th Ind. nf. 6 RANSOM1 HALSTEAD (1809-1881?; Benjamin ) served in Co. C 10th Inf. TROii.AS J. HALSTEAD served from June 19, 1846, to June 24, 1847, in Btry. A, Clark's Battn. of Ko. Light Art. BENJAMIN HOLSTEAD served from June 16, 1846, to June 21, 1847, in Co. G, 1st or Doniphan's Reg., Mo. Kounted Inf. -o-o- VII. THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 Colonel Benton Halstead (A) The Union Army EMINEL POTTER 8 HALSTEAD (1833- ; Thomas 7 According to the records, filed in the old JP,fferson ), b. in N. Y.; apptd. Sept. 28, 1861, Pension Bureau at Washington, there were 209 Lieut. Co. E, 2d N. Y. Heavy Art.; Co. M, 2d Halsteads in the Union Army of the Civil War. N. Y. Heavy Art.; Dec. 11, 1861, Capt.; Apr. 14, These consisted of 11 Hallsteads, 8 Hallsteds, 1862, Capt. of Vols.; breveted MaJ. of Vols. 137 Halsteads, 42 Halsteds, 5 Holsteads, and Kar. 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious 5 Holsteds. There were 15 commissioned of­ service; res. June 28, 1865. ficers, 5 non-commissioned officers, and 189 MATHEW J. HALSTEAD apptd. Oct. 14, 1861, 2d privates. They were enrolled from. 2l states: Lieut. 78th Pa. Inf.; killed Jan. 2, 1863, in Calif •••• 2 Ky ••••••• 2 Kinn •••• 3 Pa •••••• 20 the Stone River campaign near Murfreesboro, Conn ••••• l Kans ••••• l Ko •••••• 8 Tenn •••• 3 Tenn. Ill •••••• 16 Kass ••••• 2 N. Y•••• 65 S. D•••• l SAMUEL H. HALSTEAD enl. July 12, 1861, as Ind •••••• 17 Md ••••••• 4 N. J •.•• 8 W. Va.,. 4 Corp.; apptd. Feb. 24, 1863, 2d Lieut. Co. I, Iowa ••••• 9 Mich ••••• 17 Ohio •••• 14 Wash Ter. 1 8th Mo. Inf.; disc. July 7, 1864. Wis •••••••••••••••••• 10 DAVID M. HALSTED apptd. Aug. 27, 1862, 1st In addition to these 209 1 there were 4 col- ~ieut.; Apr. 9, 1863, Capt. Co. I, 85th Ill. Vol. Inf.; disc. Oct. 7, 1863. HALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 39

EDWARD LAJIBERT 8 HALSTED (1840-1911; James 1. Officers White 7 B.;), .b. in N. J.; apptd. Nov. 15, 1861, 2d BEHJ All.IN F. HALSTEAD enl. as Corp. June 26, Lieut. 40th N. Y. Inf.; Mar. 3, 1863, 2d Lieut. 1861; apptd. 2d Lieut. Co. B, 20th Battn., Va. Sig. Corps; Kar. 13, 1865, breveted 1st Lieut. HeayY Art.; was mentioned Mar. 8, 1864, at of Vols. for gallant and meritorious service at headquarters of the Richmond defenses. the Battle of Winchester, Va.; Mar. 13, 1865, GEORGE N. HALSTEAD (b. in Va.), enl. Apr. breveted Capt. of Vols. for gallant and merito­ 20, 1861, as Pvt. in Co. I, 15th Va. Cav.; rious service during the war; res. Jan. 3, apptd. July 21, 1863, Asst. Surg. from Ark.; 1865. June 2, 1864, Asst. Surg. in Confederate NayY. GEORGE BLIGHT 9 HALSTED (1820-1901; Oliver Services: Richmond station, 1863; C. S. s. 8 Spencer ) b. in N. J.; apptd. Lieut. and Aide to "Charleston", Charleston station, 1863-64; Gen. Philip Kearney of N. J. 1861-1862; Mar. 6, C. s. S. "Richmond", James River Squadron, 1862, Capt. of Vols.; Apr. 9, 1865, breveted 1864-65; Drewry 1 s Bluff, Va., 1865. Paroled Maj. of Vols. for gallant and meritorious serv­ Apr. 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Va. ice; disc. Mar. 12, 1866; Aug. 9, 1862, cap­ JOHN J. HALSTEAD, apptd. 1861 from W. Va. tured at Cedar Mt. and sent to Libby Prison; Capt. of Co. Hounshell's Battn., Va. Cav. Mar. 31, 1865, wounded in the Battle of White (Partisan Rangers); paroled Apr. 26, 1865. Oak Road, and was present at McLean's house, LEIIUEL HALSTED apptd. Nov. 1861, 2d Lieut. Apr. 9, 1865, when Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Co. D, 45th Ark. Mil. Grant. (See Chapter IV, Part I.) F. M. HOLSTEAD apptd. July 7, 1863, 1st HENRY OGDEN HALSTED apptd. Aug. 26, 1861, Lieut.; Capt. Co. B, 68th N. C. Inf.; paroled Maj. 1st N. J. Cav.; disc. Feb. 18, 1862. Apr. 30, 1865. JOHN T. HALSTED served as a civilian; in -o-o- 1864-1865 was u. s. Engineer in charge of for­ tifications at Lexington and Mount Sterling, Ky. VIII. THE SPAHISH-AIIERICAN WAR, 1898 MILTON ARNOLD 8 HALSTED (1838-1904; David '7), apptd. Jan. 20, 1864, Asst. Surg. 15th N. Y. According to the records, filed in the old Cav.; 2d N. Y. Provisional Cav.; disc. Aug. 9, Pension Bureau at Washington, there were 24 Hal­ 1865. steads--3 commissioned officers and 21 pri­ NATHANIEL NORRIS 8 HALSTED (1816-1884; vates--in the Spanish-American War. The of­ Nathaniel Norris 7 H.) early in the Civil War ficers are as follow: was apptd. Lieut. Col. and later placed in charge of recruiting camps in Trenton, N. J.t 1. Officers with the rank 0£ Bril• Gen. (See Chapter I.J FRANK HALSTEAD. See the beginning of this RICHARD FREDERICK HALSTED (1834-1881; chapter. James White 7 H.), b. in N. Y.; apptd. June 14, LAURENCE HALSTEAD. See the beginning of 1861, Kaj. 40th N. Y. Inf.; dismissed Apr. 26, this chapter. 1862; Dec. 24, 1862, Capt. 42th N. Y. Inf.; LOUIS HAROLD HALSTEAD {b. in Philadelphia, Apr. 25, 1863, Capt. and Aide-de-Camp; breveted Pa.), apptd. Kay 11, 1898, 2d Lieut., Co. E, Kaj. of Vols. for faithful and meritorious serv­ 1st Pa. Inf.; disc. Oct. 26, 1898. ice during the campaign before Richmond and in the Shenandoah Valley; Apr. 9, 1865, breveted IX. THE PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION Lieut. Col. of Vols. for gallant and meritori­ -o-o- ous service in the campaign terminating with the surrender of Gen. Lee; disc. July 10, 1866. FRAHK HALSTEAD. See the beginning of this 8 7 STANL~'Y MECBE1i HALSTED (1843-1877; David ), chapter. b. in N. Y.; enl. Sept. 23, 1861, as Pvt. Co. LAURENCE HALSTEAD. See the beginning of A, 75th N. Y. Inf.; apptd. Sept. 12, 1863, 2d this chapter. Lieut. Co. I, 97th U.S. Inf. (colored); Kay 1, 1864 1st Lieut.· disc. July 28, 1864. X. THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION INTO MEXICO WILLIAll. 8 HALS~ED (1794-1878; Caleb7 ), b. in -o-o- N. J.; apptd. Col. 1st Reg. of Vol. Cav. for N. J. which he raised; served until Feb. 18, FRANK HALSTEAD. See the beginning of this 1862; was the only Halstead ever a member of chapter. the U.S. Congress. (See Chapter I, Part I.) LAURENCE W!.LSTEAD. See the beginning of WILLI.AU. PATTON 8 HALSTED {1836-1925; James this chapter. White7 H.) enl. Apr. 26, 1861, as 1st Sergt. Co. -o-o- E, 7th N. Y. Kil.; apptd. July 20, 1861, Capt. Co. D, 65th N. Y. Inf.; disc. Mar. 7, 1863. XI. THE WORLD WAR, 1917-1919 (B) The Confederate Army According to the records, filed in the Vet­ erans' Administration Building and the Adjutant According to the records in the Adjutant General's Office at Washington, D. C., there General's Office and at Richmond, Va., there were 283 Halsteads in the World War. These con­ were 87 Halsteads in the Confederate Army of sisted of 12 Hallsteads, 3 Hallsteds, 199 the Civil War. or these, 21 were originally Halsteads, 50 Halsteds, 13 Holsteads, and 6 filed under the names of Holstead and Holsted, Holsteds. In addition to these, there were a but now the list includes 73 Halsteads, 6 Hal­ few with the names of Halstad, Halstat, Hal­ steds, and 8 Holsteads. There were 5 commis­ stedt, Halstied, and other spellings, but sioned officers, 10 non-commissioned officers, these are believed to be of a different stock. and 72 privates. They were enrolled from 10 The 283 men and women were enrolled from 37 states: states: A1a •••••• 5 Kd •••••••• l Tenn ••••• 4 Ala ••••• 2 Col ••••• 3 Ill ••••• 20 Ky ... .••• 2 Ark •••••• 7 Kiss •••••• l Texas •••• 3 Ariz •••• 2 Conn ••••• 6 Ind ••••• 9 La •••••• 9 Ga ••••••• 4 Ko •••••••• 1 va ..•.... 54 Ark ••••• 3 D. c •••• 4 Iowa ••• • 10 lld •••••• 2 N. c ...... 7 Calif ••• 15 Ga •••••• 3 Kans •••• 4 llass .••• 5 IU.LSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AHD SAILORS Jlicb •••• 16 Ji. J •••• 19 Ore ••••• 3 Va •••••• 12 cident at Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 23, 1923; Hal­ Jlinn. •. • 5 Ji. Y •••• 48 Pa •••••• 12 Wash •••• 7 stead Lumber Co., Phoenix, Ariz. and Los An­ Ko •••••• 3 Rebr •••• 7 R. I •••• l w. va ••• 19 geles, Calif. See Chapter II, Part One. .llont •••• 2 R. c .•.. 4 s • n •••• l Wis ••••• 9 LAURENCE HALSTEAD, Col. See the beginning H. 11 •••• 2 Ohio •••• 5 Texas ••• 6 Wyo ••••• l of this chapter. Okla •••••••••••••••• 2 WILLIAll HENBY HALSTEAD (b. 1894- ) See "The Regular Army." or the total, 236 served in the Army and 47 ARTHUR HALSTED (Apr. 30, 1888- ), apptd. in the Navy. The latter are discussed under July 16, 19171 1st Lieut. Air Service, 8th "Service in the Havy.n The 236 consisted of 23 Aviation Instruction Center; disc. Aug. 31, commissioned officers, 46 non-commissioned of­ 1919; 16 Hunter Ave., Clarendon, Va. {See ficers, and 167 privates. The addresses given Chapter II, Part One.) are those at the time or enrollment, or as otber­ CHESTER WILLIAM HALSTED {Kay 22, 1891- ), erwise indicated. apptd. Sept. 19, 1917, 1st Lieut. Field Art., Motor Transport Corps; disc. Apr. 10, 1919; 1. Officers 823 So. 38th St., Louisville Ky. WALTER GEORGE HALLSTEAD (Sept. 13, 1887- ), CORNELiusio HARSEN HALSTED (Apr. 27, 1893- apptd. Oct. 10, 1918, 1st. Lieut. Jled. Corps; ; Jacob Harsen9 H.) apptd. Aug. 15, 1917, served at Base Hosp., Camp Deven, Kass; disc. 1st Lieut. Quartermasters Corps, Office, Chief Feb. 14! 1919}. 826 Taylor Ave., Scranton, Pa. PUrchasing Officer, Paris; disc. Feb. 6, 1919; WILL AK FinN HALLSTEAD (Dec. 28, 1892- ; 13 Franklin St., Morristown~ N. J. George Madison H.) b. at Buffalo, H. Y.; apptd. GILBERT COUTANT10 BALSTEJJ, JR. (Apr. a, Nov. 27, 1917, 2d Lieut. Field Art., Co. F, 1893- ; GilbE:rt Coutant' H.) apptd. Aug. 8, 304th Ammunition Train; participated in Meuse­ 1917, 1st Lieut., Inspection Division, Ordnance Argonne Offensive; disc. June 9, 1919; he is a Dept., Albpny, N. Y.; disc. July 11, 1919; journalist and lives in Dalton, Pa. 427 Washington Ave. 1 BrooklYn, N. Y. ALBERT EDWARD HALSTEAD (1868-1926; William HAROLD CAKERDEN1o HALSTED lFeb. 25, 1891- Smith H.), apptd. June 28, 1918, Lieut. Col. ; Gilbert Coutant 9 H.), apptd.•Sept. 15, Jled. Corps; served at Base Hosp. Ro. 68; disc. 1917, 2d Lieut. Air Service, Ellington Field, Jan. 31, 1919; 30 N. Jlich. Blvd., Chicago, Ill.; Texas; disc. Jan. 15, 1919; 59 Wellington, (See Chapter II, Part I.) Road, Garden City, L. I.i H. Y. EARL TRACY HALSTEAD (Dec. 23, 1887- ) JAKES ELLINWOOD HALSTEJJ (July 5, 1892- ) apptd. Apr. 6, 1917, 2d Lieut. or 374th Inf. apptd. Jan. 14, 1918, 2d Lieut. Air Service, at headquarters of 9th Corps Area, Presidio, M111tary Aeronautics, Wash., D. c.; disc. San Francisco, Calif.; disc. Apr. 7, 1919; at July 16L 1919; 715 Ash St.L Baraboo, Wis. present (Kay, 1933), a warrant officer, 9th SAKU~L TH01'PSON10 HALST~D (Nov. 11, 1894- Coast Art. headquarters. ; Arthur Hilton' H.) apptd. Nov. 14, 1917, _ FELIX GUNDY HALSTEAD (July 27, 1894- ) 1st Lieut. Air Service, Spruce Production Di­ apptd. Aug. 5, 1917, Capt. ot Co. D, 129th vision, Bureau of Aircraft Production, Van­ Jlachine Gun Battn.; disc. Feb. 13, 1919; lived couver Barracks, Wash.; disc. Jan. 29, 1919; at Caruthersville, Ko. Howard, Kans. FR.ABK HALSTEAD, Col. See the beginning of -o-o- this chapter. GRIFFIN HALSTEAD (1876- ; Murat), apptd. XII. THE REGULAR ARMY Feb. 25, ~918, Capt. Ordnance Reserve Corps, 133d Field Art., 61st Field Art. Brig.; disc. It appears that 17 Halsteads have served in Oct. 25, 1919; lives at Cincinnati, O. (See the u. S. Army. Eleven of them were enlisted Chapter ?~ __ Part II for his genealogy.) men and have been included elsewhere in the HAL FA.tffiAK HALSTEAD (Sept. 22, 1872- )apptd. total number of Halstead soldiers. The six Apr. 6, 1917, Capt. Quartermaster Corps; served o£fic~rs are as follows: at Zone Supply Otfice, Atlanta, Ga.; disc. Oct. 20, 19191 KissionL_!exas. 1. Officers HAROLJJ GU».AER .WU.STEAD (Dec. 31, 1888-1920), EARL TRACY HALSTEAD (1887- ), apptd. a apptd. Nov. 27, 1917, 1st Lieut., Btry. B, 64th warrant ofricer in May, 1933. See "The World Field Art., Siberian Railway Forces u. s. Army; wa·r. n disc. Dec. 20, 1918; d. Mar. 29, 1920; San EDWARD LAMBERT 8 HALSTED, Capt. See "The Francisco Calif. Civil War. n HARBY THORNTON HALSTEAD (May 22, 1875- ), FRANK HALSTEAD, Col., retired. See the be­ apptd. Sept. 14, 1918, 1st Lieut. Dental Corps, ginning of this chapter. Camp Wheeler, Ga.; disc. Dec. 14, 1918; 637 GEORGE BLIGHT 9 HALSTED, Kaj. See Chapter IV, 13th Ave., Huntington, W. Va. Part One and "The Civil War." HENRY WESLEY HALSTEAD (July 311 1869- )apptd. LAURENCE HALSTEAD, Col. See the beginning Apr. 12, 1917, Capt. 61st Pioneer Inf.; disc. of this chapter. Feb. 25 1919; 9 Duncas Ave., Jersey City, N). J. WILLI.All HENRY HALSTEAD (1894- ) b. in JAJIEt>1 NEUSOJiE HALSTEAD (Jan. 29, 1895- N. J.; apptd. Apr. 12, 1917, 1st Lieut. or Inf. apptd. Aug. 15, 1917, Capt. of Inf., ~ilitary in World War; apptd. Dec., 1920, 2d Lieut. of Police Corps, District of Paris; disc. June 12, Cav., and May, 1933, Maj. of 14th Inf. 1919; Brazil Ind. -o-o- JOBN PRES~ON10 HALSTEAD (Aug. 15, 1886- ; B. S E R V I C E I N T H E N A VY, John Preston' H.) apptd. Aug. 15, 1917, Maj. of 1828-1933 Field Art., School of Fire, Camp Taylor, Ky.; disc. Dec. 21 1918; 1311 H. George St., Rome, 865 R. Y. WILLIAM Bi:NJE~~1~ j~i~E1 ( 1810- ; JOSEPH RUSSELL HALSTEAD apptd. Oct. 15, 1917, Caleb Stockton 7 H.) , b. in N. Y. City; apptd • 1st Lieut., 8th Service Co., 20th Engineers; from Union, H.J., Acting , Nov. 1, disc. July 7, 1919; killed in an automobile ac- 1828, and accepted Jan. 7, 1829; although BALSTEADS AS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS several times he requested active service, but Passed Asst. SUrg.; served on the U.S. s. was never ordered to it; res. Dec. 10, 1829. See "Kartha Washington"; disc. June 21, 1919, (See "The Indian Wars" Chapter II, Part One.) FRANK WILLIAll:1 HALSTED (1833-1876; Oliver WILLIAM TYLER10 HALSTED (Dec. 4, 1895- ; Spencer 8 H.), b. in Newark, N. J.; apptd. from Henry Koorei H.) b. in Brooklyn, N. Y.; enl. Newark, N. J., Acting Kasterts Kate; served on Dec. a, 1917; apptd. Aug. 28, 1918, Ensign, the "Minnesota"; res. Apr. 1, 1862; enl. at Naval Reserve Forces; was a Naval aviator; disc. Chicago, Ill., as seaman, June 20, 1863; served Jan. 22, 1919; 682 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. on the "Clara Dolsen"; disc. Oct. 4, 1863; -o-o- Oct. 12, 1863, apptd. Acting Ensign; served on "Clara Dolsen"; placed in command of the "Gen­ C. RECAPITULATION eral Pillow" when it was performing guard duty at Cairo and Mound City, Ill., from which he The number of Halsteads who served as sol­ was detached Aug. 30, 1865, too 111 with chills diers and sailors in the various periods and in and fever to navigate the vessel; disc. Nov. 4, the different wars enumerated was: 1865. (See ChaRter IV, Part I.) Pre-Rev. Period ••• 8 Spanish-Amer. War ••• 24 ISRAEL TERRY HALSTED (1819-1889&:; Asa 7 ), Rev. War •••••••••• 64 Philippine Insurrect. 2 b. in Newburgh, N. Y.; apptd. from Newburgh, Pa. Insurrect ••••• 5 PUnitive Exped. Sept. 13, 1862, Acting Ensign; served on the War of 1812 ••••••• 62 to Mex ••••••••••••• 2 "Keokuk" which participated in the attack on Indian Wars ••••••• 7 Army, r.orld War ••••• 236 Fort Sumter, Apr. 7, 1863, and sank the next Kexican War••••••• 8 Navy, World War •.••• 47 day; May 15, 1863, assigned to "Dai Ching"; May Union Army, Regular Army •••••••• 17 21, 1863, to the "Quaker City"; Oct. 29, 1863, Civil War ••••••• 209 Navy, before 1865 ••• 3 placed in command of the "Jonquil"; in April, Confed. Army, Navy, after 1864, placed in command of the "Iris"; Oct. 25, Civil War••••••• 87 World War••••••••• l 1864, attached to the "Princeton"; res. May 8, Total ···•···•·••••••782 1865, because his invalid wife and aged mother Twenty-six individuals served in more than required his care. one war, making an equal number of duplica­ tions; thus, the actual number of Halsteads 2. SERVICE AFTER 1865 who served was 756. During the World War 47 Halsteads were en­ -0-0-0- rolled in the Navy Department. Two of them were enlisted as female Yeoman, ~aval Reserve Forces. •Bistorical Register and Dictionacy ot the United States The following eight commissioned officers, ex­ Arlll;y"-He:ltman (1903), Gov. Print. Off. cept Kervin, were in the World War, and Admiral "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Arm;y Alexander Halstead has participated in all the during the War of the Rebellion•--Heit.man (1914). U. s. wars since he graduated from the Naval "Official Register of Officers and Volunteers in the Academy in 1883. Service the United States"-(1900). 2 or ALEXANDER SEAJIAN HALSTEAD, Rear Admiral, re­ "The 'War of the Rebellion"-Ainsworth (1901), Gov. tired. See the beginning or this chapter. Print. Off. JACOB STEhl.ING 9 HALSTEAD (Aug. 16, 1894- ; "Complete Regular Arm:,- Register of the United States•• 8 Jacob ), b. in·Kamaroneck, N. Y.; enl. Kay 5, Hamersly (1881). 1917; apptd. Nov. 9, 1917, Ensign, Naval Reserve "The Political Register and Congressional Directcr:r•• Flying Corps; disc. Dec. 28, 1918, to resume his Poor (1878). law course in Harvard University; 860 Summit St., "List of Officers of the Navy of the United States•• Winnetka, Ill. Callahan (1901). JOHN DILWORTH HALSTEAD ·· ( Feb. 6, 1889- ; "Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of Caleb), b. in Norfolk Co., Va.; apptd. Apr. 21, the United States Navy"-(1952), Gov. Print. Ott. 1917, 1st Class Quartermaster; June 10, 1917, "Prelild.ns.ry List of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Served Chief Quartermaster; Oct. 15, 1917, Warrant on Signal Duty during·the War of the Rebellion•-Sig• Boatswain; Jan. 12, 1918, Chief Warrant Boat- l,i nal Service Office (1891). swain, Norfolk, Va.; 1933, Capt. of Norfolk, Va., "Official Army Register"--(1932), Gov. Print. Off. Fire-boat "Vulcan"; resides at Ocean View Ave., "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State"-N. Y. Ocean View, Va. State Pub. (1898). Supplement (1904). LOUIS HAROLD HALSTEAD (Nov. l, 1896- ) "Record of Connecticut Men in the Militia and Navy Serv­ b. in Philadelphia, Pa.; enl. June 2, 1918, as ice during the Viar of the Rebellion"--Conn. State Pub. seaman; apptd. Kay 25, 1919, Ensign, Naval Re­ (1889). · serve Forces; served at Naval Air Station, "The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina"-N. C. Pensacola, Fla.; disc. June 2, 1919; 6370 State Pub. Columbia Ave., Philadelphia, Pa • "Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars"--N. J. .MERVIN HALSTEAD (1908- ; Col. Laurence), State Pub. apptd. Ensign, June 5, 1930, after graduating "Virginia State.Library Report. Revolutionary Soldiers." at the U.S. Naval Academy; served on the "Mis­ "Collections of New York Historical Society." sissippi" and the "Salt Lake" and the 11Barrr•" ·'Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of (See Chapter 5, Part Two for his genealogy.} New Iork"--(1900). ROBERT HERBERT HALSTEAD (Apr. 10, 1895-1918) •ffl.story of Elizabeth, New Jersey•--Hatfield. b. in Mason, Kich; apptd. Kar. 27, 1918, Asst. "The Ogden Family in America 11--Wheeler (1907). Paymaster with rank of Ensign, Naval Reserve "A Genealogy end ffl.story Relating to the Halsted and Forces; d. July 11, 1918, on the U. s. s. Ogden Families•-King (1896). "Westover" which was torpedoed and sank in D. A. R. and S. A. R. Records, North Latitude 46° 25', West Longitude 130 27'. New Jersey, Hew York and Pennsylvania Archives. His mother is Myrta Jean Halstead, 227 W. Government Official Records. Sycamore St., Lansing Kich. "Who's Who"; Biographical dictionaries. 1 10 BARBEC.K11 HALSTED \1890- ; George Bruce 1·· The lineage records were furnished by Arthur S. Wardwell H.), b. in Austin, Texas; apptd. July 5, 1917, of Brooklyn, N. I. Asst. Surg. with rank of Lieut.; Jan. 1, 1918, . -0-0-0-- 42

Chapter VIII

T H E SURNAME 1 HALSTEAD'

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1 Halstead 1 was originally an Anglo-Saxon and as 1 stadt1 or 1 stedt1 in the continental place-name, appearing far back in antiquity, languages, signifies a place. There is no and is in use as such still. In the "Dooms­ known locality o:f such descr.iption w1 th which day Book", a survey and catalogue of all the 'Halstead' was first associated. It is more property and property-owners of England in likely that, if there was any specific deriva­ 1085 A.D., made by William the Conqueror, tion, it was simply from 1hall1 and 1stead1 •Halstead' and the forms 1Halsteda' and --the place with a hall, perhaps a manor 1Halstesteda' are recorded a number o:f times hall. There are other interpretations, for a locality in Essex,1 and in the form which seem far-fetched and less plausible, •Halsteda' in Suffolk. 2 About 1224 a John giving the meaning as a high or healthy de Eloud, in a gift of land to the Abbot and place. Convent of Stanlane, included his domain The spelling of the name in England today lands called 1Hallestedes and Swyneshold. 13 is generally 'Halstead' sometimes 'Halsted'. 1Ballstead', sometimes in the plural form The first immigrants to Jlassachusetts used 1Ballsteads', was a place~name given in •Halstead', with one exception, when the form deeds prior to 1260, near Great Marton, in was 1Holsteed1 • 'Jonas Halsteade' was the Lancaster."' 1Hallestedes1 was a part of the form of the signature of the first of the manor or Wyresdal, in Lancaster, in 1313. 6 line in New York State, but there are varia­ Halstead is the name or small cities in both tions of this in some of the records such as Essex and Kent, England. 'Jonas Halstead', 1Jonas Halsted' and 'Halstead' is not found as. a surname, al­ 'Jonah Hallstead', some of which he must though it may have existed as such long be­ either have written or been aware of with­ fore, until the Twelfth Century. It was out objection. Most of his descendants used then usually with 1de 1 meaning 'from' or 'Halstead', but an Orange County, New York, 1of 1 • About 1150 there were Ralph and Roger branch, beginning with Thomas Hallstead de Halstede, 8 that is, Ralph and Roger of (1723-1806), inserted an extra 11', which Halstede. "Johannem filium de Hugonis de some of his descendants have continued. In Halstede" is given in a court record, writ­ the New Jersey branch 'Halsted' was adopted ten in Latin, in 1297.7 William de Halle­ early and has prevailed since. The first stedes is mentioned in a court roll of Halstead in Virginia spelled his name 1Hol­ .1324. 8 stead1 and it appears in some records as By the Fourteenth Century the 1de 1 disap­ 1Bollstead. 1 The first generations after pears, and there is then a mass of records him used 1Holstead', but still later ones of names without it, such as Adam Hallstede adopted 'Halstead' almost universally. in 1379, Ricardus Hallstedes 1n 1379, Edmund 1Halstead 1 , 1Halsted 1 , 1Hallsted1 , 'Hall­ Halstede in 1389, Richard Halstede in 1544, stead', 1Holstead 1 and 1Holsted 1 are the Nicholas Halsted in 1563, Richard Halsteade only forms now in use. None is't~e incon­ in 1587, Henry Houlsteede in 1618, Isabel testably authentic one. The majority of the Houlstead in 1636, and John Holstead in 1639.9 family now use 'Halstead'. 'Halstedt1 , Some of these forms may be due to errors in 1Halstied 1 , 1Halstad 1 and 1Halstat1 are to reading and copying old documents, and be found in city directories and in the others of them to the phonetic spelling World War personnel records at Washington, prevalent in.ancient times. In those days but they are either errors or the individuals people did not even spell their own names possessing them are not of the same stock. uniforml7. Sir Walter R~leigh is known to The name is always pronounced by its have signed his surname five different ways. bearers as if it were spelled 1Haulstead1 , The first syllable of 'Halstead', 1hals', So 'Hallstead' and 1Holstead1 are the spell­ means etomologically an island with water, ings which are the most natural ones for the or a neck of land 1n the water, or a tract of accepted pronunciation. low land; the second syllable, •stead', Biblical Christian names, such as John, 1 steede' or •stead', frequent in England, Jam.es, Timothy, Thomas, Simon, Ezekiel, THE SURNAME 1HALSTEAD 1 43

Stephen, Joseph and William, and Ruth, Kary, lnvictorian History of County Essex." Sarah and llartha have predominated from the 2 11 v1ctorian History of County Suffolk." ancient English families through all later 511History ~f Wballey"--iVhi ttaker. branches and periods. This continuity of 4 11 v1ctorian History of County Lancaster." the same given names has persisted in the 511 Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids, County Lan- Halstead family, as it has in others of pure caster." English extraction, for seven hundred years. 611Bibliotheca Typographica Brittainica, Antiquities This, and the absence of middle names, and of Hawstead", Vol. V. of 'Senior• and •Junior' by which to dis­ 7ncorem Rege Roll of the Trinity Term of the ling's tinguish father and son in early records, Bench, 25 Edward I." makes genealogical research on the family 8111ancaster Court Rolls." difficult for those periods. Three or four 9For these, and maey other records of early wills, John Halsteads may appear in the same lo­ marriages, christenings, burials and court cality in the same period, for example, and rolls, see "Dictionary of English and Welsh Sur­ it is sometimes impossible to know to what names"--Beardsley; the publications of the family each belongs or to which one certain British Record Society; those of the Harleian historical records apply. This is shown Society and similar works. particularly in Chapter VII, Part One.

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Chapter IX

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No general history of the Halsteads of brothers, Ralph and Roger de Halstede, England has ever been prepared. Relatively Knights, who were accused at Norwich before little has been written on them collectively. William Martel, the King's Sewer, by the There are fragmentary articles on some of Courtiers Jordon de Bloffville and Richard the branches, some family genealogies, and a de-Walden of having plotted to betray and few biographical sketches of prominent in­ murder the King when he ·should lead his dividuals. Thus, it is only from fragmenta­ forces against Bedford, in the hearing of a ry material gleaned from many sources, that young man named Herbert, and or having spoken an account of them can be written. American on the matter to Robert and Adam de Hornings­ investigators have been fascinated by the berth. An Abbot, defending Ralph and Roger, great age, importance, and sustained worth convinced the Court that they belonged in St. of the English family, but baffled and dis­ Edmund, another jurisdiction, and so they appointed in their attempts to find a unified were not tried at Norwich. The sequel or acco1mt of it. Like their American cousins, their histories otherwise were not given. they seem not to have had sufficient pride There was a reference in the same work to of ancestry, although it is well justified, Robert de Halstede, son or Ralph de Halstede, to have inspired a formal history, such as who had one Knight's fee at Hawstede and exlst ror many other ram111es or 11ke char­ half a one in Brackley (Somersetshire). 2 acter. Other historical references, in the Thir­ It is often supposed from the fact that teenth and Fourteenth centuries, only a there are two small cities in En.gland named small part of those existing, are: Halstead, one in Kent, southeast of London on the Straits of Dover, and the other in Es­ Peter de Ba1lestedes was mentioned in a $8X, northeast of London, that the Hal­ court proceeding in Lancashire on October steads were natives of one or both of them, 20, 1246.3 either giving the family name to or deriving In the minutes or the ancient Court or the it from them. Hawsted, in Suffolk, is a sug­ King• s Bench in 129'1, known as the Corem Rege gestively similar name. Roll or the Trinity Term, an extremely old, Several searches have been made at these but finely greserved document, written in points for the or1g:1.n of the lialsteads. Murat Hal.­ medieval Latin and legal idiom, difficul.t to stead once visited Halstead, Essex, for the translate tully, appears: "Ad hoc de At­ purpose without success. Elizabeth R. King tornatis-Essexia..Johannes Lateby loco suo investigated the ancient records at Halstead, Walterum de Middleton versus Johannen filium Kent, and at Hawsted, Suffolk, in 1890,but Hugonis de Halstede de placito transgres­ obtained nothing of the hoped for results. sionis.11 This records some step in litiga­ At Halstead, Essex, however, while she tion involving Johan Lateby, of Walter, near found no records of Halsteads at the historic Middleton, County Essex, and Johann (or John) parish Church of St. Andrews or on the grave­ Halstede, son of Hugo Halstede. 4 stones in the church-yard, some of which William de Hallestede paid six pence for a bore dates as early as 1409, she learned license for tanning in Lancashire, March 1, froa an old historical work that the site of 1524.5 the city of Halstead, which had been called The guardianship or John, ten years old, Balsad, Halstide, Howlstede, Howsted, Hau­ son of John de Halstede, was committed to sted and Hawsted, belonged to three Norman Robert le Mareshal, goldsmith, in London on chiefs at the time of the Conquest, and soon April 4, 1529. 6 afterwards was in the possession of a family William de Halsted was one of the signers of of note named de Hausted. Of this family was an indenture covering the settlement of a con­ Richard de Hausted, who lived during the troversy betwem the Abbot of Whalley and the reigns of Stephen (1133-1154) and Henry II parishioners, as to the tithes of hay to be (1154-1189).1 paid, at the Feast of St. Bilacy, 1555 • ., In this same period, there were also two Ralph de Halsted.a was chosen, on April 25, THE ENGLISH HALSTEADS 45

1558, as one o:f the representatives o:f a ward of the district such as the Barcrofts of in London to safeguard the city. 8 Barcroft,. the Foldys of Deneshouse, the Elias de Hallestedes was a party to a court Haydocks of Hessanford, the Hoghtons of Bogh­ proceeding in Yorkshire on November 18, 1550. 11 ton Tower and the Towneleys of Hurstwood. Richard Halsted was a draper of London, se­ Beginning in 1593, the Hallsteds, just lected :from the Tower ward by the llsyor and which ones is not clear, but probably Oliver Aldermen, on September 29 1 1566, as one of and his son John, built a stone mansion, in two from his cra:ft to watch over his :fel1ow successive stages, supposedly to replace an cra:ftamen and report misdoers to the Mqor for ancient farm house, which became widely punishment.10 known, in later times, as one of the best Edmund Halstede, mentioned a number of times examples of English country architecture. otherwise in the records, was one of the execu­ The walls were of rough dressed stone and tors o:f an estate in London, on October 25 1 the roof was covered with stone slate. On 1592.11 stone shields on either side of the doorway were the initials of John and Mary (Sellers) From the Fourteenth Century forward, as Hallsted with the date, "27 September 1593." the Halsteads increased in number and spread A peculiar feature of Rowley Hall was that a over England, and as the periods are reached roadway from Netherwood to Brown.side Bridge, when there are more historical documents that was used until modern times, originally available, there is an increasing number of passed in at the front door and out the back. records of the Halsteads, such as christen­ In 1876 it was written of the place: ings, marriages, and burials in parish church registers, and wills, deeds and court minutes Like too many old and respectable mansions in the public records. The majority of it is mourning the absence of its owner, these are for London, for Lancashire, north­ though the situation is exceeded by none ill west of London, and for Glouchestershire, the neighborhood; warm, sequestered, and en­ directly west of London. There are similar V1roned by rising oak woods, to the growth o:f records in other places.12 which the soil is peculiarly favorable. Row­ It is of the Halsteads of Rowley and ley Hall has been considerably modernized. Worsthorn Halls, Burnley, Lancaster, a mari­ The two gables to the south have been re­ time county on the northwest coast of Eng­ tained and so have the two mullioned and land, of which Manchester is the principal transomed windows to the south, consisting city, that there is the best rerd. Some of than of five compartments each. were wealthy; some of them were members of the landed gentry, the third class of the In 1914 the estate was purchased by Sir tilted aristocracy below the royalty and the John o. s. Thursby, when the mansion was in peerage, and there were celebrities among a good livable condition. their descendants. These Halsteads were Worsthorn Hall was on the bank of a nar­ first known in the Fourteenth Century at row stream, and was a large three-storied High Halsted, near Extwistle, north of grit-stone building with gables and a large Worsthorn on the slope of the nearby valley porch, which went up the full heighth of the overlooking Swinden, in Yorkshire, or as has house; had a semi-circular headed doorway, been otherwise described, on the moors near and the rooms on the first floor were lighted Worsthorn, a few miles east of Burnley. Row­ by a large six-foot mullioned and transomed ley and Worsthorn are in Worsthorn Township window. On a panel of the doorway, in raised in the extreme eastern border of the county letters, was inscribed, "Robertus Halsted et near the Yorkshire line. Elizabetha exor ejus, Anno Domini 1638." William and John de Hallested are the Of Worsthorn Hall, Phillip Gilbert Hamer­ first of the line definitely identified. ton, the art critic, considered that it was, They lived in the reign of Henry V (1387- "the most harmonious and complete house of 1422), and are recorded as jurors at the its size I ever saw", and he ·expressed a Halmot Court in 1425. William de Hallested high opinion of its, "simple beauty of de­ was followed by Oliver Hallsted, who died sign and its perfect unity." It was charac­ in 1582, who had a son John Hallsted. The terized by another authority as,"one of the latter married Mary Sellers and died in 1632. best examples of substantial and ornamental Branches of the family settled at Burnley, domestic architecture to be found in the Cockden, Hollingreave, Northwood, Ridihalgh, country." Having become ruinous and danger­ Smallshaw and Windle House. They were gen­ ous, partly due to mining operations under­ erally among the most substantial yoemen and neath, it was torn down in 1893. gentry and married into the leading families It has often been suggested that Barnard THE ENGLISH HALSTEADS 46

Towneley, of Hurstwood, a celebrated architect He was in charge of a squadron of sta­ of his time, designed these two mansions.i3 tioned off Elba which fought and captured a num­ LAWRENCE HALLSTED, the second son of John and ber of enemy vessels. In the spring of 1805 he Mary (Sellers) Hallsted, when a merchant of was appointed to London, with a manor the "Namur" which at Summinge, Berk­ assisted in captur- shire, west of Lon­ ing four French don, was granted a that Coat of Arms by Sir had escaped in the William Segar, battle of Trafalgar. Garter, represent­ He saw service in ing the College of the Mediterranean Heraldry, on Novem­ and on the coast of ber 1, 1628. His Portugal and was ad­ wife was Hester vanced to the rank Chambrelan, daughter of Rear-Admiral, of Abraham Chambre­ July 31, 1810, to lan, a London mer­ Vice-Admiral, June chant. Their chil­ 4, 1814, and was dren were Lawrence, nominated Knight Abraham, John, Design of a Crest granted Commander of the Oliver, James, Vice-Admiral Lawrence Bath, June 2, 1815. Matthias and Wil­ William Halsted A Coat of Arms and liam. The pedigree a Crest were con­ Design o! the coat of Arms of this family has ferred upon him by Henry St. George of the Col­ granted in 1628 to Lawrence been perpetuated lege of Heraldry on May 10, 1687. His wife Hallsted, a London merchant in the College of was a daughter of Sir Edward Pellow, Viscount Heraldry. u Exmouth. Lieutenant William Lawrence Halsted, LAWRENCE HALSTEAD, another Lawrence of the of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, who died Rowley group, the grandson of John and Mary March 14, 1829 at the age of twenty-eight, was Halstead, born in 1638, who married Alice Bar­ their son.i7 croft, was Deputy to Doctor Brady, Keeper of EDWARD PELLOW HALSTED entered the British the Records of the Tower of London to whom a Navy in 1821, was made Captain April 15, 1842, Coat of Arms in his own right was granted and Admiral April 12, 1862. He was the author May 10, 1688. -He took arms against Charles I in of 11 The Screw Fleet of the Navy" (1850), "Eng­ the Civil War, but was so well respected that land's Navy Still Unarmed, a Series of Letters in the treaty between Parliament and the King to the First Lord of the Admiralty" (1864), he was specifically exempted from all indemni­ "The Navy Unarmed Still, An Appeal to Both ties. However, he removed _to Jamaica, West Houses of Parliament" (1865), and "A Turret Indies, where many political exiles went, and Navy of the Future" 1866.ie where he established a branch of the Halsteads GEORGS AMTHONY HALSTED was a retired Rear­ prominent there in later times.is Admiral of the British Navy on December 2, 1865, ROBERT HALSTEAD, a haberdasher of the city and a retired Vice-Admiral on November 2, 1871.1.9 of Rochester, England, one of the Lancashire RICHARD HALSTED (1685-1723) was a curate in group, left a tenement house in Rochester knovm Horburg, Yorkshire, in 1710, and later at Hut­ as the "Swan", first to his wife for her life ton-Paynel. and then to Robert Halsted, son of William Hal­ THOMAS DANIEL HALSTEAD, was rector at St. sted of Worsthorn, to pay a sum of money annual­ Thomas 1 s, Birmingham, from 1870 to 1888, later ly to the poor of Burnley and \"lorsthorn, to be vicar of Lower Hereford. In 1866 he published distributed by the church wardens.ic "Our Missions 11 , mainly a history of missionary LAWRENCE WILLIAM HALSTED, of the Lancashire effort among the Jews. line also, was Vice-Admiral of the White in the LEONIDAS B. HALSTEAD, under the pseudonym British Navy and Knight Commander of the Most of Hilary Leonidas was the author in 1876 of Honourable Military Order of the Bath. The son 4 novel entitled "Phoenicia." of Captain Halsted, of the British Navy, he was CAROLINE A. HALSTED, who died in 1851, was in the service from 1782 to 1815; was Third the author of 11 Life of Margaret Beaufort, Lieutenant of the "Canada 74", then of the Countess of Richmond and Derby" (1839), "Life "Hectorn and then 0£ the "London." Subsequent­ of' Richard III" in two vo1umes (1844), and ly he commanded the "Venus" of thirty-two guns, "Obligations of Literature to the Mothers of then the "Phoenix" of thirty-six guns. Later England", a Graham prize essay (1846). he was in charge of a squadron consisting of DOMVILLE HALSTED, of Dane Bank, assU!J'P.d the the "Leopold", "Pegasus" and "Sylph" that at­ name of Poole in compliance with the re~~~st tacked a Dutch squadron which had left a port of the Reverend Cudworth Poole. He was born at in Norway and captured it after a sharp battle. Lymme, Cheshire, in 1761 and died in 1795; THE ENGLISH HALSTEADS 47 married Saroli, daughter and co-heiress of States is of pure Anglo-Saxon extraction. The James Massey of Postherne, and he and his de­ only known body of Halsteads in the world from sce.mants were prominent as gentry. 20 which they could have sprung, before and at th~ HENRY HALSTEAD, who died August 13, 1728, time of the settlement of America,was in Eng­ was Presbyter of St. Paul's, London. He left land. They came to English colonies. There a valuable library to the Burnley School at are references to England in some of the rec­ Burnley, Lancashire. ords they left: William Halstead, who died at HALSTEAD PLACE, in the Parish of Halstead, Concord, Massachusetts, in 1645, refers in his Kent, eighteen miles south of London, a country will to his brother Henry's possible return to estate, was owned in early times by a family England and it is known that Henry did so re­ named Malvil, then came into the possession of turn. There are records in England which point Admiral Lord Vere about 1775. A family named to them: Grace Halstead, wife of Michael Bar­ Atkins then acquired it, and it was described stow, of Massachusetts, was married to Barstow in 1838 as, "situated in a beautiful park; the near Halifax, Yorkshire: In his will proved house is of modern architecture, handsome and May 2, 1651, at London, Abraham Halstead, a spacious; the interior is very elegant and dec­ merchant of Rotterdam, left twenty-five pounds, orated with valuable paintings, and the grounds "unto my sister in New England, and, if she be are beautiful and well adorned with shrubber­ dead, to the nearest of her friends there", but ies.n21 she is not identified otherwise. MAJOR DAVID HALSTEAD, of Haslingden, Lanca­ There is a tradition, especially among the shire, is the most prominent of the many Hal­ members of the Southern branch, that the Hal­ steads of England today. Others of them are steads are of Scottish descent. They are said successful and well respected in business and to possess Scottish physical traits and mental in the professions. Major Halstead is an author qualities. McDougal, in "Scots and Scots De­ on local historical subjects, an antiquarian, scendants in America" includes Murat Halstead in geologist and collector. In the World War he a list of American newspaper editors with Scots was Commandant of Prison War Camps in Egypt; as ancestors. William Riley Halstead wrote of was Mayor of Haslingden 1917-1919; a member of his own, "high Scotch ancestry, the pedigree or Parliament 1922-1923; has written, "Annals of which was lost before I was bornn, and that his Halsingden", "History of St. James Parish grandfather, Reuben Halstead, Jr., was, uscotch, Church", "Sketches in the Lancaster Dialect", with a brusque and snappy brogue. 11 11 Papers on the Geology of Rosserdale" and Scots came to the first American settlements "History of the Fifth East Lancaster Territori­ and all the succeeding ones in large num?ers, al Regiment" in-which he served for forty years, but in this investigation, covering many his­ enlisting as a private in 1879. Richard Hal­ torical and genealogical sources, not a single stead, a cotton manufacturer of Clifton House, reference was found to Halsteads in Scotland Haslingden, was his father. He married first prior to the early immigration to America. If Esther Lindsay, second Louise Duckworth and there were Halsteads there, they cannot be has five sons and five daughters.22 traced now and,moreover, it is probable that,if such was the case, they would have been branches -0-0-0- of the English family. There is another tradition, prevalent in the T h e F i r s t I m m i g r a n t New York and New Jersey branches, that three H a 1 s t e a d s Halstead brothers came from England to Massa­ chusetts, that two of them removed to Long A small group of Halsteads appeared in Island, and that the three are the original Massachusetts abou~ 1635, fifteen years after ancestors of the American family. This has the Mayflower and the Pilgrims reached the been found to be erroneous and in place of it American shore. A single family, the head of there is a different set of well authenticated which was J.onas Halstead, was at Hempstead, Long facts given in the later chapters. Island, New York, twenty odd years after the Some forty years ago an Ohio man, interested Dutch made the first settlement there. Henry as an attorney in the Anneke Jans Borgardus Halstead reached Virginia, near Norfolk, in claim on the Trinity Church property in New 1651, forty-four years after Jamestown. But York City, as a part of his propaganda for col­ exactly when or how or from what places these lecting funds from several families, includ­ Halsteads came to America, except in one case, ing the Halsteads, alleging that Thomas Hall­ is unknown. Nor has the family r_elationship stead5married Phebe Bogardus, sent out a con­ between these three immigrant stems ever been siderable amount of Halstead genealogical and established. All that is known about them is historical data. A great deal of this has given in the succeeding chapters. since been found to be grossly inaccurate and -,,'hile not incontestably proved oy ·documentary fictitious. This man claimed to have traced evidence, it is certain from other circumstances the Halsteads back to a Syms Hallstead of that these immigrants were English Halsteads,and, Sweden, who had a son named James; James had a thus, that the Halstead family of the United son, Alexander, who was Duke of Halland, a NGLISH HALSTEADS 48 province of Sweden; some of their descendants C a p t a i n M a t h i a s settled in Holstein, Germany; from there a H a 1 s t e d I s E x p e d i t i o n t o group went to the coast of Scotland in 910 America A.D.; two brothers Robert and John Hallstead served under William the Conqueror in the Bat­ Mathias Halsted was sent from England to tle of Hastings in 1067; they afterwards set­ Carolina in 1671, immediately after the first tled at Chiselhurst, County Kent, where they colony was founded there, on a mission for the were given a manor and coats of Arms, and some Lord Proprietors, which extended over two years of their descendants went to County Lancaster. time. He was probably the Mathias who was the Prior to all this a Coat of Arms had been given to sixth son and child of Lawrence Halsted, a mer­ Baron Robert Hallstead in the year 732 after chant of London, with an estate at Summinge, the Battle of Tours in France. This tale has Berkshire, who married Hester Chambrelan; was given ~ise to a legend that the Halsteads are born at Burnley, Lancashjre, July l, 1638, and of Norman descent. An extensive search has his will was proved October 1, 1690. failed to disclose any historical warrant for Charles II had granted to the Earl of Claren­ these statements. don, and six other favorites, in 1663, an area -0-0-0- in America extending from ocean to ocean com­ posed of what is now North and South Carolina. lThe entoaologists assume that Hausted, Hawsted, and The first settlers were sent out in 1670 to the like, are variations of Halstead, but there is Albermarle Point in the Ashley River, most of doubt of this. There are records of de Hausteds ill whom removed, in 1680, to the present site of this and later periods which seem to indicate that Charleston. The famous Fundamental Constitution, they~ have been of a different f8111ily. largely drawn by John Locke, which was a con­ 2•l11bU.otheaa Topographica Brittannica", Vol. v, "The stant source of trouble, was imposed on the col­ Histories and Antiquities of Hawsted, in the County ony, but it was abolished after a revolution in of SUf'follt (1780-90) 11-Nicols. 1719 that threw off the yoke of the Proprietors, &nLancaster Assize Rolls•-Part I. resultiµg in Carolina becoming a royal province 411corem Rage Roll of Trinity Term, Cou:rt of the King1 s in 1729. Bench, 25 F.liward I. 11 Captain Halsted was given command of the ves­ inLancaster Court Rolls. 11 . sel "Blessing." His instructions were, after 6 11 calender of Letter Books of the City of London"­ landing his ninety-six passengers, "delivering Boolc c. eight lesser guns and their carriages" to the 7nPleadings and Depositions, Duclq Court of Lancaster" Governor and Council, to investigate the pro­ -Vol. II. visions of clothes, the stores of war, the fish­ Sncalender of Select Pleas and Memoranda of the City- of ing trade, the Indian trade, certain disputed London 11-l381-1412. accounts with individuals, to locate a good 9•Final Concords, Lancaster Fines0 --Part II. body of land for Lord Ashley personally, and: lDncalender or Select Pleas and Memoranda of the City or London 11-158l-1412. You are to informe yr sel£e alsoe dureing yr llncalender or Letter Books of the City of London"- stq you shall at any time make in Carolina, con­ Book VIII• . cerning ye heal~essse, richness, & other l2see parish registers, registry of wills and inquisi­ Property-es or ye soy-le, ye usefull ProdUctions tions and the like. of ;re Country, & enquire wt masts ye Country pro­ ~~ •Express and Advertiser", Literary and Anti­ duces, of wt diameter the largest, and whether ye quarian Corner, Jan. 15, 19141 and other near num­ great ones grow near ;re sides of any rivers by­ bers; 11The Spending of the .Money of Robert Norvell" wch they may by- water be brought to the ship & to (1877)-Grosart. bring samples or Casini and their dying Stuffes, 14nvisitations of London"; "History of Lancaster11 - etc. Cor17. In all ;re places you goe you are to learn as 15nNotes and Queries", 5rd. Ser. Vol. 4; 11Granties r.r much as ;re can or ye husbandry of Manu.facturet, of Arms"---Harleian Soc. Pub. ye place, which may be use.ful to our people ill 16Bumi., n Express and Advertiser", Literar;y and An ti­ Carolina, as particularly in Virginia ye sorts & quarian Corner, Jan. 151 1914, and nearby numbers. ordering of mulberry trees, silk worms & all be­ l711arshall'a 11,Haval Biographiesn (1825); "H~•s Hand- longing to ye right way of msldng ye best Silk, book of Dignities~" Tobacco, Indigo, Cotten & c., & this to communi­ l811Bad,yn•s Handbook or Dignities." cate to our people at Ashley River, & particularly 19 nHad,yn • s Handbook of Dignities. n y-ou are to carry from Virginia some of the best sort 8l "Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britian" (1906) • of mulberry trees for Silkworms & plant them there. 21 "llieto17 of Counv Kent•-Greenwood. 22•The English Who's Who.• Captain Halsted sailed about May 1 and -0-0-0- reached the Ashley River August 14, 1671. He THE ENGLISH HALSTEADS 49 voyaged to New York, returning on December 13; On December 6, 1671, four months after Hal­ then to the Barbadoes and back to Carolina sted had reached America he was in great favor, twice; from Carolina he sailed for England in for Lord Ashley wrote him: June of 1673. On these voyages he obtained many passengers for the colony, which he had I am very glad to find that I have not been been told he was to make his main object, and mistaken in the man whom I employed in our Caro­ traded at all the places visited, including line affairs and that you have acquitted your­ "Augustins", in timber, rum, sugar, molasses selie soe well to all our satisfaction. Since I and cattle. He took a cargo of cedar to Eng­ in particular relied upon you. This gives me land. great Encouragement to continue you in our Serv­ Upon his return from New York, he had a ice, though we have formerly sent orders and doe quarrel with the Council over accounts which now again for comeing home (as you will find more resulted in his arrest, although as is dis­ at large in our Publicque Letter and the Instruc­ closed in the record of the Council meeting of tions therewith sent you) yet it is far from acy January 6, 1671-72, the matter was soon set­ dislike we have of you that at you.re returne wee tled. intend to send you againe and should not now call you home were it not the better to acco1DD1odate ••• the said Capt. Halsted declining to rectify our affairs to the AdV8Iltage of the Plantation and the errors in said account, fell into abusive and you mey assure them there at your comeing away that reproachful language & indecent behavour to ye & we intend to send you and Mr. Comeing againe to before ye Grand Council in contempt of ye honor of Caroline in such a ship as shall be most conven­ ye Lord Proprietors and ye present Government of ient for our business there ••• this Province, wherefore it is ordered by the Grand Council that the said Capt. Halsted be forthwith However, Captain Mathias seems to have fall­ _committed to the Marshal 1 s custody there to remain en from grace later, for, in a letter of the until the said Capt. Helsted gives security for Lord Proprietors to Lord Shaftesbury, dated at his good behavour. Whitehall, November 20, 1674, nearly a year a£ter his return to England, it was said: In his periodic reports, Halstead told Lord Ashley that Governor West was, "a person faith­ We are much importuned by that idle fellow full and stout but noe good as governor"; that Halsted who used us soe ill; to !llake an end with he had explored the Ashley River and found it him we desire your Lord•s advice what we shall doe navigable only a short distance from the sea; in that particular. that he had gone up the Cooper River over -0-0-0- eighty miles; that, "the Spaniards in Havana intend to disturb the settlement next somer", "South Carolina Historical Collections" Vol. V. and requested, 11 a flye boat strong and well fitted for a close fight. 11 -0-0-0-- 50

Chapter X

PRE-COLONIAL AMERICA

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The Spaniards flocked to the West Indies subjects and taught them Old World culture _after the discovery voyage of Columbus, and while America north of Florida, the Gulf of in possessing their newly found land, plun­ Mexico and the Rio Grande still remained a dered and enslaved the hapless aborigines, wilderness. killing them in hordes with sword and gun Cabot visited the north Atlantic Coast when they resisted with spear and arrow. The from England in 1498, and Verrazano was at sight of little ornaments of bright yellow the Hudson River in 1524. The next year, metal in the noses of the islanders, which Estevan Gomez, a Portuguese, sailed as far was typical of the few uses they knew for it, south as Chesapeake Bay. excited the white men more than all else they Ten years later, Cartier, a Frenchman, saw. The people told them freely of the entered the St. Lawrence River. Narvaez and mines from which the metal c~e, and recited Vaca, with a constantly dwindling band, wan­ legends of great stores of the pretty stuff dered across the country from Florida to in far off places across the sea toward_the Texas, Lower California and thence to Mexico setting sun. The search for a westward pas­ City. sage to India was quickly abandoned in a De Soto, with a large party and equip­ frenzied quest for gold. page, over a winding and torturous route Adventurers from all the European countries ~rom the Savannah River through Georgia, ila­ sought the New World ports, and from them, bama and Mississippi, reached "01 1 Man Rivern eager to find the fabled riches, cruised the near Memphis in 1541; crossed into Arkansas; Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Coast north was driven back by the Indians; died, and the and south, sailed up the mouths of rivers and remnant of his followers drifted down the penetrated the land. Balboa, in 1513, Mississippi River into Mexico in a four year crossed the Is.thmus of Panama and looked upon journey. the Pacific Ocean. Alonzo de Pineda sailed A body of three hundred whites and eight the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Vera Cruz hundred Mexicans under Coronada in the South­ six years later. Ponce de Leon tried and west, in search of the storied "Seven Cities failed to found a colony 9n Tampa Bay. In of Cibola", which they never found, reached 1517 Diego discovered the Mayas in Yukatan, the Colorado River, saw the Grand Canyon, and who possessed cities, and paved streets, and penetrated north and east as far as Kansas. stone temples and enormous wealth, but was Cabrillo cruised the California Coast in driven away by them. 1543, followed by Drake in 1579 in the "Gold­ Two years later, Hernan Cortes went to en Hind" laden with Spanish plunder, and, Yukatan and from there, with only eleven after lingering in San Francisco Bay, went as ships, sixteen horses, five hundred Spaniards far north as Oregon. and two hundred Indians conquered Montezuma, The Spaniards slaughtered a French colony Emperor of the Aztecs, and his immense do­ which had obtained a foothold in Florida on minions in Mexico and Central America, and the St. John River, and, in 1656, founded St. captured the first great find in the New Augustine, which proved to be the first World of gold, silver and precious stones. permanent white settlement in the United A huge Spanish-Indian empire followed, which States. Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored five thrived in barbaric splendor and poured mil­ futile attempts to establish a colony on lions on millions of new wealth into Old Albermarle Sound just before the end of the Spain for many years. Sixteenth Century, and Virginia Dare there By 1575 there were two hundred Spanish became the first white child born in America. cities and towns in Mexico, Central America Sieur de Monts and Champlain took a hun­ and the West Indies, and an European popula­ dred and twenty men to an island in the St. tion of a hundred and sixty thousand exploit­ Croix River on the northern coast of Maine, ing uncounted millions of semi-savage people. in 1604, where they lived until 1605, when The Spaniards mixed racially with their new the colony was removed to Nova Scotia. Af'ter PRE-COLONIAL AMERICA 51 two years there they returned to England. In 1607 Scotia, which, by that time, contained many permanent two small ship-loads of men under Gilbert and Popham settlements.• From the first, they despised the red­ tried to establish the Sagadahoc ColODY on the coast skin, neglected the salvation of his soul, met his of Maine at the mouth of the Kennebec River, but it resentment of their presence with trickery and gun­ lasted less than two years. powder, finally drove him away, eventually conquered Together with other like exploits of lesser his­ the wilderness, and prospered by means of farming and torical importance, some expeditions to trade with grazing, lumbering, raising tobacco, shipping, fish­ the Indians along the coasts, and a few fishing ing, speculating in land, trading in rum and negro cruises to the Massachusetts and New Foundland waters, slaves, some smuggling and a little piracy. The these were the whole of the activities of the white French made friends with the Indians, were very suc­ man in the main expanse of North America in the first cessful in handling all the tribes except the hundred years after its discovery. The continent had Iroquois of New York State, with whom the British been partly explored, but not a single point of it always maintained an alliance, gave them rum, and, had been possessed in permanent estate. through many brave and devout immigrant priests, the The success of the Spaniards and other nationals Ghristian religion while developing their great :f'ur in Mexico, the Barbadoes and elsewhere around the trade. Caribbean Sea, was a cc-nstant incentive to the set­ The first important territorial change came in tlement of' the harsher and less hospitable Atlantic 1765, when, at the end of the Seven Year's War, and seaboard. Imperfect knowledge of its character and its counter-part in America, the French end Indian potential richness had become widespread through the War, defeated France ceded all her. American territo­ glamorous descriptions and the crude maps of the ad­ ry east of the Mississippi River to England,and New venturous travellers. Orleans and her far western possessions to Spain. The A long succession of' wars had left Europe poor latter were acquired by France again forty years and the people disheartened. There was great bitter­ later. The War of the Revolution, which came twelve ness over the religious persecution by the Stuart years afterwards, made the United States an inde­ ki.Ilgs. They longed for escape and for freer and bet­ pendent nation in 1783 and the sovereign power in ter conditions of life, even if' dangers and hardships all the central belt of the continent from ocean to had to be endured to obtain them. The natural re­ ocean. The Spanish holdings in the South and South­ sources of Europe had long been exploited and were west were-acquired later, part by force of arms end much depleted. In England especially, there was·an the rest by purchase. increasing scarcity of timber, pitch, resin and other A group of them having been among the first Eng­ forest products ~o badly needed for her great navy lish people to be influenced by the forces recited and her.commercial fleets, which the immense virgin and the movement described to come to America, the f'orests o:f America would furnish bounteously if they Halsteads are, literally, one of the oldest of Amer­ could once be tapped. ican families. These pilgrim Halsteads were among In consequence, despite the earlier discouraging the earliest founders of the nation which became the failures, at the opening of the -Seventeenth Century United States of America. They and their children the need for colonizing and utilizing tbe resources of battled for freedom and self-government in the col­ the temperate zone of the North American continent onies. Succeeding generations of them fought, at became stronger and the spirit :for its braver than last, for independence from England, and when ob­ ever before. The Crown freely offered charters for tained, aided in forming the American Commonwealth. colonies and encouraged the English people to go to In the succession of frontiers from the Valley of Vir­ America. ginia to Oregon, still later generations became the In close succession then were founded Jamestown, settlers and state builders of the Great West, and Virginia, in 1607; "Plimoth Plantation" in Massa­ left descendants in every part of the entire country. chusetts in 1620; and the Massachusetts Bay Colony in The Halsteads have contributed positively to the suc­ 1650. Dutch colonists came to New York in 1625 and cess and glory of America at every point of its de­ established New .i~etherlands. Other groups soon fol­ velopment, and have shared fully in its rewards and lowed. Beginning with the fortified city of Quebec as blessings in every period of its history from the be­ their base, the French spread over a great area along ginning o:f its settlement to the present day. the St. Lawrence River westward to the Great Lakes and from there southward into the Mississippi Valley -0-0-0- and beyond. The Spanish pushed over the Rio Grande liiver from ~exico and settled parts of Texas, New "The Epic of America"-Adams. !Jexico and lower Calif'ornia. "The Planters of Virginia"-Wertenbacker. By various means, the English had possession, by 1670, of the coastal plain from Florida to Nova -0-0-0- 52

Chapter XI

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Colonial K a s s a c h u s e t t s tion, than the .llassachusetts Bay colonists who came ten years later. Master John A body of a hundred and eight people, the White, of Dorchester, who never came to leaders and about half of whom were Puritans, America, was the promoter of the enterprise crossed the wide Atlantic Ocean in 1620 in from altruistic motives. John Winthrop was the barque "Mayflower." After a stormy and its most prominent figure. The colony pro­ perilous passage, they founded "Plimoth duced scores of historic celebrities. Plantation", on the coast of :tla.ssachusetts, The project had its beginning in a short­ which became the first permanent colony of .lived fishing and trading expedition under English people in America north of Virginia. Roger Conant in 1623, and there was an ad­ Their brave journey into the New World wil­ vance party under John Endicott, in 1628, derness, the fearful struggle they had, the which surveyed the ground and selected Naum­ terrible hardships they endured and their keag, later Salem, as the point of first staunch adherence to their political and re­ settlement. ligious princi­ Four ships ples make one of with four hun­ the most cherished dred peop1e chapters of our sailed for Amer­ national history. ica in 1629, and be­ As the colony tween February slowly estab­ and June of 1630 lished itself, a thousand more immigration from people followed England to the in fourteen New World fol­ large ships. The lowed immediate­ man-power of the ly, and a number colony was well of other less diversified in famous settle­ age, ability, ments were ef­ experience and fected. Within craftsmanship. ten years there The immigrants were ten thousand brought good people engaged stores of sup­ six months of Section of the .famous Hubbard's Map of New England, the .first plies, tools and the year in the map ever cut in wood in America. It was printed in the early part live· stock, fishing industry of 1677 in a book which is now very rare, entitled, 11 A Narrative of and, unlike in New Foundland_: the Trouble With the Indians in New England." William Hubbard, who the Pilgrims, there were drew the map, was a minister of Ipswich. The explanation accompany­ had fore­ nine hundred ing it says: 11 The .figures that are joining with the names of Places knowledge of in Maine and are to distinguish such as have been assaulted by the Indians from the condi­ New Hampshire, others." Concord and Watert9wn, where some of the Halsteads lived, tions that three hundred are shown. they were to elsewhere in encounter. Massachusetts, twenty-five hundred in Ber­ Some of these people had been influential muda and sixteen hundred in the Barbadoes. and socially prominent in England. A number But the Mayflower Pilgrims, and the were wealtey and more of them were of moder­ other settlers near them, who were nearly ate means than otherwise. Only a minority all af lmmble station and from the by-currents were poor and of low estate. Generally, they of English life, were less influential in the were suQstantial, educated and serious-minded making of New England, and later of the na- people. Neither in dire need nor in a spirit ------THE NEW ENGLABD HALSTEADS 53 of adventure, as was more the case in Vir­ they joined the First Church of Charleston, ginia, but in a well considered plan to im­ which was January a, 1634-35. In some rec­ prove their lot, when both economic and po­ ords Grace Halstead Barstow's Christian name litical conditions were increasingly adverse is given as Marcia, and again as Grace to them in England, they deliberately took Carver, for what reasons it is not known. the known risks of removing to the wilderness Kichael Barstow was made a freeman on Karch in a distant land. In the character of 3, 1635-36, and removed to Watertown some­ those who composed it, and-the good manner time before 1642. He was a representative in which they planned and conducted their in 1653; was a selectman and juror many enterprise, Massachusetts Bay excelled all times between 1644 and 1667; and was for the other early colonies. years one of the commissioners for se~ The Bay Colony established such cities small causes at Watertown. Grace Hals~ad as Salem, Charleston, Boston, Medford, Wa­ Barstow died July 20, 1671, and Kichael tertown, Concord, Roxbury, Lynn and Dor­ Barstow in 1676. There were no children chester. People from them went to Maine, apparently, as his estate,disposed of in a New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and will dated June 23, 1674, was shared in by New York. There was a constant inter-change a number of more distant relatives, and he of people between Massachusetts and Vir­ gave one hundred acres of land to his pas­ ginia. By 1640, when, for a time, immigra­ tor, the Reverend John Sherman. tion practically ceased with the ascension SUSANNA HALSTEAD joined the First Church of Cromwell and the Long Parliament to of Charleston, January a, 1634-35, on the power, bringing religious toleration and same day as did Michael and Grace Barstow. better conditions otherwise for the masses It is to be presumed that she emigrated with in England, the Bay Colony had accounted them. She died at Watertown July 5, 1669. for twenty-six thousand people coming from Her will, disposing of a small personal es­ England to New England, which was more peo­ tate, was dated January 11, 1667-68. Bequests ple than there were in all the rest of the were made to her sister Grace Barstow, with English territory in America combined. The whom she lived, to Deborrah, born in August later comers were of the same general char­ of 1650, and Sarah Barstow, who were probably acter as the first group. daughters of William Barstow, a brother of -0-0-0- Michael Barstow, and to Sarah Childs, wife of Joseph Childs. It seems certain that The Bay Colony Susanna Halstead never had been married. H a 1 s t e a d s NATHAN, or NATHANIAL, HALSTEAD, of Con­ cord, who had lived at Dedham also, was made There are definite, but fragmentary, rec­ a freeman of the colony on June 2, 1641. To ords of a group of Halsteads who were citi­ qualify as a freeman he had to be a member of zens of the Massachusetts·Bay Colony soon the church and perhaps a property owner also. after the main body of these people reached He may have been in the colony for some years America, of which some of them may have been before. Isabel Halstead, Nathan Halstead's a part. Their names do not appear in the wife, died Karch 15, 1641-42. He died Feb­ incomplete lists of the Bay Colony immi­ ruary 3, 1643-44. The estate was valued at grants since compiled with great difficulty two hundred and thirteen pounds, two items or in other similar partial ones, such as being, 11 books 16 pounds" and, 11 apothecarie Hotten's book of immigrants from the British ware 3 pounds." Isles between 1600 and 1700. These Hal­ WILLIAM HALSTEAD lived there and died at steads are not mentioned in any of the dis­ Concord July 27, 1645, and his will was covered writings of that day. Practically proved on June 13, 1646. The estate inven­ everything known about them is found in the toried ninety-seven pounds. Following the public records in which they are mentioned. preamble, where some words are illegible in GRACE HALSTEAD married Michael Barstow~ the record, the will reads: whose surname was also spelled Bairsto and Beresto, of Shelf, near Halifax, in the West ••• unto the poore of the twone fyve pounds Riding of Yorkshire, England, on February to be laid out in a Cow which I would have so 16, 1624-25. Her nativity is unknown, ordered by the Deacons & ,q- executors that but she was probably of the same locality. (it) m~ be a continual help to such as are in Shelf is in the same section as are High need, God gievening a blessing thereunto. The Halsted and Rowley, where an ancient body of remainder of IIIJ' estate unto brother HeD17 & to Halsteads lived. It is likely that they came m;y sister Edna her child or children ••• to to America shortly before the date on which brother Heney at the end of two years, except TRE NEW ENGLAND .B.ALSTEADS 54

he dispose himaelfe in marriage or haYe a l.aw­ dren, which probably were in their infancy, .ful oaJJ:Sng to Engl.and b;r his i'riends there, to and the known dates of death., that Nathan the satisi'action of rq exeautors & in case he Halsted, christened at Middleton in 1585, ahouJ.d goe to Eog1and 01' his own accord, then came to America and was a resident of Ded­ not to ha'f'e it til1 the;r heare certainly 01' ham and Concord, Massachusetts, and that Wil­ his welbeing there and in case he should dye lirun, whose will is of record, and Edna, before this time be acc0111plished then rq sis­ who married Richard Bayley and Ezekiel ter Edna her chil.d or children shall have it Northin, and Henry, a beneficiary in Wil­ and I make Wil1iam Wood and George Heywood exe­ liam's will, were their children. cutors. From these and other suggestive records, the following genealogy of the New England EDNA HALSTEAD, so mentioned, married Halsteads can be formulated, which is large­ Richard Bayley, of Rowley, Massachusetts, ly conjectural until it is confirmed or al­ and they had one son, Joseph Bayley, born tered by a more exhaustive exploration of about 1646. Richard Bayley came to America all the possible sources of information than in 1638 in the ship Bevis of Southhampton, has as yet been made: England, at the age of fifteen years in the care of Stephen Dummer. Thus, he was born WILLIAM HALSTEAD ( ; 1625) a school- in 1623. If he married at twenty-two, it master 01' Bradford, Yorkshire, whose will was in 1645. If F.dna Halstead was eighteen dated June 20, 1623, proved JuJ.y ll, 1625, be­ when married, she was born in England in queathed his messuage (a dwelling-house with 1627. Richard Bayley died in 1647. Edna 1 ts be1ongings) in Bradford to his nephew Halstead Bayley married Ezekiel Northin on George Hs.lstead, and in default of issue by December 1, 1648. She had legacies from her George, the use of it to Nathan Hs.lstead, an­ son Joseph Bayley, indicating that he died other nephew 01' Bradford, and his "goods" young, from James Bayley, her brother-in­ (personal property) to Nathan; Nathan was law, and from John Bayley, a nephew, and made the executor. she died February 3, 1705-06. By the union ----B-•-~-.STEAD ( ; ; bro. 01' WU- with Northin there were seven children--five 11am) daughters and two sons. GD>RGE HALSTEAD ( ; ; s. of A daughter of Edna and Ezekiel Northin, ____H.) Sarah Northin, born at Rowley December 3, NATHAN HALSTEAD ( ; ; s. of 1661, who died there April 26, 1732, married ____H.) Thomas Hale on-May 16, 1682, who was born at HENRY HALSTEAD ( ; ; bro. of William) Newbury, Kassachusetts, February 11, 1657- lived at ll.idd1eton, Lancashire; w. llargaret was 58, lived there for many years, removed to buried Feb. 9, 1611-12. Rowley in 1726, and died there April 13, NATHAN HALSTEAD (1585-1645-44; s. of Henry); 1730. He was prominent and wealthy. There of Concord and Dedham, Mass.; w. Isabel d. Yar. were eleven children. 15, 1641-42 at Concord, It is believed, as sho~n in Chapter XIII, WILLIAM HALSTEAD ( ; 1645; s. of Part One, that Henry Halstead, one of the Nathan) lived at Concord, Mass. contingent beneficiaries named in the will EDBAH HALSTEAD (1627?-1705-06; dau. 01' of William Halstead of Concord, was the Nathan) m. 1st. Richard Bayley (1625-1647); Henry Halstead, of Virginia, the first of had a s. Joseph; 111. 2nd. Ezekiel Northin the Halsteads of the Southern branch. (1622-1698) ,eid there were seven children, At Middleton, or near it, five miles of whom~'ro'rthin (1661-1732) m. -May 16, northeast of Manchester, Lancashire, England, 1682, Thomas He.le {1657-58-1730), lived at there lived a Henry Halsted. The remains Rowley, Mass. and had 11 children. of his wife, .llargaret Halsted, were buried HENRY HALSTEAD or HOLSTEAD (1626?-1685; there February 9, 1611-12. Their children s. of Nathan) went from Mass. to England and were christened, Nathan, June 6, 1585; Anna, thence to Va. in 1651; his w. was Bridget Kay 28, 1587; John, August 17, 1587; James, ( ; 1711-12) m. 2nd. John Gosscutt ( ; December 4, 1592; Richard, January 12, 1691). Henry and Bridgett had children Simon 1593-94 and F.dna, Kay 13, 1596. Kiddleton (1656?-1728?); A:an {1658?- ) m.? Thomas is in the same county as were Rowley Hall Willoughby; Henry (1662?-1724) and John (1664?- and Worsthorn Hall, the homes of the prom­ 1719). inent Halstead families of that period. AHHA HALSTEAD (1587?- ; dau. of Henry). While not as yet incontestably proved, it JOHN HALSTEAD (1589?- ; s. ot Henry)• seems probable, from the identical names, J.AIIES HALSTEAD (1592- ; s. of Henry) is the dates of the christenings of the chil- mentioned as ari. uncle by his nephew, Henry, in a THE NE.'W ENGLAND HALSTEADS 55

letter to his sister ~dna Northin, written on much later than they did and long after they Jan. 29, 1650, from Sorbybridge, West Fdding of were dead. Yorkshire. The immigrant Halsteads of both New York RICHARD H.ALSTE.AD (1594-95- ; s. of Henry). State and Virginia had children, who multi­ EDNA H.ALoTl!.AD (1596-97- dau. of Henry). plied into numerous families, most of whom can be identified and clearly traced con­ secutively as they spread gradually over the HENRY HOLSTEED, or HOLLSTEAD, was an in­ country. The only Halsteads following those dentured servant of Hartford, Connecticut, of New England as given of which a record and died there June 16, 1692. Like many of has been found, were William Halstead, born the colonists who did not have the money for at Boston, Massachusetts, August 19, 1667, their passage to America, he had bound him­ the son of William and Martha Halstead. Of self out to service for a few years, usually these three nothing otherwise is known be­ seven or less, to the one who paid it. Many yond this single record. There were no sol­ such servants were equally as good people in diers named Halstead in the Revolutionary other respects as the free citizens, and had Viar from Massachusetts. There were no fami­ equal standing with them after their period lies with the name recorded in the 1790 fed­ of servitude. Both in New England and Vir­ eral census. The only known descendants of ginia some of the most successful and in­ the New England Halsteads are those of Edna fluential citizens were once indentured ser­ Halstead Bayley Northin. Otherwise, there vants. is no record of children by them or of any Henry Holsteed probably died young, for, later Halstead emigrants from England. as a rule, only youths were wanted as ser­ The character of the people they were as­ vants. As his will was made only two days sociated with in the Massachusetts Bay Col­ earlier, it was in anticipation of death, ony; the kind of people they married, as in rather than in old age. Neither wife nor the cases of both Edna and Grace Halstead; children are mentioned, so it seems certain the fact that all, except Henry Holsteed, that he was single. The estate, inventoried were people of property, and their wills all by Daniel Bridwell and Roger Pitkin, was indicate that they were people of good birth, valued at ten pounds. The will reads in probably of the yoeman or merchant classes, part: that they were educated, and that they had good standing in their English and American ••• & as for that little portion of the communities. World God has given me my Nill is that my -0-0-0- Master, John Meekins sen, should have the whole dispose of it. The rest of my estate I freely "Genealogical Dictionary of New England11 ---:,avage. give to my kind and loving master, John Meekins "New England Historical and Genealogical Register,!! sen, and my will is that John Meekins jr should "Abstract of Earliest Wills on Record in the have my Bible and Mary il!eekins my Iron pott and County of Suffolk, Mass." Sarah Meeltins my Iron Kettle. "Bradford Antiquary. 11 "Lancashire and Cheshire An Lil,luarian Society Although it is possible that it was the Transactions"--Vol, 14. case, Henry Holsteed probably was not a mem­ "Pioneers of ;,1aas11chusetts"-Pope. ber of, or closely related to, the other New 11Genealoc;ical Gleanings In lligland11 -,iaters. England Halsteads. His name was spelled 11 Hartf"ord, Conn. Early Probate Records;" differently. It is unlikely that one of 11 Geuealo,_;ies and History of Watertown, illasaa- that group, who were all people of at least chusetts"--Bond. moderate means, would have been an inden­ "Concord Mass, ;,ecords, 1655-1840. 11 tured servant. He must have come to America -0-0-0-- 56

Chapter XII

T H E NEW Y O R K A N D NEW JERSEY HALSTEADS

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Colonial New York The population of New York City, now seven millions, was estimated by Dutch officials Cabot may have touched at the present site to have been one thousand in 1656, a date near of New York City in 1498, but it was Hendrik the one at which the Halsteads first appeared Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the at a nearby point. Dutch East India Company, who explored New The permanent occupation of the plains at York Bay and the Hudson River in 1609. Dutch Hempstead, in central Long Island, was made vessels came the next year to trade with the in 1644 by a group of men and their families Iroquois Indians. A stockaded trading post from Stamford, Connecticut. Robert Fordham was built at what is now the city of Albany and John Carman had bought the claims of the on ti}'le upper Hudson and a few huts were erected Indians to a tract of land there on Decem­ by the Dutch traders on Manhattan Island in ber 13, 1843. To them and four others, in­ 1615. In June of 1624 about thirty families cluding John Ogden, a descendant of whom mar­ of Dutch colonists arrived, part of whom went ried Caleb Halstead of New Jersey in later to Albany, one contingent to Hartford, Con­ times, was given a patent to this land at necticut, and the rest remained on Manhattan Hempstead by the province of New Netherlands Island and Long Island. Manhattan Island was on November 16, 1644. bought from the Indians in 1626, a fort was The first .Halsteads in what is now New York built at its lower end and the village was State are believed to have come to Hempstead named New Amsterdam, which was made the seat from England about 1650. At that time Hemp­ of government of New Netherlands, and grew stead was a settlement of about a hundred steadily through accretions from Holland and families. It became the principal grazing England. and farming community of the district. Charles II, of England, took New Nether­ Oyster Bay was settled soon after Hempstead lands away from the Dutch in 1664 on claims and Jamaica about 1656. All of them are now of prior sovereignty. The name of New Amster large cities in the densely populated subur­ dam was then changed to that of New York. In ban district of New York City. a surprise attack in 1673, the Dutch re-took Charles II bestowed upon his brother the territory, but in the Treaty of West­ James, Duke of York, part of his American minster made the following year, Holland possessions. The Duke at once transferred ceded it back to England. New York then in­ a tract embracing what is now New Jersey and cluded what is now New Jersey, Rhode Island Long Island to Lord John Berkeley and Sir and part of Connecticut. The settlements George Carteret. Phillip Carteret was the were practically all east of the Hudson first Governor. In May of 1668 Carteret con­ River. voked the first Assembly, representing the

Nieuw Amsterdam, now New York City, in 1650, near the time when Jonas Halstead came to Hempstead, Long Island. A, the fort; B, the c:hurc:h; C, the pole on which a flag was hoisted when ships arrived; E, the Gov­ ernor• a house; F, the weigh house; G, the place of execution; I, the company's store houses; K, the town house. • NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY HALSTEADS 57 few hundred inhabitants, at Elizabeth-town, lived on 11 Stratton Island" (Staten Island) which, together with the nearby villages of for a short time, but in December of the Shrewsbury and Middleton, were the earliest same year he was a resident of Oyster Bay. settlements. It was at Elizabeth-town and He returned to Hempstead, but his name dis­ Shrewsbury that the early New Jersey Hal­ appears from all records after 168Z, from steads lived, beginning, it is thought, about which fact it is supposed that he died there 1721, and where they were concentrated for shortly thereafter, seventy or more years of generations. age. There is no record left either of his -0-0-0- will or the administration of his estate. In the town records of Oyster Bay, there T h e N e w Y o r k S t a t e is a deed executed by him on December 5, 1661, H a 1 s t e a d s in which the property conveyed is described as: JONAS1 HALSTEAD was the immigrant ancestor of the most numerous branch of the Halstead ••• Richard Houlbrooke house or houses built family. He came to Hempstead when middle by him and me and house lot & two sheres of Long Island was a frontier. It is quite pos­ meadow on ye North Side of ye youne and one sible that he was first at Stratford, Con­ shere of meadow at ~latenacock and one right necticut, as the historian Orcutt says that of meadow at the South foure and twenty Ackers Jonas Halstead was there early. of ye great plains, it is on ye East side of The old Dutch and English colonial records ye foot path near ye woods edgg. and the first town records of Hempstead, Oyster Bay and Jamaica provide all the in­ There is a record _at Oyster Bay as of formation that is to be found about Jonas March 8, 1666: and his family. It is believed that he was born about 1610, was married about 1632, that These may Serti£ie to all whome it may all his children were born by 1644, and that any ways conseren yt I, Jonas Halstead, Con­ he died about 1683. Undoubtedly he came to stable have made a Legall Seasure of ye two America from England, but what members of Shipps which do belong to Major Daniel his family he first brought there, at what Gotherson for an in behalfe of Matthew time and by what means are unknown. It is Pryer for a debt which ls due him from said probable that he was from the West Riding of Getherson. Yorkshire, in the north of England, the same district from which the first Halsteads in The town of Oyster Bay ordered on Decem­ New England probably came, and to whom he ber 11, 1667: may have been related. No facts have as yet been found to connect him iri relationship ••• yt ye Constable and Overseers shaJ.l with any of the known English Halsteads or make a Levie on ye Towne for 6 pounds which the other Halstead immigrants to America. is dew Jonas Halstead for ye higher (hire) The first book of records of Hempstead, of ye forte Neck. covering the period from its English settle­ ment until 1655, has been lost. The earli­ At Jamaica, March 6, 1674: est record of Jonas Halstead is in the next succeeding book, where his name appears as a At a toune meeting Jonas Holsteade and John witness to a land deed as of December 8, Foster were appointed to go to Mister Pek or 1655. He was in Hempstead for some part of any other minister that may be procured to come the preceding eleven years, but probably not and live amongst us as our Minister. earlier than 1647, when sixty-six citizens were given their portion of the common land The town of Jamaica elected Jonas over­ holdings, in the list of which his name does seer on April 13, 1675: not appear. Again, he was one of thirty-six citizens of Hempstead who, on July 4, 1656, The Toune did make choice of Samuel Smith addressed a joint letter to Governor Peter for Constable and Jonas Hal.stead overseer for Stuyvesant on the subject of the town's taxes ye year ensuing. to the province. About 1660 Jonas removed to Oyster Bay and Jonas Halstead and his son Timothy2 were shortly thereafter to Jamaica. He is re­ the overseers of the estate of Thomas Carle, ferred to in a deed dated May 30, 1667, as, the husband of Jonas' daughter Sarah. 2 On "Jonas Halsted of Stratton Island, within the May 1, 1676, Jonas made an agreement for the county of York in America." He may have management of the Carle farm with James Bate, which read in part: NEW YORK AND NIDI. JERSEY HALSTEADS 58

••• I dwo Ingeage to provid fodder for the actual if known, and if not known, it is a Catell and to loock after them in winter & to calculated one. The second date is the provid what fire;·1ood is nedfull for the house year of death, determined in the same ways, also I dwoe·Ingeage to keep the fence in Re­ and if followed by an&, it is only the pairs ••• & the said Jonas Hallstead is to pay last year in which the individual is known Jeames beat forte shillings a yeare during the to have been alive from having been men­ term of three years ••• and the said Jeames beat tioned in some will, land deed or like re­ is to have for his Pains a third part of what corded document. When a date is omitted, Corn and pumkins that is produced of the land there is no known means of even approximat­ & he is to provide a third part of the sed ••• ing it. 1 & the said Jonas Hallstead is to provid & main­ Jonas Halstead had four knov.n children, tain six oxen for the term and cart and plow & Timothy, 2 Sarah, 2 Joseph2 and Martha. 2 all tacklin neseary ••• allso the widow• s soens SARAH 2 HALSTEAD (1638-1683&; Jonas1), is to join the said Jeames for the carrying on probably b. in England, m. 1658 Captain of the worke & Je8.llles beat is to tlrovid what Thomas Carle, who died in 1675. In addi­ bous and you.-:hs is nedfull for the -oxen & and tion to John 3 Carle, of whom there is a def­ the said Jonas Hallstead is to provid one hors inite record, they probably had children for Jeames use •• and he is to have his dyat wash­ Elizabeth 3 m. James Beat or Beats; Thomas;~ ing and lodging ••• Joseph3 and Timothy3 born about 1670, m. be­ fore 1697 Mary Platt b. January 11, 1672, The remainder of the records show Jonas dau. of E~enetus Platt. Halstead as one of the owners of both land JOSEPH HALSTEAD (1642-1679&; Jonas1) was and cattle in the several communities in born before the settlement of Hempstead and which he lived; as the recorder of an ear­ probably in England. He first appears in mark for cattle; as a member of town com­ the Hempstead records as of May 31, 1660, in mittees; as a juror, and as a citizen ac­ a list of the owners of calves, of which he tively generally in village affairs. It had six, which were being pastured with the would seem that he was successful, trust­ common herd. By December 21, 1663, he had worthy and well respected. evidently removed to Oyster Bay with his ThP inPntity n~ Jnn~~, wi~Pj whPn ~nn father, where there is a record: where she was born, and when and where they were married are not known. There are no It is this day ordered by ye Toune that records of her at Hempstead, Oyster Bay or Joseph Halstead have a house lot granted him Jamaica. Inasmuch as both her eldest daugh­ of land that was reserved for mens suns at ter, and her son Timothy's eldest daughter ye est end of ye toune. were named Sarah, it is to be supposed that her name was Sarah also. About 1670 Joseph married Susanna Harcut, The history and genealogical record of daughter of Richard1 Harcut of Oyster Bay. the first five generations of the Jonas1 Hal­ Joseph died prior to 1680, for on March 4 of stead branch of the family that follow, lim­ that year, his widow m. Peter Stringham of ited, except in a few instances, to those Jamaica, and d. shortly thereafter. The who were born as Halsteads, has been pre­ children were Isabel3 (1671- ); Abigail3 pared in part from authentic information, (1673- ); Hannah3 (1675- ) m. 1692 but much of it is conjectural. No public James ToV1nsend,. s. of James and Elizabeth records were kept in that period, as there (Wright) Tov.nsend; and James 3 (1677- ) are now, of births and deaths, and the mar­ and another son, mentioned in his father's riage records are incomplete. Many essen­ will, b. about 1679, whose name is unknown. tial records otherwise have long ago disap­ llliARTHA 2 HALSTEAD (1644-1710&; Jonas1), peared. Nearly all the gravestones are who may possibly have been b. in America, gone. Few family Bibles of the period are m. 1664 Jonathan Mills. Their children were in existence. In consequence·, it is neces­ Timothy Mills, Jonathan, Samuel and perhaps sary to calculate many of the dates given on several others. the basis of probability from the fragmenta­ ✓ TIMOTHY 2 HALSTEAD (1633-1703; Jonas1 ) was ry data now obtainable. Some individuals of b. in England. In 1661 he was chosen as one whom there is a definite record, but no of the to~nsmen of Hempstead. On October 2, proof of parentage, have been assigned to 1676, he was one of the signers of a round­ certain families in the same way. Subsequent robin by Hempstead citizens binding them­ exploration will probably result in some re­ selves to stand together against a group of vision of the tabulation. men who had taken possession of, "the Neck The first date given is the year of birth, commonly called ye Great Neck." V/hat NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY HALSTEADS 59 eventuated is disclosed in an entry in the Timothy 2 was sued for damages by Corneli­ minutes of the Special Court of the Assizes us Mott. The case was tried on January 6, of New York City, held on October 16, 1676, 1676: where five of the citizens of Hempstead were tried for rioting: Cornelius Mott declares that he planted a small crop of tobacco on Timothy Halstead' s ••• for that having before with divers others land and was to have half the crop for his plotted, confederated & combined in writing un­ pains, and that Halstead damnified him in der their hands, signed by about twenty persons, some corn that he had growing on his land, they did proceed and on Monday the 16th inst., and that he got two hundred rails for him for betweene the hours of one and two in the after­ which he was never as yet paid. So he is noon, with force & arms, at a certain place damnified to the value of 20 s. called Cow .Neck or ye Great Neck, did rioutously, routishly & Ulllaw1'ully assemble themselves Several witnesses testified that they had against the Peace of our Soveraigne Lord the heard Timothy Halstead say that the tobacco King & and that the said Nath. Piersall &c be­ was the joint property of himself and Mott. ing then and there assembled together by force The court ordered the defendant to pay the & arms did rioustously, routishly and Ulllawf'ul.­ plaintiff one hundred pounds of tobacco, ly attack, pull down, and destroy ye housing end 11 the good with the bad as it was made up", Goods oi' John Cornell, whereby hee was in Great and two bushels of corn, "for damage done in fear and stood in danger of his life and other the cornfield." enormities ••• Timothy 2 was one of the subcribers to the support of the clergyman in 1682: Those arraigned in court pleaded not guilty, but after hearing the evidence, the We under Richten dew Ingeage each and evecy jury found them guilty. The court :fined one one of us to give these under Richten sums to of those tried twenty shillings and required Jersey Hobart year]Jr during the time we live him to give security for his good behavior; under his ministcy and to pay it in corn or another., 11 the principal actor", who, "drew cattel at Prises as passes Current Amongst us. the writing of Combination", was fined forty shillings and sent to jail for six months, In the census of Hempstead taken in 1698, and the other three were :fined. On December Timothy2 was recorded with his wife and three 14, a concluding entry was made in the court of his children, Jonas, 3 David3 and Benjamin.3 minutes: Other records show him as the owner of three hundred acres of land in 1685, as a witness The Hempstead men called, most doe appear. to wills and as a member of town committees. They declare to have had no ill intent; but His place in the community seems to have legally to bear equal charges & are dismist been very similar to that of his father pa,ying court costs. Jonas. 1 Timothy 2 died in March of 1703, and his As Timothy 2 had a son Timothy, 3 who was son Timothy 3 was made administrator of the some eighteen years of age at the time, there estate on May 19 of that year. The amount is no way in which to determine definitely to of land he owned is not shown in the records which of them this record refers, but it was of the administration, but the personal prop­ probably Timothy, 2 although both may have erty was inventoried at sixty-nine pounds. been involved in the trouble. Hem. about 1657 Hannah Williams, dau. of In 1664 Timothy 2 and his brother Joseph2 Michael and Ann Williams. There were six joined a group of men who purchased a large known children and perhaps three or four tract of land in the Newark Bay and Staten others who have not been identified, Timothy, 3 Island Sound district of northeastern New Sarah, 3 Joseph,3 Jonas,3 David3 and Ben­ Jersey called Achter Koll or Back Bay. They jamin/ and perhaps John 3 and Jane 3 who m. contributed about four pounds each to the Elias Bayles. 3 syndicate, on the condition, that, if they JOSEPH HALSTEAD (1665-1736; Tim.2 ) m. did not like the part of the land assigned 1st. 1693 Sarah Ferris, dau. of Zachariah to them when it was divided up, they could Ferris; 2nd. wife Sarah, a widow. He re­ withdraw, which they subsequently did, and sided at Cow Neck, Hempstead, L. I., and their money was returned. Timothy was a wit­ then removed to Westchestertown, Westchester ness in the trial of a suit over this land Co., N. Y., where he died. Bis will, proved purchase at Elizabeth-town, New Jersey, on Au.g. 10, 1736, disposed of a large estate to November 17, 1685, twenty-one years afterwards. his wi:fe and children. The latter were ~f)IJC.'IV\iM­ ;7Gt11'd.~­ \,;)'i,, ,5-,,}- J~il· l71 i & .1- :l. c.!ll\.lS. i- 0\,-.«':, 0·'1S'V-\.- (l~l, S-- d J.\~-1110 :r. S

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Joseph;• Phebe' (1697-1736&) m. Robert Karvin; Timotby5 (1745-1800); Josephs (1747-1824); Samuel;' Richard;' Sarah4 (1701- ) m. 1723 Phebes m. Samuel Purdy and Charitys whom. Samuel Townsend; Abyah 4 (1703-1745&:) m. Henry Thomas Huggeford. Gilliam; Anne 4 {1707-1736&) m. 1727 Robert DAVID 3 BALST.Ei!.D (1675-1698&:; Tim. 2 ), No Ryder; Ezekiel4 and llicbael. 4 record has been found of a family. JOSEPH 4 HALSTEAD (1695-1750; Jos. 3 ) m. BENJAMIN 3 HALSTEAD (1677-1712&; Tim. 2 ) m. 1st. 1723 Sarah Hu.ff, 2nd. 1736 Elizabeth 1703; was one of four executors of an estate at Smith, a widow, b. a Treadwell. He lived at Flushing, L. I. in 1707; was a constable at Hempstead and Jamaica, L. I. In 1715 he was Hempstead in 1708, and there are records of him a corporal in a militia company under Cap­ at Flushing in 1710 and 1712, but none of a ta.in Timothy Bagley. The children were family. Sarahs (1724 1750&) m. a Penny; Laurence 5 TIMOTBY 3 HALSTEAD (1658-1735; Tim. 2 ), the (1725-1772&:); Joseph5 (1727- d. in inf.); Jo~s s founder of the New Jersey and part of the New (1728-1786&); a 2nd. Josephs (1730-1761&); York State branches, is first mentioned in the Marys (1731-1750&) and Johns (1733-1750&). Hempstead, L. I. records of February 4, 1684-5, RICHARD• HALSTEAD (1700-1785; Jos. 3 ) m. when he entered an earmark for cattle. In 1727 Esther Oldfield. He removed to Goshen, March of 1688 he was living at Cow Neck, a part Orange Co., N. Y. and had sons Richards of Hempstead, which was his residence for many l728-l804&:); Josephs (1736-1797)· Isaiahs years. On October 16, 1695, he and his brother i1738-1797); Benjamin5 (1740-1801~; Michaels Joseph3 were signers of an agreement by which 1748-1820); another son and four daughters they were deputies in the settlement of a land whose names are unknown. dispute. In 1698, with his wife and the first SAllUEL 4 HALSTEAD (1705-1776&; Jos. 3 ) seven of their children, he was recorded in probably bad children Benjamin5 (1733-1762); the census of Hempstead. He was chosen as one Thomas (1735-1806)· Jonass (1737-1789&); of the town assessors on April 3, 1711, and Jemima 5 (1744-1773~1 Ezekiels (1747-1800&:); for the second year on April 1, 1712. On April Joseph5 (1751-1725&) and perhaps several 6, 1714, he was one of those selected for, daus. "Couneck for survairs (surveyors) of highway EZEKIEL' HALSTEAD (1709-1757; Jos. 3 ) m. and fenc veuars (viewers)." At a general town 1728 wife Kary. Be bad sons Joseph5 (1729- meeting on April 2, 1717, he was chosen con­ 1757&); Ezekiels (1738-1805); m. 1758 Abigail stable and collector, and to the same position Theall and lived at Rye, Westchester Co., again on April 1, 1718, and held the office in N. Y.; llicahs (1742-1801); Philemons (1743- 1719, 1720 and 1721. On March 10, 1717-18, he 1818) and daus. Jlary5, Abiga115, Charitysand was one of five citizens chosen as trustees or Sarah.s the town and was re-elected on April 4, 1721. IIICHAEL4 HALSTEAD (1715-1745; Jos. 3) left In March of 1714 Timothy 3 and his sons no f!!lllily and was probably unma~ried. TimothY, 4 Caleb 4 and Jonah4 were associated JOHN~ HALSTEAD (1667-1705; Tim. 2 ). It is on­ with fourteen others, nearly all of them from ly conjectural that he was the s. of Timi and Hempstead, in the purchase of the Kikiat patent, no records of his family have been found. 1 originally granted in 1696, covering a large v JONAS 3 HALSTEAD (1673-1726&; Tim. 2 ) m. about l body of land in Orange Co., N. Y. The settle­ 1699; removed about 1726 to Rye, Westchester ment there was first called Hempstead, sometimes Co., N. Y. He deeded land at Hempstead, prob­ Kikiat, then New Hempstead, and is.now Ramapo, ably part of his father's estate, on May 26, Rockland Co. On March 13, 1714, Timotb,y3 and 1705, and made a recorded agreement with his his wife deeded 400 acres of land there to Wil­ brother T1moth,y 3 and John Searing on May 6, liam Barker, their son-in-law. On the same 1708. There were at least eight children, date Thomas Barker, the father or William Bark­ Caleb' (1699-1721&) of which no further record er, deeded 400 acres to them. has been found; James;' Abiah4 (1702-1736&); All of Timothy's sons, except John4 went to David;• Job' (1706-Apr. 1750) of whom no fur­ Hempstead to live. TimothY4 was a resident ther record has been found; Thomas;' Jonas• there by December 4, 1718. They and a number (1710-1739&) of whom no further record has been of their descendants continued to live there and found and Sarah4 (1712-1729&) m. Nov. 22, 1729, at near-by points for more than a hundred years. Peter Lott. Others of them settled at Elizabeth-town and JA14ES 4 HALSTEAD (1700-1770&; Jonas 3 ) Shrewsbury, N. J., and spread over that dis­ lived near Oyster Bay, L. I. and is believed trict. to have removed to Rye, Westchester Co., Timothy 3 was living in Hempstead, L. I. as N. Y., about 1735; m. about 1722, and had late as April 4, 1721. He probably removed to children Thomas 5 (1723-Nov. 1806) m. Feb. 2, New Hempstead shortly thereafter and from 1748-49, Phebe Bogardus; Amos 5 (1725-1760&); thence to New Jersey. On March 4, 1721, a deed James 5 (1726-1786) m. 1751, 2nd. about 1763 of sale was made to him and his son Caleb 4 to a Elizabeth Teed; a dau., whose name is un­ tract of land described as, "lying on the south known (1728-1728&) and Timothys (1730-1786). side of Elizabeth Creek", containing about four DAVID 4 HALSTEAD (1704-1775; Jonas 3) m. l:rundred acres for which the consideration was 1733 Patience Barnes, and had four sons and 1500 pounds. It was located on the shore of two daughters and perhaps other children Staten Island Sound near Elizabeth-town. This Stephens (1737-1805); Joshuas (1739-18181; was the Halstead1 s Point Farm mentioned in Samuels (1744-1824) and David 5 (1750-1805). Chapter VII, Part One, on which was built a Dav1d 4 and Thomas' (below) were Quakers and heavy-timbered house, which, after being used their descendants for a number of generations as a residence for more than a centurY, was in were of that faith. They probably married use for business purposes as late as 1880. into Quaker families. Timothy 3 lived there until his death, and it was THOMAS• HALSTEAD (1708-1788; Jon. 3 ) m. in the possession of Calebs and Rebecca Ogden 1739 wife Charity, and had four sons, two Halstead in Revolutionary War times. This house daughters and perhaps other children, is minutely described in Chapter VI, Part One. Thomas 5 {1740-1802); Jacobs (1743-1770); In the register of St. John's Episcopal HEW YORK AND HEW JERSEY HALSTEADS 62 Church at Elizabeth, N. J., there are many en­ Williamson who became a Brigadier General in tries from 1730 forward of christenings, mar­ the Revolutionary War; John5 (1732-1813&) m. riages and burials of the descendants of 1st. Elizabeth (Waters) De Hart, 2nd. Alleta Timothy. 3 On companion tomb-stones in the Willet Waters; Benjamins (1734-1817) m. churchyard there was inscribed: 1765, Sarah Treadwell, a silversmith of New Here lyeth ye body of Here lyeth ye body of York City. and Elizabeth-town, N. J. (See Abigail, wife of Ti:aothy Halstead Chapter V~, Part One) and Matthiass (1736- Timothy Halstead Who Died February ye 27th 1820&) m. 1st. Joanna Ross, 2nd. wife Mary Who Died May ye 19th Anno Domini 1755 (See Chapter v, Part One). A. D. 1752 and in In ye 77th yr of his Age. -0-0-0- Her 68th yr of Age. Timothy3 m. Abigail, whose maiden name was T h e N e w J e r s e y H a 1 s t e d s probably Carman (1665-1732). Th?Y had eleven children, Timothy; 4 Caleb;4 Hannah4 (1690- The New Jersey Halsteads, the majority of 1735&) m. Jacob Mitchell; Jonah;4 Jacob;4 Abi- whom adopted'Halsted1 as the spelling of the . gail4 (1696-1735&) m. 1st. Anthony Pintard, name, have been prominent there from the Pre­ 2nd. a Lewis; Amy 4 (1698-1735&) m. 1714 Wil­ Revolutionary period until the present day at liam Barber; John 4 j Charity4 (1702-1735&) m. a Elizabeth, Newark, Morristown and Trenton, and Haywood; Rebecca 4 ll707-1735&) m. 1729 a Hig­ in the near-by cities such as New York, N. Y. gins and Elizabeth4 (1709-1735&) m. 1734 Their sons and daus. m. into the leading New Jonathan Allen. Jersey families, such as the Ogdens and Wil­ TIMOTHY 4 HALSTEAD (1686-1737&; Tim. 3) m. liamsons. A number of them were officers in 1713 wife Margery Pearsall (1692-1747). He the Revolutionary and Civil Wars (See Chapter removed to Kikiat, Orange Co., N. Y., and VII, Part One). Eighteen sons have been alumni then to Shrewsbury, N. J. Six children are of Princeton Univ. The better known of these known, Josiahs (1720-1775&) m. 1st. 1740, Halsteads in the Revolutionary and Post-Revolu­ Zilpha West, 2nd. 1755, Ann Throckmorton, tionary War periods were: 3rd. 1766, Lydia Worthly. He was a famous SUSANNA HALSTED (1730- ) who married inn-keeper at Shrewsbury (See Chapter VI, Brigadier General Matthias Williamson,was the Part One); Timothys (1716-1762&) m. 1st. mother of Isaac Williamson, Governor of New 1746, Elizabeth West, 2nd. wife Zilpha; Jersey 1817-1819. Margery 5 (1714- ); Abigails (1718- ) ROBERT HALSTED (1746-1825) was a leading m. 1741, James Russell; Daniels (1724-1776) physician of Elizabeth, N. J. for 61 years, m. 1749, Sarah Nicholson and Pearson 5 (1727- who had sons, Job Stockton Halsted (1774-1844) 1774) m. 1759, Phebe Lyon. and Matthias Ogden Halsted (1793-1866), a law­ 3 CALEB 4 HALSTEAD (1689-1721; Tim. ) m. yer of Elizabeth, who was also a member of the about 1716 wife Jean Pearsall, and she m. New York merchandising firm of Halsted, Haines 2nd, John Clausen, 3rd. Thomas Ogden. He & Company (See Chapter II, Part One). Job lived at Hempstead, New He mp stead, Stockton Halsted had as. Robert Wiley Halsted N. Y. and Elizabeth-town, N. J. There was (1806-1829). one son Calebs (1721-1784) m. 1st. Sept. 16, WILLIAM HALSTEAD (1794-1878) was a lawyer 1744, Rebecca Ogden, dau. of Robert oiden, at Trenton, and was the only Halstead ever a 2nd. Phebe (Baldwin) Roberts. Caleb was 'member of the Congress of the United States the father of twelve children. There was (See Chapter I, Part One). He had sons Wil­ probably a son prior to Caleb.s liam Halstead, Jr. (1824-1889), a lawyer or 4 3 JONAH HALSTEAD {1692-1762; Tim. ) m. Trenton and Henry Clay Halstead (1850-1889). 1917 Martha Denton. He was at Hempstead, NATHANIEL NOR.HIS HALSTEAD (1816-1884) was a L. r. and then at New Hempstead, Orange Co., wealthy merchant of New York City and Newark, N. Y. At Hempstead, he belonged to the Long N. J., who endowed the Princeton Univ. Island Train Band under Captain Thomas Ted­ Astronomical Observatory (See Chapter I, Part well. The children were Hannahs (1722-1804); One). Caleb 5 (1724-1774); Jonah5 (1726-1798); Abi­ OLIVER SPENCER HALSTED (1792-1877) was a gail5 (1728-1759&); Johns (1730-1774); jurist of Newark and Chancellor of New Jersey. Marthas (1732-1759&); Sarah5 (1736-1759&) and 1845-1852. (See Chapter I, Part One). He had perhaps Isaacs (1738-1760&). sons Major George Blight Halsted (1820-1901) 3 JACOB 4 HALSTEAD (1694-1756; Tim. ) m. and Captain Frank William Halsted (1832-1876), 1722 Sarah Coolman. He removed to New Hemp­ the successive occupants as voluntary recluses stead, Orange Co., N. Y. His will proved of the "Hermitage" on Lake Minnetonka, Minn. Dec. 10, 1756, mentions children Helena5 (See Chapter IV, Part One); Oliver Spencer Hal­ (17~3-1756&); Rebeccas (1724-1757&) m. 1746 sted, Jr. (1818-1871), a lawyer and politician David Secord; Thomass (1727-1776&); Jacobs of Newark, who had sons Charles John Halsted (1730-1786) m. Rachel Smith; Henrys (1732- (1855-1907), a lawyer of New York City, and Dr. 1800); Isaacs (1734- ); Davids ~1735- George Bruce Halstead (1853-1922)~ the mathe­ )i Abigails (1740-1756&); John (1742- matician (See Chapter I, Part OneJ. George 1761&); Abrahams (1744- ); Timothy 5 Bruce Halsted had sons, Dr. Harbeck Halsted, of (1746-1834&) and Sarah5 (1748- ). New York City and Arthur Halsted, of Washington. 4 3 JOHN HALSTEAD (1700-1786; Tim, ) m. 1727, D. C. (See Chapter II, Part One). Susannah Blanchard. He lived at Hempstead, WILLIAM MILLS HALSTED (1788-1863) founded L. I., at Elizabeth-town, N. J., and was at the house of Halsted, Haines & Company, of New one time an inn-keeper in New York City. He York City; was the founder of the Union was Justice-of-the-Peace in Essex Co., N. J. Theological Seminary; was the Director or the in 1739. The historical records otherwise American Bible Society and the American Tract show that he was a very active man in public Society, and was one of the governors of the affairs and prominent at Elizabeth-town. New York City Hospital and the Bloomingdale There were four known children, probably Hospital For the Insane. He had sons, Thaddeus others, Susannas (1730- ) m. 1750 Matthias Kills Halsted (1816-1870) a surgeon of'New York HEW YORK AND HEW JERSEY HALSTEADS 63

City and Dr. William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) "Hempstead Town Records"--Hicks. of Johns Hopkins Hospital, or Baltimore, Md., "Annals of Hempstead, 1643-1852." one of the leading American surgeons (See Chap­ "History of Long Island"--Thompson. ter I, Part One) and David Johnson Halsted New York State publications of colonial records. (1814-1838). 1790 U. s. Census records. -0-0-0- "The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut"­ Mather. Kore genealogical and historical material nHistory of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey"­ has been collected and published both in books Shaw. and genealogical periodicals on the New Jersey "History of Elizabeth, New Jersey"-Hatfield. Halsteds than on any other branch. The Geneal­ Publications of the New Jersey Historical Society, 5 4 ogy of Caleb (1721-1784; Caleb ) published in Newark, N. J. 1896, recorded 554 descendants. The Ogden "Halstead Genealogy"-Wheeler. genealogy by William Ogden Wheeler, 1907, one of "Ogden Genealogy"-Wheeler. the finest of all such compilations, gives the "A Genealogical and History Relatine to the Halsted and line completely again. Ogden Families"-Eliz:abeth R. King. Special attention is directed to Chapter VII, Standard biographical dictionaries. Part One, where there appears not only the mili­ -0-0-0- tary records, but much other historical infor­ mation also, on many Halsteads of the New York Extended G e n e a 1 o g i e s and New Jersey branches who lived in the Pre­ Revolutionary and Revolutionary War and the War No systematic effort has.been made to obtain of 1812 periods, and of their descendants of Halstead genealogies for this book beyond the later periods. first four generations following Jonas. 1 The In 1790, the United States Government made five generations carries the record past the the first enumeration of the inhabitants of the Revolutionary War and roughly t.o the end of the seventeen states then in existence. The record Eighteenth Century. Beyond that there were hun­ was made by heads of families giving their dreds of families and then thousands of indi­ names, with the composition of the families by viduals. A great many individual lineages have the number of males and females, and showed the been prepared, especially in connection with number of slaves owned. The records for New D. A. R. memberships •. A few genealogies, as Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee follows, which have been exte~ded, completely and Virginia were destroyed when the British or partia1ly, down to the present generations burned the capitol at Washington in the War of have been secured. Some have been omitted be­ 1812. According to the records preserved, Hal­ cause they were too fragmentary for publicati~n. steads lived at that time only in the states of New York; Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Vir­ T h o m a s 5 H a 1 s t e a d and ginia. D e s c e n d a n t s The eastern portion of New York State then inhabited by white people, was divided into 15 This genealogy was originally compiled by counties, which.have been subdivided and altered the brothers Abraham M. Halstead (1836-1917&) since, in many cases. Halsteads were residents of Worthin~ton, Ind., and John M. Halstead of 8 of these counties. They had followed the (1841-1917) of Brookline, Mo., who brought most new local frontiers as the state was opened up of the lines down to 1917, but in incomplete· farther northward and westward from Rye and New form, especially as to dates of births, mar­ Hempstead; N. Y. and from northeastern New Jer­ riages and deaths. Two of the lines have re­ sey, the points to which they had first gone cently been extended to 1934 by the Rev. St. from Long Island. Only 2 families were left on John 9 Halstead of Terre Haute, Ind., and by Long Island. By 1790 the New York State branch Norman Eugene10 Mc!ndoo Ph. D. (1881- ) ; of the family had multiplied into a total of 333 s. of Jacob and Sarah C. (Halstead) Mcindoo. individuals including wives, 69 belonging to The history of Thomass and his children has been the 12 families in Orange Co., 80 to the 12 greatly perfected by the recent researches of families in Westchester Co., 21 to the 3 fami­ Arthur S. Wardwell. The genealogy has been lies of New York Co., 4 to the 2 families in condensed by Dr. Mcindoo and the author, into Queens Co., 22 to the 4 families in Dutchess the form given here, by the elimination of Co., 99 to the 17 families in Albany Co., 37 to others than the Halsteads, to which this part the 5 families in Ulster Cu,and 4 to the 1 fam­ of the history is confined. There are several ily in Montgomery Co. There were 16 in the 4 hundred living descendants, a considerable num­ families of Luzerne Co., Pa. A total of 10 ne­ ber of whom live in Indiana, Illinois and Mis­ gro slaves were owned by 4 of the families. souri. A few of these are given. 4 This is not a complete record of them, as a THOMaS 5 HALSTEAD (1723-1806; James ) of number of families were missed in the census, as Orange and Ulster Cos., N. Y., was probably a were those of other names. Revolutionary soldier (See Chapter VII, Part -0-0-0- One); m. Phebe Margaret Bogardus and had chil­ dren Edward; 6 Elizabeth6 (1752-before 1801) m. Researches by the author, but especially long and a Simmons of New York City; John; 6 Jacob;e intensive ones by Arthur S. Wardwell of the tenth Margarete (1759-1801&:) m. Joseph Briggs and generation following Jonas Halstead, the son of lived in New York City; Annae (1760-1801&:); Julia Hal.stead, b. at Rome, N. Y. Sept. 25, 1885, Isaac; 6 Jonas 6 (1765-1801&:) removed to either of 1725 Dorchester Road, Brooklyn, N. Y., who is Va. ors. C. where hem. in 1789; Phebe A.e the great authority on the Jonas Halstead branch (1768-before 1801) m. S. M. Taylor of New York of the family. He possesses a large amount of City; Sarah6 (1770-1801&) and Smithe (1773-1819) historical and genealogical data on it, including m. Maria Schriver in 1797 and lived in New York the generations following those given here, not City. 5 yet published. EDWARDe HALSTEAD (1750-1837; Thomas ) NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY H.ALSTEADS 64 was a Revolutionary soldier (See Chapter had children Emaline 9 (1836-1855) m. VII, Part One), and removed to Cuyahoga and Frank Cade and lived in Pickaway Co., Lake Cos., O.; m. Martha Ferguson among whose o.; Commelia9 (1838-1873) m. Samuel P. children were Martha7 whom. Edward Brush Conaway and lived at Sandborn, Ind.; and Jacob 7 and who lived at Ionia, Mich • Philip Schriver9 (1841-1864), was 5 .1 JOHN6 HALSTEAD (1755-1827; Thomas ) was a killed in battle in the Civil War, nev­ Revolutionary soldier (See Chapter VII, Part er m.; Mary 9 (1844-1868) m. M. D. One) and removed to Pickaway Co., O.; m. Brookshire and lived near Lyons, Greene Sarah Meyer and had children Abraham Meyer; 7 Co., Ind.; Martha E. 9 (1846-1926) m. John; 7 Isaac; 7 James; 7 Sarah7 (1798-1874) 1st. Thomas J. Farris, m. 2nd. George m. John Wesley Davenport of Winedotte Co., Halstead and lived at Sandborn, Ind.; o.; Eliott7 and Catherine7 (1802-1883) m. David Nels0n 9 (1848- ) m. Dilba John M. Alkire of Pickaway Co., o. Wills, lived in Jonesborough, Ark.band ABRAHAM MEYER7 HALSTEAD (1783-1859; had children Mattie10 and Matthew1 who 6 'John ) was a physician and lived at d. in infancy; Sarah C. 9 (1851-1928) m. Carlisle, Sullivan Co., Ind.; m. Maida­ Jacob Mcindoo and 11 ved in Lyons , lene Schriver and had children John ; Greene Co., Ind.; Abra.ham Meyersg; Alabartus Schriver8 ; Isaac 8 ; Catherine8 Geor~e W. 9 (1855-1855) and Lyman 9 (1858- (1820-1917&) m. Charles Ford and lived at 1860). Evansville, Ind.; and Hannah 8 (1822-1845) ABRAru.L.i. 1D.YlIBS 9 HALSTEAD (1852- m. B. F. Alkire and lived in Pickaway Co., 1924; Isaac 8) lived at Lyons and o. Linton, Greene Co., Ind., m. Sarah JOHN 8 HALSTEaD (1805-1866; Ab. E. Pirtle and had children Zeppie 10 Meyer 7 ) m. 1st. Mary Niece in White Co., J. (1882- ) m. Sylvester L. · Ind. and had children Sarah M. 9 (1829- Pope and lives at Bloomfield, Greene 18805 m. Samuel Alkire and lived near Co., Ind.; Josephine10 (1884- ) Brookston, Ind.; Jane9 (1832- ) m. m. John C. Cravens and lives in Barnett Westman and lived near Sea­ Linton, Ind.; Flavia10 (1885-1893) field, White Co., Ind.; Frances Mari­ and Jessie M.1° (1896-1933) m. Clar­ an9 (1843-1917&) m. a Shintaw and ence W. Heston and lived near In­ lived at Newberry, Greene Co., Ind. and dianapolis Ind. 7 Magdalene Hal19 (1838-1857) m. Frank JOHN HALSTEAb (1785-1826; John6 ) Rader and lived in Illinois: John8 m. lived in Pickaway Co. o.; m. Mariah Ter­ 2nd. Mrs. Sarah Orwig and had children williger and had children William 8 (1812- Luther; 9 Jerome9 and Elizabeth.9 ); Peter A. 8 (1815-1857) m. Miss Tif­ ALABARTUS SCHRIVER 8 HALSTEAD (1808- fers, went west and were murdered by In­ 1867; Ab. Meyer 7 ) lived near Sandborn, dians at Mountain Meadows, Utah, and Knox Co., Ind.; m. Ruann Alkire and Elizabeth8 (1817-1826). 9 7 6 had children Elizabeth Jane (1834- ISAAC HALSTEAD (1787-1869; John ) 1917&) m. Cicero F. Thomas and lived lived in Yates Co., N. Y., and at Sand­ in West Lafayette, Ind.; Abraham M. 9 born, Ind., m. 1st Miss Terwilliger and (1836-1917&) and lived at Worthington, had one child, m. 2nd. Elizabeth Jackson Greene Co., Ind., m. Belle F. Bever; and had children George; 8 Mary 8 (1835- Phebe A. 9 (1838-1886) m. John Page of ) m. Frank Williams and lived in Knox Co., Ind.; Benjamin F.9 (1840- Pickaway Co., O.; Esthere (1838- ) m. 1864) lived near Sandborn, Ind., never James A. Davenport and lived in Texas; 9 9 m.; John M. ; Sophia A. (1843-1917&) Harriett N. 8 (1841-1864); Charles~ (1845- m. Jesse Beckin and lived at Richards, ) and James H. 8 (1845-1879). 9 8 7 Mo.; Elliott (1845-1917&) was in the GEORGE (1832-1908; Isaac ) lived Civil War, lived at Pagosa Springs, in Sandborn, Ind., m. Mrs. Thomas J. Col., never m.; George W. 9 (1847- ) Farris (Martha E.; 9 Isaac8 ) and had a was in the Civil War, lives near Bloom­ child St. John,9 (1884- ) , a Chris­ field, Greene Co., Ind., never m.; tian clergyman and a publisher of re­ Edson B. 9 (1849- ) lived near Schade, ligious publications, who lives at Tenn.; Alabartus9 (1851-1893) lived at Terre Haute, Ind., m. Florence M. Foulton, Foulton Co., Mo., never m., Grafton and has one child Charles and Sara.h9 (1853- ) m. John Rolli­ Max10 (1924- ). 7 6 son and lives near Bloomfield, Greene JAMES HALSTEAD (1795-1872; Jo~ ) Co., Ind. lived at Cisco, Ill.b m. Anna Irvine and JOHN M. 9 HALSTEAD (1841-1917; had children William (1822- ), 11 ved in 8 Al. Schr. ) lived at Brookline, Ohio and had no children; James 8 (1827- Mo.; m. 1st. LavinR Bogard and had 1854) never m., lived at Cisco~ Ill.; children Luther F.io (1870- ) ; John I.8 (1830- ) never m., and lived George10 (1872- ) and John B.10 at Cisco, Ill.; Abraham 8 (1837- ) (1875- ); m. 2nd. Louisa Plummer never m., and lived at Cisco, Ill.; and had children Nellie10 (1877- Salera A. 8 never m. and lived at Cisco, ); Thomas10 (1882- ); Ill., and Sara~ 8 (1829- ) m. B. K. Charles10 (1884- ) and Margaret10 and lived at Carlisle, Sullivan (1888- ) • Felix G. 11 (1894- ), Co.1._ Ind. 9 7 6 a grandson of John M. was a Capt. ~LIOTT HALSTEAD (1800-1880; John ) in the World War (See Chapter VII, lived in Ohio and Indiana, m. 1st. Nancy Part One), and lives at Maplewood, A. Alkire and had children John Nelson 8 Mo. (1824-1877) lived at Merom, Ind., m. Kiss ISAAC 8 HALSTEAD (1811-1893; Ab. Caruthers, and had one child Daniel 7 C.'; Meyer ) lived in Lyons, Greene Co., Ruanna 8 (1826- ) m. Joseph Coke of Ind.; m. Elizabeth M. Terwilliger and Pickaway Co. O.; Donna K. 8 {1831- ) NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY HALSTEADS m. William Hill and lived at Sandborn, James1 m. Elnora A. McDonnagh, lived Ind.; Margaret8 (1832- ) m. George at Franklin, Ind., and had one child, Baker of Knox Co. Ind.; Sarah8 (1834- ) Edward Orlando Halstead9 m. Mary J. never m. and Dolly H. 8 (1836-· ) m. Jones, lived at New Albany, Ind. and William o. p. Haver and lived at Linton, had one child William Childs10 Halstead, Ind.; Elliott 7 m. 2nd. Catherine Cade and a contractor, who lives at Indianapolis, had children Catherine 8 (1849- ) never Ind. m., lived in Wilson Co., Kan., and CAROLINE G. 8 HALSTEAD ( -1915; Josiah B. 8 (1850- ) lived in Wilson Co., James 7 ) m. William Beck Jackson, and Kan. lived at New Albany and Robinson, Ills. JACOB 6 HALSTEAD (1757-1837; Thomas 5 ) was DIANTHA 8 HALSTEAD (James 7) m. a Wil­ a Revolutionary soldier (See Chapter VII, son and lived at New Albany, Ind. Part One) lived in New York State and near JA.MES 8 HALSTEAD III (James7 ) m. Mary Johnstonville, Trumbull Co., o., m. 1st. Ann Van Camp, and had ones., Mills,9 Anne Jersey, 2nd. Charity Van Aiken and had AMANDA 8 HALSTEAD (James 7) m. Wil­ children Jacob 7 (1809- ); Gideon 7 (1811- liam Cross. ); John S. 7 (1812- ); Rebecca A. 7 POLLYANNA 8 HALSTEA~ (James 7 ) m. (1814- ) m. a Dickinson; Judson C! (1816- Myron Stratton. ); Jeremiah7 (1818- ); Daniel V. 7 WILSON 8 HALSTEAD (James 7 ) had chil­ (1822- ) and Isaac 7 (1824- ). dren David,9 Charles9 and Pattie 11 m. a ISAAC6 HALSTEAD (1763-1863, 100 yrs. old; Whittick. Thomas5 ) lived in Trumbull Co., o., m. Caro­ MARY ANN 8 HALSTEAD (James 7 ) m. a line Linkletter and had children Samuel L.7 Cross. James; 7 George; 7 John;7 Sarah;7 Benjamin; 7 AllOS 7 HALSTEAD (1781- ; James6 ) m. Charles 7 and probably David 7 and Daniel.7 Martha Shepherd and had children William,8 -0-0-0- Daniel8 and Roxana (1807- ) m. William Knowlton. J am e s 5 Ha 1st ea d and JACOB 7 HALSTEAD (1792-1854; James 6 ) m. D e s c e n d a n t s Elizabeth Green and had children Cornelia 8 (1815-1856) m. Silas Goodrich; James 8 Compiled partly from data given by Yrs. John (1818- ); Thomas G. 8 (1821- ) and C. Vaxwell of Robinson, Ill. and Mrs. Mead F. Elizabeth 8 (1825-1897) m. Col. C, H. Russell of River Forest. Ill. Kna~p; Thadeus 8 (1828-1850)i. Everell Jack­ JilES 5 HALSTEAD (1726-1786?; James 4 ) b. on son (1831-1888); Amelia A. (1835-1871) Long Island; m•. 1751, 2nd. about 1765 Elizabeth m. Jack Henderson and Matilda Fuller 8 Teed. He was a Revolutionary soldier. Suspected (1838- ) m. James Saunders. or Tory activities, he was before the Albany LOCY 7 HALSTEAD (1803-1874; James 6 ) (See do., N. Y. safety committee on several occasions, Chapter II, Part One) m. Helmina St. John, was confined once for a short time, and dis­ lived at Chicago and Bin~hampton, N. Y. charged from military duty. Timothy 6 and James6 and had a son Hermanus 8 {1839-1890) m. of his children have been identified, and oth- Elizabeth A. Bouton, who had two sons ers may have been Amos 6 (1759- ); Anna 6 Clarence Bouton 11 (1870- ) and Henry L.9 (1761- ) m. Daniel Woolsey (Wooley); Job6 (1873- ). (1764- ); Samuel6 (1766-1830&); John6 (1768- Among the living descendants, in addition to 1850&); Joshua6 (1770-1800&); Susanna6 (1772- those given, are Mrs. Jolm C. Maxwell and her 1853) m. Richard Peters; William6 (1774-1840&); daughters Mrs. Eugene Mail and Mrs. Armina Hill Nicholas6 (1778-1810&) and A1il.ah6 (1778-1790&). or Robinson, Ill.; Mrs. Maxwell's s. Stanley TIMOTH:! 6 HALSTEAD (1752-1832?; James5 ) m. Lyle Maxwell of Canebrake, Concordia Parish, about 1773 Keziah Teed and had six or seven La., and Mrs. Mead F. Russell, of River Forest, children, Juliana 7 (1774- ) m. 1790 John Ill. Teapennin,, Jr.; Zehilda 7 (1776- ); -0-0-0- Elizabeth (1779- )i James 7 (1783-1810&) and Samuf17 (1786- J• A lex and er B. 7 Ha 1st ea d JAMES HALSTEAD (1752-1815; James5 ) m. a n d D e s c e n d a n t s Susanna Killer and lived in Albany Co., N. Y. He was a Revolutionary soldier. The Compiled partly rrom data rurnished by Mrs. children were James7; Amos 7; Catherine 7 (1783- Edgar Mccaslin of Franklin, Ind. · ); Sarah7 (1785- ); Betsy 7 (1787- ALEXANDEH B. 7 HALSTE~D (1789-1884; Jonas 6 ) );" Cornelius 7 (1789-1789)· a 2nd. was born at Haverstraw, Orange Co., N. Y.; was Cornelius 7 (1791- ); Jacob~ (1793- ); left an orphan, and reared by an aunt. Learn­ Jolm 7 (1795- ); Sussanna7 (1797- ); ing the trade or tailoring at Pittsburg, Pa., Pollyanna7 (1800- ); Locy 7 (1802-1874) and he went to Louisville, Ky. in 1811 on the first Killer7 (1804- ). steamboat on the Ohio River, and went from JAIIES 7 HALSTEAD II (1779-1855; James 6 ) there to Lexington, Ky., where he established m. Judith Curtis, and lived in Hamilton a tailoring business. He served in the War of Co., o., and Jeffersonvil!~1 Ind. 1812 (See Chapter VII, Part One). About 1835 DAVID 8 CORTIS HALSTJ!;AJ.1 {1801-1889; he removed to Johnson Co., Ind. and died there, Jam.es") m. Anne Sheridan. Was a 95 years old. Hem. Margaret Singer and had river man at New Albany, Ind., and had children Thomas 8 (1815- )· Julia8 (1816- children Kary I a {1858-1858)f Curtis9 Joseph S. 8 (1818-19251; Franklin8 (1819- ; 8 8 (1859-1859), Loera (l880-1905J, lived 1 ; Charles (1821- ); Alexander (1822- in New Albany, Ind.; Lilliana m. Wal­ l; Daniel8 (1824- ); William. 8 (1825- ters. Conner and Anna K.' (1887- ; Volney8 (1827- ); James 8 (1828- ); ) m. James G. Clark and lives in Kary 8 (1830- · ); Marion 8 (1831- ); Jonah8 Louisville gy. (1833- ) and Robert 8 (1837). Hem. 2nd. THOllAS f.e HALSTEAD (1812-1898; Lucirda Harvey and had children Daniel H. 8 NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY HALSTEADS 66

(1837- ); Jefferson8 (1838- ). Hem. ·roronto, Can. and had chl.ldren Thomas H. 9 ; 3rd. Elizabeth Swinney and had children Al- Edith :u:.g (1867-1929) m. George J. Reid; bert;8 Josephine8 (1851- ) m. Samuel Stain- Mabel A. 9 (1874- ) m. David M. Balfour and brook; Nat. W. 8 ; Benjamin8 (1855- ); Louisa8 lives at· Regina, Sask., Can.; Tracy A. 9 and <1857- ) and Asa8 (1861- ). three others who died youn~. NAT W. 8 HALSTEAD (1853-1924; Joseph s. 7 ) THOMAS H. 8 HALSTED (.1865- ; Tmnas7) m. Sue A. Muir, and lived at Bardstown, Ky. (See Chapter II, Part One) m. Lola B. (See Chapter II, Part One), and had children Bridgeford, 2nd. Charlotte C. Palmer; is James9 (1886-1914) lived in Montrose, Calif.; a pbysician and lives at Syracuse, N. Y. Mary W. 9 (1888- ) m. Fred A. Vaughn, and EDITH G.9 HALSTED (1890- ; is a widow living in Louisville, Ky.; Sue9 Thomas H. 8 ) m. Charles F. Lorway and (1892- ) m. Cliffton C. Atherton, and lives at Coll\ngwood, Ont., Can. lives in Louisville,Ky.; Nathalie W. 9 (1897- KJ,.TliLEEN L. (1893- ; Thomas ) m. J. Walter Featherstone; Dawson9 H. 8) m. Thomas M. Small and lives at (1899- ) m. Russell Hager, and lives at Ithaca, N. Y. Paintsville, Ky., and Martha P.9 m. Thomas B. FRANCES J •9 HALSTED (1898- ; Nichols. Thomas H. 8J m. Dr. Gerald R. Jamison. ALBERT8 HALSTEAD (1849?-1919; Alex. B. 7 ) RUTH C. HALSTED (1900- ; m. Lavina Elizabeth Hogan, lived near Frank­ Thomas H. 8 ) m. Jonathan Chace, and lin, Ind., and had children Oscar9 (1873- lives at Hingham1 Mass. ) m. Laura Campbell and lives at Frank- J AliBS A. 9 HALoTED (1905- ; lin, Ind.; Hattie9 (1876- ) m. Edgar Thomas H. 8) m. Isabelle Hopkinson, and Mccaslin, and lives at Franklin, Ind.; Walter have one child Eleanor.10 S.9 (1878-1913); Roy A. 9 (1881- ) m. Har­ TRACY A. 8 HALSTED (1883- ; riet Duncan and lives at Indianapolis, Ind.; Thomas 7 ) m. Kary J. :U:urpby, live at Roscoe B.9 and Rowland9 (1886-1886). Toronto, Can., and have children :U:ary J.9 ROSCOE9 B. HALSTEAD (1882- ; Al- (1916- ) and Shirley G. 9 (1924- ). bert8) m. Nettie King., lives at Zionville, I -0-0-0- Ind.~ and has children Ruth M. 10 (1914- J; Hattie B.10 (1916- )· Harold u r i ah W i 1 so n 8 Ha 1st ea d K.10 (1920- ) and Howard e.io (1925- a n d D e s c e n d a n t s ). There are several hundred living descendants Compiled partly from data given by :U:rs. of Alexander B. 7 Halstead. In addition to those James R. Smith or Brainerd* :U:inn. and Miss Mil­ given, there are the sons and daughters, many dred Murphy of Livingston, Mont. of whom also have children and grandchildren, URIAH WILSON 8 HALSTEAD (1817-1863; Timotby 7 of Dr. Joseph Singer8 Halstead (See Chapter II, of Oneida Co., N. Y.) m. Mary Jane Grubb, lived Part One), Charles Wicklyffe Halstead. who at Baltimore. :U:d., and Bridgeport, Belmont Co., lives in-Kansas; Joseph b. Halstead, of Los o.; was a school teacher, and-was-killed in - Angeles, Calif • ., a lumber and builder's supplies battle in the Civil War. He had children Mary dealer; Margaret Halstead, living in San Diego, E. (1847-1850); Emma R. (1848-1924) m. Frank Calif.; Anna Halstead, living in Pacific Beach, Murphy and lived at Macon, Mo.; Andrew J.; Calif.; Joseph Halstead, living at Van Wert, Ia.; Wilson w. (1852-1854); Frank G. (1854-1854); Mrs. Mamie H. Chaffin, living in Breckenridge, John B. (1862-1863); Flora (1866-1866) and Ef- Mo., and Logan Halstead, living in Hamilton, o. fie H, (1857- ) m. Harry Edgerton Brooks Another group., through Joseph Henry Halstead, of ,and lives at Spokane, Wash. Uriah Wilson 8 had Louisville, Ky • ., a son of Jonah,8 and his chil­ a sister Rhoda (1721- ) and brothers dren and grandchildren, live in Louisville, and Timothy (1823-1850&) and John D. (1826-1850&:). in Davies and Henderson Cos., Ky. ANDREW JACOB9 HALSTEAD (1850-1929; Uriah -0-0-0- Wilson8)(See Chapter II, Part One) m. Annie :u:. Zane, lived at Wheeling, W. Va., and s t e p he ne Ha 1st ea d and Brainerd, Minn., where he was a newspaper D e s c e n d a n t s publisher, and had children Flora L. (1876- ) m. James R. Smith, dee., and lives at Compiled partly from data given by Doctor Brainerd, Minn.; Harold B. (1887-1888); Thomas H. Halstead of Syracuse, N. Y. Marjorie L. (1890-1894) and Leslie H, STEPHEN 6 HALSTEAD (1773?- ; Thomas5 of (1892-1914). Pittston, Renssalaer Co., N. Y.) m. Amelia Living descendants, in addition to those Lawrence, lived in Belleville, Ont. Can • ., and given, are Mrs. Patrick J. Casey, Mrs. Harry had children Thomas 7 ; James (Jonas?) 7 ; Samuel7 ; George, Francis Halstead George and Mrs. Earl Deborrah7 m. a Vancott; a daughter whom. John Kress living in Brainerd, Minn. a_nd Mrs. Harry Purdy and two unm. daus. Brooks, Neil D. Brooks and Miss Mildred Murphy THOJ4AS 7 HALSTEAD (1796-1854; Stephen 7) living in Livingston, :U:ont., and Edgerton Hal­ m. Mary Forshee, lived at Enniskillen, Ont., sted Brooks living in Spokane, Wash. Can., and had children Parmela8 (1818-1901) -0-0-0- m. Thomas Bradley; Sarah8 (1821-1902); John Forshee8 (1823-1906~, who had children GERSHOl'!e HALSTEAD (1750-1822; Thos .• 11 ) was a Rev, Thomas 9 and Stephen (1825-1895) who lived sold,; had 15 child. b7 2 ws.; Benj, (1774- ) & Wm. at Cedar Falls Ia. and had several sons; (1775-lSOo) sailors; 2 Johns (1777-1779 ); Jas. (1781- Elizabeth A~ t1028-1869); Jacob Miller8 )·a miller at Newburgh, N, Y.; Israel (1783- ) ot (1831-1886) and had children Edgar' and Phil,; Whitehead (1784- ) a shipmaeter; Jos. (1787- Lillian" m. a Reynolds; :U:ary :u:.8 (1834- ); Chas. (1789- ) with child. Charlotte, Berrian, 1908) m. a Fowke and lived at Guelph Ont. Chas., Robt. & Wm., and Asa (1798- ) with child, Asa Can.I Samuel8 (1836-1916); Daniel D. 1 (l839- & Henrietta were steam~oat capts. on the Hudson R. The l895J and James A. 8 (1841-1914) m. Jane A. gen. has been compiled b1 Mrs, George E. Cleghom, of Hacking and lived at Listowel, It. Forest and Chadron, Neb. 67

Chapter XIII

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C o 1 o n i a 1 V i r g 1 n i a and bays and rivers in small groups and single N o r t h C a r o 1 i n a families, braving the wilds and the hostile Indians, and there built cabins and cleared Kidway on the Atlantic Coast of North fields. America between the St. Lawrence River and The colony in "New Brittaine" was pro­ the Florida Peninsula is a wide inlet leading moted by the London Company, composed of into an extensive net-work of water-courses titled Englishmen. They expected to exploit cutting deeply into the land. There is a the forest and mineral resources that abound­ broad lake-like bay reaching a great dis­ ed everywhere. There was a dearth in England tance to the north, receiving three large of ship-lumber, masts, turpentine, wood-tar, rivers in its course. Another broad and pitch and iron which she was compelled to sluggish river runs to the west and north, buy from rival countries. The company hoped and a smaller one, in three branches, to the to draw to America much of England's south. There are many bays, islands and heavy- surplus of common labor and craftsmen peninsulas, making a maze of shore lines all for new mills and mines, and sent designs, the seward parts of which are washed by tide tools, trained men and money for such enter­ water. These are Chesapeake Bay, with the prlses. Potomac, Rappahannock and York rivers enter­ Scorning the ideas of the sponsors of the ing it, and the James and Elizabeth rivers colony and ignoring their objections, the emptying from the west and south, respective­ colonists seized upon the cultivation of the ly, into Hampton Roads. It is the region Indian weed called "tobacco" as their main which became Tidewater Virginia, where the occupation for a livlihood. Having been in­ first permanent English settlement in America troduced into Europe through Raleigh's was made. earlier expeditions to America, the use of Three small vessels from England sailed tobacco had become fashionable there and through the inlet in 1607, and, then, fifty there was a great demand for it which the miles along the James River to a small penin­ West Indies could not fully supply. The sula where the voyagers decided that they plant was indigenous to the soil of Virginia; could best defend themselves against the its growth required only a moderate amount of Spaniards and Indians, and there founded toil and simple instruments; it was easily Jamestown. More than a thousand new people cured, packed and transported, and sold for arrived at the settlement in the next few a price that rendered a fine profit. In some years. localities, such as the Elizabeth River dis­ Dissension between the leaders and the trict, the culture of tobacco was impractica­ factions ensued. Supply ships from England ble and the settlers there raised hogs, were sometimes delayed in reaching the colony. corn, indigo and engaged in the fur trade. Famine resulted from their failure, while But, as a whole, Virginia began to thrive, quarreling, to clear sufficient land and grew prosperous, and then became rich and raise enough crops for their needs. The In­ powerful on Sweetscented and Orinoco. Small dians attacked and massacred them. The germ­ primitive plantations expanded into ones of laden mosquito infested their unscreened immense sizes--great self-contained establish­ houses built in a hot and marshy country. ments having mansions for the owners, and They were afflicted with malaria and dysen­ with warehouses, barns, wharves and boats, tery, quinine was unknown, and nearly halt' and with crews of coopers, blacksmiths and of them died. carpenters, and with gangs of indentured serv­ Nevertheless, immigrants continued to come ants, later negro slaves, for the fields. to the place in a steadily rising stream. A Despite efforts of the authorities to es­ second settlement was made at Henrico. Gen­ tablish them, no cities of consequence arose erally the newcomers did not remain in the for a long time. »orfolk was not platted un­ towns, but scattered along the shores of the til 1688, and it held only about a thousand VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS 68

people by 1740. The planters did not need eighty thousand persons came to Virginia in large centers of trade and shipping. Sea- this manner in the Seventeenth Century. The going ships could ply the Venice-like water- majority of them were poor, but honorable. ways directly to the wharves of many of the There were some debtors from the jails, plantations where, from shallow water, canoes fugitives from justice and general riff- and sail-boats from the interior points raff. The more substantial servants became could easily contact them. small planters, however, after their terms The heavy demand for labor was met mainly of service, which averaged four years. Their by indentured servants. If a man could pay masters often gave them land, at the end of for his passage to America he could obtain------~-----=t their periods of serYice, as in the case of The St'a of China and the Indies. \i•.\ ~~.F .,.- ,,,-,,,-,,, • ~f

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Map of America, as it was thought to he then, in Edward Bland' s "Discovery of New Bri tt!'line''., London 1651, the identical yea:r in which Henry Holstead reached Virginia. A study of it will dis­ close ~any interesting feritures, such as the Sea of China and the East Imiies just beyond what are now the Cumberland Mountains; and, in order to shov; the flora and fauna of the country, an alliga­ tor trying to capture flying fish, sea monsters, a bear climhing a tree, a bird's nest in the top of a tree, many small animRls and birds, and trees dotting the landscape. The mRp is reproduced by special permission from an original copy of the book, one of the few in existence, in the William L. Clements Library at Ann Arbor, Michigan. good wages on the plantations. It required Henry Holstead, recounted later, or sold it little capital to obtain land and start a to them on easy terms. Eventually the laws plantation of his own. But thousands who required that they be given certain planta­ were anxious to come could not do this. The tion equipment. Some of them became wealthy alternative was for a planter to pay the pas­ and influential. Nevertheles~fully half of sage money, and, in consideration for it, re­ them died in the first year from disease and ceive their labor, supplying only shelter, the hardships of the work in the fields to food and clothing for a term of years--a which few of them had ever been inured. form of serfdom. It is estimated that Efforts to make slaves of conquered YIRGIBIA ilD IORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS 69

Indians generall,.- :tailed. They did not know social distinction and chivalry. For more how and would not be taught to till the than a century it was the garden-spot and tields in the manner of the white man. In the Kayfair of America. In Washington, Jef­ proud resistance to the degradation, they ferson, Kadison, Konroe and Marshall its would stoically endure starvation and the sons gave the nation its ablest leadership whip. While a tew negroes had been brought in its struggle for independence, and in in earlier, it was not until after 1680 that the forming of the great union of states. they were numerous. Slaves gradually dis­ Then, alas! its romantic civilization was placed the servants. Soon the plight of destroyed in the short span of three years JUIIY of' the servants was distressful. Some of civil war over the feudalistic character ot them succeeded in establishing themselves of its structure with human slavery at its in the uplands of the Piedmont on cheap land base. or drifted to the mountainous sections of Henry Halstead came to Virginia in 1651, Borth Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, and when its population was only fifteen thou­ are the forbears of the "mountain folks" of sand. It was at the beginning of a period those states. Those who remained in Tide­ of economic adversity. In the same year, water Virginia, where good land could no the British Parliament enacted the first of longer be obtained cheaply, became the "poor the Navigation Acts, requiring that all whites• who lived precariously in indolence products, including tobacco, be sold in Eng­ and squalor. land and transported there in English bottoms, The small planters who worked the land thus closing to the planters the markets and themselves or with only a few servants or ships of all other nations. Ostensibly the slaves constantly increased in number. When course was aimed at the merchants and the the Crown cancelled the charter of the London ships of the enemy Dutch, but it created a Compan;y, as the result of its mismanagement monopoly for the mother country of the once and virtual bankruptcy, Virginia was made a despised tobacco industry, and a heavy reduc­ ro7al province. The governors sent from tion :Ln the use or tobacco. There were huge England were either incompetent or tyrani­ surpluses of it, the price fell, the industry cal. The wealthy ones, in league with the was much injured, and some of the planters Crown officials, discriminated grossly were ruined. While somewhat modified by later against the poorer planters. When Berkeley acts, the condition was a severe handicap to was restored as Governor in 1660, after dis­ Virginia for a long period, and was an impor­ placement for-eight years during Cromwell's tant cause or the Revolutionary War. rule in England, he strengthened the domina­ North Carolina and South Carolina were tion of public affairs by the great families. formed from Carolina, a grant to Sir Robert The same House of Burgesses, the elective Heath in 1629, superceded by another one in assemblY, was brazenly re.tained for sixteen 1663 to the Lord Proprietors. All of north­ years without new elections, lest a new one eastern North Carolina originally was Alber­ would prove unsubmissive. This condition marle County, part of which was embraced in culminated in a rebellion of the small plant­ both the grants of Virginia and that of Car­ ers, mainly those of the interior, led by olina, which was adjudicated in later times. Nathaniel Bacon, who captured Jamestown, the The first settlements in North Carolina were capital city, but his sudden death resulted made by Virginia people. The development of in a victory for Berkeley in the conflict, the section was similar to that of Virginia, followed by wholesale executions and confis­ to which it was tributary. cation of the property of the insurrection­ The extreme southeastern portion of Vir­ ists. ginia lying south of Hampton Roads was Low­ Virginia remained in the control of the er Norfolk County. When it was divided, Nor­ reactionaries, and was governed by self-seek­ folk and Princess Anne counties were formed. ing men until 1675 when, after the exposure Directly south of them, across the state line of great corruption in the colonial admin1s­ in North Carolina, were Pasquotank, Camden tration, the oligarchy of the aristocrats (formed in 1770) and Currituck counties. In was overthrown. .llany reforms were then ef­ these five counties of Virginia and North fected by Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Carolina the Southern Halsteads, all of whom and other champions of the middle and lower sprang from Henry Holstead, lived until after classes. The Revolutionary War brought com­ 1790 when they began to disseminate. The fed­ plete independence from the English governors eral census of that year did not disclose a and full self government. single family of them living elsewhere in Thus, came into existence the no1d Domin­ either state or in any other Southern state. ion" with its wealth, culture, hospitality, -0-0-0- VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS

"The Planters of Virginia", "Virginia Under the early generations while in recent times Stu.artsn, "Patriot and Plebian in Virginia"-lferten­ 1Halstead 1 .has been adopted nearly universal­ baker. ly. 2 1 -0-0-0- HEHBY HOLSTEAD (1626?-1685; Nathan ). Nathan and Isabel Halstead were residents T h e S o u t h e r n H a 1 s t e a d s of Dedham and Concord, llassachusetts. Nathan died in 1642 and Isabel about a year earlier. The history of the Southern Halsteads has The couple had come to America, probably, never been fully investigated or the geneal­ from Middleton, near Kanchester, Lancashire, ogy of the branch fully formulated. There is England (See Chapter XI, Part One). Their much fragmentary information on them in the children, apparently, were William,2 Henry,2 public records of Virginia and North Carolina, and Edna,2 who were probably born in that or­ but a great deal of the data essential to a der, and there may have teen other children. genealogical history has not been collected. When William2 died at Concord in 1645, his Some of the early Halsteads who were key in­ will contained the clause: dividuals in the succession left no wills from which to obtain the identity of the mem­ ••• to brother Henr;y, at the end or two bers of their families. As public records years, except he dispose of himsel.t' in 11ar­ of them were not kept until recent times, riage, or have a lawf'ul. calling to Eagland by there is an almost total absence of dates of his friends there, to the satisfaction of m:r births in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and executors & in case he should go to England Nineteenth centuries. The records of mar­ of his own accord, then not to have it (the riages for these periods are very incomplete. bequest) till they heare certainly of his wel­ The Norfolk, Virginia, district, in which the being there ••• Halsteads lived, was in the path of enemy armies in two wars, which resulted in the This indicates that Henry, William's loss of many documents. There was a general brother, was a young man near the age fo~ indifference to the preservation of records marriage in 1645; that within the two years which has made all research work in Vir­ specified he would become a legal adult and ginia history difficult. Sufficient new be qualified to receive the bequest, and, facts to construct a full genealogy accurate­ ·thus, that he was about nineteen years of ly, after the third generation, could only age. be obtained now by a prolonged search for That he did return to England is evi­ them in old church registers, grave-stone denced by the fact that from Sorbybridge, inscriptions, family Bibles, and the like, Halifax Parish, West Riding of Yorkshire, which is a task practicable only for some in­ which is in the same district as Kiddleton. terested resident of the section. No Hal­ Lancashire, where his parents are believed stead there has yet undertaken this new re­ to have lived before coming to America, Edna search work. It is not possible, in conse­ Northin, his sister, received a letter trom quence, to present other than an incomplete him dated January 29, 1650. This letter and imperfect account of the branch. What was in the possession of the Northends of is given may not be entirely correct. The Salem, Massachusetts, as late as 1874. account presented contains, so it is believed, Perhaps enthused while in Kassachusetts virtually all the hitherto published materi­ with the prospects America offered a young al, and much which is here printed for the man, Henry Halstead would have become famil­ first time. iar, through the intelligences of the day, Many members of the early generations with the conditions in all the other colonies. were well-to-do or wealthY, but undistin­ What is more natural, then, than that he, guished, planters. Only one of them was a and not some other Henry Halstead of Eng­ colonial official, and their names do not ap­ land, after going back there for a short pe­ pear in the general histories of Virginia or riod, for what reason we do not know, should North Carolina or that of the planter aris­ finally return to America and go to V~r­ tocrats. Most of the later Halsteads have ginia. Having done so, he was successful, been substantial people. became contented and remained there permanent­ A complete record of the Southern Hal­ ly. There is nothing by which to prove the steads in all the American wars, including case incontestibly, which may never be pos­ those in the Confederate Army during the sibly, but there are no known facts 1n con­ Civil War, is given in Chapter VII, Part One. flict with it. Accordingly, Nathan is here 1Rolstead 1·, 1Hollstead 1 , and 'Halstead' treated as the first in America ot this were the fo~ms of the surname used in the branch and Henry, of the second generation, VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS 71

as the first member of it to live in the This "one person" was James Hanson, prob­ South. ably an indentured servant, whose passage to The exact time of Henry's arrival in America was. probabzy- paid by Henry Halstead, for, Elizabeth City County, Virginia, composed of ten years later on August 19, 1673, presum­ what was later Upper Norfolk and Lower Nor­ ably at the end of Hanson's period of serv­ folk counties, where he embarked for the ice, Holstead assigned this patent to Hanson, journey or the ship he sailed in, are un­ as was often done by generous masters~ On known facts. Few records of such kind for the same date, probably in order to strength­ the Virginia immigrants have been preserved. en the title to this land, Halstead gave The first record of his presence in Virginia Hanson a deed, made in abbreviated legal is the appearance of his name in a grant of form, characterized as a "bill of sale", in land dated Aug.15,1651,issued by the Gover­ the last clause of which Henry gibes at ver­ nor to Christopher Burroughs, for two hun­ bose and cumbrous legal instruments: dred and forty acres of land. In order to stimulate immigration, a "head-right" of ••• this bill of sale to be as authentick fifty acres of land was given to every in­ and of as much force and strength and vert•w dividual for each person he brought into the as if all the tricks and quiblets were in­ colony. These, and other land grants, con­ serted as might be ••• stitute the only historical record of the presence in the colony of the majority of This transaction shows that by 1663, at the early immigrants. The grant to Bur­ least, Henry Holstead had the additional roughs was for bringing in Henry Holstead, capital with which to acquire an indentured Jla.ry Tyler, John Townsend, Elizabeth Church­ servant, and that his plantation activities eth and Thomas Lawton. Burroughs had come were such as to require them, for there were to Virginia, apparently, about 1636, for in probably others. that year he was given "head-right" land for Another record is that of a deed, dated Ann and William Burroughs, who were probably November 25, 1672, which was acknowledged in members of his own household. court on June 16, 1673, recording Henry's Henry Halstead must have been about purchase of two hundred acres of land from twenty-five years of age when he reached Quintillian Goodrich: Virginia and, thus, was born about 1626. He had the money with which to pay his passage, A tract of lend of two hundred acres situ­ apparently, from his brother's estate or ate, ~ing, and being up a Creek, commonly otherwise, for he was a freeman. He acquired called Indian Creek, in Eliz. River aforesaid; land, which was then very cheap, and soon the land formerly was in the possession of became an extensive planter. As no "head­ Richard Whit.bee of the county aforesaid being right" was claimed for Henry Holstead's wife, marked and bounded by the patten bearing the lllldoubtedly he was single., and he married, date of the fifth dey of the 8 mo 1661 ••• in a few years, probably, a Virginia girl, presumably, with the out-moded name of 'Brid­ Henry Holstead's mode of life, his cir- get.' cumstances, hints on his character, and the Soon after his arrival, if not at once, nature of his family are very well disclosed Henry located a few miles southeast of what by his will and an interpretative study of is now the city of Norfolk, on Indian Creek, it. It was made on March 12, 1684-85 and and below the eastern branch of the Eliza- was recorded Yay 15, 1685, just after his . beth River, and east of the Green Sea, a death, presumably, and shows him to have been part of the Dismal Swamp, where he lived the a moderately wealthy planter. He owned about rest of his life. A land grant discloses five hundred acres of land containing a well­ his residence there twelve years after his furnished plantation house. There were pew­ arrival. As of September 14, 1663, Sir Wil­ ter tableware, manufactured bedsteads, feath­ liam Berkeley, Governor General of Virginia, er bolsters, and individual chests for the conveyed fifty acres of land to him: keepsakes of the children, all of which were among the luxuries of the day; horses ••• situate, '.cying, and being in the County and cattle and a number of slaves--the whole of Lower Norfolk., on the south side of the forming an establishment which required Eastern branch of the Elizabeth River att the barns, warehouses, negro dwellings and a head of Indian Creek, jo:,ning to the West side large amount of plantation equipment. The of lus 01111 Land in Lower Norfolk County••• _the soil of Lower Norfolk Collllty was not well said land being due for transportation of one adapted to the culture of tobacco. It is person into this colan;y whose na11es are of Rec­ probable that Henry Halstead did not special­ ord mentioned underneath this patten••• ize 1n that product, but in cattle; hogs VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA RALSTEADS 72 which roamed the swampy country roundabout father till he come to the age of twenty years and were herde~ only at the time of killing and then to. be del.ivered to the said John Hol­ or sale; lard, tallow, and hides; animal stead with the male and female. skins from the game which abounded or which Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter, were traded for from the Indians; perhaps Ann Holstead, as followeth; one feather bed & corn and other small grains and vegetables, boulster, and two blanketts, and one iron pot, pitch, turpentine, and possibly indigo. 2 pewter dishes, and one basson, and 2 pewter That he was an enlightened man, perhaps plattes, one chest marked A.H., and four himself well educated, although he signed heayfers and one cow, with their increase male his will vri th a mark, which was more often and f'emale, to her and her heirs forever, and the case than otherwise then, is shown by are to run for her proper account from the de­ the unusual clause in the will directing cease of her father, to her and her heirs for­ that his minor children be given educations. ever. This presupposes that he had already edu­ Item: I give and bequeath and doe consti­ cated the adult children. tute my loaviDg wife and son, Symond, my hole The will is quaint in structure and and sole executors of all my hole estate boath language and contains curious provisions. within dores and without soe long as my wife The paragraphing and punctuation, as of rec­ remains a vriddo and if my wife marre that then ord, have been slightly altered to better all that part ot my estate that they are pos­ its readableness: sessed with shee shall surrender up to my son, Symond Holstead, but ii' she continue a widdo · The last will and Testament of Henry Hol­ dureing her natural life that then my wife stead, sayeth being in perfect sense but very shall have the same fregrase and Regras as now weake in boey, as followeth: she hath, and I also doe order and ordaine Item: I give and bequeath to my son, Sy­ that my wife and son, Symond, that they upon mond Holstead, my manor plantation, to him and their one (own) cost and charge doe well and bia heira £orever, it be;Lng that part or par­ true:cy give my two sons, Henry and John Hol­ sell of land I bought of Mr. Whitehurst. stead, two years skooling, and I doe further Item: I give and bequeath to my son, Henry order and ordaine that when my two sons, Henry Holstead, one hundred acres of land lying next and John Halstead, come to age shall have each to my manor plantation, to him and his heirs of them a negro and my daughter, Ann Halstead, forever, and I also give and bequeath to my to have one, and allso if the mares doe in­ son, Henry liolstead, tower coes and one heifer, crease, that ray.two younger sons and my (that is) to say, Old Bradhorns and Young Brad­ daughter, Ann Holstead, shall have each of horns and Whiteflanke and Browning and Bro1m­ them a yollXlf: mare or horse delivered to them ing1 s heayfer, with the increase of the female, when they come to age, and I do further re­ to him and his heirs forever,- the cattle to be quest my son, Symond Holstead, upon -,q bless­ delievered at the decease of his father, and ing, that you do truely perform this vrill. one feather bed and boulster and rugg and one Henry (his mark) Holstead and seal. blankett, 2 pewter dishes, 2 pewter plattes,. Test: Richard Whitehurst. on iron pot, and one chest marked H. H., two Robert Butt. him and his heirs forever and are to be de­ lievered att the age of twenty years. Bridget Holstead, Henry's widow, married Item: I give and bequeath to my son, John John Gosscutt, after September 28, 1685, Holstead, one hundred acres of land joyning for on that date she as "Bridgett Hallsted11 to the land of his Brother, Henry Holstead, to and he as 11 John Gosscutt" were witnesses to him, the said John Holstead, and his heirs the will of Richard Hill. John Gosscutt's forever, and I allso give to ray son, John will, of March 15, 1688-89, was proved in Holstead, one feather bed and boulster and Norfolk County, June 16, 1691. He left his rugg and blankett and one iron pott about 5 wife, 11 the plantation where I now live I gallons, 2 pewter dishes, 2 pewter plattes, bought of Mr. Thom.as Willoughby. 11 Bridget and one chest marked J. H. and are to be deliev­ Rolstead Gosscutt•s will was recorded in ered to the said John Holstead when he comes Norfolk County on January 18, 1711-12. to the age of twenty years. I also give to Henry Holstead1s.mention of the possibility my son, John Holstead, rower cowes and on of it in his will, and her second marriage, heayfer as followeth, Cherry Coale, Young suggests that she was considerably younger Starr, and Oul.d Starr, the heayfer Pretee, than Henry. If she was married to Henry with the femaJ:e increase, to him and his Holstead at eighteen in 1654, she would have heirs forever, and are to run for the said been born in 1636, was forty-nine at his John Holstead1s use from the decease of his death, and seventy-five at her own death. VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS

Of the four children of ffenry and Bridget in Norfolk Co., Va., and was made an executor of Halstead, Simona and probably Elizabeth3 were his father's estate. His wife's name was adu1ts, and Henrya and Johna were minors. Elizabeth, who may have been either a Matthias Either Simon or Elizabeth cou1d have been the or a Butt, to whom he was m. probably about oldest child. The mention of Henry in advance 1678. Land belonging to him was mentioned in of John, suggests that Henry was the older of the proceedings for Mar. 5, L727-28, in the line the two. There probably were other children of the survey for determining the disputed who died young, as is to be supposed in the bounds between the colonies of Virginia and case of all the early families when infant mor­ North Carolina. On March 20, 1728-29, he made tality was enormous. 3 2 a lease for one year, in the form of a trust ANN HOLSTEAD (1658- ; Henry ); it is said deed, to William Portlock, one of the benefici­ that she m. a direct descendant of Sir Thomas aries of his brother John's will, of 40 acres Willoughby. Sir Thomas, born in 1601, was of land located, "on ye East side of Yd South brought to Va. in 1610, and became a prominent Branch of Elizabeth river (and thus east of his merchant, land 01merL Councillor of the colony own plantation) being ye old plantation ye John and a member of the ttouse of Burgesses. In the Alexander formerly lived upon and part of a genealogy of the first three Thomas Willoughbys, patent granted to ye said John Alexander and by following Sir Thomas, othersthan Ann Holstead Conveyances from one to another it fell to ye appear as the wives, but in the case of another said Simon Halstead as heir at law of Jno. Hal­ 3 Thomas, of a divergent line, the omission of his stead." No will is available for Simon , but wi.fe's maiden name in his genealogical history his children are disclosed in the will or Henry4 leads to-the conjecture that it may have been hiss., who left his estate to his brothers and 4 Ann Holstead. This Thomas d. in 1710-11, naming sisters. They are enumerated therein as Heory , in his will Thomas, John and William as sons, Thomas4 , Kary 4 , Elizabeth', Sarah4 , Bridgett', 4 and mentioning six daus., but not by name. The thoujht to .have married Ben Hallowell, Simon , s. John was a minor, and, thus, b. after 1689. John , and Drew'. 4 3 Willoughby was occasionally a Christian name of HENRY HOLSTEAD {1696?-1736; Simon ); his the later Halsteads. will, dated October 24, 1729, was proved in HENRY 3 HOLSTEAD (1662?-1724; Henry2 ); his Norfolk Co., Va., June 17, 1736. He left all wife's Christian name was Elizabeth and she may his property to his brothers and sisters, have been a Butt, with whom the Holsteads inter­ and,thus, neither wife nor children were liv­ married. In a list of nqu1.-trentsn, the form of ing at the time the will was made. He gave land taxation o.r the day, he was listed .for the his brother Drew' the main ha1f' of the manor year 1704-05 as owning 633 acres. On October 9, plantation; his brother Thomas• the other 1716, a grant of land was made to him and Henry half; his brother Simon4 his, "part of Uncle Lawley, in Chowan Pree., Chowan Co., N. C. of John's estate", (obtained by the breaking of 87 acres and 40 poles in the Forked Swamp. His John1 s 3 will by the natural heirs), and the wiii, dated aar. 9, 1723-24, was recorded in others personal property. Simon• contested 4 Norfolk Co., in 1724. There were no living chil­ the proving of the will; Drew ; the executor, dren at the time the will was made, apparently, asked to be permitted to make his oath and for he left his entire estate to his wife, in­ receive a certificate of probate, which was cluding 16 cows and calves, 72 head of cattle, granted. To this Simon4 appealed, the ap­ and slaves. The personal estate inventoried at peal was granted, and he was required to give 365 50 pounds security. J8~i°-;OLSTEAD (1664?-1719; Henry•}; in the JOHN 4 HALSTEAD (1690?-1729?; Simon3 ); his list of quit-rents of Norfolk Co., Va., for the will was made July 9, 1728, but he d. after years 1704-05 he was credited with 350 acres of Oct. 24, 1729, when he is mentioned in the land. He was a witness to the will of Phillip will of his brother Henry. 4 The will be­ llason on Feb. 16, 1710. On Apr. 25, 1715, he queaths enumerated personal property, such was appointed Sheriff of Norfolk Co. by the as, "shoe buckles, two old guns, one old Council, and was re-elected to the same posi­ cutlas", and mentions his brother Simont. tion on May 2, 1716, and for a third time on There were no wife or children living. Kay 2, 1719. A verbal will given before wit­ DREW4 HALSTEAD (1692?-1771?&; Simon3 ); his nesses, on May 27, 1719, recorded July 7, 1917, will was recorded in 1771, but no abstract of indicates the time o.r his death. John Portlock it can be given. 4 3 was given a water-mill; John Mathias, "his part THOJif.AS HOLSTEAD (1686-1765?; Simon ); of the sloop for one part belonging to the said the only definite information or him is in Mathias before"; William Portlock the planta­ the will of his brother Henry; 4 the rest of tion where Portlock lived, as a tenant, pre­ the data given on him is conjectural. He may sumably, and the books of the Sheriff's office have married a Butt for Nathaniel Butt made a and some tobacco due him, and Elizabeth Port­ will on Jan. 2, 1749-50, of whose estate a lock one negro. It is probably that John3 Hal­ Thomas and John Halstead were appraisers. On stead married a Portlock, who had died before June 4, 1760, Thomas Halstead Hallowell and him, and if there were children, none were liv­ Samuel Warden were signers of the marriage ing, apparently, at the time the will was given. bond of Josias Black and Mary Warden, indi­ The legal heirs, who were his brothers Simon,a cating that a daughter of Thomas 4 had mar­ Henry3 and his sister Ann3 succeeded in breaking ried a Hallowell. A Thomas Halstead was a the will, and the estate went to them and their party to a land deed in CUrrituck Co., N. C. heirs. John Willson was appointed Sheriff of on Nov. 17, 1724. No will by him is known, Norfolk Co. on June 26, 1719, to succeed John and, thus, his children cannot be determined. Holstead. It is probable that he is the ancestor of SIKON3 HOLSTEAD (1656?-1728?; Henry8 } was many later Halsteads found in the records the only child of Henry• Holstead, so it is be­ whose relationship is not known. There are lieved, who left Halstead children, and, thus, a number of Thomases in succeeding genera­ all succeeding Halsteads trace in ancestry back tions, some of whom were undoubtedly his di­ to him. Be was an adu1t in 1685; was left the rect descendants. mam:r plantation of his father on Indian Creek, SAllUEL5 HALSTEAD (Thomas4 J); the only VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS 74 record of him found was as a witness to of Norfolk Co., Va. His will made tLe will of Francis Simmons, recorded in Apr. 19, 1783, recorded May 20, 1784, Currituck Co., N. C. Oct. 25, 1757. left hiss. Lemuel, "all my land in JOSEPH5 HALSTEAD (Thomas 4 ?); he may Currit~ck county (N. c.) where he have married Mary Wicker, dau. of John lives"; hiss. John 20 shillings; his Wicker, on August 13, 1764?. s. Smith 75 acres of land, which was -o-o- half the home plantation; his dau. Frances Wilkins 20 shillings; his dau. The foregoing are the only children of Kesiah Wilkins 20 shillings, the same Simon3 on whom the information obtained is at married names suggesting that they m. all clear. Nor are there dependable records on brothers, and hiss. Matthew 75 acres the succeeding generations. Something can be of land, the second half of the home given about some of the individuals, but in most plantation, and all the cattle, horses,• cases their lineage is conjectural. It is not household furniture and the residue of safe even to attempt to give the generations to the estate. As the will does not men­ which they belong. There may have been other tion a wife, she had d. before him. immigrant Halsteads following Henry2 who were Matthew was made the executor of the the ancesto1·s of some of the Halsteads of whom estate. Either Lemuel or Matthew was there are fragmentary records, but nothing is the eldest s., and it is assumed that known of them. Lemuel was such as he was mentioned As in other branches of the family, the dif­ first, but not made executor, perhaps, ferent spellings of 'Halstead', even for the because he was a resident of North same persons and for different members of the Carolina and,. thus, could not qualify. same family, causes confusion. It is spelled This John Halstead was the grandfather herein as it appears in the records, irrespec­ of John and Reuben Halstead whose tive of the inconsistencies made. genealogy in full is given in Part Two. a. SIMON HALSTEAD ( ; 1770; possibly s. h. LEMUEL HALSTEAD ( ; 1779; of Simon, 3 but probably of the 2nd. gen. fol­ s. of g. John) lived in Currituck lowing) m. Ann Matthias, dau. of Matthew Co., N. c. and may have been the Matthias, Dec. 13, 1728. He lived in the Lemuel who was a Revolutionary sol­ Northwest Woods, in St. Bride's Parish, Lower dier (See Chapter VII; Part One). Norfolk Co., Va. His will was made Aug. 29, i. SMITH HOLSTEAD \. ; 1782; 1769, and was recorded Dec. 21, 1770. He was a s. of g. John) (See record of him wealthy planter, £or he le£t a large estate. and his £ami1y in the 1790 federa1 To hiss. Henry, he gave 498 acres and 50 acres, census following); lived in Norfolk "where I now live, including the house where he Co., Va. His will, recorded in now lives"; after Henry 1 s decease the 50 acres 1782, mentions his children as Iva, to go to ~att Halstead, his grandson. To his Tanner, Nathan, George, Willoughby, s. John, he gave 75 acres of the home planta­ Matthew, Elizabeth and Sally. tion; to hiss. Simon, after the decease of his j. NATHAN HALSTEAD ( ; 1861; widow, all the remainder of the land on which s. of i. Smith) had sons Lemuel and he lived, amounting to 175 acres with the John w. houses; to John and Simon, 160 acres, "on the k. LEMUEL HALSTEAD (1843-1912; west side of the Green Sea", to be equally di­ s. of j. Nathan) had four sons vided between them; to his wife Ann, live stock Nathan (1874-1915); William Ira; and household goods and slaves. A long list of Claude L. (1889- ) a pharma- personal property was apportioned to the chil­ cist of Norfolk, Va., and John dren, including the daus. Elizabeth, Ann Guy, Henry (1891- ), an attorney in Frances Frizzell and Mary Butt •. His wife, his the U.S. Department of Justice, dau. Ann Guy and hiss. Simon were made execu­ and resides at NewarkL.~• J. tors. 1. WILLIAM IRA tiALSTEAD b. MATTHEW HALSTEAD (s. of a. Simon) had (1878- ; s. of Lemuel) of children William, Joshua, Matthew and sever­ South Mills, N. C.,. has chil- al daus. dren William Leon {1904- ); c. SIMON HALSTEAD ( ; 1809?; s. of a. John Wiley (1915- ) and Simon) had children Henry, John A., Matthew, Lemuel Hubert (1916- ). Elizabeth whom. a. Simmons and Ann whom. m. JOHN W. HALSTEAD (1832- Henry Shelton. 1895; s. of j. Nathan) had ones. d. HENRY HALSTEAD (s. of c. Simon) John W., Jr. (1871-1931). probably had children Adam Willis, Henry, n. JOHN HOLSTEAD ( ; 1783; s. Elizabeth whom. a. Miller, Charlotte who of g. John) was a planter of Curri­ m. a. Miller, Ann whom. a. Land and Jane tuck Co., N. c. His wife, was whom. Matthew McCoy. Frances, probably a Simmons. His e. ADAM HALSTEAD (s. of d. Henry) will, dated Jan. 9, 1793, was re­ was a Methodist clergyman and had corded Dec. 5, 1793, and disposed children Caleb, William, Augustus, of a plantation of 160 acres and no Minnie whom. a.Harrison and Fanny slaves. The adult children were whom. a. Dozier. Matthias, John, Josiah and Reuben f. C.ALEB HALSTEAD (1865; ; and the minor children Saley, Sam­ s. of e. Adam) m. Martha Deal, and ue1 and Edney. It is the history had children John Dilworth, of Ocean and genealogy of the sons John and View, Norfolk, Va., Arthur L. of Reuben with which Part Two deals. Norfolk, Va., Robert L. who lives o. HENRY HALSTEAD ( ; 1794; s. of a. at High Point, N. C. and Walter H., Simon}; his will was recorded in Norfolk deceased. Co., Va.; in 1794 and he had children g. JOHN HALSTEAD (1712?-1784; Sally, Matthias, Matthew, Elizabeth, Ann and probably s. of c. Simon) was a planter Nathaniel. VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS 75

p. MATTHIAS HALSTEAD (s. of o. Henry) w. WILLIAJI. HALSTEAD ( ; 1816; had children BenjaDJ!~i Henry and Sarah. probably s. of. r. Simon); his will, re­ q. NATHANIEL WU.STEAD (s. of p. corded in Currituck Co., N. C. in the Matthias) had children John E., Frank Feb. term of 1816, gave all his estate and Elizabeth. · to his wife Venice for her life time, r. DREW HALSTEAD ( ; 1770; possibly s. and at herd. it was to be sold and of a. Simon, but more probably of the 2nd. the money used for the rearing of the gen. following); he may have lived at one children who were not enumerated. The time in Currituck Co., N. C., for a Drew Hal­ will of Venice Halstead, made July 21, stead was a witness to the will of Caleb Wil­ 1829, recorded Dec. 6, 1830, left all son there in September of 1754. His will of her estate to her sister Elsey was recorded in Norfolk co., Va. in 1770, Thompson, which indicates that all of and he had children Edward, Simon, Latimer, the children had died before her. Love, Ann, Jean lVho m. a Mills, Drew, Jr., x. LEl,lUEL HALSTEAD (lineage unknown, Samuel, John, Thomas, Mary whom. a. Rich­ but was probably of the same generation ardson and Elizabeth. as t. John) was a soldier in the N. C. s. DREW HALSTEAD, JR. ( ; 1783; s. militia in 1754 (See Chapter VII, Part of r. Drew); his will was made Jan. 22, One). His wife was L7dia, who may have 1783, was recorded in Pasquotank Co., been a Joliffe (Jolly), dau. of Richard N. c. Aug. 14, 1783; he left a manor Joliffe, b. about 1872, s. of John Jolley, plantation to his brother John, and di­ who in a will of Apr. 5, 1736, proved vided 7 slaves, and cattle, horses, oxen May 20, 1736, made a bequest to his and household goods between his 10 granddau. 'Lide Jolly.' Lemuel and brothers and sisters. If there was a Lydia named as. Richard, which was a wife or children they had died, apparent­ Jolif.fe family name for generations back. ly, before him. On June 5, 1770, Lemuel deeded 50 acres t. JOHN HALSTEAD ( ; 1791; s. of r. of land to 'Willoby Douge1 in Currituck Drew); his will was made in January of Co., N. C. In his will dated Sept. 16, 1791, and was recorded on Mar. 12 in 1784, recorded in Currituck Co., where he Pasquotank Co., N. C. His wife, Milli­ lived, June 20, 1786, he gave his wife cent, who was a Reading, was left the use Lydia the use of 4 negro slaves during of the plantation and woodland, the ne­ her life; his sons Richard and Joshua, groes, and the personal property; at her niands and plantation where I now live death the plantation and the woodland was containing 115 acres"; hiss. Seth 50 to go to the s. John, and the rest of the acres of land and live stock; hiss. property was to be divided between the Jesse a cow and a calf; his dau. Frances children John, Benjamin, Thomas, Latimer, Gregory a slave after her mother's death; Charlotte, Love and Mary. There was a his dau. Lydie an unborn slave and house­ clause reading: "To wife, Millicent, and hold goods, and hiss. Joliffe an unborn my friend, John Lane, and my brother Lati­ slave and another at the death of his mer all tnat plantation and woodland I mother. Lydia the wife and Seth the s. had from Isaac Smithson, to them and their were made executors. Thus Lemuel was a heirs and assigns forever, in trust for moderately wealthy planter. His will the use and benefit of my son Drew, upon discloses that not only living slaves, the condition and upon this express but unborn ones could be conveyed like reservation that he reform his life and other property. Lydia Halstead, pre­ betake himself to some useful employment, sumably the Widow of Lemuel, is recorded of which alteration in conduct and amend­ in the 1790 federal census record of the ment the said trustees or a majority of Halstead given later in this chapter. them shall be the judges, and in case xx. SETH HOLSTEAD ( ; 1799; s. such alteration and amendment aforesaid in of x. Lemuel); his will made June 28, the life and conduct of the said Drew 1798, proved Mar. 7, 1799 in Currituck shall not take place before his arriving Co., N. c. mentions his wife as Mary, at the age of twenty-one years or in case and his sons as Malachi, Tommy (Thomas), of his death before that period, then it Isaac and Anthony. A clause in the is my will that the said land should be will reads: "It is my Will and desire sold at six months credit, and the money that the Negro Big Tom for his faith­ arising therefrom to be equally divided ful services to me, should be manu­ among my other surViVing children." mited and set free f.rom the hands of u. LATI11ER HALSTEAD (s. of t. John) my executors." His brothers Richard, is thought to have had only one surviv­ and Joshua were the executors. ing child, James Riley, who was left an y. MALACHI HOLSTEAD ( ; 1814; orphan; and who lived in Currituck Co., s. of. x. Lemuel); his will was re­ N. c. where he was a farmer, and had corded in CUrrituck co. N. C. in 1814, sons Benjamin B. who lives in Los in which he left his estate to Nancy Angeles, Calif., William J. deceased Simmons, dau. of M. Simmons, from· and James w. and Percy of Norfolk, Va. which it is supposed that neither wife v. SIKON HALSTEAD ( ; 180~?; s. of nor children survived him. r. Drew) probably had children William, yy. JESSE HOLSTEAD (s. of x. Lem­ George, Henry, Lydia, Charles, Simon, uel) was m. May 14, 1764, in Princess Polly, Eunice, Love and James. Lydia Anne Co., Va., the wife's name being probably m. in Norfolk Co., Va., Isaiah illegible in the records. He was re­ Butt. Charles probably m. in Norfolk Co., corded in the 1790 federal census as Apr. 28, 1791, Courtney Butt. James given below. probably m. Polly Hunter in Norfolk co., z. THOMAS HOLSTEAD (s. of x. Lem­ and was the executor of his father's es­ uel). In the 1790 census records fol­ tate. Love m. a Sawyer. lowing, he may have been either the VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA HALSTEADS 76 Thomas in Pasquotank Co., N. c. or the Princess Anne County one in Norfolk Co., Va. MARY HOLSTEAD 6 1 0 0 zz. JOLEF'F HOLSTEAD (s. of x. Lemuel) was a soldier in the Revolutionary War North Carolina (See Chapter VII, Part One), and ap­ a. white males, 16 yrs. and over; b. white fe­ pears in the.1790 census record below. males under 16 yrs.; c. white females; d. slaves. -0-0-0- Currituck County SAMUEL HALSTEAD ( ; 1832; lineage unknown); a b C d in his will recorded in Pasquotank Co., N. c. JESSIE HOLSTEAD l 4 3 l in the Mar. term of 1832, he left a large es­ JOFIFF HOLSTEAD 1 2 3 0 tate to his wife Eliza E., who was a Hinton, LYDIA HOLSTEAD l l l 6 consisting of, "the tract of land and swamp JOHN HOLSTEAD 3 2 6 0 whereon my father formerly resided consisting of LEVINA HOLSTEAD l l l 6 400 acres more or less; also, "land and swamp near Northwest River Bridge, known as the North­ Pasquotank County west plantation, containing 400 acres"; 12 other JOHN HOLSTEAD 3 3 6 10 tracts in Pasquotank Co.; a lot and a small EDWARD HOLSTEAD 2 1 l 0 tract in Camden Co., N. c.; and all his negroes, JARVIS HOLSTEAD l O O 0 "with the exception of Old Bob, Old Nell, Old THOMAS HOLSTEAD l 3 4 0 Jacob and Big Lamb, which I wish to be freed if Thus, the Southern branch of the Halstead it is their wish", and a large list of personal family in 1790 consisted of only 18 families property. He probably had no surviving chil­ and 111 people, rather surprisingly small num­ dren. Small bequests were made to William S., bers for a family dynasty established about 135 Edwin H., and Samuel Hinton, and to Lewis, John, years in a time of large families. Sarah and Ethelbert Richardson. -0-0-0- ELIZABETH HALSTEAD ( ; 1837; w. of John but of what lineage is unknown); her will was The Living Generations recorded in Pasquotank co., N. C., in the March A considerable number of Halsteads live in term of 1837. She left land to her children Norfolk, Va. district today. Some of the more Love, Charlotte and Benjamin, and, "after paying prominent ones are Hon. William Ira Halstead of the rest of my sons and daughters Sally, Smith­ South Mills, Camden Co., N. C., who has been a son, Letta Davis, William, Rebecca Davis and member of the General Assembly of North Carolina Latimore one dollar apiece, I. give to Samuel since 1929. He was educated at Elizabeth City Halstead two dollars." John Holstead, her hus­ Academy and Lake Forest University, and had law band, was appointed executor. offices at Elizabeth City, N. C. With their MARY HALSTEAD ( ; 1835; husband unknown); brother William J., deceased, James W., Ben­ her will was recorded Dec. 15, 1835, in Curri­ jamin B. and Percy Halstead built up and oper­ tuck Co., N. C. in which it is indicated that ated, until they sold it a few years ago, the she first m. a Dozier, for Tully and Edmund Farmer's Manufacturer's Company of Norfolk, Va., Dozier are mentioned as sons. Elizabeth Ethridge a large concern, with branches in several and Sally Oneal are mentioned as daus. Southern states, which makes fruit and vege­ -0-0-0- table packages. Benjamin B. Halstead is re­ tired and lives at Los Angeles, Calif. Matthew The 1790 Federal Census Records Halstead was a wealthy bachelor of Norfolk, who The original records for Virginia in the 1790 died in 1924. Federal Census. were destroyed in the War of -0-0-0- 1812, before they had been published. The Gov­ ernment then used as the basis for its later Public Records of Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties, reports on Virginia a 1782 state census. The Va., and Currituck, Camden, and Pasquotank records on the Halstead families in Virginia and counties, N. c. North Carolina were: "Index to Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632 to Virginia 1800"- National Society of Colonie.I Dames of Amer­ a. number of persons in family; b. dwellings; ica. c. other buildings; to which has been added for "Lovrer Norfolk County and Norfolk County \'/ills, 1637 to this compilation d. the number of slaves owned 1710"--Mcintosh. according to the Virginia State census of 1782. "Virginia County Records"--Genealogical Association Pub­ lishing Co. Norfolk County "The William and lllary Quarterly." a b C d First Federal Census Records for Virginia and North Caro- MATTHEW HOLSTEAD 8 l 9 4 lina. SAMUEL HOLSTEAD 3 1 4 4 nNorth Carolina Historical and Genealorical Register." THOMAS HALSTEAD 7 1 7 l "Virginia Antiquary-Lower Norfolk County." SIMON HALSTEAD 12 l 5 4 "Virginia Magazine of History and Biography." ELIZ. HOLSTEAD 5 l 1 2 "The Colonitl and State Records of North Carolina." SMITH HOLSTEAD 11 1 6 10 "Planters of Colonial Virginia"--Wertenbaker. HENRY HALSTEAD 9 l 5 8 "Early Virginia IllllDigrants"-Greer. LATIMER HALSTEAD 3 0 0 2 -0-0-0- 77

PART TWO

Chapter l

JOHN AND REUBEN HOLSTEAD

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Currituck County, dealing in land there early. Thomas Halstead N o r t h C a r o l i n a bought land on November 17, 1724; Drew Halstead was a witness to the will of Caleb Wilson in Currituck County, North Carolina, is a pen­ September of 1754; Samuel Halstead was a witness insula at the extreme northeastern end of the to the will of Francis Simmons on October 25, state, facing east its full length along Cur­ 1757; James Halstead sold forty acres of land rituck Sound and pointing south into AJ.bermarle on October 6, 1766; Lemuel Halstead was a party Sound. Currituck and AJ.bermarle sounds, and the to a land deed on June 5, 1770; and Richard, broad bay-like mouth of the North River and that James and other Halsteads owned land in the of the Pasquotank River on the west, give it a county in the succeeding years. long shore line indented with bays and the -0-0-0- mouths of smaller rivers. The land is generally low and swampy. Except the central ridges, most A n c e s t r y and F a m i 1 y of the land of the county has never been well adapted to agriculture. The waterways and As given in Chapter XIII, Part One, Henry swamps are now famous as a duck hunter's and Holstead was the first of the line of the fisherman's paradise. southern Halsteads. Born in England about 1626, The locality is notable in history as the he died in Norfolk County, Virginia, in 1685. scene of the first colonization enterprise in He is believed to have been the son of Nathan North America above Florida. Sir Walter Raleigh, and Isabel Halstead of concord and Dedham, adventurer and courtier, who was in the favor of Massachusetts, who had emigrated to America Queen Elizabeth,sponsored attempts to found a about 1635 from Middleton, near Manchester, colony there and impoverished ~imself in so do­ England. Henry was in Massachusetts with his ing. His first expedition landed at the mouth parents for some ten years and probably returned of Trinity Harbor, on Currituck Sound, on July 4, to England near 1645 and then came back to Vir­ 1584, but in a few days went twenty miles south ginia in 1651 where he lived until his death. He to the north end of Roanoke Island, from which was a moderately wealthy planter whose large point the near-by country was explored. All mem­ plantation was located near the present city of bers of the expedition returned to England the Norfolk. same summer and in 1585, 1587 and 1591 ships Of his four surviving children Simon, Ann, were again sent out from England. The colonists Henry and John, only Simon had surviving chil­ met with great difficulties and a permanent set­ dren bearing the surname 1 Holstead1 and, thus, tlement never eventuated. Fifteen men of the he is an ancestor of the entire line. Immediate­ third group remained on Roanoke Island, when ly following him, the genealogical record is as all the rest left, known as "Raleigh's Lost yet uncertain, but a second Simon, either a son Colony", for they had all disappeared by 1591, of the first Simon, or of the second, generation no trace of them ever having been found, except following him, married Ann Matthias on December for the mysterious word "Crotan" carved on a 13, 1728, and died in 1770. He was a well-to­ tree. Virginia Dare, the first white child born do planter of Norfolk County. The second Simon in America, saw the light of day on Roanoke had a son John, also a planter of Norfolk Island August 18, 1587. It was on the sand County, who died in middle life in 1784 and had dunes of nearby Kitty Hawk that Wilbur and Or­ children Matthew, Lemuel, John, Smith, Frances ville Wright conducted their last experiments who married a Wilkins and Kesiah who married a that resulted in the first successful flying ma­ Wilkins. The plantation consisting of 150 chine. acres was divided between Matthew and Smith, who The Halsteads were first established and most remained in Norfolk County. Lemuel was given of them remained in the southern part of Norfolk land in Currituck County, North Carolina. John County, Virginia. But it was only natural that, was given only 20 shillings. From the condi­ as the sons left the home plantations there, tions that the other three adult sons had been some of them would settle in Currituck, Camden given land, and in less than ten years John and Pasquotank counties, just over the state owned a plantation of moderate size there, it is line. They were liVing in Currituck County or to be supposed that he had been given land in 78 ~-, ~

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Sect.ion of a llilJ.tar,y map of northeastern Horth Carolina, embracing Currituck., Camden and Pasquotank coun­ t.ies, made for General. Clinton, OOllll8Dder-in..(lbief or the British troops in the Revolutio:ri.e.ry War. The Clin­ ton papers were purcbased by, and are now a part. of, the collections o:f William L. CJ.ements of Ba;y CitJ', lli~8D, in the Wlll.iaa L. Ol•ent.s Librar;r of the University of Michigan at .Ann Arbor, Michigan. The map, reproduced bent b7 special permission, shows the locations of the pl8Dtat.1ons and the names of the oWllers. aong th• are t.wo Bolst.ead plantations, l, probabq that of .John Holstead, the father ot .John and Reuben Bolatead, ud hie brother t..uel Holstead who probably lived at the saae point, and 2, probably that of John Bolatead of Pasquotank County who died in 1191. The plantation marked s, given as Richards, is prob­ ably tbat of the Richardaons who were the parents of Ruth Richardson Holstead, the wif'e of .Tobn Bolstead of CUrri.tu.ck OOUJ:lV• That marked 4, Simmons., is probably that of the parents of Frances Simmons Bolstead, the rite of Johll Bolatead of OUrritu.ck OOUJ:1ty. JOHN AND REOBE.N HOLSTEAD

Currituck County prior to the making of the will. J.ccording to lllf last Will and the Law shall re­ Both Lemuel and John probably lived there at the quire afs (aforesaid). Wi tnees my hand & Seal this time of their father's death. 9th dey of January 1795. All that is known of John Holstead of Cur­ Willis Et.hridge John Holstead & seal. rituck County, North Carolina, is contained in Agnes Et.heride his will, whicn was made January 9, 1793, and Jurat (affidavit) was recorded on December 5 of the same year. As his death occurred only nine years after that of On the supposition that the adult sons were his father, and at a time when he had two, and named in the will in the order of their births, perhaps three, minor children, it is conjectured as was often the case, Matthias was born about that he was born about 1748, and, thus that he 1771, John January 16, 1773, Josiah 1775, and died at the age of forty-five. He married his Reuben 1777. Salay (Sally) was probably the wife Frances about 1769, who was born about oldest of the other children and even may have 1751. She may have been the daughter of been older than some of the adult sons. Samuel Francis Simmons whose will was recorded in Cur­ and Edney (Edna) undoubtedly were minors. rituck County December 20, 1757. John Holstead's "Daughter-in-law Jachah Cornis", presents a plantation consisted of about 160 acres and his mystery. Matthias1 s wife's name was Nancy, wife owned 70 odd acres more. As no slaves are John's Ruth, and Reuben's Elizabeth. Josiah mentioned, there probably was none owned. In was probably not of marriageable age in 1793. the record of John Halstead in the 1790 census, It is possible that Frances Holstead was a given in Chapter XIII, Part One, there were no Cornish (Cornis), that Jachah was her sister, slaves. His will read: and was referred to erroneously as a daughter­ in-law instead of a sister-in-law. Or there may . In t.be name of God, Amen, I, John Halstead, of have been a deceased son who had married Jachah t.he County of Currituck, State of Nort.h Carolina, and John Halstead had used only her maiden name. calling to mind t.he None Certainty of t.his life There were Cornishs in the district. and it being Once Ordained for all Men to die lo The location of the plantation is not known, make and Ordain t.his Instrument of Writing to Con­ but it was probably in the southern point ot the tain m;y last Will & Testament in ilanner & Form as county, across the Pasquotank River from Eliza­ follo.vet.h; first, t.hat is to sq I Recc011111end m;y beth City and on or near Albermarle Sound. The Soul to Almighty God that gave it and direct t.hat land descriptions in the will and in the subse­ m;y bo~ be decentq Buried in a place where it quent deeds, abstracts of which are given below, should please uq executors hereafter named, And as are meaningless as to location to today's to what Estate hat.h Pleased God to bestow on me I Currituck County officials and to the older di!Jpose in lilanner & Form followet.h, viz.; residents, a number of wbnm were consulted. The Item, I give and bequeath unto m;y four Sons, section and township system of land survey has Matt.hias, John, Josiah and Reuben, all m;y lands to long ago superceded the 'corner tree' method of be equally Devided as followet.h, t.hat is to sey, description. While there are a few Halsteads to· m;y son Matthias his part to be laid off where he still living in the county, none of them are now lives, to him and his heirs forever; to m;y son descendants of this family, all of them having John his part to be laid off on the Plantation where left the section permanently, the last one he now lives joining t.he road, to him and his heirs Reuben probably in 1798. John Holstead probably forever; to m;y Son, Josiah's part to be laid off is buried in a cemetery on or near his planta­ from John Brey1 s line joyning the Road, to him and tion. Possibly Frances and some of the chil­ his heirs forever; to m.y son Reuben's part, to be dren also may be buried with him. There are laid off from John Brey I s and joining on Bunnell' s scores of such burial places in the county, & Moses• land, to him and his heirs forever. many of the older ones having been long ago Item, I give and bequeath to m.y Daughter Saley abandoned, but no such graves have yet been one bed and firneter and one cow and calf, one lin­ found. ing wheel and one Woman I s Saddle & one Chist, to There is a legend that John Holstead1 s body, her and her heirs forever. preserved in a cask of whiskey, was sent back Item, I give and bequeat.h unto m;y daughter-in­ to England for burial, from whence he came to law Jachah Cornie one bed and furneter and a heifer America, but this story 1s increditable, as and a Lining wheel, to her and her heirs forever. there is seemingly clear evidence that he was Also m;y Will & Desire is that m;y Loveing Wife born and reared in this country. Frances should have t.he use of all the Remainder There is another legend that two sons ot parts of uq Personal Estate during her Widowhood or this family took their younger brother out on Death and after her Widowhood or Death I give the Albermarle Sound, which they had been forbidden said Personal Estate to m.y son Samuel and to m;y to do, and he was drowned. As a result the two daughter Edney to be Equally Divided, to t.hem and brothers left home and were never heard of t.heir heirs forever. again. Samuel could have been such a younger Also I constitute and Appoint m;y loving Wife and brother, but the only other son of which there ,q son John m.y whole and Sole Executors oft.his m;y is no later trace is Josiah. Last Will & Testament to see all m;y Estate Settled Also there is a tradition that John Holstead JOHN AID REDBEJI HOLSTEAD 80 and others of his people were ship builders on •• to Jesse Simmons, rq trusty and loving Albermarle Sound. It could well be true as the friend, a lawful atty to sell and make a good and protected bays and short, wide and sluggish Lawful·Right to one Sorting (certain) piece or rivers of the district were adapted to the pur­ land in the four said county containing forty pose and ship building was a large industry of acres being all that land that I, the said Reuben the period, but no evidence either for or Holstead, inherited by the death or rq father John against the tradition has been found. Holstead. Four months following the death of her hus­ band, Frances Holstead, on Apr. 18, 1794, sold Jesse Simmons sold the land for Reuben, exer­ for a consideration of five shillings, to Wil­ cising this power of attorney on Sept. 19, 1799, liam Simmons: and giving a deed to John Spann for 39 3/4 acres described as: ••• a Certain tract or parcel of lend containing 721/2 acres ••• near llorse•s Point, being the South •• a certain piece or parcel or land••• beginning part of a tract of land formerly belonging to John at corner gum, w.10 cha's, so 27 cha 1s, running Wicker whereon the said 1lill18111 Simmons now lives. lloses Florey•s line to a Read Oake a course be­ tween Florey & Holstead & Brey•s orphan•s line, so As no land was given Frances Holstead in the running Brey• s orphtm.' s line to a pine, then run­ 'trill of her husband, it is to be supposed that ning along the Bunnell line to a corner pine be­ he had given the tract to her prior to the mak­ tween Holstead & Simon Matthias to the first sta­ ing of the will or that she had inherited or ac­ tion ••• quired it otherwise. Any tract of land of such size was worth more than five shillings, a con­ John Halstead, on Kar. 1, 1796, sold, "one sideration like our 'one dollar', so the nature negro girl named Sook" to William Simmons for of this transaction is obscure. $170. Matthew Halstead, probably bis brother On Feb. 7, 1795, nearly a year later, Matthias, attested to the delivery of the slave Josiah Holstead sold to Obediah Copps for 133 and the receipt of the money. This may have pounds the part 0£ the plantation he had in­ been a slave that Ruth Richardson Halstead had herited from his father consisting of 38 3/4 inherited from her father. acres. Matthias, joined by Nancy his wife, who Thus, the widow and four sons of John Hal­ signed the deed by a mark, sold his 38 3/4 acres stead sold their possessions in Currituck Coun­ for, "450 silver dollars", to Simon Matthias on ty within a few years after his death. Part of Jan. 12, 1796. For, nsoo Spanish Milled Dol­ the family, perhaps all of it living at the lars", on Feb. 12, 1796, John sold his 38 3/4 time, removed to Orange County, in the north acres to William Ward described as: central part of the state just east of Greens­ boro. There are records of only John and ••• a certain tract or parcel of Land lying near Matthias having bought land in Orange County in CUrrituck Shore beginning at a Red Oak near the 1796 and 1797. or the lives and fates after F.l!ge or the llain Road, it.being JohnHolstead's they left Currituck County of Frances, the corner tree, thence running down the road a strata mother,and of Matthias, Josiah, Samuel and course to a pine bush, it being Obediah Copps I cor­ Edney nothing whatever is known. An investiga­ ner tree, thence Copps• line to a sweet gum that tion in North Carolina through newspaper queries Divides Matthias Holstead, Reuben Holstead & Obe­ and otherwise has failed to disclose any trace diah Copps' corner, thence running down llatthias of them at all. There are no Holstead Wills or Holstead•s line to Swamp, thence a North Easterly estate administrations of record in Orange course to a Red Oak to the first station ••• County, indicating that none of them died there as adults with estates. There are faint tradi­ On Nov. 12, 1798, Reuben Holstead executed tions of some of John Holstead's relatives hav­ a power of attorney reading in part: ing visited him in Butler County, Ohio, but no tangible knowledge of them comes down to us.

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Chapter 2

THE GREAT WESTERN MOVEMENT

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As mankind had always done before the advent and had been abandoned for virgin fields when of the steamboat and the railroad, the American they were near-by, plentiful and cheap. But, by colonists remained on the Atlantic seacoast for this time there was little free or cheap land a hundred and fifty years after the English set­ left in the East. Vast tracts of it had been tlement of the New World had begun. Three mil­ grasped by wealthy and politically influential lions of them occupied a strip of territory only people. While much of it was not in use, specu­ a hundred or so miles wide and a thousand miles lation had forced the price of it to a point long. Hunters and fur-traders went inland on where it was no longer obtainable by the poorer foot or horseback to and fro, +,o the smal.l set­ natives or the fresh immigrants on terms they tlements and trading posts. There were a few could meet. Thus, the universal craving of the farming communities constantly menaced by the nation's sons for a parcel of land to own and Indians on the New York and Pennsylvania fron­ develop into a home and an estate, which Amer­ tiers. The Piedmont of both Virginia and Caro­ ica had previously provided on so grand a scale, lina was thinly dotted with plantations. Com­ could no longer be satisfied in the colonial mencing in 1730, the Valley of Virginia, lying states. between the Appalachian Mountain ranges,had been A short boom immediately after the close of partly settled. Otherwise, the mountains were a the Revolutionary War was succeeded by the first barrier to the Great West. Beyond them was an great American depression. Prices and wages immense territory owned by France inhabited by £e11, unemp1oyment became genera1, taxes eighty thousand French hunters, trappers and mounted, and state and federal currencies de­ fur traders in league with two-hundred thousand preciated more and more. There was uncertainty Indians, who excluded all other nationals from for some years as to the fate of the new feder­ their domain. ation of states. These conditions p~oduced England came into possession of all this re­ great popular unrest, resulting in a mad rush gion in 1763, at the end of the French and In­ across the mountains !or better opportunities. dian War. She had used 20,000 of her home It was to far off Kentucky, in the last troops to assist the colonial militia in the quarter or the century, and before the Revolu­ war. She was nearly bankrupt from the wars she tionary War was over, that the western migra­ had had at home. So, not wanting to maintain tion began. The explorers had given fuller and an army to protect settlers from the still hos­ more glowing accounts of its richness and tile French and Indians, she forbade immigra­ beauty than of other regions. There were no tion from the colonies to the new western coun­ Indians living there, as it was used by them as try. For another twenty years the American a common hunting ground, and it was the scene colonists were forbidden occupancy of it. of their inter-tribal warfare, hence its name At the close of the Revolutionary War, how­ "Kain-tuck-ee" or "the dark and bloody ground." ever, the entire area from the Appalachian It was there that the first of the large Mountains to the Mississippi River and from the western colonization projects was launched. Great Lakes to Florida, with the exception of Colonel Henderson, Virginia born, but a resi­ the Spanish holdings in the far South and dent of North Carolina, purchased the cla.ims of Southwest, became the domain of the United the Cherokee Indians to 20,000,000 acres of States of America. Old colonial claims of land in 1775, about half the area of the pres­ sovereignty to parts of it were waived by the ent state, lying between the Kentucky and Cum­ states in favor of the national Government. The berland rivers. He named the tract Transylvania last of the Indians were subdued and their and un_took to populate it. But the Virginia titles to the land ware either ignored or bought Legislature refused to sanction the purchase, and then the area was opened for settlement. gave Henderson 200,000 acres for his trouble, The people saw in the West a second New World, and itself provided for the settlement of its and the struggling Government found its posses­ county of Kentucky. Virginia offered the land sion a stroke of fortune by which to discharge cheaply and on liberal terms. Henderson's prop­ the huge national debt and to pay the land aganda in behalf of the region had been effec­ bounties it had promised the Revolutionary sol­ tive, and, the movement of settlers once diers. started, it became a surging tide from every­ Population on the Atlantic seaboard had be­ where. The scattered stockaded outposts were come more and more dense. A great deal of the quick1y augmented by hundreds of booming settle­ land there had been ruined by neglectful tillage ments. THE GREAT WESTERN KOVEII.ENT 82

Travel to the West from the New England and people braved the Wilderness Road in the first the New York City and Philadelphia districts quarter of a century or its use, while some or was either through northern and central them found their graves beside it. Pennsylvania to Pittsburg, or through southern When Kentucky was admitted into the Union as Pennsylvania to Wheeling, along the route where a state in 1791, its 73,000 inhabitants had later the Cumberland Turnpike was built with a gone there in a period of sixteen years. There surface or crushed rock. From Pittsburg and were 200,000 people in the state by 1800 and Wheeling the travellers floated down the Ohio 460,000 in 1810. The country south of Kentucky River on flat-boats or rafts. There were dan­ was more slowly occupied, but rapidly after An­ gers and hardships on both land and water. The drew Jackson had whipped out the last of the land was mountainous and harsh, with only natu­ Indians. Tennessee was admitted into the Union ral roads, and the uncharted river was subject in 1796, Louisiana in 1812, Mississippi in 1817 to floods and blood-thirsty Indians lined its and Alabama in 1819. shores. The Land Act of 1785 and the Ordinance of From the Washington, Baltimore and Richmond 1787 gave the western movement a still greater districts, and the South generally, travel was and prolonged impetus. The Northwest Territory by the Wilderness Hoad. Longer in miles and was formed, embracing all the area west of New slower in time of passage, and beset with dan­ York and Pennsylvania between the Ohio River gers and hardships also, it was, as a whole, and the Great Lakes and east of the Mississippi considered less troublesome than the Pennsyl­ River. A territorial government was established, vania routes. Daniel Boone, one of Colonel proVision made for the formation of states pro­ Henderson's advisers in his Transylvania pur­ gressively, a scientific land survey system was chase, laid the road out from Virginia and the adopted and put into ef£ect, and the land of­ Carolinas to Kentucky. CUmberland Gap was tak­ fered for sale upon liberal terms. en as the point of passage over the Cumberland By 1800 there were 1,000,000 people over the Mountains. This pass was found on April 13, mountains; by 1820 there were 2,500,000, and by 1870, by Thomas Walker, of Albermarle County, 1830 one third of all the inhabitants of the Virginia. country were 1n the West. By the election or Three main roads converged on Cumberland Andrew Jackson to the Presidency in 1828--a Gap from the east and south. From Washington, lank, raw-boned Indian fighter and duelist, the line was southwest down the Shenandoah Val­ himself an immigrant to, and a pioneer or, ley, through the settlements of Winchester, Tennessee from North Carolina--the West, as a Staunton, Lexington, Christiansburg, Radford, section, obtained its first political power. Wytheville and Abington to Gate City. From The Northwest Territory was divided into six Richmond and Norfolk the route was west to separate states, and were the scenes of stupen­ Roanoke, joining the main road at Salem. From dous social and material developments which con­ North Carolina, it was up the Yadkin River to tinued at boom intensity until after the Civil Huntsville, Yadkinville, Wilkesboro, Elkville, War, when the trans-Mississippi West supplanted Boone, Elizabethton and Wautauga to the main it as the Mecca of inter-sectional immigration. road. Into Kentucky through the Gap it was Scores of the sons of the Halsteads, from through Middlesboro, Pineville, Flat Rock and all the branches of the family, a partial rec­ Hazel Patch to Crab Orchard, on to Harrodsburg, ord of whom is scattered through Chapters VII Boonesville and Louisville. The greatest ac­ and XII, Part One, especially, went to Kentucky, tivity was at the three points last named. The Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and the other mid­ settlers for southwest Kentucky and Tennessee Western and trans-Mississippi states, estab­ turned southward some distance west of the lished themselves by taking up or buying out­ mountains. right raw land, building cabins or sod-houses, Until the trail was broken and cleared of later comfortable dwellings and spacious barns, undergrowth and boulders, in which each new and stocking it or entering business and the traveller did his bit, the passage could only be professions. Nearly all of them were success­ made on foot. Then saddle and pack-horses, ox ful, some conspicuously so. They contributed to and horse drawn wagons with cows and hogs and the acquisition by their communities of every chickens could be taken through. It was a re­ enlightened institution and instrument of prog­ gion of heavy rainfall. The streams were ress. They educated and trained their children, bridgeless. There was heavy snow and extreme and they left them splendid legacies of both cold in the winter. Frequently the road was a property and romantic traditions. slough of water and mud or a quarry of rocks Among these sons were John and Reuben Hol­ and ice. The intense forest solitude was brok­ stead, of North Carolina, who also caught 'the en only by the songs of the birds and the bark Western fever' and joined the throng that went of the squirrels in the daytime, and the howl to Kentucky. As there was no other way, they of the wolves, the snarl of the bears, the traveled there by the Wilderness Road, which was shrieks of the panthers and the whoop of the as much on every tongue and the subject or as marauding Indians at night. Nevertheless, so romantic tales then as were the Sante Fe and over-powering was the call of the West,that many Oregon trails of fifty years later~ They took THE GREAT WESTERB JIOVEIIEHT their families and all their possessions with prospered at the point there where he settled, them. It was at a time, however, when the road but Reuben removed to Indiana. had been well broken, had been somewhat im­ -O-O-0- proved by all the states through 'llbich it passed, and was less troublesome than in earlier times. "The Epic of .&merica"-Adallls. They were among the early wilderness breakers, •Weatnrd"--Branc:h. not of Kentuck;y, their first objective, but of Southern Ohio. John Holstead remained and

Artist• s sketch of the John Holstead farm 1n Butlel' counv, Ohio·, about twenty years after his death, llhen it. was tenanted by his son Colonel Griffin Halstead. See the next chaptel'. 84

Chapter 3

JOHN AND RUTH HOLSTEAD

---0-0-0--- Early Ohio often made by incompetent private individuals, and the careles~·handling of the land records General Rufus Putnam. and an associate and transfers in vogue had resulted in much Kanessah CUtler, a Congregational clergyman, confusion and clouding of titles. As an ex­ both of llassachusetts, engineered the Ordill8XICe perienced land man, John Holstead perceived th~ of 1787 through Congress, and by means of the risks of buying land in Kentucky, and did not Ohio Company which they formed, purchased do so, saying that he did not, "propose to buy 1,500,000 acres of Southern Ohio land for one a law-suit." In Southern Ohio the federal sur­ dollar an acre--With a third off the price for vey had been made by the section and tol9Ilship the waste land it was supposed to contain. With system, used universally throughout the Northwest Ebenezer Sprout, they founded Marietta on Territory, there had been little turn-over of April 7, 1788. Other settlements sprang up land, and the titles were still clear. quickly along the Ohio River and elsewhere. Kurat Halstead has thus descri~ed John Hol­ Cincinnati, which became the first great metro­ stead1s arrival at Cincinnati and his first polis of the West and remained such until after experiences in Ohio in "Paddy's Run Papers" .a the Civil War, was described in 1800 as having series of fifteen sketches he wrote in 1895: 100 cabins and 15 frame dwellings, housing about 600 people. Butler County was cut off He bad a hard pull up the high, steep end mud­ from Hamilton County in 1803, and had 11,071 dy bank and would not have traded his silver for people in 1810 and 21,276 in 1820. Hamilton, the village end a horse to boot. It was, he said, the county seat, had 242 people in 1810 and •a miserable place.• He kept on and crossed the 660 in 1820. Great Millllli river near the mouth of one of the The first offering of public lands west of forks about ten miles from the Ohio river. There the Great Miami. River, following the comple­ he built a cabin in the woods, He knew nothing of tion of the Government survey, was at Cincin­ the capricious character of rivers except those in nati on the first Monday in April of 1801, soon which the tides of the ocean rose and fell and his after which the first permanent settlements house in the woods was in a big bottom. A freez­ were made. It was only three years later that ing rain fell, glazing the earth, then a deep snow, John Halstead came there. then a heavy rain, end he heard the horses sound­ -0-0-0- ing the alarm in the night and a "curious noise about the house." When he got out of bed to see In November oi the year 1792, John Holstead what was the matter he stepped into the water and married Ruth Richardson, the daughter of Josiah then he got the horses and the wife and children and Ruth Richardson, whose plantation was lo­ together and, as soon as day-light appeared, the:r cated ten miles north of Elizabeth City, Pas­ sought higher ground. quotank County, North CaroliDl:l and south of Norfolk, Virginia. The Richardsons were numer­ This first location was near the ·Village of ous in the section, prominent in public af­ New Haven in Crosley Township of Hamilton fairs and some of them were wealthy. Josiah County, on the Dry Fork. The flood which dis­ Richardson left a substantial estate consisting lodged them in the spring of 1805 was the of land, slaves and personal property. His worst ever known. The valleys of all streams Will, an unusually long, painstakingly drafted were inundated and much damage was done in and detailed one for the period, was made on Hamilton and elsewhere. October 17, 1773, and was proved on August 13, John Holstead did not buy the land he first 1775, less than a month after the birth of his settled on and lert .so suddenly, but, as was a daughter Ruth. The children were James, Jacob, common practice, "squatted" on it, doubtless Josiah and Ruth. To the latter he left only a with the consent of the Ol9Ilers, who welcomed negro named Sue to go to her after the death of settlers who would build cabins and make clear­ her mother. ings, which both regarded as ample compensa­ In the early spring of 1804, according to tion for the tenure of wilderness land. There the family traditions, the season when such was, perhaps, some informal contract, giving movements were usually undertaken, especially him an option to buy when he was ready to do One by team and wagon over mountains; with Re­ so. It is believed that, after the flood, he becca and Griffin, their daughter and son re­ went at once to Paddy's Run in Butler County, spectively, and with all their possessions where again he was a "squatter" under some which they could transport, including a keg of similar arrangement or, possibly, was a paying silver money,John and Ruth Holstead drove from tenant later, for he did not buy the land he Orange County, North Carolina, to the blue occupied there until 1810, five years later. grass region of Kentucq, seeking for the sec­ A Welshman named Morris Jones had bought ond time, to better their fortunes in a place 640 acres in the Government sale, which proved Gther than their birtbplacea. too much for him to handle. John Halstead It is not known to what point in Kentucky bought approximately half the tract--301 2Zfl00 they first went, what their activities were or acres--for $750.00, or t2.50 an acre, on Novem­ how long they remained there, but they soon ber 24, 1810 and another 80 acres for $180.00, went on to Ohio. The heavy speculation in Ken­ or t2.25 an acre, on Kay a, 1810, both deeds tucky land during the previous thirty years, having been recorded at Hamilton on December 5, 1Ulder primitive method of survey and description, 1810. John Dearmond had bought the 80 acres on JOHN AND RUTH HOLSTEAD 85

September 10, 1808, by a patent from the Govern­ In a few years, my grandfather built a large ment. Thus, John Holstead was the second pri­ house of he11Il slippery-elm logs with puncheon noor vate owner of both tracts. of ash. The trees selected for puncheons had to be The settlement of Paddy's Run, now the vil­ of even growth so as to split straight. They were lage of Shandon, the new name having been halved, the flat sides edged and planed smooth, the adopt~d in later times over the heated and pro­ sides hewn so as to meke a close joint, and each longed opposition of the old-timers, who re­ tree, thus, made two planks. The sides with the tained a prejudice in favor of the plebian term bark on were down, of course, and the noor was as and reverence for its pioneer associations, was solid as marble. The style of the out-buildings situated ten miles southwest of Hamilton, about was Southern. There was a long string of stables, twenty-two miles northwest of Cincinnati, and another string of com-cribs, a smoke-house, a milk­ six miles from the Indiana line. It was on a house, more pens for pigs and a shelter for cows, small stream of the same name, about fifteen a wagon-shed or two and a log barn-altogether miles in length, running southward. The valley quite a private village. As soon as the ground of rolling land, bounded by hills, varies in could be spared from illlDlediate necessities, there breadth from half a mile to two miles and ter­ were fruit trees planted. The seeds of apples were minates in the valley of the Great Miami River. as precious in those days as grains of gold, and It is one of the most fertile parts of the Miami peach stones as nuggets of silver, and there were River country. The earliest arrivals at Paddy's slips of pears and seeds of cherries. The first Run were Ezekial Hughes and Edward Bebb, of fruit was welcomed as the fairest boon of civiliza­ North Wales, England; and Welshmen followed tion. them in numbers. Like those who came from Vir­ ginia, North Carolina and elsewhere, the Welsh The horse thief was to pioneer times what were superior people, which resulted in a com­ the racketeer is today. Unfenced fields and munity of the best pioneer attributes. Schools forests, trails instead of roads, and the scat­ and churches and a public library were estab­ tered settlements, with only a sheriff in the lished almost at once. distant county seat, made the taking of horses, Murat Halstead, thus describes the building the most valuable and indispensable possession of the cabins, and the house and their environ­ of the pioneers next to the land itself, and ment: escape with them easy. The condition was met in most of the col!!llll.Ulities by horse-thief as­ There were three fine springs about a quarter sociations, which were sanctioned by the state or a mile apart on the re.rm. Near one spring was laws. When the association was formed at a fine mulberry tree, several red oaks, a ...,eauti­ Paddy's Run on February 7, 1807, John Halstead ful ash, a hickory, and a group of slippery elms was the "clarke" of the meeting and was elected and persimmon trees. There were paw-paws and to the •counsel" or executive committee and hazel bushes and sassafras and spice bushes, red­ there was a committee of 11 persewers. 11 The buds and dog-woods and sweet-gun and honey-locust, original ~rticles, in the possession of Sibyl and there were wild raspberries and dewberries and Elizabeth Roberts, of Long Beach, California, may-apples and g1nseng .. and strawberries. are in John Holstead's handwriting. He prob­ The first thing to do under the mulberry trees ably drafted them, and the writing.is neat, was to build a house of rails, split long and thin with well-formed letters and many small flour­ and notched at the corners, so as to make the ishes of the pen in forming the capital letters frail walls as tight as possible. Cracks_ were and at the end of sentences. The principal stuffed with moss and wet clay, and fine-grainP.d clause in the instrument was: oaks were split to furnish the .. clap-boards for roofing. Flat rails served for flooring, At ••• to Defend and Secure Each others property first the wagon-bed, long and deep and covered, respecting Hors Steling, as fair as in our power was the bedroom, and the horses tied to it, and to aprehend the theaf, and if posebul with Con­ the dogs 1mder it were good company. or course, veneance to kill the theaf if he will not be tek­ the fUel was not spared, and it was easy to provide en otherwise & and if taken to secure in goal an outside fiFeplace of great stones placed on ready to be prosecuted & pursew the property 1m­ edge at the ends, and the burning logs were a com­ til found if posebul with conveneance. fort by night and by day, and, as a rule, kept the wild beasts at a distance. The spring was dug out; The document bears thirty-eight signa­ that is, the pool it foI'l!led was enlarged, and walls, tures, including that of "Rubin Halstead." and a great broad stone placed on the walls to cover The keg in which John Halstead brought his it, and there was a sparkling rivulet that flowed gold and silver money to Ohio was in his pos­ from the source for many and many a year. The un­ session for many years afterwards, and it was der-brush was cleared around the rail pen, and then his wont to bury it, and dig it up from time to the wagon, end then a fence surrounded the wagon time as he wanted to put more money into it or and pen and spring. The next thing was clearing take some out. There was a legend that the land for a patch of corn and sweet potatoes and last time he buried it he forgot the location this was the beginning of gardens a.~d orchards and and never found it. He hid money otherwise fields. There were many deer and bears and turkeys, around his place all his life. This was gener­ and the woods held no end of squirrels and possums ally known, and,· both during his life and and coons. Powder and ball were indispensable, but afterwards, neighborhood treasure hunters have scarce and costly, and a man had to know how to mend dug for the money in all likely spots. Only a his Offll gun. few years ago one of the abandoned buildings on The awe and dread of the dark, mysterious, bound­ the farm was partly demolished by these search­ less woods, for a long time, depressed my gentle ers. grandmother. The In1ians had ceased to be trouble­ John Holstead was a tall, well formed and some, and passed to the north and west, but the strong man, of the aggressive and self-willed wolves howled at night, and the great white horned­ type, irascible in temperament at times. He owls hooted as if they were mustering ghosts, and developed a fine farm and accumulated money, sometimes the panthers cried out of the profound did well by his family in providing them with darkness with voices like broken-hearted children. educations and otherwise, and was an JOHN AND ROTH HOLSTEAD 86

and family across the Ohio into the great region that the Northwest Ordinance had dedicated to perpetual liberty. John Holstead always kept a Kentucky-bred saddle horse or two in his stables, which he never permitted to bear the degradation of collar or harness--not even to carry a sack of corn to the grist mill. One of them was named Selim, which was bought by a group of Cincin­ nati men as a gift to General William S. Harney during the Mexican War. General Franklin Pierce took Selim to Mexico for delivery to General Harney. A band of Mexican guerrillas ' ' attacking the military train near the National I Bridge, one of them leaped on Selim's back and

__ ,_,_ rode him away, and he was never seen or heard (; of again by the Americans. Ruth Holstead was a small woman with such tiny hands and feet that they excited notice and admiration, but her bearing and dignity were such that her diminutiveness was scarcely lr noticeable. --.... John and Ruth were good Methodist church mem­ bers. Her devotion to the church was commem­ -.,- orated on her grave-stone. At one of the church services, however, the pastor called upon all ,... evangelical Christians, nexcept the New Lights", to partake of the Sacrament of Communion. Re­ senting the implied aspersion upon the New Lights, although not a member of the sect, John arose and asked belligerently: "And why not the Sketch or Jolm Holstead as a pioneer hunter from a New Lights?" A discussion ensued, followed by a verbal description of him given to an artist by Murat church quarrel, which resulted.in John's with­ Hal.stead, his grandson. It is said that it is not 11 drawal from membership and attendance. This good likeness of him. was distressful to his wife and neighbors. He shocked them still more by writing an article influential and well-regarded citizen. He on religion, in which he expressed what was a Southern aristocrat, albeit an Ohio dirt practically Unitarianism. He had the article farmer. Murat Halstead wrote: printed in phamphlet form at Brookville, In­ diana. The printer made many typographical er­ The Currituck style or dress and of wearing the rors, and, supposing the author to be a clergy­ hair, was regarded in Paddy's Run as peculiar, and man, put, "By the Reverend John Holstead", on was not alwqs deferentially received. The suit the cover under the title. When John discov­ was chiefiy a blue dress coat with high collar and ered this, he was so furious that he hurled all narrow tails and nat brass buttons. One or these of the pamphlets, except one copy, into the coats was expected to last from two to four years blazing fireplace. The one copy he secreted, and there were two of them always on hand. It was and it was found among his papers at his death. necessary to put on, with the blue coat, topped It was in the family for a number of years, but boots and the hair was long behind and worn as a then was lost. queue. The over-coat was gray, had a cape, and Late in life John Holstead built a two-story was rather short waisted. frame house on his farm, but would not live in I sought an opinion of my grandfather about it, remaining until death in the one near-by slavery and his exact and only words were, "slav­ made of hewn-logs. His children and other visi­ ery is a curse, particularly to the white people." tors occupied the new house from time to time. He was not an enthusiast about the improvement of A glimpse of John Holstead at seventy-seven the mind. He went so far as to say that there were years of age, fourteen years after the death of very few people on Paddy's Run, or elsewhere for his wife Ruth, and seven years before his own that matter, who did not waste their time when go­ death, is given in a letter, also in the posses­ ing to school after they had got reading and writ,­ sion of Sibyl Elizabeth Roberts, written by ing and arithnetic so far as the double rule of Clarissa Halstead, his daughter-in-law, on three. He flew right in the face of public opin­ June 9, 1848: :i.on, which was a pleasure to llim. He had never seen a newspaper until he was eighteen years old, he said, Father's health I think pretty good for his and he thought he was none the worse for that, ma age and habits. He yet keeps house, but I think while he liked the "Congressional Globe", there it is too hard for him to do as he is doing. He was no other newspaper that seemed to amount to cuts wood for his old stove and his old bedroom much. He was afraid I would not be true to the fireplace; he thinks he must feed his cows him­ old farm if I did not spend less time reading self; keeps seven or eight of them; feeds and books and going around the neighborhood borrowing slops a parcel of hogs and so on. Benton md his books. My irregular activities were against his father went many times last winter and fed and principles. chopped md sawed wood for him. Jolm Bolstead, a man of means and education, had imbibed the political and ethical philosop~ John had a housekeeper at times, and farm of such writers as Jefferson and Paine and had workmen. Various relatives made him long visits. been infiueneed by the rilling tide of French thought. His daughter Sarah Roberts and Joseph Roberts He preferred free soil to slavel'7 and betook himself her husband removed from Montezuma, Parke JOHB AND ROTH HOLSTEAD 87 County, Indiana, to live with and take care of made executors. him for the last few years of his life. The ancestral farm, still a most productive A graveyard was set off and enclosed on a and well. improved one, is now owned jointly high knoll near the house in a very early day. by Henry Ridley Robinson, his wife, who was In 1821, John Vaughn and Morgan Gwilym donated Alice Scott, a great granddaughter of John and ground for a cemetery in the village of Paddy's Ruth, and Mr. Robinson's brother, all of Run, where a great many of the early settlers Shandon. Henry Halstead Robinson, son of Henry and their descendants are buried. In 1867 a and Alice Robinson, operates the farm and, with new cemetery was opened. John Halstead was the his family, occupies the frame house that John last to be buried on the farm. On plain, up­ Holstead built. It has been enlarged and right, marble stones are now to be found these modernized. The hewn-log house is gone. inscriptionsi John, Edmund, Aaron and Matthew Richardson were parties to a number of land transactions in In Memory of Ruth, Consort of In Memory of John Holstead Butler County between 1804 and 1820. There was Jolm Holstead Native of N. C, a grant of Section 20, Range 2 East, by the Fed­ Died Sept. 50, 1841 Who Departed This Life eral Government, to Edmund and John Richardson Age 66 yrs. 5 mo. & 7 da. Feb, 16, 1855 on August 18, 1804. It is believed that these Native of Pasquotank Co., N.c. Aged 84 yrs. & 1 mo. were cousins of Ruth Richardson Halstead. The And a member of the Methodist names do not correspond with those of her Church for 51 years. brothers. Some or all of them may have come north with Ruth Hol­ John and stead, their Ruth Halstead. daughter, Re­ There were becca Shaw, other Hal­ their daugh­ strads in ter, and Dr. Butler Coun­ John Fletcher ty very Shaw, son of early, of no Hezekiah and known cormectlon Rebecca Shaw, with the with nothing family of besides the John Hal­ name on her stead. Amos stone, are Halstead was buried there married to also. Elizabeth John Hol­ Sullivan stead1s will there on was made January 4, October 18, 1830; Nancy 1851. Elijah Halstead to Butterfield, John Donor, a friend, August 6, and Sarah A. 1830; and Conley, the Elizabeth housekeeper, Halstead to were the Jacob Wick­ witnesses. ard, Sep­ It was tember 15, proved Feb­ 1831. William ruary 27, and Elahu 1855, two A.G. Hal­ weeks after stead were his death, parties to when at­ The graveyard on the Jolm Halstead farm where he, Ruth Holstead, Rebecca Holstead land deeds torneys Shaw, their daughter, and John Fletcher Shan are buried. in the same for some period. It of the heirs examined witnesses as to his com­ is possible that these were descendants ot petency to make a will, in which only Sarah A. John Holstead 1 s brothers, of which otherwise Conley testified that she believed him incompe­ no record has been found. tent to do so. The will was not contested and -0-0-0- the estate was settled August 28, 1857. The south half of his farm was given to his G r i f f i n H a 1 s t e a d daughter Sarah Roberts; the north half to his grandchildren Murat, Helen, and Benton Halsted, Tall, spare, square-shouldered, straight and children of his son Griffin. The rents only strong, with a beard, and the hair worn in a from the north half for a period of twenty-one queue, in Eighteenth Century fashion, as was years and from other small pieces of land, two also the custom of his father, Griffin Halstead notes valued at $1836.50, and a small account, or "Colonel Griff", as he was generally known, were given to his son Griffin. Having deeded 80 was an unique personality. In youth he was a acres of land to his daughter Rebecca Shaw on great hunter and fine rifle shot. Not finely December 9, 1822, which is recited, she was to educated, but well read; rustic, as were near­ inherit nothing more; and having given his son ly all the pioneers; holding strong and freely John, "a medical education, a large tract of expressed opinions, he was a forceful, honor­ land, and sundry other property~his heirs were able, right living and respected man in his to have no more. Sarah and Joseph Roberts were native community. He was a "free-thinker" on JOHN AND RUTH HOLSTEAD 88 were expended. My work was varied by occasional hunting and fishing excursions and trips to mill end market, camp-meetings, huskings and military musters-the amusements that the country afforded, and, during some brief intervals of very inclement weather, attendance at the Buckeye school-house on Paddy's Run. In 1822 I wRs captain of the militia and in the winter of 1824-25 I visited New Orleans. In 1826 I was elected colonel of the militia of the county, mustering at Millville and I have, "It various times, held the office of clerk and trustee of the town­ ship end have repeatedly served as magistrate. When the Mexican War occurred I enlisted in the Butler Guards, but inflammatory rheumRtism, contracted in Camp Washington, prevented any participation in ac­ tive service, (He went as far as New Orleans on bis way to the front but the army surgeons ordered him home.) lly earliest distinct recollections of puhlic af­ fairs are of the excitement attending the events of the last war with England; and Butler county, now so highly cultivated, within my remembrance, was but a wilderness broken with clearings that occu­ pied only comparatively small space; s.nd the game we hunted in those days, included panthers, bear and deer was sometimes capable of hunting us. I am not aware that any other citizen of the county has lived for seventy consecutive years on one farm so perhaps I may claim seniority in that par­ ticular. I have outlived nearly all who were with me in earJy times. My wife, my sisters, my brothers, Colonel Griffin Halstead and the old neighbor~with here and there an ex­ ception, are a11 gone and I approach the age ot religion, and, despite his sly statement that seventy-three in the enjoyment of reasona~le health he, nhad been in the habit of voting the Demo­ and strength beyond that ordinRrily associated with cratic ticketn, was a militant Jeffersonian my years. democrat. For a Butler County, Ohio, history, published in 1875, he wrote a brie¼modest and While walking home, one dark night, from a succinct sketch of his own life from which Democratic political meeting at the near-by have been deleted passages that give facts which village, Colonel Griffin Halstead stumbled over appear elsewhere: loose dirt, of which he was not aware, which had been thrown in the path in the digging of In the opening of this farm (that of his father, a ditch, pitched forward onto his head, and John Holstead) the best energies of my early years was fatally injured. Rendered unconscious, he was not found until the next morning.

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Chapter 4

REUBEN AND E L I Z A B E T H P R E S T O N HOLSTEAD

---0-0-0--- E a r l y Indian a; Erie Canal. Their saleable products had had to T h e C a n a 1 s go to the eastern markets down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, and from The great Western movement reached Indiana, thence around Florida and up the Atlantic Coast, the south central part of the Northwest Ter­ a distance of two thousand miles or more to ritory, at the opening of the Nineteenth Cen­ Baltimore and New York. Op-stream navigation tury. There had been French military posts and was impracticable, so their supplies from the trading settlements dating back to Miamis, near East had to be hauled by wagon a thousand Ft. Wayne, in 1680; Ouiatanon, five miles south miles overland. Canals, when built, would give of Lafayette, in 1720, and Vincennes in 1731. them rapid and cheap transportation and revolu­ The first Anglo-American settlement was at tionize their commerce, as was the case. Clarksville, near New Albany.Indiana Territory Between 1825 and 1836, Ohio built two large was formed in that year; Michigan Territory was canal systems across the state from Lake Erie formed in 1805, and Illinois Territory in 1809. to the Ohio River. The Wabash and Erie Canal Indiana was admitted into the Onion as a state in Indiana, the Lake Erie connection of which in 1816. was built by Ohio, along the Maumee River, fol­ The southern part of the state was settled lowed the ancient ten mile portage of the In­ first. Immigration into it did not reach its dians and French between the Maumee and the highest tide until after General Harrison, the Wabash rivers, from whence it passed through first Territorial Governor, had defeated the Ft. Wayne, Lafayette, and Montezuma, to Terre Swanee Chieftain Tecumseh at the Battle of Tip­ Haute and from thence to Evansville, on the pecanoe on November 7, 1811. The flight of the Ohio River, a distance of 452 miles, which made Indians, and a series of treaties with them, it the longest canal in the United States. The further cleared the country for its occupancy central section, never completed, ran from by the whites. Lafayette through Indianapolis. The Terre Haute The "New Purchase" from the Indians, in 1818, and Eel River cross-cut, to connect the two of a large diamond shaped tract stretching from main sections of the canal,ran across Vigo Jackson County northward, opened for settlement County from Terre Haute to Eel River. the lands east and south of the upper Wabash These canal systems had an immensely bene­ River. Land sales in the area began at Craw­ ficial effect in the upbuilding of the mid­ fordsville, Montgomery County, on December 24, Western states, and in that particular, were 1824. In January of 1826, Tippecanoe 6ounty, worth all they cost, but after a number of northwest of Indianapolis, was created and years of mismanagement and unsuccessfu.i compe­ Lafayette made the seat. tition with the new railroads, which paralleled Only three years later., Reuben Holstead and them boldly and took away their business by his family went to Tippecanoe County. Vigo rate cutting, they nearly bankrupt the state County, west of Indianapolis on the Wabash governments, and were closed and abandoned, River, where Reuben Holstead and his son Reuben section by section, in the 1eighteen fifties. went about 1832, was formed in 1818. Parke In 1827, the federal Government, as it had county, north of Vigo, where Doctor John Hol­ done for other states, ceded a large body of stead and Doctor Joseph Roberts went about the public land to Indiana as a means of raising same time, was formed in 1821. Both counties part of the funds for building the canals. The were outside the 11 New Purchase", and thus were first sale of these lands were held in the same settled earlier than the upper Wabash country. year at Logansport and Lafayette and brought an Undoubtedly it was the opportunity to make average price of $1.78 an acre. At. the begin­ money in cheap land, and the prospective devel­ ning, Lafayette was the center of the land boom opment of the country along the route of the and the canal activities. Wabash and Erie Canal that attracted these Hal­ -0-0-0- steads from Ohio to Indiana. The promotion and building of the canal created a great boom Reuben H o 1 s t e a d along its route, which lasted, with interrup­ tions, for twenty-five years. The total land Reuben Halstead left Currituck County, North sales in Indiana were only 199,931 acres in the Carolina, near November 12, 1798, apparently, five years following 1820, but increased year when he was about twenty-three years of age. by year, until they were 1,441,354 from 1835 to The time of his departure is rather clearly 1840. fixed by his having executed on that date a New York State built the Erie Canal,from the power of attorney for the conveyance, when it Great Lakes at Lockport to Albany, between 1817 was sold, of the land he had inherited, which and 1825, the Hudson River completing a continu­ was done ten months later. ous water route from the later point to New His movements and activities for the next York City. All the country the Erie Canal nine years are unknown. There is a tradition touched flourished tremendously and it was a that he went to Savannah, Georgia. Old land phenominal success financially. Knowledge of records and other historical sources, some of this fired the enthusiasm of Ohio and Indiana which have been examined there, give no trace of for canals to connect via Lake Erie with the him. Nor has any record of him been found in REUBEN AND ELIZABETH HOLSTEAD 90

Orange County, North Carolina, where other mem­ Just one htmdred years ago in the month of' bers of his family went from Currituck County. March, 1830, the identical month that Abraham Lin­ About 1805, probably, based on the date of coln drove an ox & team and covered wagon from the birth of his first child Josiah Preston Hol­ the state of' Indiana to the state of Illinois, stead, he married, presumably, in North Caro­ there was seen a solitary wagon with one team lina, Elizabeth (Preston) Pearce, a widow. The wending its way from Butler County, Ohio, to the identity of her parents or of her first hus­ open prairie south of' Lafayette, Indiana. In band or their place of residence are not known. this wagon r.ere the pa.rents of Reuben Halstead, There were 11 Preston families recorded for Jr. and family, v.ith all their worldly posses­ North Carolina in the 1790 federal census, 3 in sions. By the second night, they had passed Carteret County, 3 in Craven County and the rest through the village of Indianapolis and had gone scattered, and there was one Preston family in two miles beyond to the banks of Fall Creek. Virginia. She probably married Pearce about The father, mother and dqughter slept in the wa­ 1791, as the only known child of the marriage, gon. The two boys beat the snow down into a Isaac Pearce, was born March 22, 1793. Thus, brush pile, put the straw bed there and went to and if nineteen years of age when first mar­ bed with their boots on. ried, she was born in 1772 three years earlier than the supposed date of birth of Reuben Hol­ It is more likely that this migration, in­ stead. stead of occurring in the year 1830, was in the Reuben followed his brother John Holstead to spring of 1829, a few weeks at most after Butler County, Ohio, and was there prior to Reuben Halstead sold his farm, which probably February 7, 1807, less than three years after was done with the purpose of removing to In­ John, for on that date both of them were signers diana. Both Josiah Preston and Rebecca Ann, a of the articles of a horse-thief association. son and daughter, had been married prior to This is the first record of Reuben after he left 1829. Thus, Josiah's wife, and Rebecca's hus­ Currituck County, North Carolina. He bought a band are unaccounted for in this narrative. It quarter-section of wilderness land in what is is probable that Josiah Preston was a member of now Rheily Township, nine miles west of Hamilton the party, but had left his wife and baby on Indian Creek. The early deed records for Elizabeth behind, perhaps returning to Butler this region are missing. Were they available, County, Ohio, for them, for they went to In­ the date of the land deed to Reuben would de­ diana in 1830 by steamboat down the Ohio River termine approximately when he reached Butler and up the Wabash River. It is ?robable, also, County. Be built a cabin, expanded the first that William H. Leavitt, Rebecca Ann's husband, clearing into tillable fields, added barns and was in the party. stock, made the farm productive and pros­ Isaac Pearce had gone to Indiana at least pered there moderately for twenty odd years. four years earlier, when he was thirty-two His children Josiah Preston, Rebecca Ann years old, and perhaps remained there permanent­ and Reuben, Jr. were born, reared and edu­ ly. It may have been he who influenced Reuben cated there. Isaac Pearce was a member of Halstead to go to Indiana. On November 19, the family, at least until he was an 1825, Isaac Pearce conveyed to William Ray 30 adult. acres of land in Riley Township, Vigo County, There does not seem to have been intimacy Indiana, indicating that he was a resident in their Ohio home between the families of there at that time. Reuben and John, although they lived only a few The opening of the virgin territory in miles apart. There are only the vaguest of tra­ northern Indiana embraced in the "New Purchase" ditions, one of the other, among the two sets of 1818, had been in progress for some years of living descendants. Reuben is scarcely known prior to 1829, but it was the promotion of the of at all by the descendants of John. It re­ Wabash and Erie Canal which gave the region quired a search of Currituck County, North centering at Crawfordsville its big impetus. Carolina records to prove that they were Public land was offered by the state at low brothers. After Reuben went to Indiana, there prices and it was bought and speculated in on a was little, if any, contact between the fami­ large scale. lies. Undoubtedly it was this new land, with the On February 2, 1829, Reuben Halstead sold certain prospect of rapidly rising values for his farm in Butler County, Ohio, free of all it, which attracted Reuben Halstead to Indiana. encumbrances, for ~l,200.00, or $7.90 an acre. He could obtain ~7.90 an acre for his Ohio farm, He probably paid about i2.50 per acre for it. a high price then, and could then buy just as His son-in-law William H. Leavitt and Daniel good, although undeveloped land there, in the Wilson were the witnesses to the deed, which up-build.mg of which he and his sons were experi­ is by Reuben and his wife Elizabeth to Daniel enced, for as little as $1.25 an acre. Combined Curry. with the longing for change and the lure of ad­ This farm is composed of high-grade rolling venture, virgin la.nd, like that in Indiana, drew land, still partly wooded. The cabin long ago the pioneers from one frontier to the next one, disappeared, but its site is still plainly vis­ stage by stage, clear across the continent. able. A two-story brick house, the walls of The life of Reuben Halstead and his family in which are said to be a hundred years old and so Tippecanoe County is obscur~ except in the case must have been erected shortly after Reuben of Josiah Preston, when it is fairly clear. Halstead left, stands on an opposite corner of There are no written accounts, and most of their the place from the site of the cabin. The last activities must be inferred from the history of purchaser was the late G. H. Cockran, a busi­ the times and region. The only definite records ness man of Hamilton, and it is now in the pos­ are those of land transactions to which they session of his widow. The tenant is William were parties. These, together with general tra­ Arnold. ditions, indicate that Reuben and his son, William Riley· Halstead wrote of his grand­ Reuben, remained t.ogether. Reuben, Jr. did not father Reuben Halstead in 1930: marry until 1845. REUBEN AND ELIZABETH HOLSTEA.D 91 In addition to trading in raw land, they resulting race, it greatly amused him to be able bought tracts successively, built cabins on to keep only close enough for a few paces to them, partly cleared them, and sold them at a prod the boy in the back with his hickory walk­ good profit on their investment of money and ing stick. labor. This is borne out by two deeds that are Unlike his sons, Josiah Preston and Reuben, of record, part of many to which they were and his son-in-law William H. Leavitt, all of parties. On September 23, 1834, Reuben Hol­ whom became moderately wealthy, for some unex­ stead, Sr., sold an 80 acre tract for il,000.00, plainable reason Reuben Halstead appears not to or $12.50 an acre, far above the state's orig­ have prospered permanently in Indiana. With a inal price for land, and less than a month lat­ fine farm in Ohio at fifty-five years of age, er or on October 13, 1834, bought 80 acres, lo­ at seventy he seems to have been a partial cated six ~iles south of the other, for dependent for William Riley Halstead says: "In $225.00 or $2.80 an acre. No single homestead 1844, when Reuben Halstead, Jr. was thirty-two was established, however, which can now be iden­ years of age, he had arranged to support his tified. parents for life." Further support of this is William H. Leavitt seems to have gone to the record of the administration of Reuben's Vigo County, Indiana, either in the migration estate. On October 19, 1853, immediately after of the whole family from Butler County, Ohio, his death, Reuben, Jr. was appointed adminis­ or near the same time for, on May,15, 1829, he trator, and his financial report was made on bought 146 61/100 acres in Riley Township from October 19, 1855. There is no record of land John Jackson for $500.00. ownership and the personal estate inventoried Reuben and Reuben, his son,are believed to $556.48. Reuben Jr. 1 s claims were in excess have gone to Vigo from Tippecanoe County for a of this sum. few years about 1832. The foregoing deeds to Reuben Holstead was buried near Riley. Years which Reuben, Sr. was a party in 1834, describe afterwards, when a gravestone was made and tak­ him as, "of Vigo County, Indiana." They re­ en to the cemetery by two of his grandchildren, turned to Tippecanoe County and remained there Reuben A. Halstead and Rhoda Leavitt, the grave until 1844, when they again went to Vigo County could not be identified, and the stone could permanently. It is probable that Reuben, Sr., not be placed. The grave has never been lo­ Reuben Jr., William H. Leavitt and Isaac Pearce cated. Elizabeth Holstead is believed to have were all active in the land and cattle business died before her husband, but the date is un­ in both places for the first ten or fifteen known. Her body was buried at Mt. Pleasant years, perhaps traveling back and forth fre­ cemetery, four miles north of Riley, but the quently. Josiah Preston Holstead appears in grave, if ever marked, is no longer to be iden­ some land transactions in Vigo County in the tified. It was the intention to bury the re­ same period, but he never lived there. mains of her husband beside hers, but the roads William Jones, the orphaned son of a friend, to Mt. Pleasant were impassable at the time of was taken into their home and reared by Reuben his death and it could not be done. Sentiment and Elizabeth Holstead. In late life, he was for the dead and sentiment of all other kinds, generally known as "Uncle Billy Jones", and was except only the sentiment for land, and more a successful farmer near Riley. He was born land, and the material rewards which its owner­ December 5, 1819, and died April 5, 1901. His ship and use brought, were pitiably blighted in wife was Elizabeth Christy, who was born Decem­ the fierce contest of the pioneer with primitive ber 5, 1819, and died April 30, 1885. There nature! were two daughters, Rhoda, who married Cameron -0-0-0- Ellis, and Anna, both of whom died in early womanhood. J o s i a h P r e s t o n H o 1 s t e a d Isaac Pearce had a remarkable memory. He was able to memorize any piece of writing by William Chester Halstead, Co-author reading it a few times. In Butler County, Ohio, The childhood and youth of Josiah Preston he was known everywhere for this trait. His Holstead were spent on the farm of his father specialty was the Bible. He could give the lo­ Reuben Holstead in the Indian Creek neighbor­ cation of any verse of Scripture he heard and hood of Butler County, Ohio. His activities then repeat the whole chapter of which it was a were the usual ones of a pioneer farmer boy, that part. He was brutally murdered with an ax on included much hunting and fishing, which were March 17, 1850, by an eccentric character of the prime sports of the day. In early years he the Riley community named Jim Lee, his wife's developed an ambition for an education, and ob­ brother. Lee fled and then returned. The evi­ tained the best that was to be had, first in the dence against him, while morally conclusive, primary school of his community, and then at was only circumstantial, and he was never Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana, a short brought to justice. Isaac Pearce was a much distance beyond the line between the two states, liked and respected man. There were three sons, at the same time clerking in the store of J. James F., w. R., and Isaac F. Pearce, of whom Jacobs. He then attended and was graduated there are now descendants living near Riley and from College, located in Butler County. elsewhere. Horace Milford Pearce of Dickinson, When twenty-three years of age, Josiah ac­ North Dakota, a son of James F. Pearce, married companied his father to Tippecanoe County, In­ Louisa Katherine Leavitt, a great granddaughter diana, leaving his wife and baby daughter be­ of Elizabeth (Preston, Pearce) Holstead. hind, but the next spring returned to Ohio for Only one faint ray of light on the person­ them and his household possessions, taking pas­ ality of Reuben Halstead, none at all on that sage on the new steamboat, the "John A. Dix", of Elizabeth Holstead, comes down to us. Wil­ down the Ohio and up the Wabash River to liam Riley Halstead, a grandson, who was only Lafayette. five years old when Reuben died, had a child­ By that time, almost all the land south of hood memory of Reuben as, "a spry old man with the Wabash River had been opened for settlement; a brusque and snappy Scotch brogue", who was immigrants from Europe were rushing in for work sometimes given to challenging neighbor boys to on the Wabash and Erie Canal; the federal Gov­ a foot race from the house to the barn. In the ernment was free of debt; new land sales were REUBEN AND ELIZABETH HOLSTEAD 92 bringing in a steady flow of money, and large land made the survey. On July 15, 1833, he sums were being transferred from the United sold 2 lots and 80 acres of land east of the new States Bank: to the various state banks, which town to John Mack, who built a hotel and con­ they were eager to loan. The fever for specu­ ducted it for a number of years. lation was spreading to all parts of the coun­ This was the beginning of Josiah's specula­ try; land always had a ready sale at gradually tions in land in which every purchase and sale increasing prices, and the canal project quick­ yielded a large profit. An example of such ened the movement and swelled the crowds. profits is shown in the public records of Tip­ William Digby had laid out the town of pecanoe County. On January 21, 1833, he pur­ Lafayette in 1825, and only a few days later chased an 80 acre tract south of Lafayette for sold nearly the whole tract to Samuel Sargeant $200 and on July 15, about six months later, for $200.00 reserving ground for a ferry landing sold it for $400.00, an advance of 100 per and 20 acres north of the town for speculative cent. His purchases for the period from 1833 purposes. He afterwards sold the 20 acres to to 1836 amounted to about 850 acres, and, then, Sargeant for $60.00. Later, Sargeant sold most evidently due to the money panic of 1837, none of the lots to Major Henry Ristine, Isaac C. of consequence was made until 1841. Elston and Jonathan Powers of Crawfordsville. Some of the land purchases were made through These men began at once boosting the town of the state land office at Crawfordsville at Lafayette and had plenty of opportunities, as $1.25 an acre, and some from private owners at Crawfordsville was full of immigrants, land around '2.00 an acre. Many of the original land­ grabbers, travellers and laborers. Major Ristin grant certificates are still in the possession conducted a tavern where many stopped, on the of his desc~ndants, and the numerous transac­ road north from Crawfordsville to the Wea, Wild­ tions evidence the unbounded energy, ambition cat and Shawnee prairies. Travel by roads and and confidence of the man in the future nros­ traces was very difficult, and most of the mer­ perity and advancement of that section and of chandise coming to the new town was by boat up the country. . the Wabash River. Lafayette, at the head of When the success of the canal system of the navigation, was looked upon as a great city in state came to be doubted, the agitation began the making. Agitation for better roads was also for the building of a railroad, and a survey a very live subject. An act was passed by the was made for one through Crawfordsville and state Legislature, on January 9, 1830, reading: Lafayette that passed west of Columbia, leaving it on only a wagon road with a poor future. Be it enacted by the General Assembly- of the This, coupled With the increasing responsibili­ Stat.e 0£ Indiana, that .Amos Robertson, of the ties of his land holdings, caused Josiah Pres­ Comty of Putnam, be appointed a c0111111issioner to ton Holstead to give up the life of a merchant. locate and open a state road from Bono, by- way of He then built a home on his farm six miles Lawrence County, to Bloomington in Monroe County, southeast of Columbia and devoted the remainder thence by way of Greencastle, in Putnam County, of his life to farming and stock raising. end Crawfordsville, in iiontgomer;y County, to Thorough-bred bulls were brought from Kentucky Lafayette, in Tippecanoe County; and th

wolf and brought it to bq. The ll!lll Jumped ott his Tennessee, but the major part of the time he was horse and, snatching the stirrup step troll the sad­ confined in hospitals at Tullahoma, Tennessee dle, he awmg it around his head, and the hea-r,y and Huntsville, Alabama. brass roothold struck the 110lf on the head. The After returning from the army William Wilson hunt was oTer. I ran up !llld recognized the :11an as Halstead took up the business of farming and J'oe Bolstead. •The dogs chased the wolf a long wq stock raising and followed it all through his !llld I got a horse !llld joined in !llld, not having a more active years, specializing in thorough­ gun, I killed it as you saw•, drawled J'oe, as bred Shorthorn cattle and driVing horses. though his feat was not a most thrilling act. While feeding bis cattle one winter day, Josiah Holstead noticed a wild deer among them, and in his haste to get his rifle off the load of feed he was on, the gun was accidently dis­ charged, the ball entering his right arm at the wrist, passing out at the elbow. This neces­ sitated the amputation of the hand and fore­ arm shortly afterwards. It is said that by the time he had recovered from this accident he had learned to write as well with his left hand as he had formerly with his right hand. The exposure incident to bis strenuous life finally brought on a throat trouble, which caused his death in 1848. His estate was ad­ ministered by James Wilson and finally parti­ tioned among his family on April 4, 1855. The commissioners were John Buck, William Nicholson, and John Aydlott. Some of his original land holdings are still owned by descendants. Ruby Halstead, a granddaughter, owns the farm where the original home was built, and John Coyner Halstead, a grandson, owns the farms both north and south of it. The on1y picture of Josiah Preston Holstead in existence is a crayon sketch, made on an Ohio river steamboat, by a traveling artist. It is now the property of Josiah Preston Halstead and is highly prized. It shows him to have been of slender build, straight as an Indian, with high forehead, resolute chin and the steady, clear eye of the western pioneer. He was a man of exceptional ability, courage, hon­ esty, and industry. William Wilson and Rhoda Coyner Halstead -0-0-0- Upon his marriage in 1867, he established a W i l. 1 i a m W i l. s o n H a 1 s t e a d home on a farm owned by his wife, some three miles east of his own home. The house was a William Chester Hal.stead, Co-author two-room log cabin, and it was here that their When his father, Josiah Preston Bolstead, first child was born. Soon afterwards, while died leaving a family of seven, the widow and the family was away from home, the cabin six children--two boys and four girls--William burned with all their household possessions. Wilson Halstead was four years old. The mother, They immediately built a new dwelling of four a typical pioneer woman, had the difficult task rooms near-by, and this was added to, in 1880, of rearing the family and looking after the by a still more modern house. substantial estate. Several years afterwards, As the years passed by, this farm, as well the land holdings were partitioned, each child as one two and a half miles west by diligent receiVing a just share. The boyhood of William, labor, were drained, improved and.brought into similar to that of the boys of the time, con­ full cultivation. Gradually ponds and swamps sisted of hard work on the farm, varied by disappeared,fences were built, basket willows schooling and farm sports. He was always very were grubbed, and, finally, by 1885, the farms fond of hunting, and, at an early age, had a became really productive. They prospered and fast riding horse and indulged in the usual fox accumulated a substantial estate. and coon hunts. As the children grew up, they were en­ After completing his school work in the com­ couraged in school work. All of them obtained mon branches, he attended the academy at a good common-school education, and five at­ Thornton, Indiana. While there he decided to tended college. Ruby, Ernest and Josiah Hal­ enlist in the Army, as the Civil war was rag­ stead were graduated from Purdue University, ing. Knowing that his mother would try to dis­ at Lafayette, Indiana, in the class of 1905. suade him from enlisting, he ran away from William Wilson Halstead established a winter school in 1862, and joined Compacy F of the home at Daytona, Florida in 1890 and spent the 135th Regiment of one-hundred-day Indiana winter months there. After the death of his Volunteer Infantry. At this time, he was not wife Rhoda Coyner Halstead, in 1917, he con­ very strong and robust, although six feet and tinued to go south with his daughter Ruby, and three inches 'tal.1; and camp life, and the fare in April, 1922, he returned to the Indiana farm of the soldier soon brought on an illness. His as usual. He died there very suddenly soon usefulness was confined to fortification and afterwards. garrison duty in and around Chattanooga, -0-0-0- REUBEN AND ELIZABETH HOLSTEAD 94 R e u b e n Ho 1st ea d, Jr. or more distant running at full speed. Wolves, bears, panthers, wild-cats and wild turkey Reuben Holstead,Jr. grew to early manhood on fell before his gun. More and hlore feather­ the farm of his father Reuben Holstead, Sr., in beds and pillows, as his family grew, were Butler County~ Ohio. Although his childhood filled l'lith the breast feathers of the wild and youth was spent where there were excellent geese he killed, some of the pillows being still primary schools and colleges, he was never used by his grandchildren. greatly interested in obtaining an education, Brought by his parents to Tippecanoe County, in contrast to his brother Josiah, for he at­ Indiana, in the spring of 1829, probably, Reuben tended school but thirteen weeks. As a result, was there about two years in land and cattle he never could read, write or "figure" readily. work with his father, and then, when twenty-two Yet he came to handle a large land and cattle years of age, went to Riley Township, in Vigo business successfully, and could mentally calcu­ County. After several years there, he returned late quickly and accurately problems in elemen­ to Tippecanoe County, bought land, cleared tary surveying, money, interest and the like, three ouarter-sections successively and sold which he could not do with paper and pencil. them at a good profit. In 1844, when he was thirty-two years old, with his parents, he re­ moved permanently to Vigo County, and soon after­ wards married Louisa Brown, a young woman of the neighborhood. He bought land near Hazel­ green, later Lockport, now the village of Riley, which Nathaniel Donham had laid out in 1836, in which locality he lived for about thirty years. William Riley Halstead, his son, has left us in, "Life on a Backwoods Farm" (1889), sketches of the locality, Reuben's cabin and its furnishings, and the life or the family:

Our cabin stood on a cleared knoll of four acres just west of Hazelgreen. The prairie skirted us to the.south, colling up to the foot of the knoll, like the arm of a great sea, and opening to the e7e a stretch of vision for ■ore than twenty milee, with onl7 an occasional tree to break the view. There was hea"'7 timber on the east and also on the west, following the bed of Hone7 creek, to the Wabash fifteen miles awa7. To the north, the timber, except an occasional break made by a small clearing, extended fort7 miles with only blazed paths and narrow rugged roadways through it. It was a wilderness vaster than the prairie south of us. The Indians, as a bod7, had fied before the ap­ proach of the pale face and had left bim in peaceable possession of a heritage of unmeasured riches. It was no uncommon thing, however, for an aged wandering red-skin to return to these him ting grounds of his youth, as 1f it had gone frODI his memory that the white man had taken it from him; and he would onl7 appear to come to the realization of the fact when he would appro~ch the cabins and clearings, and then, in a lonesome wa7, turn into the woods and be gone ••• A lone In­ dian was known to the settlers to be harmless. Our cabin was a jack-oak structure, sixteen by eighteen feet, with a seven-foot ceiling. It had white-oak chink-timbers, the heart pieces of a board tree. It was daubed with 7ellow clay, mixed without lime; and the mortar was put in in such Reuben Halstead, Jr. profuse fashion that the clay, filling the bark of the j ack:-oak logs, gave it a most grotesque ap­ pearance. The gables were of like material with The only story we have of his life in Butler the walls, the loge being sloped at the ends, and County is of his having won a famous shooting each one made shorter, so as to receive the roof­ match. The squirrels were so numerous that poles and make the slant. The roof-poles reached they were a pest. In order to reduce their the length of the roof and answered the double plll'­ number, a prize was offered to the citizen who pose of rafter and sheeting to receive the four­ would shoot the most in three days. Sixteen foot clap-boards. On the top of these boards were years of age, with a neighbor to drive the laid other roof-poles, withed to those underneath wagon, his father to handle the ammunition and at the ends, thus to hold the clap-boards in place. load the gun and to take care of the game, It was a roof me.de without nails or hammer. shooting from daylight until dark, Reuben won There were two doors, each made of fourteen­ the prize. Ever afterwards he was noted for inch poplar plank, which had been cut with a whip­ his skill with the "squirrel rifle." He loved saw. Each door was made of two planks, battened hunting all his life and kept fleet horses and and hung on wooden hinges. The mmory ot those dogs for the purpose. His favorite feat of hinges •akes ..,. nesh creep to this dq. Of all marksmanship was to hit a deer a hundred yards REUBEN l.NiJ ELIZABETH HOLSTEAD 95

the noises in this ti.me of strange noises these wegian settlers, who had recently taken posses­ hinges made the worst. It did not seem to occur sion of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and were still to anyone to oil or soap them. living in sod houses. The fire-place had a base of these jack-oak logs, split in halves, and notched into a fr!lllle to Of a McCormick wheat-binder, one of the first holJ in place the sand stone rock that made the in the region, which was a curiosity for many sides and back-jam or the six-root fire-place. The years after it was worn out and discarded for chimney was made of lath and mortar. It was made later models, but preserved in the machinery wide so that one could sit by the fire and look shed, it was told: out at the top of the chimney into the top of a tree that stood near. In this fire-place there was The spring following, there was a fine pros­ ample space for cooking. The fire had to make its pect of harvest, and as a declaration of war own way and, of course, the Sllloke could depart at against the old cradle and sickle, a newly in­ leisure. vented llcCol'lli.ck harvester was purchased. It This arrangement also answered the purpose of a was a rude affair c011pared to what we have to­ window in the daytime. The yellow clay mortar on day. It was 118 heavy as a saw mill. It rattled the lath was constantly washing off, and it was a like a threshing machine. Less than four horses frequent thing for the chimney to take fire, and could not move it and they had to go in a trot. burn down a foot or so before it was discovered. The The whole neighborhood was suspicious of it, not water bucket was kept on a bench inside near the having seen anything or the kind before. door and a woman could throw water to the top and The common sentiment was that it would no more put it out. work than a machine of perpetual motion. And The ashen fioor was always clean and white. The there were SOiie plain declarations of opposi­ fiat rock hearth was not very elegantly laid. In tion, on the gromd that it would abolish the the fire-place was the swinging crane that, like whiskey jug, and the harvest jamboree. This, 11; Pluto, lived in the llliddle of the flame. There was was agreed, could never be done with men who a great iron pot in the corner, which was filled at knew their rights, and no man could ever get his least once a week with ham or sirloin of venison. grain up in that country without these tll'O things. In the corner next to the fire-place, were sev­ If this ne~-tangled affair worked, the harvest en shelves, held by wooden pins in the logs. Over would be over in a jiffy and there would be no these hung a fiax cloth. These shelves held the time for a drunk. table outrit--six pewter plates with as many Jmives and f'orks; a wooden tray £or bread; a Plymouth In the western boundary of Clay County, ad­ Rock meat dish; a sugar bowl of china, the price­ joining Vigo on the east, near the point of less heirl0011 of some high Scotch ancestry, the junction or the Terre Baute and Eel River pedigree to which was lost before I was born; three Canal with Eel River, a few miles south or coffee cups with saucers; two ancient silver spoons, Reuben Bolstead's home, there was a natural and three brass ones. These shelves were made for shallow basin of land some 6000 or 7000 acres this table equipment and nothing else was allowed in extent. By means of an embankment along on them. Eel River, this area was converted into a In the corner next to the cupboard, was a fry­ reservoir of water for the canal. Reuben Hol­ ing pan 111 th a handle six feet long. In that long stead pastured his herds of cattle around it handled f'rying pan was put the venison steak tor and owned several thousand of acres of land breakfast; and as soon as it was made brown and along its banks, parts of which passed to his fine over the fire, the steak was turned into the sons, William Riley and Reuben Albert, and his platter; and after that the same pan received the grandson Barry Courtland Halstead now owns and buckwheat batter. That is why it is called buck­ lives on about 250 acres of it. wheat. During the decline, and after the abandon­ In another corner of this room was _an impro­ ment of the canal, the Eel River reservoir, vised bedstead built into the walls. In the re­ alive with fish, became the scene of nsquatter" maining corner was the only pretentious furniture colonies of lawless fishermen, who drank, gam­ in the house-a black walnut store bedstead, w1 th bled, desecrated the Sabbath, and killed cat­ corner posts six by six and seven feet high. This tle. In order to ruin the fishing grounds; and was the spare bed for the stranger. thus get rid of these debredacious bands the land o?mers conspired, and, after one attempt After eleven years in this original cabin, which the fishermen thwarted, and then a truce the clearing had been much extended, out build­ of two years, cut the reservoir embankment. The ings had been erected, and the place had been water and the fish ran out into Eel River. Sev­ stocked. But, as was typical of the pioneer, eral arrests were made but nothing came or them. Reuben Holstead found that he had been a long Afterwards it was whispered to their chil­ time in one place, and was restless for change. dren, in mock seriousness, by the sons and He made a trip farther west, to just what daughters of Reuben Holstead that their grand­ points is not known, seeking a new location, father had been a ring-leader in this danger­ but did not find one which suited him. In­ ous, and illegal, but entirely justifiable,. ex­ stead, he sold his first farm soon after the ploit, and that they must keep it a secret for trip, and bought another one of 240 acres three fear he would still get in trouble about it. miles south and moved there the next year. Wil­ As a part of several unsuccessful projects liam Riley Halstead then recites: of later times to drain the old canal reservoir and to fully reclaim the land, which had been We lelll'lled shortly that the great llorthwest, made very rich by the deposits from the water which was then Wisconsin and Minnesota, was in which stood on it for so long, the embankment need of stock cattle. For making this trip, we was repaired, and a massive water-gate put at had the additional reason that mother's health the mouth of Splung Creek in order to hold the was breaking, and it needed recruiting by rest, water or Eel River out of the basin. For long and travel, and outdoor life in the s1m1er. Our afterwards, by accident or design logs would physician strongly recom1ended it. We sold our catch in this water-gate and prevent it from cattle at highly remunerative price• to the Hor- working. The whole area would then overflow, REUBER ilD ELIZABETH HOLSTEAD 96 and :fish woul.d enter in great q11a11tities. a SlllOOth shaven :race, thin lips, a deci.ded RoJU.n Then, bef'ore the game and :fish laws were well nose, and reddi.sh blue eyes. Uncouth, and en:rorced, unknown persons would stretch a net rather sharp tempered,. he was also genial and across the mouth or the creek, and the :fish sociabl.e, and was locally cel.ebrated :ror his could be easily trapped. At such times, if picturesque pro:f'anity. Endowed with a good the overflow was at the time o:r the :migration voice, and liking to sing, he was the song l.ead­ o:r wild ducks and geese, they would alight and er for some years at a Kethodi.st Sunday school, :reed in the shallow grass-laden water in mil.­ although he always scof'f'ed mildly at religion. lions. At such times the reservoir site was In 1871, Reuben Halstead bought the Chauncey a paradise :ror hunters and :fishermen. Rose f'arm, on which there was a spacious modern Reuben Hol.stead was three inches more than house, in Honey Creek Township, three miles six :feet tall, had wide and square shoulders, south o:r Terre Haute, which he :furnished well, and weighed about 200 pounds. He was cor­ includi.ng one o:r the first grand pianos owned respondingly strong and performed many un­ outside of Terre Haute for his daughters. usual :feats or strength. Whil.e never quar­ Part o:!' this farm is·still owned by his grand­ rel.some and pugnacious, as such strong men ch11dren. He aied in 1882, and Louisa Hal­ are prone to be, his size and strength, as stead, a superior pioneer woman in education, wel.l as his intelligence, energy, business character and personality, who was an invalid ability and good conduct, made him a leader :r.rom middle life, survived him fourteen years. o:r his community. He was described at :Corty He possessed some 2,000 acres o:r land, much per­ as having black hair, turned to an iron gray, sonal property, being one o:r the wealthiest .f'a:rmers and stockmen o:r Vigo County. 97

Chapter 5 G E N E A L O G I E S 0 F JOHN AND REUBEN HOLSTEAD

---0-0-0--- The data for the genealogical histories of of Butler Co. (See Chapter XIII, Part John and Reuben Holstead and their descendants One and Chapters 1 and 3, Part Two.) ~as collected mainly in the calender year of 1933. All those who furnished information for Rebecca m:d Hezeklah Shaw aud Desce!ldants them were asked, in October of 1934, to bring 2 b.hEBECCA HULSTEAD, b. in Currituck Co., the records for the living descendants up-to­ N.C. Jan. 16, 1794; d. in 1861 in the date. Most of them did so, but a few did not, home of her dau. Sarah Shaw Brown at in most cases, presumably, because there were Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind., where no changes to be made. she lived late in life; m. Sept. 30, In order to make the generations and families 1811, HEZEKIAH SHAW b. at or near York, distinct in the following tabulation, the para­ Pa., July 1, 1783; d. July 20, 1860,in eraphs are indented to indicate the generations, the home of hiss. Griffin McKendrick and letters of the alphabet are employed for the Shaw at Paddy's Run, o., where he lived same purpose. Those whose names are preceded late in life. Hezekiah Shaw was the s. by the same letter in vertical alignment are of of" a Rev. soldier, who removed to )i{ays­ the same generation, and those whose names are ville, Ky., thence to Clermont Co., o., preceded by the letter b, for example, are the where, in 1808, he purchased a farm on children of those immediately preceding desig­ the Little Miami River, the location of nated as a, seriatim. In addition, the names which is now in the eastern suburbs of of the individuals are numbered serially. Hus­ Cincinnati; was licensed as a Methodist bands and wives who are not of the Halstead minister in 1799; preached first in blood are omitted from the numbering, but are Louisiana; in 111 health was transferred given equal treatment otherwise. The numerals to Tennessee under Bishop McKendrick; begin with 1 and run to 127 in the John Holstead returned to Ohio and purchased a farm family, making a total of 127 members, and, in­ at Paddy's Run in 1808, where, eloquent, cluding 60 wives and husbands, 187 members. For zealous and of strong personality, he the Reuben Holstead family the numerals begin was a noted circuit rider: Rebecca with 200 and run to 426, making a total of 226 Shaw was of almost exactly the same di­ members, and,including 113 wives and husbands, minutive size as her mother Ruth · 339 members. The total number of descendants of Richardson Holstead, was a forceful John and Reuben Holstead is 353, ·and, including personality and a locally famous house­ all wives and husbands, there is a grand total keeper--fastidious and dainty, although of 526 members of the two general families. living in a pioneer log house. -o-o- 3 c.JOHN FLETCHER SHAW b. at Paddy's Run, Butler Co., o., Jan. 19, 1813; d. at J o h n H o 1 s t e a d A n d H i s Paddy's Run, Oct. 13, 1836; was a Descend a-n ts physician. 4 c.DANIEL WESLEY SHAW b. at Paddy's Run, John Holstead and his children spelled the Butler Co., Nov. 21, 1814; d. at Col­ family name 1 Holstead1 until late in their fax, Grant's Parish, La., about 1876; lives, when the children adopted 'Halstead', went to New Orleans in his youth, which has since been used by their descendants where, although a Republican, he re­ universally. mained until after the Civil War; ac­ The data for the genealogical history of quired a plantation at Colfax on the Rebecca Holstead and part of the Shaws and Red River, near Shreveport, where he 1icKendricks was furnished by Dr. Albert Shaw; lived the remainder of his life. for that of Helen Halstead by Alice Scott 5 c.GRIFFIN ~c KENDRICK SHAW b. at Paddy 1 s Robinson and Clarissa Jo Scott Averle and that Run, Butler Co., o., Feb. 24, 1817; for Sarah Halstead by Alice Scott Robinson and d. at Paddy's Run Aug. 25, 1863; m.in Sibyl Elizabeth Roberts. 1843 SUSAN COLBURN b. Nov. 1, 1827; 1 a.JOHN HOLSTEAD, of the fifth or sixth d. at Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind. generation following Henry Holstead, it Jan. 7, 1852: Fil'st studied medicine is not certain which, was b. in Curri­ at Hamilton, o. with Dr. Cyrus Fal­ tuck Co., N.C. Jan. 16, 1773; his birth coner, one of the most famous physi­ is recorded in his Bible as 1772, which cians and surgeons of his generation, he had altered to 1773, but the inscrip­ then in the two leading medical col­ tion on his gravestone makes it 1771, leges of Cincinnati; located and so apparently, he was not certain of the practiced as a peysician and surgeon year; d. at Paddy's Run, now Shandon, at Noblesville, Ind.; was a member of Butler Co., o. Feb. 16, 1855; m. in Nov. the Ind. Legislature 1848-49; removed 1792, RUTH RICHARDSON b. in Pasquotank to Paddy's Run in 1854, practiced Co., N.C., July 24, 1775; d. at Paddy's there, operated farms, and was ex­ Run, Sept. 30, 1841, dau. of Josiah and tremely active in public affairs. His Ruth Richardson of Pasquotank Co.: Re­ death resulted from over-exertion in moved about 1796 to orange Co., N.C. and Civil War activities.Continued below. thence to Butler Co., o. in 1804: Was a 6 a.GRIFFIN MC KENDRICK SHAW JR. b. at pioneer settler, land owner and farm~r Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind., ~.s •+ IJ tvt,..,fr•r t, If!>'/- JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEAD'S DESCENDANTS 99 Feb. 28, 1847; d. in Grant's Parish, f.DANA LUCY RITCHIE, continued. La., Dec. 31, 1872; A.B. Wabash Col­ from above, m. 2nd. Jan. 2, 1931 lege, Crawfordsville, Ind., 1868; EARNEST LYMAN MITCHELL Jr. b. at was employed in the U.S. Internal Columbia, Mo., June 5, 1898, s. Revenue Service at Indianapolis, of Ernest Lyman and Sally Wilcox Ind., and then on Mississippi River Mitchell of Columbia, Mo.; Vice­ steamboats; joined his uncle Daniel Pres. of the Thomas Young Nurs­ Wesley Shaw, a plantation owner of eries of Bound Brook, N.J.: Re­ Grant's Parish, La., where he lived side at Harris and Union Aves. until his death. 14 • e.LOIS ALBERTA STEPHENSON b. at 7 d.LUCY DELIA SHAW b. at Noblesville, Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind., Hamilton Co., Ind., June 7, 1849; Jan. 20, 1873; m. Apr. 15, 1895 attended the Western College at Ox­ DORR LAWTON GESSNER b. at Elmore, ford, O.; m. Apr. 15, 1869, RICHARD O., May 4, 1870, s. of Gustavus ROSS STEPHENSON b. at Noblesville, Adolphus and Carofen Lawton Gess­ Ind., Oct. 8, 1845; d. at Nobles­ ner of Fremont, o.; attended ville, Apr. 19, 1899, s. of John D. Lehigh Univ. at Bethlehem, Pa.; and Livinia Stephenson; was a is a traveling salesman for the soldier in the Civil War; was grad­ Buckley Shirt Co., of St. Louis, uated from the Univ. of Michigan; Mo.: Reside at DeFuniak Springs, was attorney-at-law at Noblesville; Fla. was Judge of the County Court for 15 £.DOROTHY JEAN GESSNER b. at six years; was a member of the Indi­ Elwood, Madison Co., Ind., Aug. ana Legislature 1867-68: Mrs. 25, 1903; graduated at Butler Stephenson resides with her dau. Mrs. Univ. Indianapolis, Ind.; m. Charles Henry Ritchie at 355 E. Jan. 19, 192~HENRY CLAYTON HUD­ 51st St., Indianapolis, Ind. SON b. at Enfaula, Ala., Mar • 8 • e •.MARY GEORGIANA STEPHENSON b. at 17, 1900, s. of Ezekiel Augustus Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind., and Marie Jackson Hudson of Jan. 13, 1870; attended the West­ Montgomery Co., Ala.; graduated ern College at Oxford, O.; m. Nov. at the University of Alabama; 21, 1890, CHARLES HENRY RITCHIE teacher of Home Economics and b. at Boxleytown, Ind., Mar. l, English in the public schools 1867, s. of William Harrison and • at DeFuniak Springs, Fla.: Re­ Sarah Karie Ritchie of Noblesville, side at DeFuniak Springs. Ind.; was purchasing agent for the 16 • e.GRIFFIN SHAW STEPHENSON b. at Union Sanitary Mfg. Co., of Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind., Noblesville; is now retired: Re­ June 16, 1877; graduated at the side at 355 E. 51st St., Indi­ Indianapolis, Ind., Bental College; anapolis, Ind. m. Oct. 6, 1898 BERNICE CASH b. at 9 f.KENT STEPHENSON RITCHIE b. at Streeter, Ill., Feb. 27, 1878; d. Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. 21, at Elwood, Ind. July 5, 1918, dau. 1892; d. in France Feb. 9, 1918; of George Nathaniel and Mary Cash attended Miami Univ. at Oxford, of Streeter, Ill.: Was a member o.; was employed in advertising of the hospital unit in the work by •Review of Reviews" of Spanish-American '.Var; practiced New York, N.Y.; was a member of dentistry at Elwood, Ind.; is now Bat. D., 150th Field Art., a general contractor at Indianapo­ Rainbow Div., in the World War; lis, Ind. died as the result of a gun-shot 17 £.GRIFFIN SHAW STEPHENSON JR. b. wound accidently inflicted by at Elwood, Madison Co., Ind., the discharge of a guard's rifle; July 27, 1903; B.S. Ball State was buried at Oise Aisne ceme­ Teacher's College; m. Mar. 31, tary, Serignes-et-Nesles, France. 1928, CHARLENE ARBAUGH b. at 10 f.RICHARD ROSS RITCHIE b. at Muncie, Ind., Jan. 15, 1906, Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind., dau. of Charles and Irene Logan Jan. 24, 1901; A.B. Wabash Col­ Arbaugh of Portland, Ind.: Is lege, of Crawfordsville, Ind., head of the Art Dept. of the 1924; Zone Manager in Michigan Wilson High School at Muncie, for the Curtis Candy Co., of Ind.: Reside at 307 South Brit­ Chicago; resides at Grand Rapids, tain Ave., Muncie • Mich. 18 • g.LUCY JANE STEPHENSON b. at 11 f.DANA LUCY RITCHIE b. at Nobles­ Muncie,Ind., June 27, 1929. ville, Hamilton Co., Ind., Feb. 19 • g.MILDRED CHARLENE STEPHENSON 16, 1902; graduated at Tudor b. at Muncie, Ind., May 2, Hall, Indianapolis, Ind., 1920; 1933. m. Dec. 31, 1921, DAVID MACLEAN c. GRIFFIN MC KENDRICK SHAW, continued, PARRY JR., s. of David MacLean m. Aug. 16, 1852, SUSAN FISHER b. at and Hessie Maxwell Parry of Chester, Vt., Apr. 8, 1828, a member Indianapolis, Ind.; divorced in of an old New England family; was a 1930; continued below. teacher in the public schools of 12 • g.LUCY SHAW PARRY b. at Indian­ Noblesville, Ind.; d. in the home of apolis, Ind., Jan. 2, 1924. her dau. Mary Georgiana Shaw Fisher 13 • g.DAVID MACLEAN PARRY III b. at at Warsaw, N.Y. June 29, 1892 • Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 6, 1926. JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEAD'S DESCENDANTS 100 20 d.CHARLES WADE SHAW b. at Noblesville, a number of books in recent years, Hamilton Co., Ind., Aug. 15, 1853; including volumes on the life and d. at Noblesville Sept. 2, 1854. times of Lincoln: Reside at 21 d.MARY GEORGIANA SHAW b. at Paddy's Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Run, now Shandon, Butler Co., O., 28 • e.ALBERT SHAW JR b. at Irvington, July 11, 1855; studied music at N.Y., Jan. 10, 1897; graduated Cincinnati, o., and taught the sub­ from the Hackney School at Tarry­ ject several years; m. May 11, 1880 town, N.Y., 1915, A.B. Princeton JOHN CROCKER FISHER b. at Warsaw, 1919; 2nd. Lieut. U.S. Field Art. N.Y., June 12, 1850i d. at Rosemead, 1918-19 in the World War; m. Nov. Calif., Aug. 15, 19D2, s. of Samuel 27, 1926,KATHARINE HARTLEY LUCKETT and Lucy Woodward Fisher of Warsaw, b. at East Orange, N.J., Dec. 17, N.Y.; attended Oberlin College three 1902, dau. of William Stone and years; A.B. Princeton 1873 and M.D. Marianna Eagles Luckett: Secre­ at the Long Island, N.Y. Medical tary and Treasurer of the Review College 1876, where he began the of Reviews Corp., 233 4th Ave., practice of his profession; was in New York, N.Y.: Reside at the U.S. Marine Hospital Service for Hastings-on-Hudson. seven years; was in the medical 29 f.MARRIANNA LUCKETT SHAW b. at Dept. of the American Univ. at New York, N.Y., Aug. 25, 1928. Beirut, Syria, five years; was a 30 f.ALBERT SHAW III b. at New York, sanitarium physician at Warsaw, N.Y~ N.Y., June 24, 1930. at Lytton Springs, Calif. and at 31 • e.ROGER SHAW b. at Hastings-on-Hudson, Elmira, N.Y.; resided at Ithaca, N.Y. Mar. 21, 1903; graduated from N.Y. after his retirement: Mrs. the Hackney School at Tarrytown, Fisher resides at 330 W. 6th St., N.Y., in 1920; attended Princeton ClaremontL Calif. Univ. for three years; A.B. Johns 22 a.EDITH FlSHER b. at Washington, Hopkins Univ. 1925; A-M. Columbia D.C., May 6, 1881; attended Elmira Univ. 1928; m. June 25, 1925, College of Elmira, N.Y. for three ELEANOR KIP PHILLIPS b. at New years, A.B. Smith College 1903, York, N.Y., Feb. 18, 1904, dau. of did graduate work at the Univ. of Louis A. and Anna Kip Phillips of Chicago, B.S. Cornell Univ. 1913; Hastings-on-Hudson: Was in news­ resides with her mother Mrs. 3ohn paper work on the Reading, Pa., Crocker Fisher at 330 W. 6th St., "Times" 1926-27; is now Foreign Claremont, Calif. Editor of the "Review of Reviews", 23 • e.JOBN CROCKER FISHER JR. b. at New York, N.Y. and Advisory Editor Beirut> Syria, Mar. 11, 1886; at­ of the "Golden Book"; 1s trustee tended the Univ. of Michigan 1904- of Rollins College, Winter Haven, 05, Cornell Univ. 1907-08, B.S. Fla.; is the author of "Handbook 1922, post-graduate work 1923-25; of Revolutions", and "Outline of m. Oct. 3, 1916, RUTH EMERY CAMP­ Governments"; is a contributor to BELL b. at Lima, O., May 16, 1891, many American and European peri­ dau. of Robert P. and Isabella odicals: Reside at Hastings-on­ Emery Campbell of Zanesville, o.: Hudson. Is meterologist in charge of the 32 £.CAROL SHAW b. at Reading, Pa., U.S. Weather·Bureau office at Sept. 15, 1927. Ithaca, N.Y.: Reside at Forest 33 • c.SARAH ANN CATHERINE SHAW b. at Paddy's Home. Run, now Shandon, Butler Co., O., Oct. 24 f.JOHN CROCKER FISHER III b. at 18, 1824; m. May 7, 1846 DANIEL W. Ithaca, N.Y., Dec. 19, 1919. BROWN, a physician of Wayne Co., Ind.: 25 f.ROBERT CAMPBELL FISHER b. at In late life Mrs. Brown lived with her Ithaca, N.Y., Nov. 17, 1922. sister Mrs. Richard Ross Ritchie at 26 • e.ALBERT SHAW FISHER b. at Warsaw, Noblesville, Ind • N.Y., Apr. 8, 1893; d. at Lytton Springs, Calif., Jan. 20, 1897. John Halstead and.Descendants, Continued 27 d.ALBERT SHAW b. at Paddy's Run, But­ 34 b.IVY HOLSTEAD b. probably in Orange Co., ler Co., O., July 23, 1857; A.B. N.C., Jan. 11, 1797; d. in Orange Co., Iowa College 1879, A.M. 1882; Ph.D. Apr. 31, 1800. Johns Hopkins Univ. 1884; LL.D. Univ. 35 b.PATSY HOLSTEAD b. in Orange Co., N.C., of Wis. 1904; Lit.D. New York Univ. Mar. 28, 1800; d. in Orange Co.,June 5, 1924; m. Sept. 5, 1893 ELIZABETH 1801. BACON b. at Reading, Pa., Oct. 23 1 1870; d. at Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Griffin and Clarissa Holstead Oct. 17, 1931; m. 2nd. May 5, 1933, and Their Descendants VIRGINIA MC CALL, a resident of 36 b.GRIFFIN HOLSTEAD b. in Orange Co., N.C., Gainesville, Fla., b. at Davenport, June 11, 1802; d. at Paddy 1 s Run, now Ia.: Dr. Shaw was the owner and Shandon, Butler Co., o., Oct. 25, 1884; editor of' the Grinnell, Ia. "Herald"; m. Nov. 1, 1827, CLARISSA WILLETS b. on became chief editorial writer and Paint Creek, Ross Co., O., Mar. 20, 1804; Associate'Editor of the Minneapolis, d. at Paddy's Run, Butler Co., o. Aug. Minn., "Tribune" in 1884; in 1888 29, 1864, dau. of James and Amy W1 ·1ets and 1889 traveled extensively abroad, of Wyoming, Pa., early settlers, on the writing important books on European Sciota River in Central Ohio: Residents municipal government; in 1891 found­ of New Haven, Hamilton Co., o., and then· ed the "Review of Reviews", 233 4th of Green's Fork> Wayne Co., Ind.: Grif­ Ave., New York, N.Y.; has published fin Halstead was a farmer of near Paddy's JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEADIS DESCENDANTS 101 Run. (See Chapter VII, Part One for his 49 £.THOMAS EDWARDS DAVIDSON b. at Mexican War record and Chapter 3, Cincinnati, o., Dec. 21, 1928. Part One for a biographical sketch.) 50 • e.HURAT HALSTEAD DAVIDSON b. at 37 • c.CAROLINE HALSTEAD b. at Paddy's Run, North Bend, O., June 13, 1897; Butler Co., o., Sept. l, 1828; d. at m. Nov. 3, 1934, ISABELLE LIVING­ 1 Paddy s Run, Sept. 151 1828. STON RESOR dau. of Robert Living­ 38 • c.WRAT HALSTEAD b. at Paddy's Run, ston Resor, deceased, and Eunice Butler Co., o., Sept. 2, 1829; d. at Thoms Resor of Cincinnati, O.: Cincinnati, o., July 2, 1908; President and General Manager of m. Mar. 2, 1857, MARY VICTORIA BANKS the Davidson Lumber & Coal Co., b. at Cincinnati, o., Dec. 19, 1838; Barboursville, Ky. office Edwards d. at Biddeford Pool, Ke., July 18, Bldg., Cincinnati, and President 1915, dau. of Hiram and Elizabeth Jane of the Artemus & Jellico Railroad Cones Banks, of Cincinnati, O., earli­ Co., Inc.: Reside at Cincinnati, er of New Jersey: Celebrated news­ o. paper ed~or, owner, correspondent 51 d.JOHN HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, O., and authur of Cincinnati and Brooklyn, Oct. 15, 1860; d. at Cincinnati, O., N.Y. (See Chapter I, Part One.) Feb. 12, 1861. 39 d.JEAN HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, O., 52 d.MARSHALL HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, Nov. 9, 1859; d. at Cincinnati Feb. O., July 10, 1862; d. at Cincinnati 6, 1931; m. about 1886 WILLI.All Jan. 29, 1908; A.B. Princeton 1886; AUSTIN DAVIDSON b. at Cotu1ellsville, m. June 22, 1907, CLARA LUNKENHEIMER Pa., Sept. 17, 1845; d. at North b. at Cincinnati Sept. l, 1871; d. Bend, o., Dec. 6, 1900, s. of Thomas at Cincinnati July 5, 1925, dau. of Rogers and Isabella Austin Davidson, Frederick and Louise Meyer Lunken­ of Connellsville, Pa.; attended heimer of Cincinnati: New York Cor­ Bethany College; was an attorney-at­ respondent of the Cincinnati "Com­ law at Cincinnati; was County So­ mercial Gazette", and the Louisville licitor for Hamilton Co., O. in "Courier-Journal" 1886-1888; Night 1887: Resided at North Bend. Editor, Managing Editor, Vice-Presi­ 40 • e.JEAN DAVIDSON b. at Cincinnati, dent and Business Manager, succes­ o., July 29, 1887; educated in sively, of the Cincinnati 11 Commercial­ private schools in Cincinnati and Gazette", 1888-1896; Technical Ad­ Berlin; m. Aug. 12, 1914, CECIL viser to the London, Eng. "Da11y PIATT b. at North Bend, 0., Feb. Kail", 1888-1896; U.S. Consul to 3, 1878, s. of John James and Birmingham, Eng., 1897-1906, suc­ Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt; educat­ ceeded by his brother, Albert Hal­ ed by private tutors; President stead; with the Lunkenheimer Co., of of the Angle South American Trust 53 Cincinnati 1906-1908. A child was Co., 49 Broadway, New York, N.Y.: born on May 16, 1908, which d. the Reside at 56 Douglas Road, Glen same day, four months after the Ridge, N.J. death of the father. 41 f.CECIL DAVIDSON PIATT b. at New 54 d.CLARENCE HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, York, N.Y., May 7, 1915. o., Dec. 9,. 1863; A.B. Princeton 42 £.WILLIAM PIATT b. at New York, 1887, member of Ivy Club; m. June 4, N.Y., Jan. 12, 1921. 1890, HARRIET DE FORD, b. Mar. 20, 43 £.PRISCILLA PIATT b. at New York, 1874; d. at New York City May 16, N.Y., Apr. 24, 1922. 1926, dau, of Isaac and Phillipa 44 • e.MARY ISABELLA DAVIDSON b. at Emmanuela Heighe De Ford of Balti­ North Bend, o., May 27, 1892; m. more, Md.: Was with the Associated Nov. 21, 1917, JESSE REDMAN CLARK Press at New York and Baltimore; now JR., b. at Cincinnati, O., May 17, retired; resides at New York, N.Y. 1885 s. of Jesse Redman and 55 • e.JOHN .MURAT HALSTEAD b. at New York, Carrie Karqua Clark; past Presi­ N.Y., June 8, 1891; d. at Montreal, dent, now Chairman of the Execu­ Can., June 14, 1894 • tive Committee of the Union Cen­ 56 • e.FRANKLIN DE FORD HALSTEAD b. at tral Life Ins. Co., Cincinnati, New York, N.Y., Sept. 10, 1895; O.: Reside at 2909 Vernon Place, U.S. Naval Academy, 1914-1917; Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati. served in the A.S.F.E. 1918-19; 45 f .JEAN DAVIDSON CLARK b. at Cin-­ m. Dec. 30, 1926, KATHRYN JANET cinnati, o. Oct. 11, 1918. MAC DOUGALL b. at Flushing, N.Y., 46 f.CAROLYN CLARK b. at Cincinnati, Apr. 7, 1907, dau. of Edward Albert o., Dec. 3, 1919. and Lillian Randall Mac Dougall, 47 f.JESSE REDMAN CLARK III b. at of Flushing, N. Y. , di vorc.ed in Cincinnati, o., July 13, 1926. 1933; broker; resides at 88, 4th 48 • e.THOMAS WILLIAM DAVIDSON b. at St. North Pelham, N.Y. North Bend, o.L Sept. 6, 1895; 57 f.ROBERT DE FORD HALSTEAD b. at rn. Jan. 23, l9Z6, HELEN EDWARDS; New York, N. Y ~, Mar. 27, 1928. b. at Cincinnati, o., June 17, 58 • e.HILDEGARDE MARION HALSTEAD b. at 1905, dau. of Edward William and New York, N.Y., Feb. 12, 1903; Eleanor z. Edwards of Cincinnati: m. Jan. 2, 1922, CHARLES RICHARD Vice-President and Treasurer of BATHURST b. a.t Huntingdon, Pa., the Corcoran Brown Lamp Co., 890 Dec. 12, 1895, s. of Charles Spring Grove Ave., Cincinnati: White and Cora Marks Bathurst of Reside at 2565 Observatory Ave., Huntingdon, Pa.; Pennsylvania Cincinnati. State College 1915-1916; gradu­ ated from the U. s. Military JOHN .WD REUBEN HALSTEAD•S DESCENDANTS 102 Academy 1918; now Captain, Corps. 73 • a.CLARISSA STEIi of Engineers U.S. Army· Instructor 74 d.CLARISSA HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, in Engineering U.S. Kiiitary Acade- O., June 11, 1874; m. Apr. 15, 1903, my: Reside at West Point, N.Y. GEORGE FRINK DANA b. in Kanawak Co., 59 f.RICHARD HALSTEAD BATHURST b. at W. Va. Oct. 12, 1870, s. of Stephen New York, N.Y., Aug, 21, 1923. and Frances Amanda Osborne Dana; 60 f.WILLIAM DE FORD BATHURST b. at President of the Peerless Foundry Duluth, Minn., Nov. 12, 1931. Co., Elmwood Place, Cincinnati: Re­ 61 d.ROBERT HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, O,, side on Drake Road, Indian Hills. June 13, 1866; d. at Cincinnati, 75 • a.STEPHEN FRINK DANA b. at Cincin­ July 10, 1925; A.B. Princeton 1888; nati, o., May 27, 1905; partial m. July 24, 191.2, CLARA LUNKENHEIM.ER course at Harvard; Secretary of HALSTEAD, widow of his brother the Peerless Foundry Co., Cincin­ Marshall Halstead; New York corre- nati. spondent of the Cincinnati "Commer- 76 • a.MARSHALL :VURAT DANA b. at Cincin­ cial-Gazette"; Editor of the nati, O., Feb. 17, 1908; B,S. "Fourth Estate", of New York, N.Y.; Princeton 1932; is an employee or connected with New York newspapers; the Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati. returned to Cincinnati in 1908 and 77 • e.CLARISSA DANA b. at Cincinnati, was with the Bl.aine-Thompson Co. un- 0,, Jan. 22, 1915. til. shortly prior to his death, . 78 d.GRIFFIN HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, which was partl.y caused by grief o., Dec. 24, 1876; educated mainly over the death of his wife five in Europe; m. Feb. 10, 1902, HELEN days earlier. MICHENOR b. at Shelbyville, Ind. 62 d.ALBERT HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, Oct. 5, 1880, dau. of Louis Theodore O., Sept. 19, 1867; m. at Washing­ and Mary Elizabeth Adams Michenor of ton, D.C. Dec. 8, 1896, ALINE WILCOXi, Shelbyville, Ind.: Chief page in b. at Chicago, Ill., Feb. 2, 1873, the House of Representatives of the dau. of Sextus Newell and Sarah U.S. Congress for three years; in Adams Wilcox: Newspaper writer and the stock brokerage business in editor; then in the U.S. Consular Washineton, D.C.; lubrication spe­ Service, the last assignment as cialist with the Standard Oil Co. of Consul General to London, Eng.; re­ N.J. for sixteen years; Captain in tired in 1932: Reside in New York the Ordinance Reserve Corps, in the City. (See Chapter I, Part One.) World War; (See the full army record 63 • e.ALBERT HALSTEAD JR. b. at Spring~ in Chapter VII, Part One.) Instruc­ field, Mass., Oct. 28, 1897; tor in military science at Ohio State partial course at Princeton1_m. Univ. 1919; President of the Hal­ Jan, 5, 1922, AGNES CARPENTi!iH b. stead 011 Co., Davis Lane, Cincin­ at Milwaukee, Wis., July 27, 1896, nati; reside on Drake Road, Indian dau. of Paul Dillingham and Emma Hills • Falk Carpenter, of Milwaukee: 79 • e.HELEN HALSTEAD b. at Washington, Formerly in the U.S. Foreign Serv- D.C., Nov. 30, 1903; m. Sept. 28, ice. Now Vice-President and 1929, ADELBERT GEORGE VOLCK b. on Secretary of the Claybourn Corp., a ranch near Houston, Tex., Aug. of Milwaukee: Reside at 3501 N. 6 1886 s. of George Andrews and Shepard Ave, -- Eiizabefh Bell Bates da Gama Volek; 64 f .ALINE ISABEL HALSTEAD b. at was educated by German tutors; oc­ Munich, Germany, Nov. 28, 1922. cupied important company positions 65 f.CAROL CARPENTER HALSTEAD b. at and did construction, research and Milwaukee, Wis., Mar. 4, 1926. expert work in the engineering, 66 • e.ALINE HALSTEAD b. at Wequetonsing, railroading, ship-building, radio, Mich,, Aug. 24, 1899; m. June 9 1 and motion picture fields; was 1926 1 WILL RICE AMON b. at Lan­ Vice-President of the Selznick caster, Ky., Aug. 13, 1899, s. of Pictures Corp. and an officer in Jesse Adolph and Ida Mae Kelly allied corporations 1925-1928; was Amon; architect with offices at Assistant General Manager and 601 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.: Chief Engineer of the Cecil De Reside at 245 E. 21st St. Mille Pictures Corp. 1928-1929; . 67 f.ALBERT HALSTEAD AMON b, at New then President of the Myron Selz­ York, N.Y., Apr. 16, 1927. nick Inc. and Vice-President of 68 f.ALINE AMON b. at Paris, France, the Frank Joyce Selznick Ltd.; is Oct. 15, 1928. now a consulting engineer through 69 • e.MARGARET AD.AMS HALSTEAD b. at A.Frank Volek Inc., Calif. Bank Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 11, 1902; Bldg., 9441 Wilshire Blvd., Bever­ opera and concert singer of in­ ly Hills, Calif.; is an author of ternational reputation: Resides plays and a member of nWllerous in New York City. (See Chapter engineering, dramatic, and social II, Part One.) clubs: Reside at 510 Kesa Road, 70 d.HIRAM BANKS HALSTEAD b. at Cincin- Santa Konica, Calif. nati, o., 1871; d. at Cincinnati, 80 • a.MOLLIE HALSTEAD b. at Hyattsville, Sept. 17, 1878. Md., May 14, 1907; premiere dancer. 71 d.JIARY HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, O., (See Chapter II, Pert One.) about 1872; m. about 1894 ARTHUR 81 • e.MURAT HALSTEAD b. at Portland, Ke., STEM, an attorney-at-law of Cincin- Aug. 15, 1918. nati; d. about 1920: Resides at 82 • e.ANITA HALSTEAD b. at Los Angeles, 34 Gramercy Park E., New York City. Calif., Jan. 26, 1922. 72 • e.MARY STEM 83 d.FRANK HALSTEAD b. in Paris, Franee, J JOHN AND REUBEN HI..LSTEAD'S DESCANDANTS 103 Sept. 11, 1878; m. June 12, 1905, 1918; m. in 1916, ELIZABETH MARR EllILY KIRIAM JIARSHALL b. at Bland- of Canton, O.: M.D. Ohio 1'edical ville, Ky., Kay 4, 1881, dau. or College of Cincinnati, o.; physi- Thomas Corbett Karshall and Miriam cian at Harrison, Hamilton Co., o. Jenkins Marshall of Missoula, Mont.; 96 • e.THEODORE SCOTT b. at Harrison, educated at St. Mary's, South Bend, Hamilton Co., o., Oct. 14, 1895; Ind., and the Univ. or Montana: m. 1st. CLARA GALE b. at Harrison, Colonel in the United States Army; Hamilton Co., o., Nov. 2, 1896 Reside at 618 N. Camden Drive, dau. of Frank and Ozama Hortense1 Beverly Hills, Calif. Wolstemholm Gale of Harrison; 84 • e.MIRIAM KARSHALL HALSTEAD b. at divorced: Mrs. Scott resides at Fort Lis cum·, near Valdez, Alaska, Dryden, N. Y. Aug. 8, 1909; A.B. Univ. or 97 f.HELEN HORTENSE CELESTIA SCOTT California, 1932. b. Oct. 20, 1916; lives with 85 • e.FRANK HALSTEAD II b. at Schofield her mother at Dryden, N.Y. Barracks, near Honolulu, Ter. of e.THEODORE SCOTT, continued, Hawaii, Aug. 26, 1917. m. 2nd. HAZEL MITCHELL b. Jan. 17, 86 d.WILLET HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, 1900; machinist at Harrison, Hamil- 0., Dec. 10, 1881; m. June 14, 1906, ton Co., o. 11.ARGARET THORNE RUTH b. at Connells- 98 d.ALICE SCOTT b. at West Creek, Lake ville, Pa. in 1887, dau. of Linford Co., Ind., Oct. 6, 1862; m. Oct. 23, I. and Catherine Ruth of Connells- 1901, HENRY HIDLEY ROBINSON JR.b. in ville, Pa.: Reside (1933) at 3908 Butler Co., o., Nov. 12, 1865; Morrison Ave., N.W., Washington, farmer; own the old John Halstead D.C. farm near Shandon, Butler Co.: Re- 87 • e.LINFORD HALSTEAD side at Shandon. 88 • e.KARY HALSTEAD 99 • e.GLANCY MONROE ROBINSON b. near Shandon, Butler Co., o., Jan. 5, Helen Halstead and John Monroe 1903; d. the same day. Scott and Descendants 100 • e.HENRY HALSTEAD ROBINSON b. near 89 • c.HELEN HALSTEAD b. at Paddy 1s Run, Shandon, Butler Co., o., Dec. 10, Butler Co., o., Nov. 11, 1831; d. at 1904; m. Dec. 25, 1927, JONNIE Shandon, Butler Co., o., Nov. 24, ALICE TROTTER b. at Marysville, 1913; m. Aug. 31. 1852• JOHN MONROE Tenn •• Mar. 31, 1901: Operate and SCOTT b. at Jacksonburg, Wayne Co., live on the old John Halstead farm Ind., Jan. 23, 1827; d. at Shandon near Shandon. Feb. 1, 1896; hardware merchant and 101 f.VIRGINIA LOUISE ROBINSON, b. at land owner at Crown Point, Lake Coe, Shandon, Butler Co., o., Oct. Ind.: Removed to Butler Co., o., in 12, 1933. 1870. 102 d.WARNER BROADDUS SCOTT b. at West 90 d.CLARA SCOTT b. at Jacksonburg, Creek, Lake Co., Ind., Kay 13, 1865; Wayne Co., Ind., July 14, 1853; d. at d. at Middleton, Butler Co., O., West Creek, Lake Co., Ind., Sept. Nov. 15, 1931; m. in 1894 JOSEPHINE 18, 1858. ROBINSON b. at Shandon, Butler Co., 91 d.MIAIII SCOTT b. at Jacksonburg, o., May 27, 1868; d. at Shandon Wayne Co., Ind., Feb. 27, 1855; m. Oct. 22, 1898; dau. of Henry Ridley at Yuma, Ariz.·, Jan. 29, 1917, Sr. and Josephine Glancy Robinson: GEORGE B. HILL b. in Ohio, Aug. 9, Graduate of the Toronto Veterinarian 1859; d. at Long Beach, Calif., College of Toronto, Can.; veterina­ Apr. 28, 1927; contracting carpen­ rian surgeon at Shandon and Middle­ ter at Somerton, Ariz.: Removed to ton. Long Beach in 1926: Resides at 375 103 • e.HELEN JOSEPHINE SCOTT b. at E. 16th St., Long Beach. Shandon, Butler Co., o.L Nov. 1, 92 d.JOCIE SCOTT b. at Jacksonburg, 1895; m. June 6, 1929, HOBERT Wayne Co., Ind., Nov. 27, 1856; d. STANLEY MANN b. at Kansas City, at West Creek, Lake Co., Ind., Mo., Nov. 14, 1891, s. of Arthur Sept. 21, 1858. Dewitt and Amelia Merchant Mann, 93 d.IVA SCOTT b. at West Creek, Lake of Kansas City, Mo.; Associate Co., Ind., Oct. 14, 1858; d. at Editor of the "Editor and Publish­ Hamilton, Butler Co., O., Jan. 17, er", a traae publication, of New 1904; lived with her parents, then York City: Reside at 33 Washing­ with her mother and then with her ton Square. brother, Warner Broaddus Scott. 104 • a.CLARISSA JO SCOTT b. at Shandon, 94 d.BENTON SCOTT b. at West Creek, Lake Butler Co., o., Sept. 15, 1898; Co., Ind., Sept. 8, 1860; d. at was Superviser of the training de­ Harrison, Hamilton Co., o., Aug. 6, partment of the Broadway Store, 1927; m. Jan. 22, 1889, CELESTIA Los Angeles, Calif.; m. Feb. 3, FIELDS b. at Okeana, Butler Co., O., 1934, RAYMOND DONALD AVERLE b. at Kay 30, 1868; d. in 1896; m. 2nd., Alexandria, Kinn., Mar. 4, 1899, identity of second wife unknown; s. of Christian and Christine M.D. Ohio Medical College or Cincin­ Averle or Alexandria, Minn.; De­ nati, O.; physician at Harrison and partment Manager and Buyer for the Chicago, Ill. Broadway Store, Los Angeles: Re­ 95 • e.llURAT HALSTEAD SCOTT b. at Okeana, side at 8273 Clinton St • Butler Co., o., Aug. 22, 1891; d. 105 d.JOHN KARSHALL SCOTT b. at Crown in World War training camp at Point, Lake Co., Ind., Sept. 5, 1869; Fort Orglethor~, Ga., Oct. 25, dentist at Hamilton, o., and JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEAD•S DESCENDANTS 104 Lexington, Ky.; retired, an invalid; ship with Dr. Joseph Roberts his resides at Dayton, o. brother-in-law; continued below • 106 d.JAllES GRIFFIN SCOTT b. at Shandon, 115 • c.MARIAR ISABELLA NESMITH HOLSTEAD Butler Co., o., Feb. 27, 1872; m. (only child of the 2nd. marriage) about 1901 IVA KELSO, d. about 1909. b. in Montezuma, Parke Co., Ind., 107 • e.IVA LILLIAN SCOTT b. May 14, 1904; about 1833; d. at Montezuma, probably m. WALTER SNODGRASS. early in 1876; m. Feb. 18, 1852, DAVID R. SHIRK b. in Ohio, June 15, 18~2, Griffin and Clarissa Halstead and, s. of Joseph and May Nap Shirk; d. Aug. Descendants Continued 17, 1912: There were no children: He 108 c.BENTON HALSTEAD b. at Paddy's Run, m. 2nd. Dec. 24, 1876, Charlotte Butler Co., O., Mar. 11, 1834; d. at Mc Donald; there were no children; Washington, D.C., Feb. 26, 1919; m. farmer near Montezuma. Dec. 16, 1874, ROWENA SMITH b. at b.JOHN HOLSTEAD, continued, m. 3rd. in Terrace Cottage, near Latonia Springs, Parke Co., Ind., May 3, 1844, MARTHA A. Ky., Dec. 12, 1856, dau. of Marcus SHOOK • and Euphrosyne von Sonntag Smith: 116 • c.JOHN (JAY) HOLSTEAD b. at Montezuma, Civil War soldier; inventor of the Parke Co., Ind.; probably in 1845; typewriter; attorney-at-law at Cin­ served as a cavalryman in the Civil cinnati, O.; late in life an attorney War; received a wound in the head from in the Pension Dept., at Washington, a bomb-shell in the Battle of Stone D.C. (See Chapters I and VII of Part Mountain; was in an army hospital; One): Mrs Halstead resides at 1936 then went to Butler Co., o., where Dr. Biltmore St., Washington. Joseph Roberts, his uncle, is thought 109 d.LAURENCE HALSTEAD b. at Riverside, to have extracted the missil, but he Cincinnati, o., Oct. 21, 1875; edu­ never fully recovered his health; cated at the U.S. Military Academy registered when he enlisted from at West Point, N.Y.; m. at San Mattoon, Ill.; was a member of the Francisco, Calif., Feb. 10, 1903, first year preparatory class, for the ANNA LOUIS MAUS b. at Fort Yates, 1865-1866 school year at Wabash Col­ S. Dak., Oct. 30, 1880, dau. of lege, Crawfordsville, Ind.; is thought L. M. and Anna Russell Maus: Colonel to have been dismissed for a prank in the U.S. Army, stationed at which resulted in the burning of some Washington, D.C.; (See Chapter VII, small buildings on the college campus; Part One): Reside at Fort Howard, soon afterwards disappeared, with Maryland. rumors that he had gone West, and was 110 • e.LAURENCE HA~TEAD JR. b. at Hunt- never heard of again. ington, W. Va., May 5, 1906; In­ vestigator for the U.S. Treasury Sarah and Joseph Roberts and Des. Dept. at Clarksburg, W. Va. 117 b.SARAH HALSTEAD b. at Paddy's Run, Butler 111 • e.MERVIN HALSTEAD b. at Fort Mis- Co., o., Dec. 21, 1809; d. at Shandon, soula, Mont., June 9, 1908; edu­ cated at the United States Naval Academy, at West Point, New York; Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy; (See Chapter VII of Part One). 112 d.BENTON CLIFFORD HALSTEAD b. at Riverside, Cincinnati, o., Dec. 30, 1876; d. at Cincinnati, May 23, 1901; attorney-at-law at Indianapo­ lis, Ind. 113 d.LENORE HALSTEAD b. at Cincinnati, o., Jan. 6, 1880; d. at Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 1918; educated at the University of Cincinnati; was an actress, playing leading parts for the Shuberts; leading woman with George Arliss in "The Devil'1; later in business life in New York City. John and Alevia and Martha Holstead and Descendants 114 b.JOHN HOLSTEAD b. in Hamilton Co., O., Nov. 8, 1804; d. at Montezuma, Parke Co., Ind., Apr. 1, 1846; returning to Montezuma from a trip on a Wabash River steamboat, which had docked during the night, he arose before daylight to go to his home, fell over a coil of rope on the deck into an open hatchway, and his neck was broken; m. 1st. in Ohio, CAROLINE HOLEY; 2nd. ALEVIA BEACH: Educated at Miami Univ. at Oxford, O., and at the Ohio Medical College at Cin­ cinnati, O.; removed to Montezuma in early life, probably about 1830, where he practiced as a physician in partner- Sarah Halstead Roberts JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEAD 1S DESCENDANTS 105 Butler Co • .t O.L Sept. 16, 1866; m. Kar. G e n e a 1 c g y o f R e u b e n and 23, 1841, OSEPH ROBERTS b. at Kullica E 1 i z a b e t h H o 1 s t e a d and Hill, N.J., Jan. 17, 1810; d. in Kinne­ haha Co., S. Dak., July 28, 1881; M.D. T h e i r D e s c e n d a n t s at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, O.; physician at Montezuma, Parke Co., 'Holstead' was the form of the name used by Inu., where he was in partnership with Reuben Holstead and his children, but their de­ his brother-in-law, Dr. John Halstead: scendants all adopted 1 Halstead 1 • The data for Removed to Butler Co., O.; thence to Josiah Preston Holstead and his descendants was LeRoy, Ill. and thence to Minnehaha Co., collected by William Chester Halstead. S. Dak. about 1871. 200 a.REUBEN HOLSTEAD of the fifth or sixth gen­ • c.MARTHA REBECCA ROBERTS b. at Montezuma, eration following Henry Holstead, it is Parke Co., Ind., Jan. 15, 1842; d. at not certain which, b. probably in Curri­ Long Beach, Calif., Sept. 29, 1926. tuck Co., N.C. about 1775; d. near Riley, 119 • c,THOMAS STRATTON ROBERTS b. at Monte­ Vigo Co., Ind., just prior to Dec. 16, zuma, Parke Co., Ind., June 9, 1844; 1853; m. in North Carolina probably about d. at Long Beach, Calif., Mar, 30, 1804, ELIZABETH (PRESTON) PEARCE b. in 1919; m. at College Hill Hamilton North Carolina, presumably, about 1772; Co., O., Sept. 3, 1884, ~ARRIE1 SEAL d. near Riley, Ind., about 1845: As a HAMMITT b. in Hamilton Co., O., Apr. youth was a resident of Currituck Co., 3, 1852, d. at Sioux Falls, S, Dak., N.C., then a land owner, farmer and stock­ Jan. 22, 1911; dau. of Samuel and man in Butler Co., O., Tippecanoe and Elizabeth Seal Hammitt of Butler Co., Vigo Cos., Ind. (See Chapter XIII, Part O.: Physician; practiced at Freemont, Two, and Chapters 1, 3, and 4, Part Ill.; removed to Le Roy, Ill.; and Two.) thence to Sioux Falls in 1871, and thence to Long Beach in 1915. Josiah Preston and Rebecca Holstead and 120 d.SIBYL ELIZABETH ROBERTS b. at Sioux Their Descendants Falls, s. Dak., Sept. 1, 1885; re­ 201 b.JOSIAH PRESTON HOLSTEAD b. in Butler sides at 375 E. 16th St., Long Co., o., June 14, 1806; d. at Linden, Beach, Calif. Montgomery Co., Ind. Jan. 13, 1848; m. 121 • c.MARY CLARISSA ROBERTS b. at Montezuma, Sept. 30~ 1827, REBECCA BRACKNEY WILSON Parke Co., Ind. May 14, 1847; d. at (WILLSONJ b. at Hamilton, O,, Apr. 3 1 Colorado Springs, Col., Sept. 5,1882. 1808; d. at Linden Apr. 17, 1894, dau. 122 • c.JOHN HALSTEAD ROBERTS b, at Montezuma, of William Wilson and wife, or Irish Parke Co., Ind., June 29, 1849; d. at descent, natives of North Carolina,who Long Beach, Calif., Sept. 27, 1934; immigrated to Butler co., o. and lived m. Oct. 25, 1887, SIBYL HAMMITT b. in also in Franklin Co., Ind.: Merchant, Hamilton Co., o., May 24 1855• d. at farmer and breeder of fine live stock College Hill, O., Feb. 1~, 1906; dau. in Tippecanoe Co., Ind.: A sister of of Samuel and Elizabeth Seal Ha,!lll!litt Rebecca Holstead, Elizabeth Wilson, of Butler Co., O.: Resided at Sioux lived with them for some years and died Falls, s. Dak., and in Morgan Park, Sept. 4, 1838. (See Chapter 4,, Part Ill., where he was in the real estate Two.) business; thence removed to College 202 c.ELIZABETH WILSON HALSTEAD b. at Hamil- Hill about 1892; and thence to Long ton, o., July 7, 1828; d. at Linden, Beach, Calif. in.1902. Montgomery Co., Ind. Mar. 22, 1841; 123 d.SAMO'EL IRVING ROBERTS b. at Sioux a gun being handled in her parents' Falls, S, Dak., Oct. 151 1891; d. at home was accidentally discharged, the College Hill, Hamilton Co., O., bullet passing through a door, wound­ July 31, 1893. ing her, from the effects of which 124 d.JOSEPH HALSTEAD ROBERTS b. at Col­ she died two days later. lege Hill, Hamilton Co., O., Feb. 203 c.SARAH ANN HALSTEAD b. at Romney, Tip- 10, 1898; d. at Long Beach, Calif., pecanoe Co., Ind., Jan. 9, 1831; d. Jan. 25, 1932; m. June 14, 1925, at Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Mar. 26, JESSIE LOIS WALLACE b. at Healdsburg, 1909; m. Aug. 22, 1852, JAMES WESLEY Sonoma Co., Calif., Jan. 29, 1899; KIRKPATRICK b, Jan. 27, 1829; d. at dau. of Glenn A. and Jessie E. Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Dec. 1, Wallace, now residing at Long Beach, 1898; land owner, farmer and stockman Calif.: Architect at Long Beach, of Tippecanoe and Montgomery Cos., Calif.; Mrs. Roberts resides at Ind. Long Beach. 204 d.FRANKLIN PIERCE KIRKPATRICK b. at 125 • e.JOSEPH RICHARD ROBERTS b. at Long Stockwell, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Beach, Calif., Nov. 15, 1926 • Aug. 17, 1853; d. at Clark's Hill, 126 • c.SARAH ROBERTS b, in Butler Co., O., Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Sept. 2, 1911; Aug. 23, 1853; d. in Minnehaha Co., m. Sept. 21, 1875, MARIA JOSEPHINE S, Dak., Apr. 15, 1882. BRYANT b. at Clark's Hill, Aug. 20, 1854; d. at Lafayette, Tippecanoe John and Ruth Holstead and Their Co., Jan. 11, 19201 land owner and Descendants, Continued farmer at Clark's Hill. 127 b.RUTH HOLSTEAD b. at Paddy's Runi Butler 205 • e.VEASEY BRYANT KIRKPATRICK b. at Co., Ind., May 24, 1814; d. at Paddy's Clarks Hill, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Run, July 15, 1814. Sept. 22, 1876; d. at Clark's Hill, Apr. a, 1878. JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEAD'S DESCENDANTS 106 206 • e.WILLIAII WESLEY KIRKPATRICK b. at 222 d.ALICE KIRKPATRICK b. at Linden, Clark's Hill, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Montgomery Co., Ind., Jan. 9, 1859; Dec. 7, 1878; m. Mar. 19! 1913, d. at Lafayette, Ti?pecanoe Co., TRF.SSA MARLOWE b. June 16, 1885: Mar. 15, 1934; m. Nov. 3, 1883, B.S. Purdue Univ. 1901, J,D. Univ. WILLI.AM HOWARD DICKS b. at La Porte, of Chicago, 1907, attorney-at-law, Ind., Nov. 2, 1854; d. at Kirkpat­ 301 Stewart Blog., Houston, Tex.: rick, Montgomery Co., Kar. 15, 1915; Reside at 3310 Dixie Drive. Ohio Law School 1875, attorney-at­ 207 f,JOHN KEITH KIRKPATRICK b. at law, Cincinnati, O.; member of the Houston, Tex., July 17, 1917. Ohio Legislature 1891-92. 208 f.JOE BI.AIR KIRKPATRICK b, at 223 • e.BODLEY KIRKPATRICK DICKS b. at Houston, Tex., Jan. 11, 1921. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 23, 1886; m• 209 • e.JOHN FRANK KIRKPATRICK b. at Jan. 19, 1914, MABEL MARIE SCANLON Clark's Hill, Tippecanoe Co., b. Apr. 19, 1892; DePauw Univ. Ind., Dec. 5, 1885; m. Mar. 26, 1911; in the general insurance 1908, LOIS JUNE JOHNSTON b. May 2, business at Lafayette, Tippecanoe 1887: B.S. Purdue Univ. 1907: Co., Ind.: Reside at Lafayette, Reside at 225 University St., West Ind. Lafayette, Ind. 224 f.MARGARET ALICE DICKS b. at Kirk­ 210 f.EDWARD JOHNSTON KIR~PATRICK b. patrick, Montgomery Co., Ind., at Clark's Hill, Tippecanoe Co., Sept. 4, 1915. Ind., Jan. 31, 1909; m. Nov. 27, 225 f.HAROLD SCANLON DICKS b. at Kirk­ 1930, DOROTHY KRIEG b. at patrick, Montgomery Co., Ind., Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 14, Apr. 13, 1923. 1909: B.S. Purdue Univ., 1930, 226 • c.MARY FRANCIS HALSTEAD b. at Romney, chemist with the Eli Lilly Co., Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Nov. l, 1833; Indianapolis: Reside at 3537 d. at Romney, Jan. 23 1 1834. N. Pa. Ave. 227 • c. REBECCA JANE HALSTEAD b. at Romney, 211 f.RICHARD AUSTIN KIRKPATRICK b. at Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Mar. 1, 1835; Clark's Hill, Tippecanoe Co., d. at Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Ind., Feb. 11, 1911. Jan. 22, 1912; m. 1st. Oct. 3, 1850; 212 f.FLORENCE KIRKPATRICK b, at DANIEL BENNETT b. Jan. 8, 1831; d. Clark's Hill, Tippecanoe Co., July 30, 1861; land owner and farmer Ind., Sept. 4 1 1912. at L~nden: Rebecca Jane Halstead con­ 213 f.ROBERT WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK b. at tinued below. Clark's Hill, Tippecanoe Co., 228 d.llELLIE BENNETT b. at Linden, Mont­ Ind., June 8, 1914. gomery Co., Ind., Aug. 22, 1856; 214 d.WILLIAJ,l PORTER KIRKPATRICK b. in d. at Linden, Aug. 9, 1918; m. Oct. Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Dec. 18, 1856; 1, 1874, LEVI HUGGINS MARTIN b. Feb. m. Feb. 14, 1889, EFFIE WEHR b. at 28, 1845; d. at Linden May 10, 1923; Mulberry, Clinton Co., Ind., Sept. land owner and farmer at Linden. 18, 1866: Land owner and farmer in 229 • e.ALBERT LESLIE HARTIN b. at Linden, Tippecanoe and Montgomery counties: Montgomery Co., Ind., Aug. 14, Reside at 630 Ferry St., Lafayette, 1875; d. at Linden, June 25, 1927; Tippecanoe Co., Ind. m. Aug. 26, 1898, JESSIE FREMONT 215 • e.WESLEY OTTO KIRKPATRICK b. in SHANKLIN b. June 29, 1880: Land Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Jan. 6, owner and farmer at Linden. 1890; m. Oct. 23, 1913, MERLE 230 • e.CT,ARA ALICE MARTIN b. at Linden, BOSWELL b. at Bellaire, O., May Montgomery Co., Ind., Sept. 9, 11, 1892, divorced Nov. 21, 1930: 1878; m. June 24, 1901, HARRY Employed at Purdue Univ., CLAYTON MORRISON b. Aug. 31, 1876; Lafayette, Ind.: Resides at 630 d. Dec. 6, 1923: Reside at 104 E. Ferry St. College St., Crawfordsville. 216 f.WILLIAll WESLEY KIRKPATRICK b. 231 !.MARTIN JOSEPH MORRISON b. at at Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co., Ind,, Jan, 10, 1916. Ind., Sept. 24, 1915. 217 £,STANLEY ATKINSON KIRKPATRICK 232 • e.WILLIAM EVERT MARTIN'b, at Linden, b. at Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Montgomery Co., Ind., Aug. 7, Ind., Dec. 10, 1917; d. at 1881; m. Feb. 23, 1911, NELLIE Lafayette Oct. 19, 1918. LONG b. Apr. 14, 1887; d. Jan. 25, 218 f.GERALD BOSWELL KIRKPATRICK b. 1924: Land owner and farmer at at Waveland, Montgomery Co., Linden. Ind., Jan. 24, 1920. 233 f.MARY ELIZABETH MARTIN b. at 219 £.NORMAN HALSTEAD KIRKPATRICK b. Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., at Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Jan. 26, 1912. Ind., Sept. 4, 1922. 234 £.MELLIE FRANCIS MARTIN b. at 220 • e.CHARLES HERBERT KIRKPATRICK b. in Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Dec. 29, Dec. 26, 1914. 1894; m. 1st. Nov. l, 1916, 235 f.GEORGE MAXWELL MARTIN b. at MARGARET ATKINSON of Delphi, Ind., Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., dee.; m. 2nd. Dec. 19, 1921, RHEA Dec. 27, 1916. MINTOYNE: Automobile Salesman, 236 £.MARJORIE ANNE MARTIN b. at Chicago, Ill.: Reside at Chicago. Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., 221 f.ALPHA RHEA KIRKPATRICK b. at Dec. 6, 1918. Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 18, 237 f.ROBERT LEVI MARTIN b. at Linden, 1922. Montgomery Co., Ind., Apr. 28, 1921. JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEAD 1 S DESCENDANTS 107 238 !.ELLEN LOU MARTIN b. at Linden, Student at Kansas Univ.: Reside Montgomery Co., Ind., Aug. 20, at Lawrence, Kan. 1922; d. at Linden, Apr. 10, 254 • c.JOHN LUCKETT AVERY HALSTEAD b. at 1932. Romney, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., May 5, 239 • e.RUTH REBECCA KARTIN b. at Linden, 1838; d. near Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., Montgomery Co., Ind., 1891; d. at June 1882; m. 1st. SARAH MARTIN b. Linden, 1893. 1838; d. 1866: Removed to Vigo Co • 240 • a.RALPH DANIEL MARTIN b. at Linden, about 1872; land owner and farmer in Montgomery Co., Ind., •••• 1894; Vigo Co., Ind.; continued below. d. at Linden •••• 1895. 241 • a.LEVI IIAXWELL MARTIN b. at Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Dec. 1, 1896; deceased • 242 • e.RAYMOBD BENNETT MARTIN b. at Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Jan. 15, 1886; m. Oct. 9, 1907, LALA ADELLE WILKINS b. Mar. 15, 1886: Land owner and farmer at Linden. 243 £.ROSS ALLEN MARTIN b. at Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Oct. 5, 1921. • c.REBECCA JANE HALSTEAD, continued, m. 2nd. Mar. 28, 1866, WILLIAM DUNKLE b. Sept. 21, 1835; d. Mar. 24, 1901; land owner and farmer at Linden. 244 d.DAISY DUNKLE b. at Linden, Mont- gomery Co., Ind., Nov. 14, 1868; m. Aug. 28, 1890, ARTHURS. FRALEY b. Nov. 18, 1864; land owner and farmer of Linden • 245 • e.FLOYD DUNKLE FRALEY b. at Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Oct. 26, 1891; m. Mar. 24, 1920 EVANGELINE MORROW b. at Wingate, Ind., Feb. 10, 1898: Farmer at Linden. 246 £.REBECCA JANE FRALEY b. at Lin- den, Montgomery Co., Ind., May 10, 1928 • 247 • e.RUTH FRALEY b. at Linden, Mont­ gomery Co., Ind., Dec. 1, 1896; m. June 9, 1920, BENJAKIN CRABBS John L. A, Halstead EVANS b. at Crawfordsville, Mont- gomery Co., Ind., Feb. 16, 1898; 255 d.ARTHUR PRESTON HALSTEAD b. at Lin­ member of the firm of Evans, den, Montgomery Co., Ind., June 9, De Vore & Co., Crawfordsville: 1855; m. 1st. May 1 1885 ESTELLE Reside at Crawfordsville. STINCHCOK b. Sept.!, 1863; d. Nov, 248 !.DANIEL FRALEY EVANS b. at 23, 1924; m. 2nd. July 17, 1928, Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co., HELEN WELLS AURINGER b. Oct. 20, Ind., Feb. 24, 1922. 1857: Removed to the northwest in 249 !.BENJAMIN CRABBS EVANS JR. b. at 1884: Land owner and retired farmer Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co., of Cadillac, Sask., Can. The chil­ Ind., Mar. 14, 1924. dren are by the first marriage. 250 d.PEARL DUNKLE b. at Linden, Montgom- 256 • e.BESSIE RUTH HALSTEAD b. at James­ ery Co., Ind., June 25L 18741 m. town, N. Dak., Sept. 27, 1892; Aug. 10, 18921 GEORGE u. RUS~ b. m. Aug. 17 1930 LESLIE IRVIN June 26, 1869; land owner and farmer WATTS b. af Gametridge, Ont., Can., at Linden: Address R.F.D. 6, July 28, 1886; station agent for Crawfordsville, Ind. the Canadian Pacific R.R. at 251 d.FRANK DUNKLE b. at Linden, Montgom­ Crystal Springs, Sask., Can.: Re­ ery Co., Ind., Oct. 16, 1871; d. at side at Crystal Springs • Linden,Dec. 18, 1911; m. Sept. 14, 257 • e.JOHN PRESTON HALSTEAD b. at James­ 1904, DELLA CLARA HOSBROOK b. Oct. town, N. Dak., Jan. 1, 1886; m. at 16, 1874; Mrs. Dunkle is a teacher Swift Current, Sask. Can., June a, in the High School at Ligonier, Ind.; 1912, ETHEL KNOWLES b. at Sed­ resides at Ligonier. bergh, Yorkshire, Eng., Mar. 5, 252 • e.HELEN DUNKLE b. at Kirkpatrick, 1885: Grain buyer at Dafoe, Sask., Montgomery Co., Ind., July 5, Can. 1905; m. Apr. 16• 1932, ELIIER L. 258 £.ALDA MAY HALSTEAD b. at Swift PHIL b. at Evanston, Ill. Mar. 8 1 Current, Sask., Can., July 15, 1901; in the cartoon advertising 1913. business at Chicago, Ill: Reside 259 !.DOROTHY GERTRUDE HALSTEAD b. at at Chicago. Cadillac, Sask., Can., Oct. 51 253 • e.DAVID HOSBROOK DUNKLE b. at Winne­ 1915; m. Kay 24, 1931, at Laru.­ peg, Can., Sept. 9, 1911; m. Aug. gan, Sask., SVEIN SVEINSON b. at 23, 1930 HELENA KARY HECKART b. Reykjavik, Iceland • at Carbondale, Kan., Kay 9, 1910: 260 • g.BELGI ARTHUR SVEIHSON b. at JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEAD 1 S DESCENDANTS 108 Dafoe, Sask., Can., Mar. 17, 276 f.VINCENT LEE PICKENS b. at Spo­ 1932. kane, Wash. Nov. 15, 1922. 261 d.ALBERT JlARTIN HALSTEAD b. at Linden, 277 e.HAROLD AVERY HALSTEAD b. at Spo­ Montgomery Co., Ind., Oct. 28, 1860; kane, Wash., July 13, 1903; m. m. Mar. 30, 1908, AUGUSTA ALBERTINE Nov. 22, 1921, LORRAINE PEARL SCHULTZ b. at Zerten, Germany, Dec. ALLOWAY. 6, 1882; Removed to Jamestown, N. 278 f.BETTY LORRAINE HALSTEAD b. at Dak. in Mar. 1883; President and Spokane~ Wash., July 6, 1922. General Manager of the Hebron Brick 279 f,HAROLD AVERY HALSTEAD b. at Co., Hebron, N. Dak., ex-Treasurer Spokane, Wash., July 7, 1924. of the Stutsman Co., ex-Mayor of 280 f.PATRICIA ANN HALSTEAD b. at Jamestown, N. Dak.: Reside at Spokane, Wash., Aug. 21, 1926. Jamestown. 281 f.ROBERT EUGENE HALSTEAD b. at 262 • a.HAROLD PRESTON HALSTEAD b. at Spokane, Wash., Apr. 13, 1928 • Jamestown, N. Dak., Feb. 2, 1909. 282 • e.WILLIAM DONALD HALSTEAD b. at 263 • e.EVERETT JOSEPH HALSTEAD b. a.t Spokane, Wash., Oct. 17, 1905 • Jamestown, N. Dak., Nov. 5, 1911. 283 • c.CAROLINE JOSEPHINE HALSTEAD b. at 264 • e.STANLEY ROBERT HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Mar. i9, Jamestown, N. Dak., Sept. 30, 1841; d. at Linden, Nov. 23, 1879; 1915 • m. Jan. 31, 1867, EDWARD COLEMAN 265 • e.RUTH ELAINE HALSTEAD b. at James­ b. 1838; d. 1905; land owner and town, N. Dak., Dec. 2, 1918. farmer at Linden • 266 • e.BERKELEY DEAN HALSTEAD b. at 284 d.MELLIE JOSEPHINE COLEMAN b. at Jamestown,~N. Dak., Sept. 27, Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., 1868; 1924. d, 1885. 267 d.JOSEPH EVERETT HALSTEAD b. at Lin- 285 d.WILLIAM D. COLEMAN b. at Linden den, Montgomery Co., Ind., Nov. 18, Montgomery Co., Ind., 1874; d. ls79. 1863; d. at Jamestown, N. Dak., 286 • c.WILLIAM WILSON HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Dec. 2, 1918; m. Apr. 25, 1885, Montgomery Co., Ind., Jan. 10, 1844; ELLA BUTCHER b. at Danville, Ill., d, at Linden~ May 26L_l922; m. Aug. Apr. 11, 1863, d. at White Bear, 13, 1867, RHuDA COYNJ!ai b. at Colfax, Minn., Feb. 20, 1934: Removed from Ind., July 22, 1847; d. at Daytona Linden to Jamestown in 1886 where Beach, Fla., Feb. 11, 1918: Land he engaged in the laundry business owner, farmer and stockman of Linden. from 1893 to 1918; past President (See Chapter 4 1 Part Two.) of the N. Dak. State Laundrymen's 287 d.CLYDE VERNE HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Ass'n., city Alderman; his death Montgomery Co., Ind., May 4, 1868; was due to a railroad crossing ac- d. at Cando, N. Dak., Mar. 29, 1900; cident at Jamestown. m. Sept. 1 1888 NETTIE FLANIGAN 268 • e.FLORENCE HALSTEAD b. at Linden, b. at Crawfordsvl11e, Montgomery Co., Montgomery Co., Ind., Feb. 16, Ind., Oct. 31, 1869; d. at Cando, 1886; d. at Jamestown, N. Dak., N. Dak., Mar. 30, 1900: Land owner Oct. 16, 1888 • and farmer of Montgomery Co., Ind., 269 • e.ETHEL HALSTEAD b. at Jamestown, and in N. Dak. N~ Dak., Apr. 15, 1889; m. GEORGE 288 • e.LAWRENCE EARL HALSTEAD b. at BURGETT b. at Creston, Ia., Sept. Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Aug. 26, 1886; .. clothier at Jamestown: 15, 1889; m. Dec. 6, 1917, ESTELLA Reside at Jamestown. MARTIN b. Jan. 7, 1887: In the 270 • e.ALBERT MARTIN HALSTEAD b. at U.S. Marine Corp. 1907-1911: Re­ Jamestown, N. Dak., Feb. 28, 1900; side at West Lafayette, Ind. automobile salesman at Jamestown; 289 • e.CLARA WSETTA HALSTEAD b. at resides at Buckley Apts. Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., c.JOHN LUCKETT AVERY HALSTEAD con­ July 14, 1895; d. at Daytona Beach, tinued, m. 2nd. Dec. 7, 1868 ALWILDA Fla., Sept. 30, 1926; m. Sept. 22, KENNEDY d. Jan. 1923; divorced; m. 1914, JAMES WARREN REESE b. 1873. 3rd. CLARINDA (LEE) FAGIN d. 1902. 290 f.DAVID WARREN REESE b. at Daytona The following child was by the sec- BeachL Fla., July 24, 1916 • ond marriage. 291 • e.ARTHUR COYNER HALSTEAD b. at 271. d.RILEY AVERY HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Montgomery Co., Ind., Jan. 1, 1869; Feb. 1, 1898; m. Mar. 2, 1915, m. Sept. 28, 1893 at Warsaw, Ind. BESSIE RANKIN b. in Harrison Co., MINNIE MAY KELLY b. Dec. 2, 1871: Ind., Oct. 15, 1895: Farmer in Stationary engineer and machinery Tippecanoe Co., Ind.; address salesman at Spokane, Wash.: Reside R.F.D. Lafayette, Ind. at Spokane. 292 d.ALMA HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Mont­ 272 • e.GLADYS MARIE HALSTEAD b. at War­ gomery Co., Ind., July 9, 1869; saw, Ind., June 29, 1894; d. at m. Oct. 24, 1888, FIELDEN MORIN Warsaw, July 11, 1894. b. Dec. 12 1862; land owner and 273 • e.DOROTHY ELAINE HALSTEAD b. Mar. farmer of Tippecanoe Co., Ind.: Re­ 24, 1896; d. Apr. 19, 1916; m. side at Linden. Apr. 2, 1914, E.M. NEILS. 293 • e.MABEL ANNABEL MORIN b. at Linden, 274 r .DOROTHY ELAINE NEILS b. A.pr. Montgomery Co., Ind., Nov. 22, 15, 1916. 1889, m. Dec. 13, 1921, H, :ELTON 275 • e.HELEN MARGUERITE HALSTEAD b. AVERY b. at Herkimer, N.Y., May 7, Sept. 13, 1898; m. Aug. 31, 1919, 1894; Mrs. Avery A.B., Western LEER. PICKENS. College for Women, Oxford, O., JOHN AND REUBEN HALSTEAD'S DESCENDANTS 109 1913: Kr. Avery is a fruit grow- 309 • a.MARANA MORGAN HALSTEAD b. at er at San Juan, Porto Rieu: Ad- Brookston, White Co., Ind., June dress P.O. Box 175. 19, 1913; in welfare work at Chicago. 294 f.KARY ANNABEL AVERY b. at San 310 • a.JOHN STEWART HALSTEAD b. at Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. 8, 1922. Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., 295 f.HAZELTON HALSTEAD AVERY b. at Aug. 23, 1915; at Univ. of Mich. San Juan, Porto Rico, Oct. 16, 311 d.RUBY HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Mont- 1924. gomery Co., Ind., Mar. 13, 1880; 296 f.CHARLES PORTER AVERY b. at B.S. Purdue Univ., 1905; Christian San Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. 15, Science Practitioner; resides at 1925. 133 Fairview Ave., Daytona Beach, 297 f.WILLIAM HALSTEAD AVERY b. at Fla. San Juan, Porto Rico, Feb. 12, 312 a.ERNEST NOBLE HALSTEAD b. at Linden, 1930. Montgomery Co., Ind., Jan. 14, 1883; 298 • e.llUSETTA MORIN b. at Linden, Mont- d. at West Lafayette, Tippecanoe gomery Co., Ind., July 5, 1891; Co., Ind., June 21, 1917; m. Aug. 6, m. Oct. 28, 1914, RALPH ANDERSON 1911, LAURA REYER b. at Denver, OSBORN b. Sept. 20, 1890: Both Col., Aug. 16, 1889: B.S. Purdue A.B. Lake Forest Univ. 1913: Mr. Univ. 1905; automobile engineer and Osborn is a farmer and stockman garage owner in Texas and Indiana: at Laforborn Farm, Culver, Mar- Mrs. Halstead resides at Flint, Micl~ shall Co., Ind. 313 • a.ROBERT LEWIS HALSTEAD b. at 299 f.RALPH OSBORN JR. b. at Culver, Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Marshall Co., Ind. July 4, 1915. Apr. 13, 1917. 300 f.ROBERT LEE OSBORN b. at Culver, 314 d.JOSIAH PRESTON HALSTEAD II b. at Marshall Co., Ind., June 19, Linden, Montgomery Co,, Ind.; Kar. 1917. 29, 1885; m. Nov. 11, 1908, RENA 301 f.ALKA JEAN OSBORN b. at Culver, VIVIAN RUSSELL b. at Brookston, Marshall Co., Ind., Apr. 11; White Co., Ind., Dec. 19, 1884: 1919. B.S. Purdue Univ. 1905; land owner 302 d.JlUSETTA HALSTEAD b. at Linden, and farmer at Kirkpatrick, Mont- Montgomery Co., Ind., Sept~ 4, 1871; gomery Co., Ind.: Address Linden. d. at Linden, Nov. a, 1890. 315 • a.JOSEPH DELWIN HALSTEAD b. at 303 d.WILLIAII CHESTER HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind-, Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Sept. May 6, 1910. 25, 1873; m. Nov. 9, 1914, CORA 316 • a.JUSTUS MARTIN HALSTEAD b. at GRIEST BESSE, b. at Wellington, Linden, Montgomery Co., Ind., Ill., Apr. 15, 1887: B.S. Purdue June 29, 1915. Univ. 1897; was with the mechanical 317 • e.DORIS HALSTEAD b. at Linden, dept. of the Northern Pac. R.R. at Montgomery Co., Ind., July 7, 1917. Tacoma, Wash., 1897-99; Chief 318 • c.CLARISSA L. HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Draughtsman for the Oregon Short Montgomery Co., Ind., Dec. 7, 1846; Line R.R. at Salt Lake City, Utah, d. at Chicago, Ill., Oct. 13, 1926; 1899-01; Mechanical Engineer for the m. Mar. 25, 1869, DANIEL WILSON b. at Wheeling & Lake Erie R.R. 1901-06; Rushville, Rush Co., Ind., 1843; d. at since a partner in Halstead Bros., Chicago May 5, 1922. now the Brookston Grain Corp., of 319 d.TESSA WILSON b. at Linden, Montgom- Brookston, White Co., Ind.; land ery Co., Ind.; d. at Chicago, Ill. owner of Montgomery Co., Ind.: Re- m. DANIEL BENNETT. side at Brookston. 320 • a.CLARENCE BENNETT • 304 • e.FRANCIS GRIEST HALSTEAD b. at Brookston, White Co., Ind., Aug. Rebecca Ann and William H. Leavitt 21, 1915. and Their Descendants 305 • e.CLYDE ELWOOD HALSTEAD b. at 321 b.REBECCA ANN HOLSTEAD b. in Butler Co., Brookston, White Co., Ind., Apr. o., May 11, 1810; d. near Riley, Vigo 18, 1917. Co., Ind., May 13, 1877; m•. in Butler 306 d.JOHN COYNER HALSTEAD b. at Linden, Co., O., July 9, 1828, WILLIAM H. Montgomery Co., Ind., July 16, 1876; LEAVITT b. Nov. l, 1805; d. near Riley m. Oct. 9, 1907, EVA MAY STEWART Jan. 29, 1867: Residents of Butler b. at Evanston, Ill., Sept. 10, Co., o., Putnam Co., and Vigo Co., Ind.; 1879; Mrs. Halstead, A.B. North­ at the latter place he was a large land western Univ. Ph.D. 1903; President owner, farmer and breeder of fine stock. of the Brookston grain Corp., 322 c.ELIZABETH 'LEAVITT b. in Putnam Co., Brookston, White Co., Ind.; land Ind., Aug. 14, 1830; d. at Clay City, owner of Montgomery Co.: Reside at Clay Co., Ind., Aug. 10, 1876; m. Brookston. about 1855, WILLIAM ARTHUR CONNELY 307 • e.REBECCA HALSTEAD b. at Lafayette, b. in Boone Co., Ky., Sept. 14, 1821; Tippecanoe Co., Ind., June 29, d. at Clay City Oct. 26, 1897; removed 1909; m. Feb. 16, 1932, ROBERT from Kentucky to Putnam Co., Ind., and LIVINGSTONE b. Oct. 27, 1910, thence to Vigo Co., Ind., in 1856; newspaper reporter; Mrs. Living­ large land owner, farmer and grain stone A.B. Northwestern Univ. dealer in Vigo and Clay Cos. repre­ 1930: Reside at 2482 Derbyshire sentative in the Indiana Legislature1 Roadi Cleveland Heights! o. from Vigo Co. and later from Clay Co. 308 f.ROHERT HALSTEAD LIVINGSTONE b. 323 d.RHODA RODELLA CONNELY b. probably at Lafayette, Ind. Dec. 19, in Putnam Co., Ind., about 1857; 1933. d. at Denver, Col., June 4, 1931; JOHN AND REUBEN HAI.STEAD'S DESCENDANTS 110 unmarried; lived at Clay City, Clay Oct. 8, 1882, dau. of William Co., Ind., in N. Dak., and in Col. Richard and Julia Lidster of Vigo 324 d.ANNA CONNELY b. Sept. 2, 1859; Co: Land owner and farmer of Vigo m. May 10 1882 WILLIAM HALL b. Co.: Mrs. Forster lives at Riley. Aug. 15, i859; iand owner and farm- 338 • e.MILDRED FORSTER b. near Riley, er near Clay City, Clay Co., Ind.; Vigo Co., Ind., Feb. 11, 1904; was once Treasurer of Clay Co: Re- m. June 11, 1927, JOSHUA GOTT side near Clay City. b. at Cloverland, Clay Co., Ind., 325 • a.ARTHUR CONNELY HALL b. at Riley, May 22, 1907, s. of Charles and Vigo Co., Ind., June 10, 1886; Cynthia Gott; factory worker: Re­ d. at Riley Oct. 4, 1886 • side at 1116 w. 15th St., Muncie, 326 • e.REX HALL b. near Clay City, Clay Ind. Co., Ind., Jay 16, 1888; d. near 339 f.ROBERT WAYNE GOTT b. at Muncie, Clay City, Sept. 4, 1929; m. July Delaware Co., Ind., Apr. 11, 16t 1929, LEONA HURST b. at 1930. Miadlebury, Clay Co., Ind., Dec. 340 • e~IVA FORSTER b. near Riley, Vigo 31, 1897, dau. of Perry and Sarah Co., Ind., June 7, 1907; graduate Hurst of Middlebury: Mrs. Hurst Indiana State Normal school;teach­ is a teacher in the grade schools er in Riley schools. of Indianapolis. 341 • e.CLISSIE FORSTER b. near Riley, 327 • e.HELEN HALL CONNELY b. near Clay Vigo Co., Ind., Oct. 15, 1910 • City, Clay Co., Ind., Oct. 10, 342 • a.WANDA FORSTER b. near Riley, Vigo 1891; m. Oct. 31, 1919, BRENT Co., Ind., Aug. 26, 1916. ALLEN RENTSCHLER son of Gottlieb 343 c.REUBEN HALSTEAD (OR HARMON) LEAVITT and Adela Sommers Rentschler of b. near Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., June 17, Patricksburg, Owen Co., Ind.; in 1837; d. at Riley Kar. 11, 188~; m. at the hardware and undertaking busi- Paris, Ill., Mar. 11, 18651 ZERELDA ness at Center Point, Clay Co., KATHERINE SLADE b. at Falmouth, Ky., Ind.: Reside near Clay City. Feb. 18, 1841; d. at Riley Sept. 19, 328 a.FRANCIS CONNELY b. Oct. 6, 1877; 1887: Land owner, farmer and breeder m. S.P. BURNS, a physician; divorced; of fine live stock at Riley. m. 2nd. ALBERT OLMSTEAD. 344 d.WILLIAM LEAVITT; 329 • c.CHARLOTTE LEAVITT b. near Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., Oct.1.1833; d. near Riley 345 d.BELL LEAVITT; Aug. 10, 1875; m. about 1865 ELLERY COLUMBUS FORSTER b. in Vigo Co., Ind., 346 d.EDWARD LEAVITT; June 23, 1838; d. near Riley Jan. 29, 1889; land owner and farmer near Riley. 347 d.ANNE LEAVITT; 330 d.WILLIAM LEAVITT FORSTER b. near Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., Apr. 22, 348 d.WILLIE LEAVITT; all died in infancy; 1867; m. Jan. 51 1890, CORA E. SPEAR the dates of birth and death of the b. near Riley Feb. 2, 1871; d. near five children are not known. Riley Jan. 15, 1919, dau. of Mr. 349 d.LOUISA KATHERINE LEAVITT b. at and Mrs. Robert Bruce Spear of Vigo Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., June 28, 1870; Co.: Was a land owner, farm and m. Feb. 17, 1886, HORACE MILFORD coal mine operator near Riley until PEARCE b. at Riley June 7, 1880; 1917; now retired: Resides at 1281 d. at Dickinson, N. Dak., Kay 2, Warren Road, Lakewood, O. 19281 land owner and farmer: Resides 331 • a.ELLIS RAGENOLD FORSTER b. near at ~~8 1st st. w., Dickinson • Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., Nov. 20, 350 • e.EDITH GRACE PEARCE b. near Riley, 1890; d. near Riley Jan. 8, 1892. Vigo Co., Ind.i Dec. 12, 1886; • a.FRANCES CHARLOTTE FORSTER b. near m. at Minneapo is, Minn., Sept., 4, Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., Nov. 2, 1907, CHARLES T. DANBACH b. at 1893; d. near Riley Dec. 10, 1924; Chicago, Ill., Sept. 20, 1883, s. a teacher in the Riley schools. of Charles and Elizabeth Danbach 333 • e.HARRY LEAVITT FORSTER b. near of. Chicago, Ill.; Branch Manager Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., Sept. 12, for the American Radiator and 1895; m. Dec. 28, 1927, HELEN Sanitary Mfg. Co., Denver, Colo.: KEISER b. May 6, 1903, dau. of Reside at 2239 Ivanhoe St. Charles and Mary Keiser of Terre 351 f.KATHERINE DANBACH b. at Cando, Haute, Ind.: Teacher in the Thomas N. Dak., June 24, 1908; m. at A. Edison public school of Cleve- Denver, Colo., Dec. 11, 1928, land, O.: Reside at 1281 Warren CARLETON BOWMAN b. at Telluride, Road, Lakewood, o. Col., June 7, 1907, s. of 334 f.BARBARA JEAN FORSTER b. at Francis c. and Alice H. Bowman Lakewood, o., Feb. 17, 1931. of Denver, Col.; Mr. Bowman is 335 • e.EOGENE CLIFFORD FORSTER b. near a professional singer: Reside Riley, Vigo Co., Ind., Apr. 19, at 37-42 Jackson Heights, Long 1898; d. at Riley Kar. 5, 1903. Island, N.Y. 336 d.CLISSIE FORSTER b. near Riley, Vigo 352 • e.ROY WINFIELD PEARCE b. near Riley, Co., Ind., Oct. 23, 1868; d. in the Vigo Co., Ind., Kar. 16, 1897; m. South 1891; m. BENJAMIN BAKER, de­ June 3 1 1918, GLADYS HORTON b. at ceased, a grocer of Terre Haute, Ind. Minneapolis, Minn., Junes, 1899, 337 d.WARRIE FORSTER b. near Riley, Vigo dau. of Sidney Charles and Kae Co., Ind., Aug. 30, 1871; d. at Burnett Horton or Minneapolis, Riley Apr. 19, 1918; m. Dec. 16, Minn.: Reside at 2215 Figueroa 1902, CORA LIDSTER b. near Riley, Place, Pasadena, Calif.