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The Howard Lineage The Ancestry of IDA ANN BOYDSTUN WELCH Through Her Mother EoLINE FRANCES How.ARD BOYDSTUN By GUSTINE COURSON WEA VER (Mrs. Clifford Selden Weaver) POWELL AND WHITE CINCINNATI, OHIO Copyright, 1929. MRS. EDWARD S. WELCH Shenandoah, Iowa Printed in United States of America EoLINE FRANCES HowARD BoYDSTUN Other Books by Mrs. Clifford Weaver The House That A lap Built Our Guest The Minister's Wife Hop Run The Boydstun Family The Gustine Compendium DEDICATION This book is lovingly dedicated to the memory of my Dear Mother, Eoline Frances Howard Boydstun. As I turn the last pages of this manuscript, I am seated in my summer home, Echo Lodge at Mercer, Wisconsin. Here my sainted Mother loved to sojourn with us. Through a long period of lustrous summer days did we thus abide here together beneath these virgin pine and spruce trees by the side of Echo Lake. Today her love is the most radiant gift I have in my casket of Zif e's memories. Elta Olive Boydstun Young, (the wife of Clifford Young) , my sister, is with me as I pen these words of dedica tion; therefore, I wish to include her in these lines of love. Our brother, -Charles Terrel Boydstun, would were he present with us at this moment, wish to be included in this dedicatory page; hence, I pen his name also. Signed by me, this fifteenth day of August, 1928, Echo Lodge, Mercer, Wisconsin. · Ida Ann Boydstun Welch, ( the ivife of Edward Samuel Welch). FOREWORD The author offers these pages more in the form of out lines than as finished genealogies on the many illustrious lines which are included in the lineage of her beloved Aunt, EOLINE FRANCES HOW ARD BOYDSTUN It is the author's fond hope that her findings, all of which have been classified under each surname may prove of value to unborn descendants who may, perchance, take up the threads and weave from them a more glorious tapestry than that which she was able to accomplish. Gustine Courson Weaver (Mrs. Clifford S. Weaver) Dated this 30th day-of July, 1928, at The Manse, Mc Kinney, Texas. CONTENTS I. Howard . • 17 II. Wh.itten . • . • . • . • . • • . • 73 111. Rector ...... ~ . .. 81 IV. Duckett . ·. 87 V. Lewis . 107 VI. Osborne . 113 VII. Claypoole 1. History of the Claypoole Arms._........ 117 2. Lineage of Eoline Frances Howard Boydstun . 119 3. A Letter from Benjamin Franklin, regarding Mr. George Claypoole . 124 4. The Mysterious Claypoole Cave in Kentucky . a 125 5. Mrs. Betsy Ross Becomes the Bride of Mr. John -Claypoole, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 128 6. Printing the Declaration of Independence by Lieutenant David C. Claypoole and Captain John Dunlap-. 136 7. Miscellany of Claypooles in America. 141 8. The History of the Family in England, including the Marriage of Oliver Cromwell's Daughter . 150 9 .. William Penn and James Claypoole in Pennsyl- vania . 161 ILLUSTRATIONS Eoline Frances Howard Boydstun ........... Frontispiece Opposite Page The Howard Coat of Arms. 15 William Samuel Boydstun . 17 Ida Boydstun Welch . 23 Edward Samuel Welch . 27 Gertrude Welch May. 39 Wayne Nye Welch............................ 47 Mrs. Ida Boydstun Welch in her garden. 55 Charles Terrell Boydstun. 65 Gerald Hayes Boydstun . 69 Whitten Coat of Arms. 73 Ormand Coat of Arms ..... _- . 81 Duckett Coat of Arms . 87 Mrs. Welch and Mrs. Young in Garden. 97 Lewis Coat of Arms. 107 Mrs. Earl May in Welch Garden. 109 Newman Arms . 113 Claypoole Arms . 117 The Betsy Ross Home. 129 Mr. and Mrs. Welch and Mr. and Mrs. Young in the Welch Garden . 139 Children in Play Ground. 145 The Claypoole Tomb. 161 I ijnwarh Q_~~ffiO\j{.t, HOWARD COAT OF ARMS DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION Howard (Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England) Quarterly 1st. gul on a bend betweey. .. six cross crosslets :6.ti chee ar. ( 1st. red on a diagonal strjp running from upper left to lower right, six crosslets in:/ silver) an escutcheon or, charged with a demi lion rampant, pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first, for Howard (part of shield (escutcheon) ) gold covered with a half lion upright pierced through the mouth by an ar row, within a double tressure counterflory ( this surrounds the Royal Arms of Scotland and is not now granted in Scot land to subjects except as a mark of royal favor. It is gen erally indicative of royal descent). 2nd. gu. three lions pass. guard. in pale or, in chief, a label of three points Ar., for Brotherton. ( 2nd. red three lions (passant) walking-guard ant (looking out) in pale or ( on a strip of gold) a label in three points ar. ( a mark of cadency of an eldest son during his father's lifetime) in silver for Brotherton. 3rd. chequy ar and az. ( Cheeky, checkered, gold and azure) for Warren. 4th. gu. a lion rampant ar. (red a lion upright, gold) for Fitz Allen; behind the shield two gold batons in saltire enamelled at the ends sa, ( behind the shield two gold bars running diagonally from corner to corner, one of the honorable or dinaries, by Scottish heralds called St. _.i\.ndrew's Cross, en amelled at the ends in black.) (The insignia of Earl Mar shal). Crests. 1st. issuants from a ducal coronet ar a pair of wings gu. each charged with a bend between six cross cross lets fitichee ar, (proceedings from a ducal coronet in gold a pair of wings red, each charged with a bar between six cross crosslets ( see above), silver) 2nd.: on a chapeau gu. turned up erm. a lion statant with tail extended ar, gorged with a ducal coronet ar, ( on a cap of maintenance or dignity, borne only by sovereign princes. It is formed of crimson or scar- let velvet lined with ermine, a lion standing with tail extended gold, with a ducal crown for collar in silver) 3rd.: on a mount vert. a horse pass. ar. holding in the mouth a slip of oak fructed ppr. supporters. ( on a mound green, a horse walk ing, silver, holding in mouth a slip of oak, bearing fruit or seeds in natural color) . Dexter, a lion sinister, a horse,. both ar., the latter hold ing in his mouth a slip of oak vert. fructed, ppr. ( Right, a lion, left, a horse, both silver, the latter holding in his mouth a slip of oak, green, fruited natural color). Motto--Sola Virtus lnvicata ("Virtue alone invincible" or "Virtue alone is unconquerable"). Thomas, Earl of Sur rey (afterwards Duke of Norfolk) who achieved the victory of Flodden over James IV, of Scotland, had a special grant from Henry VIII of an honorable augmentation of his arms to him and the heirs male of his body, viz., on the bend of the original Howard Coat, in an escutcheon, or a demi lion ramp. pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure flory cou._nterflory gu., being the treasure of the Royal arms of the Scottish Monarch. WILLIAM SAMl:EL BOYDSTUN I Eoline Frances Howard Boydstun was born at Abing don, Knox County, lliinois, August 11, 1852.. She died at her daughter's home (Ida Ann Boydstun Welch, Mrs. Edward S. Welch) at SheRandoah, Iowa, October 11, 1924. She married on June 20, 1868, in Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois, William Samuel Boydstun. He was born Febn1ary 7, 1847, near Abingdon, Illinois. He died at the home of his daughter (Mrs. Edward S. Welch) at Shenan- doah, Iowa, February 6, 1913. , The entire lineage of William Samuel Boydstun is to be found in a volume published in 1927 by Powell and White, Publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio, compiled by Gustine Courson Weaver (1Jfrs. Clifford Weaver), who is a descend ant of the Boydstun Family, through her mother, Sarah Frances Bovdstun~ Courson. Mrs. Edward S. Welch is. to be given credit for the publishing of this exhaustive treatise on "The Boydstun Family," as indeed she is also for this present treatise on her mother's family, written also by her cousin, Mrs. Clifford Weaver. Seven ancestors of William Samuel Boydstun served in the Revolutionary War: David Boidstone James Boidstone Isaac Gardner Walter Prewett, on his· father's lineage, while his mother's lineage (Nancy Roberson) contains the following patriots of the American Revolution: John Flowers William Hubbard James Rob_~rson The Boydstun Family were descended also from the 1\1ay Flower Pilgrim, Stephen Hopkins. The entire history of 17 18 THE HOWARD LINEAGE ' the family is given in the volume before referred to "The Boydstun Family"-to the time of Robert The Bruce. Eoline Frances Howard's father was George Washing ton Howard, born, April 1, 1822, in Virginia. Died, Oct. 3, 1909, at Shenandoah, Iowa, where he is buried. He married March 26, 1843, near Bowling Green, Ken tucky, l\ilary Ann Whitten, born, Oct. 4, 1824; died, May 3, 1909. They had eleven children, as follows: I. Charles Thomas-1farch 25, 1844--July 5, 1904; mar ried Jan. 25, 1866; Clara Ann Day, born, April 22, 1845, died, Sept. 3, 1919, a daughter of Corydon Delos Day-horn, 1819-and Lorena Louk, born, 1825. En listed 7th. III. Cav., .L~bingdon, in '65. They had eight children~ as follows: (1) Della Lorena Howard-Mar. 1, 1868-Aug. 8, 1918; married Albert Garrish Morse, June 2, 1891. No children. (2) Minnie Irene Howard-Aug. 8, 1869-Mar. 18, 1921; married William Henry Stewart, Aug. 28, 1890. Three children: 1. Hazel June Stewart, June 1, 1891; married James Ezra Hurst, Dec. 20, 1917. 2. William Raymond Stewart, Oct. 3, 1893; married Hazel Dell Zack, Mar.