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Steenrod Family A Genealogical Study of the Steenrod Family Robert L. Steenrod Belvidere, IL 1960 (Prepared by Rebert L. Steenrod, R. Ph., EelYidere, Illinois, 1960) Emerging from obscurity about 1735 in the vicinity of Nort:ll. Salem, Westchester County, Ne~-, York, the Steenrod family is a distinctive exam-­ ple of the early migration of a Scandina-..rian family to the An.Lerican colo­ nies. The name h2.d it ts origin in the vicinity of Oslo, Norway, by the fifteenth century, atd in it's spelling, varied from Staeinraudarsop in 1419 to Steenrodsen in 1461. These and other instances establish th3 development of the name.' Certainly it flourished in the Old 1.vorld lvng after our par-cicu.lar group came to this side o.f the Ocean, for at least one family surnamed Stenrud came to the United States during the great Scandinavian l\figrc1.tion of the middle nineteenth century. 2 The meaning cf the name is two-fold in possible interpretation. The f'irst syllable is recognizable as derived .from 'stone t while the last has t·wo possible meanings. As -hrod it may refer to 1integrityr, or as -raud it may mean a 1 glen' or 'clearing'• It may also be noted that Sten or Stein has been used as a given name~ From these inferences it can be determined that the name means either ta person of strength and integrity' or might b~ taken from the Norwegian version of a place-name as 1Steinls 3 Clearing1 • Exactly when the family arrived in America is yet unproven. There remains to be substantiated the family tradition that the first of the name here came as a sailor aboard one of the ships carrying Peter Stuyve­ sant to New .Amsterdam in 1646, our ancestor, s fat'1lily being held as poli­ tical prisoners in Holland, he being ta~en from prison and placed directly in the cre1rr of the ship. After settling in Hew Amsterdam, our people were said to have fled to ·westchester County for safety 1rrhen the Eri..glish took over the Colony in 166h.4 There is a strong possibility the family leased land in Cortland Manor in this County for many years, :for only Cornelius Steenrod is mentioned in any of the ~xisting lists of Freeholders of the County, and he no earlier than 1779.~ Evidence to support this theory of their tenancy is not available since the Rent Rolls ef this Manor have been missing since the 188o 1s. L~deed, Cornelius Steenrod is the only one of the name 1-mo ever OT,,ffied land in t·Jestchester County, New York. The scarcity of records prevents an exact interpretation of the rela­ tionship between the earliest kno1-m members of the family in ~Jester.11ester County. They are presented here in an order which attempts to minimize this difficulty. First Generation: l. Edward Stenrod served as a private in the Seventh Company cf Militia :L~ the Upper Battalion of ~·Jestchester Cou.rity, Ne1-r York, under Col. T1illiam ~villett, Lieut. Col. James Verplanck, Maj. Pierre Van Cortlandt, and Capt. 1 Joshua Lobdell, somet-ime i_-r1 176o. He is now· assumed to have been the fat her cf: . Elizabeth, -!Ul'lY, Mary, and Solomon. 2. Capt. Corneli~s Steenrod, born by 1737, as his daughter Phebe was born in 1757 ,2. and he 1-vas certainly of age by February 18, 1761.i, ·when he was granted Letters of Ao.ministration on the Estate of his_ t cousL."1.' John Moore, deceased, late of T;Jestchester County1 Nc~,J York.~ He died about December, 1795, L."1 Ohio Count7,r, Virginia, as his 1v:tctow l,:my was appointed Administratr:L'<: o:f his ~state on Januar-y 2, 1796, with Ephraim Loch."1-rood as her security. 4 Cornelius married first by 1756 to Mary ~lizabeth Caldwell, who died -1- 5 about l.7'i2:, after the birth of her son Letrl.B ~.1 June, 1791. He married second at that time to~ , who Wc.C be~:'.'! in 1743 and died between ·April and August, 1827,6 -and-rs-'buried in old Stone Church Cemetery at Wheeling, vJcst Virginia. After C-ornelius died, Juny remarried on March 23.,. -1799, in Ohio cc,111ty, Virginia, to James Jro~m. Sen., a widower. James was bern by 176o_p in Hast>achusetts, and settled first in either Washington County, Pennsylvania., or ~ft..tGrford, vlashington County, Ohio. On his re­ marriage to Amy, James became the first settler in Perry Tovmship, Mu.skin­ gmn County, Oh::.o.~ bu5.lding the first tavern there? and dy-T_ng in l.815-16.6 While residing in North Salan, Cornelius Steenrod became the only member of the iam:..ly to be mentioned in the 1.festchester County, New York., Land Records1 having purchased, mortgaged, and sold various pieces of land there from 1?73 to 1779 ~ Included in this property -was a mill-site. The dam is stiil intact and the present owner of the property built and resides in a house upon the foundation of the old mill itself. During the Rcv0lutionary vJar, C,ornelius served as a Captain, from 1775 to 1782, bot~ in the County Militia and as a Minute Man. His earli­ est service is verified by the Pension Record of Ebenezer Steenrod, who declared that in 1.-h'3 Fall of 1775 he enlisted for six months in the Com­ pany cormnanded by CJpt~ Cornelius Steenrod, under Col. Strang, and that he assisted in eree;ting Fort I~1inute, near the Hurlgate and Long Island Sound. 9 The date of his removal from t~Testchester County is indicated by a lawsuit in the 1vestchester County, New York, Court of General Sessions, mstituted against Cornelius Steenrod (though this may have been his son Cornelius Jr.) on November 9, 1781, for assault and battery- upon one AbrahD111 Leggett, and cont;nued from session to session until a last men.­ tion is made of it on J~nuary 28, 1790. No mention is mnde of this case at the following session, I.fay 29, 1790, or thereafter, nor is there any listing of his family there in the Federal Census of 1790. 'This seems to show that the family mo--rcd to ehio County, Vir-giiiia, between January and May, 1790. Cornelius was in Virginia by June, 1791, when his son Lewi.S was born there, kJ1 a blockhouse at Fort Henry (now 'Wheeling) during an Indian uprising.- In 1792, Cornelius Steenrod Sr~ had several thousand acres of land surveyed in Ohio County, Virginia., 1 He seems to have been buried some1-rhere on Fish Creek., now in Marsh.1J 7 County, West Virginia. His child.rep include: Phebe, Cornelius Jre, Edward1 Briggs, Susan, Daniel, and Lewis.'· 3. Eb~nezer Steenrod, born in 1744, in Salem, ·westchester County-,. New Yorkj~died in 1836):~in Friendship Township, Allegany County, New York. He was married on December 2, 176.5, in the Church of Christ., Salem (no1-r the Presbyterian Church of Lewisboro, fonnerly South Salem), lj..estchester County, New York, by the Rev. Solomon Mead, to Phebe Slocum.'·~ He was a Revolutionary 1,J'ar Pensioner and enlisted fr9ID Salem in the Fall of 1775 ~or six months, as stated previously. Then he was in Capt. Samuel Delevan ts Company of Rangers for six months from April, 1776. Later he was a Mi.Dute Man in 1778, and finally he hir~d a man to serve for h1m ~or three years in Cont:i.nent~l Army service.,~ Between 1790 Qnd l8oo, he moved £rem Salem, to Middleto1m Township, Delavrare County, New York. 17 About 1818, he removed to Friendship• Alle­ gany County, New York, apparently to live with his son Ebenezer Jr. His childr,e_11 include: Ebenezer Jr., Edward, John, and three untraced daugh• +.~ers., i fj Second Generation: 1-,J.. Elizabeth Steem-od~ born about 175o, married on December 19, 1771, 1n the Church of Christ, Salen, Westchester County., New York, to Simeon Fllller.,' A Simeon Fuller served in the Revolutionary 'ftlar from northern West,ohester County, New York. Nothing further is known of them. 1 .... 2. Amy Steenrod, born 1755-6o, died on May 30, 18441 in Monroe Township., W'y0ming County, Pennsylvania. She married on February 7, 1779, in the Church of Christ, Salem, New York, to Valentine vlilson. He was born in 1754,_ in Kakiat (now Ramapo), Roekland Ciounty, New York, a.nd died on July 4, 1~33, in either Fallsburgh Township_, Sullivan County, New· nrk, or North Moreland Township_. Luzerne County {now in Wyoming County), Pennsyl­ vania. He was a Revolutionary War soldier and Pensioner, enlisting from Salem, New Yerk, and pensioned while living in Fallsburgh Township., N~w York. Their children include: Elizabeth, John, Nehemiah, and Edward.<-.. 1-3. Mary Steenrod, born about 17601 married on September 1, 1779, in the Church of Christ, Salem, New York, to Daniel Ward.3 Several men named Daniel Ward served in the Revolutionary 1•1ar from New York State. Nothing further is kno'WI'l of this family. i~4. Solomon Steenrod, born about 1760 (possib1y named after the Rev. Solomon Mead of the Church of Christ, Salem, New York), died shortly after 1810, place unlmo~m, then living in Romulus Township, Seneca County, Naw York.ilf His wife, name unknown, was born about J.765, and living in 1810. In 1790, he had lived in Frederickstown, Dutchess Ccunty (whieh later ba-. came South East Township, now in Putnam County, whfgh place is given as the birthplace of his son Stephen., in August, l.789), New York.
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